Felger-carbs

[wombat1138]

I am totally carbing out again today. Argh. Stupid PMS or whatever.

Meanwhile, earlier in the week, I read a description of one of the Clintons' favorite family desserts which horrified the White House chef but he made it for them all the same; based on the details mentioned, it must be some variation of a recipe with the improbable name of "Coca Cola Salad".

The central part of the recipe requires black-cherry Jello, canned cherries, and the aforementioned beverage. The cherry liquid is drained out into a measuring cup and heated up to dissolve the Jello powder, and then cola is substituted for what would've been the remaining quantity of water. This can be made marginally healthier by substituting pitted fresh cherries, but then all of the liquid ends up being cola. Further refinements of the original concept include the addition of cream cheese, canned pineapple, and/or chopped nuts.

As I pondered this recipe at the grocery store, I decided to check the label of a can of bing cherries in syrup. It had lots of sugar, though now I can't recall whether the concentration was higher or lower than cola. Still, given that flavored Jello tends to be presweetened quite a bit as well, the finished dessert must be... um.

Then again, one of the recipes which the chef was seriously proffering on his website was "Caramelized Bacon": lay out bacon in a baking dish, evenly sprinkle ~1 tsp Demerara or turbinado sugar over each strip, and bake until the bacon is crisp beneath the melted layer of caramelized sugar. It's not quite nature's perfect food-- that would be chocolate-covered pretzel nuggets filled with peanut butter, which has all four of the basic food groups of fat, salt, sugar, and caffeine-- but it's close enough that surely caffeine could be supplemented from another source. Such as coffee. Or Coca-Cola Salad.

Addendum (btw, what does the apparently synonymous acronym ETA stand for?): as fate would have it, when I first made this post, I had not yet seen the recipe for maple-glazed bacon in yesterday's paper. It's the last recipe in that article, just before the author's blurb which notes in part that one of her books is Fast & Festive Meals for the Jewish Holidays.

Comments

[qadgop.livejournal.com]

If I didn't dislike Jello and cherries (and weren't ambivalent towards cream cheese), this might have appealed. As it is, I certainly like the idea of something made with Coca-Cola, at least in theory. Caramelized bacon, meanwhile, sounds distinctly tryable. (Perhaps renamed "Paradise Strips," since that's where eating them probably leads.)

[recursive.livejournal.com]

My mom occasionally makes something vaguely like that, but it doesn't contain coca-cola, no doubt because this variety doesn't originate in the South.

[wombat1138.livejournal.com]

What bewilders me about this genre of recipes is what makes them salads? Is it the nominal presence of canned fruit, or is it just that any cold, moist food = salad? (Cf. tuna salad, chicken salad, macaroni salad, etc.; but also another recipe I recall seeing along the lines of "stained glass salad": several different colors of jello chopped into chunks and embedded within a matrix of Miracle Whip or ice cream, depending.)

[recursive.livejournal.com]

I misread that as "shards of glass salad" somehow.

[qadgop.livejournal.com]

(btw, what does the apparently synonymous acronym ETA stand for?):

Edited To Add? (Is a guess.)


as fate would have it, when I first made this post, I had not yet seen the recipe for maple-glazed bacon in yesterday's paper. It's the last recipe in that article, just before the author's blurb which notes in part that one of her books is Fast & Festive Meals for the Jewish Holidays.

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