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post #121 of 187
4/16/08 at 8:08am
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Originally Posted by mightymoo View Post
Geez, its not like we don't have fish and chips here, its just that they aren't their own little fish and chips shops - we don't eat enough of it to justify I guess. In my town, the pizza/sub places also do fish & chips and seafood and many of the general "american" restaurants offer it too.

In New England, Seafood is such a big thing and its so much more than fish & chips, a fish & chips shop wouldn't do very well if they didn't offer fried clams, scallops and lobster rolls and chowda, etc.

I'm in Maine so it sounds very similiar to where you are, plenty of fish & chips, heck I just had some the other day (haddock) :. That said, the places that sell fish & chips do sell other things, I suspect it would be hard to only sell fish & chips with nothing else.

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post #122 of 187
4/16/08 at 8:10am
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Originally Posted by wannabe View Post


I thought "from scratch" meant real food and "home made" meant I opened the packet myself.

I like your definitions, in my house home-made means I made it, even if I used convenience items, scratch means no convenience. The reality is for most American households, most folks don't cook a great deal hence why you have things like those pre-made freezer crockpot meals where all you have to do is add water and throw in the crockpot.
post #123 of 187
4/16/08 at 8:16am
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Originally Posted by mightymoo View Post
Geez, its not like we don't have fish and chips here, its just that they aren't their own little fish and chips shops - we don't eat enough of it to justify I guess. In my town, the pizza/sub places also do fish & chips and seafood and many of the general "american" restaurants offer it too.

In New England, Seafood is such a big thing and its so much more than fish & chips, a fish & chips shop wouldn't do very well if they didn't offer fried clams, scallops and lobster rolls and chowda, etc.

I was just about to post this.

I'm guessing it's because I grew up on the coast in New England, but we had a bunch of takeaway seafood restaurants. You drive (or walk) up to the counter. You can't go inside, but sometimes they have picnic tables outside. Sometimes you just eat in your car. You can get fish n chips, clam cakes, chowder, crab meat sandwiches, lobster rolls... Sometimes places branch out and serve hot dogs and ice cream too.
post #124 of 187
4/16/08 at 9:28am
I live in the southeast. THe closest we come to fish and chips is Captain D's.

We do have "fish camps". They are getting harder to find, but basically, a very basic restaurant out in the middle of nowhere (on a lake or river usually) that serves, well, fish. The menu is usually fried catfish, fried pickles, french fries, hushpuppies, and sometimes cheese grits. With lots of onion, pickles, and lemon on the side. Yum. I have fond memories of going to fish camp with my grandparents.
post #125 of 187
4/16/08 at 9:33am
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Originally Posted by BeckC View Post
I was just about to post this.

I'm guessing it's because I grew up on the coast in New England, but we had a bunch of takeaway seafood restaurants. You drive (or walk) up to the counter. You can't go inside, but sometimes they have picnic tables outside. Sometimes you just eat in your car. You can get fish n chips, clam cakes, chowder, crab meat sandwiches, lobster rolls... Sometimes places branch out and serve hot dogs and ice cream too.
In Seattle, too, we have great little places like this. Fish and chips, or shrimp and chips, among other seafood things, right next to the harbor. Love going to them.

As far as the other thing goes, I make most of our food from scratch, but I don't shun convenience items, either. Some nights I want something easy and quick, and don't mind doing something "semi-homemade" (as the infamous Sandra Lee says ).

I had no idea you could buy roux, though. That's amazing. Makes me think of the time my dad went into a store and asked where they kept the meringue.
post #126 of 187
4/16/08 at 9:49am
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Originally Posted by Canadianmommax3 View Post
yeah i tried to make hot chocolate like this for the kids once. Uh tasted kind of gross and the kids weren't impressed!
Here is how you make really good homemade hot chocolate. My kids are able to make this so I know any adult can.

Single serving (micro)

2 T sugar
2 -3 t cocoa powder
dash salt
1 c milk
1/4 t vanilla extract

Mix dry ingred in your mug. Heat milk in the micro until hot. Gradually add milk to cocoa mixture; stir well. Stir in vanilla.

Six servings

1/2 c sugar
1/4 c cocoa
dash salt
1/3 c hot water
4 c milk
3/4 t vanilla

Mix dry ingred and stir in water. Cook until it boils and then cook 2 minutes. Stir in milk and heat. Do not boil. Remove from heat and add vanilla.

So so much better tasting than any packaged stuff. If you follow the simple directions you will not have the floatly gross messes you guys have described.
post #127 of 187
4/16/08 at 9:59am
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Originally Posted by BetsyS View Post
I live in the southeast. THe closest we come to fish and chips is Captain D's.

We do have "fish camps". They are getting harder to find, but basically, a very basic restaurant out in the middle of nowhere (on a lake or river usually) that serves, well, fish. The menu is usually fried catfish, fried pickles, french fries, hushpuppies, and sometimes cheese grits. With lots of onion, pickles, and lemon on the side. Yum. I have fond memories of going to fish camp with my grandparents.
Sounds like the places we have here in central Florida where I grew up. Lots and lots of fish camps.
post #128 of 187
4/16/08 at 10:05am
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Originally Posted by Smokering View Post

Am I the only person with a whisk whose pantry contains normal ingredients? Flour, sugar, cocoa and the like? Am I the only person who considers it a tad insane to mix canned pumpkin pie filling with premixed pumpkin pie spice, pour it into a bought pastry shell, serve it with more whipped topping and call it a homemade dessert? The only person who sees a recipe calling for 'one package cream cheese frosting' and wants to slap the writer of said recipe upside the head? Crescent roll dough, biscuits sold in rolls, almond bark, butter essence... my world doesn't have those things. More to the point, my supermarket doesn't.
I live in the US and make things from scratch. There are other websites, like the foodtv.com or epicurious.com...maybe you'll have better luck there!
post #129 of 187
4/16/08 at 2:25pm
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Originally Posted by wonderwahine View Post
do you mean the new one or the old one? I only use my mums old one :
the one with the advice to never use preserved eggs for a sponge!

Unfortunately my mum still has hers. Mine is from reprint #41. It has an "international dishes" section. Moussaka (Greece) and Tacos (Mexico), for example.
post #130 of 187
4/16/08 at 2:28pm
that one would be one of the new versions. my mums one is from the 70s and has my grandmas recipies writen in spaces
post #131 of 187
4/16/08 at 2:29pm
what are you people talking about? We do have mars bars in America. And we do have fish and chips, we just don't have shops dedicated to that. I get mine at the Irish pub.
post #132 of 187
4/16/08 at 2:32pm
nevermind, I finally realized the purpose of the thread.

Go on without me.
post #133 of 187
4/16/08 at 2:35pm
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Originally Posted by 2 in August View Post
Dare I ask what chicken salt is?
The best thing to put on french fries!

My dad is coming over from Australia this summer, and so far my "wish list" includes - A bottle of Bundy, Tim Tams, chicken salt, and Vegimite.
post #134 of 187
4/16/08 at 2:35pm
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Originally Posted by Arduinna View Post
what are you people talking about? We do have mars bars in America. And we do have fish and chips, we just don't have shops dedicated to that. I get mine at the Irish pub.
you may have "mars" bars but you dont have mars bars.
post #135 of 187
4/16/08 at 2:36pm
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Originally Posted by North_Of_60 View Post
The best thing to put on french fries!

My dad is coming over from Australia this summer, and so far my "wish list" includes - A bottle of Bundy, Tim Tams, chicken salt, and Vegimite.
bundy, you mean some bunderberg ginger beer?? you can pick up 6 packs at world market stores

I craved them something awful in my pregnancy and found them.
post #136 of 187
4/16/08 at 2:40pm
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Originally Posted by wonderwahine View Post
bundy, you mean some bunderberg ginger beer?? you can pick up 6 packs at world market stores

I craved them something awful in my pregnancy and found them.
No! A bottle of Bundaburg RUM. Bundy and coke. Yum.
post #137 of 187
4/16/08 at 2:41pm
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Originally Posted by olehippy View Post
Here is how you make really good homemade hot chocolate. My kids are able to make this so I know any adult can.

Single serving (micro)

2 T sugar
2 -3 t cocoa powder
dash salt
1 c milk
1/4 t vanilla extract

Mix dry ingred in your mug. Heat milk in the micro until hot. Gradually add milk to cocoa mixture; stir well. Stir in vanilla.

Six servings

1/2 c sugar
1/4 c cocoa
dash salt
1/3 c hot water
4 c milk
3/4 t vanilla

Mix dry ingred and stir in water. Cook until it boils and then cook 2 minutes. Stir in milk and heat. Do not boil. Remove from heat and add vanilla.

So so much better tasting than any packaged stuff. If you follow the simple directions you will not have the floatly gross messes you guys have described.
aww thanks i will give it a try!
post #138 of 187
4/16/08 at 2:43pm
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Originally Posted by North_Of_60 View Post
No! A bottle of Bundaburg RUM. Bundy and coke. Yum.
ah the hard stuff
post #139 of 187
4/16/08 at 2:47pm
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Originally Posted by wonderwahine View Post
ah the hard stuff
post #140 of 187
4/16/08 at 2:52pm
No fish and chips in the US??? Sorry, can't let that slide. And, yes, I skipped seven pages to post this.

http://vme.net/svm/tugboat/

We love this place. Maybe it's not some guy's little cart on the side walk, but it's still really tasty.
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