Facts about Food Friday – Make your own shaker jars
So it’s been a little while since the last FaF, but no matter. I’ll make it up to you with this genius fact:
Canning jars have the same size top as parmesan cheese shakers.
Why should you care? Because that means you can turn any old glass jar (not the wide-mouthed kind) into your own shaker bottle.
Not that you should be buying those cheap green jars of parmesan “cheese” anyway, but if you have any sitting in the back of your fridge, might as well put them to use. Think outside the standard box of shaker jars and consider storing your bread crumbs in them for an easy way to add a quick topping to a casserole.
Or store your cat’s favorite nutritional yeast and garlic power in one. Not that I’ve ever done this, of course. Just hypothetically speaking, if your cat is addicted to powdered yeast, this would make it really easy to shake on her food every morning…
Big Mac salad – Special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, sesame seeds!
Okay, so it’s not the absolute most appetizing-looking dish on its own, but it *does* look like someone tore up a few McDonald’s big macs and threw them in a bowl, right? Which, for all intents and purposes, is pretty ideal for something called a Big Mac Salad.
I’m sharing the recipe directly here because I hate when things like this go missing. I highly recommend clicking through the recipe link and scanning the comments and pictures, though. There’s some great info about serving this hot versus cold, how even though it’s a “salad,” it’s not exactly healthy, etc.
- 8 slices white bread
- 1 -1 1/2 lb extra lean ground beef
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
- 1 head iceberg lettuce, shredded
- 1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
- 1/4-1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon sesame seed
Directions:
Toast all eight pieces of bread until just lightly golden-brown. Let cool and cut into cubes; set aside.
Brown and drain the extra lean ground beef. Let cool.
In a large bowl, combine the cooked and cooled ground beef, toasted bread cubes,finely chopped onions, shredded lettuce and cheese; toss well. Place in a large salad/serving bowl.
In a separate small bowl, stir together the mayonnaise, ketchup, relish, salt and pepper.
Drizzle the dressing over the salad. You can either leave it drizzled or toss everything to evenly coat salad.
Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Doesn’t that ingredient list just scream “I’m a Big Mac”? I thought so.
Grilled cheese sandwich croutons & tomato soup
I give up. I’ve been trying to trace this back to at least a pseudo-source, but it seems everyone got it from somewhere else and several have their own ideas of how they “came up with it.”
So here are some sources. And their sources’ sources. Click around. Some have some really awesome-looking tomato soup recipes or unique twists on the grilled cheese sandwich part.
I don’t care if you just grab a can of cheap condensed tomato soup and make your sandwich with Wonderbread knock-off and those cheese slices that come wrapped in cellophane. Now matter how you spin it, this is an awesome idea to switch up a classic. Yum.
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