Sunday, October 17, 2010

It's a Wiener-Filled Life

We've been looking forward to this evening since we decided to embark on this culinary adventure. Wieners, condensed soup, pork and beans and...


...cheesy poofs?


Yes, the first dish up is the Cheesie-Corn Casserole. Cook up the corn according to package directions, fry up some onions and green peppers in some butter, create a white sauce with said butter and mix the whole thing up with the corn.


Add to this a beaten egg and crushed up cheesy poofs. Top with same.

Colour means it's full of vitamins, right? If so, my hands have definitely received their daily intake of vitamin C. I'm sure there are other ways to break up the poofs, but this was more fun and gross.


Into the oven in went for a half an hour. In the mean time we got started on the main dish. Dubbed "The Winter Warmer", we could only hope it wouldn't be too hearty for fall.


The little one seems concerned with the ingredients. Don't worry sweets. You're having leftover chicken and veg instead. You're not old enough to need preserving. Anyways, we mixed up the pork and beans, condensed tomato soup, mustard and W sauce in the casserole dish. Guest chef Megan was kind enough to cut up the wieners for me, but I couldn't help but throw them in there myself (wieners make me a little giddy).


We threw that in the oven for a while with our side dish and then pulled the wieners out to top them with apple rings and brown sugar. Back in they went to caramelize the sugar and soften the apples because that would be sure to make the whole thing edible. Finally we were rewarded with a glimpse at the finished products!




Come and get it!

The verdicts: Cheesie-Corn Casserole is surprisingly edible. The only real downsides are the texture of the poofs and the knowledge that you are eating unnaturally orange food. But the flavour was not very strong and the rest of the dish was fine. We determined that if you just mixed in actual cheese instead that it would be a winner. Still, a lot of effort for frozen corn.

The Winter Warmer left us feeling cold. Really. Fifteen minutes was not enough time to heat the whole thing and I had to put mine in the microwave to even take more than one bite. I know there are people in the world that will eat cold hot dogs, but I am not one of them. The sugar on top was definite overkill, although the apples were pretty yummy. The worst part was the amount of worcestershire sauce though. I like W sauce, but that was the only flavour.

But wait - we made dessert too!!! Thought it would be nice to do a jellied fruit salad. We found a recipe for the Pink N' Pretty Fruit Medley, but modified it because the fresh fruits were not in season. We substituted a can of fruit cocktail and presume the authors of the Purity cookbook would approve. We also decided to make it a brain-shaped jellied salad in honour of the Halloween season.



First we mixed up the jello and let it partially set. Then we mixed in the yogurt and fruit.


Pour into mould and wait as patiently as you can!

Ta-da!

Nom.


The brains were delicious. I have a spare box of raspberry jello and I think I might make another jellied salad. Turns out they are pretty tasty so long as gelatin is the only animal product involved.

And fyi - I had Cheesie-Corn Casserole leftovers for breakfast today. HA.

1 comment:

  1. A really enjoyable read, Heather. It was like one surprise after the other what you were creating with the items in the pictures. I believe the "jello dessert brains" to be yummy, but the others a mere taste might be enough for me (not a big hot dog fan, or of cheesy poofs). I'm with Freja, just give me the familiar chicken and veggies. :)

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