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Potatoes (100% self-indulgent)
Apr. 5th, 2010 10:29 amFuneral Potatoes
Ever heard of them? Probably not because they are an invention (well, maybe more of a tweak) of Utah Mormons. They are sort of like scalloped potatoes, only made with hashbrown cubes (cheesy, creamy). They get their name because they are a staple of the funeral-luncheon held at the church after every Mormon funeral. Of course, people make and bring them to every Mormon function, but they're still called funeral potatoes... until yesterday when my niece's husband called them resurrection potatoes for Easter. Good one!
braggart
For the record, I made a large casserole dish of this side dish last year. It was gobbled up before everyone got a taste. The next two family dinners, my brother and his wife (who cook just fine) jumped on bringing the funeral potatoes themselves. They made two pans each time. They continued to bring them or mashed potatoes every so often since then and often I noticed the second pan barely touched or, at most, half gone. Of course when I brought two pans last night they were both licked clean. Yeah.
onions
A note about onions. Next time you're cooking and you think "next come the onions" because it's always been made with onions, consider skipping them!
See, I don't like onions. I never put them in foods I make. (Well, on very rare occasion, I might put some chopped onion flakes in something like the water where I'm boiling other foods which will be drained away later.) What's funny is that people never seem to notice and still everyone eats my food. For a while I was buying these diet foods, but they flavour everything with red pepper and onions - two things I really dislike. I realized everything tasted exactly the same. I started to realize everyone flavours everything with onion. Take out the onion, dash in something else and everyone is going to think you are superb simply because it doesn't taste like every other meal (prepared or homemade) on earth.
Ever heard of them? Probably not because they are an invention (well, maybe more of a tweak) of Utah Mormons. They are sort of like scalloped potatoes, only made with hashbrown cubes (cheesy, creamy). They get their name because they are a staple of the funeral-luncheon held at the church after every Mormon funeral. Of course, people make and bring them to every Mormon function, but they're still called funeral potatoes... until yesterday when my niece's husband called them resurrection potatoes for Easter. Good one!
braggart
For the record, I made a large casserole dish of this side dish last year. It was gobbled up before everyone got a taste. The next two family dinners, my brother and his wife (who cook just fine) jumped on bringing the funeral potatoes themselves. They made two pans each time. They continued to bring them or mashed potatoes every so often since then and often I noticed the second pan barely touched or, at most, half gone. Of course when I brought two pans last night they were both licked clean. Yeah.
onions
A note about onions. Next time you're cooking and you think "next come the onions" because it's always been made with onions, consider skipping them!
See, I don't like onions. I never put them in foods I make. (Well, on very rare occasion, I might put some chopped onion flakes in something like the water where I'm boiling other foods which will be drained away later.) What's funny is that people never seem to notice and still everyone eats my food. For a while I was buying these diet foods, but they flavour everything with red pepper and onions - two things I really dislike. I realized everything tasted exactly the same. I started to realize everyone flavours everything with onion. Take out the onion, dash in something else and everyone is going to think you are superb simply because it doesn't taste like every other meal (prepared or homemade) on earth.