Do things you cook have a name?

you lived with someone named "Pasta"?

My mom used to make a spaghetti alfredo/primavera thing with shrimp and we always called it "shrimp wiggle". I think childhood habits are key, here. See also, "roast beast," "pigs in a blanket," whatever you call an egg fried into the middle of a piece of bread (we called it "eggs in a basket"), and several unthinkingly racist references to dishes involving fried lice.

I MEAN FRIED RICE, OBVIOUSLY. YOU SEE?

God, one SECOND of distraction....

You lived with Everett True??

"whatever you call an egg fried into the middle of a piece of bread"

At my house, that's Kokomo Toast, due to the knowledge passed on to us by a radio dj that you can time it perfectly to the sound of the Beach Boys "Kokomo".

i always called it "egg in the hole"
it was the first thing i ever cooked! i didn't even eat it because i didn't like eggs, but i made it for my friend's entire family of 4, and then some. i couldn't stop making it because i wanted to get it just right. i was like 8 or so.

they got mad at me because i used up all their eggs, but they couldn't be too mad because i had made breakfast.

bread into pan as song begins, egg into hole at "to Martinique, that Monserrat mystique", flip it at "Port au Prince, I wanna catch a glimpse", remove from pan as the song fades.

YOU ARE BLOWING MY MIND!!

seriously though, things i cook do not normally have a name
i have to give them a title when i put them into my flickr set, but mostly it's descriptive not like "chicken a la tuesday"

xxp that's up there with 'CPR to The Bee Gee's 'Stayin' Alive''

The only recipe I've developed myself is a bacon, eggs, cheese and green chili sandwich -- been making it for 25 years, I guess I should give it a name someday. Sometimes I call it Instant Heart Attack.

WmC I can't believe that -- you seem like you wing it all the time. I guess I don't have any "recipes" but basically every time I cook I'm making something up. Right? Isn't that what people do?

I mean last night I made chicken soup for my sick husband in the style of my Colombian host mother (lol study abroad) but I added a dried pasilla chile (just for a few minutes until it was rehydrated) so that it would be spicy and clear up his nose. So basically chicken soup with potatoes instead of pasta, cilantro for green, lime for tang. This soup has no name aside from "chicken soup".

(also peas and corn and carrots)

WmC I can't believe that -- you seem like you wing it all the time.

Oh I definitely do, but I hardly ever write anything down or try to repeat it again next time. The sandwich is pretty much the only thing I've ever come up with that hasn't changed in 25 years.

I like this development of the last few years of mastering techniques rather than learning recipes. It does kind of take the emphasis off of single dishes that wind up with names.

Usually I call whatever I am making "meely-muck-mo" because I usually sautee a bunch of vegetables together maybe with pasta or rice or tofu and season it with varied ingredients. The original "meely-muck-mo" from slacker days is a pack of ramen noodles, a can of heinz veg baked beans and a chopped up veggie burger mixed together.

I like this development of the last few years of mastering techniques rather than learning recipes. It does kind of take the emphasis off of single dishes that wind up with names.

― In "Bob" There Is No East or West (WmC), Monday, October 4, 2010 9:21 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

so otm: it's all abt techniques people! who gives a fuck what some cookbook writer called it?

My mom has so many different names for foods. She even calls leftovers a name: "We're eating Grab, Root, and Growl tonight, guys."

moms are so classic

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