Filed under: Food, Friends, humor, laugh, love | Tags: Food, Ketchup, Oddities, Recipes
We had some fun popcorn and usual recipes a couple a blogs ago. Now lets have some fun with ketchup. Let me begin by stating that ketchup is one of my favorite condiments. It is healthy and tasty and can be used on lots of items to add and/or change flavor. While I am not normally brand choosy, I am when it comes to ketchup. I only like Heinz ketchup. This is not an advertisement for Heinz; it merely is a statement of fact. Now here’s some odd uses of ketchup.
(1) My youngest daughter (she’s 23) won’t eat macaroni and cheese without ketchup. When I asked why, she explained that growing up she frequently ate hot dogs with ketchup along with macaroni and cheese. Somehow the ketchup always found its way into the macaroni and cheese. Now, as an adult she will not eat macaroni and cheese without ketchup.
(2) Growing up I can’t recall my Dad eating eggs without ketchup on them. He also would spread ketchup on saltine crackers; he did the same with mustard.
(3) As a youngster, I had a friend a who family used ketchup as their sauce on spaghetti. Her mother would cook the pasta and put it in a bowl on the dining table. Then the family just took bottles of ketchup and poured it over the spaghetti. When my friend learned of “real” sauce for spaghetti, she was surprised. She had grown up thinking spaghetti sauce was ketchup.
How about you? Any odd recipes or uses of ketchup?
Let’s have some tasty fun today. There are so many ways to make popcorn. Some unusual. How do you make popcorn? What’s the most unusual way you know of?
I’ll start out. Growing up as a kid we had a special “popcorn” pan. It was black from use. We would start with a stick of butter. Let it melt and then add plenty of white popcorn. If we wanted something different we would use bacon grease instead of butter. We cooked it until it was almost black and then doused it with milk to eat. I thought that was the only way to eat popcorn until I was a teenager and started getting kettle cooked popcorn at movie theaters and sporting events.
Can you top this in unusual ways to make popcorn?
