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Lisle, IL | reply to cubs4eva
Re: Italian Beef Recipe Crab rangoon is awesome. |
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Chicago, IL | On a pizza? Yikes! In Ireland they like corn, pineapple, aqnd KETCHUP on pizzas.
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JonPremium
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| said by jsinaiko:On a pizza? Yikes! In Ireland they like corn, pineapple, aqnd KETCHUP on pizzas.
No not on a pizza! Just on its own.
I don't like those weird pizzas like at California Pizza kitchen. Just give me a good old fashion garbage pizza! |
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jsinaikoPremium
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| I agree. My wife - a veggie - likes just plain cheese. Put it to you this way: in Belfast the best pizza joint in the late 90s was the brand new (at the time) Dominos. That's gotta tell you something.
That said, some of the worst pizza I've ever has was in Northern Italy - several hundred miles away from Naples where it was invented and pretty much stayed till GIs brought it back after WWII.
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jsinaikoPremium
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Chicago, IL | reply to sleuth
But at least pizza is Italian, at least partially. ITB is pure Chicago. An Italian beef in Italy is a cow in Umbria. Still love em though.
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cubs4evaPremium
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Aurora, IL | reply to jsinaiko
Corn and pineapple? Strange....the ketchup would do me in on that one though. |
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jsinaikoPremium
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| Well they also put french fries (chips as they are known in the UK and Ireland) between 2 pieces of Wonder Bread or its local equivalent and call it a chip sandwich.
Or 1/2 can of Heinz baked beans and call it a bean sandwich. Brit beer is warm and flat - the real, traditional stuff at least.
However their version of the Chicago dog or an ITB would be chips with any combo of things - fish of course, in the past a big slab of cod, but they are running out of cod in the Atlantic so now any number of types of fish, or my favorite, a curry chip, which is chips, salt, malt vinegar, and curry sauce. Really good. Or in Belfast you get the real top end: curry chip with onions, bangers (sausages), and mushy (mushy peas, which come in a can, are neon green, look like guacamole, and taste a little like very thick split pea soup)! Yum! Not kidding.
Their chips aren't skinny little things like MickeyD's french fries. They are large and fat - pretty substantial. Fantastic indigenous fast food. Back in the day they would give it all to you wrapped in yesterday's paper, but at some point in the 70s someone looked into the toxicity of the ink.
Totally bad ass, especially with curry sauce, onions, couple of big greasy bangers, mushy peas on the very top, all slathered with ladles of the curry, and a lot of vinegar.
I always felt a Harold's Chicken and an ITB/combo would do very well. Would have to go easy on the giardiniera and peppers - they don't do real well with the hot stuff. Even the Indian food is somewhat watered down spice-wise.
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cubs4evaPremium
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Aurora, IL | God, I'd weigh 400 pounds if I lived there! |
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JonPremium
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Lisle, IL | reply to jsinaiko
Ever been down to the Springfield/St Louis are and had a horse shoe? Oh man, that's some good shit. |
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join:2001-08-30
West Des Moines, IA | reply to cubs4eva
said by cubs4eva:Congrats on the new addition!
I was watching something on Food Network about pizza and they had a place in Des Moines that served Chinese Pizzas....looked interesting.
Thanks.
There is indeed a Chinese pizza joint. It's called Fong's Pizza and has a decent amount of good reviews and my wife's friends speak pretty good about it. I'm pretty tempted to try it just to say I have.
Kung Pao Chicken, Moo Shoo Pork, Happy Famiy, Fongolian Beef, etc. all in pie form. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Anyway, I tested an Italian Beef recipe that I'm not all too thrilled about. Slow cooked a Rump Roast for 15hours roughly, using a variety of herbs and spices. In the end I think the meat was just far too dry. I think the Jus tasted awesome though. Next week I'll try it in the oven and see if that creates a juicier piece of meat. |
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said by jsinaiko:Or in Belfast you get the real top end: curry chip with onions, bangers (sausages), and mushy (mushy peas, which come in a can, are neon green, look like guacamole, and taste a little like very thick split pea soup)! Aha! I had a Scottish g/f who used to make me mince and tatties, which I quite liked, and she would go on about mushy peas. But I have always assumed that they were just overcooked, mushy, peas. 
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jsinaikoPremium
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| Well, the are! Sorta.
Dominick's carries them, and many Irish stores do too. I know the Dominick's on Western near Lane Tech and the one on Roosevelt Rd. by Jefferson have them.
The word "mince" is like the word "pudding" there. Mince usually means ground beef but maybe finer ground, but it can also mean a sort of sweet ground up fruit thingie. Pudding can mean just about anything they want it to and certainly not just a dessert.
What are tatties? Little sandwich things?
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| Potatoes! The dish is ground beef cooked with carrots and tatties. I know it sounds pretty dull, but the whole is somehow greater than the sum, somehow.
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