Hi,
Dreams really do come true as proven by last night's White Castle potluck dinner.
Laikom's crispy fried White Castle chicken was the first thing to finish. It was really terrific stuff reminding me of Korean fried chicken.
Helen's Filipino-style eggrolls almost didn't make it to the event. Her kid's idea of a taste were some pretty hefty portions. One of her son's even wondered why there was a need to remake the White Castle into anything else, "It is already the perfect food."
I made the
Sloppy Siders, which took first place at the 2012 White Castle cook-off. I made a substitute of Sweet Baby Ray's Chipotle BBQ sauce because we were out of ketchup. For mustard, I used a generous teaspoon of Coleman's mustard. I never made Sloppy Joe with tomato paste before, though it really thickened it up nicely. It was a pretty decent White Castle remake dish, I can understand why it won.
I also made the
Castle Cobbler. For the filling, I hand tore all the White Castles. If I came upon a pickle, I put it aside to mince later and return to the bowl. To the recipe's instructions, I added five cups of sliced apples (I cut them into chunks roughly sized to the WC). This was all supposed to fit into a 9x9 baking dish. It really fit into a 9x13 dish. I was tempted to make a double recipe of the cobbler topping, then decided to glob on and spread a little. I did add some half-and-half to the cobbler batter, because an egg would have produced too thick a batter. The finished dish with bits of apple and WC sticking out looked very nice. It also complimented very well Pie Lady's slustard.
Walking While Eating's Consomme tasted just like French onion soup. This is a good thing, because who doesn't like French onion soup?
Panther in Den's biscuits and gravy or Slider on Shingle would have gone really well with some fried eggs for breakfast. Just because he likes them, he ordered and ate a regular White Castle during the proceedings.
Toria's Savory Slider Puck Cakes could proudly sit on a tea table or basket of breads or smattered with butter along with breakfast. These were delicious and not the scary food Toria predicted.
The only item I might not want to see again was Hammond's WC encased in aspic, though I think he intended this to be.
Louisa Chu arrived with a kale, mushroom and quiona salad, which satisfied several people's need for a vegetable.
Pie Lady wrote:
I think we should offer some to unsuspecting diners. That should be fun. Kind of like truth or dare, where the truth lies with individual White Castle loyalty.
Pie Lady did offer to a few diners present a sample of her slustard. I believe all of them made the same mistake: they declined. I guess once one is in a heady reverie of White Castle dining, you don't want to spoil your appetite with dessert.
I could easily envision doing this again, because we proved to the skeptics that, "Yes, Hammond, there are some fine recipes made better with a few White Castles add in."
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Cathy2
"You'll be remembered long after you're dead if you make good gravy, mashed potatoes and biscuits." -- Nathalie Dupree
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