While we're all thinking of food... (Winslow: to buy, store, garden)

[Elcarim]

Awesome! I, for one, can't wait to get my hands on that one! Authentic Maine Fare - wow!

[dmyankee]

Rices red hot dogs rock!

For today's Labor Day meal we are having bean hole beans, red hot dogs, huge moose(yes...moose) burgers stuffed with blue cheese and a couple quarts of fried clams from next door..mmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Elcarim]

What is a bean hole bean?

[corgis]

I want one of your cookbooks too, please -

Back in WV, no hot dog is complete unless it has mustard down one side, ketchup down the other and topped with meatless chili, cole slaw, salt and pepper on a regular hot dog bun.

[dramamama6685]

Originally Posted by corgis

I want one of your cookbooks too, please -

Back in WV, no hot dog is complete unless it has mustard down one side, ketchup down the other and topped with meatless chili, cole slaw, salt and pepper on a regular hot dog bun.

So you wanna go down to Rosie's every day with us? I just love their dogs!!!

[starwalker]

as far as I know, "beanhole beans" are a baked bean recipe that is cooked in a pit BBQ, underground.

You can make the same recipes above ground, in the oven, but it isn't the same. I have done this out west.. you dig a BIG hole in the ground, big enough to accomodate your food and then some... deep and big. Then you lay logs across the hole and build a fire on top of them, feeding the fire until the logs burn through, fall in and you have a wonderful bed of coals IN the pit.

Now, if you are going to cook meat (I have done turkey... in a regular metal roasting pan with lid.. and a a whole goat, slathered in BBQ sauce and wrapped in wet burlap) you prepare it and make sure you have a way to haul it OUT of the pit! we put our goat on a piece of metal, with coathanger 'handles'... you prepare it.

SHOVEL part of the coals OUT of the hole (I forgot this part once... and the top of my turkey did not get cooked!) and lower your meat and your kettle of beans with the LID securely fastened on, into the hole.

Shovel coals onto the top of the food and then begin filling the hole again. We put a piece of metal over the top before shoveling on the dirt to make it easier to uncover. Cover it thoroughly, so no smoke escapes and no air gets in.

Then go away and wait... depending on what you are cooking at least several hours to all day or overnight.

When you are ready to eat, uncover and remove food. Careful, it WILL BE HOT!! This is the most delish way to cook that I know of.

You must be careful to dig your pit in an area where there are no tree roots though, for they can get hot and simmer underground, with fire breaking out MUCH later when it has followed a root to the surface! This also happened to a friend of mine and I was there to help put it out...

I do not still have the recipe I used for "beanhole beans" though...
Starwalker

[zwoman2u]

was it by any chance darby's?, dockside?

[mollysmiles]

I'm looking for a good chocolate fudge recipe....won't be able to make it for a bit, but would like to have one to perfect before the holidays! The recipes I've come across have peanut butter in them. It just doesn't seem like it would be "chocolate" if it had peanut butter in there too. My grandmother made a great chocolate fudge, but the recipe is in a box, somewhere in the garage! also, have any of you ever made "divinity fudge"? I'm curious about that....

[Maine Writer]

Originally Posted by MRVphotog

You can add to the list those Wicked Whoopie Pies made by that lady in Brunswick.

I make my whoopie pies with soft pumpkin cookies in the fall. Mmmmmm!

Originally Posted by deerislesmile

Hot dogs are not covered in ANYTHING but a hot dog roll! But they are red here*- that's throws a lot of people for a loop ("Are they lobster flavored?").


I mean the REAL hot dogs, not the water-puffed cheap dogs.

When our daughter lived in Minnesota we'd take red hot dogs to her. Her friends thought they were weird but amazing.

Originally Posted by Zymer

Speaking of food...I've found my great aunt's cookbook, hand-written from the 1920s/30s. She lived on the Cutler road that goes around Holmes Bay, I don't think she ever traveled any further than Ellsworth in her whole life. Didn't even get indoor plumbing until the '70s.

I'm thinking of transcribing it and publishing it. I wonder if there would be any interest in something like that?

Counting in my head - me, two daughters, sister, step-mom, sil, mil x2, best friend...I'll take nine. Seriously.

[Maine Writer]

Originally Posted by mollysmiles

I'm looking for a good chocolate fudge recipe....won't be able to make it for a bit, but would like to have one to perfect before the holidays! The recipes I've come across have peanut butter in them. It just doesn't seem like it would be "chocolate" if it had peanut butter in there too. My grandmother made a great chocolate fudge, but the recipe is in a box, somewhere in the garage! also, have any of you ever made "divinity fudge"? I'm curious about that....

Have you tried the one on the fluff jar? It's fluff, sugar, vanilla, salt and chocolate chips. One batch makes something like five pounds.

Someone mentioned needhams. I have an old recipe that I can dig out if anyone would like it.