More sharing of American culture

[angledge]

My Norwegian friend Kristin has taken her next step into American culture: eating peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. The first time Kristin saw me making one, she said (as diplomatically as possible): "That doesn't look very nice." But after a few weeks of persuasion




And guess what? Agreeing with millions of elementary school-age kids, Kristin decides PB&Js are tasty!


So ... we've had a jack-o-lantern carving lesson, & we've taken Kristin to watch American football. I was thinking that next we should bake an apple pie, but that's kind of hard. Suggestions for further lessons in Americana? And you, fizrep and chaosvizier: keep them G-rated.

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[krick.livejournal.com]

Jelly is really, really nasty. I eat plain peanut butter sandwiches only. Crunchy peanut butter if possible. The crunchier, the better.


You should introduce her to my recipe for grilled cheese, another American favorite, or at least my favorite...

Ingredients:
- 2 slices of white bread
- 2 slices of cheese (or some multiple of 2 proportional to your love of cheese)
- 1 slice of german bologna (the kind with pork in it)
- mayonnaise
- brown mustard (or whatever kind you like best)

Fry the piece of bologna until it browns and curls into something that looks like a meat diaphragm. Set aside.

Take each piece of bread, coat one side with mayonnaise, the other with mustard. Place both pieces of bread mayo side down in a pan (side by side, open face style) then add a piece of cheese to each. Fry on low-medium until cheese starts to melt. Frying them this way gets both sides done equally and in half the time (no flipping).

Combine the fried bologna and the two pieces of bread with the cheese side facing in and the bologna in the middle.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

I make my grilled cheese sandwiches with Kraft slices & tomato. The best appliance for making these is either a toastie maker (a British cooking device I've yet to find at home) or one of the really old-fashioned waffle makers where you could turn the cooking plates around to get a flat surface. Butter the outsides of the slices of bread, two Kraft slices per sanwich, & as much tomato as could be crammed in there. Dee-yummy-licious.

[krick.livejournal.com]

You know, you can make grilled PB&J sandwiches. People tell me they're very good. However you have to be very careful when eating them because hot jelly is just like napalm.