{"id":31,"date":"2010-11-07T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2010\/11\/07\/food-frakker-the-many-faces-of-home-cooking\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:23:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:23:51","slug":"food-frakker-the-many-faces-of-home-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2010\/11\/07\/food-frakker-the-many-faces-of-home-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Frakker: The many faces of home cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to start off this article with some old man griping. Let’s take a look at these potato prices from the HEB:
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\n5-lbs of potatoes is $1.77, yet 10-lbs is only twenty cents more. What is not pictured, is the price of a single potato, which is $1.20. So, this is all a lead up to how it is that I walked into the store, intending to buy a potato, but I walked out with ten pounds.<\/p>\n

But you know what’s free? Pecans. It’s pecan picking season in Austin.
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\nEvery time I try walking anywhere I end up with a pocket full of these tasty morsels. <\/p>\n

My food-frakking deputy Julia and I visited the Restaurant Depot last week. You can get great prices on meat in bulk there.
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\nAnd yes, that bag says "lamb carcass." You can even see its little hoofies up at the top.<\/p>\n

A glimpse of some southern-style cooking for you northerners, this is from Austin’s Hoovers restaurant.
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\nThe yellow things are "ho-cakes", essentially a pancake made with corn meal. The cup on the side is filled with chickens, dumpling, and gravy.<\/p>\n

Taco Cabana, a Texas fast-food taco chain, has been making Mexican street-food tacos.
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\nThey’re not much different than the taco cart tacos, except that you only get one meat choice, a marinated beef not unlike suadero. Also, they’re served with a very American-style chips and velveeta-queso side.
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I picked up this Mexican dulces sampler at that El Rancho supermarket that I mentioned earlier.
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\nI’m not sure exactly what everything was, but it seemed to be candied pumpkin, fig, and various other squashes. How do they make a piece of vegetable so incredibly sweet? It was like biting into a strawberry jam that was actually a pumpkin.<\/p>\n

The big development with my cooking repertoire is the purchase of a crock pot.
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\nSo the first thing I did was go down to the store and buy the neck pieces of three different types of animals.
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\nThe turkey necks made dam fine soup. It was meaty yet healthy and vegetable intensive.
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\nAnd after the crock pot had simmered the flesh from the bones, I was left with a pile of turkey vertebrae. They looked like the pieces for some weird European educational toy.
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\nI was tempted to keep them. But then I thought better of it. You have to ask yourself how many carcasses you really need to keep around the house.
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\nInstead, I played with them once and then threw them away.
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