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The problem with this particular project is that the Seahawks play St. Louis twice a year. After meals of toasted ravioli and gooey butter cake we are left with slingers, St. Paul sandwiches, and the city’s official dish, Crisco covered in fried caramel and broken glass.
This season has been brutal; however, we are not ready to pack it all in and watch the final games alongside Pete Gross, so we are going to go a healthier route and pick a meal from the Rams' former home, Orange County.
They may have been called the Los Angeles Rams; however, they weren’t fooling anyone. LA and The OC (don’t call it that) are very different places. If you don’t believe us watch Laguna Beach and then The Hills--you’ll see what we’re talking about.
Our original idea for an Orange County meal was something from the world’s most popular Fun Forest knock-off, Disneyland. However, our OC (don’t call it that) contact told us that there was no such thing, unless we made corn dogs in the shape of Mickey Mouse.
She suggested ceviche, a popular Latin seafood meal where one marinates fish or shrimp in citrus juice. Before they all got knocked down to build the San Diego Freeway, the OC (don’t call it that) was teeming with orange and county trees.
It appears to be more of an appetizer, but as anyone who has ever overdone it at happy hour or on hors d'oeuvres at a wedding knows, a bunch of appetizers makes a great meal. So we’ll be making double.
Also, our recipe calls for Corn Nuts. They were a popular meal in middle school, but we have no idea if you can still buy them. When we were twelve we could have told you exactly where to get them them and what flavors each store had.
Of course back then we had no idea what a fixed-rate mortgage was, and now, well, we pretend to know so we can participate in every conversation that we’ve had since we turned 28. The moment your life becomes an endless series of discussions about real estate, that is when your youth is over.
The meal varies throughout Central and South America. In Ecuador they use tomato sauce, in Chile they add mint, and in Peru they use it as landing strips. Ours will vary this way: we are not using seafood, but rather chicken. What?! What?! Yeah! what?! That’s what I thought.
Look, this is the OC (don’t call it that), we can do whatever we want. So you can make some shrimp ceviche or something, and we’ll take our yellow Hummer down to the beach and have a bonfire with Trevor, Tessa, and The Weeze.
How does that sound? It’s going to be in the thirties here and you’ll be using your meal to scrape the ice off your windshield, and we’ll be serving our chicken at some kickass pool party with a bunch of entertainment lawyers, developers, and hot high school kids.
Chicken, shrimp, whatever, it’s still going to have spicy peppers, cold and creamy avocados, and a taste of what first made Orange County famous.
We can’t wait, but first we gotta go talk about someone’s Ballard condo with someone.
We'll report back on Tuesday, and if you think you're so fucking great why not try and make the stuff as well. Then we can all compare notes as our fathers stare at us disapprovingly.
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Do you have the details for that Crisco recipe?
If you're nostalgic for the orange groves of SoCal, I hope you've listened to Dave Alvin's Dry River.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE3ioVPS2dc
Great versions by the whole Alvin community - the Blaster, John Doe, the Knitters and Dave himself.
Real estate discussions are bad but health discussions are when you know you are really an adult.
Our original idea for an Orange County meal was something from the world’s most popular Fun Forest knock-off, Disneyland. However, our OC (don’t call it that) contact told us that there was no such thing, unless we made corn dogs in the shape of Mickey Mouse.
CHURROS!!!
Ceviche??!!?
just kidding.
I predict that this meal will end the same way as the game: salmonella.
Ecuador food is gaining recognition worldwide. The country's traditional gastronomy is renowned for its variety and delicious taste. You can see some tasty recipes (including Ceviche) here:
Ecuador Recipes
Zuri
I lived in Ecuador -- they love soup!
The ceviche in both Ecuador and Peru (sorry, Ecuador, but I'm a Peru partisan) is really to die for. And everyone makes it just a little different, so it's always interesting.
"You know Michael, if I may take off my acting pants for a moment, and pull my anal rapist stocking over my head, George Michael has been acting strange lately. I think he may have developed what we in the soft sciences refer to as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or the O.C. Disorder."
"Don't call it that."