It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's ... it's ... an Unidentified Food Object! It's what happens when you both troll through the refrigerator restlessly on a late Saturday morning looking for ... I dunno ... something. I know you've all had those moments.
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No, it's a quizza!!!
.I go over to other friend's blogs and see all these photos of delectable foods they have indulged in and gorge myself vicariously. I've tried to capture culinary moments at the Rat but this is the best I have come up with so far. It's a quizza! We had plenty of eggs and we had plenty of pizza toppings - it just seemed like the thing to do. I beat the eggs lightly, poured them into an oiled pie pan and set the pan in the oven at 325F until the eggs rose and had mostly firmed up. I pulled the pan out, brushed on a little pizza sauce, sprinkled some Italian seasoning over it and then smothered it in cheddar and mozzarella cheese. A handful each of mushrooms, green peppers, pepperoni and crumbled bacon and it was ready for the final bake at 400F - for that sizzle and browning that makes for the most satisfying Pavlovian drool fest.
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This was one time where I was able to muster the discipline and presence of mind to stop and take photos. Mark was SOOOO good since he had to hold the pan up against the scenic backdrop while I futzed with the camera. "Could you HURRY up? Ow, ow, ow ... this thing is still HOT!" Saintly comes to mind here.
I had to computer-paint out his seared fingers from the edge of the pan and add in two white lines. This is for PhlegmFatale who adores that classic B grade movie 'Plan 9 from Outer Space". She especially loved the very visible strings which held up the flying saucer (a.k.a. pie pan) in the movie. So there ya go ... my first foodie post which was "Outta this world", at least according to Mark. God love him, he is a cook's dream diner!
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34 comments:
HOLY COW!!! QUIZZA! That sounds great! I envision it becoming the signature dish at the Rat, and you will have to make it for every visitor. YUMMMMMMMMMMMM...
Very creative... I like quiche, I'm just never in the mood for it... pizza though, whooo hoo
You know, Towanda, I rarely appreciate my own cooking but even I enjoyed that impromptu brunch. "Quizza de la Rat" ... think you can handle that? The cook is certainly willing!
Okay, okay, PopeT, I'm flexible and we can always whip up a real pizza if that's your real heart's desire. Mark certainly wouldn't complain. Come to think of it, I wouldn't either. We both love pizza!
Spooky, first thing that came to mind was dodgy Sci-Fi movies.
Quizza a la Rat - put me down for a slice or two.
Looks like you had a decent weather day on Saturday - we are labouring under a leaden grey sky that keeps dumping rain on us.
You get some strange but delicious looking things out that way!
Hi Lin. You might want to save that recipe for the bordel, er, saloon, you're going to put up.
And you admit so easily you were just stringing us along, too.
I need to tell you something. There's a new product made for people living in the woop woop called "hot pads". They protect delicate pinkies.
And everyone should have Bgrade mopvie favorite. Mine's the original Little Shop of Horrors with Jack Nicholson. What's yours?
I'm thinkin' that's mighty tasty eatin's! At first it looked like refries with olives and jalapeno nachos - equally tasty breakfast food with a splash of Tequila...
Dontchya just love B-grade sci-fi, dba? During the rare moments that we would find ourselves in a motel, I would click around on the remote endlessly until I found a good schlock B-grade. Mark would wake up at some point and sigh "Ohhh ... MUST you?" Yesh! Yesh! Life can be wonderful!
I would make an entire pan of it just for you if you found your way out here! dirtcrashr already had me thinking of some tasty ingredient variations so it might evolve considerably by then.
We've had clear skies for the last week now but the temps have barely broken freezing temp by mid-day and the water pipes are complaining and slowing. This has required some more open-hatch heating exercises. So far, neither of us have fallen in this time though! I'd be tempted to trade you for your grey rains but that would only bring us unworkable mud sloughs. At least sub zero brings us firm ice beds to drive on. I never thought I'd be weighing ice and frozen mud as the lesser of anything.
Mushy, we'll bring one down with buckshot when you get out here. One of my vague long term fantasies was to hatch and release some pheasant, wild turkey or quail. That would make for some very really airborne meals!
Problem is, Cat, I will probably forget this one like I do many of the impromptus around here. Mark always says "Wow, remember how you did that, okay!?" And I always forget.
Cross my heart, we know about hot pads and even tried them in this photography session. Problem was that they obscured too much of the dish ... or promoted the risk of dumping the contents into the dirt below the porch. That's where Mark's serious finger martyrdom came in.
If I hadn't 'fessed up about the strings, Phlegmmy would have caught it anyway. My favorite B-Grade? I confess, there's never been a B-Grade that I haven't considered a favorite - hence Mark's eternal chagrin. If it's fantasy fiction, chances are that I will enjoy it (which also means NOT falling asleep during it).
dirtchrashr ... you've gone and done it now. I am forever filing away foodie ideas and ingredients for our next adventures. We love to get into nacho style plates of pure mischief and that sounds like a sublime one! I even had a flask of Jose C stashed in the pantry ... just in case. Guess it's due for a work-out. Thank you!
Looks delicious Lin. You have the recipe on your blog so you don't have to remember it.
I thought you were going to talk about being abducted.
Favorite B-grade movie-Tremors
Thank you, Moose. By George, you're right ... this will be one recipe I won't lose! Touch wood that this computer stays running now. It's been acting very ill lately.
Nope, none of that nasty visitor stuff for us but we've heard some pretty bizarre stories from the old-timers.
Way to go there with the Ratta-Quizza! We're very proud of our pizza, here in the Chicago area, but until now, I have never seen one that could hover over a field like that. Yummmm...
Sometimes the lack of good eyesight can be a PLUS, when it comes to "field-cookin'"! Just take off your glasses, and EVERYTHING tastes good!
Even my "famous" scrambled-eggs, of which even I wouldn't eat---because I was one of the cooks!
Sometimes, knowledge is a BAD thing, indeed...!
Craver, maybe we should call this one the Roswell Quizza then! Those Chicago-style pizzas were pretty darned good, too!
o my garsh!!!
FER ME?? SRSLY???
I LURVE it--honestly I do! That is the first and awesomeist quizza ever - and the strings were the most wonderful touch. VIsions of Roswell were swimming in my head. Sounds like a right delightful meal, if you ask me!
Bruno, I have to put on glasses to prep and cook but how did you know that I take 'em off when I sit down to eat? It does work wonders.
Remember ... I did read your posts on SOS and other classic mil recipes. I will NOT attempt those at home any time soon!
Yep, Phlegmmy, just for you! Now I must apologize that I just couldn't bring myself to naming it the Phlegmmy Quizza. I think the 'Dump Cake' was a poor marketing choice in names, too. I guess SOS worked due to a starving captive audience.
I am delighted that you liked my Plan 9 touch with the strings!
That was/is a great photoshop job, Lin. And it looks and sounds delicious!
Favorite B-movie? Anything that made it to MST3K.
Dang, I miss that show...
Oh damn, that sounds good! We do the same thing from time to time. Check out what's in the fridge and see what you can come up with. usually ends up in a burrito of some stripe, or in a stew. That sounds cool though. Whenn we come you'll have to make a list of goodies you want trucked in. We'll happily oblige.
Thanks, Buck, playing around with that photo was just plain fun even though the programs I have are a bit stone ax.
Thanks for linking MST3K to Wikipedia. I recognized it from the description as a treasure I had found during one of our rare motel nights! Needless to say, I was never ready to get up as early as Mark in the morning but I sure had fun catching up on the B-grades.
Beam me up. I'd love to go for a ride in a Quizzamobile.
I have to put on my glasses to talk on the phone. HA
FHB, I can already tell that all four of us will have to do some serious petroglyph hiking to work off the foodie feasting that I know we will get into. Wow, can't wait!
Babzy, the next Quizzamobile flight to the Mars Bar is nearly booked full so sign up quick! We've got that schmancy Virgin Branson fella with the New Mexico Spaceport beat by a mile and a light year!
Doesn't that glass-wearing thing suck? Me, too - scramble around for the glasses when the phone rings. Mark sez "Why don't you put those darned things on a chain around your neck?" However, I'm not ready to look like one of those fussy old antique dealer ladies I'd see with their glasses hanging from a chain. Well, at least not QUITE yet.
I'm drooling. That looks so much better than the McDonald's fish sandwich I had for lunch.
Oh, Atavist, sorry about the timing with your MickeyDee lunch. Then again, I always end up choosing the fish sandwich after scrolling through their menu. It seems to have the more satisfying and recognizable texture of all their protein offerings. In fact, I had an odd yen for one last time we were in town but was outvoted by the CEO on the idea.
Best line in all these comments. I really loved: "The Phlegmmy Quizza". It has all the earmarks of modernity and schmooz. My vote for that name.
Ahem, as for those thingees that keep your glasses from falling off your forehead. I (blush) used one 'til the dange thing wore out. Now I have to have my readers all over the house. One thing I'm reasonably sure of is that I don't look like one of those "fussy old antique dealer ladies". Fussy, old, yes. The rest uh, uh.
oh YUM. .. .
Hey, Cat, you were in the marketing game at one point, weren't you? Sooo ... do you think the Phlegmmy Quizza would 'fly' in Santa Fe? Or should we test market in Dallas first? If it's a hit, she can retire and move out here to play with fun stuff at the ranch. That would be way too cool.
Lin ... you know ... when you're ready, we'll create some seriously awesome dishes at Chez Le Rat.
I don't blame ya - even I might have been put off at the idea of a pizza-pie named for a mucousy product. Ew.
Phlegmmy, I suppose we could call it the 'Fatally Abstracted Quizza' to get around that obvious 'HockALouie' factor. Then again, maybe HockALouie Quizza might have folks lining up for a Hawaiian pork, poi and pineapple quiche. More intense marketing research needs to be done here, methinks.
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