Foods you miss from home...
 

Growing up in NY and getting used to all the great foods available only in the North East is tough when you're living in TX...


Right now, I'm craving a genuine Ba-Tampte kosher garlic pickle. They are so yummy. Occasionally I can find them at a local HEB grocery store, but it's hit or miss.

I also miss Sabrett skin-on hot dogs. The only ones close that I can find are from Boar's Head and they're rank expensive.

It's also tough to find a grilled sweet Italian Sausage sammich on a NY club roll here in Texas. I've yet to find one even close to the stuff you can get up north.

Thankfully I found a couple places in Austin that have excellent NY pizza. Just like home... and in some cases, BETTER than some of the joints at home.



Talking to Dannyboy Aleeeseeeeeeah.... he misses Drakes cakes Ring Dings and Yohos... they're good too. Can't find 'em here at all.


Any food y'all miss since you moved away from where you grew up?

Kosher Bagels fresh from the cooker.

The Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cakes, Fresh Fruit pies and Fried Cakes (not yeast doughnuts) from Freihofer's.

The Mint Chocolate Enrobed Chocolate Chip Cookies.
and Cheese Danish Strips from Entenmann's.

Since they merged and the Freihofer now cooks poptarts in the Albany bakery, I bet they are nothing like they were.

Calzones and Canoli from the Boston North End type pizza shoppes!
D'Angelo's sandwiches, forget the cold cut junk at Subway.

We are going back in July.

I can find the Entenmann's stuff here... well some of it. I can find the cheese danish and the crumb cakes. I miss the Entenmann's chocolate chip cookies bro. They were yummy.


Ain't no bagels like NY bagels, bub. They don't even come close here.



I miss Stella Doro breakfast treats too. They were so delicious. When I go home, my mom buys a couple packages just for me. ;)

I guess this explains why we are both "Full" Gospel Preachers!

Jn 10:10

yeah Boudin,cracklins,ettouffee,fried boudin balls,stuffed pistollettes
and the turtle sauce picante that my cousins rest. makes.
I also miss chocolate eclairs from Ruddocks Bakery in Crowley.
Hey OGIA eat some for me.

I never moved away from where I grew up.... so the answer to that would be no.

I did find this though... http://www.amazon.com/Ba-tampte-Garl.../dp/B00032HACQ

If that's what you're craving, you can have it in a few days.... :lol

Here ya go: http://www.amazon.com/Entenmanns-Cho.../dp/B0005YYHQY

http://www.amazon.com/Stella-Dora-Br.../dp/B0005ZUV18

Cheese Danish Strips available here: http://www.gerritysdelivers.com/7203000314.html

I didn't have any luck finding the Mint Chocolate cookies....

Ronzo-- Give this link to DA....

http://www.drakescakesonline.com/

Now he doesn't have to miss them anymore. :D

Entenmann's cookies were hard and crumbly. Freihofers were softer. They made Hermit cookies, Fruit cookies, and during the holidays Black Eyed Susan and Butter cookies.

Entenmann's Mint Choc Enrobed CC cookies rivaled Girl Scout Thin Mints. No one could eat just one.

NY Style Bagels are about the same through the Northeast. The NW has Starbucks and Lattes' New England Bagel shops with Green Mountain Coffee.

My Mom's Homemade Bread-Can't beat it anywhere! Her pizza is great too!
http://www.preparedpantry.com/Produc...s/full-B21.jpg

I miss the good old hog fries we had every summer.

What in the world are hog fries ?

Ok... so you have WAY too much time on your hands... but... BLESS YOU MY CHILD!!!

Praise the LAWWWWWD!!!!!

uh... Mountain Oysters?

I miss the dried "Indian Corn"

You eat that stuff???


UGH!

Oh, it's lunch time for me...since I'm here in downtown Manhattan right now, looks like I'll stop by the corner vendor and have him fix me a delicious Sabrett skin-on hot dog with all the works on top...then I'll stop at the deli and get me some Ring Dings and Yoho's and a bottle of Yoohoo....after that, I'll stop over at Giuliano's Pizza and get me a calzone....yummy.

uhhh....buuuuurrrrrrrrrrrppppppp!

Excuse me.

Aren't they fries cooked in Hog Grease?

Must be like the funnel cakes sold at the fair, in the same oil that cooked the fish...

:aaa

Yes... really! And no wonder after that kind of a lunch! :eek:

LOL!

I miss the ground beef from back home. Most of what's sold here in the grocery stores is horrible! It has the gristle ground right in and it's kind of a rubbery texture. Just awful!

I've found some at a couple of the smaller grocery stores that's better and I'll pay a little more for it 'cause it's definitely an improvement over this other junk.

I can't figure out why it's such a lower quality here. I would have expected the opposite to be the case.

When I was young my Grandmother made these great apple turnovers. She died without giving anyone the recipe or telling them how to make them. Many have tried to make her turnovers and no one has done it............

It is where they cut up a hog and fry it in really deep pans, kinda like those pots that they used to boil hot water in and then add the laundry and stir it around. Well that's the same precept here, except it is with grease and hog meat.

It's pretty good, but I can't think about what I'm eating...eeeewwwwww.

Isn't that just the skin of the hog? Called Pork Rinds?

The two small things I really miss from home (besides good seafood) that I can't buy in local stores here are Schonland hot dogs and Land O' Lakes White American cheese.

I miss boudin.Hear that Brother Dino....I miss Boudin....

I miss the deep freeze, at the farm, full of our own butchered beef. I miss my Daddy! He was so nice!

I miss chowder, cooked outside in big black kettles every year. My husband thinks that's the grossest thing ever. Also, we had homemade apple butter cooked outside too. Yummmmmm!!

I miss sweet cornbread, since I now have to make it totally without sugar for my southern husband and kids.

Hey we make sweet cornbread in the South.It goes great with peas.
Call Scott.He will give you a good recipe.

Amen, Sister, I really miss the real white American Cheese. There is nothing like it here. And, Seafood on the East Coast is Worlds away from the West Coast. Food is better on the East Coast IMHO. I grew up in the city that Schonland's Hot Dogs came from. When I was a CNA, working in a Nursing Home I took care of the woman whose Husband founded the company.

I miss my Grandma's creamed potatoes and peas.

I miss taterberries!

My Grandmother would take freshly dug small red potatos (from the garden) and cook them, then make a cream gravy and put the potatoes in the gravy.

Taterberries yum.

Que Malo!

I miss the Dominican Restraunt we used to go to with on Sundays with Dad!
It was his absolute favorite.

Right now I could go for anything on that menu!

Oh the good ol' days!

I miss boudin.I had some on my visit home last weekend.I miss just driving to the nearest corner store and getting a link and a diet coke and driving off eating it.

I miss my mom's cooking and homemade doughnuts!!

I miss donuts:reaction:runhillsoh I miss donuts....crispy creme....circle donuts...etc...I miss donuts real bad.I am still on this donut free diet.I give it a :scorebad:dramaBut I cannot help it because when we pass by
crispy cremes my daughter calls them the enemy..