Author: Eats Like A Duck
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Flander’s Family Foodily-Doodily
The Flanders Family are well known for their bland, boring food. The plain “Popsicle” was a reader request; but then I started thinking about other Flanders foods. I didn’t think any of these recipes really qualified for their own separate blog entry. So I decided to group them together into a bunch of Foodily-Doodily. Now…
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No Fuss, No Muss: A Spanish Peanut
The skin is one of the defining features of a Spanish peanut. By wanting a Spanish peanut without the skin, Mr. Burns is basically just asking for a plain peanut – BUT he wants Smithers to go through the extra effort of removing the skin for him. That’s the joke. I feel like I should break…
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Window to Weight Gain – And The Rest
And now we come to the end of our Window to Weight Gain series. And what a long, strange, fattening journey it’s been! By now you should be eating Pop Tart sandwiches for lunch and be gorging on entire containers of Chubbb while watching tv. However, there were a few items that I’ve bunched together…
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Au Gratin Potatoes – That’s a Quality Side
Yes, this is one of those real recipes where I make actual edible food. They can’t all be beer poured over a frozen dinner people! Anyway, Mayor Quimby is correct, au gratin potatoes are a quality side. We get to see brief shot of them as prepared by the Springfield Dinner Theater and they look…
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No Fuss, No Muss: Del Monte Peas
I know the food at The Springfield Retirement Castle isn’t exactly gourmet. But does Abe Simpson really enjoy eating Del Monte Peas from a can? Does anyone enjoy eating peas from a can? It’s not that Del Monte peas are inedible or taste that bad. At the same time, plain peas eaten directly from a…
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Window to Weight Gain – The Fish Sandwich
Homer: I don’t know. Fish sandwich. Are you sure? – King-Size Homer (The Simpsons Season 7 – Episode 7) The fish sandwich is often the most ignored menu item at fast food restaurants. In many western countries it’s popular during Lent and that’s about it. And by popular during Lent, I mean some people eat…