Hi,

I was just looking over the White Castle contest recipes.

While I can make a breakfast casserole, I just saw a WC-Apple cobbler recipe, which might work well with Pie Lady's Slustard. Is there a preference? I already have everything in-house to make either. I just saw a recipe for a Reuben WC casserole ... so many great ideas!

I am very much enjoying the pre-event chatter as well as everyone's willingness to see this to the magnificent end!

Regards,

Sorry to cancel at the last minute but I'm a little under the weather--won't be able to make the cook off today. Good luck to all!

thaiobsessed wrote:Sorry to cancel at the last minute but I'm a little under the weather--won't be able to make the cook off today. Good luck to all!

No worries, I had to back out of a number of things lately to avoid passing on my cold.

Hope to see you soon sometime!

Regards,

Hi,

If anyone wants to drop in late, please do. Need an idea? Borrow Santander's idea of a dip (he made tapenade) and something wrap the French fries (he wrapped them in cured ham).

Regards,

Or maybe we need some volunteer tasters or eaters?

It occured to me that my white castle is just bad but they seem to cook things the same way so I don't know. White bun check, pickle, check, extremely thin somewhat tasteless meat, check. Onions kind of soggy and not oniony enough. No catsup or yellow mustard. It seems WC screams out for yellow mustard but mine only had brown which generally I prefer but not this time.

Toria,

Don't worry, this will be fine. Most of us will show up primed to eat what we and others brought.

Regards,

I am keeping an open mind. But if i see jellied sliders I am running for the hills.

I didn't have time or energy to make tea cake, since I was also making a cake for the dessert exchange tomorrow. Thus, I would be intrigued to see the apple cobbler. Kudos to anybody strong enough to combine the two.

Pie Lady wrote:I didn't have time or energy to make tea cake, since I was also making a cake for the dessert exchange tomorrow. Thus, I would be intrigued to see the apple cobbler. Kudos to anybody strong enough to combine the two.

Castle Cobbler, it tis!

Between Helen and I, we bought 30 sliders. We filled the Crave Case to the brim!

Regards,

I have to fess up. I couldn't resist the smell on the car ride home, so I ate one. I now have to apologize to toria. The Meat and onion (what few of them that were in there) were completely devoid of flavor! It's not as if the whole package is devoid of flavor, but when you isolate the onions or beef, there really is no flavor to them. Very odd and not what I remember, even from recent visits.

I'm about to throw the chicken in the oil, so I don't have time to write up the process, but i'll post the steps in pictures and fill in the blanks later.

Having some serious problems with my "aspic." I'm bringing it, but it may not be edible...oh, actually, it wasn't supposed to be edible but it was supposed to look better.

Finished product! (staying crisp in a warm oven)







On our way!!

toria wrote:I dunno laikom....maybe not too hungry after reading these threads. And I have to kind of agree with David Hammond...White castle is worse than I thought. After picking up my sliders today to prep I decided to eat lunch there and found the sliders tasteless. I have not had a White Castle for years and years....I thought I remember them as oniony beefier tasting than they were. Kinda like the powdered onion soup stuff. The onion rings were also not tasty even in that fast food onion ring taste that is kinda good. Nevertheless I am game and I will plunge on. I will hope to bring a tasty creation.

Do we know how many points a slider is worth in the Weight Watchers plan?

Ha ha yes I could look it up. I tasted quite a few things but did not eat a whole lot. Most things were surprisingly edible.

Just to give you a taste of tonight's White Castle Cook Off, Slider on a Shingle (prepared by Panther in the Den).



The plate was pretty much empty by the time we went home.

I went to Book of Mormon this evening so I couldn't attend, but I was thinking of you all. Laikom's pictures of his finished chicken look almost edible.

mbh wrote:I went to Book of Mormon this evening so I couldn't attend, but I was thinking of you all. Laikom's pictures of his finished chicken look almost edible.

Laikom's chicken was excellent (perhaps because it contained less slider than most dishes).

That was my favorite dish.

We ended up getting second dinner and I said, y'know, we should do this sort of thing again. But what food is as comically bad as White Castle? He suggested Taco Bell. Hmmm...

I could make semifregordito.

Pie Lady wrote:But what food is as comically bad as White Castle?

That is a good question. I'm sure there's several contenders out there.

David Hammond wrote:

mbh wrote:I went to Book of Mormon this evening so I couldn't attend, but I was thinking of you all. Laikom's pictures of his finished chicken look almost edible.

Laikom's chicken was excellent (perhaps because it contained less slider than most dishes).

I'm flattered that you all liked the chicken. I thought everything, including the slustard, was pretty dang good.

If it wasn't obvious from the pictures, aside from one egg and a bit of black pepper added, the breading on the chicken was all slider.

Savory Slider Puck Cakes, prepared by Toria:



Whole sliders, sausage, cheddar, Bisquick -- proving that if you put enough tastier stuff in there, you won't have to taste too much WC product.

Out of town, so I missed this and quite frankly, I thought it sounded like a fantastic idea. Had I been there, I was thinking WC Scotch Egg. Also sad to hear thaiobsessed fell ill . . . Banh mi sounded very clever. Hoping to read more about the results and see some more pics. Kudos to all of you for your creativity.

Hi,

Dreams really do come true as proven by last night's White Castle potluck dinner.

Laikom's crispy fried White Castle chicken was the first thing to finish. It was really terrific stuff reminding me of Korean fried chicken.

Helen's Filipino-style eggrolls almost didn't make it to the event. Her kid's idea of a taste were some pretty hefty portions. One of her son's even wondered why there was a need to remake the White Castle into anything else, "It is already the perfect food."

I made the Sloppy Siders, which took first place at the 2012 White Castle cook-off. I made a substitute of Sweet Baby Ray's Chipotle BBQ sauce because we were out of ketchup. For mustard, I used a generous teaspoon of Coleman's mustard. I never made Sloppy Joe with tomato paste before, though it really thickened it up nicely. It was a pretty decent White Castle remake dish, I can understand why it won.

I also made the Castle Cobbler. For the filling, I hand tore all the White Castles. If I came upon a pickle, I put it aside to mince later and return to the bowl. To the recipe's instructions, I added five cups of sliced apples (I cut them into chunks roughly sized to the WC). This was all supposed to fit into a 9x9 baking dish. It really fit into a 9x13 dish. I was tempted to make a double recipe of the cobbler topping, then decided to glob on and spread a little. I did add some half-and-half to the cobbler batter, because an egg would have produced too thick a batter. The finished dish with bits of apple and WC sticking out looked very nice. It also complimented very well Pie Lady's slustard.

Walking While Eating's Consomme tasted just like French onion soup. This is a good thing, because who doesn't like French onion soup?

Panther in Den's biscuits and gravy or Slider on Shingle would have gone really well with some fried eggs for breakfast. Just because he likes them, he ordered and ate a regular White Castle during the proceedings.

Toria's Savory Slider Puck Cakes could proudly sit on a tea table or basket of breads or smattered with butter along with breakfast. These were delicious and not the scary food Toria predicted.

The only item I might not want to see again was Hammond's WC encased in aspic, though I think he intended this to be.

Louisa Chu arrived with a kale, mushroom and quiona salad, which satisfied several people's need for a vegetable.

Pie Lady wrote:I think we should offer some to unsuspecting diners. That should be fun. Kind of like truth or dare, where the truth lies with individual White Castle loyalty.

Pie Lady did offer to a few diners present a sample of her slustard. I believe all of them made the same mistake: they declined. I guess once one is in a heady reverie of White Castle dining, you don't want to spoil your appetite with dessert.

I could easily envision doing this again, because we proved to the skeptics that, "Yes, Hammond, there are some fine recipes made better with a few White Castles add in."

I have already thought of three other White Castle ideas that could be made. Its interesting to see how everything turned out. The fried chicken was amazing in the end. The egg rolls were my favorite. Most other things were very edible and most you could not really tell that WC was in them. I do think we need to eat some vegetables now.

Okay, I'm going to stop posting my pix and let Matt, Louisa and others post some of theirs, if they dare.

C2's Sloppy Joe army, proving that if you remove everything from inside the slider and camoflage it with BBQ sauce, it will actually become a credible simulation of food.



Sliders in aspic, proving that as bad as WC sliders are, they can actually be made worse. I am now more accepting of sliders, knowing that, without much additional treatment, they can be rendered even more abhorrent:

But...where is the group pix?

Here are the 4 pictures I got before my camera battery ran out of juice...

Helen's Eggrolls - pretty tasty.


Toria's mini cheesy wc muffins - very tasty, though would have likely been better with the breakfast sausage, as toria mentioned the original recipe intended.


Cathy's apple cobbler. Very well made and not bad at all, considering.


I wish I never had to see this, let alone taste it. I won't even call it by name. Putting that cold hard beef patty in my mouth, clashing with the unflavored gelatin... ugh.. It was the most repulsive thing I have put in my mouth in recent memory. Thanks a lot David!

More pictures from the exhibition.

Jeff's consomme: better than any College Inn broth I've ever had:



Here's how Jeff looked at me after trying sliders in aspic:



Louisa's artfully arranged plate:



This man came in toward the end of the meal and sold me some socks:



Good group, of course: