Remember the hot wing recipe I posted a while ago? Dh loves them. I love them. Unfortunately, it is kind of hard to recreate some American recipes in Australia. Take, for instance, our famous spaghetti. Oh, I have no idea how Mrs. Tornator was able to make her fabulous spaghetti in Japan, but I am unable to recreate it in Oz (ok, perhaps it is due to the commissary... an unfair advantage).
We tried a week or two ago to make wings. There are 3 key parts to wings. Sauce, the wings themselves, and then the dressing. I found the sauce, Crystal, at the "USA Foods" store. For SIX dollars a bottle. Hmm. That's only 4 times what I pay in the US. But, it's better than the mark-up on Lucky Charms. Good thing I don't like Lucky Charms. Anyway, due to lack of cornmeal, the wings were bad. Plus we couldn't find Bleu Cheese dressing. The meal was not edible. I sent dh off to find food at the nearest restaurant, which, unfortunately, was McDonald's.
Fast forward to yesterday. I found corn meal (aka polenta - duh! for not thinking of that earlier), and set off to make my own Bleu Cheese dressing using an allrecipes.com recipe. I thought it was passable, but dh turned up his nose and didn't eat his normal amount. But he did eat some. I'll continue to work on the Bleu Cheese dressing recipe... and until then, 2/3 isn't too bad..
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Oh, this post makes me want to sing that Meatloaf song: "Don't be sad, cause two outta three ain't baaaad" (before your time, I'm sure).
I'm glad you're making things work. I've often thought that I while I would love to go overseas with a military installation nearby, I'm not sure I could hack it without that U.S. security blanket of the Commissary and PX.
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