teevee dinners at the White House

The White House Menu for the 2006 Holiday Receptions includes such American classics as "Chicken Fried Beef Tenderloin with White Onion Gravy," "Asparagus Tier with Lemon-Garlic Aioli" , and "Warm MacIntosh Apple Cobbler."

chicken fried tenderloin?

what a waste of perfectly good tenderloin.

Subject: Re: teevee dinners at the White House

pitu wrote:

The White House Menu for the 2006 Holiday Receptions includes such American classics as "Chicken Fried Beef Tenderloin with White Onion Gravy," "Asparagus Tier with Lemon-Garlic Aioli" , and "Warm MacIntosh Apple Cobbler."

"aioli" don't sound too american to me.

just sayin'.

Subject: Re: teevee dinners at the White House

sweet tea wrote: [quote=pitu]

The White House Menu for the 2006 Holiday Receptions includes such American classics as "Chicken Fried Beef Tenderloin with White Onion Gravy," "Asparagus Tier with Lemon-Garlic Aioli" , and "Warm MacIntosh Apple Cobbler."

"aioli" don't sound too american to me.

just sayin'.
They call it that for the public, but you know that shit was actually mayo.

I had the sometimes surreal experience of living in Texas for a couple of years (at least it was Austin), and they do like they're chicken-fried stuff. The most original food I ever had was "Chicken Fried Bagels". Yes, you read that right. It was ungood. To make it worse, they ate it with a choice of strawberry or chocolate cream cheese. *shudder*

That sounds so double ungood that I need to try it...

When I was down south I had a few chicken fried steaks. They're pretty good. Especially the ones in Mississippi.

They can be good, but I would think that using a lesser cut than tenderloin is in order...

Why? What's the difference in taking a great cut and making a briand or chicken frying it? There's an old Texas saying, a good cut of steak only needs salt and pepper, a fantastic cut needs nothing at all. Ever have a chicken fried organic rib eye? It's the bomb.

Idlewild wrote: When I was down south I had a few chicken fried steaks. They're pretty good. Especially the ones in Mississippi.

They actually have it available for delivery at Two Boots here in PS, but it's not so great.

YUM, chicken fried steak! They have a pretty good one at Cowgirl Hall of Fame in the West Village, but I don't know of any places in the neighborhood that serve it.

I once saw on some Food Network show -- might have been "Good Eats," but I'm not sure -- something about how chicken fried steak was invented by German immigrants who were trying to figure out how to make something palatable out of tough cuts of meat and decided to make something similar to weiner schnitzel. I suppose it would be tasty with better meat, but chicken fried steak is just fine the way it usually is.