I never claim to be an expert when it comes to cooking, and I have a real tough time following recipes. I always tend to decide more or less of something will make the meal a little better than what the written ingredients say to put in. I also tend to believe that if something is particularly good by itself, that combining two or more of them would even be better.
On a deer hunt I really like to eat Kipper snacks with ritz crackers. There is something about being out on a crisp fall day, high in the mountains and taking a break from the hunt and open up a can of those bad boys! MMMMMM. Of course you have to dispose of the can properly and I always take a seal-able plastic bag, and dispose of it when I get back at camp. Not much worse than having kipper juice all over your stuff. The smell just never does seem to go away…..season after season…..
I also like one or two vienna sausages again with ritz crackers. This is mostly just to remind myself of how much I really don’t like them, especially a lot of them at one time. This reminds me of another story.
And I like enchiladas. But not on a hunt or out in the mountains, however I think they would be good there as well, I’ve just not had them while out there….HEY GUNNER….HINT, HINT!
OK, enough of the background.
One evening Sherry was fixin up our supper of enchiladas and had a couple of tortilla shells (or whatever they wrap the actual food up in) so I obliged myself to them. I reminded her of my thinking about how combining good things together just might turn out something we would enjoy again and again. So out comes a can of Kipper Snacks and a small can of vienna sausages. We all know that enchilada sauce totally covers up any taste of whatever is inside the shell anyway and makes all enchiladas taste exactly the same no matter.
I carefully placed equal amounts of kippers and viennas on the shells and rolled them up. Covered them with sauce and cheese and placed them alongside the “real supper” in the oven. They cooked up real nice and smelled the house with a wonderful aroma. Course that could have been just the smell of the “real supper” doing that, not sure.
When we sat down to eat I plopped one of my newly created masterpieces on my plate and began to eat. The first bite was excellent. I didn’t get any meat with the bite, just the shell and sauce and cheese. The second bite was full of the meat mixture and when I bit into it I almost puked! The nastiest tasting combination in the world! Don’t try it, I’ll guarandamntee you won’t like it either.
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