Thursday, February 01, 2007
K-Peps
| People often ask me if there are any failed Krystal Adventure recipes. Sadly, the answer is yes. You now will get a taste of one of the must frustrating recipes that's been in and out of the test kitchen for almost 3 months. I am releasing it, not because I am proud of it, nor do I consider it "finished." Quite frankly I am tired of eating the mutant foods than result. I feel an explaination of the name is in. I had hoped to find a cool Mexican sounding Krystal-like name for this like Krystal-Diablo. But in the end I failed at finding a good name almost as bad as I failed at finding a good recipe. But in that brief moment of sadness and shame it hit me: K-Fed (aka Kevin Federline, aka Mr. Brittany Spears. It is comforting to know that no matter how bad I possibly screw up a recipe, including burning down an entire city block in a Mrs. O'Leary's cow fashion, I can never come close to the level of failure of Mr. Federline. Once I had made that connection the similarities began to grow: No matter how many times I tried to listen to K-Fed or make a tasty K-Pep, they both left me with a nasty feeling deep down inside. If I never see either of them ever again, I would be happy. You may love one or both of them, and you may try to tell me of the virtues of either, but deep down I will think you're nuts, and likely have no taste. So with that less than flattering introduction, here's the background (for the recipe not the man who single handedly created a huge sucking black whole in the modern musical universe.) I have been trying to come up with a good Mexican inspired recipe to match the Italian inspired Krystal Pizza recipe. I figured stuffed peppers would be cool and got to work. There was, however, one very important point I overlooked early on and refused to accept later: I hate stuffed peppers. So I release this incomplete recipe to the world and perhaps you can make something of it. However if you hate it, don't blame me. You'll note I haven't put my picture of blog address on the recipe in hopes no one will ever figure out where this actually came from. See the step by step pictures Here I went with a Double Cheese Krystals to increase the meat to bread ratio. I figured the cheese would add nice flavor. Sadly the other spices cranked the heat to a painful level. It was also entirely too moist inside the peppers after cooking. I decided maybe I was overthinking things. So I scrapped that plan and started over. Recipe #2 I decided to go with with the minimalist approach. I also swapped out the salsa with taco sauce in an effort to reduce the moisture in the recipe. I switched to bell peppers since the sweetness of the red and yellow peppers just didnt work well with the Krystal flavor. (Once again proving my theory that Sweet and Krystal do not go together.) My last ditch effort to save the recipe was the addition of bacon. As you may have gathered from prior posts, I hold bacon in high regard. Bacon can save a lot of dishes in danger. Sadly, not even this recipe could be saved by the power of pork. At this point I started to contemplate stuffing other thing. When Vidalia Onions come back in season later this year I will try to stuff an onion. I also thought of stuffing an artichoke. It was that single thought that snapped me into reality and brought us to this point. Krystals and artichokes do not belong in the same sentence. When you contemplate something like that it is time to throw in the towel.  |
Labels: Bacon, Cheese, Onions, Recipe
