Well, there are a lot of low fat, low protein snacks around with shelf lives of 150 years or more, but when I want a snack that offers more than what’s sitting up on my pantry shelves, I head over to Fuel City on Riverfront, and bring home a half dozen barbacoa tacos and fixins from the taco window there.
Those barbacoa tacos are heaven on earth south side of Dallas style. The tacos al pastor aren’t bad either, but you have to be in Dallas to enjoy either.
Let's see, I like chips, salt and vinegar flavor (fav in the UK), then when I visited India they had a lot of great snack food -- like banana chips, sweet banana chips (yum, yum), some fried dough things 'chakles'. Then in the Middle East I love to snack on plain bread called koboss. in Hong Kong, they have these tofu balls battered and deep fried, mmm....
On the healthy side, snacking on carrots or babycorn is nice, while now that I've moved to poland I'm hooked on paluski (salty dough sticks like straight pretzels) or pierniki (gingerbread cookies)
Frito-Lay Hot Peanuts and a cold beer. My bird dog loves the combination, too.
I don’t eat a lot of snacks, but I do like sardines, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds once in a while.
I make Buffalo Popcorn - melt butter, add Texas Pete hot sauce, a dash of celery seed and very finely crumbled blue cheese. Pour over popcorn - salt to taste - stir.
Or caramel corn - melt butter - add some brown sugar and white Karo syrup and a dash of salt, pour over popcorn and stir.
A peanutbutter and chopped celery sandwich. Can’t beat it.
I like to make my own beef or venision jerky to snack on.
We love to take come tortillas and lightly toast them one one side, take cheese and put it between two of them. Toast them like a cheese sandwich and eat with chunky salsa. We also dip them into ranch dressing on occasion.
I have always maintained that Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies are nothing less than chocolate-covered, mint-flavored crack.
When I can’t get those, I like Tim’s Cascade Chips with cottage cheese...but only every once in a while. Too much of that and I’d look like Michael Moore.
I love wasabi peas and soy rice crackers with vino :-)
Caterpillar legs and butterfly wings. Fired of course in olive oil.
fired = fried.
I suddenly got so hungry for my snack, I couldn’t’ concentrate on my spelling because I got so fired up thinking about it.
Sorry.
P.S.
I will be happy to share the recipe.
Salted peanuts in Coca cola
How about a favorite of mine from Taiwan? I kid you not, it is called “Codfish Pastry with Seaweed.” It comes in three flavors. I prefer the wasabi flavor over the plain one, but BOY is it hot! Imagine a thin, faintly sweet cracker made from codfish, not flour, and topped with a piece of nori. It really is MUCH better than it sounds, and has no fishy smell or taste. You can get it in some Asian markets.
You can see how the manufacturer describes it at http://dahtien.com/products-1_en.html. A better pic of the package is at http://twitpic.com/34vxrs