Idaho
4 dishes from Idaho, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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4 dishes from Idaho, cooked the way the place cooks them.
White beans cooked slowly with onion and garlic while whole chorizos poach in the pot, then come out to be split and crisped and laid back on top.
Strips of beef in a thin beer batter, fried hard and fast and served in a basket with fry sauce, the way every Idaho roadhouse has sold them since at least 1964.
Vanilla ice cream shaped into a russet, frozen hard, rolled in cocoa and split open with whipped cream for butter and chocolate for the bacon bits.
A whole pan-dressed rainbow trout in a cornmeal crust, cooked in bacon fat in a hot skillet for four minutes a side, which is all a fish this size ever needed.