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Morgan’s 15th Birthday Meal

February 18, 2010

I don’t know what to say.

She wanted “Fuddruckers” and “French Silk.”

Leave it to me to turn that into a personal challenge. Cuz Lord knows most people would simply get in the car with their wallets and go.

(Before you start berating me for being lazy, crazy, martyr, glutton, etc., you need to know that we had already gone out the night before to celebrate at Big Bowl.)

So, for her actual birthday dinner, I asked her what she wanted. And when she told me, I figured I could get away with having Dave pick up a genuine Baker’s Square French Silk pie and serving burgers with some form of the requested “liquid cheese — like Fuddruckers.”

Nope. No such luck.

When I asked Dave to pick the pie up on his way home, he looked at me like I had three heads. Of course he never actually said anything, mind you. He just stood there looking at me, incredulous.

My first reaction was to start yelling that not everyone considers a birthday done-and-over just because you happened to go out for dinner the night before! For Heaven’s Sake! She’s turning 15! Doesn’t that mean anything to you?! Just because YOU don’t think birthday’s are a BIG DEAL, doesn’t mean that I have to AGREE WITH YOU. What? WHAT!

(Are you picturing the scene? I need you to picture the scene)

Then he said: “No, it’s not that I don’t want to pick it up. I just can’t. I’m out of town tomorrow night.”

Oh.

I guess I was supposed to use my oft-requested powers of ESP to know that. Rewind the tape. Erase that last part.

So anyway, rather than drive 30 miles to Baker’s Square, I opted instead to make it all from scratch. I was surprised to find about a gajillion links for Fuddruckers burger seasoning mix(!) and several copycat French Silk Pie recipes.

I didn’t find a true Fuddrucker’s copycat for their french fries, though I think the recipe I used came awfully close.

Everything was amazing, aside from me overcooking the hamburgers, dammit! And, the cheese sauce left a bit to be desired. But that may have been due to the fact that I was trying to make due with what I had on hand (no surprise there) and I was admittedly light on the cheese side of the cheese sauce.

I included links to the recipes I used above. Just so you know, I halved the french silk pie recipe and put it into an itty bitty pie plate. I also thinned out the batter for the fries to be much runnier than the recipe called for and liked them better that way. The cheese sauce? Well, let’s just skip that one, shall we?

Morgan felt very loved.

Or at least I think she felt loved.

If you eat until you feel sick, does that mean you feel loved?

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: Homemade Fuddruckers, cheese, Bakers Square French Silk Pie, Fuddruckers French Fries, Fuddruckers burgers, seasoning mix, birthday meal, Morgan Menke

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  1. Nat Alea from OK says

    February 19, 2010 at 8:59 am

    I’m glad to be first to wish Morgan a Happy Birthday. HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY Morgan!!!!! (GAWD, your hair!!! Beautiful) I hope you enjoyed your dinner. It looks verry good, but I could eat burgers every day myself. Thanks for the links Jen, will definately try the links out. Hope you are going to have a nice sunny weekend. Nat.

  2. admin says

    February 19, 2010 at 10:59 am

    Yes. That hair. A beautiful curse, is what it is. Would you believe me if I told you she spends hours every week straightening it? Try the fries. I abhor deep frying anything. Not because I’m a health freak, but because I simply hate doing it, dealing with the used oil, the smell, cleaning my hood, etc. But those fries… Amazing.

  3. Nat Alea from OK says

    February 19, 2010 at 3:27 pm

    I got on line and read where some of the people baked the fries instead of frying them. I’m not against frying anything but man I HATE getting popped by the grease and it’s ususally on my face. Do you think baking them would work fine and do you think I could make it with onion rings? I’ve never heard of putting batter on fries. I SWEAR to you I’m not some backwards hick or something, for gosh sakes I’ve lived in Germany for 9 years!!! But I feel like the country bumpkin learning all these wonderful recipes and that there is a big wide food world that doesn’t involve McD!!!!!

    Morgan honey, I feel your pain. I too have curly hair and it’s super thick. That’s why I have cut my hair so short that I just throw some mouse in the hair and come to work with my hair wet ;o)

  4. literati says

    February 20, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    happy birthday to morgan, aka, the girl with the beautiful hair. she should be in a shampoo commercial!

  5. admin says

    February 21, 2010 at 9:39 pm

    Hey Nat!
    For the fries, I think it is worth giving the baking a try. The oven would have to be REALLY hot… And maybe you’d need to spray them with cooking spray? Hard to say. That batter is a mind bender. Just not sure what it would do… Because I had never heard of putting batter on the fries either,…they really were amazing. I might even make them again someday — even with my abhorrence of deep frying.

    For the hair, if we cut her hair short, she’d look like Little Orphan Annie. And not the cute one! Scary thought!

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