Living in the DR is cheap

[cobraboy]

i must admit i also prefer home made burgers. but occasionally i have the craving for comforting, plastic food

on a separate note i'm with cccccrissss: this blog... another paranoid who thinks DR is the land of crooks and thieves and he can outsmart them all. god help me.

Homemade burger from Casa de CB:

 

[dv8]

ours look the same. lettuce, grilled onions, tomatoes, pickles and a cheese filled patties. i learnt that trick from the show eat street: when you make patties, flatten a bit of meat, then place a chunk of cheese inside, cover with the rest of meat to form a burger. once you bite into the whole thing hot melted cheese runs out. heavenly.
and when i grill onions i pour some honey on them towards the end...

damn. i am hungry now.

 

[william webster]

Blue Cheese...........

You can do the same w/ steak
A Carpetbagger Steak is a steak w/ a slit cut into it --- insert an oyster --- then cook

 

[Acira]

Blue Cheese...........

You can do the same w/ steak
A Carpetbagger Steak is a steak w/ a slit cut into it --- insert an oyster --- then cook

Sound good only too bad for the oyster

 

[Criss Colon]

"CB" I hope that is "REAL" cheese, in like made anywhere but the DR?????
I am now a "Gorgonzola" man!
ANYTHING that has a "Slit" in it, and tastes like an oyster gets my seal of approval!
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"Acira", don't forget about the "Cow"!!!!!!!

 

[rubio_higuey]

And your statement about the $10 Tourist card being handed over as you leave is so out-of-date it has "Whiskers"!

CC, I can attest that at least in PUJ you buy the card at a kiosk (DGII) and then hand it over just before going through passport control. This and last year. Before, you were handing it over after passport control. Also, last two years it's a thermal-paper printout, before it used to look like a metro card. I didn't need the card this year as I was entering with a visa... but yes, you buy it and 3 feet away (straight line) or 30 feet away (the curvy airport line) you hand it over. Info actual as of Jan 9.

 

[cobraboy]

"CB" I hope that is "REAL" cheese, in like made anywhere but the DR?????
I am now a "Gorgonzola" man!
ANYTHING that has a "Slit" in it, and tastes like an oyster gets my seal of approval!
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
"Acira", don't forget about the "Cow"!!!!!!!

Real honest-to-god Wisconsin cheddar, Ccccc...

Ww, I might try Blue cheese, but that stuff is expensive in the DR.

I forgot the bacon on that burger...

 

[DRob]

I have had rough moonshine - the stuff covicts drink. Not for me I am afraid. Many homebrew beers equate to large scale commercial products - great after some German style sausage.

yapask1

Drinking too much moonshine (especially from a bad batch) WOULD explain many things about you....

 

[Chip]

Why bother with moonshine when a 750 ml of Don Rhon costs you US5.25???

 

[Dan5ielle]

I just really want to travel...now or never

 

[william webster]

Real honest-to-god Wisconsin cheddar, Ccccc...

Ww, I might try Blue cheese, but that stuff is expensive in the DR.

I forgot the bacon on that burger...

Very expensive - we've stopped buying it .............. special occasions only.

Move this to the Cost of Life in the DR thread.

( OOOOPS...... already here )

 

[pelaut]

Speaking of eating out, I'd rather make hamburgers and fries at home given that all those preservatives can't do one any good. In fact I believe the reason I have so much energy is that I have hardly eaten processed food for the last 7 years. This is not bad for someone pushing 50.

Ditto, Chip. I've restricted processed foods (sometimes you can't get fresh) and had NO fast foods for 44 years and I'm 74 but look at least 10 years younger.

Elaine Hollingsworth of the Hippocrates Health Center in Australia documents that she kept a MacDonald's hamburger bun in a desk drawer for two years, and it was as fresh and good smelling as ever at the end. A collaborator tells her they tried the same with a whole hamburger with the same results.


It's NOT food!

 

[young seniors]

I know of a Doc who did the same thing..........yup..fresh as the day it was made!!!

 

[Criss Colon]

"cb" I BOUGHT SOME SLICED CHEDDAR, IN A VACUME PACK AT sUPEERMERCADO nATIONAL, "FOOD CLUB" I BELIEVE.
It was very good. Melted,(In My MOUTH, that is) nicely.
I find "Food Club" cheeses to be the best cheese for the price here in the DR.
It is often "On Sale" so you can buy and freeze.
"Gorgonzola" is Italian "Blue Cheese".
I find it "creamier" than other "Blues".
It is a little less costly than "French and Danish" "Blues"!
GOD I love that cheese!
AND, it has the HUGE Advantage, that Dominicans won't eat it!
"It's ALL MINE Baby!!"
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ps. Supermercados National has a HUGE, all be it expensive, selection of imported European cheeses.
You can stand there and "Sample" a variety each time you visit!
Just ask the young men behind the counter to "Probar" whatever you want.
Same goes for everything in the "Deli Case".Italian & Spanish "Hams" are a favorite of mine, and don't forget some hard salami!
"Hey!" there IS something GOOD about the DR!
Other than "Dominicanas".
Just slip them 50 pesos when you are "FULL"!
P, ps., Those MacDonald's stories are just yet another Urban\Internet "Legend"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE MacDonalds, and "StarBucks" too!
And, I shop at "Walmart", AND, "Sam's Club"!
Just because it's "PC" to hate "All The Above", They are still The Best!!!!
Besides, a Billion Chinese kids need somewhere to work 16 hours a day making clothes! :chinese::chinese::chinese:

 

[cobraboy]

"cb" I BOUGHT SOME SLICED CHEDDAR, IN A VACUME PACK AT sUPEERMERCADO nATIONAL, "FOOD CLUB" I BELIEVE.
It was very good. Melted,(In My MOUTH, that is) nicely.
I find "Food Club" cheeses to be the best cheese for the price here in the DR.

We buy Pepper Jack & Cheddar cheese from Price Smart, like RD$350 for a 2 lb. block, not bad at all. Sliced Swiss is around RD$550 for 1.5lbs. Vacuum packed.

I may buy some real grated mozzarella for pizza next stop in (mmmm...real Jimmy Dean sausage on a real pizza....:slurp

 

[bob saunders]

I thought we had a gentleman's agreement that you wouldn't mention that stuff anymore.. waaaaaa :cheeky:

Anyone that posts Food porn is not gentleman.

 

[mountainannie]

no wonder the government in the US gives our free cheese.. seems that in the end, our priorities about life here come down to the price of cheese.

 

[Criss Colon]

"CB", you have "Jimmy Dean" sausage in the DR???
I will come to your house and steel it from you!!!
Not only for pizza, but even more so for my "Illinois Farm Boy MEATLOAF!!!!
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[cobraboy]

"CB", you have "Jimmy Dean" sausage in the DR???
I will come to your house and steel it from you!!!
Not only for pizza, but even more so for my "Illinois Farm Boy MEATLOAF!!!!
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It was brought down.

There are a few things I refuse to live without...

Recipe for that meatloaf, pretty please...:classic:

 

[cobraboy]

no wonder the government in the US gives our free cheese.. seems that in the end, our priorities about life here come down to the price of cheese.

That's certainly higher on the Maslow Scale than who won American Idol.

And, trust me, American cheese here is NOT free...:cheeky: