Ah, the wheat fields of Kansas, whose nickname is "the Sunflower State". Our first cooking project was the Sunflower Wheat bread recipe from the Kansas Wheat Commission http://www.kswheat.com/recipes.php?id=66. We made the dough in our bread machine as the recipe says, but we don't love the texture it produces, so we baked it in the oven instead. The bread recipe called for cracked wheat (bulgur), and I had to buy a big bag of it, so we also made the bulgur recipe on the back of the bag as a side dish.
The other thing people think of for Kansas is Kansas City BBQ. We made the KC sauce recipe athttp://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=10000001634712. It was fairly spicy with a tablespoon of black pepper in it! Not too spicy though, and really good on chicken.
Newport, Oregon has declared itself "Dugeoness Crab Capitol of the World". Quite a title. Normally I would never thought of having dungeoness crab for our meal, but I happened to spot it at Costco last week. It turns out it is high season for them, so we went for it. I made a crab salad with lime dressing as an appetizer. We also had blackberries, a major crop in Oregon, for dessert.
very tasty states.
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