We did not actually do a full meal for these two, but parts of two meals. We made pizza strips, a Rhode Island specialty, as an appetizer for dinner. And we baked apple pie, the Vermont state pie, for dessert. Pizza strips are pizza dough, with a spicy tomato sauce and no cheese. They are served room temperature or cold. The sauce isn't cooked - it is just crushed tomatoes with some seasoning. We liked them a lot, and thought they were pretty easy to make since we bought pre-made dough. I made a second batch by making dough in my bread machine and that was extremely easy too. For the sauce, we used the first recipe in this blog
http://cookingchaotic.blogspot.com/2011/04/recipe-2-ri-pizza-strips.html
The declaration of the apple pie being a state symbol for Vermont is hilarious. It includes the wording "When serving apple pie in Vermont, a "good faith" effort shall be made to meet one or more of the following conditions: (a) with a glass of cold milk, (b) with a slice of cheddar cheese weighing a minimum of 1/2 ounce, (c) with a large scoop of vanilla ice cream." We served ours with a choice of all three :-).
We felt the need to cook more for these states primarily because we hadn't used any maple syrup for Vermont! Happily, johnnycakes are very common in Rhode Island. They are basically fried cornmeal mush. Kind of a cross between a pancake and polenta. They were great served with maple syrup for breakfast.
We did not actually do a full meal for these two, but parts of two meals. We made pizza strips, a Rhode Island specialty, as an appetizer for dinner. And we baked apple pie, the Vermont state pie, for dessert. Pizza strips are pizza dough, with a spicy tomato sauce and no cheese. They are served room temperature or cold. The sauce isn't cooked - it is just crushed tomatoes with some seasoning. We liked them a lot, and thought they were pretty easy to make since we bought pre-made dough. I made a second batch by making dough in my bread machine and that was extremely easy too. For the sauce, we used the first recipe in this blog http://cookingchaotic.blogspot.com/2011/04/recipe-2-ri-pizza-strips.html
The declaration of the apple pie being a state symbol for Vermont is hilarious. It includes the wording "When serving apple pie in Vermont, a "good faith" effort shall be made to meet one or more of the following conditions: (a) with a glass of cold milk, (b) with a slice of cheddar cheese weighing a minimum of 1/2 ounce, (c) with a large scoop of vanilla ice cream." We served ours with a choice of all three :-).
We felt the need to cook more for these states primarily because we hadn't used any maple syrup for Vermont! Happily, johnnycakes are very common in Rhode Island. They are basically fried cornmeal mush. Kind of a cross between a pancake and polenta. They were great served with maple syrup for breakfast.
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