Taylor and I have started planning a weekly meal that involves recreating a fast food or quick-service meal at home. Sometimes we try to match it exactly, but most of the time we try to improve it with higher quality ingredients. I’m going to post them and rate them as we go. But so far we’ve done:
Meal: Bacon Breakfast Crunchwrap Supreme
Restaurant of Origin: Taco Bell
Ingredients: Big Ass Tortilla, Frozen McDonald’s Style Hashbrowns (Trader Joe’s), Bacon, Eggs, Ranch, Mexi cheese, La Victoria Verde Sauce, Panini Press
Directions: Get 2 pieces of paper towel sopping wet. and put your big ass tortilla in between them. Microwave the towels and tortilla for around 20 seconds. This will make it moist and stretchy. Scramble the eggs and cook the bacon however you like. Fry the hashbrown in a pan along with your bacon grease. To assemble, place the eggs in the center of your stretchy tortilla, cover in ranch+verde sauce, then hashbrown, then bacon, then cover in cheese (this will help plug any hole you might leave). Make sure you have plenty of tortilla outside of your ingredient pile to work with for folding. Fold the tortilla over the ingredients in a circular fan fashion, with six triangular folds.
Throw that sumbitch on the panini press. Dip in hot sauce.
Rating: 11/10 I wish I could have one every morning, but too much work.
Meal: Roast Beef N’ Cheddar
Restaurant: Arby’s
Ingredients: Roast Beef (whatever), Au Jus, Brioche Buns, Velveeta, Cheddar, Milk, Onion Powder, Brown Sugar, Ketchup, Garlic Salt, Apple Cider Vinegar
Put the beef in a pan soaking in Au Jus in the oven. Mix Velveeta, shredded cheddar, some milk and onion powder to make cheese sauce. Mix ketchup, brown sugar, garlic salt and vinegar to make Arby’s sauce. Mix some horseradish and mayo if you want horsey. Slap that shit on the bun.
Rating: 8.5/10 Actually really tasty, kicks the shit out of another pulled-pork sandwich.
Meal: Crisp Meat Burrito
Restaurant: Taco Time
Ingredients: Burrito Size Flour Tortilla, Spray Oil (Canola or Olive), Refried Beans, Carne Asada, Oaxaca Cheese
Grill and cut up carne into very small pieces. Put the beans, meat piece and cut up cheese into the tortilla and roll it all up, nice and tight. Spray the entire taquito with oil and put it in the air fryer for 6-10 minutes. Dip in hot sauce.
Rating: 13/10 This might be the best drunk food ever for it’s taste/work ratio.