Eating with Elvis

Eat like a King!   Enjoy Elvis’s favorite recipes for a whole day.   A typical day in the King’s life:

Breakfast:  Scrambled eggs (6), half a pound to a pound of sausages and heavily buttered buttermilk biscuits.
Serve in bed at any time of the day with a glass milk bottle of orange juice and hot coffee.

 

Morning Snack:  A box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts

Lunch:  Fool's Gold Loaf

Preheat the oven to 350 F.
Spread butter generously over all sides of a loaf of Italian bread and bake until evenly brown.
 Fry 1 lb lean bacon until crisp and drain on a paper towel.
Slice the bread lengthwise and hollow out the interior.
Fill it with peanut butter and grape jelly layered with the bacon.
Close the loaf, slice and serve.

Dinner:  Ugly Steak

Rub 1 lb of top sirloin steak with garlic; discard the garlic.
Sprinkle the steak with salt and pepper.
Dredge both sides of the steak with flour, shaking off any excess.
Heat enough oil in a pan to cover the steak.
Fry the steak until both sides are brown and the steak is well done.
Cut into tiny bite-size pieces before serving.

Pour off all but 2 to 3 tablespoons of the oil.
Add 2 to 3 cups of water.
Stir up all the browned bits at the bottom of the pan.
Boil until thick.
Season with salt and pepper and drizzle over buttery mashed potato.

Simmer a can of peas (drained) in a broth
made from half a cup of water, 2 tablespoons of butter
and 1 chopped medium onion
for at least 5 minutes - up to 30 minutes is okay.

Ensure that the television is turned on and serve the steak, potatoes and peas with plenty of salt, corn bread and a very large glass of buttermilk.

Desserts (Usually 2)

Caramel Cake
Bake a Betty Crocker vanilla cake mix.
Ten minutes before it is finished baking, remove it from the oven
Slowly pour over it an icing syrup made by dissolving 2 cups of sugar in a can of boiling Carnation milk.
Return the cake to the oven and continue baking, periodically add more icing syrup to get it as thick as possible.

Banana Pudding
Make a pudding mixture by combining half a cup of sugar with half a cup of flour and a pinch of salt in the top of a double boiler.
Stir in 4 egg yolks and 2 cups of milk.
Cook over boiling water, stirring constantly, until it is thick.
Cover the bottom and sides of a shallow Pyrex dish with vanilla wafers.
Add a layer of thinly sliced banana, then another layer of vanilla slices.
Pour on the pudding mixture.
Chill.

TV Snacks: Cupcakes, Eskimo Pies or hot dog rolls (without the sausage).

Midnight Snack:  Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich

Spread 2 slices of white bread with 2 heaped tablespoons of smooth peanut butter and half a very ripe mashed banana.
Fry the sandwich until brown on both sides.
Serve warm. (Use a knife and fork to eat it.)

Also recommended for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks in-between.
For one period of seven weeks, Elvis ate nothing else.

Other cooking tips when cooking for the King:

• Whenever you think the food is cooked, cook it more.
• Whenever you think you've added plenty of salt, add some more.
• Cut all food, except fried sandwiches, into bite-sized pieces before serving.
• Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches must be eaten with a knife and fork.
• Serve drinks in glasses large enough to hold several cans of drink.

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