Here at the Sickos Committee, we’re big fans of weird ballpark and stadium food combinations. We love the gigantic portions or weird combinations of food and even things that seem really humanly impossible to eat while seated for a game. So in that spirit, our resident weird food connoisseur, the Corn Correspondent (Corn-espondent, as so many of you wish we called it, but damn it is too difficult to say out loud), Andy, will be doing a weekly food blog where he combines ingredients from two different teams randomly selected each week and gives you the recipe here each Friday during the season. Here is the Week Six Edition. Let’s see what’s on the menu.

When I was originally thinking about these two teams, my mind instantly went to apples for Washington. I mean, their rivalry with Washington State was called the Apple Cup, after all! So going off of that, I looked to see what I could take from Maryland that would go well with apples. That’s when I discovered a Smith Island Cake which is the official state dessert! The recipe I linked called for a chocolate frosting, but I was able to find an Apple Frosting that I thought would go well. When I got to baking it, my suspicions were correct. The apple frosting complemented the cake deliciously. However, it didn’t look as good as it tasted, so to spare my dignity, I will omit those photos and go with my second option.

Do you know what else is popular in Maryland and can be caked?

Smoked Salmon and Crab Cakes

Another thing I think of when I think of the Pacific Northwest is salmon. In fact, Fat Bear Week just finished! So I’ll pretend that I, too, am preparing for hibernation with this recipe. I mostly followed what Vindulge provided. But to make it extra “Marylandy”, I added some Old Bay as well. The ingredients were pretty easy as well. Crab, salmon, pepper, green onions, bread crumbs, mayo, and spices. For the Old Bay, I just used what my heart told me was right. In this case I used about 1 teaspoon of Old Bay (Commish says that was not Marylandy enough). Then all it took was combining all the ingredients, giving them a good sautee, and then serving. Nice, simple, and tasty!

Next time, I want to try smoking my own salmon. I’ve smoked plenty of land animals, but never tried doing seafood before. It would have been a fun experiment! I think if I would have thought about doing crab cakes first, and had more time, I would have done that. But luckily I was able to find some pre-smoked salmon in the seafood section of my grocery store.

Thanks for reading! Stay tuned for next week!