The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Cooking & Recipes => Topic started by: Big Frank on February 01, 2018, 05:18:03 PM
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A forum I used to be a member of had a thread about what was the last thing you ate or are eating now. I thought we could give it a shot here.
I just had some 57% pure honey gingerbread from Dijon, France. The other 43% is almost all rye flour with enough water to mix it together.
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Some legumes...
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I haven't had plain peanuts in a very long time but like Planter's brand nuts. I like deluxe mixed nuts with no peanuts much more than mixed nuts and peanuts. I already had a bunch in the cupboard and bought more when RiteAid had them on sale buy one, get one free.
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There was a bar, one of about a dozen in the Amway Plaza in Grand Rapids, called the Back Room Saloon. They had unlimited baskets of roasted peanuts at the bar and all the tables.
Shuck em and chuck em! The floor on a typical Friday was covered with shucks! Great way to sell more beer and booze! Salt sells libations!
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Just pan seared 1/2 dozen sea scallops for dinner with sweet corn and taters...
It’s nice living near an ocean but I do miss a good pan fish or walleye dinner!
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Sharp cheddar cauliflower soup.
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Sharp cheddar cauliflower soup.
Sounds tasty!
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It was, Home made too.Unfortunately it's also all gone... :'( :'(
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Maple sausage link, hash browns and a couple of fried eggs with buttered toast. Glass of tomato juice and a cup of coffee. Normally my Sunday breakfast but I was hungry this morning.
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Leftover shrimp alfredo.
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Philly Cheese Steak for lunch...
Phuque the Pats!!!
:)
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I just ate more gingerbread and now I have my free package of Knorr Selects white cheddar and broccoli rice on the stove. It needs to boil a few more minutes then cool off for awhile.
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I just ate more gingerbread and now I have my free package of Knorr Selects white cheddar and broccoli rice on the stove. It needs to boil a few more minutes then cool off for awhile.
Those Knorr pre made things aren’t bad! Add some chicken and some fresh broccoli and it’s a decent meal! Might need a gravy but that’s easy enuf..
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Those Knorr pre made things aren’t bad! Add some chicken and some fresh broccoli and it’s a decent meal! Might need a gravy but that’s easy enuf..
I ate some as it was and it wasn't bad, but sure could have used some chicken. It tasted like it was just starting to scorch but wasn't burnt yet. When I ate more of it I microwaved it with Colby-Jack cheese on top. That was much better. A long time ago I used to eat some kind of rice or noodle dishes from a pouch that I think Lipton made. Just add water and boil it for a quick side dish.
The last thing I had was a Bison Bacon Cranberry EPIC bar, and it tastes a whole lot better than a whey protein bar. It was one of the 3 free things I got today. I'll get 2 more freebies tomorrow if they're in stock. https://epicbar.com/bar-detail/1
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I got 2 bags of Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps, buy one get one free, plus got another dollar off with an e coupon. The total price was $2.49 instead of $6.98. I had some Buffalo Wing flavor for a midnight snack. And I had some cream cheese in the fridge that was totally free, so I put that on them. I like the combination and will most likely have more tomorrow. I'm glad I didn't have room on my shopping list for bagels.
When I took my mom to the store Friday we got 60% the bill, and Saturday I got 41% off. I got more free yogurt, which I don't eat, and put it in the fridge with the rest. I need to take it all to my friends' house but keep putting it off.
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I just took a pizza out of the oven and will eat in a few minutes. It's a Newman's Own thin and crispy white pizza. I had a coupon for it and that was the only variety I saw.
After not having one in more years than I can remember, I've been buying a lot of frozen pizzas lately, either with coupons or on sale, or both. I have a Home Run Inn pizza and a Screamin' Sicilian in the freezer. The Screamin' Sicilian has Italian meatballs and pepperoni. I had two of them recently and the meatballs are delicious. It was $3 off. I couldn't find an Urban Pie pizza or I would have bought one of those too. DiGiorno pizzas were on sale for $2.99 (half price) yesterday only with a limit of 5, so I got 5 of them.
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I just finished my pretzel crisps and cream cheese. A 7 ounce tub of cream cheese was just the right amount for 7.2 ounces of pretzel crisps. The other 2 times they gave me a free tub of cream cheese I bought a half dozen bagels for each which worked out well.
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I had mac & cheese with chorizo sausage and guajillo chile peppers. Nice and spicy. A while later I'll have mac & cheese with roasted Hatch chili peppers, roasted Anaheim chili pepper puree, roasted poblano chili pepper puree, and caramelized onions.
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I just ate some so-called loaded potato skins that I had in the freezer. They had cheddar cheese and bacon on them but still didn't look loaded. I put some on a plate and topped each one with a chunk of hot pepper cheese. I microwaved them until cheese was bubbling up all over the plate, then gave them a few more minutes to heat up the potatoes. I could have heated the potatoes up first then put more cheese on but I had no idea how long they would take to heat up. They would have been a lot better with sour cream but I don't have any.
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Grilled fresh Maine Atlantic salmon, beef tenderloin and fresh steamed, mixed veggies smothered in budda!
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Pfeffernüsse cookies imported from Germany.
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Grilled hamburger steak and some baked sweet potato with butter.
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I'm eating one of the 5 DiGiorno pizzas I got for $2.99 each (half price). It's a Supreme, with sausage, pepperoni, red peppers, green peppers, onions, and black olives. I baked it with my oven set 50 degrees lower than what the package said, otherwise it gets too hot. I checked at the minimum recommended time and the crust was perfectly golden brown with crispy edges. It was good for store bought.
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Frank, if ya ever venture to West Michigan, Holland, Grand Haven, Muskegon or GR, check out Fricano’s Pizza!
Quite simply the best pizza I’ve ever eaten! The original joint is in Grand Haven about a mile from the lake.
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Homemade shepherd's pie made my by lovely new-ish bride!
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Dang Geoff, still doing that honeymoon thing, eh? :-*
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https://www.jimmydean.com/products/sandwiches/breakfast/meat-lovers-muffin-sandwiches
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I haven't seen the meat lovers Jimmy Dean muffin sandwiches in the store, just the regular kind.
I had some P.F. Chang’s chicken mini egg rolls with their signature sauce. From the freezer, not the restaurant.
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I haven't seen the meat lovers Jimmy Dean muffin sandwiches in the store, just the regular kind.
I had some P.F. Chang’s chicken mini egg rolls with their signature sauce. From the freezer, not the restaurant.
They are quick in the morning 1 min, 45 secs in the microwave. Takes longer to make the coffee..
I used to buy the singles and use two throwing away to pieces of bread..then they came out with these.
They also have these, if you prefer to eat with a fork..
https://www.jimmydean.com/products/bowls/breakfast/meat-lovers-breakfast-bowl
P.S. There is also these if you care to roll your own. Two sausage patties, two eggs and the muffin of your choice. In the single model or a double if you need it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EI7DPOO/ref=asc_df_B00EI7DPOO5368540/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B00EI7DPOO&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167141308073&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14601415862937826876&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9015623&hvtargid=pla-312001016858
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I just had some breaded chicken chunks with General Tso's sauce on them. I also had some for breakfast.
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I had 2 Ham Classic sandwiches from HoneyBaked Ham. I got a coupon by email yesterday that was only good on Valentine's Day. It was for Classic Ham sandwiches and Classic Turkey sandwiches, buy one, get one free. A pickle spear comes with each sandwich. I thought about getting a smoked turkey sandwich and a ham sandwich, but I like ham more than turkey. I'll do a very brief survey online and at the end get a code to write on my receipt. I can take that in anytime in the next 2 weeks and get any 2 sandwiches on the menu, buy one, get one free. https://myhoneybakedstore.com/flint/4101/lunch/index.asp?ref=160198504:580393198
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Homemade biscuits and fried ham slice for lunch today.
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It appears you coulda squoozed another in there, Peg!
Southern biscuits...fine vittles. These northerners can't make a biscuit.. most use them smack 'em on the counter ones!
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Mmm. Homemade biscuits. Years ago I had some biscuits from Gordon Food Service. They were frozen and only needed to be thawed and warmed up IIRC. I liked them covered in sausage gravy, but don't know if they would be good for anything else. And thanks to my friends I found out sausage gravy is even better if you use hot sausage, or half hot and half mild. If it's just mild I like to sprinkle black pepper on top of my biscuits and gravy. I'm getting really hungry just thinking about it.
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Homemade biscuits and sausage gravy i like nectar from the gods, One of my favorite meals. And I take offense at the statement that northerners don't know how to make biscuits, I make them from time to time from my Oma's recipe that has been handed down through generations. Dang, Now I have to find it and make some soon.
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My apologies Mr. Majer!
Might could be that my meemaw could make a biscuit but I never knew any of my Grand folks..
My ma certainly could not! She used that bisquick stuff...
I think I’m a better cook than she was!
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Apology accepted... ;) ;)
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It appears you coulda squoozed another in there, Peg!
Southern biscuits...fine vittles. These northerners can't make a biscuit.. most use them smack 'em on the counter ones!
Had enough dough for another batch, so we let 'em breathe a little. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Biscuits are one of those things that can be simple or complicated.
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Homemade biscuits. Darn....I'm likin' that and ain't got none of my own.
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Homemade biscuits. Darn....I'm likin' that and ain't got none of my own.
Wha'choo waitin' on....they ain't hard to make? ;D ;D ;D
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Red Miso Braised Beef. I don't think I ever had any kind of miso before. I never thought it sounded very good, because it's made of soybeans fermented with mold. But they make soy sauce the same way, so what the heck. I tried it but didn't really care for it. I didn't hate it either, but will probably not buy any more of it. https://www.simpletruth.com/products/red-miso-braised-beef/
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Having turkey sammich with pepper jack and provolone cheeses for lunch.
A little later me and another fellow will be grilling a dozen or so whole pork loins for a church supper.
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I'm finishing my P.F. Chang's beef with broccoli right now. http://www.pfchangshomemenu.com/entrees/beef-broccoli
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Nothing new to report about food, but I'm getting ready to have my second cup of hot sassafras tea with one sugar cube.
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Pork & vegetable potstickers with dipping sauce. http://www.ling-ling.com/asian-food/potstickers/pork-vegetable
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We had to run to town for an errand, so we grabbed a chili-dog and a small order of fries.
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Some of the leftover pork loin I mentioned above.........
And, for dessert: A slice of the wife's old fashioned homemade pound-cake topped with diced strawberries (along with the requisite sugary juice from chillin' in the fridge) and whipped cream.
Yep....THAT's what I'm having. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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That sounds good Peg. I'm getting ready to eat some DiGiorno pizza buns. It's something new I got today.
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Soft Tacos tonight. Wife used steak strips instead of ground meat.
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BBQ Smoked Stacker sandwich from Honeybaked Ham. I have a Roast Beef & Cheddar sandwich on a croissant too. I bought one and got the other one free. I went over 3 1/2 hours on nothing but a Hershey's Gold (Peanuts & Pretzels in Caramelized Creme) candy bar. I'm glad I got it free because I didn't like it.
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Chili dogs. I have about 7 or 8 kinds of cheese I thought about putting on them but decided not to. Saturday I used some e coupons on their last day, and took some paper coupons with me too. I had:
Ball Park hotdog buns. $1.00 off I think, but I'm not sure.
Nathan's skinless beef franks. $1.00 off.
Hormel hot chili with no beans. 50 cents off.
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Soft taco leftover. :o
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I grilled burgers for the college age kids at church last night.....so, naturally a couple of burgers came home (along with baked beans) for today's lunch.
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P.F. Chang's Home Menu Chicken Pad Thai. Chicken breast and rice noodles with green onions, carrots and scrambled egg in a made from scratch Thai inspired tamarind sauce. It tasted a lot like the Thai curry chicken I used to get at the only local Thai restaurant that had take out.
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Chicken tikka masala.
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DiGiorno three meat pizza smothered with a whole jarful of marinated artichoke hearts. I gave it a couple of extra minutes to cook and it turned out okay.
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Wing Zings boneless breaded spicy chicken breast chunks. I bought a 5 pound bag of them at Gordon Food Service several months ago. They're pre-cooked and frozen so I only have to heat them up in the microwave. I won't have to actually cook anything for a few days.
Pepperidge Farm turnovers will be for dessert. Raspberry today and cherry tomorrow, or some of each whenever. I baked both packages today.
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You guys must each weigh 500 lbs. with blood pressure in the 200/130 range.
Lunch today was a bit of leftover, slow cooked pork roast, shredded in a bowl and splashed with a little barbecue sauce. Nuked it for 90 seconds and enjoyed it with a can of La Croix lime fizzy water.
Got a birthday card from an old friend, today. Said: Good News. There's a way to enjoy whole grains and leafy greens... Inside: Feed 'em to a cow and they'll turn into a delicious, satisfying steak.
That makes an amazing amount of sense to me. But, I've always been a tertiary vegan. Cows eat grass. I eat cows.
Crusader Rabbit
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I'm not 500 pounds but I am overweight and have been for a long time. One doctor cut down the dose of a medication I've been taking for several years. I went from 300 mg a day, down to 200, then 100, and as of 2 days ago 50 mg. He recently told me it causes weight gain. I wish he would have said something sooner, instead of watching me put on another 30 pounds first. I really could have used that information before I started buying bigger clothes.
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I gained some significant weight after my motorcycle accident in 2003 and plateaued around 375 pounds, and up until two years ago it never fluctuated more than 5 pounds up or down regardless of my eating habit. My A1C kept creeping up so I decided to eat less starches and carbs as well as changing just a few things in my eating habits.
I lost 70 pounds two years ago (over a six month period) and have managed to keep it off.
My plan for spring is to get back on track and lose some more. I'm 6'2" and the charts say I need to be under 200 pounds. Heck, I haven't been that weight since eighth grade (my shadow weighs 20 pounds). I'd like to get from my current 300 down to at least 250 over the next year.
As of my last check-up, my A1C is normal and my BP runs 118/78 most days (I do take a very low dose BP medication since high bp runs in the family, as well as diabetes).
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Weird Al has you beat. A line in Fat says,
"And my shadow weighs forty-two pounds
Lemme tell you once again who's fat"
I'm so fat I need a boomerang to put my belt on. :o I was just over 200 pounds when I was in the army, until right before I got out when I got down to 185 pounds. I think that was supposed to be the maximum ideal weight for me at 6' tall, but when I came home my dad said I looked sick. My "ideal" weight was unhealthy. Unlike some people who say they aren't fat, they're just big boned, I actually am big boned. One time I got a phone call from a company trying to sell me a men's bracelet. When they told me how big it was, it was more than an inch too small for me, and I don't carry a lot of weight on my wrists.
Bone size aside, I put on weight after I got married and my wife let herself go. Then I gained more and more weight when I went out on permanent disability and ballooned up. I was still eating like I did when I was working but not doing anything to burn it off. It doesn't help when some days I eat one meal all day. And I mean all day. I eat enough to feed a whole family and still don't feel full. Other days I go hours and hours without feeling hungry before I eat breakfast. More often than not I eat too much high calorie food. Everything I like is bad for me.
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Everything I like is bad for me.
My grandma used to say, "Everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening." That's the frustrating truth of it. I heard a comedian on the old Carson show say he wanted to lose some weight, but not enough to exercise or eat less.
But, back to trying to get this thread on some form of drift control, last night's dinner was three small but lovely grilled lamb chops with a side of steamed faro (that's an ancient grain, similar to wheat but better for you), some beets, and a glass of good red wine.
I'm fighting the same weight battle as many of us here. This morning I came in at 222, and at 6 feet, that's a little too much. I'd really like to get down to 185, but with two bad knees and a pair of bad shoulders, it's hard to find an exercise I can actually do--besides jumping to conclusions. So, I'm down to two meals a day--lunch around 11 and dinner at 6--one serving, no seconds. I drop around a pound a week doing that until holidays roll around. Then I bounce back up. Life's a struggle.
Crusader Rabbit
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I eat fairly well but like others, getting run over by a car 10 years back has me less than fully mobile. That and my laziness hasn't helped. I'm 6'1" at just under 280 and have been losing a few pounds every few weeks.
I eat a light breakfast and my big meal is lunch with a very light dinner if any dinner at all. No booze (dang), beer or other viCes anymore. Been lifting a bit, light weight, lots of reps and it's working. Just gotta lose 3000 calories weekly to lose a pound. My downfall is bread, cheese, milk and taters! The A1C is down to 7.5 and my BP is 127/75 or near stable.
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I just looked at my records and for December it said HEMOGLOBIN A1c 6.8 %, and it looks like normal is 4.0-6.0%, with under 5.7 preferred. 6.4 and above is diabetes. In April it was 5.6% which is normal. It's been normal for decades.
I had more spicy chicken chunks. I think it was my 6th or 7th meal of them so far. Normally I like to eat something different each day, but I make an exception for these and eat them until the whole bag is gone. It's not likely I'll have them again for several months, and maybe not until next year. I was going to have some cottage cheese afterward but didn't feel like eating any more.
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Breaded cheese curds dipped in spaghetti sauce.
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A couple of weeks ago I had a coupon for Private Selection frozen appetizers from Kroger. Right now I'm eating some Hatch Chili & Cheese Puffs.
"Butter puff pastries filled with rich cream cheese and Monterey Jack blended with hot Hatch chilies and green chilies. Hatch Chili & Cheese Puffs are inspired by the heat and flavors of New Mexico cuisine.
Filled with a blend of rich cheese, jalapeños and the Hatch region’s renowned chilis, these savory pastries are a perfect way to add authentic flavor to your entertaining."
It's too hot all summer to use the oven but when winter rolls around I like to bake things like frozen appetizers. Sometimes I have things in the freezer for months before I eat them. https://www.privateselection.com/artisan-products/frozen-foods/frozen-appetizers/
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Bananner sammich and a slice of homemade blueberry pound-cake for my Wednesday treat.
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I should buy some bananas for peanut butter and banana sandwiches. I have plain peanut butter, dark chocolate peanut butter, and honey peanut butter. Chocolate peanut butter and bananas sounds really good right about now.
I had a jar of Castelvetrano olives brined in Trapani sea salt. Those Sicilians know a thing or two about olives, but the label was wrong. It said that it was about 8 servings, but it was only one. ;)
P.S. The olives weren't too salty, and they weren't sour like some other green olives. Most people describe them as buttery.
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I had a jar of Castelvetrano olives brined in Trapani sea salt. Those Sicilians know a thing or two about olives, but the label was wrong. It said that it was about 8 servings, but it was only one. ;)
What ever happened to truth in advertising laws, I see this same thing on ice cream cookies and soft drinks. They really need to get after these companies for lying like that... ;D ;D ;D
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What ever happened to truth in advertising laws, I see this same thing on ice cream cookies and soft drinks. They really need to get after these companies for lying like that... ;D ;D ;D
Right. Ben & Jerry are a couple of big fat liars. They claim a pint of ice cream is 4 servings, but I know darned well it's only one serving and always has been.
I'm eating potato skins with cheddar cheese and apple-wood smoked bacon. And just a bit of ketchup on the one I'm eating now. I would rather have sour cream on it, but I'll have to rough it and use what I have.
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Poppy seed chicken casserole tonight, along with cabbage, butter beans, and southern-style cornbread.
The chicken dish is really easy to throw together just few ingredients.
Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole
Ingredients
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 sleeve of Ritz crackers, crushed
1 teaspoon poppy seeds, or more if desired
1 (8 ounce) container sour cream
1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese (or you can use the cheese of your choice)
Directions
-Boil the chicken, drain the water, then shred the chicken
-Preheat an oven to 350°
-Combine the butter, crackers, and poppy seeds in a bowl and set aside
-Blend the sour cream and cream of chicken soup in a bowl
-Pour half of the soup mixture into a 9x9 inch baking dish
-Add the shredded chicken and pour the remaining half of the soup mixture on top.
-Sprinkle with Cheddar cheese, then top with the cracker mixture.
Bake in the preheated oven until cheese has melted and the sauce is bubbly, 25 to 30 minutes.
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Jalapeno poppers with raspberry habanero dip.
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Those jalapeno poppers were TGI Fridays brand that I got on sale at Kroger, and I really liked them. They had a sale on Bagel Bites and TGI Fridays appetizers too, maybe 2 weeks ago. The Bagel Bites were on sale for $4.99, $1.00 off, and the TGI Fridays appetizers were $4.99, $.50 off. Then they took another $1.00 e coupon off each one, limit 5 packages of each kind. I saved $11.50 off of my 7 packages, then submitted my receipt to savingstar.com. They gave me a rebate for another $5.00 off because the price of all 7 totaled over $20.00. That works out to about $3.28 for each package, instead of $5.99 for the Bagel Bites and $5.49 for the TGI Fridays appetizers. $22.93 total instead of $39.43, or about 42% off. Today I bought 99 more things and only paid full price for a gallon of milk.
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I just ate a chicken breast stuffed with broccoli and Swiss cheese, and now I'm having one stuffed with Brie, apples, and cranberries. This is my breakfast. There were 2 chicken breasts in each box and I bought one of each yesterday. I baked all 4 at once today, and can have the other 2 for lunch. Those and chicken cordon bleu were on sale, buy one, get one free. http://www.sandraschicken.com/
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I had pepperoni and cheese Bagel Bites. I thought I liked them a long time ago, but they really aren't very good. It was a family size box so I have eat more later. The best part of the meal was washing it down with ice cold Stok cold brew coffee. Instead of using hot water, they use cool water with more coffee beans for a given amount, and let it steep for at least 10 hours. I love it. I had a bottle of chocolate flavor yesterday. https://stokcoffee.com/products/#0
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I had garlic bread with slices of fresh mozzarella cheese on it. I may put spaghetti sauce on it too when I eat the rest.
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I did put spaghetti sauce on the rest of the garlic bread with the remainder of the cheese for lunch. I have to use that sauce yet again or end up throwing some away. Fresh mozzarella is nothing at all like the low-moisture stuff that I'm used to. It has so much moisture that it's just a soft white soaking wet ball. I microwaved 2 slices of the garlic bread 30 seconds too long and the cheese didn't just melt, it liquefied and turned soupy. It looked like melted ricotta and sauce mixing together.
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I just microwaved a Fillin’ Philly Cheesesteak flavor Hungry-Man Hand-Fulls. They're like Hot Pockets only twice as big, and this flavor is jut over 600 calories apiece. I never had them before but this one should be cooled off enough to eat now.
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Skippy PB Bites
(http://www.peanutbutter.com/getattachment/4513d778-194c-463e-8094-d2b42e830445/SKIPPY%C2%AE-PB-Bites-Double-Peanut-Butter)
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Skippy PB Bites
(http://www.peanutbutter.com/getattachment/4513d778-194c-463e-8094-d2b42e830445/SKIPPY%C2%AE-PB-Bites-Double-Peanut-Butter)
I have a coupon for those but haven't tried them yet. Are they any good?
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Grilled tenderloin, mashies, sautéed spinach and French cut green beans!
And a big glass o moo!
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I have a coupon for those but haven't tried them yet. Are they any good?
Very
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Ore-Ida Homestyle Hash Brown Casserole.
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Dirty rice with kielbasa, onions and spicey goodness...
AKA whatever I had available in the fridge...
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Red beans and rice. Of course, the red beans are cooked with sausage...lots of it...and onions etc.
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Red beans and rice. Of course, the red beans are cooked with sausage...lots of it...and onions etc.
Mmm. I really like red beans and rice. Back when I was married I made a batch, maybe around Thanksgiving, and gave some to my mother-in-law. She liked it so much she didn't want anything else for Christmas every year from then on. I don't like making it though. I spend hours getting everything together, dicing this, chopping that, and actually cooking it. I put ham in mine, and if I use any kind other than Honeybaked brand, I have to cut the amount of salt the recipe calls for in half. I actually prefer both ham and sausage in it, but haven't seen good Andouille at my local grocery stores. Gordons Food Service used to have it but I haven't checked there for it in years. And I don't want to order it online.
I ate the rest of my hash brown casserole. I might have some cereal in a while.
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I'm on my second of 2 pulled pork barbecue sandwiches. I put about 4 ounces of meat and 2 Sargento Blends 4 Cheese Southwest Slices on each one. "Soft, creamy texture of Monterey Jack cheese blends with Chipotle Cheddar, Colby, and Pepper Jack cheeses to make your cheeseburgers exceptional and your flatbreads fantastic." And I finally cracked open a jar of Famous Dave's Signature Spicy "Hell Fire" Pickle Chips that have been chilling since last month. Yummy. But there's no way I'm buying the Devil's Spit Pickle Chips. My taste buds have their limits, and I wouldn't do that to my "best buds". http://famousbbq.com/products/pickles
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New combo: I had a peanut butter & chocolate buttercream frosting sammich for supper. 8)
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Yesterday I ate the same thing as the day before. I still had half a package of buns left and ate 2 beef barbacoa sandwiches today. The meat was already cooked and only needed to be heated, shredded, and reheated. I put 2 slices of cheese on the buns first so all the juice wouldn't soak right through, and microwaved them for another minute. The combination of chipotle and ancho chili peppers and other spices was really good.
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Just finished 3 slices of sausage pizza from a local Pizza shop and a bottle of Sweet Tea.I'm stuffed.
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I used my last 2 buns to make 2 more beef barbacoa sandwiches but with a different cheese. Sargento Blends 5 Cheese Italian Slices. "Sliced natural cheese that blends the creaminess of Mozzarella with Romano, Parmesan, Fontina and Asiago cheeses to bring an authentic Italian taste to hoagies, panini and every sandwich in between." I microwaved the sandwiches for 30 seconds but wanted the cheese melted more and gave them another 30 seconds. The cheese is all melted and gooey, just the way I like it. What ran out on my plate won't go to waste either.
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Whole Foods, nasty tasting burrito from their food court!
Nasty..
sat across from this pretty fella in full color coordinated, knit everything, scarves knotted just so, manicured GQ model type...
I’m in Carhartt hoodie, jeans and tactical flannel...probably scared the lil fella!
Hint off a holster peaking out...
LOL
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I had something new for lunch, a Gorton's Shrimp Bowl. It was shrimp and mushroom risotto in a black garlic & wine sauce. Not bad. If I get another coupon I'll try the soba noodles, veggies & soy ginger sauce shrimp bowl. I didn't see the chili lime rice & beans shrimp bowl at the store. There was no room for it. I finished off a key lime pie made with real Key West lime juice for dessert.
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I'm eating Bourbon BBQ fire grilled chicken chunks. I may have another bag of these in the freezer, where I also have 2 bags of Buffalo ranch fire grilled chicken chunks. https://www.cookedperfect.com/fire-grilled-chicken/
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Pineapple. Hot peanuts next....
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Poutine Poppers. Cheese curds, shredded potatoes, and gravy, in potato breading. https://www.kroger.com/p/private-selection-poutine-poppers/0001111090855
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Giant soft shell tacos, with a dollop of daisy... :D
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Home made Barbecue Brisket, with just enough heat to clear your sinuses, I still have about 10 pounds of it left. ;D ;D
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Tri-Tip steak on the barbie, just salt and pepper, grilled to a medium rare, Served with grilled mini-peppers with a drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkle of garlic salt, and a side of steamed rice.
All that was accompanied by a delightful cabernet/merlot blend from Frontera wineries in Chile.
Relatively low cal and very high in the good taste department.
Crusader Rabbit
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I just had pork potstickers with lime ponzu sauce for breakfast.
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Ted’s Deluxe, toasted!
Muslims, Jews and 7th Day Adventists should avoid a Ted’s Deluxe!
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I don't know who Ted is, or what a Ted's Deluxe is, but I looked online yesterday and one of the possibilities was a bacon cheeseburger. Time is running out to get a donut burger or cod burger from my favorite burger joint, Freakin' Unbelievable Burgers. The cod burger is the best fish sandwich I ever had. It has a big piece of cod with chipotle mayo IIRC, along with the other toppings, on a brioche bun.
I had a bunch of Crab Rangoon made with 100% rock crab. None of that imitation crab meat. They were covered with a generous amount of sweet chili sauce. For some reason the wontons are shaped very much like pot stickers. Probably because it's easy to make them that way.
They had Pagoda snacks on sale a week or 2 ago at 3 for $5, or whatever price it was for 3 with an e coupon. The coupon could be used up to 5 times at once. I didn't want 15 packages of appetizers and got 9 of them instead. They barely fit in my freezer with all the other stuff I bought.
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Ted’s is a local pizza joint near the shop.
Toasted sub, ham, bacon, roast beef, turkey, capicola, lettuce, tomato, onion, banana peppers, mayo...
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Ted’s is a local pizza joint near the shop.
Toasted sub, ham, bacon, roast beef, turkey, capicola, lettuce, tomato, onion, banana peppers, mayo...
Mmm. That sounds good. I have a Marie Callender’s Delights dinner in the microwave. Only 300 calories for 11.1 ounces of turkey meatloaf in roasted red pepper tomato sauce, potatoes, and greens. I don't know yet if it's any good, but some of the regular Marie Callender's frozen dinners aren't bad. I buy stuff like that when it's on sale so I can have something different every day without having to cook it all myself.
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The seasoned leafy greens in that dinner yesterday were chard, kale, and spinach, but tasted like lawn clippings to me. You just can't escape kale these days. It's everywhere. The greens didn't necessarily need a smoked ham hock, but it sure would have helped. So would some mustard greens and hot sauce. I like mixed turnip and mustard greens, and a little kale in the mix is okay too. Collard greens are good, and easy to grow IIRC. I had some in my garden a long, long time ago. The rest of the dinner was okay. I think I have a few more of various kinds of them left.
The last thing I had was some Planters Deluxe Mixed Nuts (no peanuts). The mix has hazelnuts in it and no Brazil nuts, which really surprised me. They used to have filberts (hazelnuts) in the mix, but replaced them with pistachios a few years ago. Now they've replaced the Brazil nuts with hazelnuts. Brazil nuts must be getting too expensive, and harvesting them can be deadly. The nuts are arranged something like segments of an orange, inside a thing that looks similar to a coconut about 4"-6" in diameter, that can weigh up to 2 kilos. Imagine one of those falling from 100 feet or even more. People have actually been killed by them. I also found out years ago that you can light a Brazil nut and it will burn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIT9PMuC4ck
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I'm eating my free Kinder Joy. The toy that came with it is a little skateboard. They can't legally sell Kinder Surprise, with a toy inside the chocolate egg in the U.S. Since it's illegal to have a toy inside of candy here, they have a toy in one half of the egg and the candy next to it in the other half.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Joy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise
I had to get my free 12 ounce bottle of Sweet Baby Ray's hot sauce no later than tomorrow so I stopped at the store and got those and a few other things. I didn't even know Sweet Baby Ray's made hot sauce.
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I had 2 pieces of Polish sausage with sauerkraut and Dijon mustard on hotdog buns for breakfast, and whenever I get around to eating lunch I'll have 2 more. I like spicier mustard but that's all I have. Instead of the usual jars of sauerkraut I bought a 2 pound refrigerated bag of it in the meat department. It was worth the $1.49 it cost me, but I'll be eating sausage and sauerkraut the rest of the week to use it up.
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DiGiorno cheese stuffed crust supreme pizza. It's okay as long as it's hot. I decided not to eat sausage and sauerkraut every day with no breaks in between.
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Being in the final hours of this experience, we are emptying everything that holds cold. Son came home again to lend a hand and surprised me with supper: Bacon Hash ;D Bacon, ground beef, onion, and torn apart tater tots, topped with fried eggs. He also found some Andouille in the freezer and fried that up as a side.
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What experience Mike?
I had some El Monterey charbroiled chicken & Monterey Jack cheese quesadillas for the first time.
http://www.elmonterey.com/6-ct-signature-chicken-monterey-jack-cheese-quesadilla/
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Chicken Gumbo from The Original Soup Man. Not bad. He's the guy that Seinfeld made the Soup Nazi episode about.
I thought I liked lobster and crab until a couple of weeks ago when I had his Lobster Bisque, and his Crab & Corn Chowder. Both times when I opened the door of the microwave after heating a bowl of soup it stunk. Like shells that have been in the garbage too long after feasting on crab legs.
I didn't care for his Chicken Noodle soup. I had high expectations, but didn't like the combination of spices. Maybe because it had turmeric in the chicken base and more turmeric in the curry powder.
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I'm eating a California Pizza Kitchen BBQ Recipe Chicken pizza on a Crispy Thin Crust. Maybe too crispy and thin. https://www.cpkfrozen.com/pizza/crust/crispy-thin-crust
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Moving.
We loaded all of our worldly crap into a big trailer, and it is now sitting in Chicago until we have posesión of the new place tomorrow.
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Chicago?!?!?!
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I'm having some organic creamy potato leek soup. There's no cream in it, but the potatoes have been pureed. I melted a slice of Gouda cheese in it to give it more flavor. Earlier I had a bowlful with several pieces of hot pepper cheese melted in it. I overdid it and all I could taste was peppers and cheese. This is better.
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I'm eating La Choy beef chow mein with crispy noodles. I knew I had a can of beef chow mein and a can of chicken chow mein in the cupboard with a big bag of noodles. Last week I found another can of beef chow mein that I forgot about. Since the bag of noodles is open I'll eat all 3 cans of it this week.
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CPK Sicilian Recipe pizza with salami, spicy ham, Italian sausage, mozzarella and Fontina cheeses, basil and zesty marinara sauce. https://www.cpkfrozen.com/pizza/crispy-thin-crust/16/sicilian-recipe
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Homemade buttermilk pancakes!
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2 Arby's bacon beef & cheddar sandwiches for $6 with coupon. They had regular beef & cheddar sandwiches for $5 with coupon. I never had them with bacon before so I gave them a try. IMO the extra dollar wasn't worth it.
Yesterday I got an email coupon from Honeybaked ham store that was only good today. It was a tax break special, a Ham Classic sandwich for $4.17 on 4/17. The regular price is $6.49 so I had to jump on that deal. I was hungry and knew one sandwich wouldn't be enough to fill me up. Since I would be driving past Arby's anyway, I clipped a coupon, and stopped there on the way back home. I'll eat my ham sandwich later.
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Dominosteine (dominoes).
https://www.lebkuchen-schmidt.com/en/Nuremberger-Lebkuchen/Lebkuchen-bags/Dominoes.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominostein
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I just had a bunch of dried red tart cherries. They were Montmorency variety, the kind in cherry pies, and a product of the USA. I can't say where in the USA they were grown, but Michigan grows over 90,000 tons of them a year, more than any other state. I tried to convert that into pounds with my calculator and the number was so big it wouldn't work.
They're grown not in Montmorency Township or Montmorency county, but near Grand Traverse Bay where the microclimate is good for growing fruit trees. When it's not buried under tons of lake effect snow, that is. ;) Over 500,000 people a year go to the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Michigan in July.
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180,000,000 lbs
1.8e+8
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180,000,000 lbs
1.8e+8
That's a whole lot of cherries. I think I ate 5 ounces of them yesterday, but that was dry weight with no pits. I keep forgetting about the calculator Windows has on the Accessories menu. It can go a few digits beyond that on the Standard calculator, and way more in the Scientific and Programmer modes. I don't even know how to use the Statistics calculator.
I looked up some food facts and statistics about Michigan and some of it surprised me. Michigan grows over 125 different crops and leads the nation in the production of several crops, including asparagus; black, cranberry, and small red dried beans; cucumbers; tart cherries; Niagara grapes; squash; red skin potatoes and potatoes for making potato chips. Michigan agriculture contributes more than $101 billion annually to the state’s economy, and is second in diversity only to California.
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We used to pick cherries in the farms around GR when we were kids! Didn’t pay well but we ate our fill of cherries to the point of getting sick!
[emoji4]
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When I was a kid a neighbor across the street would let us pick cherries off the tree in his front yard. And a guy my dad worked with had pear trees, so we got those too and my mom canned a bunch. We had a peach tree, strawberries, raspberries, and rhubarb in the garden, and grapes growing past the top of six foot high fences. There were crab apples at the elementary school, and something that looked like tiny orange colored cherries on a tree I walked past on the way there. A house on the corner had apple trees, and anything hanging over the fence was fair game. There was something to eat growing everywhere I went. We got as many black walnuts as we wanted from my mom's friend. They're great in chocolate fudge and so-so in cookies. We picked chokecherries in the woods and my mom made delicious jelly out of them. We picked blueberries in between four foot tall anthills in the woods too. It's not much fun when you have ants in your pants. Inch long carpenter ants.
Free snacks aren't as plentiful for me now, but a neighbor told me about these big trees at the back of the church parking lot. He said they were mulberries but I thought mulberries grew on a bush. Possibly a bush that a monkey chased a weasel all around. Long story short, I can walk across the street and eat as many mulberries as I want when they're in season. And I suppose I could eat the hickory nuts that the squirrels bring me from 3 houses down.
Long story longer, last summer a friend and I were riding our ATVs in an area many of us rode around before. Some of them snowmobile there too. There are 2 hills we climbed, back and forth, down one and up the other a few times. We stopped for a break at the top of one hill on the edge of a wide open field in the woods. I went back to the top of other hill and wondered what was just a stone's throw away among the trees. Wild blueberries! In all the years he rode past them he never knew they were there. The bushes were full of black blueberries and light blue ones too. When I showed my friend he got excited and said that I found the mother lode. That was the day I found my thrill, on blueberry hill. I ate everything I picked but he took some back to the cabin for pancakes. Wild blueberries almost always ripen a couple of weeks after we all go home from our Fourth of July vacation. These got a lot of sun on one side since it was an open area, and ripened early.
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I have pork carnitas meat in the microwave. I have to let it cool a minute or so before I take it out and shred it. I'm going to make some sandwiches with that and some good white bread. I'll put a slice of Colby Pepper-Jack cheese on the bread before I put the meat on so it doesn't get soaking wet, then microwave it. Time's up.
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The store bought carnitas didn't have much seasoning. It was basically sugar, salt, and lime juice. It probably shouldn't have sugar in it. What it should have is chili pepper and cumin, which are in the chili powder I'll sprinkle on the rest of the meat. The chili powder also has oregano and garlic which are in most carnitas recipes. It also has more salt but it should be okay.
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I'm eating more of the same right now but with chili powder and Mexican-style hot sauce added. I prefer mildly spicy to not spicy at all, and mild to medium is even better. It has a slight burn, not enough for me to drink a lot of water. It's much better now.
I have real Mexican hot sauce in the cupboard but it's not open yet. I have 2 bottles of hot sauce open and 6 more in reserve. 2 bottles are the original red Tabasco, and there are 7 different kinds in total. I like to try different hot sauces but don't like to have more than 2 or 3 open at a time. I don't actually use it very often and don't want it to sit there and go bad.
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Tater-tots.......... with ketchup.
Yep.
8)
Last night I did have a piece of battered/fried wild turkey from the gobbler one of my sons shot last week.
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I had half of a DiGiorno Supreme Crispy Pan Pizza today. It says 6 servings on the box for the Supreme and Three Meat pizzas. The Pepperoni, Four Cheese, and Cheesy Garlic pizzas are 5 servings each, but they don't tell you how to cut a rectangle into 5 equal pieces. If you cut it into 5 parallel strips, 2 will have way more crust than the other 3, and that hardly seems fair. I searched and searched, and finally found this square cut into 5 pieces. Quartering it is much easier and what I did. And I had a double chocolate muffin for dessert.
This solution may also work on rectangles like my pizza. If it does, the area of a rectangle is always length x width. 1/5 of that would be the area of each piece. I finally remembered that, the most basic geometry that I learned 40+ years ago and haven't needed since, after I spent an incredibly long time figuring it out in a more complicated way. I think I'll have some more pizza later. When I finish it, that will be the end of the 5 California Pizza Kitchen and 5 DiGiorno pizzas I bought really cheap. None of them were as good as what I get from local pizzerias.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/21/did-you-solve-it-can-you-cut-cake-correctly
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Snausages.
Actually they're bite-size pork and beef smoked sausages. And a chunk of hot pepper cheese to go with it. Man cannot live on snausages alone. Well, you could, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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I'm eating General Tso's Chicken flavored potato chips. I really like General Tso's Chicken a lot, and when I saw these I bought 2 bags with coupons I had. Too bad they don't taste like General Tso's Chicken. These are ripple cut kettle chips that seem to be made for dipping. I knew I didn't have any potato chip dip, but thought I had nacho cheese dip in the cupboard. There was a single jar of salsa con queso in there. Yes! So I'm having Asian spiced chips with Mexican spiced cheese dip. It tastes better than the chips with no cheese.
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A chicken salad sandwich and smoked turkey classic sandwich from the Honeybaked Ham store. Buy 1, get 1 free.
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Snausages.
Actually they're bite-size pork and beef smoked sausages. And a chunk of hot pepper cheese to go with it. Man cannot live on snausages alone. Well, you could, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Aren't Snausages little doggie treats? :o :P
Crusader Rabbit
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Aren't Snausages little doggie treats? :o :P
Crusader Rabbit
Yep. Dogs go crazy for them like I do for sausages.
I'm eating a chili cheese dog on Sara Lee Artesano bread. The bread isn't as tall as it is wide so I had to orient the hotdog horizontally. I put a slice of Colby-Pepper Jack cheese on the bread then a generous amount of chili. A hotdog was microwaving while I did that. I put the hotdog on top and microwaved it some more. There was no way I could pick it up without making a huge mess, so I'm eating it with a knife and fork as an open-face sandwich. The hotdog is a Hebrew National and the meat is 100% beef.
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Rice Chex.
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Coffee with a banana side..
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BBQ chicken chunks.
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Vienna sausage sammich......... high on the hog, indeed (or snouts-n-ears....maybe floor scraps?).
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Donatos Seriously Meaty pizza. It had pepperoni, sausage and spicy sausage, hardwood smoked bacon, ground beef and smoked provolone cheese on a crispy thin crust. Not bad for a store-bought frozen pizza. If I get another coupon for it I'll try the Hot Pepperoni Zinger.
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Skillet fried country ham and home-canned green beans.
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I'm finishing my Cheddar Lit'l Smokies smoked sausages. Snausages! ;) They're tasty but too salty for me. I have something I want to bake but it's too hot in here today.
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Two eggs over easy...
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Licorice imported from Finland. It was still soft after lying around here for half a year. I'm just about ready to microwave some Totino’s Pizza Rolls MINI Snack Bites. The Combination flavor of course. Why settle for pepperoni when you can have pepperoni AND sausage?
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Western omelette at Tiny Tim’s diner.
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Mmm. I love omelettes. Especially with salsa. I had a lot of them for breakfast in the army.
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I had a dozen apple-wood smoked bacon and Swiss cheese mini-quiches. About 500 calories worth. Yummy.
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Marinated flatiron steak and veggies!
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Jalapeno cheddar smoked sausage, tomato & basil Jack cheese, and dill & garlic sauerkraut, on white bread. There's a whole lot of flavor going on.
I want to eat up some smoked bratwurst and other sausages, and fill my freezer with something else.
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Bob Evans Roasted Chicken Alfredo Pasta. It's something new that I had a coupon for. They also have Creamy Chicken and Noodles that looks good. They call them Family Classics.
https://www.bobevansgrocery.com/products-category/family-classics/
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Yummy
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I haven't had scallops in years but I liked them. IIRC they only take a minute to cook. Too much cooking and I think they get tough and rubbery. The only other mollusk I've ever tried was fried clams and didn't care for them. And I'll never eat a raw oyster, no matter what. I won't even say what they look like but it's nothing good.
The last thing I had was 2 sausage, egg, and cheese flatbread sandwiches. I had a smoked beef bratwurst sandwich with cheese and sauerkraut warmed up in the microwave for breakfast. I didn't drain the sauerkraut so my sandwich was a bit wet and sloppy. Warm, wet and sloppy isn't necessarily a bad thing if you have enough napkins to wipe your hands and face off. I think pork bratwurst is better than beef but I had to try it.
A couple of nights ago, I had some Chicken Pad Thai. It was a little spicy but not too much. I could eat a bushel of it before I got tired of it. It had rice noodles and chicken spiced up with garlic, red chili pepper, chopped roasted peanuts, and tamari sauce. Tamari is something like soy sauce but better. BTW, Pad Thai is Thailand's National Dish.
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hmmm..Scallops...It's been awhile...I'll put them on my grocery list....they are good.
Jumbo, the only time I would do fried was when I used to vacation in Maine..if you didn't have yours prepared by folks who live next to them, give them another try if you get close to a good place.
About oysters....my dad used to fry them and I loved them...but raw were terrible...more for the texture...I reasoned that: cold and firm-ok, hot and firm-ok, hot and slimy~ok, cold and slimy-nono
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Homemade chicken & dumplin's .......... a southern delicacy.
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I had Sirloin tips in gravy over whipped potatoes and Strawberry shortcake for desert.
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I had soup a little while ago, but a few hours before that I had some pupusas. A pupusa is a thick fried corn tortilla filled with things like cheese, beans, or pork. They're a popular native street food of El Salvador and they're typically served with a side of fermented cabbage slaw. The tortillas cooking smelled really good. Only a tiny fraction of the aroma at my favorite Mexican restaurant, but still good.
Of 10 different kinds made by the same company, I could only find one at the store, kale & pinto bean. Again with *&^%$#@! kale. Why do vegans have to ruin everything? What's wrong with shredded pork carnitas, or chicken and cheese? None of the other 9 kinds had kale, but I get a $3 rebate off these so I gave them a try. Even after putting cheese and salsa and even more cheese on them, they still tasted like glass clippings. If they had the other kinds at the store I would like to try a few of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupusa
http://treslatinfoods.com/products/
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https://me.me/i/pro-tip-if-you-stir-coconut-oil-into-your-kale-14847350
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Good tip. I'll try to remember that. I'm just about to eat some rotini with sauce and a generous amount of shredded Parmasan cheese for lunch. Breakfast was 2 tuna sandwiches with a bunch of garlic-stuffed olives on the side. The tuna was line and pole caught skipjack from the Pacific Ocean. I was thinking about buying albacore instead, but on the can of skipjack it said it has less mercury in it than most other kinds of tuna. It wasn't packed in oil or water, just some sea salt.
The rotini cost me $1.99 minus a $1.00 coupon. I'll be getting a $1.00 rebate on it too at some point. I'm being paid 1 cent for bringing it home from the store. I don't get paid to eat very often.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weLyEP_hKYc
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Bantam Bagels Pretzel Bagels Stuffed with Cheddar Dijon Cream Cheese. https://www.bantambagels.com/
P.S. I'm only getting a $2.00 rebate on the pupusas. The $3.00 rebate is for a package of Ricola Herbal Immunity drops that I already used a $3.00 coupon for, so it's a total of $6.00 off the $7.99 price.
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Just finished a rib-eye and a tater. ;D 8) 8) 8) 8)
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That stinks Peg. Rub it in.
I tried some frozen butterfly shrimp....MISTAKE. Mostly bread..very little shrimp..I mean really tiny.
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I had shrimp today too, shrimp scampi for lunch. It was about half shrimp and half butter but tasted good. The last thing I ate was 2 egg rolls. I was only going to have one but the microwave directions on the package were way off. After gnawing on a tough dried out one I heated another one for 25% less time and it was much better. I hope I remember that when I eat the other 2.
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That stinks Peg. Rub it in.
I tried some frozen butterfly shrimp....MISTAKE. Mostly bread..very little shrimp..I mean really tiny.
Hey, I was planning on a ham sammich....but thanks to it being Mother's Day, my son's decided to grill steaks. :D
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So far today I've had some Cuban Style Focaccia Pizza. Stone-baked focaccia bread topped with creme fraiche mustard sauce, bacon, mozzarella, diced pickles, and Emmentaler cheese. It needs ham. I have more pizza in the fridge and I'm starting to get hungry again so it's on the menu.
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I just had a bowl of Japanese style udon soup. The noodles were already cooked so all I had to do was empty them and 2 little packets into the bowl, add water, and microwave it. I don't normally eat anything vegan, but this way I knew there weren't any dehydrated fish flakes in it. Those totally ruin a bowl of soup IMO.
https://anniechun.com/products/soup-bowls/#udon
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Chicken Chile Verde, and I like it.
http://luvoinc.com/our-food/healthy-frozen-meals/chicken-chile-verde/
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Miso soup. Basically the same as the udon soup I had, but with the addition of red miso and white miso.
Miso is soybean paste fermented with a special kind of Aspergillus mold that's been used in food for at least 2,000 years. Miso may be fermented for less than a week, or for several years, the flavor changing with age. I had a coupon to get $1.25 off 2 bowls of these soups and these were the only 2 kinds in the store, which worked out okay. They're both very mild and IMO either one would be better with a bit of red chili powder.
Am I the only one eating something every day?
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No, you're just the only one who remembers what you ate. ;D ;D ;D
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No, you're just the only one who remembers what you ate. ;D ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I took me 4 hours but I finally had time to eat breakfast in the middle of the afternoon. I had 2 100% ribeye steak and onion sandwiches with cheese, one without peppers followed by one with peppers. I had a buy 2 8" subs, get 1 free coupon. The 3rd one will be lunch or a late-night snack. Gone by dawn.
They're from a local place called Big John Steak & Onion. They started with one location in Flint back in 1972. Now they have 6 in Flint and 10 more nearby. They have this sauce that's just called red sauce, that I always get on the side in little cups. One is enough for an 8" sub, two is too many. I'm guessing it has tomatoes in it because it's red, and it definitely has some kind of pepper in it, probably black pepper. Maybe some kind of chili pepper too. Whatever it is, I can't eat my steak and onion subs without it. People love it so much they buy it by the bottle.
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Jose Ole Beef & Cheese Mini Tacos dipped in sour cream. They're a lot better dipped in sour cream or salsa, or both, than plain. I keep getting $1.00 off coupons for Jose Ole snacks and don't like their Taquitos as well as these, Chicken & Cheese Nacho Bites, or the Loaded Beef Nacho Rolled Tacos. The store I go to doesn't have much variety. I like the Rolled Tacos the best but don't want to keep buying the same thing.
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The only kind of instant ramen I like is NONGSHIM Bowl Noodle, and NONGSHIM Shin Bowl. The last thing I ate was a Kimchi Fried Noodle Dish, seasoned with real kimchi, last night.
NONGHIM Shinramyun is the #1 ramyun in Korea and the U.S. Their Shinramyun Bowl Noodle, called Shin Bowl here, tastes hot to me but Koreans would say it's mild. If you have chapped kips, apply lip balm before eating. It's very good and that's not just my opinion. It's endorsed by professional chefs. If I happen to go down the soup aisle and it's on sale for a dollar instead of $1.29 or whatever it is, I'll buy a couple of them.
http://www.nongshimusa.com/homev2/our-products/
I have some Jose Ole Loaded Beef Nacho Rolled Tacos in the microwave for breakfast. I'm going to check the temperature right now.
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I ate healthy today...... two corn-dogs, Doritos, and an ice-cream sandwich (Neapolitan). ;D
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Rabbit food...
Salad, with the fixins including bacon..
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Ore-Ida Homestyle Hash Brown Casserole made with shredded potatoes, sour cream and cheddar cheese. It would have been great with some breakfast sausage and a couple of fried eggs, but I didn't have either one of those. After 30 minutes in the microwave it was more like shredded potatoes with some mashed potatoes mixed in.
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Supper in the south...... fried ham, thin-sliced squash (lightly floured and fried) and homemade biskits.
Our garden ain't quite ready, but one of the neighbors in the area gave us a mess of squash and zucchini to cook.... cucumbers too.... (They only have about twenty acres of them). ;D
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I'm not a huge squash fan. A friend of mine makes zucchini bread and zucchini crisp that taste amazingly like banana bread and apple crisp. Especially the zucchini bread. That's about all the squash I want, except for pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin pie with a big blob of Cool Whip or whipped cream on it. If I have something with pieces of yellow squash in it, I'll eat it and not pick it out, but I don't like the way it feels when I chew it.
Every fall when I take my mom out for an all you can eat family style chicken dinner for her birthday, a restaurant always gives us a bowl full of locally grown blue Hubbard squash. I tried it and didn't like it, so every year I slide it over to her side of that table and tell her it's all hers. She always eats a little and the rest gets boxed up and taken home with the rest of the leftovers.
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NONGSHIM brand beef flavor Pho Vietnamese rice noodle soup. I used every bit I could squeeze out of the sriracha packet. The other spices include jalapeno, garlic, ginger and onion, plus some unspecified spices. Traditional pho spices include cloves, star anise, coriander seed, fennel, cinnamon, black cardamom, ginger, and onion. I think this had cinnamon in it too. I liked the heat of it but the combination of spices was too foreign to my taste buds. I didn't put those last 4 bowls of soup in the cupboard when I got home from the store because I was eager to try them. Now I only have regular cans and microwavable bowls of soup.
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I just had a few Cole's Pretzel Sticks With Pub Style Cheese. I put too much pretzel salt on them, but other than that they tasted good. Their pub cheese filling has jalapenos in it. I was expecting horseradish like Win Schuler’s Bar-Scheeze, which doesn't have the Bar-Scheeze logo on it anymore. Now it's their Original Cheddar Cheese Spread, with the same formula used since the 1950's. After looking at recipes online it appears that bar cheese has horseradish in it, and pub style cheese usually has beer in it, possibly Guinness if it's Irish pub cheese.
My last Chicken Chile Verde is done. Gotta go.
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My wife makes a great zucchini bread with a hint of cinnamon.
Like with carrot cake, you don't taste the zucchini, it is there to provide extra moisture (same with sour cream poundcake).
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Hot Saltine crackers (as in cayenne pepper and crushed red pepper flakes) along with ham sammich.
Here's the recipe. The only thing we changed was the garlic for cayenne. If you don't like 'hot' use the garlic.
http://cookingwithjanica.com/fire-crackers-seasoned-saltines/
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Bacon.
'Nuff said.
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A bowl of white chicken chili with beans, topped with extra sharp cheddar before microwaving.
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Bacon.
'Nuff said.
Indeed.
I'd rather had bacon than the store-bought lasagna I had for lunch.
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In Maine fer the weekend. I’ll post pics of some tasty stuff later!
Might mow through a three pounder wif corn and some chowda!
Bout the onliest thing good about New England.
(And the wifey and kid and grand yunguns...). (and stripers, cod flounder, etc)
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Chowda!!
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Not much on clam chowder, but I love a good oyster stew (what we suth'nahs call it ... wife makes a good'n when oysters are in season).
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Lobsta!
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I'm just having a low budget snack at the moment. Yesterday I got trail mix at Rite Aid, buy one bag, get one bag free. I ate a bagful of some cheesy mix yesterday, and I'm eating Oriental Delight now. I'm most likely going to eat the spicy Cajun mix tomorrow, and another kind the next day.
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Lobsta!
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Hey, giant crawdad!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I'm eating sliced peaches straight from the jar and as cold as my fridge can get them.
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Warm apple fritter from Congdon’s in Wells!
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Warm apple fritter from Congdon’s in Wells!
Mmmm. There was a place I went a few times that had the biggest apple fritters I ever saw. But I never had one of theirs when it was still warm.
I haven't had anything to eat yet, but I've only been up a couple of hours. Yesterday I was up something like 5 hours before I had breakfast, then ate a lot in the next several hours.
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Fried haddock, scallops, butternut squash and tater salad with a warm corn muffin and honey budda washed down with iced tea!
http://mainediner.com
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Chick-fil-a hot n’ spicey!
Ironically, there was a Hobby Lobby across the parking lot!!
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Red bell pepper strips with salt, and a side of cottage cheese. I kept forgetting to eat my peppers. I ate a whole pepper and got my day's worth of vitamin C.
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A Smoked Turkey Classic sandwich from Honeybaked Ham store (and a pickle). June is National Turkey Lovers Month so they emailed me a buy one get one free coupon for turkey sandwiches. I'll eat the other one later. Then I'll do a very brief survey online to get a code to buy any sandwich and get another one free.
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Raisin bread toast with butter.
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Raisin bread toast with butter.
I love that stuff. So do raccoons. >:( If you're camping out, make sure it's locked up good of they'll steal it. Maybe even on 2 separate occasions, depending on who your friends are. :'(
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This isn't now ... sort of ...
Got my hands on some CAB Outside Skirt from a new plant in Iowa. After trimming, butterflying, and a quick turn on a hot grill, it was taco time!
Outerskirt Skirt tacos, with cheese, grilled jalapenos, homemade salsa from a good friend, and some Mexican Crema, all on a flour tortilla.
After a busy morning, it is time for a little brunch, I'm looking at some steak and eggs: Scrambled eggs with left over outers, jalapeno, and onion, and some shredded cheese over the top.
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Sounds good Mike.
I had Buffalo ranch flavor fire grilled chicken chunks that I put some mesquite smoke barbecue sauce on. They were already spicy, then they were spicy barbecue.
I keep getting coupons for $1.50 off bags of Cooked Perfect fire grilled chicken which is already $2.00 off at Kroger right now. I already have enough chicken in the freezer but when I can get it for $3.50 off the regular price I have to get more.
https://www.cookedperfect.com/fire-grilled-chicken/
ETA: When I have room for it I'll have some mango peach applesauce. I hope it's good.
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Added some tomato to the skillet steak and eggs, and it was GOOD!
Was inventorying the freezer this afternoon, and need a larger one! I cut and packaged 95# of pork loin - I cut the chops thick by going down between each rib, and then cut the sirloin into two pieces per loin. We also packaged 80# of ground beef into 2# packages.
Besides the pork loins, we are down to one package of outside skirt, a couple chuck roasts, three packages of pork belly, and one tilapia fillet. The backribs, chicken breasts, inside skirt are gone, and the ribeye is long gone :'(
Pork and beef are steady to higher, so it may be awhile for that, especially the ribeye. However, poultry dropped a little, and shows that if it doesn't go sub buck (boneless skinless breasts), it shouldn't be much over. Wings are holding, but are when facing football season on the horizon, they aren't going to show any low prices until after the new year.
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I had another bowl of udon noodle soup. The broth in the other bowlful had a "delicate" flavor and I decided if I ever had it again I'd put a little hot sauce in it. So I gave it 4 shakes of Korean inspired Gochujang chili hot sauce. That was much better IMO but I'm glad I didn't add more hot sauce than that. I tasted a small drop of it on my finger and tasted the garlic right away but it took a couple of seconds for the heat to show up.
I'll probably skip a day before I finish the bag of chicken chunks I had earlier. I need variety.
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I bought a sandwich and got one free at the Honeybaked Ham store today.
Breakfast was a Tavern Club sandwich: Ham, Smoked Turkey Breast, bacon, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, savory mayo and honey mustard on multigrain bread.
I'm getting ready to eat some lunch now. It's a Turkey Bacon Ranch sandwich: Smoked Turkey Breast, provolone cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, red onion and creamy ranch dressing on multigrain bread.
Only good quality ingredients can make the multigrain bread edible.
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Sweet Chili flavored pistachios.
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Pancakes!!
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Pork carnitas meat with no tortillas or chopped onions. After I shredded the meat I put several shakes of Mexican style hot sauce on it. Since I didn't have anything to go with it I melted some cheddar and provolone on it. The next serving will be with salsa and no cheese.
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Nectar o da gods!
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Nectar o da gods!
America's first soft drink, and still the best? I love it, with or without a couple of shots of Jim Beam mixed in.
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America's first soft drink, and still the best? I love it, with or without a couple of shots of Jim Beam mixed in
They've changed the recipe to modern ingredients. I miss the original from my youth but this is better than nothing. They've only recently started distribution here in New England, bottled locally.
Polar Beverage here in Worcester does bottling and canning for nearly every major soft drink brand as well as produce their own.
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They've changed the recipe to modern ingredients. I miss the original from my youth but this is better than nothing. They've only recently started distribution here in New England, bottled locally.
Polar Beverage here in Worcester does bottling and canning for nearly every major soft drink brand as well as produce their own.
It used to say aged in oak barrels on every bottle and can. Now it's whatever they can make the cheapest. I like Jamaican ginger beer too, but it's harder to find around here and much more expensive. I used to get a single bottle at a time in a neighboring city on rare occasions, but have little reason to go there since I quit working. It's very spicy so it's not something I would want to drink all the time, but if 12 ounces didn't cost more than 2 liters of Vernor's I might buy it more often.
ETA: Halo Burger, here since 1923, sells Boston Coolers made with Vernor's. Just thinking about it makes me crave one and a QP Burger, or maybe a couple of Olive Burgers. The Halopeno Burger looks good too. I haven't had one of those yet. "Seven Days without a Halo Burger Makes One Weak!"
http://haloburger.com/
Boston Cooler
A Boston Cooler is typically composed of Vernors ginger ale and vanilla ice cream.
The origin of the term "Boston Cooler" lies in Detroit, Michigan, the city in which Fred Sanders is credited with inventing the ice cream soda. The name is a mystery, having no apparent connection to Boston, Massachusetts, where the beverage is virtually unknown. One theory suggests that it was named after Detroit's Boston Boulevard, the main thoroughfare of what was then, according to the theory, an upper-class neighborhood a short distance from James Vernor's drugstore. Boston Boulevard, however, did not exist at the time. The streets and subdivision that became the Boston-Edison neighborhood, approximately five miles from Vernor's drugstore, were not platted nor incorporated into the city until 1891, and its first homes not constructed until 1905, nine years after Vernor closed his drugstore.
It is known that by the 1880s the Boston Cooler was being served in Detroit, made with the local Vernors. Originally, a drink called a Vernors Cream was served as a shot or two of sweet cream poured into a glass of Vernors. Later, vanilla ice cream was substituted for the cream to make a Vernors float. Unlike a float, however, a Boston Cooler is blended like a thick milkshake. Both Sanders soda fountains and Michigan-based Big Boy restaurants (which had Boston Coolers as a signature item until the Elias Brothers sold their franchise to new ownership in the 1980s) used their milkshake blenders to prepare the drink.
It can be found most often in the Detroit region's many Coney Island-style restaurants, which are plentiful because of Detroit's Greektown district influence. National Coney Island is one of the few restaurant chains to list the Boston Cooler in its menu. The Kerby's Koney Island chain lists a Boston Cooler on its menus, but that variant is actually a Vernors float, as the ice cream is not blended. It is also found at the Detroit-area Dairy Queens and at Halo Burger, a Flint, Michigan based fast food chain.
A Boston Cooler is also available on the menu at the Chow Food Bar in San Francisco.
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Wife and I went out for Mexican vittles tonight.
She had chicken fajitas and I did the burrito/chalupa/taco combo.....pretty good eats.
Ginger ale.......... This is good if you can find it.
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Cracker Barrel has a section with old style sodas that are being bottled again using the original recipes (ie: cane sugar instead of corn syrup as the sweetener). I found some there.
My favorite is Red Arrow root beer, though.
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There's a Cracker Barrel within 6 miles of my house but I've never been there. Maybe I should go take a look. I'd like some birch beer if they have it. Sarsaparilla too. I can't recall having that in decades.
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Beef barbacoa. Like the pork carnitas yesterday, I don't have any tortillas to eat it on. And no beans or rice as a side dish. Just a pile of beef on my plate, shredded with a fork and soaking in its sauce. It tastes like it has the same spices that are in chili powder; chili peppers, cumin, etc. It's not too spicy but I can feel some heat. That's the way I like it, hot enough to feel it but not hot enough to burn my taste buds off.
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There's a Cracker Barrel within 6 miles of my house but I've never been there. Maybe I should go take a look. I'd like some birch beer if they have it. Sarsaparilla too. I can't recall having that in decades.
I have a bottle of Sioux City Birch Beer on the shelf that I got the last time I was there, but have not tried it yet.
Ours has sarsaparilla also by Sioux City. It is good stuff. I have bought several bottles when they have it in stock.
Every time I go there I check the clearance table. They usually have a few bottles of Red Arrow on clearance for 1/2 price because the labels are scratched.
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Sioux City is the only brand I've seen that had root beer, birch beer, and sarsaparilla. It's good stuff. I've mostly seen it served by the bottle at restaurants. I think I can get the root beer without making a special trip for it, but not the others.
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Chicken flavor Japanese style yakisoba noodles. I added some chopped up chicken. Not a bad breakfast. Cheap too, since the yakisoba was on sale.
Click the link at your own risk. Malwarebytes warns me there's some kind of riskware but other than showing a warning it doesn't affect my computer at all.
Riskware, or “risky software,” describes legitimate software programs that contain loopholes or vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers for malicious purposes.
https://www.maruchan.com/products/yakisoba/chicken-flavor-3/
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Beef barbacoa. Like the pork carnitas yesterday, I don't have any tortillas to eat it on. And no beans or rice as a side dish. Just a pile of beef on my plate, shredded with a fork and soaking in its sauce. It tastes like it has the same spices that are in chili powder; chili peppers, cumin, etc. It's not too spicy but I can feel some heat. That's the way I like it, hot enough to feel it but not hot enough to burn my taste buds off.
What cut of beef did you have?
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What cut of beef did you have?
Mystery meat. Whatever was in the package in Kroger's meat department. I'm too lazy to do any real cooking if I don't have to. All I had to do was heat it up and shred the chunks. It was nice and tender whatever it was. I had a coupon I could use up to 5 times but only bought 1 of those and 1 of the pork carnitas. I froze them until I needed them.
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Trimmings from chuck, round, strip, etc. most likely. Kroger doesn't buy true babacoa meats.
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Trimmings from chuck, round, strip, etc. most likely. Kroger doesn't buy true babacoa meats.
It was in a factory sealed 16 ounce package. There's no telling what it was or who supplied it. It could be chuck, or mixed leftover pieces. Like the old Wendy's commercial said, parts is parts. It was something with the fat cooked out of it. I didn't see any fat in the meat, and the juice didn't have much fat when it was still cold. It doesn't matter what it was because it was tender and tasty, and someone else did all the work for me. I don't care if it wasn't cooked in a hole in the ground covered with maguey leaves in true barbacoa fashion either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_oem9BqUTI
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Trimmings from chuck, round, strip, etc. most likely. Kroger doesn't buy true babacoa meats.
Babacoa?
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Fat fingers and tired eyes.
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Babacoa?
I didn't even notice that. Sometimes my mind fills in the blanks automatically. If I didn't have everything spell checked as I typed, I'd mess up way more than I already do. And I'm not going to refer to Mike as Babs from now on. It wouldn't be nice. ;D
I had 2 Whoppers today and nothing else so far. They weren't great, but they were filling. I used a buy one, get one free coupon. I threw away 2 more of the same coupon that expired last month, and have another one left that's good until next month. I won't go to Burger King without a coupon.
I have a slice of Twix pie in the fridge for later. The picture looked good on the menu that I had 5 minutes to look at while waiting for my order to be taken. I walked in and went right up to the cash register where I was ignored while they filled other people's orders. One person usually stops filling orders long enough to take a new order, but not today.
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Pulled pork shoulder with butter-peas and mac & cheese.
Got some fresh blueberries today, so either a cobbler or a blueberry pound-cake is in the near future. :D
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Diced pears. I haven't had whole pears in a long time, but these canned pears are good too.
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I have a bowl of chocolate chip instant oatmeal in front of me that's a little too hot to eat. I never had it before but it smells okay. I haven't been grocery shopping a week or two. I had 5 boxes of instant oatmeal in the cupboard so I didn't need milk for my cereal, but I need to buy some other things soon.
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A good ol' 1/2 pound Angus burger.
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Home made burritos on whole grain tortillas
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I had just 2 more Turkey Classic sandwiches from the Honeybaked Ham store, roast turkey this time, and I'm stuffed. I should have waited a couple more hours before I ate the second one. They were buy one get one free, and the receipt has a survey code to buy one sandwich of any kind and get another one free. As long as they keep giving me coupons I'll keep going back. I think I know already what one of my next 2 sandwiches will be.
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Mongolian Beef. It's a Birds Eye Voila! Selects frozen meal in a bag. I never had one of these before but since I had a coupon I gave it a try. It has too many green beans and not enough beef. After cooking for 14 minutes I need to soak the pot I cooked it in. It says to use a non-stick skillet with a lid but I don't own one. I used to cook frozen meals like this in the same pot in my microwave, but my new microwave has a turntable and the pot handle won't allow it to turn. I have a Pyrex mixing bowl I should try the next time.
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Grilled hamburger with celery salt, coriander, dill seed and pepper well done with some of that cheddar cheese stuff on top.
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I bought another pound of pork carnitas meat and some flour tortillas yesterday, and had some for breakfast today. I know it would be better with diced onion and tomato, and a slice or two of avocado, but I forgot to get anything like that until after I was home. I have almost 1/2 gallon of salsa so I put some roasted garlic salsa on one. I put Mexican style hot sauce on another one but couldn't taste it. I'll have one with more hot sauce on it tonight. I only need half a package of tortillas for that amount of meat. I'll make some kind of sandwiches from them.
I had carnitas at a local restaurant by accident once. I actually ordered some kind of combination plate. The waitress came by a while later and and said my carnitas would be ready in 10(?) minutes. It only took me a second or two to decide that sounded good too and I'd try it. They were good.
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Nothing remarkable about today's meals. I had a pint of broccoli and cheddar soup for breakfast, and I'm way overdue for lunch. I have 3 tortillas and 2 jalapeno & cheddar smoked sausage links left in the fridge. Roll 'em if ya got 'em. The last tortilla will most likely be a Nutella taco.
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Two Red Hot Chicago, Chicago style hot dogs and fries
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“Date Ender”
Garlic roast beef, onions, maters, lettuce, Swiss cheese with abundant horseradish sauce on a hogie roll...
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4 cheese pizza. The main ingredient of the cornmeal crust is wheat flour. I had 5 coupons from $1.00 to $3.00 off on 4 brands of pizza and bought all 5 the other day. Today was cool enough to bake one so this is it. I'll eat the whole 8" pizza and may bake a regular pizza tomorrow if it's cool enough then too.
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I’m about to marinate and grill up some fresh striper caught about 48 hours ago off Nantucket!
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Alsatian style tarte flambée thin crust pizza. It has olive oil and Grana Padano sauce, bacon lardons, crème fraîche, white onions, and a pinch of parsley. The sourdough crust was baked on a white granite stone. Grana Padano is like Parmigiano-Reggiano but it's not aged as long.
I wanted something else more than I wanted pizza but it was nice and cool this morning. Not anymore. It may be too hot to bake anything else for a few months. As the old saying goes, I had to strike while the iron is hot. Or before it's too hot.
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Chicken salad sammich and lemonade.
After looking at the garden, I sense some fried green t'maters on the horizon. ;D
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BBQ Smoked Stacker sandwich and Roast Beef and Cheddar sandwich from the Honeybaked Ham store. Buy 1, get 1 free.
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I’m about to marinate and grill up some fresh striper caught about 48 hours ago off Nantucket!
Yummy!
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Yummy!
OH YEAH!
Light virgin olive oil, salt pepper, dash of Ol' Bay, minced garlic, shallot marinade... Grilled to just cooked... Yummy for true!!!!
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I had a $1.00 coupon for Saffron Road brand frozen entrees, which I couldn't pass up since they were already on sale for $1.49 off. I tried something I never had before, Chicken Biryani with Basmati Rice. It's inspired by the style of biryani in Hyderabad, India. I'm glad they used dark meat chicken instead of goat. It has a strong smell of turmeric and spices I can't identify. It's not too hot but has a good amount of spiciness. I think I should go to an Indian restaurant and try something new there.
https://saffronroad.com/our-products/chicken-biryani/
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Prime rib, 16 oz end cut, mid rare with horseradish sauce and au jus with mixed veggies...
Unsweetened ice tea..
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I'll trade you Timothy. I'm eating White Castle cheese sliders from the frozen foods department. I only bought a 6-pack of them to get a free bottle of White Castle mustard. I got Düsseldorf mustard rather than horseradish mustard. If I was actually craving White Castle, I would have gone 0.9 miles past the store and got some double jalapeno cheese sliders and a side of onion chips or loaded fries.
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Best part, Frank... had a $25 gift card so it was almost free!
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Best part, Frank... had a $25 gift card so it was almost free!
Almost free is my second favorite thing. :D
P.S. I got a free half gallon of Ocean Spray Diet Cran-Blackberry and 40% off my grocery bill. Free is my favorite.
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The last thing I had was ice cream, after I had a Gorton's Shrimp Bowl. It was a Stir Fry with Soba Noodles. Soba is Japanese for buckwheat. I had one of Gorton's Black Garlic & Wine Risotto shrimp bowls before. The only one I haven't tried yet is a Chili-Lime Rice & Beans shrimp bowl. I didn't see that in the store but I'll look again if I get another coupon.
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BBQ chicken with early season peaches & cream corn on the cob (from Florida, still . . . ), topped by fresh SC peaches on top of bourbon butter pecan ice cream. It's good to live
in near the South!
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I bought more frozen pizzas. Today I ate half of a Chicago's Home Run Inn pizza with uncured pepperoni and their own homemade Italian sausage.
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Ham, lettuce and (fresh out of the garden) t'mater sammich.
Wife's got a crockpot of homemade spaghetti sauce stewing using fresh garden tomatoes. Once everything is just right, we'll can them. Nothing like spaghetti using ones own sauce and ground deer meat instead of beef.
Also ate about a 1/2 box of Nerds candy. ;D
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Hatch Chili & Cheese Puffs. They're puff pastries filled with cream cheese, Monterey Jack, Hatch chilies and green chilies. They were hotter than I remember from last time, but not too hot.
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Pecan swirl and coffee for breakfast.
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Organic blue corn Tostitos and Chi-Chi's salsa con queso.
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Jalapeno poppers and salsa. I've been up about 9 hours and that's all I've had so far. I'm so tired I almost went to bed instead of visiting here. Maybe I'll be okay once I get more food in me.
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It's too hot to cook again but I bought some DEVOUR brand frozen dinners a week ago. I was looking for something I had a coupon for and saw these on sale, so I bought one of everything they had. I just had Chicken Cordon Bleu Mac & Cheese. Not bad. If it wasn't for things like this that I can microwave I would go hungry all summer. Especially when there's one heat advisory after another.
http://www.devour-foods.com/en
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I got a bag of jalapeno cheddar bean chips 75% off yesterday. They don't taste as good as corn tortilla chips, but I nuked a can of hot chili with no beans and I'm scooping it up with the chips. Neither one is that great but I like the spiciness they have together, and it will help fill the hole in my belly. That's the main thing.
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If you like a good dip, try this:
Sausage Dip
1 pound of mild pan sausage
1 can of Rotel
1 pack of cream cheese
Brown the sausage in a skillet or pan and when done add the Rotel and cream cheese. Stir it all together until it's all mixed and the eat it with tortilla chips (I like to use the scoop style).
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Cathead biscuits and skillet-fried cured ham.
If you can find it, Sugardale Ham is some good stuff.
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A box of Choice Strips followed me home from work Friday night. I cut one Sunday, and fifteen minutes on the grill gave a perfect, tender, juicy steak. My last meal ... before surgery, was left over steak and corn on the cob.
As for last/current, I'm munching some crackers to get my stomach back on track and ready for a real meal.
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My wife makes a fine chicken salad, and I just had a sandwich made with said chicken salad.
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Cheese pizza with leftover meatballs on it and Sweet Tea to drink.
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Coconut & Sweet Chili Shrimp Purses from Thailand.
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Tuna salad and a lemon propel.
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Had a jr baconator from Wendy's.... chili instead of fries (I'll eat it tomorrow) for supper.
Had a hearty southern-style breakfast, though. We got up around 4 AM and went to our church's kitchen to make breakfast for the HS football team. Our cooking crew prepared 30 dozen eggs, 5 gallons of grits, cathead biscuits, 2 1/2 gallons of sausage gravy, link sausage (deep fried) and sliced cured ham.
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Freeze dried apple slices with no other ingredients. A 20 gram bag has 15 grams of sugar so I won't be buying these anymore. It also has 2 grams of dietary fiber for a total of 17 grams of carbohydrates. I'm trying to figure out what the other 3 grams are, since there are no other carbohydrates, no protein, and no fats of any kind.
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A BLT, with deliciously juicy home grown tomatoes!
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A BLT, with deliciously juicy home grown tomatoes!
I love ya Red but deliciously juicy home grown bacon gets me hotter’n tamaters!
LOL
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I just finished a 5 ounce package of SeaPak On-the-Go Shrimp & Cocktail Sauce. It had 3 ounces of shrimp and 2 ounces of sauce. 10 grams of protein and 105 calories for the whole thing. Maybe 85 calories because I poured some of the sauce down the drain. I bought it frozen yesterday and thawed it in the fridge overnight.
A while before that I ate 4 clementines. They were so good I wanted more but that was enough. I'll save some for tomorrow. They were supposed to be Chilean mandarins, but when I bought them on the last day of the sale they were clementines from Peru. That suits me just fine because they taste even better. Besides getting them on sale (1/2 off?) I also had a 50 cents off e coupon for a 3 pound bag. And I got $2.00 off a $2.99 bag of snacks I may try later tonight. It's nice being able to get 37% off my whole bill.
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A slice of ten-layer cake with chocolate icing.
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I wish I could trade with you PegLeg. I just finished some potato salad that I added bacon bits and shredded cheese to. I don't buy potato salad often, but when it's $2.99 for 3 pounds I do. There's a second carton in the fridge that I'll try to eat this week, but if I don't finish it, it's going in the cooler this weekend. I was busy all afternoon and evening so lunch was 7:00-7:30 p.m. All I had before that was some Eggo waffles that I'm thinking about finishing when I get hungry again.
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I bought some frozen garlic bread a couple of days ago, and already had sandwich size pepperoni slices and shredded cheese in the fridge. I had the bright idea to combine them. I had 8 slices of garlic bread baked the recommended time. Flipped over. Topped with 1 ounce (6 slices) of pepperoni each. And about 3/4 ounce of a Mexican style blend of 4 cheeses each. Then baked another 5 minutes.
I had to wait 1/2 hour after I took a pill to eat. When it was time, I microwaved 2 slices on a paper plate. Then dumped them on the floor. ****! I won't repeat the exclamation I used. Let's just say that it wasn't, "Oh, goody." So the bread goes in the compost bin, and the rest goes in the trash, which will likely get torn up before it gets picked up tomorrow. Time for round 2. I nuked 2 more slices, got a solid 2-handed grip on the plate, then ate them for breakfast. I should only have used half as much pepperoni. It was all I could taste. That's all I had so far today. Everything was on sale when I bought it so I'm a little less upset at wasting 1/4 of it. Maybe I only paid for the other 3/4 of it. ???
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Jalapeno and cheese sausage dog.
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My own beef stew, scratch made...all the right stuff...
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Sub-standard Little Caesar's five meat pizza......usually really good for cheap pizza, but they took it out of the oven before the crust was as done as normal. But, with my stomach growlin' I guess it did what I needed it to do.
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I eat cereal almost every night and used up the last of my milk last night, so I have a bowl of instant oatmeal in front of me now. I'll go buy milk before I run out of oatmeal.
In case you're wondering, cereal doesn't give me heartburn nearly as bad as the hot and spicy, and sometimes greasy, things I like to eat earlier in the day. Once in a great while I'll get heartburn at night anyway, but it's usually when I just plain ate too much, too close to bedtime.
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Malfunctioning gall bladder?
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Malfunctioning gall bladder?
Hiatal hernia. I've had it for at least a couple of decades. When I asked my doctor what a hiatal hernia was, he said there's a hole in my diaphragm and my stomach is trying to push up into my chest. :o There's only supposed to be a small hole for your esophagus to go through but mine's too big or my diaphragm is too weak. I used to have heartburn and acid reflux a lot. My doctor told me not to eat anything greasy or spicy. Yeah, right. ::) I can eat anything I want to, as long as I don't eat too much and I don't lay down for awhile. Tomato sauce is my kryptonite. It gives me heartburn if I have too much, but if I eat 2 or 3 raw tomatoes at a time it doesn't even bother me. I don't know why.
I just looked online and one of the possible causes of a hiatal hernia is lifting heavy objects. When I was a teenager or pre-teen I was stronger than I am now. I grabbed hold of the front bumper of a Honda Civic and lifted it up. I wasn't sure if it came off the ground or not, but one of friends said the front wheels came right off the ground. Another time I put my butt against the left rear fender of a Datsun 240Z, grabbed the edge of the wheel opening with both hands, lifted and pushed, and slid the back of the car over. It moved about a foot and a half IIRC. That hurt my hands so bad I never tried it again. I wouldn't even try it with gloves on. If something else stupid I was doing when I was in elementary school didn't strain my diaphragm, I think that would have done it.
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Home Run Inn sausage & pepperoni pizza. It's the last of my frozen pizzas until I get coupons for more. I've had $2 or $3 off coupons for Screamin' Sicilian pizzas in the past and want another one sometime, but they're overpriced. I'll buy one for $3 off but not full price. Their Mambo Italiano, with pepperoni and Italian meatballs, is one of the best frozen pizzas I've had. Better than what I just ate.
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I'm not eating them yet but on Labor Day I got 5 packages of Ball Park Angus Beef Franks for $1.99 each. And 5 boxes of Life cereal for 99 cents each. Total price $14.90. My savings $28.00. I saved 65% off my bill and wanted to mention that before I forget again. I have lots of sausage and hot dogs in the freezer, 2 pounds of sauerkraut in the fridge and 2 more pounds in the cupboard. Now all I need is buns or bread.
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I just had some fire grilled boneless chicken thighs, with 2 ounces of medium cheddar because...
it's cheese! No other reason is needed. Next on the menu - maybe some applesauce (no sugar added).
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I took my mom to Texas Roadhouse yesterday. I'm the only one who will take her out . She embarrassed my brothers so much they won't go anywhere with her. We were both enjoying our fresh baked bread with honey cinnamon butter. Then we tried our appetizer of Rattlesnake Bites, dipping them in either Cajun Horseradish sauce or Ranch dressing. Then she did the unbelievable. Instead of buttering her bread, she put Cajun Horseradish sauce on it before I could stop her. Waving my hands around didn't get her attention. When she spread some Ranch dressing on too I didn't even try to stop her. Apparently when you lose your senses of smell, hearing, sight, and your mind, it doesn't enhance your other senses. She lost her sense of taste too.
https://www.texasroadhouse.com/menu/interactive-menu/starters/rattlesnake-bites
After she ate a few of the salted in the shell peanuts she took the rest of them home in her purse, where all the extra coffee creamer went, and in her jacket pockets. Yes, she wears a jacket in summer, and I'd bet good money she had long johns on under her jeans and sweatshirt. She took a whole bucketful of peanuts home but left the bucket. I wouldn't have been surprised if she tried to take the bucket home too. I hate when she does that because I always end up picking up peanuts on the passenger side of my truck. One even managed to fall into the hinge area where the seat back folds. I spent a few minutes trying to find it after it fell in there but couldn't. After I got home I spent another 5 minutes with my brightest flashlight finding that peanut and getting it out. I could just barely reach it with an un-sharpened pencil and nudged it around until I could reach it with one finger, and eventually got it out.
Everything that didn't go in her purse or pockets went into 2 takeout boxes, which she nearly always has upside down and fills the lid. I couldn't tell her to flip it over because even with 2 hearing aids in she rarely understands anything I say. I kept pointing at the box and motioning with my hands for her to flip it over. Even when she was looking right at me she didn't do it. Not even after she pointed at the 2 holes in the lid where gravy was leaking out of one. I kept trying to get her to flip it over so it wouldn't leak all over. Finally when she finished her cold coffee and was ready to leave, I flipped it over and wiped the gravy off with a napkin. Instead of hanging onto the boxes on the way back to her house, she set them on the floor. On an angle against the transmission hump rather than flat on the floor, of course. I had to wipe up a bit of gravy while I was searching my truck for hidden peanuts, and pieces of shell from the one she ate when we were within 3 blocks of her house. I guess she got hungry riding across town since she didn't eat much at the restaurant. In other words, yesterday was a typical dinner out with my mom. I had a steak.
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You're a good son Frank!
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Thanks Red. I try to be. I didn't know if anyone would read that, but I felt like I had to get it out of my head and onto the screen. I think I only lost my temper with her once, when we had plans to go out for dinner. When I went to pick her up... she was just finishing dinner. >:( You wouldn't want to see me when I'm angry. >:( You can only reschedule dinner so many times before it gets really annoying. My brothers get so p.o.'ed that they yell at her a lot, so she likes me, no one's favorite child, the best now. She's even told me she only has one son and his name is Frank.
I can get 2 more free appetizers and a free entree at Texas Roadhouse, and we should each get another free appetizer apiece for our birthdays. So the peanut situation will definitely come up again. And again. Annnd again. We each get a free dinner for our birthdays at Zehnder's, and across the street from it at the Bavarian Inn, in Frankenmuth, aka Little Bavaria. So she'll have 4 more chances to embarrass me.
And while we're there we should each get a free ornament at Bronner's CHRISTmas Wonderland, The World's Largest Christmas Store. They have a replica of the Stille-Nacht-Kapelle, The Silent Night Chapel, in Oberndorf bei Salzburg in Austria. It's a monument to the Christmas carol Silent Night and it's writers, Joseph Mohr Franz and Xaver Gruber. The original stands on the site of the former St. Nicholas's Church, where Silent Night was performed for the first time on December 24th, 1818.
I think it does us both good to get out of the house, and my mom tells me she appreciates it. The pics will give you an idea what we see in Frankenmuth. It's also the home of Greta Van Fleet, currently one of the hottest bands on the planet. They're all over the radio, talk shows, YouTube, you name it. Take a peek at the links if you'd like.
https://bavarianinn.com/dine/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zehnder's
https://www.zehnders.com/zehnders-dining-frankenmuth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronner's_Christmas_Wonderland
https://www.bronners.com/topic/history-of-silent-night-chapel.do?sortby=ourPicks&refType=&from=fn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent-Night-Chapel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Van_Fleet
Rock on. How's that for thread drift? ;D
P.S. The wait staff at the restaurants in Frankenmuth really do dress in German type costumes, including lederhosen for the men.
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Back on topic. I had a SmartMade Black Beans & Cheese Over Cilantro-Lime Rice bowl. It was on sale so I tried it. Since there's no meat in it, I added 2 Sargento Blends 4 Cheese Southwest Slices - Monterey Jack, Chipotle Cheddar, Colby, and Pepper Jack cheese. Edible. Not incredible. The cheese alone tastes better to me.
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Pancakes and sugar free syrup. :-\
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You're a good son Frank!
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Thanks Peg. Someone has to be. In my family it looks like I'm it.
I just ate a bunch of Jack Link's Original Beef Sticks. They're better than Slim Jims, which I always thought had a texture like chewed up paper (think spit wads). My stomach feels even emptier than it did before I ate them. It's time for something else soon.
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Thanks Peg. Someone has to be. In my family it looks like I'm it.
I just ate a bunch of Jack Link's Original Beef Sticks. They're better than Slim Jims, which I always thought had a texture like chewed up paper (think spit wads). My stomach feels even emptier than it did before I ate them. It's time for something else soon.
The only Slim Jim sticks I've found that are good are the grass-fed ones. They are three shorter sticks in a pack and are not as greasy as normal beef sticks.
(http://www.slimjim.com/uploads/product-m/SJP_PRODUCT_PAGE_lockup_400x500.png)
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I'll have to try those some day. There's deli near where I used to work that has a box full of unwrapped smoked hunter's sausage sticks by the counter. The regular flavor was good IIRC but the hot sausages were really good. There are several gas stations/jerky outlets on I-75 farther north of here. I sometimes stop to get some when I go camping and riding my ATV. They have some good sausages, and thick moist jerky that needs to be refrigerated, in several flavors. Mmm. I have to go up north and do some riding. I've had their jerky for breakfast on my way up several times. My friends help me finish whatever's left of a 1 pound bag or two 1/2 bags.
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Four years ago we had a whole deer processed into jerky for $70. It was much better than store-bought jerky.
Right now I'm snacking on some locally fried pork skins.
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Venison jerky is great.
I've only had mass produced pork rinds from stores and vending machines. They normally have plain, barbecue, and hot. I like barbecue the best but think I'm due for a bag of hot ones. They also sell bags of cracklins that are smaller and hard.
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Bread and "butter". I had a coupon for a loaf of breakfast bread. Michigan Blueberry Lemon Streusel sounds good, but I bought the Sugarhouse Maple Streusel instead. I toasted some and slathered it with margarine last night. It was really good and I'll be toasting some more in a few minutes. There are only 11 slices in a one pound loaf. The only way to divide it evenly without fractions is one slice apiece for 11 people or 11 slices for one person. It's a good thing I don't have to share. I'm going to buy the blueberry lemon too, even without a coupon. The 53% I saved on my bill last night will more than cover the $2.69 it costs.
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Man cannot live by bread alone. So I had 2 all beef hot dogs made with brisket. That should hold me for awhile.
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A big slice of cured hog's rump and some cat-head biscuits for lunch. 8)
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Homemade Venison Stroganoff with bowtie macaroni.
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I only had homemade venison Stroganoff once in my life, but I remember it being the best venison I ever had.
I took my mom to Texas Roadhouse again today. I had 2 pork chops. She had a steak and ate like an animal. The waitress may as well have tossed it on the floor for her. She's in her 90s, so it's too late to teach her any table manners.
We didn't go Monday because she couldn't hear the phone when I kept calling all day to see if she wanted to go. Same thing Tuesday, so I went over to see if she was still among the living. She was sleeping on the couch, covered up with a blanket because it was only 88 degrees in the house. I woke her up and took her to the store, eventually. One of her hearing aids was wrapped in toilet paper in her coin purse. I still haven't found the other one. She hasn't heard much I've said in 2 days. Or 2 years for that matter.
Half of her foreign coins were missing from where I put them, but the sign saying, "FOREIGN MONEY. DO NOT SPEND." was still there. The other half was in a Ziploc bag with her other change. 1,000 pesos is an American coin, right? ::) I spent a good hour sorting it all out again. I found a 1952 George W. Carver-Booker T. Washington half dollar in it. I've never seen anything like it. The highest price paid at auction for one was $17,250. Hers isn't that good but still has over $5 worth of silver in it. It's good thing I picked it out of the bag. The rest of her American change went in a Coinstar machine and she had more than enough change to pay for her groceries, again. She had over $80 worth one time and we have to keep taking more change in.
When I went to pick her up today she was sleeping on the couch again, with the door not just unlocked, but wide open. Anyone could walk right in and take whatever they wanted. I told her she didn't need a coat today, but she filled her pants pockets with peanuts at the restaurant. When they were full, she started filling up her purse. It was enough peanuts to fill a medium size mixing bowl. No telling where she'll put the bowl.
My breakfast today was a gyro. They're cheaper if you buy 3 at a time and I have 2 left. Yesterday's breakfast was Thai style green curry chicken.
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Texas Roadapple pork chops aren’t bad!
I like their green beans with garlic and seasoning too! Their rolls with honey butter are addictive!
Peanuts sell beer...
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The peppercorn sauce for the chops was a bit salty and the brown gravy on the mashed potatoes was even saltier. But I'm used to food being too salty. It seems Salt = Flavor to a lot of people. My dessert was a roll with butter. I couldn't eat anything else. I almost ordered the green beans, but got a Caesar salad instead, because I've had them before and like them. I didn't know they weren't just plain green beans or I would have tried them. We still have more free appetizers coming, so we'll be going back. I'll try to remember to get green beans.
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Coffee. Dark roast. No trimmings....straight and hot.
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Smoked link sausage on leftover biscuits.
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Do you put mustard on those biscuits with the sausage?
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Good smoked sausage needs no help!
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Not the last thing I ate, but breakfast was chicken bibimbap, and now my spellchecker is like, huh? The last time I went to stir it I was too late. Some of it stuck to the bottom of the skillet. I ate the rest of it and it didn't taste burnt. Just a little bit spicy, not like real Korean food would be. I started filling the skillet with water and scraping with a big spoon. It was almost clean before the water got to the top. I ate a lemon EPIC performance bar in between getting up to stir my food. Only 5 ingredients including the lemon oil. It was free from Kroger and I also got one of their 100% grass fed bison bars for free before.
I got the lemon bar when I took my mom shopping. I stopped pushing the cart and looked back to see where she was, and saw her putting 2 different flavored bars in her purse. I had to go back and tell her to put them back. I didn't even ask her what she thought she was doing. Every time she sees a 4 foot high sign that says Free Friday Download and shows a picture of the product, she only sees the word free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibimbap
https://epicbar.com/epic-performance-detail/55
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Do you put mustard on those biscuits with the sausage?
No. Mustard is OK on a sausage-dog, but not on biscuits....... da' heck I look like, Karl Childers? :o 8) ;D
That being said, today's lunch was leftovers from last night's supper: boneless pork-chops in gravy with green peas (locally grown), rice, and deviled eggs.
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The only thing I've had so far today was Green Curry Shrimp Potstickers from Thailand. It said to cook 6 of them in a medium non-stick pan. I don't have any non-stick cookware at all, but they didn't stick to my large cast iron frying pan. I used a little too much oil, but I have two more packages of them to get it right. They were good and the curry made my tongue tingle but not feel like it was burning.
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I didn't wash the frying pan when I was done and it was oily enough to cook more potstickers without them sticking. Some of them are sticking to my paper plate but not too bad.
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.. da' heck I look like, Karl Childers? :o 8) ;D
I reckon not...… mm hmmm ….. :)
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I just finished a Frontera Carnitas Taco Skillet meal for two. 500 calories for the whole thing. Works for me. If I don't get around 400-500 calories I get hungry too soon afterward. The slow-cooked pork, tomatillos, and roasted poblano chiles are quite good together. It says to heat up your non-stick skillet and add a spoonful of canola oil. Ain't happening Rick. All I have is extra virgin olive oil. I didn't eat it with tortillas or over rice either, just straight from the frying pan to my plate. And I didn't shred the pork when it was was done cooking. It was, as my ex would say, as tender as your eye. She and her relatives were a bit odd.
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Longhorn sirloin tips wif onions and fungus!
Tasty vittles...
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P.F. Chang's Dan Dan Noodles. Lo mein noodles, ground pork, shiitake mushrooms, scallions and toasted sesame seeds covered in a spicy brown sauce.
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Thin crust pizza with Calabrese salami & marinated peppers for breakfast and lunch. It was an 18 ounce pizza topped with 12 ounces of marinated artichoke hearts that I cut into smaller pieces. I just finished it while typing this. The peppers are tiny, teardrop shaped, and as sweet as candy. The salami and peppers give it a mildly hot flavor, if that makes any sense. Pickled Peruvian Peppers of this type are sold as Sweety Drops. The picture will give you an idea of their size. No dessert or snacks yet today, but I have plans to deal with that later.
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No. Mustard is OK on a sausage-dog, but not on biscuits....... da' heck I look like, Karl Childers? :o 8) ;D
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Yer' missin' out....
Good smoked sausage needs no help!
Pork patty sausage....
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Beer braised chorizo on whole wheat wif mustard.
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I just sat down to bowl of tomato bisque with a side of cheese.
My previous meal was mesquite smoked turkey breast and Havarti cheese on wheat with mayo.
I had a small bag of popcorn between meals. It was on sale for $1, but I had a $1 coupon, and my $1 rebate has already been approved. Total cost = -1 dollar.
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I finished off a loaf of toasted Michigan Blueberry Lemon Streusel Breakfast Bread. It would be better without the lemon IMO, but still not as good as the Maple I had before.
Just about to have a couple of jalapeno and cheddar smoked sausages on wheat bread with Dusseldorf mustard.
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Nothing special today, as usual. Special K crust-less quiche, sausage variety, covered with black bean and corn salsa. I poured the salsa right out of the jar onto it, and when it looked like too much I poured on a little more. I really like salsa on omelettes too.
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Sunday evening our kitchen crew cooked and served the senior adults at church. We did salad, grilled turkey breasts, chicken & dressing (I think my recipe for that is in the recipe board), green beans, and a cream cheese-stuffed spiced pumpkin roll for dessert.
We usually feed as many as fifty of the surrounding neighborhood area kids and youth every Wednesday at church and had enough of that left over to feed them yesterday.
Today we had Salisbury steak, mashed potato & gravy, and green beans for lunch.
Tonight I'm having salad and leftover dressing for supper......and probably some pumpkin roll. :D
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Man that sounds good. I through a half dozen think slices of ham in a frying pan and then some cheese. Once the cheese melted I threw it on a plate with some brown mustard and suffered through it no bread....
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Man that sounds good. I through a half dozen think slices of ham in a frying pan and then some cheese. Once the cheese melted I threw it on a plate with some brown mustard and suffered through it no bread....
That don't sound too bad.
I've done ingredients for a Philly cheese steak in a skillet and instead of putting it on bread just ate it with a fork. I've also used flour tortillas instead of bread to cut down on carbs. I've done BLT ingredients the same way (heck, fast food joints make a killing selling them as healthy wraps ;D ).
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You can cut down on carbs even more by using lettuce as a wrap, but some type of bread sounds better to me. Tortillas, pitas, anything, but I've done the no bread, toss it on a plate thing too when I didn't have any. I live a couple of blocks from a place that makes pita bread. I need to take a little walk and get some but it's too late today. There's always something around here I can put on bread.
I got a jar of good crispy pickles there made from wild cucumbers that my friends and I liked. I just looked up Lebanese wild cucumbers and found this online:
Q: I would like to grow cucumbers for the Lebanese pickles I find in Middle Eastern grocery stores. The labels say wild cucumber. Can you tell me what that is and suggest a source for seeds?
A: If it looks like a cucumber and tastes like a cucumber, it must be -- a melon. The pickles are the young fruits of Cucumis melo var. flexuosus. This plant is not only botanically distinct from cucumbers (C. sativus), but also a cultivated variety. There is nothing wild about it.
It turns out they're actually a type of muskmelon called Armenian cucumbers that are pickled when they're small. They're also known as yard-long cucumbers and actually can get up to a yard long, but won't be any good if they're that big. Like zucchinis that are too big. If you like pickles and there's anyplace nearby that sells them, give them a try. You can thank me later. Or not.
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Rotini, spaghetti sauce with mushrooms, and meatballs made from pork and Parmesan cheese, all topped with shredded Parmesan cheese. It's hard to have too much cheese. It's my breakfast and lunch and I still have 1/2 pound of meatballs left. Maybe I'll have meatball subs tomorrow. The pasta was free and everything else was on sale.
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I didn't make it to the store today and was wondering what to do with the leftover meatballs. I have a few cans of Chunky soup in the cupboard and put chopped up meatballs in some.
I also have some Lay's Stax potato chips from Mexico in a flavor I never had before. The can is red instead of blue like all the others, and the chips are covered with red pepper or something. I don't read Spanish and have no idea what Que Rico means, but when it says Flamas! mas caliente and has a picture of flames and a chili pepper, well, I understand that fire is hot. They're chili and lime flavor and too hot for me to eat very many at a time, so into the soup they go.
The meatballs needed some more spice anyway and it doesn't taste too bad. These aren't the first kind of hot potato chips I've put in soup to get rid of. Most soup can use some more spice and potatoes.
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Fish sticks and lots of tarter sauce again. They're a lot better than the buffalo fish bites I had a few days ago.
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Chili
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I got this in an email today but didn't see it until after I ate. Maybe I'll give it a try some day.
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Get rid of the onions and "Spring Mix" whatever that is and you have a winner.
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Are ya going up to Frankenmuth for Oktoberfest, Frank?
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Are ya going up to Frankenmuth for Oktoberfest, Frank?
No, but if everything goes as planned (and when does it ever, really?) I'll be going there for dinner next week. I was supposed to go earlier this week but it didn't happen.
I like onion straws on my burgers. Spring mix is whatever leafy greens they want to throw on the burgers. Some kind of baby lettuce or leaf lettuce is probably in the mix. I didn't spend much time looking at it, but I had one of those Oktoberfest burgers for a late breakfast today. It was so filling I didn't eat anything else but I'm finally getting ready to eat something. Probably just some snacks for now. The burger was good but I like some of their other burgers better. While I sat there waiting for them to cook it I was looking at the Oktoberfest burger sign. It said $7.99 but I paid $7.41, which I already knew from memory was $6.99 plus 6% tax. I pointed at the sign and told the cashier I didn't pay that much and she checked to make sure she rang up a double burger. She did and I saved $1.06.
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Pancakes.
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Chicken Caesar wrap. That's the unhealthiest thing I've had today. It was loaded with saturated fat and sodium, etc.
P.S. If you round it off to the nearest dollar I spent $130 on groceries today and saved $105. 44% off, and it would have been more if they still had Planter's dry roasted peanuts in stock. They were only 99 cents a jar with a limit of 5. It was a Friday and Saturday only sale and I didn't go Friday, so the shelves were empty.
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'Nanner sammich and some Oreo cookies. 8)
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I have a Banquet Mega Deep Dish Meat Lover's pot pie in front of me that's too hot to eat at the moment. I don't normally buy pot pies but I had a coupon for 2 of them, Mega Bowls I wanted to try, or Mega Meals. I bought what I could find.
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More toasted maple streusel bread. I spelled streusel every way I could possibly think of and this stupid spell checker kept telling me I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure I spelled it right the first time but it thinks I mean strenuous. As far as I can recall, it's the first word I've ever added to my browser's dictionary.
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2 little bitty Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage & Bacon Frittatas, topped with salsa.
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Grill roasted garlic & herb pork tenderloin on a roasted garlic ciabatta roll with sharp Vermont cheddar and mustard heated in a 400° toaster oven till melty!
And a nannah!
And some 'stachios'!
Yummmm...
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Pancakes again....but this time topped with local cane syrup instead of maple.
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My stomach was gnawing away at itself so I grabbed things out of the fridge I didn't have to cook: beef smoked sausage, pepper jack cheese, and garlic stuffed olives. I nuked the sausage while I got ready to eat. A 2 minute meal.
Breakfast was Moroccan spice oatmeal. It had both steel cut and rolled oats, golden raisins, apples, slivered almonds, cinnamon and ginger. Plus the usual sugar, brown sugar, and salt. It was good. It's been so long since I had oatmeal that wasn't instant that I forgot what it was like. The steel cut oats weren't mushy at all.
I was supposed to take my mom out for dinner today and after calling repeatedly for almost 8 hours she finally answered the phone. Right after I ate that sausage, etc., but not right before that. We were supposed to go out 10 days ago and several other days since, but she can't hear the phone ring when her hearing aids are in one or two other rooms and she's in another.
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Poppy seed chicken casserole with garden peas, corn on the cob, and mac-n-cheese.
And sweet tea....mustn't forget the sweet tea.
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I had a Pollo Veracruz frozen meal for 2. Besides poblano peppers it had chipotle and pasilla chili peppers. It was spicier than I expected but not too hot. The instructions said to cook it 8-12 minutes on medium heat, but it was one big lump that took 12 minutes just to separate the pieces of. I cooked it on top of the stove and stirred it a lot more often than it said and still ended up with the worst burned on mess I can ever remember making.
I used the same CorningWare Visions pot in my old microwave. It barely fit diagonally but I never had a problem burning things. After 30+ years my old microwave still worked but I thought it was time for a new one. It had a timer knob I could turn to set it up to 15 minutes, and the only button on it and was to unlock the door. It didn't have a turntable in it, so I could put that pot in it, but not in my new microwave. I went from having one power level and a single knob to 10 power levels and 24 buttons, some of which have multiple functions. But that's progress.
BTW, Visions is a see-through glass ceramic material you can put it in a fridge or freezer, in a dishwasher, cook with on top of a stove, in an oven, toaster oven, or microwave, and even under a broiler. It's good stuff and won't corrode like my aluminum pot did. I've had my 2.5L saucepan for over 30 years so far. It's outlived its warranty by over two decades. 8)
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I thought of something after I posted about the Visions cookware. IIRC when I read the instructions back in the mid '80s, it said to cook things at a 25 degree lower temperature than what recipes and other instructions say. I may be wrong, but even if I'm right, I still haven't figured out how to make fire 25 degrees cooler. I've had nothing but gas stoves, and no matter how low I turn it down the flames are still very hot. Also, when you take the pot off the stove your food will cook for a couple of minutes longer. I think that was what it said.
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Four-cheese and potato pierogies and lots of sour cream.
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Skillet cornbread.
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I just bought a box of cornbread mix a few hours ago. Regular price $1.59 - $1.50 e coupon = 1 happy camper, 9 cents poorer but feeling richer. I should buy a can of diced jalapenos to toss in with the mix. I like doing that.
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Cornmeal
Flour
Eggs
Baking soda
Baking powder
Salt
Sugar
Buttermilk
Whole milk
Mix, cook, enjoy...
No store bought mix would compare!
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Cornmeal
Flour
Eggs
Baking soda
Baking powder
Salt
Sugar
Buttermilk
Whole milk
Mix, cook, enjoy...
No store bought mix would compare!
There, fixed it for you. ;)
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Somebody say cornbread???
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Cornmeal
Flour
Eggs
Baking soda
Baking powder
Salt
Sugar
Buttermilk
Whole milk
Mix, cook, enjoy...
No store bought mix would compare!
I'll take what I can get for 9 cents. I would have to buy everything except salt and maybe baking soda if I made it from scratch. I bought a 26 ounce carton of Morton salt probably 10 or 20 years ago and it's still almost completely full. If I don't sprinkle on ice in the winter it will probably last longer than I do.
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I'll take what I can get for 9 cents. I would have to buy everything except salt and maybe baking soda if I made it from scratch. I bought a 26 ounce carton of Morton salt probably 10 or 20 years ago and it's still almost completely full. If I don't sprinkle on ice in the winter it will probably last longer than I do.
That's pretty cheap eating....can't find fault with that.
But I submit that scratch would be well worth it....... Like Tim said, nothing compares to scratch.
I've never been finicky on most foods and will eat most types of foods prepared in a variety of ways (like the many versions of tater salad), but I draw the line with my cornbread. I've tried it from store-bought mixes, but they just don't stack up. I do like Cracker Barrel's cornbread (and they sell their mix).
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The Miracle Maize cornbread & muffin mix needs eggs, 2% milk, and vegetable oil. I don't think I should use the extra virgin olive oil I have. I can't recall ever buying 2% milk, but I can buy a gallon of it and give the 116 ounces left over to my mom. I may get around to making cornbread this week. I don't own muffin tins.
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I do mine in a cast iron skillet like a cake and then slice in sections like a cake. My wife uses the cast iron cornbread pan with the eight triangular sections unless making it for dressing and then she uses a regular ci skillet.
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I do like Cracker Barrel's cornbread (and they sell their mix).
Hate to break it to ya, Peg but, CB's conebred gots sugar in it...I find it pretty sweet tasting actually! I swore off CB some years back after a terrible meal they served me.
Received a 50 buck gift card after I mentioned it to the franchise that I never used...
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I was just messin' with you a little bit.
I don't put it in mine, but as long as it don't taste more like cake than cornbread (ie: Jiffy mix) then I'm alright with it. It just makes for a good south/north pickin' point.
The cornbread at the CBs I've ate at was more of a salty flavor. I didn't pick up the sweet part. I guess tastes vary. I looked at the ingredients on their package in the store and saw the sugar listed. I also note (after looking at the label on their website) that they have a "Sweet Version" where it calls to add an extra Tbs of sugar to the mix. That might be one reason for extra sweetness in different stores.
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The box of cornbread mix I got is Country Style, "the original flavor and a favorite since 1939." They also have a Sweet cornbread mix that I left on the shelf untouched.
http://www.gilstermarylee.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=62
When I got free boxes of Jiffy mix I don't remember it being too sweet. I may have made it plain once, but I added a 4 ounce can of diced jalapenos to 1 or 2 boxes of mix, at least one time.
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Chicken pad thai. Yummy.
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Grilled cheese sammiches....again...... I like 'em. ;D
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General Chang's chicken. It's P.F. Chang's home menu version of General Tso's chicken. It seems like every restaurant I've ordered General Tso's chicken from, and every brand of frozen dinner I've had, was different from all the rest. I've had this one before and I like it.
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I had to eat again so I got some fire grilled chicken chunks out the freezer. They're already bourbon barbecue flavor but I'm dipping them in mesquite smoke barbecue sauce.
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General Chang's chicken. It's P.F. Chang's home menu version of General Tso's chicken. It seems like every restaurant I've ordered General Tso's chicken from, and every brand of frozen dinner I've had, was different from all the rest. I've had this one before and I like it.
I like General Tso, but I like sesame even better. I worked up a killer recipe that is good on about any form of chicken.
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I like General Tso, but I like sesame even better. I worked up a killer recipe that is good on about any form of chicken.
I'm listening.
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Sesame Sauce
1 cup white sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 cup chicken broth
1/2 cup water
1/8 cup white vinegar
2 Tbs soy sauce
2 Tbs sesame oil
1 Tsp chili paste (sub chili sauce)
1 clove minced garlic
Directions:
In a saucepan, mix together sugar and cornstarch.
Stir in chicken broth, water, vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, chili paste, and garlic.
Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly (so the sugar doesn't scorch).
Reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes.
This is a very versatile sauce. It can be used as a dipping sauce or can be poured over chicken or pork dishes or used as a slow cooker sauce with chicken or pork.
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That sesame sauce sounds good.
I had an Ancho BBQ Burger and a margarita for breakfast at my favorite burger joint. Yes, breakfast. I still haven't tried any of their daiquiris. I like the margaritas too much to have a daiquiri instead. I wish I could have margaritas with breakfast every day. Lunch and dinner too. The Ancho BBQ Burger had Two Certified Angus Beef Patties, Cheddar Cheese, Ancho BBQ Sauce, Bacon, Fried Onion Straws, Lettuce and Tomato, on a Toasted Brioche Bun. The margarita was served in the same kind of glass they use for shakes and soft drinks. Not too big but still not bad. I'm way overdue for lunch which I'm about to scrape together now.
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Fish sticks with spicy chipotle organic mayo. I thought it sounded good but I'm disappointed. I think they use chipotle mayo on the cod sandwiches they sometimes have at the burger place. It should be good on pollack fillet fish sticks too. I'll get some pickles out of the fridge to with it and maybe that will be better.
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Nothing today except an all you can eat family style chicken dinner with all the fixin's at the Bavarian Inn, in Frankenmuth. It's about frickin' time! My mom and I were supposed to go October 1st but she wouldn't answer her phone all day. Or several other days we were supposed to go. Next is a little chocolate birthday cake. For some reason the covered bridge by the south entrance was closed.
Here's what Wikipedia says about the bridge. Zehnder's Holzbrücke (German for wooden bridge) is a wooden covered bridge, built in a style similar to that of the Black Forest or a river valley in Switzerland, located over the Cass River in the middle of town. Though completed in 1979, the structure is constructed using traditional covered-bridge timber framing techniques. The floor joists and three-span Town lattice truss system of the 239' bridge are made of 15,960 board feet of four inch planks. The portion receiving the greatest wear is of oak while the remaining portion is spruce. 20,000 board feet of Douglas Fir make up the rafters and the roof is shingled with cedar. An additional 4,340 board feet of pine was required for the bridge side boards. In addition to two lanes for automobile traffic, the bridge also has two pedestrian walkways.
If you look up covered bridges at Wikipedia there's a picture of it that I cut down to 25% to fit here. BTW, the Town's lattice bridge was patented in 1820 by Ithiel Town, an American architect and civil engineer.
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Cinnamon swirl raisin bread. After toasting bread that had 11 slices per pound, it took a few tries to set the toaster right for bread that has 16 slices per pound. Then I switched to another 11 slice per pound loaf, then back again, but I knew where to set it. I bought one of these and got one free, plus I got $1 off the one that I bought. So I paid for 2/3-3/4 of a loaf, but got 2. 8) That day I paid $72 for my groceries and saved $82 so I did pretty good. 53% off. I'm not getting rebates on any of it, but still one of my better hauls.
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It's been a long day with nothing to eat but an all you can eat family-style chicken dinner with all the fixin's at Zehnder's of Frankenmuth. My stupid spell-checker thought I meant Tenderizer's of Frankenstein. ??? What the spell? I'm not sure I want to know what that means. My mom and I were in the Heritage Room with the Terrace on the the other side of the wall behind me. We've also eaten in the Original Room before. It was built in 1856 and it's tiny. They had to add a lot of room to feed almost a million people every year. One year they served more meals than any other non-chain restaurant in the country. The owner's brother across the street does pretty well at the Bavarian Inn too.
After shopping around in the bakery we stopped to watch a guy making long skinny loaves of bread. The dough came off a conveyor shaped like a sausage about a foot long. He grabbed it and stretched it by hand, flipped it over end for end to let its momentum stretch it more, and put it in a French bread pan. It was really cool watching him flip it over and catch the ends. He kept doing that until he filled one pan, put it up on a rack and filled up another pan, stretching and flipping each piece of dough, and repeated. My mom would have stayed there watching if I didn't tell her it was time to go. After we got back to her house she told me she was out of bread and needed to go to the store. Too bad she didn't tell me when we were shopping in the bakery. I brought home our leftover garlic toast made from those long skinny loaves of bread, and Cheddar cheese spread. I finally remembered to take a pill so I can eat it now and go to bed.
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I baked a cheesecake yesterday. It was too late in the evening when I was done to be able to try it because it had to chill for four hours. I tried it today and man is it good. It had been 20 years since I'd made one from scratch.
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I hate you Peg. Naw, I'm only jealous.
I just had an Olive Burger with American Cheese, Green Olive Tapenade, Red Onion, Lettuce and Tomato for lunch. Breakfast was an Upper Crust Burger with Boursin Cheese, Roasted Garlic Onion Jam, Sliced Cucumbers and Gouda. Both had the usual Two Certified Angus Beef Patties on a Toasted Brioche Bun. I got an email yesterday with a buy one get one free coupon that expires tomorrow, so I didn't waste any time using it. I only saw one flavor of Boursin cheese at one store, and not until last year, but their website says other stores have some flavors too. I don't even have to drive 3 miles to get the Garlic and Fine Herbs flavor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boursin_cheese
Today I took the crazy lady to get her loaf of bread, and a bag of dog food she didn't know she would soon need. Since we were there I bought more raisin bread, buy one get one free, and 3 bowls of soup I had a $1 e coupon for. Her total was $11.48 and mine was $11.49, one cent higher because I'm a big spender. I couldn't have planned that if I tried. I just found that out she saved 17% and I saved 34%, twice as much, to get to those numbers. Strange.
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Today's breakfast was Jägerschnitzel with potato cheese puffs, plus the usual breads, soup, salads and sides at the B.I. Nothing I ate since then is worth mentioning. It seems like every place makes Jägerschnitzel different. I had it at a few restaurants in Germany and they were all good. It's one of my favorite meals.
I walked out of the restaurant in time to hear some of the narration from the Glockenspiel tower, right above the door my mom and I came out of. I stood in the parking lot and saw the pied piper leading the rats away. That was 10-15 minutes after the whole thing started. I kept pointing up at it and my mom just said she didn't know what I was pointing at. The restaurant is 130 years old but the glockenspiel is only 50 years old, with all the bells and working parts imported.
https://bavarianinn.com/dine/glockenspiel-tower/
I drove across the covered bridge, turned around and crossed it again. The speed limit is only 7 mph which gave me a little time to look around inside as I crossed. They used over 1,400 pounds of nails building it. Hammer Time! The whole 230 ton bridge was built next to the river and set in place somehow. They pulled it on wooden rollers that looked like fence posts in a picture I saw, on wooden tracks they built for it. I'm not sure how they got it all the way across and would have loved to see it happen.
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Jumbo..
Thanks for reminding me that I, too, liked German food while I was over there. I'll see if there are any local places that might come close.
Also, since you spent time there, I have been trying to remember the name of a liquor. I did not like Steinhager - tasted like 90 proof pine needles, and I Jagermeister tasted like 90 proof Vicks Formula 44. I did like Escorial and used to get it here, but they changed the bottle and it never tasted the same after that...they claim they did not change anything else but that was a lie.
Now, what I am trying to think of was brown in color like the Jagermeister, but with a taste I much preferred over JM...
Any recollections?
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(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181102/072fa3cba0a7b1d5f6db96c3055ed533.jpg) Turkey and bacon grinder/hogie/sub...
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Jumbo..
Thanks for reminding me that I, too, liked German food while I was over there. I'll see if there are any local places that might come close.
Also, since you spent time there, I have been trying to remember the name of a liquor. I did not like Steinhager - tasted like 90 proof pine needles, and I Jagermeister tasted like 90 proof Vicks Formula 44. I did like Escorial and used to get it here, but they changed the bottle and it never tasted the same after that...they claim they did not change anything else but that was a lie.
Now, what I am trying to think of was brown in color like the Jagermeister, but with a taste I much preferred over JM...
Any recollections?
I always thought Jägermeister tasted like Vick's Formula 44 too. You can't tell by the taste that it has 56 herbs and spices. One time I saw a guy in a bar in Germany drinking something green. When I asked what it was he said roctopus, which I later thought must be an American corruption of Ratzeputz, and he gave me a shot. I smelled Absorbine Jr. once and this stuff tasted the same as Absorbine Jr. smelled. It was the same color too. Now I see that Ratzeputz is brown and tastes like ginger, so I don't know what the heck that shot was.
Chartreuse liqueur would be about the same color but by the description I read its taste is much different. Carthusian Monks have made it since 1737 according to the instructions set out in a manuscript given to them by François Annibal d'Estrées in 1605. It has 130 herbs, plants and flowers, and everything under the sun but the kitchen sink.
Wikipedia says widely sold liqueur brands are Riga Black Balsam, Jägermeister, Killepitsch, Kuemmerling, Schierker Feuerstein, Schwartzhog, Wurzelpeter, and Underberg (Germany), Altvater (Austria), Becherovka (Czech Republic), Unicum (Hungary), as well as Bénédictine and Chartreuse (France). In Italy, amaro ("bitter") liqueurs include Cynar and Ramazzotti. Any of those ring a bell? I had Underberg in little paper wrapped bottles a couple of years ago. It's supposed to be good for your digestion.
P.S. Me and my roommate used to go to a little restaurant in Germany where we usually got Jägerschnitzel and french fries. The mushroom gravy on fries is good too. A couple of times the owner, an old guy name Pete, brought out a bottle of Yugoslavian schnapps. The 3 of us had shots and the term firewater is a perfect description. It was clear and it burned going down. It may have been distilled from fruit, like Rakia or Slivovitz, but tasted like 100 proof lighter fluid. Real schnapps is nothing like the syrupy, typically 30-40 proof flavored liqueurs we call schnaps here. It's distilled from whatever they want to make it from and doesn't have flavors added to it. It's more like grain alcohol than our schnaps.
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(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181102/072fa3cba0a7b1d5f6db96c3055ed533.jpg) Turkey and bacon grinder/hogie/sub...
Where's the beef? As Crocodile Dundee might say, that's not a sub, THIS is a sub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWfm_pap6wY
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Finished the last of the cheesecake. 8)
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I probably would have finished that cheesecake 2 days ago. That's why I can't buy it. When I saw a variety cheesecake with every slice a different flavor on sale I was tempted. Fruitstand cheesecakes like this are good if you like fruit swirled into your cheesecake. I love sweet stuff that's too sweet for a lot of people and this would only be 3 servings for me.
https://richsfoodservice.com/products/61034/
I'm eating roasted garlic chicken smoked sausage on a roll with some sharp white cheddar on the side. I didn't know they make a good tasting sausage from chicken. I microwaved the roll before I put the sausage in. I like it better than just slapping a sausage in a cold stiff roll.
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...Any of those ring a bell? ...
Thanks for all the research...but it's been a bit over 50 years and it might have faded.
I'll have to do it the the hard way and take your list and try them all. Oh well, another cross to bear. ;) ;)
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2 smoked turkey breast and American cheese sandwiches on 100% whole wheat flatbread. And sweet southern heat BBQ kettle chips. I forgot mayo and will get that now for my 1.5 sandwiches.
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Me and the littlest granddaughter had pancakes with butter and syrup. She had maple and I chose to have cane syrup from a local maker.
I remember as a child that cane syrup was all my grandmother ever ate with biscuits and sausage. I never cared for the cane syrup because it has such a strong flavor (less mellow than maple), but I guess tastes change as we age.
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When I was a kid one of my neighbors ate his biscuits with sorghum molasses. And I know a guy who puts Karo corn syrup on his pancakes. He also eats cornbread with buttermilk on it. Both guys are from the south.
I have a couple of bites left of a Lemon Sesame & Ginger Tuna with mayo on whole wheat sandwich. In a few minutes I'll nuke a bowl of Sweet Corn and Roasted Poblano soup.
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Prime Rib Omelet at Bob Evans
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I had a box of breaded mushrooms in the freezer that I baked and ate for breakfast/brunch. I like to dip them in cocktail sauce but I didn't have any. I have ketchup and looked until I found something to mix into it. I don't have any horseradish but I do have a bottle of gochujang chili hot sauce. I put some ketchup in a bowl and added several shakes of hot sauce, stirred it up, added more ketchup and stirred it again. They were the same color and I couldn't tell how much hot sauce was in it, so I taste tested it. It was kind of sweet and hot. Then the after-burn kicked in, which seemed to last about 5 minutes. It was the right mixture and the right amount of sauce for all the mushrooms.
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So far today I've had a free lunch combo from Honeybaked Ham. The coupon they emailed me was only good for veterans on Veteran's Day, but the store here is closed tomorrow so they honored it today. TANSTAAFL doesn't apply one day each year.
I had a Tavern Club sandwich with a pickle on the side, jalapeno flavor potato chips, and an iced tea. The sandwich had ham, smoked turkey breast, bacon, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, savory mayo and honey mustard on multigrain bread. It was good as it always is. I need to eat again soon but have to decide what I want.
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Frosted flakes plus a cup of coffee.
Simple, but effective.
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Sirloin Steak, Cesar Salad and a cup of chili. One of the free meal selections, plus 2 sides, offered to Vets by Texas Roadhouse. I had to pay for the 3 or 4 Sam Adams beers.
They had two active duty soldiers in dress uniform acting as "honor guards" at the door, gave each Vet a gift card (amount unknown) and a choir came in to sing The Star Spangled Banner.
I was impressed, a bit choked up and teary eyed.
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Sugar free Jelly Bellys. A serving is 35 jellybeans but they suggest you eat 8 or less because they can cause stomach discomfort and a laxative effect. And if that's not bad enough, they don't taste as good as regular Jelly Bellys.
I didn't want to wait in a long line at Texas Roadhouse so I went to the burger joint and got a free burger for breakfast and washed it down with a banana daiquiri. It had at least some real banana in it because I could see the seeds. It was okay but I don't think I'll ever have another one. Maybe strawberry banana but not just banana. I chose a Southwest Burger with 2 patties, Pepper Jack Cheese, Chipotle Mayo, Black Bean and Corn Salsa, Avocado, Lettuce and Tomato.
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Sugar free Jelly Bellys. A serving is 35 jellybeans but they suggest you eat 8 or less because they can cause stomach discomfort and a laxative effect. And if that's not bad enough, they don't taste as good as regular Jelly Bellys.
I've read that some of the stuff in sugar free candy can do that.
I don't know how much is exaggerated fact and how much is pure fiction, but the Amazon reviews of the Haribo Sugar Free Gummy Bears are hilarious.
Today's lunch was country-fried steak and gravy with mashed taters and green beans. A DQ Blizzard followed a few hours later so I'll probably forego supper and have just a small snack.
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You're eating better than I am. I'm having garlic bread with cheese melted on it. I'll have to see what I have that would be good with it.
A lot of sugar-free candy has maltitol in it, sometimes as the main ingredient like those gummy bears. It's an osmotic-type laxative similar to what people use before colonoscopies, so if you ever eat sugar-free candy, don't eat much of it.
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I had a 10 ounce tube of chorizo I got for free and almost a dozen eggs in the fridge that I decided I better do something with. So I fried up some hash browns, then fried the chorizo stirring it almost constantly to break it up. When that was done I put half of the hash browns on a plate topped with half of the chorizo, 3 fried eggs, and 3 slices of American cheese. I popped it in the microwave for a minute and I'm eating it right now. It's not a bad way to use up some stuff. I thought about putting refried beans on the plate before the hash browns but thought I had enough flavors mixed together already. I may do that with the leftovers tomorrow so I have something different. Hey, you don't have to eat it.
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I had Pork Schnitzel St. Julian at Zehnder's of Frankenmuth. I just checked their online menu and didn't see it on there. It was cooked with mushrooms and onions and locally made St. Julian Cream Sherry. It was salty but otherwise very good. Instead of potatoes I had spätzle with it as I've done in the past. I was kind of surprised my platter had 2 hunks of meat big enough for the ends to overlap, but I was hungry and ate it all. I thought about getting the braised 1 pound pork shank, but didn't know if it would be tough or mostly bones. Maybe next time.
Zehnder's celebrated their 100th anniversary the year before the Pistons played their first game in Detroit. It was also the year before the 4.995 mile long "bridge that couldn't be built" was finished, linking Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. BTW it's still the longest suspension bridge with two towers between anchorages in the Western Hemisphere. That was before I was conceived and I've been here awhile, so 100 years before that was quite a long time ago.
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Bacon sandwiches.
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Sliced peaches straight from the jar.
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I had to dig something out of the freezer to eat. I'm having Filipino style Pork Lumpia Spring Rolls. They would have been better baked than microwaved, but I want them now. They're very thin skinned and stuck to my paper plate. I like them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpia
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I had a buy one sandwich get one free coupon from Honeybaked Ham. There was a short online survey I did sometime after I got my free lunch for Veteran's Day. When I was done I wrote the code it gave me on my receipt and that was my coupon. I already ate a BBQ Smoked Stacker and now I'm eating a Roast Beef & Cheddar.
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I'm eating a Red Baron 4 meat pizza. I thought I remembered liking their french bread pizza when I had it 20 years ago or however long it's been. When they were on sale really cheap I bought 5 of their 11" classic crust pizzas. They're much better baked on the oven rack than in a pan. The crust is crispy but not crunchy. Not bad for the price I paid, $1.99 I think.
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Pillsbury whop-n-pop cinnamon rolls...... they ain't homemade, but are OK for a quick breakfast. They're somewhat bland and need more cinnamon to go with the excess dough.
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I had a piece of french bread with some peanut butter called The Bee's Knees on it. It's not as good as the peanut butter and honey I used to mix up myself. Now I have jars of 3 different flavors of peanut butter open. I don't always finish a jar before it goes bad when I only have one open, so I know some of this will go to waste. I've been thinking about taking the lid off and chucking the jar in my back yard for the critters when it goes bad.
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Five ounce bag of fried pork skins and a small piece of homemade peanut brittle.
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Meatball sub. Doritos. Rolaids.
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Standard Thanksgiving food today.
Up this AM at 3:00...... got to church at 4:00 to open up and get ready to cook.
Four other guys and myself grilled 45 turkey breasts averaging 8.5 pounds each while the ladies on the kitchen crew did the 13 large pans of dressing, 13 pans of sweet potato souffle, and 20 gallons of green beans.
We prepped most of the sides Wednesday night (along with slicing and bagging forty poundcakes) so all it had to do was go into the ovens Thursday morning, but with that much volume we had to start early.
We had around 50 of us who cooked, prepped, sliced, plated and delivered.
550 people were fed, ranging from elderly, infirm and homeless to all the first responders in two counties (our little town sits right at the county line so we covered folks in both; 99% were delivered).
All those outgoing meals were plated and out for delivery by noon and clean-up was done by 1:30..... did I mention we have some outstanding workers in our church that work like a well-oiled machine?
Along with those plates, the volunteers ate afterwards so the total was right at 600 meals.
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You’re a good man, Chuck!
Did the wifey bake all those pound cakes?
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You’re a good man, Chuck!
Did the wifey bake all those pound cakes?
Not this year. We took care of pre-baking all the cornbread for the dressing. Other ladies (and a few guys) baked them and brought them to the church kitchen Wednesday afternoon.
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Using Amy’s recipe?
Gotta keep them fambly secrets secret!
LOL
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If more than one person knows something it's not a secret.
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Using Amy’s recipe?
Gotta keep them fambly secrets secret!
LOL
Nope. ;D
The pastor put out an open call to the congregation.
We have a neighbor who has the same pouncake recipe (she got from her mamma) that my wife uses but she can't make 'em. The funny thing with certain recipes is you gotta do certain things in a certain order for the thing to come out right...... and those sour cream poundcakes are one of them. ;D
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Korean Style Fire Grilled Chicken Chunks. All I had to do was microwave them.
https://www.cookedperfect.com/products/korean-style-fire-grilled-chunks/
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WOW, 17,201 thread views......folks must really be interested in food. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Just had a bag of Cheez-Its and now on to a grilled cheese sandwich with cheddar and pepper jack.... butter on one side and mayo on the other.
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I'm eating Jack Link's beef sticks. I needed to eat something but didn't want a meal and found these in the cupboard.
Breakfast/brunch was rotini with; Italian-style meatballs made with Romano cheese; and 4-cheese pasta sauce; topped with shredded Parmesan cheese.
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Cheese filled soft pretzel sticks with a brown mustard. I never buy that yellow stuff.
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Flat iron steak, mid rare with broccoli and a tossed salad at Longhorn.
Durn fine vittles!
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It was time to clean out the fridge again. I microwaved my last 2 eggs with soul seasoning, green Tabasco sauce, and the last of a bar of extra sharp cheddar chopped up and stirred in. With a side of bacon. It was good. I used to do that years ago instead of making omelettes. I used a paper bowl so there's no clean up.
I had a yellow bell pepper that wouldn't last much longer so I chopped it up with some Monterrey jack cheese and put salad dressing on it. I'm saving my bag of croutons for an actual salad. It tastes good as is with Tuscan house Italian dressing on it, but I'm about to throw some Cheez-Its in to give it more crunch.
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Frying a turkey for lunch today....
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I just took a plate full of meatballs, spaghetti sauce, and muenster cheese out of the microwave. I have a stack of little flatbreads sliced into thin slices to put it on for meatball sandwiches. It's not bad.
I used all the mozzarella cheese in my first attempt which I accidentally dumped on the floor. I lost all of my cheese and over 3/4 of the meatballs. The only good things about it are that a lot of the mess landed on the chair mat in front of my desk, and the carpet is red like the sauce. I picked up everything I could and dumped it out in the back yard. I'd rather the critters eat it now instead of when it's in a garbage bag by the curb.
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I just remembered something that happened back when I was married. My ex made some kind of cake, 2 or 3 layers I think. I can't remember if it was my birthday cake or just a regular cake. Before we could even try it she was carrying it across the kitchen and it slid right off the plate and landed on the floor. We put everything except the bottom layer back on the plate and threw the bottom layer in the trash. I don't have any idea what kind of cake it was but I just called it floor cake, as in, do you want some more floor cake?, or, that's a really good floor cake. I wouldn't mind having a big slice of floor cake right now.
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Bologna sandwich with mayo, mustard, and diced onion....good stuff. ;D
A story about a "dropped" cake:
A few years ago my wife made one of her 12-layer cakes for a family friend who had been out of the country. They were on the way home from the airport in Atlanta and we had somewhere to be by the time they got back to south GA, so we told them we'd just leave it in the kitchen at church since they had a key to get in.
Well, while busying around to leave, my wife say the cake on the toolbox of the truck while moving something in the back seat and getting the granddaughter buckled in her car seat. We got about 1/4 mile down the road and I asked where the cake was, and did we forget it. About that time I saw it slip off the side of the toolbox and roll down the side of the road.
I stopped and backed up and my wife got out and in a fit of anger launched the thing into the edge of the woods (seemingly in slow motion) while I was in the process of yelling NOOOOOOO!!!!!
The cake plate bottom had come off when the cake rolled and it landed top down still in the top cake cover. These cakes have a cooked chocolate fudge-type icing that gets firm after it cools, and that is what held it together in the lid. I knew she would go bake another one for our friend....and I told her that if she hadn't thrown the thing in the woods I would've kept that cake and sliced the bottom two layers off and ate it myself (these things are that good, I just finished the last piece today from one she made for Thanksgiving).
It takes a while to cook all the layers, let them cool, cook the icing, stack & frost, and let set-up....but we altered our errands, and she got another one made in time to meet our friend at the church.
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NOOOOOOO!!!!! That cake was too young to die.
I'm eating Senor Gusto Caramel Flan from Kroger.
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Tater skins. They're usually a little dry and I don't have any sour cream to put on them so I tried spaghetti sauce. Not great but they slide down easier.
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Smoked ham (Sugardale brand) with green garden peas (cream 40's we had in the freezer), rice & tomatoes (tomatoes canned from our garden this year......I don't eat stewed tomatoes on my rice, but everyone else in the family does), and good sweet tea.
Wife's making chocolate peanut clusters, peanut butter cookies, and a poundcake to have for road trip/waiting room snacks when we head to Atlanta tomorrow (m-i-l is having a heart valve procedure at Piedmont Thursday).
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Buffalo seasoned chicken breast chunks I had in the freezer. "Appetizer & recipe ready" means pre-heat the oven then bake them for 22 minutes and they'll be ready. I didn't starve while I was waiting but my stomach sounded angry.
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Sweet Abruzzese salami and cheddar on crackers. When I'm done I'll have spicy Aruzzese salami with cheddar on crackers. This is the first time I've had the sweet, and I like the spicy better.
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I ate a six pack of donuts on my way home from the grocery store yesterday. Not one of my finest moments.
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I'll see your doughnuts and raise you a small bowl of vanilla ice-cream with homemade peanut butter cookies on the side. ;D
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Smoked turkey breast and pepper jack cheese on King's Hawaiian sweet rolls. I got a big jar of mayo free with the rolls but the sandwiches are better without mayo. The last 2 of 24 rolls will be dessert. They taste better with nothing on them than anything I've put on them so far.
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Salisbury steak sandwich and two homemade peanut clusters and a peanut butter cookie for dessert.
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Pig wings braised and sloppy with spicy q sauce!
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Cheese pizza.
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Southern fried catfish fillets with coleslaw, fried okra, and fries.
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Home-style meatballs with arrabiatta spicy marinara sauce and the requisite Parmesan cheese. No pasta. Five-cheese garlic bread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrabbiata_sauce
ETA: I just remembered I have half a jar of giardiniera in the fridge I could have had with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardiniera
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I'm having more buffalo style chicken breast chunks accompanied by sharp cheddar cheese.
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I went to my Uncles house tonight for a Family Christmas party, Had Ham, whipped potatoes, cheesy cauliflower, dinner rolls and for desert there was cheesecake, Creme Brul'e, and Jello with whipped cream and bananas mixed in .Wine, Beer,coffee, Tea and Apple Cider for beverages
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Beef summer sausage made with garlic and no fillers. Cheese. Crackers.
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Cinnamon roll.
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Clancy's Muddy Mix
(http://offers.kd2.org/pics/b6/c4/b6c4783d38987a357310e5f5cc743da26ffa5ed4.jpg)
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Supermarket Italian grinder toasted with icky yellow French’s mustard...
And a glass of whole milk...
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Chicken enchilada casserole.
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Wasabi flavored popcorn.
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Here's a combo for ya: a cinnamon roll, two puffed rice logs, and two sugar cookies.
I wasn't really super hungry, so that's my version of a light lunch. ;D ;D ;D
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Smoked chicken, burnt ends, pulled pork with beans, Mac & cheese, corn bread, salad and co-cola..
Company end of year “we made money” lunch!
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Smoked chicken, burnt ends, pulled pork with beans, Mac & cheese, corn bread, salad and co-cola..
Company end of year “we made money” lunch!
Glad you pro-nounced that correctly.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Glad you pro-nounced that correctly.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
What do ya take me for?
Some nawthen flat landa?
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Quesadilla's....if I spelled that right.
Along with a summer sausage appetizer.
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I had part of a jar of salsa con queso left over and I'm dipping cream cheese & onion flavor Ritz Crisp & Thins in it. I may need to open another jar of salsa con queso for the left over crisps.
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Quesadilla's....if I spelled that right.
Along with a summer sausage appetizer.
I think it's 'case o dillies'...
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I think it's 'case o dillies'...
No no....... it's "case o' dillys" ......
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Today's lunch menu: A $5 box from Taco Bell with the double chalupa and taco and cinnamon twists.
Bring on the Zantac ...... or Imodium ...... one or t'other. ;D ;D
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My last Taco Bell experience put me down for a few days...
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No no....... it's "case o' dillys" ......
My dillies are used to catch mo better vittles!
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I see commercials for Taco Hell on TV all the time and think mmm that looks good, but I don't get whatever the new item is even though Taco Hell is only a few blocks away. I'm eating granola bars.
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I can report that I had no ill effects from above Taco Bell vittles.
Now I'm sampling some of the holiday sweets the wife had prepared such as divinity, pecan brittle, pecan puffs. It's a tough gig, boys. 8)
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I cooked up a bag of frozen Frontera carnitas taco skillet dinner a little while ago. The pork was so tender you wouldn't even need teeth to chew it. I emptied what was left of a bottle of Sabor! by Texas Pete Mexican-style hot sauce on it and stirred it in. That was goood.
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Having "Fart Soup" aka beans & meat soup for Christmas Eve supper.......some calls it chili, but real chili don't have beans (there's an argument for the ages).
Various assorted sweets for dessert..... homemade 12-layer cake, peanut clusters, peanut brittle, cookies, poundcake.
Merry Christmas to ALL!!!
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That sounds good, but real chili doesn't have meat in it. Chili con carne (chili with meat) does. ;)
Several weeks ago I got a Knorr One Skillet meal starter for free and finally used it today with what I had on hand. It's Southwestern Chicken, Brown Rice & Quinoa, seasoned with smoked chipotle, garlic and other spices. I wanted to buy some frozen corn to put in it but the store closed 1/2 hour before I got there. It said to use a red bell pepper and a green one but I only had yellow and orange. No biggie. It calls for 1 lb. of boneless, skinless chicken breasts. I substituted what was left of a bag of frozen pre-cooked spicy breaded chicken breast chunks. I heated up the chicken and cut it into smaller pieces before adding it. It's spicier than it should be, which is actually a good thing since the peppers are so sweet.
Merry Christmas.
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The last thing I ate was Thai style green curry chicken.
The last thing I regret eating was a bunch of prunes.
I think prune juice is disgusting but I love prunes. I had a 1 pound bag of them and ate 2/3 of them for a snack in the wee hours of the morning. I planned on going to bed soon after, but plans have a way of changing. I was in and out of the bathroom for hours. I took a chance on going to bed and finally got to sleep around 8:00 in the morning. I'm about ready for something sweet to snack on again. :P
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I just had a bowl of Idahoan Steakhouse Loaded Potato Soup. I got it for free a couple of months ago and made it today. It has red potatoes and potato skins, sour cream, cheddar and blue cheese, and a nice combination of spices. Everything was in the pouch and all I needed was boiling water to whisk it into. I like it.
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Just had a Cowtail caramel candy......shared it with the granddaughter.
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I just heard the microwave beep so it's time for some Korean style kalbi beef. I don't have any rice or noodles to eat with it, or bread to make sandwiches. I have Doritos and will put a piece of meat on one and try it, then I'll decide how to eat the rest.
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I didn't want to start another thread about something good to drink so I'm posting this here.
I just finished something very good -- Tazo Chai Classic Latte. Although latte is espresso and steamed milk, there's no coffee in it. I guess they're using the word latte to indicate that it has milk in it. All chai is supposed to be made with milk so the word latte isn't just incorrect, it's redundant.
Anyway, it's a concentrate that comes in a 32 ounce Tetra Pak paper carton. You're supposed to mix it half and half with milk to make regular chai. But I've been mixing it with water instead of milk so it's just a spiced tea. 90 seconds in the microwave and it's a delicious cup of hot tea. Too bad it's all gone. :'( I'm an iced tea drinker and this is okay cold too, but much better hot IMO. I'll be buying more.
The ingredients are black tea, black pepper, ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, star anise, natural flavors, cane sugar, honey, ginger juice, natural flavors, vanilla extract, and citric acid. It doesn't taste like pepper but it feels warm in the mouth like a good ginger ale does.
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I'm still whittlin' slices off the 12 layer cake the wife made for Christmas......not much left because I've had plenty of help from kids and grand-kids.
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Chunky soup. I used a coupon on 2 cans that were already on sale and ate both cans of soup already.
My total bill was $88.00. I don't get even numbers like that very often. It should have been $85.00 but my $4 e coupon only took off $1, so I need to go back to the store again. >:(
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I'm having Korean style barbecue glazed beef & pork meatballs on 100% whole wheat slider buns. My sides are pimento cheese & harissa flavored kettle chips, pickled asparagus, and both smoked Gouda (my last slice) and Colby Jack cheeses.
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Ham, black-eyed peas, tater salad, greens, rice, and cornbread.
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Pork carnitas sandwiches with peri-peri hot sauce. Jalapeno flavor potato chips. Cottage cheese. The hot sauce was made with African bird's eye (piri piri) chili peppers among other things, but not very hot. It's a good thing it's not hot since it pours out of the bottle so easily.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_piri
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2 frittata paniers for lunch. The crust was more like pie crust than the puff pastry they should have.
https://www.theimpulsivebuy.com/wordpress/2018/09/20/spotted-on-shelves-9-20-2018/kroger-private-selection-frittata-paniers-jpg/
Breakfast was 2 smoked turkey salad sandwiches with Swiss cheese, lettuce and tomato on multigrain bread.
As I was walking away from the TV a few hours ago I heard part of a Wendy's commercial. It sounded like they said they came out with a giant version of their junior bacon cheeseburger. Wouldn't a "giant" "junior" cheeseburger just be a regular cheeseburger?
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Banana sandwiches and a Reese's peanut butter Christmas tree.
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German Milk Chocolate
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Omelette with cheddar, onions and Jimmie Dean pork sausage thoroughly topped with Tabasco.
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Bob Evans Creamy Chicken & Noodles from the grocery store.
I had to buy coffee today because it was the last day of the 2 day sale. I bought some other stuff too and my total was $86.00. An even number again, but only because I made a mistake and bought one of something I needed to buy 2 of to get $1.00 off.
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Cinnamon raisin toast.
It's a good thing I bought 2 loaves because it will take at least half a loaf to get the new toaster dialed in. The knob has 36 clicks above 0. I had it too high once and too low once, so I turned it up to 11 like Spinal Tap. Believe it or not that should be just right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc
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Honey smoked turkey breast on 100% whole wheat with whole grain garlic mustard. I had to try it, but now I know that I like ground mustard better. I have enough bread for a second sandwich and will have one with mayo, no mustard.
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The bread I used to make my sandwiches was these Kroger Sandwich Slims. They're very thin, pre-sliced, and just the right size and shape for the Oscar Meyer deli style turkey. I only bought whole wheat because they were out of the white ones.
https://www.kroger.com/p/kroger-100-whole-wheat-sandwich-slims/0001111000192
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Poppy seed chicken casserole, cream forty peas, corn on the cob and cake scraps.
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I had to look up cream forty peas since I never heard of them or any other cream peas. I know what creamed peas are. Some people call them cream peas but they're not. I saw some recipes for cream peas and places selling seeds. They look like beans to me, like dry beans for making soup. I like just plain peas that you can pick and snack on in the garden, but I like them cooked too.
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Peas...unless there’s some ham, garlic and other goodness, you can have em!
Yuk...
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Plain peas kind of, meh. But split pea soup with ham is delicious, especially with a shot of hot sauce. I like it better than bean soup or lentil soup. I even like the stuff in a can like Progresso as long as it has that dash of hot sauce. And split pea with bacon just doesn't do it for me.
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Cream Forty is the variety name and is related to the size more or less. A Cream Forty is smaller than a Cream 80 but slightly larger than a Lady Finger pea. They are basically just a green garden pea that makes a fairly clear soup or juice versus a Purple Hull or Black Eyed variety that makes a dark soup.
This type of green pea is big business and a favorite in south GA.....cooked with ham hock or fatback in the pot.
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I had no frame of reference for Lady Finger peas since I never heard of them either, but they look small in the pictures I saw online.
I know very little about cuisine anywhere below the Manson-Nixon Line. Until I was in the army for awhile I didn't know what succotash was. I only knew that it was a funny sounding word, and "Sufferin' succotash" was Sylvester the Cat's catchphrase. They had the food labeled in the mess hall, to take some of the mystery out of mystery meat and other items on the menu. One time they had big pan full of corn and lima beans, and I was confused for a couple of reasons. I had no idea why they would use such a silly name for it instead of calling it corn and lima beans. I was even further confused as to why anyone would ruin kernel corn by mixing lima beans into it. I had lima beans in the hospital once when I was a kid and hated them. I still don't like them and would pick them out if I was served succotash.
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I just finished up some flame broiled Italian style meatballs with marinara sauce, garlic bread, and the last of my Italian mix giardiniera. Now I need something sweet for dessert.
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Cup of dark roast coffee. Strong.
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Cup of dark roast copy. Strong.
Using text to speech function again? ;D
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Home made Venison stroganoff
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Using text to speech function again? ;D
Heck yeah........OK, OK....I just hadn't had a chance to finish the coffee before I typed it....
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Heck yeah........OK, OK....I just hadn't had a chance to finish the coffee before I typed it....
The wife and I have a hard time with google voice search....I reckon it can't understand a southern dialect very well.......so, it can't pick up what we're puttin' down and just sits there scratchin' its head. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Little Caesar's $5 pepperoni pizza for lunch. Not the best pizza, but it's been a long, emotional week (family member got some bad health news) and works in a pinch when one just needs to shove some food down ones neck hole.
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Deli style roast beef on leftover garlic bread, with mayo and mustard because I didn't know what to put on it. It needed more meat so I put a little bit of blackened chicken on it.
I'm washing it down with a hot cup of peachy green tea that has spearmint and ginger in it. It's supposed to be iced tea, but I tried it cold and didn't like it. The spearmint tastes less objectionable hot. I should have read the label more closely and bought something else instead.
https://www.tazo.com/us/en/products/lattes-iced/iced-peachy-green-concentrate.html
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Sesame ginger shrimp potstickers from Thailand. It's my first time trying this kind, unless I had them before and forgot about it. Judging by the first one, they could use more shrimp and more ginger too.
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Home made Venison stroganoff
Drool ...
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Drool ...
^ What he said. I only had it once and it was incredibly good.
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Late, but day before yesterday had deer chili.
Yum.
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Yum.
It's sandwich day for me. I had a BBQ Smoked Stacker from HoneyBaked Ham for breakfast, and a Roast Beef & Cheddar for lunch (buy 1 get 1 free). Now I'm trying to finish my last 4 slices of bread and the last of 5 packages of lunch meat, Rotisserie Seasoned Chicken and Cured Roast Beef. Cured Roast Beef? I didn't know it was sick.
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Roast beef sandwich made with leftover roast.
I pretty much use cast iron for all my cooking (indoors and out) unless it's grilled or smoked.....but, my new best friend for rapid meals is our Crock-Pot Express cooker (similar to instapot). I seared a 2.5 pound roast in the thing and then pressure cooked it along with potatoes and carrots in 45 minutes and it was as good (maybe better) than if I'd let it cook for six hours in a regular crock-pot.
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Hospital sesame chicken wit broccoli!
Phuqin yucky...
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Get out of there Timothy! Hospital food has always has a tendency to suck unless you're a rich person getting plastic surgery somewhere I couldn't afford. But when I was in the hospital eating my meals in a group instead of in my room, whoever hadn't lost their appetite was asking anyone who had, are you going to eat that? And when checking off what we wanted for our next meal there were a whole lot of X2s on the slips of paper.
Sometimes you just have to eat crappy food and know that it's better than no food. Once at Fort Polk I had a bayonet on a long stick and was chasing a squirrel in the woods. I think we had a propane torch, but I probably would have eaten it raw if I caught it. Cooking takes too long when you're really hungry. Luckily someone finally decided to feed me and this other guy, and they gave us each a C-ration plus whatever they cooked up that day.
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Schwarze Mini-Elise lebkuchen. They're over a year old but still good without being frozen or refrigerated. I don't know how when when they're not loaded with preservatives. They're 25% hazelnuts, walnuts, and almonds, that somehow aren't rancid. I don't understand.
https://www.lebkuchen-schmidt.com/en/Nuremberger-Lebkuchen/Lebkuchen-bags/Black-Mini-Elise.html
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Apple cinnamon crunchy rice rollers.
https://crunchyrollers.com/collections/stand-up-pouch/products/apple-cinnamon-stand-up-pouch
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Baby spring mix salad with dressing, and cheese & garlic croutons.
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Left-over chili.
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Made up a batch of chili Saturday afternoon. In the afternoon, because it is always better as leftovers. So, cooked it up, cooled it, and put it in the fridge. Sunday after church some went into a pan for heating up. Going to have some more tonight. After an hour of shoveling and blowing snow this will be perfect.
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Having a bowl of homemade chicken dumplin's right now. :D
We took a batch twenty miles away to my wife's sister who's having a rough go of it right now (cancer) so she can eat and get to bed. We have to be up and on the road early to have her at the cancer center 60 miles away for gamma-knife treatment on her brain.
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I hope all goes well with the gamma knife PegLeg. IMO it's better than the alternatives. Traditional brain surgery: once air hits the brain, you're never the same. And chemo is so bad a lot of people quit going. They'd rather die than keep it up.
If you have any leftover chili send it my way Mike. I'll pour some over a cheese omelet for breakfast. Anything you put on your plate is breakfast as long as there's an egg with it. ;) I've had breakfast chili on its own too. Lots of it. If you make a fresh batch it should be well aged by the time it gets here.
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I hope all goes well with the gamma knife PegLeg. IMO it's better than the alternatives. Traditional brain surgery: once air hits the brain, you're never the same. And chemo is so bad a lot of people quit going. They'd rather die than keep it up.
Thanks, Jumbo.
She did well.... their MRI showed 7 lesions of various sizes (it is a higher resolution than the one she initially had which only showed 3). They zapped them all and she tolerated the procedure very well.
She will still have to undergo chemo for the cancer that has metastasized over other areas of her body and is having a life-port put in at 6 AM tomorrow and chemo begins Thursday (will only be once every three weeks).
That being said, we grabbed some drive-thru fries and a soda on the way home and for supper tonight it'll be some leftover dumplings from last night.
when I get around to it later this week I want to make some homemade cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting.
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That's Good News, Peg...
=)))
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Dang Peg I hope she surprises everyone and this thing goes away.
We need some detail on the prayer request thread.
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Glad to hear it went well Peg.
I just ate 3 mandarin oranges. Before that I had some Chicago style deep dish pizza from Gino's East of Chicago. I mostly agree with a New Yorker in a video who when he saw a Chicago-style deep dish pizza said, I don't know what that is, but it's not pizza. I like Detroit-style pizza. I don't buy it very often, but I have Jet's Pizza on the brain now, and it's only a few miles away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit-style_pizza
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Earlier today I had some more mandarins. Of the 11 I've had from this bag so far, 10 didn't have any seeds at all, but the other one had over 30 seeds in it. There usually aren't that many seeds in a whole bushel of them. One little section of the orange had 7 seeds in it and I may have swallowed an 8th one.
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Walmart's version of Lucky Charms cereal........ "They're magically delicious!"
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The last few dollops o mashed taters out o da pot...
Might cook up some chowda...
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Honey barbecue chicken wings.
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I made a batch of great grandma's meatball soup for noon, and this evening we enjoyed some homemade pizza.
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2 Fuji apples, somewhere between fresh and dehydrated but still tasty.
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Chicken cordon bleu.
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Hotdogs. I only tasted bread in the first bite so I put another hotdog on the bun. That was better.
Later I had a ZICO coco-lixir coconut water and juice beverage. It was called for lemons sake. They should put the lime in the coconut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qy2yB43A20
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Five Meat pizza from Little Caesars because it is cheap and quick....(decent if hot/fresh) definitely not the best, but it surely ain't the worst I've had by far.
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Buffalo ranch chopped salad. If I wasn't hungry right now I would have heated up some buffalo wings from the freezer and pulled some chicken for it. I stop and may add more cheese when my stomach doesn't feel empty.
https://www.taylorfarms.com/products/chopped-salad-kits/buffalo-ranch/#product-view
P.S. Little Ceasar's can't be any worse than the $1.99 Red Barron pizzas in my freezer, but for that price I just can't say no.
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Salisbury steak, mashed taters, and English peas.
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Nothing worth mentioning today. The last thing I had last night was organic blue corn tortilla chips with spicy guacamole.
A couple of weeks ago I got another box of corn muffin mix with a coupon. It was $1.50 off of $1.69. I still don't know when I'll get around to using the first box.
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Chicken strips and onion rings done home-style.
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Jim Beam...
Technically not eating...
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Freeze it and eat it with a spoon...
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I don't know how cold it has to be to freeze Jim Beam but I always kept mine in the freezer and it didn't thicken or freeze. Maybe I should have used it for antifreeze in my truck.
I just ate some chocolate covered gingerbread that was supposed to be good until June 6th, 2018. It would have been even better around Christmas 2017. The chocolate bloomed but it was just fat bloom from the cocoa butter working its way to the surface. I could rub the white off with my fingers if I wanted to make it look better, but why bother. It was kept at too high of a temperature for too long of a time but still tasted good.
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Jumbo, that was a paraphrasing of a line I used years ago at a Cincinnati Reds opening day gave.
Several of us from work went together and it was a cold day..but I was running to the beer stand to keep a beer at hand..
One of the group, Martha D., commented after my 3rd or 4th trip: "Doesn't it ever get too cold for you to drink beer?"
I answered "Yes, it does, Martha. Sometimes it freezes and I have to eat it with a spoon."
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:) If it's the right temperature beer will instantly freeze when you open it. Clear bottles give you a great view of it. Beer slurpees aren't very good IMO.
I had a spinach Gruyère chicken sausage link on a bun.
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Freeze it and eat it with a spoon...
Anything at 80 proof freezes at -17f. My freezer only gets to -6f
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My chest freezer gets down to zero or below zero but the freezer in the fridge doesn't even come close to freezing whiskey. Southern Comfort may get a little syrupy in there but it's a liqueur. Until 2016 it didn't even have whiskey in it for decades.
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Grabbed chili-dogs and apple pies at a drive-thru on the way home from taking supper to my s-i-l.
We took her hamburger steak & onions with mashed taters & gravy and mac-n-cheese.
We'll have some tomorrow for lunch.
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Ore-Ida Home-style Simple 'N' Creamy Mashed Potatoes and chicken gravy. These are the only store bought mashed potatoes I really like. There's nothing in them besides potatoes with some skin, heavy cream, butter and salt. I buy them any time I have a digital coupon for them and have 4 more in the freezer.
https://www.oreida.com/product/00013120000096
ETA: When they're partly heated and I take them out of the microwave and stir them they look disgusting. But when they're fully heated and I stir them up again they look good and taste good, to me at least but I'm easy to please.
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Pork sirloin stew
I cut a lot of whole loins for the chops for us and others. Because of this we have a lot of sirloin roasts left over, and this is not a very moist cut of meat.
I deboned a bunch on Saturday morning and set out to make a stew:
3# boneless loin cubed
2 medium yellow onions ( I slice 1/4" thick and quarter)
1 cup carrots cut to size you like
4 cloves garlic
1 bottle beer of choice
2 C chicken stock or broth
1/2 small can of tomato paste
1 T flour
Season meat with salt and pepper to taste in bowl and let sit
Brown meat in a heavy pan (I used a dutch oven) to a crisp brown outside
remove meat and drain all but 2T grease
add onions and carrots, cook till tender, add garlic for last five minutes
Add beer, chicken stock, tomato paste and flour
Stir over low heat until liquid thickens
Add meat back in
Put in oven at 350f for 3 hours
I served it over long grain brown rice.
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Stopped at Golden Corral halfway back from Atlanta yesterday and it was fairly good for 3:30 in the afternoon. Sometimes at that time you can get leftovers from lunch that have dried out and aren't as good as fresh, which was the case a month ago at the same location....but my mother-in-law likes GC better than anywhere else so we always stop there for her.
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A Cuban Pannini and a tall glass of Sweet Tea at a local diner.
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Store bought pizza with 2 types of pepperoni and 6 cheeses. I shouldn't have bought any pizza from Kroger's deli but they were on sale for $3.99 instead of $8.99. At $5 off I had to try them. I bought 5 of them in 3 different varieties but I'll know better next time.
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Chicken Alfredo. After I took it out of the microwave and stirred it up I sprinkled on a generous portion of grated Parmesan cheese. The cheese has kind of soft springy texture to it, not that dried out stuff that looks like sawdust. I have 3 mandarin oranges in front of me that I'm going to eat after I click Post.
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Hillshire Farm Cheddarwurst smoked sausage link on a bun.
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Cubed deer steak, fresh cabbage (last picking from the winter garden), rice, corn on the cob, and cornbread.
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Venison spaghetti with homemade sauce (canned from our garden last year and w/whole wheat noodles, I like them better).
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Toasted maple streusel breakfast bread. Strenuous breakfast bread if I "correct" it with my spell checker so I added streusel to its dictionary.
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My only meal was Chinese takeout for breakfast/brunch/lunch. I had Dragon Meats (sic) Phoenix.
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Turkey Bacon Ranch sandwich now. Roast Beef & Cheddar sandwich later.
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Bourbon
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Bourbon
It's been 14 years but after this week a chilled Wild Turkey is sounding pretty good.
Meh....guess I'll just have pizza.
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I switched to Coca-Cola Zero Sugar with no bourbon, but would rather have regular Coke with lots of bourbon. Or a pitcher of Manhattan cocktails for one. I'm not too fussy.
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I finally remembered to eat again and baked the last of my Kroger deli pizzas, then I noticed a few little white spots on it. It was mold and I thought I could cut around it and eat the rest. Then I shined a flashlight on it and saw what I couldn't when it was in my shadow. It was getting furry in a couple of places. So much for plan A.
So I went on to plan B. I'm going to leave the "Ultimeat" pizza outside tonight for the critters to eat. I'd rather have them eat it out in the open than wait a few days and tear up my garbage when I put the bag out to the curb. I have some of these Marie Callender's Bowls in the freezer. I think they're something new. I had a Cheesy Chipotle Rice & Beans Bowl, but I'm still hungry and will grab whatever is next on the pile.
https://www.mariecallendersmeals.com/product-categories/bowls
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Brisket sandwich.
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I reached blindly into the freezer and pulled out a package of mashed potatoes. I put beef gravy from a jar on them. I need to actually cook something later.
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PLANTERS Peanut Butter Chocolate Trail Mix.
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A pancake and buttercream frosting burrito. ;D ;D ;D
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last night I made a hug pot of caldo verde.
its a Portuguese keal and potato soup.
https://youtu.be/MB5LAU5z9gk
its too die fore.
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Herr's Jalapeno Poppers flavor Cheese Curls from TSC. These are a lot better than plain Cheetos. Herr's also makes Cheese Curls With Genuine Old Bay seasoning. That sounds good even to an old Midwestern landlubber like me. I may end up ordering a box full of snacks.
http://www.herrs.com/product.php?id=57
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Salisbury steak, mashed taters, and green beans.
The Salisbury steak was store-bought (didn't have time to make from scratch) and as Rainman said about K-Mart, "It sucked."
It was a brand called On-Cor (not the usual brand we buy, when we buy it) and definitely had a soy-burgerish aftertaste.
ETA:
I went to their website and checked the nutrition info since the packaging we had was already in the trash.
Ingredients:
Gravy:
Water, food starch-modified, contains less than 2% of the following: bleached wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour), toasted onion powder, salt, hydrolyzed soy protein, sugar, autolyzed yeast extract, garlic powder, spice, caramel color.
Salisbury Steaks:
Mechanically separated chicken, pork, water, beef, soy protein concentrate, wheat flour, dehydrated onion, contains less than 2% of the following: salt, sodium phosphate, lactose reduced whey, hydrolyzed soy and corn protein, caramel color, dextrose, sugar, dehydrated peppers, pepper, flavoring.
Contains:
SOY, WHEAT, MILK
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 patty with 1/3 cup gravy (about 132g)
Servings Per Container 6
Amount Per Serving
Calories 190
Calories from Fat 120
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 14g 22%
Saturated Fat 5g 25%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 55mg 18%
Sodium 720mg 30%
Total Carbohydrate 8g 3%
Dietary Fiber 2g 8%
Sugars 1g
Protein 10g
Iron 1mg 8%
Vitamin A 0%
Vitamin C 4%
Calcium 8%
[img]http://Ingredients:
Gravy: Water, food starch-modified, contains less than 2% of the following: bleached wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour), toasted onion powder, salt, hydrolyzed soy protein, sugar, autolyzed yeast extract, garlic powder, spice, caramel color.
Salisbury Steaks: Mechanically separated chicken, pork, water, beef, soy protein concentrate, wheat flour, dehydrated onion, contains less than 2% of the following: salt, sodium phosphate, lactose reduced whey, hydrolyzed soy and corn protein, caramel color, dextrose, sugar, dehydrated peppers, pepper, flavoring.
Contains:
SOY, WHEAT, MILK
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Notice how it says Gravy & 6 Salisbury Steaks on the box, with gravy being the main component. I had some of those On-Cor brand entrees before and they all suck, some worse than others. The Gravy & Sliced White Meat Turkey was less objectionable, but still mostly gravy, with turkey roll instead of natural slices of turkey.
I had the On-Cor Breaded Chicken Parmagiana Patties with Tomato Sauce before. The tomato sauce has tomato puree as the main ingredient and the chicken has white chicken meat as the main ingredient. It even has mozzarella cheese in it, but still isn't very good. I saw them on sale again a few weeks ago and hesitated a moment before moving down the aisle.
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Man, you guys eat some real crapola!
I know it’s circumstances but try and avoid TV dinners!
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A lot of frozen meals actually taste good. Or good enough. When I see certain brands I like on sale, I get one of each and don't have to eat the same thing twice. I may eat it again next month, but I won't have any leftovers I have to eat tomorrow or the next day. Cooking for one person sucks anyway.
I've had several of The 25 Most Delish Frozen Dinners and 46 Best Frozen Foods in America in these links, or other foods of the same brands. They aren't like the TV dinners they made when I was a kid. Those were bad even to a kid's unsophisticated palate. And I don't know why Banquet is on one of the lists. I don't care if you can buy them for 88 cents, I have to draw the line somewhere and won't buy those.
https://www.delish.com/cooking/g3648/best-frozen-dinners/
https://www.eatthis.com/best-frozen-foods/
Here's a place that makes alternatives to textured soy protein that are in some of the less palatable dinners, like On-Cor.
http://rachelaaron.net/soylent/
ETA: I'm eating old Nuremberger Lebkuchen and it's still delicious.
https://www.lebkuchen-schmidt.com/en/
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I generally use ground venison with 10% beef fat (added when we grind) or lean beef and make from scratch. But with all we have going on with my sis-in-law and my mother-in-law (having open heart surgery) and two 3 yr olds in the house, the store crap was quicker....but we ended up throwing the bulk of it to the dog.
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I hear ya...it's tough when things are squirrel around ya like crazy.
I'm the only one that cooks in my house, at least meals that are palatable. My wife cooks but her diet is very restricted. Tough cooking for just myself so I'm usually just doing something on the weekend.
It's why I know of the location of every Diner in a thirty mile radius! I can always grab something reasonably healthy for 6-10 bucks, be it breakfast of the hot turkey dinner with all the fixings I had for lunch today.
I'll have a snack later but nothing more than a banana or orange chased with a couple fingers of bourbon! Sometimes, just a couple fingers of bourbon, chased by four fingers of bourbon...
Did I say I liked bourbon?
:)
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Did I say I liked bourbon?
:)
You may have alluded to it a time or twelve in years past. 8)
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I generally use ground venison with 10% beef fat (added when we grind) or lean beef and make from scratch. But with all we have going on with my sis-in-law and my mother-in-law (having open heart surgery) and two 3 yr olds in the house, the store crap was quicker....but we ended up throwing the bulk of it to the dog.
At first I was thinking, "poor dog", because that stuff isn't even fit for a dog. Then I thought about the things dogs like to eat, lick, and smell. It's exceedingly rare to have one look at what you offer it, look at you, and walk away.
I'm eating cereal at the moment. I wanted something else but already had heartburn, so cereal it is. I've been getting it cheap and stocking up. $1.99 for bags of Malt-O-Meal cold cereal isn't bad at all. That's 43% off, and the regular price is already cheaper than the big name cereal in boxes.
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I'm eating cereal at the moment. I wanted something else but already had heartburn, so cereal it is. I've been getting it cheap and stocking up. $1.99 for bags of Malt-O-Meal cold cereal isn't bad at all. That's 43% off, and the regular price is already cheaper than the big name cereal in boxes.
That's the brand we buy at wally-mart.
It tastes as good as the big brand, and looking at the website for their product I see why: they are a product of Post cereals.
So I guess Post Fruity Pebbles and the Malt-O-Meal version are probably made in the same facility and packaged accordingly (many brands are). I knew a guy who worked for Keebler and he said you would be surprised at how many different brands were actually made by Keebler.
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I didn't have any idea who made M-O-M cereal, but I'm not surprised. My digital coupon was good for 5 bags so I got 5 different kinds including Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles. Most of the cereal I buy is kid stuff. Healthy cereal tastes worse than the cardboard box it comes in.
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I didn't have any idea who made M-O-M cereal, but I'm not surprised. My digital coupon was good for 5 bags so I got 5 different kinds including Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles. Most of the cereal I buy is kid stuff. Healthy cereal tastes worse than the cardboard box it comes in.
Two of my favorites....and you are correct on the taste as well.
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If Count Chocula cereal was available year-round I would buy more every time I went to the store. I have a bag of multigrain imitation Cheerios from Mexico called Aritos. I just looked it up and it means earrings. I got it for free last summer but keep putting off eating it because I have an idea what it's going to taste like. I'll have to mix my Mexican earrings with something else like Pebbles in order to eat it.
I had a Jimmy Dean Meat Lovers Breakfast Bowl. It would have been better with salsa, but I only bought one bowl and didn't want to open a new jar of salsa just for that. I have an open bag of potato chips and an open bowl of dip so I'm going to eat some of that in a moment.
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Anyone who isn't using SavingStar when they buy groceries should check it out. They give you cash back on groceries. There's a list of things on there that you can check off and get rebates for. A lot of times I get rebates on things that I bought using a coupon, or on sale, or both. This dip is a good example.
Kroger had a digital coupon for $1.50 off any 2 Dean's Dairy Dips. I bought 2 French Onion Dips for $2.29 each, minus the $1.50 coupon, and I'm getting a $1.50 rebate on them. So it cost me $1.58 for 2 bowls of dip instead of $4.58. That's a fraction over 65% off. The rebates add up in my account and once it gets to $20 or more I have them direct deposit it into my checking or savings account. They used to let you get $5 cash back at a time but changed it to $20. So far they paid me $226.90, and I have another $13.35 in my account.
https://savingstar.com/
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Buffalo chicken mac & cheese. It's store bought frozen food and it tastes good, to me at least. That's why I bought more when I had a coupon for it. But I think I like Wicked Kitchen Hatch Chile Mac & Cheese, and Chorizo Mac & Cheese better.
https://www.wickedkitchen.com/mac-and-cheese-products
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2 corn dogs. My first this year. They're the all beef kind. 12 of them cost as much as 16 made with mechanically separated meat and non-meat scraps squeezed through a sieve. I wouldn't be surprised if have the same amount of meat in them or close to it.
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I had an Autumn Glory apple. They were on sale for less than half price plus I had a coupon that was good if I bought over 1 pound. I only bought 2 apples and they weighed 1.33 pounds. It's a hybrid of Fuji and Golden Delicious apples and they're huge. I measured one and it was 3 1/4" wide and 3 1/4" tall. It was so big I couldn't open my mouth far enough to bite into the side. I had to start on top and it wasn't easy. Now my jaw hurts and feels like I tried to unhinge it like a snake. It was so big it started turning brown by the time I worked my way around it. I think I'll slice the other one in half. I ate everything except the stem and 2 seeds. The rest of the seeds were the size of the period at the end of this sentence. I thought it was some kind of seedless mutant until I got to the last 2 bites. They supposedly are "very sweet, firm flesh with hints of cinnamon and subtle notes of caramel." Mine was sweet and juicy and filled me up enough to not want to eat the other one too. The picture below is life size.
https://www.superfreshgrowers.com/our-fruit/apples/autumn-glory
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Penne pasta with plenty of sauce and a ridiculous amount of Parmesan cheese for breakfast. I need to eat more Parmesan cheese before it gets moldy like the last bowlful.
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I got this in an email from my favorite burger joint today. It's a good day for donuts but no thanks.
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Rotini with turkey sausage.
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I had an apple. It was glorious. And it only had 2 seeds. Maybe that's normal for this variety, but most apples have 1 or 2 seeds in each of the 5 seed pockets.
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"Transparent bacon" here at the hotel I've been in the last 10 days in West Texas....
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"Transparent bacon" here at the hotel I've been in the last 10 days in West Texas....
Got that beat: Junk-food snacks, vending machine crap, and hospital food.
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Spekulatius cookies, AKA speculaas or speculoos. Good until 04/04/2018. Good right now.
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Stouffer's single serving lasagna with meat (made the mistake of getting the cheese-only version once...blechhh).
It's pretty good for oven-ready food.
In my personal opinion it's as good, flavor-wise, as some I've had in restaurants...... including Olive Garden (IMHO their food is good but way overrated).
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Lunch. Grass fed beef cheese burger with romaine lettuce and whole wheat bread.
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Refried beans topped with salsa and a layer of melted cheese.
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Chicken nugget sandwich and tater tots.
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Salad ATM.
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Andouille. Salad. Sliced peaches.
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Taco dip.
Ground beef, browned with taco seasoning then add Rotel and cream cheese. It's good in taco shells or as a dip with tortilla scoops or chips.
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Smokehouse Burger at Texas Roadhousel
https://m.texasroadhouse.com/menu/legendary-food.aspx?section=burgers-sandwiches&item=smokehouse-burger
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5oz boneless skinless chicken breast and 5oz of steamed green beans.
I'm on a cleanse, just for the fun of it. Son-in-law was prescribed this, due to basic lifestyles we all enjoy in our diets showing up in his physical. I don't suffer from any of the lab work issues, but an old, fat and out of shape. He is one of four I know that have gone through this, and the results have been very good for all four. So ...
The first 28 days have white days and green days. Each day starts with breakfast of two hard boiled eggs. The next three meals are made up of 5.2oz of chicken or turkey breast, or 7oz of fish or shrimp. On White days you get just the meats; on Green days you get the meats and 5.2oz of green vegetable.
The 28 days go seven white days, then two green and one white. The green & white 2 & 1 continues until the end of the days.
No fats, salt, sugar, or alcohol!
There is also a tea that you drink before every meal, and some vitamin and enzyme powders you drink as well.
After the 28 days are complete there is a 90 period of adjusting back and stabilizing your system. It keeps the same basic cycle of green & white, but most people slowly change to adding some fruits, yogurt, and even pork and beef.
I'm finishing day nine tonight, and have to force myself to eat. I'm not hungry, and feel no affects of an intake of 900 calories a day. I use lots of garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper and red pepper, because the bland meats get boring fast.
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"After the 28 days are complete there is a 90 period of adjusting back and stabilizing your system"
I'm guessing that is a 90 DAY period?
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"After the 28 days are complete there is a 90 period of adjusting back and stabilizing your system"
I'm guessing that is a 90 DAY period?
Could be minutes.....if the buffet is fresh.
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No fats, salt, sugar, or alcohol is probably good for you, but unless there's a medical reason you need a high protein diet, then it's probably too much meat and not enough veggies (of different colors) and grains. A balanced diet is best for most people but it's no fun and I don't even try. I'm not saying what I had to eat last, but breakfast was egg rolls.
There have been a lot of diets where you can only eat one kind of food or a few different types of food and many of them work short-term if you want to lose weight. You could go an a grapefruit diet and eat nothing but grapefruit every day. I know I would lose weight as I lost interest in eating another !@#$%^&* grapefruit. Keto diets seem to be the "in" thing now but have several risk factors like raising your cholesterol, so you may lose weight but have a heart attack caused by clogged blood vessels.
I'm down 40 pounds from my all-time high weight. The last time I saw my doctor my BMI was in a different category than it was a couple of weeks earlier, but I'm still 100 pounds too heavy. When I quit working I quit burning a lot of calories but was still taking in a lot. Actually more calories because I have all day to sit around and eat. When I was working I had a 30 minute lunch break and it took 10 minutes at a fast walk to get to the cafeteria and back. So I was down to 20 minutes and had to wash my hands, use the bathroom, wash my hands again, stand in line in the cafeteria and finally eat. If I had to use the toilet I didn't have time to eat lunch at all that day.
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I have Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches in the freezer. They have sausage, egg and cheese on an English muffin. I also have Jimmy Dean precooked turkey sausage in the freezer, so I put an extra slice of sausage on my sandwich. Sausage Egg McMuffins are the only thing I've had from McDonalds that I really liked and when I saw these sandwiches on sale I bought a box of them.
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Yes folks, it is 90 days.
It is a diet that is out of balance according to the food pyramids and such. But, it is a temporary plan that is used to cleanse the system and reset the metabolism.
There are plenty of vegetables in this plan, but they are veggies that are more beneficial and carry a higher value. There is also a benefit of lifestyle change - Four regular meals to spread out the intake to match usage.
Like I said, I know others that have done this, and they are all visiting their doctors for regular preventative care. None have had anything negative come from it - All positive. That is the thing that always concerns me when I hear that somebody is trying something.
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I hope it works out for you. I'm just trying to eat less of everything. Being forced to give up the ice cream and donuts diet helped with my weight too.
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I bought a 3 pound tub of potato salad and ate a lot of it straight from the tub. That was the whole meal.
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I bought a 3 pound tub of potato salad and ate a lot of it straight from the tub. That was the whole meal.
We do that from time to time with potato salad as well and also with certain other dishes like dumplings or dressing. We'll just make a batch up and eat it as a one-item meal.
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I put a hotdog and a stick of Colby-Jack cheese on a slice of bread and microwaved it. A 1-minute cheese dog. I'm thinking about opening a can of chili I bought yesterday and making a chili cheese dog. I'm due for another meal right about now. Spicy pickles and potato chips with dip along with it is starting to sound good.
ETA: When I crack open a carton of cottage cheese in the next day or two I'm going to sprinkle some black pepper on it and grab a fork. I might have something with it but I haven't had any in too long of a time and might pig out on it and not have room for anything else. I've used it in place of dip for my potato chips before and it wasn't bad. I boldly dip where no man has dipped before.
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I read somewhere that one of the indicators of Anorexia is always thinking about food.
Maybe you should get that checked, Jumbo? ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I BEAT ANOREXIA! If you saw me you'd know it. ;D
I had some P3 Portable Protein Packs. Now I'm having a sugar-free Jolly Rancher. It tastes good but I haven't had more than 4 of them in single day. I'm in no hurry to see how much Isomalt and Polyglycitol Syurp I can handle. It also has Acesulfame Potassium AKA Acesulfame K in it. The other two sweeteners aren't sweet enough without it.
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I got a free frozen side dish from Honeybaked Ham and didn't have to buy anything to get it. Several of the sides looked good but I finally chose Double Cheddar Macaroni & Cheese. It's cavatappi instead of elbow macaroni, with both yellow and white cheddar. Before I put it in the freezer I looked and saw that it can be baked in the oven or microwaved. I took it out and microwaved it and just started eating it. I could smell the garlic in it before I tasted it. Besides garlic powder it also has onion powder, mustard flour, and chili pepper. I like it and plan on buying more of this and another side or two.
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Korean Barbecue flavor chicken breast jerky. It's very tender and delicious. When I got down to the bottom of the bag my tongue was warm from the sriracha but my mouth isn't burning. It wasn't cheap but I got a free snack stick with it with a coupon so I had to try it.
https://chefscutrealjerky.com/collections/all
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Chicken/pepper jack/muenster sandwich and a rice crispy square.
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Birthday Cake and Canollis
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Buttermilk biscuits with bacon and pan-fried sausage patties.
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Graham crackers and nutella for a snack now. Maybe the last jar of nutella I'll ever have because of all the fat and sugar.
Breakfast was an Asian Sweet & Spicy salad, and lunch was a Southwest Jalapeno Ranch salad, both topped with marinated flame broiled chicken. I keep getting buy one, get one free coupons for sandwiches, salads, and dinners in the mail, and today was a good day for salads. Meaning too hot to cook and maybe too hot to eat hot (temperature) food.
The salads were from a place called YaYa's that has 3 locations in my city, 3 more in my county, 3 more in my state, and 3 more in my country (in Florida). That seems a bit odd. Maybe the next 3 will be elsewhere on my continent. The description tells you what sets it apart from most other chicken. I came up with a one of a kind marinade myself using what I had on hand one time and the grilled chicken was delicious. But I can get to YaYa's and back faster I can get everything for a marinade out of the fridge and cupboards and put it in a bowl, assuming I have something that will work. And my marinade was more fattening because it had oil in it.
http://www.yayas.com/index.html
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I had bacon and cheddar potato skins for breakfast and lunch. It was a box of frozen appetizers that only needed to be baked, but I put half of a cheddar jack cheese stick on each one first. When I took them out the cheese was getting golden brown. I really like how the cheese tastes when it's halfway between raw and burnt. Before I ate the potato skins I heated up a can of hot chili and topped the potato skins with it.
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Jammin' Jamaican Style Turkey Perky Jerky. It's a sweet heat, not too spicy, and it's very tender.
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Yestidy (that's old south for yesterday) - Fried ham, peas, rice and buttermilk biscuits.
Today was pizza.
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I had pizza today too, for breakfast.
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A half a dozen donuts for breakfast and lunch. 3 eggs scrambled with ham and cheese for supper.
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A half a dozen donuts for breakfast and lunch. 3 eggs scrambled with ham and cheese for supper.
You got someone to push your wheelchair around? Sounds like you done foundered yourself ;D
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Getting ready for a big party tonight. You may think you know how to celebrate Independence day, and Pres. DJT may think he knows how to put one on, but until you have celebrated freedom with immigrants you don't know how it is done.
I will let you know what I consume later, but I'm sure there will be tacos with excellent meat as a starter.
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If there are going to be tostadas, I should be there with you. I love tostadas. Something about folding tortillas to make them into tacos ruins the flavor. ;) I think I'm going to a little cookout with a few friends since I'm home instead of away riding my ATV.
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It was full taco night! Steak, pork and barbacoa! Demetrio made his babacoa with cheek meat and chuck roll. I have never had bad barbacoa, but it is always dangerous to ask what is in it - A lot like hot dogs.
Several salsas; chips of all types - From plain Doritos to homemade from homemade tortillas; several salads; homemade sweets and deserts; special treats from one gal who has a bakery; and C2H5OH in every type bottle and temperature range imaginable.
Between the the two households there were well over 300 friends, and just after sunset there was a 40 minute fireworks show with music that puts many communities to shame.
And NO, Colin Kaepernick was not invited and did not crash the event.
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We splurged for a couple of 1.5" thick ribeyes to throw on the grill. I also baked potatoes and corn on the cob in two of my Dutch ovens.
It was all melt-in-ya-mouth good.
While we were eating my wife said it was hard to believe but we haven't grilled steaks since last July during a three day trip to St. George Island, FL. Well, time flies....and the last twelve months were hectic.
I'd post a pic, but still can't upload from a hard-drive.
Later I'll have a slice of 12-layer cake.
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Trivia Question:
Who had this:
I just had some 57% pure honey gingerbread from Dijon, France. The other 43% is almost all rye flour with enough water to mix it together.
;D ;D ;D ;D
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Trivia Question:
Who had this:
I just had some 57% pure honey gingerbread from Dijon, France. The other 43% is almost all rye flour with enough water to mix it together.
;D ;D ;D ;D
I have and I thought it was great. I ate the whole thing by myself. It lasted 2 days IIRC. I thought I posted about it here, but it doesn't look like it. L'abeille Diligente PAIN D'EPICES 57% pur mel. Pure honey gingerbread, with no ginger AFAIK. I got mine from europeandeli.com but they don't have it anymore. A site called mypanier.com and a few other places have it. The company that makes it, APIDIS (Apiculture Production Innovation Distribution) has been in the beekeeping (apiculture) business for over 120 years.
http://www.apidis.mobi/?lang=en#_
https://www.mypanier.com/collections/all/products/abeille-diligente-pure-honey-gingerbread-12-pc-300g
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I had no idea that there was gingerbread with over 50% honey. Heck, I didn't even know there was honey in gingerbread.
However....I am going to make another foray into beekeeping soon and I'll try making some when I collect my first honey. It sounds great.
We had some hotdogs on the 4th cooked over some white oak coals from trees cut on the place in a firepit we made out of flat sandstone rocks we plucked out of the creek down the hill....
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I have and I thought it was great. I ate the whole thing by myself. It lasted 2 days IIRC. I thought I posted about it here, but it doesn't look like it. L'abeille Diligente PAIN D'EPICES 57% pur mel. Pure honey gingerbread, with no ginger AFAIK. I got mine from europeandeli.com but they don't have it anymore. A site called mypanier.com and a few other places have it. The company that makes it, APIDIS (Apiculture Production Innovation Distribution) has been in the beekeeping (apiculture) business for over 120 years.
http://www.apidis.mobi/?lang=en#_
https://www.mypanier.com/collections/all/products/abeille-diligente-pure-honey-gingerbread-12-pc-300g
You did post it here ... The first post of this thread...
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Bacon & biscuits. :) :) :) :) :)
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Bacon & biscuits. :) :) :) :) :)
+ sausage gravy and eggs
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Rice pudding.
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PB&J (grape)....with a side of 12-layer cake. 8)
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Got a pork tenderloin cookin, and some fresh green beans to go with it.
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Chicken & muenster sammich.
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lemon meringue pie and carrot cake for Kate's 100th burfday..
What do you get for a 100 year old blind women with no teeth?
Apple Pie preserves!
(Kate is my BIL's Momma! She's sharp as a tack..a tad conservative, a little grumpy and tired of staying alive! LOL)
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You did post it here ... The first post of this thread...
I can't remember that far back. I didn't post it here lately. ;)
The last thing I ate was a Pop-Tart. The first thing I ate today was a bowl of Woodward Ave Chili (no beans), Michigan's only canned chili. When I started reading the ingredients and saw beef and pork I was :). Then I saw it had textured soy protein in it and I was :'(. It still tasted good but it had oil floating on top of it. I'm surprised I didn't get heartburn. BTW, Woodward Avenue (Highway M-1) was the location of the first mile of concrete-paved roadway in the country.
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I made homemade cheesecake (not that crappy no-bake foolishness) the other day.....good with or without topping.
Right now the wife's in the process of prepping for the kids and grand-kids to come for supper. It's our older granddaughter's 10th birthday so we're having cubed steak fried and then slow simmered in onion/mushroom gravy along with peas and rice and probably biscuits.
Probably have some 12 layer cake thrown in for good measure since that is her favorite (PaPa's too).
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Moose!!!
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How did you fix it?
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How did you fix it?
Was it broken?
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Cashews. Strawberry Perrier.
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A plate full of cornbread/chicken dressing and a slice of 12-layer cake with the good cooked icing.
I had my knee shot-up this AM, so I'm allowed to splurge on the cake. ;D ;D
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I'm lucky to get a lollipop if I'm good when I get shots. I had some Turtle Chex Mix for my sweet tooth. I have to eat something else before I go to bed, probably cereal since I have boxes of it up the wazoo, and there's some milk in the fridge.
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Just had some kind of "meal in a bag" with chicken, noodles, corn, carrots, celery, broccoli, and some type of cheese sauce. Just dump in a pot, heat it and eat it. It was actually pretty good with enough for the wife and I to have a bowl for lunch and enough left for supper tonight (might toss in a grilled cheese sammich on the side).
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Gold kiwifruit. I got close to 4 days worth of vitamin C from them. But they don't have as much vitamin K as the green kiwifruit. That's one reason a daily multi-vitamin comes in handy.
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Home made Cauliflower soup with home made bread with store bought butter.
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Homemade bread? Dang, yer' killin' me dude....with butter.
That's the best.
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Homemade bread? Dang, yer' killin' me dude....with butter.
That's the best.
Of course.
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Fried chicken gizzards and shrimp.
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How did you fix it?
First batch was barbacoa for tacos. I put the entire deboned shank in the crock pot with onion, garlic, jalapenos and beef broth, cooked for six hours, and shredded it.
Today was vegetable moose stew. Wife wanted soup, but by the time I finished it was a nice rich stew.
I fix it the same as beef, deer or bear. It is very lean, so DO NOT OVER COOK. Moose has a liver flavor to it. Liver lover love it. I am not overly fond of liver, but if I don't over cook it the flavor isn't too strong. Also using it in soups, stews, or hot dishes gives a flavor that is different than beef or pork, but not overwhelming.
I have also made meatballs with it. Due to the leanness, I mixed it 2/3 moose with 1/3 ground beef or pork.
I have several roasts in the freezer, and I am going to try some jerky out of some.
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Homemade bread? Dang, yer' killin' me dude....with butter.
That's the best.
I have several weaknesses when it comes to food, and two revolve around homemade bread. One is fresh out of the oven with butter and a tall glass of cold milk. The other is buttered and smothered with milk gravy made from fried hamburger drippings. Growing up with the influence of old Danes and Norskies has led to a very good life.
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Hearty pot roast with sweet onion, carrots and baby red and Yukon taters!
20 minutes of effort, a good Dutch oven and viola!
Damn good vittles!
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Does a McDonald's Egg McMuffin with sausage, a hash brown and a large black coffee count? =)
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Does a McDonald's Egg McMuffin with sausage, a hash brown and a large black coffee count? =)
We have a saying in my house;
"If it'll develop a turd, it'll do!"
;)
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;D I never heard that one before. The sausage egg McMuffin is the only thing I've found so far at McDonald's that I like.
I'm warming up some leftover Carolina mustard BBQ pulled pork in the microwave. I'll have it on toast, with a side of Cheez-It Snap'd Jalapeno Jack flavor, Famous Dave's signature spicy pickle spears, and a chunk of extra sharp Vermont white cheddar. Just like yesterday when I used the other half-pound of pork for a sandwich.
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Don't be surprised if my answer here soon is tacos. I just found out today that the city's first brewery, Tenacity Brewing, only is 2 miles away, and it's now the permanent home of the city's first food truck, Vehicle City Tacos. It sucks for people looking for the taco truck downtown but it's good news for me. The brewery has 15 taps sticking out of the wall and there's something different in every picture I've seen so far. They sell flights of 6 4-ounce glasses of beer to sample and will fill a half-gallon growler for you to go too. It's in the area known as Carriage Town where they used to build, you guessed it, carriages, before they started building horseless carriages here.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/tenacity-brewing-flint
https://www.yelp.com/biz/vehicle-city-tacos-flint
The brewery is using hops from a hop farm 20 miles away called Top Hops Farm that sells to breweries in 25 states. I read that hops can grow up to 18 feet high in 40 days. If they grew any faster you could watch it happen. ;)
http://tophopsfarm.com/
The place I used to get tacos from is only a mile away, so I'll have to drive twice as far to get to the taco truck - a whole 5 minutes from my house. It looks like my old taco destination was a Marathon gas station sometime in the past. That seems appropriate considering how much gas their food produces. You know you're in a real Mexican place when there's a portrait of Selena on the wall behind the counter. And if this isn't a remnant of a Marathon sign I don't know what it is.
https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/la-azteca-taco-house-flint?select=dp_qFMNqisw8_uEsxRpYtA
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Last night i was making some elk burgers( ~60% elk 30% beef and 10% porl fat) anyways i had some left over ham fat sitting on the cutting board.( was slicing left overs to freeze) i put it in a cast iron skillet with some olive oil and put it in the oven to render. I then oven fried stake frys in it. So good.
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Talenti Sicilian Pistachio Gelato
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Just finished our Saturday night tradition - Homemade pizza. Forty years and we haven't missed many.
Tomorrow will be a nice stew or soup. For Christmas Eve we were over at the kids for the new tradition - Tamales, frijoles, a couple of salads, chips and salsa (both homemade), rice and beans, choice fillets, and some really good wine. I have over two pounds of trimmings from the tenderloin that will go into the pot.
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Homemade Lasagna with sausage and ground beef.
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Scrambled eggs with a little onion and American cheese on them. Now, that having been said, I would rather have some of that Mexican food Timothy was having or some of Mike's pizza.
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I do make a decent taco...
:)
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Corndog..... what can I say, the two granddaughters are here and when in Rome...... ;)
Santy Claws brung me a "cowboy" grill fer Christmas, so weather permitting I'll be cookin' up some good grub on that.
(https://images.homedepot-static.com/productImages/79bdfcf8-bf8d-4f9d-b88f-a7fb1613be37/svn/rivergrille-kettle-grills-gr1038-014612-64_1000.jpg)
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London broil cooked to perfection, sliced thin with just a little salt and pepper,
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Salisbury steak with rice and green beans.
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Taco salad...
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Truffle mac 'n cheese topped with grilled chicken. When I saw it on the menu I had to try it. But honestly, I'd rather buy several servings of mac 'n cheese from the frozen food department of the grocery store for the same price. Buffalo chicken mac 'n cheese, hatch chili mac 'n cheese, chorizo mac 'n cheese, or just plain old mac 'n cheese tastes good to me. I used to buy food service trays of mac 'n cheese and bake them just for myself occasionally. After a few servings when I was ready for a different taste I'd top it with a bit of salsa.
Dessert will be non-dairy chocolate "ice cream" made of coconut milk. I have a $2.00 off digital coupon that wasn't applied because it only rang up at $1.12. That's 75% off of $4.49 and it must be a closeout item. If I don't like it I'm not out much, and I'll eat my Panda brand licorice from Finland. Panda bars are made with only four ingredients that you don't have to be a chemist to recognize the names of. They're all natural, vegan, fat-free, kosher, and tasty. They're sweetened with molasses which may or may not make my blood sugar spike as bad as refined sugar. I don't imagine it's any worse. I only bought one bar so I won't be tempted to eat several of them.
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Canadian bacon, triscuits, and white cheddar. The cheese stinks like spoiled milk but the smell is mostly coming from the wrapper, so I'll eat the cheese and not whine about it. It's no use crying over spoiled milk. :'(
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Southwest style chicken chili covered with melted queso quesadilla.
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Quarter pound burger with onion rings and fries from Cook Out burger joint.
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1/2 lb burger from Ron's with a mug of root beer no fries. Extra mustard and pickle, no mayo.
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Chicken enchilada casserole.
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FOOD: I had a cold gyro. I bought a 3-pack for breakfast and brunch, and I had one left over. Before I started on the gyros I had an order of deep-fried breaded spicy cheese cubes, dipped in what tasted like ranch dressing with coarse black pepper in it. The cool ranch didn't cool them off. They somehow tasted hotter with it but I dunked all except the first one in it. The cubes were small and may have been cheese snack sticks cut into cubes. They would be easy to make at home.
NON-FOOD: I pulled in the gyro drive-in place on the way home from the lawyers office for the Flint water contamination class-action case. I got a bone lead test with a portable XRF gun. The technician set her phaser to stun, held it against my shinbone for 3 minutes, and that was it. It shoots out a high-energy x-ray and when it hits metal atoms it knocks electrons out their orbits, yada, yada, yada, and they each fluoresce with their own wavelength of x-rays that it detects. Whatever. She said it would read how much lead my bones absorbed in the last 20 years. Since I've had osteoporosis for such a long time, the sponge-like holes in my bones are likely to to have absorbed even more lead. Lucky me. I have an excuse for gaining weight during those years. :) The XRF gun looked about like this, but the ones for metallurgy will tell you the exact composition, name of the alloy, or even what metals are in raw ore. All I saw was a graph with a few peaks on it. She said OSHA wouldn't allow her to tell me what the results were, and I have to wait to hear from my lawyer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70PS43rkwzw
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Grilled cheese sticks with mayochup. Honeycrisp apple. Slice of crystallized ginger.
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Vienna sausages with mustard.
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1/2 pound of beef barbacoa between 2 slices of cheese* and 2 slices of toast. Bourbon barbecue potato chips. I don't know when I'll cook a regular meal.
* Kerrygold mild cheddar from Ireland.
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Pigs in blankets and leftover cake from a bridal shower.
(my littlest granddaughter says she like the pigs, but not the blankets) ;D
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Fish chowda
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Thinly sliced turkey in a white sauce over rice.
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Pizza for the football game...
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Had a big burger at Cracker Barrel last night..... we took my mom out with the family for her 73rd birthday and that was where she wanted to go. The one near us has slipped a little on the quality of their "country style food" but they still make a great burger and their fried catfish is outstanding.
Today I had leftover lasagna from the night before. It's Stouffer's frozen, but it tastes as good as Olive Garden's to me if you get the style with meat (they have a cheese only version that's crap).
Every Wednesday we cook for 50+ kids at church so tonight it'll be chicken nuggets and mac-n-cheese (hey, when in Rome....). ;D
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Yankee pot roast
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The one near us has slipped a little on the quality of their "country style food" but they still make a great burger and their fried catfish is outstanding.
Today I had leftover lasagna from the night before. It's Stouffer's frozen, but it tastes as good as Olive Garden's to me if you get the style with meat (they have a cheese only version that's crap).
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I think Crackerbarrel is sliding down in quality across the board where I have been in Oklahoma and Arkansas recently. It "smells to me like" the business majors are maximizing profits. Other than the eggs my experience is breakfast fixin's have been downgraded. I pass them by now.
Onboard with the OG/Stouffers remarks too.
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Agree on Cracker Barrel quality.
A few years back we had a horrible meal. Though I never send food back, I complained to the corporate office and received a $100 Gold Coupon to appease me.
I never redeemed the coupon and have not been back.
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Agree on Cracker Barrel quality.
A few years back we had a horrible meal. Though I never send food back, I complained to the corporate office and received a $100 Gold Coupon to appease me.
I never redeemed the coupon and have not been back.
I would have asked if they could send me a coupon to a different restaurant. Not that I think they would, but to get a reaction from them.
@ pegleg, quote: "(my littlest granddaughter says she like the pigs, but not the blankets)" :) :) :) :)
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Today was a salad topped with spicy chicken bites from Bojangles.
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Garlic cheese grits
2 cups low sodium chick stock
2 cups water
1 cup grits
2 gloves of garlic smashed(more is better)
Chiloflake, salt, pepper to taste
1/4 cup parm( not that stuff from the can)
1/4 cup cheeder/ jack/ good melting cheese.
2 table sppons butter
Bring the liquids too a boil, slowly whisk in grits, add the garlic, reduce heat to med low and cover. Stir every 5 mins, for 30 mins. Remove from heat, stir in butter and cheese. Cover let sit 5 mins. Taste and adjust seasoning. Eat it as is or server with a meaty gravey.(pretty much anything from brown to a pasta suace, chili on top is also awesome)
It works for any meal of the day. If you have left overs you can refirgerate over night, slice and pan fry for breakfast
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Ham, field peas and brown rice.
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Venison sausage and eggs!
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I made chicken, garlic, onion, bell peppers, and mushroom stir-fry seasoned with Gold Medal seasoned salt and Zatarain's Cajun seasoning.
Sho was good.
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Found a peanut, found a peanut
Found a peanut just now
Just now I found a peanut
Found a peanut just now.
The 5 second rule doesn't apply if I have to move my chair and look around.
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Braised garlic beef short ribs and broccoli...
Damn fine vittles!
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Homemade vegetable soup (Made by my cousin).
Good stuff.
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Smoky paprika shrimp wrapped in applewood smoked bacon. I dipped them in a sauce I made from mayonnaise plus all the mayochup I could get out of the bottle, spiced with ground dry mustard, and gochujang Korean-style chili and sauteed garlic hot sauce. It has heat similar to horseradish sauce but tastes better. I think I'll add some tamari sauce to it give it more umami.
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Sesame beef and peppers stir fry!
Tasty...(home cooked)
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BLTs, apple pie, and tea.
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Magnesium citrate, i have a sewer line inspection in the morning. The prep is by far the worst.
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Arrgh... Had one of those in December. Led to surgery in January. All good.
Hope it goes well for you.
Pizza tonight....
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Taco dip and chips.
Magnesium citrate, i have a sewer line inspection in the morning. The prep is by far the worst.
I get to try it out later this year for the first time.
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Taco dip and chips.
I get to try it out later this year for the first time.
Stay near a head...
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It was not my 1st one.
The prep nurse was stone cold. I made the recovery nurse blush. Which resulted in a dirty look from the misses. She asked me how was it. I replied " best anal in years"
Its really not bad, the prep is the worst part. I was clean this time. I wanted to stay awake and watch, but nope.
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Magnesium citrate, i have a sewer line inspection in the morning. The prep is by far the worst.
The only time in my life I wish I had a seat belt for the commode!
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It was not my 1st one.
The prep nurse was stone cold. I made the recovery nurse blush. Which resulted in a dirty look from the misses. She asked me how was it. I replied " best anal in years"
Its really not bad, the prep is the worst part. I was clean this time. I wanted to stay awake and watch, but nope.
Wife had hers a few weeks ago. She had an EGD on her upper digestive tract checking for reflux damage and the next week had the colonoscopy and a cardiac stress test. The prep for the colonoscopy was the worst thing on her also. She didn't do the mag citrate though. She had to drink the big jug of crap and after the 'desired effects' had passed, it made her nauseous and ill. She even had the chills, I expect due to having to drink so much fluid and it had to be cold.
On a positive note, all the testing came back normal.
Back on the current food of the day, I had an apple, two rice puff logs and two Oreo cookies with a cherry Coke Zero.
My wife made a 12 layer strawberry cake with cooked chocolate frosting as an experiment yesterday and later I'll have a chunk o' that.
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Roast venison back strap au poivre!
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Bacon and cathead biscuits last night.
Spicy chicken strips and fries baked in the oven today...... oh, and more strawberry & chocolate cake. ;D
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Jalapeno sausage and onion dogs...
Spicy
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Hash browns with cheddar and Tabasco.
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Quote: My wife made a 12 layer strawberry cake with cooked chocolate frosting as an experiment yesterday and later I'll have a chunk o' that.
Lucky Chucky. Anytime your wife has a failed experiment you can send it to me for proper disposal. Food disposal is my specialty, as my friends can attest to; "Give it to Frank, he'll eat it."
The last thing I ate was Planters Peanut Butter Chocolate Trail Mix. Not bad, but it was no strawberry chocolate cake.
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Stay near a head...
Never had that issue with Mexican food. 8)
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Sweet & Spicy chicken drumsticks. I ate eight in one day.
http://www.sandraschicken.com/sweet-spicy-drumsticks.php
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Cured ham (skillet seared), butter beans, and corn on the cob. Cake scraps for a little dessert snack.
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I had a slice of pie. I bought 4 kinds on Pi Day, 3-14, for $3.14 apiece. The cashier asked if I knew it was Pi Day and said she had a digital coupon if I didn't. I knew it was and I had my coupon loaded to my card. She thought Pi was 3.14 with the 14 repeating so I had to set her straight. I didn't mention that I had 6 semesters of algebra starting at age 11, before I took geometry then got into the really difficult stuff. Sometimes we used 3.14159 as an approximation of Pi, but most of the time 3.14 was close enough.
Several people have memorized hundreds or thousands of digits of Pi. One guy had the first 70,000 digits memorized. I memorized the first 6 but now I'm down to just 3. Even if you don't know what Pi is you can get a rough approximation on a calculator by using 22/7. The first million digits are on this page if you want to see it or try to memorize it. I knew people in the past have tested supercomputers by calculating Pi. But I didn't know someone calculated it to over 31 trillion digits last year. Measuring the universe's circumference to the precision of a single atom would only take 40 digits, so the extra 31,415,926,535,857 digits don't matter.
https://www.piday.org/million/
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/14/18265358/pi-calculation-record-31-trillion-google
Time for another slice of pie.
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A can of Vienna Sausage. Poured out the juice and replaced it with mustard topped with Tabasco.
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Belgian dark chocolate mousse made in Belgium. They make very good dark chocolate in Belgium, but this mousse is nothing to get excited about. I think I'll keep the 2 ounce shot glasses it came in.
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Bacon sammich and Cheetos. 8)
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A bag-o-legumes called peanuts!
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Chicken tacos. Slow cooked in adobe sauce and shreaded. Easy, cheap and good. ( i mean how hard is it to open a can of chipotles in adobe suace, add it too a slow cooker, some water a few spices and some chicken thighs)
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Corned beef and cabbage with red potatoes and baby carrots cooked in a crock pot for 8 hours.
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Strawberry pop-tart and a Mountain Dew Zero.
I have the routine allergy season drag-ass and not much appetite.
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Slop Melange.
Anyone recognize the reference?
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Nope
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?Slop melange?
Shit on a shingle?
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In the old TV series "The Odd Couple", Oscar was putting all the odds and ends in the refrigerator in the pot and adding what ever seasonings he liked. Felix observed it and asked "What do you call that melange?"
Oscar answered "I call it Slop, but I like your name better. I'll call it Slop Melange from now on."
P.S. In the movie the name used for a similar situation was Goop Melange.
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My pop called that Mulligan Stew!
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Fried baloney sandwich.
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Pulled pork sammiches.
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Taco Bell Cheddar Crisps, FIRE! Sauce Flavor. They sell them at Kroger and 7-Eleven stores. They're kind of expensive for such a small bag of baked snacks, but I had a $1.00 digital coupon. The only ingredients are cheddar cheese and seasoning, unlike most junk food. Fire! Sauce Flavor is rated Fierce, 3/5 peppers spice level on the back of the bag. They're good, and once in a while one of them actually brings the fire. The (MILD) Sauce Flavor is rated Warm, 1/5 peppers spice level, but to me it tastes closer to 0/5 half of the time. Almost like plain cheese, but I like plain baked cheese snacks too. To me they seem to get warm toward the bottom of the bag. They make NACHO Flavor too but I haven't seen those in the store.
https://tacobellcravings.com/
P.S. If you mixed a bag of Mild and a bag of Fire flavor together in a bowl I think it would be great. You'd have a good amount of spiciness without your tongue feeling like it's sweating, which is how mine feels right now. :P
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Pigs in blankets.
Reminds me of an old Rodney Dangerfield quote, "I went to a restaurant and ordered pigs in a blanket. The waiter brought me a photo of me and my wife in bed."
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Cheeto's and a York peppermint patty...
New diet!
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Is that your coronoa diet....cheeto's and pepermint patties?
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No, it's my 5 straight days selling guns to complete morons who have no business carrying firearms diet!
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Got a big pot of Brunswick stew on the stove for supper.
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I have a pork loin cooking in sauerkraut with potatoes and spaetzle as a side dish cooking for dinner.
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No, it's my 5 straight days selling guns to complete morons who have no business carrying firearms diet!
look on the bright side in the future there will be a bunch of never fired guns for sale on the secondary market
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look on the bright side in the future there will be a bunch of never fired guns for sale on the secondary market
I'm sure.
Our store doesn't deal in used handguns however. Too many issues with the approved list of guns here. Used long guns only in MA.
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Pork burnt ends in BBQ sauce with baked beans. And I didn't have to cook it. I just had to heat the pork in the microwave for 4 minutes, then wait 2 minutes. That gave me time to put a pouch of Uncle Ben's baked beans in the microwave for 90 seconds. They're edible but I don't plan on buying them again. Bush's Best Baked Beans or Grillin' Beans are way better IMO. But I had to try them when I had a coupon. Some of the 90 second rice is good, and I have a different kind of 90 second beans to try someday.
While I was was eating I had two beef and pork meatloaves cooking. I generally like or don't mind the smell of raw meat, but I found the raw hamburger smell unpleasant. I'm glad I only smelled it when the pans were right under my nose. The meatloaves were fatty and shrunk quite a bit. Tomorrow I'll find out if they're any good.
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Meatloaf with Sargento smokehouse cheddar melted over it, and Mexican style black beans with corn and peppers. I feel like I'm starving and will eat the rest of the meatloaf, probably with rice or whole kernel corn.
https://www.unclebens.com/rice-products/beans
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Bourbon...
Neat!
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Beef taco dip over crushed tortilla shells..... less messy this way. 8)
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Mini thanksgiving today. Cleaned out the frig and we have a 6 pack of turkey leggs. Doing them with conrbread stuffing, mashed potatoes, home made gravey and what ever froze veggies we have. On tuesday or Wednesday i will make either enchiladas or tacos with the left over meat. I am trying not too goto the store. Easy with meat, but fruits and veggies not so much.
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Both granddaughters are over..... we had chicken nuggets (shaped like dinosaurs, can't figure that one) and tater tots for lunch.... 'cause that's how we roll. 8)
Testing the photo attachment again......
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Fresh, FRESH, homemade caramel/cinnamon rolls!
Working from home is a double edged sword. I'm not commuting, no packing lunch and dragging it along, and when I need a break, and it fits in, I can relax.
This morning I had a craving, so I started while getting my coffee going, and by 09:30, I was pulling a pan of sweetness out of the oven. I will have you know, untouched by human hands ;D
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Yellowfin tuna with mayo, pickles and onions in a sandwich.
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Roasted chicken, smashed taters and broccoli.
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I just finished a plateful of Andouille sausage and Basmati rice. Spicy sausage and bland rice go good together. When I realized they started with A and B, I thought I should eat something that starts with C next. Maybe cookies, crackers, or cheese when I have room for something. Or I could double down with some chicken chunks. ;)
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Covid Chili!
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Oh man....that ain't right with them crackers in it....
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No beans... need the crunchitation!
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No beans... need the crunchitation!
Try Cheetos next time. When I put Cheez-Its in my chili I like to grab some and make a fist, enough to break them all in half but not too small. The spicy ones are good in chili too, but as long as they're cheesy and crunchy, that's all that matters. One time I had a bowl of chili and didn't have any crackers to soak up all the juice in the bottom, but I had a bag of popcorn. I think it was white cheddar. It was good enough.
I had andouille and rice for breakfast. This time it was coconut jasmine rice. 90 seconds in the microwave and it was nice and fluffy and tender. Thanks Uncle Ben. I need to eat lunch in a few minutes so I'll finish the andouille that's in the fridge. The only Ready Rice I have left is fried rice with peas & carrots. I don't know it's going to be good but I'll be full when I'm done.
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I had Belgian waffles that I forgot I bought and put in the freezer.
I'll have salad later because I have 2 1/2 heads of lettuce to eat up.
In the 1920s and 1930s produce farmer Bruce Church grew and sold a plot of lettuce. He later formed an ice company to start shipping fresh heads of lettuce across the country in ice-packed rail cars. People started calling the produce aboard the ice trains "iceberg lettuce" and the name stuck. Before that it was called crisphead lettuce.
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Bacon! Bought a new cast iron skillet, so i have been curring it the right way.
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Bacon! Bought a new cast iron skillet, so i have been curring it the right way.
If it was pre-seasoned then you are good to go.
Can't go wrong with bacon any day of the week..... we had some Saturday with cathead biscuits.
Side note on cast iron:
Only one true way to season a cast iron piece properly so that it becomes non-stick.
You have to coat it in a very thin coating of oil and do a high heat trip through the oven (above the smoke pint of the oil) which burns off the volatiles and leaves a carbonized coating that can't be washed off.
Works with aluminum and stainless cook surfaces also.
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It was, but i was not impressed with it. So i rubbed it with crisco and popped it in the oven. 10x better but still not to my liking. So everyday a couple of strips of bacon a good wipe and back in the oven. A couple more days and it will be non stick like its supposed to be. Lodge makes decent pans. Not as good as the old ones, but i cant exactly go thrift store hunyung to find a good 12" pan.
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I have about 10-15 years on a Lodge skillet.
It works...I can fry a perfect egg with nothing but budda!
One of many!
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Another note on cast iron: Don't ever, ever, EVER, let anyone run it through the dishwasher. My ex did that with my 10 1/2 inch skillet and left big bald patches on it and it started to rust all over. I've never used a drop of soap on any of my cast iron except to get it ready to season the first time, or in that case the second time, after I sanded it down. It was perfectly seasoned before that, but I had to start all over.
It was "pre-seasoned" when I bought it but I had it solid black. I bought peanut oil especially for seasoning my set of skillets because it has a higher smoke point than most other vegetable oils. I found a bunch of skillets just like mine on eBay where I got these pics. I like the thumbrest on the handle. The Wagner company got bought out again but they still make the 3-piece set like mine. The smallest skillet isn't good for much so I let the ex take it. The other 2 are worth fighting over but we didn't, and I have sole custody of them.
http://www.wagnerware.com/ProductDetail.asp?Filter=PL&PLine=4&Prod=136&PSub=26
I usually don't add any oil when I fry meat unless it's very lean. I heat the pan until it starts to smoke, season and sear the meat on both sides, turn down the heat and cook it until it looks and feels about right. I put hot water in the pan and let it soak while I'm eating. By the time I'm done, anything that stuck to the pan usually wipes off with a Scotch-Brite pad without actually scrubbing. And no detergent ever.
I almost forgot to mention, I had 2 slices of bread, each with a slice of pepper jack cheese and 1 1/2 links of breakfast sausage on it. I microwaved them one at a time for a minute, and the cheese was mostly soaked into the pores of the bread. I didn't have any eggs to put on my breakfast sandwiches.
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It was, but i was not impressed with it. So i rubbed it with crisco and popped it in the oven. 10x better but still not to my liking. So everyday a couple of strips of bacon a good wipe and back in the oven. A couple more days and it will be non stick like its supposed to be. Lodge makes decent pans. Not as good as the old ones, but i cant exactly go thrift store hunyung to find a good 12" pan.
Well done!
When I buy a new one, seasoned or not (it doesn't matter to me), it gets scrubbed hard in hot water with detergent and ScotchBrite (only because I have a hard time finding ChoreGirl any more). Then it is in a 500 F oven for half an hour, wiped on all sides with Crisco, back in the oven for an hour, then a second wiping with reserved bacon drippings or lard (I prefer lard, because I never have enough bacon drippings for cooking), and in the oven again for an hour.
Once seasoned, I seldom do any scrubbing on the iron. Wipe out with dishcloth, rinse, and dry by heating on the burner.
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If you have properly seasoned cast iron, using soap to clean it will NOT hurt the seasoning.
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If you have properly seasoned cast iron, using soap to clean it will NOT hurt the seasoning.
Agreed... mild detergent will not hurt the carbon unless you get real aggressive. I avoid metal tools and only use wood or plastic.
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I have cast iron skillets that belonged to my great-grandma and I've been cooking on one of them since I was 8 years old and I've never had to re-season it and nothing sticks and it gets washed with Dawn after every use. If the seasoning is done right the first time, it will last. The secret is the temperature that you use to season. It has to be heated up past the smoke point of whatever oil you use and preferably heated until it stops smoking.
A fellow named Glen Carman who is a mutual friend of Majers and mine has a cooking forum as well as a facebook page dedicated to cast iron and chuck wagon cooking. He's been doing this stuff longer than I have and has written multiple documents on the history and uses as well as many how-to docs for stuff like sour dough bread, quick breads and so on. He's been giving demos at state parks and schools for many years on the subject of cast iron cooking.
This is one of his documents that I copied and pasted (he gives permission to use it for anyone) on care and seasoning of cast iron. It has a lot of good info, including the smoking points of most popular oils.
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Cleaning, Seasoning and Care of Cast Iron Cookware
I will start with what is known as seasoning, perhaps one of the most misunderstood parts of cast iron cookware, this is the place where most fail, lack of a proper seasoning is where the majority of problems people have with cast iron come from. A true seasoning on our cookware is a thin layer of carbonized/polymerized eatable oils/fats that have had all the volatile substances burned off, leaving only the carbon behind and forming long chain molecules. If that sounds complicated, it?s not, it is easy to do and I will come back to that simple process in a bit, but first we need to have our cookware prepped to accept the seasoning.
Preparing Cast Iron for Seasoning
Our cookware we need to get ready to use can be newly made or it can be new to us, but used by someone else in the past, or even something we have owned for a while, but are not happy with how it works due to being poorly seasoned.
Most of the new cast iron sold today is what is called pre-seasoned, it is the easiest to work with, wash it with soap and water, dry it, add some oil, get the oil hot, add a couple eggs and then fry them, if it works fine, it is good to go, it is now ready for cleaning and care, if not, the factory did not get it seasoned well, but I?ll tell you how to fix that in a bit, start a pile for cast iron needing seasoned.
I will note before going further that when you get cast iron clean and down to the bare metal and dried, you will sometimes have a bit of red powdery rust on the surface, that is fine, no harm, no foul, the seasoning process will take care of it.
New but not pre-seasoned will have some sort of oil or wax to prevent it from rusting, often these can be removed with just soap, hot water and a good scrub pad, rinse well and dry it over the stove burner to remove all the moisture, look to see if it has that nice grey color of bare iron, you may have a fine layer of red oxide known as rust, but that is no problem, set the piece aside in the pile of needing seasoned and we?ll get to it after we get our used pieces ready.
Used cast iron often causes the most controversy as to how to get it ready for use, many say if the piece looks good and is well seasoned just use it, I don?t, I prefer to strip it and re-season it, others may not, it?s just what I prefer. As for the method used, it?s like the old saying, ?and that is when the fight began.? There are several methods; all will work if they are used properly, they all can cause trouble if used improperly, and the methods I know of can be heat, chemical, mechanical, electrolysis or even a combination of all of them. Before using any of these methods, like new pieces, I like to wash the piece with hot soap, water and the scrub pad to remove all the oils.
To me, the easiest is heat, although when it is discussed it seems to be the most controversial method with many saying you will ruin the piece, well you can, over heat it and/or heat it very unevenly and you can warp it, you can crack it or form an oxide layer often called red scale that makes it hard to season.(the red scale can be removed by mechanical methods because it?s just on the surface, hand sand with 120 -150 grit sandpaper till clean and shiny and don?t do it again.) Use heat in a sensible manner and there is no problem, but I will add this disclaimer I would hesitate using it on a really old valuable piece, if you do over heat it and warp or crack it, then that piece is lost forever because they are no longer made, practice on lesser pieces.
As for cleaning it with heat, I most often just take the piece or pieces with me to one of my camps and in the evening when the cooking is done (and before it gets dark, the time people want to sit around the fire) I just let the fire burn down to low coals spread out evenly and place the piece or pieces on top of the coals and let the crud burn off, removing it when clean and before the piece gets that red glow to it. I then set the piece aside to cool then take it home and finish it most times.
Others use a self-cleaning oven, very simple and easy, it might smoke the house up some, I have used it in the past but no longer have that type of stove. Others use a outside gas grill and that keeps the smoke out of the house, no matter what the method of providing heat, the goal is to clean it only and by not turning it red hot or beyond and heating it evenly it has worked fine for me for a lot of years. After it has cooled, I put it in the sink (or if too big for the sink I use our bath tub) and use warm water and dish soap on it and scrub it up well removing all the burnt material with a stainless steel pot scrubber, then dry it on the stove and it is ready for our pile that needs seasoned.
Chemical methods most often involve either an alkaline substance or an acid substance to remove rust and built up layers, the alkaline substance most often being lye, (sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide solution) it is often used in drain cleaners and oven cleaners, and it is caustic so some care has to be used with it. One method often used is to simply buy spray on oven cleaner and to use it on the piece then put it in a garbage bag for several hours or even several days, rinse, scrub well with soap and water and see if all residue has been removed, if not, recoat and let is soak again.
The lye method involves adding 1 pound of lye to 5 gallons of water (make sure the lye is added to the water and not the water to the lye) and soaking the cast iron in this, the cast iron can stay in it a long period with out harm. One must remember lye is caustic and one must keep it from contacting the skin and is best done in an area where children and pets can?t come in contact with it.
Lye does a good job of removing the old build up, but is not that good for removing rust, many recommend neutralizing the lye with vinegar after cleaning, but rinsing well should remove all the lye, one can do this to make yourself feel good, if there is lye left, there will be a bit of bubbling when the vinegar is added from the Carbon dioxide being formed as the lye is neutralized.
When using the acid method one of three acids are used, one being acetic acid the acid found in vinegar, citric acid found in citric fruits as well as molasses and phosphoric acid, which is often used as metal prep for cleaning new metal before painting, but is also used in soda pop to give it that bite, Coca Cola having what is said to be the highest percent.
Vinegar can be used straight or diluted, and any type can be used, I use white vinegar because most times it?s cheaper and I use the cheap store brand. Most vinegar is about 5% acidity no matter the brand. The method recommended by many for a vinegar bath is a non-metal container big enough for the piece or pieces and fill it with ? vinegar/1/2 water and submerge the piece in and let it soak for a few hours, remove from the bath, scrub as before and resoak if needed. I myself just use our bath tub since we also have a shower, it is not unusual to have cast iron being cleaned in my tub and it works great.
The citric acid method seems to most often use molasses as a cheap source of this acid, the recommended amount being 1 part molasses to 9 parts water, this method is said to take 2-4 weeks by those who use it and the animal supplement type found at farm stores is the cheapest. I myself have never tried this, but I?m relating it because some seem to like the method, to me it?s too slow.
The phosphoric acid is perhaps best used as Coca-Cola I have used this in the past as a cleaner for small steel and iron parts, having also used the higher strength metal prep in the past; I don?t recommend it metal prep for home use. The Coca-Cola works well to remove rust but making a vinegar bath although perhaps slower, is cheaper than the Coca-Cola by far.
Mechanical can be as simple as a good scrub pad, sand paper, steel wool or other similar items, or it can involve using compressed air to force an abrasive material under pressure, this is called blasting, the abrasive can bee sand, steel shot, ground corn cobs or walnut shell or baking soda. The baking soda uses the finest grit and is what I recommend if having pieces blasted. The other can leave a very rough surface, depending on the coarseness of the grit, the pressure it?s blasted as well as the skill of the operator using the equipment. Soda blasting is used for a lot of delicate restoration work so it will be fine on cast iron although it will cost more than the do it yourself methods.
The electrolysis method uses an electrical currant to remove the rust, it is a process similar to plating with chrome or other metals, but the process is reversed. The iron from the rust is deposited on another iron rod rather than the metal from a rod being deposited on the piece as in plating; in fact this method is used in restoration work to remove plating before prepping and replating.
The rusty iron and the so called sacrificial rod are immersed in a solution of washing soda (Sodium carbonate) available at most any grocery store along with the laundry detergent at a ratio of 1-2 tablespoons per gallon of water. The sacrificial rod and the cast iron piece are hung in a non-metallic container so they are fully immersed. A manual (not automatic) battery charger is hooked up with the negative (black) to the piece to be cleaned and the positive (red) to the sacrificial rod and the current turned on, the rust them flows to the sacrificial rod and the whole process only takes a few hours. A battery can be added to the circuit if the battery charger is not a manual one, the current to the tank needs to come from the battery and the battery charger keeps the battery from being drained. (As anytime working around water and electricity one needs to be very careful, the washing soda is what is called an electrolyte and makes the water more conductive to electricity.)
As before, clean the piece with soap, water and a scrub pad, dry with heat and examine to see if you have reached the bare iron. If it is done, also add it to our pile.
Seasoning Cast Iron
Once we have the piece cleaned and down to bare metal, we need to get it seasoned, this is where it gets confusing for many, despite much of the information out there today, seasoning is not just a coating of an oil that has been heated up for a specific time in an oven at a specific temperature, usually said to be 350F, this misconception causes by far the majority of the problems people have with cast iron cookware with both cooking with it and cleaning with it. So what is seasoning and how do we do it?
The proper seasoning of a cast iron cooking piece is where a thin coating of oil is carbonized in a process similar to making charcoal, the volatile parts of the oil burn off leaving a polymer carbon coating (long chain molecules) that form a fairly non-stick surface on the top of the bare metal, filling the minute pores as well. Different cooking oils and fats carbonize at different temperatures; the point at where they start this process is called the ?smoke point? because the volatile substances in the oils start to burn off creating the smoke. The carbonized oils left behind that coat the iron will not burn off till temperatures of 800 to 1000F are reached, beyond any normal cooking temperatures.
Today there are products on the market made and sold specifically for seasoning cast iron, I have never used any of these, and I have never had any problems seasoning cast iron with the different cooking oils and fats, many of those who have used them claim good results, but I have never had anything less than good results using normal cooking oils and fats, also if you think these products are some sort of magic, think again, they are mostly either soy bean/Canola oil for the liquid ones, or beeswax based for the solid ones with some soy or other oils added.
A quick check shows the liquid ones are about $7-$10 for 8 ounce, the solid is around $10 for 6 ? ounce unless you decide to buy it in the handy container that looks like stick deodorant and then it is $10 for slightly over 2 ? ounces. For comparison a bottle of soy bean oil in the liter size can be bought many times for around $1, I find this interesting because no matter what oil you use as we discussed above, you end up with carbon, also most instructions that come with these do not recommend heating high enough to fully burn off the volatile substances, this is not seasoning, but heated up oils.
The following is a list of some of the common cooking oils and fats listing the smoke point, (sources will show slightly different temps, it depends on the exact composition of the fat/oil which can vary slightly, and this is just a guide with averages). I really don?t have a favorite for actual seasoning, I normally use sunflower oil (cold pressed) because it is fairly cheap and I use it some in the kitchen, the bottle is easy to grab.
Safflower Oil -------- 510F/265C
Soybean Oil --------- 450F/230C
Peanut Oil ------------450F/230C
Corn Oil ---------------450F/230C
Sunflower Oil --------- 440F/225C
Beef Tallow ----------- 400F/205C
Canola Oil ------------- 400F/205C
Grapeseed Oil ---------- 390F/195C
Lard -------------------- 370F/185C
Vegetable Shortening ---- 360F/180
Coconut Oil --------------350F/175C
Extra-Virgin Olive Oil ------ 350F/175C
Although seasoning is not difficult, it is a step that many seem to have trouble with, one problem many have is when they are done, the piece is sticky and gummy feeling, this is a result of putting too much oil and fat on the surface before attempting to carbonize it as well as not getting the piece hot enough to carbonize the fats/oils. The other is the piece does not have a good non-stick surface, also a result of not getting the piece hot enough to carbonize the fats/oils fully.
Let?s address the using to much oils and fats first, I prefer cooking oils which are liquid at room temperature for seasoning, just because they are easier to work with on cold cast iron, I take a rag with the oil on it and I wipe and coat the surface to be seasoned with the oil, I then take a clean dry rag (paper towel will work) and I wipe as much of the oil back off as I can, just leaving a thin film. With a fat that is solid at room temperature it is best to heat the piece up above the melting point of the fat and wipe as much back off as you can just like the oil, one just has to be careful not to burn yourself in the process. The secret to seasoning is to not get more than a very thin film on it; any extra will just make a gummy surface. I have often seen it recommended turning the piece up-side down and putting a cookie sheet under the piece to catch any drips, but if you have enough that it will drip, you have too much on the surface already, it is better to remove all you can with the dry rag, it?s ok to do it up-side down, but if it?s on right it won?t drip.
So now we are ready to heat the piece up and carbonize the oils/fats, so how high do we heat it? Well if one wants to make it a bit scientific, then look at the smoke point of the oil/fat you are using and go a little higher than the smoke point, many sources today say 350F for seasoning which is barely the smoke point of the lowest oils and who is to say 350F on the dial is 350F inside, instructions often say to recoat it and heat it several times to build it up, done right it?s not needed.
I have found that no matter what oil/fat I am using, I put the piece in the oven, turn the thermostat to the last notch before the broiler kicks in and let it run a ? hour or so or when it quits smoking. On my oven control it says 550F and my thermometer says it?s about 530F, I am not sure which is right, but when the piece cools I give it a thin coat of oil and it is ready to use. If you use the high temperature and really carbonize the oils, there is no need to repeat several more times; all you do is risk building up a heavy thickness that can even be prone to flaking off.
Our properly seasoned oven is now ready to use, forget these warnings about not using metal utensils in it, ?you?ll scrape off the seasoning? if it does you didn?t season it right.
Cleaning Seasoned Cast Iron
Once the cast iron is seasoned and is used to cook with, we come to having to properly clean it after use, this is another place where the methods differ between people, I have seen long internet discussions on this that have almost turned hostile, most seem to think the seasoning on cast iron is delicate, which as we discussed above, it is not if done properly.
I will state right now those words that cause all kinds of problems in discussions on cleaning cast iron, ?I am not afraid to use dish soap in my cast iron? in fact if something really greasy has been cooked in it like a pork roast, I will use it to help get rid of the excess grease which can turn rancid. I also am not afraid to use scrubbing pads such as the green and brown 3M type or even stainless steel ones. What are not hard to remove are any oils that are on the surface of the seasoning, these may have been put on to preserve the piece from rust or it may be left over from cooking. I often cook large meals that use 10-12 dutch ovens and most times I am doing everything on my own, it just makes things easier and quicker and since there is truly no harm in doing it, why make things more difficult than it needs to be?
Many times I have been told to not use soap because the pores in the cast iron will soak up the soap and anything cooked in it will have soap in it. Well the surface of the cast iron has some microscopic pores in it, true, although the carbonized oils do fill them, but what is more important is if these pores are not fully filled with the seasoning any soap that goes in is so minute as to not be noticed, plus it will rinse out just fine, the cast iron is not as porous as many think.
Another item to use for those really tough to clean messes is washing soda (Sodium carbonate which is not the same as baking soda or Sodium Bicarbonate) available in the same area as laundry detergent in most stores. This is not soap, but it does soften the water so it cleans better than plain water, a lot of the water in wells where I cook is very hard and this just helps my dish soap work better.
One item often said to be bad on cast iron is the dish washer, I do not having one of these devices so I can say I have never tried one with cast iron, but rather than the dish washer itself being the problem, my thoughts are it?s the piece sitting wet in that damp environment that causes the problem, wash a cast iron piece with any method using water and let it slowly dry in a damp environment and you will get rusting, not anything you can?t fix, but it will rust.
Care of Cast Iron
Once the cast iron is clean no matter what method you use, it needs thoroughly dried, it can be dried with a towel if desired, but it still should be heated up to drive any moisture out, then a light coat of oil put on to prevent rust. At home a stove burner can be used, in camp the fire, it just needs heated up enough to remove any trace of the water, often on hot days I save time and trouble by leaving the lids off with the oven in the sun, at 90 F or more they get too hot to touch in a short time and are dry very quickly.
After the piece is heated, it needs wiped with a very thin coat of oil, most do it while still warm, this makes the oil flow a little better and reach every corner. Just like seasoning this coat should be very thin, and if possible, a non-drying oil is best. Which bring us to another term that need explained.
Oils are classed as non-drying, semi-drying and drying, in other words some oils will oxidize to the point they will form a dry film, in other words, add pigments and you have oil paints, not really something we want on out cast iron cook-war, most, (but not all) cooking oils are semi-drying or non-drying. Semi-drying oils often have driers added to make them drying oils as well as drying oils having them added to cause faster drying. Where to class the oils is determined by an analytical process that determines how much iodine a specific amount of the oil will absorb, no need to get any deeper here, but for our use all we need to know is this is called Iodine Value and number of the iodine value determines where it is classed.
Iodine values of oils over 130 are considered drying oils and a couple common ones are:
Tung Oil at around 165-175
Linseed/flax seed oil at 135-180
These are true drying oils in their natural state, although Tung oil is not used in cooking, linseed oil is, but under its other name, Flax Seed Oil, when bought as linseed oil or boiled linseed oil it is not intended for human consumption, the boiled has additional products added to speed up drying. Other common oils ride the line on if they are drying oils or semi-drying oils, depending on the particular lot of oil, a value of 115 to 130 are considered semi-drying oils, these can include:
Sunflower at 125-145
Grape seed at 125-145
Walnut at 120-140
Soy Bean at 120-135
Wheat Germ Oil at 115-135
Canola Oil at 110-130
Corn Oil at 110-130
Non-drying oils are ones with an iodine value below 115:
Cotton Seed at 100-115
Rice Bran Oil at 100-110
Olive Oil at 80-90
Lard at 60-70
Beef Tallow at 50-60
Palm Oil at 45-60
Palm Kernel Oil at 15-20
Coconut Oil at 5-15
(Values are based on several sources and averaged.)
(Palm Oil and Palm Kernel Oil are different oils from different palms)
Non-drying oils are the best for wiping, because they won?t get gummy if it is put on a little thick and don?t risk getting rancid like others.
I have always preferred olive oil for wiping a piece that will be stored over a couple of weeks, just a thin layer put on with a rag works well, for short term I often use lard, this is one pieces that get used often, my most used kitchen pieces and my camp ovens when cleaning up to go home from a trip. Then for storage I clean them up and use olive oil on them.
I see mineral oil recommended at times for both seasoning and preserving cast iron; on the plus side it rates a 0 on the Iodine Value so it has no chance of getting gummy. But to me the down side is it?s a refined petroleum distillate and although there is a food grade mineral oil, it is intended more as a lubricant for food processing machinery, its use in food products is very restricted by law. One of the medical uses of mineral oil is a laxative and there are many cautions on its uses in that field, I just prefer to stay away from it, although some who use it swear by it.
When it is all said and done, just about any food grade oil will work for preserving our cast iron after cleaning, but we can see the true non-drying oils are more forgiving when you get it on a little thick and animal fats and the semi-drying oils do run a risk of turning rancid, to me it just makes sense to stick with a vegetable oil that always falls under the non-drying oil status. Of these for me at least the olive oil gets the go, it is easy to find at almost any grocery store, it is something I generally keep in the groceries because it is correct to the 19th Century and has some uses for me in cooking. To vary from this requires I buy another item and in camp it means I have an extra item I have to take to camp; I just prefer to keep things as simple as possible.
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I copied that to read it all later PegLeg.
Whether it will hurt anything or not, I don't use any kind of soap to wash my cast iron. I don't need to, and I still say a dishwasher will screw it up. Anyone who doesn't believe me can try it for yourself and report the results to this thread.
All the utensils in my kitchen are stainless steel except for some plastic spoons and rubber spatulas. I scrape what I can out of the pan with a big s.s. spatula before I fill it with water. And If I'm in a hurry to use the pan again and not let it soak, I'll scrape it some more with water in it, then scrub the rest out with a scotch-brite pad. If it has cheese and stuff burned on really bad I'll put water in the pan and let it boil on top of the stove for a few minutes. I probably haven't had to do that since the last millennium.
I used to dry my skillets by wiping them dry then heating them on the stove for awhile. Then several years ago I started skipping the heating on the stove bit. I just rinse them with very hot water and dry them off with paper towels. I wipe the whole pan off with one paper towel and then another, and that's it. I never had a speck of rust so I know they're dry enough. They don't rust setting in the sink overnight filled to the rim with water either.
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I don't put mine in the dishwasher either, but the guy that wrote the document maintains it won't get hot enough to harm the seasoning but should always be removed as soon as the cycle is done and re-oiled.
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When i get stuff burnt on to the bottom i just add in inch or so of water, set it on high nd boil it for a few mins. It comes righr off, re oil and in the oven. I have also found corse salt and oil a great abrasive to remove stuck bits
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The problem with the dishwasher isn't just the heat, it's the detergent that's so strong you're not supposed to get it on your skin. I think that's what wrecked the seasoning on my skillet. I read somewhere online the drying cycle wasn't good for it either. I think it contributes to the rust after the detergent strips away some of the seasoning.
When it's real bad I boil water in the pan like TAB said, but I rarely re-oil mine and put it back in the oven. It's good the way it is but sometimes I lightly oil it, either after I clean it or when I'm getting ready to cook in it.
All this talk about cast iron makes me want to use mine, and there are a bunch of angus burgers in the freezer that can be cooked without thawing. My stomach has been growling for awhile and I only have to wait 5 more minutes since I took a pill.
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I have found that what many people think is stuck on and must be scoured will come right out if you let hot water sit in the pan for a few minutes - Very similar to other's comments about boiling water in the pan.
As I start my workday, 03:00, I sit with my laptop, in my recliner, with coffee, and old westerns or cop shows on. They run adds for the latest and greatest non-stick frying pan. Lately it has been some fake copper thing with a non-stick coating. They brag that it is safe in the oven up to 500f. Ovens go up to, and some over, 500f. How hot do you think a frying pan gets sitting on a burner searing meat or frying potatoes?
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Here's y'all some cast iron cookin'...... made from scratch cinnamon rolls.
Like I told Mike on the book of face, won't as much water fit in the washtub when all this virus crap is over with.
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Roasted pecans (30 minutes at 250) with butter, tiger sauce seasoning, black pepper and Tony Chacherie's.
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Roasted pecans (30 minutes at 250) with butter, tiger sauce seasoning, black pepper and Tony Chacherie's.
Ever tried 'em deep fried, Rastus?
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No I haven't. Enlighten me on the preparation....
Just had a peanut butter and grape jam on sourdough....steak tonight.
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Just like frying peanuts.... get your oil of choice (peanut or lard is what I use) up to 350? F.
A good basket of straining dipper is best.
Drop the pecan halves and time it for a minute (a minute is all it takes).
Dip out and drop on paper towels and salt or season while hot.
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Another great thing for peacans ( almonds also) is a bit of honeu, red pepper and hot smoked paprika. I make a few pounds of them every year at xmas. Despite them being too hot for most people to handle, they are always the 1st to go when i take them some place.
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Taco salad. I had a digital coupon for 50 cents off Old El Paso shredded cheese, and another coupon to get a free packet of any Old El Paso seasoning with the purchase of the cheese. So I bought that Friday and took some 80% lean ground beef out of the freezer. I already had plenty of lettuce and Doritos and threw it together today.
No recipe, but I used a whole head of lettuce, a pound of meat with spicy taco seasoning, 4-cheese blend, plenty of salsa, and creamy French dressing (the only kind I have open). I don't think the salsa sticks very well without salad dressing. I no longer own a salad bowl so I mixed it all together in my biggest mixing bowl. When I put it my serving bowl I layered it with broken nacho cheese Dortitos. They would have disintegrated if they sat in the salad overnight so I didn't put them in. I don't care how beat up the lettuce is from stirring the rest of the stuff in. It has plenty of crunch and it will tomorrow too. Tomatoes wouldn't have fared well even if I had any.
A head of lettuce weighs about 19 ounces, so by the time I threw away the outermost leaf, a few small spots, and the core, it was nearly the same weight as the ground beef. Roughly 40% lettuce, 40% ground beef, and 20% cheese. :) No vegetarian salad for me, but I'll add fresh lettuce tomorrow. I might get my salad up to 50% vegetation. ;D In a while I'm going to wipe out the frying pan with a "scratchy pad" that has more holes in it than a slice of Swiss cheese. When they quit working I use them like a dish cloth, and at this point I'm not scrubbing anything with it. But it's had all it could take and it's going out to the curb tonight.
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WOW...81,662 thread views for a cooking thread...... next to shooting, I know what you guys like to do.
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Some like to reload and shoot. Some like to cook and eat....
Others just like to shoot.........
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Some like to eat and... sit. And think about things.
I had a different kind of cheese dog with a side of Cuban sandwich flavor kettle chips. I put a slice of colby-jack cheese on a slice of bread, and since the bun length hotdogs are so skinny I put 2 of them on it. I put it in the microwave, hit the 1 minute button and called it lunch.
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I have more bread to eat up but instead of a cheese dog I had 3 links of breakfast sausage and 2 slices of smokehouse cheddar warmed up on a slice of bread. I think I'll have a honey flavored peanut butter sandwich too. It sucks not having any jelly to put on it. I could toss in some sugar-free gummi bears for flavor but it doesn't sound that good. I was curious about what a peanut butter and jelly bean sandwich would taste like but I think I'm out them.
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I finally got around to using the combo grill my wife got me for Christmas.
We caught a sale last week at one of our local meat purveyors and got a couple of pork shoulders for .99 a pound so I got a good fire going with some pecan wood and smoked them for a few hours and set the bark and then put them in slow cookers overnight to finish.
We had pulled pork sammiches for lunch and I'll freeze some for later, eat some more, and cut some out and make Brunswick stew later this week.
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Moose Tenders with mushrooms and a wine sauce, and fried potatoes ...
Wifey says I did good!
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Baked beans and a plate full of popcorn shrimp. I was going to bake some cheddar and jalapeno biscuit bites too, but when I opened the package of dough it had mold all over it.
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I sampled a few slices of Cook-in-Bag Steakhouse Style Pork Tenderloin and Cajun Style Applewood Smoked Bacon Crusted Pork Tenderloin. I got 5 of them in 4 different flavors when they were on sale and froze them all until 2 days ago when I took these 2 out to thaw. And I baked a double batch of Betty Crocker Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes. I only ate what was on the spoon when I scraped out my Visions saucepan to wash it. I put them in my casserole dish that was too small to stir everything together and cook it in. So I'll be eating meat and taters for a few days. The potatoes were VERY salty. My little casserole has 200% of a days recommended sodium in it.
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Pork Chops with Rice and Tomatoes
As I looked at a package of loin chops and thinking about the grill, I got an urge for an old favorite:
Get out the heavy iron (all good recipes start this way), brown the pork chops in butter with just a touch of olive oil;
Put a thick slice of onion on top of each chop, cover each chop with dry minute rice, pour on diced canned tomatoes, and add water equal to the amount of rice (one cup for one cup, etc.).
Set on your smallest burner, and a very low simmer for 1/2 - 3/4 hour. Just enough time for the rice to become fully tender. The rice will also pick up a nice bronze to brown color from the butter and drippings from the chops.
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I finished the first pork loin today and started on the second one. I think it was about 38 ounces of meat altogether. I like it better with just a little bit of Grey Poupon. It looks like I'll finish the potatoes tonight. They don't taste nearly as salty as the big spoonful I scraped off of the pot. Maybe the water boiled out of the sauce around the sides of the pot and concentrated the salt there. ??? Just a guess.
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Going to grill some burgers tonight, but this noon was a little left over moose - Moose tenders, with fried onions and mushrooms on toasted homemade bread.
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Never understood why anyone would want to cover up the flavor of a good piece of meat with onions, peppers or mushrooms... ??? ??? The same with covering a good steak with steak sauce. Just my opinion, But then again,I'm allergic to onions, peppers and mushrooms... :-[ :-[ ::)
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Never understood why anyone would want to cover up the flavor of a good piece of meat with onions, peppers or mushrooms... ??? ??? The same with covering a good steak with steak sauce. Just my opinion, But then again,I'm allergic to onions, peppers and mushrooms... :-[ :-[ ::)
Reminds me of a recipe to improve the taste of salt: Sprinkle lightly over a medium rare rib eye steak
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While microwaving a bowl of ramen soup I diced up the last of my pork loin then stirred it in when the soup was done. The first bowl I grabbed out of the cupboard was beef ramen and the second was chicken. I thought the chicken flavor would overpower the pork and I know I don't have pork flavor so I used the beef. It actually tastes pretty good. One pork loin had caraway seeds on it but I don't taste any in my soup yet.
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Never understood why anyone would want to cover up the flavor of a good piece of meat with onions, peppers or mushrooms... ??? ??? The same with covering a good steak with steak sauce. Just my opinion, But then again,I'm allergic to onions, peppers and mushrooms... :-[ :-[ ::)
It isn't covering, it is eating along with. When done correctly, you still taste the full meat. When I made this there was a wine sauce that went with it. Just a 1/2 cup or so. It was the butter and oil the onions and mushrooms were browned in, a little wine, all reduced, and all the drippings from the pan the tenders were browned and oven finished in. On extremely lean meat the added fat is good, and with this sauce it is all about getting the full meat flavor into the fat you add.
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Put some elk, carrots, onions, potatoes, garlic, celery and herbs in the slow cooker about 4 hours ago. Should be awesome for dinner
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Hot Nuts, but this bag wasn't Cajun Hot Nuts. They're good and so are the Hatch Chile flavor. It's been awhile since I had the Dill Pickle flavor but I think I liked those too. There are basically two kinds of peanuts I like, hot spicy peanuts and Planters Sweet ’N Crunchy Peanuts. The Rite Aid brand sucks.
https://www.hamptonfarms.com/collections/in-shell-peanuts
https://www.planters.com/product/00029000072503
Once, I mail-ordered a plastic mesh bagful of Cajun Creole Hot Nuts that were hotter than these and they were really good. I took them along as a trail snack when I went ATV riding with a couple of friends. One time when I cracked one or two open, threw away the shells, and popped the peanuts into my mouth, I slapped really hot peanut dust right in my eyes. Maybe the wind blew it off my hand. I had to rinse my eyes out with whatever I was drinking ASAP and I don't think it was water.
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I had crunchy coconut shrimp covered with sweet chili sauce for lunch. I have a dozen more in the fridge but only for a few more minutes. Breakfast was Thai coconut & sweet chili shrimp purses that I ate with tamari sauce. If I was a twit I would have twittered #SaturdayShrimpDay and seen if it blew up or was trending or whatever it is twits say about those things. Maybe I could have gotten a bunch of twits to like me or follow me.
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Twas a simple evening, but Sunday evenings usually are.
Went to the freezer the other day and pulled out a package of smoked pork loin. Cubed it, threw it in some hot lard, add a bunch of onion and garlic, and serve with some Frank's Red Hot.
Excellent Minnesota pork, just the right rub, and the hickory was perfect with the extras. This batch came out perfect, but it is hard to screw up great meat.
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Pineapple upside-down cake. Breakfast was chicken asada with cilantro lime rice. #MexicanMonday ::) Lunch wasn't worth mentioning.
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A big jar of five bean salad with several ounces of Monterrey Jack cheese on the side. Three bean salad is okay, and four bean salad is good, but five bean salad? I'm not sure I deserve anything that good.
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Roasted chicken salad from Bojangles...... not a bad salad for $5.25.
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Hawaiian Pizza from Domino's.
It'll build a turd. ;D
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Hawaiian Pizza from Domino's.
It'll build a turd. ;D
That's what really matters.
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It was already halfway there. ;)
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;D Where's that darned like button? Maybe after I clear my cookies and crap it will show up when I log back in.
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ROFL I must have grossed out Marshal.
Every other post in the thread has a Like button except that one . ;D
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You can't see them in your own posts, so you can't keep liking yourself no matter how much you like yourself. :D
ETA: I'm full of Lucky Charms and thinking about going back to bed soon. I sleep a couple of hours whenever, eat whatever, whenever, sleep again, eat again. Repeat as necessary. I especially don't care when I go to bed on the weekends because I don't have any appointments to go to. And since there's no mail today, I don't even have to go outside. The only thing I have to do is take a shower when I get back up. My lawn really needs mowing again but they said thunderstorms and showers today and chance of flurries in the morning. WTF? It's a good thing tulips are tough because mine bloomed last month. I had grape hyacinths right in the middle of the front yard too, until I mowed.
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Just got back from the daughter's house. Her hubby left this at 0400 today for Florida - 18 hour drive at a fast pace, and they are currently on pace for about 16 hours. she flies down tomorrow. The reason he drove, along with a friend who also has a home down there, is that if you fly you can't golf at the country club for 14 days.
Back to the meal, she made her mother almond flour and almond crust chicken thigh, pecan and bacon brussels sprouts, and corn, and chocolate chip sugar cookies for desert. Damn! Someone taught that kid how to cook!
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My younger son and I smoked 150 chicken quarters and 125 3/4" thick pork chops Saturday far a close friend's family get-together.
We used our Young Farmers chapter's big Southern Pride Rotisserie smoker that has fifteen racks. It made the task a breeze. 8)
Wife and d-i-l made the sides: tater salad, baked beans, green beans, and mac-n-cheese.
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Wow dude, I just stuck with weed and tobacco.
You might want to get some help. ;D
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Wow dude, I just stuck with weed and tobacco.
You might want to get some help. ;D
Yeah, animal fat is rough on the thin papers....but it does burn much faster. 8)
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Younger son cooked us a ribeye and tater on his Pit Boss grill. He went ahead and got 'em from our local meat market before prices went up five more bucks per pound tomorrow....IF they can get any in stock, that is.
Oh well, freezers are full of venison.
Sho was good, though.
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Younger son cooked us a ribeye and tater on his Pit Boss grill. He went ahead and got 'em from our local meat market before prices went up five more bucks per pound tomorrow....IF they can get any in stock, that is.
Oh well, freezers are full of venison.
Sho was good, though.
A little inside information:
SJ_LS710
St Joseph, MO Wed May 13, 2020 USDA Market News
Estimated Daily Livestock Slaughter under Federal Inspection
CATTLE CALVES HOGS SHEEP
Wednesday 05/13/2020(est) 91,000 1,000 373,000 7,000
Week ago (est) 82,000 1,000 312,000 7,000
Year ago (act) 122,000 2,000 457,000 8,000
Week to date (est) 266,000 5,000 1,091,000 22,000
Same Period Last Week (est) 237,000 5,000 885,000 21,000
Same Period Last Year (act) 363,000 6,000 1,370,000 25,000
Previous Day Estimated Steer and Heifer Cow and Bull
Tuesday 65,000 24,000
Things are improving, but we are still about 25% down from a year ago. When you look at kill numbers, it takes 36 to 48 hours to get the animal through the line for hogs, and it takes about another 12 to 24 beyond that for cattle.
Pricing??? Our buyers are going strictly Hand to Mouth. The market is very high and very volatile. We are seeing some price drops in beef due to the negative media and sympathy for farmers and ranchers. However, the packers are still losing money over all. We are seeing some pull back from our customers due to price, but they still seem to have large demand. Some of that is because more and more are buying 100% from us, because their other suppliers can't get it.
Our facility is emptying fast. We have a 40,000 ft2 freezer that was down to 500 pallet positions (22 loads) on Sunday. On a good day, that could all be gone! Our main facility freezer is a little less, and our fresh coolers don't have much more than a single day's supply.
We ship about a million pounds per day. We did 1.6 on last Friday. Today we will receive in about 1.2, but this is our first receiving day over a million in almost a week. The outside carriers we book to help bring in and take out are so slow we are getting emails and phone calls all day looking for loads.
Bottom line: Buy what you need or want when you can find and afford it. Eat what is in your freezer. Sharpen up on your marksmanship for squirrel, deer, etc. If you are rural and know a feeder, buy a critter and pretend you just dropped it with your good old 30-30.
We are Chicago, and the info above is for our Chicago location
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We have our own few head of cattle on the hoof and our own processing equipment....and our neighbor is a cattle rancher.....and if times get really hard, we have one old 'democrat' that keeps the coyotes and cats off the cows....meat might be tough, but it'll stave off starvation for a little while. ;D ;D
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Had some chips & salsa and enchiladas w/rice for supper.
First time since early March we went to a local dine-in restaurant. It was a new Mexican joint that had the misfortune of having their grand opening the weekend before the hysterical covid clamp-down. They were able to do some take-out business during the hoopla, but last week they were finally able to get back to limited dine-in serving. They have a big parking lot, so they improvised and put up six 10x10 pop-up tents with a table under each one for outside dining (also have three tables under the attached awning.
It wasn't the worst, but wasn't the best either..... I chalk it up to new restaurant growing pains and a very young staff. I'll give it a few months and try them again.
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I went to the store yesterday wasn't buying meat, but checked. Prices on beef seemed normal, about half what they went to last month. Chicken was on sale but pork seemed high.
Just because I noticed gas was $1.85 ;D
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The very last of the elk sausage. I thought i ised it up a couple months back, but i found 2 frozen patties.
I can not wait to get the barn built so i can have a proper freezer.
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TAB, I forgot you moved North.
How are you liking THAT . ;D
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I went to the store yesterday wasn't buying meat, but checked. Prices on beef seemed normal, about half what they went to last month. Chicken was on sale but pork seemed high.
Just because I noticed gas was $1.85 ;D
The three 40# cases of chicken quarters I mentioned a few posts up from here were $22 per case. We got them from the local meat place about two miles from the house.
We got the 125 smoked pork chops for $250 from a different place we use in the town fifteen miles away.....his price was a good bit cheaper (and that where the other guy was going to get them anyway).
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The three 40# cases of chicken thighs I mentioned a few posts up from here were $22 per case. We got them from the local meat place about two miles from the house.
We got the 125 smoked pork chops for $250 from a different place we use in the town fifteen miles away.....his price was a good bit cheaper (and that where the other guy was going to get them anyway).
Boneless or Bone In?
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Boneless or Bone In?
Bone-in, and I mis-typed when I said thighs...it was quarters (leg/thigh).
Last summer they were 40# boxes for $19. It usually works out to 48 to 50 quarters per box with a few extra legs thrown in to make weight.
Wings are what are ridiculously priced.
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I don't get it, in my opinion chicken wings are something that belong in that bag up the birds ass. ;D
Maybe there's a market for teriyaki turkey necks ? ;D
Heck, you can just pour Frank's Hot sauce in your hand and leave the bird out completely. ::)
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TAB, I forgot you moved North.
How are you liking THAT . ;D
i am not. Its not my type of land, but the misses wanted to go back to working on kids and took a 70k a year pay cut to do it.
Spent most of the day welding up a new gate for the property, the one there is more rust and bailing wire thrn steal. It keeps me busy.
I also hate having to retrain the local home depot staff. Had words with a manger this week about getting help loading concrete in my truck. I told him to look at my receipt and see my discount rating... its diamond which means 500k+ last year. And the 3 before that. I actually spent 700k in one store last year. I should not have to wait 40 mins to have some one help me load 1200# of concrete onto a flat bed trailer with a fork lift. Its like i told him, i am building a house not to far, if you treat me like this do you think i will be back. They get one more chance then i will go some place else.
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Bone-in, and I mis-typed when I said thighs...it was quarters (leg/thigh).
Last summer they were 40# boxes for $19. It usually works out to 48 to 50 quarters per box with a few extra legs thrown in to make weight.
Wings are what are ridiculously priced.
We're not quite sure what is happening in the bird market. Wings are always hot. Which size shifts around, but there is always more demand than supply. We have plenty of stock, but they are beyond spendy. Bnls Skls Breasts have been crazy hard to get. I asked Child #2 if we would see a rise in Fryers and WOGS, due to the issues of limited labor and them needing the least handling. She told me that was probably the next step. Of course, later that week she got a deal from Tyson on Leg Quarters, and we are selling them crazy cheap. Friday's inventory showed just over 4,600 boxes in the cooler.
Pork Loins have gotten weird the last couple weeks. We are getting very limited supplies of cryovac in boxes. Our block orders that were either full Loins or split with other cuts have been cut back to less than half in some cases. She has gone to purchasing Combos - Picture your 40# box of leg quarters in a 1,200# version of BI Pork Loins. I'm seeing that there is also an up tick in BI Butts coming in Combos as well. What ever it takes!
The good news is that it appears we have reached the tipping point in processing plants. For every plant that is closing, another is opening back up. Everything is already scaled down, so we product flow is holding stable. As I showed earlier, the kill numbers are starting to slowly increase.
The next thing coming down the pipe will be the local Farmers' Markets, and how they are able to adapt to this. Will states and communities allow them to set up in parking lots and parks to sell their fresh produce. The couple that I know of are still planing full crops in anticipation that they will have a market this summer.
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The Farmer's market here usually starts Memorial Week end with Breads, Wines, and preserves
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We have several local produce suppliers that were having trouble shipping. One of them just a few miles from me shifted gears and got on FB and started taking orders for produce boxes. Each week's box has a variety of fresh vegetables and fruits and they are selling for $20 per box and folks can pre-order from their website.
They are doing an incredible amount of business. I foresee a possible future in this for them.
I would certainly prefer to buy straight from the grower (for items I don't have in my own garden, or stuff that isn't ready to pick from my garden yet).
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I went to the store yesterday wasn't buying meat, but checked. Prices on beef seemed normal, about half what they went to last month. Chicken was on sale but pork seemed high.
Just because I noticed gas was $1.85 ;D
I filled my tank for 44 & 9/10 cents per gallon on the 2nd. I got 24.490 gallons of gas for $11.00. :o 8) That was $1.00 off for using the maximum of 1,000 fuel points at Kroger (for the first time ever) + another 5 cents for paying with my Kroger credit card. I filled my 2 2-gallon gas cans first, and my 5-gallon gas can that's really a water jug I don't use for camping anymore and painted bright red. Then the rest went in my truck. It was full at 23 gallons but I squeezed in almost another dollar's worth, instead of stopping at the next 25 cents like I normally do. I have 111 points left of the 1,111 I started with that are good for another 10 cents/gallon discount until the end of the month, but no intention of using them. I'll wait until next month when I'm getting at least 30 cents/gallon off, 40 if I spend another $33 dollars on groceries this month. And I'm already out of milk and have coupons expiring from Saturday on that I want to use anyway.
The last thing I ate was 2 bratwurst on bread with Cleveland Kraut's Gnar Gnar kraut heaped on. It's spicy & gnarly kraut made of Green Cabbage, Green Bell Peppers, Jalapeño pepper, Kosher Salt, Leeks, Sriracha (Chili Peppers, Sugar, Vinegar, Salt, Garlic, Chili Extract, Beet Powder), Garlic, Red Chili. I really like it and I couldn't fit half as much "Cleveland kimchi" on my brats if I used buns instead of bread. It's a good thing the 1 pound pouch is self venting because this stuff is still alive and fermenting. It looked like it was going to explode in the fridge before I opened it. The only downside so far has been the odor. When I walk out of the bathroom now I notice how much worse it smells on the outside than the inside. My fridge started smelling like probiotic kraut farts Sunday or Monday, and I didn't open the package until Wednesday. :( That's just the price I have to pay to enjoy it.
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Grilled ribeyes and baked taters. They didn't come from our normal market and were tasty, but tougher than normal (even after I let them age some).
I guess that's what I get for $10 each. ;D ;D ;D
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Yeah, most of them $10 ribeyes aren't really ribeye.
It is like pork. When pork is in high demand you may notice that you get a very tender very moist ham. A much better ham than you have had in years. It isn't ham! It's Butt! If you are old school and have skills, cure a butt some time.
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My butt is fine as it thank you.
It doesn't need curing Humph. ;D
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Yeah, most of them $10 ribeyes aren't really ribeye.
It is like pork. When pork is in high demand you may notice that you get a very tender very moist ham. A much better ham than you have had in years. It isn't ham! It's Butt! If you are old school and have skills, cure a butt some time.
It was definitely ribeyes, flavor was there, just tough. :(
Toughness (as you know in your profession) can be affected by multiple variables. A lot of folks don't know that a quality animal's meat can be ruined (for all practical purposes) in the last five minutes before it dies.
We have all the equipment necessary to process a steer, just haven't got one yet since our first calf was a she (but that's a good thing because we're in building mode right now).
My son does deer and wild hogs for family and friends. We have a purpose-built area for all of it. We have a close neighbor who is a USDA facility inspector and he also studied butchering processes. My son had him come over several years ago (as he was just getting going) and teach him all the cuts (of course in the electronic interweb era, all that info is at our fingertips too).
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Yeah, most of them $10 ribeyes aren't really ribeye.
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Alright....I hate to ask knowing you were an undertaker and all of that...what are those $10 fake ribeyes?
And I know they aren't NY Strips.....or Delmonicos....
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Pan fried pork chops with salasa verde
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Need to try this
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Alright....I hate to ask knowing you were an undertaker and all of that...what are those $10 fake ribeyes?
And I know they aren't NY Strips.....or Delmonicos....
Not being on the book of faces, you may have missed my gig for the last four years. After two years of driving for the company, I have spent the last couple years as Logistics Manager, and am currently responsible for moving over five million pounds of meat per week.
https://amigosmeat.com/chicago-2/ (https://amigosmeat.com/chicago-2/)
As you open that the rig is my old truck. Up until two years ago, April 10, 2018, I put just over 205,000 miles on it in 26 months.
We call a lot of those cuts "Mystery Meat." It could be ribeye or strip, but Utility or maybe as high as Select. However, these companies, like No Name Steaks, are real good at cutting different muscles to make it look like whatever you want. A good meat cutter can take a Choice Chuck Roll, and carve it into a steak that you think is ribeye and charge twice the price for it. After they whittle it, and possibly pump it* (inject), you can get fooled.
*Pumping meat - Our daughter (you will see her in the CAB award photo on the website) is the Queen of hating pumped meat, and she can darn near smell it. When we go out to eat, we all sit around evaluating our meat by sight and taste, and at least one, if not more, will be handed to her to test for pumping. When she spits it out, always entertaining at a high end place, we all know.
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TAB, A most wonderful choice for the 1st day of Eid al Fitr that started sundown Saturday ;D
That's OK, I celebrate Ramadan with a noon time BLT. ;D
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Not being on the book of faces, you may have missed my gig for the last four years. After two years of driving for the company, I have spent the last couple years as Logistics Manager, and am currently responsible for moving over five million pounds of meat per week.
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Naw...I know what you're doing now. I was just "throwing back" to be a smart ass....
That is interesting what they do to get the look of a good cut of meat. Also danged crooked. Here in a couple of weeks when the fences are fixed and the front pond fills up we'll be buying some calves to fatten up. Sometime in the future I won't have to be buying something from somewhere that somebody butchered to somehow make something look like something it isn't. If that makes sense to you....
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Damm pic is too big.... making chicken soup with dumblings. All from scratch of corse.
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Local Grocery store has deli Chicken salad, I think they make it with heroin or crack because I've been addicted to it for years now. ;D
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Been at Ft. Clinch in NE Florida all week and just got in. Both sons and their families also went in their campers and the younger son took his vertical Pit Boss pellet smoker.
Over the course of the week, between a couple of seafood nights out at local joints, we had a variety of stuff including: smoked chicken, ribs, jalapeno poppers (aka sausage & cheese-stuffed, bacon-wrapped jalapenos also called armadillo turds or atomic coon turds...depending on where you're from), baked beans, my version of tater/bacon/cheese casserole, burgers, sausage, hot dogs, and the wife's famous chicken salad.
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Last night with some life long friends.
Grilled sukinky, onions, peppers, steak and baked potatoes.
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It's a good thing I read TAB. If I was new here I wouldn't know WTF sukinky is.
Tom, that chicken salad sounds good. I could eat some in a pita and have a bowl of it on the side with a little lettuce and tomato. I have to get my vegetables, don't you know. There's a place a few blocks away that flame grills marinated chicken. I might still have some buy one get one free coupons good for dinners, sandwiches, or salads. I may be paying them a little visit after I take care of some business this weekend. Yum.
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I finally broke down and bought a steamer basket for my crock pot.
I've been living on steamed veggies mixed with Mexican rice, or Raman noodles..
It entertains and feeds me for now. ;D
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Another round of my Saturday morning heart attack prep breakfast:
Medium potato julienned - browned until almost crisp in bacon grease
medium onion chopped in big pieces - throw on top and let soften, and then stir into potatoes
three eggs placed on top of the mess and poached for a few minutes
Slide all into a bowl and top with a little ketchup and a bunch of Tabasco
Three slices of perfect bacon on side, and nice coffee.
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Tonight is going to be a challenge. For just at 41 years this month, we have enjoyed pizza every (we have missed very few) Saturday night. Since we go married 40 1/2 years ago, it has been homemade.
Last week my bride was diagnosed with Insulin Resistant Diabetes. Pizza is a no no as of this past Tuesday.
Over the past year we have had a couple of dishes that used cauliflower in place of potatoes and crusts - AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!! I've been too busy at work to look for alternatives, so this may be a pizza free night :'(
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Over the past year we have had a couple of dishes that used cauliflower in place of potatoes and crusts - AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!!
What's wrong with Cauliflower ?
Odd item, I bought a package of broccoli florets, was looking for cauliflower as well, all I found was ground up , not just cut into the usual clumps.
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Odd item, I bought a package of broccoli florets, was looking for cauliflower as well, all I found was ground up , not just cut into the usual clumps.
Tom,
If you look at the ground up cauliflower, you will see that it's mostly stem pieces with very few of the floret pieces in it, just a way to make money off the waste products.
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It is like many foods. We all have likes and dislikes. I will eat raw broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and sweet potatoes, but if you cook them I am out of here. Personal taste. Someone tried to slip mashed cauliflower past me in place of mashed potatoes.
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Majer, So it's like vegetable sausage ? ;D
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Tonight is going to be a challenge. For just at 41 years this month, we have enjoyed pizza every (we have missed very few) Saturday night. Since we go married 40 1/2 years ago, it has been homemade.
Last week my bride was diagnosed with Insulin Resistant Diabetes. Pizza is a no no as of this past Tuesday.
Over the past year we have had a couple of dishes that used cauliflower in place of potatoes and crusts - AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!! I've been too busy at work to look for alternatives, so this may be a pizza free night :'(
Mike,
Check out "fathead dough" ... it's an ultra-low carb/no sugars dough and can be made in the oven or microwave. I have a friend with diabetes and he uses it to make everything from burger buns to pizza dough.
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Mike,
Check out "fathead dough" ... it's an ultra-low carb/no sugars dough and can be made in the oven or microwave. I have a friend with diabetes and he uses it to make everything from burger buns to pizza dough.
Thanks! I'll check it out.
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I just ate about 1/2 pound of teriyaki marinated pork loin. No condiments or side dishes, just Famous Dave's Signature Spicy Pickles. I was planning on cooking the pork loin a few days earlier and don't know if I got around to cooking it before it spoiled. I guess I'll find out when I get up for the day, or maybe sooner. I cooked a peppercorn seasoned pork loin at the same time.
I have some Betty Crocker scalloped potatoes and au gratin potatoes in the cupboard that I can't cook because I don't have any milk. I haven't gone grocery shopping in over 3 weeks. I have some RightRice I'll cook tomorrow. It kind of looks like rice and kind of cooks like rice but it's made of lentil, chickpea, pea, and rice flour. It's supposed to be good for you. I think I'll cook the Thai curry flavor Wednesday and the Spanish rice flavor after that.
https://www.rightrice.com/
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2 slices of pork loin and some rice that's 90% vegetables. That RightRice has quite a bit of protein and fiber, unlike white rice which is practically all carbohydrates. Too bad the grains are so small and it doesn't have the same texture as white rice.
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Friday night: Left over grilled pork loin.
What else do you eat right after making an emergency run to a distribution center 160 miles away with 41,550# of boneless center cut loins?
This morning: See last Saturday's post! These weekly meals are nothing but pure enjoyment, and an investment in my bride's future ... I think that is why she put my life insurance on auto pay.
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Mike, I've pretty much ignored the fear mongering on running out of meat because of slaughter/packing plant issues. How goes it for real?
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Things did get tight at the height of the issues. However, things are moving fairly freely now. You can't find everything, because most plants used elimination of boning stations to adapt to smaller work force and "social distance". At the height of things, when fresh ran out, the freezers got hit hard. Before you really noticed a shortage the fresh was coming back on line, but the freezers are empty.
Right now, we are purchasing meat for half, and even less, than just three weeks ago. The meat is flowing, and the plants can't move it fast enough, so people like us are buying. What we can't sell in a few weeks, we are going to freeze and pull out when prices go up again.
As far as on the hoof, there are a lot of animals that have been growing that are waiting their turn to go to market. The man I worked for as a fill in between careers just put over 500 head of over weight pigs out on corn stalk stubble to make room for the next batch coming in. He has filled every old barn in the neighborhood. He was, is, 100% Smithfield in Sioux Falls for his market. 350 head per week, and he shipped nothing for five weeks - Do the math!
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That's where "Just in Time " manufacturing principles bite you on the ass.
One link breaks and the whole chain is in the crap.
It saves on storage expense and stabilizes through put of product, but all the parts have to work, or NONE of them will.
Although your end may be living on Pork chops and bacon for the rest of your life ;D
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In the world of fresh food there are few options other than just in time. Hormel has spam, and you can still find a few canned hams around, but meat is meat, and we only eat so much of it. You can ramp up production to put a supply in cans, but once that is done you need to back down to regular levels with some going to replace fresh, some to replace frozen, and some to replace canned.
Our best protection against the issues of the supply chain are the Victory Garden. Raise a garden, and if possible, raise a few animals. Can produce and meat. Dry produce and meat. Learn how to cook again.
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Ribeye steak Cooked to perfection by the younger son) and baked tater for Fathers Day supper.
Cathead biscuits and white gravy w/sausage for lunch today.
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I've been on a kick of steamed stuff.
I put shredded carrots, Broccoli, onions and Green beans, with stir fry chicken bits, then I top it with crushed up Ramen.
The Spicy, Thai, and Korean BBQ are the best, then steam it for 3 - 4 hours and mix with some ham glaze, Salsa, or Ah So sauce.
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Chicken Tortilla soup
Wife has been going through her diabetes cookbooks, and there are several meals in there that look pretty good.
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BRISKET!!!
12 hour brisket (5 hrs over mesquite and hickory smoke), sweet corn, coleslaw, Texas garlic toast, watermelon, and Corona.
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Chicken stir fry.
I'm going to dump in fruit cocktail (rinsed) and chopped dill pickles with sweet and sour sauce.
If I don't post tomorrow don't try it. ;D
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Chilie cheese frys. I know i am going to pay for it later, but so good
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Elk burgers.
~85% elk, 10% beef fat and 5% pork fat. The beef and prok fat make all the difference. Salt and pepper in the mix, on a hot cast iron skillet for 2.5 mins a side, slice of chedder and onion on a toasted bun. It does not get much better than that.
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BLM----- Bologna, lettuce and 'mater sammich.... (and the 'mater was from the garden). ;D
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Salad for lunch...... and now a slice of my scratch cheesecake. :D :D
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Chocolate cake! There is no wrong time for chocolate cake ;D
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If we're going with guilty admissions,
Well,
Fudge Brownie M&M's .
Judge me and be da%ned ;D ;D
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toasted everything bagel with left over garlic herb butter.
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A green pepper, 2 small cucumbers and 2 tomatoes, all from my friend's garden, and mozzarella, topped with garlic pepper crispy onions. Here's what it looked like before I tossed it with some balsamic vinaigrette. And a pic of the fried onions which I added more of once I started eating the salad. When I have homegrown cucumbers and tomatoes I usually toss them with Italian dressing or a vinaigrette with nothing else, and I eat green peppers raw with a sprinkle of salt. But I decided to try something different this time and it was delicious. I added the string cheese because, you know, it's cheese, and while I was slicing up the veggies I saw the bag of onions on the counter next to a can of chili and thought, why not? I didn't have any croutons to throw in there.
I ate that whole bowlful of salad for lunch (casserole dish if you want to get technical, I need to do dishes soon.) Breakfast was just a plate of tikka masala seasoned Basmati rice grown at the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. Mmm, spicy.
I have 2 small lemon melons from my friend's garden setting on the counter too. I have to wait a few days for them to ripen up. Over Labor Day weekend I helped him pick apples from a neighbor where his cabin is, and along with the fresh produce, Monday he brought over 2 half-pints or apple butter his wife made. I know what's going on my my toast when I get my appetite back, if not sooner. ;) I have some chicken & herb rice and enough ingredients for another big salad tomorrow if I don't eat something different.
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Hand full of Dark Chocolate chips.
I'm all about the nutrition. ;D
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Hand full of Dark Chocolate chips.
I'm all about the nutrition. ;D
I’ll counter your chocolate with a firm, tart nectarine and a cup o joe!
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Almost lost me til the "cup of Joe". ;D
It goes good with chocolate, especially Dark . ;D
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3 ounces of Smoked Gouda.
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Roasted hatch chilies, grilled onions, garlic covered in cheader cheese on toast.
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Fried pork chop, garlic mashed, veggies and home made sausage gravy.
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Fish sticks with Nando's PERinaise. That's mayonnaise with Nando's PERi-PERi hot sauce in it. "A bit of heat but a tidal wave of flavor.", as they say. I ate that twice already. I'm glad I didn't have any tartar sauce to use on the fish sticks. I don't plan on ever buying it again.
I traded some fresh produce and boxes of raisins I got from my neighbor, food bank stuff, to my friend's wife for more stuff fresh from their garden. I even got some apple sauce hot off the stove. I took her a box of apples too. She pulled a bag of fish sticks she got from another friend out of the freezer and asked if I eat those. I could take them or leave them, but when I saw "wild caught Alaskan pollock" on the label I said yes. They're cut from fillets, not processed junk, and have 30% less breading than most fish sticks. Not bad.
Time for some mini chocolate chip cookies for dessert. I had apple butter on toast for breakfast 2 days in a row or I would eat that now. Ciao.
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Almost lost me til the "cup of Joe". ;D
It goes good with chocolate, especially Dark . ;D
Yes! The breakfast of champions. Chocolate covered coffee beans taste pretty good to me too, but I don't like having coffee grounds in my mouth when I eat them. Life is full of compromises. Either put up with the coffee grounds or don't eat them.
P.S. Chocolate covered cacao nibs are harder to find but worth trying too. Roasted cacao bean fragments covered with regular chocolate, for people who like less sweet intense dark chocolate flavor.
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Damn, I haven't had apple butter in 20+ years. ;D
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Damn, I haven't had apple butter in 20+ years. ;D
Its not hard to make, just takes time.
The last batch i did was a dozen mason jars worth. Kept 1 gave the rest away
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Taco soup and lemon pound cake.
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I finished my last 2 bagels with chive and onion cream cheese for lunch. I gave away all of my potatoes except 2 of the big ones. I'll bake them in the microwave, maybe tomorrow, and put cream cheese on them instead of sour cream. I need to eat something now. I have 3 dozen eggs and most of a watermelon, so I guess I'll fry a couple eggs and toss some cheese on them. Watermelon for dessert I guess.
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The only thing that's a bigger PITA than cooking for one, is planning meals ahead of time.
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The only thing that's a bigger PITA than cooking for one, is planning meals ahead of time.
i hate cooking for 1, 2 is not much better. Everything i like too cook/ eat its not suitsble to do for 1 person. I am not making a pot of black eyed peas for just me.
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i hate cooking for 1, 2 is not much better. Everything i like too cook/ eat its not suitsble to do for 1 person. I am not making a pot of black eyed peas for just me.
Yep.
The wife made spaghetti for supper tonight using sauce we canned last season (which does help with cost). After we had normal portions each, there's still enough to eat for the next three days.
At least the leftover sauce is freezable......we can put it in there right next to the frozen leftover Brunswick stew and pulled pork bbq. ;D ;D
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The only thing that's a bigger PITA than cooking for one, is planning meals ahead of time.
You are so right, my man. Whenever my ex planned a meal we didn't have this, we didn't have that, and she couldn't remember where she put a certain utensil or the final ingredient the recipe called for. My meal planning is, I think I'll eat that stuff in the fridge later on, or, I wonder what I can find in the cupboard. Maybe I can put something in the cupboard on/in that thing in the fridge? Or, I'll make a trip to the store for something to add to something else I have, but only when I'm in the mood to go. I hate shopping and sometimes I eat until there's nothing left that I want to eat before I go to the store again.
Since I didn't eat any eggs yet I had 4 of them with soul seasoning and green jalapeno Tabasco stirred in, but not beaten, fried in extra virgin olive oil. 3-4 eggs are a good fit for my 8" skillet. I more or less left them alone until they were cooked about 2/3 of the way through, chopped them up just a bit because I didn't think I could flip it whole, flipped the pieces and let the liquid fill in the cracks. Then I topped it with Mexican-style shredded 4-cheese blend and shut off the stove. I don't have a lid to fit that pan so I put the big pan on top of it and let it sit for a minute or two. I slid it out mostly intact and topped it with tomatillo salsa verde. I wanted them done but not overdone and the eggs were so moist and fluffy that it really surprised me. I didn't know I could make eggs like that. I didn't know anyone could.
That was lunch. Breakfast was was Philly Cheese Steak flavor Lay's potato chips and not a lot of them. Now I'm going to eat the rest of the fried onions and that can of chili that have been sitting next to the microwave for a week and a half. With shredded 4-cheese blend too.
Instead of just wiping off the skillet with paper towel like I used to, I dried it over about a medium-hot flame until it smoked, poured in a little canola oil, and wiped out the excess with a paper towel. I made sure I coated the bottom and the rim too. The whole pan has a nice sheen except the handle, and I treated my other skillet the same way. I think I'll keep doing it the right way from now on. If I ever get a carbon steel skillet I'll do the same thing too.
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I got a jar of my friends' homegrown red beets out of the fridge, popped it open and started eating them right out of the jar. They're pickled but also tasted kind of sweet which was different. They had a lot of clove flavor because a few of us like them with cloves, but no whole cloves in the jar this time. I almost had a cloverdose when I ate some last year that had 12-15 cloves IIRC in a pint jar. These were so good that I ate the whole jarful then drank the juice. Those are 2 things I don't recall ever doing before. I'm not seeing red but I may be peeing red pretty soon. I think I'll have some string cheese to get more protein my meal, if you can call it a meal.
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I had a slice of Screamin’ Sicilian Holy Pepperoni pizza. There's so much pepperoni on it they're all touching. When I have a digital coupon from Kroger for Screamin’ Sicilian pizza I usually buy a Mambo Italiano with pepperoni and Italian meatballs. I like it way better than just pepperoni but they must not have had any that day.
Since the oven, therefore the entire house, was already hot, I dug a box of breaded cheese curds out of the freezer and baked those too. My pizza pan was covered with a lot of oil from them and I wiped most of it off with paper towels. I put it in the oven at 500 degrees and quite literally forgot about it. A few seconds after I remembered it I became aware of the smoke that I was smelling, so I turned off the oven and left the pan in there until it cooled off most of the way. No reason to open the door and let all of the smoke and heat out. If I remember I'll oil it and put it on the shelf under the pan I roast my pork loin in that's in the fridge thawing out. Anytime I'm cooking something in the oven without that pan, if there's room I could try to season it more. It's just an old sheet metal pan but if that works it should last another 30 years.
When I scrubbed that pan and my non-stick pizza pan a day or two ago, I towel dried them then put them in the oven awhile to make sure they were dry. Then I wiped the plain steel pan down with oil top and bottom. I put just a little oil on the top of the non-stick pan and wiped it as dry as I could. I left them in the oven at 450 degrees IIRC until after they quit smoking. The non-stick pan is more slippery in one spot where something stuck once and I had to scrub it off. That was months ago and that one spot was never the same. I tried oiling it and putting in in the oven before and ended up with a sticky mess, so this time I had to wipe it dry to leave just a trace of oil on it. Maybe it didn't have to be that dry but I didn't want to scrub a pan of baked vegetable gum again. I chose to err on the side of caution as they say.
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I had steakhouse style pork tenderloin, jalapeno poppers with salsa verde, and homemade never canned or frozen apple sauce for lunch. Now I've got my eye on a box of mini crumb cakes.
Breakfast was a half-dozen almond dark chocolate "cioccolati" biscotti dipped in cups of french vanilla cappuccino. The bottom of the biscotti (now with 33% more almonds 8)) are "dipped in rich dark chocolate made with 55% cacoa [sic]". I don't know if they meant cacao (raw), cocoa (roasted), or cacao as the Italian word for cocoa, spelled the same way as the English word cacao. Everything else on that label was in English, but they came up with a jumble of both words that AFAIK never existed before. When they taste that good it doesn't matter it says on the labels but I'll let them know anyway so they can correct it.
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I'm just had some deep dish chocolate chunk cookie. I had 1/4 of a pizza before that. I had a different pizza a few days ago too. I'm baking stuff that's been in the freezer all summer when it was too hot to cook. I put half an onion and a whole green pepper on that one. I kept forgetting about the green peppers in the fridge and there was barely any green left on that one. While I ate pizza I put the cookie in with 2 cordon bleu chicken breasts. I didn't want pizza again but when the oven was hot I looked in the freezer and I could get pizza or shrimp in fast without thawing, or mixing any ingredients, and I just got the shrimp smell out of the microwave.
In between pizzas I had jalapeno poppers, chicken, shrimp, and stuff like that, nothing special. I ate some green peppers with garden vegetable cream cheese spread this week too. Those were all from my friends' garden. And I sent a message to Nonni's about the misspelling on their biscotti label. They thanked me for sharing my comments and are sending me complimentary coupons in the mail. That's after I none too subtly told them that if they wanted to reward me I would gladly accept any amount of biscotti they cared to give me. I never thought I would stoop so low as to prostitute myself for cookies. :( :-[
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Fluffanutter ! ;D
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Ahhhhhhhh!
A return to semi-normal life.
Went to a country club for lunch on the patio. Ruben sandwich, made from left-overs from Friday dinner special - Corned Beef, and house made onion rings. I have missed these Sunday luncheons this year, and they are finally up and running again.
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I had 2 jalapeno cheddar pretzel dogs and some Fruits of the Forest Hi-Pie earlier. The pretzel dogs have pretzel dough wrapped in a spiral around beef hot dogs. The pie is filled with over a pound of apples, rhubarb, strawberries, red raspberries and blackberries. After baking, the part sticking up past the pie plate still has enough filling for another pie.
I heard the timer on the microwave ding so it's time for lasagna. I baked a 5 pound, 10 ounce frozen one and I don't know if this brand is any good yet. Good or not I'll be eating it twice a day for a couple of days.
A day or two ago I had some Kroger Rock N' Roll Chicken. They make Sriracha Sauce & Ghost Pepper Dry Rub, Buffalo Style Sauce & Ranch Dry Rub, and their Original Rock N' Roll Chicken. It's frozen and after you bake it you're supposed to sprinkle on dry rub to taste and rock it around, then add whatever amount of sauce you want and roll it around. This was the first Rock N' Roll Chicken I ever bought. I didn't get Sriracha & Ghost Pepper because I'm not crazy, and I've had plenty of Buffalo Style chicken already, so I tried the original. It doesn't have any dry rub or sauce in the bag, so I rocked it Mid-Michigan style with Frankenmuth Chicken Seasoning, and rolled it South African style with Nando's Hot PERi-PERi Sauce.
The Frankenmuth chicken seasoning has salt, sugar, onion, garlic, spices, etc., and the Nando's hot peri-peri sauce has vinegar, lemon, onion, salt, cayenne pepper, African bird’s eye chilli (Peri-Peri), paprika, green chilli, garlic, rosemary extract, and stuff that doesn't add to the flavor. Nando's is meant to be poured on, not used by the drop. The medium is very mild and the garlic flavor is also supposed to be medium but it's mild too. The hot is medium but that's hot enough when the chicken is covered in it. XX Hot would be too hot but medium or hot would both be good for marinating and basting chicken grilled over a wood fire or charcoal. Nando's is the best thing in the world I know of for grilling chicken. Frankenmuth chicken seasoning is really good on fried chicken and they played well together. I have plenty of Nando's in the cupboard and will have to buy more chicken seasoning the next time I run up to Frankenmuth.
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Fried pork chop, home fries and saw mill gravey for lunch here.
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Now, oats and honey crunchy granola bars covered with honey creamy peanut butter. Breakfast was tortilla chips with guacamole.
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About 2 months ago I saw pics somewhere online of a Vietnam War era C-Ration cookbook published by McIlhenny Company, the makers of Tabasco, and copied all the pics. I cleaned up the edges and resized them all to the same size. There's a page missing and I'm not sure what order they were in so I made my best guess. I think the inside cover was a blank page and the rest went like this.
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Part 2
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The rest.
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I just had some flan, mon. I don't know why the stuff they put in custard filled donuts tastes as bad as it does when when this custard was so delicious. I don't think they actually use anything like custard in custard filled donuts.
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Ever notice that little hole in the side ? ;D
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What've you been doing to those donuts Tom? ;)
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I just had some blackened chicken alfredo. It's one of these new Stouffer's bowl-fulls that I had a digital coupon for. They describe it as blackened white meat chicken and pasta in a creamy alfredo sauce. Nowhere on the package or website do I see any mention of what type of pasta it is, but it's rigatoni. The ridges on it hold onto the sauce better than smooth pasta. The first or second bite had so much seasoning it was like eating a pinch of Cajun seasoning straight from the bottle. The rest didn't taste spicy after that. It was good but not good enough to rush out and buy more. If I get another coupon I'll try something different next time.
It says on the box THOUGHTFUL PORTION™ 1 Portion = 1 Bowl Pair this bowl with a side salad as part of a balanced diet. The website says THOUGHTFUL PORTION™ 1 Portion = 1 Bowl Pair this bowl with a side salad and a glass of low fat milk as part of a balanced diet. I don't think adding the glass of milk is going to help balance your diet when 1 portion of this has 75% of your daily value of saturated fat, 40% of cholesterol, and 55% of the day's sodium. The other side of the coin is 42% of the DV for protein which surprised me.
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Fried fish and taters.
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Texas style brisket with barbecue sauce street tacos from Kroger. At least it was supposed to be brisket, but tasted like it was cut from the "fish". It may have been spoiled but if I keep it down, it will keep the stomach walls from touching and form a turd so it wasn't a complete waste of money. I literally covered them with Sweet Baby Ray's barbecue sauce and added a slice of Monterey Jack cheese. If you don't know Monterey, you don't know Jack about cheese.* The combination stunk up the microwave a bit, some of that being from the tortillas.
*This advertisement was sponsored by the California Milk Advisory Board.
Kroger has 4 kinds of street tacos and the Chicken with Green Chiles weren't bad. If I get another $1 or more off coupon I'll try the Carnitas Seasoned Shredded Pork. I already have a $1 off coupon for any appetizer but I'll get something else like jalapeno poppers with it.
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Caldo Verde, tonight. So good and so easy, just like all good soups, tqkes lots of time
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chicharrones
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Beef Barley soup, Homemade.
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I had to look up Caldo Verde. I know next to nothing about Portuguese cooking and never heard of it before. It reminds me of some Italian collard green soup I had before.
The last thing I ate was chocolate pudding cake. Before that was a big bowl of salad made from a fat cucumber from my friends' garden and some carrots. I tossed it in a balsamic vinaigrette and it looked just a bit too wet so I added crumbled up tortilla chips. I almost forget but whittled down the last of a block of jack cheese for it. I saw some Aged Gouda in the fridge that was too gouda pass up so I crumbled 2 sliced of that into it too. Not bad but I'm hungry again.
Friday I had Nonni's classic almond biscotti with my coffee just like this morning. But after that I had 2 meals of macaroni and cheese covered with slices of Zatarain's 100% pork Andouille smoked sausage. That was good. I used one stick of sausage for that and have one in the fridge that I'm trying to decide what to do with. I have 2 ideas not counting just sticking it on bread and eating it. I'll figure something out later.
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Poor man's beef stew.
When I was real little my Dad did tree work and the pay sucked.
So my mother had this recipe hamburg, potato's, and onions, with seasonings.
Well, I liked it.
So I add carrots, celery, and green onion. in the crock pot.
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Triple chocolate biscotti with my coffee, because the only thing better than chocolate is more chocolate. They're made with cocoa, chocolate chips instead of almonds, with the bottoms dipped in more chocolate. The tiny drizzle of chocolate on top doesn't count, or they would be quadruple chocolate.
Yesterday I got my free birthday burger from my favorite burger joint. I got the Fire Burger with Pepper Jack Cheese, Sriracha Mayo, Cholula Hot Sauce, Fresh Jalapeños, Onion Straws, Lettuce and Tomato. It seems like hot sauce from Mexico would be hot but regular Cholula isn't too hot. I really like it on tacos but I like the homemade hot sauce at my favorite taco place even better. It's just tomatoes and chili peppers they grind together. On Veterans Day I got a free burger too. I had an Ancho BBQ Burger with Cheddar Cheese, Ancho BBQ Sauce, Bacon, Fried Onion Straws, Lettuce and Tomato. Both burgers had 2 patties of Single-source Angus Beef on a Toasted Brioche Bun as usual.
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I had a bowl of chili and will have another one later. I picked up a 108 ounce food service size can chili con carne without beans 2 weeks ago. After eating 3 or 4 bowls of it, I rinsed and added a 30 ounce can of black beans that I've been trying to figure out what to do with ever since I got it. I found half a bag of crispy fried jalapenos in my camping stuff that I opened a couple of months ago and were still edible. After I covered my bowl of chili with them I topped it with a little leftover pepper jack cheese and the last 2 slices of American cheese. I have at least one bowl of chili and some fried jalapenos left. I took 2 more kinds cheese out of the freezer so I don't have to use the Gouda stuff.
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Poor man's beef stew.
When I was real little my Dad did tree work and the pay sucked.
So my mother had this recipe hamburg, potato's, and onions, with seasonings.
Well, I liked it.
So I add carrots, celery, and green onion. in the crock pot.
Stews and soups are all considered poor man meals, or at least that is how they came to be.
Some of the meals I make that the family appreciates the most are nothing more than putting whatever is available in a dutch oven for a couple hours. Plain meatballs and homemade egg noodles (a pound of hamburger, a little onion, some flour milk and an egg, a potato or two, and a bunch of water) - a couple bucks feeds four people for two or three meals.
Beans, rice, barley, root veggies, and cheap meat, and you can warm your bones and feel like a king.
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Had a brisket sandwich yesterday at Sonny's BBQ in Commerce, GA on the way home from Helen, GA.
It was pretty good brisket served on garlic bread instead of a bun.
Tonight is taco soup followed by some pecan pie.
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Pumpkin pie flavored glazed popcorn. It really tasted like pumpkin pie too, not just pumpkin pie spice.
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Shepherds pie.
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Ham sandwich and candy circus peanuts.
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Tacos...my own!
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Tacos...my own!
I'm sure if you made them they were what you like, but Ize got to ask: Real tacos, or hard shell with ground meat?
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I'm sure if you made them they were what you like, but Ize got to ask: Real tacos, or hard shell with ground meat?
Braised beef with onions and chilies, cayenne, cumin, gaaalic, tad bit o molasses, Mexican oregano, paprika on a toasted corn tortilla (store bought flat) topped with tomato, fresh onion, cilantro, Mexican crema and a bit o chedda!
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Shepherds pie.
German? ;D
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Irish.
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I like shepherds pie. I had a poster that I hung up at work on my last job. It was a menu for the Road Kill Cafe. One of the things on the menu was German Shepard Pie. And there was Smidgen of Pigeon, Swirl of Squirrel, Chicken That Didn't Cross the Road, or what not.
I'm getting ready to mix some hot peri-peri hot sauce with mayo and use it for tuna sandwiches with chopped onions. I like them with chipotle mayo so I'm experimenting with the hot sauce and mayo. Maybe I'll cook something later, but I need to use the diced onions and want something right now. I have sliced onions I've been eating on burgers too. I sliced the whole thing and put it in a Ziploc bag next to the diced onions. My eyes only burn once per onion that way instead of slicing them as needed like I normally do. I'll see if they go bad before I use them all, and go back to the old way if they do.
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Double cheeseburger from BK and a handful of plain M&M's... 'cause that's how I roll sometimes. 8)
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Double cheeseburger from BK and a handful of plain M&M's... 'cause that's how I roll sometimes. 8)
I have a single Dairy Queen here! So much betta than t’other chains!
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Has any one else tried the Fudge Brownie M&M's ? ;D
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Fudge Brownie M&M's? That's a new one on me. I like the mint ones and the caramel ones though...
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Try em. ;D
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I have a single Dairy Queen here! So much betta than t’other chains!
We have a couple of DQs here, but they ain't what they used to be and it's not the food but more the personnel (like most everywhere else these days).
The best soft-serve cones and shakes in our area comes from a local family-owned place called The Shady Lane Drive Inn. They've been a community staple for forty-five years or so.
We also have a newer joint we like called Cookout that is a chain in the southeast that has been around for a while but really just started to expand out of their home state over the last 5-10 years. Cookout serves the best milkshakes in our area. Our local one opened last year just in time for their seasonal eggnog milkshakes that they serve in December only. I try to get as many of those in as I can (within reason, you know). ;D
Kids and grands came out for supper last night and we had leftovers for lunch today: salisbury steak, mashed taters, green beans (canned from our garden), green peas (also home canned), and corn on the cob......mustn't forget the sweet tea. ;D
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Has any one else tried the Fudge Brownie M&M's ? ;D
I tried those a week or two ago but mine were defective. They all had a "w"s on them. Rite Aid had big bags of m&ms on sale, 2 for whatever, and 1 bag cost a lot more than half of that. So I got fudge brownie and caramel flavor. They were both good but I think I like peanut butter the best of the different flavors I've had. Reese's Pieces are way too sweet, put peanut butter m&ms have chocolate in them too and taste better. The difference is like buckeye candies with and without being dipped in chocolate. I had dark chocolate raspberry m&ms once but can't remember if I liked them or not. And I'm not sure if I ever had the mint flavor but probably did.
I just ate a whole can of Smokehouse almonds. Now I'm thinking about raiding the freezer or getting takeout.
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We have a couple of DQs here, but they ain't what they used to be and it's not the food but more the personnel (like most everywhere else these days).
The best soft-serve cones and shakes in our area comes from a local family-owned place called The Shady Lane Drive Inn. They've been a community staple for forty-five years or so.
We also have a newer joint we like called Cookout that is a chain in the southeast that has been around for a while but really just started to expand out of their home state over the last 5-10 years. Cookout serves the best milkshakes in our area. Our local one opened last year just in time for their seasonal eggnog milkshakes that they serve in December only. I try to get as many of those in as I can (within reason, you know). ;D
Kids and grands came out for supper last night and we had leftovers for lunch today: salisbury steak, mashed taters, green beans (canned from our garden), green peas (also home canned), and corn on the cob......mustn't forget the sweet tea. ;D
Now you've got me wanting an egg nog shake. Last week I had a half gallon of egg nog from the grocery store spiked with a generous amount of Bacardi Oakheart spiced rum. I could taste the nutmeg in the eggnog before I put the rum in it but not after. A different day, before I got the egg nog I had a mug full of grog, but instead of a 4:1 ratio I mixed it roughly 1:1. I poured about 5.5-6 ounces of cold rum in a coffee cup and added cold water to bring it up to about 11 ounces. It didn't make me groggy even when I washed down my muscle relaxer with it, but fixing myself something to eat after I started hitting the rum on an empty stomach was interesting. When I was adding a couple of ingredients I was like, screw it, throw it all in there. I'm not sure what to call it but it was good.
To the best of my recollection this is everything that was in a "breakfast bowl" I made about a week ago. Half a can of refried beans heated and stirred well, topped by all the breakfast sausage left in the roll, browned and crumbled. Then all I had left of a bar of cheese, plus some shredded cheese. I think it was pepper jack and shredded triple cheddar, then 6 scrambled eggs. I was only going to eat 3 but there were 6 in the carton so I emptied it. I microwaved it to melt the cheese while I was cooking the eggs, or maybe the eggs were between the pepper jack and cheddar layers? And I sprinkled sweet Baby Ray's hot sauce all over it. When I was getting stuff out of the fridge I saw an open tub of garden vegetable cream cheese spread. Well, why not? I dolloped that all over until it was empty, microwaved the bowl another 30 or 60 seconds, pulled it out and spread the cream cheese with a knife. It looked like a cake that was swelled up in the middle and frosted from edge to edge. Nothing else was showing and you really couldn't tell what it was. I should have taken a picture but I was more interested in eating it than looking at it. There may have been another layer in there that I'm forgetting but that's all I can remember at this time. So it was a bowl heaped full of eggs, sausage and cheese with some refried beans in the bottom. I may or may not have tossed in some diced onions too. If I had any leftover fried potatoes they would have gone in the bowl too.
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Biscotti and coffee right now. Before that I finished off the tacos I bought Friday. I surprised myself by not eating them all Friday and Saturday. I got them from the usual place, along with a beef tostada dinner - 2 beef tostadas, rice, beans, stew, and salad. The stew is mostly chunks of beef in kind of a barbacoa style with a little bit of potatoes and a tiny bit of juice. After the tostada dinner I was too stuffed to eat any tacos. I used to get 12 tacos for the price of 10. The prices went up and a single taco is $1 now, but a dozen are only $9. 12 tacos for the price of 9, what a bargain! When I was backing out of my parking spot the girl ran out with a paper bag for me. She said the guy didn't think he put any hot sauce in my bag, but he did so I have 8 little cups of their homemade hot sauce left over.
This place opened in 1966 and nearly 55 years later they STILL have the remnants of a gas station sign out front. It's like they're saying, "Eat here and get gas." I don't know if anyone missed their turn and hit the building but they must have had a reason to put up the barriers. I need to drive by at night and see if those outer wooden posts are lit up. I think they put them in last year.
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Leftovers since Saturday night...... we had our Christmas thing with the wife's side of the family at our place and had a variety of stuff.... chili, sausage dip, slow-cooker meatballs, jalapeno & cheese venison sausage, chicken salad on croissant rolls, spinach dip and multiple types of cakes and cookies.
The cheesecake was left in the fridge during the party and no one remembered to put it out (no, I did not do it on purpose).
We had to make a run to town for cake ingredients this evening so we grabbed some seasoned fries and chips from Zaxby's instead of doing more leftovers...... I'll be havin' some of that cheesecake directly. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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<snip>
The cheesecake was left in the fridge during the party and no one remembered to put it out (no, I did not do it on purpose).
<snip>...... I'll be havin' some of that cheesecake directly. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Right....
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Right....
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Leftovers since Saturday night...... we had our Christmas thing with the wife's side of the family at our place and had a variety of stuff.... chili, sausage dip, slow-cooker meatballs, jalapeno & cheese venison sausage, chicken salad on croissant rolls, spinach dip and multiple types of cakes and cookies.
The cheesecake was left in the fridge during the party and no one remembered to put it out (no, I did not do it on purpose).
We had to make a run to town for cake ingredients this evening so we grabbed some seasoned fries and chips from Zaxby's instead of doing more leftovers...... I'll be havin' some of that cheesecake directly. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Yeah, right. Tell it to the judge. Uh huh. Likely story. That's what they all say. It was an honest mistake, it could happen to anyone. Etc.
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I forgot to mention I've been eating a 6 pound Stouffer's lasagna. My Christmas dinner will be whatever else I dig out of the freezer.
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I put my last half-dozen boneless wing dings in the microwave and when I finally took them out the mac and cheese in the oven was almost done so I waited another minute or two. It was 4 pounds 12 ounces of Stouffer's mac & cheese and when it was halfway done I took it out and stirred it up. I had an 8 ounce bag of finely shredded sharp cheddar cheese in the fridge and no definite plans for it so I put it all on the mac & cheese before I put it back in the oven. The cheddar migrated toward the center so I stirred it in and spooned the hot, soupy mac & cheese on the plate with my chicken chunks. Sometimes I put salsa on my mac & cheese but I put a little cup of leftover hot sauce from La Azteca on it. It tasted pretty darned good. I thought it might be too hot with that much hot sauce on it but it was fine. This is about lunch time for me today so I'm going to have some more. I have to use that delicious hot sauce before it goes bad since it doesn't have any preservatives in it.
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***FUTURE***
Sunday noon!
Ribeye on the grill! Green bean hotdish, grilled potatoes, and grilled garlic toast.
A couple weeks ago I brought home a 23# boneless Ribeye. Wednesday was six weeks since processing, so I cut it and vacuum sealed each steak - 1.5" thick. I gave three to the neighbor, kept 2 out for the weekend, and froze the rest.
These came from National in Liberal, KS. They are Angus that is graded Choice. When I was cutting I would have graded these Prime. Christmas eve the daughter did an 8# Prime Rib from the same load, and it was butter knife tender.
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That sound so good Mike.
Present > Kawkawlin River Snack Sticks from Troll Smokehouse in Kawkawlin, MI. Good meaty sausage sticks with a peppery flavor.
I picked them up in the town my younger brother used to live in, when I took him to be bore-scoped from the breech end. As many people know Michigan is divided into 2 peninsulas, connected by the 5 mile (-20') long Mackinac Bridge. We call people in the Upper Peninsula Yoopers, and they call us people below the bridge Trolls. I never heard of Troll Smokehouse before but I like these, and whatever the other brand of stuff was I got for the first time at the same store. When I'm in the mood for a little road trip I'll have to go back and try something else, and see if they have reduced price turnovers again too. I love turnovers and could eat over a dozen of them in a day.
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Had Bojangles Cajun fillet biscuit and tater rounds for NYE lunch..... don't know what's for supper.
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Fish sticks. I don't have tarter sauce but I have lots of mayo, so I diced up some of my friends' home grown spicy pickles and stirred those in with some gochujang chili hot sauce. The dipping sauce tastes better than the fish sticks which are minced wild caught Alaskan pollock. They were a lot cheaper than the whole cut pollock fish sticks, and at least they aren't crap-eating farm-raised tilapia.
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Chicken fried steak and mashed, with country gravey.
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I am so F$#KING sick of coming up with meal ideas,
I am sick of cooking.
Still fond of eating though.
Freezer case, here I come ;D
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I am so F$#KING sick of coming up with meal ideas,
I am sick of cooking.
Still fond of eating though.
Freezer case, here I come ;D
I know how that goes too.
I had a strawberry pop tart for lunch. ???
This time of year we are trying to get the remaining pecans off the ground and sold (as weather permits) before the already 30-year-low prices drop even lower. By the time dark shows up neither the wife or myself is desiring to cook....... we finished up early today so she went to the deer stand and I am having Nilla Wafers and a Coke Zero. ;D
We grab more fast food between Halloween and Christmas, but it's easy to get burned out on that because there's only a few fast food joints in town that we eat at any more....the rest were crap before (food and/or service, take your pick) and got worse since the Chiney Flu hit.
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Food wishes on YouTube
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I am so F$#KING sick of coming up with meal ideas,
I am sick of cooking.
Still fond of eating though.
Freezer case, here I come ;D
It was easier when you were doing the McDonald's thing though.... :o
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I am so F$#KING sick of coming up with meal ideas,
I am sick of cooking.
Still fond of eating though.
Freezer case, here I come ;D
I like to eat and never liked cooking as much as my family and friends seem to. That's why I used to get a lot of frozen dinners when I had digital coupons for them. I'd get one of this and one of that and have something different for each meal. Two different somethings if I was hungry. Other than getting water and a gallon of milk right before the store closed last night, I haven't done any shopping in a few weeks. I have lots of food in the chest freezer but really I'm living off whatever I scrape together. I was out of milk for 2 weeks then ate instant oatmeal instead until I ran out of water. Then I drank all of my Powerade and Gatorade, and when there was no reasonable option left I finally left my cave.
I'm getting ready to eat some Cap'n Crunch, take a handful of pills, and go to bed for 4 or 5 hours. The box-springs for the mattress I bought a month ago finally came in and I'll really be hibernating when I get the mattress that's leaning against the wall on the bed. Sleeping day and night and only getting up to eat or use the bathroom isn't for everyone, but it works for me and some other animals. Cereal is my go-to option before bedtime, no matter what time that is.
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Sounds like you should just move closer to those "family and friends". ;D
Dad always told me "If you can't cultivate a garden, cultivate people who DO have gardens." ;D
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It was easier when you were doing the McDonald's thing though.... :o
Grand-kids love the place and it nauseates me. I think McD's has changed to different oil or something, because I used to love their fries better than any other fast food joint...but lately their fries suck....and don't get me started on their jackass meat burgers.
Right now I'm having a bowl of sausage dip with leftover bacon and club crackers on the side.
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Peg, Mickey D's used to use peanut oil to cook their fries in, with the onslaught of peanut allergies they had to switch to a different less tasty oil.
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Jeez.
I can't even remember the last time I went to McD's.
I know it was since 2008. ;D
When your main hang out is a diner you don't go out to other places that often.
Although I did order a pizza once while I was finishing my coffee. ;D
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29 years for me
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You've got me beat by a loonng way. Once every so often I'll grab a couple of sausage egg McMuffins to eat while I drive up north to ride my ATV. Maybe once or twice a year on average. But more often than not I'll eat before I leave, or eat jerky or nuts or something on the way. There are a bunch of "jerky outlet" gas stations on the way too. They have a bunch of flavors of soft, moist jerky that has to be kept refrigerated. That washed down with Powerade makes a handy road breakfast. I still have piles of snacks leftover from last year that I may still be eating this summer. Sometimes up north we have home made sausage egg muffins cooked outdoors on the 3-burner grill, and they're better than McDonald's, especially when we have pepper jack cheese.
I still think it's funny that my ex mother-in-law's cousin used to eat McNuggets all the time until she said, you know what they're made of, don't you? Nothing but lips and @$$holes. And it was a few years before he ate another one. He wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed anyway. I used to call them McNuts, or ask people, just exactly what part of a chicken is the nugget?
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Wife fried up some fish fillets and some french taters and grits for supper last night.
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Meat loaf night here. Just started soaking the bread crumbs
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Chicken Tonkotsu ramen. Ramen noodles with dark meat chicken, mushrooms, ginger, pork, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonkotsu_ramen
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Fried chicken legs (wife put a good scald on 'em too) butter peas and rice. 8)
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Big ol’ chunks of fresh Icelandic cod loins!
Damn fine vittles!
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Chicken fried rice, only it was microwaved, not fried.
I bought 5 different Bird's Eye Voila family size dinners months ago. Most have microwave directions but the preferred method is to cook them in a 12" non-stick skillet. My biggest skillet is only 10" which is a 31% smaller area to try to cram everything into. Cheesy Chicken in the microwave turned out okay, half a bagful at a time. I tried cooking Chicken Broccoli Alfredo on the stove in a 2 quart pot and didn't stir it often enough. I remembered to get up and stir it when I smelled it burning. I put everything that wasn't burnt in a casserole dish the microwave, where I should have put it in the first place, and it came out okay. Then I had Garlic Shrimp that didn't smell or taste like it had any garlic in it, cooked in the microwave. The pot that was burned took half a week of soaking in hot soapy water and scraping with a spoon, and repeating several times, until it was clean enough to scrub with a scouring pad, so now I'm microwaving all of them whether they say to or not. The rest of the chicken fried rice is halfway done now.
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Tater soup.
The stuff actually comes from a bag and you add milk (I think, heck the wife made it so I don't know).
I do know she bumps it up by adding various cheeses, bacon, etc. It's pretty good for a quick stove-top meal.
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I have some ravioli stuff in the microwave. It's the last one of the Bird's Eye dinners. I microwaved some Chicken Fried Rice yesterday. It was kind of bland so I added gochujang hot sauce to the second half of it. That was better. I have a bunch of other dinners in the freezer that aren't as packed full of vegetables that I like better.
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Dark Chocolate baking chips.
Breakfast of Champions ! ;D
What Bruce Jenner Should have been eating.
You don't see me in a dress. ;D ;D
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Crappy Mac & chz from the hole fudds in Cambridge!
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Making my "Poorman's beef stew".
It's cold, snowing, and Chicken salad just ain't getting it done. ;D
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Leftover taco soup from last night.
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Frosted Strawberry Milkshake Pop-Tarts. But beef stew sounds a lot better. I'd open a can of Dinty Moore if I had any. It's good to have for emergencies, or when you just don't know what to eat which is usually the only time I eat it. I look through the cupboards until I find something that sounds good at the moment. I'll have to see if it's on sale whenever I get to the store.
I ran out of milk so I can't eat cereal before I go to bed. And I'm down to my last few ounces of bottled water so I didn't make instant oatmeal. Everything else I have is too spicy or takes to long to prepare. I've been adding a little water to my Q ginger beer and drinking that all day, but I'll be using tap water before I get up again. I finally found out this week how much lead is in my bones but I don't know if that amount is good or bad. The water should be okay to drink as long as they aren't digging and shaking crap loose around here.
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Pigs in blankets.... a favorite of the granddaughters.
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Pollo Veracruz right now. I had Heath bar minis earlier, and can't remember what else I ate all day. I know it was nothing resembling a meal.
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grilled cheese on sour doe with pepper jack, cheddar and some chilli flakes... cooked in bacon fat and butter.
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grilled cheese on sour doe with pepper jack, cheddar and some chilli flakes... cooked in bacon fat and butter.
Everything's better with Cheddar.
Except oatmeal, that's just gross. ;D
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I stopped into a Panera Bread yesterday. First time...
I ordered something with no friggin idea what it was! It turned out to be the tastiest grill cheese with chipotle and bacon on sourdough!
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Pizza.
The best thing I've had in a long time was a month ago when I had Italian beef subs. I bought a 4 pound tub of Papa Charlie’s Chicago famous seasoned au jus and Italian Beef. And I grabbed a half-dozen sub rolls and headed straight to the condiment aisle. There, I got a jar of Ditka's Hall of Fame Recipe Chicago style hot giardiniera. Over 3 days I ate 6 of the best darned sandwiches I've had in a very long time. It didn't take me long to figure out it works a lot better to cut them in half before you dip them, instead of dipping the uncut end of the the roll. I tried one wet, but it was too hard to pick up with the juice on it, so I fixed the rest of them dry and dipped them. The au jus tasted so good I drank the leftover juice from the bowl, which usually had some hot bits in it.
My antique of a fridge finally bit the dust. It was already a relic when I moved in 30 years ago. My new fridge should be here Wednesday. After that I can buy something good like the Italian beef again, instead of eating snacks and whatever is in the freezer.
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A bag of Bold Chex Mix for Lunch. Breakfast was Italian cream cheese cake with cream cheese buttercream icing and slivered almonds. That's all I've had to eat all day. In a few minutes I need to eat again so I can take my pills and go to bed. I'll probably have some instant oatmeal.
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Pulled pork shoulder coated with Bad Byron's Butt Rub.......on buns....with mayo and mustard instead of BBQ sauce.
Good stuff.
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Pulled pork shoulder coated with Bad Byron's Butt Rub.......on buns....with mayo and mustard instead of BBQ sauce.
Good stuff.
So many smart ass comments.
But I afraid of what the answers may be. ;D
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Chili verde from one of my favorite Mexican restaurants
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Pecan praline cake.
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Sugar free lemon lime jello
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Pork chops. ;D
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tuna salad...
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Easter Brunch, Eggs, hash browns, ham, bacon, sausage patties,pastries, cookies, rolls,fresh fruit,OJ,Tea and coffee.
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Easter Brunch, Eggs, hash browns, ham, bacon, sausage patties,pastries, cookies, rolls,fresh fruit,OJ,Tea and coffee.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
We Have A Winner
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Breakfast quesadilla with bacon. It's good enough to make at any time of day! Here's a full set of instructions:
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Pork chops. ;D
That's what we had last night....seared and then slow-cooked in a crockpot with gravy. Also had some squash casserole, butter-peas, and rice.
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Chicken Adobe burritos
Take a can of Chipotle chillies in Adobe add the contents to a pan, 2-4 chicken thighs, add enough water to cover simmer until it falls apart.
I like adding things like garlic, onions, dry herbs, chillies flake and etc
Great filling for almost anything really
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I'm sitting here eating miniature Heath bars with peanut butter and salivating when I read what you guys are eating. I was going to watch that video but I better not. Maybe later.
Yesterday I had four cheese agnolotti pasta, with four cheese pasta sauce for breakfast. I think it was 5 or 6 kinds of cheese altogether. My alarm clock went off for an hour, then quit beeping a half hour ago so I should be getting up, but I have to sleep before I can wake up. Then I'll boil the rest of my agnolotti and toss it in some sauce for today's breakfast. My hours are screwed up even worse than usual today. The agnolotti was crescent shaped like this, not the traditional hand-pinched rectangular kind.
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Warning! This post is about spoiled food!
Read at your own discretion.
When my old fridge quit I had 2 dozen eggs to get rid of. They were already going bad before the fridge quit because I bought 5 dozen on sale, but after eating 3 dozen got tired of them. And the fridge was getting warmer and warmer before it finally quit. You know the old saying, "You've got to break a few eggs to make an omelet"? Well, not if they're so spoiled they break by themselves. Instead of flushing the eggs down the toilet, my version of a garbage disposal, I decided to cook them and put them out for the critters. I put some oil in the cold skillet and started cracking. When I put the first 3 eggs in the pan I had to quit. One was so badly liquefied it didn't even have a yolk, and one was so fragile I barely got it from the carton next to the pan over the pan before my fingers went through it. The smell was so bad I lit 5 3-wick jar candles and placed them around the kitchen and dining room, and it worked about as well as spraying cologne on a skunks @$$. Then I grabbed one of my COVID masks, went in the bathroom and got some Vick's VapoRub from the antique blue glass jar, smeared it on the mask and put it on. Much better! Supposedly it works when dissecting cadavers too, but I've never done that.
Then I went back in the kitchen and cracked the rest of the eggs into the pan which filled it nearly to the rim. I popped whatever yolks were still intact and stirred it up. Then I added all of the fast food salt and pepper packets from the cupboard and stirred that in too to try to hide the taste. I put the lid from an aluminum pot I used to have on it, and there were so many eggs the edge of lid was setting in it. Then I turned the stove on low and went upstairs to fold laundry or something. When I remembered to come down and see how it was doing, the eggs had fluffed up and lifted the lid right off the pan. They were very moist but looked like they were cooked. I started chopping it up with the spatula and was getting ready to scoop it out when I had an idea. I ran the spatula all the way around the pan and it wasn't stuck anywhere, so I turned it out onto a piece of cardboard. One piece shaped like Florida minus the panhandle stuck to the pan, but may not have if I didn't chop it all up first.
So I took this 10" diameter 24 egg omelet outside for the critters. It had some pieces of shell in it that you can see, but almost looked good enough to eat. And something did gnaw away at it every day. Probably just the stupid cats that think they live here. I thought if they eat here, maybe they'll go somewhere else to poop. My dad did that with a dog that was pooping in his yard all the time and it worked great. It seemed to work well with the cats too. If they got sick, went away and never came back, that would have been even better. They wouldn't be on my porch howling anymore, or peeing on everything within range. Anyway, after a few days when it was really cold outside, the half an omelet that was left was frozen so I put on a pair of gloves and broke it into chunks. It got eaten up within a couple of days after that. And that's the story of the 24 (spoiled) egg omelet. I regret reducing the pictures so much, and that's all I have.
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Homemade pizza using a two-ingredient crust recipe I found on youtube.
Crust is made with self-rising flour and plain Greek yogurt.
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It’s a pizza. I think God personally created it. I’m always ready to eat it on breakfast, lunch and dinner. My ideal pizza is: a thin base for pizza made according to an Italian dough recipe; garlic cream sauce; thin slices of ham, tomato, mozzarella, pesto sauce, and arugula on top. I really like this version of pizza, or similar. The main thing is to have a thin dough and cream sauce. Then it's perfect for me. Because I was describing my perfect pizza, I already wanted to eat.
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Toasted Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-Tarts, frosted side down, topped with ripe bananas. I'm glad I came up with this combination. They were good. Too bad I was down to my last 2 bananas.
My hand isn't red but the green of screensaver makes it look like it is. By the way, that's the free version of the Kaleider Screensaver from Whizical, playing one of the Weird Al, No Strings Attached concert tour posters. You can load whatever pictures you want in a folder on your computer and have it make constantly changing kaleidoscopes of them. I have those 64 posters in one folder. If I get tired of it I can put totally different pics in another folder and switch folders. It's the only screensaver I've found that I like and isn't too graphics intensive for my lame laptop.
https://www.whizical.com/
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Polska kielbasa with horseradish sauce, sauerkraut pierogi with a dollop of Daisy on each one, because I really like sour cream, and 6 different flavors of macarons* for dessert.
* Macarons with 1 "O", not macaroons with 2 "O"s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron
I was out of real horseradish and wanted something other than Dijon style mustard, so I had to settle for horseradish sauce. It's okay but it takes a lot of it to have much horseradish flavor. I like real horseradish for just a couple of things, and when you open a jar and take a good whiff it should clear out your sinuses. Or as one of my uncles said, you know it's good if it makes the top of your head itch when you smell it. :o That's some strong stuff! I'm just glad I don't have to grind it and make it at home like my mom's family did when she was a kid. :'(
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Roast with taters and carrots, rice, fried squash slices (from the garden).
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A hash brown patty with melted cheddar.
Sounds like shit, but it was tasty, so I had 2. ;D
edited to add,
And Texas Pete ! ;D
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A hash brown patty with melted cheddar.
Sounds like shit, but it was tasty, so I had 2. ;D
edited to add,
And Texas Pete ! ;D
Hash browns and cheddar....a favorite of mine. When I feel really industrious I'll chop up some onion and drop them in the last 1/2 of the cooking cycle.
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Made meat loaf and garlic parm mashed for 20 people tonight.
With veggies, crustini, salad and ice-cream for dessert. Spent just under $80. Thats not bad at all.
For the record 6 lbs of ground chuck a full container of bread crums, 6 pounds of potatoes and 7 oz of parm... 2 heads of garlic
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Homemade scratch pizza.... it has become a favorite.
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(https://ibb.co/dffSGfW)
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Made meat loaf and garlic parm mashed for 20 people tonight.
With veggies, crustini, salad and ice-cream for dessert. Spent just under $80. Thats not bad at all.
For the record 6 lbs of ground chuck a full container of bread crums, 6 pounds of potatoes and 7 oz of parm... 2 heads of garlic
$4/ person ?
Dang, that's pretty affordable .
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$4/ person ?
Dang, that's pretty affordable .
I was cooking at some one else house. So I bought everything, but salt. I mean the oil, basic seasoning, the aluminum pans. Milk, eggs, butter.... etc.
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Elk tacos tonight. ~1 # of ground elk and a 1/4 of pork ( need the fat)
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I have discovered the joys of "Nutella". ;D
Like peanut butter only hazelnuts.
with cocoa.
And sugar .
Basically chocolate Fluff only good for me. ;D
I actually read the label, but I still think there's a lot more sugar than hazelnut.
Good stuff ! ;D
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I have discovered the joys of "Nutella". ;D
Like peanut butter only hazelnuts.
with cocoa.
And sugar .
Basically chocolate Fluff only good for me. ;D
I actually read the label, but I still think there's a lot more sugar than hazelnut.
Good stuff ! ;D
You should look up some of the ez brownie recipes using it. Most only 4 or 5 ingredients. Stir and bake.
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Brunswick stew and biscuits.
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A Snickers bar.
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A Snickers bar.
Chocolate is what ? a nut ? A bean ?
I know it grows on bushes.
Sugar comes from cane, and peanuts of course are legumes.
Snicker's is vegan friendly .
Must be healthy . ;D
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Bananas and Cinnamon Crisp cereal.
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Poppy seed chicken casserole and butter-beans for supper last night.
Pulled pork bbq sammich for lunch today.
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Poppy seed chicken casserole and butter-beans for supper last night.
Pulled pork bbq sammich for lunch today.
I have no teeth.
That looks like the food version of waterboarding. ;D
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I have no teeth.
That looks like the food version of waterboarding. ;D
My b-i-l don't have teeth and he says it's the perfect meal because the chicken is already shredded and everything just melts together. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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My b-i-l don't have teeth and he says it's the perfect meal because the chicken is already shredded and everything just melts together. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Poppy seeds weren't a problem ?
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Poppy seeds weren't a problem ?
I guess not due to their small size.
Maybe he has tough gums. :-\ :o
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I guess not due to their small size.
Maybe he has tough gums. :-\ :o
There is a joke in there some where...
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There is a joke in there some where...
Maybe so, maybe so...... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Toast fried in butter.
I am not saying its the best thing since sliced bread. I am saying it's the best thing to do with sliced bread.
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Nutella.
I spent 61 years wondering about that, now I'm making up for lost time. ;D
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Nutella.
I spent 61 years wondering about that, now I'm making up for lost time. ;D
Never tried the stuff....still stuck on PB&J's. ;D
Had lunch at a Chinese buffet......right now I'm having a slice of 12-layer cake left from Thanksgiving.
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I don't normally comment on my consumption of victuals. But I just had a piece of leftover Bojangles Chicken from last night. I ate it cold and I am happy to say it's nearly as good cold as it is fresh from the deep fryer.
For those of you who have never had Bojangles chicken (and unless you live in the south, that's almost all of you) it's vastly superior to any other fast food chicken chain's bird. Probably worth a trip to North Carolina just to have some.
Crusader Rabbit
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I don't normally comment on my consumption of victuals. But I just had a piece of leftover Bojangles Chicken from last night. I ate it cold and I am happy to say it's nearly as good cold as it is fresh from the deep fryer.
For those of you who have never had Bojangles chicken (and unless you live in the south, that's almost all of you) it's vastly superior to any other fast food chicken chain's bird. Probably worth a trip to North Carolina just to have some.
Crusader Rabbit
You ain't lyin' CR.....
Bojangles is our go-to for fast-food chicken. Far superior to KFC and Bojangles biscuits are good too (I can't stand KFC biscuits).
Their salads and the Jambalaya bowl are good. We have a good one in our location and (I hope I ain't jinxing it) the chicken is always hot.
There have been a few hiccups from time to time in the past where bad management had the employees so flustered that they handed out the wrong orders at the window, but that happens everywhere. Once they got that manager out they have been on their game.
The only other fast-food place in town that is as consistently good is Zaxby's.
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Wilted spinach sallad...
2 strips of thick bacon
3 cloves of garlic
1 small red onion Frenched( or half of a big one)
1# spinach
Parmesan cheese
Black pepper
Chili flake
Cook the bacon over medium low until it becomes cripsy like a cracker. Use a big pan/ stock pot/ wok
Remove the bacon and resist eating it. Thats why you cook 2, one for quality control samples and the other for the salad.
Throw in half of the onion and garlic. Cook it until soft and use it to " scrub" the brown bits of the bottom of the pan add chili flakes for about 30 seconds.
Add in spinach. Don't worry it will all fit. Turn off the heat, toss the spinach until soft in the bacon fat/ onions/garlic. Toss in the rest of the onion, and grate the parm and the pepper mix well. Serve in a bowl warm with the last piece of bacon crumbled on top and a bitmore parm.
It has all the major food groups.
You have the salt group, the onion group, garlic group, cheese group, green group and most important of all the bacon food group.
Seriously unless you don't eat bacon, there is no way you won't eat this. I just ate an entire batch for lunch
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I have discovered the joys of "Nutella". ;D
Like peanut butter only hazelnuts.
with cocoa.
And sugar .
Basically chocolate Fluff only good for me. ;D
I actually read the label, but I still think there's a lot more sugar than hazelnut.
Good stuff ! ;D
Well it's about time mister! :) All that oil and sugar can't be good for you but... CHOCOLATE! I gotta have it. I think I was in in the army over in Germany when I first discovered Nutella. All I know for sure is that I've been a fan of it for a very long time. Hazelnuts are a really big thing in Europe. They put them in all kinds of candy bars and stuff too instead of using other nuts and peanuts. Toffifay ring any bells? There are a few things with other nuts like almonds but they're just nutty about hazelnuts. I love Nutella on toast. If you don't know how much of it to put on your toast the answer is always MORE. If it's not falling off, don't worry, you don't have too much. And when I run out of toast I just scoop it out of the jar and eat it right off the knife. I live alone so I can double dip as many times as I want to.
Speaking of chocolate, I'm eating chocolate chocolate chip rum cake made with real rum. Rum, yum yum yum. Last night after I ate my cake I finished off a bottle of ice cold Evan William's Peach Bourbon straight. It was in the freezer so it didn't need ice. It's sweet and only 70 proof and didn't burn like some whiskey that's only 5%-10% more alcohol. It's good mixed with strong ginger ale or ginger beer but I ran out last month. You know you have enough whiskey in your ginger ale when you no longer taste the ginger. After I eat more cake I think I'll get some Jim Beam out of the cupboard and have a tug on the jug before I go to bed.
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Himalayan Momo Nepalese Brand Dumplings made in the USA with chicken. I dipped them in tomato based chili sauce. I ate a bunch yesterday with the same sauce plus tomato based sesame sauce with chili in it. The only real difference is that the sesame sauce was kind of orange and kind of hot, and the chili sauce was red and a lot hotter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_(food)
https://himalayan-momo.com/
One of the many ingredients in the dumplings is asafetida, also spelled asafoetida. Wikipedia says the English name is derived from asa, a latinised form of Persian azā, meaning 'mastic', and Latin foetidus meaning 'smelling, fetid', which refers to its strong sulfurous odour. It's the dried latex (gum oleoresin) exuded from the rhizome or tap root of several species of Ferula, perennial herbs the giant fennel genus of the carrot, celery, and parsley family, Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae). Umbellifers are aromatic plants with umbrella-shaped flowers and the family includes anise, caraway, celery, coriander, cumin, dill, fennel, parsley, carrots, parsnips and a bunch of other good things. There are also some things in the family you don't want to eat like giant hogweed and poison hemlock. Asafetida, the only thing I knowingly ate with the word "fetid" in the name of it, has a pungent smell of rotting onions or sulfur. The dumplings were frozen and still reeked strongly of onions. Stronger than onions themselves smell, but the smell dissipates with cooking. The flavor on its own is extremely unpleasant, like concentrated rotten garlic, and when cooked it adds an onion-like flavor. It's used in a lot of Indian cuisine.
This fetid-ass seasoning has some interesting nicknames. In English and many other Germanic languages it's called Devil's dung or a less polite equivalent. It has other similar nicknames in other languages, and what it all boils down to is, this stuff smells and tastes like Satan's A**hole. If you're still wondering why anyone would want to cook with this crap, it seems to be mainly religion these days. Many of the various and sundry religions of India eat it. Jains, Brahmins and Sikhs all eat it. Hare Krishnas aren't allowed to consume onions or garlic so they eat it. This stuff has a long history and even Alexander The Great carried around his "stinkfinger" to season his food. But these dumplings have onions as the second ingredient in the filling and have scallions in them too, so they could have done without the flavor straight out of Old Scratch's backside. Despite all that, they weren't bad if you like onions like I do, and I might get more sometime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asafoetida
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They used to wear that sh!t, (asafoteda ) in sachet's when they were sick.
Like Vicks.
I don't think your supposed actually EAT it. ;D
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They used to wear that sh!t, (asafoteda ) in sachet's when they were sick.
Like Vicks.
I don't think your supposed actually EAT it. ;D
It was one of the ingredients to the potion James Caan and John Wayne gave Robert Mitchum to cure his drunkeness in Eldorado. ;D ;D
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Made some butter-swim biscuits to go with lima beans and rice for supper.
I have a jalapeno and cheese version to try next.
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Lima beans go with the Asofeteda.
I'm not sure you're supposed to eat them.
I thought they were just a garnish for the alleged "Ham" in C-rations. ;D
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Fried ham steak, red eye gravey, roasted potatoes and wilted spinach.
So good
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Lima beans go with the Asofeteda.
I'm not sure you're supposed to eat them.
I thought they were just a garnish for the alleged "Ham" in C-rations. ;D
Ham and M_____F_____s. I'm glad they got rid of that Vietman era crap by the time I got in back in '79. They gave me a bowl lima beans in the hospital when I was just a kid and I hated them. That was at least 50 years ago. I don't think I ever ate lima beans since except maybe if they were in a 20+ variety bag of beans I made soup with. But if I saw any in the bag I probably wouldn't have bought it in the first place.
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I bought some groceries Thursday and accidentally put the salami in the freezer instead of the fridge. Wow, is my salami ever hard! :o Just kidding, I didn't put it in the freezer, but my salami was hard anyway. ;D The last thing I ate was two sandwiches of hard salami and Vermont "seriously sharp" cheddar on cheap white bread. I had one with a little bit of Dijon mustard and one without. I like it better without mustard. I had a big handful of skin-on barbecue kettle chips with them too. Good chips, spicy but not hot.
I'm hungry again so I'll microwave a hot Polish sausage and eat it on bread with a chunk of smoked mozzarella on the side. I've eaten a lot of Polish sausage in my lifetime but don't remember trying HOT Polish sausage. I hope it's not too hot because everything hot I've had for a month has really burned my tongue. It doesn't help that I burned it on hot coffee either. I had some bacon jalapeno cheese stuffed bread from Domino's last week and it was almost too hot to eat. I tried it again this week but light on the jalapenos instead of the normal amount and that was a lot better. It would probably be good with just bacon too and I may try that some time.
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Bread is like toilet paper, it's only there to keep the mess off your fingers. ;D
Best part is that is the absolute historically documented truth.
Google John Montagu some time, 4th Earl of sandwich. ;D ;D ;D
Good bread doesn't need anything but butter and honey. ;D
And fresh from the oven. ::)
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Chicken adobo.
Sweat half an onion and 6 cloves of garlic in butter until translucent. Add in 1 can of Chipotles in adobo sauce 1 teaspoon of Mexican oregano, coriander, cumin, smoked hot paprika, black
pepper and 1 Bay leaf. ( I add in dried carlina reapers,but that would kill most people) Add in 4 whole skin on bone in chicken thighs, add low sodium chicken stock to cover. Simmer on low until the chicken shreds easily( 1.5-2 hours, think pulled pork) remove the chicken and the bay leaf. Shred rhe chicken and return to the pan. Turn up the heat to reduce suace. At this point sample the suace if it is too spicy for you, yiu can add some Piloncillo/brown sugar/ honey too tame it down.
Once the suace has reduced down. Cool and use for any filling for Mexican food( tacos, buritto, enchiladas, Tomales etc)
You effectively have a Mexican BBQ pulled chicken. Its great on almost every thing. Ps its better to use it the next day as it will set like a jelly in the fridge over night from all the gelatin extracted during the cooking process. If you are going to use it for Tomales yiu really need to do this.
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Bread is like toilet paper, it's only there to keep the mess off your fingers. ;D
Best part is that is the absolute historically documented truth.
Google John Montagu some time, 4th Earl of sandwich. ;D ;D ;D
Good bread doesn't need anything but butter and honey. ;D
And fresh from the oven. ::)
Wasn't the Earl of Sandwich a compulsive gambler? He couldn't leave the gambling tables for a dining table because gambling was more important.
Earlier I had Jamaican jerk shrimp, and the last thing I had was coconut shrimp. Now I'll take last night's pills that I take with food before bed, and go to bed until next week.
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Finishing some General Tso's Chicken right now. I got tired to eating leftover lasagna topped with smoked mozzarella. I only have one piece left. I don't know whether to eat more or start drinking before I go back to bed. It's been rainy the last couple of days so I slept day and night. I'm still hungry because it's been so long since I ate yesterday.
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Hostess Snowballs.
FMJ.
Full Marshmallow Jacket.
Boom.
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The last thing I ate was a new (to me) flavor of ice cream called Midnight Train to Traverse. As in Traverse City, Michigan, home of the National Cherry Festival, and the area that produces the majority of tart cherries in the U.S. They also grow sweet cherries, but mostly tart cherries for pies and preserves and things :P. The ice cream had "Michigan sweet cherries in decadent chocolate ice cream with rich chicory coffee flavors". I couldn't read the fine print without my glasses and didn't know it had chicory coffee flavor. It didn't taste much like coffee either, the same the way adding coffee to chocolate cake mix doesn't make it taste like coffee. It just intensifies the chocolate taste and makes it better.
The last thing I ate before that was Michigan Cherry BBQ potato chips. Great Lakes Potato Chip Company is in Traverse City so they had to make something with cherries. They started out as a seasonal thing but people liked them so much they kept making them. They didn't taste like cherries to me. It tasted like barbecue flavor, but a different kind of barbecue flavor. Like the way Carolina style barbecue chips taste different, but just because they have mustard in it doesn't mean they taste like mustard. They still taste like barbecue, just a different kind. They were kind of spicy like barbecue chips should be but the regular barbecue flavor was hotter. I disagree with these Irish People Trying Great Lakes Chips and think they taste good. I haven't tried the **** and vinegar flavor yet and haven't seen half of the flavors in the store anywhere. I may end up having to order a variety pack to try them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFqg6ycq14
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I bought some groceries Thursday and accidentally Vermont "seriously sharp" cheddar on cheap white bread. I had one with a little bit of Dijon mustard and one without.
Can you tell me the difference between "seriously sharp Vermont Cheddar" and "extra sharp Vermont Cheddar" ?
Can you taste the difference?
Thanks.
Spence
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I bought some groceries Thursday and accidentally Vermont "seriously sharp" cheddar on cheap white bread. I had one with a little bit of Dijon mustard and one without.
Can you tell me the difference between "seriously sharp Vermont Cheddar" and "extra sharp Vermont Cheddar" ?
Can you taste the difference?
Thanks.
Spence
To me the seriously sharp cheddar didn't seem that serious but was still very good if I recall correctly. Extra sharp seems sharper but it depends on who makes it. Everyone has their own definition of just how sharp sharp is. Extra sharp usually means it was aged a year or two. Sharp cheddar is aged 6 months or more but not as long as extra sharp. I like mild to extra sharp but don't think I would like the 10-15+ year super-super sharp cheddar or Pinconning cheeses.
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I had some cold brew coffee spiked with ice cold Licor 43, then ate some cinnamon swirl raisin toast with real butter, accompanied by plain cold brew that I just finished. I got hungry again so I'm nibbling on some Sartori Heritage Cheddar. It's my first Sartori cheese but not my last. I have a different cheddar of theirs in the fridge. This one is good and I'm sure the other one will be too.
The cold brew coffee with Licor 43 tasted really good. It kind of sucked when I ran out and had to drink plain cold brew. I only had a tiny bottle of liqueur but will buy a fifth of it at Rite Aid to try with hot coffee and cocktails too. It's made in Cartagena, Spain from 43 different ingredients including citrus and fruit juices, vanilla, and other aromatic herbs and spices. Lots of ingredients like bitters typically have, but it's very sweet. I saw a recipe today for a Screwdriver using a shot of Licor 43 and a shot of vodka mixed with orange juice. That sounds good to me since I like a Comfortable Screw - a Screwdriver made with Southern Comfort instead of vodka. Sweet S.C. liqueur goes really well with cheap, sour OJ, and not much else that I know of. It's the only time I even consider buying OJ that isn't a fresh premium product. By the way, a screwdriver with sloe gin and Southern Comfort is a Slow Comfortable Screw but I don't have time for that. Mixing in a third ingredient that is. I'm a busy man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licor_43
https://www.licor43.com/
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Shrimp scampi. Two servings of it because I'm never skimpy with the scampi.
My dessert was a shot of 99 Bananas liqueur mixed with a shot of Skrewball peanut butter whiskey. My banana was skrewed. One of my favorite ways to eat bananas is with peanut butter on them. This didn't taste like that but it was okay. If I didn't have the 70 proof whiskey to water down the 99 proof liqueur it would have tasted strong. As I was drinking it I was looking at recipes online and realized I had the majority of a drink called The "King" in my glass.
https://99brandparty.com/
https://www.skrewballwhiskey.com/
Sometime I'd like to try another shot of 99 Bananas, mixed with 99 Chocolate or Creme de Cacao to see if it comes anywhere near he taste of a chocolate covered banana. I'd be very happy if it did. And I'll have to try a shot of Skrewball peanut butter whiskey with 99 Chocolate or Creme de Cacao to see if it tastes anything like a chocolate peanut butter cup. I'm not satisfied just trying the same old peanut butter and jelly shots that everyone follows recipes for. I may even try to recreate the flavor a Boyer Smoothie peanut butter cup. They take everything you know and love about peanut butter cups but trade the chocolate for butterscotch. Peanut butter whiskey and 99 Butterscotch may be on my grocery list sometime.
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The last thing I ate was chocolate chocolate chip rum cake, then I went back to sleep.
https://www.honeybaked.com/products/chocolate-rum-cake
I just finished a glass of Sailor Jerry spiced rum mixed with key lime seltzer. Talk about an easy way to ruin good rum. It's the first time I ever tried Sailor Jerry rum. Pity me. At 92 proof I thought it would really burn if I drank it straight. But I had a sip, then another, and another, and wow! Not bad! So I poured the seltzer in the glass too and topped it off with more rum. I didn't bother stirring it as it looked well mixed to me. I don't know what part of the key lime tree the seltzer was flavored with. Maybe bark or roots, or bark off the roots, but it's really bad. I added more rum to my drink until it was however much is from the top of the label up on a fifth, and it still tasted like scheisse. I added some stevia to try to improve on the bitter taste of the key lime seltzer but it seemed like an exercise in futility trying to make it taste good so I quit trying. I added more seltzer to my glass as I drank until it was gone. Thankfully that was the last can in the case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Jerry
https://sailorjerry.com/en/
I'm going to eat some Annie Chun's Pad Thai and take my pills. Unlike instant ramen the Hokkien noodles aren't dehydrated. Hokkien noodles are a kind of fresh egg noodle. They’re basically what we know here in the U.S. as a lo mein noodle and they're pre-cooked and oiled so they don't stick together. I like to have something like this in the cupboard so I can have a meal in a few minutes without a lot of thought or preparation. I may have some more rum but if I do I will be mixing it with ice cold water. 2 parts rum and 1 part water sounds good. Noodle time!
https://anniechun.com/products/noodle-bowls/#pad-thai
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I tossed some frozen waffles in the toaster for breakfast but don't have any type of syrup or jelly or anything else to put on them. Nothing except butter and I usually don't put butter on them, just syrup. So I micowaved some butter until it mostly melted and it melted the rest of the way when I stirred it. I added some rum and a packet of stevia to sweeten it and microwaved it another 30 seconds. After I toasted my waffles I stirred my rum-butter mixture and finally tasted it. Not too bad except it was much too salty. I wish I'd had the forethought to use unsalted butter. I stirred in a little more rum for the second 2 waffles and that tasted better. I took some unsalted butter out of the deep freeze so I can try it tomorrow.
I haven't had anything since breakfast and I'm starving. I'm going to eat a bowl of instant ramen that's in the microwave right now. It's spicy chicken that I shouldn't even buy because of how hot it is. I don't have any other soup to mix it with except another bowl of the same. :( If I had a different flavor I'd use half of each flavor in each bowl but these 2 were all I bought.
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Hard salami 1/3- 1/2 as thick as a credit card (no bread), Sharp Original Mini Babybel cheese, sweet pickled beets. The thinner the meat, the more flavor it has IMO. Guys with thin meat, please keep your minds out of the gutter. ;D There's a lot of surface area of the salami exposed before you even start chewing it. Bursting with flavor might be a good description. For dessert I have a slice of Boston cream pie setting in front of me. **Pie, my eye! It's a layer cake.** It was previously frozen and only needed to be thawed and served. In theory, anyway. More than half of the frosting was stuck to the lid, while it was still frozen, so I know it wasn't anything I did wrong. It came that way. Luckily I know how to frost a cake. I didn't bother getting my spatula dirty, I just used the same plastic knife I used to cut it with when I was done. No dishes to wash at all.
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I just finished a pile of pepperoni panino. I didn't buy a package of premade panino like the picture, but that's what they typically look like. I cut smoked mozzarella cheese into sticks and rolled them in slices of pepperoni. Since I have a big jar of pasta sauce in the fridge I poured some in a bowl and dipped them in it. I ate until the pepperoni was all gone but still have almost half of the cheese left. I cut the sticks of cheese narrow because I didn't want to run out but it would have been better if I used it all. And I wouldn't have finished the pepperoni if I ate more cheese. Panino are good when they're made with Genoa salami instead of hard salami too. Prosciutto must be an acquired taste because when I had panino made with it they didn't taste as good as with pepperoni or salami. Now it's time to take last night's pills and today's noon pills and sleep for as long as I can.
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Five Cheese Lasagna by Giovanni Rana. "My favorite recipe, made with a blend of mozzarella, ricotta, fontina, mascarpone, parmesan, delicious tomato sauce & signature dough." I don't believe I've ever had lasagna with mascarpone cheese in it before. Between all the mascarpone and ricotta it practically melted in my mouth. One could properly describe it as delicately seasoned too. It was delicious, or maybe it tasted especially good because I was so hungry. I didn't know lasagna without meat could taste so good. I'm looking forward to getting hungry again so I can eat more. The only thing I remember eating with mascarpone cheese in it is Tiramisu, which I would eat nearly every day if someone was here to make it for me. I'm too lazy to make it myself and not willing to buy it very often. I also have some Giovanni Rana Meat Lasagna in the fridge. "My family recipe, made with 100% beef, my delicious tomato sauce, creamy ricotta, melting mozzarella & signature dough." That should really taste good too.
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https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/crispy-jalapeo-pieces-063959
These things are more addicting then redneck crack(aka deer jerky)
Super un healthy.
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I almost bought a 1 pound bag of those at the GFS Store last week on my way home from the doctor. They were on sale but I only bought a 1.5 pound bag of crispy fried onions on sale. I'm snacking on them right now. The jalapenos are good in chili IMO. I like the flavor plus I like something crunchy in it. They're a step above Fritos in chili. The last time I ate a pound of those fried jalapenos I was in pain but couldn't stop. :)
P.S. Don't pay any attention to the nutrition labels. If you do you'll never eat more than a spoonful of these a day.
Now I'm wondering how good would a green bean casserole be if you mixed jalapenos with the onions when you made it? That sounds good to me.
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Not long after I posted about the big bags of fried jalapenos I bought from GFS a couple times, I remembered something. If you don't have an industrial-size appetite and/or don't want to buy a big container of them until you know if you like them, French's makes them too. They should be setting on the shelf at your local grocer right next to the fired onions. French's may be the first ones to make them, I don't know, but they do make good ones.
The last thing I ate was spicy chicken breast strips early this morning. I took a picture of some I had yesterday. When they were almost fully heated I added pasta sauce and microwaved them another minute. Then I topped them with crispy fried onions. I don't have any cheese or I would have put that on instead of onions. Thinking about a block of Parmigiano Reggiano to use with it has me salivating. The first plateful I had a couple days ago, I was going to dip in hot pineapple rum barbecue sauce, then while it was microwaving I remembered I had Frankenmuth chicken seasoning and used that instead. And I'm glad I didn't dip them in hot barbecue sauce because I forgot that I only bought spicy chicken strips. :-[ After one bite my mouth was confused, and I said to myself WTF? Frankenmuth chicken seasoning isn't spicy. ???
I drank almost a fifth of rum with my chicken so I didn't need more in the sauce anyway. It was Cherry Vanilla Captain Morgan Spiced Rum that I finally cracked open the day before and had a drink. It's only 30% alcohol and tastes sweet like a liqueur so I put it in the fridge overnight and drank the rest of the bottle straight. I bet it would taste good on vanilla ice cream but it's too weak to make mixed drinks with. I most definitely prefer 160 proof Austrian rum to 60 proof Captain Weak Sauce for mixed drinks. I never really knew what people meant when they said "weak sauce", but I think I finally get it.
Here's a pic of the Boston Cream Pie I re-iced, re-frosted or whatever, with a disposable plastic knife. I think I did okay considering what I was working with. It sucks when you have cake crumbs in the frosting AND you're spreading it on a cake covered with loose crumbs from where the frozen frosting was ripped away. I don't own a pastry brush to sweep the crumbs off but that would have helped. I cleared a spot on the counter to take the pic of the chicken strips while standing on the other side of the peninsula. The only way I'm not standing with everything my shadow is by having my back toward the kitchen window. There were NO kitchen counters until I bought new cabinets and put them in. I got help from my dad's general contractor/carpenter friend to figure out what kind of counter top I needed in an L shape where one side has a backsplash against the wall and the other is a peninsula I walk around every day. He got that made and we put it in together. I did the rest of the planning, measuring, ordering and installation myself. I think it worked out pretty well for a first try. Well, I did get a brother-in law to help me lift the 59" and 63" cabinets and rest them on the edge of the "furring strips"(?) I screwed to the walls until I got a few screws in the cabinets. So I didn't do everything but the countertop by myself. But I didn't need any help with the 39" cabinet.
Well it's time to go re-heat the chicken strips that are getting cold in the microwave and put some sauce on them. I'm eating Suckerpunch bread & butter pickles with them. I ate dill pickled green beans with them yesterday. I had dill pickled beans in a bowl covered with sweet pickled beets to go with my chicken the day before. I finished the beets first because they were so good and the beans second, they were better when they had some beet juice on them, and today I'll finish these pickles which I really like. Then I probably won't touch another pickled anything for awhile. If I ever get to the store and put something else in the fridge.
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Life isn't always a bowl of cherries. Sometimes it's two!! After I washed and drained two pounds of red cherries I put them in two bowls with paper towels in the bottom. Then I ate a whole bowlful of cherries. I'm so full of antioxidants I'm not at all worried about rusting, even if I go out in a thunderstorm. :D I also got plenty of vitamin C, a boost of fiber, and the anti-inflammatory compounds in them really seem to have reduced the pain my neck and shoulder which were really bad today. Something cut the pain way back and it's not drugs or alcohol.
But I'm really hungry again and left a bowl of jalapeno cream cheese Olive Salsa out for over a half hour to soften up. Time for chips and salsa. Yesterday I had tortilla chips and Mexican Street Corn dip. I liked it well enough to eat enough for a small party in two sittings. Yesterday I remembered about some Mexican street corn flavored popcorn I had once. I think I got it at Tractor Supply Company and it was really good. So I've had at least 2 or 3 Mexican street corn style/flavor items, but never the actual thing. Earlier I remembered how my friends were always watching Sesame Street when they were supposed to be getting ready for school so we could all walk to school together. The next thing I know, I have the theme song running though my mind but they're singing, "Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Mexican Street?"
BTW, I saw my neurologist yesterday. He didn't say my brain is broken, but today my psychiatrist did. Not really, but my short-term memory is so bad the neurologist excused me from jury duty. I didn't have to ask any of my other doctors if they thought I was physically or mentally up to the challenge of sitting there all day, but I know what my psychiatrist would say. I thought I missed an appointment with the neurologist 12 days earlier, but now I think went in for an EEG earlier so it would leave the week free for the 4th of July vacation I didn't go on. That reminds, I need a new helmet. One with lots of padding. Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Mexican Street? I hope that's not stuck in my head when I get up tomorrow for my 3rd doctor's appointment in 3 days.
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I'm eating my last slice of New York style cheesecake topped with cherry compote I made an hour ago from the last of my cherries. I would have cooked the cherries down in brandy but haven't had any brandy in years. I'm out of rum too so I used Jim Beam and a pinch of cinnamon for flavor. I took the cherries out and cooked the sauce a couple more minutes to thicken up a bit then stirred them back in. I thought about taking pics but I'd rather eat it than look at it. The red cherries looked like black cherries that weren't ripe yet. They were red inside and kind of tart. Maybe that's what they were but now they look like plums. Little wild plums, stewed and piled high on my cheesecake. Gotta eat now. Bye.
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I had 2 peppers of unknown variety, filled with Havarti cheese and microwaved for 1 minute. It looks like 1/2 minute would have sufficed, since Havarti melts so easily. They were juicy, creamy, salty, semi-cooked, but still crispy and delicious. I scraped the cheese off the plate with the same spoon I used to clean out the peppers, so it didn't go to waste. The peppers taste pretty much like green peppers, but since they looked different I ate them a different way. I had 3 fat (inch and a half) ripe cherry tomatoes with them. Everything came out of my friends' garden over the weekend. The peppers were from a variety pack of seeds that also contained banana peppers, bell peppers, cayenne, and jalapenos. I think they look like Hungarian wax peppers but don't know why they aren't hot. They taste like a jalapeno with no heat, or a green bell pepper.
I have an ear of peaches and cream corn that I'm going to microwave now and eat with lots of butter and some soul seasoning. I have a bag full of apples I need to peel and make applesauce out of too, but don't know if I'll ever get around to it. My friend took a truckload of apples up to his cabin over the weekend. He's not baiting deer because that would be illegal. He's just cleaning up his yard. He left his wife at home to do all the gardening and everything else. Smart man.
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When life hands you apples, make Margaritas! Ole!, which I believe is Spanish for take that b*****s! Some things have been going wrong the last few days, just like the previous 61 years (it started before I was even born). But I'm stating to feel better now. Or at least feel less. And that really helps. I'm living proof that a human being can live all day on kimchi, sharp cheddar cheese, various types of alcohol, and the occosianal handful of bitesize candy bars. I'm now able to to report that I don't seem to have sufferered any PERMANENT bodily harm, but I've been putting my bathroom though pure hell all day. That reminds me I need to take a new jar candle in the bathroom the next time I go in there. The last one finally gave it's last bit of scent in vain.
I had to go refill my tumbler with LIQS premixed margrita. I discovered the back of the bottle has built-in gripping areas like a lot of them do. . I downloaded this page when I sat back down that says, "10 wine cocktails in every bottle" if I read it right. It looks like it took half a bottle to fill my glass twice, and the bottle is 2/5 gallon metric equivalent, whatever the h*** that is, so one glassful is 1/2 a fifth by my reckoning. Someone PLEASE confirm or deny my logic there, because I'm surely impaired at this point. I had rum and Coke earlier, then when the 2L of Coke Zero Sugar was empty, I had a bourbon with (NEW!) Reed's Ginger Ale, sugar free, then popped the top and went to Margaritaville. I have a bottle of strawbwrry margaritas too, that I will probably take up north this weekend to share with friends, IF I EVER MAKE IT.
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Tacos Los cholos in Orange County has hooked like a crackhead. If you have IG check them out
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If you want hard lemonade, don't buy ANY brand of hard lemonade. It's probably just malt liquor, AKA beer without hops, with lemon flavor anyway. IF you want REAL hard lemonade, Make Franks' Hard Lemonade. Forget about Mike's. Get a bottle of Everclear, or Crystal Clrear, it doesn't matter what brand it is as long as it's 190 proof PGA, Pure Grain Alcohol. That's as strong as you can concentrate alcohol without using acid to burn off the excess oxygen molecules, or however that works. That why you never drink the alcohol the army uses to clean the mirrors and prisms and stuff inside a laser rangefinder of an M60A3 or M! series tank. I believe they use either H2SO4 or HCl to (absorb, burn off, whatever) the excess oxygen, but even without mind numbing amounts of alcohol and prescription drugs, 40 years was a LONG time ago for some of us to remember stuff,, so cut me some slack isf the details are fuzzier than a baby bunny's butt.
Anyway, if you want some hard lemonade don't be a schmuck and buy pre-mixed, ready-to-drink cocktails, etc. Buy a bottle of Everclear and a few bottles of Minute Made, Country Time, or whatever kind of pre-made lemonade you can find at the grocery store. There are a LOT of online store who wil ship you stuff if you think it's legal in your state. If you live in their state and you can't buy over-proof liquor like 151 rum, too bad, but if you live anywhere else, ignorance of the law is the heart of commerce. If that's not a famous saying maybe it will be sometime after I die. Time to grab a big candle in a jar and another drink. I don't think I'\ll eat anything but pills, but I will go to bed tonight.
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Smoked pork and bison jalapeno-cheddar bratwurst, no bun or condiments. Ate it while I typed. Tasty. Washed down with zero sugar sweet tea. It's sweetened with sucralose, and doesn't taste artificial. Also good.
I finally finished that bottle of strawberry margarita. The regular margarita was good. I'll buy it again if I happen to see it. But the strawberry margarita just tastes wrong to me. Like someone tried to make a strawberry daiquiri and things went horribly awry.
Besides Frank's hard lemonade, I made my own version of German Apfelkorn before too. Apfel = apple and Korn = grain = wheat spirit. Apple juice mixed with grain alcohol = apple schnapps. First popularized by German universities in the early 1970s, a delicious mix of apple juice and grain spirit (korn), quickly became the party starter of choice. Soon the delicious Apfelkorn cocktail was introduced as a premix in a variety of bottle sizes. The Schoenauer Distillery, situated close to one of Germany's best known fruit growing areas, was among the first to offer Apfelkorn to retailers and bars. It's 21% alcohol and goes down smoothly. Berentzen Apfelkorn is only 20% alcohol and is also super popular. Some drunk German frat boys may have invented Apfelkorn, but that doesn't mean it's not really delicious. I need to see where I can order some Everclear from. The last place I bought it from no longer carried it when I looked again.
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Baked VooDoo chicken with rice and butter-beans.
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Today I took my fiancé to a little Vietnamese restaurant called PHO Whittier. It’s a local spot I haven’t been to in years. Tran the own recognized me, I couldn’t believe it. Its been about 10 years since I’ve eaten there. The pho was outstanding and the the grilled pork banh mi was fire. Mr. Tran lectured me on not coming in sooner but was very happy that I’ve found the love of my life. Omg the fresh spring rolls 🔥
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I had a dozen Rummy Bears. They're gummy bears that have been soaking in rum for the better part of a week, swelled up and absorbed a LOT alcohol. My guess would be 3 times their own weight or more. I have some in white rum, Admiral Nelson's Silver, and some in dark rum, Bacardi Gold. The Rummy Bears in dark rum taste better IMO. You can do the same thing with vodka if you don't like rum, and you end up more or less with jello shots in the shape of bears.
Now it's time for some crappy canned chili, no beans, topped with some crispy fried onions, and maybe some smoked Swiss cheese. It turns out I still don't much care for Swiss, even when it's smoked, but it's good in certain types of sandwiches, like Reubens, where it's a minor ingredient. I wouldn't like it at all as a grilled cheese sandwich.
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Fried jumbo shrimp, pork chop, and turkey chops, with sides of red beans and rice, and spicy cabbage, and a piece of sweet cornbread to top it off. I made sure my route home from visiting my mom today took me past the Soul Goode Food Truck that's always parked across the street from one of the big new GM plants. I finally stopped there for the first time, and it won't be the last. Last year, I thought my brother who works in that plant said Soul Goode was building a restaurant where the food truck (trailer) is parked, but there's still no new building. I sat in the car programming some XM radio stations for 10 minutes, since I didn't do it after getting a new battery, and my food was almost ready by then. They said 10-15 minutes, which was completely accurate.
I washed my meal down with Vernors Limited Edition Black Cherry Ginger Soda. Woody the Gnome approves of the new flavor but James Vernor, who died 95 years ago, may be rolling in his grave. Or after 156 years he might agree it was time to mix things up a little. Either way, it's good stuff, and I hope they do more limited edition flavors. Once while eating wild blueberries straight from the source, and drinking Vernors, I found out it was a really great combination. So a blueberry ginger ale, odd as it sounds, may taste just as good. By the way, Vernors ginger ale is 20 years older than Coca-Cola, and is America's oldest soft drink to the best of my knowledge. Vernors = Medicine in Michigan, and always has. The last time I was in the emergency room (16 hours?), one of the nurses told me they had Vernors and diet Vernors in the other room if I wanted any. Got a stomach ache? Drink a Vernors. Had surgery and can't go home until you drink something? Have a Vernors.
Now it's time for dessert, Hostess cupcakes. I have orange and chocolate flavors setting here, so I'll probably have both. After I eat another meal tonight, I'll have some dark chocolate covered walnuts. I think this is the first time I bought them. They have a lot of chocolate on them and taste good to me. They aren't nearly as sweet as milk chocolate covered cashews or pecans, but that can be a good thing.
P.S. The next time I go to Soul Goode I want to try the alligator bites. It's been a really long time since I had alligator, and that was in an etouffee or jambalaya. So I can't honestly say I know what gator tastes like.
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Smoked sausage and vanilla wafers tonight.
Don't laugh.
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Smoked sausage and vanilla wafers tonight.
Don't laugh.
Never. Not even behind your back, when no one else is listening, either. But Alex DeLarge and his gang of droogs have a question for you. Got milk? For the 'nilla wafers. I just put this together to use as an avatar and came back to apply it. It's quite a happy little coincidence that the only post I looked at to see how it looks has cookies to go with the milk. 8)
Well, I'm out of here again. I'm going to eat 2 generic Excedrin, a muscle relaxer and a migraine pill. My head hurts so bad my ears are hearing ringing and buzzing, so I'll be drinking London Dry Gin and Diet Mountain Dew until I run out of gin. Unfortunately, against all medical advice, sometimes mixing alcohol and prescription drugs works a lot better than the drugs alone. Don't ask me why this cocktail specifically calls for London dry gin, as opposed to any other gin, but I can't argue with the result - gin, and Mountain Dew, that each taste better than in their original form. This Halloween's Limited Edition Mystery Flavor Mountain Dew, Voo Dew, works with gin too, if you can still find it. I saw a video with a purple Mountain Dew, the name of which I can't recall, that's what a recipe calls for instead of the regular flavor. Mountain Thunder or something equally silly, IIRC. I don't think Code Red and the other flavors work with gin, but I don't have a clue what any of them taste like. Squirt might taste okay with gin. If not, I think it would mix well with vodka. I should try that sometime soon, since I'm so tired of bourbon and could only drink so much rum before I had to try some other stuff.
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No milk. Just out...
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I quit drinking milk so long ago, I can't recall when I was weaned off the teat of another animal. But not completely. Cereal without milk just doesn't taste right, and you don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to think they did it that way on purpose. Other than that, I never miss it, when I run out of milk.
I'm eating Smoky Mustard Pork Tenderloin with Dijonnaise, Caraway Cabbage, and Herb Roasted Potatoes. I finally had to get out of bed and microwave a meal. I could only stay in bed living on snacks and candy for just so long. I've had a bad back ache all weekend, and the less time I'm awake, the less time I'm aware of how bad the pain really is. Ideally, I would sleep peacefully until the day I wake up dead. ;)
I have some breaded mushrooms in the freezer and will probably microwave a handful to eat with hot ketchup. I can't be bothered with deep frying or baking them in the oven. Last week I had breaded cheese curds heated in the microwave. They aren't supposed to be cooked that way but I ended up with a plateful of melted cheese curds and that was good enough.
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Jimmy Dean hot pork sausage this morning.
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Homemade Banana bread and a mug of english breakfast tea.
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English tea...sounds good. I went with a burrito this morning.
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Cottage cheese and peaches.
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Venison roast slow cooked with taters, carrots and onions.
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I just ate 6 slices of Authentic Motor City Pizza Co. Five Cheese Bread. It tasted really good. I baked it right after I pulled an Authentic Motor City Pizza Co. Supreme Pizza out of the oven yesterday. The pizza was good but the cheese bread was even better. I'll be buying it again. I didn't have any sauce to dip it in either. I had enough leftover sauce in the fridge, but when I opened the jar I heard the air pressure whoosh out. I already knew it was bad but looked at it to see the mold anyway. I had a glass of absinthe for an aperitif while the oven heated up. I took a picture to show the ouzo effect. As I dripped the ice water into it I kept thinking, when is it going to change? Then when it was about half water and half absinthe it suddenly got cloudy. I didn't have any sugar cubes to drip the ice water onto as it fell into the glass, so I put a packet of stevia in the absinthe and swirled it around to dissolve it first. The 138 proof is bitter but that was still two times too sweet. I used 1/2 of a 100ml bottle of 138 proof absinthe with 1/2 of a 500ml bottle of water, 50:250 or 1:5. I think that's only 23 proof, but it tasted a lot stronger than that. I didn't taste much else but sweetness and a lot of licorice. I only sipped at it until it was gone.
The ouzo effect (also louche effect and spontaneous emulsification) is a milky (louche) oil-in-water emulsion that is formed when water is added to ouzo and other anise-flavored liqueurs and spirits, such as pastis, rakı, arak, sambuca and absinthe. Such emulsions occur with only minimal mixing and are highly stable. [The ouzo effect occurs when a strongly hydrophobic essential oil such as trans-anethole is dissolved in a water-miscible solvent, such as ethanol, and the concentration of ethanol is lowered by addition of small amounts of water. Oil-in-water emulsions are not normally stable. Oil droplets coalesce until complete phase separation is achieved at macroscopic levels. Addition of a small amount of surfactant or the application of high shear rates (strong stirring) can stabilize the oil droplets. In a water-rich ouzo mixture the droplet coalescence is dramatically slowed without mechanical agitation, dispersing agents, or surfactants. It forms a stable homogeneous fluid dispersion by liquid–liquid nucleation. The size of the droplets has been measured by small-angle neutron scattering to be on the order of a micron. Using dynamic light scattering, Sitnikova et al. showed that the droplets of oil in the emulsion grow by Ostwald ripening, and that droplets do not coalesce. The Ostwald ripening rate is observed to diminish with increasing ethanol concentrations until the droplets stabilize in size with an average diameter of 3microns. Based on thermodynamic considerations of the multi-component mixture, the emulsion derives its stability from trapping between the binodal and spinodal curves in the phase diagram. However, the microscopic mechanisms responsible for the observed slowing of Ostwald ripening rates at increasing ethanol concentrations appear not fully understood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouzo_effect
I drank my last Joia sparkling Greyhounds with my Five Cheese Bread. The Greyhounds were made of grapefruit juice and vodka, instead of gin. Before that I finished my Malibu Pineapple By Breezes, and Cazadores Margaritas. I drank more than usual the last 14 hours or so, but not enough water or other non-alcoholic beverages. I'm still thirsty and just finished my third glass of iced green tea with lemon since I started typing. Time to switch to water and go to bed. Rite Aid called and has some of my meds I've been without a few days, but my feet are tired and I'd rather lie down than take a hike. If I get up before the store closes I can go later. 'Night y'all.
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I just finished a bowl of Asiago mac and cheese with several thin slices of Italian dry salami. Now I'm getting ready for bed at 8 am.
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Creole chicken and okra jambalaya with chicken andouille sausage and brown rice. It's been way too long since I had any jambalaya. It's the first time I had andouille sausage made of chicken instead of pork. It was good, but if I made it, I would have used real pork andouille.
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Today I cooked air fryer pork chops (https://sweetandsavorymeals.com/air-fryer-pork-chops/) for the first time in my life. In less than 30 minutes, I got the crispiest, juiciest, and full of amazing flavor pork chops. The recipe doesn't require fancy sauces, ingredients, or heavy breading. Bone-in pork chops and freshly grated parmesan are the main ingredients to obtain shine and delicious meat. In addition, two tablespoons of olive oil only are needed in comparison with traditional frying. All in all, a multifunctional air fryer is the main tool for obtaining delicious pork chops.
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How were the chops air fried? Were they browned or blackened any?
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Today I cooked air fryer pork chops (https://sweetandsavorymeals.com/air-fryer-pork-chops/) for the first time in my life. In less than 30 minutes, I got the crispiest, juiciest, and full of amazing flavor pork chops. The recipe doesn't require fancy sauces, ingredients, or heavy breading. Bone-in pork chops and freshly grated parmesan are the main ingredients to obtain shine and delicious meat. In addition, two tablespoons of olive oil only are needed in comparison with traditional frying. All in all, a multifunctional air fryer is the main tool for obtaining delicious pork chops.
One of my brothers has an air fryer and it sounds like I need one too. I love fried foods, but not grease. I want to try Hidden Valley Original Ranch Pork Chops. 92.7% would recommend. The ingredients are really simple:
6 pork loin rib chops, about 1-inch thick
1 tablespoon Hidden Valley Original Ranch Seasoning & Salad Dressing Mix Shaker
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
And you can grill them, fry them, or cook them in an air fryer.
https://www.hiddenvalley.com/recipe/original-ranch-pork-chops/
I talked to a guy last week who bought a Char-Broil The Big Easy Oil-less Turkey Fryer in a pawn shop and used it to cook his Thanksgiving turkey. He said it was 10 TIMES BETTER THAN FRIED TURKEY! He's a Texan who should know a little about cooking outdoors. When he said the name was The Big Easy, I asked him, like Nawlins? I still don't know why New Orleans is known as "The Big Easy", but if you have handfuls of worthless beads during Mardi Gras, it's easy to see lots of titties. ;D 62 days, 15 hours, 50 minutes and 43 seconds to go.
https://www.charbroil.com/the-big-easy-oil-less-turkey-fryer-17102065
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Louisiana-style shredded chicken thighs with maque choux & chicken Andouille rice.
And I just finished a glass of absinthe. I used 50% more absinthe, 50% less stevia sweetener, and a little less water this time than the first time. It tasted MUCH better, but too weak. At least it wasn't sickeningly sweet this time. I have both my water bottles half full of ice in the fridge and I'll be making my last drink momentarily. I'll use less water and try filling the glass halfway which will be roughly 69 proof. Once I see the louche effect occur it should be watered down enough. I think it looks whiter this time from the extra absinthe in the water. But it looked even whiter as I added more water and stirred it, which seems contradictory. After I drink the next one I won't worry about it.
Maque choux is a a traditional Louisiana recipe of corn, green bell peppers, and onions, sautéed in bacon grease (because bacon grease makes everything taste better) until softened, and spiced with a blend of Cajun seasonings. It can be served as a side dish, or act as a base for a main meal, and use local ingredients such as bite-sized portions of chicken or crawfish. Shrimp is often added in the later stages of cooking as well. And to some people, even if you spell it crayfish, it's pronounced crawfish. But any Cajun can will tell you they're called mudbugs.
They do some things a little differently in the kitchen there. In French cooking they have mirepoix, a flavor base made from diced vegetables cooked, usually with butter or oil, for a long time on low heat to sweeten the ingredients rather than caramelize them. The vegetable mixture is onions, carrots, and celery, with the traditional ratio being two parts onion, one part carrot, and one part celery. That combination is used lots of places, as a recipe base, or the mixture is used as a stock base, but the Cajun/Louisiana Creole "holy trinity" is onions, bell peppers and celery. Etouffée, gumbo, and jambalaya all start off with the holy trinity.
The only thing I miss about Louisiana is muffuletta sandwiches and I think I only had one, once. And that was probably only a half since the sell quarters and halves at Johnny’s Pizza House. I think that's the right place. It was called Johnny's Pizza and this is a whole chain of pizza places. I think that's the pizza place that had big shakers or red pepper flakes and Parmesan cheese on the tables, too. They describe the muffuletta as, "A hot buttery sesame seed bun with ham, spicy salami, melted provolone cheese, olive mix and mustard. Also includes chips!" I think the bun had garlic butter on it when they toasted it. It was really good either way. The traditional-style muffuletta sandwich from a century ago consists of a muffuletta loaf split horizontally and covered with layers of marinated olive salad, salami, ham, Swiss cheese, provolone, and mortadella. Quarter, half, and full-sized muffulettas are sold. I've seen places online selling olive salad for making muffulettas, and I bought mortadella at an Italian deli here before, so I could put that on one if I find the right kind of bread.
https://www.johnnysph.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffuletta
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Where the muffuletta started.
https://centralgrocery.com/ (https://centralgrocery.com/)
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Where the muffuletta started.
https://centralgrocery.com/ (https://centralgrocery.com/)
The Wikipedia link about muffuletta mentions Central Grocery. "The muffuletta sandwich is said to have been created in 1906 at Central Grocery Co. on Decatur Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., by its delicatessen owner Salvatore Lupo, a Sicilian immigrant." They've partnered with their friends at Goldbelly.com to ship muffulettas nationwide. But the cost! OMG! Original Muffuletta Sandwich - 2-Pack (Serves 6-8) $119.95, Original Muffuletta Sandwich - 3 pack (Serves 10-12 )$159.95, Original Muffuletta Sandwich - 4 pack (Serves 14-16) $189.95, Original Muffuletta Sandwich - 5 pack (Serves 16-20) $219.95, but at least you get free shipping. :) And that's still less than the price of a plabe ticket from Flint to New Orleans.
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I finally got around to making my last absinthe and used 4 parts water to 3 parts of the good stuff. At 139 proof bottled, that would be about 59 proof. That was the best of the 3 drinks I made so far and didn't taste as strong as the first one, which was 1/3 as strong or whatever, I can't do the math right now. Half a glassful made me feel like I've been drinking all night. Bashing my head into a duct in the basement may have contributed to that feeling too. :) Judging by the size of the goose egg on top of my head, dain bramage is a real possibility. :o
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Goldbelly will make a buck, that's for certain. I can't see buying less than 8 or so of them for $100 in New Orleans. What you can do is to buy their olive mix and bread separate. That makes it...get the meats somewhere local and build your own.
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That sounds like the best idea to me Rastus. Aldo's Italian Bakery is where I bought mortadella (bologna's more dignified ancestor) before, but they closed a couple of years ago, so that wouldn't be on my sandwiches. They didn't use it at Johnny's pizza place either and it still tasted good. I bought Asiago cheese there too, before I saw it in any other stores. I ate bread, meat and cheese, but don't think I made sandwiches out of it. They probably had the best bread in the city.
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I ate Taco Hell (and I'm in hell) and drank 2 tall glasses of margaritas. I'm already suffering with heartburn to go along with the migraine I've had all day, and tomorrow it's my toilet's turn to suffer. The margarita mix is extremely sour but the takillya sweetens it up quite a lot.
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1/2 a can of Campbells Vegetable Beef with Barley. I'm under the weather here in more ways than one.
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Get well soon, Rastus.
After about 10 hours of running back and forth to the bathroom I was okay for an hour, so I ate my leftover tacos. So far, so good.
I'm hungry again, and I think it's about Margarita time too.
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Two scrambled eggs this morning. An apple at 6 this evening. Even though I'm hungry I don't feel like eating.
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(Too) Lightly salted cashews, washed down with a couple of margaritas. I'm calling it dinner and going to bed with a handful of peppermint puffs. I didn't plan on staying up this late but things rarely go according to plan. But retirement's a party that never ends as long as the money keeps flowing, and nothing really matters anymore.
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I had garlic butter shrimp and added hot sauce to the melted butter. It still tasted a little flat, like it needed some salt, so I added soul seasoning. That's what I normally do when something needs a little salt, unless I only want salt, which isn't often. It tasted really good then.
Then I had a margarita with some mix I bought Saturday night. Instead of just lime, it's lime, cilantro, and jalapeno. I recommend that only if you're trying to cut down on your drinking. :P So I used about 1/3 of that and 2/3 of another margarita mix. I have enough Cuervo Gold for another drink tomorrow, but it may be kind of weak. I didn't know Jose Cuervo was a real person until fairly recently. But Jose Cuervo is family-owned and run by descendants of Don José Antonio de Cuervo. And they sell 1/5 of all the tequila in the world.
Now I'm drinking water and thinking about having dessert before I go back to bed. I have to be in my crypt before the sun rises. :)
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I had chicken fettuccine Alfredo with apple pie for dessert. I'm hungry again and it's time to raid the fridge. Chicken tortilla soup with some hot sauce a fistful of tortilla chips sounds good.
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Pasta primavera with chicken. And enjoying a Reed's Extra ginger beer with it. Before this I had 2 Mamuts (mammoths). They're like stale little, crunchy Moon Pies from Mexico. I rate them the same as the Resident of the White House, or the AFT (Absolute F***ing Terrorists).
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I'm getting ready to have some more fettuccine, beef meatballs and creamy tomato sauce. Giovanni Rana makes good meatballs.
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Eating tamales and drinking tequila. Am I the only one eating?
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La-la-la-la-lasagna. And drinking Mountain Mules. They're like Moscow Mules, but made with Ole Smokey Tennessee Moonshine. I should have had food first and moonshine second. Mooshine on an empty stomach makes it really hard to type. If my spell checker could talk it would have said, "WTF was that!" A LOT! ;D
La-la-la-la-lasagna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKlxTfExsDM
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Macaroni and cheese Cheese and macaroni with Hatch green chiles, poblano peppers, and jalapeno peppers. On the salty side but still good stuff.
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Eating tamales and drinking tequila. Am I the only one eating?
Not the only one....just the only one eating anything interesting, I reckon. ;D ;D ;D
I do want to get back into various bread making styles. I was delving into that last year and got sidetracked with other things.
One dinner roll I made lately is a 'quick bread' with no yeast needed. It works like a biscuit but you cook it in a muffin pan. It only has three ingredients as the basic roll and it's good as is....but, I want to experiment with other additives for custom profiles.
Basic soft dinner roll:
2 cups self-rising flour
4 TBS mayonnaise (not Miracle Whip)
1 cup whole milk (more or less)
Add the mayo to the flour and gently start to stir.
Add about 3/4 of the milk and gently fold in trying not to over work it.
Depending on humidity and flour density you may not need all the milk but you may need more than the cup......you're looking for a consistency that is wet enough to be spoon-able but not quite pour-able.
Spoon into greased muffin pan and bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes until golden on top. I guess you could drop them on a cookie sheet or skillet like drop biscuits as well, but have not tried it yet.
When done, brushing with butter is optional but adds extra flavor (here's where a good compound butter would work too).
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Carne asada fries
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I made tempura shrimp tacos last night and I made my own green salsa. Omg it was good. I also made red snapper tacos🤤🤤
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Everything's better with butter PegLeg.
I had a recipe for carne asada fries but can't find it.
While looking for it I found a picture but no recipe of Chorizo and Scrambled Egg Breakfast Tacos. That sounds better than fish tacos to me, but I like shrimp.
I need to eat and go to bed but don't know what I'm going to eat.
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Went to our favorite Mexican restaurant last night and had chicken alambre...wife had chicken fajitas. There's not a lot of difference between the two except serving style.
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I never heard of alambre before so I searched and it came up at Wikipedia. They showed beef alambre barbecuing on skewers, and a plateful of some kind ready to eat. It looks good to me.
I bought a bunch of Hostess cakes and pies that were 99 cents off a box. I'm going to grab some and watch TV in bed.
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I just had slow roasted beef with au jus (pulled not sliced) and melted Muenster cheese on toasted Hillbilly bread, open-faced, topped with crispy jalapenos. Not bad.
It took until my third sandwich, the only one today, to figure out how to make them so they don't get soggy and fall apart. Plain bread with a slice of cheese didn't work. Neither did toast with cheese only on the bottom. It needs cheese on the top and bottom to "waterproof" the toast. I only ate it open because I poured the last of the au jus on it. Ooh, salty. I shouldn't have done that. But I was still able to pick up each half and eat it as usual, no silverware necessary.
I have scalloped potatoes with cheddar cheese in the microwave now, and will have a few bites before I go back to bed. I know, it's weird to eat, sleep, wake up to eat again, and sleep again. I barely slept Wednesday night and was tired. I have pills I take about every 12 hours and some days I can't stay awake 12 hours straight. Some days 5 hours is a real struggle, and then I get back up later, maybe for a day or two.
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Chopped pork BBQ sammich with onion rings........
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Sugar free strawberry jello
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Sugar free strawberry jello
That sugar free stuff is rough on my guts...and it doesn't take much either. :o :o
My wife bought some sugar free ice cream once by mistake and I ate a bowl one evening.....man, my guts were tore up for days.
Right now I'm having a salad with chicken on top.
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That sugar free stuff is rough on my guts...and it doesn't take much either. :o :o
My wife bought some sugar free ice cream once by mistake and I ate a bowl one evening.....man, my guts were tore up for days.
Right now I'm having a salad with chicken on top.
Sugar Free Hershey's chocolate has a reputation as a super-laxative. Some of the comments online about it are funny. I bought some sugar-free candy that says, Sweetened With Splenda. I think Splenda was the last ingredient listed, and therefore the smallest part of the recipe. Too bad since sucralose doesn't seem to to do anything bad to anyone that I know of. The main ingredient was maltitol, which makes up almost whole hard candies. Like other sugar alcohols (with the possible exception of erythritol), maltitol has a laxative effect, causing diarrhea, stomach and bowel sounds, and flatulence. And you should never, ever, EVER trust a fart when you've been eating sugar-free candy. The safest bet is always to sit on the toilet and eliminate the guesswork.
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Sriracha Ramen Noodle Soup, Chicken, artificially flavored. A whole bottle of water and several slices of Havarti cheese cut the heat in between mouthfuls. It's made in Vietnam with real Huy Fong Sriracha Sauce, but it's powder. By the way, Huy Fong Foods is an American company that was founded by a Vietnamese-born immigrant. I had a bowl of the Regular Sriracha Ramen Noodle Soup last week and it was hot and spicy. If you like "Rooster Sauce" it's worth trying. The Chicken flavor is hot too, and smells like the south end of a north-facing skunk. Seriously. If I see the Beef or Lobster flavor in the store I'll try one.
P.S. This is no "Cup Noodles". The bowl is 4" high and 5 1/2" wide. It's 2 servings but gives the nutrition information for one serving, and for the whole bowlful. Time to raid the cupboards/freezer to see what else I have to eat.
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Sugar Free Hershey's chocolate has a reputation as a super-laxative. Some of the comments online about it are funny. I bought some sugar-free candy that says, Sweetened With Splenda. I think Splenda was the last ingredient listed, and therefore the smallest part of the recipe. Too bad since sucralose doesn't seem to to do anything bad to anyone that I know of. The main ingredient was maltitol, which makes up almost whole hard candies. Like other sugar alcohols (with the possible exception of erythritol), maltitol has a laxative effect, causing diarrhea, stomach and bowel sounds, and flatulence. And you should never, ever, EVER trust a fart when you've been eating sugar-free candy. The safest bet is always to sit on the toilet and eliminate the guesswork.
Yep.
The Amazon reviews for Haribo sugar-free gummy bears is legendary online reading material.
My dad passed away in 2014 and had suffered for years from what doctors chalked up to his diabetic medications (many do cause gut issues). I figure a large part of his problems were more than likely due, or exacerbated by, his consumption of sugar free crap.
Tonight's menu was smoked turkey sandwich and a few Pringles chips with a diet root beer.
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Yep.
The Amazon reviews for Haribo sugar-free gummy bears is legendary online reading material.
My dad passed away in 2014 and had suffered for years from what doctors chalked up to his diabetic medications (many do cause gut issues). I figure a large part of his problems were more than likely due, or exacerbated by, his consumption of sugar free crap.
Tonight's menu was smoked turkey sandwich and a few Pringles chips with a diet root beer.
I can make myself a meal of smoked turkey and Pringles and be happy with it. There's your ^%$#@ happy meal. :D I pity the fool who doesn't like Mr. P's. Years ago I had diet ICB root beer and liked it quite a bit, but I prefer birch beer or sarsaparilla if I can find it, but neither are diet.
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I put some Jalapeño & Cheddar Beef Snack Sticks and grated Parmesan and Romano cheese on a slice of bread amd warmed it up for half a minute in the microwave. It tasted better than it probably sounds, but not as good as the family-sized portion of chicken primavera I ate earlier. I went too long without food before that. My headache came back, s it's time for some more food, alcohol, and overdue sleep.
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Stopped by a local guy's food truck today and had an order of wings and fries....I had the sweet/spicy......we try to support locals as much as possible.
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I'm eating chicken Alfredo, and drinking a Tequila Colada. I finished my rum and a bottle Mai Tai mix today, but still have Pina Colada mix. That mix is too sweet and I have sugar-free Margarita mix that's really sour, so I put the lime in the coconut and mix 'em all up.
I put the lime in the coconut, I drink 'em both together. Put the lime in the coconut, then I feel better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgdU9OaSMkw
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Now being served in Frank's Jazz Cafe;
Buffalo style boneless chicken bites, diced, mixed with Hatch chili macaroni and cheese, and plain macaroni and cheese. The Hatch chili mac and cheese is mostly cheese, and has a consistency similar to lumpy caulking, but tastes MUCH better. And it's guaranteed to stick to your ribs if it makes it that far. The regular mac and cheese is unbaked Stouffer's food service (America's favorite) brand, which is very watery. The 2 mixed together and microwaved is a great combo. I love buffalo chicken mac and cheese, and Tyson Any'tizers nuked and diced are a good addition to the mac and cheese. The combination of Hatch chilies and Buffalo chicken gives it a nice little zing. Hatch chiles, pleasing palates for over 130 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM3DNpnNv5k
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Just finished a batch of wings seasoned with Meat Church's Texas Sugar and a little VooDoo on some fries.
Good stuff.
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I saved this pic of Meat Church rub a long time ago. I thought i might try it some day but never did.
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My last piece of lasagna looked a little dry when I took it out of the microwave, but I figured out out to take care of that. I smothered it with Hatch chili mac and cheese. It was mostly cheese sauce in the bag and worked out well.
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Manicotti and garlic bread. Saturday morning, or whenever it was I baked the manicotti, I mixed 1 cup of water and 2 cups of pasta sauce in a 13" x 9" pan then started lying the frozen manicotti in it side by side. They were so big, 7 of them fit but not the 8th one, so I had to take them out and make 4 columns of 2. Then they just BAERLY fit, and swelled up even bigger after baking with the pan covered with foil. And the box of aluminum foil came with a free hat. They call 1 manicotti a serving, I call 2 a meal. They were too mushy at first but are better after setting in the fridge a few more days.
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Pasta with meatballs and creamy tomato sauce with Parmesan and Romano cheese. I've also had several glasses of London Dry Gin and Diet Mountain Dew. I don't normally drink that much but I broke a big piece off an upper wisdom tooth a week ago, and have to wait another week to get it pulled. It's so sensitive that room temperature water is way too cold, but it's also sensitive to heat. Alcohol helps, so does taking my migraine pills more often than prescribed, and taking generic Excedrin. If any of my doctors says I'm self-medicating, I'll say you're damned right I am. Someone has to medicate me, and Motrin and Amoxicillin just aren't cutting it. I thought it was a sinus infection that was causing the left side of my head to feel like it it was on fire inside before, but maybe it had something to do with the raw nerve in my tooth being exposed.
I put a spoonful of cherries in my drink several hours ago. They're dried tart cherries that have been soaking in rum for a week. Now that I'm finishing my drink, it should be like a taste of cherry pie in the bottom of my glass, but it tastes watered down this time from rhe cherries being recused too many times. The rum with cherries in it tasted really good when I sampled it too. I would have used brandy, Cognac or my favorite, Asbach Uralt German "Cognac" if I had it, but Bacardi makes a fine cherry cordial too. When The cherries soaked up so much rum I didn't have enough Bacardi to cover them, I added a little Admiral Nelson spiced rum, but not enough to make it taste weird. One more drink then off to bed at 6:30, maybe.
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Corn dogs and Oreo cookies......
Don't judge me. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I never judge anyone by what they eat. If you saw some of the things I ate, you'd know it wouldn't be fair. Last week my last piece of lasagna looked kind of dry, so I squeezed the last of the hatch chili mac and cheese out of the bag right on top. It was mostly pasta and cheese, with more pasta and cheese on it, and tasted better than you might think.
I'm eating Motor City Pizza Co. supreme pizza. It was cold enough to fire up the over again.
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Shrimp wontons, shrimp money bags, and shrimp flatbreads, with plenty of sweet chili sauce. I think I bought them right before New Year's Eve, but they may have been left over after that.
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Not too hungry at lunch so I just had a chunk o' homemade sour cream pound-cake. 8)
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Not too hungry at lunch so I just had a chunk o' homemade sour cream pound-cake. 8)
You lucky so and so. Nobody makes me homemade cake and I'm too lazy to do it myself.
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I had farfalle (butterfly) pasta with vodka sauce. It has Italian sausage and peas in it. I thought it was bow-tie pasta but farfalle translates as butterfly. I can see that. In real life, bow-ties should have straight ends. There are still around 2,000 kinds of pasta I don't know the names of, or what the names mean in English. Some are fun and interesting to find out, especially if you try something new.
Orecchiette means small ear, amd it took me several tries to get the spelling right, or close enough to right for my browser to guess what I meant! ;D ;D ;D Different shapes of pasta are sometimes meant to hold different types of sauces, different ways. Certain types of sauce may stick to rotini a lot more than to penne for example. Time to eat more butterflies with vodka sauce. And it really does have vodka in it. It's not just a name.
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Chicken Parmesan and penne pasta with pomodoro sauce. Penne means quill and it's shaped like the nib of a pen. That's one of the easiest pasta names/shapes to remember. Pomodoro means tomato in Italian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta_al_pomodoro
Before that I had shrimp and sausage gumbo made with andouille sausage. By Boston Chowda Co. Not enough "gum" in the gumbo, but still pretty good.
I'm drinking Kahlua Especial (the stronger kind) with Coke, and some rum too. I tried it with and without rum added. Either way, it doesn't just taste like coffee, it tastes chocolatey too. I don't know why that is, but like I said before, when I made a chocolate cake with coffee it didn't taste like covfefe ???, it tasted more chocolatey. There's something special about the tastes of coffee and chocolate. Coffee flavored brandy filled chocolates are really good too.
With its coffee flavors intensified, there’s a reason why Kahlúa Especial is, well… special.
This dark espresso-style product is made from the purest specialty Arabica coffee beans. Enjoy it on the rocks, or in a levelled-up Espresso Martini.
Fancy? A little. But most definitely worth it.
Boasting a stronger and bolder flavor, Kahlúa Especial is an opaque and luxurious, inky brown rum & coffee liqueur, tasting strongly of espresso and deep-roasted coffee.
https://www.kahlua.com/en-us/products/kahlua-especial/
I need to buy a good quality vanilla ice cream to top with some Kahlua Especial. I bet it tastes better than Hershey's chocolate syrup on ice cream.
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Homemade cheesecake....an old recipe of mine.
An older pic, but looks the same when cooked right......... 8) ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I love cheesecake so much that my wedding cake was a cheesecake. It was made by Mercedes Kinney, author of If Cheesecakes Could Talk. She runs Mercedes Kitchen, Cooking up Success, a 501(c) 3 non-profit where she teaches Culinary Art Classes to those who show the ability to learn it. Classes are free to selected students who apply. She had a store called Mercedes Cheesecake just a few miles down the road from me a long time ago. After it closed I didn't know where she went, then one day I was walking past the cafeteria in the basement of The City of Flint Municipal Center, and she was selling cheesecakes in there.
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I just ate a big bowl of Rockport Lobster Bisque from Boston Chowda Co. It tasted way better than the Panera Bread brand Lobster Bisque I had a week or so ago. It was made with clam broth form concentrate and I wouldn't have bought it if I knew that. I have 3 more bowls of that crap to pawn off on my friends. The Boston Chowda brand is made with lobster stock like it should be. The main ingredients after half & half are water and lobster in the stock. Plus there's more lobster in it. Better ingredients make for better flavor.
The Charleston She-Crab Soup was okay, but had a piece of leg shell in it. I know it was she-crab because it had crab roe in it. I'm glad it wasn't he-crab soup. I'm just not into eating milt of any species of animal. I don't care if it is considered a delicacy.
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The wife did a wedding cake the past weekend for the daughter of a close friend. The groom requested cheesecake for his cake so she made three....the two that were requested (it was a small family wedding) and a third as a reserve. The first two went fairly fast, as expected, with folks going for seconds on both the main cake and the cheesecakes. The groom liked it so well that he decided to keep the third cheesecake for the honeymoon trip.
Here's a pic of the main cake.
Called a 'naked cake' because you scrape half the frosting off so the cake shows through....the current trend in wedding cakes.
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I never saw a naked cake before. They look better dressed IMO, but looks aren't everything. I would eat a piece the size of my head.
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I never saw a naked cake before. They look better dressed IMO, but looks aren't everything. I would eat a piece the size of my head.
I like the "dressed" ones better too...more icing the better....but they're all good. My wife always gets comments like, "It looks great but tastes better than you expect wedding cake to taste."
Here is a dressed version. 8) ;D ;D
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I like the "dressed" ones better too...more icing the better....but they're all good. My wife always gets comments like, "It looks great but tastes better than you expect wedding cake to taste."
Here is a dressed version. 8) ;D ;D
I'll take a corner piece. ;D The only reason I go weddings is free cake.
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I'm just about to dig into an egg, potato, bacon and cheese scramble. The last thing I ate before this was chocolate Twizzlers. They taste like chocolate in the way Cocoa Puffs cereal does, not the way a chocolate bar does.
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I'll take a corner piece. ;D The only reason I go weddings is free cake.
I get scraps from the left over cut-off cake tops. I just mix it with left over frosting in a bowl. ;D
Had leftover venison spaghetti for Sunday lunch.....
Had chicken fajitas at our favorite Mexican joint last night and will probably have leftovers from that tonight.
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I had a sausage, egg and cheese English muffin with a dab of hot and spicy mustard. That was good. And I'm chasing it with potato salad. Or kartoffelsalat as they say in Deutsche.
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Chicken breast meat in a chimichurri sauce made with cilantro, lime, and garlic, on a steamed brat roll, with hot giardiniera. The chicken was cooked using the sous vide method - vacuum-sealed in a pouch and cooked in a hot water bath in its own juices until very tender. The giardiniera was Marconi brand hot giardiniera, the original Chicago-style giardiniera.
https://marconi-foods.com/products/hot-giardiniera?variant=31081269198945
I'll be eating Italian beef and gravy on those brat buns with it whenever the 5 pound tub thaws. They make mild too, in case you don't like spicy food. Or a runny nose, but that's how I know it's spicy enough. It is hot and spicy, but not overkill. I would buy the hot again and I don't like things very hot. I got it at Gordon's Food Service Store, but they sell it on their site and Amazon too.
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Had to got to a neighboring city for a new gasket for the pressure canner lid so we tried a new Chinese buffet.
I had a variety of chicken and mushrooms and all was good. Lo mein was great too.
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I haven't had lo mein from a good restaurant in a long time. I had instant or frozen that wasn't bad, but not the really good stuff.
I'm eating a 3 Musketeers bar I just took out of the fridge. I like them cold and firm, instead of warm and soft most of the time.
The 3 Musketeers always carry swords in the movies. I always saw then sword-fighting, and don't recall them ever carrying muskets or shooting them. I didn't know why they were even called musketeers. Did you ever wonder why musketeers always carry swords? You can draw a sword a lot faster than you can reload a musket, plus swords are better for CQB.
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Korean barbecue pulled chicken breast on a brat roll. One without hot giardiniera, and one with. That's 6 rolls down, 2 each with 3 different kinds of chicken breast, and only 6 rolls left for the Italian beef and gravy I bought them for.
The second kind of chicken was garlic chicken, with garlic sauce like gravy.
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We made pulled pork bbq for a friend's son's wedding reception.......since it needed to be sampled for quality assurance, I had a small bit on a sandwich.
Then later had a chunk of homemade chocolate chip cookie cake that the wife made.
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You lucky dog! I went to a wedding Saturday thinking I was going to get some wedding cake, but all the guests got cupcakes. That was supposed to be better, but as the groom's younger brother has told me about other things, "Opinions vary." The bride and groom had their little cake above the stacks of cupcakes to cut together - chocolate with buttercream or cream cheese frosting or, I don't know what, because I didn't have any. :( But, there was an open bar at the reception, and I had a few leftover cupcakes in my hotel room afterward. :)
I ate 2 bowls of Detroit Mix popcorn. I bought a 20 ounce bag of Gordon's Mix at GFS on the way home from getting my wisdom tooth pulled Monday. I decided I waited long enough to start eating eating it.
I'm drinking Fresca Mixed Vodka Spritzes. They had the original Fresca grapefruit flavor and the 4 flavor variety packs at Rite Aid. I only got the original, but would have bought the Fresca Tequila Palomas too if they had them. I had a different brand of pre-mixed Palomas before and liked them.
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Italian beef and gravy on a brat roll with hot giardiniera. It tastes good when I put the giardiniera on what I actually bought it for. But the beef tastes great without it too, so I have plain, au jus sandwiches too. I wasn't hungry enough to each a second sandwich for breakfast, and I don't make halves, so I dipped a roll in the "gravy" which is actually a broth. I have one without hot giardiniera on my plate right now, but may put some on the last half. I have bowl of beef and au jus here too. It's the same brand of Italian Beef shown on the Wikipedia page for it, Buona, Chicago's Original Italian Beef. If that doesn't look good to you, we can't be friends. :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_beef
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I need to eat something, so I'm eating more popcorn, and drinking Topo Chico Ranch Water. So far, I like it better than their Chilton cocktail. They make a Paloma cocktail too. I didn't see that in the cooler or I would have bought it, and maybe not both of these. If I ever see pre-made Swampwater at the store I'll try it too, and maybe have a Swampwater vs. Ranch Water taste test. I don't want to buy a bottle of Chartreuse and after one taste find out I can't stand it, so I won't be making my own Swampwater with this old recipe. I went to Rite Aid to buy bottled water that day, but none was on sale. So I bought 5 different kinds of pre-mixed cocktails in 4-packs. A man's got to drink something besides contaminated tap water.
https://www.topochicohardseltzerusa.com/spirited/tequila-lime
https://www.topochicohardseltzerusa.com/spirited/vodka-n-lemon
https://www.davidlebovitz.com/swamp-water-chartreuse-pineapple-juice-recipe/
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Poppy seed chicken casserole with baby Lima beans, mac-n-cheese, salad, and yeast rolls.....and cake.
;D ;D
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Hot Pockets. I haven't had them in years, but when I saw 12 packs of Philly Steak and Cheese, and Meatball and Mozzarella for $1 off, I bought one of each. I've been eating a lot of Hot Pockets since then, and probably won't buy any more for several more years unless they're really cheap. Then I might get some ham and cheese or something like that. I wouldn't be eating them if I made it to the bread store yesterday to get fresh pita bread, but I don't always get what I want.
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Hot Pockets are really cheap right now....in ingredients that is. I bought some late last year for the first time in 5-10 years. I won't make that mistake again.
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I knew there was a good reason I didn't buy Hot Pockets for years. According to lore, hackers live in dark basements subsisting on Hot Pockets and Pop-Tarts. Maybe they're keeping Hot Pockets in business. I'm eating another one, but this time I have nice cool drink to accompany it. A tall glass full of Bacardi Spiced Rum and a variety of fruity flavors of freezer pops, with about 2 ounces of water I rinsed the Bacardi bottle out with. The rum was warm enough from setting in the cupboard to melt a cupful of freezer pops right away, and as I took a couple sips I added two more to what was still left in the glass. This is good. I need more rum!
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Leftovers from our family camping vacation.
Today was a burger topped with taco meat. ;D ;D ;D 8)
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Girl scout cookies...Do-si-dos to be exact.
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Bonus points for Peg if the Taco Burger had Cheddar on it.
I didn't know what Do-si-dos were so I looked them up. They sound good. Do-Si-Dos is also the name of an indica dominant (70% indica/30% sativa) hybrid strain of marijuana. It was created in 2016 by breeder Archive Seed Bank, through crossing the potent Girl Scout Cookies with Face Off OG. It has a super powerful 28-30% THC level that hits you fast and hard. It's also referred to as Dosi Doe, Dosi, or Dosido. When I read the part about its bright orange pistils, a mixture of green and lavender leaves, and a thick coat of white resinous trichomes I thought, that sounds good for making hash. It turns out there are 4 coffee shop in Amsterdam selling Do-si-dos hash, so someone else obviously agreed with me.
I had a bowl of Romaine lettuce with Classic Catalina dressing, and one with Tzatziki sauce, followed by leftover banana cream pie. That's one romaine heart down, and five more to go. The salad dressing may have been bad. I don't remember what it tasted like when I first opened it. I don't even remember when I opened it, so almost a whole bottle full went down the drain. I ate some coleslaw yesterday that I should have flushed down the toilet, and didn't want to top it off with a bottle full of bad salad dressing. I may buy some Caesar salad dressing, but I might just use the Tzatziki sauce for all the lettuce, since the big tub full is 60 servings, and I only have enough meat to make 12 gyros. I'm going to hike over to the bread store for fresh made pita bread in a moment. The banana cream pie had slightly more flavor than a glass of water, but was much less satisfying. And the Graham cracker crust was just a pile of crumbs in the shape of a crust.
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Bonus points for Peg if the Taco Burger had Cheddar on it.
Pepper Jack. ;D ;D 8)
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Cubed venison and onions simmered in gravy with mashed taters, fresh-picked green beans and fried squash from the garden.......oh, and a few jalapeno poppers made with peppers fresh from the garden (gonna have a crop of big ones this year, looks like)......man, oh man...am I full.
:) :) :) :)
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I don't do squash, but the rest sounds good. And I really like pepper jack cheese on other burgers, so why not on taco burgers? Sounds good to me.
I just finished a box of Chicken in a Biscuit crackers, with jalapeno cream cheese olive salsa. When I ran out of crackers I started dipping my finger in the bow, until I was satisfied. I was surprised when I read the ingredients on a box of these crackers several years ago and found out they really do have chicken in them. Meat crackers! I don't know of any other crackers made with real meat.
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Chicken in a Biscuit is Soylent Yellow!!!
In 1973 there was Soylent Green. In 2023, get ready for Soylent Yellow!
In 1966 Harry Harrison wrote a science fiction novel called Make Room! Make Room! exploring the consequences of both unchecked population growth on society and the hoarding of resources by a wealthy minority. Set in a future August 1999, the novel explores trends in the proportion of world resources used by the United States and other countries compared to population growth, depicting a world where the global population is seven billion people, plagued with overcrowding, resource shortages and a crumbling infrastructure. The plot jumps from character to character, recounting the lives of people in various walks of life in New York City, population 35 million. The novel was the basis of the 1973 science fiction movie Soylent Green, although the film changed much of the plot and theme and introduced cannibalism as a solution to feeding people. But, let's face it, without crowd control scooping up rioters and turning them into crackers, it just wouldn't be the same now, would it?
The world population is over eight billion people, now. I remember when they said six billion would be unsustainable. Or maybe five billion. Read up on the Malthusian theory for the reason why if you're curious. Simply stated, population growth is (potentially) exponential, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear. Food production, etc. increases 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 while population can potentially increase 1, 2, 9, 16, 25 at the same time. I think it's called arithmetic progression versus geometric progression, but my migraine is making it nearly impossible to think. It took 123 years to go from 1 billion people on Earth to 2 billion, but only 33 years to get to 3 billion, and 14 years to get to 4 billion. Is it any wonder some people saw nothing but doom and gloom in our future? They weren't pessimists, they were realists looking at the facts. But some people decided they didn't need so many kids, and advances were made in food production.
Harry Harrison didn't predict the future, but New York City is still bad. It had a population in 2020 of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles. To put that in terms I can more easily understand, Michigan had a population of at 10,077,331 at the 2020 census, and has an area of 99,716 sq mi. So, Michigan has almost 14.5% more people than New York City, spread out over about 33,188% more land. Jeez! No wonder they built so many skyscrapers in New York City! They couldn't fit everyone in there if they didn't stack them up, one atop the other.
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Back of topic. I'm going to eat some Italian beef on hot dog buns. No giardiniera this time. It's too hot to eat when I'm going to bed. I need to lie in the dark with an ice pack on my forehead.
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Caramel cake..... :) :) :)
The mad scientists (the wife and me) finally hit on a good cooked caramel icing recipe to go on her already good cake layers.
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Hot ham & cheese sammiches.....with black forest ham and provolone....toasted in the oven.
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Cough it up dude. What's the recipe. Icing and cake....give it up!
Caramel cake..... :) :) :)
The mad scientists (the wife and me) finally hit on a good cooked caramel icing recipe to go on her already good cake layers.
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Cough it up dude. What's the recipe. Icing and cake....give it up!
Yeah. What, he said.
I had Motor City deep dish 3 meat pizza with a tall glass of pineapple jalapeno margarita. Now I'm having some peach cobbler, ice cold out of the fridge. Not even bothering to warm it up. I just need something sweet before I go to bed.
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Cough it up dude. What's the recipe. Icing and cake....give it up!
Yeah. What, he said.
She didn't have the process wrote down so I had to figure it all out in the right order...... ;D
Amy’s Caramel Frosting Recipe
(covers a 3-layer 10" Cake)
2 Cups reg sugar.
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
1 cup evaporated milk (or a little more depending on consistency)
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 - 3/4 tsp salt to taste
Melt butter over low-medium heat and add about half the white sugar.
Stir constantly to keep from scorching.
Keep adding sugar and stirring until it is all melted.
Add brown sugar and keep stirring (see a pattern here?).
Add milk and increase heat and keep stirring.
Once it is "boiling" and gets to a frothy stage, add salt and vanilla and stir some more.
Then you can decrease heat to low and stir less and less once the danger of burning has passed.
Now it's a waiting game....stir occasionally until it thickens to a point where you can spread it without it running off the cake.....will vary with humidity and ambient temperature.
Basic Yellow Cake
2 cups self-rising flour
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
4 eggs
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour your cake pan.
Sift together flour and sugar in bowl; set aside.
Melt vegetable shortening, cool, then beat in eggs.
Stir in milk and vanilla.
Add sugar/flour mixture to egg mixture; mix well and pour into cake pan.
Bake for 20-23 minutes until golden brown.
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The icing sounds so good I'm thinking about making it without baking a cake to put it on. I'll just eat it straight from the pot until I'm full, or until I go into a diabetic coma, whichever comes first. ;)
I had 3 Cinnaroll gourmet cinnamon rolls with Philadelphia Cream Cheese frosting warmed in the microwave, and Wolfgang Puck covfefe I brought home from Best Western Hotel a few weeks back. I emptied a regular and a decaf pod into my coffee maker and made half a pot of coffee from what was supposed to make two cups. Pods and K-Cups are horribly inefficient, and expensive, ways to make coffee, and it was plenty strong enough, especially since I always press the BOLD button when I brew my coffee. I'm seriously thinking of putting another pizza in the oven since I only got 2 meals out of the one I had yesterday.
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Chili with no beans mixed with macaroni and cheese. I like chili with cheese, chili-mac, and mac and cheese, so combined it all. Then I finished off the cinnamon rolls.
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The icing sounds so good I'm thinking about making it without baking a cake to put it on. I'll just eat it straight from the pot until I'm full, or until I go into a diabetic coma, whichever comes first. ;)
The caramel would be great on top of the cinnamon rolls I bet..... or for dipping apple slices in.
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I’ve been making garlic bbq wings and garlic teriyaki wings. I also been making shredded chicken potato salad
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The caramel would be great on top of the cinnamon rolls I bet..... or for dipping apple slices in.
I bet. I just finished eating 3 more cinnamon rolls. I would have loved to try them with caramel instead of cream cheese frosting, but There's always another chance to try them, after I eat what's left in the freezer.
There's a local place called Cinnamom (As Seen on QVC ;)) that makes Buttercream Cinnamon Rolls, Traditional Glaze Cinnamon Rolls, Caramel Pecan Cinnamon Rolls, Signature Cinnamon Cream Cinnamon Roll (Cinnamom’s original buttercream frosting with cinnamon whipped into it), Strawberry Cheesecake Cinnamon Rolls, Pecan Sticky Bun Roll Cinnamon Rolls, Butter Pecan Cinnamon Rolls, Peanut Butter Cup Cinnamon Rolls, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cinnamon Rolls, Nutty Peanut Butter Cinnamon Rolls, Peanut Buttercream Cinnamon Rolls, Pumpkin Cheesecake Cinnamon Rolls, Pumpkin Pecan Cinnamon Rolls, Spiced Apple Cider Glaze Cinnamon Rolls, Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls, Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls, Nutty Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls, Banana Pudding Cinnamon Rolls, Banana Split Cinnamon Rolls, Maple Cream Cinnamon Rolls, Nutty Maple Cream Cinnamon Rolls, Maple Bacon Cinnamon Rolls, Chocolate Caramel Cinnamon Rolls, Birthday Cake Cinnamon Rolls, Cookies ‘N Cream Cinnamon Rolls, Lemon Cream Cinnamon Rolls, Orange Creamsicle Cinnamon Rolls, Sea Salt Caramel Cinnamon Rolls, Raisin Glaze Cinnamon Rolls, Butterscotch Delight Cinnamon Rolls, Death By Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls, Key Lime Cinnamon Rolls, Red Velvet Cinnamon Rolls, Hot Cocoa Cream Cinnamon Rolls, Turtle Cinnamon Rolls, Chocolate Coconut Cinnamon Rolls, Coconut Gone Nuts Cinnamon Rolls, Coconut Cream Cinnamon Rolls, Mounds of Joy Cinnamon Rolls, Mocha Latte Cinnamon Rolls, Cherry Cordial Cinnamon Rolls, Cherry Almond Cinnamon Rolls, Cherry Chocolate Chip Cinnamon Rolls, White Chocolate Caramel Cinnamon Rolls, Strawberries and Cream Cinnamon Rolls, Strawberry Chocolate Chip Cinnamon Rolls, Heath Cinnamon Rolls, S’mores Cinnamon Rolls, Cherry Pie Cinnamon Rolls, Peach Cobbler Cinnamon Rolls, Dulce De Leche Cinnamon Rolls, White Chocolate Raspberry Cinnamon Rolls, Raspberry Lemon Cinnamon Rolls, Chocolate Raspberry Cinnamon Rolls, Carrot Cake Cinnamon Rolls, Blueberry Cobbler Cinnamon Rolls, St. Paddy’s Andes Mint Cinnamon Rolls, Peanut Butter Jelly Cinnamon Rolls, Plain (Unfrosted) Cinnamon Rolls, a whole bunch of different variety packs of cinnamon rolls, CinnaSwirls Light, Soft Cinnamon Roll Cookies (Individually Wrapped), CinnAmazing Snickerdoodles, CinnAmazing Traditional Glaze Tea Rings, CinnAmazing Caramel Cream Tea Rings, CinnAmazing Caramel Pecan Tea Rings, CinnAmazing Classic Buttercream Tea Rings, CinnAmazing Tea Rings with Traditional Glaze and Pecans, CinnAmazing Birthday Cake Tea Rings, Sweetheart Cherry Chip Glaze Pan of Rolls, Sweetheart Classic Buttercream Pan of Rolls, Sweetheart Traditional Glaze Pan of Rolls, Frosting Tub-12 oz. or 4 oz. in 19 flavors, and Toppings in 18 flavors.
I may have missed something from the menu but that covers most of it. If I don't want to drive 7 miles to the main location in Grand Blanc, or just over 2 1/2 miles to the Flint Farmers Market, I can just sit here and order online. If I wasn't getting ready to leave for the Fourth of July, I'd probably go to the market and get some rolls or a tea ring. There are a couple places I can get discount coupons online too. I think Tracfone had them from restaurants.com, and abenity.com had them, but I'm not sure. I just know there was someplace that when I searched for local deals cinnamom was one of them. I had a few cups of good tea yesterday, courtesy of the last hotel I stayed in. A tea ring and a few more hot cups sounds good. I'll dig out whatever tea I have in the cupboard and steep a cup while I eat something else, since I'm getting an appetite again.
https://cinnamombakery.com/shop-cinnamon-rolls-online/
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Milk chocolate covered cheddar cheese Combos. I stopped at a candy shop of my way home from my trip. They cover lots of things in chocolate you might expect, like marshmallows and Oreos, and some you may not, like potato chips.
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Blueberry cake with lemon cream cheese frosting.
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O M G, you lucky
b______, uh, BOY. Um, yeah, that's what I meant to say. :) I think the last thing I ate was chicken, but it may have been brownies. After drinking 1 1/2 quarts of STRONG Finnish Long Drinks, 8.5 % alcohol, all I know is I had to switch back to water, and need to eat something before I go to bed. Nothing sounds good, though. The regular and cranberry long drinks are 5.5% alcohol, 5% for the sugar free, and I've had an 8-pack of those chilling at around 40 degrees F for a bout 2 weeks.So I'm ready for the weekend. I think I have some canned chili, but may have toasted Cinnamon Raisin English Muffins with real butter instead. The Finnish long drink has an interesting history. But, rather than me talking about it, I'll let you read about it for yourselves.
https://thelongdrink.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonkero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Summer_Olympics#
Who knew the national alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly of Finland bottled Gin and Juice 42 years before Snoopy Dog made the song Gin and Juice in 1994?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWCZse1iwE0
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I just heated up my last can of chili with no beans, only because I have Cape Cod Sweet & Spicy Jalapeno kettle chips to dip in it. If you like Krunchers Jalapeno potato chips, you'll like Cape Cod chips too, probably even more. I'm going to stir some Win Schuler's Bacon Cheddar Cheese Spread into it just to get rid of it. This stuff is terrible. It doesn't taste much like bacon, but I can feel the bits of bacon it it, and it doesn't taste like cheddar either. It tastes more like dark orange Cheeto dust with a fistful of salt and smoke flavor added. This was such a big disappointmen, especially since I've always liked their original Bar-Sheeze with horseradish in it. So, it's potato chips and chili cheese dip for dinner as soon as I finish typing.
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Went to an area mall yesterday school shopping and my eight year old granddaughter suggested we get some soft pretzel bites from a local purveyor of such. Those things are addictive....warm with butter and coarse salt......good stuff.
Followed up later with a caramel coffee frappe (coffee milkshake) from a local-owned shoppe tha we like. I generally only take my coffee black...sometimes with a tickle of cream...but I must admit that I do like these caramel things. I love vanilla milkshakes and I like coffee....so a coffee flavored milkshake is the best of both worlds.
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I had a bowl of canned chili awhile back. Now I'm ready to put some breaded chicken breast chunks in the microwave and eat them with Nando's Hot Peri Peri Sauce. I normally buy the Medium sauce, so I have to be careful about how I use, but man oh man that stuff is good on chicken. Oh, I forgot I had Hostess Snoballs after I ate the chili. That was the last thing I ate. I could eat a pile of the marshmallow stuff they have on them.
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Hot ham and cheese sandwich. I used black forest ham with mayo, pepper jack, provolone and American cheeses.
Good combo. 8)
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In Maine today…
Homemade clam chowda and a couple clam cakes with a quick soft serve Choc/vanilla swirl cone!
Lobsta tomorrow…
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Skinless barbecue rubbed chicken wings.
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A new chicken & seafood joint opened in town a while back and so far they have been on-point with their food....hot, fresh and good amount for the cost...... yesterday I had their gizzard lunch special...dusted with their "crack powder" seasoning......fabulous....if you like fried chicken guts, that is. :o ;D ;D
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I love chicken gizzards, but no innards from below the gizzard. There used to be a couple places in town that sold them by the pint or quart. And they had little packets of hot sauce if you asked for them, which I always did. A quart of breaded, fried chicken gizzards can't be good for your cholesterol, but I'd buy them again if those places were still around.
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I had 2 Leberkäse on caraway rye bread sandwiches warmed up in the microwave, with a side of Bavarian style sauerkraut. Leberkäse literally translates as liver-cheese, but it has no liver or cheese in it if you get it in Bavaria. In other parts of Germany, and Austria it does has a certain percentage of liver in it, unless it's labeled Bavarian Leberkäse. What it does have in it is beef, pork, bacon, and in this case at least, onions. I used too much mustard on my sandwiches and couldn't taste the onions, but it sure was bacony. It's a finely ground meatloaf.
The Bavarian style sauerkraut was made in Germany, not in Bavaria, but in Baden-Württemberg, the state directly west of Bavaria. The ingredients are white cabbage, white wine, salt, and ascorbic acid as a preservative. I had some Frank's Bavarian style sauerkraut before and thought is was kind of gross. I guess it wasn't really that bad. It just wasn't sauerkraut. Frank's, Libby's, and Silver Floss Bavarian style sauerkraut ALL have sugar and caraway seeds in them, neither of which is in the Bavarian style sauerkraut from Germany, which tastes like sauerkraut. Hengstenberg has been making sauerkraut for almost 150 years, and I think Germans now more about making Bavarian style sauerkraut than all these other companies.
Now I'm going to have some Whippet Raspberry Cookies for dessert. I don't think I've ever had Whippets before. They've been made in Canada for over 120 years, but I don't recall seeing them in the store until today. After that I think I'll have another Leberkäse sandwich, with no mustard to get a better taste of the ingredients.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leberk%C3%A4se#
https://www.hengstenberg.com/en/products
https://www.darefoods.com/brand/whippet-cookies/
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Went back to the same place I mentioned in the gizzard post.
This time we tried their wings.
Good stuff again and their prices are fair compared to fast food joints. For example, I don't know if any of y'all have heard of Zaxby's chicken joints (mainly in the southeast), but they have what's called a Zax Snack. It consists of three fairly small chicken fingers and a mediocre size order of fries with a slice of toast and a 20 ounce drink......for $8.50 before tax. They used to be good eating, but quality has waned over the last two years as price has nearly doubled from five years ago.
The wing lunch special from the other place had five whole wings (equal to a ten-piece at most places these days), a pile of fries, slaw, two slices of bread and a drink.......for $8.00 pre tax.
Basically three times the food (or possibly more) for less money....AND, it's locally owned to boot.
Win-win in my book......think I'll try the fish and shrimp next week.
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Sounds good, Peg. I've actually heard of Zaxby's but never seen one. 900+ locations and none anywhere near me, but it doesn't sound like I'm missing out on much. I'm a couple blocks from Church's Chicken, a mile or so from Popeye's and KFC, and the within a few miles other places, like a Seafood & Soulfood joint if I have a fried chicken emergency.
The last thing I had to eat was barbecue flavor pork rinds. The last thing I had to drink was Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey and Coca-Cola. A premium cocktail in a can, not malt liquor made to taste like something else.
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I had a Ritter Sport candy bar, milk chocolate with cornflakes. I used to occaionally buy Ritter Sport bars when I was stationed in Germany, and when I see flavors I haven't had before I like to try them. They have combinations you don't normally find in the U.S., like chocolate with marzipan, a few varieties with hazelnuts, and a Butter Biscuit bar. I remember eating the Butter Biscuit bars, and I'm fairly sure I had some of the Rum Raisins and Hazelnuts while I was over there. That sounds like something I would eat too. Each flavor comes in a different color wrapper, and the square bars break into 16 smaller squares, but the bars with big pieces of nuts don't always break evenly. I drank a couple bottles of very good birch beer with my chocolate bar too. I don't know whether to crack open another one or finally go to bed. Birch beer first, then bed, I guess.
https://www.ritter-sport.com/en
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Yesterday's supper was leftover spaghetti from a church fundraiser Sunday night for our youth programs. My wife, me and several other folks cooked homemade spaghetti for nearly 200 folks. Donations reached over 11k. :) :)
This evening was take-out pizza (it's what the 8 yr old granddaughter wanted) and red velvet cake top scraps with the extra cream cheese frosting that was left over. ;D ;D ;D
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Jamaican style spicy beef turnover. And it was Spicy. I don't know what kind of peppers are in it other than hot peppers are listed in the ingredients, but I think they're Scotch bonnets, since those are everywhere in the Caribbean, and it looks like one in the picture.
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Chili & Lime flavor pork rinds, with 2 bottles of Jones Special Release Hatch Chile & Lime Soda. If I make it back to the Meijer store today I'll be buying more Jones soda. But I only planned on zipping down the road to Kroger for ice. They may have it there too. It's good enough to seek out locally, but not worth shipping straight from the company. It tastes like Hatch chiles, but really mild.
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My bologna has a first name... it's O-S-C-A-R......
My bologna has a second name... it's M-A-Y-E-R......
I don't eat it every day,
And if you ask me why I'll saaaaaaaaay.....
'Cause generally I don't eat the crap but sometimes my childhood nostalgia rears up and I get a hankerin' .......so, that's what's fer supper as I type this.
And Cheez-Its. 8)
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M-m-m-my bologna. "My Bologna" is the debut single by American musical parody artist "Weird Al" Yankovic, originally released in December 1979. It is a parody of the Knack's hit song "My Sharona". Yankovic originally wrote the lyrics while he attended California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California; the original version of the parody was recorded in a bathroom across the hall from the radio station at which Yankovic worked.
I had Hawaiian style shredded chicken with teriyaki sauce, pineapple-coconut rice, and sesame broccoli on the side a little while ago. I'm still hungry, but I just took an artichoke and Parmesan pork chop, with herb roasted carrots and potatoes, out of the microwave. I never even thought about eating bologna, because the only kind I like is Lebanon bologna, a type of cured, smoked, and fermented beef sausage that originated in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It's a lot like salami with a distinct, tangy flavor. If you like summer sausage, salami, and things of that nature, you'll probably like it. I suggest anyone who sees it in the store try it. Now that companies like Dietz & Watson sell it, you can get it at Walmart and other store all over the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_bologna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hikh0d0q7HA
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Cubed steak with onions and gravy with mashed taters and green peas.
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In the south we'd say: Poke chops, cabbage & cawn-bread, and tater salad..... 8) 8) :D
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I had a a Ruben sandwich at Mel’s diner. I not ashamed say I ordered a second 😂
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Several weisswurst (literally white-sausage) with Bavarian-style sauerkraut on pumpernickel bread. Definitely not one of the ways it's traditionally eaten in Germany.
Weisswurst is a traditional Bavarian sausage made from minced veal and pork back bacon, with veal being the majority. It is usually flavored with parsley, lemon, mace, onions, ginger and cardamom, although there are some variations. As they are not smoked or otherwise preserved they are very perishable. Weisswurst were traditionally manufactured early in the morning and prepared and eaten as a snack between breakfast and lunch. The sausages are heated in water—well short of boiling—for about ten minutes, which will turn them greyish-white because no color-preserving nitrite is used in Weisswurst preparation. Weisswurst are brought to the table in a big bowl together with the hot water used for preparation (so they do not cool down too much), then eaten without their skins. Weisswurst is commonly served with a Bavarian sweet mustard and accompanied by a pretzel and Weißbier, (literally white beer), a wheat beer known as Hefeweizen, in the southern parts of Bavaria.
One time my friend Sarge and I drank Weizen beer, filtered Kristallweizen (crystal wheat) if I recall correctly, not the usual unfiltered Hefeweizen that's full of yeast, in a bar at the side of the sportplatz (sports field). It was served in a tall glass with about a half dozen grains of raw rice in it. When enough tiny bubbles formed on a grain of rice it floated to the top of the glass. When it got to the surface the bubbles popped and it sunk to the bottom. It was entertaining to watch the little rice "submarines" as we drank. When you order a Hefeweizen, the bartender pours most of the beer in the glass, then swirls the rest around in the bottle before he dumps all the yeast and whatever other sediment there may be into the glass. That's what gives the beer a cloudy appearance. German beer is unpasteurized and still alive, which may contribute to beer s**s if you drink too much. I drank too much.
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Grilled a ribeye and a baked tater.
We don't eat steaks often but I'll splurge and toss a couple on the grill from time to time. These were a tad thinner than I like so I only dry-brined for a few hours before seasoning. If you've not done this, try it....it's great on skin-on chicken too.
EDIT: And coconut cake.
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Now I have some reading to do on dry brining, Thanks a lot for the homework. ;)
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Pork and bison jalapeno cheddar bratwurst with sauerkraut on pumpernickel bread. I finally wised up and peeled the skin off before I microwaved it. I just finished the jar of Bavarian style sauerkraut. I haven't been eating it because last week I bought a bunch of chunky cheese bread and horseradish cheese spread. YUMM!!! I already ate 4 loaves of the bread and a 24 ounce tub of cheese spread. I have another tub of horseradish cheese spread and 2 more loaves of chunky cheese bread in the freezer. Earlier today I had a Landjäger sausage to snack on. I'm still not full, so I opened a jar of red cabbage with apples from Germany, and I'm eating some of straight from the jar.
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Now I have some reading to do on dry brining, Thanks a lot for the homework. ;)
Works great on bone-in chicken. Salt it with kosher salt and let rest on a rack in an open pan in the fridge overnight. Makes a good crispy skin when grilling and makes the internal portion of the meat taste better since it hardly ever gets any flavor from regular dry seasoning on the outside.
If you Youtube much, check out a channel called Chuds BBQ (link below). This guy does a little of everything. He had one video of a turkey club sandwich with sides and he made everything from scratch...including the bread.
https://www.youtube.com/@ChudsBbq
I had a salad for lunch yesterday topped with leftover chicken from our favorite chicken joint in town (the day before). Their portions (even for a small order) are huge, so we combined the leftover chicken and diced it for the salads.
Supper was leftover spaghetti from earlier in the week....in which the sauce was leftover out of the freezer from a few weeks ago.... ;D ;D
Today's lunch was a fried bologna sammich and a slice of coconut cake.
We eat cheap this week. 8) :D :D :D :D
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Moon Pie and a Coke.... (didn't have an RC).
Nothing tastes like it did 40 years ago.....man, I miss the food of my youth. 8)
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Moon Pie and a Coke.... (didn't have an RC).
Nothing tastes like it did 40 years ago.....man, I miss the food of my youth. 8)
And they are a LOT smaller now!
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Wife made biscuits with bacon for an after hurricane supper.
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Dat's what I'm talkin' about...
Wife made biscuits with bacon for an after hurricane supper.
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Today was a rare day. Slept in till 0500, took care of the pets, made myself some eggs and bacon. Outside of the wake up time, a pretty typical Sunday morning. However, today our son-in-law had invited me for a 1000 tee time at one of his country clubs, so off I went for a special day with family and friends.
A good round of golf, and then to their house for an early dinner. Inch and a half prime strips on the grill, thick slices of potatoes covered with melted butter, garlic and thyme, wedge salad and great Caymus wine. Followed by a chocolate coke cake covered with homemade whip cream, and then some Buffalo Trace to top the day off.
Now, I'm just sitting here on the couch, feet up and looking for a good old western, or Cheech and Chong, to watch this evening. Life is good!
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Moon Pie and a Coke.... (didn't have an RC).
Nothing tastes like it did 40 years ago.....man, I miss the food of my youth. 8)
Chocolate Moon Pie or Banana? If you say Vanilla, we can't be friends anymore. ;) Royal Crown cola is good with Crown Royal whisky. It's called a Royal Crown Royal, and is probably the only way I'll drink a blended Canadian whisky.
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I had a big bowl of chicken flavor Sriracha ramen, with a small cup of jasmine minute rice stirred in. After 5 minutes in the microwave the ramen is so hot it has to set a minute to cool off, and the cup of rice takes 1 minute to heat up, so it worked out great. I had to add the rest of a bottle of water and nuke it another minute because I didn't start eating it right away and the rice and noodles absorbed all the liquid. I bought 2 of the big bowls of Sriracha ramen, and I'm going to have the same thing again. But this time I'll put the whole bottle of water in at the beginning, instead of just filling it to the line.
Here's pic of the tater tot casserole I took up north last weekend. I usually don't cook anything, and just eat whatever my friends cook, but when I saw this recipe, I thought it sounded good. IIRC, I used 2.12 or 2.16 pounds of 80/20 ground chuck, instead of 2 pounds of ground beef. I seasoned it with lots of spicy Montreal steak seasoning, and some soul seasoning too. I used 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup instead of 1 can, because they were so small. I used a whole 2 pound bag of tater tots (minus one that rolled across the floor) instead of a small bag. And instead of 2 cups of sharp cheddar cheese, I loaded it up with smoked cheddar. I never measured it, but it must have been around 3 cups. It's just a layer of meat, a layer of soup, and a layer of tater tots, topped with a layer of cheese. The tater tots that wouldn't fit in a layer went on top. My friend's wife reheated it in the oven and crisped up the taters tots, then served it as a side dish. Everyone liked it, and my friend put the little bit that was left on the grill, chopped into a hash, with breakfast the next morning.
I got the recipe at Williams Cheese store where I bought the cheese. They have other recipes online but not that one. I bought a bunch of trimmings, left over from when they make 8 ounce bars and such. I bought so much cheese on my way home 2 weeks ago that I had 5 or 6 HEAVY bags full. It's a good thing someone came in as I was leaving, and held the door for me. I bought almost 3 pounds of the smoked cheddar, along with bags of cream Havarti, smoked hot pepper cheese, Mozzarella, roasted garlic cheese, Colby Jack, and I don't remember what other trimmings. Plus a bar of Super Smoked Cheddar. That will be too smokey to eat straight. Plus I got more chunky cheese bread and horseradish cheese spread. I'll have some of that later on. I think I got some sharp Pinconning cheese too, which is generally not available anywhere but parts of Michigan and someplace in Wisconsin. Wikipedia says that Wilson's Cheese Shoppe, The Pinconning Cheese Co. & Fudge Shoppe, and The Cheesehouse Cheese Shop, all in Pinconning, MI, Williams Cheese in Linwood, MI, and Carr Valley Cheese in Wisconsin are the only manufacturers. It's a Colby-style cheese that tastes a lot like Colby and Cheddar.
Williams cheese in Linwood, AKA The Happiest Place On Earth ;D has a big cow with a milking stool in front of the store. Wilson's in Pinconning, 6.5 miles north on the same side of the same highway, has a big mouse on the roof of their store, plus another one on a trailer. Too bad I don't have the pictures my ex took of me milking the cow, and ready to drink straight from the teat at Williams Cheese. :) We both LOLed at that.
https://williamscheese.com/recipes/
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After eating the second bowl of Sriracha ramen and rice, I ate as much eggnog ice cream as I could stand. Someone at Kroger decided it was the right time of year for limited edition eggnog and pumpkin pie ice creams ??? so I bought both.
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Chocolate Moon Pie or Banana? If you say Vanilla, we can't be friends anymore. ;) Royal Crown cola is good with Crown Royal whisky. It's called a Royal Crown Royal, and is probably the only way I'll drink a blended Canadian whisky.
Chocolate #1...always....... and I do like the banana....vanilla, not so much.
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Good man. We can still be friends. ;D
I just spent a whole hour eating a salad. I finished off however many Roma tomatoes I had left from my friends garden, mixed with romaine lettuce, covered with 2 dozen slices of Italian dry salame cut in quarters, half a bag of broken Habanero Tostitos for more crunch, and an unknown amount of smoked cheddar cheese. The salame completely covered the lettuce and tomatoes. The Tostitos covered that, and the cheese covered them. I didn't plan on making a layered salad but there wasnt room left to stir it, and I just starting digging straight down in the middle. I was worried about running out of salad dressing, but ended up not using any at all. It was so flavorful it didn't need salad dressing, and that would have ruined it. I put the fork in the picture to give an idea how big it was. It's a 2 quart - 2 liter Pyrex casserole dish, so I had a 2 quart salad for lunch.
I washed it down with Black Cherry Vernors Ginger Soda, and will have some pumpkin pie ice cream later when I have room for it.
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I made beef curry with carrots and potatoes. Paired it with stir fried soba noodles 🤤
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Mmm. Soba noodles. I'm eating boneless zings that have been in the freezer so long they started to absorb odors of other foods, but still taste the same as always.
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Every September our local Gideons chapter asks us to cook for the local area pastors. Last evening we cooked and served 3/4" thick smoked pork chops, taters-n-gravy, butter beans, yeast rolls and homemade sour cream poundcake (topped with strawberries and whipped cream).
We served around 60 plates and one of the Gideons took the extra food to a local homeless shelter.
By the time we got done neither the wife nor I felt like eating a big meal so we fixed plates for our lunch today......it was good stuff.
Sunday morning we'll be cooking for 50 or so of the Gideons for their annual breakfast conference.
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Why didn't I know this before? I would have gladly flown you in for our Giddeon events to provide decent meals as we honored pastors.
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I just ate almost a pound of harissa spiced skinless chicken wings. I had a taste of Northwest African Arabic flavor without leaving the house. Now it's time for Cookies & Cream ice cream.
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Does a Hersey Bar count??
God, I am addicted to these things!!!
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I’m hooked on peanut m&ms
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Brunswick stew for supper last night.
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What kind of meat did you have in it?
Brunswick stew for supper last night.
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What kind of meat did you have in it?
This version was straight pork like my grandpa made.
Frozen left-overs from a batch made for a gathering last year. I have several versions, all based on old recipes (from family and found).
My son makes a great version with pork and chicken and a friend makes one with pork and rabbit.
There's age-old arguments about what 'legit' Brunswick stew contains or doesn't contain and claims by various locations as to who made it first, etc. In actuality, from what I've read in some history accounts that it was really a 'catch-all' stew.....made with whatever the cook had on hand or could scrounge up to feed a working crew.
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It sounds like squirrel stew to me...
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Fried pork chop sammiches with a slice o' key lime cake. 8)
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Pulled pork, baked beans, tater salad and cake.
Wife and I cooked for a church gathering and that was the menu. Probably have leftovers tomorrow. 8)
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We made homemade chicken and shredded beef taquitos. Yumi made guacamole and red salsa while I fried up the taquitos to a golden brown. We topped them how we like and sprinkled some Mexican mix shredded cheese. Rice and beans on the side. 🤤
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Cheese steak sandwich plate from a local deli shop in town for a mid-afternoon lunch, so I'll skip supper...... BUT, will follow up later with a piece of 12-layer chocolate cake. 8)
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Alright Peg, you are hurtin' me. You gotta stop!
Where's the horseradish sauce?
12 layer cake what kind of cake...light or dark???
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Alright Peg, you are hurtin' me. You gotta stop!
Where's the horseradish sauce?
12 layer cake what kind of cake...light or dark???
Never been a fan of horseradish. :o
;D ;D
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NOt a fan of horseradish. Aarrrggghhhhh....say it ain't true.
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NOt a fan of horseradish. Aarrrggghhhhh....say it ain't true.
Yep......
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Does a Hersey Bar count??
God, I am addicted to these things!!!
Yeah, that counts. I'm addicted to chocolate too, but not Hershey's. Once I tasted really good chocolate I didn't much care for Hershey bars anymore, but I like the chocolate they use in Reese's peanut butter cups. When my dog was still alive, I'd eat the Reese's chocolate and give him the leftover peanut butter. If they made Reese's chocolate bars without peanut butter, I would buy them.
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NOt a fan of horseradish. Aarrrggghhhhh....say it ain't true.
It has its places, for sure. Polish sausage being one of them. It's good on ham and a couple of other meats too. One of my uncles told me how to tell if it was good horseradish or not -- open up the jar and take a good whiff. If it makes the top of your head itch, it's good horseradish! He was right, too. I had some beet horseradish before that was purple-red. It was milder but still cleared out the sinuses when you took a big snort of fumes. When my mom was a kid they ground their own horseradish. It sounded bad. I think I'd rather slice onions all day.
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I had 2 Detroit style coneys, and 2 Flint style. The Detroit style coney sauce is runny like a chili dog. The Flint style is dry enough to not run off the ends, more highly seasoned, and to be honest, they tasted a lot better. Now I'm having a Jones Hatch Chile & Lime soda for dessert. Odd, but surprisingly delicious. A must try, in my opinion.
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It hasn't been eaten yet, but coming soon:
Home from work, and wife isn't doing well. I have some thick cut pork loin chops that were brined for 9 hours and waiting for the grill, and I whipped up a scalped corn to go with it. Should be on the table in less than an hour. This will be followed by a coma and some good leftovers for work tomorrow.
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I'm wishing your wife the best of health Mike. There's nothing like a food coma and a good night's rest to make you feel better. And pork loin chops are a good place to start. :)
I'm dipping Dragon Sweet Chili Takis in chili cheese dip, and drinking a Cayman Jack Margarita. Of all the malt beverage "cocktail wannabes", this is one of the best I've tried so far. The dip is a can of chili with some hot sauce and chili powder added, and a bunch of Havarti cheese mixed in. Since Takis are rolled up, they don't hold as much dip as a flat chip, but I have enough cheese in the chili mixture to make it hang from the chip when I pick it up.
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Beef kofta, chicken kofta, and chicken shish tawook skewers, with garlic sauce and pita bread. Followed by 6 stuffed grape leaves a bit later. I drank my last 2 Hatch chili sodas with my one extended meal today, and I'm drinking a Cayman Jack watermelon margarita now. I have a mango margarita in the fridge and that's the last of the variety 12-pack. I had a strawberry margarita yesterday after the regular one. The plain is the best IMO, and I'll get more when I see them on sale again. After these, it's just ice cold water and chai tea therest of the night.
They tore down the Sonic Drive-In and built a Chick-Fil-A in its place. Cars were lined up down the road, for what I heard was mediocre food. I decided to stop somewhere else on my way home from the dentist and it was my first time at a (Lebanese?) grill a few blocks from my house. The garlic sauce was like mayonnaise whipped up light, and had a mild flavor. I dipped my meats in it, then ate the pita bread that had all the drippings on it. There are lots of things on the menu that sound good, like 3 different chicken shawarma sandwiches, a beef shawarma sandwich, falafell, and fried kibbeh. I'm not sure if I want to try lamb chops or lamb shank. I only had lamb once and didn't like it, but I think that was at a casino buffet in Detroit. They have fried chicken too, but the charcoal grilled chicken sounds better to me. You can char-grill almost anything and it tastes better.
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New York cheesecake ATM. On the way home from the doctor, I stopped at my favorite burger place and got 2 orders of fries. I ate one, then fried 2 6-ounce top sirloins with spicy Montreal steak seasoning and soul seasoning. Very well seared, and cooked medium. I ate one steak, then ate the other steak and order of fries. I have Key Lime pie in the fridge I'm about ready for, and 2 more steaks if I feel like eating that much. I'll probably just season them with salt, pepper and garlic, and try to cook them medium-rare. I didn't turn the heat down low enough after I got the first 2 well seared and seasoned. They went from very rare to medium faster than expected. The top sirloin is just below the tenderloin. It's not as tender as a filet mignon (from the small end of the tenderloin) but it's still a tasty lean cut that can be cooked several ways.
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I just ate the Key lime pie. The only reason I can think of to visit Florida would be to get some Key lime pie in the Keys. There are a few places that specialize in it and claim to have the world's best. I'm still kind of hungry and will probably cook a steak or two soon.
I have a beef tri-tip I need to roast, but have to go shopping first. I'm thinking small potatoes with rosemary would probably go good with it, and I have neither on hand.
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Apple pastry for a light snack at lunch in prep for
our favorite Mexican restaurant food for supper.
**EDIT**
Scratch the Mexican food for tonight... got too busy delivering cakes.....maybe tomorrow.
Having ham sammich and mac-n-cheese.
One slice of cheesecake left in the fridge, so the wife gets first shot at it.
I'm not much on the key lime pie as much as key lime cake..... 8)
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I just ate 2 lobster cakes. They were store bought and made with real lobster plus lobster surimi, like imitation crab meat made from pollock, but lobster flavor. I ate some Pepperoni Pizza Bosco Sticks while they were baking. I dipped the first and last bite of each one in spaghetti sauce because the ends were a bit dry.
https://www.boscosticks.com/
The last thing I ate before that was refrigeraisins. These were Sweet Celebration grapes that have been in my fridge since the summer of 2022 IIRC. I bought 4 bags of these grapes and ate bunches of them from each bag, then kind of forgot about them. By the time I remembered they were in the vegetable crisper, they had started to dry out, and become a science experiment at that point. I never saw any mold when I checked, so I left them in there. After 16 months, give or take, they became raisins, although some are kind of plump while others are dry. I went through all 4 bags and picked them off the vines, throwing away 8 grapes. 6 were stuck together with white mold, another one had white mold on it, and the other one was brown. The rest looked good. Some taste more like prunes than grapes, but I really like prunes. They're nature's candy. The others tasted like grapes or raisins. The bowl full of refrigeraisins is quite heavy for the size of it. I divided them between 2 bags and put them back in the fridge.
Last night, I ate 2 more steaks with a big bowl of collard greens. The steaks were more tender this time, except for some junk on the end of one. I seasoned them with salt and a garlic & pepper blend. It's garlic, sea salt, black pepper, red and green bell peppers, and natural flavor in a spice grinder. Salt, pepper, and garlic is always good on steaks, and sometimes simple is better than the more complicated spice blends. I don't own a bottle of steak sauce. If it's a decent steak and you put steak sauce on it, that ruins it IMO. Not to mention, it's an insult to the chef, if you do that at a restaurant.
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I just ate the other 2 lobster cakes. I thought they would taste better with tartar sauce, but I don't have any. It's basically just mayo and pickle relish, but I don't have relish either. I do have Sucker Punch Bold Burger Kosher Dill Chips, so I diced up some of those and mixed them with mayo. Also a dab of hot and spicy mustard and a couple shakes of black pepper. The mustard made it taste better than plain mayo and pickles. That's the only thing I had to eat today, so I think I'll fry up a boneless pork chop too.
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Cupcake with green icing.
Wife made golf-themed cupcakes for someone and had leftovers.
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Cupcake with green icing.
Wife made golf-themed cupcakes for someone and had leftovers.
Shoot. You guys are always eating like kings. I love it!
Me, I fried some jalapeno spam for lunch the other day.
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Shoot. You guys are always eating like kings. I love it!
Me, I fried some jalapeno spam for lunch the other day.
Ain't nothin' wrong with fried spam.... I'll have to look for the jalapeno version.
I might have a spam sammich for lunch....mayo and mustard, of course. ;D
I like a good fried bologna sammich too....and if I'm really wanting to eat high, I'll add pickles and onions. 8)
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Rastus, I had the spam sandwich for lunch (two, actually)...... ;D ;D
For supper it was cube steak fried...... with mashed taters and green beans.
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Baked cheese on cheese toast sandwich. I toasted 2 slices of chunky cheese bread, put Juusto Finnish-style baked cheese between the slices, and microwaved it for a minute. Not bad.
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I fry cubed spam with sliced potatoes in butter until browned, then add a drained can of french style green beans with a little more butter and heat through,easy one pan meal.
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I fry cubed spam with sliced potatoes in butter until browned, then add a drained can of french style green beans with a little more butter and heat through,easy one pan meal.
I have never seen a mix like that with green beans. I'll give it a try.
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I have never seen a mix like that with green beans. I'll give it a try.
Let me know how you like it.
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I fry cubed spam with sliced potatoes in butter until browned, then add a drained can of french style green beans with a little more butter and heat through,easy one pan meal.
Meat, taters, and veggies. That's a whole meal. Easy, one pan meals are always a good way to go. Casseroles are how I roll. ;) And even if they're not always great, they're good enough.
I have cans of corned beef hash in the cupboard, and now I'm wondering if there's any kind of vegetables I could mix with it to make a meal, instead of frying up eggs to eat with it. I haven't thought of anything yet that sounds good.
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I fried up 3 pork chops. I used the last of the spicy Montreal steak seasoning on one side, and garlic-pepper blend on the other side. And I added a little bit of soul seasoning to both sides to make sure I had enough salt on them. I sliced up the long, narrow pork chop and put half in a bowl with a can of Seasoned Smoked Turkey Collard Greens, and half in another bowl with a can of Seasoned Southern Style Red Beans and Rice. I ended up eating all of it. Sleeping until 5 pm must have given me an appetite. :)
The collard greens, and red beans and rice, were both Glory Foods brand. The collard greens aren't as good as fresh greens from the garden, but all the stray cats in the neighborhood won't let me grow them, or anything else. They're not bad for canned. I also like mixed greens and have bought mustard greens, turnip greens, and collard greens and mixed them, instead of buying cans of mixed greens. But, no kale. Why do people even eat that stuff? The red beans and rice are the only kind in a can I've found that are edible. They're nowhere near as good as what I make, but when I make them I spend half a day in the kitchen. I can microwave these in 3 minutes, so it's a trade off I'm willing to make more often than not.
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We've some of that brand greens and black-eyed peas in the pantry. Not as good as fresh, but good for store-bought canned stuff.
Had a sandwich last night with left over cubed steak......followed by what I call 'Neapolitan cake' (like the ice cream)...... Wife had cut off cake tops of chocolate, strawberry, and yellow (vanilla) from a giant birthday cake she's making.....a little of each one and some buttercream frosting and Wilford Brimley would approve.
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New York cheesecake. I like French cheesecake even more, but beggars can't be choosers.
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Fried chicken gizzards from our local purveyor.
Getting right about time for some oysters now that season has been in.
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2 8-ounce ranch steaks, medium rare, and German sauerkraut. When I looked in the cupboard to see if I had any vegetables, the only other things I could find were pickles and cans of jalapenos. The sauekraut isn't too sour, and tastes really good. So do the steaks. Ranch steaks are cut across the grain from the Shoulder (Clod) Arm Roast similar to the Shoulder Steak, but not as tough. Visible connective tissue and associated lean must be removed to qualify as a Ranch Steak. Technically it's called a boneless chuck shoulder center cut steak. A ranch steak is usually cut no thicker than one inch, weighs 10 ounces or less, and is usually trimmed of all excess fat. It's flavorful, but will be tough if cooked beyond medium. The second steak, which I'm still eating was thicker and had to be cooked about 2 minutes longer until it started to feel firm enough. I really nailed it on these. The last bite was so tender, I can't believe it came from a muscle that's used so much. The first one had a piece of connective tissue in it I had to spit out, but otherwise tasted great with garlic-pepper-sea salt blend. Here's a pic of a raw steak from the Cattlemen's Beef Board and National Cattlemen's Beef Association. Beef. It's What's For Breakfast. ;)
https://www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/cuts/cut/2500/ranch-steak
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Entenmann's Limited Edition Little Bites Pumpkin Muffins. Before that, it was a hash. It was a monster hash.
I was looking in the fridge, late last night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster from its shelf, began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise
It was a hash, it was a monster mash
A monster mash, it was a late night smash
It was a hash, it caught on in a flash
It was a hash, it was a monster hash
I put half a can of leftover corned beef hash in a bowl, covered it with about half a bar of Colby-Jack cheese, mounded browned chorizo over top of that and just for good measure topped that with medium Cheddar cheese and Hot Chi-Chi's Thick & Chunky salsa. Then I microwaved it for several minutes until the cheese melted and ran down into the rest of the ingredients, and I mixed it all up. The combination of cheese, meat, potatoes, and spices tasted good, despite the overdose of cheese.
I had 4 top sirloin steaks coming up to room temperature while I browned 2 pounds of chorizo yesterday, then wiped the pan clean with paper towels and fried the steaks. I have 2 left. I'm either going to eat one now, or slice it up and put half of it in a bowl of Beef Top Ramen. Unlike the ramen bricks, Top Ramen Bowls have veggies, including red bell peppers, green onions, corn and carrots. And each bowl comes with its own unique flavor sauce inside, teriyaki for Chicken, sweet & savory for Beef, and sesame for Soy Sauce. They still have a flavor packet, plus a veggie packet and sauce packet, instead of just a flavor packet that's loaded with salt. I used the last of a big bag of boneless zings in a bowl of chicken ramen a couple of days ago, and split a boneless pork chop between a bowl of chicken and beef ramen before that, too. When I see the ramen bowls on sale cheap enough I buy them so I have something quick to eat late at night, besides milk and cereal. If you have leftover meat to toss in, that makes them a lot better. The ramen is too hot to eat after 3 minutes in the microwave, and throwing a handful of cold meat in doesn't hurt it.
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Went to a state park campground for a few days and last night I grilled some angus burgers and hot dogs on my mini Weber kettle grill.
We got back around lunch and I've been junk-fooding all afternoon.
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I poured a can of Hormel hot chili with beans in a bowl and filled it to the top with the last of my chorizo. I forgot that I was going to put it on a cheese pizza I have in the freezer, but I can put salame on it instead if I want to. After I microwaved the chili and chorizo, I stirred it up and topped it with cheddar cheese and microwaved it again, then stirred it again. For dessert. I had 2 Gansito (literally "little goose" in Spanish) snack cakes, invented in Mexico 66 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansito
Now I'm ready for some real food. i have stuffed shells with lots of sauce in the microwave.
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Had Tex-Mex chicken fajitas at our favorite joint. Plenty enough to get a belly full and leftovers for lunch tomorrow.
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Cheesy pimento chicken and pasta with Parmesan cauliflower.
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Walker's Pure Butter Shortbread Scottie Dogs, made in the heart of the Scottish Highlands. Containing only wheat flour, butter, sugar, and salt. Real ingredients, real simple, real good. And better than Danish Butter Cookies. I only eat those if someone gives them to me at Christmas, but Walker's shorties are good any time. Mini Mince Pies should be in the stores now for the holiday season. Walker's - the world's best shortbread for 125 years.
https://us.walkersshortbread.com/
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I can second the Walkers. Not bad...I buy it around Christmas for my mom.
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Shortbread isn't the greatest thing, but on the rare occasions I buy it, I like the good stuff. I start a package loving it, and by the time I'm done, I'm more like, meh, that was okay. And I had a lemon drop candy since then. Just one.
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Shortbread isn't the greatest thing, but on the rare occasions I buy it, I like the good stuff. I start a package loving it, and by the time I'm done, I'm more like, meh, that was okay. And I had a lemon drop candy since then. Just one.
I'm the opposite....they start off meh and the more you eat the better they get.....got to acquire the taste for them... ;D ;D
I really like the shortbread cookies when using them to take a swipe of leftover buttercream cake icing that my wife makes. 8) 8)
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I had 2 boneless pork chops and sauerkraut. The sauerkraut is German, but the pork was born, raised, and harvested right here in the USA. With no antibiotics, and no hormones or steroids added for growth. It was even raised crate-free during gestation, if that makes any difference. I like pork better than beef, and I think my mom likes it even more than I do. But she's 101 years old and still doesn't know how to fry a pork chop without it being hard and dry, instead of tender and juicy. Too bad you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
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Just got in from church..... having PB&J with diet Dr Pepper.....key lime cake to follow. 8)
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That sounds good to me. Especially the cake. I haven't had dessert yet, just steak.
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I like a good steak.
Good quality ribeyes around here are going for $25 a pound for choice and $34 a pound for prime..... so we don't eat a lot of steak. You can sometimes find decent ones in the $17 a pound range. I do like a good sirloin but you got to know what you're doing to cook them right so they aren't tough.
I tell you something that is also good and that's a Boston butt sliced into 2" thick slabs and then seared like a steak and finished on a smoker until slicing temp (185° internal). Slice it like a brisket. Dang good eatin'.... ;D
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Meat is way too expensive right now. Our cows had calves recently...one is a little bull soon to be a steer. His name is Hamburger.
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Meat is way too expensive right now. Our cows had calves recently...one is a little bull soon to be a steer. His name is Hamburger.
Yeah. This time last year we could still find Boston butts for $1.59 a pound on sale at our local distributor. Back in October we cooked a hundred pounds for a church function and it was $2.39 a pound.
We have a few cows also and are in the process of borrowing a bull from a neighbor to get them knocked up.
Last night I had pork chops (they're still relatively cheap as far a general meat prices go) with corn on the cob and butter beans.
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A Wunderbar Pretzel Sandwich from Bavarian Inn at home - a German pretzel bun piled high with Kasseler Rippchen (smoked pork loin), Colby cheese, lettuce and tomato with housemade sweet Bavarian mustard and pickle slices. Before that I had Hunter’s Schnitzel (Jäger Schnitzel) at the restaurant - Tender loin of pork lightly breaded in seasoned breadcrumbs and Parmesan cheese, topped with a flavorful mushroom cream sauce. I ordered it off the lunch menu and it only came with housemade stollen and backofenbrot bread, potato cheese puffs and sauerkraut, instead of the stollen (fruit & nut bread), backofenbrot (housemade white bread), noodle soup, cole slaw, pasta salad, cranberry relish, a Michigan seasonal salad, potato cheese puffs, vegetable du jour, sauerkraut, buttered noodles and housemade ice cream that all come with dinners. The potato cheese puffs are the round things in the pic from trip Advisor. It shows a Bavarian Combination dinner - Kasseler Rippchen (smoked pork loin), Schnitzel (breaded loin of pork) and Sauerbraten (marinated roast beef). If you search for Bavarian Inn potato cheese puffs you can find a copycat recipe to make at home, like this one.
https://www.cookbookfundraiser.com/recipe/3617810/potato-cheese-puffs-like-bavarian-inn.html
I don't know about this recipe, but the ones they make at B.I. are so good I could live on them for a week. Now I'm going to have some apple strudel I got across the street from there at Zehnder's. I did some shopping downstairs in the bakery and it smelled ever so yeasty-lovely when I walked down the stairs. I resisted the urge to press my face against the window as I watched the bakers at work. The smell of goodies baking was almost intoxicating. I bought a bunch of candy and other stuff at both places.
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I have a bowl before me with 2 smoked pork and bison jalapeno and cheddar bratwurst set upon the last of a jar of sauerkraut, while I chow down on smoked hot pepper cheese on a plate beside it.
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A chunk o' sour cream pound cake.......that's what I'm gnawing on right now.
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I had a serving of steaming hot plum pudding (Christmas pudding). The word "plum" is used for what has been called a "raisin" since the 18th century, and the pudding does not in fact contain plums in the modern sense of the word. I'm on my second serving. This time I poured spiced rum on it and lit it. I once gave my ex's grandmother a plum pudding for Christmas with a jar of lemon curd to top it. I bet it was good, but I didn't get any. I'm drinking Stok unsweetened black espresso blend cold-brew coffee with it. This coffee tastes so good I might drink the whole 1.5 quarts non-stop. It's really mild, and to me tastes like it has a hint of chocolate flavor to it. But it's unflavored.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pudding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_curd
I mixed a box of Betty Crocker scalloped potatoes and and a box of scalloped potatoes. I diced up close to a cup of smoked hot pepper cheese and put that on top. I didn't mix it in, I just poked it under the surface of the sauce before I baked it. I'll be trying that in a moment. I no longer have a casserole dish big enough to hold a double recipe, my ex took both of my casserole dishes and the one I have now is too small, but it fit in my 2.5 liter Visions saucepan. This is my favorite saucepan by far. It's a glass-ceramic, and you can take it out of the freezer and put it in oven without it exploding like normal glassware. It withstands heat that turns ordinary saucepans into sauce, just like the old commercials used to say. According to my calculator, the temperature of 850 degrees C in this commercial is 1,562 degrees F (Freedom units ;D). The handle gets hotter than Hades in the oven, but does stay fairly cool when cooking on the stove.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-ceramic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hokpMSCQvuw
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I forgot to post on Veterans day that I had a Sweet Heat Fried Chicken Burger that I got for $5.99 off, and a large order of Smothered Fries with Chili, Cheese Sauce, Bacon, Sour Cream and Green Onions, that I used my $5 Freakin' Rewards for. I ate the whole plateful of fries first, then hours later ate my sandwich. It would have been better if it wasn't setting out on the kitchen counter for so many hours, but the fries have to be eaten fresh IMO. Sandwiches warm up okay in the microwave, but fries just aren't the same. If I remember to give them my phone number when I order, I get 1 point on my account for every dollar I spend, and 75 points is good for $5 off.
https://www.freakinburgers.com/images/flint_menu_17.pdf
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Having sausage/rotel/cheese dip for a 'mid-afternoon-I-skipped-lunch-again' snack.
Might do stir fried pork strips with onions and peppers and gravy for supper.
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Stewed sliced beef. With a cup of cold brew coffee.
I threw away one beef tri-tip because the package was open, and never got around to roasting the second one. A couple days ago I saw a can or red enchilada sauce in the cupboard and it gave me an idea. I sliced the entire roast 3/16" thick across the grain. It was anywhere from about 6" down to practically nothing in length. I poured some vegetable oil in my largest cast iron skillet and added a layer of meat. I seasoned it with garlic pepper blend, added another layer of beef and seasoned it with Frank's Red Hot seasoning blend. Then threw the last bits in and sprinkled chili powder and soul seasoning on it. It made its own liquid as it heated up, and I added more seasoning as I stirred it. Several minutes after it was brown all over I added the 10 ounce can of enchilada sauce, which only halfway covered the meat, so I rinsed the sauce can out with a 7.5 ounce can of Q brand ginger beer and added that. That's a mixer that's too strong to drink, and though ginger wouldn't be a bad flavor to add to the mix. After awhile I tasted the sauce, which tasted tomatoey, but not spicy enough, so I added 2 4.5 ounce cans of diced green chilies. Then I let it simmer for over a half our until the sauce reduced to a nice gravy. I divided it between 2 bowls and ate a whole bowlful of it. It was good, and the beef was nice and tender after stewing that long on top of the stove. The roast was probably close to a pound and a half, and after eating half of it, I'm so full I don't have room for anything else.
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Pumpkin Spice Cotton Candy with a cup of strong black coffee. It tasted mainly of cinnamon and was good. I had 4 other flavors in the last week. Orange Dreamsicle was good, too.
https://mygourmetcottoncandy.com/shop/
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Pumpkin Spice? Ugghh....
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Pumpkin Spice? Ugghh....
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What can I say? I really like spices, and cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger are all good. I ate a bag of ginger-lemon gummi candies last night.
The last thing I ate was an individual size chocolate lava cake.
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I'm sorry, I just can't go pumpkin spice. It's OK if you do.
I always figured pumpkin spice was for washing out nasty things so they didn't smell so bad.
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I like pumpkin spice to a degree.... I just don't like it as a dominant flavor additive to everything under the sun like some do.
Had leftover Tex-Mex (from last night's supper) for lunch.
Having a peanut butter sandwich now for supper.
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Pumpkin spice is way overdone, to be sure. Like pumpkin spice lattes that taste like anything but coffee. Then again, most coffee drinks don't taste anything like coffee. I like spice candies like gum drops, and cloves too, and that's a spice some people really hate. I wish Honeybaked made hard candies that taste like the glaze they put on their hams. I'd buy them all the time. I had a Chilies & Cherries in Dark Chocolate bar last week. It had Ancho chilies and Chipotle, so it was warm, not too hot, and was good. I quite often chew wintergreen leaves when my friends and I are out four-wheeling. When we stop for a pee break, I pluck some shiny green leaves elsewhere and chew them with my front teeth to break the surface. Contrary to what some people say, a variety of spices is the spice of life. They don't need to be completely overpowering the flavor of coffee and other things, but I do like masala chai tea.
I just had a 4 ounce New York cheesecake and 4 ounce Key lime pie for dessert, awhile after I ate a half pound cheeseburger with no bun, but plenty of Colby-Jack cheese, with a side of sweet and sour red cabbage. Breakfast and lunch were a chicken pasty with chicken gravy, and a beef pasty with beef gravy, respectively. Mmm, potatoey, root vegetable goodness. Beef pasties with ketchup are okay, but they're better with gravy.
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I had a pork chop with just a touch of hot pineapple ginger and rum barbecue sauce, because I like spice and I like the taste of pork. I mixed a drink to go with it. Spiced rum and a can of ginger beer in a tall glass, topped off with sweet and sour mix. I don't know what to call it, but it tastes good, so I mixed up another one. Now I'm going to eat a mince pie or 2, probably 2, with my drink. My meal, dessert, and drinks all have mixed spices, because that's how I like things.
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I just had a ONE POUND cheeseburger with no bun, just cheese 1/4" thick, mayo, mustard, and ketchup. I formed the meat in my small skillet and started cooking it. Then, when it was halfway done, I turned it out into my big skillet and finished cooking it. I topped it with cheese before it was done, and microwaved it to melt the cheese some more. I had my fourth (?) rum drink with it and now I'm out of rum, but that's okay. I slept in until it was dark and had the first drink with breakfast. It was a rainy day and I didn't feel like finishing my work outside, so I slept in late.
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Had all the usual southern Thanksgiving fare and trimmings.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
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Happy Thanksgiving. I have a traditional bachelor's feast in the freezer, pizza! I had bacon cheesebread and pizza sauce left over from yesterday, when I had a meatball, salami, and red onion calzone with lots of pizza sauce to dip it in.
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Screamin' Sicilian Holy Pepperoni pizza. I baked 2 yesterday and I'm on the second one now. I accidentally turned a picture of one into a pepperoni pizza pinwheel in Paint.
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T-Day +2......... leftovers....leftovers....and leftovers.
(OK with me). ;D ;D ;D
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I have several prepared meals in the fridge but was in the mood for something different. I had a can of SPAM in the cupboard and yesterday I cut it into about 190 pieces. 2x2x2x3x2x2=192, but I missed a couple when the last stack fell over while I was cutting it. I used some yesterday, some today, and still have some left. I covered the bottom of a bowl with spam cubes, filled it with red beans and rice, nuked it for 3 minutes, and stirred in about a teaspoonful of Sweet bay Ray's Hot Sauce. I did that last night and liked it so well I had the same thing for breakfast, and just had the same thing again. Now I'm going to have Pop-Tarts and spread chocolate frosting on them for dessert. I need to take some dark chocolate covered cheesecake bites out of the freezer too. They need to thaw for a half hour, so I don't eat them frozen like last night.
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I decided to call this salsa chicken, for lack of a better name. I wanted to fry 4 of 6 boneless, skinless chicken thighs that were in the fridge. I don't remember what millennium it was the last time I fried chicken, but it's been awhile. I wasn't sure what to do with skinless chicken but thought I'll figure something out. I opened the cupboard to see if there was anything I could cook with it. I should have picked up a can of RO-TEL diced tomatoes and green chilies when I saw it at the store a couple weeks ago but didn't think I needed it for anything. All I found was a pint of deli-sliced hot jalapeno peppers. That was a good start. I poured some oil in the pan and while it was heating up I raided the fridge for additional ingredients.
When the oil was so hot I could feel the heat coming off it, I flicked a drop of water in it. It danced and spit a little as it disappeared, so I knew it was good and hot. I fried the 4 boneless thighs, sprinkling them with a lot of Frankenmuth chicken seasoning. I though most of it would wash off in the oil so I seasoned it again. I got 6 packages today and was hoping one of the 3 boxes from Amazon would have a meat thermometer, but it's not here yet. When the chicken was brown and felt like it was about done when I stuck a fork in it, I took it out and dumped the oil out of the pan. I poured in the remainder of a jar of avocado salsa and a jar of hot, chunky salsa. I scraped the bottom of the pan with a fork as the salsa heated up. The acid helped in deglazing the pan, and I probably got a good dose of iron today. After it was hot and thoroughly mixed, I added about a half cup of jalapenos and kept stirring. After it simmered a little, I returned the chicken to the pan, and after a minute topped it with roasted garlic cheese. That's good stuff all by itself. :P After I let it simmer a few more minutes, I put 2 thighs on each plate, and dumped the rest of the jalapeno sauce on top.
I was wrong about all the seasoning coming off in the oil. Or that's a lot of what I scraped off the bottom of the pan. Either way, between over-seasoning the chicken, the cheese, and pickled jalapenos it tasted too salty but it was still good. It tastes better than it looks, and it would look better if it wasn't in my shadow. It would have been VERY good over a bed of plain white or brown rice. The blandness of the rice would have balanced out the saltiness too, just like with red beans and rice. The beans can be quite salty, yet taste great when you add them to the rice. Now I'm eating frosted cherry Pop-Tarts with milk a little chocolate frosting on the um-frosted side. Kind of a Black Forest tart flavor, without all the hassle of baking a Black Forest tart.
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Two scrambled egg sandwiches.
Good stuff.
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I scrambled a couple up in butter for lunch. Put some homemade pork sausage crumbles in it and a little cheese on top. Like Jimmy Dean pork sausage but no grease in the frying pan when you finish cooking it up.
Might have the same thing tonight....add some jalapeno's .
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I scrambled a couple up in butter for lunch. Put some homemade pork sausage crumbles in it and a little cheese on top. Like Jimmy Dean pork sausage but no grease in the frying pan when you finish cooking it up.
Might have the same thing tonight....add some jalapeno's .
Ain't nuttin' wrong with that!!
Only thing that'd make it any better would be biscuits....evah-thang goes better with biscuits. ;D ;D ;D
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I just sat down to 2 boneless, skinless chicken thighs, fried golden brown with Frankenmuth Chicken Seasoning and Frank's RedHot Buffalo Ranch Seasoning Blend. Yummy. And with a side of cold red cabbage from Germany. Anything that chicken breasts are good for, thighs are usually better. This tastes almost as good as duck. I have Frank's RedHot Original Seasoning Blend, too and sometimes use a little of that on pork chops, steaks, or hamburgers. I haven't tried the Chile and Lime Seasoning Blend, or even seen the other 3 in the store. The holes in the shakers are closer to the size of a pencil than the size of holes in a salt shaker, so you really have to be careful not to overdo it.
https://www.franksredhot.com/en-us/products
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Soft croissants with chocolate cream filling.
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Peanut butter sandwich and a slice of pecan pie.
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Pork Schnitzel, mashed potatoes and sweet corn with a mug of sweet tea. I made it for my Moms 89th birthday
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Man, I love schnitzel. Plain schnitzel, jägerschnitzel, schnitzel sandwiches (schnitzelbrötchen) with a small squeeze of lemon, you name it.
I had an 8 ounce ranch steak with traditional German barrel sauerkraut and horseradish cheese, with Annas Swedish ginger thins (pepparkakor) for dessert. Annas crispy ginger thins, have been baked to the same recipe since 1929, and there's a reason they're Sweden’s most loved ginger thins. But, if you don't like the flavor of cinnamon, ginger, and cloves, they also make almond and orange flavors. The almond also have cinnamon in them but not ginger and cloves, and they're really good. I haven't had the orange flavor in too long to remember how good they are. Kühne was started as a a small vinegar distillery in Berlin 301 years ago by Johannn Daniel Epinius, and has been in the Kühne family for 261 years. They're the the best-selling red cabbage in Germany, and besides red cabbage, sell a lot of sauerkraut, pickles, vinegar and condiments, too. I want to try some of their sauces Made For Meat.
https://www.kuehne-international.com/sauerkraut/barrel-sauerkraut
https://www.annas.se/us-products
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Yesterday was poppy seed chicken casserole.
Today was pulled pork barbecue, tater salad, and baked beans.....and pecan pie. ;D
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I had a bag of Roasted Red Pepper Beef Jerky Chips. It's crunchy like a thick tortilla chip and a little bit hot, but not too spicy. It's nowhere near the heat level of volcanic jalapeno beef jerky which rates a 7 on their heat scale. It has chili pepper extract, red pepper, and black pepper, but still only rates a 1. Carolina Killa rates a 9 and I can't imagine what a 10 is like, but I won't touch this one. The volcanic jalapeno tastes good but it probably takes me 20 minutes to eat a piece. I'm not a chili head so I can't chow down on it.
https://wickedcutz.co/collections/jerky-chip
Now I'm eating Wiley Wallaby soft & chewy natural huckleberry flavored licorice. Made in USA, not Australia, but their Classic Black is like Australian licorice. This tastes a lot like grape to me. I've eaten lots of blueberries in my lifetime, but no huckleberries, unless that's what we were picking in Pennsylvania one time. They looked like blueberries but the shrubs they grew on were taller than I was. One of my uncles took us someplace and we picked "huckleberries" or whatever they were. I've been trying for years to figure out if they were serviceberries or something else I know nothing about.
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What's hotter than a Ghost Pepper? A Trinidad Scorpion. What's hotter than a Trinidad Scorpion? A Carolina Reaper. What kind of peppers are in Carolina Killa Beef Jerky?
Carolina Reapers, Scorpions, and Ghost Peppers. They're all too hot to taste good. They just cause an intense burning sensation, so bad that people have died from eating them.
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I had Sopressata salami made with sweet fennel and fresh garlic, horseradish cheese, sweet gherkins, and kosher dill pickle chips. I forgot about the raisins I accidentally made in the fridge, so I'm eating them now for dessert. Altogether that makes for a complete charcuterie board, or coochie board if you're an uneducated hood rat. 1. Meat, 2. Cheese, 3. Color + Crunch, 4. Acid, 5. Sweet. The only thing missing was maybe some crackers or bread to cleanse the palette when fnished.
I got tired of drinking water and have a glass of Q margarita mix, mixed with Zing Zang sweet & sour mix. Two mixers and no booze because I was too lazy to go to the store when I ran out. Last week I used the last of my dry tart cherries that were soaking in rum for months. The cherries soaked up so much alcohol they tasted like they were around 80 proof. There must be a lot of pectin n cherries, because there was quite a bit of gel in the jar. I just shook it up and mixed it with the Q ginger beer I had for a mixer at the time. That's a great mixer if you like using ginger beer or ginger ale in mixed drinks, which I do. That with Vernors is an excellent combination.
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Buttermilk pie. It was the best thing I ate today. It will probably be the est thing I eat tomorrow and the next day, too.
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Chocolate chip walnut cookies, with big chocolate chips or chunks. I like it when the baker is generous with the chocolate. But they could use more walnuts.
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Cubed steak fried (American version of schnitzel?) with mashed taters and gravy and corn on the cob.
Pecan pie came after.
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You eat way too much pecan pie, Peg, and I've come up with a plan to cut your consumption in half. I'll see you tomorrow at breakfast if I catch a good tailwind. ;)
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You eat way too much pecan pie, Peg, and I've come up with a plan to cut your consumption in half. I'll see you tomorrow at breakfast if I catch a good tailwind. ;)
Wife makes a good one....and seldom eats any.....fortunately it has a great shelf-life and I can whittle one down over a week. ;D
She's baking cakes, so tonight I made a pizza run.
We have a convenience/gas/grocery store about two miles up the road (also the best meat market in the county) and they serve fresh Hunt Brothers pizza made to order. About as good as any pizza joint in town and still hot when I get home. Tonight was all the meats with onion, mushroom and peppers.
Eating a slice as I type this.
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A pecan pie typically lasts me 3 days, give or take a day. I like my sweets. I just ate a bunch of Crispy Dillies pickle flavored fried cucumbers. I stopped before I finished them, but I don't know I've ever saved any to put in a salad or side dish. I'm the same way with Crispy Beets. That Balsamic flavor can be addictive. Sometimes when I get the Baked Cheese crisps they make ir into a salad, but the Bacon Cheddar Crisps are so good, I usually wolf them all down in one sitting. The last time I went to the store i saw these on sale so I got 2 bags of dillies and 2 of beets.
https://www.freshgourmet.com/crispy-veggies
https://www.freshgourmet.com/cheese-crisps
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Apple Pie flavor bacon jerky. It was a Limited Edition Exclusive Flavor from Wicked Cutz. This stuff is so good, it's stupid. I mean that literally. When I eat it, the logic and language centers in my brain start to shut down, and I have a hard time thinking or saying anything more than mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm. The other flavors in my little Santa's sacks were Carne Asada beef jerky, Korean BBQ Style beef jerky, Apple Pie flavor beef jerky, Honey Baked bacon jerky, Cherry Serrano beef jerky, and Sweet Mango Habenero beef jerky.
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I ate a whole quart of Mexican style chicken tortilla soup. I thought it would be good with Mexican hot sauce, but didn't want to open a bottle of Cholula (made in Jalisco), because I already had 3 other bottles of hot sauce open. So I poured some Nando's Hot Peri-Peri sauce in instead. I try not to open too many hot sauces, and usually have a red hot sauce and green jalapeno sauce open, but already had that open too. After it was heated up most of the way, I added all of the horseradish cheese I had left in the bag and microwaved it for 2 more minutes. It was good with all that cheese stirred in.
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Taco soup and cornbread heating on the stove right now.
Feeling a bit under the weather and that might hit the spot.
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Get well soon, PegLeg. I have another migraine so I'm going to take a pill for it. It sucks that I can only take them 2 days a week and not every day.
I had pizza and more pizza. I added soppressata salami to a cheese pizza, and baked a pepperoni pizza when that was done.
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Having some homemade chicken noodle soup.
2024 came in and brought the Wuhan flim-flam to our house again. Nothing severe, just like a bad cold that lingers longer than it should....as in you feel better than a few days ago but hit a flat spot and don't seem to improve much. I don't feel sick....just don't feel all the way well either.
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I had cilantro lime chicken and mozzarella cheese with crispy fried jalapenos on buns. The last thing I ate before that was roasted garlic chicken fixed the same way. Both times I put 3 servings of chicken on 2 mini sub buns and used a fork to eat all the overflow.
A couple days ago I had 2 bowls of beef ramen soup, with half a bag of chopped up carne asada beef jerky in each bowl. I put the veggies and soup base in the bottom of the bowl with the jerky, put the noodles on top, added water halfway between the fill line and the top of the bowl, and microwaved it for 4 minutes instead of 3. When it was done I stirred in the sauce, but on the second bowl I used the teriyaki sauce from a bowl of chicken ramen instead of the sweet & savory sauce that came with the beef. They were the best 2 bowls of ramen I've had in a long time. I switched sauces on a bowl of chicken and beef ramen a few days before that, and it seemed to taste better that way, so I did one bowl of beef ramen with beef jerky with each sauce.
I still didn't feel like cooking later Wednesday, so I cut half a stick of peppered salame in half, hollowed them out like dugout canoes, put about twice as much mozzarella cheese in the halves as they would actually hold, and microwaved it. I took a picture. I was careful when I dug out the salame not to be like Johnny Horton and Get A Hole In My Pirogue. I never had a pirogue, but had a hole in my pierogi before. It sucks when you're boiling a pot full and have a blowout, but you still have a tasty noodle to eat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M10C2BTeiTc
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I just had a 10 Oz. Angus boneless ribeye steak, red cabbage, and hot honey ripple potato chips. I used Frank's RedHot seasoning, garlic-pepper blend, and soul seasoning on the steak and it was good. So was the sweet and sour shredded red cabbage. And the potato chips too. They're really salty, but sweet and hot too. They made 3 different kinds of taste buds happy at the same time.
Now I'm having 2 frosted strawberry Pop-Tarts. It's my last box of 8 I bought last month. The best by far were the frosted cherry ones that I covered with Cherry Rhubarb jam. I didn't know they could fit 10 ounces of that in an 8 ounce jar, but they did. I guess that's why it's called jam, it was all jammed in there. And good enough to eat straight from the jar. I barely managed to make it last more than a day. If you've never had cherry rhubarb jam or preserves, you really don't know what you're missing. I already knew it was good and planned on buying a pint jar full, but they only had half pints.
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Another rib-eye steak seasoned with Cajun seasoning I didn't know I had in the cupboard. I think I just bought it a few days ago and already forgot about it. I used some soul seasoning too and it turned out great. I had a can of field peas and snaps mixed with a can of honey carrots. I don't think I like field peas but bought them anyway, and decided at the last minute to mix them with the carrots. And I had dill pickle flavor ripple potato chips with it. Dessert is Almond St. Claus Windmill Cookies from Steenstra's Royal Dutch Bakery, Made in Michigan for 99 years. I need to steep a cup or 3 of tea to dunk them in. I normally use a fresh teabag for 2 cups of tea, then make a 3rd cup with the 2 used tea bags, but not always the same day. Here's a picture from Steenstra's Facebook page. If you have a craving for windmill cookies and your local stores don't have them, you can get them on Amazon and other places. They're located in Grandville, MI, but the cookies say they're made in Wyoming, MI which is 3 miles down the road from there.
https://www.steenstrabakeries.com/
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BLT with onion rings and a sweet tea for lunch.
Brunswick stew (son made it) for supper tonight.
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Popeye’s chicken and biscuit but they hosed me on the red beans and rice!
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Since Al Copeland lost the franchise they've headed down. Investment bankers talked him into buying Church's Fried Chicken just before the US economy tanked.
Biscuits aren't what they used to be, heck none of it is. And I have no idea how they can put that much breading on top of the chicken strips....I stopped going because of that.
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Popeye’s chicken and biscuit but they hosed me on the red beans and rice!
The bastards
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Since Al Copeland lost the franchise they've headed down. Investment bankers talked him into buying Church's Fried Chicken just before the US economy tanked.
Biscuits aren't what they used to be, heck none of it is. And I have no idea how they can put that much breading on top of the chicken strips....I stopped going because of that.
The last time we had Popeyes was the last time as far as I'm concerned. Food sucked, service sucked and was way over priced. They're building more in our area but so far not in our nearest town.
We do have a Bojangles, and their biscuits and chicken were always better than Popeyes anyway (and they ain't what they were several years ago either). W have a local joint in town that has better chicken....they just don't have biscuits. I went through Bojangles drive-thru the other evening and grabbed a couple of plain biscuits and had those for supper.
Today is red weenie hot dogs and Fritos corn chips.
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My own home brewed beef stew! Thick and savory…
Popeye’s has only been here a few years. We naawthiners suck at biscuits!
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Had to take mom for an early CT appointment...after I went by Bojangles and had a sausage biscuit.
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The last time we had Popeyes was the last time as far as I'm concerned. Food sucked, service sucked and was way over priced. They're building more in our area but so far not in our nearest town.
We do have a Bojangles, and their biscuits and chicken were always better than Popeyes anyway (and they ain't what they were several years ago either). W have a local joint in town that has better chicken....they just don't have biscuits. I went through Bojangles drive-thru the other evening and grabbed a couple of plain biscuits and had those for supper.
Today is red weenie hot dogs and Fritos corn chips.
Are red weenies hot like red hots, or are they just red? I looked online and saw some that are just red, made with artificial color.
I had Italian beef and roasted garlic cheese, with hot giardiniera and crispy fried jalapenos on 4 Parker House rolls for lunch. The sandwiches were taller than they were wide. For breakfast I had 2 boneless pork chops with lots of Cajun seasoning and a little soul seasoning. With hot honey potato chips and Famous Dave's Pickle Sweet & Spicy Pickle Spears on the side. I don't remember for sure if I had chips with my sandwiches. Now I'm going to have macaroni and cheese with a bunch of SUPER SMOKED smoked cheddar cheese. I can't even slice the cheese. It just crumbles apart. This is a very late dinner, and I'll finally go to bed around sunrise.
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Are red weenies hot like red hots, or are they just red? I looked online and saw some that are just red, made with artificial color.
Just plain ol' weenies that are red. Carolina's Pride is the brand. We have a local meat store that sells them in the 5-for-25 section. They make for good chili dogs.
https://carolinapride.com/product/hot-dogs/
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Around here we don't have any red hot dogs AFAIK. Red Hots are Koegel's Pickled Red Hots, and most of the time, if people want good hot dogs they buy Koegel's Viennas, in an 8 or 24 pack, or a ten pound box for a party, or to ship to friends out of state. One of my friends is a Scout leader, or he was when his kids were Scouts, and he often brings a jar of pickled Red Hots camping. We slice up some of those, and some cheese, and put them in separate Ziploc bags to put on crackers during snack breaks on our ATV rides.
Not many businesses can say they have been around since the early 1900s, but not many businesses are like The Koegel Meat Company.
Albert Koegel came to the Flint area in 1916 to start his own business. Albert's dream turned into reality after talking with a salesman from Armour Foods. The salesman told Mr. Koegel that if he moved to Flint, Michigan, that he would stand a good chance of making the business work, due to the projected growth of the automobile industry.
Albert Koegel began his training in an apprenticeship program in Germany. Here he learned the meat business from the ground up. After completing his apprenticeship, he moved to America and then to Flint to pursue his dream of starting his own meat company.
By the mid 1930s, Albert had built up enough business to construct a plant to produce his meat products. He employed just a handful of workers, nothing compared to the nearly one hundred people employed today. As the number of employees increased, so did sales and the product line.
Koegel Meats... Today
Today Koegel produces about thirty-five different products. They are sold almost exclusively in Michigan with a small percentage going to Toledo, Ohio. The business continues to grow as new stores and territories are added. Additionally, Koegel products have a taste and texture that usually keeps customers buying once they try the product. Our slogan..."Made Up To a Quality...Not Down to a Price" says it all. Today the products are still made using the same recipes and processes that Albert Koegel learned and developed.
Another unique aspect of Koegel Meats business is that they deliver to each individual store. Delivering to each store allows Koegel to place a shelf life on its products which is approximately half of its competitors. This helps to ensure that the end customer is eating a fresh product.
In 1972, Albert Koegel's son built a new manufacturing plant just off Bristol Road, near Bishop Airport in Flint, Michigan. Koegel's moved in on January 21, 1972. This location has proven to be beneficial due to its proximity to I-75 and I-69.
My hot dogs are 108 years old! But they still taste great. Koegel's is a longstanding Michigan tradition. No one can beat their meats. ;D The plant is only 4.5 miles from my house, across the road from the airport and FedEx, and just around the corner from UPS.
https://koegelmeats.com/
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I'm eating Maryland-style crab cakes, made with wild caught Maryland Blue Claw Crab meat. I have home-made tartar sauce on them, made of diced kosher dill pickles, Hellmann’s Spicy Chipotle Organic Mayo and regular mayo, hot and spicy mustard, fresh ground garlic pepper blend, and salt. The first crab cake had shells in it, but the rest have been good so far. They were frozen and I spread butter on them before I baked them yesterday. They're VERY brown but not burnt at all. I wasn't surprised that the butter made them brown, but they're darker than I expected. I had the same thing for breakfast, followed by 2 Parker House rolls with butter melted on them for dessert. No sweets, just bread and butter.
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Hickory smoked ham sandwich.
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Round two!
Pan seared chuckeye steak with caramelized vadalia onion, eggs over easy wif home fried taters with more onion, J.O seasoning and more budda!
Budda, it’s what’s for breaky!
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I don't think I ever cooked Vidalia onions. I just ate fat slices in sandwiches. But caramelized, the taste has to be amazing. I think I could eat a plateful for dessert.
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Bacon. Anyone have a problem with that? >:(
;)
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Isn't bacon one of the major food groups?
I'm eating Salt & Pepper pistachios.
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I live a little over an hour away from Vidalia, GA....and as we say down here, "Ain't no bad time for Vidalia onions."
Any way you can eat 'em we like 'em. ;D
I love them pan fried with garlic, butter and bell peppers.....then take them out of the pan and fry the cubed steak....pull the steak and make gravy with the leavin's. When the gravy's done throw everything back in the skillet and let simmer on low for a while. It's good with biscuits.
Makin' myself hungry right now. ;D
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Shredded hash browns with onions, jalapeno's and American Cheese all fried up using a couple of pats of butter. Add salt, black pepper and a bit of Tabasco.
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Shredded hash browns with onions, jalapeno's and American Cheese all fried up using a couple of pats of butter. Add salt, black pepper and a bit of Tabasco.
I used to fry my hash browns with just a tickle of bacon grease and butter mixed....been a while since I did that, though.
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28 ounces of macaroni and cheese, a family size bowl, with crispy fried jalapenos stirred in. I felt like I was starving. Now I don't. ;D It was good too.
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I used to fry my hash browns with just a tickle of bacon grease and butter mixed....been a while since I did that, though.
I usually use either one or the other. I actually prefer the butter for a bit cleaner taste. With bacon on the side, of course....
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Wife's cooking chicken dumplin's and chicken dressing for the m-i-l's 90th b-day gathering later and I'll be having some o' that......and, I just had a fresh homemade peanut butter cookie. ;D
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<snip>......and, I just had a fresh homemade peanut butter cookie. ;D
Say what? I just gotta know...how do you do that? I plan on planting peanuts this year.....
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2 Italian beef subs with extra beef, mozzarella cheese, and lots of mild giardiniera. If I run out of meat before I run out of bread, I may have a couple of soakers to finish the buns and gravy.
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Say what? I just gotta know...how do you do that? I plan on planting peanuts this year.....
To clarify: The cookies were fresh out the oven from the wife's recipe, but the peanut butter was not....it was from a jar.
But I have made homemade peanut butter years ago from our own peanuts.
Had gizzards for lunch yesterday and hot ham & cheese for lunch today with black forest ham and provolone and pepper jack cheeses.
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Yeah....you can keep those gizzards. Save that for the potted meat.... ;D
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I'm eating chorizo chili with shredded cheese and scallion sour cream. Nice and spicy.
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I finished my Italian beef and last 2 buns, and most of the giardiniera. I still have some mozzarella left to snack on. There was a whole lot of dunking going on this time and lots of juice left over. One 68 ounce (4.25 lbs.) tub makes 8 Chicago Italian beef subs, but the nutrition information says 12 2/3 cup servings = 140 calories. I put it on 8 mini sub buns instead of regular size, so they were meatier. They were 210 calories apiece for the meat, plus whatever was in the mozzarella and giardiniera. I scooped 1/2 cup of solid grease off the top before I made the first 2 subs. 2 of them had about 130% of a days recommended sodium in the beef and gravy, but it doesn't taste salty. If you drink the broth it's a bit salty, but the sandwiches aren't even when you dunk them.
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Beaver Nuggets.
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You had me worried. That's what most companies call puffcorn, as opposed to popcorn. I've had caramel puffcorn shaped like popcorn before, but don't recall having any shaped like Cheetos. I don't remember the last thing I ate but one of the things I ate today was Whiskey Beef Jerky. It was really sweet but not sugary sweet, and I ate several pieces before I felt the heat on the front of my tongue. It wasn't salty at all, and could have used a bit of salt, but was still really good.
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Snausage, egg and cheese biscuit.
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Lunch was a BLT with onion rings...... and now a small slice of chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. Wife made a cake for someone and had spare batter so we got a tiny cake to munch on.
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We just finished having carnitas tacos with kimchi. Omg they were so good. We also ordered carne asada fries with extra guacamole
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Went to a new place here called Cue n Brew with my daughter, I had a brisket sandwich and she had a smoked turkey slider, Was very good, will go there again.
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Had a big Tex-Mex chicken/steak/shrimp combo burrito last night at our favorite joint.
I didn't have much of an appetite today so I had cheesecake for lunch and am having a bowl of sausage dip and chips for supper.
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Had a big Tex-Mex chicken/steak/shrimp combo burrito last night at our favorite joint.
I didn't have much of an appetite today so I had cheesecake for lunch and am having a bowl of sausage dip and chips for supper.
Would you like to share the recipe with the rest of us? My friend's wife makes a veggie dip with chipped beef and cream cheese, but sausage dip sounds a lot better to me.
I drained a can of mixed greens and put them in the leftover juice from my Italian beef. Hours later I put the greens on a plate, poured off the excess juice, and covered them with lots of cheese. Then I microwaved it. For the first can of greens I used up the rest of my mozzarella cheese. It tasted something like vegetable lasagna -- edible, but not not something I'd really recommend. For the second can of greens, I used horseradish cheese because that was the only kind in the fridge. I think I have something a lot better in the freezer, like pepper jack, but that's what was thawed out. It was really cheesy, but tasted kind of, meh. I forgot that I ate 2 snausage, egg, and cheese croissants after that. I'm going to put a bunch on boneless zings in the microwave in a few minutes. I'm tired of hearing grumbling from my stomach. That's right, grumbling, not just rumbling. You should hear the complaints! :)
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Would you like to share the recipe with the rest of us? My friend's wife makes a veggie dip with chipped beef and cream cheese, but sausage dip sounds a lot better to me.
It's a difficult recipe...... ;) ;)
1 pound of ground sausage (we use mild but you can use whatever you prefer)
1 can of Rotel
1 block (16 oz) of cream cheese
Brown the sausage and then add the Rotel and cheese.....and that's it. We use tortilla scoops to dip it, but I have put the stuff in a burrito with lettuce and cheddar cheese.
You can easily modify the base recipe by adding different cheeses or onions, peppers etc. but we pretty much just go with the above version.
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One, one, one, and done. It's so easy a Frank could do it.
I'm having 2 sausage, egg and cheese croissants. I like these better than English muffins by a long shot, but my arteries may not like it.
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Sausage Jambalya tonight...
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Home made Stuffed peppers over elbow macaroni in a tomato sauce.
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Tid Bitz - Finland’s traditional soft licorice bites. https://gerritjverburg.com/products/tid-bitz-licorice
Before that I ate 2 10 ounce Angus rib-eye steaks. You could tell by looking at the steaks after they were cooked how well they were marbled. Where the fat melted away, they had kind of a mesh or net-like appearance, instead of solid unbroken muscle. Except for one bit I had to spit out from each steak, they were oh, so tender. You barely need teeth to chew a steak like that. I need to see what else is in the freezer.
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I took a pound of ground beef that was nearly frozen solid and made sloppy joes out of it, to the best of my ability with the ingredients I have on hand. I used salt and pepper, chili powder, smoked paprika, ground mustard powder and about a half dozen other things, plus water and ketchup. After it simmered 15-20 minutes, I poured half of it on a plate full of chopped sharp Pinconning cheese, and microwaved it so the cheese melted. The other half is on another plate full of cheese, ready to be microwaved when I get hungry again.
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Had cubed steak sandwich for lunch (leftovers) and a homemade doughnut for a snack....corn-dogs for supper.
Coffee and graham crackers for breakfast before taking one of the granddaughters to school and off to doctor appointments.
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We weren't happy with the first batch of doughnuts the other day, so the wife found a different recipe. These were lighter (less dense) and the glaze held better......much better than the first ones. ;D
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I had a cake donut recipe in about eighth grade I liked. It's probably still written on a piece of paper, in a box with recipe cards in the hall closet at my mom's house. I need to go through some of those recipes one of these days.
I ate my last bag of whiskey beef jerky, and have a couple bites left of Pinconning cheese as a second course. The jerky was too good to eat them both together.
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I had 2 boneless pork chops with lots of Cajun seasoning for breakfast, and now I'm nibbling on smoked hot pepper cheese.
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An Aldi's Swiss Roll(their version of a Yodel)
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Little Debbie Swiss Rolls vs. Yodels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gna8NXIpEE
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Macaroni and cheese. It was a tray containing 2 servings that I completely covered with smoked hot pepper cheese and put back into the microwave until it was hot and thick and gooey.
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We weren't happy with the first batch of doughnuts the other day, so the wife found a different recipe. These were lighter (less dense) and the glaze held better......much better than the first ones. ;D
OK. You gotta post the recipe. Also what kind of oil did you cook them in...and the temperature!!!
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OK. You gotta post the recipe. Also what kind of oil did you cook them in...and the temperature!!!
Hot bacon grease! ;D
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OK. You gotta post the recipe. Also what kind of oil did you cook them in...and the temperature!!!
I will. These were better than the first batch (different recipe) but still not what the wife and I are looking for....still too dense and the sugar coating from the first ones was better too. We're going to try a different flour and longer rise time for the dough to see if that helps.....then I'll post the results.
Stay tuned. ;D
Had sweet & sour chicken/vegetable/rice bowl from a Hibachi joint while on a Sam's run in a neighboring town.
Then had a leftover chicken thigh and corn on the cob from a few nights ago....with a slice of freshly baked pound cake the missus made.
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Peg your food reports are always the best...for a southern boy anyway.
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Mrs Pegleg makes a “wicked good” pound cake!
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I'm eating smashed red potatoes with horseradish cheese, smoked hot pepper cheese, and extra butter. Washed down with hot black covfefe.
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I had a 16 ounce T-bone. Now I'm ready to sleep it off.
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I had a 16 ounce porterhouse steak today. It was a lot better than the T-bone. Beside the usual salt, pepper, and garlic on both sides, I put Cajun seasoning on one side and Frank's Red Hot seasoning on the other. I tried not to overdo, so I could still taste the meat and not just the spices, but one bite was a bit heavy on the Red Hot. Both of the shakers of seasoning have huge holes that dump seasoning on the meat, and I use the back of a fork to spread it lengthwise and widthwise. You should be able to just shake the shaker, and not have to trowel out your spices, like you're floating concrete or something. >:( I saved a small spice bottle with smaller holes from something else, so I can put one of these spices in but I haven't filled it up and labeled it yet.
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Chicken wings. I mostly defrosted a pound of wing sections so I could separate them, and cooked them 20 minutes in the air fryer. That's 5 minutes less than it should take to cook them. The toaster oven/air fryer runs the fan for 2 minutes to cool off then a timer goes off. I waited for that before I took the wings out and covered both sides with Nando's Hot Peri Peri Sauce, them cooked them for 10 more minutes. They were really good. When I was done I scraped about 2 tablespoons of hot sauce, crusty stuff, and grease from the bottom of the pan, and stuck it in my mouth. I knew it was probably a mistake and I was right, but for the wrong reason. It wasn't very hot like I thought it would be, but tasted extremely salty. The organic, free-range "party wings" don't have any salt added, and the hot sauce isn't salty, but the gunk on the drip tray was. This was the brand of chicken I have, but I didn't get it here.
Shenandoah Valley Organic https://www.marxfoods.com/organic-chicken-wings
There were 12 pieces of chicken in a pound, and I have 2 more pounds. I planned on putting barbecue sauce on them until I remembered I had Nando's in the fridge too. I'll probably eat a pound with barbecue sauce soon and another pound with Nando's later.
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I finally realized there were only 9 wing sections in that first pound, not 12. I have the 2nd pound in the air fryer right now, and there were only 8 pieces. I got out the bottle of Hot Pineapple, Ginger & Rum Craft BBQ Sauce to put on them. I'm cooking them the same way but may not leave them in as long after I put the BBQ sauce on.
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I planned on only cooking the wings another 5 minutes after I put the BBQ sauce on, but put them back in for 10 minutes instead. They were smoking during the last minute, but a little bit of char never killed anyone. Also, the timer goes off when it's done cooking, then it cools off for 2 minutes, not the other way around. That way you can hurry up and get your hot food out before the fan cools it off for 2 minutes.
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I didn't feel like cooking so I ate about 1/4 pound of Calabrese Salame, with smoked hot pepper cheese, and Famous Dave's pickles.
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I forgot to mention that I've been drinking 22 Sierra Simunition coffee the last few days. They call their decaf Simunition. Since decaf isn't 100% caffeine-free, it's not shooting blanks, but it's close. ;) Simunition isn't a bad name for it. It simulates regular coffee, bur has less muzzle energy.
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Today it's a sandwich with some of the wife's chicken salad along with a bowl of fresh raw veggies and a tickle o' ranch dressing. Then it's pound cake topped with diced/juiced-up strawberries and whipped cream.
We cooked a spaghetti supper for church Sunday and had some dessert makin's left over and well, somebody has to eat it..... :D ;D
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A smoked turkey sandwich and a ham sandwich from Honeybaked Ham for dinner. Breakfast was 4 lemon paczki covered with powdered sugar.
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Leftover King Cake from Joe Gambino's Bakery in New Orleans, The King of King Cakes. It's like the one in the upper right of the first pic. They make custom cakes for all ocassions too, like this grooms jambalaya cake. And they partnered with Cocktail & Sons to make Gambino's King Cake Rum Cream. You can have your cake and drink it too.
https://gambinos.com/shop/king-cakes
https://gambinos.com/shop/king-cake-rum-cream
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Gambino's is pretty darn good. Especially when fresh. Some people prefer this small shop king cake: https://www.facebook.com/people/Navarres-Famous-King-Cakes/100051557931712/ (https://www.facebook.com/people/Navarres-Famous-King-Cakes/100051557931712/)
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Tortilla chips and chili cheese dip. The dip was 1 can of Wolf brand chili - no beans, the last piece of my horseradish cheese, and all of my smoked hot pepper cheese, except for 1 piece I thought would fill the bowl too close to the top when I stirred it. The tortilla chips were tough and kind of chewy, not crispy, but after I gnawed on a few I had an idea. I have a toaster oven in the next room. 8) The shortest time I can set the air fryer for is 5 minutes and the lowest temperature is 180 degrees, but that's not hot enough. Five minutes at 300 or 310 degrees is enough to crisp up a bunch lying on the baking rack. And when I open the door of the toaster oven, the fresh, hot tortilla smell is SO good! I ate a whole bag of chips and have one more bag just like it. And some dip left over. Unfortunately, they didn't just taste too salty, my lips hurt after eating so many of them.
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Fried spam sandwiches made with Ezekiel bread.
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Ezekiel bread is one of those things I thought about trying a long time ago but never did. I don't know why. I probably didn't see it in the store, or didn't want to pay what they were asking for it.
I had a Cinnamon Pecan Streusel Rum Cake and a Chocolate Chocolate Chip Rum Cake this morning. I got them at Honeybaked Ham on Valentine's Day when I bought one sandwich and got one free.
My leftover chili cheese dip is in the microwave. I added another can of chili no beans, the last piece of smoked hot pepper cheese, and a bunch of all natural pepper jack cheese from a 2.42 pound package I just opened. It was a package of trimmings I bought and tossed in the deep freeze last year. Now I have to see if my second bag of tortilla chips is okay or if they need to be baked.
Even though one of my doctors doesn't want me drinking coffee, not even decaf, I feel the urge to be caffeinated sometimes. So I made a whole pot of coffee, 12 5-ounce(?) cups, and used 6 scoops of Simunition and 6 of Irreverent Warriors Dark Humor from 22 Sierra. They partnered with Grunt Style Foundation for that. With a whole scoop of grinds for each cup of coffee I really didn't need to press the "Bold" button on the coffeemaker. But I'm still trying to figure out how much coffee to use since I'm used to a different grind. This is more of a general purpose grind, instead of a finer grind for drip coffeemakers. The Dark Humor is a medium-dark roast which is my style and I bet it's great by itself. It looks like it was a one-off deal they made. It's coffee I feel good about drinking. I can tell my my doctor I'm just helping out. ;)
Short Shorts Save Lives | Irreverent Warriors
It's Saturday and you're driving down the street. You see them in plate carriers waving flags. Your heart starts beating a little faster and the curiosity sets in. You ask yourself, 'What the f*ck are all these half-naked people doing?'. Well, the answer is quite simple if you think about it. But first, you need some context.
Naked and Afraid
For many military members and veterans, it starts at the Military Entrance Processing Station, or MEPS. As part of MEPS, we are asked to strip down to our underwear and "duck walk" (that's the official term) around the room so doctors can analyze us for joint issues or whatever. Maybe it's just for their own enjoyment. Nonetheless, in that moment, we met some people for the first time while walking around like a duck in our underwear. Can you imagine the awkwardness?
Chances are, the fellow recruits we meet at MEPS are not the ones we go on to serve with. It's just the first moment where we felt vulnerable and uncomfortable. Fast forward to arriving at boot camp, basic training, or whatever the respective branch calls it. If anybody tells you they weren't feeling vulnerable or anxious when the door to the bus opened and the yelling started, they are lying. For the vast majority, this is our first time away from what makes us comfortable. Whether it's close friends, family, or a dog, the thing in your life you found comfort in is not there. Despite being with 50+ other people, at first, you feel alone.
The first 24-48 hours there is designed to be chaotic, disorientating, and stressful. At some point during this time, there is a need to shower. In the Air Force in 2011, this first shower came on the day we handed over our civilian clothes in exchange for our uniforms and, for males, had our heads shaved. It was anything but a "shower". All 50 or so of us crammed naked into the latrine, being yelled at the whole time, while 10-15 people at a time got 60 seconds to share six or eight shower heads. I remember the shower heads either being scolding hot or ice cold. Either way, it forced you to only stand under the water for a second before you had to step back and bump into another naked person behind or beside you. Again, this period of time is when recruits, or trainees as the Air Force called us, feel the most vulnerable and uncomfortable. Are you catching on to the significance of this feeling?
Isolated and Alone
As you probably know, military members and veterans often use humor to cope with stressful or traumatic situations or these instances where we are uncomfortable and vulnerable. These situations and instances are not limited to being naked; this is just a metaphor. There are situations and experiences that are unique to the military that only other military members and veterans can relate with. We are able to joke about it to make each other laugh as a way to heal. The problem is, when veterans separate the military, they often feel alone and isolated because civilian friends, family, and new co-workers just can't fill that void. We no longer have people who understand and relate to this in our daily lives. It's uncomfortable to open up and talk about our experiences with others as it is, but when the people in our lives can't relate to what we have been through, we feel isolated and alone. For some, this leads to suicide. That's where Irreverent Warriors comes in.
The Silkies Hike
Irreverent Warriors, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization that was started by Donny O'Malley back in 2015. What started as a 22km ruck, carrying 22kg of weight, to raise awareness for the 22 a day quickly turned into a place where veterans could regain that sense of camaraderie and build a network of peers who could relate to each other. A place for suicide prevention rather than awareness. That place is called a Silkies Hike.
Silkies, or Ranger Panties as others may refer to them, are the PT shorts of the Marines. They are short, tight, and leave nothing to the imagination. In public, it can be uncomfortable to wear them. Wearing Silkies is a way to recreate that discomfort of being naked (remember the shower story?), and according to O'Malley, this is why Silkies are worn at hikes. When a veteran or military member shows up to a Silkies Hike, especially a first-time hiker, they aren't alone in this feeling. They are with a group of brothers and sisters who are also feeling uncomfortable. Vulnerable. So, what do we do? We laugh. And once the laughter makes us feel comfortable, we talk. And when we talk, we relate. We find friends who have felt the same pain, seen the same tragedy, or experienced the same trauma. We find out we're not alone. What makes IW great is it doesn't just stop when the hike is over. Each location has a Facebook Group as a way of staying in contact with others from the hike. But it's more than that; it's a network of peers we can talk to when we need it and we know they can relate our struggle. It's a judgement-free place where any veteran can connect with other veterans. To date, over 50,000 veterans have participated in Silkies Hikes across the world, with almost 100 Hikes scheduled for 2022 alone.
So, the next time you're driving through town on a Saturday and you see a group of half-naked people wearing plate carriers, carrying flags, and most importantly, laughing, cheer them on. Honk and wave. It's just a group of veterans and military members helping each other heal. Helping each other live.
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I'm eating hot peri-peri wings. The hot sauce doesn't char like that barbecue sauce did the other day because it doesn't have any sugar in it.
Ingredients: Vinegar, Water, Lemon Puree, Onion Puree, Salt, Spices (African Brid's Eye Chilli, Paprika, Cayenne Pepper), Green Chilli, Sunflower Seed Oil, Garlic, Xanthan Gum, Propylene Glycol Alginate (Derived from Seaweed), Preservative (Ascorbic Acid), Rosemary Extract.
https://www.nandosperiperi.com/sauces/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peri-peri
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I'm on my 2nd hotel room plastic cup of Jagermeister. This will 1/2 of a 750ml bottle gone when I finish it. I found this in my mom's basement last year, maybe the year before, and stuck it in my freezer awhile back. I finally worked up the courage to try it and it tastes like... Jagermeister! ??? It has a price tag on it that says 190 tax-free and has the price is $16.17. I just looked online and several places charge $20-$30 for a fifth of this stuff. The number 190 means it was bought at a duty-free shop or somewhere else that didn't charge taxes on it. Like a Class VI liquor store on a military base. Worst-case scenario is, I picked it up when I renewed my army ID card at Fort Custer Training Center or Selfridge ANG Base, whichever one I went to in 1984. :o BTW, they've both been active for 107 years. More likely, it's from a trip my mom and I made to a casino in Canada, Probably the river boat they had in Windsor. Each adult can bring back 1 liter of liquor tax free, plus a certain number of non-Cuban cigars, and cigarettes. I think I got a bottle of Asbach Uralt German brandy (like fine cognac), and the second bottle could have Jagermeister. Since my mom doesn't drink, she would have declared one bottle as hers. I remember doing that before but it's been a LONG time since we went to Canada. Before 9/11 I guess, since I've never had a passport (but have been to 4 foreign countries). The back of the bottle says it was imported by Sidney Frank Importing Co., and when I looked them up, I found out they've been a wholly owned subsidiary of Mast-Jägermeister SE since 2017. So this stuff has been lying around for at least 7 years, and maybe 33-40 years, but it hasn't gone bad as far as I can tell. Unlike the set of tiny bottles of whiskey and stuff that was in her attic. I brought that home and dumped them all out because they smelled more like paint thinner than whiskey, etc. In case anyone is wondering, Jagermeister is best served at -18 Commie degrees which equals -0.4 Freedom degrees.
They're selling pre-mixed Asbach and cola in cans now, but it's only 10% alcohol. Mama Claire used to serve Sarge and I a "spritz" down at Claire's Pub that I think was a shot of Asbach and a shot of cola in a glass that looked like a miniature brandy snifter. That would be 18% alcohol, or 36 proof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classes_of_supply
https://www.jagermeister.com/en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbach_Uralt
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Fajita butter shrimp. My friends didn't like it the day we had fajitas and I pronounced it fuh-jight-uh, like Peter Griffin did on Family Guy. I like eating fajitas.
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Frosted donuts, maple bacon, s'mores, and Mexican hot chocolate. But here's the kicker, they were all different flavors of cotton candy from the 2 dozen plus that FedEx delivered today.
https://mygourmetcottoncandy.com/
I've been washing it down with a whole pot of I.W. Dark Humor coffee, undiluted by decaf this time. Ten level scoops of coffee for 12 little cups turned out good. Just for the heck of it, I tried dunking a wad of frosted donut cotton candy in my cup of coffee. It was nothing like dunking an actual donut in coffee. The hot coffee dissolved it WAY faster than a Styrofoam cup in pure acetone! The only substance known to man to dissolve faster than that is Thiotimoline, which due to its endochronic properties, will dissolve in water in minus 1.12 seconds. That is, it will dissolve before the water is added. If you don't add water it won't dissolve, but if it DOES dissolve, it's because you'll add water to it in a moment. ??? ;D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiotimoline
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I just had a shredded chicken taco bowl with roasted corn salsa and cilantro lime sour cream. And I'm going to have strawberry cheesecake flavor cotton candy for dessert.
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BBQ sandwich and onion rings with sweet tea for lunch.
Bowl of frosted mini wheat cereal for supper and some candy circus peanuts (love the things).
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So, I'm not the only one who really likes circus peanuts. That's good to know. I've been wondering if they'd be even better dunked in dark chocolate or milk chocolate. I mean, how could they NOT be better covered in chocolate? Or mostly covered. I just never got around to buying chocolate and melting it down to experiment with. Unless I buy bulk quantities of circus peanuts, I eat them too fast to find out. I like when I get a fresh batch I can squish a little between my fingers. In the store I like to give one in each bag a pinch before I decide to buy it or not.
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Best chocolate covered peanuts and pecans I ever had in my life. Lots of local goodies like Mayhaw jelly.
https://i10pecanhouse.com/ (https://i10pecanhouse.com/)
Peg, I know we've corresponded about this place. Have you ever stopped in?
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I saved that place to my favorites. I need to buy some Butter Cream Pecans. It's not just a matter of want, I NEED them.
Oh, and I had Spanish chicken with paprika potatoes.
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Ranch flavor cotton candy. It tasted like ranch flavor popcorn except it wasn't salty.
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Grilled deer backstrap. Some of it cut out in strips to wrap up peppers and cream cheese.
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Best chocolate covered peanuts and pecans I ever had in my life. Lots of local goodies like Mayhaw jelly.
https://i10pecanhouse.com/ (https://i10pecanhouse.com/)
Peg, I know we've corresponded about this place. Have you ever stopped in?
Not yet. We were in Tallahassee a few weeks ago, but were not on that side and I was riding with someone else who was on a schedule.....so I didn't bring it up.
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I had one boneless pork chop and a few bites of the second one. I had Frank's Original RedHot and Frank's RedHot Buffalo Ranch Seasoning Blend on one side, and Cajun Seasoning along with some salt left in a big bag of Smokehouse Almonds on the other. It was really good, and smelled good when I fried it. I'm getting hungry for the rest now. Dessert was Mexican Hot Chocolate flavor cotton candy dissolved in my coffee. And when I ran out of coffee I ate the rest of it.
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I just ate Spicy Pickle cotton candy with Spicy Jalapeno cotton candy. The spicy jalapeno didn't have any jalapeno flavor, it just had heat, and the spicy pickle tasted like spicy pickles. Together they tasted like spicy pickles, and I got rid of the jalapeno cotton candy that I wasn't eating. All 30 tubs of cotton candy are gone now. The regular pickle flavor cotton candy wasn't sour enough and seemed to have a slightly bitter taste.
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I have a family size fettuccine Alfredo with chicken setting on the desk in front of me. I have to let it cool off a little bit, then I'll probably eat half of it, two servings.
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Garden salad and an oatmeal pie..... 8)
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Dr. Pepper Peeps. Dr. Peeper? I have Italian sausage with red and green bell peppers and tomato basil sauce in the microwave.
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Meatball sliders on garlic knots
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Farfalle (bow-tie) pasta, Italian sausage and green peas with vodka sauce. And Snickers cookie dough for dessert.
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Ohio State Buckeye chocolate peanut butter fudge.
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Friday night we went with b-i-l and s-i-l and a friend to our favorite local pizza joint (50 yrs in the community) and I had a pizzaroli which is pizza toppings rolled up in the dough and baked.
Had chicken fajitas last night at our favorite Tex/Mex joint.
Today is a light lunch.....a nanner sammich and Pepsi zero.
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I cubed up some SPAM, fried it in butter until crispy, then added slices potatoes also fried in butter, when those were done I dumped a can of French style green beans on top and mixed it all together and simmered until heated through. There's just enough for 2 more servings.
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Graham crackers and milk.
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Chicken and sausage red jambalaya. Some toll house chocolate chip cookies afterwards....
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Chicken Parmesan with mozzarella, and penne pasta with pomodoro sauce. Now it's time for candy for dessert.
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Hot ham and cheese sandwich using black forest ham, pepper jack and provolone cheeses.
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A Peeps kabob. It had one each of strawberry, orange, lemon, and lime Mike & Ike candy flavor Peeps on a 10" stick. I had old fashioned maple bacon jerky right before that.
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Hibachi steak (wife got chicken) with rice carrots and mushrooms from a local joint. We used to eat there a LOT years ago but kinda got burned out from eating there so often. It's probably been five or so years since we last ate there and they're usually too busy for my level of waiting time for food ..... but the line wasn't too bad today since it was after the noon rush so we grabbed a couple of plates. It was still just as good as it was before and plenty enough to have leftovers for supper.
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A Christmas Story chocolate walnut fudge.
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Roasted garlic potatoes au gratin with bacon. I added some medium cheddar which tastes mild, and a whole bag of sriracha bacon jerky.
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A couple days ago I had a 17.4 oz. package of Parmesan Garlic Butter chicken wings. I ate them with a a fork left-handed so i could keep my right hand on my mouse, and saved all the meaty bones for later. Then I had a 17.6 oz. package of BBQ Rubbed chicken wings and did the same thing. Today, I added some water to each of the plastic trays and nuked them, then put them all in one tray and sprinkled them with Frank's RedHot Chile and Lime Seasoning and nuked them for 2 minutes. It was my first time using this seasoning. I ate them while I watched a movie and had both hands free. They were good, and there was just enough meat left of the 35 oz. of wings to make a meal.
Instead of plain black coffee I mixed in some Sweet Cheeks from The Drunken Butcher. The ingredients are Cream Cheese, Sugar, Cinnamon, Cocoa Powder, Vanilla Powder, Nutritional Yeast, and Nutmeg. There isn't much sugar in it, so after I was done eating I started adding sweetener to my coffee too. Sweet Cheeks is a wonderful blend of spices and natural ingredients that are sure to brighten your day. Toss some on desserts, coffee, hot cocoa, French toast and much more. This blend tastes like a cream cheese chocolate frosted cinnamon roll and is so good that you can eat it straight out of the bottle! I got 2 bottles of this, 5 different seasoning blends, 2 barbecue sauces, and some other stuff. There's free shipping on orders of $100 so I got $102 and change worth. The Drunken Butcher is a former marine in Utah. All military, veterans, and first responders, including 911 dispatchers get 20% off any non sale items. I got the Steer Wars Bundle, 3 bottles of meat sprinkles on sale for about 11-12% off the individual price. I should have ordered them individually and saved 20% instead, but never thought of it until just now. :-[ That's where I got my tin of Pyro Putty too.
https://thedrunkenbutcher.us/
It's time to eat again so I have Italian sausage and peppers in tomato basil sauce in the microwave.
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Booze trivia. The X marking on jugs of moonshine indicate how many times that particular batch was distilled. Three X’s means it has been run through the still three times, making it the closest you can get to pure alcohol. XXX is the really good stuff. I had some vodka that was 7X distilled but they didn't put XXXXXXX on the label like hillbillies in a cartoon would.
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We spent the weekend in Jacksonville visiting family at the Mayo Clinic and while there tried a few local eateries.
Friday was Freddy's Steak Burgers and I had the double jalapeno and pepper jack.
Two thumbs up.
Saturday was V's pizza and we did the "CARNIVORA PIZZA" which was San Marzano tomato sauce, mozzarella, pancetta, soppressata, sausage, red onion, fresh garlic and basil.
Two thumbs up.
Sunday evening before heading home we all went to a local BBQ joint that was founded in 1949 called Bono's. They have grown to 19 locations in and around Jacksonville and one location in Denver, CO. I had the pulled pork, slaw and hand-cut fries and garlic bread. Wife had the smoked chicken, baked beans and fries.
Also two big thumbs up from both of us.
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I had breakfast on top of breakfast. I microwaved a Jimmy Dean's Sausage, Egg & Cheese Croissant, topped it with Cheddar Cheese, a Smoky Bacon & Cheddar Egg Bite, and a big wad of Smoked BBQ Recipe Bacon Jerky. The croissant wasn't very good, but altogether it still tasted good. It would have been even better with more cheese, but I already added 1/4" thick layer to what was already on the sandwich and in the egg bite. I finished the bacon jerky and think I'll nibble on a bit of cheese before I call it quits.
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Pork tenderloin, cheesy cabbage, and green beans. Breakfast was beef stroganoff followed by fudge, washed down with lots of coffee with Sweet Cheeks and Truvia sweetener.
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Two fried egg sandwiches and a banana. 8)
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I haven't had a fried egg sandwich in years, but that sounds good. Fried hard with ketchup or mustard, but not both. That's the only time an egg fried hard is acceptable, but slightly runny is good too. And I like bananas, especially with peanut butter on them. I pull the peel down and run a ridge of peanut butter down the back of the banana as I eat it, or make a peanut butter and banana sandwich. I was thinking about peanut butter and bananas this week. And marshmallow fluff. That's good on peanut butter sandwiches, but I never had an Elvis-style fluffernutter with bacon, fried in butter. I'll be happy with a fluffernutternana sandwich, but I tend to eat all the marshmallow fluff straight from the jar before I use it for anything.
I fried an 8 ounce boneless rib-eye steak and put it on a plate covered with French's original crispy fried onions. It was lots of little pieces from the bottom of a 24 ounce bag. Then I put a second 8 ounce boneless rib-eye steak in the pan. Both were covered on both sides with The Drunken Butcher's Campfire meat sprinkles; Garlic, Sea Salt, Onion, Black Pepper, Red Pepper, Bell Pepper, Parsley, Fennel, Summer Savory. Ever wanted a seasoning that takes you back to sitting around the campfire? This special blend of herbs and spices is sure to evoke fond memories of late nights round the fire. It's smokey yet fiery taste is just what you've been looking for! 22% of proceeds are donated to Wisher For Warriors to help our Veterans. I put the 2nd steak on top of the first one and after a couple minutes ate it. Then I scraped the onions off the bottom of the other steak and put it in a zipper bag in the fridge. Most of the juices soaked into the onions, not the paper plates. I ate all the onions with a piece of cheddar cheese and will eat the first steak I cooked later on, after a quick zap in the microwave. I like the Campfire seasoning, but a lot of it stayed in the pan after I fried the second steak. I used plenty of it and the steak tasted great. The second steak didn't get seared, but still cooked right. A little too much maybe, because it was so thin and didn't look done, but it felt firm.
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I just ate my other steak. I went to bed early because I was tired, but had a hard time falling asleep and kept waking up with stomach pain. So I finally got up and put something in it. The steak was in a Hefty freezer bag and I zipped one corner open, inflated it by mouth, and zipped it closed. I nuked it for a minute, flipped it over and gave it another half minute. Those bags are tough. It puffed up quite a bit bigger but didn't explode, and sealed in the moisture. Re-heating steak in the microwave sometimes makes it dry and tough, especially if it just sat on a plate in the fridge, but this turned out okay. I slightly overcooked it because it was only half as thick as usual. So was the other one, but they were still good.
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2 egg bites covered with melted cheddar cheese, and 4 breakfast link sausages.
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Buffalo style chicken jerky and cheddar cheese.
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Greek herbed chicken and penne pasta with a side of Parmesan broccoli. It wasn't bad, especially since I sprinkled more Parmesan and Romano cheese over it all.
Last week I tossed a pre-packaged meal in the microwave for a few minutes to warm up, and went in the bathroom to wash my hands. When I walked back into the kitchen I thought if a cabbage ate an onion then farted on a Brussels sprout it couldn't have smelled much worse. I don't remember what the main course was, but it had a side of broccoli too. Maybe it had cabbage or something in the main dish, but I think it was mainly the broccoli that reeked.
Which reminds me of a joke. Broccoli can help prevent cancer, but broccoli farts can be deadly. :D
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Now I'm having 2 egg bites with cheddar melted on top, covered with salsa, and 4 breakfast links. The salsa and extra cheese makes the meal. I should have put salsa on them last time.
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I ate a whole bag of freeze-Dried Chocolate Fudge Brownie Bites and I'm drinking 3 kinds of coffee mixed together. I mixed the last of the Irreverent Warriors Dark Humor with another 22 Sierra coffee - (Grunt Style Foundation and) Round Canopy Parachuting Team "More than just a jump!" JUMPMASTER Dark Roast, and Gevalia decaf.
About RCPT USA:
VISION: RCPT-USA’s vision is to honor the history of Allied Airborne Forces past, present, and future.
MISSION: RCPT-USA performs round canopy commemorative airborne demonstrations to increase awareness and educate the public about the sacrifices and heroism of Allied Paratroopers from WWII onward.
PURPOSE: RCPT-USA is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which wishes to highlight the accomplishments of allied paratroopers from WWII onward by fostering camaraderie among individuals who share a passion for round canopy parachuting and inspiration from the actions and deeds of paratroopers past. This is accomplished through partnerships with worldwide RCPT chapters, demonstration and commemoration parachuting activities, and sustainment and training events in the US and around the world. We wish to provide a place which offers standardized and safe parachuting activities and afford a sense of community for our team members. For RCPT, commemorating the past, supporting veterans, and supporting our members makes round canopy parachuting “more than just a jump.”
RCPT-USA is based in the southeast United States, but participates in round canopy static line events across the US and internationally in partnership with European Chapters.
https://rcptusa.org/
Thunder Over Michigan Paradrop 2017 - Reported to be a record breaking jump for being the largest WWII re-enactment parachute jump at an airshow. Conducted by RCPT and WII ADT September 2017 at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan. I'm almost certain that's where my parents met during WWII, riveting tail sections on B-24 Liberator bombers. 8) It's nice to be able to sit here on my "fourth point of contact" and watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C_CNxXFuwM
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I forgot to post this. The place I ordered them from was out of Freeze-Dried Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bites. So they sent me 2 of the brownies instead of 1 of each after I approved it.
https://peakrefuel.com/collections/shop/products/chocolate-fudge-brownie-bites
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I had some garlic buffalo wings. Now I have sausage, egg and cheese croissant that I added a chunk of natural pepper jack cheese to. It's better this way.
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Homemade Red beans and rice with mild italian sausage, Having a snack of Chesters Cheesy Puffs now.
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I LOVE homemade red beans and rice. I just don't like how log it takes me to dice everything up.
I'm chewing on a piece of Dubble Bubble and it's losing its flavor. Time to switch to a piece of the Original 1928 Flavor. I bought both so I can compare them. The new flavor seems to last longer than the original but both end up tasting like rubber or whatever it is.
Oh, yeah. I had Parmesan garlic butter chicken wings. I couldn't remember what I had.
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First I ate my last bag of Thai chili turkey jerky with sharp Pinconning cheese, arguably better than regular Colby-style or cheddar cheese. And I just finished my refrigeraisins, the last of 4 bags of Sweet Celebrations grapes I bought a few years ago, stuck in the vegetable crisper drawers and forgot about. They were really sweet and tasted better than store-bought raisins. Plus they were way bigger.
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I haven't been grocery shopping in a long time and broke into my stash of survival food. I cooked up a quart of tomato basil soup with pasta. It tasted okay, but after soaking in boiling water for 15 minutes with the lid on with occasional stirring, and 3 without the lid on to cool off, the pasta was still dry and crunchy inside.
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Boneless Dings (not Zings this time) chicken breast chunks. Just like Wing Dings and Wing Zings, there are Boneless Dings and Boneless Zings. I bought a 5 pound bag months ago so I could spice them however I wanted to. I ate some earlier with the last of my Nando's Hot Peri-Peri hot sauce on them. I put some water in the bottle, warmed in up in the microwave, and shook it while the chicken was in the microwave. I wanted to get all the Peri-Peri goodness I could out of it. This time I mixed ketchup with Hot Pineapple, Ginger & Rum BBQ sauce so it's not so hot. Mixed about 50/50, it still tastes the same but doesn't burn like before. Now that I've tried it, I like it a lot better mixed.
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Wife whipped up some burgers last night....better than any burger from a food joint.
Had a late lunch from a fast food chicken place so supper was a ham sandwich and four Oreos.
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I don't but Oreos very often but when I do I usually get 2 or 3 serving per pound.
I finished my Boneless Dings with Frank's RedHot Chile ‘N Lime Seasoning Blend and Frank's RedHot Buffalo Ranch Seasoning Blend mixed together. Not bad. Then, since that was such a small portion, I ate some Boneless Zings with Frankenmuth chicken seasoning.
Back in the early 1950’s, brothers Tiny & Eddie Zehnder came up with a special recipe chicken seasoning to set themselves apart from everyone else. Pretty much trial and error until they got it just right! The distinct flavor is still very much a part of every piece of chicken served here at Zehnder’s Restaurant. Some years back, we removed the MSG but other than that; it’s the same. Funny, we call it ‘chicken seasoning’ but in our production kitchens, we use it on most everything. We’ve added other flavored seasonings recently and even reintroduced the original recipe seasoning for those who still prefer the full “spike” of MSG.
https://www.zehndersstore.com/product/zehnders-chicken-seasoning/
I didn't know Zehnder’s sold their Coleslaw Dressing, but now that I know, I'll be sure to buy some. Their cabbage salad is the best I've ever had.
About half of the requests we get for Zehnder’s recipes are for Zehnder’s Cabbage Salad. The question that comes up most frequently about our recipe is: “Why does Zehnder’s call it Cabbage Salad and not Cole Slaw?” First of all, we fine shred the cabbage versus chopping it. Just gives it a different texture and mouth feel. But…there is another reason!
Did you ever notice when you eat chopped Cole Slaw there is a slightly sharp bite to the cabbage. That’s because most processors use the entire head of cabbage, including the core. As kids, we used to take the removed cabbage core, add a little salt and eat it. It definitely has a “bite” to it! Here at Zehnder’s, the core is removed before we shred the cabbage. Yes, it’s a little more work, and if you would add up all the discarded cores from the cabbages we process every year it would easily add up to thousands of pounds. But…we think it’s worth the effort and does bring out the natural sweetness of the cabbage.
https://www.zehndersstore.com/product/zehnders-coleslaw-dressing/
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A half hour ago I was eating some more boneless zings, with sharp Pinconning cheese melted on them, and covered with salsa when one of my teeth snapped right off at the gum line. I don't know if there was a bone or something in them or I bit my fork. But it was a plastic fork and I've bitten down on them before. The fork may have broken other times, but not my teeth. This is the first time in my adult life that I broke a whole tooth off. I've chipped or cracked them a couple times before, biting down on stuff in my food that wasn't supposed to be there. It's not extremely painful at the moment but might keep me up all night.
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Italian sausage & sweet peperonata (pepper and onion stew) with roasted garlic & herb potatoes. And Trump Hair cotton candy for dessert. I normally hate when I get hair in my mouth, but this isn't bad. ;D
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I was going to eat a piece of cheese, but saw alkyhol in the fridge, and instead of eating, I drank a couple bottles of Jack Daniels Downhome Punch mixed with Evan Williams Peach, a blend of Kentucky Straight Bourbon and sweet, Georgia peaches. It's only 65 proof and tastes like a liqueur that one should have with dessert, or afterward. I'm going to bed but know I need a little nibble or I'll wake up hungry, way too soon.
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3 - 3 1/2 ounces of pulled rotisserie-style chicken mixed with hot BBQ sauce and ketchup, on an 8" sub bun with cheese melted in the bottom, topped with French's crispy fried onions. Yuuum-yum!
I slept all day Saturday and ost of the night, with nothing to eat, except sometimes when I got up to use the bathroom, I went down to the kitchen for 2 two-bite brownies, which BTW are also great with your morning coffee. Before I went to bed I ate a 4 ounce box of Melting Parmesan Cheese Sticks dipped in Win Schuler's bacon cheddar cheese spread. If you tasted this combination, you'd know how easy it was to eat the whole box of fresh sourdough cheese sticks.
https://www.johnwmmacys.com/pages/cheesestick
I'll give my chicken sub a few more minutes to settle before I have a slice of St. Louis style gooey butter cake. It's Pie Piper brand like this, but 2.8 pounds instead of 2 ounces. :)
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Had another sammich. Finished my sharp Pinconning cheese. time for gooey butter cake, lots of water, and a migraine pill.
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4 egg rolls with hot mustard. I didn't have soy sauce or anything to dip them in so I mixed some hot sauce with hot & spicy mustard to try to make it hotter. It still didn't compare to Chinese mustard, so I stirred in some mustard powder and that was an improvement. But it was still more sour than hot.
The last thing I ate before that was Maple Bacon cotton candy. It tasted like I was picking the glaze off a good, smoky Honeybaked ham and eating it. Mmm.
My friends are weird, they don't like Honeybaked ham. They'd rather get an extremely salty ham with a quart of water injected into it, then bake it a few hours to cook the excess water out, leaving the outer couple inches of ham dry and tough. Sometimes they put pineapple slices on the ham or in the roasting pan, and they absorb so much salt they aren't even edible. But they don't like Honeybaked ham because a relative of theirs served it cold, straight out of the fridge one time. And it never occurred to anyone to put a few slices on their plate and warm it up in the microwave, before they put everything else on their plate, like the serving suggestion says to. I need smarter friends.
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Melted medium cheddar, crispy fried onions, Chicago-style medium giardiniera, and 3 ounces of pulled rotisserie chicken on a sub bun, topped with Asiago Caesar dressing. It was good. Now I'm stuffed like a tick. :D
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Multiple things since last I was on here:
Easter Sunday we had baked ham, fried yard bird, tater salad, butter beans, mac and cheese, deviled eggs, and rolls...12 layer chocolate cake and nanner puddin'.......
and leftovers from all this several times this week...
(when my wife cooks for the family, she cooks plenty).
Other meals for the week included:
-Cheese steak sandwich and fries
-Salad topped with chicken and cheese with ranch
-Hibachi sesame steak with onions and carrots
-Pecan thumb print cookies, sugar cookies....and Peeps.
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Over a pound of sliced baby red and yellow potatoes, roasted in avocado oil and butter, seasoned with sea salt, black pepper, and The Drunken Butcher Santa Maria Style seasoning (Sea Salt, spices including chili pepper, sugar, paprika, brown sugar, garlic, onion and not more than 2% tribalism phosphate added to prevent caring.) I'm sure that was supposed to be Tricalcium phosphate to prevent Caking , not Tribalism phosphate to prevent Caring. And I finished my box of two bite brownies with black coffee for dessert. The taters were god, but not as good as the cheesy scalloped taters I had the other day.
Tricalcium phosphate is used in powdered spices as an anticaking agent, e.g. to prevent table salt from caking. The calcium phosphates have been assigned European food additive number E341.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricalcium_phosphate
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Cheese ravioli mini rounds. https://www.rosina.com/consumers/consumer-brands/celentano-pasta-meatballs-entrees/mini-cheese-ravioli
Now I have Four Cheese Ravioli in the microwave. https://www.perfectpastainc.com/product/r-four-cheese-ravioli/
This doesn't have microwave instructions like the other one did, but I'm cooking it the same way - mix a bunch of sauce and water together, add pasta, and nuke the heck out f it. The pasta absorbs some of the water while it cooks, and the sauce thickens up some. I've had several products from both brands before and liked them all. This is the first time I remember cooking any of the Perfect Pasta brand in the microwave, instead of boiling or baking it. Some of the Celentano I had before was baked in sauce and water.
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Fruity Pebbles with lactose-free milk.
(I've reached the age where not fartin' my guts out all night is handy)
8)
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I'm very tolerant of lactose. I don't tolerate any kind of intolerance around here. But if I eat a half gallon of ice cream it might make me burp a time or two.
I had Ro-Tel and real cheese, not Velveeta, microwaved and mixed together, with potato chips dipped in it. I accidentally bought a BIG bag of plain potato chips when I thought I grabbed sour cream & cheddar, so I mixed a little sharp cheddar cheese spread and a bunch of Colby-jack cheese with original Ro-Tel for dip. I also have mild ad Mexican style Ro-Tel in the cupboard. I didn't know there were 3 different kinds until last week.
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I fried up a can of corned beef (not hash, just beef) that I took up north last year but we didn't eat for breakfast. I put half in each of 2 bowls, covered one bowlful of corned beef with 2 fists full of French's onions, covered that with Co-Jack cheese and microwaved it a few minutes. It smelled good and oniony when I took it out. It's what I'm eating right now. Sometimes when I've been up drinking all night (and day) instead of sleeping, strange things sound appetizing. I thought, yeah I could eat that.
I had a half dozen different mixed drinks with bottled mixers. Instead of using a shot, 1 - 1.5 ounces of booze like the instructions said, I used the 2.3 ounce mixer bottles as measures. So I had 1 tequila drink and 5 rum drinks that were all doubles, or a dozen shots.
And I made a pretty flower with the empties. ;D :D :) If you think juggling 6 small bottles and sticking them in a glass is easy, try doing it after you've had a few, and a few more, and... ;)
I wisely try to avoid real glassware when I'm drinking alcohol, and most other times as well, so I used one of my souvenir tumblers from Cedar Point, "America's Roller Coast". It features horsies from the Cedar Downs Racing Derby. This isn't your run-of-mill little carousel with calliope music blasting from the center. Cedar Downs Racing Derby is a Derby Racer built by US manufacturer Prior and Church Company currently located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, USA. The ride originally opened at Euclid Beach Park as the Great American Racing Derby in 1921, though it was later known as just Racing Derby. At one point in its time at Euclid Beach Park, some of the horse-shaped ride vehicles were replaced with bicycle-shaped ones. The ride closed at Euclid Beach Park after the 1965 season and was relocated to Cedar Point. It's looking good for it's age of 103, unlike my mom who was born a year later. A family of up to 8 people can race 4 horses side by side as they move forward and back, in addition to moving up and down. The images on my tumbler are wrong as they show generic carousel horses with poles going through them, and these don't have poles going up beyond the inside. Bu tit does say Cedar Point in large letters on one side. I got 2 red ones and 2 of this purple(?) color with my tickets from playing Skee-Ball and stuff in the arcade. I need reminders of the good times in my life, and I was never very sad on a roller coaster, so I think about that too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Point
P.S. The 1924 William H. Dentzel Carousel located in Kiddy Kingdom has poles through the horses, so the images aren't wrong, I was when I thought about the one I rode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6AXPVBYhEE
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Cherry danish.
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If it was a cherry turnover I'd fight over it.
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If it was a cherry turnover I'd fight over it.
THAT, you'd have to fight my mother for. Morbidly obese to the point of barely mobile, but one of those people who has a talent for hounding people about every trivial little imperfection to the point that you'd almost rather deal yourself out than have to continue to hear her.
It's not the hard work of live-in care I mind, you do what you gotta do for family, but rather the completely ungrateful attitude.
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You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family.
Or, blood make you related, loyalty make you family. Like my army brother. He's more family that those 2 jerks that came from the same uterus I did.
It depends on how you look at it.
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I just finished the last of my mini cheese ravioli, with Parmesan and Romano sprinkled on top, because if there's 1 thing better than 2 cheeses (Ricotta, and Romano made with cow's and sheep's milk), it's 3 cheeses.
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Hours ago, when I finished my ravioli, I put the leftover spaghetti sauce with mushrooms on top of the leftover corned beef that was drying out in a bowl in the fridge. I took it out, covered it with a bunch of french fried onions and some Co-Jack cheese, nuked it, and stirred it into one big homogeneous, disgusting looking mess, and just finished it. Hey! You don't have to eat this s**t, so cut me some slack! ;) This may have been enough to make a homeless person fold up their "WiLL WORK 4 FOOD" sign, say, "Never mind", and walk away, but it filled my belly and will form a turd. In the end, that's all that really matters. And yes, I have been drinking again, why do you ask? ;D
For my breakfast Saturday, I filled a 20-ounce paper bowl halfway with broken potato chips, and poured boiling hot leftover Ro-Tel and cheese mixture over it. It looked like orange cheese soup, and I stirred it up until it was more like a paste that tasted a lot like potato cheese soup, or Pringles in cheese sauce, but it was real potato chips. So, Saturday was leftover day. At least I didn't put ALL of my leftovers in one bowl. Two separate bowls was bad enough. ;D I may have t cook some actual food in the afternoon.
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Pork potstickers with ponzu sauce.
I once came up with a scheme to import cheap ponzu sauce in bulk, and put it in more expensive branded bottles. That's right, it was a ponzu scheme. ;D
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You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family.
Or, blood make you related, loyalty make you family. Like my army brother. He's more family that those 2 jerks that came from the same uterus I did.
It depends on how you look at it.
I'd say the two are far from mutually exclusive... let's just say she's one of the biggest reasons my closest friend is a squirrel that lives in our yard. :) Lefty ain't the best talker in the world, but she's a GREAT listener, and always has something funny or cute up her fuzzy little "sleeve" to take my mind off the latest annoyance at the office or on this side of the door.
Tonight's dinner: carryout BBQ from the shop in our old neighborhood while I was out there for Neighborhood Watch on Saturday, and a Jack Link's beef strip with a blackberry-lemonade sparkling water.
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I just ate some triple chocolate cake. Now I think I'll finish a bag of Julio's seasoned tortilla chips I was eating last night. Instead of just salt, they have a litle paprika, black pepper and comino (cumin), too. Those Texans make good chips.
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Dinner: microwave chicken fried rice, a leftover section of a Jersey Mike's Chicken Bacon Ranch sandwich, and a black cherry sparkling water. (This stuff helps keep me off the sugary soda rap, and is heathier. Cheaper too at around 75 cents for a 1-liter...)
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Chicken boneless dings (breaded breast chunks) with Texas Pete HOTTER hot sauce. It's been a long time since I had Texas Pete hot sauce but I liked it, and this is my first time trying the hotter version. They aren't kidding about it being hotter. Four orifices in my face started running. I poured the rest of the 6 ounce bottle into a 12 ounce Sweet Baby Ray's bottle that had about 5 ounces left. That stuff wasn't hot at all, but the combination of the 2 is good. Now it's medium hot and has lots of pepper flavor to go with the vinegar. I filled the Texas Pete bottle up with it. Sweet Baby Ray may make good BBQ sauce, but not hot sauce. The only thing I like it for is soup, like bean or split pea, and I have to use more than a normal amount.
One more piece of chicken, and later I'll have a piece of lemon meringue pie, after I get the hot sauce off my taste buds.
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Chicken boneless dings (breaded breast chunks) with Texas Pete HOTTER hot sauce. It's been a long time since I had Texas Pete hot sauce but I liked it, and this is my first time trying the hotter version. They aren't kidding about it being hotter. Four orifices in my face started running. I poured the rest of the 6 ounce bottle into a 12 ounce Sweet Baby Ray's bottle that had about 5 ounces left. That stuff wasn't hot at all, but the combination of the 2 is good. Now it's medium hot and has lots of pepper flavor to go with the vinegar. I filled the Texas Pete bottle up with it. Sweet Baby Ray may make good BBQ sauce, but not hot sauce. The only thing I like it for is soup, like bean or split pea, and I have to use more than a normal amount.
One more piece of chicken, and later I'll have a piece of lemon meringue pie, after I get the hot sauce off my taste buds.
Maybe I should post my mom's "Hell Pizza" recipe... the sperm-donor ("father" in genes only) liked to beat his chest about "I'm from El Paso and was raised with Tabasco in my baby bottle, you can't make anything too hot for me" and this was her Challenge Accepted.
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I like having taste buds, not burning them off like my older brother, who has to wear a respirator when he grills chicken wings. I just don't understand how anyone can enjoy that much pain when hey eat, or any other time. It's masochistic, - whip me, hurt me, make me eat hot wings! ;D Wicked Cutz makes Carolina Killa jerky and came out with a limited edition so hot it came with gloves to handle it, and there was a challenge to go along with it. Like eat it and don't drink anything during or right after. Not only NO, but HELL NO!
I just finished my triple chocolate cake, with a fire-brewed maple root beer. It doesn't taste like maple but it does taste good.
Grab a 12 pack of Sprecher's signature root beer--with a maple twist! A natural extension of our award-winning fire-brewed Root Beer, this twist on our classic is made with real maple syrup as the sweetener, giving it a slightly more wintergreen flavor than the traditional vanilla forward Sprecher Root Beer, but still with that smooth, creamy finish. Now in 16oz bottles!
https://sprecherbrewery.com/products/maple-root-beer-soda
Now I'll have some Hatch chili mac and cheese, mixed with salsa because it's so thick.
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An Italian beef sub au jus, with Chicago style giardiniera, and Colby-Jack cheese melted in the bun.
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Beef, dip and cheese sound good... the plant stuff not so much. Low heat tolerance, and... well, my nutritionist likes to joke that I have the digestive system of a small tyrannosaur, and the table manners to match.
Plants? That's my FOOD's food, man... :D
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I like things a little bit spicy. The mild giardiniera adds to the flavor of the sandwich and doesn't burn. Chicago-style is packed in vegetable oil and doesn't taste all vinegary like other giardiniera I ate years ago. I think it's pickled in vinegar, drained, then packed in oil. And it's not enough oil to bother me.
I'm an omnivore, like a coyote or a bear, and will eat just about anything animal or vegetable. I'm eating a meat-free meal right now -- apple fritters. ;D I might have a sandwich later, and will eat some jerky or something if I don't.
Here's what that Texas Pete Hotter Sauce and Sweet Baby Ray's look like mixed together. The SBR's isn't so bright red anymore, and it tastes good after I shook it all together for a minute. It was way too vinegary and not hot enough before, and if I'm saying it's not hot enough it really wasn't hot, because I don't like things very hot. The mild and hotter sauces together are really good and I ate some more chicken with it for breakfast.
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BBQ Mesquite beef jerky, with a nice cold White Russian.
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Nothing yet today. Trying to diet down some pounds....
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Not eating will make your body think it's starving and you'll gain weight when you do eat something.
I just finished some chicken nuggets with enough "Hot Peter" to make me need to blow my nose when I finished. It only felt a little bit warm on my tongue, not enough to make my eyes water or anything like that. I'll have an Italian beef sub later. I only ate 3 of 8 mini sub buns so far, and need to eat them before they get stale. But I think the last one will be a dunker with no meat on it. I've been piling it on pretty good and will likely run out.
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I put something else on a sub roll after I melted Colby Jack cheese on it. Certified Angus Italian style meatballs. I didn't have any Italian type of sauce but I had BBQ sauce. I used up the last of the hot pineapple, ginger & rum BBQ sauce, mixed with ketchup and some water to thin it out. I had 16 meatballs, but only put 6 on the roll and ate the other 10 from the bowl with it.
The next time I have BBQ sauce on anything, I have 2 from The Drunken Butcher plus another 1 to choose from. Montgomery Inn was rated in the Top 5 BBQ Sauces by Bon Appetit Magazine. And I didn't have to go to The Original restaurant in The Village of Montgomery, OH or The Boathouse on the Ohio River in Cincinnati to get it. I'm almost certain I picked it up on sale at Kroger.
This is the sauce I had from Kroger, but they don't have it anymore.
https://thedrunkenbutcher.us/collections/sauces
https://www.montgomeryinn.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ves0303pkLk
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Cracked pepper beef jerky chips, with a vodka mule to drink.
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Old El Paso cinnamon churro flavor fiesta twists, with a can or Spiced Zero Sugar Coke.
Coke Zero Sugar has aspartame in it, but not as much as Diet Coke, and it has acesulfame potassium, also know as Ace K, which is is 200 times sweeter than sugar and gets rid of the nasty flavor and metallic aftertaste Diet Coke has. I didn't know it had aspartame in it, I thought it was suralose which is about 600 times sweeter than sugar, and stuff with sucralose generally tastes like it was sweetened with plain old sugar. A lot of times it's mixed with aspartame or acesulfame potassium to make them taste better, but not this time. The Spiced Coke is drinkable but not great. I got a free 12 pack of cans when I bought 3 other 12 packs of Coke products, so the price was right. The website says it tastes like raspberries and spice, but it's too sweet and tastes odd compared to regular flavor Coke zero sugar. It tastes more like flavored iced tea than Coke, but it took me a few days just to figure that out.
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A sandwich and potato chips, with Bananas Foster flavor ice cream for dessert.
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Sriracha bacon jerky, and a vodka mule. It's not a Moscow Mule because it's not Russian vodka. Sriracha and ginger beer is a little bit spicy, and twice as nicey.
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A stuffed roll from a party store/gas station by where I used to work. It was like a meat lover's pizza stuffed in a piece of bread dough 11" long and baked. Not bad. They have pepperoni pizza stuffed rolls too. And they make Polish sausage stuffed rolls that have the sausage hanging out on both ends. If you want a portable polish sausage, that's one way to do it. They have hundreds off kinds of beer in the fridges, and liquor stacked to the ceiling. They must need a 15' ladder to reach it all.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g42251-d873466-Reviews-Food_Castle-Grand_Blanc_Michigan.html
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BBQ ranch pork flautas with cheddar and corn. Not too bad, but not worth the effort to cook them IMO.
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Orange-sesame pork rice bowl topped with green onions, crispy wonton strip pieces, and multicolor sesame seeds. I burned the rice but scraped the unburned rice out and it tasted good. It helped that I could see through the bottom of the pot where the black ring was. I used a lot of oil frying everything else, so I may suffer heartburn or something later. It tasted good, but I still don't like cooking. It takes too much time.
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I ate half a brick of smoked mozzarella cheese. Now I'm drinking a Whining Pirate, sort of. Instead of Cheerwine wild cherry soda and Captain Morgan spiced rum, I have Cheerwine Zero and Admiral Nelson spiced rum. I don't like Captain Morgan and bought a jug of Admiral Nelson, before I went to a store that had BACARDÍ Spiced rum, yum yum, and I bought a "gallon" of it, 3.5 liters (2x1.75L). That's what I wanted in the first place, but had to settle for the admiralty instead.
Made with aged rum and with a hint of smokiness from charred American oak barrels, BACARDÍ Spiced is a Gluten free rum blended with natural flavors and spices for a bold, yet smooth taste. BACARDÍ Spiced rum’s liquid has both light and deep notes, making it perfect for mixing the best spiced rum drinks. I'll drink to that.
https://cheerwine.com/
https://www.bacardi.com/us/en/our-rums/spiced-rum/