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Post by pepperhead212 on Mar 14, 2020 20:41:31 GMT -5
Tonight I made a creole style dish, like jambalaya, without the shrimp, but some okra added. I had 2 sort of old bell peppers I had to use, about 2 cups of crushed canned tomatoes left from another dish, and a ham steak. I was going to use a pint of frozen okra plus some rehydrated eggplant, but instead, I used 2 pints of okra - something I have a good amount of to use up! I used half parboiled basmati, and half whole oats, instead of all rice, and added a little white wine - something in my favorite jambalaya recipe. Onions, peppers, and garlic, to start the dish. by pepperhead212, on Flickr Okra added to the sauté. by pepperhead212, on Flickr Ham and tomatoes added, before adding liquid, rice, and whole oats. by pepperhead212, on Flickr Finished dish, after cooking rice and oats. by pepperhead212, on Flickr Finished dish. by pepperhead212, on Flickr
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Post by september on Mar 14, 2020 23:20:17 GMT -5
pepperhead212 , that looks so delicious! And here I was going to impress everyone with the cannelloni I made, but I forgot to take a picture as proof. Well, there is still half a pan left in the fridge, but it looks a little sad that way.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 15, 2020 23:20:03 GMT -5
I invented something. I grilled up two links of the local grocery stores green onion pork sausage and cut it up. Then I lined a pie pan with sliced Irish potatoes, cheddar cheese on top of that, the sausage, a drained can of Rotel tomatoes, and ten beaten eggs with black pepper. Then I put it back on the grill until done. Tasted great
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 16, 2020 8:09:45 GMT -5
You've got breakfast for the week covered! (Or lunch, or dinner...you could eat something like that for any meal.)
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 16, 2020 18:29:58 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, food is food. I'm not picky about the timing if the content is good.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 16, 2020 19:36:18 GMT -5
I like breakfast for dinner but dinner for breakfast would not be my favorite.
Hubby told me that as a young child he ate beef vegetable soup for breakfast. That is a healthy option but sure does not sound good to me. I like eggs.
The other morning hubby ate left over tuna fish salad for breakfast. Eu, yuk, that's not for me!
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Post by farmerjack41 on Mar 16, 2020 21:24:13 GMT -5
Absolutely amazing the food dishes you folks come up with. Some must be regional food, of course I am a number one picky eater. NO oriental food of any sort. Pretty much stay with pork and beef, not much fish or chicken even. Along with meat there are spuds, corn or peas, eat quite a bit of cabbage. Like most meat hot dishes and things like spaghetti. Breakfast is usually hot cakes or eggs with some type of meat and hashbrowns. When able to go to the donut shop breakfast will be two or three donuts and a Pepsi, but that will be sometime before that can be done again.
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Post by september on Mar 16, 2020 22:37:51 GMT -5
brownrexx , send him over to my house, I love tuna on a toasted bagel for breakfast! With a slice of sharp cheddar melting into the hot bagel underneath, and topped with dill and sliced raw onions! I don't really like sweet things for my main breakfast, though sometimes I have a piece of chocolate or cookie as a desert to finish off my coffee.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Mar 16, 2020 23:22:27 GMT -5
I can't remember the last time I had a breakfast food for breakfast! It's almost always leftovers - many of those spicy dishes I make are the best things to wake you up! And especially in the summer, when I almost always have some pasta or bean salad in there, with those tomatoes. I can eat them at every meal, in season.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 17, 2020 7:40:58 GMT -5
Today is St. Patrick's Day and I put a corned beef in the crock pot this morning and I added 1/2 of a bottle of Guinness beer. I took a sip of the remainder. Aghhh, I don't know how people can drink beer for breakfast. Guinness is STRONG. I couldn't get my coffee quick enough.
I don't eat sweets or pancakes/waffles for breakfast usually. In the morning, I like eggs, toast, fruit and traditional breakfast meats like bacon or sausage if I am adding meat. I don't eat breakfast meats on a regular basis but it is good on the weekend.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 17, 2020 11:46:15 GMT -5
If I like a food, I'll eat it at any time. Breakfast food happens more often in the morning (when I even bother to eat breakfast) simply because it tends to be fast and convenient. But often I have leftovers for breakfast for the same reason.
I am not enough of a morning person to get up early enough to cook something complicated or time-consuming for breakfast.
The one exception is orange juice. I can't have that in the morning or it "kicks back" on me. Why orange juice in particular bothers me in the morning, I don't know. I can tolerate a few oz if I drink it slowly while eating a full meal (including some protein and fat), but I rarely risk it. If I drink it later in the day, I rarely have a problem.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 17, 2020 16:07:14 GMT -5
If you want something odd but good toast a hamburger bun then top it with baked beans and a slice of cheese and toast the whole thing in an oven. I came up with that once when on second thought my folks must have been broke. At least I remember Mom fretting because there was no meat in the house and not mentioning going to the store. As an adult though I heard that the British do that all the time though they just toast bread and skip the cheese.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 17, 2020 17:03:58 GMT -5
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!! I love corned beef and always make one on St. Pat's Day. I bought the meat last week and cooked it in the crockpot today with 1/2 of a Guinness beer. I don't like meals boiled together so I sauteed sliced cabbage and onions in olive oil. I also peeled and boiled my last 2 stored Kennebec potatoes then added butter and some parsley from my indoor plant. I finished off the meal with a nice fruit salad. Laura_in_FL , those blackberries are like the ones we had in FL 3 weeks ago. They are from Mexico. 20200317_171426 by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by pepperhead212 on Mar 17, 2020 18:40:30 GMT -5
I had a green salad, from my hydroponics lettuce (it's growing outside, but slowly still) and basil, but I got some garlic chives from outside (they are popping up all over). I also had a brawnschweiger sandwich, on that rye that I baked today...I was tempted to have two, but I resisted, telling myself that it will last longer. Why don't I do that all the time?
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Post by september on Mar 17, 2020 20:25:07 GMT -5
Found some boneless pork chops in the freezer from a couple of months ago. Made them up into stir fry over Basmati rice, along with some carrots, celery,and onions along with a nice bok choy from the last shopping trip.
Can you blanch and freeze bok choy, or does it get too runny? I have too much trouble with flea beetles so my bok choy never really does that well. I might try harder with it, if I thought I could get enough to freeze.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 18, 2020 7:36:42 GMT -5
I tried blanching and freezing some last year but we didn't like it. However we don't like frozen green beans either and lots of people like those so maybe it's just us. We really like bok choy in stir fry and will only eat it fresh from now on. My seeds just germinated yesterday!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 18, 2020 9:17:44 GMT -5
Since I couldn't find hamburger buns in the stores, I made my own yesterday. They came out well, but they were huge. Next time I will divide the dough into 10 or even 12 portions instead of 8.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 19, 2020 16:54:07 GMT -5
Tonight's dinner was chicken with fresh mushrooms, sweet potato casserole using the recipe I got from mgulfcoastguy at Thanksgiving. It is less sweet than the typical one and has no marshmallows. I still had sweet potatoes in storage so I cooked an immense one in the Instant Pot and then made the casserole with some brown sugar on the top. It should have some crumbled pecans on the top but I didn't have any and didn't want to go to a store. Cole slaw looks a little green because the dressing is mashed 50/50 mashed avocado and mayo. Hubby added the parsley when he saw me taking a pic. 20200319_171735 (2) by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by farmerjack41 on Mar 19, 2020 19:04:12 GMT -5
Breakfast will be the ticket tonight. Some stores have eggs so that helps. Picked up two more packages of hamburger this morning. Several stores are having two hours in the early morning for seniors only.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 19, 2020 22:20:36 GMT -5
Tomorrow I'll check and see if the turkey is defrosted enough yet to cook. My local grocery store is real good about keeping something available to cook. For some reason there seems to be a surplus of ribs and a shortage of people who know how to cook them.
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Post by bestofour on Mar 19, 2020 23:14:58 GMT -5
meat loaf, green beans, slaw.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 20, 2020 12:36:23 GMT -5
mgulfcoastguy, I have noticed that, too. Ribs seem to be one of the last meats to run out. Dinner tonight will be steaks on the grill, leftover mac & cheese and mashed potatoes from earlier this week, and either broccoli or green beans from the freezer. I'm planning to spend all afternoon in the garden so I will want dinner to require very little effort from me. This will be especially easy on me since my son will be grilling!
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Post by carolyn on Mar 20, 2020 17:39:54 GMT -5
left over meatloaf from some other earlier meal. I see no green growing on it. we should be fine. edited to say.... we survived the night, there was nothing wrong with it anyway. it actually tasted better than the first night I made it. . I do wonder though what are people eating that they get food poisoning? I know that meat loaf wasn't that old but... just how long do some people keep food around before eating it and getting sick? are they so cheap or so poor that they think that eating something rather than nothing outweighs the risk of getting sick?
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 21, 2020 10:21:56 GMT -5
Some people do get sick from undercooked meat/poultry/seafood, or from eating old cooked food that went bad in the fridge. But I believe that a LOT more food poisoning occurs due to cross contamination (poor hygiene in the kitchen), and failure to keep foods at safe temperatures.
It's amazing the people who will handle raw meat/poultry/seafood and not wash their hands or clean the work space afterwards. Or they just wipe their hands with a towel. (Wiping your hands with a towel doesn't get your hands clean...it just transfers some of the germs to the towel where they can breed. And worse, many folks who wipe their hands on a towel reuse the towel!) Then they set foods that won't be cooked in the same spot where they worked with the raw meat, use the same knife or cutting board without washing it, or touch the uncooked food with their germ-covered hands. They also touch refrigerator handles, faucets, utensils, other surfaces, their face, etc.
When they get sick, they think the meatloaf that was in the fridge for three days went bad. More likely they got sick from all the germs that they spread all over their kitchen! I especially think that's true when you see the same family get sick over and over again. Yes, they could have had bad luck, but more likely they are poisoning themselves with poor kitchen habits.
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Post by september on Mar 21, 2020 11:34:09 GMT -5
We eat a lot of left overs of previous meals, I tend to make extra so I don't have to cook two days in a row. I refrigerate them immediately when dishes are cleared. I have a large masking tape dispenser on my kitchen counter. I write the day and date on a piece of tape to stick onto the plastic container of food. That way if it gets shoved to the back there is no doubt how long it's been there. Foods in soup pots or casseroles that take a long time to cool before storing, get put outside on my back stairs to pre-cool when the temperature is cold outside. Of course they are covered, and the cold air and wind make them refrigerator worthy much faster than on the counter in the house. Four days would be the upper limit of what I might eat after refrigeration, but it would depend on the food make up and acidity. The only times we've gotten sick is from food that was eaten elsewhere.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 21, 2020 13:22:32 GMT -5
My dog is pitching a fit at his full bowl of dog food. Since the Corvid preventive confinement, he has got used to getting leftovers that are on the old side of safe for me. I hope he goes ahead and eats because I need to make another egg pie like earlier. Cajun sausage this time so I will add green pepper and onion to the previous ingredients.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Mar 21, 2020 13:49:46 GMT -5
mgulfcoastguy , Oh Dad, you're so mean, LOL. Isn't that always the way when you feed them people food in a pinch?? He'll eat when he gets hungry enough! I just looked up Egg Pie vs Quiche. Apparently egg pies are better! And with Cajun sausage, Yum. I see an Aussie one I'm going to go back and take a closer look at Bon appetit
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 21, 2020 14:44:55 GMT -5
bluelacedredhead, there is a picture and description on the previous page. I just call it an egg pie because after I came up with it there didn't seem to be a better name. Not a quiche be cause it doesn't have a pie crust but a slice potato crust. Not a frittata because it does have a crust, just one of potatoes. Going to add green peppers and chopped onions to this one.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Mar 21, 2020 14:56:07 GMT -5
Thanks! I missed your previous post about it. Looks scrumptious
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Post by september on Mar 21, 2020 22:15:03 GMT -5
Oven roasted chicken, baked potatoes, near the end of my Delicata squash, green beans and tossed salad.
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