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[dmccarty]

We NEVER had anything like that at our Little House on the Prairie. Is it anything like chicken fried steak?

Nope! :laughing::laughing::laughing: I do love chicken fried steak. :licking::licking::licking: Especially with gravy.:licking::licking::licking:

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

OHH! That sounds great. I just had home grown eggs, scrambled with mushrooms, zuchinini, kale, and some other things. Really good.

Our range has two ovens, a big oven as one would expect, and a smaller oven that is what is usually the pot drawer but moved over the big oven. We use the "little" oven all of the time and it also a toaster oven. When I make eggs, usually I toast bread or English muffins. This warms up the "little" oven and when making the omelette, I will put the pan into the oven after the toasting is done, and let the top of the omelette finish cooking and melt the cheese. The left over heat is enough to finish the omelette. What is really nice about this is that often the omelette will get real puff up like a souffle. :licking::licking::licking:

While on a Spring Break vacation I had a breakfast wrap that was REALLY good. Even our oldest liked it! :laughing::laughing::laughing: Actually I had two that were good. One was a scrambled eggs, with some sort of spiced ham, and goat cheese that was wrapped in one of those wrap things AND some sort of leafed veggie. Not sure if it was Kale or something else but it was a bit spicy and really good! :thumbsup: The other good breakfast was an omelette with cheese and Prosciutto ham inserted into a deep round waffle! :licking::licking::licking:

I just had two bagels for breakfast and that just aint the same.... :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[DFB]

Ya know I find it interesting that at my place of employment we market all type produce and fruit in season but the two business owners and their son eat meals out virtually every single day because of time factors involved in running the business. It such shame in a way with all the strawberries, apples, plums, corn, cucumbers, carrots etc. around and what doesn't end up being sold mostly gets tossed to the daily pig farm pickup pile. The son could give a crap about eating apples he been around them so long. He does eat the cider donuts we make though and I remember well my boss's reasoning on the donut machine investment. He said "Those people that come here to the farm don't want healthy food...they want donuts!"

The worst though is that they expect all the help to follow their lead and grab takeout foods along with them. MickeyD's has always been a constant for them but now my boss chooses Subway more often he under doctors advice to modify his diet

For mi amigos its mainly burritos from the 7-11 and Cumby's. But when there's time and if I'm driving I take the boys for "Chino" as they call it...the Chinese buffet :laughing:

When the kids all come for school field trips I'm the one that has to take them and the teachers out through the orchard and educate them. This year we hiked up to one of the garden plots and offered them to pick fresh celery to have with the bagged lunch they always bring to eat in the orchard. It was pretty amazing all the young kids that wanted some celery!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I know it's off topic a tad, but the mention of burritos and seein' as how it's breakfast time here, all of a sudden I got a hankering for some breakfast burritos. Sharn Jean is preparing them as we speak...here's how they're made at my house:

Breakfest Burritos” (ala Sharn Jean)
Ingredients (approximate)

4 eggs, blended (either ahead of time or after being added to frying pan)

6 to 8 small or medium flour tortillas

1/4 # pork sausage, crumbled

1/4 chopped onion

2 roasted and peeled Hatch peppers, chopped (Note)

4 slices American Cheese

Salt, pepper

Some of that New Jersey Picante sauce

Salt and pepper to taste

In a medium size frying pan, fry the sausage nearly done, and drain the grease. Add the onion, stir on

medium heat for a minute or two, or until onions begin to clarify. Add the peppers, stir, and add the

eggs. Continue to stir until the eggs are done; and remove from heat.

Spoon the ingredients into the tortillas, and top with cheese and/or Picante sauce as desired.

Enjoy.

Leftover ingredients can be made into burritos and the burritos frozen for another time. They are

excellent reheated; about 2 or 3 minutes in the microwave will do it.

Note: Hatch peppers, if available fresh, may be roasted and peeled ahead of time. I like to put them on

the charcoal grill on a medium heat, until the skin begins to bubble up, turn, for a few seconds, remove

and freeze. The skins may be removed before or after freezing, as desired.

 

[sld]

Those Hatch peppers are good. We get them around here in September. First time I went to buy some the lady asked me how many bags I wanted. I had no idea so I said give me about 50.00 bucks worth. Well, I came home with 2 large trash sack sized bags and my wife chewed me out the whole time we were peeling them...about 2 hours! Froze them and had them for at least a year.

 

[N80]

I'm a foodie. I like to eat. I like to cook. But I only like to cook and eat good food. I also like to eat out, but only when it is special and good. That does not mean fancy or expensive. A local dive with good ribs is every bit as enjoyable as a fancy meal at a fine restaurant. But I hate, and I cannot express in words how much I HATE going out to eat just to eat mediocre or bad food at a boring cookie cutter restaurant. I don't like anything about the experience. I would MUCH rather drop big bucks on a high end meal at a fine restaurant a few times a year rather than eat at Olive Garden or Applebys a few times every month and the amount of money comes out the same.

Mostly, I'd rather take good fresh food and make a great meal myself. For instance homemade goats milk ricotta gnocchi (I make the ricotta and then make the gnocchi out of the ricotta and flour) with wild boar ragu (killed and processed the boar and made the ragu) with real grated Parmesan cheese on top:

 

[Bird]

I would MUCH rather drop big bucks on a high end meal at a fine restaurant a few times a year rather than eat at Olive Garden or Applebys a few times every month and the amount of money comes out the same.

George, my wife likes the Olive Garden and I like Appleby's, but we don't eat at either of them more than about once every couple of years.:laughing:

Now I don't know whether you would consider this a "high end meal at a fine restaurant" or not, but we enjoyed it Saturday. Fort Worth, TX | Texas de Brazil - Brazilian Steakhouse

I'd never heard of it before and it was certainly different.

 

[N80]

I have heard of these Brazilian steak houses and there is one about an hour from where I live and I'd like to try it. I am fortunate to live only 2.5 hours from Charleston, SC which is a food Mecca. I'm right near Charlotte and have been for 18 years but have not explored the food scene there. And I while I consider myself to be a foodie, I'm not a food snob. I can be happy with a pickled egg (you know, the ones in the big jar at the country store), a can of vienna sausages (vyeeners is how we say it) and some saltines.

And yes, cooking every night can be a chore especially when it has already been a long day. Fortunately my wife is a good cook so we share duties and I usually eat well. But I really enjoy spending a few hours in the kitchen, with a bottle of wine, my wife helping out, radio on and fixing a really nice meal. And I really like using game from my place. The wild pigs are delicious. Here is a bacon wrapped boar tenderloin roasted in the oven with blackberry vinaigrette.