What did you (or will you) have for your favorite meal today?
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Have you had yours, lately? I did, today!
Comments (14)I wish I had read this 6 hours ago! I had a hankering for a burger... never thought of chili but today would have been perfect. Called a friend and we were going to go to Chili's or Red Robin and settled on Red Robin. Then my van wouldn't start - battery wasn't up to it. Surprised me because it had warmed up to a sweltering -9° and old "Vanna" always starts like the champ she is. So put the booster on there, fired it up. Had trouble keeping it running. I feared gasline freeze. Once running, I let it run for a while to charge the battery, maybe thaw the fuel line a bit and then thought I'd shut it off and make sure it'd start, and make sure the battery was holding a charge. It didn't. Booster back on. I was determined to get a burger so I was going with or without a charged battery. Started it up and got over there in time for an A1 Peppercorn burger and it was great. Wish I had thought about the chili burger! Oh, I took the booster/charger with me in case it wouldn't start. Parked close to an outdoor outlet, just in case, but Vanna fired up for me when I left. It hit me on the way home that in this frigid week, I was driving with the defroster on full, headlights on, rear window defroster and probably the radio too. So there's no way the alternator could keep up with charging that poor thing's battery! Didn't even think about that! So, now I'll keep it in mind. One of those DUH moments... Course now it's going up to about 30° over the weekend. Anyway, back to the topic. I like my chili THICK! None of this watery, soupy stuff for me, I want man-food. Something to sink my teeth into. So thick you don't use a spoon, use club crackers, bacon thins or chicken in a biscuit and scoop that stuff up and shovel it in. Not overly seasoned but it must have a bit of a zing, lots of meat, and yes, heresy to some but I want kidney beans! Occasionally some crusty garlic bread on the side, but normally, crackers. Just another thing I don't get anywhere near enough of lately!!! ;)...See MoreWhat Did You Have For Your Meal At Noon?
Comments (11)What a timely question. I had the most horrid noon meal. Actually I didn't eat it. I went to an event where I paid over 40 dollars to attend. As with most events the meal choices were uninspiring. Salmon ,chicken,veggie lasagna, that sort of thing. I decided the chicken piccata couldn't possibly be too terrible. Boy was I wrong. The whole meal was terrible. I don't know how some ate it and some actually thought it was good. Go figure. This was at a country club. First we got basic sweet french rolls. The kind with the over browned crust that once cool hardens into instant staleness. The butter balls were on the table so long they were melting. When we asked for more butter it was still frozen solid. It wasn't even real butter....just a shade above grill grease. Ick. The salad was a half of a small apple dice on about a 1/4 cup of bagged lettuce mix with a few (again straight from a bag) candied walnuts. Then the chicken...oh my. It was an over breaded "Tyson" chicken cutlet that I believe was either baked or nuked. it had the same consistency of a a breaded TV dinner. There was no piccata about this thing. No lemon flavor, no lemon garnish and certainly no capers. It had some kind of mushroom glop from a can on it. There was a table spoon of white/wild rice that crunched. The only thing edible (to me) was the few frozen green beans on the plate. I gagged down a few bites of chicken. Another lady asked for a box and so did I. They don't give out boxes for fear of being blamed for food illness. BS!! Any problem with the food is already right in their kitchen. I also observed servers holding plates near guests whose costumes (this was a costume event) were hanging right into the plates while they paused to speak to someone. Nothing like letting someones boa brush into someone's salad. Ick Double Ick. So basically I spent 40 plus dollars on frozen food that was poorly prepared and served by I thing either the kids of club members or some caddies. They were not trained wait staff. So tonight I went to a family owned diner and had a nice meal of Soup,lamb chops,baked potato, fresh asparagus and cheesecake. All for under 15 dollars with very nice professional service....See MoreWhat's on your plate for your main meal today?
Comments (40)Today I spent the day at an amusement park. I don't eat park food so my friend and I stopped at a local family restaurant. I had a French Dip made on their special house bread instead of the usual roll. Their bread is similar to a Dutch Crunch. Once they ran out of rolls and made my sandwich on a hunk of that bread they cut into a roll. I have requested it that way since. I brought half home and it's reheating in the toaster oven as I type. For dessert I stopped and had a a strawberry ice cream cone, again at a local mom and pop place that carries Marianne's Ice Cream from Santa Cruz Ca....See MoreWhat Are You Having For Your Main Meal Today?
Comments (78)I like to cook up onions in the skillet where the meat browned up. I will brown up the meat first to make sure that the meat makes good contact with the hot skillet. If I try to cook the onions along with the meat, the cuts of onion will get in the way of the meat having the most contact with the hot skillet. With grass fed beef you get a very nice flavor going on in the residual oil left from cooking the meat. Cooking off the onions in that same skillet lets you pick up some of that intense flavor. I usually cook the onions until just a bit browned and not caramelized. If not, raw sliced onions make a nice addition. Both ways are good. You can also take your bread and lay it in the skillet after all has been cooked and you can pick up even more of that flavor. I remember back when burgers were made on a grill, like in an old fashioned diner, the buns would go onto the grill where the meat was cooked. That was way back when beef could be more counted on to deliver a better flavor and quality. Grocery store beef has fallen in quality over these years. This grass fed beef makes me realize how different it is. I remember when even one of those burgers that got brought out to your car by a carhop and hung on the side of the drivers side window tasted like real beef. Remember how those burgers would be wrapped in that paper and stabbed close with a pickle and a toothpick? I remember one place in east Dallas that used to make the best burgers and you could get a cold mug of beer delivered to your car window along with your burger. Otherwise it was mug root beer. Things change without our noticing. My remembrance of burgers past goes back 50 years ago. Change is often subtle and, as that expression goes, "we don't know what we had until it is gone".. Now burgers out at diners and at fast food places are all made in a processing plant where they are manipulated with what ever and pressed into uniform rounds and frozen. They get run through some automated "grill" like a factory. Ugh! There is just no appeal in an ordinary diner burger anymore or any of the fast food places. Even the smaller eateries mostly don't make their own real beef patties anymore. The get stuff delivered from Sysco....See More- 8 years ago
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