Thursday's Vittles? 1/27/2022

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

What's everybody having on this almost-at-the end-of-the-week day??
Grilling, baking, frying, or heading out somewhere to dine?

I've made a bowl of chicken salad with pecans, grapes, and craisins.
The recipe was on a YouTube video I saw last week and it looked and
sounded great. I followed it to the letter and it's chilling in the refrigerator
as I write which I think will greatly improve its' flavor.

Her suggestion was serve this on croissants which I picked up at the
store yesterday. A large portion of this and some of the croissants
will be shared with my neighbor across the alley. What better way to
return her bowl with something to eat in it?

[GM]

A tossed salad with 1000, and brown rice with some veg and teriyaki sauce...

--
GM

[S Viemeister]

Simple dinner tonight - roast chicken with orzo, vegetables yet to be
determined.

[Bryan Simmons]

Cutlets, cut off a boneless pork loin, mashed potatoes with faux
chicken gravy, and frozen corn with chopped serrano.

--Bryan

[Tony]

Faux as in faux meat?

[Tony]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:37:58 -0800 (PST), Bryan Simmons
<bryang...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ghe Ghe Ghe.

[Tony]

Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe. This is my frogger. Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))

[Bryan Simmons]

Faux as in made with Better Than Bouillon, rather than pan drippings.

--Bryan

[Tony]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:04:57 -0800 (PST), Bryan Simmons

Oh, I don't know that.

[Graham]

I made a "fridge clear-out" soup the other day: onions, shallots,
celery, garlic, cubed chicken breast (fresh) and chicken stock. Then
added a can of chickpeas and one of white kidney beans and some basil.
I wasn't expecting much but it turned out to be delicious.
I have several days-worth so I suppose it could be called my standard,
carnivore's meal:-)

[Dave Smith]

On 2022-01-27 3:04 p.m., itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
>
> What's everybody having on this almost-at-the end-of-the-week day??
> Grilling, baking, frying, or heading out somewhere to dine?

Never mind the end of the week. It is almost the end of the month. It
feels like we just had Christmas last week.

> I've made a bowl of chicken salad with pecans, grapes, and craisins.
> The recipe was on a YouTube video I saw last week and it looked and
> sounded great. I followed it to the letter and it's chilling in the refrigerator
> as I write which I think will greatly improve its' flavor.
>
> Her suggestion was serve this on croissants which I picked up at the
> store yesterday. A large portion of this and some of the croissants
> will be shared with my neighbor across the alley. What better way to
> return her bowl with something to eat in it?

I have made a heart healthy Thai style mango chicken salad. It has
chopped mango and red pepper, and chicken breast that was minced and
then fried with about half a finely chopped onion, two cloves of garlic
and some hot chili flakes. The the dressing is lime juice and low sodium
soy sauce, and then I added some chopped mint and basil. It will be
served on chopped romaine.

[bruce bowser]

Toasted croissants would sound great with the salad (without the pecans -I hate nuts). Some nice potato chips or extremely salty french fries would be a great addition!

[jmcquown]

Seems to me whenever chicken salad was served at office gatherings it
was served on croissants as chicken salad sandwiches. Yes, with pecans
and grapes (not sure about the craisins). Not my cuppa. But hey, if
you and the neighbor like it...

I don't have much of an appetite tonight. Might have some PB toast.

I do have cooking plans for dinner tomorrow night. Stuffed pork chops. :)

Jill

[Tony]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:31:36 -0500, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

[Leonard Blaisdell]

On 2022-01-27, itsjoan...@webtv.net <itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:

> What's everybody having on this almost-at-the end-of-the-week day??
> Grilling, baking, frying, or heading out somewhere to dine?

I made my wife a grilled cheese sandwich with Kraft singles. She made a
salad with avocado and Campari tomatoes and mumble. She said it was
good.
Since it's beer day, after I finish, I'll probably have a ice cream
drumstick, some Chester's Flaming Hot fries with milk and other junk
food, because I care about my health ;-)

[Toni Tone Tony]

Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe. This is my not frogger. Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))

[Ronny]

On 28 Jan 2022 06:20:06 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell

<leobla...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>On 2022-01-27, itsjoan...@webtv.net <itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:
>
>> What's everybody having on this almost-at-the end-of-the-week day??
>> Grilling, baking, frying, or heading out somewhere to dine?
>
>
>I made my wife a grilled cheese sandwich with Kraft singles. She made a
>salad with avocado and Campari tomatoes and mumble.

Mumble?

[Gary]

Yes...a nice way to return a bowl. :)

[Gary]

Gravy is another good use for homemade chicken or turkey broth.
Add to flour and butter or just use cornstarch in a pinch.

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 3:04:36 PM UTC-5, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:

I ended up having scrambled eggs with sauteed onions and tomato. Toast
and a glass of milk.

Cindy Hamilton

[Ronny]

Yabbut I'd never heard of Better Than Bouillon. Here's Better Than
Bouillon Chicken Base:

"roasted chicken*, salt, cane sugar*, maltodextrin*, flavoring*, yeast
extract, food starch*, turmeric*, natural flavor* *organic"

You'd think that roasted chicken on it own had enough flavour, but no:
they also need to add "flavoring" and "natural flavor". Makes me
wonder what it would taste like on its own. Brr.

[Ophelia]

On 28/01/2022 00:31, jmcquown wrote:

> I don't have much of an appetite tonight.  Might have some PB toast.
>
> I do have cooking plans for dinner tomorrow night.  Stuffed pork chops. :)
>
> Jill

Share your recipe please:)))

[Ronny]

[Gary]

On 1/28/2022 1:20 AM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> I made my wife a grilled cheese sandwich with Kraft singles.

Have you ever added a thin slice of tomato to that?
Takes it way beyond good, imo. No turning back.

[Gary]

Toni Tone Tony, what are we ever going to do with you?

[jmcquown]

I posted it separately. :)

Jill

[Dave Smith]

Slice tomato and some thinly slice onion.

[Gary]

I'll have to try onion too someday. I do love onions.

[Ophelia]

Thank you:)))

[Sheldon Martin]

Bury him, and mark his tomb stone: Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))

[Wahid]

[Wahid]

[Wahid]

Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe.

[bruce bowser]

I'm surprised that you just didn't go ahead and make that into an omlette, Cindy.

[Baba Looey]

Uhm Yes. Vote Trump. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))

[Osama]

[Cindy Hamilton]

The glass of milk would have made the omelette too loose. Although
the toast might have made a suitable panade to bind it.

Cindy Hamilton

[bruce bowser]

I didn't mean to include the bread or milk, silly. (Although I have heard of adding milk when cooking eggs).

[Bryan Simmons]

As much as I adore milk, I don't want my eggs to taste
like milk, so I add a tiny bit of water instead.

--Bryan

[Gary]

On 1/29/2022 9:40 AM, Bryan Simmons wrote

> As much as I adore milk, I don't want my eggs to taste
> like milk, so I add a tiny bit of water instead.
>
> --Bryan

I never add milk or water to eggs. As far as omelets go, I don't the
skins so I just combine all omelet ingredients to make scrambled eggs.
Same exact food, just different texture.

[Ed Pawlowski]

I imagine most of us learned from what our parents did. My mother put a
little milk in scrambled eggs so I did too, until I read that water is
better. Tried water and little difference. Read that nothing works
best. Tried that and never went back. Tried mayonnaise and it was OK
but not spectacular.

Now, I put some butter in the pan, heat, crack two eggs right in the
pan, pinch of salt, mix them in the pan as they cook. nice and light, I
turn off the heat before they are done and let them finish from the
residual heat.

[Brozzo]

[Dave Smith]

On 2022-01-29 2:05 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 1/29/2022 10:50 AM, Gary wrote:
>> On 1/29/2022 9:40 AM, Bryan Simmons wrote
>>> As much as I adore milk, I don't want my eggs to taste
>>> like milk, so I add a tiny bit of water instead.
>>>
>>> --Bryan
>>
>> I never add milk or water to eggs. As far as omelets go, I don't the
>> skins so I just combine all omelet ingredients to make scrambled eggs.
>> Same exact food, just different texture.
>>
>>
>
> I imagine most of us learned from what our parents did.  My mother put a
> little milk in scrambled eggs so I did too, until I read that water is
> better.  Tried water and little difference.  Read that nothing works
> best.  Tried that and never went back.  Tried mayonnaise and it was OK
> but not spectacular.

My mother taught me to add milk. It was okay but it always left a watery
trace. When I tried water I didn't get the watery remnants. For a while
I dropping the eggs directly into the pan and then scrambling them. I
have settled on beating them with a fork, adding some hot sauce and then
into the pan. Even better than browning the butter is to add some
spinach as the butter is browning and letting it wilt before adding the
eggs.

[Michael Trew]

I heard that it softens scrambled eggs. I tried it once or twice. It
didn't seem like a worth while addition, so I didn't try it again.

[Bezzo]

Ghe? Uhm, can you go into more detail? I don't get it

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 8:40:53 AM UTC-6, bryang...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> As much as I adore milk, I don't want my eggs to taste
> like milk, so I add a tiny bit of water instead.
>
> --Bryan
>

A tiny bit of milk will not change the flavor of eggs just as a tiny bit
of water adds no flavor.

[Gary]

Adds a tiny bit of volume but not enough to matter.
I just use plain eggs scrambled in butter.

[Leonard Blaisdell]

On 2022-01-28, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:

> Have you ever added a thin slice of tomato to that?
> Takes it way beyond good, imo. No turning back.

I haven't. The only thing I do is butter all sides of the bread. That's
what I grew up with. I lack imagination. Maybe next time. I have
Campari's which should suffice. I'll ask my wife :-)
Oh...I grew up with Velveeta and emigrated to Kraft Singles, so I've
grown! Now, I just use Velveeta in macaroni salad. Little chunks.

[GM]

The premium Kraft singles have their place, they are a staple for me...

--
GM

[Plato]

On Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 3:22:31 PM UTC-6, Graham wrote:

> On 2022-01-27 1:04 p.m., itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> >
> > What's everybody having on this almost-at-the end-of-the-week day??
> > Grilling, baking, frying, or heading out somewhere to dine?
> >
> > I've made a bowl of chicken salad with pecans, grapes, and craisins.
> > The recipe was on a YouTube video I saw last week and it looked and
> > sounded great. I followed it to the letter and it's chilling in the refrigerator
> > as I write which I think will greatly improve its' flavor.
> >
> > Her suggestion was serve this on croissants which I picked up at the
> > store yesterday. A large portion of this and some of the croissants
> > will be shared with my neighbor across the alley. What better way to
> > return her bowl with something to eat in it?

> I made a "fridge clear-out" soup the other day: onions, shallots,
> celery, garlic, cubed chicken breast (fresh) and chicken stock. Then
> added a can of chickpeas and one of white kidney beans and some basil.
> I wasn't expecting much but it turned out to be delicious.
> I have several days-worth so I suppose it could be called my standard,
> carnivore's meal:-)

A la carte... McDonalds... :)

[Sheldon Martin]

> On Thursday, January 27, 2022 itsjoan wrote:
> What's everybody having on this almost-at-the end-of-the-week day??
> Grilling, baking, frying, or heading out somewhere to dine?

We had a winter storm special last night, Chicken Eggdrop, with celery
because I had no bok choy. I used a chicken bouillion cube and wide
egg noodles, I put in some dried parsley flakes and dillweed till
cooked, and added a corn starch slurry to make it thick and
gelatinous, and stirred in 4 beaten eggs to a 3 quart pot. Serve with
fresh ground white pepper, not black.
For tonight we defrosted three skinless boneless chicken breasts to
make chicken chow mein. I keep canned bean sprouts, bamboo shoots,
'shrooms, and other Chinese veggies in our pantry.
It's now 8ºF, snowing with high winds. Looks like we'll get over 12"
of the white stuff. Already have the tractor up on the driveway
backed up to the garage door, and the plow facing the road ready to
make the first push. Just need to plug in the oil pan heater, wait
ten minutes, start the tractor, give it a few minutes to heat up, warm
the hydraulics and off to the races. We plow the snow across the road
into an empty hay field, and at the same time plow out our mailbox.
We could mount a snowblower on the tractor but the 7' wide plow works
better and is far safer than a snow blower... every winter some lose
body parts trying to clear a clogged snowblower. A plow can do a lot
more, easy to clear right to a doorway by pulling the plow rather than
pushing. I don't try to remove every bit of snow by scraping the
driveway, I leave a good inch, soon as the sun comes out the blacktop
heats and melts the last bit of snow. This past summer we had the
road to our barn repaved with black crushed granite, that heats in the
sun and melts the snow too.

[Hank Rogers]

It's the finest plow in the universe Popeye.

Snowblowers are for faggots, right?

[Peter]

[Michael Trew]

On 2/1/2022 16:09, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>> On Thursday, January 27, 2022 itsjoan wrote:
>> What's everybody having on this almost-at-the end-of-the-week day??
>> Grilling, baking, frying, or heading out somewhere to dine?
>

> It's now 8ºF, snowing with high winds. Looks like we'll get over 12"
> of the white stuff. Already have the tractor up on the driveway
> backed up to the garage door, and the plow facing the road ready to
> make the first push. Just need to plug in the oil pan heater, wait
> ten minutes, start the tractor, give it a few minutes to heat up, warm
> the hydraulics and off to the races. We plow the snow across the road
> into an empty hay field, and at the same time plow out our mailbox.
> We could mount a snowblower on the tractor but the 7' wide plow works
> better and is far safer than a snow blower...

I wish that you were my neighbor. The city doesn't plow my side road.
I need to get my mower with the snow plow up and running this year.

[Hank Rogers]

Michael Trew wrote:
> On 2/1/2022 16:09, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>>> On Thursday, January 27, 2022 itsjoan wrote:
>>> What's everybody having on this almost-at-the end-of-the-week day??
>>> Grilling, baking, frying, or heading out somewhere to dine?
>>
>> It's now 8ºF, snowing with high winds.  Looks like we'll get over
>> 12"
>> of the white stuff.  Already have the tractor up on the driveway
>> backed up to the garage door, and the plow facing the road ready to
>> make the first push.  Just need to plug in the oil pan heater, wait
>> ten minutes, start the tractor, give it a few minutes to heat up,
>> warm
>> the hydraulics and off to the races.  We plow the snow across the
>> road
>> into an empty hay field, and at the same time plow out our mailbox.
>> We could mount a snowblower on the tractor but the 7' wide plow
>> works
>> better and is far safer than a snow blower...
>
> I wish that you were my neighbor.

Wouldn't you worry about yoose daughter if Popeye were that close?