What are you Eating/Drinking?

[kikie]

This is one of those days that I don't know what to prepare so I eat what I can get my hands on, what I can find in the fridge and so on .... .

 

[W3H5]

Pork Panang curry and naan bread with several litres of beer to top it off. That’s pretty much my evening meal.

 

[TB]

After a long day of landscaping, this tastes so damn good.

 

[W3H5]

As an impartial spectator I toasted Liverpool’s win and commiserated Tottenham’s loss.

Wearing an autographed West Ham shirt to the bar actually won me lots of friendship for the evening.

It’s been a rough week, what can I say...

 

[kikie]

As breakfast; Kefir with Superfoods (all sorts of berries) powder, shredded coconut, coconut blossom sugar, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and pine nuts.

 

[kikie]

Just finished one of these.

 

[W3H5]

Beer

 

[kikie]

Hibiscus tea.

 

[Rallywagon]

Kona blend coffee

 

[W3H5]

More beer

 

[kikie]

Water, orange juice and nuts, nuts and more nuts.

 

[Chrunch Houston]

Nescafe Clasico with Snickers flavored Coffee Mate.

 

[kikie]

Asparagus cream soup
Spinach with a cream sauce
Salmon

 

[TexRex]

A small bowl of Grape-Nuts, cold, with a touch of honey and actual milk (like...from a cow), sourdough-walnut toast with apple butter and a cup of coffee, black.

Edit: Grilled skirt steak tacos with chile-less salsa verde (Secret Aardvark "Serrabanero" hot sauce* to supplement for me) and Cotija cheese, slow-cooker frijoles charros (beans with bacon) and blue corn tortilla chips with salsa cruda. Passion fruit margaritas to wash it all down.

*Big, big, BIG recommend--it's got a pleasant amount of heat but the flavor is just spectacular.

 

[Rallywagon]

Had pork chops and collard greens tonight. First time cooking with those. Cooked the pork chops at 140° for 1 hour in my sous vide contraption with garlic powder, kosher salt and pepper. 132ish would probably have been better. Collard greens were cooked with chopped onion, bacon, garlic, a touch of apple cider vinegar and a liberal slosh of honey and the drippings left in the bags the pork was cooked in. Cooked down for 50 minutes. Pan seared the chops. It was pretty tasty. Meant to take a picture but, let's be honest, cooked greens don't exactly look pretty and I ate most of it before remembering I needed to take a picture.
I seem to have found a flavor palette that I enjoy in apple cider vinegar, honey and oil. Seems to work well with a good variety of food choices. I will probably be dropping the collard greens in favor of mustard greens though. I didnt find the texture as pleasant, and there was a bit of a tang to it that I dont much care for.
Time to expand the repertoire and find another set of flavors to try. Maybe something more savory and beef or fish oriented.

 

[kikie]

Appetizer: quiche which I'm having right now.

Potatoes
Cauliflower
White sauce

 

[TexRex]

Pork scaloppine with artichoke hearts and dry vermouth, grilled leeks in vinaigrette with fresh tarragon and toasted hazelnuts, and a crusty bread for soaking up those marvelous liquids.

 

[kikie]

Yesterday I used other ingredients to make a white sauce and had to throw away this sauce.

Normally, I use cashew nuts.

I'm going to make vegetable soup today.

 

[phillgt2002]

Foolkiller had a thread on recipes if you can dig it out, I’m sure there’s plenty there to try.

That's a name I miss seeing around. I read through some of the posts and found some interesting recipes and combinations.

Do you have a pressure cooker?

How about a cast iron pan (as one recipe I have is a Teflon killer...)

no on tht pressure cooker, but the pan is no problem.

 

[coryclifford]

@Rallywagon beef short ribs (braised) or flat iron steak. Good stuff, and not the run of the mill. Greens are like eating tin foil. Never found a good one.

 

[Rallywagon]

I like the mustard greens quite a bit. And I like spinach fresh. I mostly agree otherwise.
I do cook a lot of patio, or flat iron steaks. That's the steak I get to sous vide and finish on the grill. I then slice it up and bag it to have with a salad for lunch.
I think I may be getting sirloin for dinners though. Especially after the counter help gave my wife some strip steaks instead of chuck eyes on accident.
But, my bbq game is strong. That's a palette I know quite well. I am going to have to do a solid grocery trip. Maybe pick out some things I've past up or not considered using.

 

[TexRex]

Y'know...I enjoy greens. It's not a matter of tolerating them in my diet merely because they're healthy either; I actually derive enjoyment from consuming them. As far as the brassicas go, I generally favor chard and mustard over collards and kale. I'm also fond of kohlrabi tops when I can get them. They all just have to be young and tender so that I don't have to cook the crap out of them to make them edible.

...

Threw the other [big] pork shoulder steak on the grill with some radicchio next to it and made a mango salsa with charred red peppers and scallions.

It's nice when the only thing that gets hot in the kitchen is the faucet.

 

[TB]

Heggies breakfast pizza and Laughing Man (Hugh Jackman's) coffee. First time having both. Quite tasty.



I'm going to pay for the calorie hit later today when I can't eat without going over my allotment. Better go start digging holes before it gets too hot.

 

[kikie]

Heggies breakfast pizza and Laughing Man (Hugh Jackman's) coffee. First time having both. Quite tasty.

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I'm going to pay for the calorie hit later today when I can't eat without going over my allotment. Better go start digging holes before it gets too hot.

I was thinking of getting a pizza for tomorrow right before (less than a second) I opened this thread. Must be telepathy.

 

[W3H5]

I was thinking of getting a pizza for tomorrow right before (less than a second) I opened this thread. Must be telepathy.

Or just that pizza is the best food in the world.

 

[TexRex]

Laughing Man (Hugh Jackman's) coffee

 

[TB]

I was thinking of getting a pizza for tomorrow right before (less than a second) I opened this thread. Must be telepathy.

You're welcome.

In case you didn't already know, Ryan Reynolds has been giving Hugh Jackman crap on Twitter for years about coming back as Wolverine. Hugh has repeatedly said no. This was their truce video, doing promos for each other's product.

 

[kikie]

I'm having pizza tomorrow.

 

[Boston77]

A small bowl of Grape-Nuts, cold, with a touch of honey and actual milk (like...from a cow), sourdough-walnut toast with apple butter and a cup of coffee, black

I really dislike Grape Nuts cereal (one of the few cereals I was allowed when I was growing up)
However, if my mom made Grape Nut pudding I’d eat the entire tray.
Have you ever had it/made it?

It’s the only way I can eat that gravel

 

[TexRex]

I really dislike Grape Nuts cereal (one of the few cereals I was allowed when I was growing up)
However, if my mom made Grape Nut pudding I’d eat the entire tray.
Have you ever had it/made it?

It’s the only way I can eat that gravel

I've neither had it nor made it, but I've heard of it. I have had Grape-Nuts ice cream, though.

I don't recall ever having it before I was 30-something, and thay may have something to do with my liking it now--I didn't have the opportunity to hate it when I was younger.