Your Favorite Food and Your Cooking Hints and Tips.

[WalterB]

Why haven't I started a Food topic? Let's hear it. Tell us your favorite food. Is it something you fix or something you eat in a restaurant. For example, I like the Sizzlin' Santa Fe Skillet breakfast at Denny's. Potatoes, lots of fixin's and spicy sausage.

What started this was a cooking show. Now I'm not too formal. For example, so many things have identifying names. But I try to keep it simple. For example, a bowl.

An idiot watching a professional cook:
"So now I'll put the remaining sauce in this ramekin."
"A what? I call it a bowl."
"Yeah, but what KIND of bowl?"
"A round one."
"But what size?"
"A small round one."
"It's a Ramekin."
"It's a small round bowl."
"Honey, would you get me a Ramekin, please?"
"Can't find one. All we got are these small, round bowls."

Anyone ever wonder why I'm still single?

[WalterB]

I do cook what I call a mean bowl of chili, lol. Now Chili, like most foods, can be made so many ways. So this is mine.

One lb. hamburger, 1 can Ranch-Style beans, 1 tbsp chili piwder, 1 Tbsp Garlic powder, couple slices diced onion, can of diced tomatoes. Simple stuff. Cook up the hamburger (I use a cast-iron skillet) then add the rest.

I like mine thicker, not so much like soup. So you just add water until you have the consistency you like, then let it simmer for 1/2 hour or so.

What's yours? Gimme some ideas. I'm sick of eating my own cooking (except for that dang Chili, )

[ErikB]

I do cook what I call a mean bowl of chili, lol. Now Chili, like most foods, can be made so many ways. So this is mine.

One lb. hamburger, 1 can Ranch-Style beans, 1 tbsp chili piwder, 1 Tbsp Garlic powder, couple slices diced onion, can of diced tomatoes. Simple stuff. Cook up the hamburger (I use a cast-iron skillet) then add the rest.

I like mine thicker, not so much like soup. So you just add water until you have the consistency you like, then let it simmer for 1/2 hour or so.

What's yours? Gimme some ideas. I'm sick of eating my own cooking (except for that dang Chili, )

Well, it will still be your cooking, even if it is a new recipe.

I was rather fond of chinese takeout as a kid, and that fondness stayed into adulthood until I started having troubles eating it and had to change my diet.

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A variation on your chili would be a homemade TV dinner. Luckily enough Cowboy Kent recently posted just such a recipe:

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I also used to enjoy making beef stew in a crock pot. I don't have a recipe for it, though.

I also enjoy watching the Townsends youtube channel. Plenty of historical cooking. Here is a video on 3 ways to cook simple meals:

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Or try these pumpkin recipes for Thanksgiving. I am not sure what to do about the first recipe if you don't have access to a wood cooking fire, but it looks like the second and third recipes look like they can use ordinary baking and frying.

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I also use to enjoy watching his mushroom "ketchup" video. If I ever get my act together and start cooking for myself, I will try the stuff in all 3 of these videos. The mushroom ketchup recipe might even appeal to Vicky and Rokker!

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The relaxing music and pace of these videos used to help me decompress after work. And that's not a plastic spoon. It is made out of some kind of horn.


I also enjoy watching Steve1989MREinfo. He tries out both new and old (and sometimes REALLY old) shelf-stable meal kits. The oldest he has eaten, I believe, was an intact (enough) can of compressed, dried beef from the Boer war (1899-1902).

Speaking of Chinese, he just reviewed a chicken wing meal prepared for the People's Liberation Army:

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[WalterB]

"Well, it will still be your cooking, even if it is a new recipe."

And here I was all ready to try something new until you reminded me of that,
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"A variation on your chili would be a homemade TV dinner."

Well, since I don't "dine" at a table anymore (my table is my lap, lol) pretty much everything I eat is a homemade TV dinner.

[ErikB]

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[WalterB]

I've eaten WWII C-and K-Rations before. Probably left over from the war. When I was a kid (8-12,) my grandfather had an old garage in the back yard where he stored EVERYTHING, lol There was just a small aisle down the middle with crap stored and hung everywhere. A real fantasyland for a 9-year-old, lol.

I'm sure I wasn't supposed to be in there, lol, but I'd go in and look around. I found these boxes. I'm guessing that one was open. I don't think I would have opened them. Anyway, I ate a little.

Years later, when I was on the bum in Dallas, I found railroad tracks that went right under downtown. Wow! What's this? I was about 25. There's a cemetery right next to downtown where all the early pioneers are buried. I would sleep there. Being on the bum with no money to get a room, I figured "no one will bother me here," lol. So I'd find a grave, roll out my bedroll and go to sleep. In the morning, I'd roll it up and stash it in a row of hedges along the downtown side.

Day Labor was my source of income. I want to say they paid $1.20/hour, $2 for some jobs, like painting. Each day they'd either give you a check, or if you wanted, they'd give you a 'draw' and keep the rest 'til Friday. So, for a $2 or $3 draw, I could get a nice hamburger, fries, couple beers and a couple games of pool. Prices were cheap in 1968, lol.

One afternoon I was walking around underground. There were lights, and it was obvious that this rail system was to bring supplies, product and whatever to the downtown buildings. Then I found a room. It was filled with C-Ration boxes. So I opened one or two and ate, lol. They had edible meals, a dessert (cookie, maybe?) and even a 4-pack of cigarettes. Everything a man on the bum needed, lol.

We went to am EXPO at the Dallas Convention Center. One side looked out over downtown. I could still see the tracks, but I seem to remember the opening was either blocked or filled in. I wanted to take Dave and Vicky down there and show them around, but never did.

[ErikB]

I wonder if the room you found was an emergency bomb shelter? In an urban exploration video I once watched the team discovered a bomb shelter from that era with packages of crackers. I don't remember if there was anything else...

[jimhenry]

My favorite almost every Friday night out Deny's Slamburger!!!

[WalterB]

I wonder if the room you found was an emergency bomb shelter?

Could have been. I remember seeing the Civil Defense logo everywhere.

jimhenry - Haven't seen that one at my Denny's here. I'll ask Yvonne about it when I go up tomorrow morn.

[ErikB]

Boy that Slamburger looks tasty!

[lance_s]

I wonder if the room you found was an emergency bomb shelter?

Could have been. I remember seeing the Civil Defense logo everywhere.

jimhenry - Haven't seen that one at my Denny's here. I'll ask Yvonne about it when I go up tomorrow morn.

https://www.dennys.ca/restaurant/ontari ... ng-dinners

and scroll down to the lunch section.

[WalterB]

Ahhh, Canada, lol. But I found it on my American menu, too. So now I gotta go up there for Lunch, lol.

[jimhenry]

I wonder if the room you found was an emergency bomb shelter?

Could have been. I remember seeing the Civil Defense logo everywhere.

jimhenry - Haven't seen that one at my Denny's here. I'll ask Yvonne about it when I go up tomorrow morn.

Originaly called American Slam Burger

[jimhenry]

Boy that Slamburger looks tasty!

It is Eric you can order it the way you like I get mine with scrambled egg! And hash browns on the side!

[ErikB]

Boy that Slamburger looks tasty!

It is Eric you can order it the way you like I get mine with scrambled egg! And hash browns on the side!

I suspect I can't order it that way I like, which would be without gluten or lactose. There was a time when I could have eaten it, but no longer. Oh well.

[WalterB]

OK, we've got one here. I may have mentioned before, I've never understood sunny-side-up or like over easy eggs on sandwiches. The very second you crunch down on the beggar, it's gonna spit yellow crap all over ya. And, me, with my beard, well, .So Denny's let's you order your egg hard-cooked or scrambled or a couple other ways. I took the Onion Rings, since I was there for lunch, lol.

It was a different burger, but nice. I'm usually only there for breakfast, so I need to pay more attention to the back of the menu. Maybe come back later once in awhile. There ARE some good looking meals back there. And they update the menu couple times a year.