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  1. Lunch the other day was a hot chicken sandwich with gravy, dressing, mashed potatoes, and salad greens with Dorothy Lynch dressing (thanks  @Shelby!):

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    Without:

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    And WITH 😍:

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    Yesterday being Sunday is considered “little Easter” and we get to eat out (we’ve given up restaurant eating for Lent and will be donating the $$ we save to the food pantry and an Iranian family our church is sponsoring)!  We went to a Greek place we hadn’t been to in a long time.  We ordered the small mixed grill and shared it.  For $24 we got fries:

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    Greek salad:

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    Choban salad, pita, tzatziki, stewed green beans, beefteki, chicken souvlaki, and lamb/beef gyro:

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    Everything was delicious and probably enough food for 4 people. 

     

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  2. @Ann_T – I’m still catching up.  I hope Moe’s dental surgery went well and that he’s eating more like he likes now. 

     

    A couple of recent meals:

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    Toasted Lidl baguette and sage sausage.

     

    And another…

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    Toasted Lidl baguette, scrambled eggs with catsup, and Jones link sausages.  I love these sausage links so much and they are SO hard to find.  Everyone has the already cooked ones, but almost no one stocks the raw, frozen ones and the ones that do run out so fast. 

     

    Today – late breakfast:

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    French toast from the freezer, scrambled eggs with cheese, Benton’s country ham, and a tiny mandarin orange. 

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  3. @weinoo - I just put a hold on Jubilee at the library.  Abebooks.com has a couple copies for $12 free shipping.  If I like it, I'll hope they still have them!  Thanks for posting that.

     

    So, do these count?

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    Jessica picked these up for me during one of her thrifting jaunts.  The first one is from 1966, the second from 2007, and the third from 1987.  I've been watching a fun YouTube channel lately called Cooking the Books.  She collects and cooks recipes from cookbooks and pamphlets from mostly the 1940s-1970s.  She's in her early 40s, so it's all "retro-new" to her, but to me it represents some memories - of eating these foods from my grandmothers and mother and from my own interest in vintage cookbooks.  I'd kind of gone away from that in the past couple of years, but I've gotten more interested again watching this channel.  I can't help but think of @David Ross and how much he would have enjoyed her.  

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  4. 17 hours ago, Shelby said:

    If I remember right @Kim Shookmade this too and liked it.  It's really refreshing on a hot summer day.

    That lime and Ritz cracker pie is fantastic.  Perfect for hot weather and I've never had anyone not like it.  I meant to try other versions - lemon, orange, grapefruit - but I've never gotten around to it.  Maybe this summer!  

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  5. On Sunday, we had a disappointing brunch after church at a place we hadn’t ever tried before.  It wasn’t terrible, just really ordinary.  My hot pastrami and Swiss on marble rye and fries:

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    Mr. Kim’s Rueben and potato salad:

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    I asked when we ordered if the sandwiches were grilled and was told they were.  Pretty sure that the fillings were heated up and then put on toasted bread.  My pastrami tasted good, though it was pretty dry and sliced paper thin (personal preference – I like a thicker slice).  Mr. Kim’s sandwich was salty almost to the point of being inedible.  The meat was stringy and very dry.  My fries were fine, for battered fries, but the potato salad was tasteless.  One other thing that had nothing to do with the food, but was odd and irritating was that the menu indicated that all sandwiches came with a side, potato chips, and a pickle.  The list of sides included, among other things, both fries and potato salad.  But we were charged an upcharge for the fries, but not for the potato salad.  With our favorite area deli a couple of miles away from us, I can’t imagine that we’d ever go back there. 

     

    Today:

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    Sausage, egg, and cheese on a toasted baguette and some store bought  mandarin orange congealed salad. 

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  6. @blue_dolphin – I love your perfect jammy eggs!  I feel like I could manage a half dozen of those with some ridiculously buttery toast any morning of the week.

     

    Breakfast this morning was just a Lidl pain au chocolat:

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    I think this particular one looks uncommonly like a microscopic mite 😄.  They actually do a good job at Lidl bakery.  Obviously, they are frozen, but they have a decent texture and the chocolate is rich and dark:

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  7. @OlyveOyl – that crab salad looks absolutely delicious.  Last night I dreamt that a neighbor dropped off a FULL trash cans-sized box of steamed crabs saying they were “extras”.  I’m pretty sure that your crab rolls influenced that dream 😄!  Also, I put your pork loin sandwich information into a Word Document and printed it out as a recipe to try.  It looks and sounds wonderful.

     

    @blue_dolphin – I’ve never tasted abalone.  I’m guessing that until I manage to make it to the west coast, I’m better off keeping it that way 😄

     

    As I mentioned on the Breakfast thread, for various reasons I’ve been MIA for some time.  I’m trying to catch up here at eG.  I feel like I’m swimming upstream trying to get up to date on the Dinner thread, but now I’m current in Breakfast and Lunch.  So here are some recent lunches from me.

     

    One day we just crackers and Rodel sardines from my canned fish stash:

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    These were excellent!!!

     

    Chicken salad on a toasted English muffin.

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    I got a craving for a childhood favorite and I had some Campari tomatoes on the counter!  It was SO good. 

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    Ham and cheese on toast:

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    An after church brunch at a local diner.  Mr. Kim had eggs, bacon, toast, and home fries:

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    I had eggs Benedict and hash browns with onions:

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    The following Sunday, we went to a new, to us, place called The Flyin’ Pig.  Every single thing we had was great.  Hushpuppies with spicy pepper jelly and honey butter:

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    The pups were really good and the pepper jelly was a great idea – too spicy for me, but I’m stealing that idea of serving pepper jelly with hushpuppies and cornbread! 

     

    Mr. Kim’s “side salad”:

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    This was so much better than what you usually get as a side salad.  The greens were lovely, colorful baby greens, there were chopped tomatoes (that actually tasted good), cucumbers, cheese, croutons, and corn.  I’d never had corn in a salad before, but it was a great addition – crisp and sweet.  And the dressing was fantastic – a honey-lime vinaigrette.  Truly impressive.  For his main, Mr. Kim got The Bruce – a pulled pork sandwich and their smoked, grilled wings.  He chose the spicy garlic sauce for his wings:

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    The pork was great – juicy and smoky, but not wet and over smoked as we find so often.  The wings were too hot for me to taste, but Mr. Kim liked them a lot – in spite of the fact that he like his wings breaded and fried.  The blue cheese was incredible.  As good as homemade and loaded with chunks of cheese. 

     

    I got the brisket burnt ends sandwich and the onion straws:

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    Truly a delicious meal.  I loved the sticky sweetness of the burnt ends and the onion straws were done with my favorite method – dredged rather than batter dipped.  We did think that it was odd that they had this sandwich, but no brisket.  We will happily go back there.   

     

    One day lunch was a weird attempt to make some room in the freezer:

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    Pigs in a blanket and fish sticks.  (The Doritos were from the overflowing chips bin).

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  8. @Senior Sea Kayaker – your French toast has me asking Mr. Kim to rummage through our shed freezer for the package of panettone French toast I’ve got in there!  It looks so great.

     

    For various reasons I’ve been MIA again and I’m trying to get caught up in many areas of my life including eG.  I am caught up in this thread, so I thought I’d post some recent breakfast/brunches. 

     

    Got up unusually ravenous one morning, so:

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    English muffin, potato cake, mandarin orange, Smokehouse bacon, sage sausage, and a fried egg.  It took me awhile, but I ate every bite 😊!

     

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    Mandarin orange segments, toast, eggs, and Benton country ham.  Wish I’d had a biscuit! 

     

    One morning, Mr. Kim brought home donuts from of local place:

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    Peach filled, Boston cream, strawberry filled powdered, toasted coconut (my favorite), and two glazed.  Therefore, brunch…

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    Donut, sage sausage, and the best scrambled eggs I’ve made in forever – soft and fluffy without being wet.

     

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    Grilled ham, egg, and cheese.

     

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    Yet another grilled ham, egg, and cheese – fried this day.

     

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    some of Jessica’s egg salad and ham. 

     

    Yesterday leftover pork chop, cornmeal rolls and a couple of fried eggs: 

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    Today was a ham and cheese quiche from a local food purveyor, Ukrops:

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    They are a family in Richmond that used to have grocery stores in the area, but sold off all the stores.  They continued to make many of their specialties – deli, prepared, and bakery items mostly – and sell them through the other grocery stores in the area.  Incoming companies have learned that in order to thrive in Richmond, they needed to give people Ukrops products.  They still sell through other stores, but now have a food hall that is very successful.  Richmonders are very traditional and have LONG memories 😄

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  9. 1 hour ago, Dave the Cook said:

    Some brands of ground cinnamon may contain harmful amounts of lead and should be thrown out. The FDA is also asking relevant distributors to conduct voluntary recalls. FDA announcement.

    I've never heard of those particular brands, but because of the presence of the Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Sav-A-Lot stores, I'm thinking that this is the bottom of the barrel, poorest quality cinnamon.  It seems like so often people who need to economize and are the most vulnerable are the ones who get taken advantage of. 

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  10. 1 hour ago, Pete Fred said:

    Continuing to browse Classic Home Desserts by Richard Sax, the St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake sounded like it might be on to something. Gooey. Butter. Cake. What more do you need to hear?

     

    After a little digging around it turned out to be one of those bakes that stirs up strong emotions in its devoted followers. As far as I could make out there are two broad types: bready base, buttery top; or (yellow) cake base, buttery cream cheese top.

     

    I figured the bready kind was more my kinda thing...

     

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    Having no frame of reference for this particular regional delicacy I have absolutely no idea how it measures up. I followed almost identical recipes at the NYT and King Arthur, and both indicated pulling it while the centre was still liquid. I'm guessing the idea is you can choose your desired level of gooeyness: corner, edge, or middle...

     

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    I can't say I was particularly enamoured. It was a bit one-note: mainly sweet, and not especially buttery. I preferred the breadier bits, so I guess that makes me a corner person. I'll have another nibble tomorrow and see if that makes a difference.

    I think that I'd agree with you.  I'm a corner of the cobbler, pie crust, edge of the cookie person.  My daughter makes a gooey butter cake that's very sweet, but with good flavor.  Hers uses a cake mix, which your didn't, of course.  But one ingredient that hers does have that the KA doesn't is cream cheese.  I think it adds a nice tang that balances the sweetness a bit.  

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  11. 5 hours ago, rotuts said:

    Ive also has these from time to time.

     

    Ill stick to their Thai Shrimp Gyoza 

     

    excellent from Fz in the AirFryer 

    I actually prefer the ones at Costco that are called "juicy" rather than "soup".  We happened to have both in the freezer awhile back and were able to taste them side by side.  The Costco ones (brand name Bibigo, I think) had thinner wraps, the filling was more tender and they were nearly as soupy as the TJ ones.  

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  12. I’ve got a couple of tried and true panini that we like a lot (please excuse the jankiness of the pages – the website is currently being updated and some things aren’t right yet - and the pop up ads are a new thing 🙄- just close them and the recipe will come up):

     Pear, Pecorino, and Prosciutto Panini

    Raisin Bread w/ Ham, Turkey & Swiss

     

    And regarding PB whiskey – it is all the rage at everything from upscale to hipster to chain restaurants and bars here in VA.  Everyone I know is appalled at the idea of peanut butter in whiskey.  I, on the other hand, am appalled that someone would pollute my beloved PB with nasty whiskey. 😄😄😄

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  13. I don't know if anyone is familiar with the Food Wishes channel on YouTube with Chef John Mitzewich.  I watch it often and have had success with all of the recipes that I've tried from him.  I haven't tried his ham glaze yet, but it sounds wonderful and I do trust his methods:

     

    Glazed Ham

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  14. 5 hours ago, chromedome said:

    Food funnies, headline editor edition:

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    Odd coincidence - just watched an episode of QI (British comedy/quiz show) where this was mentioned.  They said that Parmesan is the most shoplifted item in Italian grocery stores and that some places have started microchipping cheeses because of that.  

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  15. On 2/13/2024 at 11:03 AM, Pete Fred said:

    *Apparently this is a source of amusement to many Americans.

    Too funny!  I did a small poll (my raised-Catholic husband) and apparently some denominations don't celebrate Shrove Tuesday with pancakes, but American Episcopalians certainly do.  I've never belonged to an Episcopal church that didn't do a pancake supper on Shrove Tuesday.

     

    @RWood - that strawberry cake and the macaron are just breathtaking.  I'm truly in awe.  

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  16. Welcome, Amy!  I've been missing from eG for awhile and I'm happy that my first action back is to say hello to someone new.  Your culinary background sounds amazing and I look forward to getting to know you.  I'm back in my home state of VA now, but we lived in Batesville IN for a couple of years at the end of the 1980s/beginning of the 1990s.  

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  17. Sadly, I am ill-prepared and will have to settle for canned Goya brand BEPs tomorrow.  They will be cooked with some good side meat and paired with the requisite New Year's Day foods - ham, collards, tomatoes, and cornbread.  

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  18. On 12/20/2023 at 8:43 PM, Shelby said:

    SAME!!! I still can't find the green olives I bought a month ago.

    Mr. Kim just left to go to the store to pick up a jar of sweet relish that I know is somewhere in this damn house.  Jessica needs it to make deviled eggs to take to a gathering in a couple of hours.  😜

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  19. 14 hours ago, TdeV said:

     

     

    Kim, everything looks so lovely! Bet it all tastes great too.

    Could you provide recipes for Iced Almonds and Mincemeat Pinwheels?

    Happy to!  Iced Almonds Mincemeat Pinwheels.  

    1 hour ago, Maison Rustique said:

    I came down with a bug a couple of days ago and then husband also didn't feel well yesterday, so we cancelled our lunch with family. I did get some Maple Bourbon Pecans and Spicy Herb Mixed Nuts made for gifting and nibbling throughout the holidays.

     

     

     

    Hope you're feeling better soon!!

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  20. @MaryIsobel – I hope you are feeling better by now.  Your rum balls are gorgeous – they look quite professional! 

     

    My pitiful gingerbread men:

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    The dough was just a roll of refrigerated dough.  They taste fine, but my icing was not pretty!  It was a tube of stuff that gets firm after sitting a while.  But it was hard to use – very stringy and drippy. 

     

    Iced almonds:

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    @Darienne’s Enstrom’s-style toffee:

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    I wasn’t completely satisfied with this batch.  A lot of the chocolate fell off and the toffee itself was more crumbly and less shattery than usual:

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    Tried out a new recipe with mincemeat – mincemeat and puff pastry pinwheels:

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    These were delicious – though the bottoms got a little dark because I was trying to get the pastry nice and browned.  But they tasted great – Jessica found some jars of Tiptree mincemeat which I’d never tried before and it was lovely.  Much better than the other brands I’ve tried.

     

    Made two batches of Sponge Candy.  Neither was perfect.  Both of them were extremely sticky (it’s not a humid day) – a nice crunch when you start chewing a piece but turns sticky very quickly.  It would be a menace to someone with dentures.  The first batch:

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    This texture was not as tight as I like it to be.  The second batch was better texture-wise:

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    but still sticky upon chewing. 

     

    Happy Accident candy:

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    This is the scraps from Sponge Candy mixed into melted chocolate.  I’m pretty pleased with my tempering.  I did a similar thing with the scraps from the toffee:

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    The tempering is not nearly as good.  When I put the scraps in the melted chocolate they were still very cold from having been frozen and I ended up with a big ball of firm chocolate that I had to put in the microwave.  It definitely got over 90F.  But it tastes wonderful.  I’ll be doing this every year!

     

    Sugar cookies:

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    Jessica wanted to learn how to make hard candy.  I used to make it every year, but haven’t in ages.  So we made batches of peppermint and cinnamon today.  I’ll post pictures when we break it up. 

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  21. @Duvel – Jessica and I were both fascinated with the Feuerzangenbowle!  I am a fan of gluhwine, but have only had the Aldi version 😜!  So, does your guest room sleep two?  Because I think you should expect @Shelby and me in the next day or so. 

     

    @Robenco15 – your short ribs are absolutely glistening!  So delicious looking.

     

    @Shelby – that venison roast looks amazing! 

     

    @Dante – I just told everyone within hearing of me about your Reuben baked potatoes!

     

    Looking at the fantastic meals that you all are posting, I'm seriously embarrassed at my paltry offerings.  My house is so chaotic and I'm still cooking for Xmas, so regular meals are just not happening.  

     

    The other night dinner was a ham & Swiss sandwich and good old Campbell’s beef and barley soup:

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    Another night after driving around looking at some Xmas lights:

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    Brunswick stew, a couple of hot dogs with spray cheese, and BBQ Fritos.

     

    A couple of nights ago – Chicken “Parm” with brussels sprouts and Mr. Kim had pickled beets:

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    The “parm” was one of those frozen stuffed chicken breasts.  It was filled with cheese and sauce and tasted pretty good.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t get it crispy enough.  I had it with some horrible frozen fettucine Alfredo.  It tasted fine, but was definitely freezer burned and the texture was awful:

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    Last night was pizza from a local place and a salad from home:

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