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4 hours ago, lindag said:
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you.
Finally today I started adding these to some of my countertop appliances. I was worried at first because most of them already had some kind of buttons on the bottom to prevent slipping. However, so far I've not had and problems applying them. The ones I've done slide beautifully and they're super easy to apply.
I have about four more to go but I give them a big thumbs up.
It just occurred to me that the thing I was thinking of using them on is probably a bad idea. I was thinking that they would be great on my KA mixer. It is SO heavy and it sits far back in the only corner of my counter top. That is really the only place for it and it's a pain to pull out to use. But if it has the sliders on it, I'm betting that it would slide right off the counter when I'm mixing something heavy. It already shimmies a bit. LOL. I think I'd better stick to manhandling it. Thank you!
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We went for a short (1 overnight) trip to the Northern Neck (a region in Virginia off the east coast) to celebrate our 42nd wedding anniversary. Stopped in Tappahannock for lunch at the To Do Café. I had the “pick two” with oysters and shrimp:
Served with hush puppies, butter beans and excellent onion rings:
Mr. Kim had the catfish, hush puppies, and housemade potato chips:
Everything was great – we just happened upon it online and picked it because it was close to the museum we went to, and we liked the menu!
Mr. Kim was out of town judging a BBQ competition, so I was on my own for Sunday brunch. I gave a nearby, but never yet visited Chinese restaurant a try. I’d heard that they had a Sunday buffet and I love buffets, but Mr. Kim doesn’t so it seemed perfect timing. Well, they don’t have a buffet, but I went ahead and had lunch with mixed results. Spring roll and hot and sour soup:
The spring roll was fine – nothing special and the soup was incredibly peppery. Even Mr. Kim thought so when he ate the leftovers. The Mongolian beef:
The menu said that this was flank steak fried with spring onions and bamboo shoots. It was easily half assorted mushrooms and lotus root. Really vegetable heavy, but the flavor was good – not overly spicy. The side dish of fried rice was a nice surprise:
Nowadays when they ask if you want white or fried rice with your meal, I feel like you’re not really getting fried rice when you choose that option. Even at good places, it always just tastes like unseasoned plain brown rice. This was definitely fried in a wok with seasoning and some vegetables. I don’t imagine I’ll ever go back there with Yen Ching (“our place”) around the corner, but I’m glad I tried it after almost 30 years of living within 2 miles of it!
Another lunch was leftovers from a dinner out the night before:
Half a Sailor and some hard to find Wise salt and vinegar chips – the best! A Sailor is a Richmond VA sandwich tradition. Knockwurst, pastrami, and Swiss on grilled rye bread. It’s probably available all over the place, but if you Google “Sailor sandwich”, the references are all Richmond.
I’m trying really hard to get through a bunch of OLD stuff in the freezer and pantry. So weird meals that other people purchased but aren’t eating. These taquitos were yesterday’s lunch, I guess:
They were crunchy 🙄😑.
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@NadyaDuke – I am extremely judgey about hashbrowns and those Hawaiian ones look amazing.
March 20th was our 42nd wedding anniversary. We took a little one night trip out to what’s called the Northern Neck of VA. It’s a lovely little area between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers on the Chesapeake Bay. Tiny, charming riverside towns and villages. Interesting stores, antiquing, and surprisingly good food. We had breakfast on our anniversary at the Kilmarnock Inn where we were staying. These lovely, tender, still-warm little scones were an amuse:
I got the eggs Benedict:
Probably my all-time favorite breakfast dish. If it is on the menu, I’m almost always going to order it. This was really good. The ham was top quality, the hollandaise the perfect texture and the egg was cooked exactly right:
They put it on a biscuit instead of an English muffin, which would have been fine, but the biscuit was a bit tough – like it had spent too long in a steam drawer. Mr. Kim got the scrambled eggs with spinach, bacon, onions, and Swiss cheese:
Both breakfasts came with their country style potatoes, which we loved.
Went to a great little bakery called Out of the Oven bakery in White Stone and got some goodies, including this pumpernickel loaf:
A few meals have featured this including a couple of breakfasts. For this one, I toasted some slices and served it with what was intended to be a cheese omelet:
It was a mess, but tasted good.
This morning was an orange blossom muffin that I got at Old Farm Truck Market in White Stone last week. It got buried in the breadbasket and I forgot about it. I figured it was stale when I unearthed it this morning, but when I heated it on bake/steam in the CSO, it was fine. Nice crumb and beautifully scented with orange:
A little while later – 2nd breakfast:
Heavily buttered toast, baked beans, scrambled eggs.
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Lunch the other day was a hot chicken sandwich with gravy, dressing, mashed potatoes, and salad greens with Dorothy Lynch dressing (thanks @Shelby!):
Without:
And WITH 😍:
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:
Greek salad:
Choban salad, pita, tzatziki, stewed green beans, beefteki, chicken souvlaki, and lamb/beef gyro:
Everything was delicious and probably enough food for 4 people.
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@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:
Toasted Lidl baguette and sage sausage.
And another…
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:
French toast from the freezer, scrambled eggs with cheese, Benton’s country ham, and a tiny mandarin orange.
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@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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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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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:
Mr. Kim’s Rueben and potato salad:
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:
Sausage, egg, and cheese on a toasted baguette and some store bought mandarin orange congealed salad.
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@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:
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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@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:
These were excellent!!!
Chicken salad on a toasted English muffin.
I got a craving for a childhood favorite and I had some Campari tomatoes on the counter! It was SO good.
Ham and cheese on toast:
An after church brunch at a local diner. Mr. Kim had eggs, bacon, toast, and home fries:
I had eggs Benedict and hash browns with onions:
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:
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”:
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:
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:
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:
Pigs in a blanket and fish sticks. (The Doritos were from the overflowing chips bin).
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@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:
English muffin, potato cake, mandarin orange, Smokehouse bacon, sage sausage, and a fried egg. It took me awhile, but I ate every bite 😊!
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:
Peach filled, Boston cream, strawberry filled powdered, toasted coconut (my favorite), and two glazed. Therefore, brunch…
Donut, sage sausage, and the best scrambled eggs I’ve made in forever – soft and fluffy without being wet.
Grilled ham, egg, and cheese.
Yet another grilled ham, egg, and cheese – fried this day.
some of Jessica’s egg salad and ham.
Yesterday leftover pork chop, cornmeal rolls and a couple of fried eggs:
Today was a ham and cheese quiche from a local food purveyor, Ukrops:
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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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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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...
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...
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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On 3/6/2024 at 1:17 PM, lindag said:
I have a lot of countertop kitchen appliances and my cleaning woman comes in she has to move them all to wipe the counters (she's very thorough). I just found these and these which will be helpful for both of us.
Also, these freeze dried herbs eG-friendly Amazon.com link)are really worth buying.
Please let us know how well the sliders work.
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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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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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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:
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Another Trader Joe's recall. This time it's their soup dumplings. We don't happen to have any of these right now, but we often have a package in the freezer.
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5 hours ago, chromedome said:
Food funnies, headline editor edition:
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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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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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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I need to get out of the house and try to find some for the freezer.
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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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6 minutes ago, rotuts said:
Mr. Kim is a brave fellow..
going to the supermarket on a Sat. two days before Christmas .
He IS. And he went to Costco yesterday. Poor thing.
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"Trademark bully": Momofuku turns up heat on others selling "chili crunch"
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It's hard for me to be objective when he's such a known asshead.