Kim Shook

We definitely need a WOW button!!!

Today: A wonderful gift from the freezer - panettone French toast, dark maple syrup, and sage sausage.

@rotuts – your “Shepherd’s Pie” sounds good and I love how much gravy there is. I usually end up making extra beef stock enhanced Bisto because mine sometimes is a little dry. @JoNorvelleWalker – I use Bell’s poultry seasoning all the time, but I’ve never heard of the gravy. It is now on my Amazon list! Thank you! @Shelby – I always love the look of your tomatoes (we are nearly at the end of our season☹️) and the fig crostata is gorgeous! Someone on a FB food group I belong to posted doves. Folks were freaking out. I told them to chill and call them squab if it made them feel better! Thought of you and Ronnie! @Duvel – oh, dear. Your schnitzel is lovely. I’m full of Mexican food, but would make room for one of those. Dinner last Tuesday was a huge cheater feast (except for dessert): Frozen rolls, Rice a Roni long grain and wild rice mix, frozen chicken Kiev and even a salad mix: Served with fresh corn, though: Dessert was completely homemade. @gfweb posted a beautiful peach cobbler and posted the recipe for it. Before vanilla bean ice cream: Jessica made us a delicious dinner on Thursday: Napa cabbage salad with a tangy/sweet dressing, cilantro, and toasted ramen noodles, fish (stick) tacos with a Napa slaw, her street corn, and flautas made with Mr. Kim’s BBQ pork, her pickled shallots & pimento cheese. Just excellent!

So many lovely looking lunches! Saturday was brisket sandwiches from a halal BBQ eaten in the car:

Well, @Ann_T and @blue_dolphin, I can see I need to get some French toast out of the freezer! Y’all have me craving it! @blue_dolphin – I’m not a Spam fan, but I’d try that in a minute. I’d have to unwrap it, though. I can’t bear the flavor of the seaweed wrapper. Wednesday: Cheese toast and peaches. Thursday: Bland country ham (☹️) on toast, blackberries, and IP eggs. Friday: On Sunday I made brunch after church at home: Fruit kabobs that I made for coffee hour at church and packaged Belgian waffles.

I am not a coffee lover, so this tiramisu looks delightful to me! A couple of recent things - one legitimately delicious and the other a little silly but popular and admittedly good! The delicious was a peach cobbler that @gfweb posted awhile back and shared the recipe. We got some amazingly good peaches at Costco and I put it together. Before baking: Out of the oven: Plated (but before vanilla bean ice cream): It was excellent! Thank you so much for posting the recipe, @gfweb. We've got some frozen peaches and look forward to having this dessert in the winter. Edited because I forgot the silly thing. I made those greater-than-the-sum-of-their-parts chocolate/caramel/saltines candy:

I was coffee lady at church this Sunday. Among the things I made were those retro ranch oyster cracker things. Low attendance, so we've got lots of these to snack upon:

Welcome, @PadreANT! I'm glad to "meet" you and hope to hear more from you in the future. I'm sure you'll find all the help you need here!

Thank you so much for letting us know this. She was loved here and was so important to the eGullet community. I'm so sorry you lost your mother and you best friend all in one. May her memory be a comfort and a blessing!

Mr. Kim ordered these dried lemon slices from Nuts.com: They are not the half-dried fruit slices like the oranges I got at Trader Joes - they break rather than bend. To me, they are crisp and bitter to the point of being inedible. Any ideas on what to do with them (it is a very large bag).

Mr. Kim ordered 3 tri tips at our local (Richmond VA area) Publix. This is what we got: Nothing online seems to agree about what this cut is or whether it is considered tri tip. Considering that we now have three of these, if they AREN'T tri tips, can we still cook them the same way? Thanks!

Me being me, I'm loving all the meat drowned in gravy!

@Shelby – Mr. Kim and I would LOVE your sandwiches. @CantCookStillTry – So, how much did he manage to eat? Also, I would really love getting your recipe for the cauliflower and broccoli. The three cheeses sound wonderful. My stepsister’s mom made the best cauliflower cheese I’ve ever tasted and I never got the recipe. @gfweb – gorgeous scallops. I’ve really been craving them lately. Friday: Mr. Kim’s BBQ, chicken-pineapple macaroni salad, and my MIL’s friend’s pancit. Along with some Asian salad mix that Jessica brought: Dinner on Saturday was a piece of Pina Colada cake that my MIL made: Just delicious. I’m adjusting to new meds and having a lot of nausea. When I finally got hungry last night, I ended up with meatless spaghetti sauce and a toasted onion bun:

@weinoo – I confess that I would probably like that mac and cheese. My appreciation of various mac and cheese dishes is w i d e! I love a from-scratch homemade baked one and I love my fixed up Kraft Deluxe (the one with the Cheez Whiz – not the powdered stuff). I made a batch of my mother’s best friend’s macaroni salad. It is a creamy chicken and pineapple salad. I’ve eaten it all my life and when she passed away, I realized that I’d lost track of her recipe. I worked on it for years and just couldn’t get it right. About 10 years ago I found a recipe in a magazine that rang a bell. I removed the called-for green peppers (😳😳😳)and corn (🤔🤔) and added the pineapple and it worked! It’s been lunch since Friday:

@Ann_T – lovely Shepherd’s Pie! Saturday brunch at a local pharmacy lunch counter: My bologna burger with perfectly grilled onions: Mr. Kim had the Caesar salad wrap:

OMG. They could have chosen a better first word for the article. The editorial standards at Newsweek have really gone down over the years.

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@blue_dolphin - Yes. I see what you mean. I'm not crazy about things that color my scrambled eggs - pesto, Worcestershire, tomato sauce - even cooking in bacon grease - tend to be out for me. Yesterday and this morning are very similar breakfasts:

@mgaretz and @rotuts – He ordered 3 tri tips at Publix yesterday – one for him to try smoking again, one for me to SV, and one for when our friends come next month. They aren’t easy to get here in VA, so we went ahead and ordered them. @MetsFan5 – it was the shrimp that was roasted – the corn was fried in a pan. The shrimp is tossed with olive oil and Old Bay and then roasted at 400F for about 6-7 minutes, depending on size. You can do them peeled or not. @weinoo’s comment regarding the corn reminds me of a question I have had about it. I grew up eating what was called “Silver Queen” corn in the Washington DC and Eastern Shore of MD area. It was white and had teeny-tiny little kernels of corn. Lately, when I see corn labeled “Silver Queen” its white but has normal-sized kernels and isn’t quite as sweet as I remember. Is this anyone else’s experience, or am I misremembering? I know that my mother thought the same thing. I tried out a new recipe for dinner on Tuesday: A parmesan noodle mix, spinach, Swiss cheese, chicken, Parm, and almonds. ☹️ Just completely blah and I forgot how leftover cooked spinach is foul. Mr. Kim put some refrigerated Alfredo sauce on it last night, but it didn’t help much. Bless his heart, he finished it for lunch today. MIL just dropped by with leftover pancit and cake from her girlfriends’ lunch. One of them is Filipino and makes excellent pancit. I think that’s for dinner tonight.

Yep, Wavy chips is what I heard.

Looking everywhere and can't find them here!

I'm going to try to talk him into letting me SV the next one.

@Ann_T – Happy Anniversary AND Birthday! @robirdstx – After seeing your porcupine meatballs, I put them on my “To Cook” document. Hope to have them soon! @Shelby – such beautiful tomatoes. Our last ones were not great. Hoping for better luck tomorrow. @David Ross – I love macaroni salad and also haven’t had it in ages! I put that on my “To Cook” doc, too! On Tuesday, Mr. Kim smoked a tri tip: It was our first time eating this cut. I liked it a lot and thought it was surprisingly tender. Mr. Kim thought it was a bit oversmoked and will smoke it for less time next time. Jessica thought it tasted like hot dogs or pastrami and didn’t care for it. I would love to try it sous vide, but I’m not sure that I’ll be allowed to do that 😊. Served with some lovely farmer’s market corn, marinated cukes, an ET salad kit that Jessica brought, and Sister Schubert rolls: Dessert was a Pepperidge Farm apple turnover with ice cream: This was a real blast from the past for me. Since my mother didn’t often bake, this was a fairly frequent dessert. We all liked fruit pies and puff pastry, so it was always welcome. We had dinner on Wednesday with a long time (40 years) friend we hadn’t seen since before the pandemic. He chose a restaurant that we hadn’t been to before. There is a famous/infamous (to Richmond VA) restauranteur named Ed Vasaio. His restaurants are famous/infamous for their fantastic food and rude/abrupt service. I’ve now been to two of his places and can vouch for the food, but have found the service to be friendly and accommodating each time. I have a funny connection to him, though. I grew up going to A.V. Ristorante in NW Washington DC. It is the first Italian restaurant I ever ate at – the first time I ever tasted white pizza or calamari. The folks who opened AV’s in 1949 were his grandparents. He grew up in that kitchen. So, I guess I’m predisposed to love his food. And it was excellent. Mr. Kim had a tagliatelle Bolognese: Our friend had a pizza: We all had salad: And I had the soft shells: Under an ungodly and unnecessary amount of basil chiffonade. Once I scraped most of that off, I was left with the sweetest, cleanest, most delicate and wonderfully cooked soft shells this Eastern shore girl has ever had. Simply incredible: We STILL have some of Mr. Kim’s mom’s spaghetti sauce. Not enough for all three of us to have spaghetti and meat sauce, but there was plenty when mixed with pasta, ricotta, and parmesan to make baked spaghetti last Thursday: Served with tomatoes, corn, and marinated cucumbers (it’s summer – rule is tomatoes, corn, and cukes with every dinner): These were not as good as they looked. They were mealy and had little flavor. Sadly, we have 2 more of them. Sunday – this weird looking platter of BBQ came from Mr. Kim’s BBQ judging on Saturday. They were allowed to bring home the leftovers of their samples, so all the bites are from him only: It consisted of brisket, ribs, pulled pork, and chicken thighs. Because it was competition these were from 6 different people and the quality varied widely. Most of it was pretty good, though. Assortment of sauces and “go-withs” for the meat and baked potatoes: Potatoes with nice crusty, salty and peppery delicious skin: Squash and onions for Mr. Kim: Also, cucumbers and salad - both of which you've seen ad nauseum. Last night was roasted and Old Bay’d shrimp and fried corn: Pimento cheese & Ritz and salad:

@BonVivant – those white anchovies are lovely. I search those out when I’m making a Caesar. Yesterday’s lunch at a local pizza/sub joint. Ham, cheese, and salami sub: With their amazing pizza oven baked fries: