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Some recent dinners... Apricot glazed duck confit over barley risotto with browned squash Mustard/honey/balsamic glazed salmon SV flank steak with BBQ sauce, potato salad and coleslaw NY strip over creamed mushrooms, jalapeno/parmesan grits, broccoli

I think the way to do this is to precook the Mexican chorizo and then mix it with the ground beef which you then cook to M. Probably give it a spin in a food processor after cooking to break it up so it can blend with the beef. Medium mex chorizo is a greasy mess. So precooking solves two problems.

Might come from the myth that bone adds flavor. Settled long ago on eG.

What's the benefit of boiling?

As far as I know, no serious scientific study has found a benefit to humans from antioxidants.

Breakfast pizza. Sage sausage (Habberset's @rotuts) ketchup, lots of ground pepper and cheddar.

I'm a confirmed meat eater, but I have noticed that, when in a restaurant, the veg sides determine my choices more than not.

Good for you. I am always galled by folks who think that they should inconvenience somebody just so they can sit together for 4 hours. If its a mom with kids...that's one thing. But it almost never is. Its usually a long -married couple who will put in their earphones and not talk for the length of the flight. Screw that. I pick the 2nd row window on the shady side of the plane. That's my lucky seat. I fly better there. Haven't crashed yet. It would be irresponsible of me to switch seats and risk jinxing the flight.

It would be very nice, @rotuts . I used Schwanz just to get a fast price online. In real life it'd be a NY Strip from Costco.

Still working on the cost of these kits. Lets say I get a sirloin delivered from Schwan's..."$22 to serve 4" , so $5.50 for one meat serving (and not a cheap price)...add a potato and a handful of broccoli, a clove of garlic and part of an onion...maybe another $1.50? so $7 vs $10 at Hello Fresh. Make the meat a chicken thigh or two that lops off a couple bucks more. But $10 a meal isn't terrible either.

Interesting name for a chain. Anyone who has spent much time in the real Penn Station would expect the chain to specialize in health violations and rat turds.

If you aren't careful it could end up in your mouth.

Makes you wonder. Would he actually do that himself at home, or is it part of some vision of an ideal workplace culture that he has dreamed up for the staff. Perfection everywhere etc. But then again...if the tape is in a dispenser cutting would be easier than tearing......

How many of us can say "me too"?

Honey, dijon, balsamic -glazed salmon..right out of the CSO.

@Shelby Those baqles look pretty good to me

I'm on the board of a retirement community and nursing home. The place lured a chef away from a local fine dining restaurant. The meals he cooks for the board are great and are only a half step better than what the residents get (mainly because they are plated and not in a steamer table). The residents definitely appreciate the guy. His food isn't challenging but its not roast turkey with gravy either. Lots of seasonal stuff.

@Darienne Indy Rob guessed it. Just pre- WW2 era folks. I remember making some stock a few years ago. After hours of simmering I ate a bit of the overcooked meat on the bone. Tasted oddly familiar.....It was my mother's pot roast!

Or more a generational thing. When younger, my mother and her friends thought TV dinners were an advance and Italian food was suspicious and foreign. Meat + potatoes + boiled to crap veg is what they wanted then and they carried that into old age.

I couldn't be happier with our Blue Star gas range. I can't imagine what CR didn't like about it, but they are often weird. We have the low end 6 burner model with open burners that just about clean themselves.

In general, I worry about the difficulty of pulling this off in a way that you will be happy with. The more you care about perfection, the more I'd suggest getting a pro involved.

Well, the dining opportunities for this trip collapsed into a couple corporate banquets with lots of buffet food. I couldn't bring myself to photograph it. And the airline food was about the same as on the way over, except BA's offering was less inspired and I stuck to a plate of cheese. Even with this, it was an interesting trip albeit a very long way to go.

@cdh No sign of honey trucks as far as I can see. I'd love to hear some of those stories. Reflecting on oil money and standard of living...the UAE has certainly done a better job with their wealth than Venezuela or Nigeria. When I first arrived I was put off by the giant posters and memorials to Shiek Zayed. It reminded me of the Castro stuff in Cuba. But this guy really did serve his people. Took a country that was all dust and camels and poverty in the 60s to a thriving place with an amazing standard of living for the average person.

Plain old Euro breakfast today with veal sausage. I was going to get shakshuka, but it was weird looking. Scrambled eggy casserole with no evidence of tomato, peppers or heat. Paradise being built outside my window. Thousands of little sand islands are being built up at an amazing rate. Speed or maximum employment ...seems important. At a housing development on the mainland there were about fifty houses going up. Unlike many places where there'd be one or two cranes for the development, this one had one for each house...and presumably a construction crew for each. Travel day, driving 90 minutes through the desert to Dubai. Desert is sand with rocks and no plant taller than your calf. The govt has planted a belt of trees along the roads. I;ve been told that they are all imported desert tolerant stuff. It looks great, kind of like a Phoenix interstate, but my inner ecologist is upset. Now in Dubai whiuch is not at all like Abu Dhabi. More than anything Dubai reminds me of Chicago. Big buildings lining canals...big highways...big. Really tasty sauteed shrimp with baby marrows, mushrooms and tomatoes. Completely non-Arab wagyu burger with belgian fries. I'd hoped for more regionality, but there's nothing like that near me.

Me too. Some out of gratitude some out of self protection.