Tropicalsenior

Thank you!

Is that by any chance Roma? That's the only Italian brand that we can get here. If so, how did you like it?

For a change you might want to make something like this. I make them quite often and I made them last Sunday for dinner. I left out the boiled egg and used about a tablespoon of mustard seed instead of Caraway. They were delicious. Now if I could just learn to pronounce them.

I also have a Henry but he's a cat, a very nasty cat. He likes to walk in front of me and stop all of a sudden. Fortunately I've only stepped on him instead of tripping over him. But I'm afraid that day will come.

@Margaret Pilgrim and @Darienne. I promised to report back on my inventory system and it is working like a charm. It has already become a habit to Mark something off as I use it and to indicate in my inventory when I need to put it on my shopping list. It saves me time making my list because I don't have to run all over the house to check my supplies and it has saved me money at the store because I can go directly to the items that I need and I don't go up and down the aisle and give in to impulse buying. I am extremely happy with the results. It is definitely a two-step process. First as I use things up and then on shopping day, reentering my purchases. Now, I just don't dare lose my phone.

Welcome to eGullet. Glad to see that you are jumping right in. I think that you are going to enjoy it here.

Hey, I've got no complaints. Either way is a good way to get food in your stomach.

Steak tartare?

You need to cook it like I cook Costa Rican steaks. I cut them in razor thin strips and make stroganoff or stir fry.

Just Googled it and it sounds delicious. Was it pretty salty?

No matter how much worry you cause us.

I think also that when you're hangry you actually crave food. And the worst of it is, sometimes you've got no idea what it is. I can't count the times that I have just gotten home from grocery shopping, I have a full pantry, two full refrigerators, and a full freezer and I can't think of a single thing in there that I want to eat. It's not poor planning because I have no idea what it is that I am hungry for.

I would love to see a floor plan and an outline of your storage system. Or maybe not. It is definitely keeping my poor old mind active trying to imagine it.

For me, it's not so much the combination as the Campbell's tomato soup. My mother fed us that when we were kids and I hated it. I can't even look at a can of Campbell's tomato soup without gagging. My favorite way to eat popcorn is homemade caramel corn. Not quick, but a big batch will last me a long time. At least a day and a half.

Happy anniversary.

When I started this topic my intention was to pick your brains for quick meals that satisfy when you just don't feel like doing anything. I couldn't have said that better. Thank you. But at 83, some days I just feel like saying, call out for chicken. I have gotten some wonderful ideas from everyone here but I've got to say that standing on the back porch cooking up a pot of stock has not been one of them.

That always reminds me of the chef that I worked with that ordered 400 whole chickens for a banquet and had to cut them up. The next day he came roaring out of the back hollering "I found it, I found it." When we ask him what he had found, he said " The last one!"

If you want to know worse, just come to Costa rica.

If you had all this knowledge at your fingertips, what was the purpose in asking the question?

If we're talking about commercial application, might it have something to do with temperature? Meat is required to be stored at a much lower temperature than most other Foods. I once worked pantry in a large restaurant where I had to share the walk-in with the butcher. I couldn't keep the lettuce in that walk-in because it was much too cold for it.

Why don't I believe you? I would love to, but, uh, no.

My mother always said that in order to have a green thumb you had to have Brown knees. I have the pinkest knees in town.

I gave my sweet potato to Carlos and told him to plant it somewhere in the backyard. Who knows, maybe I can send you all a potato this time next year.

Incredible meals from the kitchen of a true artist.

Okay, now I can visualize it. I'm only glad I'm not refined enough to use corn holders.