Tropicalsenior

For me it is more like a glorified spam. Next time I make it I'm going to try half beef and half pork. The texture is totally different than meatloaf and that's why you have to follow the directions explicitly.

This is a rabbit hole well worth falling down. This post by @Duvelpretty much explains It all. If you decide to make it, follow the directions to the letter. Method is everything.

What a great example of perfectly cooked shrimp. I can almost taste their juicy crunch.

Last night was kind of an international mishmash. I made @Duvel's Leberkäse and I was finally very happy with the result. Perfect texture and great taste. I served it with polenta, mushroom gravy, and popovers. With Greek bean salad with a balsamic dressing. For dessert, I made a Mock Snitzbrote.

I just found this thread. Wow! It sounds like your dad will be on his feet in no time and your mother, too. Too bad she missed out on all the good food. I too have wondered where you were and I missed your posts. Welcome back and I am glad that everything seems to be back on track for you and your parents.

I followed the recipe in my post. I think the problem was that I didn't work fast enough and it got too puffy before it got in the oven. My kitchen is also pretty hot but it's a recipe from the Middle East so I don't imagine that they have it any better. It is something that I will try again. The Taste overrides the appearance.

I'm getting a little tired of making my Sunday meat buns so I went out on a limb and tried something new. Cheese Fatayer. They are supposed to look like little boats. If anyone tries using mine for boats they are going to die. The only thing they have going for them is the taste. They are delicious. Served with a big green salad for dinner, they should be great. Ready to bake, still looking like boats. Right out of the oven, more like a raft.

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.