I’ve been neglecting my food blog, lately. This evening, however, I stuck my nose in the fridge and freezer to see what I had around that needed to be used soon. I came up with a huge chicken breast, and celery. Add to that a large onion, half a head of garlic, carrots, a couple of small potatoes, a quart of chicken broth, a few seasonings, and I came up with dinner.
The recipe and photos are here, or here. What’s a bit of a joke is that I didn’t use a recipe, or even look at one — I just made it, and recreated what I did as best I could for the “recipe.”
FWIW, S came home, dove into a bowlful, said “You know, this is good. This is really good,” and went back for a second bowl.
I have two preferences in the dead of winter: to make wintry food (like chicken soup, chili, beef stew, or a baked chicken), or to make ultimate summer food. Today I maxxed out on the latter: hamburgers, homemade potato salad, homemade pickles, and strawberry shortcake. everything hit really nice. burped nice too.
That’s it, dammit, I’m coming out there for some good cooking KP!
But that soup looks awfully tasty, too.
Crap, now I’m hungry.
I’m rather jealous of KP’s dinner, too 🙁
Just trying to eat smaller quantities of what’s available. Strawberries and potatoes were both on sale this week, and me and the wife went to the supermarket separately, so I now have 15 lbs of potatoes and 3 quarts of strawberries to use before they go bad.
About the only meat I can afford anymore is hamburger and chicken. so tomorrow’s a big pot of chili. I did splurge and got a strip steak from the day old, about to expire pile, so I’ll make that on monday.
I am drooling now. 😛
LOL! I just had a woman who read my chicken stew recipe at Foodbuzz “friend” me. She only cooks Kosher meals. Granted, my stew thingy would qualify as being Kosher, but it doesn’t make me a Kosher cook.
I also occasionally cook meals that qualify as vegetarian, some of which might also qualify as vegan. It happens, but it’s not the norm. A vegan checked out my recipes, and decided not to friend me. LOL.
I find all of this amusing, because I think bacon grease is a really good thing to use in a cast iron pan to make a ham and cheese omelette.
Um . . . I’ll take those 15 lbs. of taters off your hands. We go through five pounds of them in a couple of weeks. Low-carb does not describe our diet. We LOVE our spuds.
The nifty thing is that they last a month or two, when stored properly.
Might I suggest potato-leek soup to get rid of them, if you don’t want to make hash browns?
Man now you guys are making me hungry. That chicken stew looks awesome!
I’ll have to snag that recipie… that looks goooood…
I’ve been thinking of making some more homemade chicken noodle, and now I’m definitely gonna. That picture sealed the deal.
If you wanna pass those potatoes this way, I’ll make some homestyle potato pancakes!
DAgstine just seriously destroyed my thread about World fo Warcraft.
http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/9690?page=2
you all are reminding me of my potato stand bys. I make great potato onion soup, and the kids love potato pancakes (though oddly, not with apple sauce, which I just can’t understand) – though I find them kind of spotty, like sometimes they’re banging, and sometimes they taste too starchy.
Mmm . . . I love potato leek soup. And, don’t forget potatoes au gratin.
One of my favorite breakfasts is hash browns, bacon, and a fried egg. It’s sort of a Saturday morning treat. If I had that every day, I’d be a walking heart attack.
He tried to destroy it, but no one cared. Talk about disdain.
Also, isn’t posting just to stir up trouble and be shitty to someone a banning offence under the guidelines Matt laid out a while back?
Only if you’re not a Nitwit. 😉
He’s got a few posts that are simply to get attention, or get a rise out of people. I swear he’s going even further off the deep end.
Yeah . . . like the UFO one. Hopefully, it’ll die a swift death.
Not only did he try derailing that thread, he did it in a way that was incomprehensible. Dagstine, the King of Douchebags.
the kids love potato pancakes (though oddly, not with apple sauce, which I just can’t understand)
HERETIC!
The proper topping for potato pancakes is sour cream.
The thing about potato pancakes is that sometimes if your potatoes are too starchy you have to rinse the grated potato in cold water.
Did Matt delete something more on point, or was Dag just popping in non-sequiturs at random?
Also, there’s a really interesting book by Edward Castronova on the economics of mmorpgs: it’s called Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games and I highly recommend it.
Daggy also has a bit in the great books bad movies thread, where he calls dark Knight atrocious, just to get people to notice his rebel status.
He did post this in his Zombies do exist thread; makes me wonder if he even had a book to begin with.
UPDATE:
It seems I mistakenly erased everything, but moving on… Rather than start an entirely different thread, I’d like to announce that my Second Short Story Collection might have a home and see release in the later part of 2010 (nothing written in stone yet). This SECOND collection, separate from Fresh Blood (due soon), is currently undergoing edits and was originally supposed to be called “Dark Transitions”……………. It would now go under the name THE STATION (or The Station and Other Tales, or Tales of Terror).
Why The Station? Because the final 10 to 13 edited stories of decent length will focus around metropolises, subways, subway stations, urban horror, characters and themes set entirely in cities like New York or San Francisco, and with monsters from these sort of places. Bright Lights, Big City… And The Underground, to boot. Stay Tuned.
Odds are if he’s “mistakenly erased everything,” he’d be a little bit more upset. I lost a short story a decade ago and damn near cried about it. My guess is that his novel is as much vaporware as it is his “Coney Island Project”.
It wouldn’t surprise me, though, if he did wipe out his work. He comes across as inept in everything else.
I’ve also realized that Daggy uses exceptionally weak language in a failed attempt at projecting confidence.
“…my Second Short Story Collection might have a home and see release in the later part of 2010 (nothing written in stone yet)…”
Let’s break this down: “Might have a home” or “nothing written in stone” can be taken to mean, “it hasn’t been accepted yet.” Together it can mean, “I just sent it in as a submission yesterday.”
Daggy, REAL writers don’t make half-assed announcements on works that are in the same state as Schrodinger’s Cat. We make announcements after the contract is signed and the publishing date is set.
Dagstine is a shining example of what every new writer needs to see, and then do the opposite.
Yeah I thought that. Such vague terms makes you wonder why go on about it. But then he’d shout about a comprehensive sentence if he could create one.
Thanks for the rinsing suggestion.
Unless I miss my guess, the apple sauce thing is from my German side. Sour cream is sounding more Russian/Ukrainian. we never ate it at home on anything, and I just never got used to it.
and the chili is now simmering.
Applesauce all the way. I do not understand this sour cream on potato pancake thing. I’m pretty sure you’re operating against the laws of nature by doing that.
I’d go with applesauce myself, but then again, I really don’t like sour cream at all.