What's for dinner?

[jetcycles]

jetcycles,

GOOD DEAL.

I had ZERO chance to NOT learn to cook, as both my Aunt Mary Kyle & my governess, "Sister" Willie Mae, started me cooking while standing on a tall stool, so that I could see to cook.

yours, satx

I find comfort in the kitchen, I try to pass on my knowledge because knowledge not shared is lost in my humble opinion. I had to learn to cook at an early age, or go hungry at times. Dad was always working, and mom was just being...mom. I'll never let my girls go hungry, I know how sh!tty that feels.

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[Axxe55]

Dinner of Champions!!!

I might even indulge in a beer or two tonight as well. Shiner's of course!

 

[Axxe55]

I find comfort in the kitchen, I try to pass on my knowledge because knowledge not shared is lost in my humble opinion. I had to learn to cook at an early age, or go hungry at times. Dad was always working, and mom was just being...mom. I'll never let my girls go hungry, I know how sh!tty that feels.

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In between my mother and my stepmother, when my father was single, during the week when he was busy working, he kept my brother and I stocked up on TV dinners! We would make a weekly run to the grocery store to get TV dinners, Eggo waffles, and other stuff for the week. Friday and Saturday nights, Dad took us out to eat at one of the local restaurants, and a movie at the drive-in one of the weekend nights. Weekend breakfast and lunch was at Granny's house!

 

[satx78247]

I find comfort in the kitchen, I try to pass on my knowledge because knowledge not shared is lost in my humble opinion. I had to learn to cook at an early age, or go hungry at times. Dad was always working, and mom was just being...mom. I'll never let my girls go hungry, I know how sh!tty that feels.

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jetcycles,

IF there is a problem with "my cooking" is that much of it is DEPRESSION FOOD, as both my aunt & my governess were young women in the 1930s & "my cradle food" IS Depression Foods.
(My first wife, who was a school-trained nutritionist used to chide me by saying, "It's 1975, rather than 1935. We can afford better ingredients than what you always cook with AND you do NOT have to add pasta to everything 'to stretch' every meal, as we don't have 10 kids to fill up.")

ALSO,

ONE of the "inside jokes" about us North-East Texas folk is that, "IF you stick a knife into a NETX fellow, nothing but pea & bean juice & pot-likker will run from the wound."
(FWIW, we DO eat a lot of peas & beans, with cornbread & MOST of our "local foods"/recipes are from rural AL, GA & MS, as that's where most of "the old families" came to Texas from, in the 19th Century,)

yours, satx

 

[jetcycles]

jetcycles,

IF there is a problem with "my cooking" is that much of it is DEPRESSION FOOD, as both my aunt & my governess were young women in the 1930s & "my cradle food" IS Depression Foods.
(My first wife, who was a school-trained nutritionist used to chide me by saying, "It's 1975, rather than 1935. We can afford better ingredients than what you always cook with AND you do NOT have to add pasta to everything 'to stretch' every meal, as we don't have 10 kids to fill up.")

ALSO,

ONE of the "inside jokes" about us North-East Texas folk is that, "IF you stick a knife into a NETX fellow, nothing but pea & bean juice & pot-likker will run from the wound."
(FWIW, we DO eat a lot of peas & beans, with cornbread & MOST of our "local foods"/recipes are from rural AL, GA & MS, as that's where most of "the old families" came to Texas from, in the 19th Century,)

yours, satx

All of my inlaws are from east texas, and I too grew up on whatever was available at times, even though it wasn't depression era. People often associate "soul food" with african americans, but to me its just what we had at the time, and I wasn't born until 1980. I dont think there's a week that goes by where I dont have a pot of beans or soup that I make from whatever needs to be used. Depression food feels like home to me, and although I am now a man of many means, my cooking is most often very humble. My great grandmother's cast iron skillet is my most valuable possession, I keep her memory and some of her dishes alive so that my kids know where they come from.

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[satx78247]

All of my inlaws are from east texas, and I too grew up on whatever was available at times, even though it wasn't depression era. People often associate "soul food" with african americans, but to me its just what we had at the time, and I wasn't born until 1980. I dont think there's a week that goes by where I dont have a pot of beans or soup that I make from whatever needs to be used. Depression food feels like home to me, and although I am now a man of many means, my cooking is most often very humble. My great grandmother's cast iron skillet is my most valuable possession, I keep her memory and some of her dishes alive so that my kids know where they come from.

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jetcycles,

Speaking of cast iron, ONE of my family TREASURES is a 3-legged CAST IRON SPIDER w/ridged lid that came to Texas from HOLLY SPRINGS, MS by oxcart. It holds about 4.5 gallons. = It was a wedding present, circa 1830, to my G-G-G-G-G-Aunt Lavinia Fey Williams-Red Fern.
(NO amount of money would buy it.)

yours, satx

 

[Aus_Schwaben]

Nurnberger bratwurst mit sauerkraut und kartoffelsalat.

 

[Coonan357]

Bulgogi and rice.

 

[Saltyag2010]

Steak salad with avocado. Used kale for the salad out of my garden because it shot up way faster than my lettuce.

damn peacocks are eating all my radishes, spinach, and a Lot of my spinach. I need to put up chicken wire so they can’t get them.

 

[pronstar]

California transplants will appreciate this...Baja style beer battered fish tacos

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[prisondoc]

Pronstar..... Now you have me thinking about Senor Baja.

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[Over it]

Damn...BAJA style lobster is the best way to ingest lobster.....miss Puerto Nuevo.

 

[SURVIVOR619]

Damn...BAJA style lobster is the best way to ingest lobster.....miss Puerto Nuevo.

So good!! I grew up right near the border. We usually stopped in Rosarito though...

 

[Axxe55]

Beef and chicken fajitas tonight, with all the fixings. Ranchero beans, and some Spanish rice on the side to go with them.

 

[Vaquero]

Pinto beans, fried taters, meatloaf.

 

[Axxe55]

Pinto beans, fried taters, meatloaf.

Throw in a pan of homemade cornbread and I'd join you!

 

[AZ Refugee]

Fish and chips

 

[karlac]

Ketovore ... still doing me proud.

 

[Axxe55]

Scrambled eggs, cooked in bacon grease, spicy sausage patties, hash browns cooked with onions and bell peppers and biscuits, with some country style gravy on the side.

It's going to get a might sporty around here later with the egg farts! Check the wind direction.

 

[satx78247]

HOT Chinese Yellow Curry over rice tonight. - It was YUMMY.

yours, satx