My father in law bought a big package of steaks for a good deal at Sam's Club.
He offered us 4 of the 6 in the package if I'd grill them for him and my mother in law.
Because they keep an odd schedule, "dinner" for them is lunch for us.
So I grilled steaks for lunch.
Good call!
I am sated.
The woman suing Torchy's for $250k...
First off, finding that tooth is kinda proof that it's really beef.
Secondly you were not actually harmed.
You found something icky, true, but you weren't hurt.
Now, some stout fines are in order for both Torchy's and their meat supplier.
This sort of thing shouldn't make it into the customer's meal.
Dear Restaurant Chains;
I want to see what food you have on the menu without entering into the ordering section.
Especially since you lock the ordering section when you are closed most of the time.
Is it really so hard?
Local places manage to have their menus online, separate from the ordering system.
Thanks!
Fighting the battle of the bulge and eatin' keto breads now.
Nature's Own actually tastes and feels like bread!
Harvey has been buying it for a while because of her diabetes, I've only recently started eating it too.
The Boy and Harvey swung through Burger King for supper Thursday.
I have only one request from a trip to the drive-thru.
Hold the ketchup.
My Whopper, with cheese, was supposed to only be sans ketchup.
The Whopper I got was labeled "No Mayo, No Ketchup, Add Mustard." and it wasn't with cheese.
Our burgers got confused with someone else's order, our bag label had a different order number than the one on the burger boxes.
The burger I got was within my tolerance for a Whopper.
But someone else got cheese and mayo and no mustard...
Bet they were upset about that.
This just underscores that fast food is paying too much for their employees.
"New Delhi Steakhouse" India themed like Longhorn is western themed, all vegetarian.
"REAL Vegan Diner" Just a normal diner, but hire actors to profess to being vegan and extoll the virtues of various cuts of their own bodies in a manner similar to "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe." Then they leave the table, you pay them, they never come back out front. Serve pork and "steak" made from soy and lentils.
Just as every bit of matter is a chemical...
If you're not eating it raw, it's been processed.
Cooking is a process.
Harvesting is a process.
Butchering is a process.
Motor oil is organic, by the way. All hydrocarbons are organic molecules.
All domesticated food sources are genetically modified. Some by injecting genes and splicing, some by the old fashioned method of selective breeding.
This has been your linguistic science fact diatribe of the day!
Salami on a Cuban is the beans in chili of Florida food.
Europeans have discovered Ranch Dressing.
They're even getting in trouble for trying to take it home in their carry-on luggage.
I want them to become familiar with another term, for when they get home:
"First fix is free."
The truck or the tow vehicle has to be a hearse.
The food will consist entirely of upper midwest casseroles normally made when someone dies.
Not sure what to call it yet.
The best bagel is made in Dallas, Texas by Starship Bagel.
In before Texans claim bagels were invented in Texas and never had cream cheese schmear.
There's a video making the rounds of a Muslim woman complaining about the lack of Halal choices in Japan.
She, apparently, spent a month there and ended up eating...
Well the pics she posted looked yummy to me.
But Japan loves pork.
One would think you'd check that out before committing to a month there.
But I have seen this meme before there was a word, "meme."
The Ugly American.
You know the person, they go to a foreign and exotic land and demand that everything be made just like home for them. It's an American stereotype.
So she went to Japan and is demanding they have Halal food at every eatery because SHE is there.
Yeah.
Well, I gotta love one response I found from someone in Japan, "So I can buta no shogayaki at every restaurant in Riyadh?"
I mean every place MUST conform to the ideals of their visitors, right?
I'm actually surprised there's been push back against her little rant.
Marv ordered some MRE's and got HDR's.
He gave me one and I started trying it today.
There are two entrees. Lentil stew and pasta in tomato sauce.
The lentil stew is BLAND even with the entire packet of red chili peppers added.
The crackers are unsalted.
The thing that sounds like it's a pop tart from the description is literally an unfrosted Pop-Tart!
There's nothing in it that I've tried that's horrible.
I have not tried the pasta, yet, because the lentils were very filling. I worry about how bland they're going to be based on the lentils, but I haven't used the salt and pepper packets yet.
There's a shortbread cookie, fig bars, peanut butter and strawberry jam yet to try!
Being of moderately high mileage, my only experience with MRE's is the OG brown bag ones with the original 12 menus.
Wikipedia says these were from 1981 to 1987 and are MRE I to VII.
To me, the absolute worst thing in those 12 selections was the Beef Stew. It's a holdover from the MCI rations (erroneously called C-rats) and, apparently, lima beans were more popular with Boomers than us GenX motherfuckers.
Despite my service dates being from 1987 to 1990, I never saw anything from the MRE VIII to XII (1988 to 1992) menu.
I liked several things that others hated, so I was a happy trooper.
I like Vienna sausages, and the "four fingers of death," to me, were four giant Vienna sausages and not hot-dogs. If you look at it from my perspective, it's good. If you wanted hot-dogs, it's bad.
The dehydrated meat patties were fine eaten dry as far as I was concerned. Same for the dehydrated fruits. Something with a non-mush texture with some flavor? I'm in!
But looking at the 12 choices, it's clear that I never had a couple. Beef slices in BBQ sauce and ground beef in spiced sauce I remember seeing, but not eating.
My willingness to eat the dehydrated patties meant trade opportunities. People would offer desserts to take the pork patty if I'd give them the BBQ slices.
Crumbled up beef patty soaked in the chicken-a-la-king and heated was decent.
Which reminds me of something I rarely dealt with.
Eating them cold.
Avco-Lycoming was kind enough to develop an MRE heater and Chrysler was kind enough to include it in every M1 Abrams.
When you have a back-deck bar and grill, you never have eat a cold MRE.
I guess if your grand parents never taught you to cook, then you have to resort to cans...
Even resorting to cans, I'm not using any of the above choices. Cooking tomatoes down to sauce is a pain, so using a can of tomato sauce is acceptable.
But marinara is essentially just tomato sauce with some spices tossed in, for fuck's sake.
Not that I make marinara very often. I make a variation of Bolognese sauce with Italian sausage; just like great-grandma taught us!
We never used it to make Ragu Bolognese though, it was just spaghetti sauce to us.
Two things I know from doing a lot of research for GURPS: WW2 and doing some reinacting.
The K-ration was not intended to be eaten for very long.
Many troops got them exclusively for a very long time.
He should have gotten a few more C-rations.
Watching "Poker Face" and a character offers another some demerara sugar.
He said it added an unami tone to the coffee.
A bag of it is just $5 on Amazon, so we said, "what the Hell?"
I added a tablespoon to my coffee and... mildly sweet with unami.
Who the Hell knew?
I don't normally take sugar with my coffee either.
This will be the second time we've tried something from a show we watched that worked out great.
Smash burgers from "The Menu" being the first.
What you're gonna need:
1 lb. ground beef.
1 lb. Jimmy Dean sage sausage.
2 med yellow onions, diced
2 jalapeno peppers, minced
3 poblano peppers, roasted, de-skinned, chopped
28 oz. diced stewed tomatoes (one big can)
12 oz. tomato paste (one big or two little cans)
29 oz. tomato sauce (one big can)
48 oz. Bush's med chili beans (these are pintos) (3 cans)
27 oz. red kidney beans (one big can)
4 tablespoons of your favorite chili powder
3 tablespoons of ground cumin
salt to taste.
Roast the peppers first! I put them on the top rack set to broil until the skin is black. Set them aside to cool while you do the rest of the chopping.
In a stock pot saute the onions until clear, add meat, onion, chili powder, cumin and peppers.
When the meat is cooked, dump in the tomatoes and beans.
Bring to a bit of a bubble, I think that called "simmer".
Put in bowl and eat! I like oyster crackers best but you can add cheese and chopped onions to your heart's content.
This batch of chili was $42 for the ingredients.
It fills my stock pot.
The last time I made chili, it was $55 for the ingredients.
From my chili making perspective, the economy is doing fine.
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