What a great idea! I often use jicama instead of chips with salsa. I’m gonna have to try fries.
I’ve cooked a lot of sausage links in my life. And don’t think I’ve ever had a bad tasting one in all that time. Last night, was thinking of how to cook up some Bratwurst in the easiest way possible. Came up with a low & slow oven bake for the brats. 300 degrees for an hour, 10. Two knife piercings to each sausage. Turned once while baking.
Genius! These turned out the most moist and tender & tasty sausages I’ve ever made. Honest.
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I’m @curlznj on IG and have to admit that I don’t post nearly the amount of food porn that Greg does, but I do follow lots of food folks and famous chefs in addition to local restaurants. It IS where they all post and I agree w Greg that it’s my fun place (outside of HO of course).
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Ooohh, do you have a recipe or did you wing it?
@CurlzNJ may not post a lot of food porn but she does post a lot of other cool stuff. I’m always learning something new from her posts.
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Nice hack!
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I used this recipe with garlic chives:
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Oh, thanks so much, Mr. H. These sounds awesome, and maybe a little more substantial than some veggie dumplings. I love garlic chives, but have a ton of regular chives growing the the garden that need to be used up. Now, if only my dumpling folding is half as lovely as yours…
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It’s a whole 'another beast for sure. I’ve actually been to that supermarket in Asbury; I needed some Maseca. It was right at the beginning of the current apocalypse, so I just ran in and got the hell out. I’ll have to stick my head in again, and make another trip to Marlboro. I’ve been addicted to these Filipino crackernuts for years, and that’s the only source I’ve found here so far. (aka I’ll take any excuse to go grocery shopping, which is why my pantry is outta friggin control haha)
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We must be related. I don’t shop at either store on a regular basis but will make a point of going for particular things. Then I buy way too much and have no place to store anything.
Now I’m going to have to look for crackernuts. There used to be a Filipino groceries on Route 9 in Howell and in Toms River. I’m not sure either exist any more. though. I may have to do some digging.
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Drool…
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I made turkey breast köfte kebabs, which we folded into Turkish flatbread pulled from the freezer and topped with cucumber sauce, tomatoes, lettuce, and harissa. Air-fried okra with smoked chili salt on the side.
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Hah, if there’s one thing covid does, it gives an excuse for our hoarder tendencies? I swear I wasn’t like this before 
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Ah, that looks awesome! I tried that a week or two ago but probably stuck too close to my meatball recipe when winging it with the lack of some ingredients… Did you use a grill pan for that?
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Unfortunately, I’ve always had food-related hoarding tendencies. They’ve been exacerbated in the current circumstances. I’m constantly rearranging trying to make room.
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Propane grill. I used 99% lean ground turkey, egg white, panko mixed with milk, parsley, shallot, red onion, Badia Adobo, and this spice mix:
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WFD last night was grilled chicken with a glaze H adapted from a current magazine, COTC, and sautéed beet greens, with sweet onions. I slept through dinner, so will have that tonight. Not sure what H will have, but we’ll figure something out.
BTW, I’ll confess to being a food hoarder, but not a TP hoarder! I just like an adequate supply of it.
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Ditto this. I’m single but have almost always had a chest freezer in the basement or garage. Probably because I purchased a 1/4 of a steer my stepfather raised back in the mid 80s. Having access to that meat helped push me over the edge into food hoarder status. My pantry has WAY too many extra cans of beans, corn, tomato sauce, packages of various pasta, tetrapaks of stock, mustards, condiments… I do it with herbs and spices too.
If I was ever on that old Food Network show where the celebrity chef would come in and prepare a gourmet meal with what was in the fridge, freezer, and pantry? He’d have a field day in my kitchen. LOL
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Excuse the beige-iosity - this is actually pesto, and actually quite tasty, but i used basil that had gone a bit dark ( though it looked a tad greener in person.) And those are potatoes in there. When we lived in Italy, the old lady next door would make us dinner, and once she made pesto with pasta and potatoes, which she said was a Genovese thing. Loved the carby combo. She also made her pesto with butter instead of olive oil, but that’s another delicious story.
Heirloom tomato slice with the last of the fresh mozz on the side.
This was an unintentional meatless meal - I bought Italian sausages to make with the pasta and forgot them! BF didn’t say anything at dinner, but was wondering what he had done wrong… 
i told him to really think hard about it. 
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I could probably eat for months without having to go grocery shopping except for fresh fruit and vegetables, and milk for coffee. And I could probably skip the milk if I had to. Mr Bean loves to blame me but he has his own hoarding tendencies and won’t open anything unless there are at least 2 “back ups”.
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