That sounds delicious.

Tonight was a very simple but delicious dinner. I heated up spiral sliced ham slices from the freezer, made home fries from my home grown potatoes that I had cubed and blanched for the freezer and some of my own peas from the freezer.

I am very pleased with this method of preparing potatoes for the freezer. A few months ago my stored potatoes were starting to sprout so I decided to freeze some. I just thaw them and sauté in olive oil. They were really good and crispy too. [mention]GoDawgs[/mention] remember I told you about freezing potatoes? Well this is how they turn out. Hubby said that he could have eaten twice as many! They really were the best part of the meal.


20200407_165137 by Brownrexx, on Flickr

brownrexx wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:26 am @GoDawgs I posted the recipe under the recipe's section for you.

Thank you so much, especially the little tweaks you talked about.

I just cooked 15 pot stickers - something I rarely make just for myself, since for more people, I can make more dip sauces! But I just happened to see them in the freezer, when getting something else out, and I decided to have some. Tough decision on the dip sauce, but I decided on the old favorite, with a bunch of minced garlic and ginger, plus soy sauce, black vinegar, and sugar.

I later made a salad, to put some veggies into tonight's menu.

Meatball soup

Today I prepared together with my wife a traditional Romanian dish: Meatball soup. It is common in all Balkan area. In Romania we use cream and many greens as tarragon, lovage, parsley, dill. Here it is

Ingredients:Fightn

Minced lean pork - 1,1 lb
Eggs - 2
Egg yolk - 1
Rice - 1 3/4 oz - left to soak in water for a few minutes
White onions - 2
Carrots - 2
Celery root (medium) - a quarter
Red bell pepper - 1 large
Dill, Parsley, Tarragon, Lovage, Salt, Pepper - to taste
Vinegar - 1 1,2 table spoon
Cream - 2 table spoons (optional)

Direction:

Take a pot an put three liters ( three qt) into boil
Chop carrots, half of the bell pepper, celery root, only one onion and add to the pot to boil
Finely chop the other onion and the other half of the bell pepper and mix with minced meat, dill, and parsley along with the rice (drained) and two eggs. Add salt and pepper to taste
Mix well, then form meatballs slightly smaller than a ping pong ball
Add the meatballs to the pot, in which the vegetables are already boiling
Set the high heat till start to boil, then reduce the heat and continue boiling for at least half an hour or until the meat is cooked completely.
Add salt to taste, cut the heat and forget it for 10 minutes

Then, put into a large serving soup bowl the egg yolk and vinegar and beat with a fork until light. Now slowly pour 5-6 spoons with soup into the egg mixture and stir constantly for 1 minute.
Finally, add that mixture to the soup.

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Probably going to cook my world famous mackerel patties.

worth1 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 5:29 pm Probably going to cook my world famous mackerel patties.

Tell us more please. What goes in them?

Ginger2778 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 6:33 pm

worth1 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 5:29 pm Probably going to cook my world famous mackerel patties.

Tell us more please. What goes in them?

Tonight is an experiment that came out out pretty well.
I used a can of mackerel juice and all.
Two whole pickled jalapeno peppers chopped up.'
One whole sleeve of crackers turned into cracker flour.
One egg.
Two tablespoons of sweet relish
Two tablespoons dill relish.
One tablespoon corn starch.
One medium onion chopped fine.
About two tablespoons of the sweet red peppers you get in a jar. chopped.
You can fry in oil or cook like a pancake in a griddle.
You can leave the water out from the can of fish and use less crackers by about 1/2.
Adjust as you want to your taste.
Its about like a crab cake but cheaper.

worth1 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 7:05 pm

Ginger2778 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 6:33 pm

worth1 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 5:29 pm Probably going to cook my world famous mackerel patties.

Tell us more please. What goes in them?

Tonight is an experiment that came out out pretty well.
I used a can of mackerel juice and all.
Two whole pickled jalapeno peppers chopped up.'
One whole sleeve of crackers turned into cracker flour.
One egg.
Two tablespoons of sweet relish
Two tablespoons dill relish.
One tablespoon corn starch.
One medium onion chopped fine.
About two tablespoons of the sweet red peppers you get in a jar. chopped.
You can fry in oil or cook like a pancake in a griddle.
You can leave the water out from the can of fish and use less crackers by about 1/2.
Adjust as you want to your taste.
Its about like a crab cake but cheaper.

Thank you. Sounds wonderful, and I adore crab cakes.

Ginger2778 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 8:12 pm

worth1 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 7:05 pm

Ginger2778 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 6:33 pm

worth1 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 5:29 pm Probably going to cook my world famous mackerel patties.

Tell us more please. What goes in them?

Tonight is an experiment that came out out pretty well.
I used a can of mackerel juice and all.
Two whole pickled jalapeno peppers chopped up.'
One whole sleeve of crackers turned into cracker flour.
One egg.
Two tablespoons of sweet relish
Two tablespoons dill relish.
One tablespoon corn starch.
One medium onion chopped fine.
About two tablespoons of the sweet red peppers you get in a jar. chopped.
You can fry in oil or cook like a pancake in a griddle.
You can leave the water out from the can of fish and use less crackers by about 1/2.
Adjust as you want to your taste.
Its about like a crab cake but cheaper.

Thank you. Sounds wonderful, and I adore crab cakes.

Omit the water in the mackerel can and you can cut the crackers in about half.
It was too much fluid but it did work.
I was trying to stretch the meal to it's limit.

Pork schnitzel, microwaved potato with butter, gravy, read a book and a nap.
Got the lawn/forest mowed so I dont look like the creepy guy on the street.

Comfort food tonight. Salisbury steak with onions and fresh mushrooms in gravy, mashed potatoes and fresh broccoli. Good stuff.

20200411_170525 (2) by Brownrexx, on Flickr

I'm making an Easter meal of spaghetti and meat sauce.
This time I am spicing it with spices that would go in Cincinnati chili.
Nutmeg cinnamon ground allspice chili powder ground clove and cumin.
Also dumped in some sangria wine and Worcestershire sauce, if I had A1 I would use it too but I dont have any.
The base is a can of tomato puree and some water.
Herbs/flavors so far are onion and garlic toasted in olive oil.
Later will be Mexican oregano.
Gonna put in a pound of ground chuck too.

Taste test, I added a wee bit of baking soda to kill the acid that comes in processed canned food.
Maybe about 1/4 teaspoon.

Here is a typical Easter meal, for as long as I remember, consisting of Easter Cheese, baked ham, mashed potatoes, klobase, sauerkraut, soft roll with a glass of wine. We would visit my Dad's brothers and sisters, argue with my cousins, and then grab some potica and/or poppyseed roll. I sure miss those days...

Non traditional Easter meal here. We did not want ham because we really don't like it all that much so our Easter dinner consisted of shrimp scampi, rice pilaf, deviled eggs and a mixture of sauteed fresh mushrooms and 8 asparagus tips which is all that I had from the garden but I wanted to have my fresh asparagus for Easter.

Hubby kept saying how much he liked the meal and how fancy it was. I did think that it was pretty good. I always like to make something special for Easter.




20200412_171010 by Brownrexx, on Flickr

I love that meal but you forgot some fresh crispy french bread to dip in that scampi!!!!

I cooked some grassfinished wagyu chuck. And it's like any other chuck, tough as leather.

maxjohnson wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:39 pm I cooked some grassfinished wagyu chuck. And it's like any other chuck, tough as leather.

It's hard to believe it was wagyu and tough, did you cook it right? I'd like to see pics of pre cook and know your cook method. Wagyu is fatty and takes less time to cook than Angus. Maybe it wasn't wagyu. I hope you didn't pay too much for it. Don't take these questions wrong, I haven't had any but from all the videos I've watched it should be fatty and rich versus dry like some of the chuck sold.

We decided on wings and loaded pasta salad.