What did you cook today?

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I ran into some clearance chix skewers and pork belly - the skewers were effectively $0.50 cents a skewer and the pork belly (streaky bacon in fat cube form for my Euro friends) about 2.75 a pound. I couldn’t pass that up so I made some salad bentos for my wife this week (I’m off today) and am rendering down the belly to see if I want to buy more (there’s a bunch at my neighborhood meat market clearanced out pretty much at their cost as I guess folks don’t know how to prepare it?)

It’s pretty delicious about an hour and quarter in but I think I’ll let it go another hour. I’m going back for some more that will go in my coffin freezer in the garage. Besides I promised my kids tacos and I realized I forgot to get refried beans lol so a trip back is inevitable.

Yum

I love eating well at home.

 

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Cook? I went the other way! The rugger turned me on to KODIAK Protein Packed OATMEAL

2 packets - Blueberry
1/3 cup water
1/3 cup Half & Half
Luxurious amount of fresh Blueberries
Mix thoroughly
Nuke for sixty seconds
YUMMY!

 

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Spoken like a true Maine-iac. I love a good bowl of oatmeal.

 

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Your efforts of the day look AMAZING!

Grew up on a family farm in what's now suburban Fort Wayne, Indiana. Oatmeal is basic Farmer Fare. With raspberry bushes, cows, Cream Separator and Butter Churn machines in the basement it was spiced up just so nice! Chickens and hogs produced the makings for my Great Aunt Margaret's famous lard crusted egg custard pies, especially with blackberries in season. Rhubarb was to die for back then. Apple, Peach, Pear-n-Cherry orchard's long gone.

I develop what I call Bachelor Recipes. If it takes much more than five minutes prep it's reserved for wowing women mode.
My Chili-Cheese-Dog-Casserole recipe is infamous!


edit: forgot to mention the grape vines. The pumpkin patch alone in my very own quarter acre truck garden was bigger than most suburban gardens.

 

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I grew up on a farm too. Loved that life.

Tacos were made. I ended up taking the belly to a crispy chicharrones. Tossed em with a NM Chimayo red chile sauce and ate them with warm toasted tortillas.

 

[Trash80toG4]

Yer KILLIN' me!!!!!! Mouth is watering thinking about that.

edit: BTW the flavored oatmeal is Blueberries & Cream, stands alone nicely too.

 

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Baked some loaves of bread this evening.

 

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GAAAAH!!!

edit: did you grow sweet corn on your farm? Parents/Great Aunt wouldn't let me. We picked tender young field corn ears in season.

 

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We grew about a half acre of sweet corn for our needs. The other half was all the other things - squash, pumpkins, onions, carrots, celery peppers, tomatoes etc. Some years we did cranberry beans too.

The remaining land was field corn & knee high grass for grazing.

 

[Trash80toG4]

We grew about a half acre of sweet corn for our needs.

Color me jealous, there is NOTHING to compare to the fresh picked Butter & Sugar of my high school friend's garden. Was long gone from the farm as an IBM brat at that time.

We did a lot of soy and hay along with the field corn.