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What did you have for dinner? -Part dois

Another Experimental Day for me, as I gotta have my fun:

A bowl:

BASE: A baker with lots of flavors and cheese and French Butter

MIDS: Beef Rouladen (Sort of...) cooked in a sauce that includes some otherwise gross Chocolate Wine, Made in Idaho! .....and buttered corn.

TOPPING: I nice dollop of Sour Cream and a pretty heavy downpour of Tabasco.
 
Did I mention being too tired and also lazy? Yup, straight up. I hear it grows hair. Don't quote me on that, but try that stuff some time. It is good, refreshing, fills you up.

Well, if it does grow hair, for me, it'd be gray hair, and I have plenty of that, more than I care to have (LOL), already.

I do like sauerkraut, however, hot (or at least warm) and seasoned, but I like it.
 
Belies your sunny disposition........lazy/tired is why they invented fast food......

I suspect one can argue too that "lazy/tired" is also why restaurants, as opposed to "pick-up and go," were invented.

Some interesting texts on the origins of food service:
FWIW, fast food businesses have existed since at least Ancient Roman times.​


  • [*=1]Food and Drink in Antiquity: A Sourcebook: Readings from the Graeco-Roman World
    [*=1]Roman food bar (aka "thermopolium")

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Of course, the ancients also had restaurants.​

 
Now this is a good dinner...Bologna sandwich, iced lemon cookies and chocolate milk.

Thats the kind of dinner I used to have when I was around 7.
 
Thats the kind of dinner I used to have when I was around 7.

You're never too old for cookies and (chocolate)milk.
 
June 25, 2018
  • Pan roasted rockfish filet w/grilled asparagus, morel mushrooms, and fava beans (entree)
  • Pan seared barnegat light sea scallops w/ramp pesto, English pea and pickled carrot salsa verde, and toasted farro (app)
  • Creamy kohlrabi soup w/chanterelle mushrooms, sugar snap peas, and saffron-garlic oil
  • Green garlic falafel /cucumber tzatziki zucchini and squash caponata, turmeric pickled cauliflower, and lemon vinaigrette
  • Truffled mac 'n' cheese
  • Pecan Pie w/bourbon caramel, toasted meringue, coffee-chocolate gelato
  • White burgundy
  • Port
  • Water
 
I'm going to cover my Keds with hollandaise sauce lightly powdered with paparika and lick them off until I burp loudly. Then I'll make a clean garden salad with balsamic vinegar and virgin olive oil just to look at it.

For dessert I will enjoy a handful of Lipitor.
 
two fake hot dogs on buns with mustard
garden corn on the cob.
 
Bacon and Eggs.
I broke the breakfast club rules. Next time I'll have danish for dessert.
 
fake ham and provolone sandwich on whole grain with garden tomato slices
Asiago peppercorn cheese crisps
 
July 28, 2018
  • Ostrich burger w/cheddar, Stilton, caramelized onion, tomato, sweet mustard and spicy ketchup on an onion, black olive and thyme rye bun
  • Raw broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots
  • Homemade peach sorbet
  • Merlot
  • Water
 
What is "fake ham?"

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i have been craving cold cut sandwiches lately, but i don't eat meat anymore. this is about as close as i can get.
 
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i have been craving cold cut sandwiches lately, but i don't eat meat anymore. this is about as close as i can get.

Ah. TY for the explanation of what "fake ham" is.


Other:
It has not yet ceased to astound me that vegetarians/vegans yet choose to describe the flavor of certain food "sanctioned" items in terms of the flavors of foods they abjure eating rather than in terms of the flavor of the "sanctioned" food substance itself. Perhaps that's poor expression of what I mean....lemme try again....

Inasmuch as vegans/vegetarians forswear meat and/or animal sourced foods, why do they not develop and remark upon food using a lexicon that describes the actual flavors of food items they are willing to eat? If one doesn't want to eat meat, fine, but then why lionize and/or attempt to emulate the flavor of meat?


  • [*=1]Why not produce and eat, say, "tofu cuts" rather than sliced meat (cold cuts) and talk about the flavor of tofu?
    [*=1]Why not produce "vegan cuts" that taste like some vegetable rather than like a meat?
    [*=1]Why not produce and eat, say, "quinoa loaf" and remark upon how it tastes as quinoa rather than on how it tastes relative to meatloaf, or even bother trying to make quinoa taste like meatloaf?
Do you get what meaning?

I just don't see the point of going through so much effort to make or obtain food items that taste like a different food item that one is unwilling to eat. If one doesn't want to eat meat, well, one doesn't. I haven't anything to say about that. But if one doesn't want to eat meat, why not develop a taste for non-meat-tasting-like stuff that one will eat.

I'm willing to eat, say, tofu and TVP and other vegan food items, but I think they taste bland -- so bland that any flavoring added to them makes them taste like the flavor added to them and not like themselves; put salt on tofu and it tastes like salt, not like tofu -- that I don't much eat them. So that's why I don't "get" the relativist rhetorical depictions of vegetarian/vegan food eaters when they're discussing, eating or seeking meat alternatives.​
 
Ah. TY for the explanation of what "fake ham" is.


Other:
It has not yet ceased to astound me that vegetarians/vegans yet choose to describe the flavor of certain food "sanctioned" items in terms of the flavors of foods they abjure eating rather than in terms of the flavor of the "sanctioned" food substance itself. Perhaps that's poor expression of what I mean....lemme try again....

Inasmuch as vegans/vegetarians forswear meat and/or animal sourced foods, why do they not develop and remark upon food using a lexicon that describes the actual flavors of food items they are willing to eat? If one doesn't want to eat meat, fine, but then why lionize and/or attempt to emulate the flavor of meat?


  • [*=1]Why not produce and eat, say, "tofu cuts" rather than sliced meat (cold cuts) and talk about the flavor of tofu?
    [*=1]Why not produce "vegan cuts" that taste like some vegetable rather than like a meat?
    [*=1]Why not produce and eat, say, "quinoa loaf" and remark upon how it tastes as quinoa rather than on how it tastes relative to meatloaf, or even bother trying to make quinoa taste like meatloaf?
Do you get what meaning?

I just don't see the point of going through so much effort to make or obtain food items that taste like a different food item that one is unwilling to eat. If one doesn't want to eat meat, well, one doesn't. I haven't anything to say about that. But if one doesn't want to eat meat, why not develop a taste for non-meat-tasting-like stuff that one will eat.

I'm willing to eat, say, tofu and TVP and other vegan food items, but I think they taste bland -- so bland that any flavoring added to them makes them taste like the flavor added to them and not like themselves; put salt on tofu and it tastes like salt, not like tofu -- that I don't much eat them. So that's why I don't "get" the relativist rhetorical depictions of vegetarian/vegan food eaters when they're discussing, eating or seeking meat alternatives.​

we're all omnivores. i reached a point where i couldn't handle the process anymore. i have more to say about it, but it would probably be better discussed in its own thread. this one is mostly about what we're having for dinner, and that's fun.
 
Panera 1/2 modern Caprese sandwich
1/2 Caesar salad
baguette
 
sesame noodles with vegetables
veggie egg roll with orange sauce
soy sauce
 
Made my first lentejas (lentil) soup and as always with a first time, there's tweeks to be made but all in all it turned out pretty good if I do say so. I did use weenies instead of chorizo to appease my daughter but I think next time will use both.
 
Tilapia frozen IQF with a crumb of stale Ruffles, the crumbs from a bag of those commercial fried onions like on T-DAY green bean casserole, paprika, creole seasoning baked and then served with a dollop of seasoned chive sour cream, with commercial dried mashed potato pak served with the last of a leftover sour cream mushroom gravy.

Liberal Tabasco over the fish and sour cream.
 
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garden corn on the cob with butter
sautéed brussel sprouts with balsamic vinaigrette
home made egg salad on whole grain
 
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