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By request from the wife: a “bachelor dinner bowl” of rice, beans, hot sauce, grated cheese, and a fried egg. She claims that was her go-to before we met. Seems like a reasonable standard for the thin times we’re in.

For all you housebound and terrorized parents running out of meal ideas may I suggest a modest proposal?

dovecanyoncat wrote:For all you housebound and terrorized parents running out of meal ideas may I suggest a modest proposal?

Go ahead.

dovecanyoncat wrote:For all you housebound and terrorized parents running out of meal ideas may I suggest a modest proposal?

Having a prosciutto, fig and goat cheese quiche from Roma Imports that's been in the freezer. It is delicious.

Longhorned wrote:By request from the wife: a “bachelor dinner bowl” of rice, beans, hot sauce, grated cheese, and a fried egg. She claims that was her go-to before we met. Seems like a reasonable standard for the thin times we’re in.

Okay, that might be the best thing I've ever eaten.

Longhorned wrote:

Longhorned wrote:By request from the wife: a “bachelor dinner bowl” of rice, beans, hot sauce, grated cheese, and a fried egg. She claims that was her go-to before we met. Seems like a reasonable standard for the thin times we’re in.

Okay, that might be the best thing I've ever eaten.

This could very well be tomorrow's dinner. Have everything. What beans did you use?

Spicy BBQ Mi Goreng ramen from Lee Lee's Market

scumdevils86 wrote:

Longhorned wrote:

Longhorned wrote:By request from the wife: a “bachelor dinner bowl” of rice, beans, hot sauce, grated cheese, and a fried egg. She claims that was her go-to before we met. Seems like a reasonable standard for the thin times we’re in.

Okay, that might be the best thing I've ever eaten.

This could very well be tomorrow's dinner. Have everything. What beans did you use?

My three year-old's choice (she threw a fit when I resisted, so I gave in): Rancho Gordo Flageolet. She was right, I was wrong. I honestly think any beans would work equally well. I cooked them in a little oil and garlic and then mashed about 1/3 of them to make them creamy.

I wonder if this matters, though: the hot sauce. I used Sriacha. The slight sweetness was so perfect, I wouldn't want to mess with it.

I just have canned black beans and dried great northerns at the moment. Might pressure cook the white beans and use those.

Also I have about 10 kinds of hot sauce so I could experiment.

scumdevils86 wrote:I just have canned black beans and dried great northerns at the moment. Might pressure cook the white beans and use those.

Also I have about 10 kinds of hot sauce so I could experiment.

FWIW the wife says in response canned black beans are historically the beans of choice for this bachelor bowl.

Good to know. Contemplating saving the white beans for a good old ham hock and white bean soup.

You should. Besides, canned beans are underrated.

I don’t want to open this thread because it evokes in me feelings of general failure as a human being. But I can’t stay away.

ByJoveByJingle wrote:I don’t want to open this thread because it evokes in me feelings of general failure as a human being. But I can’t stay away.

Pull your weight and give us some UAE dinner-at-home porn.

Arctic char, flour-dusted and pan-sauteed
Roasted potatoes
Sauteed spinach with balsamic

Baked ziti

Grilled cheese sammichs.

Jamaican beef stew from serious eats. It's so good. Spicy, rich and beefy, acidic, a little sweet. Wife is making coco bread, a Jamaican type of slightly sweet bread/roll.

Luxury stretched thin with random filler:

A 1-pound Nieman Ranch prime rib eye steak for the whole family, pan-seared
Grilled onions with barley
Sauteed spinach

Just pulled some home made potato bread out of the oven. Smells great.

Ordered in Chinese food.

Fuck the racists.

Breakfast for dinner: Oligarch omelette.

dovecanyoncat wrote:Breakfast for dinner: Oligarch omelette.

Breakfast for dinner is way underrated.

Chicat wrote:Ordered in Chinese food.

Fuck the racists.

What did you get? A bunch of stir-fried vegetables? Or the good stuff?

azgreg wrote:

dovecanyoncat wrote:Breakfast for dinner: Oligarch omelette.

Breakfast for dinner is way underrated.

Especially the red beers and Bloody Marys.

Mmmmm. Steak. I like steak.

Longhorned wrote:

Chicat wrote:Ordered in Chinese food.

Fuck the racists.

What did you get? A bunch of stir-fried vegetables? Or the good stuff?

I live in Indiana. There is no “good stuff”.

My sister and brother in law picked up 5 Guys.

First meal not from our shelter in place stash in 10 days.

Chicat wrote:

Longhorned wrote:

Chicat wrote:Ordered in Chinese food.

Fuck the racists.

What did you get? A bunch of stir-fried vegetables? Or the good stuff?

I live in Indiana. There is no “good stuff”.

You never know. Best Chinese food I ever had was in El Paso, go figure.

UAEebs86 wrote:

Chicat wrote:

Longhorned wrote:

Chicat wrote:Ordered in Chinese food.

Fuck the racists.

What did you get? A bunch of stir-fried vegetables? Or the good stuff?

I live in Indiana. There is no “good stuff”.

You never know. Best Chinese food I ever had was in El Paso, go figure.

I want to go Mexicali for Chinese food. Chinese food along the U.S./Mexico border is amazing. In Mexico City, it's out of this world.

Worst Chinese food I've ever had is in Illinois. There was one really great place in Champaign, until the one person responsible for it moved back to China, and the whole place went to pot. I've never tried it in Indiana.

I love Chinese food all up and down California, and in Seattle. And of course, New York. Chicago, which is awesome for almost everything, is just sort of okay for Chinese food.

Chicat wrote:

Longhorned wrote:

Chicat wrote:Ordered in Chinese food.

Fuck the racists.

What did you get? A bunch of stir-fried vegetables? Or the good stuff?

I live in Indiana. There is no “good stuff”.

My Indytucky relatives would disagree.

When I used to have to drive 2 hours to Indianapolis to shop at Trader Joe's, the employees would urge the customers like me to go out and try one of those sandwiches. They said they're amazing. I never did.

Risotto with made with beef stock and parmesan (never ever make a risotto using chicken stock)
Pork shoulder chops
Crisp brussels sprouts with balsamic

Crock pot chicken noodle soup with that homemade potato bread.

Bacon
leftover pearl barley and flageolet beans heated in the pan with bacon fat
kale cooked in bacon fat
Srichacha for the barley and beans
Balsamic for the kale

My sister made moussaka. First time I've ever had it - pretty tasty.

UAEebs86 wrote:My sister made moussaka. First time I've ever had it - pretty tasty.

Real depth with that unctuous, savory layered eggplant. You'd also love Pastitsio, but it's one of the few things Roma Imports doesn't really do well.

Longhorned wrote:

UAEebs86 wrote:My sister made moussaka. First time I've ever had it - pretty tasty.

Real depth with that unctuous, savory layered eggplant. You'd also love Pastitsio, but it's one of the few things Roma Imports doesn't really do well.

Roma's might not be the best, but Fronimo's is awesome.

I love Roma. Went there the week before all this shit hit the fan and am dying to go back.

I made something approaching a cheesesteak sandwich last night. On Arabic bread. Didn’t really enjoy it. Apartment smelled like a greasy spoon diner dumpster for the better part of a day. Back to salads and ordering out.

ByJoveByJingle wrote:Apartment smelled like a greasy spoon diner dumpster for the better part of a day

That's how you know you made a real cheesesteak. In Philadelphia we used leave our coats at home on a freezing cold day, so as not to let cheesesteak smell ruin our gear for the rest of winter.

I made spare ribs on the smoker. They were the best thing I've ever made on it. Makes me wonder why I've been buying baby backs.

ASUCatFan wrote:I made spare ribs on the smoker. They were the best thing I've ever made on it. Makes me wonder why I've been buying baby backs.

What recipe did you use? I might smoke some stuff this weekend.

Longhorned wrote:

ByJoveByJingle wrote:Apartment smelled like a greasy spoon diner dumpster for the better part of a day

That's how you know you made a real cheesesteak. In Philadelphia we used leave our coats at home on a freezing cold day, so as not to let cheesesteak smell ruin our gear for the rest of winter.

I bet you enjoyed it, too.

I think that cooking ranks pretty high up there on my long list of inadequacies. Can’t cook, can’t dance, can’t sing. But I can social distance like a bitch.

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1. Season and pan-sear two thick pork collar chops to medium rare
2. Serve
3. When your wife cries at the dinner table, set pork chops aside and refrigerate for two days
4. Carve pork chops to separate fat, meat, and bones
5. Dice fat and meat
6. Render lard from fat, reserve with chitterlings
7. Place two tablespoons of hot lard in pan with chitterlings, meat, bones, strained tomatoes, chili peppers, and a whole peeled onion cut in half
8. Simmer until fat separates from tomatoes
9. Mix with a pound of spaghetti and serve with freshly grated parm

Tuna melts

I'm drinking my dinner tonight.

scumdevils86 wrote:

ASUCatFan wrote:I made spare ribs on the smoker. They were the best thing I've ever made on it. Makes me wonder why I've been buying baby backs.

What recipe did you use? I might smoke some stuff this weekend.

I just used some olive oil, a store bought dry rub I had and slathered a store bought sauce 20 minutes before I pulled them off of the smoker. Smoked over mesquite since it's free to cut up at my Dad's house.

I'm almost out of mesquite but I like mixing it with a little apple or Cherry