LOOK WHAT MY WIFE MADE!!!!

Please don't ask for the recipe, Family secret!

Here's my last 3 lunches in Chronological order:




White Sox Lose!

Jet fresh Main Lobster tonight. Served with Rice Pilaf, stuffed artichoke and a spig of parsley, accompanied by my wifes secret (please don't ask) recipe watermellon iced tea. I can't post pictures because I can't figure out how to reduce them like the mod wants me too. Sorry

Mighty delightful looking repasts there, Silas. Thanks for warning us that they're secret recipes, because it certainly would be tempting to ask.

Cynthia wrote:Mighty delightful looking repasts there, Silas. Thanks for warning us that they're secret recipes, because it certainly would be tempting to ask.

I actually LOL'ed when I read that

Silas,

Nice pictures. I have a sudden craving for surf and turf - it must be nice having it pretty much every day. A note about secret recipes: many of us here do post family recipes and although I can appreciate protecting them, maybe you can give us an idea on how they were prepared versus an entire ingredient list (you know, like the grandmother who always leaves out that one ingredient from her recipe card)? I guess what I'm saying is that most people here like to share so any additional info, especially on that chile rellenos recipe, would be appreciated.

She's gets organic sweet itilain sausage meat and has me grill it over charcoal until rare, then she puts in in a big pot on a low heat and mixes in some fresh organic (i can't say how many) tomatoes, some fresh (you'll have to figure out how much yourselfs) 28 inch stretch test, Mozzerella cheese/Sharp Cheddar (70/30 ratio)..She then adds her secret ingediants, secret ingrediants that I don't even know about..I detect some garlic but i'm only speculating..She simmers that mixture while steaming anihiem peppers for some time (which I cannot reveal)..It's not long though..Before she steams the peppers I've seen her slice them down the middle and de seed them..Evidently she then packs the peppers with the meat mixture and covers them in 100% Mozzerella and convection roasts them for a specific period of time... And yes I eat steak everyday for lunch..I live/own a 67 small Cattle ranch in Colorado..Thats Black Angus


Heres the view from my computer- Look at it if you want. It's up to you..
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Hi,

Beautiful view.

I was talking to someone about life during the Great Depression recently. She remarked her Dad grew up in a small cattle farm in LaSalle county west of Chicago. They ate beef everyday, because it was freely available. He is now a fiend for seafood, because he tired of eating beef everyday for years.

Do you age your steaks?

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:
She remarked her Dad grew up in a small cattle farm in LaSalle county west of Chicago. They ate beef everyday, because it was freely available. He is now a fiend for seafood, because he tired of eating beef everyday for years.

Funny. Maybe a whole lifetime would do it, but I worked in a restaurant through late high school and college, and every day I worked (which, during vacations, was five and sometimes six days a week), I had roast beef, and if I worked a double, I'd have a sirloin burger for lunch and roast beef for dinner. In six years, I never tired of it. Don't know how many more years it would take to make me crave seafood more than beef. I love and eat everything, but I've never stopped craving beef.

Hi,

The beef story reminded me of an anecdote about people living in Cape Cod: Lobster was served so often, they offered chicken for company. They were embarassed to serve lobster, because it was everyday food.

Oh the joy I would feel to have those problems!

Regards,

Cynthia wrote:

Cathy2 wrote:
She remarked her Dad grew up in a small cattle farm in LaSalle county west of Chicago. They ate beef everyday, because it was freely available. He is now a fiend for seafood, because he tired of eating beef everyday for years.

Funny. Maybe a whole lifetime would do it, but I worked in a restaurant through late high school and college, and every day I worked (which, during vacations, was five and sometimes six days a week), I had roast beef, and if I worked a double, I'd have a sirloin burger for lunch and roast beef for dinner. In six years, I never tired of it. Don't know how many more years it would take to make me crave seafood more than beef. I love and eat everything, but I've never stopped craving beef.

Good post Cynthia..One time I got sick of Prime Rib, but it only lasted a few weeks...

I am tempted to put a picture of NAV BOY in this thread. That recipe is no secret.

Cathy2 wrote:Hi,

The beef story reminded me of an anecdote about people living in Cape Cod: Lobster was served so often, they offered chicken for company. They were embarassed to serve lobster, because it was everyday food.

Oh they joy I would feel to have those problems!

Regards,

This is the opposite of that...My dad was a United Air Lines Pilot, but he started that career after a career flying jet fighters in the Air Force so while growing up in Arlington Hieghts we never had a lot of money...When we ate chicken we ate one for 6 people..My dad always ate the back, the liver and gizzards..Well he eventually made capatain and a lot of money..He's doing very well now but he still buys livers and gizzards because thats what he likes..He also enjoys South Wacco shrimp, otherwise known as chicken tails..

We ate a lot of fried chicken backs, livers, and gizzards too, and I don't mind eating them still.

Cynthia- I just read your link there...Very interesting..I'll read more later..My daughter just moved to Austrialia..Just up and moved there...She's a model and has money and time- I work for an airline and she flys for free so she just travels everywhere..She went there, liked it and decided to move there?.. Here she is in Margret river (?) a few weeks ago..I think she's stealing fruit in this picture..My wife says no...It was cold there so she went to Phuket for a week, but she's back there now and just loves it...She's traveling the country before settling in Perth..

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Katie wrote:We ate a lot of fried chicken backs, livers, and gizzards too, and I don't mind eating them still.

I happen to really like chicken backs.

One of the first Frugal Gourmet recipes I saw in the newspaper, he made a headcheese type loaf with livers and gizzards. It was a recipe from his penny pinching days in the seminary.

Isaac and Moishe's deli makes a wonderful dish with gizzards.



I liked these much better than I thought I would.

Regards,

Silas Jayne: When we ate chicken we ate one for 6 people..My dad always ate the back, the liver and gizzards..Well he eventually made capatain and a lot of money..He's doing very well now but he still buys livers and gizzards because thats what he likes..He also enjoys South Wacco shrimp, otherwise known as chicken tails..

In my family, the part of the chicken that goes over the fence last was known as the pope's nose.... or sometimes the bishop's nose. My mom always got that part--plus the wings and back. Dividing the chicken was a hierarchical thing, as perceived by my family--dad and one brother (the "picky eater" who refused to eat otherwise) got the breasts, other brother got the drumsticks, and I got the thighs. No choice, but trading was allowed--if you could convince someone. My parents and I divvied up the giblets--my brothers wanted no part.

For years after leaving home (aided and abetted by a husband who would eat only white meat), I could not bear to even look at chicken thighs. Fortunately, I have since rediscovered just how moist and flavorful they are, and today they're probably my first choice.

My mom and my sister got the breasts in my house..

Silas Jayne wrote:My mom and my sister got the breasts in my house..

Rim shot!

Silas Jayne wrote:Cynthia- I just read your link there...Very interesting..I'll read more later..My daughter just moved to Austrialia..Just up and moved there...She's a model and has money and time- I work for an airline and she flys for free so she just travels everywhere..She went there, liked it and decided to move there?.. Here she is in Margret river (?) a few weeks ago..I think she's stealing fruit in this picture..My wife says no...It was cold there so she went to Phuket for a week, but she's back there now and just loves it...She's traveling the country before settling in Perth..

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Well, may I suggest that my book would make it easier for you to understand why she'd want to live there.

Cathy2 wrote:Hi,

The beef story reminded me of an anecdote about people living in Cape Cod: Lobster was served so often, they offered chicken for company. They were embarassed to serve lobster, because it was everyday food.

Oh the joy I would feel to have those problems!

Regards,

I used to say that, if I had a time machine, I'd visit the Colossus of Rhodes. That has dropped now to second place, with first place occupied by a restaurant in Florida I visited with my family in my teens. It was at a time when they were trying to get people to consider warm-water lobsters suitable food for the middle class, rather than just the poor, and there was a restaurant that served all the lobster you could eat for $5. I can remember it vividly -- a soup bowl of melted butter between every two people, and a huge platter of steamed lobsters dropped onto the middle of the table, and you just went at it. Yowza.

She made me a Tirasomisu cake- Incredible!

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