Lunch, Anybody?

[Fifty150]

I went out to The Yard to gather some random produce.

It turns out that The X also bought tomatoes. "Good job. You grow those things all year, and got about $1 worth of food. What did it cost to grow them?" What she doesn't know is that it didn't cost a thing. I didn't even buy seeds. I used the seeds from the tomatoes she buys in the store. The rain waters the ground. I don't do anything. Same way I have neglected fruit trees. I just pick whatever fruit is out there.

I'm sure that if I actually took care of the plants, they would yield more. But this is just fine. Zero investment. It's like living on passed down, generational wealth. Like people who receive an allowance from a trust fund which they have never contributed or invested into, and they don't manage. They get free money. I get free fruit.

 

[Fifty150]

There's always roast beef at my house. And I'm always eating it. Typical American food. No style. No presentation. Greedy. Red meat stacked an inch high. 2 eggs, cooked until the edges are crispy and still runny in the middle.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Wholegrain Penne with Napoli sauce.

 

[Fifty150]

I am constantly reminded by That Girl that I am spoiled and privileged. Living in the land of fresh food. Well, there is the fact that The USA wastes more food than some 3rd world nations consume. More specifically, California. Where we have an abundance of fresh produce, meat, dairy, and the ocean. She is from a land which is frozen over in winter. And they cannot afford to import fresh food from The Southern Hemisphere. Only in Japan, do they import mango and avocado, then pay $20 for the fruit. In her homeland, winter vegetables are whatever is preserved and canned, plus root vegetables like potato, carrots, and such. When the land is frozen, there are no lush fields of green salad. And in that part of the world, there's no avocado.

I just shrugged, and ate the salad. Without any guilt, or second thought, about starving vegetarians in developing nations and 3rd world countries. Nor did my mind ever wonder about living in Siberia or Alaska. Alaska has Costco. Siberia does not. But they have supermarkets. They are not primitives.

 

[Turnip]

Turnip Stew from the pressure pot today

 

[Fifty150]

Winter produce, pickled salad. Cabbage, carrot, and apple. With the routine tri tip roast. Roasted on cast iron. It started on a plate. Then I quickly changed my mind and made a sandwich.

"Why is there so much food?"

I never know who might stop by. The 9ers are playing.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Ham and cheese crepe with the ham from last night’s Christmas Eve celebration.

 

[Fifty150]

Pepino Dulce grows in my yard. It consistently gives fruit. Even now, in Winter, I am harvesting.

 

[Woodtroll]

Pepino Dulce grows in my yard. It consistently gives fruit. Even now, in Winter, I am harvesting.


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I'd never even heard of such a thing. I really enjoy your food and cooking posts - it seems I'm always being exposed to something new!

 

[Trenchfriend]

Apple Burrito with peanutbutter and some raisins, what else?

(No, not every day, but very often!)

 

[Bushman]

Went out to grab some lunch, and the driver's side wipers went out.

Just as this week is predicted to be very snowy.

So I came home and heated up some Campbell's New England clam chowder and made a PB&J instead.

 

[Fifty150]

I'd never even heard of such a thing.

Indeed, it is not well known.

driver's side wipers went out

Was it something simple, like the wiper motor?

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

Roast beef on white with chicken soup.

 

[Trenchfriend]

@LizzieMaine

 

[Fifty150]

This steak fried rice has me obsessed. I am doubling the meat. 2 steaks. Just like an indulgent American.

 

[Fifty150]

It's ham day. I now have a stack of slices and a mound of chopped ham. In addition to about a gallon of pork stock. The best part is picking the scraps off the bone and the bone marrow.

 

[Fifty150]

That Girl once told me about where she is from, there is no middle class. There are rich people. There are poor people. The difference being that either you hired people to work for you, or you were hired to work. The people who hire other people, lived in nice big houses, where they hired more people to do the work around the house. And that existed at every level of their society. Even in the small villages, the merchant class such as shop owners, restaurateurs, trades people, etc, did not work. If you owned an auto repair shop, you collected profits, and hired mechanics. Then you go home, and you have your housekeeper, cook, gardener, et cetera. You were a boss. You didn't do the work.

If you worked, you were poor. The people who were lucky enough to work in restaurants, were lucky enough to take home scraps which would otherwise be thrown away. Such as the bones leftover from making soup stock. So here is my midnight snack. The leftover ham bones from making a pot of pork stock. Picking off every last bit of meat, gelatinous collagen, and marrow.

 

[Fifty150]

Cheap eats. Beef shoulder. Butchers call it chuck. Chuck is so tough, that it's usually ground for hamburger meat.

Fill the bottom of the roasting pan with carrots. No roasting pan rack needed. The meat will sit on the carrots.


Insert garlic cloves into the seams of the meat.

Cover with onions.

Season with whatever you like. Salt. Pepper. Etc. It will taste like whatever you want it to taste like.


Cook until tender.


I like to use the pan juices to cook extra vegetables. This was about 2 ounces of roast beef juice with a bunch of spinach. You can make any vegetable you want, or not.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Nürnberger Sausages, nothing else. Sunday enjoyment.

 

[Fifty150]

Bruce Lee's favorite. Oyster Sauce Beef. My version had asparagus today.

Toss the beef in a wok, with asparagus, and eat.