Food and Recipes while under Coronavirus quarantine #8

[iamshadow21]

I just came back from Tampa, where we ate a Longhorn Steak House for the first time. I had their Strawberry & Pecan salad and it was the best salad I've ever had, lol. I keep thinking about it and want to go back! I tried to attach a pic from their menu but it's not loading.

Here is the description:
Farm fresh field greens topped with fresh cut strawberries, grapes, mandarin oranges, candied pecans, and feta. Served with a light raspberry vinaigrette.

That sounds really good. I'd want a really nice sharp and salty feta rather than a creamier one, to balance out the sour and sweet.

 

[Auntie Cipation]

Fresh is always best but for practicality, I buy a lot of frozen veggies. Yes, I love a good coleslaw especially in the summer!

I didn't know there were different types of kale. Stands to reason LOL! That would explain the bag of kale I bought that I thought might be rabbit food.

I know of three types of kale. 1) Russian kale, kind of spiky edges on the leaves and tinged with pink. 2) Lacinato kale, aka dinosaur kale, sounds like this might also be called Tuscan kale based on the rabbit-ears shape of the leaves. And 3) curly kale.

I don't eat kale raw, I cook it much like spinach (and it cooks down, volumewise, much like spinach too). That might solve the texture issue. My standard lazy-cook method is to put it into a pot of boiling pasta -- I just wait until there's less than two minutes left to cook the pasta, then dump the kale straight in so it only cooks that last little bit and I get a one-pot meal.

Ironically, I don't like Russian kale at all, am fairly neutral about Lacinato kale, but really love curly kale! (again, no curly texture issues when it's cooked).

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

One of my favorite ways to enjoy kale: Baked Kale Chips

 

[whiterhino]

I know of three types of kale. 1) Russian kale, kind of spiky edges on the leaves and tinged with pink. 2) Lacinato kale, aka dinosaur kale, sounds like this might also be called Tuscan kale based on the rabbit-ears shape of the leaves. And 3) curly kale.

I don't eat kale raw, I cook it much like spinach (and it cooks down, volumewise, much like spinach too). That might solve the texture issue. My standard lazy-cook method is to put it into a pot of boiling pasta -- I just wait until there's less than two minutes left to cook the pasta, then dump the kale straight in so it only cooks that last little bit and I get a one-pot meal.

Ironically, I don't like Russian kale at all, am fairly neutral about Lacinato kale, but really love curly kale! (again, no curly texture issues when it's cooked).

( don't know what kind I had but it was tough. I get the bagged, prechopped kale at the grocery store but have probably had different types of kale in a salad somewhere.

I usually mix it in with my scrambled eggs or put it in a wrap. I've never cooked it. I have tried making kale chips but that wasn't worth the effort imo.

 

[whiterhino]

I remember reading about 15 years ago that Pizza Hut was the largest user of kale in the country. That’s back when all the Pizza Hut restaurants had salad bars, and kale was used as a garnish between the salad bar items.

Omg you just unlocked such an old memory!! I remember going to Pizza Hut for lunch and the salad bar had lettuce leaves in between the salads at the salad bar which had me so confused lol.

 

[IceIce9]

Omg you just unlocked such an old memory!! I remember going to Pizza Hut for lunch and the salad bar had lettuce leaves in between the salads at the salad bar which had me so confused lol.

We dined at our local Pizza Hut frequently! It was very good pizza, the employees were enthusiastic, salad bar was always fresh and clean. They served soda in big red plastic cups.

Our kids participated in Book-It at school so they each received a coupon for a free personal pan pizza and drink every month.

The kale they used as decor or garnish on the salad bar was a blue green, very pretty.

 

[whiterhino]

We dined at our local Pizza Hut frequently! It was very good pizza, the employees were enthusiastic, salad bar was always fresh and clean. They served soda in big red plastic cups.

Our kids participated in Book-It at school so they each received a coupon for a free personal pan pizza and drink every month.

The kale they used as decor or garnish on the salad bar was a blue green, very pretty.

My mom used to take me to Pizza Hut on Fridays for lunch. I always got the same little pan pizza and a chocolate milk in the big red cup! I just remember the salad bar was literally made of lettuce which was funny to me.

 

[IceIce9]

We have been enjoying unseasonably warm weather here in Indiana. No hard frost yet so my flowers are still blooming. I have Rio Dipladenia both in front of my house and around my patio and they are still growing and blooming.

I cleaned up my garden and dug up all my tomato plants last month but there is a volunteer tomato plant that I missed because I didn’t know it was there. It has been growing and is now very large. I’ve never seen a tomato plant last yo the middle of November here before.

 

[155etta]

I just came back from Tampa, where we ate a Longhorn Steak House for the first time. I had their Strawberry & Pecan salad and it was the best salad I've ever had, lol. I keep thinking about it and want to go back! I tried to attach a pic from their menu but it's not loading.

Here is the description:
Farm fresh field greens topped with fresh cut strawberries, grapes, mandarin oranges, candied pecans, and feta. Served with a light raspberry vinaigrette.

Yum!

 

[IceIce9]

I just found a used copy of a cookbook I had been searching for that is out of print. It’s called The I Hate to Cook Book, and I remember reading it when I was about ten years old. Someone had given it to my mom back around 1970, probably as a joke, because she cooked all the time.

Anyway, although the book is written in a humorous manner there are quite a few easy recipes we used to make as kids. I had been thinking about it lately so I was happy to find a copy.

 

[Grouse]

I just found a used copy of a cookbook I had been searching for that is out of print. It’s called The I Hate to Cook Book, and I remember reading it when I was about ten years old. Someone had given it to my mom back around 1970, probably as a joke, because she cooked all the time.

Anyway, although the book is written in a humorous manner there are quite a few easy recipes we used to make as kids. I had been thinking about it lately so I was happy to find a copy.

It's good when you find a book again like that. I found a used copy of the F Plan by Audrey Eyton about 3 years ago, and bought it just for the Spaghetti with Chilli Lentil Sauce recipe which I hadn't had since about the 1980's.

 

[IceIce9]

It's good when you find a book again like that. I found a used copy of the F Plan by Audrey Eyton about 3 years ago, and bought it just for the Spaghetti with Chilli Lentil Sauce recipe which I hadn't had since about the 1980's.

I love vintage cookbooks, especially when I find recipes from my childhood.

 

[Knox]

I just put a whole organic chicken, along with celery, carrots, onion, garlic, bay leaves & red bell pepper in my instapot. Last minute thought, chicken was still frozen. Put it on for three hours, even though it says a frozen whole chicken can be done in an hour. Thinking this might result in some bone broth type of benefit?

My husband's grandmother made a german soup which he loves. The chicken is cooked with a spice ball filled with whole allspice and finished at the end with heavy cream. Served over rice or egg noodles. The allspice sounds weird, but it's delicious.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Pink Fir Apples are my favourite potato to grow. They're little pink ones about the size and shape of a Kipfler, so they don't go very far but the flavour is awesome.

I looked up that type of potato and I couldn't determine if it will grow in Zone 10 (Sarasota). But they sound very much like the small red seed potatoes I bought last year. But I did them in a bin and it didn't work well. I added a new 3' x 6' x 12" deep raised bed and I think they may work better there.

 

[weepingangel]

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[Knox]

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Is it just me or are these happening at a more rapid rate lately?

 

[Catmommy]

Here's a happy fact (not really). E.coli only come from the bowels of a human or animal.

 

[IceIce9]

Here's a happy fact (not really). E.coli only come from the bowels of a human or animal.

Which is why vegans and vegetarians for years thought (mistakenly) that they weren’t at risk of e.Coli

 

[Catmommy]

Which is why vegans and vegetarians for years thought (mistakenly) that they weren’t at risk of e.Coli

Crap water flows downstream.

 

[155etta]

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I got an automated phone call from Costco for recalled carrots today.