Hey Grandpa! What's for supper?

[CarlWohlforth]

Anybody remember  the TV show "Hee Haw" ? It always had a skit where Grandpa Jones would be wiping a window and would describe a (usually) nice country style meal. The audience would usually respond "Yum, Yum!"

I was very young when that show was on TV  It was rural America's answer to "Rowen and Martin's Laugh In" with country music and pretty women dressed as farmer's daughters and lots of funny skits.


Anyway tonight we had broccoli with pasta, ground beef and roasted garlic (all mixed up) with a side of zucchini picked 10 minutes before super. It is a very easy, inexpensive and tasty meal. Yum, Yum!

[CarlWohlforth]

Last night we had Lasagna with fresh corn on the cob, an English muffin and vanilla ice cream with maple syrup for desert. Yum, yum!

[CarlWohlforth]

My signature paella with crab and shrimp with a fresh garden salad and steamed zucchini with butter, mmmmmm, mmmmm!

[CarlWohlforth]

Spaghetti and meatballs with home grown cherry tomato salad. Yum, yum!

[CarlWohlforth]

Fresh picked zucchini stuffed with ground beef, fresh picked tomatoes, onion, garlic, bread crumbs and spices with sauteed mushrooms and rice on the side and fresh home baked oatmeal cookies made from scratch. Yum, Yum!!! 

[CarlWohlforth]

OMG! I just had a fantastic meal, one of our favorites!

Roasted Rock Cornish Game Hens with fresh picked rosemary and bay leaves placed under the skin. This time we put new red potatoes, cut in half, in the roasting dish so the potatoes soaked up the drippings from the hens! We bought corn on the cob at SaveMart today. It is at its peak, so fresh and so plentiful that 8 ears only cost a buck! Add in a tiny fresh picked zucchini, put a touch of butter on the zuke and potatoes and that is heaven! Fresh homemade oatmeal cookies for desert, a glass of wine during the meal complete this scenario.

Yum, yum!

[CarlWohlforth]

Cioppino with a loaf of fresh pugliese bread and a fresh garden salad with home grown cherry tomatoes. It was my first cioppino and it was good if I do say so myself.  Bread was purchased at the supermarket but was baked in the morning. My wife, daughter and I ate the whole loaf!

Yum, yum!

[CarlWohlforth]

Woah Baby!

A nice, thick, rare piece of steak with very fresh corn on the cob, baby zucchini, cherry tomatoes and a baked creamy red skin potato. For desert fresh apple pie made today with Macintosh apples from the tree out back and a pie crust made from scratch by our daughter.  Yum, yum!!!

[CarlWohlforth]

Pork chops. Nice tasty ones. A little well done for my tastes but we aren't allowed to eat rare meat around here anymore.  We had baked potatoes. Nice Idaho potatoes. With a slightly crusty skin - just the way I like them! And.....

mini Pumpkins stuffed with veggies and baked, Yum, Yum!!!!!

[Bubblehead]

 

All this talk of food!   And super delicious meals, too...    I have been meaning to
tell Carl of my corn tortilla cooking experiments. I keep forgetting; but, since
going over these nearly daily, and sumptious sounding meal writings, I am
reminded of tortillas, olive oil, real butter, and lastly, plain old bacon grease!

It has been my experience (recent, too) that cooking corn tortillas on a flat, cast
iron, sorta skillet works best when using regular left over bacon grease.  For those
who cannot abide bacon grease, or any grease, my next recommendation is to use
olive oil..  Extra Virgin is better. I found that slathering my tortillas with real salted
butter was causing them to come apart, bubble and crack..  Making a mess when filling them with a filling of choice, and a subsequent rolling of same..  I miss the good butter
taste, combined with the corn taste, but heck....  I just do toast now...
I have reached that point where writing further is posing a problem.. Anyone else
experiencing difficulties typing more, once this text box fills to some point? 
You'll definately know it, if you are...

[scrapman1077]

tonight we had venison stir fry

[Bubblehead]

 

Well, heck.... This talk of food...  My wife and I shopped at the base commissary
this morning to replenish our "grandson" snacks (5 of 'em, all boys..) We put baskets of sticky buns out for them, bowls of fruit, cookies, and each has a favorite drink.

Anyhow, I spotted "Navy Beans" in a generic brand, marked @ .50c a can.  Hmmmm?
Can't beat that!  Hey, honey, do we have the hambone from Thanksgiving?

YES!   So, the wife is gonna make a large pot of homemade Navy Bean soup for
me... I am the soup eater in the family. I will be reminded of the old days,
and my years of sampling "Navy" bean soup; from Aircraft Carriers, to destroyers,
to minesweeps, and finally, to boats...  The recipe was always the same, and I
find myself enjoying, very much, the memories that return with each spoonful.

Now, if I could only find an old Navy issue soup bowl!

[walmann]

My grandfather was a steak and potatoes man.

On the rare occassions the family had a pasta meal, which he detested, a separate but simple meal consisting of baked beans, canadian bacon and warm brown bread topped with butter was served up for WJ.

I will on occassion make this meal and it always brings back fond memories of summer days during my youthful years.

[Bubblehead]

My grandfather was a steak and potatoes man.

Jeez..  You got me started with fond memories my visits to my grandpa, too!

Huge difference in food taste, tho.  My maternal grandfather came here from Poland
when he was 14.. The old folks think so, anyway.  He wanted beet soup, cabbage
and potatoes..  Sometimes, pork was added to both dishes. Sour cream on the beet
soup, for sure!  I also recall my grandma slathering thick slices of homemade "black"
bread for me, using leftover bacon grease.  The grease was in a small cast iron pot.
There was a wooden paddle stuck in the middle of it.  She used that paddle to smear
my bread with the old grease. It was good.  It contained bits of bacon, and other,
mystery meats, as well..      I still have my gall bladder, too!

Thanks for giving my old, tired, memory a little kick there!   

[CarlWohlforth]

Hamburgers, mashed potatoes and Greek salad.

You might think Greek salad doesn't go with burgers but feta cheese and cucumbers were on sale at the supermarket so Greek salad was calling my name. Three big cucumbers for a buck! Feta cheese half price. My family will love it. Yup, we haven't actually eaten yet, but that is what is for dinner!

I also bought a beautiful 3 lb. chuck steak for $1.88/lb. Hamburger meat was $2.49! I need a meat grinder and I would have better hamburger by grinding up that chuck steak! Hey, I should of asked the butcher, do supermarket butchers grind meat for you?