What Are You Eating Today?

[thebeave]

I make my beans with a can opener. I like beans but it seems like making them yourself is a lot of trouble considering the end result is, well, beans. Dare I say, just beans?

I just had a crab cake. Yesterday I had a crab cake too. I sprinkled Tabasco on yesterday's. Today I tried tartar sauce. Glad I had it on the side. Tatar sauce is a no go.

Toni's fast food post got me thinking about my mom's hamburgers, reminding me of the chunks of green pepper and onion she'd put in the mix. Way to ruin an otherwise good hamburger. They were nearly hamburger balls. Hamburger ellipsoids, that's what they were. We usually didn't have hamburger buns. Just hurry up and eat it before the white bread disintegrates. Good times.
Now I'm thinking about my mom making city chicken. Poor Polack/Ukie food.

Eddie Murphy? Is that you?

 

[Toni]

Rosemary Potatoes (nice side dish for 2)

All spices are the dry kind -- recalibrate my directions if you cook with the fresh kind.
Simmer one and a half t. of rosemary in one and a half T. of olive oil. (This will be your marinade base.)
While it simmers, boil 7 or 8 small redskin potatoes for 20 minutes.
Remove marinade from heat and spoon the potatoes onto a plate. When everything is cool enough to touch, slice each redskin in half. Pour marinade into shallow bowl and add additional spices (I like fresh ground pepper, oregano, basil, and garlic -- a good dash of each.)
Roll each redskin half in marinade and put on baking sheet. If you run low on marinade, add a little olive oil.
Into 350 degree oven. After 15 minutes, remove and flip each redskin over. Back in oven for 15 minutes.
Et voila.

I do something similar except I don’t do any boiling. I grow rosemary in my garden because I like having fresh rosemary around for a variety of dishes, especially rosemary potatoes. I slice in half or quarters, depending on size small potatoes and roll them in olive oil, snipped up rosemary and a mushed up clove of garlic. Put in baking pan, sprinkle very lightly with salt and more heavy on ground pepper. Bake @400 for about 30 minutes, depending on how your oven runs and size of potatoes—and how brown you like them. Hubby likes them with crispy skins. Inside is very soft, fragrant and delicious.

 

[crazyfingers]

In Maine I had clam chowder 3 nights in a row. It's a take-out place about 6 minutes down the road.

Home now. No chowder.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Why did I read Rosemary’s baby?