food S.I.P./Quarantine Cooking

[The Hot Pepper]

Other half make killer kobbler

 

[salsalady]

Pies, ribs, mahi and cobbler....Oh My!!!!!

 

[Ashen]

Breakfast of champions aka fat dudes sitting on their back porch .

As per his very polite request, Donnalee made some maple candied bacon cupcakes for my nephew's graduation. I even sacrificed the last of the homemade bacon for them.

 

[salsalady]

OMG!  I think I gained a pound just looking at those maple BACON cupcakes!  That must be one very special (or talented sweet talking) nephew.  High school? College?
 
 
 
And on a totally unrelated note (but not really worthy of it's own thread, so I'm posting it here)...
 
One of these is not like the others

 
and a little shout out to my buddy Warrantman

 
 

 

[Ashen]

High school. He starts studying bio med @ UBC in Vancouver in the fall. Well online the first semester anyway, hopefully will get to move out there 2021 for spring semester. I am anticipating Donnalee pushing for us to go out west to visit next year sometime as her cousin(more like brother) is a police officer in Vancouver and her Aunt and uncle ( second mother basically )live in Kamloops.

 

[salsalady]

Best wishes to him and his further goals.
It's a wacky world right now, I hope all young people transitioning to the next level of their education persevere and git 'er done. It's not traditional college or even elementary and high school.

Hope you and your Lovely can make the trip. With the restrictions on travel, it makes seeing family more special.

 

[sinensis]

nice bacon cupcakes!
 
serviceberry clafoutis:
 

 

 

[Ashen]

Smoked n sauced thighs , tater salad and some decent maters with globe basil. Plated GIP stylee.

 

[salsalady]

Since we're all going back into quarantine after the aggressive opening/soft opening/never closed....:smh:...
 
The Mazama Store makes the BEST sea salt baguettes!  I can't get them too often, but sometimes, it's a treat.
 
Last night was Burger Dips on Baguette with gronions and cheese.
Da Stah!

 
gronions (grilled onions)

 
burgers shaped to the bread, with cheese and onions

 

 
With the au jus and baguette, these were very fillin, John and I both only ate half for dinner.  Just had the other half for breakfast.
 
 
 
 
Back in the day, when working at the Sedro-Wolley restaurant right on main street...
the city always had a big 4th of July parade through downtown.  Tons of people lining the street right in front of the cafe. 
 
About half way through the parade, we'd dump a shit-ton of sliced onions on the grill and start cooking them down for the lunch special Carni-Burger (a carnival burger with grilled onions, fries).  The vent hood would blow all that wonderful smell out to the masses.  When the parade ended and they all came in to eat, yea, the carni-burgers were flying out the pass...
 

 

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Yummy! Reminds me of a french place here that has a french onion soup sandwich lol!

 

[The Hot Pepper]

But French Dip was prob my fave sammie as a kid.

 

[salsalady]

I dont think I ever had a French dip until I started working at Axelsons Cafe in Burlington when I was 14 years old. My dad wouldn't eat anything spicier than ketchup on French fries and butter on boiled potatoes. Plain lettuce for a salad, salt on the boiled green beans. Absolutely no onions...ever....

Wow, crazy to realize that's what my culinary exposure was. First salad dressing I got into was blue cheese....at the cafe. Salad dressing was not served at home. Adventurous eating was adding pickles and onions to the complimentary cafe supplied hamburger per shift.


It all comes back around to when my mom was going out from cancer about 6 years ago and my brothers and I were taking turns staying at their house, taking care of mom with her medical stuff and Dad. Cooking and stuff. Being aware of Dads .....bland.... eating preferences, I made sure to finely mince (like to a puree consistency) all the onion and garlic mixed in the spaghetti sauce and burgers and scalloped potatoes and meatloaf.....

He ate it all up just fine and seemed to enjoy the food.

4 years later....
I made up for it by giving Dad ice cream in his last hour. Figured that would taste better than the pain meds that were squirted in. He tasted the little spoons of soft ice cream and smiled. Soon after, he was gone.

We joke that dad only liked 2 kinds of pie...hot or cold.
And the best flavor of ice cream was the one in the freezer.


Sorry for waxing sentimental. I didnt start out this post heading down that road.

Ok, a post of a culinary failure coming up.

 

[The_NorthEast_ChileMan]

Hey BossMan, SL posted....

 

Since we're all going back into quarantine after the aggressive opening/soft opening/never closed....:smh:...

But you're from Nu Yawk and I'm in Taxachusetts and our states in fine shape. Them left coasters must be in tough shape, huh?

 

[salsalady]

Warshington is ticking up, Calif, Texas, AZ, Fla.....baaaaad news.....



On a lighter note, I plan on posting them plump breastessess I promised last week in the Wangs thread.

Or, would that be on a heavier note, since breastessess are heavier than wings?

Pics will confirm!

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Sometimes a wang is heavier than a boobie

 

[salsalady]

Sometimes!



But not in my house...





Wheres the emoji?

 

[The Hot Pepper]

 

[salsalady]

And a failed attempt at sopapillas
 
Made some dough, let it rest, rolled out, folded over cut into 3-4" squares, let it rest.......
 
Then fried it up!
 
Hit a couple with a bunch of salt and just ate 'em as fried food fresh out of the pot.   They didn't get the pocket to stuff with taco meat, greasy, probably not hot enough oil, though I did use the digital thermometer...
 
I did use the taco meat for 3 days worth of work lunches with lettuce, some Yellowbird sauce and Sweet Onion salad dressing, crunched up tortilla chips.....good lunches.
 
 
The soggy pillows got pitched in the bin.
 
picture #5 kinda shows how trashed the kitchen got.  Hubby bitched at me about that one. 
edit for typos

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Put them in the oven to crisp the insides?

 

[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

wife brought home take-out from Old Southern BBQ 
 
 
 

 

 smoked Ribs, and Wangs, with  Baked-Beans,  and Habanero-Quickles