Your favourite food(s)

[countryboy]

I struggle with eating eggs nearly anytime (just not my favourite thing) but why would you add beans? for breakfast. By homefries you don't actually mean French Fries do you? That may be a hardy breakfast but it's not a hearty breakfast unless you count hearty as a heart attack here. Aside from the ketchup, you ate nothing but fat and cholesterol. I'm not meaning to insult you. It's just a breakfast that gives me shivers at the mere thought of eating it. If I was there I would happily have given you my share. ;-)

VI - I gotta' defend Johnny's taste in breakfasts here...'cause I think the one he described is a nice treat...

Fried taters are good! I fry mine in coconut oil, which is a good fat but there are lots of other ways too.

Eggs? They got a really bad rap some years ago, but I think we know more about them now...they're still "nature's perfect food." I like them boiled or poached...so the yolk can run out all over the spuds! Mind you, that's a matter of taste.

Beans? Ha, now there's a good addition of all kinds of minerals, fibre, and protein to the meal. But, the big payoff is the taste...yummy, nice dark baked beans on the side makes for a heck of a good start to a working day. With lots of black pepper on top!

Sadly, I don't really like bacon any more but I sure used to...I don't care for the smell or the taste of it, but I think that's mainly due to the pork they're using these days. If I could find a wild boar out in the bush, he'd be off to the local meat guy for brining and smoking in a big hurry!

 

[countryboy]

My favorite food today is oven baked deep brown beans made with a special recipe won in a poker game in 1953 while at sea with the Carter Expedition of that same year.

One KG soldier beans, 2gr dry mustard, 200ml tomato sauce, four slices back bacon ( alternatively two fat lamb chops), 250ml molasass, 20ml white vinegar, 250ml brown sugar, 5gr salt, 5gr black pepper, 2 bay leaf, 1 biggish onion (discard during decover 1/2 hr before serveing ) Soak the beans overnight (24hr) of course and rinse and recover with spring water 5cm above beans cover and cook at 200c all day (6 to eight hr), serve with pork chops and oven fresh brown bread and beer.

I'm getting out my big clay bean pot right now! Many thanks for sharing...man, this sounds really great!

 

[darkbeaver]

To get that yolk perfect is important, I love dipping my buttered toast in the yolk, homefries on the side. I never thought of coconut oil but I thinking about it now.

 

[countryboy]

Here's my seafood chowder (modifiable to be just clam chowder or whatever sea critter you prefer):

The other clam chowder (my fave and its basically the same as my seafood chowder posted elsewhere):
16 oz each of crab, scallops, cod, shrimp
2 liters of canned tomatoes (or a liter and a half of fresh ones with 2 cups of water)
2 cans of baby clams, broth included
4 cups of chopped onions
4 cups of sliced carrots
4 cups of sliced celery
4 cups of cubed spuds
half a slab of bacon chopped, sauteed to crispy, and mostly drained
couple leafs of dulse
a couple bay leafs
4 cloves of garlic chopped
couple pinch of oregano
couple pinch of basil
and I add a fair bit of Cajun seasoning

bring tomatoes (and water if necessary) to a boil and add other ingredients while you saute the bacon. After it's started boiling reduce the heat and add the bacon bits. Serve with garlic toast or crackers or something.
Sorry about the recipe size, but stews, chilis, soups are things I make in large quantities so I can feed a horde or two people and freeze the leftovers.

Woo-hoo! A 'homesteader size' batch! I might have to invite the local municipality over for a chowder feast, but it would be great...especially on a cold and frosty winter's day. Thanks! (I'm printing out all these secrets that keep appearing here)...

 

[darkbeaver]

I'm getting out my big clay bean pot right now! Many thanks for sharing...man, this sounds really great!

Later, well after dark I'll open the safe and check the parchment and make sure I'v not forgotten anything. I have to buy a new bean crock some day. I think the secret to great beans is patience for proper aging.

 

[karrie]

Are you mad? I don't want the general public to find this masterpiece of culinary art. I'm only sharing it with the members because I want them to experience fine eatin like I do. Diner was twenty minutes ago and I'm considering another small bowl. Tomorrow they will be one day closer to heaven and the next precious beyond belief, and potent every minute between.

lol... fair enough. BTW, it's almost exactly the same as my great grandmother's recipe. I haven't made them in ages, I really ought to. They're perfect winter food.

 

[countryboy]

Around here, what you call home fries is called "hash browns".
Tater pancakes are awesome, too.

Tater cakes are great...I agree. Back when we ran a restaurant, we used to make (fresh to order) "spud cakes" in a cheezy/spicy version...complete with shredded old cheddar and roasted jalapeno hunks. And onions, of course. It was very popular with the 'hangover crowd', for some reason.

 

[darkbeaver]

lol... fair enough. BTW, it's almost exactly the same as my great grandmother's recipe. I haven't made them in ages, I really ought to. They're perfect winter food.

perfect

 

[petros]

Red Popsicles are good eatin'.

 

[countryboy]

To get that yolk perfect is important, I love dipping my buttered toast in the yolk, homefries on the side. I never thought of coconut oil but I thinking about it now.

My brother got me on to coconut oil after he had a triple bypass, and now I'm hooked on it. It ain't cheap, but a little goes a long way. It's a 'guilt-free' fat. When you first heat it up in the frying pan, it smells a bit sweet, but tastes just great...not at all weird.

Try to get one that says "pure coconut oil" on the label...the processed food people are trying to fiddle with it, but I'd stay away from those "blends." They're ugly. Best place to buy coconut oil is - if there's one handy - an Indian supermarket. I get mine on Main St. in Vancouver (Punjab Supermarket) so I stock up when I'm there...it's 7 hours away by car!

 

[countryboy]

Later, well after dark I'll open the safe and check the parchment and make sure I'v not forgotten anything. I have to buy a new bean crock some day. I think the secret to great beans is patience for proper aging.

I bought mine in an oriental supermarket down in Vancouver...T & T was the store name, I think. Anyway, they have these fairly cheap clay pots that are designed for "hot pot" cooking and they come in all sizes, with nice heavy lids. I like them because they can take direct heat (for boiling the beans) and also good in the oven. I've had mine for 10 years plus and it's still going strong...

 

[darkbeaver]

You have all the good stuff on the west coast.

 

[Mowich]

Maybe that's why so many people buy oatmeal. People buy it in 25 and 50 pound bags. I use it only when I bake date square! The only way I can eat it as cereal is with a ton of brown sugar to cover the taste. Every morning, growing up, my Dad would call out that the "mush" was ready and every morning each of us turned it down. He called us bloomin' idiots. Actually he said idjuts! Not sure why he pronounced it that way.

I wonder if the reason people dislike the taste might lie in the way the porridge is cooked? I've tasted some pretty awful oatmeal over the years, but simply love the taste when I make it. I also grew up eating oatmeal for breakfast, most especially in the winter. My Mum is Scott and of course comes from a country famous for their porridge, her's was always yummy, though a little runnier than I prefer mine now.

 

[talloola]

I make my special oatmeal breaky every morning, it is so
delicious, and mixed with lots of good stuff.

 

[Mowich]

I struggle with eating eggs nearly anytime (just not my favourite thing) but why would you add beans? for breakfast. By homefries you don't actually mean French Fries do you? That may be a hardy breakfast but it's not a hearty breakfast unless you count hearty as a heart attack here. Aside from the ketchup, you ate nothing but fat and cholesterol. I'm not meaning to insult you. It's just a breakfast that gives me shivers at the mere thought of eating it. If I was there I would happily have given you my share. ;-)

Oh beans are a wonderful breakfast food, VanIsle. They, like oatmeal, stick with you for awhile. I also like pre-cooked rice for breakfast. I put my poached or boiled eggs on top and mush everything up. Hmmmn...hmmmn good.

My 'home fries' are really just big slices of potato dunked in a mixture of ayurvedic spices and rice oil, placed on a baking sheet in a 350' degree oven till they are golden brown. I usually turn them once during the process. They are actually a very tasty and not unhealthy treat.

 

[Mowich]

I make my special oatmeal breaky every morning, it is so
delicious, and mixed with lots of good stuff.

Oatmeal is adaptable to so many different additions, isn't it talloola? I've used maple syrup as a sweetner or in lieu of that, Roger's Golden Syrup. I've added sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, pieces of dried apricot or mango and raisins or currents. I like a dollop of grape jelly from time to time too.

 

[Mowich]

To get that yolk perfect is important, I love dipping my buttered toast in the yolk, homefries on the side. I never thought of coconut oil but I thinking about it now.

Rice oil is also a good substitute to regular oil, DB.

 

[karrie]

Oh beans are a wonderful breakfast food, VanIsle. They, like oatmeal, stick with you for awhile. quote]

Fibre and protein and carbs all in one... I concur... beans rock for breaky. And the only reason they'd ever be bad for your heart is if you cooked them in scads of lard.

 

[countryboy]

Rice oil is also a good substitute to regular oil, DB.

True, forgot that one but it can be hard to get. Also grapeseed oil is good too. These ones don't break down under high frying heat (and turn into bad fats) as much as olive oil and others. Processed canola oil is already bad fat so I try to avoid it.

 

[countryboy]

Oh beans are a wonderful breakfast food, VanIsle.

Yeah, they wake up your digestive system in a hurry...it might even "talk" to you a bit later to say "thank you!" :lol: