Meatless

[DallasCowpoke111]

Hahaha - you are right - short of learning to manipulate textured soy protein, I'll probably never get it the way I want it.

But that's OK - I don't truly expect to. I just want to find something that I enjoy and can live with.

I had a booth at a food show several years ago, and durring the day, ppl from the other tbls immediately around each other were passing samples back and forth.

I had places like The Palm directly on my right, Good Eats behind me, and a frozen seafood purveyor directly across the isle so I was eatin' purty dern well. Then the guy on my left, a company that was just getting a line of meatless burger patties on the market decided to get in on the fun.

After begging off for a few hours, he finally insited I try one of his veggie burgers, asking me for my honest opinion. He explained he'd been working w/ a R&D team, and wanted to know if I thought they were "on-target" with what they were about to release to the stores.

I took one bite and told him, "yea, you're on target, if your target's starvin' Ethiopians, tired of eating DIRT!"

Funny, but he kinda avoided me the rest of the show??

 

[DallasCowpoke111]

I don't eat beef or pork

Lean pork, like a loin or well trimmed loin chop is just as low fat and calories, if not more-so thn chick. I can assure you if you can stomach chicken, lean pork is do-able.

 

[DallasCowpoke111]

You sound like the guy in the Outback commercial

Yup, and she IS a big fan of candles!!

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I just don't trust most vegetarians...just something with them.

We had one where I worked and I would ask her if they call her salad shooter when she had the runs.

 

[Hostile]

After begging off for a few hours, he finally insited I try one of his veggie burgers, asking me for my honest opinion. He explained he'd been working w/ a R&D team, and wanted to know if I thought they were "on-target" with what they were about to release to the stores.

I took one bite and told him, "yea, you're on target, if your target's starvin' Ethiopians, tired of eating DIRT!"

Funny, but he kinda avoided me the rest of the show??

Post of the day.

 

[Hostile]

I just don't trust most vegetarians...just something with them.

We had one where I worked and I would ask her if they call her salad shooter when she had the runs.

I had a friend who said he would not eat anything that was green, so vegetables were out most of the time. If someone offered him something like broccoli he'd say "no thanks, it might get in my mouth."

 

[DallasCowpoke111]

I think I'm gonna contact my good friend, Chef Cowboy Ardee, and see if I can't convince him to submit a monthly recipe thread.

Maybe, if I ask nicely, he'll get something up by draft day and if we treat him really nicely, he'll take questions and do it weekly once the season gets nearer??

Although, I'm pretty sure that at the first mention of "Pea Salad" or "pudding", he will blow his top!! Y'all know how those primadona Frenchy SOB's can be!

 

[Crown Royal]

I think I'm gonna contact my good friend, Chef Cowboy Ardee, and see if I can't convince him to submit a monthly recipe thread.

Maybe, if I ask nicely, he'll get something up by draft day and if we treat him really nicely, he'll take questions and do it weekly once the season gets nearer??

Although, I'm pretty sure that at the first mention of "Pea Salad" or "pudding", he will blow his top!! Y'all know how those primadona Frenchy SOB's can be!

Ingredients:

1 slice - Bologna
1 tbsp Helmann's Real Mayonnaise
1 slice - Kraft American Cheese
2 slices - Mrs. Baird's White Bread

Hardware - Stove, 1 skillet, 1 fork (for flipping and, most importantly, CUTTING 4 SLITS IN THE BOLOGNA TO FORM A SAND DOLLAR SHAPE)

Gawd I miss that.

(This is going to get about 324987213957 replies that say 'GROSS' - face it - I'm a redneck. )

 

[DallasCowpoke111]

Ingredients:

1 slice - Bologna
1 tbsp Helmann's Real Mayonnaise
1 slice - Kraft American Cheese
2 slices - Mrs. Baird's White Bread

Hardware - Stove, 1 skillet, 1 fork (for flipping and, most importantly, CUTTING 4 SLITS IN THE BOLOGNA TO FORM A SAND DOLLAR SHAPE)

Gawd I miss that.

(This is going to get about 324987213957 replies that say 'GROSS' - face it - I'm a redneck. )

Actually one of my fallback snacks when I'm on the run or hungover and head hurts too much to stand at the stove more than 5 mins.

Substitute that new Turkey Spam in the single-slice pouch, whole wheat bread and ya got'cha purtinear a goar-met feast!

 

[Yeagermeister]

Ingredients:

1 slice - Bologna
1 tbsp Helmann's Real Mayonnaise
1 slice - Kraft American Cheese
2 slices - Mrs. Baird's White Bread

Hardware - Stove, 1 skillet, 1 fork (for flipping and, most importantly, CUTTING 4 SLITS IN THE BOLOGNA TO FORM A SAND DOLLAR SHAPE)

Gawd I miss that.

(This is going to get about 324987213957 replies that say 'GROSS' - face it - I'm a redneck. )

Replace the mayo with mustard and I'd go to town

 

[Hostile]

Replace the mayo with mustard and I'd go to town

On your way to town will you grab some mustard? 2 birds with 1 stone that way.

 

[Chief]

Mrs. Baird's White Bread

I always wondered who ate that awful white, pasty bread.

Ya gotta go with the wheat, my friend.

 

[Crown Royal]

I always wondered who ate that awful white, pasty bread.

Ya gotta go with the wheat, my friend.

I only ate it with fried bologna sandwiched.

I generally get wheat, rye, or an artisan bread from a bakery - that bagged stuff is garbage.

 

[Yeagermeister]

On your way to town will you grab some mustard? 2 birds with 1 stone that way.

Fork over some :money:

 

[Chief]

This talk of dieting and eating meat reminded me of one of my all-time favorite movie dialogues. This is Jack Lemmon and Burgess Meredith in "Grumpier Old Men."





Grandpa: What the... what the hell is this?

John: That's lite beer.

Grandpa: Gee, I weigh ninety damn pounds, and you bring me this sloppin' foam?

John: Ariel's got me on a diet because the doc said my cholestorol's a little too high.

Grandpa: Well let me tell you something now, Johnny. Last Thursday, I turned 95 years old. And I never exercised a day in my life. Every morning, I wake up, and I smoke a cigarette. And then I eat five strips of bacon. And for lunch, I eat a bacon sandwich. And for a midday snack?

John: Bacon.

Grandpa: Bacon! A whole damn plate! And I usually drink my dinner. Now according to all of them flat-belly experts, I should've took a dirt nap like thirty years ago. But each year comes and goes, and I'm still here. Ha! And they keep dyin'. You know? Sometimes I wonder if God forgot about me. Just goes to show you, huh?

John: What?

Grandpa: Huh?

John: Goes to show you what?

Grandpa: Well it just goes... what the hell are you talkin' about?

John: Well you said you drink beer, you eat bacon and you smoke cigarettes, and you outlive most of the experts.

Grandpa: Yeah?

John: I thought maybe there was a moral.

Grandpa: No, there ain't no moral. I just like that story. That's all. Like that story.

 

[DallasCowpoke111]

This talk of dieting and eating meat reminded me of one of my all-time favorite movie dialogues. This is Jack Lemmon and Burgess Meredith in "Grumpier Old Men."

Thank you for the dramatic reading Chiefster, it was very moving.

Next week, can we have something from Darby O'Gill??

 

[Rack]

Ingredients:

1 slice - Bologna
1 tbsp Helmann's Real Mayonnaise
1 slice - Kraft American Cheese
2 slices - Mrs. Baird's White Bread

Hardware - Stove, 1 skillet, 1 fork (for flipping and, most importantly, CUTTING 4 SLITS IN THE BOLOGNA TO FORM A SAND DOLLAR SHAPE)

Gawd I miss that.

(This is going to get about 324987213957 replies that say 'GROSS' - face it - I'm a redneck. )

Gross? Hell no. I'm not a redneck, but that is one of my favorite meals.

I call it "Cooked bologna sandwich".

 

[Yeagermeister]

Gross? Hell no. I'm not a redneck, but that is one of my favorite meals.

I call it "Cooked bologna sandwich".

Around here some call it a Poor Man's BBQ sandwich

 

[Crown Royal]

Wow - so I am currently working in the middle of nowhere LA, which has made this transition rather easy. I have eaten out thrice in the week and 3 days I have changed my diet - once at an oyster bar where I ate crawdaddies and oysters. Last night I went and ate sushi.

But tonight, though I should have cooked, I decided to go out again. I went to chili's because it was familiar.

Tonight was the toughest it has been. I haven't ever been to a restaurant and limited myself on the menu. For the first time ever, I looked at it and realized I can't eat 95% of what is on there. It was really, really demoralizing.

But I ordered the black bean burger and got through it. I was real sad at the beginning, but the food was satisfying.

It's just so weird for me - I used to want to be a chef, I cook all the time, and I love meat so much. But now that I'm not eating it, I feel so weird - like I've lost all the joy I had in eating. I suppose that's the point.

Anyway - at least I'm full and get to eat something - there are starving people in ethiopia, you know.

 

[DallasCowpoke111]

I have eaten out thrice in the week and 3 days I have changed my diet - once at an oyster bar where I ate crawdaddies

Word to the wise, if I EVER see you use EITHER one of these two words in a post again, I will PERSONALLY HUNT YOU DOWN and do to you what your Dad did to your Mom on the night you were conceived, only w/ a LOT LESS LOVE involved!!

The 1st one, makes you sound like some knicker-wearing, Limey nancy-boy, and the 2nd is just plain wrong. They're CRAWFISH, not crawdads, mudbugs, crayfish etc. You know the saying, "When in Rome..."?

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