Yes, once again my post is all about food! Why? It all comes down to 'how busy' we've been. There was absolutely nothing on our calendar all of last week… That means that food consumed at home continues to be my primary blogger topic, which should prove more challenging due to the fact that we’re now cutting back on consumption following the holidays.
Hopefully,
you’ll see something good to eat among the following options!
Stepping back a few weeks, one evening Laurie breaded and baked a couple of boneless pork chops for dinner. She breads them the way we like them…lots of spices and some ‘heat’ too! As you can see we sided the pork chops with Uncle Ben’s cheesy rice and green beans.
Then we ordered another take-out meal, this time from Z Fish House in Loudon Tennessee. This was Laurie’s fried shrimp dinner, the large shrimp sided with seasoned French fries and corn muffins. The shrimp were excellent, the fries were OK and we both liked the corn muffins.
Instead of fried shrimp, I chose the fried catfish dinner. I also had the corn muffins and seasoned French fries but also added a couple of decent hush puppies. As usual, the fried catfish were great!
So…one evening I called Little Italy, a restaurant in Loudon County adjacent to Tellico Village. We hadn’t had breakfast there in months but we think that Little Italy serves the best sausage gravy we’ve had in a long, long time. So I ordered a quart of sausage gravy and 8 biscuits…
If you
follow my blog, I’m guessing that you can readily determine which breakfast
shown above belongs to Laurie and which one belongs to yours truly. Love that Tabasco and why wouldn’t you just
top the biscuits and gravy with the over-easy fried eggs?!
About once a year, Laurie whips up a big pot of her famous chili. Her chili is way too spicy for most folks. In addition to a couple different varieties of beans, it’s loaded with ground beef and spicy sausage. Laurie likes hers with crackers and I like mine straight up with a slice or two of buttered bread on the side.
As you may know by now, I don’t like to waste food. I had some leftover seasoned French fries from Z Fish House and I had leftover chili. I heated the French fries in a frying pan with butter and added the chili to the mix. Then I topped that mixture with a couple of over-easy eggs. Another satisfying breakfast!
Continuing with our theme of keeping most of our meals simple ‘prep wise’, one morning Laurie baked some store bought biscuits and we just slathered them with Amish butter and jam…
Almost equally simple was this meat loaf dinner… The ready to bake meat loaf came from Fresh Market as did the asparagus and the bread. The meat loaf was just OK as it lacked any discernable seasoning. It was very bland. I love asparagus! From now on we're sticking with Laurie's meat loaf...
Breakfast can’t get much simpler than this one. Thaw Jimmy Dean’s sausage, egg and cheese biscuits the night before, zap them in the microwave for 50 seconds, add juice, and your 295th day in Covid-19 self-isolation is off to a great start.
FYI,
Loudon County Tennessee has started giving out the Covid-19 vaccine to old
folks like me. Communications are a
problem though. The County Mayor wasn’t
aware that the effort had started, they are already out of the vaccine and the
phone lines that are to be used for appointments have crashed. It’s going to be a long drawn out process!
That’s
about it for now. In my next post…probably
a week from now…the primary topic will once again be food. However, I will try to break it up with local
scenery, birds or other critters.
Just
click on any of the photos to enlarge them.
Thanks
for stopping by for a visit!
Stay Safe
and Take Care, Big Daddy Dave
Looks like you've been eating well. I'm looking forward to a trip to ZFish. As long as you've been stuck at home I'm surprised you are not doing more home cooked meals and planning a garden for this spring :-)
ReplyDeleteLarry, Funny but as you know, not likely! No room or desire for a garden. We even have a lawn person, mowing service and a weed pulling person. Home cooked meals are nice but we're ready to hit the dining trail. Feels like groundhog day every day. (Meaningful if you've ever seen the movie) Stay Safe and Take Care, Big Daddy Dave
DeleteLovely food choices again, friend David! Thank you for sharing your vaccination experience as well. Here in AB it's Health Care Workers first and also elderly peeps living in care homes.
ReplyDeleteI personally am not interested in being vaccinated, but am still very interested to finding my own way through all this covid thing and do for myself what I feel is right. Returned from Mexico Dec31, jumping through the mandatory hoops upon entering Canada was easy due to the ArriveCAN app. Now in mandatory quarantine for 14 days, with groceries delivered. Did not eat out, order out or consume street food in Mexico, and followed all mask regulations while overbroad. Prepared my own groceries bought at the market. Feeling good. Not much different life style, except not going to work no more as now officially retired:) Planning to volunteer at the local SPCA. Other than that will structure my day strictly and rigorously, eg. Getting out of bed, making bed, making lemon green tea and bullet proof coffee, exercising via rowing, clean one lil corner of condo at a time, shower, laundry, talk to mumme, kidlets and husband on phone, getting and preparing food, paying bills, reading unread books, researching topics regarding the covid craze online (The Corbett Report is my current favourite),and of course cuddling with Theo Thunderbutt ... things like that ... Wishing you and Laurie health and happiness. Sending love, c.
Why would you need to start eating healthy!? ;-)
ReplyDeleteSausage and biscuits looks amazing.
I keep meaning to take photos of our food, but then we sit down to dinner and remember after we've eaten half our meal, again! So thanks for sharing your before-eaten meals, Dave. We had leftovers for several meals during the holidays, but now it's back to figuring out what we want to prepare and pork tenderloin will be on a few meal menus as we received one as a holiday gift from the Honey Baked Ham company , but it's too much for a single meal. Plus, we already had a couple in the freezer so we will be eating well this month. I agree on the minimal prep time as well so looking for some easy recipes.
ReplyDeletewe always fry shrimp and potatoes (French fries)...because easy and fresh.....yummy.
ReplyDeleteaww.... how long Laurie and you consume that a big pot of chili?.... I love chili very much...
Have a great day.