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 Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 1:30 pm
When I was pawing through my recipes to find "Brandied Cranberries," I was thinking about how to answer the poll. I love cooking, but my person would have to check more than one..."boil water for my Ramen noodles," and "Eat out," in particular.
While her parents were visiting, she acted as "sous chef" for her mother. They made pot roast (my person's favorite), stuffed peppers, and salmon souffle. I hope this will inspire her to fill our home with good smells from the kitchen!
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:23 pm
 For the past year, whilst working second shift, Eirwyn has been most lax in the kitchen, always either bringing home Chinese take-out or fast food or eating Ramen or even ravioli straight from the can! rolleyes She stopped even pretending she might cook, throwing out all the spoiled potatoes and eggs and such, and never replacing them. She can make very passable sausage gravy when she chooses, and also fruit cobbler as her Mother makes it. This latter is very good, and extremely simple. I shall attempt to get the recipe from her soon.
There is hope, for since losing her job she has bought some fresh foods again and begun to cook now and then once more.
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 10:18 pm
 I hope you and Eirwyn will enjoy some cooking while you are visiting with her father this week. Miradora could start a science class with all the interesting mold cultures in her fridge--particularly in the vegetable drawer. All those lovely wilted green (my favorite color) things. sad
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:06 pm
Yes, her Mother made a tasty fruit bowl for our breakfast on Thursday morning. Her Father made Mock Chicken and Noodles to eat for other meals; we just finished it off tonight. Somehow it seems very strange to substitute pork for chicken, along with bits of boiled egg, but it is a good dish. I assume the origin of such a dish would be that pork was less costly than chicken.
I trust Eirwyn's refrigerator will not be too messy when we return home. She tried to devour most of the perishables, such as milk and salads, before we left.
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:30 pm
Yum! Mock Chicken and Noodles sounds like serious comfort food. I think some of my person's favorite dishes are the ones that are meant to stretch the meat with other stuff like the stuffed peppers we had the other night. Those dishes are always best "the way mom makes 'em", too. They are never the same when dining out.
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:55 am
Mm! Eirwyn just came back from the land of Virginia, visiting friends who cook well! They made an unusual chicken dish that had peanut butter cooked in with the bite-size pieces of chicken! It was served over rice, and proved most delicious! biggrin
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:17 pm
How nice that Eirwyn got to take a trip to Virginia. Was it for the holidays and her break from classes? (I have to get caught up on all the posts I missed! confused
Miradora has actually been cooking since she moved us to Wyoming. Her mother is a bit weary after cooking for her husband for the last 57 years. He's a 3-meals-a-day-meat-and-potatoes-dinner-at-6:00 fellow, and even though she's a good cook and very creative, she is running out of steam. Miradora is happy to be paying back a lot of years of cooking IOUs.
Her finest moment was after baking batches of brandied cranberries whenever there was time and turning the oven off and on all day...she put a lasagna into the oven for dinner--and turned the oven OFF! rolleyes When she had to confess to her parents that they would have to wait an extra half hour for dinner, her mother said, "You don't know how happy that makes me!"--usually she was the one who had to confess to having had a brain fritz. Miradora was happy that her mother was happy!
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:29 pm
Yes, Eirwyn had an entire month off between semesters for the holidays, and visited both her parents and then her friends in Virginia. since each lives about 4 or 5 hours in opposite directions from her home, this was a lot of driving!
How do you find the foods in Wyoming, Lady Gladys? I'm sure there are many differences in regional tastes!
When Eirwyn first came to North Carolina, she was considerably startled by the use of cole slaw as a condiment on hot dogs! Also on barbecue sandwiches. She found it was tasty, however!
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:06 pm
The thing Miradora enjoys most about being back in The Wild West is being able to get authentic Mexican food. There is a large latino population in her town and one of the Hispanic families from her mother's church runs a Mexican restaurant.
The funniest regional specialty is "scones." But they aren't the baked biscuit-y, muffin-y things you normally think of. They are more like big flat raised doughnuts that you drizzle honey on. (Just the thing for a bear!) Every year, a ladies' group has a booth at the county fair selling them to raise money. In the southwest, a similar thing is served as "fry bread", and I think I've seen it somewhere called "fried dough."
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:42 pm
Mmm! The Culinary Department at the college Eirwyn attends makes meals to sell on Thursdays to make money for the high cost of groceries, and they are excellent cooks! biggrin Today they served up roast lamb, scalloped potatoes, brussel sprouts, fresh-baked bread and a chocolate chip scone with sweet, whipped butter, with sweet tea, for just $6! smile A most excellent spot of sunshine in a dreary school week.
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:54 am
Much belated greetings, fellow Teds! My person and I have been highly neglectful in not visiting as we should. Will try to be better members!
My person just returned from visiting her Mom in Mexico. They took a mini-trip to a small beach town on the Pacific Coast called Melaque, located between Manzanillo and Puerto Vallarta. My person set upon an odd quest to sample the cuisine called the "Seafood Coma." Having all sorts of wonderful fresh seafood available, she partook in many varieties of fish (some of which she's still certain what types they were) and various preparations of shrimp. She never reached the state of Seafood Coma but heartily enjoyed the bounties of the Pacific. Her favorite dish was Camarones al Coco... lightly fried shrimp surrounded by freshly shredded coconut. Oh, I forget to mention that this area grew LOTS of coconut palms. Had to watch our noggins from falling coconuts in some places! lol cool
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