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Bread pudding with raspberries, banana, and pecans.
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I make a lot of food and freeze it as well at times not finishing up a meal.
One of the things I suggest everyone should have is a double boiler and use the steaming attachment. Besides steaming your veggies it does a great job in warming up many of left overs as well.

So as an example I'll warm up.
left over fillets,
lasagna,
half eaten hamburgers, even reviving some french fries with it.

The reason why you might try it on some foods is adds moisture to that half eaten hamburger that you have in the fridge. If you put it in the oven and/or micro wave, odds are you are going to get that food drier when warmed up.

If you got the steamer attachment for your pot (I use Revere Ware Copper bottom) I recommend you try experimenting with it.

Because as we all know. Food prices are not coming down so we got to eat what we have.
 
If you got the steamer attachment for your pot (I use Revere Ware Copper bottom) I recommend you try experimenting with it.
There is no better cookware. I'm still regularly using the Copper-Clad Revere Ware saucepans, frying pan, and 10qt pot that my parents got for their wedding in the 80s before I was even born. They're as good as new, copper totally intact, the steel has no stains or blemishes, and the handles have no cracks. These things from the pre-China manufacture will outlive us all.
 
Did you put chocolate in it?
I did! Sorry, I was fucking hammered.
I made Mexican chocolate so I needed to find a reason to use it, to purposify it.
peanuts, walnuts, pumpkin seed, sesame seed
tomatillo, plantain, onion, garlic
cinnamon, clove, fennel, peppercorns
bread, tortilla
ancho, guajillo, new mexican, californian chiles
everything fried in lard, except I didn't have enough lard so I cut it with some duck fat
Mexican chocolate (which seems to be 50/50 cocoa & sugar(?) with spices and maybe nuts/seeds(?), that's how I made it at least

I think that was about it, in order of frying. Then puree it all, back on heat, stir in chocolate (and sugar, molasses, salt).
 
So I made New York System hot dogs (wieners in the local Rhode Island parlance). Turned out pretty good, puts the actual New York hot dogs and Chicago hot dogs for that matter to shame.

Recipe:

Wieners:
- Pack of pork/beef wieners (Oscar Meyer is serviceable and available nationally, but you want the hot dogs to be on the smaller side)
- Pack of New England style hot dog buns (cut on the top, not the side)
- 1/2 minced white onion
- Yellow Mustard
- celery salt

Wiener Sauce:
- 1 lb 80/20 ground beef
- 4 tsp butter
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 minced white onion (use half for the sauce other half for the topping)
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 1 1/2 tsp cumin
- 2 tsp paprika
- 2 tsp chili powder
- 2 tsp allspice
- 2 1/2 tsp ground mustard
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp celery salt
- ~1 tbsp malt vinegar
- capful of worcestershire sauce

Saute the onions in the butter, add garlic once onions become translucent and saute for another minute. Add in ground beef. Once the beef begins to brown and the fat renders, mix in the spices and water. Reduce until the sauce becomes thick and add vinegar and Worcestershire, and remove from the heat.

Plating:
Boil or saute the wieners
Steam the buns to warm them up (or just put them in the microwave for 15 seconds).
Put the wieners in the bun
Put the sauce on top of the wiener
Sprinkle onions on top of sauce
Add mustard to taste
Sprinkle lightly with celery salt

Serve with crinkle-cut french fries
 
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These things come in threes. So, Wednesday's menu will be fake fried chicken (a lot of kids and I have no deep fryer), mac n cheese, rosemary and cherry juice pot roast, mashed yukons, and roasted carrots. Salad, rolls, yada yada. Hopefully this is the last one for awhile. My helpers are few, and I hate asking the same people two weeks in a row. Estimated 75. Everyone should hug their Ma, today!
 
I'm simple and been cooking a lot of omelettes lately and trying to practise. I normally just use salt, pepper, and a little thyme just because it looks nice. I've only used onions, tomatos, and some canned ham as filling so far. And cheese before I fold it up. I've been using 3 eggs in a pan with vegetable oil.

What's a good. simple way to add to it? I used to work for a diner but home cooking is different. I'd also like to know a good way to make them with low cholestrol, but apparently the egg is just full of cholestrol anyway.

Hot dogs in the air fryer are GOAT'd, btw
 
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