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The ham bone will indeed provide most of the salt. I will reserve any additional salting to the very end, after tasting.

My mom cooked 60s style when I was a kid. So, a lot of our food came from cans. I hated most vegetables as a kid, because most of them came from a can. My dad did manage to grow some pretty good tomatoes in the backyard, and home-grown tomatoes are awesome.

I hated meatloaf as a kid. Funny thing -- my mom made a meatloaf last Friday just in time for my arrival. I ate one slice. Just as dry and bland as I remember it, LOL. I make a pretty awesome meatloaf -- a smoked meatloaf. My dad could replicate it on his grill, but it is one of those things where you want to help, but don't want to offend your 82-year-old mom.

My dad readily accepts my cooking/grilling advice. He ruined more meat than I can measure as a kid, but now he's getting pretty good. To be honest, I ruined a lot of groceries when I was a young man, but I grew and learned. He has no problem with me telling him, "you're doing it wrong."

But, my dad is 84, has an iMac, a MacBook Pro, the latest iPad, and the latest iPhone, a wifi network with a network printer, and he rents movies on iTunes and sends them to the home-theater via AppleTV. He even has his iPhone linked by bluetooth to the audio system in his Audi A6 3.0T.

He shares my love for learning.

CD

 

Burnt dry meatloaf is one of my childhood memories, Thankfully my wife does make a decent meatloaf, tonight is a Texas Chili Frittatta, if it worth I will post a picture later!


Don

 

I think most people have bad memories of childhood meatloaf. But, once you get the hang of it, meatloaf can be a really good thing.

Let us know how the frittata turns out. When you say, "Texas Chili," do you mean chili peppers, or the chili we serve in a bowl down here?

CD

 

What do you eat for New Year's Day? Do you have a tradition? Take a picture tomorrow and post it here.

I don't have a food tradition for NYD. My parents always have pork chops slow cooked in sauerkraut. Or, I should say, pork chops way overcooked in sauerkraut. Hard to believe I didn't keep that tradition alive. :wink:

I'm making a ham and bean soup from the christmas ham bone. Pictures to come...

CD

 

NYD = the PA Dutch tradition of Pork roast in German sauerkraut and Mashed taters.

 

Do you use a shoulder roast? That's what I've tried to get my mom to use. Shoulder is great for low and slow. Loin chops are not.

CD

 

Not bowl chili, chili peppers, mild to medium hot, sadly canned. And it turned out well considering.

Of course I did take a couple pictures but will have to dig them out and post them up.

Tonight on New Years Eve, I think a simple Mac and Cheese will do

We had a great lunch out with friends at a local place, the Green Chili Verde was extra good and they sub'd corn tortilla for me.

Nope no pictures of that one, I had not see our lunch friends for about 5 years.

Enjoy your evening and eat as hearty as you want.

Don

 

Happy New Year, indeed!!

 

Kim made the same thing tonight Savvy.

 

Remind me to bring the recipe for the kraut to compare.

 

The ham and bean soup turned out great. This was one of my "shoot from the hip" cooks, so there isn't a real recipe.

CD

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You remind yourself, I can remember what day it is. :lol::lol:

 

Looks tasty !!

 

So, that's homemade kraut? I'd like the recipe. :biggrin5:

I've done few kraut recipes, and liked them, but none of them have blown me away.

That and slaws. Probably the only way I eat cabbage is in a kraut or slaw. There must be at least 100 ways to make a slaw.

CD

 

Looks good, not salt needed right?

Here is a simple dinner we had for New Years. Beef Tenderloin (medium rare), Fig Salad and veggies.

A nice red from Chili, it was a bit green but good with the beef.




Don

 

All I see is Beef. Yum

 

Just for grins, I decided to try making some corn fritters. I'd never had them before, but they looked good.

All the recipes I found called for canned corn, which seemed like they would be pretty wet. I drained mine as much as possible.

They turned out pretty good. I used a little pure maple syrup for dipping, which worked really well.

CD

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