I learned a while back that if I were starving myself on the work day too often,my body would basically steal from my organs before taking off any of this beer-gut or love-handles,so I make sure I get a sandwitch, chips,and a bannana. This is beside the lucrative amounts of sport drink with ice… Nights see me eating bachelor style,but I want some thing more substantial than frozen dinners and this slump is boring my “buds” to death… somebody out there got some good “fast grub”ideas?
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I went through a phase of not eating well recently. Overwhelming stress, death in family, etc. For two weeks before and after 4th of july, I ate almost nothing and had an upset stomach all the time. I lost 20 pounds (170 now) in about four weeks. man oh man.
I'm back to eating okay now. Not great, but ok. Some quick meals:
anything with pasta and a canned alfredo or spaghetti sauce. Cook in an electric skillet (get one!) with some sausage if you want.
eggs and fried spam, really good.
pretty much lots of pasta dishes.
canned ravioli.
canned new england clam chowder with crackers and tabasco sauce.
frozen fish and french fries.
a George Foreman grill! and chicken breasts, cook from frozen in about five minutes. Plus hamburgers, etc.
steak on the foreman grill too.
remodeler
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Make sure you get breakfast. It stokes the metabolism after sleep. Some carbs, and protein. I like a PBJ on whole wheat as my breakfast. A fairly balanced mix of sugars, complex carbs, protein and non-saturated fat. It hangs in until lunch without being heavy. A multi-vitamin and plenty of water helps too.
Skip the sports drinks especially if they are artificially sweetened. Recent study seems to say that the body corrects for sweet stuff without calories by increasing cravings for sweets. Water is your best bet.
Don't skimp on calories too much. Your body can easily take this for a famine condition and shut down your metabolism making this strategy counter productive. Steady supply of small snacks is supposed to be better than starvation followed by a big meal. Even a power or cereal bar might be enough for lunch to keep your energy high and your body fueled up enough to much on stored fat. Don't forget the water. Your body needs water to process fat.
Key is to increase calories burned while controlling the number of calories you take in. As long as the former is greater than the later you Will loose weight. IMHO all the low carb, low fat, citrus diets, etc are nonsense. They overlook the simple fact: Everything you need to know about dieting you can learn from a bucket. Everything else is details.
>>Recent study seems to say that the body corrects for sweet stuff >>without calories by increasing cravings for sweets.
Any possibility you could attribute this study?
I've been drinking a lot of the Fruit2O flavored water, and have been noticing a tendency to crave sweets, so i'd be very interested in more information on any such study.
thanks,
-TJ
TJ,
Try this link:
http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.asp?docID=519927
If I remember correctly I read this as a blurb in the newspaper. A short article without a lot of detail. Kind of made sense to me as I have seen this general effect on myself and friends. Eating or drinking artificially sweetened foods and drinks doesn't seem to slake the desire for sweets long term. Made sense at some level, I'm also not a big fan of artificial sweetener, so I remembered it.
It would be interesting to get more information so I'll dig around and see if I can find anything more.
Looks like Don beat me to it in 46009.16.
The article he cites is most likely the original piece that the newspaper article referred to in a much shortened format. A preliminary study but one worth considering.
Edited 8/3/2004 6:07 pm ET by 4LORN1
I too have problems (especially this time of year with eating). It's so dang muggy out that I just go all day without eating. Doesn't bother me one bit (honestly) all day and we're pulling 11 and 12 hr days right now. But then I get home in the AC and the appetite kicks in and I eat like a drunken king and pass out with the RedSox on 30 minutes later. (my wife loves this time of year.....that was sarcasm, in case you missed it). Very unhealthy.
But because of these cycles of self abuse, I've learned how to eat well too. 4lorn1 got it right about breakfast. I usually (when I'm behaving) eat a low carb protein bar in the morning. Lots and lots of water all day, maybe a Powerade or two. Then I'll have some good carbs and protein around 11 am....in a pinch an egg and cheese on a bagel from the coffee shop will do. Or just pack a nice looking "Dagwood" type sandwich. Working late? Another energy bar will get you through til dinner.
Bachelor dinners? I've got lots of experience with that. Just got married about a year ago and my wife still works a few nights a week, leaving me to fend for myself.
Brown up a pound of ground beef in a frying pan, toss in a jar of sauce while the water is boiling the pasta. Mix the sauce and pasta together, toss in a tub of ricotta, throw the whole mess in baking dish and cover it in mozarella. Bake it till the cheese is melted. This will feed your for three nights!
Hamburger helper and chicken helper are pretty good too. Easy, quick, filling and won't kill you like Wendy's will!
One more word... MANWICH.
Get yourself a gas grill. It's a life saver. Throw anything on it, and it tastes good. Chicken breasts, steaks, hamburgers, pork. Nothing to clean up afterwards either. I'll throw a bag of that Lipton rice and sauce on the stove (takes seven minutes), fire up the grill with chicken and BBQ sauce, maybe throw some lettuce and cukes in a bowl...and I'm golden.
But Fridays? Fridays are for pizza and baseball!
Regarding the "manwich" stuff -
My Grandma came up with something like the "manwich" stuff. We've made it for years. Great meal when ya don't wanna heat up the kitchen on a hot day. I don't have the written recipe around, so this is from memory.
You start by browning and draining 3 pounds of ground beef. Keep the ground beef in the skillet and add:
about 8 ounces of ketchup
Mustard - Can't remember how much. Just squirt it in until it looks right.
1 medium chopped onion (optional)
brown sugar (I'm thinking it's 1/4 cup, but can't remember for sure)
Some regular sugar (Can't remember how much - Maybe a tablespoon or so?)
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Stir it a while, cover it and let it simmer a while. Taste it occasionally and add a little more of whatever seems right until you like the taste.
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This stuff can be kept in the fridge for several days. Then you can scoop out a bit onto a plate and heat it up in the microwave for a quick meal.
It also makes a good meal for pot luck dinners and such. You can stick it in a crock pot after it's cooked and keep it hot for a long time.I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Lord, I must be getting old!
The other day I picked up a package of Oatmeal. Not the instant one with flavour and 75% sugar. The one I get up and cook, add a little butter and brown sugar plus a little fruit.
Less meat. More fish (salmon is a staple in our house - we put away about 200 lbs for the year), vegetables and fruit. Water, less coffee.
Oh yea, the *occasional* beer and, in the summer, I'll allow myself a coke a day, around 3:00 pm.
Except for the Coke, and the beer, it's exactly like my Dad used to eat. He lived to 92.
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Dont knock the oatmeal. I make the regular kind and add one package of the instant with fruit. then maybe add some real fruit.
We dont eat much red meat. If I buy a steak it better be a damn good one. mostly chicken, pork & fish.
Lots of water all day especially in this heat. I start chuggin water on my drive to work (after coffee). I get a snapple iced tea around 1 o'clock. the caffein boost really gets me going
Pickup any bodybuilding mag and they will have recieps for energy needed too do "hard work".
Don't go with the powdered drinks,stick with real food.
When I'm hard up and alone for lunch at home, I do the "Ploughman's Lunch" bit from the British Pubs . . . . a hunk of whatever cold meat is in the 'fridge from a night or two ago, a goodly chunk of cheese, a roll or rough bread, maybe a cut-up apple - and a beer. Good, quick, cheap.
My Pastor says you don't have to pray over leftovers - they've already been blessed once !
My 14 year old got one of those "A Man, A Can, A Plan" cookbooks. He did some chili one night - a can of chili, a can of beans, a can of beer . . . yep, the recipe said to cook it all together. Tasted like someone poured a beer into my chili ! Yuk !
For fast and dirty, I like crunchy peanut butter and Marshmallow Cream in a sandwich.
Greg
Your dad was ahead of his time. Plenty of vitamins, fiber and antioxidants. Heck, if he drank more beer he'd have probably made it to 100!
I buy something called craisins.
It's cranberries done up like raisins.
I get some water in a pan, add a handful of the craisins, some brown sugar, some cinnamon, and let it boil.
When boiling well, add the rolled oats.
Deeeelicious !!
You can substitute real raisins, of course.
Or dried apple slices, broken up.
Whatever. I like to get the fruit boling and fairly reconstituted before I add the oatmeal.
"Criticism without instruction is little more than abuse." D.Sweet
This weekend, I have to strip my apple tree.
I have a 70 year old Gravenstein derivative apple tree, which my Dad called "late blooming transparent".
It gives these big, green, sour apples. My wife likes to squeeze them into her tea instead of lemon.
I'll be adding frozen slices to my oatmeal until next spring.Quality repairs for your home.
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One pan.
Start a 1/2 pound of frozen mixed veggies to boling with some butter. Plenty of water.
Once boiling, add some chicken. Boobs, tenders, whatever. Just toss them in there. (I find that the boneless, skinless stuff costs almost exactly the same as the stuff you have to debone and skin, etc. Once you subtract all that useless crap you throw out. I actually measured and weighed a couple of different times, just to be sure. It is surprisingly close.) I usually end up with at least half again as much chicken or turkey in there, as everything else combined.
Once that is almost completely cooked, throw in a handful of egg noodles.
When the noodles are aldente, drain off what water is left. (After a while, you get good at this, and don't have any water left to drain.)
Add half a jar of garlic alfredo sauce.
Heaven. And it should last you a couple of nights.
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Alternative... Veggies and butter.
Then chunked hot dogs, or snausages, or chunks of hamburger.
Once meat is nearly done, add the egg noodles. When water is almost completely gone, add a can of chili.
Once chili is heated, serve with chunks of colby-jack cheese. Again, at least two nights. Usually 3 for me, anymore.
Only one pan to clean.
Clean it the next time you use it.
Or if you are really short on time, give the leftovers to the dog. He'll love you for it. And the pan will come back sparkling. (But wash it thoroughly with good dish soap anyway. LOL You just don't have to scrub on it to get the dried stuff off.)
; )
(Actually, I usually rinse mine afterward, then wash it later.)
Don't leave the fork in. The dog will just chew on that.
The chicken one can also be done with a really good pesto sauce. Then it's good when hot, and it is still just as good, cold, the next day, in your lunch. Cold pasta/chicken salad... MMMMMMMM
And no, the cold stuff the next day doesn't make me sick. I have been a bachelor so long, I could probably eat a handfull of dirt now, and not get sick. he he he
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Sometimes I do use two pans. I will prepare the veggies, noodles and alfredo as usual. Then I will cut the chicken into tenders, if its not already.
Put a generous amount of olive oil in the frypan, add a generous amount of lemon juice, and a bunch of pepper. And just enough water that when it is boiled down to the olive oil, the tenders are cooked.
Keep cooking until browned and maybe a bit crispy.
Throw this on top of the veggies, noodles, alfredo mixture.
WOW !!!!
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I don't hardly ever eat much anymore. I have to make a point of cooking something like this up after I have gone for a couple days just snacking occassionally, or else I start to wear out and get sick.
I'd have to do it every day if I was still doing the work you guys do.
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You can also make this work with fish. When I do that, I like to add a can of italian stewed tomatos. A couple of tablespoons of crushed garlic from a jar. Some sliced onions. A can of mushrooms. A can of clams. Some scallions, some shrimp, some basa, some pollock, and a ton of cod. Finish it off with a can of clam chowder.
Or some brown gravy mix, if you want a fake gumbo.
I have even made do before with a can of cream of mushroom soup, and lots of pepper.
Forget the alfredo sauce on the fish. And I end up with two to three times as much fish as anything else in there.
When I am feeling especially cheffy, I saute the garlic and onions in the pan, before I start adding the rest. And a can of beer is excelent in the fish. Pour that once the garlic and onions are sauteed, let it sit there and cook for a few minutes, before starting the rest. It's the only reason I ever buy beer.
Ok, now you have me wishing I had a feezer full of fish again. Oh well, chicken and alfredo tonight.
: )
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I had a date once, and made a fish stew, with the above, with potatoes, and a bunch of shark. And some cheapo red wine in the sautee.
All in one pan...
She loved it. She still talks about it today, whenever we talk. I don't think she has ever tried it on her new husband, though. LOL
"Criticism without instruction is little more than abuse." D.Sweet
Fast grub?
Tasty?
Get a wok, fire up the burner to get the wok as hot as you can, then pop in some olive oil and do a stir fry.
Beef or chicken sliced thin. The some veggies. Spices as you desire.
Good, fast, and healthy.
You may want to do this outside, unless you have a really good range hood. If you go outside, you can even use the 30,000 BTU burner from your turkey fryer, which will actually put you within shouting distance of the wok burners at Chinese restaurants.
You must have all the ingredients chopped up before you start. There's no time for hesitation when you're cooking that hot and fast.
And if you don't want to feel hungry half an hour later, the secret is, eat more rice. Rice is fuel. Sauce is flavor.
Look up to the top of this page and click on "Cooks Talk". I've picked up some recipes there that are simply amazing.
We make large batches of meals and then freeze them in small portions (stroganoff, chili, chicken ala king, etc.) and then nuke one for a fat meal. Also, we're into instant oriental noodles now and then (Knorr is our brnad of choice). Medium glass of red wine with dinner.
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
For fast grub as in 'fast' and tasty the clam chowder in a can is hard to beat. Even the lowfat one with a pull top so it's a fast open without the can opener.
Yep those rice packets will take care of you and can be successfully mixed with Bush beans for the protein rush.
We are talking fast grub here so precooked covered dishes in the micro will get you back out on the turf in a jiffy.
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Bauer's Fruehstueck (Farmer's Breakfast)
Fine chopped onionsEggsDiced potato (either already cooked or raw, keep in mind raw will take longer)Diced sausage
Fry onions until translucent(in butter, oil or leftover sausage fat). Then add potato and cook until edges get golden brown, next add sausage and cook until done (you can also use previously cooked hotdogs and so forth). Lastly break your eggs over all previous ingredients and stir until egg is done (scrambled is how it turns out).
I've eaten this for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Also great served on bread w/a nice thick slice of home grown tomato.
I also purchase banana and mango when on sale. Peel banana, peel and slice mango and freeze. Then a quick breakfast is yoghurt (plain lowfat, or plain whatever you've got) in a blender, throw in a couple of chunks of frozen fruit and add honey for sweetening if needed. Great pick-me-up and easy to make.Priorities change. FIRST is a Hyster manlift and now tied at second is money and acreage.
I thank all of you for pitching in,on a laborious task, I have found a lot of jewels to keep here. I am going to get a power bar in the morning,water EARLIER, maybe less sport drink,(I've stayed away from soda )... and lunch is sandwich, chips, and nanner, next some of the great ideas for dinner, which all of you have shared.Mucho gusto...
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Whoa there.
Chips & a sandwich? Carbs and a whole lot of fat there. (Not to worry about the cholesterol it's the fat you got to worry about)
I like a sandwich as much as the next person, but I've dropped about 10 lbs since I gave up chips, a month ago.Quality repairs for your home.
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Another quickie
Puffy Pancake
2 eggs1/2 cup milk1/2 cup flourpinch saltpinch nutmeg
Preheat oven to 425F. Melt 3 tablespoons of butter (I've not changed the recipe, you might be able to get away with oil?) in a heatproof bowl.
Mix all above ingredients together and put in the bowl w/melted butter. Stick in oven and bake for 10 min. The edges will poof up and become a bowl. Take out of oven and fill w/fruit and sprinkle w/powdered sugar. Alternatively, I've just smeared the bottom w/apricot jam and threw on a handful of just picked blackberries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches and nectarines work well too. Since there isn't any sugar in the batter, you could also fill this with asparagus and bacon and so forth. Dead easy to make - you can't goof this one.Priorities change. FIRST is a Hyster manlift and now tied at second is money and acreage.
Thanks for the Puffy Pancake. I've been looking around for some kind of wheat bread that's quicker and/or easier than biscuits or pancakes. Looks like this fills the bill.
I've been making the Farmer's Breakfast for years. In it's current incarnation I cook it fairly hot, not on high, but closer to high than medium. I put the (raw) potatoes in first because they take longer to brown than the onions. Then at the end I scrape it all into a mound, make a depression in the mound, crack the egg into the depression, then lower the heat and cover until the egg is done, usually 4 - 5 minutes.
I do everything in moderation since I've seen another scientist will soon come into the picture,saying with scientific certainty that we should consume mass quantities and enjoy it! "And the Lord sent them into a land flowing with milk and honey" today's dietary ideals frown on that but I 've heard lots of preachifying that teaches me to be-ware of all...
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more along the lines of breakfast omlette, but i have made it for dinner...
we buy the cartoned egg whites (looks like a quart of milk, but whites without the cholesterol of the yokes)
i go about 3/4 a cup in a frying pan, maybe a little green onion and a can of drained tuna..
top with a little tabasco or ketchup or....
good little protien punch, very little fat and cholesterol... keeps you going through the morning...
the variations are endless... and it only takes a couple minutes
I have a breakfast sandwich that fuels me up better than anything else. I start almost every day with this one and a strong cup of coffee.
All natural peanut butter and raw honey (natural and raw very important here) on whole wheat, sprinkled with wheat germ, and topped with banana slices. Squash it together good so the banana slices don't get away. Wrap it in a paper towel and head for the truck.
The nutty/sweet combination tastes great and it's loaded with everything you need for the day: Carbs, protein, potassium, fiber, antioxidants and natural sugars. Sticks to the ribs and lasts for hours.
Kevin Halliburton
"The Greek comic poets, also, divided their plays into parts by introducing a choral song, ... they relived the actor's speeches by such intermissions." Vitruvious, (Book V)
Yes !!
I mix the honey and peanut butter together. (I prefer the natural stuff as well, but make do with jif, [basically peanut flavored criso], and the honey off the grocer's shelf.
Try sprinkling brewers yeast instead of wheat germ. Its a different taste but you get used to it quick, and then start craving it as much as most people crave their morning coffee. It is LOADED with B vitamins.
Energy deluxe in brewers yeast. Coffee cranks your gears, but burns up the b vitamins. The BY give you exactly what the coffee burns up.
I put a couple of teaspoonfuls into a large cup. (Pops only uses one. But I have a severe b vitamin deficiency. BTW: the only b multible vitamins that work for me are twin labs capsules. with the powdered stuff in the clear capsules. And I think BY is likely the main ingredient.)
Add a double helping of hot chocolate mix. (the dry stuff.) a quarter cup of powdered milk, and add hot water.
You have to keep stirring it occassionally, as you drink it. Again, a taste to be aquired, but once you do, you actually crave it.
Man, I am going to make me a cup right now !!
Every once in a while I will squeeze in some nescafe iced java syrup.
By the way.. get the powder, not the flakes.
I get mine at the natural foods containers, at Fred Meyers. (Freddy's, back in Indiana, the last I heard. And some other name elsewhere.)
"Criticism without instruction is little more than abuse." D.Sweet
I have a breakfast sandwich that fuels me up better than anything else. I start almost every day with this one and a strong cup of coffee.
Sounds like my mornings cept for the banana. Keeps me going till luunch. (Wheat germ sounds healthy to Yearsn ago when I was doing formwork and the bugger I was workin for didn't pay us for six weeks, peanut butter and honey was all I could afford for lunch and breakfast. I was suprized at how much energy I had through the day.
Course I was younger and a bit more of a firecracker then.
There used to be a column in "Men's Health" I believe called A Man, a Can, and a Plan. They (again I believe the publisher is Rodale Press) assembled many of those recipes into a cookbook by the same name. The recipes were quick, hearty, and used only a few ingredients, and were for the most part, pretty healthy. Since the success of that first book, I've seen they've come out with A Man a Grill and a Plan, and A Man a Microwave and a Plan. I'm sure you can find them on Rodale's web site.
Happy cooking!
Something I like, but it's not really healthy is fried potatos with onions, covered in catsup. A bowl of soup beans and cornbread with it, now thats good eating.
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Nuthin' better'n a handful of nuts.
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Oh, yes I am reading you guys about the sweet consumption,and I think my Beer gut can attest to the validity of that theory...Scribe once, cut once!
That's what she said till................
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
Roar! Got my blood moving now this morning.
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My favorite fast meal when I was in University was this:
- Boil couple handfulls of your favorite pasta (I used spaghetti)
- Mix with one can of Campbell's cream of <fill in blank>. I usually used cream of chicken.
- Top with a block of grated cheese.
- Broil in oven.
Serve with a side of raw carrots, red peppers or something.
This came in the email to me this morning...
I think it's yours.....
I bounced over to Breaktime and (foolishly) started reading the "Eating for hard work" thread and if I read one more "recipe" from those hairy bruisers that calls for one more can of Campbell's Cream o' Crap, I AM GOING TO OPEN A VEIN. I know, it's my own fault. I shouldn't be there at all, let alone when I'm recovering from food poisoning. But STILL. That stuff is culinary duct tape and duct tape is NOT FOOD. Blech.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
Thanks IMERC!
That "Cream o'" recipe is a family recipe handed down over many generations. It is the pride of our family. I am deeply hurt ;)
I'm sorry you were refered to as a hairy bruiser....
I'm just the messenger...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
WOW!!! Did I catch it... From both sides....
BUT!!!! I'm still just the messenger....
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages/?msg=46009.44 If you wanted to continue being a rotten little turd, you COULD tell your poster that Campbell's Cream o' Crap soup hasn't been AROUND for that many generations, and thus his forebears' "tradition" is about as old as, say, the Gemini program or something . . . But maybe you'll find Merciful IMERC hidden in that blackguard heart somewhere and STOP. And by the way, you are NOT just the messenger. You are the devil himself sometimes.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
I was ROFLMAO at those two responses.
I love that wit.
And you have to love that descriptive, "hairy bruisers".
Just wanted to say thanks for the laugh to you and whomever.
And, I'm sorry someone has food poisoning.
It had to be the pepsi.
"Criticism without instruction is little more than abuse." D.Sweet
Oh, and "Blackguard Heart" was a classic !!!
This person knows you, do they ? he he
Still sorry about the food poisoning.
Could have been the potato chips on the top.
Or even the chopped hot dogs inside.
"Criticism without instruction is little more than abuse." D.Sweet
Ya gotta admit I'm well thought of.....
Paying close attention to it....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
I didn't know that Campbell's soup was such a contentious issue. ;)
Halibut - "the other white meat"
A pound or two, sliced red pepper, sliced onions, can of mushroom soup*.
In pyrex in oven for 30-40 minutes. Serve with a salad. Costs $2 (if you catch the fish yourself!)
* I've seen people use a cup of mayonaise. I prefer enchilada sauce.
I just want to install a family recipe here since I started all this foolishness,Texas hash,cook up some rice or noodles, then you can go tex by adding tomato soup or sauce, and browned beef and onions or kansas by using cream-chicken soup and chicken and onions Und was haben sie...
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Sockeye Salmon - "The other red meat"
Put net in Cook Inlet or Copper River. Bonk fish on head. Take a fillet off each side of fish.
Put seasoning salt and garlic salt on. Cook on grill, flesh side down first about 4 minutes.
Flip to skin side down. If the opaque/transulcent trasition is 1/3 through, then you are 1/2 done, time-wise. Anther 4 minutes =/- . Lift metal off of the skin. (The dog really loves the resulting fried skin.)
Alongside fish on grill, put sliced onions, peppers, and/or corn.
Advantage: Not only goes with beer, but sockeye has enough taste to hold up to red wine.
My ex was from Matanuska Valley..her family has a boat outta Soldatna...man I miss all the salmon we'd get sent to us..smoked,canned(on the boat) and frsh in dry ice...oh, yeah Halibut steaks that were enormous..
miss her too sometimes...but the fish..awwwww..to die for.
Thanks for reminding me. Gotta come up yer way again..3 weeks there, and never saw the top of Danali once..
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Hey. Hands off that Salmon.
It was destined for the Frazer River down here in B.C.
Darned fish poachers (Lol!)Quality repairs for your home.
Aaron the HandymanVancouver, Canada
you had yer chance, they went UP stream to him..lol
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"Hey. Hands off that Salmon.
It was destined for the Frazer River down here in B.C. "
I've caught a few Silvers off of Prince of Wales Island that you might argue about. But when I'm standing chest-deep at the mouth of the Kenai River? I don't think so. That would have to male Canadian salmon - you know, one who refused to ask directions and got very lost.
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David Thomas Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska