Hey, Oppo, What's for Lunch?

"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
03/19/2020 at 12:39 • Filed to: None

Since I’m at home and we need to use up all the leftovers, I opted to have breakfast for lunch. We didn’t have any leftover biscuits, so I toasted up an english muffin, heated up some sausage gravy, and fried a couple of eggs to go on top.

Yum.

DISCUSSION (38)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 12:43

Raise your hand if getting fat is your top health concern at the moment.

ClassicDatsunDebate > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 12:45

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 12:46

Breakfast isn’t just for breakfast any more.

Grindintosecond > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 12:53

Lunch depends on what the Pittsburgh airport has open....

Brickman > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 13:04

peanut butter banana sammich

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 13:06

Kinja sucks right now...

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 13:07

A salad and homemade turkey soup.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 13:10

Probably making enchiladas because I opened one of my precious cans of Las Palmas this week and I need to burn through it because it only lasts so long after being opened.

If Costco comes through with a delivery of paneer and tikka masala sauce (along with toilet paper!), it’ll be paneer tikka masala almost every day next week.

Our WFH mandate was extended from March 24th to April 7th, which I expect to see extended again ultimately to at least April 24th...

smobgirl > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 13:16

Peanut butter and jelly because the bread expires first.

smobgirl > Grindintosecond
03/19/2020 at 13:17

Best of luck and many hand sanitizers to you.

Grindintosecond > smobgirl
03/19/2020 at 13:18

Thank you. I can't find any to buy due to hoarders so I'm working at Risk.

hillrat > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 13:23

Had to come into the office today and went to Eden Center for a Bahn Mi sandwich. It was fucking divine and only cost $4, I paid almost as much for the iced tea to wash it down.

smobgirl > Grindintosecond
03/19/2020 at 13:25

ME EITHER. I have to drive to a bunch of local jobs in the next week or so and it’s pissing me off. I’ve tried offering up toilet paper in exchange but I bet the same people are hoarding both.

(Can’t speak for Pittsburg but at least the Indy airport had sanitizer stations everywhere)

HoustonRunner > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 13:48

PB&J. Iced Tea. Banana. Probably some Fritos and Spicy Bean Dip.

Then a 6 mile run this afternoon.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Grindintosecond
03/19/2020 at 13:55

Which territory did you pick first?

Kinja'd!!!

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/19/2020 at 13:56

I was thinking about that as I fried the eggs. I still ate them.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
03/19/2020 at 13:57

Las Palmas is a restaurant over here. Paneer? Tikka Masala sauce? What are the strange new things?

TheRealBicycleBuck > hillrat
03/19/2020 at 13:59

I’ve notice that drink prices have been climbing and are now 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of the meal.

TheRealBicycleBuck > HoustonRunner
03/19/2020 at 14:00

Now that’s a classic lunch! I have tea in the fridge, banan as on the counter and the ingredients for PB&J. If I get some Fritos, I’ll break out the chili and cheese to make a pie.

TheRealBicycleBuck > smobgirl
03/19/2020 at 14:01

We have a few loaves in t he freezer.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Brickman
03/19/2020 at 14:02

Lots of PB being consumed today!

TheRealBicycleBuck > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
03/19/2020 at 14:02

Just right now?

TheRealBicycleBuck > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
03/19/2020 at 14:03

Turkey Gumbo is one of my favorites!

https://www.emerils.com/122684/turkey-bone-gumbo

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 14:16

I had a Qdoba burrito bowl. Steak/bacon/hot queso. I we nt in 90 minutes after they opened and the woman said I was the first customer of the day.

TheRealBicycleBuck > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
03/19/2020 at 14:24

I haven’t eaten at Qdoba. In central Texas , the go-to place is Freebirds (Yay!) or Chipotle (Boo!). I’m not a fan of cilantro, so the rice at Chipotle is just awful to me.

If you want a more formal tex-mex restaurant, there are too many options to choose from, each with its own take on the tex-mex experience.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 14:32

Las Palmas is the only real canned enchilada sauce that is available in most grocery stores outside the southwest (where you can readily get the ingredients for enchilada sauce, so you probably wouldn’t use canned anyhow). It should be in nearly all Walmarts and major grocery chains, so it’s pretty cosmopolitan. Most canned ( and powdered) “enchilada” sauces are tomato based, which goes on entomatadas, not enchiladas. The properly-prepared peppers for making enchilada sauce are nearly unobtainable where I live.

Paneer is a fresh Indian cheese made from acid-curdled milk. There are similar cheeses made by many cultures (examples include queso blanco, cottage cheese, and mizithra off the top of my head). You can make it at home from milk that you bring to a boil and add an acid to (ex: lemon juice), then skim off the curds and put them in a cheesecloth to drain, knead to compress together, then with the kind you use for what I’m doing, you want to put it in a press in a cool place to press out more liquid until it’s a firm chunk. It has specific useful properties like being resistant to melting and being high in protein.

Chicken tikka masala is Britain’s unofficial national dish. It is supposed to be tandoori-cooked chicken tikka (marinated) in a creamy sauce similar to butter chicken (but with tomato). Since Costco stocks tikka masala in a tub (basically combining the flavoring of the marinade with the typical sauce), it’s pretty easy to make. We get a lot of Indian food at work, so I miss it when I can’t go there. I’ve been wanting to make some with paneer instead of chicken for a couple weeks now, but couldn’t find paneer in my local grocery store (and it was apparently sold out at my local Costco)...

punkgoose17 > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 14:34

T oasted ham and goat cheese sandwich, and some hummus with corn chips.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 14:36

Extra bad right now.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
03/19/2020 at 14:47

We really only make enchilada casserole and that’s maybe once a month. Enchiladas really aren’t part of our menu. I took a look in the pantry. We have Old El Paso “red” enchilada sauce and you’re right, it’s tomato-based.

We’ll eat Indian food, but that’s another thing that’s not part of the regular menu. There’s one indian restaurant in Baton Rouge and I’ve been there maybe five times in over 10 years....

GLiddy > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 15:36

Piece of meatloaf from 2 nights ago. Half a baked potato left over from same time. Blackeye peas I made last weekend.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 15:48

Some potatoes would have been good with that.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/19/2020 at 16:08

And some pancakes too! I’m a glutton for breakfast foods.

TheRealBicycleBuck > GLiddy
03/19/2020 at 16:09

Sounds delicious. I only get black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day. My wife doesn’t care for them otherwise.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 16:29

I had a mish-mash of leftovers. Some salad, half a hamburger (in bread). I also tried frying some mash potatoes. It didn’t go as well as expected, but still tasted okay.

TheRealBicycleBuck > BaconSandwich is tasty.
03/19/2020 at 16:49

My wife was watching some show where they made potato pancakes. They looked pretty tasty. It reminded me of the salmon croquet te s my mom used to make. We visited my great-uncle in Washington one year and he took us salmon fishing. At the ramp was a small cannery that would trade your catch for freshly canned salmon which they then canned for trade/sale. We made the swap (easiest fish cleaning I’d ever done) and my mom made croquettes from those a couple of days later. Dang, those were good!

Now I’ll have to dig in the pantry to see if we have any salmon. Maybe we’ll just make potato croquettes instead.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 20:30

That sounds tasty.

In my case, my mistake was trying to make them from mash potatoes made from potato flakes. They were way too wet, and when I tried to fry them, it splattered everywhere. I have done it in the past with regular mash potatoes, and they turn out not too bad. It’s the sort of thing that my mom used to do with leftover mash potatoes a day or two later.

As for salmon, we used to have something similar as kids. I’ve done it before as well using canned salmon. Toss in an egg and some bread crumbs, maybe a little seasoning (dill?), and mix it together, then fry it in a frying pan. I’ve referred to them as salmon burgers, but a croquette is probably a better name for them.

My 3 year old likes what I refer to as “crispy potatoes”. I shred them on a cheese grater and fry them in a frying pan with an unhealthy amount of oil.

GLiddy > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/19/2020 at 21:33

I’ve had to learn to cook my own American comfort food over that past 21 years of marriage. My wife is a wonderful cook...a wonderful Chinese cook. Traditional American is outside her wheelhouse. It works for us.

TheRealBicycleBuck > GLiddy
03/19/2020 at 23:18

My wife is Hispanic. There’s some overlap in our food traditions, but there are some serious gaps too.