| FOOD I'm in the mood for a food thread. If it's boring? I don't want to hear about it. A twist on something? Yeah.

TerryP said:
@rick4bama Like two slices of bread can make a lot of different sandwiches, so can these. As he mentioned, I've done breakfast with these; like a Hot Pocket, so to speak.

I normally use cabbage as my base and then add meat: no coincidence the last was with shrimp.

This comes with a warning. I am a sucker for cooked cabbage. I could make a meal of it...
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Going get me some of those wrap when we go back shopping. Yes, I like cabbage.
 
TerryP said:
Same here. New one on me. BUT, definitely on the "to-do" list.

The timing of this post is GREAT! My mom has been asking me to buy black-eyed peas, I have. I mentioned the ham I smoked...was thinking about a slice of that with the peas today for lunch...cornbread on the side.

But now I'm rethinking this. @It Takes Eleven what do you normally have as a side with that? I've got some greens that would be good with that. (I hate cooking them, hate the smell, don't hate eatin' them.) Fried green tomatoes with greens and those patties...hrmm.
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Typically, it is a side, but it's a decent plant-based protein...less so than the peas themselves. If I were picking, I'd have turnip/mustard greens with them and let the pot likker soak into them. I eat chow chow with blackeye and pintos, so that works. If having a meat, I'd go with hamburger steak, meatloaf, fried chicken, really anything.

As an aside, sometimes when I'm traveling and really hungry I'll hit a Cracker Barrell. They have a "Beans and Greens" item on the menu which is just the side size for the pintos and greens. I don't order that. I order the bowl of beans and the bowl of greens. There's more than enough ham in each to not even want a meat, and the cornbread and chow chow add nicely to it. If I'm not starving, I'll get just one bowl and a side of the other.

Cracker Barrell's quality and portions have declined over the years, but those two still work for me.
 
@It Takes Eleven I have had their breakfast dishes, to go, a few times. I can't eat there. No. I won't eat there. The atmosphere just drives me nuts. I don't want to sit and eat with 30 or more people around me that I have no clue who they are.

It's about the ambiance. Some places you can slide into a booth and mentally dismiss the place. You can't at Cracker Barrell.

It's on the same lines as the reason I stopped going to breakfast bars at a few places. You used the word "haunts" the other day. I like those. Just like the gas station food thread...you find one, you go back.

Don't get me wrong. Their food is pretty good. BUT.

I have to hit Ashley Phosphate to get to one. No. There's one on Hwy. 17. Another no. I HATE those streets. No. Let me change that. I hate the drivers on those streets.

This one is a bit of a pain to get to...but I'll go here quicker than CB. @Krimson look at their seafood omelet.

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TerryP said:
@It Takes Eleven I have had their breakfast dishes, to go, a few times. I can't eat there. No. I won't eat there. The atmosphere just drives me nuts. I don't want to sit and eat with 30 or more people around me that I have no clue who they are.

It's about the ambiance. Some places you can slide into a booth and mentally dismiss the place. You can't at Cracker Barrell.

It's on the same lines as the reason I stopped going to breakfast bars at a few places. You used the word "haunts" the other day. I like those. Just like the gas station food thread...you find one, you go back.

Don't get me wrong. Their food is pretty good. BUT.

I have to hit Ashley Phosphate to get to one. No. There's one on Hwy. 17. Another no. I HATE those streets. No. Let me change that. I hate the drivers on those streets.

This one is a bit of a pain to get to...but I'll go here quicker than CB. @Krimson look at their seafood omelet.

Summerville Menu - Toast! All Day®

toastallday.com toastallday.com
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I'd have to nix the shrooms but that looks legit. Those grits read well too. Looks like a place I'd like to try.
 
Krimson said:
I'd have to nix the shrooms but that looks legit. Those grits read well too. Looks like a place I'd like to try.
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There's a thread, somewhere around here in the archives, about grits. I judge places on that. There are too many good mills around here to be serving something out of a Styrofoam container. Same with rice.

It isn't, while it is a little, a "support local" thing. It just tastes better than a bag, off of the shelves, at any grocery store. It falls under "picky" again.

As to the shrooms...gotta be cooked right. IE: One of the best investments I've ever made was "Waterless Cookware." I bought a set at a show here in town years ago. At that time, it was about seven bills. (I just looked, the same set is ...let's say expensive. The freaking salad master is 2400+.)

Back to the shrooms. I don't cook with with a sauce, like something I'll throw over a pasta. I put them in the waterless cookware (as I do all of my veggies, etc.) Like a water chestnut, it has a nice crunch when served over the top. Just a few...just as a "distraction," so to speak.

Analogy: I use them like I do baby corn in a stir fry.
 
It Takes Eleven said:
Typically, it is a side, but it's a decent plant-based protein...less so than the peas themselves. If I were picking, I'd have turnip/mustard greens with them and let the pot likker soak into them. I eat chow chow with blackeye and pintos, so that works. If having a meat, I'd go with hamburger steak, meatloaf, fried chicken, really anything.

As an aside, sometimes when I'm traveling and really hungry I'll hit a Cracker Barrell. They have a "Beans and Greens" item on the menu which is just the side size for the pintos and greens. I don't order that. I order the bowl of beans and the bowl of greens. There's more than enough ham in each to not even want a meat, and the cornbread and chow chow add nicely to it. If I'm not starving, I'll get just one bowl and a side of the other.

Cracker Barrell's quality and portions have declined over the years, but those two still work for me.
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You right sometime that all I will get to eat.
 
TerryP said:
There's a thread, somewhere around here in the archives, about grits. I judge places on that. There are too many good mills around here to be serving something out of a Styrofoam container. Same with rice.

It isn't, while it is a little, a "support local" thing. It just tastes better than a bag, off of the shelves, at any grocery store. It falls under "picky" again.

As to the shrooms...gotta be cooked right. IE: One of the best investments I've ever made was "Waterless Cookware." I bought a set at a show here in town years ago. At that time, it was about seven bills. (I just looked, the same set is ...let's say expensive. The freaking salad master is 2400+.)

Back to the shrooms. I don't cook with with a sauce, like something I'll throw over a pasta. I put them in the waterless cookware (as I do all of my veggies, etc.) Like a water chestnut, it has a nice crunch when served over the top. Just a few...just as a "distraction," so to speak.

Analogy: I use them like I do baby corn in a stir fry.
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I use saladmaster and cast iron for pretty much everything cooking wise. I've just never been able to cook shrooms in a way I like them and I've eaten them cooked a lot of different ways. Shrooms and snails taste a lot alike to me, not sure if it's that earthy flavor or what. Well now thinking about it I've had some long skinny white ones in Asian cuisine that I didn't mind but can't say I'll ever feature them in anything.
 
TerryP said:
There's a thread, somewhere around here in the archives, about grits. I judge places on that. There are too many good mills around here to be serving something out of a Styrofoam container. Same with rice.

It isn't, while it is a little, a "support local" thing. It just tastes better than a bag, off of the shelves, at any grocery store. It falls under "picky" again.

As to the shrooms...gotta be cooked right. IE: One of the best investments I've ever made was "Waterless Cookware." I bought a set at a show here in town years ago. At that time, it was about seven bills. (I just looked, the same set is ...let's say expensive. The freaking salad master is 2400+.)

Back to the shrooms. I don't cook with with a sauce, like something I'll throw over a pasta. I put them in the waterless cookware (as I do all of my veggies, etc.) Like a water chestnut, it has a nice crunch when served over the top. Just a few...just as a "distraction," so to speak.

Analogy: I use them like I do baby corn in a stir fry.
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Man all this food talk, I drove a couple hours down to Daphne and had raw oysters, steamed shrimp, crab claws and red beans and rice. I'm sending you the bill @TerryP
 
Krimson said:
Man all this food talk,
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Curious. Have you missed the convo's with @It Takes Eleven and me about food over the last few years? There were three reasons I moved here. One, family. Two, golf. Three, food. The FDA should make my appetite a Schedule 4 drug. Wait. Wrong three letters.

I'm telling ya'! It was both hilarious and a work of art seeing him order a burger. At a bar he calls, "my haunts." I also tip my hat here...I haven't had their pimento cheese but his selection of that, on a medium rare burger, with bacon? UH? Yeah.

You have drug addicts. You have alcoholics. And you have guy that got pissed off because someone mentioned greens. I went and got some.

Some people eat chips. I took that route. Eatin' greens as a snack. I know...not quite right in the head.
 
Krimson said:
Man all this food talk,
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Now you have me going. Imagine this for a second. It happens often.

I'm in Charleston. Food? Everywhere. And we have these days where it's, "let's get the hell out of town and get something to eat." The irony if found in it is another tourist town...what we are trying to escape from.

But it's the food.

There is a pizza place in Myrtle...A J's... their pimento cheese rocks. A toasted sandwich? Geez. A drive, but worth it.
 
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