-Salad -Battered fried cod (1st attempt at an Arthur Treacher's knock-off recipe) -Crab cake -Hush puppies -Raw broccoli w/veggie dip -Fudgesicle
Green chile chicken enchiladas, ranch beans, salad. This uses up all the rotisserie chicken I had squirreled in the freezer so time to buy a fresh one.
SO EXCITED!! (lol) It doesn't take much to thrill me, but the better half is going to pick up garlic/parmesan wings from Buffalo Wild Wings today. I have been craving those for a while but somehow never got around to getting them. I also ordered celery, carrots, blue cheese dressing, and a side of fries. I'll be watching the driveway!! (Might even have half of a beer today... can life get any better??)
Slow cooker chicken thighs and pork fried rice. For veggies, I will add a can of low sodium V8 juice.
Should I be embarrassed to admit I used "Find My" on my cell phone to track my husband from Buffalo Wild Wings to home??? I only had half a beer, but it was actually pretty good considering "chemo chemical mouth."
Leftover battered & fried cod and hush pupppies. I won't be doing that again...such a mess. And you can't really save/reuse oil once fish has been fried in it. It sucks there's no place around to get a decent deep-fried battered fish fillet. And there are no edible frozen ones.
Roast, cooked with carrots ,celery, red and yellow peppers with Lipton Golden soup mix, green beans and mashed potatoes.
I added a white chicken gravy to the recycled pork fried rice and then to the chicken that had slow cooked for 2 hours and then slow-cooked it all for 4 more hours. It was so delightful that I forgot all about the V8. The chicken was so tender and flavorful. I hate to cook and had to threaten myself to get out the slow cooker pot and take a couple of minutes putting it together, but glad I did. I think I will add a can of green beans to the leftover and that will be my lunch tomorrow.
My dad used to like side pork with eggs sometimes for breakfast (it's just sliced fresh pork belly that when cured and smoked becomes bacon). I tried it once some decades ago, just pan-fried, and it was quite boring. However I saw a Korean recipe on TV a few days ago and decided to try it again, although I used a slightly different combo of ingredients than what they used on TV. Preheat oven to about 400, brush soy sauce on the pork, season with salt, pepper, paprika, and a bit of garlic powder. Place them on a greased cookie sheet. Bake for about 10 minutes and flip til they're done to your liking. Wow, they are GREAT! I had pan-fried home-made sweet potato fries with it.
I don't know that I've ever seen side pork in the grocery store, but I've never specifically looked for it. Pork belly is interesting stuff. I cook Italian and use pancetta in some recipes. It's salt cured (and diced) pork belly rather than smoke cured and--as you said--to us bacon eaters it's rather boring. It's almost there for the "mouth feel" rather than the flavor. By coincidence, I was in my local Mexican restaurant last night and noticed that one of the specials was pork belly tacos...3 for $15 (with sides.) I'll have to try your recipe sometime.
That's what is called "salt pork" -- I think the Italian version is the same thing. Diced up small and sauteed, it makes a good base for soups, etc. as you probably know. Especially good in New England clam chowder or cream-based fish or other chowders. Whole pieces of salt pork are actually quite good (IMO) when fried like bacon. Side pork (if you can find it) is packed and displayed with the fresh meat, sliced and looks just like bacon (maybe ask the meat cutter if he'd cut you some if they don't have it). Salt pork usually comes in smaller chunks, prepackaged. Our local, small, rural supermarket doesn't have side pork all the time.