Colorful and hopefully optimistic but maybe hateful occasionally

[ILoveLife]

What foods do you eat?

At my house we have certain staples.
I'm a good cook. I'm turning towards traditional portuguese dishes, so I've been making lots of stews and oven dishes.

Best treat about living here:
Duck rice. I«ve actually been making it with cauliflower instead of rice, either way it's good. It's basically slow cook the duck for 5 hours, with all kinds of chorizos (ours are better than the spanish ones!), then after that's done, let it cool and shred the duck. Cook the rice or the cauliflower with some veggies (cabbage and carrot is what I use, some onion and garlic) and mix everything, add some nutmeg and paprika (you can add to the slow cooker too, but I find adding it after gives more taste), mix everything up in a casserole and put it in the oven until golden on top.
It's amazing.

Other dishes we make.
Skews with chorizo.
Cod fish in the oven with garlic and olive oil.
All sorts of fish dishes, there's one particularly good called Caldeirada, that's basically lots of different fishes in a pot with tomato, onion and potato.
Regular steak - I love steak. I make a mean Wasabi Mayo to use in it. (basically just mix wasabi and mayo, add some herbs, I usuallly add thyme)
and more that's not coming to mind right now.

Outside the house I eat all sorts of portuguese dishes, but too long and too tired to explain them all :D

 

[littleoc]

I LOVE fish!

That was what I liked about Iceland! And that island in Belize. Fish!!!!!!!

Last time I had duck, it was at that expensive restaurant where they ruined the bird! Lol. Can’t get that taste out of my mouth yet, even though it’s been four months!

It sounds like yours is good, though :0 :D Not a big steak fan, but it’s not the worst! Also, can you describe chorizo? I’m curious! Is like spicy?

I need to learn more dishes like that. You wouldn’t believe how many pasta dishes I eat in a week! Good with shrimp tho ?

Crawfish, though, nah. Even though I see them in the creek all the time. Well, until city people moved in and used a shit ton of pesticides. I would rather have one as a pet!

 

[Chris-duck]

You've never had chorizo? I've been vegetarian for 22 years, and I've had chorizo :laugh: But (from memory) it was kinda like pepperoni, but like a meat eater can probably answer better :laugh:

 

[Chris-duck]

Oh and that's not a judgement, I was 23 before I ate pizza :laugh:

 

[littleoc]

Share your vegetarian recipes!!!! Lol

I have a whole thread of recipes that other people share. It’s definitely my favorite!

Going at least one day a week without meat is very good for the economy :)

I was vegetarian for a bit, but I was only given salads and got mocked by family a lot, so it didn’t last!

I FEEL YOU. I’d had pizza, but soft drinks were banned (by my dad). Lol. Walked into the Coca-cola factory and was like “oh cool, what’s this?” And the tour guide was so unhappy, lol. German cola tasted the best. If I remember correctly :P

 

[littleoc]

I wouldn’t assume you were being judgemental anyway! No worries :D

 

[Chris-duck]

Hahaha, okay! I'll share recipes later, I mostly make curries or mince-dishes substituting with whole lentils and shit though. Like I cook boring :laugh:

And my first fizzy drink was alcoholic when I was 13, ahaha. I never tasted anything fizzy before that :laugh:

 

[littleoc]

Hahaha! Well, hopefully it was one of those probiotic alcohols???

Fun fact!!! Thanksgiving became a national holiday after President Lincoln declared it a new holiday to help settle differences between the North and the South :)

I think it was only a thing in a small part of Massachusetts before that, between the pilgrims and the Wompanoags :)

 

[mumstheword]

I was a vegetarian until I was 37.
Half of my kid's are vegans or vegetarians still.
I still eat a lot of veggies and beans and I love lentils!
I.know what bortch is. I made it recently. My dad is a bit of a Russiaphile, he's been to Russia and the Ukraine twice and speaks the languages, so I got given bortch at a young age. It's delicious beetroot soup. As we say here in Oz, you can beat an egg but you can't beat a root! (@Swift, at least, will get that joke [laugh face]).

 

[littleoc]

Oh, yay!!!!!!

Bortch's so good that it's great as a vegetarian dish, too!!! If you like beets, anyway. It would be hell on earth for someone who hates beets, lol. Welcome, winter!!!

Beans are great. :D

 

[littleoc]

Okay. I scheduled my driver's test.

Yay!!!!!

Hopefully you'll see an accomplishment thread soon related to that!!!!

That way, I can go ahead with my plans to find work and save some money (or moola). :)

It's a little things, but I feel good about actually doing it. Now to bathe my dog. I've decided to bring her over for Thanksgiving because even though I had planned on not doing it so she wouldn't hurt her other tendon, I decided it would be better for both of us if she came. And she was invited anyway. I will remind guests to not feed her anything without asking me. And.... maybe I should keep her on a leash so she doesn't get hurt...? Will figure it out later.

Inevitably my mom will get randomly upset (by "randomly" I mean she'll try to help cook and do the cooking because she hates feeling useless, but then her nephropathy will flare up, and she will get upset, because that is not "random" -- that is a real thing to get upset about). So I would like my dog to help de-stress certain little things.

It's always fun, though! I love cooking. And serving. And eating. And seeing people I kind of know. Glad my sister is inviting us (so we can cook things for her, probably, but I'll take it!!!)

 

[littleoc]

It's a little things, but I feel good about actually doing it.

I forgot to add: My mom told it the waiting list could be three months long. I'm not sure why she said that, though. My test will be on December 5th, so that's not three months. Haha.

I don't know if y'all remember, but my goal was to have a driver's license by 2019. I will do my best on that test :) Hopefully I pass! If not, I will work on whatever it is that made me fail. (I think that would have to be not obeying signs and causing accidents?)

My twin brother failed his. That's because when he drives in a new place, he doesn't see the traffic signs. So when he did the test, he followed no road rules. Poor guy was so upset! He was 16 at the time. Plus he couldn't hear what the instructor was telling him (I've mentioned he's deaf before (he can hear a little bit)) so he wasn't following the directions he was telling him. So he was pretty sad. He figured it out, though! So now he still has the exact same problems but they gave him a license anyway, lol.