What's for dinner ( or lunch )

JaniceM said:
The grocery store again had no roasts, and the employee said to not expect any. So I bought a corned beef- it's in the crock pot for dinner. Lunch will be strawberry-banana yogurt and a glass of milk.
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It's the same here in the middle of Virginia. I don't get it. Nothing else has remained in short supply, even fresh produce (which surprises me.) Are people really anticipating a rise in meat prices as the next tidal wave of COVID Bad News? My local grocery stores continue to advertise meat specials in their weekly flyers.

I just went on Lowes website to see if they've sold out of freezers, and unlike all their other products, chest and upright freezers say "Not Available For Online Ordering" and don't show in-stock quantities. Huh. I can order a side-by-side refrigerator online, as well as a 32 foot extension ladder, and see available inventory of those.

The insanity gets more insane.
 

In The Sticks said:
It's the same here in the middle of Virginia. I don't get it. Nothing else has remained in short supply, even fresh produce (which surprises me.) Are people really anticipating a rise in meat prices as the next tidal wave of COVID Bad News? My local grocery stores continue to advertise meat specials in their weekly flyers.

I just went on Lowes website to see if they've sold out of freezers, and unlike all their other products, chest and upright freezers say "Not Available For Online Ordering" and don't show in-stock quantities. Huh. I can order a side-by-side refrigerator online, as well as a 32 foot extension ladder, and see available inventory of those.

The insanity gets more insane.
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I can't be 100% certain, but from what I've been hearing on the local news during the last month or so it's mostly because of the meat-packing plants. As I'm not from here, I wasn't aware there are so many. But they've been closing for periods of time to do extra cleaning, plus many employees getting the virus.
 
In The Sticks said:
I had to look it up on the web to satisfy my curiosity.

British Brown Beans do not contain any meat and are cooked in a thinner sauce (no brown sugar, molasses, thinner tomato sauce.) I had to scrounge for that because the first list of articles talked about the Brits eating their beans on toast.

My mother was British. I've never heard of these beans, or of having beans on toast.
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Beans on Toast are an absolute staple food here ...almost like Mac & Cheese is in the USA... However we've never heard of Brown beans, nor Baked beans that have meat in them as standard..They are just beans in Tomato sauce. of course we have variations to that, but they're named as such..Chilli flavoured baked beans, Baked beans with sausages...etc..but generally speaking Baked beans are just canned Haricot beans in Tomato sauce, and are served in just about every home 9and restaurant and cafe) in the UK on a regular basis....especially on Toast..and for breakfast!!
 

hollydolly said:
Beans on Toast are an absolute staple food here ...almost like Mac & Cheese is in the USA... However we've never heard of Brown beans, nor Baked beans that have meat in them as standard..They are just beans in Tomato sauce. of course we have variations to that, but they're named as such..Chilli flavoured baked beans, Baked beans with sausages...etc..but generally speaking Baked beans are just canned Haricot beans in Tomato sauce, and are served in just about every home 9and restaurant and cafe) in the UK on a regular basis....especially on Toast..and for breakfast!!
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See, we don't have "haircot" beans here, at least not by that name. The closest we get to France is Canada ;)

Subject shift: Have you ever had poached eggs on toast with kipper snacks? I loved poached eggs on toast, and I've always loved kipper snacks (and sardines), so one day a few months ago I tried them together, figuring that it was my duty as a semi-Brit.

It was the most horrible thing I've ever eaten. I did not cook the kippers...just out of the can, on to the buttered toast, with the poached egg on top.

Did I do it wrong?
 
In The Sticks said:
See, we don't have "haircot" beans here, at least not by that name. The closest we get to France is Canada ;)

Subject shift: Have you ever had poached eggs on toast with kipper snacks? I loved poached eggs on toast, and I've always loved kipper snacks (and sardines), so one day a few months ago I tried them together, figuring that it was my duty as a semi-Brit.

It was the most horrible thing I've ever eaten. I did not cook the kippers...just out of the can, on to the buttered toast, with the poached egg on top.

Did I do it wrong?
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You may know Haricot beans better by ''Navy Beans' in the USA and Canada.. !!

I HATE kippers... disgusting, *ugh* so I can't answer your question about having egg & kippers together.... however you see I am of the same mind, I always feel that if you like one thing it stands to reason you'll like another alongside it.

Somehow it just never works with Custard and French fries....:ROFLMAO:
 
In The Sticks said:
See, we don't have "haircot" beans here, at least not by that name. The closest we get to France is Canada ;)

Subject shift: Have you ever had poached eggs on toast with kipper snacks? I loved poached eggs on toast, and I've always loved kipper snacks (and sardines), so one day a few months ago I tried them together, figuring that it was my duty as a semi-Brit.

It was the most horrible thing I've ever eaten. I did not cook the kippers...just out of the can, on to the buttered toast, with the poached egg on top.

Did I do it wrong?
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I wouldn't choose canned kipper snacks for breakfast.

Try making jugged kippers.

The trick will be finding real smoked kippers and not the artificial smoke added variety.

This old Episode of The Two Fat Ladies will give you some information about kippers. The kipper segment starts at approx. 12:30 into the program.


Good luck!
 
Aunt Bea said:
I wouldn't choose canned kipper snacks for breakfast.

Try making jugged kippers.

The trick will be finding real smoked kippers and not the artificial smoke added variety.

This old Episode of The Two Fat Ladies will give you some information about kippers. The kipper segment starts at approx. 12:30 into the program.


Good luck!
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Thanks for that.

Interesting that she poached the kippers and then skinned them. She also made a recipe I had read that involved kippers and rice. Hers were the entire haddock, not the cut-down fillets.

I have a seafood shop I frequent. I'll have to ask the guy about these. I don't know if they smoke haddock here in the mid Atlantic.

I gotta say, after watching that episode, I need to go watch an Angela Lansbury movie! Something written by Agatha Christie will do...
 
In The Sticks said:
Thanks for that.

Interesting that she poached the kippers and then skinned them. She also made a recipe I had read that involved kippers and rice. Hers were the entire haddock, not the cut-down fillets.

I have a seafood shop I frequent. I'll have to ask the guy about these. I don't know if they smoke haddock here in the mid Atlantic.

I gotta say, after watching that episode, I need to go watch an Angela Lansbury movie! Something written by Agatha Christie will do...
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Kippers are smoked Herring , not haddock :giggle:
 
In The Sticks said:
See, we don't have "haircot" beans here, at least not by that name. The closest we get to France is Canada ;)

Subject shift: Have you ever had poached eggs on toast with kipper snacks? I loved poached eggs on toast, and I've always loved kipper snacks (and sardines), so one day a few months ago I tried them together, figuring that it was my duty as a semi-Brit.

It was the most horrible thing I've ever eaten. I did not cook the kippers...just out of the can, on to the buttered toast, with the poached egg on top.

Did I do it wrong?
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I don't know what the person you were quoting was referring to, I googled and it's something I never heard of.
I was mistaken, but at first thought she meant haricots verts- which is what most in U.S. call string beans or green beans.
 
hollydolly said:
Beans on Toast are an absolute staple food here ...almost like Mac & Cheese is in the USA... However we've never heard of Brown beans, nor Baked beans that have meat in them as standard..They are just beans in Tomato sauce. of course we have variations to that, but they're named as such..Chilli flavoured baked beans, Baked beans with sausages...etc..but generally speaking Baked beans are just canned Haricot beans in Tomato sauce, and are served in just about every home 9and restaurant and cafe) in the UK on a regular basis....especially on Toast..and for breakfast!!
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Our Heinz brand "British" beans are the same as our regular baked beans in tomato sauce. They are white beans that become infused with the tomato sauce to give them the reddish-brown colour.
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I've just taken a picture this evening of 2 different brands and 3 flavours of the baked beans from my own kitchen cupboard , which are the most popular here ..Heinz have been the market leader since I was a child..but Branston tastes way better now than Heinz which now has more sugar and less beans in it than ever before

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hollydolly said:
I've just taken a picture this evening of 2 different brands and 3 flavours of the baked beans from my own kitchen cupboard , which are the most popular here ..Heinz have been the market leader since I was a child..but Branston tastes way better now than Heinz which now has more sugar and less beans in it than ever before

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hmmm..our labels specify white beans. Heinz is the only brand we buy. Sometimes we have beans on toast with a fried egg or two for dinner.
 
JaniceM said:
I don't know what the person you were quoting was referring to, I googled and it's something I never heard of.
I was mistaken, but at first thought she meant haricots verts- which is what most in U.S. call string beans or green beans.
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Haircots verts (or French for "green beans") was the first thing I found. But then it listed other legumes that "haircots" generically refers to, including the "white beans" (cannellini or navy) that Pinky spoke of. Wiki defines Navy beans as "haricot, pearl haricot bean, boston bean, white pea bean, or pea bean." As long as I've been cooking (and I use a wide variety of dried beans all the time), I have never seen that word before.
 
Lunch was a late breakfast:

French toast made with an Apple brioche, sliced extra thick, covered with Amish butter
Real maple syrup
Small omelette made with the residual beaten eggs
Bacon

(I didn't really want the eggs & bacon, but when that 3rd doctor told me to "go vegan" Friday, I got in full-blown oppositional mode. It's his fault.)

Thinking of making taquitos again for dinner. Gotta use up those tortillas before they go bad. I froze half of them. Why do you have to buy enough for a small village?
 
I made a pizza.....from scratch, yeast dough and all. Have not done that in eons and when it comes right down to it seems to me that a frozen Kraft Delissio is a lot cheaper so this better be good.
 

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