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@tdd
Well first off I really do appreciate the effort that you went to explaining your recipe. Even if I did like eggs
I was looking for something quick and easy. You and I definitely have different definitions for quick and easy. I’d rather be sent back to the middle ages and be put in the dungeon and subjected to the most gruesome torture methods rather than go through all of the above for just one meal, if I went through all that I would expect three meals a day for at least a month. Thankfully I have some friends who take pity on me and actually like to cook, go figure. And occasionally I’ll hire a girl to cook for me. I nearly had a nervous break down just thinking about all the things I’d have to go through the concoct those eggs which I wouldn’t eat if I were starving. But thank you for your effort. I imagine it would be good if you like eggs and wanted to spend a week in the kitchen trying to prepare it.
Enjoy,
Jake

Oh good grief hurricane Mary is gonna cook. So what kind of creations are you going to conjure up tomorrow? Something weird I imagine. Maybe you better not tell me it’ll probably give me nightmares.
Jake

.@imallears
Yep, that sounds about right. But my leg pain doesn’t help matters but I know there are a lot of people who cook that are in pain but maybe I’m a whose. (my phone let me use the word I want) And nope I don’t like it. Sounds like
Son-in-law and I would get along great.
Do you need me to send you any wine? I found some that I bet you probably have never seen in your wine magazine.
Jake

@jakeduck1
Theres nothing weird in my freezer right now .alas. I made liver and onions with bacon tonight. Also made a pot of Bubble and Squeak. Its white cabbage and potatoes sauteed in butter with celery salt and butter. . My mom made this with leftover corned beef. OMG is that good. Does liver give you nightmares?

@jakeduck1
Spare me the wine please .
My wine fridge has enough pandemic wine to see me through the next couple of weeks. I dont want my love of good wine marred by the obnoxious websites you go on just to torment me. I used "obnoxius" ...I borrowed your word.
.sorry.
Cheers from FL
Mary
Ps I understand the pain part..
..cooking does involve a lot of standing but you could always get a high stool and sit and chop and dice and cook.
Let's see if I can come up with some recipes. There's so many pre cut items to choose from in our supermarkets with throw in the oven pre made meals here in FL..perfect for one person ..so do you like sardines? Or anchovies?

@imallears Is "Bubble and Squeak" the same as Rumbledethumps? I used to like that. I cannot cook sit to cook or prepare vegetables, it just doesn't work for me. Tonight I made a wonderful beef and Guinness stew. It was delicious and the best part was that it will be good for another meal in a couple of days and there is enough that I can freeze some for one or two future meals. That makes it worth the work. The stew cooks for a long time so the alcohol definitely cooks off.

Really, @jakedduck1 If you can read, you can cook, IF YOU WANT TO.
JK

@contentandwell
Hi,
I never heard of Rumbledethumps before but what a cute name. Bubble and squeak doesn’t use cheese or any other vegetable other than cabbage. I guess my mom and I never did the traditional cake recipe for Bubble and Squeak because we didn’t mash the potatoes and fry everything into a solid cake that could be cut. My mother would briefly sauté leftover cabbage, potatoes and corned beef or ham in lots of butter, occasionally pressing down on the potatoes. When I do it from scratch I sauté sliced cabbage in butter with celery salt and pepper , then add a thinly sliced red potato (with skin) cover the pot and let it all steam until the potato is done. I like a little crunch to the cabbage. I don’t usually make this but was feeling the urge again this time of year with St Patrick’s Day so near.

By the way, I remember my mom making me liver and bacon for breakfast before I went off to school. For all the butter, bacon, bread and potatoes I ate as a kid, all my family were lean machines. I can’t remember a relative who was overweight and the men seemed to be tall and lanky. This was the immediate family and my parents each had a lot of siblings. So the good genes I got really helped me over the years. But we also ate fresh vegetables from the walk to markets and shopped the local butcher’s....New York City...back before the advent of supermarkets...most things within walking distance or a bus ride away. I think we got our toothpaste and TP from the drug stores. I know I bought my makeup from the drug stores as a teenager. I also remember being real excited as a young mother when a supermarket opened near us so I could load up the carriage with food then walk it home and leave the carriage downstairs while I walked up and down 3 flights with baby and food. But the neighbors were great and even the mailman helped lol. A different world indeed back in the late 1960s.

FL Mary

@imallears
You are one lucky lady!!! Wish I could say that about your diet which still makes me cringe. I had a couple posts but they went to post heaven so you're spared for now.
The bubble and squeak sounds good. i’ll let you make some of that for me sometime. I think that would be good for breakfast, it would certainly be better than that nightmarish garbage your mother fed you for breakfast as a kid. well I guess it’s getting close to lunchtime back there and I shutter to think what you’ll be having, probably best I don’t know.
Jake

@jakeduck1
Dont shudder..lunch is too early here yet but I am having lox and cream cheese on a gluten free bagel which is defrosting and see if I can scrounge up a slice of red onion. That's it for conscious carbs today.
I am going to have rest of Bubble and Squeak in a day or 2 with scrambled eggs for dinner.
Dinner may be out but if not, it's a Kobe Burger (no bun) with onions and Broccoli sprinkled with nutritional yeast. Red wine, mango and 1 piece of dark chocolate for dessert .
See? Not do bad.
Cant wait for lunch
FL Mary

Florida Mary, I'm a Florida Mary, too. So tired of cooking. Loved your simple dinner idea. Very doable, yet healthy!