Good ol' potato salad, and baked beans.

My ovens are on the fritz. Both baking elements are fried. Time to call the landlord.

Fortunately, I still have my toaster oven and gas grill. The stove top is separate from the wall unit ovens, so they are still good.

Fried technology will not stop me from cooking!

Hoping to cut thin, thin steak slices for the mix. And not my finger.

Yellow beans.

saved the water from making eggplants, garlic, jalapenos in pressure cooker a few days ago, used that to pre cook some of the chicken I made a couple days ago, added the dripping from the baked chicken... had about 2 cups solid fat and 5 cups broth congealed. Scraped off fat, added about 2 cups rice ( into pressure cooker). Heated for a while. When I looked, rice was sort of a little soupy... not unexpected ( tasted a little like popcorn !! . Threw in 4 drumsticks, 2 cans of drained whole kernel corn, some of the pre made garlic and a premade jalapeno ( large).

Will probably do them in the skillet, too hot to run the oven. Probably peas and carrots on the side

I like seeing various foods being eaten...some sound great...but not for me, others sound interesting. But they all potentially give me ideas for foods I might make, foods I may have forgotten. example: dumplings...maybe next winter. thanx to all for showing the various foods.

But today I developed the most horrible sore throat I have EVER had. I can't seem to tame it. Bad timing, too! Tomorrow is planned to be a big family day at the local Junior Rose Parade, where thousands of kiddies decorate their bikes, their dogs, themselves, and march with bands and floats and so on. Just a ton of fun.

So it's soup tonight, and ginger tea, and salt water gargle and I don't know what else.

we just went through the whole sore throat/spring cold thing - hopefully it's nothing more for you. It was pretty late this year for a spring cold. Sending healing vibes your way...my kids got over it quickly (I didn't, but I never do, with my asthma it just settles in my lungs for a month or 2) so crossing my fingers it'll be the same for you.

Drumsticks did 12 hours in jerk rub and 10 hours in a little chief smoker. With red sauce and coleslaw onna bun. Very nice.

Chopped Salad with Italian Dressing
Baguette

The sauce was basically miso paste, ginger, soy sauce, cilantro, red chilies and a bit of water all blended up. It was a really interesting sauce and went well with the broccoli and salmon.

Tell me how you make green tea salmon. Just poached?

I've made tea eggs, but not salmon.

Basically, it's fried. Break open a green tea bag and sprinkle it over your raw salmon (that has the skin on still), along with salt and pepper. I actually used 2 tea bags and really coated the fish until it was completely covered. Put it in a very hot pan with a bit of oil, skin down. When the skin crisps up, flip. Cut the skin off while the second side cooks. Flip fish back on side where skin has been cut off, and when done, put on plate to rest...put skin in pan non-crispy side down and crank up the heat. Crisp the skin up. I had a hard time getting the skin off in one piece, so I had small pieces of crispy skin and sprinkled them over the rest of the cooked salmon. It was like a seasoning, almost. Very interesting taste. It's a Jamie Oliver recipe. Sometimes his recipes are very 'miss' for our family but this one was really good and the kids loved it. I think it's important to use a good quality green tea that is fresh (ie individually packaged and sealed) because you can really taste the 'fresh' tea taste.

Now you have to explain to me what tea eggs are and how the heck you make them

Just hard boiled eggs, and then you tap them all over so there are many cracks in the shell, and then you soak them in jasmine tea. Then shell them. They get a marbled effect.

I'll have to try that. Thanks!

interesting! When you soak the eggs is the tea hot and are the eggs still hot?
Do they taste any different or do they just look interesting?
I'm going to try this once I get some jasmine tea!