What's for dinner?

Over here, hoover is not a verb. Herbert Hoover was a US president. We have a big dam named after him. :) On the same tour that visited the Spam museum, we toured the birthplace tribute to this president (in Iowa.) I was really impressed with this humanitarian statesman that I knew little about.

William Henry Hoover (no relation) founded what became a huge floor-care equipment company. He did not invent the equipment, but he bought the patent. In the US, even people whose equipment was made by the Hoover company "vacuum" with the equipment, we do not "hoover" with it. :)

Burnt leftovers put oven on and came on here!!!!!!!!! burnt my dinner!! dont mind wasnt that hungry anyway had big mexican lunch!

Have a good day Capn! am off to stuff my face on fish tacos and am so excited ive never had a fish taco hope this new place is good! Who says caregivers get fat from comfort eating???????????? what the hell else is there to do? OK ill jog all the way to the taco place!!

AHA! thats why FF was laughing at me last week!!!!! So what does hoovering mean over there? wasnt the guy that invented the "vaccum" called hoover?? you see there is method in our irish "madness"!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

" hoovering "
that term caused a little tingle in my groin this morning . since your already hoovering over here in my corner -- eh . theres something wrong with my head .
we vaccum the floors here in the usa ..

Good for him! I find hoovering theraputic but theres only so much you can hoover unless i start hoovering the attic? well at least it keeps you outta trouble and fit!!! i am going to try really hard this week to start my yoga dvd?? im not lazy it just means decluttering the front room so i have room to excersise? i am sitting here looking at a huge mess clutter boxes with crap in too much furniture yeh crap everywhere! i just need a small space but can see its not going to happen and i may have to pay for classes! this cluttering is enough to send anyone to the funny farm!!

eh , im going to see my aunt for a few and back to my wood cutting . in answer to your question about what were doing with all the firewood kaz , m is clearing a little bit of forest to make more pasture space . the wood will heat his house , my house , some will be stored in barns for later but even at that there is excess for a while here . we'll sell some too .. m asked me to work the wood till the stone job is ready cause he thought it would be therapeudic for me . elders / death / hepc tx , etc .. m is a damn nice man and helps people around him ..

Ha cap and good morning to you! am off out to lunch with a friend so having mexican at this new place!
Am off coffee so tea and ciggy for me! bank holiday here and i should be doing something exciting but another boring wkend here!
Leftover pork tonight i guess then im gonna lay off meat for awhile! did you know pork makes you fart?????

america helped feed the island peoples using spam on our hops towards tokyo in ww11 . many of these countries still eat the greasy , salty gruel . in the usa most people wouldnt touch the stuff . not that were picky , the stuff just blows .

I cant believe people are still eating SPAM? havnt seen that since i was a kid never liked it UGH smells like babies cream for nappie rash!! I guess we were brought up here on meat and veg we didnt have processed food until the late 70s and mum never bought processed food everything we had was fresh! times sure have changed now i never eat processed food i have to know exactly whats in it as ive a dodgy stomach so i have to be careful!

kaz , your pork / apple stuffing sounds good . something similar is one of my favorite recipes also . pork chops layered in a bread pan with apple dressing . a can of corn in the dressing doesnt hurt a thing .
its breakfast time right now tho -- coffee and tobacco ..

marymember! thanks for the invite BUT lets hold the ice tea!! we will all bring wine and beer!! Fried chicken (homer simpson droooooooool)

There is a Spam museum in Austin Minnesota, where the company is headquartered. I took a 5-day guided bus tour through that part of the state and Iowa with an alumni group, guided by a geography professor. We stopped at the museum. What a riot! Thousands of people see that museum, but not many are lead by a college professor.

In our culture, rice is our main staple. We eat rice with everything - fried rice, rice pudding, rice in the soup, etc... My people like the spicy spam or the tabasco spam. I prefer the low sodium one - and rarely eat it - unless it's in stew style. That helps to not taste the saltiness. But also due to my cholest. I 'cheat' once in a while.

I've asked oldest bro if there's any way of transplanting an avocado tree to our yard. We have 3 different kinds of mango trees. I'm allergic to mangos. I said that I miss having an avocado tree. Bro knocked down all of our banana trees. We had 2 kinds of banana trees - the one for cooking and the Manila bananas. Dad doesn't know that bro got rid of it. We still have several papaya trees which are too near the house and keep falling after every storm. Bro uprooted the oldtimer ones that withstood the time of storms/typhoons.

Bookluvr, this has probably been covered, but it is not in your profile. Are you in Hawaii? Spam (made not far from here) is much more popular there and anywhere else in the US, so I wonder. Also, do you eat rice everyday?

I too love avocados. I envy anyone with a tree! (They wouldn't do so well in Minnesota!)

Oldest bro's coworker has an avocado tree. When these trees produce fruit, it is a Lot of fruit. I remember when we used to have one. It produced so much that we couldn't eat it daily and still not waste the excess. So, we always gave out to mom's siblings. Bro's coworker is doing the same. He's giving it out to his coworkers rather than have it wasted. I just looooove avocados!

My breakfast salami sandwich was jazzed up with avocado. I cut a slice, used a fork to mash it down, added a little bit of low sodium soy sauce, sprinkled chunky black pepper on it, put tabasco on the salami.. and ate it like that. Yum!!! 11:15am. Time to start making my spam meal for lunch/dinner.

After a late breakfast I realized this was the day our local upscale supermarket was featuring samples from local suppliers. I stopped over there and was greeted with a whole ear of roast corn and butter before I even stepped foot in the store. Then awesome samples of everything from appetizers to desserts. I'm stuffed. Just got an email that Barb is bringing her daughter (my granddaughter) home for dinner, so I guess I better figure out what I will feed them. I can't imagine eating until midnight myself!

Kaz, we call the bread-based side dish "stuffing" or "dressing." Maybe it depends on the part of the country, but here in Minnesota both are used interchangeably. It would be more logical to call it stuffing if it is actually cooked in the meat, and dressing if it is cooked separately, but logic has little to do with naming conventions. I recently took a cooking class where I learned a stuffing recipe for pork tenderloin that was mostly dried fruits. Good!

Tomorrow I am making fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, steamed green beans, lettuce and tomato salad, iced tea, and for dessert ice cream....come on over....marymember

Roast pork stuffed with my stuffing handed down from 3 generations!! garlic potatoes and green beans! have to make my stuffing with GF breadcrumbs so hope it turns out alright? i dont know what americans call stuffing mum says you call it "dressing" she lived in Chicago. making apple cider gravy here we eat alot of apple with pork! actually thats apple AND cider gravy not to be confused with applecider vinegar. I just throw some real cider and a few apples into the gravy from the roast YUMMY!!

Book hats off to you! i just dont know how you do it all working all day then caring? yeh its sad that sleeping is the best part of the day!!

I know, Veronica. My conscience wouldn't allow me to do that. I just wish... Thanks.. Off to bed now. Favorite part of the day - - sleeping.

Wouldn't work Book she would just find something for herself and find a way to pay you back so you did the right thing.

I couldn't go through with it. I felt bad to eat without not leaving any for sis. I left some for her.

I came home at 3pm. I would have cooked but since sis didn't cook rice, I didn't cook anything. I'm on strike. I'm tired of always being the one to cook enough food for both of us for the day when it's my shift at caregiving.

My dinner is my leftover takeout breakfast... fried rice with 3 or 4 pieces of Portuguese sausage. I will just make 2 over-medium eggs to go with it. Maybe, chop up the sausages, and re-fry the rice by adding both sausages in it. Feeling bad though that I'm not cooking for sis....

Tomorrow, I might be making what you all call spam goulash. (depends on what fave sis brings for lunch.) I bought 2 cans of tomatoes. Can't wait to cook it with mushrooms and olives and corn...and lots of onions.

I got treated out to dinner tonight to celebrate our 22nd Anniversary! We had ham steaks with mashed potato, rolls, and the salad bar. It was very good.

Roast beef (I buy huge chubs when they're on for $2 a pound and freeze), potato and green beans straight from the garden but I'm too tired to eat. Raving busy day and I had a sandwich for lunch - eat lunch and supper is toast but I was so hungry. I've plated mine for tomorrow and my fur girls had theirs in their supper.

Mowed (with the tractor = 3 hours) got some paint on the mud room. sorted my rescue kitten's play room, fed everyone. It's now 8.p.m. and I'll likely go to bed soon. I'm exhausted,. Tomorrow is another day.

I was at the NH couple pf days go but I won't go back for while - it totally unhinges me.

im just cacking down cheap polish sausages from the sav a lot . during the work season i just exist on whatevers easy . come wintertime ill be making some oven odors in here . i think ill get off my azz right now and fry my aunt some apples . shes tired of sweet stuff but if i watch the sugar , apples and crackers arent all that sweet -- and she loves apples ..

Lamb FILLET (lotto win) stirfry with peppers spring onions and spices yummy! Love lamb but its so bloody expensive its cheaper to buy gold!! Expensive dark chocolate with ORANGE cant wait!! I could get very used to MONEY!! May buy a lobster tomorrow!!!!

Tonight will be grilled chicken breast salad and easy chicken tortilla soup. I cook the chicken on the george forum grill and use it for the salad and the soup.

ive got to get some remodeling done . years ago my youngest kid built a kitchen counter top in here but only used a lavatory sized kitchen sink . its just crippling my cooking efforts as you can imagine . washing a pan or filling one with water becomes quite an ordeal . my mom died a year ago tomorrow and ive been home that long but most of my energy has went towards my aunt and rebuilding masonry equiptment / work . when i get the kitchen right the food will get better . starting for now with getting my sleep better . i didnt realize till now that improper sleep was keeping me from thriving .