Pumpkin pie and coffee, with a raise of my mug to Acadian!

Thank you! Same here, of course.

Ate T-day lunch with my brother at a local restaurant, my first and hopefully only non-home meal of the year (discounting one or two meals eaten while in hospital). I didn't stray far from my standard diet: steak, crumbled hardboiled eggs, mushroom bits, a little shredded cheese, and water to drink. It was edible, but nothing special. I prefer my homecooked microwaved meals. This surprised me. I thought the restaurant steak would taste superior. It certainly tasted different. Different but not better. Not as good, truth to tell. My brother polished off two plates of meat and veggies, then gobbled down two pie slices, pecan and pumpkin. (I've not eaten dessert/snack sweets since the turn of the century.)

I recently added shrimp to my diet, it being cheaper than beef steaks. I've never been the biggest shrimp fan, but it's okay. I eat it with my second/final meal of the day, in rotation with beef and pork. (Having had beef yesterday, today is a pork day, tomorrow a shrimp day.) Breakfast is always the same, bacon & eggs.

Pizza!

Always a wonderful choice!

Yes it is, mr Paladin! And now it's time for another as it's been far too long since the last one!

Good ol' radishes and carrots...AHHH HOW I MISS PIZZA ROLLS T_T!!!

Not only were eggs reduced in price (but not close to "normal") this Monday, but Walmart carried a welcome variety of choices.

Last Monday I settled on eggs from Eggland's Best, whose idiotic selling point is "Vegetarian Fed Hens". (Hens are by nature carnivorous, eating worms, grubs, and so on.) Despite being cheaper than Walmart's house brand eggs, I almost passed them by. It then came to me that Walmart's house eggs were certainly not eating a carnivore diet. I bought the Eggland eggs. When cooked, I couldn't detect an obvious difference between Eggland and Walmart.

This week, in addition to the above choices, Walmart carried "Marketside Organic Cage Free Brown Eggs". They claim that their hens are "Free to roam, nest and perch in a protected barn with outdoor access." This is more to my liking, with a much better chance of the hens eating somewhat closer to their natural diet. I bought a pack of 18 large eggs, downing three, scrambled, this morning at breakfast. Maybe it was a fluke or wishful thinking, but they tasted yummier than any eggs I've eaten in many a moon. A qualified thumbs up. Time will tell.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Mar 25 2025, 04:46 PM

Still on your diet, then? Good to know how to stick to a plan

In my defense I was left alone in the house, so of course there would be some kitchen shenanigans. I made Bertille’s sugared bacon. (She’s one of the cooks in Anvil’s Mages Guild in Jerric’s World.) I may have destroyed my pan, but it was worth it!

I laid the bacon strips out on a steel baking pan and sprinkled them with flour. Then I sprinkled them with brown sugar. Baked at 400 degrees F for 15 minutes. I had to sort of chisel some of the pieces up where the sugar had spilled over and melded to the pan, but the bacon had enough structural support from the baked flour to stay together. I like my bacon crispy. I started checking at 12 minutes, and some of my family would have declared it done at that time. (Savages.)

What I would do differently: line the pan with foil. D’oh!

Right now I'm eating Taki's ranch chips and Dr. Pepper Blackberry Zero.

Bought myself a new food preparation device, a (image link) Ninja DG551 Foodi Smart XL second-generation (image link) smokeless indoor grill. My excuse for the expenditure is that I've never been able to cook ground beef satisfactorily in the microwave. Too, while my microwaved steaks sometimes turn out very nicely, they too often leave something to be desired.

This past week has been devoted to ground beef/hamburger patties, via two 12-patty packs from WallyWorld. Prio to lunchtime I let three patties warm until I can mash 'em all together, mix in an egg, salt, a little minced garlic, and pork rind crubles, then divide the result into two large patties. They cook up very nicely in the Ninja (I use either of the two "medium-well" settings). Being a Carnivore, I of course eat them as-is, no bun or toppings. The built-in thermometer works like a charm. It is indeed, to all intents and purposes, smokeless, though my kitchen smoke-detector begs to differ.

This coming week I'll add a couple of steaks to the mix.

Time for another pizza!

I had a breakfast sandwich and some coffee.

What better way to start your day?

Easter pizza!

That wouldn't be with chocolate bunnies and jelly beans as toppings would it?

Sadly not