What Are You Eating?

Finally getting around to getting all set up in the VA system.

I’d had top tier insurance forever but the Lowe’s part-timer stuff is… not great. Significantly worse than Apple Care (WA Medicaid).

Anyway had my intake with my new PCP this afternoon and unless a medium hoodie, shirt, heavy blue jeans, socks, shoes, a wallet, car keys, some change, air pods and a phone all add up to ~20lbs I am currently a good bit heavier than I have ever been.

So tonight I am having a salad.

Carne asada tacos from a place down the street.



I don't know what seasoning they use, but their asada is the best I've ever had. Very addictive.

This is a stupid question probably but do you have to rehydrate the meat? Because my gringa ass is thinking the equivalent to beef jerky.would be kinda hard to chow down on when combined with the rest of the ingredients

You add it to the eggs when they're still raw in the pan, which rehydrates the meat.

Tonight I fixed a meat lasagna, a small salad of green lettuce, tomatoes, and parmesan cheese (with Italian dressing), and some garlic toast. It was a simple meal, but it was delicious.

Your mums fadge.

She's been dead 20 years, you might need some bread to soak up the juice.

For the first time in a long while I was working near one of my favorite sandwich places and had time to grab a late lunch.




Garlic roast beef, which was great, but the chipotle potato salad was amazing.

I gotta go there more often.

First time I've been back to this place for breakfast since the last post.



There's a restaurant close to my job (same place that has the great carne asada) that has machacado just about this good and I did stop in there a couple of Fridays ago to kill time while I was working an early morning shift.

My mother-in-law visited for her birthday and last night we took her to a Brazilian steak house that she really likes.

Tonight I cooked more chicken, except this time I had plenty of fire.





The idea of chicken sausage didn't appeal to me when I first heard about it, but the local grocery chain makes some that's pretty good. This one has cheese and poblano peppers in it.

The older I get, the less my stomach and digestive system likes being forced into action first thing in the morning. So, graham crackers here.

Goddammit, I have so many lick marks on this screen.

I'll be making Sloppy Joes tonight. A classic comfort food for us.

I get that. I used to like bacon and eggs for breakfast. These days I can handle oatmeal, maybe an English muffin with some butter on it. My stomach doesn't seem to like heavy food for breakfast anymore.

AbbVie used to provide oatmeal free for the month of February. It probably still does, but I retired from there a couple years ago. So, sadly, no more free oatmeal for me.

Work took me to a part of town today that I haven’t visited in years (at least not around lunch time) and fortunately I had time to stop in to one of my favorite places.




I love club sandwiches almost as much as I like a good Reuben sandwich and this place makes a great one.

I can't stand it when restaurants make club sandwiches so stacked with ingredients that you have to unhinge your jaw like a goddamned snake just to take a bite.

This place mostly does them just right, though the one pictured was pushing the limit on how tall it was. I'll forgive them because much of the space is taken up by bacon.

I don't get to go here very often and between visits I always forget that it has a bar. I need to find a reason to go there on my day off so I can have a couple of mixed drinks with my meal.

[ heavy breathing intensifies ]

Yeah, I love a good Club sandwich, too. A sensible Club sandwich. I love them on dark rye bread when I can get them.

I ordered us pizza today instead of cooking. Papa Johns. I'm starting to wonder if I can't handle chain pizza anymore: Dominos, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut, Little Caesar's, Cassano's, they all hurt my stomach even when I only eat a few pieces.
On the other hand, if I toss a Jack's or a Red Baron pizza in the oven, it tastes better and it's much cheaper. It has to be the crust. Something in the crust that is disagreeing with me.

After lunch my day turned to shit. Before, I intended to get a frozen pizza to have for dinner but I wasn't in the mood to deal with a grocery store so I picked up a chain pizza (Marco's) on my way home.

For what it is it's not bad, though the location closest to my house is always running out of ingredients. How the fuck do you run out of green olives? One time I couldn't order a Caesar salad for my wife because they were out of Romaine lettuce.

Marco's sells a thin crust pizza that's practically like eating pizza on a cracker. The crust is that thin and crispy.

I had Marco's once, it was pretty good. I don't care for cracker crust style pizzas. It's a texture thing. The lone exception to those thinner crusts are the Totino's Party Pizzas. I can still eat one of those without any issue whatsoever, and they taste so good for being so cheaply made. Downside is each pizza has about 80 to 100 carbs in it, and they're quite small.

Still, I used to love tossing one of those in the oven. The crust was deliciously light and crispy while having substance to it.

It disgusts my wife, but I buy those Totino's pizzas from time to time. I call it my Passover food. "We eat these bitter herbs to remind us of bitter times."

Growing up, sometimes we were so broke that my sister, my mom, and I would share one of those pizzas for dinner. They were bigger in the 70s (and round--I hate that they're square now), but it still wasn't much for three people to split.

I sometimes eat the shitty fifty-cent ramen for the same reason. The pay at my first teevee job was so terrible that I'd buy that stuff and make it in the news director's coffee pot because I couldn't afford anything else.

Sometimes I like the pizza rolls. I love shitty cardboard freezer pizza too actually. Especially the spinach ones-but I would end up adding toppings sometimes too. Those aren't much to split. Wow.

Tonight I ate a bag of miniature peperonis that I was saving for homemade pizza and I had some ice cream.

Last night tho-I made a fish that someone caught in the lake and I had asparagus and rice. omg it was the best dinner I've had in a long time. I need to learn how to fish.

Do you know what kind of fish it was? Fillake-o-Fish, maybe?

Ellio's Pizza was the frozen cardboard pizza of my youth. I think it's still out there.

Looks solid. I usually ask them to remove the middle slice of bread. It's just too much.

This thread needs more poutine.

Had to work today for Final Four weekend. My plan was to stay in house and coordinate stuff, but the two day shift crews were busy when a shooting/stabbing happened so I had to go to it. The crime scene was conveniently located not too far from the sandwich place with the great potato salad, so I planned on stopping there when I was done.

Unfortunately I found out the place is closed on weekends.

So I stopped for a burger on my way back to the office.



The sandwich place is located in a semi-touristy part of town that gets a lot of foot traffic so I was more than a little surprised to find out that they don't open on weekends.

Goooooooooood mercy.

I'm a simple person. I see cheeseburger, I like it.

What is that? As in the fish they use to fill a lake with? I don't know. Someone said it was probably trout. I didn't take a pic of it before I baked it.

Late-ish breakfast-as-lunch at one of my favorite places.



Migas and machacado tacos (a huevos a la mexicana taco is out of frame).

I haven’t been there in about two and a half years but found myself on an assignment a few blocks away so I made the time to stop by.

It's not much, but it's honest work. Well, Stouffers did all of the lasagna part, I just did the baking, but still, it was so good. I love a good lasagna and buttery garlic bread, and a tomato and lettuce salad with Italian dressing. It's just one of those comfort things.

Even when it's just my wife and I, I'll still buy the family size Stouffer's lasagna just so we'll have leftovers. IMHO it tastes even better reheated the next day.

And as the Army taught me with t-ration lasagna, it's gotta have hot sauce on it, especially the next day.