took a 4 pound chuck roast seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic, and mesquite. put it in a Le Cruset with sweet baby rays bbq sauce and slow cooked it for 5 hours at 250* it literally just fell apart with a fork.
Steamed green beans until almost done. Tossed them into a skillet with hot olive oil, kosher salt, black pepper, and fresh chopped garlic, just before the beans were done I added sliced green olives and coverd with crumbled Feta cheese. Excellent meal
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Look delicious.
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Why would you put fetid cheese on green beans?
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FETAOriginally Posted by wacojoe
Its a salty soft Goat Cheese
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And it is delicious.
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My wife and I eat a lot of green beans and we both enjoy them in a very non-typical way for us! Many of our vegetables I steam long enough to warm them---still crisp, but not green beans when it is just us. I always have a couple of smoked ham hocks in the freezer and begin by throwing one of them in a pot of water and set it to boil while I clean the beans. Once cleaned, the beans go into pot and cook at least an hour ----and no crisp is left! We both enjoy sour cream on top of the now soft beans.
I save the water as vegetable broth and take the meat off the ham hock and use it for breakfast with my eggs.
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That's exactly how I cook fresh green beans, Dave. If I don't have a ham hock, I use bacon. A lot of freshly ground black pepper goes in as well. I have never had any complaints.
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Having dined at your table in the past, you'll never get a complaint from me......Ben
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Thanks, Ben. I hope we can do it again sometime.
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Feta...fetid...tastes the same to me.
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Yesterday was a comfort food day---a cold north wind with rain going sideways and never getting above the low 40's.
With just the right ingredients in the frig, for such a challenge, the menu wasn't questionable. On Friday I bought meatloaf mix from my butcher, which is a mix of beef and pork---so meatloaf it was, accompanied by green beans with two red skin potatoes and a ham hock to share the pot. It was the perfect dinner for an otherwise dreary day
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Did you put any sauce on the meatloaf? Most people around here put some form of tomato goo and bacon strips on theirs, and my wife prefers it like that too, but I like a good brown gravy on and with mine.
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I did. I use bacon if I have some that isn't frozen---but had to pass on that option yesterday. I make a glaze (with or without bacon) of ketchup or tomato paste, Worcester sauce and whatever hot sauce grabs my liking at the moment---yesterday in was Huy Fong Sriracha sauce. I have to be a little reserved in that application since my wife does not share my love of "hot". I prefer tomato paste over ketchup as the base. I can't say it imparts much if anything to the taste of the meatloaf
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"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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My taste for brown gravy on meatloaf was formed in grade school, when it was my favorite meal in the Sanger Avenue Elementary School cafeteria, which as an aside, was reputed to be the first cafeteria in any school in Texas. Meatloaf day was always a great day. Tastes can be imbedded at such a formative age. I also formed a great distaste for pea & carrot salad at the same age and place.
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