Just wondering if you can list three top home made meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If you prefer just list one that's really a top favorite. Mine are for Breakfast: French Toast, Pancakes, Eggs made anyway. All with sides of Coffee, Toast, syrup, and Bacon. For Lunch: Cold Cut Hero, Salad Egg or Chicken, Grill Cheese. For Dinner: Bowl of Pasta any variety in tomato sauce, Pot Roast with Mashed Potatoes and Gravy, Barbecue any meat with sides of Baked Beans, and potatoes any type. Of course there may be times when the meals get switched around.
Breakfast #1: I agree with French Toast for breakfast, but only if it's made with thick-cut slices from a whole loaf of fresh bread. (I've made fresh bread for this specific use.) Topped with butter and real syrup. Gotta have link sausage and home fries on the side. #2: Eggs over easy, scrapple, toast, home fries. #3: Steel cut oats toasted in butter, then simmered in milk with slices of ginger root and a stick of cinnamon. Lunch #1: Soup, salad and fresh bread. #2: One I don't have very often that I really like is French bread & butter, yogurt, good cheese and fresh fruit. #3: Grilled cheese and tomato soup, especially if it's cold and/or raining. Dinner #1: Salad, grilled steak with a fried egg on top, sautéed mushrooms, loaded baked potato (butter, salt, pepper, bacon, cheese, fresh chives, sour cream) and steamed asparagus. Desert is cheesecake topped with sliced kiwi...and a cup of coffee. #2: Liver with bacon & onions, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas. (I just added this to my shopping list.) #3: Salad, homemade ravioli with marinara, garlic bread.
I may have talked about scrapple on another thread. It's generally a Pennsylvania Dutch thing. At hog butchering time, all the scraps & bits are put into a kettle and they are simmered with spices. When they are cooked and the broth is flavored, corn meal is stirred into the mix. Then it's poured into loaf pans to set up. You slice it, dust it with flour, and fry it as a breakfast meat (but it's got way less fat than bacon or sausage because it's mostly corn meal with little bits of meat scattered about.) Some people put syrup on it. I don't.
It's difficult my taste changed daily based on my mood, or desire. There are outside influences like TV, or magazines. If I see someone eating Pizza and it looks like a good Pizza I want it. The expression "you eat with your eyes" fits.
This would be me. Many times recipes have crossed my path during the day (or somebody here mentions a dish), and I will get so set on making that thing that I'll go shopping and make it that very evening.
John come over here and sit on this couch let me get my pen and pad, now "how long have you had this obsession" I was cooking a lot more back in the seventies I used to do that also, I would pick up the ingredients needed on the way home from work. My favorite thing though was making my own recipes, I'd get ideas from different recipes and come up with a different taste or method, heck I'd wake up in the middle of the night dreaming of concoctions. I remember one time I was planning on making mashed potatoes and I forgot the heavy cream which I was dying to try, I read it made them delicious, instead I found a can of reddi whip I use that in my mashed potatoes. The reaction I got from my family and guess was something I wish I had recorded, they all knew I like experimenting with food, "OK what did you do to the mashed potatoes"? I really enjoyed cooking back then, today I'll work the outdoor grill once in awhile, that's it.
More than once I've sat in meetings, [apparently] diligently taking notes. -potatoes -scallions -thyme -etc etc etc
@John Brunner: The scrapple looks like Spoiled Spam. (I like Spam.) They need to add some coloring to it. My favorites last for a week, or maybe a month, and then I get tired of them. Move on to different things. Recycle some later. Usually the food is whatever was bought at the store the last time, until it's gone. Last week was a 4-minute week (not particularly in order): 1. Regular oatmeal (not instant ) with sugar and butter, no milk, microwaved for 4 minutes 2. Ramen noodles (boiled for 4 minutes), drained, with a chunk of butter. 3. Grilled cheese or ham & swiss sandwich, made in 4 minutes Eventually I'll get around to a week with vegetables. Maybe.