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What's for Dinner? (redux)

HarpoSF

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ยฟ๐“ ๐“พ๐“ฎ ๐“ฑ๐“ช๐”‚ ๐“น๐“ช๐“ป๐“ช ๐“’๐“ฎ๐“ท๐“ช๐“ป? (HarpoSF simple-style)

๐“๐“ช๐“ฌ๐“ฑ๐“ธ๐“ผ ๐“ญ๐“ฎ ๐“Ÿ๐“ช๐“น๐“ช๐“ผ ๐“•๐“ป๐“ฒ๐“ฝ๐“ช๐“ผ

I came up with this dish many years ago when I was just going to have some French fries for dinner, but felt it needed something "๐“Š๐“ƒ ๐“…๐‘œ๐’ธ๐‘œ ๐“‚๐’ถฬ๐“ˆ".

I simply bake standard French fries about 3/4 of the way to being done and then I transfer them to an oven-safe bowl (I usually use a bowl that originally had a small Christmas Pudding [
๐“‘๐“ฎ๐“ฝ๐“ฝ๐”‚๐“ผ, anyone?] in it, so I know it can stand the heat) that I have sprayed with a non-stick cooking oil (I like the Pam Olive Oil one best). Then what I do is layer half of the amount of French fries at the bottom of the bowl, lay a slice of cheese on top of that (tonight was Cheddar on both the middle and top layers, but it is also fun to mix-and-max different slices of cheese, too), on top of the first slice of cheese I dollop (for lack of a better word [is that even a real verb?]) some salsa or hot sauce (usually enough to cover the entire slice of cheese) ~ tonight I used a good local pre-made salsa (see link below), then layer the rest of the fries on top of that, add another slice of cheese, and finish it off with more salsa/hot sauce (sometimes I even use two different hot sauces on the different layers... I seem to have an awful lotta bottles of hot sauce in my refrigerator). I then pop the bowl back in the oven for about 5-10 minutes, just enough time to melt the two layers of cheese and incorporate the salsas into the mess, too.

And, as the Mex
icans say: "โ„ฐ๐“‰ ๐“‹๐‘œ๐’พ๐“๐’ถ!" (well, if these Mexicans happened to be living in Paris or such... )


You will need to click on "Products" and scroll down to the "Most Delicious Fresh Salsa!" section, and then scroll over to their Medium Fresh Roasted salsa to see which one I used tonight. (Their web-site is not half as good as their chips and salsas.)

These guys started out as a simple Me
xican restaurant in San Francisco. Their salsas and chips were so tasty that they decided to start producing those for sale at local grocery stores. That business ended up being so productive that they closed their original shops in town (sadly).

Back in the 90's, they had a promotion going that if you got a tattoo with their logo of "the Little Guy Riding the Ear of Corn", you got a free burrito for life anytime you visited one of their locations. Of course, now there are many grandparents trying to explain to their grandkids just how much of an id*oit they were for doing so. (And, yes, I actually knew/know a few of these "id*ots"... )

(See? It is not that I "can not cook"; I just "can not cook normal".)
 

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What's for Dinner... er... Breakfast? (another HarpoSF-style meal)

This "cooking"-stuff ain't so hard!

For breakfast this morning I made what I can only call "Faux-tmealโ„ข". Yeah, I am even too lazy to actually make any of those instant oatmeals on the market.

So, what I did was just heat up (not boiling, just simmering) about a cup of almondmilk (it actually works better with oatmilk, but I did not have any in my refrigerator this morning) and add it to a bowl of granola/cereal. Today's granola/cereal happened to be a very good one, too: purely elizabethยฎ. ~ Vanilla
Blueberry Almond.

Of course, I also enhanced the breakfastary experience by adding about a half-cup (probably more) of fresh
blueberries to the bowl after the liquid had cooled a bit.

(Maybe in another 65 years I will be able to bake bread and cookies from scratch... or flour... whatever works best.)

 

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Bruegger's Bagels - plain bagel and creme cheese $5.15. Soxtrot isn't that pricy?
 

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What's for Dinner?

I just had a simple PB&J.

Well, when I say "simple", the "J" was actually some Strawberry-
Rhubarb jam... oh, and it had jalapeรฑos in it, too.

Okay, and maybe the "PB" was made with some Coffee peanut butter, too.

At least the sandwich bread part was normal... if you like sourdough.

But it was still "simple" to me...
 

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What's for Dinner?

I just had a simple PB&J.

Well, when I say "simple", the "J" was actually some Strawberry-
Rhubarb jam... oh, and it had jalapeรฑos in it, too.

Okay, and maybe the "PB" was made with some Coffee peanut butter, too.

At least the sandwich bread part was normal... if you like sourdough.

But it was still "simple" to me...
Love sourdough.
 

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Pizza

Half mushroom ๐Ÿ„ half cheese -- they made the whole thing mushroom ๐Ÿ„ ๐Ÿคฎ

Greek salad ๐Ÿฅ— I said no olives-- they put olives ๐Ÿคฎ

Won't be ordering here anytime soon ๐Ÿ˜’
 
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