Gigantic, a Big Big Love

Fried Pork Chop, Poached Eggs over Toast and Hash Browns

I'm a huge fan of a giant biggie girl breakfast as the main or only meal of the day.  It's easy to forget about thin pork chops as an option but I'm here to report they work quite nicely.  They cook up quickly and respond well to a simple s&p or a marinade.

If You Wanna Be Happy for the Rest of Your Life

Potsticker Dinner

Sometimes you eat a breakfast that is so filling, you need only a snack for dinner.  These frozen potstickers were a great idea and better than expected, especially with a homemade quickie sauce.

Quickie Sauce

• Soy sauce
• Rice Vinegar
• pinch of sugar
• sesame oil
• pepper flakes
• Chili garlic sauce
• scallions for garnish

In these days of fear, dread and danger, it's nice to make tiny celebrations of life with food.  Like Cher in Mermaids, I've found appetizers to be excellent instant parties, and prefer hearty snacks to a full meal any day of the week. Something about the seriousness of a sit down meal has always made me squeamish.  Whether it be chips and guac, nachos, or something like above, a frozen or boxed item paired with something homemade - lighter fare is where it's at.  Serve up some iced lemon seltzers or tea to go along and live your best life!  

Biggie Girl Breakfast with loaded omelet, potatoes and bacon

I make good use of my pizza stone by baking up my small cut potatoes to get a good crisp in less time. 

That I Might Understand You

Pizza Slices cut into squares so they could be eaten as a snack and everyone knows, snacking doesn't count.

Earlier that day, I made another biggie-girl breakfast of ham and poached eggs on avocado toast with leftover roasted potatoes. Bacon and eggs or Ham and eggs?  It's like choosing Pepperoni or Sausage pizza. Both are perfection.  

I've been falling asleep to You Tube chefs, trying to get inspired to make interesting meals and step out of my comfort zone.  Although come to think of it, mainly I'm just watching food porn until I sleep. Research, I call it.  But while viewing, I notice that the Tuber's seem more desperate to get not only your Like but for you to subscribe and become a Patreon supporter.  They have become clingy partners who want you to say you love them on the first date!  Hell, it's not even a date, you might have just been walking by and decided to take a quick peak.  Okay, I understand, it's easy enough to press the like button, although I wish they'd make it possible to do in full screen.  This new pseudo friend is going to waste a couple of minutes of my life asking me to subscribe too...then without skipping a beat, they're already asking for me to become a Patreon?  Dude, we just met, now I'm gonna give you money every month, just like that!?  It all happens much too fast.  Not only that but you get commercials interrupting the videos.  Plus you have to listen to the host talk out a commercial since they all have sponsors suddenly.  Here's someone you're trying to spend some time with, so to speak, but your'e watching them fake how they love a product and maybe some do, but I got the feeling that most don't.  So now we got trust issues.  Everyone has to make a buck, sure.  I suppose I'm a fool to believe people have free time to keep producing incredible content simply for the love of the art.  But it's hard to accept that everyone does it mainly for the money.  Maybe they're just trying to make a living, doing something they love.  I could understand that.  I just don't get why everything has a price tag on it these days.    

I Ain't Quiet, Everybody Else is Too Loud

Chicken Stew exists in the world and praise be for that!  There is a time and a place for almost every soup and stew.  This one is for right now, it's quiet food time.  Creamy white potatoes, soft carrots, real just made chicken-ey broth with kale and peas. Salt and pepper are the only spices needed.  A bowl of this soup should be eaten in silence, preferably with candles burning.  Sshhhhhhhh, slurp.

It's good to remember when you get back on the dietary good foot, that pizza, or some home cook's version, can be made any day, with any ingredients, and should be, often. 

Nice creamy scrambled eggs, bacon and hash browns for a biggie girl breakfast!