GunnyGene
Hawkeye
My wife's contribution to culinary options during the current unpleasantness: Lockdown stew. Really very good. Used to be known as hobo stew. :mrgreen:
Lockdown menus
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Looks delicious.
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We used to call it Milligan stew or garbage stew.
Quite good.
Quite good.
Captain America
Hunter
Crumble them crackers up in that and go to work...looks gooooood!
Looks GREAT. I always knew it as Hobo stew.
Speaking of Hobos: when I was a kid in the mid 50s there was a place outside of our small, 4500 population, Mid Ohio town next to the RR tracks and along the river where the Hobos would camp. We kids never saw any there but we could see the remains of camp fires and empty tin cans. This area also had large flat rocks that they could sleep on.
Times have changed. Now they all are called homeless and sleep in town.
In the late 40s they were still quite common and would stop by your house looking for work or a hand out. My Grandmother fed several and they were very thankful. Yes they had there own code as to where to stop for food and help.
A bygone era.
Speaking of Hobos: when I was a kid in the mid 50s there was a place outside of our small, 4500 population, Mid Ohio town next to the RR tracks and along the river where the Hobos would camp. We kids never saw any there but we could see the remains of camp fires and empty tin cans. This area also had large flat rocks that they could sleep on.
Times have changed. Now they all are called homeless and sleep in town.
In the late 40s they were still quite common and would stop by your house looking for work or a hand out. My Grandmother fed several and they were very thankful. Yes they had there own code as to where to stop for food and help.
A bygone era.
BearBio
Buckeye
Growing up, we had them camping in the field behind our house.
Our "lockdown meals" have included Limas beans & ham, spaghetti (I have a dozen jars of sauce), biscuits & gravy (home-made sausage), halibut (from an Alaskan trip 2 years ago-almost gone), salmon (from a friend), bear (traded halibut for it), stew & dumplings, chicken and dumplings, and, of course, chili.
Our "lockdown meals" have included Limas beans & ham, spaghetti (I have a dozen jars of sauce), biscuits & gravy (home-made sausage), halibut (from an Alaskan trip 2 years ago-almost gone), salmon (from a friend), bear (traded halibut for it), stew & dumplings, chicken and dumplings, and, of course, chili.
Bayouhunter
Single-Sixer
We brought home 4 bucks and 1 doe during deer season this year. Venison stews, soups, Roast and gravy and occasional pot of chili was ours until I left for work two weeks ago. Now I wish I had shot 10!
Onboard the boat I’m on Ive had to shop a bit harder to get the food and supplies
needed but I’m doing ok. I have a crew of 14 with a budget of $17.50 per man per day and making an order every two weeks. I spent Sunday afternoon making a grocery & supply order out then refined it a bit on Monday before sending it in for Tuesday delivery. I sure miss not having a competent cook onboard with me now a days. During 2016 cuts the cook was the one to be cut.
Now I need a lot more deli meats and cheese with frozen pizzas as somedays we just cannot get a meal cooked.
Believe me it’s a lot easier making a large grocery out at home with children in the house than it is with grown men on a boat. Lol! It’s surprises me how many Little Debbie products I need to satisfy them.
I find it almost as expensive buying sandwich meats and cheeses due to having to skip cooked meals and eat sandwiches I ordered 16lbs of different deli meats 6 lbs of hot pepper jack cheese the favorite which we run out of within 7-9 days, Colby jack and American cheese total 10-12 lbs of cheese. When we have time we cook but it’s not every day now left overs never go far. Frozen pizzas are crazily expensive but some guys can live off them I forgot frozen corndogs. I’m not one of them. Our pantry storage is stocked well though.
If didn’t have to buy paper products I could get buy a lot better 120 rolls of paper towels and almost the same amount of toilets tissue bits deep into the budget.
Everyone is always full of crap!
Back home in two weeks I’ll go grocery shopping for my wife. While in the store Ill to go to the deli section and ask the lady for a roll of pepper jack cheese and it never fails!she always asks the whole roll? Yes please and not sliced nobody in our area seems to do that but I don’t have to go to the store but once for groceries all my other runs are for beer a stop or two at the abc store.
Onboard the boat I’m on Ive had to shop a bit harder to get the food and supplies
needed but I’m doing ok. I have a crew of 14 with a budget of $17.50 per man per day and making an order every two weeks. I spent Sunday afternoon making a grocery & supply order out then refined it a bit on Monday before sending it in for Tuesday delivery. I sure miss not having a competent cook onboard with me now a days. During 2016 cuts the cook was the one to be cut.
Now I need a lot more deli meats and cheese with frozen pizzas as somedays we just cannot get a meal cooked.
Believe me it’s a lot easier making a large grocery out at home with children in the house than it is with grown men on a boat. Lol! It’s surprises me how many Little Debbie products I need to satisfy them.
I find it almost as expensive buying sandwich meats and cheeses due to having to skip cooked meals and eat sandwiches I ordered 16lbs of different deli meats 6 lbs of hot pepper jack cheese the favorite which we run out of within 7-9 days, Colby jack and American cheese total 10-12 lbs of cheese. When we have time we cook but it’s not every day now left overs never go far. Frozen pizzas are crazily expensive but some guys can live off them I forgot frozen corndogs. I’m not one of them. Our pantry storage is stocked well though.
If didn’t have to buy paper products I could get buy a lot better 120 rolls of paper towels and almost the same amount of toilets tissue bits deep into the budget.
Everyone is always full of crap!
Back home in two weeks I’ll go grocery shopping for my wife. While in the store Ill to go to the deli section and ask the lady for a roll of pepper jack cheese and it never fails!she always asks the whole roll? Yes please and not sliced nobody in our area seems to do that but I don’t have to go to the store but once for groceries all my other runs are for beer a stop or two at the abc store.
Walmart has frozen 11 & 12 inch pizza’s for &2.50 to2.78 each. Good luck!
gramps
gramps
My wife cooked a lamb shoulder Monday afternoon... semi-moroccan style... cooked for about 5 hours in a light tomato sauce with red kidney beans ... damn it was good...
That's how we manage some "too tough to chew" elk steaks. I'm not a "tomato guy" so leave that out and add sliced onion and more potatoes and carrots.
No real difference in menu around here but I've run out of ramen and getting low on nutty bars. Gonna have to go to town within the next couple of days.
No real difference in menu around here but I've run out of ramen and getting low on nutty bars. Gonna have to go to town within the next couple of days.
314Chevy
Single-Sixer
Growing up we called it slumgullion. Whatever meat at the store was about to go bad, potatoes and whatever cans were in the 10 cent bin.
My grandfather was a Chesapeake Bay waterman. He made a similar concoction, in the galley of his buy boat, but he called it "Hish, hash, and hellfire." No idea what 'hish' was but the other two were exactly as advertised.
Bayouhunter
Single-Sixer
Dave P. said:
Not for the past 15+ yrs too many guys getting hooks in them causing injuries. One thing I learned long ago you can’t fix stupid. No matter how many safety meetings I held over the years some folks are determined to get a hook in their selves. A few yellow fin tuna would be good addition too.
I miss not being able to catch fish offshore a nice change of diet too.
Bayouhunter
Single-Sixer
Every few days I get to go down to the galley and cook, my favorite hands down is a sausage jambalaya. Quick simple and simple from scratch no Box jambalayas for this bayou boy. Conecuh Sausage being the main ingredient.
powder smoke
Hawkeye
Nice Gunny, thats making me hungry! ps
Looks tasty! With me working from Home Kenneth has gotten used to supper on the table when he gets home.
BearBio
Buckeye
Tonight:
Braised round steaks (actually more of a roast=over 1" thick), herbed and roasted Yukon gold potatoes, a spring salad (peas, snow peas, alfalfa sprouts, cilantro with a Key Lime vinagrarette) and grilled asparagus with Balsamic vinegar, with a greyhound made with pink grapefruit and lime vodka (we like the Smirnoff the best over Absolut). Ready in the next 1/2 hour!
Braised round steaks (actually more of a roast=over 1" thick), herbed and roasted Yukon gold potatoes, a spring salad (peas, snow peas, alfalfa sprouts, cilantro with a Key Lime vinagrarette) and grilled asparagus with Balsamic vinegar, with a greyhound made with pink grapefruit and lime vodka (we like the Smirnoff the best over Absolut). Ready in the next 1/2 hour!
Bayouhunter said:
What a shame!! The best part of working offshore is the food. Well let me exclude living/working Offshore Nigeria. Unless you have been there there is no way I can describe the food that was on some of the Platforms I worked on.
I'm not sure how the boats supply the quality of food required for the troops. One thing GREAT about the supply boats mainly manned by Britt's in Nigeria was we could go to them in the evening and get a beer or two.
I also spent time on the LA. Boats that were tied to the platform and have great memories with those guys.
Bayouhunter
Single-Sixer
A beer or two would be good every now and then but not in this nanny state USCG and oil companies in the USA can be almost be like prison. Food quality is good if there are guys onboard that know how to cook. Then a again I get some that think they know how to cook!
“ I also spent time on the LA. Boats that were tied to the platform and have great memories with those guys.”
Same here I’ve met and known a lot of good guys from the production platforms over the years.
Mobil, Exxon, ConocoPhillips, BHP, Shell, to name a few. I had a job offer from Mobil back in the 80’s but decided the I was better where I was. I’m a mariner.
It’s been a good life.
Gunny’s shelter in place food looks tasty, something quick and easy to make. I have three whole fryers thawing out now to put in the oven later for the evening crew. I have no extra time for homemade dressing so it’s Stove Top Stuffing mix tonight.
“ I also spent time on the LA. Boats that were tied to the platform and have great memories with those guys.”
Same here I’ve met and known a lot of good guys from the production platforms over the years.
Mobil, Exxon, ConocoPhillips, BHP, Shell, to name a few. I had a job offer from Mobil back in the 80’s but decided the I was better where I was. I’m a mariner.
It’s been a good life.
Gunny’s shelter in place food looks tasty, something quick and easy to make. I have three whole fryers thawing out now to put in the oven later for the evening crew. I have no extra time for homemade dressing so it’s Stove Top Stuffing mix tonight.
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GunnyGene
Hawkeye
Bayouhunter said:
For those that like it hot, you can put some of your/their favorite hot sauce in it to spice it up some.
