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Potatoes and onions, corn, inch thick pork chops.

Pork chops were excellent looking managers specials for 6.12 instead of 9 something.

The whole thing would have come up to about $5.50 per person. But a weird thing happened. A while back we went to a store we got maybe four times a year to get something Walmart didn't have. They handed us a store contest scratch off card. We got home and scratched it off. We won a $100 gift card.

So technically this meal was about negative $40 per person.

We wanted to stock up on freezer friendly meats but that entire freezer was out of commission. Womp womp. Like MacArthur, we will return.

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Late reply, but are those mustard seeds on the potatoes?

Jane Brody would be happy...

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I used a seedy German mustard on the potatoes and onions after I fried them. Oh and about two tablespoons of butter.

[–] Hond@piefed.social 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

That poster a few weeks ago who said hes gonna block this community lives rentfree in my head. Because i get him. Nearly everytime i see a picture of this community posted in my feed it just absolutly disgusts me. Holy moly. It dont even know why? Its not high cuisine, but who cares? I'm sure its perfectly fine tasting self cooked food.
But something about it just breaks me.

Anyway. Keep it up. This is a nice little community and i could just post my own stuff if really cared. Feel free to delete this comment. But damn, i couldnt stay silent or just ignore it any longer. My poor european tastes are struggling to keep it together with these meals.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Does this look better? If so: too much instagram :)

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[–] froh42@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Nope it does not look better. It's the food, not the colors.

Oh maybe it is the colors, it looks even more like it's heavy in the stomach.

It's weird as I like meat and cheese myself. But photos of American food which is almost exclusively that stuff - the first few I saw, i though yum. But now every time I see more of them, it turns me off.

I understand OP is living on a budget and I'm happy for them for their 100 USD card. And I remember - when I was there for holidays the last time I ate similarly myself because some simple fresh stuff just did cost a fortune.

Back to the picture - what would make it look good to me would be something green, just a bit of salad on the side or some bell peppers sliced.

I was in Sardegna once and on that trip I had one of the best meals I ever had in an agroturismo. What do I remember about it? The plate of raw sliced tomatoes and bell peppers they had grown themselves.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I fully get what you are saying. But for this meal specifically I wasn't cooking for myself. This was basically the request of my wife and it had to fit her comfort food ideals. Before she met me she was the kind of person that would eat the same beige meal for months at a time before she got bored with it. She grew up near Amish country in Pennsylvania and is if the people that think mayo is spicy. She had made a lot of progress. It was her idea to put the German mustard on the potatoes.

You can pretty much tell my meal concepts from hers just by the amount of seasoning involved. I make tacos with fresh salsa. She wants nothing green other than starchy pees. I make shakshuka and chili. She wants fried chicken. She always eats what I make and she likes it. But I have to put in beige flood for her too.

And that budget thing is a real pressure. I'm doing a lot less meat and I make more vegetarian and non-American food than most non-ethnic Americas because I love a good loaf of bread and veg based something to dip it in. But my job and metabolism also requires a lot more protein and calories than that makes possible. So it's all a balance it was only so years ago that I stopped needing 3500 calories a day because I was turning 50 and my metabolism has started to reach something recognizable to most people instead of the 6000 calories I was eating in my teens and 20s. So meals tend to be heavy so that I don't start dropping pounds. I accidentally lost 38 pounds in 2016 just because I was eating sardines as a snack instead of a whole third meal.

She gets kidney stones. That prevents frequent usage of a lot of different greens. And I live in a food desert where eggplant and leeks are very rare while fancy greens that aren't kidney stone inducing are almost unheard of even if they were in budget. I have to drive 24 miles one way to get arugula.

Sorry for going on. I'd like to cook different. But her upbringing and my budget combined with calorie needs are several layers of complexity to figuring out what dinner is going to be.

[–] Hond@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Nah, the last time i used insta was when it was mostly known for its infamous lomography filters. While this edit is intentionally horrible it proofs a point though. A subtle shift in the whitepoint to the warmer side and a few clicks to reduce the slight green tint in the potatoes would help wonders. Almost looks like flourescent light or photographed with a flash light. Either case wouldnt be ideal.

Anyway, i'm well aware of how hard it is to take good pics of food. I wouldnt have made that rather blunt and maybe hurtful comment if it was only about the presentation. Its mostly just a culture shock thing, i guess.

But enough of me and my "feelings". If i ever comment or post again i will provide pics/recipes.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

Any group is what the people make it. Post your stuff. Change the group.

[–] sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What spices did you use for the meat?

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Due to comfort food compliance regulations imposed by my wife I'm only allowed to use salt and pepper or, very rarely, curry powder, on pork chops. This one is just salt and pepper.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yesterday I re-learned that Romans didn't use salt and pepper, they used salt and cumin.

Going to try that today.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They liked long pepper and grains of paradise. But I wouldn't use grains of paradise on pork chops. Cumin and long pepper sounds good.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I did salt and ground cumin on a ham sandwich, it was decent!

[–] rhurruck@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing green? Mid-west maybe, but not sure that represents all of America.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A stereotypical American meal is "meat and potatoes" If either the meat or the potatoes are green, you die.

[–] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Any true American food is either microwaved or eaten directly out of a plastic bag!

In other news: your meal looks really good, like a true comfort meal

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Looks American to me! Nice job!

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I find Americans a little fattier then pork.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

That's not true. We are way fattier than pork.