WIS, WWA | my griddle died
More about the griddle on Monday's meal.
RIP, griddle.
What I Spent
Well, I got a $25 Hungry Harvest box.
Mr. FG made a $45 BJ's trip.
He and I made a quick stop at Lidl (my first time in the store!) and we spent $6.
And then we spent $22 at Harris Teeter on a few things.
That adds up to $98, so an inexpensive start to May!
What We Ate
Saturday
Mr. FG and I took our vaccinated selves to a restaurant and ate inside for the first time since February 2020!
(Oddly, we happened to be the only ones eating in the restaurant, so it was extremely socially distanced anyway.)
Takeout is fine, but eating your food as soon as it comes out of the restaurant kitchen is most definitely an improvement.
Sunday
We used a mish-mash of my birthday discounts to some nearby restaurants; a free sub here, a free pizza there and so on.
Monday
I made BLT's, which I usually do on our big countertop griddle.
(Fry the bacon, then toast the bread in the bacon grease, then assemble the sandwiches. Lisey came up with this method!)
But alas, our BroilKing griddle is dead. The main element went bad and caused electrical smoking.
I talked to the manufacturer and confirmed that there is no way to fix it. Sigh.
I'm kind of annoyed by this because it wasn't a cheap griddle!
Mr. FG did some super thorough research for another brand to try, and we are going to give the Zojirushi griddle a try. This one isn't cheap either, but it seems like it might last a long time.
Fingers crossed!
And I usually figure that kitchen tools pay for themselves in fairly short order because they facilitate home-cooking. It doesn't take many takeout nights to add up to the cost of a small appliance.
Anyway, I made our BLTs on the stovetop this go-round because my new griddle is not here yet.
Tuesday
Sonia made a Thai chicken and sweet potato curry from Dinner Illustrated, and we ate that over rice, topped with limes, cilantro, and green onions.
I peeled some clementines to eat with our curry.
(Here's my full review of Dinner Illustrated. Definitely a cookbook to consider buying!)
Wednesday
I tried a new recipe for chicken spiedies, which are sandwiches made with marinated, grilled chicken chunks in a sub roll with a mayo-based sauce.
I found the recipe on the Cook's Country site when I was poring through everything in the sandwich category, and I'll add this one into our regular rotation.
Easy, no allergy issues, and we all liked it; those are things that make a keeper!
Thursday
I made one-pan chicken and veggie ramen bowls because Lisey doesn't care for them, and she wasn't here for dinner.
Friday
I have book club tomorrow night, so I think Mr. FG and I will do our date night tonight instead. And the girls will fend for themselves!
Saturday: Some of our meat rabbits escaped into the wide open, and since rabbits can't really be caught or herded easily, we had rabbit tacos for dinner. I cooked the rabbits in my giant pressure canner/cooker so they would cook quickly, and then added salsa, green garlic puree, cumin, chili powder, and sour cream to the meat.
Sunday: Middle son's First Communion meal request was pasta with pesto (pesto from last summer still in the freezer, because my basil is nowhere near ready yet) and pots de creme (a kind of chocolate mousse). To this I added steaks and a salad, and everyone was happy.
Monday: A rabbit casserole made with the leftover taco meat layered with tortillas and cheese, avocado, pinto beans, raw snap peas
Tuesday: A giant sprial-sliced ham my husband bought, I presume because it was on sale, boiled potatoes, roasted peppers/onions/carrots, cucumbers with salt and vinegar
Wednesday: Guacamole and chips as our sole not to Cinco de Mayo, leftover ham and potatoes fried together with grated cheese added, green salad with vinaigrette, frozen peas
Thursday: Ground beef tacos, which is what we should've had the day before I suppose. Feliz Seis de Mayo!
Tonight: I got home from work on Wednesday to find that a neighbor had dropped off three very mean roosters her daughter was trying to get rid of. This . . . happens to us a lot. So my husband butchered them yesterday and I will cook them today. They're pretty young, so I'm going to roast them with green garlic puree. I'm making bread today, so that means garlic bread, and I have a lot of store lettuce to get through so I can start using my own lettuce, which is just about ready.
The unexpected roosters, escaping rabbits, and the garden taking off all illustrate why I have to be a lot more spontaneous in my cooking than most. 🙂 Luckily, I find it a fun challenge.
“This ... happens to us a lot.” lol.
My suburban version of your roosters is that people will do things like give me food when they are moving or switching diets. Ha.
But this is much easier than dealing with roosters. I bow to you.
I don't understand about the rabbits....some of them got out so you ate the slow ones that stayed behind? I'm so confused.
Clearly, this Kristin is not in the Country.
Nope, it was the fast ones that ran out into a cow pasture where we couldn't get to them. A predator broke the door down in the night. In the open, they can't be caught easily, and they're easy prey if they're out, so my husband shot the ones that were out in the pasture before they got any farther. The ones that stayed in their enclosure are still there.
I need to pull out my griddle and use it - I kind of forgot I have one. Since I just cook for two, I just use the stovetop, crockpot, and oven in my regular rotation. This week we ate:
Monday - Greek Chicken with I can't remember what else..
Tuesday - Italian Salmon on a bed of greens and peppers
Wednesday - Beans in the crockpot with smoked turkey legs, chopped onion and bell pepper
Thursday - Turkey Meatloaf, baked sweet potato, yellow squash
Tonight - Chicken Meatballs with marinara and farfalle pasta, a fresh veggie
Saturday - Eat Out
Sunday - Fish Tacos
No plans for Mother's Day, except being on-call...
My several-years-old griddle is a $10 griddle I was given as a gift. Clearly, I do not prioritize my griddle among other appliances. I mainly use it for my gluten-free pancakes and tortillas.
I'm still eating alone at night, so I've been cooking once, eating several times:
I cooked a whole package of chops and had them with beets and broccoli or cut up cucumbers 3 times.
I made a sort of hamburger stew, with bone broth, onion, garlic, carrots from my garden, celery, mushrooms and cut up plantain, which took the place of potato for me. I ate this twice plus had lunches out of it.
I had the last of the leftover roast beef one night, with some vegetables but I have no memory of what they were. I wasn't expecting to have enough left over for another meal, so this meal wasn't on my menu.
Also not on my menu was one full day of liquids only, as my autoimmune disease started given me warnings due to the stress of my husband's situation. Fortunately, the liquids-only diet seems to have solved that issue, as it usually does.
I should have a lower food bill this week because I'll still be just shopping for me, but with prices going up and sales being pretty poor, I'm not sure!
I'm so sorry for your stress, but I'm also glad that you know how to deal with it.
I hope that things look up for you and your hubby soon!
Thanks, and I hope so, too! Yes, fortunately, or should I say unfortunately, I have learned to know the signs of impending trouble and how to - usually - forestall it.
Grocery prices in Florida have always seemed higher than what others quote. They seem to be inching upward and most specials are for processed items. I see inflation!
I hope things get better for both you and your hubby soon. Sending prayers of peace and healing.
Thanks, Bee, that's sweet of you.
I agree with you -- groceries seem higher compared to what I hear about elsewhere, and the sales seem to all be for things like boxed cookies and pasta mixes. Shopping has been disheartening.
Would you make a post about teaching your kids to cook? It looks like sometimes Lisey and Sonia make dinner, and I'd be interested to see how that came about. Not that I have kids or a large family to cook for (my husband and I have never owned a griddle because that doesn't seem to matter to us, but we do have multiple ways to make coffee!), but that would be interesting to me.
I learned to cook by just absorbing what my mother did. She didn't teach me per se. Same is true for my daughter. I didn't teach her--she watched me and taught herself. She was a very eager cook from an early age--I remember her making cranberry sauce when she was 7, for example.
My sister and I helped our parents cook from a very young age. From 12/13 onward, we were expected to make dinner once a week. We had to give my mom a shopping list for what we would need. My sister rotated between hot dogs and spaghetti while I was terribly adventurous. I remember making zucchini stuffed with salmon mousse. The fact that I didn't like fish as a kid didn't matter. Of course, I was devastated if my family did not say that they loved it, which (to be fair) was sometimes a really big ask...
Me too! I remember making beef ragout and tarte tatin when I was about 13.
Actually, the part about not teaching me to cook isn't quite true. When I was about five, I asked for an Easy Bake Oven, because I loved the dumb little cakes you baked with a light bulb. It was so little and cute and my friends had them. My mother said no, that was silly, she'd teach me to use the big oven and we made chocolate eclairs. Delicious but way to miss the point, Mom.
When my daughter was about five, I asked her if she wanted an Easy Bake Oven. No, she said, she'd rather I show her how to use the big oven. Skips a generation!
How funny: I, too, really wanted an Easy Bake Oven, and my mother had the exact same reaction as your mother... I suppose it is no wonder that we both ended up here on the same blog. So, Kristen: did you ever have an Easy Bake Oven?
I did not! Because I was homeschooled and I watched almost no TV as a kid, I barely knew Easy Bake Ovens existed.
That's probably a good thing, because I doubt my mom would have said yes. Ha.
Luckily, I had access to our actual oven at a pretty young age, so I probably was not missing out on anything. I do believe one of Mr. FG's sisters (a little older than me) had an Easy Bake, though!
Then there's my Sno-Cone trauma when Mom taught me how to make real sorbet instead. I AM SCARRED FROM MY CHILDHOOD.
Betta, I am not faintly surprised to hear that you were an adventurous cook from a young age!
I learned to cook from Good Eats on the Food Network. I am working on teaching my daughter some cooking skills.
Good Eats with Akron Brown as a teacher, scientist, chef, and comedian is a GREAT way to learn! It has helped me to do some things better, and to explain why the old aunts did certain things a certain way. Super fun to watch!
All of my kids have learned to bake of their own accord (cookies and brownies are very motivating), but dinner cooking has required a nudge from me.
Zoe's about to join the once-a-week cooking crew, and I don't think she will necessarily be thrilled about it. But learning to cook does seem like an essential life skill. Zoe currently makes grilled cheese sandwiches, French toast, quesadillas, and other stuff like that, but she hasn't delved into more complicated dinner stuff.
A big griddle is extremely handy when you are making pancakes, bacon, or fried mush for a family. Once Mr. FG and I are empty nesters, I don't anticipate needing it much, but it's still very useful for us right now.
I also just absorbed what my mom did, by seeing her do it for years. Although I think I didn't absorb as much as I thought I did. I baked a lot as a teenager (my mom never baked but I always wanted to) but didn't really cook. Then when I started cooking for my husband and me, I realized I had a lot of gaps. I just ended up learning over time, following recipes, watching a few cooking shows, and learning from my mistakes. I had some disastrous soup results!!
I finally bought a griddle a couple years ago and it is way easier be able to make so many pancakes or whatever at once. Now we need a four-slice toaster. With five people eating, the two-slicer isn't cutting it anymore.
Yes! Breakfast foods are much easier for a family when you have a big griddle.
My mother would not tolerate anyone in her kitchen, not even to wash up! However my two siblings and I all ended up devoted home cooks. We taught ourselves. My first meals took hours to eat, because I could not get everything to be done at the same time. So I would eat the sausage first, then the potatoes and then the veg, for instance. As a student, I did not mind much (and I definitely would not get takeout on my allowance!). I bought some cooking magazines and followed the recipe. My siblings and I all cook from scratch and are not afraid of an experiment! (Failed experiment: red cabbage sauerkraut. Succesfull experiment: ginger ale and many more!)
WIS: $8 on bread and milk
Friday: I had leftover butternut squash ravioli and made my husband a burger because he did not like the ravioli
Saturday: Take out pizza
Sunday: Restaurant style salad topped with grilled chicken.
Monday Grilled cheese sandwiches because I had attended a luncheon.
Tuesday Pasta and meatballs
Wed Eggs (our own chickens), bacon, beans
Thurs Leftover meatballs and pasta
Monday: Ate some chicken thighs with garlic, thyme and lemon.
Tuesday: Cleaned out the fridge again. This time we finished off some steak that was in there from last week and made some baked potatoes with it.
Wednesday: By my daughter's request we had hamburgers and the smile shaped "fries." Said fries were made in the air fryer. While I don't think it's a product I would recommend others buy, it does do a good job with packaged fries.
Thursday: Breakfast for dinner. We did bacon, eggs, hash browns, fruit, toast, egg and cheese sandwiches etc. Not all at once of course but we had the basics and we all just kind of assembled what we wanted.
Friday: I'm not 100% sure. I'm thinking about making some sort of chicken on the grill since it's actually not raining outside today.
Spedies are the best!!! They come from the Triple Cities area of New York. Binghamton, Endicott, and Johnson City. They are to that area what chicken wings are to Buffalo NY. Went to college in that area and then lived there for about 12 years afterwards. Can be made with chicken, beef, pork, (my favorite), and lamb. My kids love them - they’re adults now but make them wherever they are. Lupo’s on North Street in Endicott have a small stand and they make the ABSOLUTE BEST spedie subs!!! Plus you can buy the sauce they use bottled right there.
So interesting! I’ve never lived out East and never heard of these! Thanks for sharing 🙂
So, am I spelling these wrong? The recipe said "spiedies" so now I'm wondering if there are multiple spellings!
Saturday-pizza
Sunday-fried rice, fruit salad
Monday-burger, tater tots, strawberries
Tuesday-fried rice, pineapple
Wednesday-cheeseburger pie, potatoes, corn, peas
Thursday- romaine salad with chicken, avocado, boiled egg, etc.
Friday-leftovers
RIP griddle.
Spent $30 on meal kit, $30 on produce delivery, and $17 at the grocery store. Low spend week if I ignore the pizza, tacos, and possible carryout tonight -_-
Fri - I forgot to thaw anything, so I think we might get carryout tonight
Thurs - sausage and tomato risotto with salad
Wed - made 2 meals, so we would have lunches next day: parmesan crusted chicken, mashed potatoes and roasted carrots; Korean beef and rice bowls with quick pickled cucumbers and carrots
Tues - taco bell after an awful first day of classes
Mon - leftovers
Sun - salad topped with chicken and bacon
Sat - picked up pizza on the way home from seeing my nephews
I was out of town over the weekend, so the kids & my husband fended for themselves. I had chicken chili one night & then snacky/appetizers another. On girls trips, we usually put out veggies/cheese/crackers & fill up on that before we get to dinner. 😉
Monday - tacos
Tuesday - chicken curry
Wednesday - grilled burgers for some, salmon & sauteed spinach & radish greens for others
Thursday - kebabs & toasted leftover hamburger buns
Friday - There are a few leftovers (curry, one serving of tacos), and I think I'll make coconut shrimp for an appetizer. We also still have quite a bit of spinach, so I'll cut some of that as well for a salad.
I spent approximately $65 at the grocery store this week primarily for breakfast food.
Saturday- I helped my sister move. Afterwards, we went out for tacos.
Sunday - Burgers and salad. Mine was bunless and Hubby had a baked potato.
Monday - Sautéed chicken breast with a spinach and berry salad.
Tuesday- Fish cooked Mediterranean style with tomatoes, olives, capers and artichokes. Also rice and roasted zucchini on the side.
Wednesday - Hubby didn’t feel well. I ate leftovers. He asked for Campbell’s chicken noodle soup and crackers, so I went to the store
Thursday - Stuffed roasted poblano peppers
Friday - Stir-fry with rice noodles
Have a lovely weekend everyone,
I don't know if there's anyway to use a stove-top griddle with your new range--it's another glass top, right?--but the Lodge reversible cast iron stove-top griddle is AMAZING. The price has gone up a bit ($30 just now vs. the $20 we paid several years ago), but it is so, so worth it. I honestly thought my husband was silly for ordering it at first, and now I'm arguably the one who cooks on it the most! It just lives on the stove top (gas range) and has replaced most of our pans, barring things with sauce or water. Best of all for a klutz like me, there's no breaking it! Granted, we only cook for two instead of five, so your mileage may vary.
Yep, it's a glass top, so I figured a stove-top griddle would probably not be a great idea for me. Totally can see how it works for a gas stove, though.
How funny (well not really) but the griddle I use was handed down to me by my mom. She got it for her wedding so it's older than I am. Would that be a prime example of either 1-they used to be made better or 2-we don't use it often?? LOL
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I think they used to make things with better parts. My mom and dad have been married for like 44 years and the blender and mixer that they received as wedding gifts just stopped working a few years ago. I mean, my mom didn't use them THAT much but still that's a loooooong time.
The thing that really gets to me is children's toys. Some of the toys I had as a child are still around and in good shape, but so many of the toys my kids get break in a ridiculously short time.
How nice about Sonia making that curry. I'm looking forward to my kids getting old enough to make a meal now and then!
Saturday- Pizza, chicken, & jojos from our favorite local pizzeria
Sunday- leftovers from Saturday
Monday- spaghetti and meatballs, green beans
Tuesday- my husband got a hankering for tacos, so I picked a dozen tacos from our local Mexican place. Since it was taco Tuesday, they were cheap.
Wednesday- Chicken Adobo (Filipino style), steamed broccoli, baked potatoes
Thursday- leftovers. The fridge was getting pretty full.
Friday- burgers on the grill, macaroni salad, sliced cucumbers and carrots
I never seem to remember but going to have a go at this this week, WWA:
Saturday: Went to Eataly for some groceries after vaccine #2, we ate olive bread, chicken milanese, 5 cheese agnolotti, and arugula/lemon/parmesan salad
Sunday: Leftover broccoli cheddar soup and cheeseburger pierogi
Monday: Marinated steak, green beans, sweet pea ravioli with lemon butter
Tuesday: Pizza w/ burrata, speck, and arugula with lemon butter asparagus on the side
Wednesday: Cinco de Mayo! Build your own tacos, chips & queso, and sopaipillas from On the Border
Thursday: Nachos with the leftover chips, refried beans, queso, and salsa plus extra cheese, black olives, and lettuce.
Tonight is up in the air as my sister is in town, if we don't see them it will probably be our usual fish night
Saturday - Tuna melts, roasted carnival cauliflower, and sliced colorful peppers
Sunday - Tacos!
Monday - Beef stroganoff and zucchini
Tuesday - Sheet pan dinner with brats, carnival cauliflower, sweet potatoes, zucchini, and carrots. Often when I make this, one kid will eat the orange veggies and ignore the green and one kid will do the opposite, but this night everyone ate everything! Hooray!
Wednesday - Burrito bowls and grapes
Thursday - Venison stew and cornbread
Friday - I think we're going to have chicken broccoli alfredo with asparagus I picked from our garden yesterday! It's our first batch of asparagus for the year and I'm pretty excited about it!
I've never heard of carnival cauliflower; what is that?
It comes in 3 different colors: purple, green, and yellow. I'm not sure if it's the brand that produces it or what the type of cauliflower is actually called, though there were lots of recipes when I Googled "carnival cauliflower". I got 2 heads of green in a bargain box at a produce store. It was good!
Specifics are fuzzy but I do know we spent too much AND ate too much!
Some weeks are just like that 😉 !!!
We are from Upstate NY (like basically Montreal!) and my sister went to SUNY at Geneseo- she has shared the Spiedie recipe with us- great!
We had:
Stuffing topped chicken with Normandy veg mix
grilled hotdogs and homemade coleslaw
citrus lime chicken and coleslaw
one pan chicken and green beans,
parmesan chicken and I can't remember what 🙂
and brocolli chicken alfredo
I started meal planning again and it shows. We never have takeout much, but it does help me to get food on the table!
WWS: $28 at Market Basket, $9 at Portuguese Bakery; WWA:
Sat: Went to the Berkshires overnight. VERY exciting to go on a trip!
Sun: Carnitas over salad
Mon: Tuna subs
Tues: Tuna sub
Wedn: Skipped dinner
Thurs: take-out pizza (poor planning!)
Fri: Peri-peri chicken with rice, grilled zucchini & salad. Pastéis de nata for dessert.
Oh how I truly like my Zojirushi griddle! Favorite cooking tool ever. Even cooking. Holds temperature. Heats fast. Dig that lid to keep splatters down and heat in. Let us know what you think about yours.
Lots of business going on this week in our household so we had a lot of simple meals, leftovers and other not so adventurous items. Oh well. Everyone was fed so there is that. I spent $86 at Kroger this week picking up some basics plus a few treats for vacation.
Saturday.... I was at a Women's conference at church all day and we finished planting the garden that evening so takeout pizza was enjoyed for dinner.
Sunday...Chili dogs, baked beans, sweet potato fries and oranges.
Monday....homemade chicken salad sandwiches.
Tuesday....homemade chicken salad sandwiches, creamy pumpkin soup, & clementines.
Wednesday...herb roasted pork tenderloin, red potatoes with parsley & lemon, baby peas, oranges.
Thursday....everyone was out with errands or dr's appointments so we picked up whatever while we were out.
Friday....Spaghetti with meat sauce.
Enjoy the weekend everyone!!!
The ramen looks mouthwateringly delicious!
We had fried rice this week, and a number of PVM (potatoes veg meat) meals. Also homemade pizza, which was good enough to repeat again. Strictly speaking the pizza did not qualify as a meal by my standards, as it did not meet the "half a plate of veg at the minimum" criterium. Where I live, lunches are bread/sandwiches so the veg needs to come from dinner. I notice you eat leftovers for lunch regularly, but we hardly ever have leftovers.
As a non-America I always wonder what a sub is? Is it short for substitute if so for what?
I knew I forgot a meal - the best one of the week. Tray bake sweet potatoes wit red onion, garlic, lemon and feta cheese, with grilled green asparagus by the side. The colours are great too!
"Sub" is short for "submarine sandwich," one of those big sandwiches made on a long loaf of soft bread that can feed several people. Although submarine sandwiches can be shorter: six inches long, or 12 inches long, you do sometimes still see the ones made with a very long loaf that will feed an entire family.
J sub is short for "submarine" it's a type of sandwich. The bread roll looks like a submarine, at least that's what I understand it to mean!
Thanks Ruby and Morgan for explaining! 🙂
Also, the name of this type of sandwich is highly regional in the US: sub, hoagie, hero, and then the correct one, a grinder. 🙂
Oh, that is tragic about your griddle! What a shame that it can't be repaired.
We don't use it too often any more, but I have a GE electric frying pan that substitutes as a pancake griddle. It was my mother-in-law's in the 1970s and it still works great. It makes perfect pancakes and excellent fried chicken on those rare occasions when I lose my mind and fry something in the house.
We spent $132, if I remember correctly, of which about $110 was food. I had a fistful of store coupons and we had a couple of dollars knocked off with sales. Dinner was skillet beef barbecue, green beans and seasoned rice, which created leftovers. I made leftover seasoned rice into faux veggie fried rice with the addition of a beaten egg and frozen peas and carrots. It was surprisingly good. In a very rare splurge, I bought fried chicken at the grocery store deli and a carton of red wine. I regret nothing! It was delicious. 😀
I know, I am annoyed that you can't just get a part to replace it. Sadly, the broken part is welded onto the griddle itself.
The curry looks delicious -- actually, it all does 🙂
Spent about $80 this week -- We did fail a bit -- I had Pollo Loco for one lunch and husband had it for dinner one night. And we used gift cards and coupons for Subway last night.
We had Big salads with chicken and with turkey burgers a couple nights; I made "cauli" bread grilled sandwiches a couple times, and turkey tacos with broccoli one night, and leftover tacos and cauli sandwiches the next night. Not too exciting but we used up a lot of frozen meat and frigerator veggies.
Happy Weekend to all!
Wait, what is cauli bread? Is it something you make yourself?
It's a bread-like frozen thingie I found in the marked down section at Ralphs in the form of low carb rounds that vaguely resemble bread slices if you don't think about it too much and don't mind that essence of cauliflower (main ingredient in place of grain). I just grabbed several packs and have been making grilled ham and cheese "sandwiches" with lots of mustard and avocado. I don't mind them at all but they aren't technically bread. I will check on the brand name. I frankly thought the original price was a lot for un-bread (and only 6 per pack) but for half price to have in the freezer on demand they are okay. Husband goes with actual bread 😉 Hope that makes sense!
Haha at the "lots of mustard" part!
Sunday: We grilled some marinated steak from the freezer and had it with rice pilaf and a salad
Monday: Chili and corn muffins
Tuesday: Tortellini and pesto with the last of the pesto that I made and froze last summer, green salad
Wednesday: Chicken fajitas with all the fixings
Thursday: Turkey burgers with toppings: lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, bacon, mayo, ketchup, etc.. Served with baked beans and strawberries/pineapple. I tried a new recipe for turkey burgers. One child preferred it to our usual recipe. Other child preferred the usual. I don't know if I will make these again.
Friday: Local take out day, older daughter's turn to choose and she picked Chinese food.
Saturday: We will make homemade pizza using my husband's birthday gift, Ooni Karu Pizza Oven.
Oooooh, I've been thinking, er dreaming, about purchasing an Ooni. Had delicious pizza that a friend cooked in it and have been debating if I should purchase one ever since. Would have to fit it in the budget for sure and the wait time is about six weeks as it is. What made you purchase one and how often do you think it will be used? Thanks and enjoy!
I have really got to cave in and get a Cooks Country subscription, the recipes you share always look so good.
Slowly getting the hand of eating out of an RV (very little room to cook or store meals) and this week we had
grilled burgers
pizza casserole
enjoyed outside dining at a local catfish place
date night/mothers day dinner
fend for yourself
dirty rice, roast broccoli, and rolls
Sorry about your deceased griddle. I would be super sad if mine bit the dust. I have no input on the Zojirushi griddle, however, we received a thermal coffee carafe of the same brand as a wedding gift 20 years ago and it's still going strong .... hopefully all their products are made well.
Meanwhile .... Greek chicken wraps with naan .... coney dogs ..... Mexican takeout for my birthday which happens to fall on, you guessed it, Cinco de Mayo, chicken soup with leftover ravioli instead of tortellini and with homemade bread, and hubby had pulled pork sandwiches that were liberated from the freezer for supper tonight.
Well, that's a good recommendation for the brand at least. I know people like their Zojirushi bread machines too, so I am hopeful.
We have a Zojirushi rice cooker and it's been great. We did have to have the electrical board replaced pretty soon after receiving it for a wedding present, but it has worked perfectly since (going on 10 years!). The company is good to work with, too.
I wish I had gotten the gas stove top that includes a griddle. I'm sorry to hear about your loss.
Funny thing! A few years ago I was reading an article and they mentioned Spiedies, so I looked them up and made them and they were a big hit--
Who invented Spiedies?
Camillo Iacovelli created the spiedie in Endwell, New York, and was serving them in 1938 at his Parkview Restaurant on Oak Hill Ave in Endicott. His brother, Agostino "Augie" Iacovelli, popularized spiedies when he introduced them in his Endicott restaurant Augie's in 1939. Iacovelli's marinade, which he called "zuzu", originally was made simply from wine vinegar, water, lemon juice, garlic and mint. Italian spices, olive oil and minced onion were added later as regional tastes and the choice of meat began to vary.[1] Augie Iacovelli's son Guido continued in the spiedie business into the 1990s, owning as many as 26 restaurants at the peak of his career.[1]
The term "spiedie" is derived from the Italian spiedo meaning spit.[1] The regional dish called spiedini or spidducci in Abruzzo, Italy, most closely resembling spiedie, uses cubes or balls of goat meat, lamb, chicken or beef on a skewer. (Wiki)
Debated History
The original idea for the spiedie was brought by Italian immigrants to upstate New York in the early 1920s made with lamb, pork and chicken. The specific origin of the spiedie is disputed. The "chicken category" was added to the Spiedie Fest cook-off in 1987, and quickly became the most popular meat choice.
Thanks for posting this! I first had spiedies when I was a kid visiting my parents' friends in upstate New York (35 years ago?!). We liked them so much that we brought some spiedie sauce home! 🙂 I love local food!!
I am super eager to hear your reviews of the new griddle! We have been looking for one that cooks evenly 🙂