This back thing’s got me semi-immobilized. I can stand and walk long enough to take care of domestic necessities and to do the needed grocery shopping, though, and yesterday morning was time to replenish a few things – milk, orange juice, other groceries, so I’m off to the local Kroger.
Not a chance of getting a close-in parking slot, so I find one a medium distance from the front door, slide my luxury Honda Fit into it, and take advantage of the lazy by grabbing a grocery cart. That’s my ‘stealth walker’. I can push the cart, leaning on it a bit to unload the sensitive arrangement of my vertebrae for least aggravation.
So I’m shopping. Short list today. Milk. OJ. Eggs. Oh, look, there’s some cheap pork bits. (that’s the makings of home-made salt pork – recipe later) And I’m cruising by the frozen foods, the breakfast section in particular, and I see something I’ve seen advertised on TV.
Jimmy Dean’s Stuffed Hash Browns.
I’m thinking that first, manufactured hash browns are a weakness to me. I love those potato units that McDonalds tosses in with a McMuffin meal., McMuffins being my fast food breakfast of choice.
So I’m thinking, ‘here’s a hash brown with good stuff already stuffed in it’ and I’m thinking it’s microwavable and therefore it will keep me from standing at the stove cooking something for breakfast when ‘breakfast’ MUST be something warm. (Yeah, I have ‘warm breakfast’ and ‘cold breakfast’ days. Cereal takes care of the ‘cold’ days.)
I bought a box.
BIG MISTAKE!!!
I tried them this morning. There’s a neat little sleeve that you insert the frozen unit into so that the microwave oven will actually crisp up the outside of the thing. It works.
What doesn’t work is flavor.
Folks, I’m NOT picky about food. I’ve eaten kimchi in Korea, boudin in Louisiana, frikadellen in Germany, and there’s not an ethnic food I won’t try.
But this thing tastes like, in the choice words of a foodie, hammered shit.
Now I’ve got a box of the stupid things and I hate to throw ’em away because I’m afraid they make a possum puke.
Have you REALLY gotten so senile that you don’t remember the Louisiana cure for bland food:
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???
Mark-
That’s Cajun ketchup. we put it in baby formula…
MC
I realty prefer Tabasco as the all purpose seasoning. When you want to go around the flavor curve Tapatio is quite good.
Your stealth walker comment reminded me of when I fell and broke my back in 2010, split compression fracture of L2, four and a half months in a TLSO (turtle shell) brace, and nearly a year before I could bend down to pick up anything I accidentally dropped.
But you didn’t use it on the hash browns, MC?
And Dorf, Tabasco is fine if you just want heat. But for that I prefer to go with crushed red pepper. Crystal or Louisiana Hot Sauce add some flavor to the dish as well.
I use Tabasco for the fermented aroma, the heat is whatever you think it may be. The Tapatio sauce has a definite spice profile along with the requisite heat.