Buttered Steak, Potatoes, and Cobbler

Last night was a free dinner pass. Pizza with friends. Tonight, to make up for lost meals, three new recipes were tried: Steak with Butter, Buttery Bacon Potatoes, Cherry Butter Cake Cobbler. Of the three new recipes, desert was the only one following a specific recipe.

Modifications Made: Buttered Steak

Steak with butter did not follow any one recipe, more just the idea of a butter enhancement. Many recipes call for butter pats flavored with lemon, garlic, and parsley to enhance the seasonings on the steak. This just seemed like too much flavorings as we typically heavily season our steaks anyways.

Modifications Made: Buttery Bacon Potatoes

Buttery Bacon Potatoes was simply bacon fried extra crispy, thinly sliced potatoes seasoned with salt and pepper added to crispy bacon, and butter splats added to tops of potato slices cooked in a covered skillet until potatoes were soft.

Modifications Made: Cherry Butter Cake Cobbler

Not wanting to experience ash in campfire cobbler, the cobblers' four ingredients were combined as instructed and then baked in the oven at 350 until brown and bubbly.

Scaled for Likability:

Buttered Steak: No Thank You

Buttered steak may be all the rage on Pintrest and food blogs across the land except at Eating Waffles. Here we like our meat seasoned, grilled to perfection of pink, with crispy crunch of grill on the outside with a soft, velvety inside. Butter is for potatoes.

Buttery Bacon Potatoes: Good

As it turns out, no matter how crispy the bacon is to begin with, once cooked with lots of butter and potatoes who are then steamed to perfection, crispy bacon inevitably gets soft and chewy. If I had wanted soft, limp bacony potatoes, raw bacon bites could have been cooked alongside the potatoes. Next time, crispy bacon will be tossed in directly before serving to preserve all crunch.

Cherry Butter Cake Cobbler: Fail

Dutch Oven Campfire Cobber was a total wash. The batter was so sweet it made me and my table counterparts teeth hurt. Even in attempts to pick out the cobbler filling was a waste of time as the batter seeped into all of the parts ruining the entire dish. Maybe it was the cheap box cake, maybe it was just our taste buds. But to have a 12 year old child who won't eat desert says something about the desert. D-EEEEE-SGUSTING! To the compost bin the dish went. Happy eating chickens and other eaters of the bin....

Three strikes, your out. Better luck next time. Maybe. Hopefully. If not, this whole 365 days of new meals might have to be scratched.

Papas a La Mexicana (Ranchera)

It is a crying shame that there are six hens and not a egg in sight. What am I supposed to do with homemade ranchero sauce? Thankfully with a few quick searches of the internet a recipe from my hometown newspaper was discovered: Papas Ranchera . Not once in the thirty years I lived in my hometown did I ever eat at a local food joint serving papas rancheras. No time like the present to remedy this cultural dish. Because this recipe is hidden behind a paywall (grrr...) I have included it here for you: Servings: 4-6 Ingredients: 1 pound potatoes, diced 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1/2 large onion 1 1/2 medium tomatoes 3 jalapenos 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup juice from canned tomatoes Instructions: Fry potatoes in vegetable oil until lightly browned (about 4-6 minutes). Saute onions, tomatoes, jalapenos until soft. Add garlic powder and salt. Add tomato juice until vegetables are covered (may need to add water). Bring to a boil and then add po...

Better Than Campbell's Old Fashion Vegetable Soup

Went to the store with the hopes of gathering fresh produce for soup. With more than 45 people in line for two packages of any meat product and the produce section containing only avocado, orange, and most randomly, strawberries, I settled upon canned soup. Well not canned soup since that section was still void of food, too. Instead soup made from canned goods as the canned vegetable section had been mostly restocked. Soups like this 15 Minute Vegetable Soup are ideal in dire food situations such as current times. Modifications Made: Plain petite diced tomatoes omitted, frozen carrots instead of canned, green beans and corn undrained, peas omitted (gross, nasty little pods), one cup celery, three cups diced potatoes, one can tomato sauce, two beef and two pollo de tomate bouillon cubes, six cups water. Once onions were softened, carrots/celery/potatoes/juice of green beans and corn, sauce, bouillon cubes, water were added and allowed to simmer until carrots almos...

Cold Corn Bean Salsa

Nothing says junk food like chips and salsa, chips and cheese dip, chips and guacamole. Over the years I have perfected my salsa. It's good on tacos, on nachos, on enchiladas, and of course on chips. Just because I have the best salsa doesn't mean I don't like to try new salsa's like this Best Black Bean and Corn Salsa. Modifications Made: Shoepeg corn was replaced with one can of standard yellow corn with no salt added. Petite diced tomatoes were reduced by half. Italian dressing was swapped for half teaspoon comino, half teaspoon of chili powder, and two tablespoon of fresh lime juice. Salsa was made and let rest for two hours before eating. Scaled for Likability: Good Salsa this was not. Good it was however. It was too much for chips by themselves but was great served over a soft beef taco.

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