Adventures in Cooking: Father's Day

[alpharaposa]

Well, the cub was tired early this morning, and anher was up late last night (oh, insomnia!), so they sacked out relatively soon after I got up this morning. While they slept, I cooked.

I made whole wheat waffles. I ate one plain, but neither boy nor hubby has tried them yet.

This is because I also made hash browns with most of the remaining red potatoes we had.

I fried up some bacon for the grease. (Unfortunately, I burnt the bacon trying to make it crispy enough and had to throw out the actual meat. I prefer my bacon chewy and have little experience cooking it to a crisp the way my hubby likes it.) Into the bacon grease went two small onions, sauteed until starting to go clear. Then I added a leek, light green and white part all chopped up, and sauteed some more until that was nice and tender. At this point the onions were starting to caramelize. I tossed in the diced potatoes (about 2 lbs, I think!) and stirred it all together over a medium heat. At one point I put a lid on the whole thing to get the potatoes to cook faster, but I took the lid off again at the end to let the steam escape. No sense in making soggy potatoes.

The onions had cooked long enough through it all that they were sweet and tender. The leeks were delicious, and the potatoes were just right. With a little salt and pepper, it was a wonderful breakfast.

Afterwards, I felt like I could use a bit more protein to go with all that, and had a little Greek yogurt with honey. This time, I had the whole milk Greek yogurt, which filled me up much faster than the 0%. I hadn't served up much, and anher ended up having to help me finish it off. Serious stuff, that yogurt.

The cub had potatoes and yogurt with us; he turned one year old yesterday, so he can have honey! The whole wheat waffles wait for their turn, but fortunately, they can be frozen for reheating later.

Besides, potatoes. My dad has often told me, "You can't go wrong serving men potatoes." Wise words.

Happy Father's Day!

Comments

[collinsmom.livejournal.com]

You can't go wrong serving men potatoes.

That is if you can fry potatoes so that they come out right. I have never been able to do that. I have asked some of my female hospice patients how they did it. Apparently you have to use very hot bacon grease (or lard) and only turn them once. Hubby knows how to fry them, so I let him cook his own.

[collinsmom.livejournal.com]

Are you still going to church?

[stryck.livejournal.com]

We make it about twice a month.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to the Werecub on hitting his first year! How did he like the honey? I remember as a little kid finding the flavour kind of overwhelming since little kids' taste buds are more sensitive.

Sounds like gooood hash browns.

[stryck.livejournal.com]

He's a very adventurous eater. He'll try anything I'm eating, and rarely dislikes any of it. Sometimes stronger spices will get a nose wrinkle the first time, but then he'll come back for more. (Nothing too hot so far, though.)

He loved the yogurt with honey, so I'm guessing honey is approved.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Something nudges me to say, don't despair if this changes next year.

[anher.livejournal.com]

Oh my, a picky two year old? What a surprise.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Exactly.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Mmm, those hash browns sound delicious! Too bad about the bacon, but that sort of thing happens. Though it sounds like you don't make the shredded sort of hash browns - you grate the potatoes, then you fry them into patties and flip them, fry the other side, and done. Sort of like tater tots.

A pity about the wafflz. I would have tried some!