I Introduce You to Wife Chow!

[Portia]

I don't eat so great when I'm only making a meal for myself. I'll have a big spoonful of peanut butter or bowl of ice cream or small spoon of brown sugar from the bag. Or worse, I go somewhere & pay someone else to cook something I very likely have at home. Finally I wised up and made a big pot of what I endearingly call Wife Chow.

Equal parts cooked together of -
Frozen and canned vegetables: (no corn, that's not real food) last time it was broccoli, cauliflower & brussel sprouts.
Rice
Kidney and navy beans
Canned chicken
Herbs

I made a big pot of it, froze in 1C portions in Ziploc bags & now I just take one out & nuke it. Easy peasy money saving balanced & maybe even good for me lunch.
Comments?

[Sybarite]

My cooking speciality is goulash - whatever is in the house, maybe some macaroni thrown in, maybe leftover potatoes or rice instead. And usually cheese. No goulash worth it's salt doesn't have cheese.

If they actually made People Chow, I would always have a bag of it in the house.

[Uthrecht]

Yeah, that certainly sounds like what you'd expect the guy to serve up after ringing the dinner bell. It sounds like it could be good in practice but there's something about the concept (maybe specifically nuking it, with what that often entails in a work environment), it doesn't paint a pretty picture in my head.

That said, I immediately got a mental picture of a commercial, with a little chuck wagon racing out of the freezer and circling a lady before racing into the microwave.

Wife Chow!

Now in Tex-Mex!

[Khampelf]

If it gets you eating more healthily, I'm all for it.

Even if it sounds like prison food, to me.

[Portia]

I was actually thinking of the billboard in Futurama for Bachelor Chow !

[WednesdayAddams]

About once a month, I'll make a big batch of shepherd's pie, cut it into squares and freeze it for nights the SO is out. Veggie lasagna works, too.

[Zeener Diode]

Well, I'm familiar with bachelor chow* but this is the first I've heard of Wife Chow. The veggies make it healthy by comparison. I might substitute egg noodles for rice and and meat for beans.



*go to cupboard, reach inside and grab something; open and eat from the container.
Past items have included: chili; creamed corn; corned beef hash; peanut butter; diced tomatoes (Italian style); pineapple chunks. One time I grabbed a box of Mac'n'Cheese, but since it required cooking I put it back and grabbed something else.

[Portia]

Originally Posted by Khampelf

If it gets you eating more healthily, I'm all for it.

Even if it sounds like prison food, to me.

Hey!! Would a prison chef add dill? Yeah, that's what I thought - keep steppin' buddy.


Mainly, yes, I'm trying to eat healthier.

[Fish]

It sounds like chicken stew! Mmm, good. Some rosemary, bay, thyme, sage, and black pepper, mmm mmm good. Me, I'd use pearled barley instead of the white rice, but to each his own.

[AuntiePam]

Portia that sounds good, except for the beans.

My go-to is cream of chicken soup (or almost any soup) over toast or chips. Mom's favorite was milk toast -- hot milk over toast.

Tear a hole in a slice of bread, put in fry pan with some butter and break an egg over the hole. Flip when the egg starts to set. Voila! Egg and toast without the toaster!

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by AuntiePam

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Tear a hole in a slice of bread, put in fry pan with some butter and break an egg over the hole. Flip when the egg starts to set. Voila! Egg and toast without the toaster!

Cowboy Toast! I eat that at least once a week. Sometimes for dinner!

[Portia]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

Cowboy Toast! I eat that at least once a week. Sometimes for dinner!

I believe that's 'toad in the hole' in the UK. (Or at least the UK from Coronation Street.)

[WednesdayAddams]

One eyed Joes here in Dallas. (I'm pretty sure toad in the hole involves sausage)

[Khampelf]

Originally Posted by Portia

Hey!! Would a prison chef add dill? Y

A quick googling shows that Italian prisons do.

So, I missed the 'herbs' part. That helps.

Glad you're eating healthier, but it's still a big bowl o' goo.

I made homemade burritos last night.

[sancho panza]

Originally Posted by Portia

I believe that's 'toad in the hole' in the UK. (Or at least the UK from Coronation Street.)

I forget what we Brits call the toast in the egg thing but as WednesdayAddams says Toad in the hole is a different thing to us Toad in the hole is Yorkshire pudding with sausages incorporated into the batter.

[Portia]

Originally Posted by Khampelf

A quick googling shows that Italian prisons do.

So, I missed the 'herbs' part. That helps.

Glad you're eating healthier, but it's still a big bowl o' goo.

I made homemade burritos last night.

See, it's the 'making' I'm not too keen on when it's just me. Reheating I can do w/o feeling like it's a waste of time, but meal construction? Needless if I know my hubby's not included.

[Taur]

I cook as little as possible when Swain's away.

Stir fries seem to be my thing. My frame of mind about cooking solo seems to improve when I get the wok out. The meat and veg hold well and freeze well, my little rice cooker takes all the pain out of cooking rice, and I make extra rice to freeze in one large ziploc, creased into 4 separate portions.

[RedRosesForMe]

The egg/bread thing is an egg in a basket. Duh.

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

Cowboy Toast! I eat that at least once a week. Sometimes for dinner!

According to my sister (who just emailed me a reply): Cowboy Toast is a fried egg served over toast. An egg cooked inside a toast is called Egg in a Frame.

[RedRosesForMe]

Hmm... all this of toast-type things makes me want beans on toast.

[Pure]

Egg in the toast is called "Eggy in the hole" in our house, "Rocky Mountain Toast" or Bullseye Toast" elsewhere.

My quickie dinner- flour tortilla, nice piece of mild cheddar. Nuke 15 seconds until warm and melty. Add a dollop of sour cream and some salsa and fold over. Eat with an apple.

[Zeener Diode]

Beans have turned on me!

I love chili w/beans, navy bean soup, red beans & rice, but they've turned my innards into a methane factory. No more beans for Zeener! (Or very little.)

[Uthrecht]

Rocky Mountain Toast? Wait, you mean frog in a hole, right? One-eyed Sam? Higgy in a blanket? Cackleberry surprise?

Hmm. Maybe... Moon over Miami, or egg in the basket, egg-in-the-hole, one-eyed jack, popeye, toad in the hole (yep), eggs-in-toast, Kibble Egg, hen in a nest, moon egg, cowboy egg, or Sunrise Breakfast.

[Hobo with a spatula]

Cooking for one is easy, if you're doing it over a trash fire in an old coffee can.

[SoylentPopTart]

Rice
Frozen Peas and Carrots
Canned Tuna Fish

Spiced liberally with black pepper. This was way better then and only slightly more expensive then ramen in college.

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by SoylentPopTart

Rice
Frozen Peas and Carrots
Canned Tuna Fish

Spiced liberally with black pepper. This was way better then and only slightly more expensive then ramen in college.

Then smother with gravy.

That's good eatin's!

[Portia]

Originally Posted by SoylentPopTart

Rice
Frozen Peas and Carrots
Canned Tuna Fish

Spiced liberally with black pepper. This was way better then and only slightly more expensive then ramen in college.

Everything but the rice is blech. To wit -
Warm tuna? Blech.
Peas of nay kind? Blech.
Cooked carrots? Double blech.

And I've never even tasted Ramen. Extraordinary, isn't it? My poorest time was a summer I had little to eat but green beans from my garden & snacks pilfered from houses I was cleaning. (The stuff at the back of the pantry, left over from Passover - you know you're never going to eat those stale Tam Tams.)

[Zeener Diode]

Ramen is not truly Bachelor Chow in the sense you must cook it. But I lived on it for my first few years after fleeing the nest. I even had a book called 99 Ramen Recipes. I had two ways of cooking it: in a soup (with or without meat/veggies) or stir-fry (again, with or without meat.veggies).

[SoylentPopTart]

Had roommate in college who would eat the ramen noodles raw and once the end got a little slobbery dip it into the spice packet. Sort of like Lik Em Maid

Portia,
It hurts you think my tasteless people chow isn't as good as your tasteless people chow.

[Zeener Diode]

I'll chime in to say I love peas and tuna.

Tuna casserole ain't good unless there's peas & carrots in it.

[Portia]

Originally Posted by SoylentPopTart

Had roommate in college who would eat the ramen noodles raw and once the end got a little slobbery dip it into the spice packet. Sort of like Lik Em Maid

Portia,
It hurts you think my tasteless people chow isn't as good as your tasteless people chow.

That first thing, that your roommate did? NASTEEEE. But then, you knew that.

My people chow doesn't smell like hot peas and fish, thankyouverymuch. It's quite tasty - if you like I'll mail you some. It will taste really strongly by the time you get it...

And Zeener, I would hazard to say that tuna casserole is not in fact good unless it is free of tuna, peas and cooked carrots.

[Islander]

Originally Posted by Uthrecht

Rocky Mountain Toast? Wait, you mean frog in a hole, right? One-eyed Sam? Higgy in a blanket? Cackleberry surprise?

Hmm. Maybe... Moon over Miami, or egg in the basket, egg-in-the-hole, one-eyed jack, popeye, toad in the hole (yep), eggs-in-toast, Kibble Egg, hen in a nest, moon egg, cowboy egg, or Sunrise Breakfast.

Nobody mentioned One-Eyed Susan which is what we call it on the Frontier.

[Islander]

I don't care what you put in or omit, there is no such thing as a tasty tuna casserole. There just isn't. It's an oxymoron.

[Islander]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

*go to cupboard, reach inside and grab something; open and eat from the container.
Past items have included: chili; creamed corn; corned beef hash; peanut butter; diced tomatoes (Italian style); pineapple chunks. One time I grabbed a box of Mac'n'Cheese, but since it required cooking I put it back and grabbed something else.

I admit with overbearing guilt that, when tired and hungry and stressed, I have done this. Canned soups, even. Bleagh.

:: covers face, quivers in shame ::

[3acres]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

Tuna casserole ain't good unless there's peas & carrots in it.

Carrots!? We only wished we had carrots! Now I have a hankerin' for Mom's tuna casserole: canned peas, a can of Campbells Cream of Mushroom soup, a splash of milk, a can of tuna, and some elbow macaroni. For an extra special treat, she'd dump a big spoonful of it onto a piece of toast. Mmm, love that home cookin'!!

[Euryphaessa]

Tuna casserole is comfort food almost on par with good mac and cheese but requiring about a quarter of the effort. It's good stuff.

[Portia]

No cheese was harmed in the making of my mom's mac and cheese - it was Cheez Whiz and whole milk. Very creamy and no other mac and cheese tastes right to me. She also made something called Swamp Rat, but I have to serve dinner now and will tell you about it later.

[Islander]

Cheez Whiz—is that similar to food? Like, what they call "cheese food" just to make sure you understand it was intended for human consumption?


On a truly desperate night, my family got Bread and Jars. Jars of peanut butter...jelly...pickles...horseradish...mayo...re lish... and bread.

[Portia]

Recipe for Swamp Rat (kids love it) -
A can of kernel corn
A can of pork and beans or baked beans
A package of 'raw' hot dogs
Slice the hot dogs into 1/2" coins, cook them in the same pot as corn & beans. Serve to very hungry children and neighbor kids eating it on a dare.

[Burnt Toast]

American checking in: Toad in the Hole is what my mom always called the egg and toast thing. I've heard some of the other names listed, but Toad in the Hole is the correct name. Bacon or sausage are served on the side.
We had it last weekend! My son asked for it specifically.

[Pure]

We make kangaroo eggs: I invented the name. Scrambled eggs in a warm mini pita pocket. Get it? The eggs are in a pouch! My kids like it a lot!

[SoylentPopTart]

Originally Posted by Burnt Toast

American checking in: Toad in the Hole is what my mom always called the egg and toast thing. I've heard some of the other names listed, but Toad in the Hole is the correct name. Bacon or sausage are served on the side.
We had it last weekend! My son asked for it specifically.

Her name is her cite!

[Burnt Toast]

Damn right!

[Khampelf]

I tried the egg in a frame, cowboy toast, cyclops toast thing last night.

It was pretty good, since I had bacon grease to cook with!

[Portia]

Originally Posted by Ivorytowerdenizen

We make kangaroo eggs: I invented the name. Scrambled eggs in a warm mini pita pocket. Get it? The eggs are in a pouch! My kids like it a lot!

I saw a magazine recipe yesterday where you bake an egg in a scooped out dinner roll w/ shredded cheese and herbs on top. If we had a toaster oven I'd be all over that. Maybe w/ a couple pieces of asparagus in it too.

[teela brown]

Originally Posted by Portia

Equal parts cooked together of -
Frozen and canned vegetables: (no corn, that's not real food) last time it was broccoli, cauliflower & brussel sprouts.
Rice
Kidney and navy beans
Canned chicken
Herbs

I dunno - that sounds a lot like what my Depression-era mom would make out of leftovers in the fridge and call "garbage soup". It tasted about as appealing as it sounds. Maybe the fact that creamed corn and leftover spaghetti sauce were two frequent additions was what pushed it over into vomitus territory.

[Anacanapuna]

Welcome, WifeChow, I'm sure you'll find this group of clowns endearing and .......

What? Recipe? WifeChow isn't a new user name?

Well, crap!

Never mind.

[Portia]

Originally Posted by teela brown

Maybe the fact that creamed corn and leftover spaghetti sauce were two frequent additions was what pushed it over into vomitus territory.

Yep, your description alone made me puke in my mouth a little. But that's the creamed corn. It already looks like it, so...

[Burnt Toast]

Originally Posted by Ivorytowerdenizen

We make kangaroo eggs: I invented the name. Scrambled eggs in a warm mini pita pocket. Get it? The eggs are in a pouch! My kids like it a lot!

I'm making Kangaroo eggs tomorrow morning. They sound great!

[Islander]

Ooh! Ooh! Try this:

Sauté some halved cherry tomatoes in bacon fat. Throw in some diced onion. Stir up a couple of eggs with taco-flavored cheese and add to the skillet. Scramble, turn into a wrap, roll up and eat. Breakfast burrito!