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First off, let me start by saying that my life is dedicated to my Creator. I know this is a controversial subject, and maybe not appropriate for these forums. I'm looking for insite from those of a similar faith.
I've been weight-training for about 5 years now. I started training for aesthetics, then for strength, and now for form and function. What I like is that progress is easily measurable. Stagnation in life is death. I want to keep growing, in ALL aspects. But the body is easier to forge than the mind. BUT, I've recently realized that I am VAIN and I am overly concerned with appearance. This is despite all of my efforts to overcome it and deny it. But the truth is that I am Selfish, I am Conceited, and I am Distracted by what doesn't matter. I want to focus my life.
I'm in the best shape of my life. I'm 23 years old, 150lbs at 5'9" . I'm very active and energetic. I LOVE LIFE! But how far do I take this training?
People are distracted by my appearance. I have a hard time getting to know new people. They are distracted, or have some sort of preconcieved notion about who I am and what I'm about. I know that's true about everyone in every situation, but SEX keeps peoples minds from focusing on character. Just look at the media.
It's all entertainment, distraction, self-indulgence, and ME ME ME. It's sad to see weight-training get such a bad rap. People assume I'm se lf-absorbed before they even know my name. ALMOST every magazine in the newstands is geared towards vanity, sex, and entertainment. Every other page is an advertisement for some NOS or test booster with some chemically-altered man or vivacious vixen posing. Is that our motivation? What ever happened to taking what God gave you and making it the best it could be? Mind, body, and soul. No shortcuts. Just pain, experience, work, and time.
I could keep going for hours on this subject. I just want to ask you/me this question:
Will it matter? Learn from your struggles. Forge your character and your body. Strive for something better. At the end of the day, how far did you go? Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." To be more concise, the ONLY thing to fear is regret. Where are you going? Will it matter? Take a look in the mirror. Take a look at yourself. Take a look through yourself. Are you satisfied? Or is there something more?
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Bench - 225
Squat - 247x5
Deadlift - 315
I'm doing this for me.
First and foremost, I feel like I'm behind in this life. I'm doing this to even the score. I need something that I *know* I'm better at than the average guy walking down the street. Not only that, but I need something that EVERYONE knows I'm better at than them. I need them to know that I'm superior to them in atleast one thing. Just one thing.
And secondly, I like proving people wrong. If it weren't for all of the 'No way you can do that!' and stupid smirks when I tell people my goals I probably would have quit by now. You can't give people that kind of satisfaction.
The simple reason is that people and business are driven by sex, sex sells... sex rules over almost everyone. Most people can't control themselves even when they think that they can. People mistake sex and lust for love, for commitment and for caring about someone. Either that or people just won't accept deep down that they want nothing more then a steady piece of tail, or they mistake the feelings they have for love.
The media has set what they consider to be sexually attractive, so everyone wants to be that guy/girl from the commercials. 99% to increase the amount of action they get.
People in general have very little morals these days, they are driven and consumed by everything around them and especially what the wrong influences tells them. Most people have no conscience, or one thats truly their own.
I do it to know I'm above average at something. I can't get the A+'s like most kids in school but I can work towards a goal and I can discipline myself to eating healthy and training hard. The only thing I regret is how I use to be sitting in my house all day everyday playing games. It seems like lifting has gotten me more socially active, because like you said everyone is obsessed with how people look. God gave me a strong body and I try to make it stronger in all aspects, just so happens physical strength is a bigger part in my life
I'm Doing this for myself. To keep myself healthy, also it's something I've grown to have fun with and see it more as a hobby and fun activity rather than work. Also it amazes me to see the changes my body goes through as I get bigger.
Much of the world has lost its morals. Sex has become a huge mainstream theme which is hard to get away from. But there are still many of us who have morals and stick to 'em.
I agree with WBBIRL, the media has set what the ideal body should look like.
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I do it because I love strength.
You cannot control what others think. If they did not have a pre-conceived notion of you from your physique it might be something else; your hair, eye color, creed, nationality blah, blah, blah...
Oh, and trust me, you ain't seen nothing yet at all of 150 lbs... Lol, I think you might be misinterpreting some of what you are receiving in terms of messages.
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First of all, sex and sexiness are not evil nor immoral.
Second of all, I lift because I like it.
The big thing for me is just because I want to do it. I have short term and long term goals and I want to fulfill them at some point in my life. If I do, I will probably get new ones or move on to something different. Maybe it is the thrill of the chase? I think because of when I was younger and a weak little ****, it was something I want to do to maybe originally prove to everyone else I could do it too, but now so much its because I want to and enjoy it.
It's just fun for me. Some people may not get it, as in why would we put ourselves through that? But to me, its just like any other sport. There are practices and games, here there are training days and meets. Your training partners are your team mates who all rely on each other to make each other better.
To the OP, I don't think you are vain for doing it for appearances, rather dedicated and determined to set a goal (or a certain bf %, certain measurements, etc) and sticking to it.
I started lifting way back in the day because I was the tiny kid that some people would pick on. I was 115lbs at 5'5" That was probably 5 years ago. I knew NOTHING about lifting, just did what everyone else did, never saw any real improments. I thought it was me. Then I found certain routines a couple of years ago, and made some ok gains. I only lifted when I felt like it though, didnt eat right, and only lifted in the summer because it was too cold in the winter. I lost track of my original goals, and I agree with the OP in that I was selfish, conceited, and distracted by all the **** that does not even matter to most people. I wanted to look good for the chicks, blah, and not work hard gettign there.
At the end of last year, I had some major anxiety problems, and it brought my whole life in perspective and after I recovered, I now realize I was lifting for all the wrong reasons, I had the wrong mindset on lifting and in LIFE. Now after putting everything in perspective, I lift for my health, I lift for myself, and what other people think, especially about my appearance, is just an added bonus, nothing else. But sometimes, still, the selfish and conceited part of me wants to come out, and that pisses me off.
I don't get it. Let me get this straight. You said yourself you are vain, conceited, and selfish and now you're wondering why people think you're self-absorbed?
1. I like it.
2. I like getting stronger.
3. I wanna look better naked.
Do what needs to be done.
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back in the highschool days, I did it for aesthetics er whatever.
But I quit a number of times, though not liking the loses (aesthetically) after I quit, it was never enough to keep me going with it for years on end.
but there was something else I missed.
It is the thing that now keeps me going.... makes me want to lift rather than think of it as some sorta drudgerous obligation.
I enjoy going in each time and trying to do better than last time. Usually more reps, but sometimes more weight.
Now, I haven't lifted in nearly a month because I'm resting injured hip flexors on my back, but I will be back this week and even though I will have lost strength, it will still be fun, oddly, perhaps even more fun, because of muscle memory, the session to session strength gains will be obvious.
I dunno why that is what I enjoy. Deep down, the motives are still quite selfish though. Obviously, it's not like I am doing it for God or the Pope or Jiminey Cricket. They couldn't care less.
Some people like to protend selflessness. It's all a ruse.
True, some people are more self-centered than others, but inevitably, we are all born crying for food and coddling, and we all spend our lives dealing with nobody else more than the ever-present SELF.
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'In order to alter the inertial mass of weights, you must become one with them, like a machine, the totality of your motion is as one'
I lift for Jiminey Cricket.
I lift to hope that one day I'll become a giant bad ass like arnold. I'll be so bad ass that I'll be able to take on advanced aliens named predator with nothing but mud and a few sharpened sticks.
Actually I lift for many reasons but I'd be lying if I didn't mention for aesthetic reasons. I mainly lift because I like it, to improve myself and to one day be huge and strong. I'm 5'8 so I figure since I'm not as tall as my dad I'll be as wide as he is. (I think thats also a quote taken from pumping iron).
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"I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." - Achilles, (Troy 2004)
ATF squat- 275 RAW
Deadlift- 415
Bench- Two 100lbs DB's four times
190lbs 15% BF (Estimate)
I do it for the power, I love improving my strength. Every PR makes me pop a chub.
Looking better is a plus, but it's not what drives me.
I lift because I'm not happy with my body and because it helps relieve
stress. I take all the bad things that happened to me during the day and channel my anger into my lifting.
And because I want to have sex with more women.
And I'm a teenager, I have all these hormones and testoserone that are being wasted.
I lift for a couple reasons, these are pretty much in order.
1. Getting in shape and being strong. I hate being out of shape, its horrible, and I love knowing that I am the strongest of my friends.
2. Basketball. I want to be able to jam it on anyone I come across and be the best player I can be.
3. Having something that I know I'm better at than most other people my age.
4. Looks. I used to be skinny fat, and it was not cool at all. That has changed now, and I feel much better because of it.
Age: 20 / Height: 6' 1" / Weight: 200lbs / Squat: 315lbs / Deadlift: 325lbs / Bench: 225lbs
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I just like it. That's a good enough reason.
I do it because I like achieving my goals and bettering myself.
And to look good naked.
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I want to live a healthy, productive life into my later years. I want to be able to move around at 28 as well as when I was 18 (not that that was anything spectactular), and at 38 as well as now, and at 48 as well as 38, and so on and so forth..
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I do it for myself- I don't yet turn myself on but I'm getting there.
Homer Simpson - "The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man. Let's see. Don't tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you're sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do."
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The more than 100 cell towers and 700 antennas installed throughout Fairfax County are a response to the increased use of devices like smart phones and iPads across Northern Virginia, and the call for better and faster service that's followed has cell phone carriers scrambling to keep up.
Text messaging, e-mailing and photo and video sharing have driven the demand for larger networks that can process more data, said Len Forkas, whose Reston-based company Milestone Communications already owns or manages more than 200 towers across the greater Washington, D.C., region and would do the same for the two towers in Vienna.
One of the more striking illustrations of the problem, Forkas says, is that iPhone users make up about 15 percent of AT&T's customers, but take up 90 percent of that network's capacity.
"This is the trend that's happening all over region, all over the country," Forkas said. "The network is going to have to be a lot faster, more robust and process a lot more data. And in order to do that cell carriers have to build more sites closer to where people live."
Where people live is often near schools or educational campuses, which have looked to cell towers as a source of revenue for years. Fairfax County Public Schools began leasing land for cell tower construction in 1995, and today, 17 schools have Milestone owned or operated structures on their property, including nearby Oakton and McLean high Schools. Some, like Centerville and South Lakes High Schools, have two or more poles on their properties.
As many as four cell phone carriers, like AT&T or Verizon, can lease space on a tower at once. Lease on the towers last 30 years, Forkas said, though the poles themselves are built to last a century.
Schools are ideal locations for these towers, Forkas says, because they often have existing structures, such as field light poles, in place; are easy for maintenance vehicles to access; and don't interfere with the character of residential neighborhoods, Forkas said. The alternative is putting them in more prominent places, he said, and pouring that money into a privately-owned property, instead of into the schools.
Particularly as the economy has worsened and school boards have searched for ways to close deficits in their budgets, revenue from cell towers has provided some relief, or funded programs that may have otherwise been eliminated.
In the past five years, revenue from the towers on FCPS property have totaled about $3.7 million, said Lee Ann Pender, director of facilities and transportation services for the school system.
That number seems small in the face of the roughly $2 billion FCPS spends on its schools each year, but Pender says it helps pay for projects and programs in safety and security and administrative technology, including the systems required for the FCPS Emergency Communication System.
Milestone collects rent from the wireless carriers on its towers, 40 percent of which goes to FCPS. Schools receive $25,000 each time a tower is built, and then $5,000 from each wireless carrier that leases space on the tower.
Municipalities do hold cell towers to standards set by the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates how much frequency the poles can emit, commissioner Frank de la Fe said at the hearing for the Madison tower. The existing poles in Fairfax County, along with the proposed poles, are a thousand times lower than that standard, Forkas said.
"That's the only standard we have, and we are significantly below threshold for safety," Forkas said.
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Asking for a Lower Credit Card Rate
Despite the Fed's interest rate cut, consumers still need to do their own negotiating.
In theory, borrowers should benefit from this week's Federal Reserve move to cut rates. The Fed sets the rate banks charge each other on overnight loans and the one at which banks borrow directly from the central bank. So, in general, lower rates mean cheaper money. But consumers with credit card debt hoping to lower their monthly interest payments will have to take matters into their own hands if they want to see those savings show up in their own bank accounts. U.S. News spoke with Bill Hardekopf, chief executive of LowCards.com, a website that lets consumers compare credit card rates, about how to gain from the Fed's move.
Will people with credit card debt see their interest rates go down?
It depends on what kind of card you have. If you have a fixed-rate card, the interest rate will not change. If you have a variable-rate card [most cards have variable rates], then it would stand to reason that to stay competitive, they will have to lower their interest rate.
[But] even though the rate cut sounds good and may make consumers feel good, the half-point cut will not make a real difference in saving money on interest payments. A consumer with a $5,000 credit card balance will save about $2 per month on a half-percent interest rate decrease. Unfortunately, this will not lead to a substantial savings for consumers with credit card debt.
[Even for the half-percent cut], it might take one, two, three months for consumers to see that lower rate on their billing statement. It takes businesses time to react to changes.
Is there anything consumers can do to get lower rates more quickly?
Requesting a lower rate is pretty simple, even if you don't like negotiating and this seems out of your comfort zone. A lot of consumers don't know the power that they have. You get inundated with credit card offers.... Credit card companies want to keep you as a customer.
Call the number on the back of your credit card or bill. Tell them you have been a good customer but you would like a lower rate. Mention that you have received several offers with lower rates in the mail and have researched cards with lower rates online. You want a lower rate on your card, or you will switch to another card with a lower rate. Ask what can they do to help you.
If the first person tells you that they can't lower it, call back in a month. This is one area where persistence may pay off. If they tell you they can't lower your rate, remind them that there are other cards available.
Can anyone do that and expect the company to say yes?
They are more likely to say yes if you meet certain criteria. If you have a good payment history, if your interest rate is over 12 percent [the average rate is around 14.9 percent], if you've had the same card for a number of years, and if your balance is under 30 percent of your credit limit, that's a good sign. You might be able to get your interest rate lowered if you meet some of that.
It truly should be viewed like shopping for a car or a house. When you go and shop for a car, if they say $15,000, most people don't say, "OK." On a credit card rate, a lot of people don't know that you can negotiate that rate. Issuers won't necessarily volunteer to lower your rate. You need to be proactive. If your interest rate is lowered by 4 points, from 18 to 14 percent, in the first year you will save $200 on a $5,000 balance.
What else can people do to lower their rate?
The No. 1 thing you can do is to continually research if there's a card out there that's better. It depends on what kind of card you're looking for. If you pay your balance every month, you need to have some kind of card that pays you cash rewards or airline miles. It's important for you to figure out, "What kind of credit card customer am I?" You should go and find the card that does you the most good right off the bat before you even order a card.


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Badminton's Season Ends Without Fanfare
After the past five seasons in which the Pasadena City College women's badminton team has won conference titles as a team and recorded several trophies at both the South Coast Conference and state individual championship and consolation events, the 2014 campaign was one that the Lancers couldn't rise to the occasion.
Badminton Sweeps 2 Matches At El Camino
Baseball Hall of Famer Ernie Banks once said it was a great day for a ball game, so let's play two. That's exactly what the Pasadena City College badminton team did Wednesday in scoring back-to-back, 11-0 sweeps at El Camino College.
State Defending Champ De Anza Downs Badminton, 13-8
The Pasadena City College women's badminton team received a visit from the defending CCCAA champions from Northern California, De Anza College on Wednesday. The Lancers played the Dons tough, but De Anza prevailed, 13-8, in the non-conference match at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
Badminton's SCC Title Run Likely To End At 5
The balance of power in South Coast Conference women's badminton has shifted at least in 2014. Winner of the last five conference team dual season crowns, Pasadena City College has met its match in rival East Los Angeles. The Huskies defeated the Lancers, 15-6, Friday at PCC's Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium and took a commanding 2-game lead in the standings.
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After getting off to a good start with two commanding wins to open South Coast Conference play, Pasadena City College's women's badminton team traveled to Monterey Park on Wednesday to take on its old foe, East Los Angeles College. The balance of power appears to be shifting ELAC's way as the Lancers lost to the Huskies for the third straight time going back to last season, 14-7.
Badminton Rolls To Home Win Over ECC
The Pasadena City College women's badminton team moved to 2-0 with a 21-0 blanking of El Camino College in a South Coast Conference match played Friday at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
Sixth SCC Title Defense Starts Well For Badminton
A five-time defending champion of the South Coast Conference, the Pasadena City College women's badminton team has endured a little more adversity of late thanks to last year's surprising tie for the title with East Los Angeles combined with one of the Lancers' most inexperienced rosters in 2014.
Rebuilding Time For Women's Badminton
For the first time since his first season at Pasadena City College in 2008, head coach Bill Sanchez doesn't have a dominant singles player to lead his squad. The Lancers are 5-time defending South Coast Conference champions and featured 2012 CCCAA state singles champ Angie Ortiz on the roster the last two seasons.


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KINGFISHER, Okla. —
When the NFL's New Orleans Saints beat their NFC South rival Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, Kingfisher head football coach Jeff Myers sent a text message to Yellowjacket and University of Oklahoma alum Curtis Lofton, congratulating the fifth-year linebacker on beating his old team.
The response Myers received wasn't a simple "Thanks, coach," or even its abbreviated text-message translation, "Thx."
Instead, the jist, albeit dotted with more "choice" tidbits, was simple: "Dominate Tuttle."
Even for a starting NFL linebacker whose team is on the rebound from an unexpected 0-4 start and an alleged pay-for-injury scandal, the matchup between longtime rivals, No. 1 Kingfisher (11-0) and No. 4 Tuttle (10-1), including the next installment 7:30 p.m. Friday in a second-round 3A State Playoff in Kingfisher, isn't forgotten.
"He obviously follows us and keeps up on us," Myers said.
It's understandable why.
From 1990-2010, the two teams played every year, a streak that ended last season. Tuttle laughed most in the rivalry's history, winning 15 of 22 tilts since 1990, and 20 of 30 overall, but Kingfisher laughed last, winning the most recent game, 14-8, in the second round of the 2010 playoffs, when the Yellowjackets finished state runner-ups.
"The last time we met, we beat them on their turf," Myers said. "I'm sure they haven't forgotten that. These kids … they were sophomores, the ones that are seniors now, and have played against us. There's probably a little bit of dislike there."
There is.
"Through seventh-, eighth-, ninth-grade, my senior group has always played them," said senior Kingfisher quarterback Grant Newton. "They beat us seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade, so we have a little bit of hatred for them. Always have."
Even junior linebacker Triston Ransom, who lost his only chance to play the Tigers with a broken foot during his freshman season, understands the weight of the matchup.
"I think we're going to man-up to the challenge," said the leading tackler and a key cog in the Yellowjackets' rock-solid defense, the performance of which likely will be one of, if not the determining factor of the rivalry's 2012 chapter.
Kingfisher's defensive squad has allowed a meager 4.1 points per contest, pitching seven shutouts, including a mid-season run of five straight against Star Spencer, Marshall, Oklahoma Centennial, Bethel and Newcastle.
While Myers admitted the Yellowjackets' schedule wasn't stocked with 3A's most powerful offensive units, Ransom didn't see any reason to expect significant scoring for the Tigers.
"We know what they're going to do," he said. "We're bigger, stronger, faster."
Which might be the only key to defensive success.
The Tigers' double-wing, single-back offense isn't flashy, and it's not a riddle. It's a fitness test, but for defenses, it hasn't been an easy one. The Tigers have punished their way to a10-1 mark behind a ground game that contributed the lion's share of Tuttle's 41.5 points per contest.
"They're not anything fancy," Myers said. "They're not what you see everybody doing — spread out gun, pistol-type stuff. You know what's coming, it's just a matter of whether you can stop it or not."
So the rivalry perhaps best expressed as a donnybrook may well be determined by one on Friday, with the winner advancing to the 3A state quarterfinals, the smaller prize to some.
"There's going to be a lot of people here Friday night, and it'll be something we'll remember," Newton said. "If we lose Friday night, it'll be the last game that I have in my memory, so it'll definitely be important for us to go out and give it all we've got."


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Paleo Pork Chips (or Venison Chips, Turkey Chips, or Chicken Chips)
It seems that this past Friday was National Pig Day. I never quite hit these food holidays right even when they relate to a food we love. And we love pork, as evidenced by gfe recipes like The World's Easiest and Most Delicious Pulled Pork and Pork Tenderloin with Maple Glaze. I was close to celebrating on the right day though because I made these Paleo Pork Chips for us over the weekend. Or maybe they should be called Paleo Pork Tenders because they are so tender and delicious. I'll stick with Paleo Pork Chips, but you can call them whatever you like!
To be honest, this recipe is so simple and flexible that it's more of a concept than an actual recipe. All you really do is thinly slice the still partially frozen pork tenderloin and "bread" the slices with a mixture of almond flour or coconut flour and seasonings of your choice, and then fry for just a few minutes in your favorite healthy oil. There are several ways you can prepare your Pork Chips. We like adding Italian seasoning to the almond flour and frying in olive oil or coconut oil. If using coconut flour, note that it is so fine, that it hardly seems like breading. It's also naturally sweet, so I like adding smoked paprika to its seasoning mixture for a little more oomph. Or you can use gluten-free seasoned bread crumbs to bread your Pork Chips. That option is not paleo, of course, unless you're using grain-free bread to make your bread crumbs.
I've been using this concept for years with venison tenderloin and seasoned bread crumbs. Prepared Italian bread crumbs or homemade seasoned bread crumbs were always my easy and delicious breading choice before going gluten free. The Venison Tenderloin Chips have always made for an unbelievably good and welcomed meal. Friends who are hunters and more importantly their families have thanked me for sharing this method with them, because even non-venison lovers almost always enjoy venison tenderloin prepared this way. Venison tenderloin is almost always more cylindrical than pork tenderloin, so the chips look more like chips than strips, which I like.
Admittedly, the idea for preparing venison tenderloin this way is not my own. I either read about it or was told about it so long ago that I don't remember the original source. But it was only recently that I thought of using pork instead of venison. I wanted to serve pork tenderloin for dinner. But the tenderloin was not yet thawed and had it been, I still would not have been ready to wait the better part of an hour for it to roast in the oven either. Then I remembered how we have always enjoyed our venison tenderloin. Light bulb moment … Paleo Pork Chips! In just a few minutes, we were enjoying a wonderful pork dinner. I don't know why it has taken me so long to think of using pork tenderloin this way. This is such a great alternative to pork dishes like roasted pork tenderloin and grilled pork chops when you want your meal right away. You could also easily use turkey tenderloin or boneless chicken breasts for an alternative to turkey/chicken nuggets.
Serve your Paleo Pork Chips with your favorite dipping sauces that meet your dietary requirements. You'll see organic ketchup, our favorite "barbecue" sauce (ancient recipe from Hints from Heloise, which is half ketchup, half Worcestershire sauce), hot wing sauce, and blue cheese dressing in the photo. Another favorite dipping sauce at our house is our bees' honey. Add some cut-up veggies (raw or cooked, like broccoli "trees") to your Paleo Pork Chips for a complete meal and you'll make everyone in your family happy. There's just something about finger food that makes eating more fun, and more interactive than most shared meals!
Incidentally, these Paleo Pork Chips are terrific eaten cold for breakfast, too. No sauce needed.
Finally, when considering the pig with its always tantalizing bacon, succulent pork tenderloin, economical and delicious pork butt, and other offerings, don't forget that the Paleo Parents (Stacy Toth and Matt McCarry) have a new book that's all about the pig coming out soon and is available for pre-order now–Beyond Bacon: Paleo Recipes that Respect the Whole Hog. Just reading about some of the recipes that they and their recipes testers have been making has certainly whetted my appetite!
- Cooking oil of choice (I use coconut oil or extra virgin olive oil)
- Pork tenderloin, thawed just enough so that it's sliceable
- 1 cup almond flour, coconut flour, or gluten-free bread crumbs (the latter for a non-paleo version)
- ¼ to ½ tsp Italian seasoning, smoked paprika, or spices/herbs of choice (more or less, to taste)
- Add oil to large skillet until it's about ¼ to ½ inch deep. Preheat to medium to medium-high temperature.
- Mix breading and seasoning of choice in medium-sized bowl. Set aside.
- Slice pork tenderloin into thin slices, about ¼-inch thick. (A serrated knife works best for this task.)
- Dredge slices of pork in seasoned breading mixture until coated.
- Add pork chips to hot oil. Flip with appropriate utensil (e.g., wooden fork) after about 2 to 3 minutes. Cook additional 2 to 3 minutes until light or golden brown on both sides. (The coconut flour "breading" doesn't really brown that much in this recipe, but all signs of pink will be gone.)
- Remove to paper-towel lined plate to drain and cool slightly before eating. (I like to use newspaper under my paper towels for extra absorption.)
- Serve immediately with favorite dipping sauces, veggies, etc. Or eat cold or reheated later with or without sauce.
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19 Responses to "Paleo Pork Chips (or Venison Chips, Turkey Chips, or Chicken Chips)"
Liz @ The Good Eatah on March 4th, 2013 2:25 pm
I've never heard of pork "chips!" I love this idea, and that you made it paleo too. Thanks for sharing lady!
Shirley on March 5th, 2013 9:54 pm
Hey Liz–Good to see you and thank you! Hope you enjoy them!
Genius recipe Shirley!
Shirley on March 5th, 2013 9:55 pm
Awww, thanks, Alisa!
What a clever idea indeed! I love pork too, it's so versatile and delicious
Shirley on March 5th, 2013 10:30 pm
InTolerant Chef–Thanks, dear! Those of us who do love pork are huge fans. One of my friends says that a good pork tenderloin can turn any ordinary woman into a kitchen goddess.
Oh Shirley…these look delicious! If I hadn't already cooked my dinner I would make these. I just happen to have a pork tenderloin in the freezer! What a great idea! Thanks for sharing!
Shirley on March 5th, 2013 10:31 pm
Hi Lynne–Thanks! I hope you enjoy your pork chips when you make them!
This is a great idea. With gf son and I eating more protein, it's nice having it a variety of ways. We have not been eating much pork, though, as my husband is not a fan, and I have not read good things about it (unless it's pastured pork or whatever you call it). I need to look for that because I do miss having pork occasionally.
Shirley on March 5th, 2013 10:33 pm
Linda–There is definitely good pork and bad pork, and to some like your husband, none of it is good. There's also the whole school of thought that it doesn't matter if it's pastured or not, that pigs are scavengers and, therefore, their meat should not be eaten. I don't eat pork that often, but admittedly when I do, I love it!
Shirley, this is such a great idea! Why should the fast food places get all the business for fried, breaded meat to dunk in a yummy sauce?! I'm going to be trying this with as many of the meats as you list that I can get my hands on — probably won't be doing the venison anytime soon, though The sauces sound like I need to make a list to try, too.
Shirley on March 5th, 2013 10:37 pm
Haha, Pat! Yes, I'm going up against the fast food places with healthier fast food options from home! Think how many "happy meals" you can get out of one pork tenderloin! There are really so many sauce options. Any gluten-free option that can be used as a sandwich spread or a dressing can become a tasty dip. I'm not going to convince you to try venison chips, but I bet you would like them with the Italian bread crumb option!
I can honestly say that I have never heard of Pork Chips! What a brilliant idea! And they look so simple. I will definitely give this a try considering I have a few pork tenderloins in the freezer right now. I love the idea of so few ingredients too!
Shirley on March 6th, 2013 12:35 pm
Kim–The Pork Chips name I came up with … a play on Pork Chops, of course. But the concept was passed along to me for venison tenderloin as I said. The venison tenderloin always seems to be pretty cylindrical, so the pieces do look like chips of a sort. I think you all would enjoy this as a meal or appetizer. It's really fun to just make a meal all about finger food where you can get in all your nutrition.
Thanks, dear! xo,
Hi Shirley,
I would've never thought to do this with pork! Chicken – yes, but not pork. What a great idea – pinning now!
Shirley on March 13th, 2013 1:21 pm
Hey Megan–Here I am a week later! Can you tell that I'm still adjusting to my new schedule? Sometimes more time doesn't make one more time-efficient. Well, at least not initially anyway … time shall tell. Thanks so much for the kind words on the recipe and, of course, the pin!
I made these and they turned out perfectly. I cut them up into bite-sized pieces and served them at a board game night. My non-gluten-free friends thought they were delicious. Thanks for the recipe!
Shirley on January 19th, 2014 12:35 pm
Hi Natasha–First, welcome to gfe! And, second, yay on your success! Great idea to have some protein chips to keep everyone's brains going on game night. Did you make yours with pork?
I checked out the latest post on your blog and the opening cracked me up! So true when you don't have kids, but have LOTS of pet pics. LOL We had a chinchilla for many years and I'm a big lover of bunnies, so I appreciated seeing yours. They both are adorable!
Thanks for taking the time to comment with your review. I really appreciate it, Natasha!
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Hazel King Dunn, 87, of Cohutta, passed away Thursday, June 27, 2013, at her residence.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John Dunn; daughter, Teresa Dunn; brothers, Charlie, Lee, Claude and Ernest King.
She was a member of Hopewell Baptist Church.
She is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Sherry and Roy Harden of Cohutta; brothers and sister-in-law, Roy and Mary King of Florida, and Johnny and Dorothy King of Cohutta; brother-in-law, Monroe Reed, and sister-in- law and brother-in-law, Frances and H.F. Ponder; two granddaughters, Shebbie and Terral Cannon and Tracy Headrick and Larry LeRoy; 10 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Pleasant Grove Chapel of Julian Peeples Funeral Home with the Rev. John Tudor and the Rev. Terral Cannon officiating.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.
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LL BAR ONE NEAR WATERLOO STATION WAS BUSY, WITH nearly a hundred people shouting to make themselves heard above the music. Smoking has been banned in the UK's public places for years but something seemed to be hovering around these folk, thickening the air, turning the scene around me into an out-of-focus photograph taken on a cheap camera.
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At the bar, I ordered my usual drink-for-difficult-occasions and stretched up on to a vacant bar stool. Sipping the colourless liquid, I could see my reflection in the mirrors behind the bar. I'd come straight from work. Somehow, I'd resisted the temptation to leave early and spend the better part of two hours showering, blow-drying my hair, putting on make-up and choosing clothes. I'd been determined not to look nice for Mark Joesbury.
I fished my laptop out of my bag and put it down on the bar -not actually planning to work, just to make it look that way - and opened a presentation on the UK's laws on pornography that I was due to give the following week to a group of new recruits at Hendon. I opened a slide at random - the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act. The recruits would be surprised to learn, because most people were, that possession of all non-child pornography was perfectly legal in the UK until the 2008 Act outlawed extreme pornographic images. Naturally, they'd want to know what qualified as extreme. Hence the main content of the slide I was looking at.
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I changed a spelling mistake in the second bullet point and added a full stop to the fourth.
Joesbury hadn't arrived. Not that I'd looked round. I would know the minute he walked through the door.
Twenty-four hours earlier I'd had a five-minute briefing with my DI at Southwark Police Station. SCD10, still colloquially known by everyone as SO10, the special crimes directorate of the Metropolitan Police that deals with covert operations, had requested my help with a case. Not just any young female detective constable but me specifically, and the lead officer on the case, DI Mark Joesbury, would meet me the following evening. 'What case?' I'd asked. DI Joesbury would fill me in, I was told. My DI had been tight-lipped and grumpy, probably on account of having his staff filched without being told why.
I checked my watch again. He was twenty-three minutes late, my drink was disappearing too quickly and at half past I was going home.
I couldn't even remember what he looked like, I realized. Oh, I had a vague idea of height, build and colouring, and I remembered those turquoise eyes, but I couldn't conjure up a picture of his face. Which was odd, really, given that he was never out of my head for a second.
'Lacey Flint, as I live and breathe,' said a voice directly behind me.
I took a deep breath and turned round slowly, to see Mark Joesbury, maybe just a fraction over six feet tall, strongly built, suntanned skin even in January, bright turquoise eyes. Wearing a thick, untidy, ginger wig.
'I'm undercover,' he said. And then he winked at me.
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They have the same test with the 5D Mark II....see the difference....makes mee feel good.
Included RAW files....
After lookiing at the exif file and the exposure time /f stop, I was disappointed to find that the lighting conditions used would give low noise values not representative of actual use.
The images are really not suitable for evaluation of high ISO low light images, since they were taken under bright lighting of approx ev 10. This will result in lower noise than you would get in low light.
So far, only DPR gets it. Their sample images were taken in low light, about ev 3 which is a more realistic test for low light high iso shots.
True, this is a comparison under artificial conditions not likely to be encountered in a real-world shoot. We can't accurately judge the true high ISO performance of either camera based on the the Imaging Resource tests. However, since both cameras enjoy the same advantageous shooting conditions, might it still be possible to draw at least preliminary conclusions about their relative high ISO performance? I.e., neither camera is as good as the tests suggest, but the apparent 2+ stop difference in their performance might carry over into real-world conditions?
Are there optical/physical/electronic phenomena which would make this an invalid inference? If not, then given what we already know about the 5D2's performance, IR's "comparometer" should give us a rough handle on the low-light capabilities of the 5D3. (I think we're all hoping that's the case, because the difference in the images at comparable ISOs is fairly stunning.) Pity that DPR didn't elect to replicate their 5D3 low-light shots with a 5D2.


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Pleural fluid culture is a test that looks at a sample of fluid from the space around the lungs to see if you have an infection.
A sample of pleural fluid is needed. For information on how this is taken, see: Thoracentesis
The sample is sent to a laboratory and examined under a microscope for signs of infection.
For information on how the test will feel, see: Thoracentesis
Your doctor may order this test if you have signs of a certain infection, or if a chest x-ray shows you have too much fluid in space around the lungs.
A normal result means no bacteria, virus, or fungi were seen in the test sample.
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
Abnormal results may indicate:
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•Sexual assault. Police said a 27-year-old female reported being sexually assaulted on Barkley Road, Perry Township, Monday.
•Accident. Police said Christopher D. Fink, 40, of Youngstown, was traveling on Erie Street in Mahoning Township when he lost control of his car, apparently because of brake failure. Officers said he deliberately collided with a tree to stop the vehicle. Police said Fink will be charged with several equipment and moving violations as a result of the incident, which occurred about 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
•Theft from vehicle. Police said someone rummaged through two cars parked inside the garage of a West State Street home and one vehicle parked outside that house before 5:20 a.m. Sept. 12. Police said money was taken from one of the vehicles.
•Theft. A four-foot-six-inch statue of an Indian was taken from the porch of a Mount Herman Church Road resident in Slippery Rock Township. It was located on the porch of a Princeton Station Road house. The statue was reported missing and recovered between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday.
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•Charged. Police said they found Carmen Maria Farris, 53, of Mitchell Road, trying to enter a residence at 112 N. Crawford Ave. at 10:40 p.m. Sunday. She was charged with loitering and prowling at night and public drunkenness.
•Domestic violence. Police said Edward R. Nikoden, 45, of 1128 S. Mill St. will be charged with simple assault and harassment. Officers said Nikoden was found passed out on the living room floor of his home about 12:20 a.m. Sunday. The victim told police the two had argued and when he punched her in the face she hit him over the head with a plate and knocked him out. Police said the victim was bruised and bleeding from the face and had bruises on her left arm.
•Charged. Tristan N. Morgan, 27, of Detroit, was charged with criminal trespass, simple assault, public drunkenness and criminal mischief. Police were told Morgan entered an apartment at Crestview Gardens about 10:30 p.m. Friday and confronted the resident, who told him to leave. She told police that during the confrontation, Morgan fell onto her coffee table, damaging it. Police said they saw bruises on the victim's arms.
•Theft. Angela Kirkland, 44, of McGrath Manor, was charged with theft and receiving stolen property after police were told she took a purse, containing rent money, from another McGrath Manor resident. Officers said the incident took place at 5:30 p.m. Friday.
•Gunshots heard. A police officer responding to a call said he heard approximately 10 gunshots in the area of Oak and Whippo streets about 8:20 p.m. Sunday.
•Burglary. Police said a resident of the 400 block of Boyles Avenue reported hearing noises downstairs in his home about 6:30 a.m. Thursday and confronted a man in his living room. Police were told the intruder fled after the confrontation. Officers said the back door had been damaged.
•Theft. An iPod, valued at $200, was taken from a vehicle in the 200 block of West Lincoln Avenue between 7 p.m. Thursday and 1 p.m. Friday.
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•Theft. An engagement ring valued at $4,900 was reported missing at Progressive Ballfield in Mahoningtown between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 8:30 a.m. Friday.
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Picketing union operation engineer workers have taken to the sidewalks in front of the Mandel Group development site to protest not being hired for work they believe they were promised and are more qualified for.
Pewaukee-based construction company VJS didn't hire the labor group after advising they would get the work, said Greg West, International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 139, Business Representative.
Instead, West said, the company is using carpenters to operate a large crane on the site of the new $34.8 million Lighthorse 4041 development, which will include 84 apartments, a 18,000 square foot Walgreens retail store and two parking structures with 200 stalls.
"This freak show could have ended in the first hour," West said of the labor dispute.
An onsite project manager directed a reporter to contact the main VJS office for comment, but no one from the company responded to a voice mail left Friday. A message left with a receptionist at the Mandel Group also was not returned.
West said he was told going with the carpenters was more cost-effective, but he believes the contractors are not qualified to do the work.
He said he's watched as the workers perform work contradictory to the manufacturer's recommendations and the untrained workers are putting the general public at risk.
With all the recent crane accidents, Business Representative Rick Parrent said, he feels it's prudent to have certified crane operators, like the men in his labor group, running the equipment.
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Brick resident Monica Vermeulen can tell you from personal experience: "When you hear the words, 'Your child has cancer' it becomes a moment frozen in time."
That's because more than 20 years ago her daughter Ashley Lauren was diagnosed with kidney cancer.
"Many times we didn't know if we would have Ashley around much longer, but now she is a beautiful 24 year-old woman," Vermeulen said.
Living through the harrowing experience of her daughter's painful endurance of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, stirred a passion she says, was so deep within her, to help other parents who walk that lonely, frightening road. In 2005, in her daughter's honor, she launched The Ashley Lauren Foundation to "offer hope and help for New Jersey children and their families when facing pediatric cancer."
Now the foundation has served more than 300 families, many of whose children have survived, and some who have not. The foundation seeks to meet the practical needs of families like rides to far away treatments, grocery money, childcare and, especially, someone to talk to who gets it.
"There is a very big sense of isolation when your child is ill," Vermeulen says. "When you've been there you have a connection."
The Ashley Lauren Foundation, which has its offices in Colts Neck, also grants wishes for children and offers services like art therapy. When Vermeulen, who lives in Brick, travels to speak about her foundation she carries with her some of the drawings from children the foundation has supported.
The drawings are at once witty and heartbreaking. Their subjects show the depths a child grows when he or she is faced with trauma beyond their years.
One drawing by a young artist named Jennifer is captioned, "Forgiveness is forgiving the doctor if he puts the needle in and finds out he put it in the wrong place and he has to put it in a second time. Just letting the incident float away."
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Sorry took so long to do this, but kids are out of school and I have very little time to sit still and do this :P Most of my time is randomly checking the computer for stuff. Congrats!
It was very close between two people!
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Your Mom's Recipes, Which You Still Prepare
Enchiladas Suizas
Chicken and Dumplings
Chicken Breasts in a White Wine Sauce with Mushrooms and Rice
Fried Pork Chops
Stew (more of a spicy vegetable/beef soup, really)
Cornbread Dressing
Fried Cheeseballs
Roast Beef with Biscuit Dumplings
Sour cream cookies
Stuffed cabbage
Sweet & sour meatballs
Cole slaw
Turkey with cornbread stuffing
Chicken paprikash from a recipe given to me by my late mother who followed the recipe to the letter.
I embellished the recipe by adding 2 tablespoons of paprika to the pot instead of 1/2 a teaspoon. Also added a shredded carrot to the other aromatics of onion, celery and bell pepper. Because I like a heartier chicken flavor, boneless chicken thighs are used instead of breasts. Since I will have been wed to my wonderful wife of Italian heritage since 1960 (anniversary date Feb. 6), an 8 oz. can of tomato sauce is added plus 4 ounces of red wine used to rinse the tomato sauce can.
Vivi, ama, ridi e specialmente mangia bene (Live, love, laugh and especially eat well).
Buon appetito
Braised brisket - I've substituted sauteed onions for the onion powder and added a 1/2 cup red wine, but it's still her recipe (actually the recipe of the wife of one of my father's co-workers, but my mother's been making it for 50 years so I think it counts as hers).
Stuffed flank steak - This was actually my paternal grandmother's recipe, which my mother learned after she married.
I use her/Nana's recipe to prepare eggs (all sorts; omelets, frittata, poached, deviled).
Roast chicken
Baked Pork Chops
Roast pork
Lots more she did that I can't do as well, like meatloaf, any preparation of fish. Must have been the mom magic. :-)
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Noodles and Pot cheese.Kinda like periogi's only faster. Carmelize lg sliced onion in butter. Cook 12-16z wide egg noodles-undercook a bit. Butter noodles add to pan with onion medium heat till hot. Hard to find pot cheese so add 12z container of large curd cottage cheese stir until cheese just starts to melt,plate,salt and lots of black pepper.
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I also still make my mother's recipe for noodles and pot cheese, (as well as her recipes for tsimmes,lokshen kugel, passover mandlebrot, and hamantaschen). She didn't put onions in hers and she used farmer's cheese, Friendship brand. After mixing it all together she'd bake it for a little while to melt the cheese a bit and crisp up the noodles on top.Yum! I'll have to make some next week.
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Funny Story
My mom was not a good cook-got better. Remember one year she asked dad what would he like to eat for his birthday dinner after a pause he said stuff shells. Before it came out of the oven mom declared-damm that was a lot of work! Turns out she had suffed the tiny quarter in shells-the were damm good...
Unfortunately, lost my mom when I was only 8, BUT learned my way around the kitchen thanks to NANA, Dad's mom.
By the time I was maybe 12 or so, know how to make great veggie/beef soup and split pea or navy bean soup (when a nice ham bone was around.
I don't cook this very often, cuz it's for a big crowd... Nana called it "Canadian Stew"??? Big hunka beef (like pot roast), well browned in big soup pot. Then lots of BIG veggies... whole/halved carrots and stalks of celery, lots of smallish whole onions. WHole thing covered with water and whatever kinda tomato produce that was available... sauce, puree, etc. Long, slow simmer till beef was close to falling apart... potatoes added right near end so wouldn't go to mush. She ALWAYS made homemade bread to go along side... with lots of butter. The meat and veggies were served on a plate, the yummy broth in a mug/bowl, and the bread ready for dipping.
Learned how to make pretty darn good crab cakes from her, too. As she would say... almost all crab and very little "cake". Crab meat, finely diced onions/celery/bell pepper, blob of mayo, and egg and just "enough" bread crumbs. Formed, chilled, rolled in more seasoned bread crumbs and into good old cast iron skillet with bacon grease.
Just off the top of my head:
Roast Goose
Roast Duckling with Apricots
Roast Duckling with Orange Sauce
Czech Bread Dumplings
"Varnitchka" (spelled phonetically) - a Czech chicken with fresh dill sour cream sauce dish
Chicken Livers sauteed with butter, lemon juice, & caraway seed
Greek-style Bluefish
There are many more I'd make that involve lamb, beef, & pork, but hubby isn't a red-meat eater, so we stick to poultry, seafood, & vegetarian dishes.
The biggest thing I learned to make from her is golubki or stuffed cabbage. She doesn't like to cook but there are things she does very well and this is one of them.
The biggest thing is that the meat/rice mixture is spread across the entire (leaving a little edge) cabbage leaf and rolled jelly roll style.
Anytime I see anyone filling and rolling it burrito-style, I just don't get it. She also mixes some tomato paste, flour, and half and half, which gets poured over the golubki about half way through cooking, so it makes a nice creamy, tomato sauce.
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You could easily use whatever filling you already use and just roll it up jelly roll style instead. :-)
Like many "mom" recipes, none of this is written down. So, let's see...ground beef and pork is mixed with cooked white rice, maybe a 2 to 1 ratio. Add sauteed onions & mushrooms (sauteed in butter). Season to taste - I use Vegeta which is a beloved seasoning mix in lots of Polish food, though I think it's made in Croatia or somewhere. It's mostly MSG, I think!
The cabbage is made by cutting out the core and putting the whole head in water to boil. She just (and now I do) would pull off leaves as they got tender. Oh, and trim down the tough stem end.
Put as much filing on the cabbage leaf as it takes to still be able to roll it comfortably w/o the bundle splitting open.
A few cabbage leaves on the bottom of the pan, then a bit of water in with the rolls before covering with a few more leaves.
Halfway through cooking (goodness, I'm sorry, but it's another one of those "cook till done" things!) add the tomato sauce mixture
I'm sorry I can't be more specific!
See, I like it rolled this way better because the cabbage is more integrated into the whole roll. You get everything in each bite!
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If you throw the whole head in the freezer overnight and then let it thaw and they are the perfect texture for wrapping. It breaks the cell walls. If you are worried test it by freezing a few leaves so you can be certain it works. It cuts the time and saves the house from the smell.
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My mother wasn't a gourmet cook, but she could whip up a delicious dinner every day without any effort. And it was real food, not stuff out of a box.
Home-corned beef
Thanksgiving turkey and sage stuffing
Tuna casserole
Stuffed cabbage
Pot roast
Mustard pork chops
Beef stroganoff
Summer apricot cheesecake
Million calorie cake (though I don't do this one often!)
Edit; I forgot one! It's not my mom's though.. it's my dad's meatloaf. Don't need any other recipe, it's just perfect.
Frozen Strawberry Pie....
Cornbread Dressing....
Coca Cola Salad.......
Chicken Salad.....
Strawberry Cake......
Tomato Aspic.....
Honestly, not much. I made her wonderful stuffing (oops, I mean dressing), and I secretlylove her refrigerator cheesecake dessert (which she stills insists is the "real" cheesecake). I have made a few changes, such as using real butter in the stuffing and unflavored gelatin and fresh lemon juice in the dessert.
She was supposedly known as a good cook, but as a sign of the era, her food really was bland and unexceptional.
Ooh, ooh! One more....her devilled eggs have ruined me for all others. We make them slightly sweet, rather than using things like pickles and onions. Much better.
My mother was not known for her mad cooking skills but there are a few things that I make of hers and i want them to taste of my childhood.
Chicken Ala king
Tuna noodle salad
Stuffed peppers... I hated these as a kid, and I did tweek the recipe a smidge because I cut the peppers in thick rings and stuff them and sear the meat /rice mixture right in the rings before adding the sauce. Having one ring the size of a burger is enough and the sear makes them taste so much better.
Bachelor stew
Amish casserole
I don't make very many of my mom's recipes verbatim, but there are several that I've tweaked and updated. However, I do still make her enchiladas just the way she made them when we were kids. They're a recipe she got from a friend in Texas, and I've never had any others like them (probably because they're totally inauthentic). I also make her fresh peach pie and a couple of other dessert/cookie recipes (many of which she got from her mom or grandmother).
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Sure! My mother just called the sauce "Texas Chili," but from googling I think it's probably more accurately called "Texas Chili Gravy." Apparently it is at least somewhat authentic as far as Tex-Mex food is concerned, although it's really nothing like a Mexican enchilada.
Basically, you brown a pound of ground beef with a chopped onion and add maybe a tablespoon of cumin, 3-4 T. of chili powder, some garlic, salt, and maybe a little mexican oregano if you're being fancy. Toast all of that together for a minute, then sprinkle about 3 T. of flour into the meat and cook for a minute to take off the raw edge. Then add either beef stock or water, about 3 cups, and simmer until the sauce thickens.
To assemble, you use a slotted spoon to get some meat out of the sauce and put a spoonful in the middle of a flour tortilla, along with some cheese and a pinch of raw onion. Roll and repeat until you have a 9x13 dish filled up and/or the meat is gone. Then you pour the remaining sauce over the tortillas and top with more cheese and onions (I like to add black olives as well). Bake until melted and bubbly.
Baked apples. I prefer to wait for the brief period in autumn when I can get those rare, precious Cortlands, as mom used to get her bushel in the fall from her friend with the orchard. Cortland apples are like hen's teeth, at least around here, and yet they're arguably the best eating apples on earth, perfumed, sweet, luscious, even the peels are delicious. They taste like love. Love filled with raisins, butter, brown sugar and nutmeg and cinnamon and a dash of cloves. Other apples bake well enough but it's like eating a fast food burger compared to prime rib, IMHO. "Mom's" baked apples have to be Cortlands. If I get a last meal before I go to see her again in the Beyond, that's what I want.
re: afridgetoofar
re: Perilagu Khan
No, I'm just a humble Cortland advocate. You can keep yer tough, tasteless wax apples that fill the grocers bins and have the shelf life of a Twinkie. They look purty in a bowl on the kitchen table, for weeks, but have no perfume or flavor.
I'm not fiercely partisan about many things but I stand by my apple.
My twin sister and I love to cook so we were playing in the kitchen at a very young age - with Mom's supervision of course.
The summer we were 9 years old Mom went back to college to get a second teaching degree and my Sis and I were in charge of cooking dinner (her commute was 50 miles one way). We already knew some of her basic dishes - but she taught us how to cook a ham, a roast, rice and a few other things that were just reminders of what we had been helping her with. We continued helping out as we got older as she taught and we loved doing it.
Things we learned and I still make:
Meatballs with tomato sauce served over rice
pork chops with mushroom sauce served over rice
chicken with mushroom sauce served over rice
swiss steak (and yes, with rice)
round steak baked with Lipton's onion soup with mashed potatoes
cornbread dressing
Shrimp gumbo
Learned from my Dad -
His excellent BBQ chicken with home made BBQ sauce
From my Grandma -
Her oven baked chicken - roasted in oven tossed in flour and baked in a large dish - she just put salt and pepper on it - I sprinkle a generous amount of lemon pepper on it and serve it with my lemon rice - delicious and not as fattening as fried chicken
Mom's recipes:
Beef stew
"Syrian bread sandwiches" - a recipe my mom invented, ground beef cooked with frozen chopped spinach, bell pepper, onions, celery, & tomato, served hot as a filling for halved pitas.
Beef & lentil soup with spaetzle
Blueberry cake
Grammy's recipes:
"Goulash" (not a real goulash, but the macaroni/ground beef/tomatoes recipe AKA American Chop Suey.)
Apple cake
There are quite a few recipes that I grew up on that I've changed considerably to suit my own preferences, so I really can't think of them as "my mom's recipes" any longer:
Chicken & dumplings (the dumplings are my mom's, but the chicken base is much different.)
Split pea soup (the SHOCK in my family when I introduced the novelty of diced carrots in the soup!)
Macaroni & cheese
Tuna noodle casserole