Looks and sounds like perfection.
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@EmilyQ goulash, sauteed (sounds fancier than fried) shaved Brussel sprouts and garlic bread.
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I went medeval on a chuck roast.
A meh quality roast, seared, then seasoned with a cup of bone stock with onion, pepper, garlic, ginger, paprika cooked in to it. Can’t leave the flavor in the pan! Then thrown into the crockpot of despair.
Barley- done separately in 2 cups of bone stock then thrown in with that Ugly Chuck.
Pierogis- also unceremoniously tossed into the pot of despair just to watch them die. Remember when the angel in Constantine got her wings ripped off? Like that but pierogies.
Them and the barley were sentenced at approximately the same time.
I will find their crimes if I have to tear them to pieces.
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That will do it! 
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You have to do what you have to do. And I love that movie.
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Yes, though I do like traditional spaghetti sauce. However, 6 times out of 10, if I’m at an Olive Garden or whatever I’ll order pomodoro. The other 4 times I’ll joyously dive into eggplant parm.
I don’t have a preferred tomato - I’m not enough of a gardener to know varieties. If I’m planting them, I’ll usually just start whatever varieties are heavily stocked at the nursery (big boy, celebration, early girl) counting on the nursery to know what’s appropriate to my zone. And then they either thrive and are tasty or not, for reasons sadly mysterious to me because I don’t track things from year to year (or consistently plant a garden).
@ChickenLittle, your goulash is exactly what I was shooting for when I made it last week. It looks moist and tasty, whereas mine was a big clump of not-that-tasty.
I admire the sprouts! So vegetable-y! If @QuadQueen finds this thread, she’ll be pleased.
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Ok. I’m just looking for something tart because all of mine for the past few years have been really sweet- which I love, but would also like to mix it up a little.
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It only took me 50 years to figure out how to make it “right”.
I know, right? Look at us eating vegatable-y things. We even had coleslaw yesterday and I ate a banana at the food pantry!
I wasn’t sure about the shaved sprouts but they turned out good. They looked like somebody already ate them once in the bag
Seriously though, I stopped eating bananas because they would give me an instant migraine. No idea why, been eating banana my whole life. Luckily the one Wed did not give me a headache so maybe they are back on tbe list of things to eat!
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I don’t think I’m into non-sweet tomatoes, particularly, just tomato-y foods cooked without added sweetness. I love Zima grape tomatoes, which are definitely sweet.
I’m that way about a lot of things. I don’t want raspberry iced tea, just tea-tasting tea, and I don’t know how people tolerate french vanilla fake cream in their coffee. I like coffee-tasting coffee (I do add milk). I don’t use steak sauce for the same reason - steak should taste like (seasoned) steak, not Worcestershire sauce. IN FACT, I had to buy Worcestershire sauce for the so-called goulash, and husband and I were talking about just that thing. We don’t stock it.
These taste preferences are probably largely the reason I’m not morbidly obese, given my prodigious appetite (relative to my size).
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You’ll probably need to think outside the box and pick something not red, think Heirloom variety or smaller tomatoes. Green or black or those little pear tomatoes. I grew some pear tomatoes one year and it made TONS but nobody wanted them.
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This last year I have used more Worcestershire sauce than I have in the previous 50 years of my life. I actually had to buy a new bottle!
I love those brown sugar pork chops with worcestershire and soy sauce. And for the goulash of course and the meatloaf muffin glaze. I also had to but another bottle of smoked paprika. That’s never happened before.
We line up very well with all of those things. 
My tree buddy likes those. I’m going to do a couple plants. I think I started some last year but ended up not getting them planted. The germination rate I got from my seeds last year was close to 100%.
Some tomatoes & sauce from them last year. A mix of cherry tomatoes and san marzano.
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I want to plant some San Marzanos this year.
I wanted to last year but we all know how that turned out. 
I have grown Black Cherokee and Black Krim. Nobody here wanted those either. Black tomatoes were too different.
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Oh! Pork chops! That’s an arena where I absolutely commit a crime against nutrition. My stepdaughter introduced me to Ah-So sauce, which I adore, and which is basically sugar, soy sauce, and red dye. We slather the chops with it, then grill them. I’ve had to really work on husband to cook the fuck out of mine so it’s all crispy and sweet, and then we have it over “sautéed” (lol) cabbage and rice and it tastes like eggrolls, sort of. It’s in regular rotation here. Husband eats bone-in, and I mostly do center cut boneless, because I will gnaw ever single bit of caramelized sugar fat off the bone if I don’t draw that one line in the criminal food sand.
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My people! This is why we are friends.
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They’re very good. My squirrel loves them! They really are though. The ones I did get were awesomely tasty.
Those are the ones!
Too much rain at the wrong time here last year.
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I am a Labrador retriever in every aspect.
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Love it!
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Okay, this is sort of a crime against nutrition, but only the takeout container:
Refresher: Hot takeout food served in black plastic “plantic” containers might pose a health risk because heat speeds the breakdown of the plastic, causing it to leach microplastics and chemicals into your meal.
These might include endocrine-disrupting compounds like bisphenols and flame retardants linked to hormone disruption, inflammation, and gut microbiome changes.
Yes, I still ate it. Love the “half a yard bird” from BBQ joints. No utensils required.
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