March 19 -- Diner Dilemma
6Soooo, a new diner opened up on Friday about a block away. I have been watching for the “open” sign to light with great anticipation! My husband knows what a diner ho I am; whenever we travel, I search out new diners to try!
However, I have a loaf of Challah bread drying out…I REALLY should use it before it gets toooo far gone…but I lovvvee it when someone else makes my breakfast!
What I love about diners is that you can get breakfast at anytime…you can even get pot roast and mashed potatoes at 6 am… So if your belly is moody like mine is, you can always make it happy at a diner!
What type of restaurant makes your toes tingle? Why?
Happy Saint Joseph’s day to you all!
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I have told people I’m a connoisseur of dives. I love diners and bar food. Everyone who loves fancy restaurants can keep them, I’ll take the greasy spoons. We’ve got a bar right by the ferry dock that makes potato bombs. Just big balls of potato, cheese, and spices deep fried. Nom.
Have you thought about using it for bread pudding? Especially if it’s getting towards the end of its life, that’s when it’s best for bread pudding. Another yum.
@KittySprinkles Not a fan of bread pudding, think it is a texture thing. Asked hubs, he was meh about bread pudding…
Your phrase is classier than my phrase!
@mikibell We have a sports bar here that will deep fry cheesecake. Now that’ll make everything that comes after it just seem meh.
We are outside our new diner waiting for a table. I love diners too.
@sammydog01 enjoy!
@mikibell I had a BLT and a cup of fresh fruit- worth the wait. Diners have the best bacon.
Dry challah bread + egg batter = french toast
@hachover that is normally how I make french toast, but it is soooo much better when the bread is tender…
Freeze the bread temporarily and go have fun. I don’t usually eat out (would love to but life’s circumstances…) and I cook only because the alternative is to starve, not to mention when I had a kid in the house child protective services takes a dim view of only serving food that does not need cooked. My mom said she failed as a mom as none of her daughters liked to cook, etc. I told her no she was a success as she didn’t teach us it was our job, nor that we had to like doing it, just because we were female.
@Kidsandliz nope…that destroys the texture, IMHO… I will probably make breadcrumbs and make broccoli casserole this week…and meatballs…yumm…
I really do try not to waste food. My daughter loves the soups I concoct, because they are never the same twice. I drop whatever is in the fridge into soup.
Each of my kids can make 3 meals and a dessert…they will get bored with them when they go to college/move out, but they won’t starve!
@mikibell My kid came to me knowing how to cook (over a fire) and use a sharp knife better than most adults. In fact when I was cutting something towards me I got a lecture in broken English (“no good mom”) and pantomime.
This is a child who drinks jalapeño pepper juice like water and has never met a hot spice she hasn’t liked, including cayenne pepper measured in tablespoon amounts for one serving. In large quantities. As long as you let her drown food or bury it in hot sauce, cayenne pepper, etc. she liked everything.As a result I had to keep an eye on her cooking or I couldn’t eat it as to me even a few grains of “regular” pepper is too hot. LOL. Then she realized that “In America…” most children don’t cook dinner voluntarily. That put an end to that most of the time LOL. Due to LD’s she can’t follow a recipe, but she can cook all sorts of things without one.
My dad, on the other hand, didn’t even know how to boil water. Mom had to teach him.
International street food. I’d rather eat a $2 bowl of Pho than a $50 steak at a fancy restaurant. Some of my best travel food memories are eating at roadside stands elbow-to-elbow with locals.
Love a good diner that does a good cheap breakfast.
Summer 2015 was at a wedding in Lynchburg VA. After say 10pm every nite, since we didn’t need to drive, we just got as drunk as possible. Fortunately there was a fine diner about 50 feet from our hotel. It helped a lot in the morning.
And the place only had crappy booths and those red vinyl stools, and the waitress and cook looked like the had both been there about 50 years, and they knew everyone in town, and you heard the “How’re ya doin’, Hon?” every few minutes.
I like this sort of place a lot.
What I like even better are the little breakfast places in the towns in the west. The farmers, ranchers, field workers, rig workers, etc, all are up working before dawn. Then between 8-11am every day or a few days a week they all drive into town (sometimes 50-100 miles) and have breakfast. All those places do kickass huevos rancheros and migas and the like. And the town folk and country folk eat and drink coffee and exchange news with each other. These breakfasts are a huge part of the community glue. And they’re usually terrific.