Dean's Master Asylum

So after about 2 weeks of working til 8PM, many art events for the spouse and other minor tragedies and paying 1% of Dempsey's income for the month of November, I am back to cooking. Things I learned being lazy and relying on others to feed me. 1.  Do not expect more than sandwiches if Brandy is in charge of cooking (and not going our) 2.  Arriving home at 9PM or later I need to find an alternative to eggs 3.  Aiden set fire to the Insta-Pot.  I am sworn not to share pictures on threat of what I have left of my dignity So now I get to make my recipe.  Pennsylvania Cabbage.  Did not research the history of the but after a month and a half of Oktobrefest at Dempsey's I figured it would be something similar to the side dish Brandy affectionately calls Roadkill. (Rotkhol) As I am making this, I am made aware of our genius Governors new campaign.  I cannot help to relate as I decode this 1930's recipe.  I wish I was kidding I mean this is...

Public Service Announcement This is a delicious comfort food from my youth.  Quick to make.  Guilty pleasure,  and only one of three foods acceptable to eat with ketchup.  Call it hamburger macaroni hot dish, burger noodle casserole, what ever.  This is one of the first meals I teach my kids to cook.  This is a staple in our house.  This is not my picture This... is a crappy picture.  Sorry... This is supposed to be goulash.  The paprika and black pepper laden stewless stew from eastern Europe, invented before refrigeration.  Where the spices hid the decomposing critter flavor. This one was pulled from a canning book.  I wasn't going to make 8 quarts so I aloquatted, mathed, and eyeballed down to 3 servings.  Pharmacy school was good for something. Put it this way.  I am sure I have a better recipe in line and I have no qualms about deleting this from my database.  Maybe making 8 quarts at a time ...

Well when I entered this endeavor I knew I would be trying things I would normally skip over.  Literally there would be no connection between eyes and brain because the eyes knew... or did they? So I get this one Apples and Noodles Where in a menu plan does this even come in?  Too savory for a dessert, too sweet for a meal Go to my friend google as I am buying egg noodles and "cooking apples" in HyVee.  I need a direction and need to start cooking in 15 minutes if I am going to have the whole family eating at one time tonight (I try.  I fail.  I repeat.  When it does work I wish it didn't.  I try again) First hit in the fine print below "Friends eat as dessert, but I think it goes well with pork" Great! Pork loin.  Got that at home already, now need to find a cooking apple. Porter's first in line and on the google list.  Time to get my butt back home. Ok, I got everything started so I opened my friend google and really t...