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Who are you? You post one day about words and the next about food and eating. It’s like you live in my brain. While I prefer a fried egg on toast (ideally pumpernickel but or a high-fiber bread), I prefer my scrambled eggs separate from bread. One of the dishes i make the most for others are eggs in a window/basket. Like a savory French toast. Kinda.

Cook tons of pasta for others and sometimes myself.

Am in the most soupy-season of my life. Love how I can make soups with abandon and just throw so many different things in.

So am making a potato-turnip soup soon with a garlic and carmelized onion base. Can’t wait. Just not sure whether or not to add garlic-sautéed mushrooms into the mix. Thoughts?

Potatoes are my new bliss. And sour cream my current favorite condiment.

Also start my day with a spinach and berry-centered smoothie and a lotta other prebiotic nerdiness.

Love salads and my current fave is the Greek salad I’ve been making for myself and friends a lot. Mixed greens, chickpeas, red onions, Kalamata olives, avocado (my former favorite food) and a homemade dressing.

This week I made a Greek but switched to blue cheese and cut up a fried buffalo chicken veggie patty on top. Truly heaven. Trying to spend less in restaurants to working on some special dishes such as this one that scratch a certain kind itch.

I just saw on twitter that bananas are actually berries and my mind is blown. Unless twitter is lying again, which it rarely does ; )

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I'm just me. Nothing more. Nothing less.

But my god have you just made my stomach rumble and there's still an hour and 30 minutes until I can eat!!

All of that sounds soooooo delicious. I usually have high fiber/protein toast when I have my eggs.

I'm not gonna lie. I usually just buy soup. I know it's so easy to make and I could customize it to my tastes but soup in a can is just so easy.

Never add mushrooms to anything. They are the devils food LOL.

Your salad sounds bloody amazing. I'm gonna make one when I return home.

We're now discussing why mushroom's are the devils food in my ops room.

On a lighter note. https://www.livescience.com/57477-why-are-bananas-considered-berries.html

And this is where I got the name of Vulkan. It's from one of my hobby's. Yes I am that much of a geek. https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Vulkan

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Vulcan we cannot be friends if you consider mushrooms to be the devil’s food ; )

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But I cannot lie!! Is there a food you dislike? Something that just gets your belly doing somersaults. Mine is mushrooms and Tequila lol.

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Um maybe organ meats. And waterfowl...

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Things like kidneys? I can I can understand that. I don’t really like liver. Do you like marmite?

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How’s your watch been?

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My watch has been quiet. It won’t be too long until we’re home so it’s all winding down. Roll on getting home.

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Oh goodness i really should proof before I post since comments can’t be edited...

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Looks like you have a bright alternative career as a instagram chef. You have so passionately described all the food, that a) I do genuinely feel bad that you are not getting decent food on the ship and b) the post has made me bloody hungry, so I gotta check what's in the refrigerator. For some reason, I am craving a Bolognese.

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Mmmm bolognaise. Did you have it? With garlic bread? Now I’m hungry for some nice spag bol!!!

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Hahaha, I am not a big fan of garlic bread, just plain old fashioned bolognese with a bottle of red wine.

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I love how you said “bottle” of red wine and not “glass” of red wine 😂😂

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I’m just new on Substack so have not yet started to post other than commenting on things that spark my interest.

We have interesting commonalities.

I’m a retired teacher, my dad sailed home from WW 2 on the QE

In 1945 , and he was a cook ( not a chef lol) in the Army!He told me stories of himself flipping hotcakes in a tent and diving into a foxhole when bombs were dropping in by the mess! Jumping in and out!

He taught me to flip egg omelets in a frying pan !

My favorite New Years dinner is a chunk of pork roast, onions, new baby potatoes and sauerkraut cooked all night in a crockpot ! The heavenly smell upon waking is awesome!

And I can make baklava!

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