Quarantine vittles: what’s cooking?

[pronstar]

Wife made meatballs tonight...carb coma and I love it

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[SQLGeek]

Grilled up sausage with a side of my mom's red cabbage salad. Damn good but forgot to get a picture. Oopsie.

 

[satx78247]

FWIW, the 10th MTN DIV-recipe SOS with eggs was FINE tonight.

Almost all of us old soldiers love the stuff.

yours, satx

 

[digger]

Recipe??

 

[SQLGeek]

Yes please share. Don't mind SOS myself. I was fortunate enough to know Ed Pepping, a medic in Easy Company, 2/506th PIR during WWII and he shared his own recipe. I will have to dig that out of my mementos.

 

[EZ-E]

Whataburger #13

 

[satx78247]

digger, SQLGeek,

FYI, I took the ORIGINAL circa-1910 recipe & cut it by 100.

To a FIST-SIZED hunk of ground beef/sausage or both, mixed.

FRY meat until nearly done, seasoning with salt & pepper.

To the cooked meat ADD 3 Tablespoons of butter & MELT.

Then ADD 2 TABLESPOONS of WORCHESTER SAUCE & STIR to mix.

ADD in enough flour to make a roux & COOK on low until you have a WHITE ROUX.
(The amount of flour required will VARY according to type, fineness of the flour, altitude, air temperature & perhaps other variables.)

Pour in milk & continue to stir until the mixture is as thick as you desire.
(I make my SOS fairly thick, so that it is NOT "runny".)

POUR over biscuits, toast or rice.

ENJOY.

Note: The 10th MTN DIV recipe is a early 20th Century "version of" a "somewhat similar" recipe of the old 10th Cavalry, the BUFFALO SOLDIERS.

SOS became popular when it was introduced to the troops that went to Cuba in the S-A War.
(TR mentioned eating it in letters to his wife in 1898 & told Edith that, "I demanded that we be served CHEESE GRITS." - TR later said that the cooks did cook cheese grits for everyone..)
ONCE MORE, this is NOT the S-A War recipe, which seems to NOT exist now.
(I've tried several times, W/O success to find the 19th Century version. = The "new breed" BUFFALO SOLDIERS, i.e., the reenactors, use the 10th MTN DIV version, as they cannot find the OLD recipe either.)

yours, satx

 

[EZ-E]

Growing up my dad always made SOS with the Carl Budding beef lunch meat chopped up with frozed diced peas & carrots mixed in his cream gravy recipe. Then poured over the top of buttered toast cut in triangle with a square in the middle & a triangle on each side.

 

[Lost Spurs]

I remember my grandma making SOS, she had no filter on the name. It was with Carl buddings sliced beef. That memory takes me back probably 30 years. Everybody would call it cream chip beef on toast.

That lady had the meanest wiener dogs ever. Holy hell....

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[SQLGeek]

My grandfather used to make chip beef on english muffins with white gravy. We had those empty jars everywhere. Now that I think about it, I think most of our juice glasses were those jars.

 

[satx78247]

SQLGeek; All,

FYI, AUTHENTIC Army SOS is always beef/pork sausage or a mixture of beef & bulk sausage.

CHIPPED BEEF (made with DRIED beef) on toast is the NAVY/USMC recipe & sometimes includes minced onions.

yours, satx

 

[SQLGeek]

CHIPPED BEEF (made with DRIED beef) on toast is the NAVY/USMC recipe & sometimes includes minced onions.

My grandfather was a career Marine so that makes sense. He didn't add the onions though.

 

[satx78247]

My grandfather was a career Marine so that makes sense. He didn't add the onions though.

SQLGeek,

Note the "sometimes" in my comment above.
(The USN/USMC version is considered "rather too upper-class" & "a bit prissy" for us plain 'ole DOGFACE soldiers.)

 

[cvgunman]

Made up some Covid Kabob's

 

[candcallen]

Had leftover sausage peppers onions and taters tonight. No pictures cause, well that stuff isn't photogenic the second time thru the skillet.

But god damn it tastes just as good.

 

[candcallen]

The wife is promising a Turkey or ham next. God I hate turkey but my daddy told one important thing when I started dating girls.

Eat what ever they set in front of you and ask for seconds no matter how bad it tastes and you will have a happy life.

 

[cvgunman]

The wife is promising a Turkey or ham next. God I hate turkey but my daddy told one important thing when I started dating girls.

Eat what ever they set in front of you and ask for seconds no matter how bad it tastes and you will have a happy life.

I must be doomed as my wife can cook hard boiled eggs and that's about it (not counting microwave popcorn)

 

[Axxe55]

The wife is promising a Turkey or ham next. God I hate turkey but my daddy told one important thing when I started dating girls.

Eat what ever they set in front of you and ask for seconds no matter how bad it tastes and you will have a happy life.

My daddy said always have a dog if you're married and your wife can't cook!

 

[Axxe55]

Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans and homemade biscuits on the menu today.

 

[deemus]

Roasted carrots, honey baked ham.