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I know what I like and don't like when it comes to foods. With limits, I'll try new things from time to time. It was time to buy another package of Italian bread crumbs and Panko style came into my radar.
Without a doubt, organic chicken breasts dipped in eggs and rolled in Panko then pan fried was 'totally awesome man'




Unlike the photo, it's best to cut the chicken into thin strips so the Panko covers every piece!

Every 4th of July Nathan's Hot Dogs has a contest on Cony Island. Joey, the undisputed king of hot dog eating was the 13-time champion setting a record of consuming 75 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
He broke his record by consuming 76 hot dogs in today's competition.

Joey "Jaws" Chestnut does it again!

Okay, I sold my house that had possibly the best mangoes in the land and I didn't have a clause in the contract granting me free mangoes for the next 50 years. Very sad about this, I am.

However, another source came up as someone with a large tree and a commercial duty food dehydrator. I'm getting fresh mangoes and a bag or two of dried fruit strips.

It's mango season!

One of my coworkers from a previous job raved about the Miami mangoes and offered to pay me for some. I refused to accept money. After moving, haven't talked to her in more than a year. I sent a text Mangoes? and she replied "sure" so we met up in the parking lot of a local pharmacy and under the lights I held out a bag of mangoes as she pulled up.
With a Hispanic accent I said: "You got da money?... I got da stuff"



I got home and a few minutes later she texted: "OMG!!! They are so sweet, thank you so much :-)

It's evening... Time for a spicy crispy mouth watering evening snack !!!
I am missing Fuchka soooooo much !!

With the exception of fish skin and chicken feet, I eat all the Chinese dishes put in front of me. I do have my limits. I'll tolerate bitter melon if it's cooked with something else. Chinese vegetables are fine, including bok choy and some decedents of spinach and broccoli.
Unless tofu gets diced and cooked with meat, it's on my 'do not eat' list.

I didn't complain (too much) at dinner tonight as tofu was in a sauteed vegetable salad and repeated a line from the movie The Three Faces Of EVE... Mommy, don't make me kiss a dead person!

Wearing a mask in public places in Omaha will be a choice and no longer a legal requirement starting midnight Tuesday.

I gotta admit, it does feel a bit awkward to walk into stores or restaurants without a mask on after 9 months of doing so.

Art and I went to have fried chicken today, 15mins drive from our house.

Nothing fancy, just raccoons ( and cats too! ) watching while we eat.









We didn’t have any dessert there coz we have got these muffins waiting for us at home! Courtesy from my Malaysian girlfriend who brought them to our house right after she baked them!



She gave us 6 blueberry muffins. Art and I each had one right away! We went to have fried chicken and as soon as we got home, we had another 2!

When I was a kid, I adored the taste of a hamburger. It was simply awesome. Over the years I lost my love for the hamburger. How did this happen? Were my taste buds changing, or has the hamburger changed? For years I believed that I had aged and my food preferences had matured.
Then in the 1980's I found myself living on a farm and running a small beef cow/calf operation. I had 2 Angus, 1 Hereford and 2 Charolais cows. I would go to livestock auctions to see what was going through the ring and one day an incredible Angus cow was brought out with her fat little bull calf. The cow was not for sale but the calf was and the cow was brought out to show the lineage. I was the winning bidder for the calf which kind of surprised me to be so lucky. I concluded none of the big buyers present needed a bull calf that day. The truth was elsewhere. When I got the calf home I put him in the barn (it's good practice to keep a new animal separated from your herd in case he has cooties) he began eating hay immediately. This was odd because he was too young to be eating hay already. He also seemed to be coughing quite a bit. Not wanting to take any chances with infecting my herd I hauled him to a large animal vet in my Chevy van. He was found to have pneumonia and was infested with worms which was what gave him his nice round appearance, he was also about 6 months old, not a month old like I thought. This explained the hay eating. Thinking back I remembered something I observed in the auction ring but disregarded at the time. The mother cow was avoiding the calf totally. Apparently she had never even seen this calf prior to being brought into the ring with him. The other, far more experienced buyers didn't miss this fact and withheld bidding. They could see the scam the auction was perpetrating by offing this runt on some shmuck (me) and I couldn't. WTH, I grew up in midtown Manhattan I had a lot to learn about cattle farming, apparently I needed educating about livestock auctions too.