My recipe called for olive oil but I wound up using half olive oil and half ghee.
(Courtesy of FMB's ideas since I saw some organic ghee at the natural market)

Interesting. Mine came out the color of the one on the top of that plate. My recipe called from making it the color of the circle in the middle which would have been the final stage. I couldn't bear the thought of taking over an hour and a half to make it though.

You will always be pretty to me FMB!

aint nothin' like a little pork chops dipped in gravy with a side of corn 'n peas

No worries (and thanks lewdog for pointing out my explanation). We constantly walk a tightrope between overcompensating for kid1's issues and trying to make him independent. I question myself often about it all the time. The funny thig is that food is one of his primary interests, so he will eat crazy stuff and loves to cook and watch food docs and such... He just has weird issues with textures (I think it has to do with fine motor inability to bite off and chew things). Tons of therapy but if I could get one OT who could teach the dude to eat withot making a mess and tie his shoes, that therapist would earn his/her weight in gold.

And yes: my parents would have said "eat this or don't eat" as well... And believe me... That's my first inclination which I constantky have to battle as I'm not inherently sympathetic to this kind of shit.

I think there's plenty enough regular kids without sensory issues, that have texture issues with food as well. My kid wasn't picky, but she had foods she wouldn't eat solely because of the texture. Like applesauce. My cousin's kids are 5x worse—or they're just very picky. My older sister was like that growing up. For me the shape of the pasta is part of the pleasure of certain pasta dishes.

Just bought a large one today for $3 at Family Dollar :thumb:

Not sure what's for dinner, but since I've had to change my diet pretty drastically, the wife and I hardly ever eat out anymore. We've been out to eat four times since April.

And I'm apparently really jonesing for pizza, which is probably my favorite food. Last night, I had some full on food porn dreams about pizza. Closeups, slowmo, the works.

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Got the corn taking a bath

Meatloaf with cauliflower and 4 cheese sauce.

Flat iron steaks with grilled corn (with a fresh oregano butter).

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Tri tip, corn and my gma's amazing cabbage salad

DID WE JUST BECOME BEST FRIENDS!!!!!!!!?????!!!!!!

I picked up some sirloin steaks yesterday at Hy-Vee $3.99 a pound and I'm going to cook them in the cast iron skillet. Normally I would put these on the grill and cook for about a minute, flip once each side and they come out medium rare. Never cooked steaks on the cast iron before, recommendations?