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ABS looks more automotive.

 

And who among us hasn't done that??

 

I'd like to know the story here. Must have been smuggling grease.

Love the Ford stuff!

 

proof of the old saying " to go fast in a boat fill half the boat with engines and the other half with fuel"

 

some local tire guys think the one on the right is a torque wrench

 

My wife and I had an interesting conversation about Vanilla extract, plus raw eggs, “beater cheaters” old folks sayings. The use of raw eggs in cooking, cookie batter and all sorts of kitchen goodies…

We got laughed at for eating raw eggs. A great home cooked meal with thin sliced steak in a special sauce in a table top cooking pan. Adding vegetables, tofu and other ingredients makes for a meal that would cost many dollars at restaurants.

Only it was a staple at home once a week, using fresh vegetables, meat and sauces. Plus the final ingredient was a dipping bowl of raw egg mixture with soy sauce for the cooked vegetables and different kinds of meat. Primarily thin sliced Spencer steak or Filet Mignon servings. Marinated vegetables, noodles, and special vegetable root slices for added flavor and taste.


Hello,

Only one of my friend’s family was accepting eating a raw egg mixture to add to the cooked meal my friend and I prepared to serve his whole family. They had me over for dinner many times and this was my way of thanking them. No, I was not a cook, but helped my mom make this simple meal many times over, so I was a “seasoned” prep cook. When my friend stayed for dinner at our house, his eyes opened up when my mom gave him a bowl of freshly whipped raw egg with his part of the meal.

At first, he looked at the bowl, then at me with a questioning look and when everyone at the table began eating the cooked meal in the pan in front of us, he smiled and dipped a nice marinated slice of steak in the “raw egg” mixture and had a smile a mile long. He loved the mixture of flavors and tastes. So, this episode was played over many times.

Then, as I was always invited to dinner at my friend’s house after we had spent all day working on his 57 Chevy Bel Air Hardtop with a dual quad 283 and custom 4 speed, it was a friendly game of payback for the happy times at their dinner table.

My friend’s dad brought home a large supply of paper thin sliced Filet Mignon and it was part of our dinner we served to my friend’s whole family. We both spent the late afternoon prepping the vegetables and the rest of the meal. My friend had tasted the original cooked meal my mom prepared at our house and was sold that we could cook it for his family dinner one night.

Jnaki

It was one of those things that was going smoothly and everything was set at the table. We were prepping the meal and the cooking skillet was already on the table, as a center piece. Since it was an electric pan, the vegetables were cooking nicely in the prepared sauce. The flavorful smoke permeated the dining room and the smiles would not stop appearing. Ha!

As we all sat down, some “high eyebrows” were noticed as I put down a bowl of raw eggs still in their shells. Each of the family had their own plates and a side bowl in front of their place settings. So, we all started with the vegetables and a side of rice. As we were eating the rice, I placed some thin sliced meats in the bubbling sauce.

It took on the hue of the sauce and began to cook, fast, being so thinly sliced. That was the point of thinly sliced meats, so thin that it almost fell apart as one separated them and placed them in the skillet. But, now, the aroma of the cooking vegetables and the added thin meat slices filled the whole room with delicious smoke and we all felt satisfied at the sight and aroma.

So, now, I pinched a thinly sliced meat from the bubbling pan and placed it in my bowl of fresh egg liquid, mixed up to make a solid yellow sauce. And when I dipped the cooked meat into the egg mixture and then onto the scoop of rice on my plate, everyone’s eyes from the family sitting at the table rose with a puzzled look. Cooked meat, dipped in raw eggs and now, ready to eat? Aghast!!!

My friend and I chuckled at the looks on their faces as we were eating the thin soaked meat and they were just staring at us. It took some convincing to get the mom and dad to eat what we had prepared. The teenage daughter was busy eating the cooked vegetables and moved the meat aside on her plate, far away from her bowl of fresh yellow eggs. Again, we chuckled at that sight.

These days, no one eats raw eggs, due to salmonella poisoning. But, our mom had in her arsenal of cooking, a pasteurized egg carton purchase and that reduced the danger back then in the late 50s and 60s. The current scenario is not to eat any raw eggs, pasteurized or not. So, there is that.YRMV

Do we eat this meal, today? No, as our tastes and style of food is not the same as when we were little and also when we first got married. It was when we had our son that we changed our way of eating and not to be an alarmist, but there were so many stories from research doctors and our own family doctor about salmonella poisoning that we just gave up. We just look at each other and think back to when we had this meal at the almost bi-weekly visits to our mom’s house as a young married couple. Yowza!

We are still alive and well… “hot diggity!” Also, no more vanilla extract other than in cooking.

 

Funny how "TRADITIONAL" puts a cap on "Innovation". Maybe it is a good thing?

 

Trust me, that doesn't work. even if there is traffic.

 

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