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Well thanks KK. It's not quite as good as regular chili but it's a darn good alternative for me at the moment. It's a filling and satisfying meal that's still good for us. It's also really good on a baked potato.

Thanks len. I'll have to do a little experimenting with some spice and see how I like it.

Thanks John. No I haven't done that but it sound like it would be worth a try. Thanks for the tip.

Wanted to try out one of my new knives so decided what better way that to make some Pico de Gallo. Sorry I didn’t get any pics as I was filming a video instead. (Video link below) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpc7ojxlHUA&t=19s Thanks for watching. The recipe is in the video but not listed in writing. I shared it on this site before so if you don’t want to listen to the entire video you can hit this link instead.

Wow adm! Those are nice knives. A far cry from the cheapy Mercer I just purchased for the occasional use on a vacation or at a bbq gathering.

Thanks Jeffie. I'm assuming these cottages are far from a local super market so the kitchen box sounds to a great idea. As you stated " having only 30 year old, burnt, thin frying pans and butter knives disguised as “chef knives"." gets old and this knife and roll is my response. The pans at this last one were usable but the skillets were straight out of the 70's. Old Teflon pans where the Teflon was mostly going or gone already. We weren't going to use them under any circumstance. Luckily we were visiting family up there so we borrowed one of their skillets to cook with. These Airbnb's should look there supplies and ask themselves weather they would want to cook on/with them. Again they don't need to be expensive but something usable would be nice.

Saw a video of this grill just the other day. It looks intriguing but it's grill grate is only 18" around. I agree that it's way over priced for such a small grill.

Thanks John. I do love my Miyabi Artisans. I wanted a Nakiri but they don't make a Nakiri or a Bunka in that series so that is why I purchased the Enso. It's real nice as well but the handle isn't quite as comfortable the the Artisan's. (If I ad to choose between them)

If I had stopped at the cheap Mercer knife, I had purchased from Amazon I’d have been fine. (See previous thread) Unfortunately, there was a sale over Labor Day at Cutlery and More, so my wife is now mad at me because I purchased 3 more new knives. She suggested I have a problem and to this I must agree. I didn’t “need” any of these knives, but one was such a good price and the other two are, as Old Man Parker said on Christmas Story, “Indescribably Beautiful!”. Below is a short video of the objects of my wife’s wrath. This first knife is a 9” Dragon Storm Chef’s knife by Apogee Cutlery. It’s made of BD1N steel with a HRC of 63. It was on Clearance with an additional 20% off for Labor Day. This next knife is an Enso SG2 7” Bunka knife. It’s made of 101 layers of stainless with a SG2 steel core with an HRC of 63. It was on sale with special price and 20% off for Labor Day. This last knife is an Miyabi Artisan 9.5” Kiritsuke knife. It’s made of 2 layers of hammered stainless with a SG2 steel core with an HRC of 63. It was offered at special introductory price for Labor Day. Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3fkX9xlPvk I’m going to have to cook some good food using these knives to get out of the Doghouse. Thanks for looking.

Thanks Scott. Got both the knife and roll from Amazon. As I said, the knife was $18.00 and the roll I thinks was $26.99

The last time we rented an Airbnb I vowed to buy a knife roll and bring some of my knives with me so I could have the use of sharp knives instead on the dull knives they always seem to have. (It’s not that they need to be expensive, but if they were at least sharp I wouldn’t complain) Well we just got back from spending a week in Reno at an Airbnb and you can guess how the knives were. So, I’ve made good on my vow and got myself a cheap knife roll. I also purchased this Mercer Millenia 8” chef knife to go in it. As I said they don’t need to supply expensive knives and this new Mercer knife is proof of this. (It cost me whooping $18.00) So here is a video of the new knife and roll and the different knives I’ll be taking with me when we go on our next trip like this. (An assortment of mostly Mercer and Victorinox knives) Video: Thanks for looking.

I picked up 2 lb. of 98% fat free ground turkey breast the other day. I made some more of the 4 bean Turkey Chili I made a month ago with it but this time it was virtually free of points. (Only 1 WW Purple point) I diced up all the onions and peppers, mixed up the spices. Here are most of the ingredients. 1 ½ Tablespoons Olive Oil 2 lb. Pounds 98/7 Lean Ground Turkey ½ Yellow Onion (Diced) ½ Red Onion (Diced) I Poblano Pepper (Diced) 1 Red Bell Pepper (Diced) 1 ½ Teaspoons Minced Garlic 1 6 Oz. Can Diced Green Chiles 1 15 Oz. Can Corn 1 15 Oz. Can Crushed Tomatoes 1 15 Oz. Can Tomato Sauce 1 15 Oz. Can Chili Beans 1 15 Oz. Can Black Beans 1 15 Oz. Can Dark Red Kidney Beans 1 15 Oz. Cannellini Beans 1 15 Oz. Can Chicken Broth 2 Tbsp. Chili Power 1 Tsp. Cumin ½ Tsp. Crushed Red Pepper ½ Tsp. Chipotle Pepper Power ½ Tsp. Black Pepper ½ Tsp. White Pepper ½ Tsp. Salt ¼ Tsp. Cinnamon While I was prepping everything our new dog Lady came in to visit. I got out my enameled Dutch oven and placed the OO. I put it on the side burner of my Gasser. I put the Turkey in once it was heated up. I cooked it until just slightly brown. Next, I added the Poblano pepper, onions, Bell pepper and garlic. I covered this and cook it for 10 minutes stirring occasionally. Once the veggies had softened, I added in the spices and rest of the ingredients. and mixed everything together. I brought this to a boil and then covered. I turned the burner to low and let the chili simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Here it is after cooking. Here it is in a bowl, garnished with onion, cilantro, some lime and some Non-Fat Greek yogurt. This was delicious and only 1 point per serving. (A serving = 1 cup. This was a large bowl, so it was a double serving so 2 points) Eating like this makes me forget I'm losing weight. Thanks for looking.

I'll be following this thread for your interpretation of an RV. To me this will always be the quintessential R Veeeeeeee!

With the wife and I on the Weight Watchers plan, I’ve been avoiding some of my favorite Mexican dishes. Now that I think about it, this really isn’t necessary if I’m carefully what I choose and how I prepare the dishes. Take fajitas for example. A protein, seasoning and some veggies. Made with boneless, skinless chicken breasts and not much oil the fajitas themselves are only 1 point per serving. I can live with a diet that includes chicken fajitas, can’t you? Well, that leads me to the sides. Made carefully many of the sides are 0 to only 2 points per serving. Follow along with me and I’ll show you how I prepared everything. The night before I mixed up some blue corn masa to make up some tortillas. (This is the one item I couldn’t cheat on to lower the point value. 3 tortillas = 5 points) I also got out the onion and bell peppers to cut up and mixed up the fajitas seasoning. Ingredients: 1/2 Tbsp. Chili Powder 1 tsp. ground cumin 1 tsp. smoked paprika 1 tsp. garlic powder 1/2 tsp. onion powder 1/2 tsp. granulated sugar 1/4 tsp. black pepper 1/2 tsp. kosher salt to taste 1/4 tsp. Chipotle pepper 1/4 tsp. Oregano The next day started out by making a batch of my Mexican rice. (1 Point per serving) Started out by sautéing the veggies. I measured out 2 cups of Brown rice, 1/2 tsp. of salt and 1 tbsp. of OO and put this in the rice maker. I now added 1 cup of Clamato Picante juice and 3 cups of chicken stock. Next, I added the veggies to the pot. I closed the lid and pressed start. Here are the results. Next up was the Guacamole. (2 points per serving) Cut up 1 medium Hass avocado. Now I added 1 tbsp. of light mayo, some granulated garlic, 5 heaping tbsp. of my Pico de Gallo, some fresh squeezed lime juice and mixed this up and covered. Next up were some frijoles. I sautéed some diced onion, 1/2 a jalapeno, some bell pepper and corn and then added two kinds of black beans. (0 points per serving) I now got out 3 boneless skinless breasts and coated them with the fajitas seasoning. I took them and the cut-up veggies out to my gas grill side burner. Now I needed to make the tortillas, so I rolled up 6 balls of masa about the size of a golf ball. I flatted them a little to make them easier to press out. I was some issues with the masa sticking to the press so had to experiment with dusting the bottom with some of the blue core masa. I heated them up on a C.I. griddle, very lightly sprayed with some OO. Next I sprayed my 12” Camp Chef C.I. skillet with some OO. After it was heated it up I put the 3 breast in and cooked them for 8 minutes per side. Once they were cooked I removed them to a cutting board and was left with the fond. I dumped in the onions and bell peppers and let them start to cook. While them were cooking I sliced up the chicken. Now I dumped in the chicken and stirred it in and continued to cook until the veggies had soften. Now I brought it all in and plated it up with a Modelo Negra. Here is a shot once I took it inside to eat. Gratuitous side shot close ups. OMG!!! This was so delicious! Thanks for looking.

In my wonderings though the grocery store I happen to spy 1 lb. of ground turkey on sale for $.99 but it needed to be used or froze by the 10th. I wasn’t sure what I was going to make with it but since both my wife and I on doing the Weight Watcher’s thing, I decided to put it in my cart. My first thought was to mix it into some pasta sauce I still had sitting in the pantry for meat sauce. I then pointed the pasta sauce and it was off the charts high, so I rethought what else I could make. My wife suggested Turkey Chili. I liked that idea so that’s what I went with. I searched the web for recipes and combined around 3 of them to come up with this one. Here are most of the ingredients. 1 ½ Tablespoons Olive Oil 1 lb. Pounds 93/7 Lean Ground Turkey ½ Yellow Onion (Diced) ½ Red Onion (Diced) I Poblano Pepper (Diced) 1 Red Bell Pepper (Diced) 1 ½ Teaspoons Minced Garlic 1 6 Oz. Can Diced Green Chiles 1 15 Oz. Can Corn 1 15 Oz. Can Crushed Tomatoes 1 15 Oz. Can Tomato Sauce 1 15 Oz. Can Chili Beans 1 15 Oz. Can Black Beans 1 15 Oz. Can Dark Red Kidney Beans 1 15 Oz. Cannellini Beans 1 15 Oz. Can Chicken Broth 2 Tbsp. Chili Power 1 Tsp. Cumin ½ Tsp. Crushed Red Pepper ½ Tsp. Chipotle Pepper Power ½ Tsp. Black Pepper ½ Tsp. White Pepper ½ Tsp. Salt ¼ Tsp. Cinnamon I diced up all the onions and peppers, mixed up the spices and got out my enameled Dutch oven. I placed the OO in the D.O. and put it on the side burner of my Gasser. I put the Turkey in once it was heated up. I cooked it until just slightly brown. Next, I added the Poblano pepper, onions, Bell pepper and garlic. I covered this and cook it for 10 minutes stirring occasionally. Once the veggies had softened, I added in the rest of the ingredients and mixed everything together. I brought this to a boil and then covered. I turned the burner to low and let the chili simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Here it is after cooking. Here it is in a bowl, garnished with onion, cilantro, some lime and some Non-Fat Greek yogurt. This was delicious and only 3 points per serving. (A serving = 1 cup. This was a large bowl, so it was a double serving so 6 points) Eating like this makes me forget I'm losing weight.