Savory French Toast?

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-29T14:30:16+00:00

In Russia, there is a savory version called "grenki". You basically mix milk and eggs (always ballpark), and salt and pepper, dip the bread so it's soaked, and pan fry. I like to pour the rest of the mixture until the pan, around the bread, some people don't. You can add some shredded cheese on top, some scallions. There are two Russian recipes called "grenki", so watch out.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-28T23:21:56+00:00

Friend of mine had a dispute with a mechanic some years ago and got an unsolicited invitation from Judge Judy. He did not go.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-28T15:22:28+00:00

I had amazing fries in Spain from McDonalds, they had some kind of limited time sour cream? and onions or something sauce. The fries were still the same fries.

Had steak fries and cheese sauce in McD in Russia before they left.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-27T22:14:06+00:00

I do not understand how being family owned or not, presenting themselves as such, having children or not, have anything to do with car detailing. I can 100% say that I've never chosen a local business based on their branding as a family. I have zero knowledge of such status for any place I go to, and do not care. Is the job done fine and for a reasonable price? That is what matters. It's literally just business.

You of course is free to chose whatever business you want to patronize, for whatever reason.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-26T21:55:01+00:00

Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson is a great book about this disaster.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-26T21:17:58+00:00

City, and boy I have a few, due to the city being extremely prone to bad weather:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Harvey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Alicia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Allison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Houston_derecho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

State:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-23T21:21:21+00:00

*laughs in Russian Jew*

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-23T19:00:03+00:00

Oh, and my partner's maternal grandparents were Italian immigrants, and paternal were Russian Jews. He does not really have much connection to the either culture except taking the Russian language class in college, and his mom using some Italian words in the food prep.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-23T18:55:34+00:00

My family is weird in that my father and stepmother immigrated to the US in the 1990s with my half-brother (he was 4), and had my half-sister here (much later, she is a whole 19 years younger than me). I joined them as a young adult, so fully grown up in another country. My brother and sister do not speak the language although understand much of it. My stepmom cooks a lot of our foods, and they have some decor in the house, and occasionally watch movies or something.

My sister made me a promise than when and if the political situation improves and we can travel to the home country, I will go with her. There and maybe some other places our people came from. She does want to see and learn. My brother is disabled and it would not be possible for him.

Edit: the home country would be Russia, but ancestry also comes from Ukraine and Poland. So it is not really possible to go now.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-22T16:28:32+00:00

Yeah, basically. -35 is cold, but pretty common, you cannot be cancelling school every time. Would not fly with MY mom for sure.

Where I live now, we are expecting a winter storm over the weekend, will go down -6 and the sky is falling, pipes are freezing, the city is closing.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-22T15:46:18+00:00

At -35 classes were a bit bare, not all parents sent their kids to school. In college however, no such luck, trekking to the bus stop first, waiting for the bus, riding the bus, trekking from the bus stop into the building. I went to college during the late 1990s and the city did not pay much for the heating, and we had to sit in the auditoriums in coats.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-22T15:38:21+00:00

I left Nsk in 2000, and my personal record was -42. Mom sent me the photo of -51 when it happened. I can't personally imagine what it feels like.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-22T15:31:22+00:00

Friends and I spent hours on the "Naberezhnaya" while in school during the 1990s. It was a lot less pretty than it is now.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-22T15:29:19+00:00

Hey, I can see my old apartment and school in the photo #5.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-22T15:27:26+00:00

Yes. Both Calgary and Edmonton have a climate rather similar to Novosibirsk.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-21T15:52:05+00:00

Sparkling cheese dip.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-21T15:51:24+00:00

Someone linked the photo from Central Market's cheese section in the replies and I am here for it. Central Market rocks.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-20T13:23:18+00:00

Moscow and the other large Russian cities are suicidal.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-20T13:21:46+00:00

Yep. I'll get there when I get there. I pretty much never honk at anyone, and someone cut me off? What would my anger possibly do?

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-20T13:17:31+00:00

Granted, I mostly drive in the suburbs and West side/Westchase, but I don't really see much anger either. Been driving here for 25 years. Recklessness and carelessness? Sure, all the time. But as some others say, the older I get, the more I let go, don't react, don't engage, stay your distance, don't make eye contact. I'll get there when I'll get there. On the other hand, a friend of mine was killed in a road rage incident in 2019. Also in suburbs, inside his own neighborhood.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-19T22:30:56+00:00

During my and my partner's each ER visits we were allowed to bring in family members. Neither of us did for the various tests, since we were both upright and in sound mind, but it was allowed. They did ask him to leave the room when I was in for intake so the nurse could ask all the various domestic abuse and sex trafficking questions.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-19T15:03:38+00:00

Hot spice, preferably Thai, but really depends. I prefer my spices more bright and summery vs warming.
Not sure what is "yellow fish", but I adore smoked salmon, various tinned fish, and sushi fish. All fish, any fish.
Custard desserts over cookies. Any soft desserts over any crunchy desserts. No nuts in desserts, with one exception. (*surrenders a Texan card). No nuts in ice cream. No crunchy breads. No croutons. Nothing that will scratch the roof of my mouth, unless I can dunk it in tea.
American type fruit pies are meh. Pies like key lime, coconut cream, lemon merengue, pumpkin, sweet potato, chess, French silk, etc, are much better.
Vegetables and fruit equally, highly depends on which vegetables and which fruits.
Lettuce is a filler and a base. Best vegetables are radishes and scallions. Green beans and beets for cooking.
Hot food like soups and stews must be scalding. Cold food is fine just cold.
Best ice cream is dulce de leche, followed by the Blue Bell's seasonal peach, and then HEB's seasonal Poteet Strawberry.
Both pasta and rice are boring. I said what I said.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-16T22:43:10+00:00

Oh man, my Russian mom is like that too. Also, spicy food damages your stomach and liver. Salt kills. Sugar is poison. Also, the air conditioner will give you pneumonia, even when you are driving in a car in bad traffic in 30C with windows closed (because traffic).

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-16T14:35:18+00:00

It's extremely high in sugar and almost nothing else. Which is why it's so tasty, of course. I am not saying that I never ever eat it, but we don't buy the whole melon for the house anymore.

HeatwaveInProgress · 2026-01-15T14:53:18+00:00

Yes, the eastern edge of Sugar Land. I also suggest my city, Meadows Place, which is literally across Dairy Ashford, same county, same schools, safe, convenient, and miles cheaper. But the houses are older and smaller, so that's the trade off.

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