What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals?

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Favorite meals, huh? I can give you the meals that we have most often, but favorite meals vary. They vary by setting and price and complexity and all sorts of fun things like that.

In my house we usually go with chicken breasts, most recently in an air fryer. Sides can be potatoes and a veggie. Sometimes it can be quinoa with stir fried veggies. Another common meal is a sort of disconnected Shepard’s Pie, where we fry up some ground beef, make some mashed potatoes, and add corn and serve them all separately rather than all mixed together. Another regular would be tacos, where we similarly fry up some beef and add veggies and maybe some refried beans and some cheese* and fill up a taco shell and go for it.

Honorable mentions go to spaghetti and meatballs and the occasional pot roast or roast beef that my wife makes shit out of, let me tell you. She also makes the best schnitzel. We don’t have that often, but when we do… chef’s kiss.

Of course if it were up to us and money were not an issue then we’d hit a high end steak house every night. That would probably be THE FAVORITE, but you can’t really do that every day, right?

Of course, today being the day after Thanksgiving, I expect every American to answer this question with turkey and all the trimmings.

Sorry… today’s daily writing prompt response is pretty lame. I’ll try to be more exciting tomorrow. Just be patient. I promise it will get better.

If you could meet a historical figure, who would it be and why?

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I get to pick one person from all of history. Well, that’s not going to be easy. Do I pick a musician? Jimi Hendrix or John Lennon? I have all of human existence though, so why stay with the 1960’s? I could pick Beethoven but he was deaf and I don’t know sign language (did he?). I could pick JS Bach. He had something like 20 kids so maybe I could get some relationship advice from him or something.

What about political folks? President Lincoln is the obvious choice, but I’d have to tell him that the republican party that he put on the map eventually morphed into a racist, fascist, nazi party knock off that tried to over throw a legitimate presidential election. That would likely bum him out, big time. Sorry, Abe. I could pick Napoleon, or Alexander the Great, or Julius Caesar, but knowing my luck I’d try to crack an ice breaker style joke and they’d get offended and execute me on the spot. That would suck.

I could pick some random person from a time period that is fascinating. Some dude who lived in colonial era Boston, or Ancient Greece, or Renaissance Italy, or Roman era England, and just learn about how they lived their lives. That would be pretty amazing.

Knowing me the way I do though, I would pick Neil Peart. He’s only been gone for just shy of four years, and he hated interacting with fans, but I’d just tell him that we’re all thankful for all of the music he made and that we miss him. Yeah, that would probably be my choice.