What's for Dinner?
 

Care to share your menu? Have a great new recipe?

After one week of stir-fry and one week of veggie burgers, I need some inspiration.

Food, hopefully, I'm hungry!

By any chance (and I don't remember if you've said it before), are you vegetarian or vegan? I'm not, but I'm just asking so I can tailor my ideas, since I tend to end up eating vegetarian a lot. My main mealtime M.O. is transferring into grilled stuff. I think a little later today I'll be getting some grilled asparagus, which is one of my favorite grilled veggie of all time. Last week, I made a pretty awesome vegetarian minestrone, which ended up being really good cold... Thinking of cold, I also love gazpacho. Mm..

And whether you're a meat eater or veggies only, I have taken a liking to throwing small diced apples into pasta salads and putting the other flavors around that. You can add chicken or eggs, or whatever, and it all seems to blend pretty well.

I remember this thread being particularly helpful last summer... I may have to peruse it again.

I'm vegetarian (but have no problem cooking vegan as long as the meal has some protein and I can have a bil 'ol piece of bread with it).

My wok seems to get a lot of use in the summer. I don't have a grill.

If anyone has a great gazpacho recipe, I am so ready for that. I've even got a brand new set of knives (my first good knives ever!), so I'd love anything that involves chopping lots of veggies right now.

I've only made gazpacho once, and I don't remember the recipe... I'm sure I found it online. :(

That actually sounds super good... I should try fooling around and see if I can come up with one to my own tastes.

I was also thinking stuffed tomatoes with cheese, garlic, basil... Oooh... And then there are fried green tomatoes.

I'm really craving tomatoes right now, for some reason...

bbq beef sandwich and cheddar fries.

Oooh...stuffed tomatoes.

This recipe looks pretty good: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Goat-Ch...es/Detail.aspx

For gazpacho, this might be a good starting point: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Gazpacho-II/Detail.aspx

...but all that oil. Surely that's not necessary?

necessary and "damned yummy" are usually mutually exclusive.

Just made this last night - got the recipe from the latest issue of cooks illustrated.

(paraphrased)

Grilled Potatoes

Chop about 3 tablespoons of garlic and a tablespoon of fresh rosemary. Add to 4 or so tablespoons of Extra virgin olive oil with some salt and put in a small pan over medium heat. When just sizzling, about 3 minutes, turn down to medium low for another 3 or so minutes until garlic is just blonde. Do not brown.

Remove from heat and strain solids from liquids. Put one tablespoon oil and one tablespoon solids into small dish and hold on side.

Brush potatoes with 1 T garlic oil, sprinkle with salt and microwave for 4 minutes. Turn over and zap for another 4 minutes. Should be just getting tender.

Brush with remaining garlic oil and put over medium hot grill for 3-4 minutes and turn for another 3-4 until grill marks appear. Move to cool side of grill and cook until cooked through, another 4-6 minutes or so.

Remove from skewers and toss in large bowl with reserved olive oil and solids mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste and serve immediately.

They were excellent with grilled garlic lemon chicken also from the same issue of Cooks Illustrated. How I love that magazine!


18 baby red potatoes about 1 1/2" in diameter - cut in half. If bigger, cut into quarters or eighths.

Skewer on wooden skewers so the flat sides all line up.

I am having watermelon. Boy is eating at his dad's, which means he will come home hungry. I will figure something out for him when he gets home.

Tomorrow we will probably be having marinated, grilled chicken (love my GF grill), rice, veggie and canned biscuits. All I have to do is mention chicken and he runs to the back door to make sure she is safe.

I had chicken with Patak's Rogan Josh sauce, brown rice and naan.

I've been looking at a cookbook of mine that has lots of Indian recipes. Tempting, but I waited too long to go to the grocery and I needed to do something quicker.

I had stuffed tomatoes, based loosely on the recipe I linked above. It made 4, and I might have to have seconds sometime before bed.

We had grilled lamb sirloins, boiled new potatoes, and an arugula-strawberry-feta salad with raspberry vinaigrette dressing.

After not having it in awhile, I treated myself to In-n-Out for dinner tonight.
:)

I must shamefacedly admit that gazpacho is a dish I would like much better heated up.

I've been enjoying some cheese enchiladas the last couple of days, made with red and green chilis that I ordered from Santa Fe, NM. (Where my young palate was trained) If you happen to find yourself in my neighborhood, "I be willin' to share, I be." (Caution - these ended up being pretty hot)

Tonight I had grilled eggplant, zucchini and asparagus along with some yummy steaks. The steaks were excellent - but the eggplant put me over the top and into tastebud heaven.

We had steak, wild rice and King crab legs for dinner.:)

I came up with a pretty good tofu meal the other night. I cubed the (firm) tofu, then made kind a peanut teryaki (soy, honey, peanut butter, sesame oil, and sesame seeds. Poured the sauce over the tofu in a baking dish, put it in the oven at 325. Cooked some rice noodles, chopped up some green onion. Once those were done, pulled the tofu out of the oven and served it over the noodles.

The easiest pasta dish in the world without using Ragu in a jar:

Pasta of your choice
canned diced tomatoes (we usually use 2 cans and we have leftovers)
goat cheese crumbles
basil

While pasta is cooking, mix tomatoes (don't drain them, throw the whole can in), cheese and basil in large bowl. Drain pasta and toss with mix. Serve.

GC can vouch for this dish - it's really tasty. Works well with a salad-in-a-bag, garlic bread, etc. If you really want to use your nice new knives, I'd recommend slicing tomatoes and adding a small can of tomato sauce.

I assume that is fresh Basil?

I love fresh sweet Basil! :D

Tonight's bill of fare: homemade won ton soup, grilled shrimp and green papaya salad.

Tonight will be whatever I scrounge up in the leftover department, before I head off to school.

Lovely.

Gazpacho is chilling in the fridge.

Oooh!!!

I'm jealous.

I've made a huge bowl of scalloped potatoes and ham with lots of cheese. I can't wait for them to come out of the oven!

I've really been into pasta salads lately. I'm just experimenting with whatever sounds good. Right now I have a ranch with ham and smoked cheddar sitting in the fridge.

beans n hocks
prep beans as directed on the package (best to soak overnight).
throw one whole quartered onion, salt, pepper, beans n hocks into the pot with enough water to cover
simmer till beans are done (between 2 and 6 hours)

I could live on those.

veggie version: delete hock

Tonight's dinner: Iceberg lettuce with lowfat/no-taste dressing. Yum.

Trader Joe's has some great breaded eggplant slices. Those, some mozzarella cheeze, plus some spaghetti sauce and you have Eggplant Parmesan.

Or, if you're like me and you like to cheat (I didn't have mozzarella the other night), try using shredded cheddar and salsa. It was really good!

No dinner tonight. Lunch was at 3:30.

Oven fried chicken, mashed potatoes and veggies.

And maybe a tequila shot or two.

What's for dinner? A handful of little cheese crackers from Trader Joe's in the shape of Toucans. A few almonds. A baby Butterfinger.

Can you tell I'm not a big fan of meals? Snacks ahoy! :D

Since dinner was early and it was tomato soup (had to do *something* to deal with a gazpacho craving, and sadly, though I love tomato soup, it just didn't cut it), I just had an apricot and some cottage cheese.

You must share then. Other then sticking them on the grill - how did you prepare them?

I was going to apologize, but hey, you started it.

I'd share, but you're too far away.

I recently saw a cookbook that had a "recipe" for Iceberg wedges with thousand island dressing.

That's quite the departure from the traditional wedge "salad" with blue cheese. Took a real visionary to come up with that one.

Tonight will likely be the last of my Indian food leftovers. :)

Not sure about the main course tonight, but the veggie is baby artichokes roasted with garlic and lemon, I love artichoke season!

Evil woman. I'm really missing artichokes right now. (Braces).

Stroganoff and asparagus tonight.

Ooh, artichokes would be awful to one with braces. How about having just hearts, WB? Those tossed with olive oil, salt and lemon would be good (and not hard on the braces) Trader joe's has some nice baby chokes in the freezer section, I think you could get by. Of course, they're not fresh, but in a pinch, they're more than good enough.

Stoganoff, YUM, I have not had that in years.

I think I may have to make some artichoke dip, Snow. Good idea!

Now I'm thinking about spinach artichoke dip. My recipe must have like 5000 calories a bite, so this is not such a good thing to be thinking about.

small order of teka maki (tuna sushi)

2:30 lunch. No dinner again

I think I'll have waffles for dinner, or maybe an omelette. The omelette would be better for me.

If you had waffles, you could dip them in the artichoke dip.:D

I have a feeling that the cold pizza in our lunch room fridge is going to be my dinner tonight...
:D

my roomie is in bed, sick, nauseous and now I can't cook dinner, the smell of food will make her toss what few cookies are left. :( :mad:

I'm starving, I think I'm going out, nothing raw in the fridge is appealing to me and neither is Tango's bowl of Purina Indoor Formula.

Don't knock it until you've tried it!

I cooked up some chicken and vegetable won tons that my grandma prepared earlier today. She also made some veggie California rolls and miso soup. I love it when she makes it - I can make it, but it's always better, somehow.

I love won tons, it's been forever since I had some!

I gave my dinner to my 86 yr old neighbor, now I'm hungry. That's ok though, I have food in the fridge and freezer. Tomorrow I will go to the store for him whether he likes it or not!

They're not hard to make, either, no matter how you like them. I don't have a recipe, though if someone wants to know how to do it, I'd be more than glad to share my experiences with various types of won tons...

I still think it would be so fun to have a california roll making party, thinking of what else my grandma made... We should do that before I move.

MF - Try this one !!
 

My Favourite Vego Recipe - at least for now.... - (Can be served cold if you're in hot weather... we're having rain and cold so I will have it heated.)

I have taken on a cooking challenge - which means I'm actually "cooking" instead of getting sushi or Thai. The challenge is - no heating of the stove.

Last night I made a salad of canned tuna, greek yogurt, tamari almonds, green onions, mushrooms, grapes and butter lettuce with a misting of balsamic.

Tonight was canned turkey, dried cranberries, green onions, mushrooms, with pesto sauce over an herb salad mix.

TWednesday night will probably be lentils, orange, red, yellow peppers, purple onions, cucumbers, tomatoes and feta in a balsamic dressing.

I also bought canned chicken and granny smith apples to make a curry chicken salad.

That should get us to the weekend.

I made garlic chicken and parmesan noodles for Rose and I tonight...

We had toasted bagels with peanut butter.

I am bending to the will of the Child. He has been begging me to make meatloaf, so tomorrow night it looks like we are having meatloaf.

We barbecued hamburgers.

We made little hand held chicken pies. I need to get the chicken cut up for tomorrows teriyaki chicken and rice with fresh pineapple. The boy would like that meal every night if I let him.

My Boy loves it when I cook. Now that it is just the 2 of us I seem to be cooking more often.

Last night I grilled up a skirt steak (or flap steak as the markets have decided to start calling them) that's been marinating since Saturday. Sauteed some veggies, and made some Spanish rice.

Saturday was a good meal too. We made a fantastic hearty potato soup with sausage. And as a first course, I made prosciutto-wrapped mozzarella slices (mmm, found some good mozzarella) with white peaches and balsamic vinaigrette.

I find it easier when it's just the boy and I. He's not near as picky and we can eat what and when we please.

I think I'm going to go cook up some maple sausage and have it on mini bagels now. I'm hungry.

Ok, I really need to get the teriyaki on the chicken now so it can marinade alittle while.

WOW ! How bizarre.

"I had a nice bit of skirt"

sounds much better than..

"I had a great pair of flaps"

:eek:

Not necessarily - in one perspective, it means you gotten much further.

....With the Butcher ??? Call me Alice !

This lentil salad I made is pretty good (and will be even better tomorrow). Completely vegetarian and, if you left out the Bulgarian feta, vegan.

Steamed French Lentils (2 packages from TJs)
1 red pepper
1 orange pepper
1 yellow pepper
1/2 red onion
8 green onions
1/2 Japanese cucumber
6 vine-ripened tomatoes
cubed Bulgarian feta

Dressing:
Balsamic vinegar (1/4 or 1/2 cup?)
3 cloves garlic
dried thyme (handful)
dried mint (the rest of the jar)
Olive oil to top it off.

Chop up everything and put in big bowl.
Mix dressing in separate container then add to chopped ingredients
Let sit for a bit.
Eat it for days with it getting better each day.

No dinner here tonight. Boy's not home, and I don't feel like eating.

Haven't eaten. Sitting here drinking a Coke and waiting for Alex. I was going to nuke a tv dinner, but the ants have once again invaded my kitchen. I hit the trails with the Windex, but now the ant triage unit has moved in. (sigh) I can't win against these fvckers. For the last two weeks we've fought back the ants - kitchen, living room, bathroom, you name it. We no sooner obliterate them in one spot than they swarm another. I still haven't figured out what they find so bloody interesting about my bathtub... must be something in the soap we use. Anyway, I don't like to go spraying flat-out poison around the kitchen (hence using windex instead, which, being a direct stream is easier to control than aerosol), so the battle rages on.

Dinner gets to wait.

Bill forgot to pick up a key ingredient of the chicken kabobs he wanted me to make tonight. So we went to the Park Pantry instead.

Get a caulk gun, and caulk where they are getting in. After about 20 tubes of caulk, and 2 years, they will give up.

I like the quick and easy solutions!

For most of today I had a mug of tea (with sugar), 6 Swedish fish, and a small bag of candied pineapple. And a lot of adrenalin.

Then for dinner I had a 6 inch subway, half a bag of chips.....and a giant movie popcorn with extra butter, giant soda of doom, and dark chocolate M&Ms.

I feel a little off now. I wonder why?

omg, I'm proud of tonight's dinner.

First course, butternut squash apple soup from Trader Joe with a dollop of sour cream. Main course, grilled sirloin and portobello with a red wine and honey reduction topped with crispy pan fried shallots.

The sirloin was cooked perfectly, the reduction was divine, and the shallots (CP took care of that part) were crispy and delicious. The only mistake, rightly pointed out by CP, was that the mushrooms should have been plated as a side, not on top of the meat, their flavor got lost even if the texture was nice.

For dessert, circus animal cookies. Mmmm, sprinkles.

Could you please advise the size of each package ??

(I have to steam my own lentils :( )

I did this the other day. I was making chicken breasts stuffed with Broccoli & proscuitto, and managed to forget the broccoli :rolleyes:

....It was very interesting having Chicken breasts stuffed with Mashed Buttered Edamame & Proscuitto instead. :blush:

Are you sure you're not gay? No straight man says "the reduction was divine". ;)

My dinner for the last 3 days has consisted of "soft foods" as recommended by my dentist. The first night was soup - not so satisfying. The second night, a peanut butter and banana sandwich, thanks to a craving from reading LoT. Last night, I decided I needed real food and went and got sushi. Last night was certainly the best of the three.

I'm gay and even I wouldn't say "the reduction was divine." That's like super-gay. :D

If you'd tasted this reduction...

Oooo... "The reduction that turns men gay!"

Each package is 17.6 oz (already cooked). And, these are the French lentils that are not split. Lentils du puy would be fine - although they are green and not brown as these are. But, they are small and whole.

Signs you are Gay . . . .

1. If you are over thirty and you have a washboard stomach, you are gay. It means you haven't sucked back enough beer with the boys and have spent your free time doing sit-ups, aerobics, and the Oprah diet.

2. If you have a cat, you are a Flaaaaming homo. A cat is like a dog, but gay - it grooms itself constantly but never scratches itself, has a delicate touch except when it uses its nails, and whines to be fed. And just think about how you call a dog..."Killer, come here! I said get your ass over here!" Now think about how you call a cat..."Bun-bun, come to daddy, snookums!" Jeeezus, you're fit to be framed, you're so gay.

3. If you suck on lollipops, Ring-Pops, baby pacifiers, or any such
nonsense, rest assured, you are a Gaylord. A straight man only sucks on bar-b-que ribs, crab claws, raw oysters, craw fish guts, pickled pigs feet, or breasts. Anything else and you are in training to suck El Dicko and undeniably a fag.

4. If you refuse to take a dump in a public bathroom or piss in a parking lot, you're in a deep homosexual relationship. A man's world is his bathroom, he defecates and urinates where he pleases.

5. If you drink decaf coffee with skim milk... Sorry, gay. Coffee is to be had strong, black, and full aroma. A straight man will never be heard ordering a "Decaf Cafe Latte with Skim" and he will never, ever know what artificial sweetener tastes like. If you've had NutraSweet in your mouth, you've had a man there too.

6. If you know more than six names of colors or four different types of dessert, you might as well be handing out free passes to your ass. A real man doesn't have memory space in his brain to remember all of that crap as well as all the names of all the players in the Major league, NFL, NBA, college ball, PGA, and NASCAR. If you can pick out chartreuse or you know what a "fressier" is, or you can name ANY type of textile other than denim, you are faggadocious.

7. If you drive with both hands on the wheel, forget it......you're
hungry for a meat popsicle. A man only puts both hands on the wheel to honk at a slow-ass driver or to cut the punk off. The rest of the time he needs that hand to change the radio station, eat a hamburger, hold his beer, or play with the bitch in the passenger seat.

8. If you enjoy romantic! comedies or French films, mon-frere, vous le Gay, oui? The only time it is acceptable to watch one of those is with a woman who knows how to reward her man. Watching any of the above films by yourself or with another man is likely to result in SHC (spontaneous homosexual combustion).

It's nice to feel wanted, but sorry boys, I still loves me the vagina.

I just also happen to love food.

Thank you !!! So, 1 Kg total cooked weight of whole lentils. Check.

How many oz ? Cooked or uncooked ? do you have to pound it first to tenderise it ?

Oops, I quoted the wrong post. :blush: My bad.

So, I made e new salad tonight that has potential but just isn't quite there yet. It needs some tweaking.

Ingredients:

Shredded rotisserie chicken
Granny Smith Spples
Red Grapes
Toasted almonds
Japanese cucumber
Green onions
Mushrooms
Sliced Fennel


Dressing was:
Plain yogurt
lemon juice
mint
a touch of vinegar and oil
fresh garlic

I think there was just too much chicken and not enough crunchies and the dressing could've been a bit better. Any suggestions?

Not Afraid nixed my idea of "Wagon Ho Franks"

Add dried wonton strips and swap the mint for something like tarragon? Mint can be pretty overpowering.

In reading this thread, I am amused to see how some people are taking it seriously and actually talking about food.

The other talk is really funny, though.

Oh, something we've been putting in salads {although I don't know how it would go in yours...} is cilantro. My sis in law used it from her garden while we were visiting and it really added a nice taste. Might that it was fresh? She also used frozen berries from her garden in the champagne, too.

Okay, why did I go into this thread? I am hungry now. I'm going to bed.

I dreamt that I ate a huge tray of White Castle sliders, then rode the Coney Island Cyclone 85 times, and when I woke up, there was a White Castle box next to me...

Maybe a bit of dijon in the dressing?

I've been doing some cooking since I'm on break - today for lunch is some filo dough wrapped around a mix of salmon, feta, sun-dried tomatoes, scallions, capers, and probably something else I've already forgotten, and topped with a lemon-chive-yogurt sauce. On the side: spiced cucumber salad.

Okay, so what you need to do is get that job in OC, move down here, and cook for us, because that sounds -fantastic-

:D It was pretty fantastic, if I do say so myself. I also made some meatballs in lemon-egg broth (with onions from our own garden) and chicken marinated in a yogurt-cumin-paprika-lemon sauce.

Oh, and I have leftover salmon wraps in the fridge. :evil:

Hot spinach & artichoke dip with homemade flour tortillas.

Still haven't decided what I'm going to do with the puff pastry I bought at the store today.

Sushi to go. It's too hot to leave the one air conditioned room.

It's probably an orange chicken night. Love Trader Joe's.

I'm gonna get some super processed chicken bits at McDonald's. With extra beak.

Not sure if it goes with the dressing but how about a few dried cranberries and some dice red bell pepper?

In process right now:

Open-faced brisket (pot-roast style) sandwich on lightly toasted flat bread with a mushroom/red-wine paste spread (I'm still pondering how to concoct the spread), topped with julianned red bell peppers and lightly sauteed green onions.

On the side, simple potato nests (that hopefully won't come out tasting too much like latkes).

I'm eating my inner burrito for dinner.

You know that sounds dirty;)

Is that safe? Don't you need that to breathe or something?

It sounds like she's eating her soul or something.

:(

We're having Tuna Pasta bake with Garlic & Spinach

It's kinda sad, 7 am and I've already got dinner planned, wild mushroom risotto.

But it sounds so good.....
I've been craving a hamburger with peanut butter....
but...
will prob have macaroni and cheese.

Now I'm up at our Forster Beachhouse, and we're making for tomorrow nights dinner: Kofta Kari (Lamb meatballs in thick spicy gravy)

Dessert is crunchy oat-based Anzac biscuits spread over with Lite marscapone cheese beaten with Grand Marnier and yuzu juice, then topped with strawberries, loganberries, blueberries, mulberries, currants, then more of the marscapone orange cream dolloped on top. Place a small Disney Snowglobe on top for garnish and serve.

This recipe I made up. It pwns all other healthy desserts.

I feel compelled to share because I made it myself :) Went into Henry's at lunchtime for some avocados and they had the most awesome looking seafood at this big booth in the middle of the aisle. So I came back after work (by which time it was all back at the meat counter) and picked up the colossal shrimp and the lovely scallops.

That's shrimp and scallops in a white wine sauce with garlic, shallots, and onions.

And because good seafood is supah-sexxxxy!, here's a picture of just the preciousssss...

Tonight's fare leftovers du jour

Artichoke ravioli in a sauce made from garlic, hickory smoked bacon, chopped asparagus, the last bit of half & half, chopped chives & fresh parsley and a dusting of reggiano parmigiano

Mmmm the bacon was very good.

Lunch was had at 4:00, so no dinner 2 nite.

Bialystock und Blum, god dag!
 

Ulla Inga Hansen Bensen Yonsen Tallen-Hallen Svaden-Svanson is making Swedish Meatballs, red cabbage, and noodles.

papa johns pizza

sausage,peperoni,and mushrooms on my half, and cheese on the other for the kids.

this weekend I'm making stir-fry pasta, though

my favorite veggies stir-fried in olive oil and lots of garlic tossed with pasta and polska keilbasa.

yum!

This thread just ran together in my mind with the Design-A-Vagina thread...

Dine-A-Vagina?

In-n-Out - and it can't get her fast enough!

I just won the speed eating burger contest.

Salmon Bearnaise, steamed vegetables (carrots, broccoli, zucchini and cauliflower) and baby red potatoes with garlic parsley butter.


Tori is having mac and cheese.:rolleyes:

youre my hero


double double?
my mouth is watering just thinking about it

I ate a 4x4 in 3 bites once - washed it down with a bottle of IBC root beer,

It was a very awkward afternoon at work that day.

yup. that'd do it

I made my own bbq sauce last night. Nothing particularly interesting, but it looked and tasted like bbq sauce so I was happy. Now that I know I can make a basic sauce, I can start experimenting.

Last night was whole wheat spaghetti with an andoullie sausage, mushrooms and artichoke hearts marinara sauce.

yeah, thats what I do with my chili recipe. I finally worked up a nice baseline recipe and have tweaked and twisted it in a zillion directions looking for "it". still these decades later its a work in progress.


Id be curious to know what you put in the sauce. mine are always kind of bland and have no personality to the point where bottled sauces are far superior...and that just irks me

It was really very simple. I started by heating ummmm...1/4 cup of brown sugar until it was just starting to melt (it will go quickly from melting to ugly-clump, so be careful). Added, err, 1 cup? 2 cups? of ketchup (just kinda squirted it in until it looked right) , stirred and heated. At this point, a lot of the brown sugar instantly turned to hard crystal clumps, but I just kept it all on th heat as I kept going and it seemed to eventually smooth out. Anyway, to that I added vinegar and worcestershire until I liked the color and flavor, then I chopped a couple cloves of garlic and let that simmer on low for, oh, 5-10 minutes.

no hot sauce, cayenne or even black pepper?

hmm....maybe Im trying too hard

thx

Oh, that'll be the next step. I did put a little black pepper (thanks for reminding me), but real spicing is phase 2. This was just an experiment to see if the process was sound.

Dinner tonight is take-out Indonesian. Yum!

CPK makes a surprisingly tasty jambalaya.

I forgot I knew how to make awesome meatballs. Until tonight. I got inspired.

YUM.

We went out tonight. Pei Wei.

This week's vegetable delivery had a TON of root vegetables in the mix (it is winter). I went searching for a good root vegetable soup and found one that I made tonight. It was VERY good!

Roasted Root Vegetable Soup
FAST
SERVES: 4
You can adjust the amount of each vegetable to suit your taste, but keep the total quantity the same.
INGREDIENTS
1 large beet (1/2 pound)--peeled, halved and sliced 1/3 inch thick
1 medium turnip (1/2 pound)--peeled, halved and sliced 1/3 inch thick
1 medium parsnip (1/2 pound)-- peeled and sliced on the diagonal 1/3 inch thick
1 medium onion, thickly sliced
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
4 cups chicken stock or canned low-sodium broth
Salt and freshly ground pepper
Crème fraîche or sour cream, for serving
1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 500°. On a large rimmed baking sheet, toss the beet, turnip, parsnip and onion with the olive oil and spread in a
single layer. Roast the vegetables for about 20 minutes, stirring once or twice, until tender and golden brown around the edges.
1.
Transfer the vegetables to a large saucepan. Add the stock; cover and bring to a boil. Simmer over low heat until the vegetables are
tender, about 10 minutes.
2.
Working in batches, puree the soup in a blender or food processor until smooth. (Alternatively, use an immersion blender to puree
the soup.) Return the soup to the saucepan and reheat gently. Season with salt and pepper. Ladle the soup into deep bowls. Top with
a dollop of crème fraîche and the chopped fresh dill and serve at once.
3.
MAKE AHEAD The soup can be refrigerated for up to 3 days.

Souplantation

What the world needs is a reverse recipe finder service. I have these things, give me recipes I can make from these ingredients......

That soup sounds great! And I love how they are delivering things seasonal-like like that.

I had salad with chicken on top, and raspberry lime vinaigrette. The salad was a bagged one called "veggie lovers" which is awesome because it is much like the plain old lettuce/shredded carrot/cabbage thing, but with bigger chunks, and radishes and pea pods. Convenient and tasty. Chicken was cooked in olive oil and fresh garlic. Trader Joes sells unfiltered extra virgin olive oil; for when extra virgin isn't virgin enough. Really flavorful and good. I cooked enough chicken for 3 dinners, so I don't have to cook until Thursday hooray!

There is one. I used to have the site bookmarked and have been searching for it for a really long time. I know it's no help to you now, but it is out there.

Edit -

Google is my friend. Search for reverse recipe. This came up first, with more to come.

Here.

Or here.

Or maybe here.

This is great! I have a bucket of veggies coming every week and sometimes they are just not my usual choices. The challenge is that I'm presented with veggies and have to make something good out of them. It's like my own mini Iron Chef kitchen! ;)

I made steaks and baked potatoes tonight. I overcooked the steaks, and the potatoes were underdone. Not one of my finer moments.... :blush:

Trashy food for me tonight! I took a hotdog and made a lengthwise slit in it, stuffed some shredded cheese in the slit and broiled it in the toaster oven.
Yummy!

Another new kitchen experiment that had decent results:

I didn't have fresh Ginger on hand and I used Frensh English Peas instead of frozen, but it was good.

Aloo Gobi Mattar: Potato, Cauliflower and Pea Curry



ALOO GOBI MATTAR (POTATO, CAULIFLOWER & PEA CURRY)

1 large cauliflower, cut into small florets
2 large onions, chopped into 1/2-inch chunks
3 medium baking potatoes, peeled and chopped into 1/2 "- 3/4-inch chunks
1 cup frozen green peas
1 cup vegetable stock or chicken stock
4 tablespoons olive oil or ghee
2 tablespoons fresh ginger, grated (including juice)
2 tablespoons fresh ginger, peeled and finely minced
5 garlic cloves, minced
2 medium hot green chili peppers, minced (seeds included)
2 teaspoons turmeric
1 tablespoon garam masala
2 teaspoons ground coriander
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon white pepper (optional)
1 teaspoon fenugreek seeds
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1/2 lemon, juice of
1/3 cup fresh cilantro, chopped

Heat oil in a large wok, karahi, or deep nonstick pan over high heat. Add onions and cumin seeds, and cook until onions are translucent. Then add the minced garlic, chunks of ginger and chili pepper. Sautee for 2 minutes, stirring frequently.

Add all remaining spices, including salt. Stir well.

Immediately add potato to pan. Stir until coated in oil and spices. Turn heat down to medium and sautee potato for 3-5 minutes, stirring frequently.

Add chicken or vegetable stock, then put lid on pan, lower heat to medium-low and simmer for around 15 minutes.

Add the cauliflower florets, grated ginger and lemon juice. Stir well. Replace lid, turn heat to low, and let simmer for about 10 minutes. If the ingredients are sticking to the pan, you can add a bit more stock or 1/4 cup of water at this point.

Add frozen peas to pan, and stir ingredients. Cover and simmer for 10 more minutes.

Turn off heat. Add half of the fresh cilantro, and mix thoroughly. Replace the lid, then allow to rest for 10 minutes before adjusting salt to taste and serving dish over rice. Garnish with remaining fresh cilantro. Makes about 6 generous servings.

Yum, NA. I love me some Aloo Gobi (and muttar panner, too) and Aloo Gobi makes for a yummy breakfast treat the day after

Is this recipe from the Madhur Jaffrey cookbook I sent you?

How did I miss this one before - hilarious!

No, I did a reverse recipe search with the ingredients I happened to have and this is one that came up.

Tonight, the Stoat and I made "Clean out the veggie crisper and root cellar soup" - It contains Swedes, parsnip, sweet potato, corn & Lite Sour Cream.

Matterhorn Fan would be proud - it's all vegetarian except for the bacon stock-cubes, but we ARE LoTters, so therefore a certain amount of bacony goodness needs to occur, however I think the cubes are vegetarian ones anyway, but they might not be.

We're serving it up with Crispy Oven-bread and dessert is "strawberry mousse with whole strawberries poked into it at random"

...I wonder what the Poor Folk are eating ?? :D

Here's a pic of said Dinner. Plating by Stoat.

Where's the dessert pics?!


I made about 150 shish kabobs yesterday for a friends luau yesterday, so that's what we had for dinner!

Ok Lash, I'm a little frightened about the vegitarian bacon cubes. ;)

Bacon isn't vegetarian. Don't be frightened, RStar--unless you're a vegetarian and you'll be eating that soup.

well, Massel does a vegetarian chicken and beef stock. They need to do a Bacon one to keep me (and you) happy.

It was very nice, but no pics of the Dessert, sorry. I did eated it aaaaall up.

Pizza and Salad tonight.....not too exciting, but a Sunday tradition.

Tonight for dinner was take out chinese but for dessert we're having pound cake with fresh strawberries.

Me too!

Not a tradition, but it sounded good.

Mmmmm sushi. I'm having Chinese red pork.

I made beef stew yesterday. Boy had 2 large bowls. For dessert we had yogurt. I have to watch buying desserty stuff...there is this creature in my house that makes things like icecream and cake disappear instantly.

You have one of those too? Mine moved out, and now things like that last and last.

Last night it was pork tenderloin and balsamic vinagrette salad w/ goat cheese.

Tonight, it will be either turkey italian sausage or something quick and simple since I'm kind of 'on the run' today.

Leave me out of this!

Not even that bacony flavour ? Oh well, there goes my plans for Boma's next Vegetarian dessert - Bacon & Prune Domes.

Lashbear, even the smell of bacon is enough to make me throw up. I guess that means there's more for you.

I do indeed have one of these creatures. The strange thing is that sweets only seem to disappear every other week during the summer. So I can indulge every other week.

Aglio olio with our brand-new fresh olive oil from our anniversary olive-oil quest, and sliced strawberries with our brand-new fresh imported balsamic vinegar. Which was a wonderful way to celebrate our anniversary. (Also the onion-spinach scramble I had this morning, the escargot napoleon and the seared scallops last night, the... well, let's just say that the foodie trip to Santa Barbara wine country was a continual success.)

I tried to heat up the stew tonight...reheating stew while playing with new pets causes scorched stew.

I've fixed the problem !!

I've found a Vegetarian Bacon Stock powder that doesn't smell or taste like bacon !!

wait. Nevermind.

My neighbor just had a baby so I made a stock pot full of ziti, baked ziti for everyone! Oh and garlic bread, can't forget the garlic bread!

I think I'm steaming up crab legs tonight, so this is probably a 2-salad day.

Tonight's bill of fare is trout with a lemon/butter/caper sauce and veggie or salad.

Dude, you'd never make it through Swank Camp or New Years then....

Dude, I've never claimed I would....

I had carrots, cheese and Triscuits for dinner. Obviously, Boy is with the Others this week.

Dude, where's my car?




Oh that's right... in the repair shop in Forster....

I made this for dinner. Easy and scrumptious!

Easy Chicken Parmesan

1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 large garlic cloves, pressed
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon dried oregano
Large pinch of red pepper
4 skinless boneless chicken breast halves (about 6 ounces each)
1/2 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese
6 ounces fresh mozzarella, thinly sliced

Preheat oven to 500° F. Whisk first 3 ingredients in large bowl. Mix in the oregano and crushed red pepper. Coat chicken with garlic oil mixture.
Place 1 cup Parmesan in pie dish. Dip 1 side of each chicken piece into cheese to coat; arrange chicken, cheese side up, on a large rimmed baking sheet or in a glass baking dish.
Roast chicken until just cooked through and firm to touch, about 10 minutes. Arrange mozzarella slices atop chicken. Return to oven; roast until cheese melts, 1 to 2 minutes.


I served it with brown rice and a spinach, feta, and walnut salad with raspberry vinagrette.

I made sausage biscuits with a fried egg on them. Breakfast sandwich for dinner. It was quick and something the whole family will eat. Not that it's very healthy but-whatever. ;)

This sounds fantastic! I think I'll have to try this one...

Interesting - that's gotta up the healthy quotient to boot.

Last night no one felt like cooking, and neither of us wanted fast food, so we picked up a rotisserie chicken from the local grocer, a garlic loaf (the kind with garlic cloves in it... not the buttery, goo-ey kind) and I paired it up with some smoked gouda... *le sigh*

Tonight, I think it'll be leftover pork loin with salad.

Something had to balance out all that olive oil and cheese! ;)

The chicken parmesan sounds delicious. i'll have to save that recipe, thanks JW!

Chili 'n' challah 'n' carrot sticks

Morton's Steakhouse courtesy of a vendor.

Bacon Macaroni and Cheese

Mussels cooked in white wine with garlic, butter and parsley and a nice FAT hunk of warm sourdough bread. :p

I'm thinking about making Leek and Potato soup.

You're all making my Eating Right frozen dinner sound gross. Maybe I need to rethink the dinner plan.

Trader Joe's frozen orange chicken. And rice.

Cold Rainy Night Dinner
 

John's making clam chowder and cheesy biscuits with a touch of garlic on a cold rainy night. YUUUUMMMMMMM!!!!

Oh man am I stuffed.

And I discovered that the Duckhorn Paraduxx is not as good as the Decoy, despite what our host claimed. Both still excellent wines, but I like the Decoy better.

How is this? I've seen it in the freezer section, but was not sure I should give it a go.

Oh, and the mussels were a 100% success. The sauce with the wonderful bread was like manna from heaven!

Noodle salad from F&E

I know what I'm making this weekend.

I miss cooking.

Been eating random dinner for the last 2 months. Easy habit to get into to, hard habit to break.

I made home-made lasagna tonight... Mmmmmmmmmmmm

Actual phone conversation with restaurant we were heading to for dinner:

Me: "How long is the wait for a table for two?"
Idiot: "About 25 minutes."
Me: "Then I would like to put my name on the wait list."
Idiot: "OK, How many in your party?"
:eek:

well, Kevy - it could have been two or two hundred, I suppose.

Maybe not.

Tonight for Australia Day Dinner, we're having Aussie Lamb chops and Flummery. Everybody's Aunt in Australia made Flummery.

Aussie Flummery (Aunt Mary's Recipe)

1 packet Jello (any preferred flavour)
1 tin (375 ml) Carnation evaporated Milk

Make up a packet of Jello using only 1/2 cup of boiling water. Allow to cool, but not set. [I like to add an extra sheet of gelatin to the jello to make sure it sets nice and firmly]

Beat evaporated milk with beater until doubled in volume. Mix through the cooled Jello thoroughly.

Pour into serving dishes and chill in fridge. If dedsired two lots can be made of complementary colours and layered in the bowls. Use see-through bowls if doing this (duh).

Recipe?

Need to compare with mine, if you don't mind.

That reminds me of something that happened tonight in NOS:

Guest: When will the next train be here?
Me: In about 10 minutes
Guest: How long is that?
Me: Um... (pause to wrap my brain around that)... twice as long as 5 minutes

Last night we had pork chops with a nice pan sauce that included some dijon, rosemary, balsamic and a touch of butteh. With that we had noodle-stuff - rotini with some browned butteh and parmasan, steamed brocolli I made in my steamer I found in the back of a very long, dark cupboard I haven't looked down in years. (hey steamer! I remember you!) And some sourdough rolls.

I will have leftovers today for lunch.

I slow cooked a meat sauce all afternoon for some spaghetti. So good, I'm just bringing the sauce to work for lunch today.

I'll post it when I get home tonight.

This weekend I made teriyaki marinated NY strip steaks with a red wine/teriyaki reduction. As an accompaniant we had four cheese mashed poatatos, garlic cheese biscuits and fresh melons. It was divine!

Circue - that sounds really yummy.

GD - would you care to share the recipe? I don't have a homemade meat sauce recipe of my own.

This was the simplest version I make, though I tried a new twist that I think helped a lot.

1 lbs ground beef (the leaner the better).
5 spicy italian sausages, casing removed
2 15oz cans diced tomatoes (preferably no salt added)
1 can tomato sauce (again, I prefer no salt added)
1 can tomato paste
1 medium red onion, chopped
1 Tblsp garlic
salt, pepper, Italian seasoning

Saute garlic and onions with some salt and pepper in a large skillet (5qt is about right). Add beef and sausage and Italian seasoning (sorry, no measurements. But don't be shy, at least a couple Tbsp worth). Cook over medium high heat, breaking the sausage up, stirring regularly until meat is almost cooked through. Add the various cans of tomato products. Stir, heat to boil, reduce heat to low and simmer. Leave simmering, uncovered, for a couple hours.

Once the sauce has just begun to thicken, take it off the heat. Let sit for a while, until it's cooled to just about room temperature. Then turn the heat back on to low, get it back up to a simmer. 30-40 minutes before you want to serve, turn the heat up just a bit, you want a fast simmer, nearly a boil. Let it cook at that heat until it's starting to dry out. Don't stir, you actually want the bottom layer of it to burn just a little bit. Once you do get that little bit of burn at the bottom, turn off the heat, give it a good stir, and serve.

And of course, taste it along the way and add salt, pepper, or seasoning as needed.

ETA: oh yeah, you can also throw some red pepper flakes in when you're sauteing the garlic and onion. 1/2 tsp will give it a little kick, go up from there to your desire.

sounds delish! Thanks. We may have to have that for dinner tonight. It's my last Monday off and we go back to full schedule at work so I'm home alone for the day. Cooking something on the stove a while seems and reading seems like a cozy afternoon.

So tonight I'm making parmesan panko chicken and I have some fresh fettucine that I need to figure out a sauce for. I can't decide what to do with the noodles, any ideas?

Well, simple butter herbs garlic and more cheese can't be bad!


<tummy grumbling>

I'm having a BLAT for dinner with cole slaw.

Ling Cod with Capers in a garlic butter sauce. Served with a loaded baked potato and green beans/snap peas.

I am now in love with panko crumbs. My god that was divine and I just ate another piece. I just went with an Alfredo sauce and added some roasted red pepper to jazz it up for the pasta. I really liked the flavor of the fresh pasta vs the dry stuff. To bad it's usually the dry stuff but I found a package of fresh marked down, so it was a nice treat for about the same price.

Panko Crumbs..??

Stir-fried brown rice with veggies. In a child-size portion. Yum!

Japanese Breadcrumbs :D They're the BEST for getting a really crispy coating / topping

Chicken Cordon Bleu, and buttered garlic noodles.

(Nothing fancy, the chicken is frozen and just needs to be popped in the oven, we worked harder on the noodles)

GD - the sauce was a hit! About 45 minutes into cooking my daughter started bugging me to taste the sauce. She then begged me for the next 2 hours to serve it. Even leftovers which I'm not sure if I'll use as spaghetti sauce or not. Seems like I might be able to just throw in some chili powder and kidney beans and call it chili.

Thumbs up.

Phew. I was just coming back here to warn you that I forgot an ingredient. Sugar! With that much tomato, some sugar is usually a good idea to cut the acidity a bit. But I guess the sugar in the can of tomato sauce probably served that purpose well enough.

Good call on the chilli.

I'm eating the rest of the leftovers right now for lunch (just that sauce).

Funny you would say that GD. I did add sugar and some extra garlic as well. I just figured your brand of stuff was sweeter then mine.

Nice catch. And I also realized I gave the garlic in terms of table spoons. I'm a convert to the jarred crushed garlic, I rarely think in cloves anymore. A Tblsp of that stuff is about 5 cloves or so. And I probably put more in than that, but not everyone likes garlic as much as me.


ETA: In case you couldn't tell, I don't do much actual measuring when I cook.

Perhaps you're trying to ward off vampires in addition to zombies?

Dinner last night was 50/50 chicken manicotti.

I took a few chicken breasts - boneless skinless uncooked and put them in the food processor and zipped them a bit. Then added a bunch of parm. cheese, mozzerella, garlic salt, italian seasoning and pepper. Whirled that around until it was mixed then stuffed it into uncooked manicotti shells.

In a 9x13 pan I put a little spaghetti sauce on one side and alfredo on the other. Put the stuffed shells in a a little water... maybe a little less then 1/4 cup. Then top with more sauces so you have 1/2 tray red and 1/2 tray white. Then lots more cheese on top. cover with foil and bake at 350 for an hour or so. Then remove the foil and cook more until it's bubbly and melty and yummy looking.

I like to have one of each. :)

I make this same recipe a few different ways -by cooking the noodles first - by using chicken tenders and string cheese just shoved in them...

All good - but this was the easiest method so far. And delish too!

That sounds delish! You don't cook the noodles first and it still works, fascinating! I don't use manicotti shells anymore because they were always such a pain to stuff and not tear.

Tonight is stormy weather food - chili and corn bread.

I figured it worked with lasagne noodles so why not try it out - and they are waaaay easier to stuff that way. It's hard to know exactly how much water to put though so I just sort of eyeball it. The bonus is that the noodles aren't really overcooked from getting cooked twice when the dish is done.

I'm going to have to try that, thanks!

I am so tired of eating out. I can't wait to get home and cook again. (And no, I have not hit my head on anything.)

I followed a no-cook lasagna recipe the other day, and it didn't even call for any extra water - so I'm thinking that might work for manicotti tubes, too!

I agree, it's SOOO much easier to stuff them when you don't boil them first!

Wolfette has requested Chicken Fettuncini Alfredo, so that's what I'll make.

I had an awesome pepperoni calzone tonight.

We had an artery busting chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy. I threw in a salad just so we wouldn't keel over.

Taco Bell

at 9:00

I am so going to regret that at bedtime

I made meatloaf and baked potato. The meatloaf is made with ground chicken, yummers!

Last night was marinated grilled chicken & rice. Tonight is meatloaf (per Boy's request) with cheesy potatos, followed by a pastel pound cake oozing with lemon glaze.

Last night beef/veggies slow cooked soup. Turned into Stew basically. Leftovers tonight.

Tomorrow new recipe....Italian Sausage with Bow Tie Pasta done in a Red Pepper Sauce.

A couple of ThinKrisps and some water

Soup, probably...

Sushi!

egad. nothing! with the massive amounts of carnitas nachos I just consumed for lunch....I wont eat again until late saturday sometime.

*burp*

I've been making soups lately. From scratch, sans recipe. It's very freeing to just go into the kitchen and cook something. I think I've cooked enough now that I'm getting to the point where I know what might work. I don't have a super breadth of experience that would allow me to be on Top Chef or anything, but the show does inspire me to trust myself more and try things.

Tonight, however, will probably be sushi. That I will not make myself.

On this nice, drippy day, I have a huge pot of spagetti sauce going. I also am cooking the garlic butter for garlic cheese bread. The Boy will be irritated that I didn't make his pie, but I did save him the last of the cake.

I'm going to make a roast. I'd like to add roasted potatoes and carrots but the boys are voting for mashed potatoes and gravy.

I haven't eaten yet so I'm thinking pancakes and bacon for brunch. Hopefully the husband will get up sometime soon!

Chunks of brie on crusty french bread with some blueberries

Turkey, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes/Gravy & Green Beans...Strawberry shakes for dessert...yum!

Sashimi. Yum.

We had pie cravings.

pizza and a movie night (at home)

If you watched The Fountainhead I want to know what you were doing in our house.

We did the same thing, it's a Friday night tradition.

Pick Up Stix: House Fried Rice

Panda express... shangai beef and potstickers. (I think I want to learn how to make potstickers from scratch - or semi scratch with store bought "wrappers")

We watched Appaloosa. :)

We were just talking about The Fountainhead! I was trying to come up with an appropriate movie for Monday Movie Night that fit with the architecture kick I've been on (blame TC Boyle). There aren't too many films about Architects.

Tonight we are having mini burgers with extra sharp cheddar, carmelized onions on some sort of little roll/bun thing.

With french fries, purple grapes and probably some salad.

I'm thawing out steaks, that's as far as I've got with the dinner plan.

I'm making meatloaf tonight!

Might drive up to Cafe Laurent tonight, or just have leftover. Too soon to tell!

Dinner at The Montage in Laguna Beach tonight....gotta spend that $150.00 gift card we were given sometime! Tonight sounds like a good night!

Last Friday night: Turkey & Cabbage Rolls in spiced Tomato sauce
Yesterday: Oyakodon (Chicken & Egg Donburi)
Tonight: Homemade Pizza !

Last night we ate at Plaza Inn during an impromptu trip to the park when a friend, whom I hadn't seen in some time, texted me that his family was at the park for the day.

Yummy!
 

Made this for dinner:

Roasted Garlic Butternut Squash & Apple Soup

But see the prep time? 30 minutes? It took me an hour to cut and peel that stupid squash. True, I didn't have a big vegetable peeler, only a small Pampered Chef peeler. Oh, and all my knives are old and need sharpening. And my daughter and I were giggling at how lame I looked trying to cut the squash, which could have made it take longer. But the soup is delicious. :snap:

Dinner was Egg-in-the-basket, with cheese on top, served with a couple chocolate-dipped strawberries

Pizza & Strawberry Shake

Actually had a home-cooked meal last night. Which is nice as it is a rarity. Usually, I get so busy at work that I don't eat lunch until 2-3 which precludes the need for dinner. Since things got so busy at work yesterday I never even had lunch, so dinner was needed.

Heading to the store right now to pick up a few items I need for a new concoction I'm trying this evening. Au Gratin Beef Bake....we love comfort food!

I'm thinking Carnation Cafe potato soup on this cold dreary day. I just need to pick up a few items and I'll pretend to be Chef Oscar!

Tonight I roast a turkey! Which of course means it goes in the oven in about 2 hours. Been brining in the fridge for a couple days.

When I was a child, we called them Toad In The Hole (Not to be confused with the British sausage in batter dish)
Now I want one for breakfast.

I thought it was Chef Mike Hugo who came up with that? :confused:

Now I want to make that for dinner.

I will still stick with my original choice for dinner tonight: New England Clam Chowder.

On Monday I broiled a tri tip with a very simple salt, pepper, and cinnamon rub. I served it with a roasted red pepper (roasted myself), sauteed mushroom, cilantro puree that came out almost perfectly (went a little heavy on the garlic that I threw in last minute). Side was simple matchsticked italian squash (green and yellow) sauteed with salt and pepper, al dente, and the remainder of the mushrooms that didn't make it into the puree.

All in all a good result for something I thought of while wandering the supermarket ailes. I was mostly just pleased that the puree ended up flavorful, with the roasted peppers really coming through.

Standard Dinner #3:

Pork Chops browned in a large frying pan. Add 1 Cup rice, two cans spicy v8, 1/2 cup water, simmer for 20-30min.

One meal, one pan is my motto.

That was last week. 30 minute arroz con pollo.

Ya know, I prefer Chicken & Rice to all that furren kweezeen.

You're from Australia. Isn't everything other than dingo meat and snake considered furren?

And Roo, don't forget Roo. There's some mighty fine eating on a Roo.

Actually, Roo meat is gorgeous marinaded in red wine. I serve mine on a rosti with a red wine jus.

Oh, and Kanga Bangas (Roo Sausages) are also good.

but apart from that, yep. Furren.

Tri-tips, new potatoes with rosemary, ginger glazed carrots

Cheese snacks

I want to go out for dinner, but I don't want to get dressed.

Tried a little hole-in-the-wall mexicali-style place up the road tonight. (home early, but don't feel like moving, much less cooking). Three tacos (asada, carnitas, and tripas) and horchata for me. Yum!

Bacon, eggplant, cream sauce over spaghetti. Shredded asiago.

We tried out the new, local Lebanese place that opened recently. It gave our Heroin Chicken place a run for it's money! Great news!

Did you get dressed for the trip?

Now where's the fun in that?

I stand corrected, it was Chef Mike Hugo. I guess I just associate everything that comes out of Carnation as Chef Oscars creation. It is a wonderful soup though!

I didn't feel well yesterday so I didn't make it anyway. We went out for pizza instead.

Not sure what's for dinner tonight... last night was pad thai... today was bratwurst, saurkraut, and spaetzle from Siegfried's.

YUM.

mmm, pad thai

Tonight, my honey made this:

Yes, it involves BACON!

OMG. It's SO awesome. :)

If he pulled off brussels sprouts, I'm impressed. Those are very easy to overdo.

VFPM!

He's gradually becoming my own personal Alton! :snap:

You know, inspired by you, I went ahead and made it - it's REALLY GOOD, I've decided. :D :snap:

It is now my fav soup in the world! I'm glad I could inspire you!


Can I tell you all again how much I love panko breaded chicken, it is the bomb! This time as it was sitting in the oven to stay warm I put some provolone on top and OMG was it divine!! I served it with some angel hair pasta with butter and garlic and green beans with bacon, yummy!

Bill is making chicken satay with brown rice and red cabbage salad tonight.

Roasted whole chicken with rosemary and roasted potatoes, garlic, carrots and onion in the pan along with it. And king's hawaiian rolls.

Num Yummy. This is one of my favorite things to cook for a weekend dinner.

That does sound good! Tomorrow I am roasting chickens maybe I'll give it a try.

I'm finally getting around to making potato soup this afternoon. It's a nice rainy day and it sounded good.

I think I'm going to make some quick and easy apple cakes this afternoon too. I'll make brownies for the boys. I'm just in the mood for comfort food, can you tell!

Chile Colorado, sopa de aroz, refried beans done with bacon grease and warm tortillas...

recipe?:D

You need to make Robs Uber Crunchy Drunsticks using Panko. It is amazing, and (important to me) very economical.

There are tortillas in your re-fried beans?

1 cup uncooked rice
2 tbsp. Peanut oil
1 small onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, mashed (you can use the jarred diced garlic just as easy)
2 Tablespoons tomato paste
salt and pepper to taste
2-1/2 cups chicken stock – I use the low sodium stock for health issues.

Sauté the dry rice in oil over low heat for 5 minutes until golden in color. Add the onion and garlic and sauté another 3 minutes add the tomato paste and sauté 2 more minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste and stir in the stock. Cover tightly and finish cooking over your lowest heat for 30--40 minutes or until the stock is absorbed.

You can transfer the rice into your rice cooker and add the broth and let the rice cooker do the work and clear a burner on your stove …that’s what I do.


Chile Colorado:

2 pound chuck steak trimmed and cubed into bite sized chunks
2 tbl flour
peanut oil
1 small onion sliced
2 cloves minced garlic
1 large can of el pato Mexican hot sauce

in a heavy pan (I use my 6 qt pan) add a couple splashes of peanut oil and heat, meanwhile put the flour in a zip lock bag and dump in the meat chunks, shake hard to coat each piece, when the peanut oil is hot to the sizzle point dump in the meat a bit at a time and brown all of it on all sides. Add the garlic and onion and sauté until tender. Add the rest of the flour and brown it up. At this point you can do one of two things, add the el pato to that pan and turn everything down to a low simmer and cook for about 2 hours ‘give or take’ or dump everything in your crock pot and forget it for several hours. The test is to fish a piece of meat out and try to smash it with the fork…when you can do that easily it’s done. If the sauce isn’t thick enough you can add a bit of corn starch mixed in cold water and bring it up to a rolling simmer to thicken before serving. The sauce should be the consistency of good gravy.


Refried beans: These are a do ahead dish

1 pound dry pinto beans – sorted/cleaned and soaked overnight
1 medium white (or yellow) onion quartered
garlic to taste
1 tsp salt at the very end of the cooking time

Rinse the beans and put them in your favorite crock pot (see a theme here?) cover with just enough water to cover the beans, the water won’t evaporate nor will it absorb into the beans since you soaked them over night. Quarter one white onion (yellow is fine if that’s what you have on hand) and throw in some garlic to taste…cook until the beans are tender but not mushy. When the soup starts turning brown (about 2 hours before the beans are done) add your salt to taste. You can’t skip the salt or the beans are just bland/flat.

Using a slotted spoon or drainer, drain the beans but reserve the liquid.

In a heavy skillet fry up 6 slices of bacon, the fatter the better, you’re after the bacon grease here….once the bacon is done and the grease is available start adding the whole beans into the skillet, munch on the bacon as a snack you won’t be adding it to the beans….stir the beans frequently and use the spatula to smash them as you are stirring/frying them you don’t want to mash them to mush but break them up so they get that rich bacon flavor infused…if the beans are too thick just add a bit of the reserved bean soup to get them to the consistency you like.

At this point if you have your Chile Colorado in a crock pot and your rice in your rice steamer you can cover the beans and turn them off while you warm your tortillas then serve and eat…I like to have lime wedges on hand for a finishing touch.

El Tepeyac. Boy am I stuffed.

Taco Bell.

You're kidding, right?

YOU ate at TACO BELL?!?

We didn't eat AT Taco Bell, we went through the drive through and ate at home.

YOU ate TACO BELL?!?

We didn't eat the restaurant. We ate "food" that the restaurant prepared such as a TACO, a 7 Layer Burrito and a Bean Burrito.

Hey, it was 10:30 at night and we were desperate.

Apparently! :eek:

El Tepeyac was MUCH better!

Tonight: garlic mashed potatoes and turkey burgers.
Tomorrow: Slow-cooked pork chops and undetermined other item.

I don't know. Mrs. Moonie is fixing something and that's the best meal of all.

Chicken a la king, or a reasonable facsimile. Pretty good and comfy since it's a tad chilly and a bit (not much) rainy.

Poppyseed and Lemon cake for dessert

Home made mac and cheese, salad and homemade lemon cookies for dessert.

Pizza Hut. Just placed the order on line.

I love the internet.

OK, I NEVER want to hear you complaining about Taco Bell again!

Oh, I eat crap all the time (including Taco Bell). I was just surprised that you did.

I hold you to a higher standard ;)

So, up until yesterday, I had never tried Goober - you know, the peanut butter and jelly in the same jar product. I have no idea what possessed me to buy it. Perhaps it was the brightly colored, almost circus-like label design. I don't know. I've been avoiding Goober all my life. It has always seemed like such a gimmicky item. And historically, I have always liked to have my PB and J strictly segregated on their respective bread slices until the very moment I shove them together. The idea of a little bit of peanut butter contaminating the jelly jar has, in the past, always horrified me. So, Goober ought to be absolutely the wrong thing for me.

But, I bought a jar. And to my astonishment, I like it. And it's SO convenient! Why did I wait so long!?

So, I've had at least six PBJ's in two days. Jar is more than half gone. Um, yikes.

Flippy - you're such a goober! ;)

Stories like this always reinforce my Adamsonian view of the universe. Although I am a bit concerned about when the construction fleet might show up.

Don't Panic!

Cheesecake Factory

We sacked out and went with the frozen chicken cordon bleu and potatoes.

But I have a pork loin wanting cooking. It also wants stuffing with garlic and rosemary.

Pizza

Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza :)

Teryaki chicken with fried rice and broccoli. Yummy.

I don't know, but I know it'll be cheap and come off a roach coach.

We went to Domenico's on 2nd Street.

Big giant thick pork chops that I'm going to bake.

Last night I fired up the deep fryer and made hot wings 'cause my olfactorily over sensitive roommate was out of town.

Finally went back to a little hole in the wall Indian place we'd been to a couple years ago and loved. And we love it still. Fantastic.

We chose Indian because we got Slumdog Millionaire from Netflix today and were going to watch it. Unfortunately our DVD player is deciding not to like the disc :(

Oh well, at least we got to hear some college chick pout her way out of the restaurant and yell, "****ing cvnt!" at some unseen person. So we've had some entertainment tonight.

Tonight will be a nice pot roast with roasted potatos, onions and carrots. I figured we should have a good meal before we start eating Disney junk, I mean food!

last night was Carne Asasda Abovado with a cheese enchilada

Last night I had a lovely chicken burrito off a truck.

Backstage? Any good?

West side, and it was delicious, actually. It was the truck with the two ladies. Oh, but beware their salsa! Lemme put it this way: I was dripping Tapatio on my burrito, but that salsa was too much for me.

Thanks for the warning...I usually ask for Salsa Verde from trucks, but have never tried the backstage ones...will look for the two ladies.

They had green taco sauce (or maybe it was salsa), but I grabbed the red. Consider yourself warned :)

There seem to be 3 regular trucks, the two ladies, a mixed pair, and a truck with two men I think. People have their opinions of each. I haven't trucked it enough to form an opinion either way, but I have heard people say they like the 2 ladies truck before. Although I've never heard a bad thing about any of the trucks, they're generally considered to be good from what I understand.

Tonight was super nachos with carnitas, semi homemade beans, homemade corn salsa and guacamole.

Unhealthy and darn tasty.

Grilled pork tenderloin with grilled peppers and red potatoes.

A perfectly lovely chicken quesadilla, with grilled peppers and onions, side of ranch.
(Wolfy: Inn)

Shared a Chicken Fusili (sp?) at R2P2 with Susan last night.

Tonight the kid and I are hoping for In-n-Out, it will be his first time!

Tonight, we'll be doing something festive with chicken tenders.

Homemade Mac & Cheese this evening along with a Salad.

So I've now introduced the boys to In n Out and Chik Fil A(sp), they're both in heaven! They have plans to go back a few times before we leave.

And now you gotta introduce them to In-N-Out Burger's Not-So-Secret-Menu, too.

Oh, there's much more than what is on that menu

Screw In N Out (I know, that's blasphemy in some circles) - gimme Fatburger with Fat Fries and a Dr. Pepper.

Screw Fatburger. If I never eat another fatburger it will be too soon! I'll take a Tommy's burger if you please. I will have a Dr. Pepper, as well. Unless you have Dr. Nut. No? Ok, then a Dr. Pepper! Now go on with you lad and step lively!

Baked Lemon Pepper Shark, Tater Cakes and Sweet & Spicy Coleslaw.

Did you say shark? How was it?


Tonight I pretended I was at the Blue Bayou of old. We had a little prime rib, clearanced for $6, Bayou potatoes and a salad with some candied pecans. Gary couldn't guess where we were eating until I turned the lights off and then he says " I can't see my food, we must be at Blue bayou." We rode Pirates enough, we just pretended we were seeing it from the other side. Zach even wound up the LED flashlight to make fireflies :cool: it was a fun night!

We have shark every once in a while, when I can find it fresh and with no gaff marks visible. Tonight's was excellent, nice and tender and tasty!

Tommy's and Dr. Pepper it is. Excellent choice; especially with a nice employee discount.

Dr. Pepper? With Tommy's?

Uh dude, the fizzy beverage of choice for Tommy's is Root Beer, silly! Preferably from a can (old school, Beverly and Rampart style!)

Oh, and dinner was a homemade cheeseburger (love those Fresh & Easy grill packs!)

I guess we'll need to take the boys to Tommy's while they're here...

Or you could try these.

Neat idea, Kevy. These might be better units, owing to the solar panels.

(dude, if only I could figure out how to use them in my place... )

OMG the boy would love those! Gary still doesn't believe in fireflies because he's never seen one.

Apparently it's split pea soup. Our neighbor (J's co-worker) is making some.

Yummmmmy and yay for eye candy. Did not eat dinner here. No particular reason, just didn't.

Carved Tri Tip with loaded mashed potatoes at Marie Callendar's tonight.

Slow cooked Roast in a Tangy Sauce....that's it, everybody fell asleep so didn't feel like cooking anything else to go with it. It was delish.

Hot wings in Glendale with my buddy Rick.

Rehashed the store's most recent website outage and how I can move forward.

It's going to be marinated ahi steaks, assorted roasted baby squash, and a side dish of some kind (noodles, couscous, or rice blend).

And for dessert: a coconut custard in puff pastry shell sort of thing from the market.

I made semi homemade chicken burritos.

I roasted a few chicken breasts and shredded them. I cut up some bacon and fried that and then added some drained canned beans.

I made boil in bag rice and then added part of a package of taco seasoning to it.

And I made something I found online called mojo sauce. 2 serrano peppers with seeds removed, juice of 1 orange and 2 limes, clove of garlic, salt and pepper, little olive oil. Minced the pepper and garlic in the mini chopper then added the rest and let that set for awhile.

Took all that with a little cheese and sour cream and made chicken burritos.

AND I have 4 burritos left which will be lunch or dinner for tomorrow and then some.

The mojo sauce was quite yummy. Like a citrus dressing almost with a little kick.

Leftover lamb and spanakopita from earlier today

Baked Wet Burritos....yum!

Three cheers for the Trader Joe's demo kitchen! Today they had chicken burrito casserole. She used 4 chicken burritos (two packages from the frozen section) and poured over a jar of salsa (she said be sure not to use "fresh" salsa as it wouldn't work right in the cooking), and shredded mexican cheese blend. 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven (covered with foil). Awesome.

So I based dinner on that, but varied it. Used chicken enchiladas instead, but since they turned out to be smaller than the package would indicate, I decided to pad dinner up with some rice, so I made a mexican red rice (a variation on this recipe), and placed that in the base of the casserole, put the enchiladas on top of that, poured over less salsa (because the enchiladas had so much sauce included), and used just straight up cheddar shreds since that's what I had.

I'll let you know how it turns out!

shredded steak chimichangas and rice

Pea & Ham Soup, homemade, using an enormous Ham Bone I bought for $3

Sorry, but yuck.

My Mum did that to me.

Hope you enjoyed it though.

Home made tacos.

Vodka and spicy V8.

It tasted like gazpacho.

I'm a little stressed lately.

Dinner (as detailed above)


In the end, the enchiladas themselves were too spicy for Alex, but the overall dish was a pretty good idea. Would probably do again in future with the same rice, and just straight-up chicken, and cheese of course.

It looks yummy!

Today I have thrown onions and peppers in a pot and added chopped roast and some enchilada sauce and am stewing nicely. I think I'll add a few more ingredients and then roll up in a tortilla, maybe enchilada style or maybe chilli colorado style. I don't know, I'm just playing around with what I have!

Tonight....Pepperoni Bake, another new one, we'll see what it's like. Recipe sounds good, kinda like an easy Lasagna with Pepperoni topping.

Leftover Irish stew tonight.

Dinner tonight was freaking awesome in spite (or perhaps because) of its relative simplicity.

Chicken breasts (on the bone), marinated in Lawry's Garlic Herb marinade and baked in the oven till done, served with buttered noodles.

I used 1/2 the bottle for the two chicken breasts, and then when I plated mine I added just a couple drops of (unused, of course) marinade back on top. Awesome awesome awesome. Highly recommend.

Last night was dinner at Flemings

Caesar salad to start
New York Strip (Medium) with Peppercorn
Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes
An excellent Cabernet

All in all a good dinner - especially in light of the fact that I didn't have to pay!

Last night was bbq shredded pork sandwiches with cole slaw and artichokes... and we would have also had fruit salad if I would have remembered to put that out too. darn it.

Recipe please!

Speaking of artichokes! Have you seen the ones in the markets right now? Freaking huge and gorgeous!

I took a basic recipe and changed it quite a bit. As soon as I've got it written down for future use I'll post it for you.

I'm marinading pork ribs in the BEST BBQ sauce I've ever made, and it's so simple !! It doesn't make a whole lot, so next time, I'll double the recipe.

Easy-Made Barbeque Sauce (makes about 1 1/2 cups)

1 cup Catsup
1 cup Water
1/2 Onion, finely chopped or grated
1/4 cup Cider vinegar
2 tablespoons Light brown sugar
1 teaspoon Paprika
3/4 teaspoon Liquid smoke (I used the Mesquite - I love this stuff)
1/8 teaspoon Celery seed
8 drops Tabasco sauce

Combine ingredients in saucepan. Bring to a simmering stage. Simmer about 15 minutes to blend flavors and thicken slightly.

Source: National Pork Producers Council

Finally got around to putting this down on paper....Enjoy!



Pepperoni Bake:

Ingredients:
2 1/2 CUPS ROTINI PASTA
1 LB ITALIAN SAUSAGE, HOT
1 SM ONION, CHOPPED
1 MD CAN MUSHROOMS, DRAINED
1 JAR PASTA SAUCE, 24 OZ
1 CONT RICOTTA CHEESE
1 CONT COTTAGE CHEESE
1 MD EGG
2 TSP ITALIAN SEASONING
1 SM CAN SLICED OLIVES, DRAINED
8 OZ MOZZARELLA CHEESE, SHREDDED
1 PCKG SLICED PEPPERONI, 5.5 OZ


Instructions:
350 DEGREE OVEN
13X9 GLASS BAKING DISH
COOK SAUSAGE & DRAIN
BOIL PASTA AL DENTE & DRAIN
MIX PASTA, SAUSAGE, SAUCE, ONIONS & MUSHROOMS
MIX COTTAGE CHEESE, MOZZERELLA (EXCEPT FOR 1/2 CUP FOR TOP), OLIVES & BEATEN EGG
PUT ALL OF SAUSAGE MIXTURE IN BOTTOM OF BACKING DISH
PUT ON LAYER OF PEPPERONI
PUT ALL OF CHEESE MIXTURE NEXT
TOP WITH REMAINING PEPPERONI AND A BIT OF MOZZERELLA CHEESE
BAKE FOR 1 HOUR

Sounds delish! I'm going to try that.

Even better the next day!

On the way out?

Remember that artichoke I mentioned? It's on today's lunch menu (hell, it IS the menu!). I'm having it with garlic curry mayo. A whole clove of raw garlic, chopped up, tossed into a couple tablespoons of mayo with way more curry than I intended to put in

Guess who's probably sleeping alone tonight? >:)

Well, stop farting in bed, then.

Dinner: chicken breast, marinated in Lawry's Herb & Garlic marinade and cooked up in a pan, chopped up and mixed in with farfalle and Knorr's Parma Rosa sauce.

As Alex put it, "Slimy... yet satisfying :)"

I hope he's not still talking about the farts...

I can't bring myself to say it, sorry.

Chicken Impossible Pie for dinner.

I'll bite... what is it?

http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=781803 but with Chicken in it as well. :cool:

It looks like the Bisquick version that was so popular in the 70's. My Mom made far too many of those!

Looking at that led me to this recipe at the bottom of the page. Holy crap, I've gotta try that!

I used to make a version of that with hamburger and a little something else on it - thousand island dressing perhaps? .. we called it big mac pie.

Funny how you make recipes and then suddenly don't make them anymore... then all of a sudden you remember you know how to make that too. I get in a rut with cooking the same old things over and over again.

Tonight, Natures perfect food: Steak. Medium Well.

We're going to George's tonight for their kleftico special.

We had take out wings tonight. I over did it. :( Why did I do that. I'm miserably full.

Damn it.

Tonight will be brie and chutney - mainly because I finally finished a huge project and am sapped of energy.

So far, Original Cheddar Thinkrisps and the last of my Tim Tams

I'm glad someone got Tim Tams

They're over-rated. :p

I'll never know!

Ah.. but what if there were a TimTam fairy overseas who was kind and good ?

If only.........

Chicken with Olives
1 chicken, cut up
2 t cumin
a little olive oil
some garlic, minced
1 cup dried fruit, your choice
1 cup dry white wine
1 cup chicken broth
as many brine-cured green olives as your heart desires

1. Sprinkle chicken with cumin, salt, pepper
2. Heat oil in skillet over med. heat. Add chicken and sauté until brown.
3. Add garlic, dried fruit, wine, broth, and olives.
4. Bring to boil, reduce heat, and simmer 1 hour.

It goes great with couscous.

What kind of dried fruit did you use?

I'm pretty sure CP isn't going to read the board before she gets home so this won't spoil the surprise.

Roast veal rib chops with a rosemary thyme rub, served over a roast parsnip puree with nutmeg. On the side, a sort of deconstructed guacamole salad - cubed avocado, chopped red onion, cilantro, with a lemon vinaigrette.

Then we're off to see the Classical Mystery Tour. :)

Grilled London broil that has been marinating all day topped with sauteed mushrooms and onions and a reduction of the marinade over that and corn cooked on the bbq. With either Stella or red wine.

Yum!

I'm making a rice salad based on the recipe for Spicy Wehani with Cashews. After the rice, onion, garlic, and spices are cooked per their directions, I add some chopped green pepper for crunch and some raisins for sweet. Serve at room temp. It's mahhhvelous.

Grilling up some New York steaks and serving with Baked Beans and Coleslaw. It's been a while since the Wolfpack has been able to afford real steaks. This will be a nice change from Hamburger creations!

Spiedies!

In-n-Out, because neither Alex nor I are in much of a mood to cook.

Filet Steak marinated in red woine, served on a Truffled Potato Rosti with a red woine reduction.

Since you spelled it the same way twice it's either intentional or you've been drinking too much of the woine.

That's how the girls on "Kath & Kim" pronounce it. :D

Tonight will be oven roasted chicken flavored with garlic, thyme, rosemary, lemon and pepper. With roasted potatoes, carrots and two little artichokes all cleaned up along with it and some sort of sauce from the drippings and some chicken stock.

And some french bread from Fresh and Easy.

For dessert, a little key lime pie also from Fresh and Easy.

Have you been there? We went and I was pleasantly surprised by the prices. Pretty good! We had a pot roast from there the other night and it was really tasty.

Yesterday was Susan's AWESOME spaghetti with a friend's Caesar salad. Saturday was feast night, so I got to sample many different things. Friday - well, let's just not bring that up.

BTW: we were at Potrero War again this weekend.

hope we see some photos of your fun Kevy.

So, did you see the Cook Off ? http://www.potrerowar.org/siegecookoff.php

Sadly, didn't take many pictures this year. I do have pics from 2006 and 2007.

However, I did try to take some pix of Susan's new bed treatment. This year, she added velvet "curtains" all the way around our bed and a "ceiling" as well. The idea was to keep as much of he warm air on us at night (it gets kinda chilly at night).

Also, we FINALLY took some pictures of Harvey. We really do need to get that project started.

No. Basically, I didn't learn about it until afterwards. I really should read up on these things.

And speaking of dinner - will someone bring us some? We're exhausted after the weekend REALLY don't want to make anything or go get anything.

You can have some of ours: I'm making Sweet & Sour Chicken from a recipe by Charmaine Solomon from her cookbook "the Complete Asian Cookbook" (Click HERE to look inside the book)

Fave Beef, Rice & Cabbage Rolls Tonight !!
 

This is one of our favourite dinners, and it's a good cold night to have it !! I'll try to photograph it once made.

Steamed Cabbage/Beef Rolls With Tomato Veloute Sauce

Rolls
1 cabbage head
1 pound lean ground beef
1/2 cup yellow onions, chopped
1-1/2 cups cooked rice
3 tablespoons margarine, melted
1/2 cup soft bread crumbs
1/4 teaspoon ground sage
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 dash ground nutmeg, optional

Sauce
4 tablespoons margarine
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 cups tomato juice

First:

• Cut the core from cabbage.
• Under running water, carefully remove about 15 leaves to use for the recipe.
• Have about 2 quarts water boiling; add 1 teaspoon of salt.
• Dip the cabbage leaves in boiling water, 3 at a time, for about 3 minutes.
• Remove with tongs, drain and set aside.
• Mix the meat, onion, cooked rice, margarine, bread crumbs, sage, pepper, nutmeg and salt.
• Lay a cabbage leaf on a flat surface. Put 2-4 tablespoons of the mixture near the base of the leaf, fold leaf up and over the meat, turning under the sides. This will make about 15 rolls.
• Place the rolls, seam side down, in a greased 2-quart casserole dish. Make two layers of the rolls.
• Place this dish on rack over 2 inches of simmering water in wok or large heavy pan with rack.
• Cover pan or wok and steam for 35-40 minutes.

MEANWHILE:

• Melt 4 tablespoons margarine in a skillet.
• Add the salt, chilli powder and the flour.
• Mix to a smooth paste.
• Cook over high heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil.
• Remove from heat and slowly stir in the tomato juice.
• Return to heat and cook until it boils and thickens.
• Serve over the steamed rolls.

Marinated Pork Roast, Baked Potatoes with Sour Cream & Green Onions, Petite Green Beans and Carrot Cake Cupcakes for dessert.

Mmm, sounds great Wolfy!

We went simple tonight: cheese ravioli in a 3-cheese sauce.

Did that last night. Simple but good!

Sushi!

Seeing as my lunch is at your dinnertime, I'll tell you I had soft-shell crab (for the first time ever)

Crap

Leftovers

Dessert: Steaming cuppa Peet's Jasmine Fancy :)

How was it? Tried it once in No. Carolina and the shell was not soft enough for us, we might have just gotten a bad one.

It was delicious, soft and succulent. The body was only as crunchy as the panko coating it, and the legs were crispy, but again in a french fry crispy way, not a prawn shell type of way.

I've fallen in love with the fish markets all over again. They've added so much since I last saw them. There's now greengrocers, bread shops, kitchen gadget shops, wine shops... it reminds me of the Ferry Terminal markets in SFO, but more intimate.

We'll have to give them another try. They sound delicious!

Macaroni and cheese

... but the homemade-from-scratch kind, rather than the usual box kind :). Used the BH&G cookbook recipe, eliminated the onion (by request... I'd have kept it), and in addition to the dash of black pepper, added nutmeg, white pepper, and a sprinkling of salt.

I think it would have benefited from my usual mac & cheese extras of minced garlic and rosemary. Or at least some garlic, even if it was just a little garlic powder.

Bacon (of the turkey variety) sandwiches. Mmmmm, comfort food.

Mmm... bacon sounds good

I had penne and meatballs with marinara, caesar salad, and a BIG chocolate brownie drowning in hot fudge. It was extra yummy, because it was free, and it was served to me by the park president.

The perfect meal, IMO.

Tonight it's moussaka and salad.

Whatever's on the vintner's table menu.

Honey-Pepper glazed chicken breast with fire roasted peppers, red skin potatoes and zucchini.

This is how it turned out...

Yum.

Freaking love Trader Joe's. I had some kind of curried rice dish with peppers, apples and raisins in it as a side dish with my chicken patty & cheese sandwich.

edit: it's called Biryani and I should add that the 1tbsp of oil I used in the pan was my lemon-infused olive oil. Nom.

Bill made shrimp satay. It was yummy.

Too much talk of Dutch babies in the other thread... now I'm making one (using Alex's recipe... thanks!)

Dutch babies? As long as you're not talking about Dutch Rudder...

Ken made us french toast with sliced King's Hawaiian bread and grilled bacon for dinner. :D

My honey's really getting good at cooking!

Simple warming Chinese Chicken & Corn Soup for us tonight !!

Pork 'hot meat' aka hubbys original recipe involving pork and lots of spices and peppers...it's delish. Missy will have salad and steak, she doesn't do HOT meat.

If that's the same 'Hot Meat' you served us, can you please send a couple of bowlfuls over to us now. Thx. :D

Better yet, why not just show up for dinner :D! Your bedroom awaits.

I'd been looking for a new lid to my crock pot and mentioned this to my Mom. She ended up bringing over a new crockpot for me. Thanks Mom.

I put in a little celery, some carrots, onion, frozen chicken breasts, and about 40 cloves of garlic and few red potatoes. Added some salt, pepper, rosemary and thyme and a little chicken boullion.

Cooked that while we were gone all day and come home to the most delicious smell. Yummy. Had that with some dinner rolls. The chicken was so moist and flavorful.

Which reminds me - it should be cool enough to put the leftovers away.

leftovers? can't have been any good, then. ;)

I have'nt had a Dutch baby since I was young, now I'm off to find the thread which hopefully has a recipe!

Leftover terriyaki shish kabobs cut into smaller pieces + package of fresh stirfry vegetables + package of sesame noodle mix (kind of pad thai-y) = dinner

Gotta work tonight....so we decided on dessert for dinner, which will be Homemade Funnel Cakes!

We just got back from stuffing ourselves at Red Lobster. Bill is sprawled across the bed muttering "cheesy biscuits".....

Cherry Garcia.

I don't know, but it's going to involve bulldog slobber. ;)

We went to Pat and Richard Nixon's favorite Mexican restaurant: El Adobe in San Juan Capistrano. I had carne asada with a cheese enchilada. Yummy!

Last night I had roasted corn and crab chowder, which was delicious, and a burger, which was good. Tonight I haven't decided. Might have pizza. Or the chicken. And maybe the chocolate cake.

Tonight a massive globe artichoke (bigger than a large softwabll) and some garlicky dippy sauce (and lots of napkins) and a sliced heirloom tomato

I'm not sure yet, but it will involve chicken tenders...

That sounds wonderful - except tomato part.

We tried an "artichoke boil" mix the last time I made chokes and it was really good.

I think I read this on this thread somewhere... anyway, tonight's menu is tri-tip in the Crock Pot.

I didn't have any beef broth, so I used a can of chicken broth, plus several cups of water, and a package of onion soup mix. Tossed in some carrots for good measure. We'll see if it comes up something edible or if Alex is going to kill me for destroying a Harris Ranch tri-tip ;)

TACO TUESDAY!!!

OMG, I'm finally starting to smell what's in the crock pot. MMMMMMMMMmmmmmm!

Morigoon - I had a recipe similar to that from The 3 Ingredient Cook Book. I think it was meat, soup mix, and water ... but the water didn't count as the third ingredient so maybe there was something else too.

It was great though - a tad bit salty - but perfect when combined with some mashed potatoes and the meat.

Dang... now I want that.

We're having, I guess, turkey burgers and corn... but I forgot to buy hamburger buns so we're using sourdough english muffins. I know it should sound good but it doesn't... mostly because I'm just not in the mood to cook anything.

So...... you smell what the crock is cooking?

Taco Bell. The Burrito Factory. Something along those lines.

I don't know what's for dinner but it should happen soon. I've had a Lara Bar today and no more.

Tonight I'm making Braised Beef with Tomato & Bacon Check our Sydney's own Neil Perry from Rockpool restaurant as he shows me how to prepare the dish !! (I'm adding a 1/4 cup red wine but don't tell Neil)

The family made spaghetti instead and I didn't have to cook after all. Yay. So - turkey burgers tonight I guess.

Leftover Lentil & Bacon soup from the freezer... Lazy day today after having bloods taken.

Whatever BJ has cooked for me. He takes good care of me in the food department. The other day it was sweet gingery beef and some kind of brown rice with... some kind of yummy stuff mixed in.

This is why I don't cook. I have no idea what's in the things I eat sometimes either.

Tonight will probably be fast food. I was going to grab Italian when I leave the hair place, but it'll be so late by then that Alex will probably fend for himself rather than wait. And no point paying all that for just me when I already had it for lunch.

BBQ....Burgers, Bacon Wrapped Asparagus, Greek Veggie Salad and Macaroni Salad. Topped off with a few fireworks in the street!

Bacon wrapped asparagus sounds so yummy! Does the bacon get crispy? I must have more info.

We're having chicken teriaki with a bag of asian mix vegetables - broc, pea pods and fancy cut carrots.

Burgers, hot dogs, pickle potato salad (really really good) and more...

i might go to Mc Donald's or Quick !

While seemingly all of America indulges in such delicacies as hot dogs, potato salad, burgers fresh off the grill and such - I shall be eating out of a bag in the car, on the way to my gig. Who says being a musician isn't glamorous? :)

I'll be having whatever they're serving at the Inn Between.