What's for Dinner?
I'm making pork chops. Brown them in the skillet hit them with black pepper then dump a can of mushroom soup +water over them and slow cook for a couple hours. Serve with baked potatoes and use that gravy!
I made fried-egg-tomato-and-cheese sandwiches. My husband's sick and he said it was the one thing that didn't make him nauseous just thinking about it.
Quesadillas. Quick, easy, and a good base preparing myself for a night of drunken debauchery on the town. :)
Toasted Cheese and Bacon Sandwich, on Pumpernickel. With leftover coleslaw and a handful of cashews.
Tea for afters.
Pizza Hut pizza for two, half and half, Pepsi and cheese breadsticks on the side.
Pizza Hut pizza for two, half and half, Pepsi and cheese breadsticks on the side.
OHHHH... the pizza had half one kind of topping and half another! That's much better than drinking half-and-half with your dinner... :vomit:
Chinese! BBQ spare ribs and beef fried rice. Orange Capri Sun to wash it all down.
I'm not sure yet. We had Chinese takeout night before last, and there's shrimp with garlic sauce and eggrolls left. Last night we had take-out pizza (so sue me! It's been a rough week and I've been tired every night). As I speak, the other half is eating honey-roasted turkey breast and dangerously sharp cheddar on potato rolls, and I'm drinking Cape Cods by the gallon. The kids are gone with their grandparents to the fall festival at school, and spending the night with them tonight. So I'm not cooking today either.
Vodka and cranberry juice. It's what's for dinner.
Halupke and margaritas :D
green peppers and scrambled eggs, fried together in olive oil, between two thick slices of breadworks tuscan loaf...that's all you need
oh, and a vodka martini with a lemon wedge as an apertif, one up with no garnish with the meal, and one on the rocks with olive garnish as a digestif
Cafeteria chicken patty sandwich and/or cheeseburger, fries, pizza, Diet Pepsi. The chicken/burger is the default, every so often they make an attempt at real food that I eat for the novelty of it.
I've been on a crusade to get them to change the menu listing over the Italian section to just read "egg noodles" and "ketchup". What they call veal parmigiana? One of those On-Cor Redi-Serve pre-cooked veal patties with some white cheese, sause, and parsley on top. I couldn't have made that up if I tried.
Halupke and margaritas :D
Okay...I have to ask...what are Halupke?
Okay...I have to ask...what are Halupke?
Polish food, I think. Hamburger, pork, nnstuff wrapped in cabbage cooked in tomato sauce. Pete snuck a little hot sausage in the meat. Its much better than it reads.
I make a completely Americanized version of that with ground beef, rice, tomato sauce and spices rolled up into cabbage leaves. It's everyone's favorite at my house and I make it about twice a month evne though it's kind of time-consuming. I usually make two big pans of it at a time and freeze one. Week before last I made it when the inlaws came over, with parslied potatoes, sauteed zucchini and onions, yeast rolls and banana pudding. I'm still about to suffocate. My seven-year-old daughter ate three (!) in one sitting.
Now I'm jonesing for cabbage rolls. :D
Oooh we call those Polutchkis
And i make a huge pan of them every November....you're welcome to come up Jane :)
Also stuffed cabbage rolls. I did a Google on Halupke it's the same. But as Jane says, lots of work. From the heart of dixie. Good food, good friends, cold beer. What more can you ask? BB
I may take you up that, Dagney, especially if Mr. Jane doesn't get his ass in line in a quick hurry. :D
And buster, with your armadillos and threats of delicious food and libations, I may head in your direction once I clean out Dagney's place.
Filet Mignon, salad with bleu cheese, hash browns with sour cream, stewed tomatoes with butter and croutons. A few Sing-A-Pore Sling's for apertif and later. Then---DESERT! Dark Chocolate Hershey Cake from a chain---it's actually v. good.
Well Sunday looks like a boned, stuffed w/green onions, garlic & bacon deer hindqt, marinaded & injected w/ "Claude's brisket marinade" on smoker w/tater salad. If not too much cold beer, I might get a photo.
Well here it was. Not bad, a little over done. :D
Nice work bb. My venison dinners are always pretty rudimentary, maybe I need to take it up a notch.
Tonight we have a lovely paella (pronounced pie-A-ah, for those of you que no hablan espanol), after I convinced the family that a little bit of gastronomic exploration can be rewarding. Basically, I cooked down sweet sausage (no chorizo conveniently available), chicken, green peppers, tomatos, onions and long-grain brown rice in chicken stock for a while, and it was quite lovely. PM for a recipe with numbers, if you're interested...
Edit: The quote in the title is from the Simpsons....it's the stars of the international soccer game they attend, where Bart gets a snack from the wandering paella man.
We did a turkey over the weekend to make room in the freezer. Gluten free stuffing was the key for me. Wild rice instead of bread everything else was pretty similar. Honestly it isn't the same as regular stuffing, it just doesn't become part of the bird. It does make a nice side and is really good.
Fall is in the air:
Herb encrusted roast pork loin with fig chutney and roasted root vegetables. Mashed potatos and sauted greens. Apple crisp for desert. Super simple and delish.
PS my Russian Mennonite relatives make good Holupche- I even have lazy version thats tasty- you dont have to roll.
Tonight was Papa John's new Spinach-Alfredo Chicken Tomato pizza. It was ok. Spinach-to-alfredo sauce ratio was way too high. But I got two free DVDs with it, and now I don't have to worry about what to eat for tomorrow night either.
Last night was Taco Bell for me, Wendy's for Badger.
Tonight, I think I'll make fried catfish, corn fritters and tomatoes&okra (if I can find any; otherwise green beans). I guess I'm feeling my inner Southerner.
When the temperature drops on Sunday, I'm thinking I'll make a batch of chili. It's about the right time of year...
- Pie
Looks like deer hash, If I'll get my lazyass started & dice taters, onions, & bell pepper.
Hash almost went to hell. Was reading the "great" post on Cellar & stopped the damn reminded, forgot to turn fire off. If bad just call Dotty & jack.
I wish I had a camera to show how yummy this is when I'm done.
One inch think chops, stuffed with homemade dressing. Cranberry sauce on the side with some veggie or other for health's sake. Perhaps I'll make a cheese dressing to pour over! Then I can have that broccoli! YEAH! That's the ticket!
Brian :yum:
How about some fried biscuits & sausage?
We're starting to cook again at my house now that everyone is on a regular schedule (for a month or so, anyway). The other half made steak bombs, which the kids call "stink bombs" last night. He sliced up a pound and a half of ribeye thinly, fried it with onions, mushrooms, Worcestershire, tons of garlic and spices. He served it on big old crusty rolls with Provolone and fries. Yum. I washed it down with a few beers and burped until I felt better.
Today we're heading off to the inlaws for dinner. His family is Italian and I live for her chicken parmesan, salad made from vegetables out of their garden and topped with his dad's homemade dressing and yeasty bread. I'm hungry NOW. :D
How about some fried biscuits & sausage?
Buster,
Is thems
deep fried biscuits?
Ohhhhhhhh I am getting so hungry.
Tonight was simple, cliché hotdogs and sauerkraut (from our cabbages!) It was too light, but I am not going to try and improvise a biscuit fryer at midnight...
I'm ashamed to admit that my dinner tonight consisted of two frozen hamburger patties (Topps) on store-brand buns. I did dress them properly with the usual condiments and bread-and-butter pickle slices but I plead only fifteen minutes to heat and eat before I had to run. More time tomorrow!
Think tonight will be grilled cheese, ham w/Jalapeno slices hot mustard. But watch out for wkend, I have a fish story! Yum
I now can contribute to this thread as I have something slightly interesting to eat!Multi-grain and spinach cake, asparagus (steamed) and flounder with Miso and rice wine combo that carmelizes while baking (saw on oprah show with gwyneth paltrow cooking). :yum:
PS--cake is like a crabcake only no crab.
Oprah cooked Paltrow? Boy maybe she needs to switch diet plans again.......
Argh this thread is making me think of Thanksgiving! Can't wait for that turkey!!!!!!!!!! :thumbsup: :) ;) :D
Anyone do the deep fried method of cooking a turkey? Busterb? :D
Yep trying to make up my small mind between fried or drunk turkey. Drunk is cheaper. No oil to buy. You really need a good size pot, a rack to make adding & removing the bird safe. also a long stemed therometer.
I think we should organize a cellar summer cook out. Maybe like a sort of food oriented rainbow/burning man/ gathering of the clan thing.
A week of just non stop cooking, eating, drinking. We wouldn't have to actually talk to one another (Ya know, if you are shy) we could just have a big bulletin board that we could tack notes up on, and
Whoa, dinner is going to my head pretty quickly. Sam Smith's organic ale and triple chocolate cake.
Why yes, it is bachelor night.
I think we should organize a cellar summer cook out. Maybe like a sort of food oriented rainbow/burning man/ gathering of the clan thing.
You've just described Plastic Forks.
Be there.
(Saturday closest to the Summer Solstice and the full moon, unless the date selected by this algorithm is Father's Day weekend, in which case it's the week following.)
Wolf, I just got back from looking at plastic forks 2003. I guess I'll have to wait till 2005.
I'll get the grill ready.
For this wkend. The 2 fish yelded almost 6lbs. of meat. FFs, hushpuppys, corn fritters & of course cold beer. ;)
A friend of mine, who just got back from a pipeline job in CO., brought a sack of onoins w/him. Look at size of the damn things. Can someone tell me how to make the font size smaller in this last Sig?
Hmmm...I might actually cook something tonight...like really cook, not just microwaving.
A grilled pork tenderloin sounds good...I haven't used my Foreman grill in a while...hmmm...
My Supper. Sorry yanks, I don't do dinner :eek: Cat fish mealed w/popcorn meal, corn meal, a dash of Tony's & what ever. Hushpuppys w/jalapenos, corn fritters. A sauce made from ketchup, horseradish, lemon, & a big shot of hot sauce from hell! :3_eyes:
I had calamari for the first time tonight. Had to have a few Cosmo's before I tried it--it was OK-certainly not my favorite but a victory over my seafood phobia for sure.
Can someone tell me how to make the font size smaller in this last Sig?
Hit "User CP", "Edit Signature", select the signature text, then select a font and a size in the dropboxes on the top row of controls.
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Hit "User CP", "Edit Signature", select the signature text, then select a font and a size in the dropboxes on the top row of controls.
[font=Arial Narrow][size=1]Arial Narrow size 1 is pretty small.[/size][/font]
I give up. even pasted in word then reposted it oh hell. Thanks night BB
We had a frost last night so I harvested some handsome sweet kale.
Made a stew with spicy Italian pork sausage, garlic, onions, tomato, lots o' kale, cannelini beans, chic broth, sage, basil, spices,...bubbly hot and topped with grated parm.
yum!
Sunday lunch. Smoked wild pig, baked sweet taters, turnips & cornbread!! YUM
My drunk turkey rack is
hereCompletely out of spite, tonight I will have one combination Totinos Pizza and one giant idaho potato, baked, topped with butter and shredded cheddar.
For good measure I might eat some cheesy poofs. For dessert I'm thinking Klondike Bar.
Then I will have to starve for a week.
What about the snickerdoodle?!?!?!??!?!
I don't care for snickerdoodles much. They just don't do it for me.
Hmmm, maybe some fried cinnamon rolls with maple icing. :yum:
Eh, I drank some beers with my buddy last night. I'm craving carbs today.
Hmmm, maybe some fried cinnamon rolls with maple icing. :yum:
Recipe please.
Get in your car. Drive to Ulbrich's IGA, a little small town market, walk to the doughnut counter. Pick up cinnamon rolls with maple icing (no no no the white icing sux) and proceed to register.
I've only ever bought them. They are round but flattish...not like cinnamon rolls from teh Doughboy. They are the bomb. They kind of look like this, except flatter:
IGA donuts are the best donuts in the world. In the world!
Yeah, this little store has been around forever...owned by the same family. They now have other doughnut shops scattered about. Soooooo good! Sometimes I'll go into the store and as I check out they ask if I want some free doughnuts. They'll put a couple or three in a bag and give them to customers instead of throwing the older ones away.
eta: (hahahaha...instead of throwing away the doughnuts, not the customers)
It HAS to be the same family because this one is family owned too and been around forever.
They bake their own donuts.I am not sure what they do with their old ones.
They don't give these away free but if they did I am sure they would insist someone carries it out to the car for you. Of which they always carry your things no matter what it seems.
What's for dinner tonight?
Nothing yet.... Beest has a new fish and he seems to have forgotten about cooking..... :(
Well, I did the pizza and the cheesy poofs. I didn't have room for the potato.
Now I will hate myself in the morning.
you ate homosexuals with bad hygiene? Or did you mean the other kind of cheesy?
:lol:
It's not my fault if a hobo turns out to be a homosexual with bad hygiene. You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your hobos.
Ewwwwwww - bad girls!
Not about my dinner, but I'm cooking Grandad's tonight.
I've been egg blowing (about to set up a new thread for that) so he gets scrambled eggs for tea tonight. Dads had scrambled eggs this morning and I made myself a cheese and onion omelette for lunch today.
NO hobos were killed during this production. I thank you.
Tonight I am thinking of splurging on some salmon. I've been pretty good about eating well, with the exception of yesterday and a brief yet satisfying affair with Klondike Bars.
Some nice baked salmon. Any suggestions for a side? (No broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, asparagus, or lettuce that looks like it's got a giant corn stalk embedded in the middle.)
Of course, I'm all about the potato. I still have my lonely potato I didn't eat last night. Well, maybe ONE more day of splurge.
I've been egg blowing
:eek:
What happened to your hair Monnie???????
Tonight I am thinking of splurging on some salmon. I've been pretty good about eating well, with the exception of yesterday and a brief yet satisfying affair with Klondike Bars.
Some nice baked salmon. Any suggestions for a side? (No broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, asparagus, or lettuce that looks like it's got a giant corn stalk embedded in the middle.)
Of course, I'm all about the potato. I still have my lonely potato I didn't eat last night. Well, maybe ONE more day of splurge.
I'm right in the middle of baking a salmon fillet :P Sprinkled with fresh dill, crushed black pepper corns and sea salt.
Though I am serving it with asparagus and potatoes.
I was too tired to make dinner. Ugh.
How was the salmon? Yummy!
It was lovely! And for once I didn't overcook it!
The salmon was tasty, the potatoes were creamy, the asparagus was cooked to perfection :) The fresh dill i threw into my supermarket trolley on a whim really came in handy :)
What happened to your hair Monnie???????
what?
jokin the the pic you posted was actually you.
arni souvlaki - greek lamb kabobs
greek salad
rice
homemade bread
I'm drooling already.
I have a strong suspicion that today's Easter dinner at my bro and sis-in-law's will be an Amish theme. They just got back from a trip to Amish country and the word at Rumspringa is that she was scooping up recipe cards right and left. She loves theme entertaining. I should get her and SG together, they'd have a ball!
Roast turkey leg, roast potatoes, carrots, bbrroccolli, gravy ...
Roast chicken and the works:)
Down at my Bro's.
Roast Leg of Lamb! Beest is torturing us with yummy smells....
Ooooh. Roast leg of lamb! Haven't had that in years.
costs an arm and a .... well it's expensive over here. caught it on sale a while back and froze some.
Lamb isn't that cheap over here nowadays. Price seems to have gone up a lot in recent years.
it's equivalent to about 8 quid a pound on average, here. Compared to beef, chicken and pork at about 1.5-3 quid.
OMG - thats like the PERFECT meal!
Yeah, especially with the prosecco mimosas, steaks on the grill, tater salad, avocado salad, ricotta pie.... that's what we did all day.
fainting from sheer food jealousy
It was supposed to be Chipotle, but the fuckers were closed for Easter. (Seriously?! Nobody does anything special past 3 in the afternoon on Easter. You can call your minimum-wage workers back in for the dinner rush.) So instead it was this random Indian place, which turned out to be terrible.
Ham
Corn souffle
Snow peas
Salad of arugula, strawberries and walnuts
kumquat and poblano marmalade
Brioche rolls
Carrots (from a box, blurgh)
A sweet Gewurz Spatlese.
Ricotta cheesecake with strawberries and wild blueberries
Flan caramel
Yellow cake with chocolate whipped cream icing
Food = tasty, but not imaginative
going to services at a R.C. Ch = grit my teeth till my head ached
fainting from sheer food jealousy
Ditto!
Tonight. 1 fried pork chop, Butter peas, corn bread, chunk of onion, marinated mushrooms and artichoke hearts. Pop w/foam on top
pizza, not even homemade.
Last night I roasted a chicken breast stuffed with a a dollop of butter, mixed with lemon jiuce, creme fraiche, fresh parsley, sea salt and black pepper. Served with British Anya new potatoes, crushed with parsley butter. And a side of sliced mini portabello mushrooms and finely chopped shallots, poached in cream and garlic.
Last night: pan-roasted chicken tacos with homemade refritos.
Tonight: Swordfish steaks and tiny rosemary potatoes over arugula, lemon-caper dressing.
Tonight..... we eat out!
Knights
menuLast night we (kids and I) had white rice due to not feeling well. Today isn't looking much better.
Hope you guys are doing much better.
Tonight I made BBQ beef sandwiches on a kaiser roll.
Mom gets roast beef tomorrow.
Watercress and egg salad and durian for dessert. Hmm....that doesn't sound too tasty when seen in print. :rolleyes:
durian
This is the third time in April that I've heard of this fruit. First there were the "no eating durians on the train" signs I saw on Boing Boing, and all the comments there that went with that. Then I saw them being sold in an asian grocery store last weekend, kept frozen to keep the smell down, and now here.
I had never heard of them before. Besides my understanding that they smell god awful, I don't know much about them. Are they any good?
What's for dinner?
Brussels sprout and runner bean risotto!
The durian (pronounced /ˈdʊəriən/)[2] is the fruit of several tree species belonging to the genus Durio and the Malvaceae family[3][1] (although some taxonomists place Durio in a distinct family, Durionaceae[1]). Widely known and revered in southeast Asia as the "king of fruits", the durian is distinctive for its large size, unique odour, and formidable thorn-covered husk. The fruit can grow as large as 30 centimetres (12 in) long and 15 centimetres (6 in) in diameter, and it typically weighs one to three kilograms (2 to 7 lb). Its shape ranges from oblong to round, the colour of its husk green to brown, and its flesh pale yellow to red, depending on the species.
The edible flesh emits a distinctive odour, strong and penetrating even when the husk is intact. Some people regard the durian as fragrant; others find the aroma overpowering and offensive. The smell evokes reactions from deep appreciation to intense disgust. The odour has led to the fruit's banishment from certain hotels and public transportation in southeast Asia.
I never knew Asian grocery stores kept durians in the freezer to keep the smell down. They do smell god awful though(common knowledge, but it doesn't bother me that much). Like blue cheese, durian is an acquired taste. I've heard that a person either love it or depise. But yeah, the smell is pretty strong. If you want just to taste a hint of its smell, try durian ice cream or durian flavored candy or cookie. If you wanna try but can't find any, I can send you some. The candy, cookie, that is. :p:
The fruit itself is no biggie. The fresh fruit is always better than the frozen one. Frozen durian gets kind of mushy once thawed. Personally, I like jackfruit better.:) I don't love nor hate durian. Someone gave us a frozen durian so the smell wasn't strong. But then I have a very dull sense of smell so odors don't bother me as much as most people.
Left overs, the wife is out of town and there is no reason to cook with all the good food we have in the frig.
Curry Chicken or left over Indian Food... two great choices.
Sides of fresh salad and or Tabouli.
I'm making Thai Green Curry, and I'm so excited. It's one of my favorite meals.
Had pasta with arugula pesto and leftover sliced flank steak for lunch. With tomatoes. Dinner... will be whatever we find... out there...
Dinner? Ohhh...feck, I forgot to eat again. Right ... Supernoodles it is then.
Dinner? Ohhh...feck, I forgot to eat again. Right ... Supernoodles it is then.
Forgot to eat? No wonder you're so thin. :p: Don't you get hungry?
Yeah ... but then I get distracted ... or maybe I eat a bar of chocolate...or have a cup of tea, or a cigarette... I do eat mostly, I just forget to have a meal some days... it varies.
I have eaten something today *thinks* I'm sure I ate something. Yeah, I had a bar of chocolate, in the afternoon. But i haven't had a meal. I was going to cook something but then, y'know, I was messing about on the comp and then J came round and we watched a programme and then I was back on the comp, and I just realised I never did carry out my plan of making a meal.
I have had a couple of beers though ... that's hops and stuff right? Nutritional. Mmm.
Beer is probably more nutritional than Super Noodles. :p:
But Super Noodles cost like 20 times more than Ramen Noodles, so they must have 20 times the nutrition at least, so twnty time 0 is.... oh. Have another beer, Dana
(and fill us in on the true nature of your relationship with J :p: )
lol the true nature of my relationship with J? He's my bestest and oldest friend. He's also Pilau's 'Daddy' since we were together when we got him. There is absolutely nothing romantic between me and J. Hasn't been for a very long time. We split up around 2000/1 (iirc)
Vegetable pot pie. I threw in a little shredded chicken I had in the freezer too but still way more veggies than chicken.
So it's like the store bought chicken pot pies. :lol:
So it's like the store bought chicken pot pies. :lol:
I was going to say that very same thing!!! :eek:
In fact I started typing and stopped.:lol:
good call bruce
The girl made mini (cupcake sized) chicken pot pies, with biscuit tops, for lunch today. Completely unassisted. She rocks
Yum.... like in a cupcake tin! That does rock! especially with the biscuit tops. wow .. neat
Yeah, she got these individual silicon muffin cups and a cookbook for easter. Lots of mini items.
I forgot I took a pic duh...
mmm I think I see a pea! Nice cups too.
After marinading in Dr Pepper w/spices for 48 hours
All trimmed, rubbed down and ready to go on the smoker
Will be done some time tomorrow afternon
Should I bring beer?
Wecome to the Cellar, Flickster. :D
Total cooking time 14 hours
Scenes from the cutting board
Should I bring beer?
Wecome to the Cellar, Flickster. :D
Sounds Good!
and, Thanks!
:cool:
Yesterday, 'dinner' was a barbeque with the family in my Bro and SiL's back garden, for mum's birthday. Very lovely food, including peri-peri chicken, spare ribs and sardines.
Today, mum and I drove into town and got a full Sunday roast dinner at The Barum Top Inn. It's a wetherspoons pub, but I don;t care; I love it. What's best about it is it has a really good choice of vegetarian food, including as an alternative to roast meat: a portabello mushroom, chickpea and seed nut roast. Served in the same way as the standard roast dinner, with roast potatoes, veg, stuffing balls, yorkshire pudding and gravy.
Mum had jam sponge pudding for afters, I had profiterroles with chocolate sauce.
Deelish and no washing up to tackle afterwards :)
The dinner sounds good Dana...especially the creme puff.
*drool drool*
The sponge thing not so much :P
A store here sells something called a pudding ring. I don't imagine the taste is similar. The heavy texture of it is gross.
Sponge puding is like a rich, slightly heavier yellow cake served warm. Usually with hot custard.
Parm Encrusted Talapia ,
Shells and cheese with garlic ,
Black Eyed Peas
Yesterday : scallops sauteed in olive oil with a pinch of salt and pepper, a few drops of Tabasco sauce, garlic and chive
Oooooh. Scallops. Haven't had those in years. Not since I made them to a Gary Rhodes recipe (Brits will understand how many years ago that makes it :P).
During the week, I work in Paris (France not Texas) but on week-ends I'm at home near Brest by the sea (in Brittany - a province of France).
If someone is interessed, I'll translate a few recipes from home
Yesterday was tacos - my favorite! Today will be pork loin, mac and cheese, and a salad.
If tacos were really your favorite, you'd have them tonight too. I'm gonna...
During the week, I work in Paris (France not Texas) but on week-ends I'm at home near Brest by the sea (in Brittany - a province of France).
If someone is interessed, I'll translate a few recipes from home
Yes, put them
here. :thumb2:
During the week, I work in Paris (France not Texas) but on week-ends I'm at home near Brest by the sea (in Brittany - a province of France).
If someone is interessed, I'll translate a few recipes from home
Yes, put them here. :thumb2:
But don't translate them and then Urban can have a Gorillagasm. Make sure there's lots of Au Jus. :p:
But don't translate them and then Urban can have a Gorillagasm. Make sure there's lots of Au Jus. :p:
Ain't that saucy ? :)
Nice job, Flickster. Oven? Smoker?
If tacos were really your favorite, you'd have them tonight too. I'm gonna...
But I want them to last! Taco Salad for lunch today and thinking of a taco pizza tomorrow.
Tonight is the pork loin and mac and cheese again.
Jacket/Baked potatoes with chicken in gravy-type sauce. not that white "gravy"
But I want them to last! Taco Salad for lunch today and thinking of a taco pizza tomorrow.
Tonight is the pork loin and mac and cheese again.
jinx had tacos again tonight
Nice job, Flickster. Oven? Smoker?
Smoker, kept at about 250 - pecan wood - total time 14 hours
Really does look wonderful...
Tonight, I had tacos.
Roast Beef, Roast Spuds, Yorkshire Pudding, Mushrooms, Asparagus and Brussels. Being served RFN :D
Basically, followed this recipe
Asian Grilled Salmon
So Easy yet So Good
Teamed it up with some grilled zucchini
Nice pics up there.
Yesterday it was a giant chief salad with eggs,cheese,deli ham, faux crab,tomato,celery and cheese bread kaiser rolls.
Angelfood cake for desert with strawberrys.
Today it was spaghetti with whole wheat pasta and ground turkey into the sauce.
my husband has deemed the roast beef pic good enough to have sex with LOL!!
Tonight we had Hamburger Helper- it's what the kids wanted.
Leftover chicken piccata, warmed and sliced on a romaine lettuce bed, with red onions, ripe tomato slices, kalamata olives, feta and blue cheese and bacon bits. Greek dressing over it all.
for lunch we had steamed corn on the cob with butter
followed by Baked potatoes with butter, cheese, sour cream, baked beans, green onions, regular onions, chives and bacon. With a mixed lettuce and heritage tomato side salad.
Then rounded it off with fresh home-baked scottish shortbread smothered with whipped cream and strawberries. I didn't gt a pic until it was all over, though..... :yum:
I made my own version of the buffalo wing. I fried them crispy brown and before I pulled them out of the skillet I brushed them with a mixture of Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce and hot sauce. Baked baby red potato on the side with celery sticks.
For desert I made a small batch of chocolate cupcakes with homemade chocolate icing. I didn't know homemade icing would be so so good.:yum:
Shrimp Sauce Piquant. Shrimp from the GULF, of Siam, whatever!
Dinner tonight will be shrimp from the grill, Israeli cous cous and corn on the cob (if I can get it thawed/cooked by the time the shrimp is done).
We are having beef and shrimp ka-bobs, with macaroni salad and basimati rice tonight. With whatever extras my best freind and hubby bring. Its Litha tonight! So even on a Monday, we celebrate :)
That sounds WONDERFUL for ya.
Hallo. Long-time lurker, first-time poster. I had a good laugh that this is a thread rolling since 2004, at least. That's pretty incredible. That being said, since I'm eating dinner and this is a food thread:
i'm eating chicken breasts pan-cooked in soy and fish sauce, soju, garlic, and green and red onions over white rice. It's surprisingly good for something I just sort of.. pulled out of the fridge and dumped stuff that was sitting on the countertop into.
hi winslow, welcome. Why are you sad? we have older threads than this one still running I think. Sometimes trolls resurrect them for us and we take it as a challenge! :lol:
It would be dangerous indeed to cook some of the things lying around on our countertop :eek:
I had to look up soju. Nice!
A variation on this:
http://amberveggies.blogspot.com/2009/06/apology-pie.html
I am going to use chicken instead of beef. I have tried it the beef way and it was GOOOOD. Let's hope the chicken turns out well, too.
Hallo. Long-time lurker, first-time poster. I had a good laugh that this is a thread rolling since 2004, at least. That's pretty incredible. That being said, since I'm eating dinner and this is a food thread:
i'm eating chicken breasts pan-cooked in soy and fish sauce, soju, garlic, and green and red onions over white rice. It's surprisingly good for something I just sort of.. pulled out of the fridge and dumped stuff that was sitting on the countertop into.
You seasoned it with both soy and fish sauce?? Hmm....I didn't think those two would mix well.
You seasoned it with both soy and fish sauce?? Hmm....I didn't think those two would mix well.
Just a little dash of fish sauce mixed in to add an extra shot of savoury kind of taste. I've never really cooked with it before, but it's got a bit of anchovy salty funk to it that's not too bad in moderation. it added a little undertone that was fairly nice.
hi winslow, welcome. Why are you sad? we have older threads than this one still running I think. Sometimes trolls resurrect them for us and we take it as a challenge! :lol:
It would be dangerous indeed to cook some of the things lying around on our countertop :eek:
Don't worry, it's mostly just a name. :) Yeah, I've been poking around here off and on for quite some time(several years, even) and seen some ancient threads, which I really appreciate compared to a lot of other more, err, "trendy" sites where threads happen for about 24 hours and then die off, never to be heard from again. I like rolling conversations, it really gives a nice sense of continuity and community.
Sundae_girl: soju is pretty darn good and is great to cook with. To be honest, I prefer cooking with it to drinking it, although on plenty of ice with a good twist of lemon it's pretty good too.
Nice meeting you all in actual text now, by the by. I need to hop over to Home Base too and see if I can find whatever happened to that guy who bought the hot dog cart!
You seasoned it with both soy and fish sauce?? Hmm....I didn't think those two would mix well.
i coulda sworn i replied to this once. Yeah, i used both a shot of soy sauce, and just a few drops of fish sauce for a little extra savoury hiding on the back-end. I've never really cooked with it before. It smells HORRIBLE out of the bottle, but tastes decent. To be truthful I think I still just prefer anchovies (one of my favorite foods EVER, right there.)
also to sundae_girl re: soju: it's pretty good stuff! I prefer it for cooking mostly, but on the rocks with a good twist of lemon it's not terrible either.
Thankfully, the dangerous things in the house live properly away from the kitchen :D
tonight: fish fry from a diner. some sort of white fish, hushpuppies, fries and cole slaw. bad for me, but tasted pretty darn good.
Is this where I order a pizza?
We are having having Homestyle bake w/chicken mashed potatoes and biscuits.
tonight was hot pot.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hot_pot
If you've never had it, it's one of the most fun and tasty casual kind of dinners you can do. My favorite part is, of course, grilling the super thin-sliced meats around the outside of the soup pot, and concocting a dipping sauce to my own taste. Plus looking at all the weird tentacles and crap on the buffet next to the cut up hot dogs, vegetables, fish, and other assorted goodies.
we had tomato sangwishes and corn on the corb!
I've been on a 21 day "purification" diet (I can assure you it hasn't helped my thoughts in the least) that is mainly eat as much fruit and vegetables as I want: a mix of raw and cooked, a couple of protein smoothies a day, and lots of water. after day 11 or so you can add a small amount of chicken. So tonight is officially day 15 and unofficially day 24 (I had a week of one toe in the water so to speak) and I bought a chicken at the farmer's market from a friend's farm. roasted with yams, steamed broccoli and zucchini fried in butter.
I love chicken.
I also lost 14 pounds despite sitting on my less fat ass in front of the computer. Amazing what not stuffing my face with bread will do.
Tonight it's
pork chops with pears. Plus some veggie side, but I haven't committed to what kind yet.
Those peeled asparagus were awesome. I'd never tried peeling them before.
New York Strips were on sale - $2.99lb we had 2 each.
Those peeled asparagus were awesome. I'd never tried peeling them before.
Thanks! I stole the idea during my one outing to a fancy restaurant in the last year. :)
Leftovers! The perils of being single and liking to cook.
Leftovers! The perils of being single and liking to cook.
leftover what? ravioli in a can?
i kinda miss those days. a buddy and i lived across the block from one another, wanted to share wi-fi. we needed directional antennas. so we bought two of those giant ravioli cans of chef boyardee and sat down and over the course of a day, we demolished them. may have shared with some passing visitors too, i forget now. breakfast, lunch, and dinner, though. cold out of a can. it was.. glorious?
It's funny to listen to stories from the Days of Yore when part of the story includes sharing "wi-fi"!
;)
Tonight is probably going to be either cold sesame noodles - i have a killer recipe if anyone is interested. it's cheap and delicious - or mabo dofu, which is ground pork, tofu, and peas in a varyingly spicy sauce (depending on how to you make it). Unless I go off completely and grill some chicken or something but that's pretty unlikely given that it's 4785398758462872 degrees out and i just made chicken to put in the noodles.
also, in case anyone wondered: i love food. :D
Ooh, I'd like your sesame noodle recipe, and if you're feeling generous, your mabo (mapo?) dofu!
Arigato!
Ooh, I'd like your sesame noodle recipe, and if you're feeling generous, your mabo (mapo?) dofu!
Arigato!
EDIT EDIT: holy crap, I forgot to mention one thing in the sesame sauce recipe: SUGAR. like a couple teaspoons maybe in there of plain ol' sugar. it makes ALL the difference in the world.
sure :)
well, the dofu sauce i admit that i get from a packet or a jar, depending on what i can find at the asian store. ;) otherwise extra firm tofu cubed, ground pork, and peas: cook meat, add tofu and peas and sauce, stir gently to not break the tofu up, simmer a bit til it's done and soaked in some of that good flavor, i usually toss a lid on it.
the sesame noodles i use wu-mu dry chinese noodles, which are pretty much just wide linguine-style noodles. they cook nice and fast and have a good flavor for a basic noodle. regular linguine would also work. cook em til they're wiggly, then drain em and rinse repeatedly in cold water til they're.. cold.
the sauce is the important bit, and that i make from scratch: a couple tablespoons of soy sauce (i use a kikkoman low sodium then a splash of regular for a hint of extra salt, but whatever works), red pepper flakes, chopped garlic, ginger, and green onion, a tablespoon or so of rice vinegar, tablespoon or two of sesame oil, a splash of vegetable oil (helps it all stick a little better to the noodles), and a tablespoon or two of hot water. sometimes i cook the noodles in a little beef boullion and use that instead of just plain tap water. adjust to taste, of course - it took me a few tries to get it to how i like it. also, sesame seeds toasted or plain. put the cold noodles in a bowl (preferably with a lid) and add the sauce, shake that stuff up real good and put it in the fridge for a half a day or so to really chill out. a couple more options, too: shredded cabbage, which I forgot to add YET AGAIN today. Cashews, lightly crushed are *awesome*, and so is some boneless skinless chicken breast, marinated in basically the same sauce and pan fried, then stirred into the noodles. and doing it with cashews AND chicken? your face will melt. SO GOOD.
A little memmi sauce thrown in can't hurt either.
I thiiink that's it. summary: it sounds way more complicated than it is. a couple tablespoons of soy sauce, rice vinegar, water, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, red pepper flake, sugar, green onion, and vegetable oil. mix in pleasing proportions on 8-10 oz of cold noodles. done.
leftover what? ravioli in a can?
i kinda miss those days. a buddy and i lived across the block from one another, wanted to share wi-fi. we needed directional antennas. so we bought two of those giant ravioli cans of chef boyardee and sat down and over the course of a day, we demolished them. may have shared with some passing visitors too, i forget now. breakfast, lunch, and dinner, though. cold out of a can. it was.. glorious?
No, nothing canned. Leftover chicken pie. I did have shrimp, but I think it is past the edible deadline.
Right now I am trying to figure out what to make next without having to buy any supplies.
Hey thanks, SW. I will have to look for the dofu sauce next time I'm over at the Korean/pan-Asian market. I've made sesame noodles like yours before; I like your addition of veggies and meat. Makes it a complete meal. Have you ever added a bit of peanut butter to the sauce? That seems to expand the sesame flavor a bit.
Hey thanks, SW. I will have to look for the dofu sauce next time I'm over at the Korean/pan-Asian market. I've made sesame noodles like yours before; I like your addition of veggies and meat. Makes it a complete meal. Have you ever added a bit of peanut butter to the sauce? That seems to expand the sesame flavor a bit.
Yeah the chicken really adds something to it, it's good. Never done peanuts added myself, but I've heard it's great. I can tell you that the unsalted cashews were awesomely awesometastic though, particularly with the chicken too. sometimes i kick in a little splash of sriracha in there just for an extra yum, too - ye gods i love that stuff. just a little in the sauce for an extra oomph. but man, don't forget the sugar in the sauce cause that makes it just a thousand times better, i totally forgot last time. it's still good but the little sweet helps round the whole thing. SO SO GOOD.
kebab meat chip and baked bean sarnie :yum:
It's funny to listen to stories from the Days of Yore when part of the story includes sharing "wi-fi"!
;)
I can see it coming full circle:
"Back when I was a kid we didn't have any fancy stickball bats made out of an old broomstick, we had to play stickball with our Wii..."
kebab meat chip and
What the?
A pot of okra, eggplant, onion, maters,+1 can hot rotel and gulf shrimp. Shrimp from freezer.
It's What's For Dinner...
Gravdigr - really?
Can't say it appeals. I've had enough of the human variety (not enough actually, not recently) to think it's not really an eating piece of meat. In the literal meaning...
Okay - last night's dinner.
I'm going to put family photos in the Aylesbury thread (Quality Images)
These are our dinners.
As previously,
this is the menu.
First two - Ste had 7oz fillet steak and I had 9oz rib-eye steak.
Both very moist and cooked as requested. Two thumbs up.
I like your dad's dinner choice. Happy Birthday, Sundae.
Mum had the Fish Cobb Salad. She drew the short straw, sadly, as the Fish Platter that four of us shared as a starter was pretty much the same as her main :(
There was a fair amount of smoked salmon left after the starter - it was a BIG portion - and I was up for asking for a doggie bag for the cats. Then E (my SIL) saw it and snaffled it. Fair enough, it meant it wasn't binned... but she also had my onion rings and Ste's mini-mushroom pie. And she's on a diet. See below.
Second pic is Maureen's Lemon Sole.
Dads had Open Chicken Pie.
Erika had the diet version of Peri Peri Chicken (potatoes not fries and salad) but as I meanly said above, she did have some other items. Well, it's not like I was starving myself after all!
I like your dad's dinner choice. Happy Birthday, Sundae.
That's my brother's meal.
And yes, it did look very nice.
Gravdigr - really?
Oh,
hell no! Just tripped over the pic, and thought I'd start something.:D
Dinner last night was a box of Stouffer's Stuffed Green Peppers out of the microwave. Totally cheating, but man I love those things so much.
Tomorrow, it's going to be the london broil that I start marinating later, on the grill, the way dad used to make it.
Tonight? Hell, I haven't even had breakfast. I have some chicken breasts I need to do something with. But every time I think of something, they just say they've got a headache and want to stay in. So I dunno. I've stir-fried chicken all week, want something different to do.
It's gonna be roast beef in about 10 minutes..... :yum:
Those peeled asparagus were awesome. I'd never tried peeling them before.
Really? I thought that's how it's supposed to be cooked. The first time I made them, my mom taught me to peel them no one has to spit out anything when we eat the asparagus. I just assume that's how everyone cooks them.:p:
i've never had to spit out any bits when i cook asparagus. i just snap the bottoms off before i cook them to get the tough bit off. 99% of the time i then brush them in olive oil and salt and pepper then toss em on the grill (either outside or even just the foreman grill inside if i'm super lazy) and cook til they're tender.
I like the super skinny ones. I just cut or snap the ends off and toss them around in a hot pan with some sesame oil for a couple minutes, finish with a little soy sauce. I like them still crunchy. Steamed or grilled is fine too, just not boiled or nuked until mushy.
today i made my super special london broil top round, marinated for a day in my favorite SUPER SECRET MARINADE, then grilled to frickin perfection. Served with rice, barbecue baked beans, and cole slaw. SO GOOD.
I've not participated much here as my dinners usually not very "special" but tonight...
I had 2 dozen steamed clams which I dug myself as an appetizer.
Marinated pork chops on the grill with broccoli florets,
applesauce and 4 cheese mashed potatoes.
For dessert the two of us shared half a seedless YELLOW watermelon.
S_W and Classic, two great descriptions of holiday meals.
Tonight I made dinner and took NO pictures! Boooooo.
It was a qualified success.
Mum liked the Beetroot and Goats Cheese Tart - she had two helpings and is saving the leftover piece for lunch tomorrow. Dad ate it and declared it good, but the trick is getting things on his plate - he is always complimentary after that.
Given the amount of other ingredients and the cooking time I found it too beetrooty. I'd make a Red Onion and Goats Cheese Tart again without the beetroot.
The Onion Marmalade passed without comment, making it a FAIL in my book. I will bin the rest of it tomorrow. It was okay, but too sweet and cloying.
The Torte (choc sponge, Baileys Cream and raspberries) was the biggest success, in that Dad and I loved it. It was too tart for Mum though. She isn't a big raspberry fan, although I didn't remember that until afterwards. For me it was like a simple Black Forest Gateaux. And the balance of flavours was perfect. But given that I am trialling for a special menu for Mum it is another FAIL. Still, Dad and I had scrapings (where you know you can't justify another prtion but sneak a bit off the side or from the centre) and I know we'll both enjoy it again tomorrow :yum:
Back to the drawing board.
Going to try her with Sweet Potato and Cheshire Cheese Souffle later this week. Which I don't have high hopes for, given that she's not a big sweet potato fan!
Yesterday I did butterfly pork chops on the grill. Marinated them with prepared mustard and brown sugar. And added some cherry to the charcoal to give them a little smokey touch. Topped off with a batch of my homemade bbq sauce.
Mrs. Z. made her cheesy rice casserole and a salad.
tonight i think i'm just gonna snack. i found this combo pack of dry italian meats - salami, peppered salami, coppa, and prosciutto - at the local store for a surprisingly good price, and oh man, coppa and prosciutto particularly are my favorites. that, jicama sticks, and melba toasts. mm mm healthy.
Oh god blurrrgghh last night I had more calories than I've had all week. I ate like 3/4 of a pepperoni and anchovy pizza. Salt, fat, protein, all the good things in life. And my inside completely hate me for it today. So, so good, though.
tonight: all things pickled! well, a lot of them are anyways.
the radishes and jicama are fresh, the cheeses are, well, aged but you know.
otherwise kimchee, two kinds of pickled cucumber, a bit of branston pickle, and a scrap of cinnamon-pear jelly.
and the kimchee jar exploded like a soda that's been shaken when i cracked it open. wheeeeeee. but ooh dipping the jicama in it is so worth it. when my mouth stops being on fire, i'll move on to the more delicate flavors of the cheeses.
a bit of a strange mix, but eh, i'm a strange dude.
Oh god blurrrgghh last night I had more calories than I've had all week. I ate like 3/4 of a pepperoni and anchovy pizza. Salt, fat, protein, all the good things in life. And my inside completely hate me for it today. So, so good, though.
you eat a pizza and worry about the salt, fat and protein? what about the carbs? they are the enemy in that meal (imho).
:)
-- joel.
I really want to make this Southwest Ranch Casserole that I have a recipe for but can't for the life of me figure out what "tomatillo sauce" is. I am thinking it might be salsa verde. It is in a Whole Foods cookbook, so I am thinking it might be a product there, but don't want to drive there.
If I don't make the drive, I will have BBQ chicken sandwich and salad
I think it IS salsa verde bbro. Yum that stuff is good.
If you make it sometime please post picks and the recipe.
Yesterday, I bought a gourmet vegetarian pizza with artichokes,spinach,zuchinni,roma tomatoes and cheese of course. Oh and with white sauce.
There is so much left over it's what's for dinner tonight too.
Strictly speaking, tomatillo sauce is to salsa verde as tomato sauce is to salsa. Which is to say, your salsa verde may be a little spicier and contain more ingredients than a straight-up plain tomatillo sauce, but it should work fine in your recipe.
you eat a pizza and worry about the salt, fat and protein? what about the carbs? they are the enemy in that meal (imho).
:)
-- joel.
who said i'm worried about them? :) Just acknowledging that they were there, and in some excess given how much I ate that day. But really, in general I find that it's not so much what I eat in terms of macronutrients so much as it is how much I take in overall in terms of calories. whether it's a block of lard or a pot of spaghetti, if the total caloric intake is below metabolic needs then weight gain just can't happen, i don't think. on the other hand when you go from eating just a little to a sudden large boost of protein, fat, and carbohydrates, that's when the body can do the "starvation mode" thing and try to save it for later. but if your intake goes back to being low, it'll go away again.
the truckload of salt is just the extra kick in the cahones to make you feel icky about it later when your mouth is dry and your blood pressure skyrockets. but man it tastes good.
For dinner, I made my very own sushi rolls and am very proud of myself! They are simple cone-shaped handrolls and don't even look all that great, but I've got to start somewhere.
They were supposed to be California rolls but the avocado was A) a weird, low-fat variety and B) incredibly underripe. So just imitation crab meat and cucumber in here.
wow, not bad on the hand rolls there, looks good :)
also i can tell you that making regular rolls with the little bamboo mat thing isn't nearly as imposing as it may seem - if you have the hardware give it a whirl and wham, you'll be making rolls before you know it. i always found that the most PITA part of the process was just making the rice right. the wrapping isn't bad at all, and this from a guy who still can't do a christmas present that doesn't look like it was done by a baby monkey with stumps for hands.
Sky and Clod - Thanks for the information. I might try it and maybe blend it a bit just to get out the chunkiness. I am also contemplating using salsa I already have.
I will try to find my camera to post the pictures. I can't remember where I put it!
Lunch.
My first attempt at a chicken salad American-style.
Yummy.
Chicken
bacon
green apple
red apple
celery
fresh picked baby green beans
onion
chives from garden
parsely from garden
sage from garden
mayo
dash of black pepper
dash of powdered mustard.
:yum:
btw, the tomato and cucumber look nice, but don't really complement it imo.
you eat a pizza and worry about the salt, fat and protein? what about the carbs? they are the enemy in that meal (imho).
Carbs aren't known (proven) to cause heart disease.
Every sucessful weight-loss programme I've been on has been high-carb.
When I'm eating healthily I am pretty much a vegetarian and get almost all of my protein from carbs (save a few dairy products).
Like anything else, complex carbohydrates are not the demon. Over-eating is the demon. I spit on the bogus claims of Atkins, which has encouraged people to stay away from high-fibre food.
PS - two nice dishes above, both spoiled by komkommer.
looks good MONSTER. In fact it looks a lot better than many a chicken salad I've made.
Chicken salad looks GOOOOOD. In fact, that is what I am having for dinner on a Martin's potato roll with a regular salad as a side. Well, mine isn't going to have as many ingredients. Just seasoned chicken, celery, onion, and pomegranate craisins.
Looks good... and I don't like chicken salad, no matter which country it's from.
Like anything else, complex carbohydrates are not the demon. Over-eating is the demon. I spit on the bogus claims of Atkins, which has encouraged people to stay away from high-fibre food.
No, like anything else, everyone's metabolism (and demons) are different. My mother has struggled with weight her entire life, and I have watched her eat like a bird since I was old enough to notice that sort of thing. Just a little over 2 months ago she took the plunge to cut out most carbs and specifically all gluten--and at the same time started allowing herself to eat as much as she wanted of what was left--and she has dropped 20 pounds already.
Lunch (Banana Lady is 65 today)!
Smoked salmon, seasoned potato wedges sauteed in olive oil with rosemary (from the garden) and garlic, salad with viniagarette dressing.
:yum:
(I added the cucumber deliberately to keep SG at bay :lol:)
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who said i'm worried about them? :) Just acknowledging that they were there, and in some excess given how much I ate that day. But really, in general I find that it's not so much what I eat in terms of macronutrients so much as it is how much I take in overall in terms of calories. whether it's a block of lard or a pot of spaghetti, if the total caloric intake is below metabolic needs then weight gain just can't happen, i don't think. on the other hand when you go from eating just a little to a sudden large boost of protein, fat, and carbohydrates, that's when the body can do the "starvation mode" thing and try to save it for later. but if your intake goes back to being low, it'll go away again.
the truckload of salt is just the extra kick in the cahones to make you feel icky about it later when your mouth is dry and your blood pressure skyrockets. but man it tastes good.
we are all different and that is nice. i don't count calories. i just eat until i am full.
i don't restrict salt and my blood pressure is always wonderful.
i am 5' 10". about 165 pounds. 55 years under my belt - (pun intended).
my lipid panel is stunning. my hba1c is in the non-diabetic range despite my having an impaired carbohydrate mechanism.
the only way i can do this is with a little insulin and a restricted carb diet.
that is how it works for me...
:)
-- joel.
Carbs aren't known (proven) to cause heart disease.
Every sucessful weight-loss programme I've been on has been high-carb.
When I'm eating healthily I am pretty much a vegetarian and get almost all of my protein from carbs (save a few dairy products).
Like anything else, complex carbohydrates are not the demon. Over-eating is the demon. I spit on the bogus claims of Atkins, which has encouraged people to stay away from high-fibre food.
as i said. we are all different. i was slim and healthy for a long time on a low fat, high carb diet.
then, at age 45 or so, my lipids stated to blow out and my weight went up and my pancreas decided to go on strike.
now i am healthier than i have been for years. i have lost weight and kept it off for three years by simply restricting carbs to 30-50 grams per day.
the good thing about this is i can eat fat and protein and it makes me full and keeps me full. now i just keep eating until i am no longer hungry.
so, in my case, the only number i have to watch is the amount of carbs i eat.
:)
-- joel.
you're right, of course, we're all different to some degree or another in our metabolic requirements.
if your ability to process carbs is restricted, then eating just carbs isn't gonna be good for you. course you still won't get fat - you'll just die, which is a bit drastic for losing weight. still, physics and chemistry tell us that, overall, you can't get more energy out of a system than you put into it. to put it another, slightly more extreme way: that's how anorexia works. definitely not advocating eating disorders nor making light of them, but there comes a point where it doesn't matter what you eat if you're not meeting your over metabolic requirements. there's a line between "starvation" and "overfed" that can be met with varying difficulty and that is where, I think, the differences between individuals come into play more than anything.
That being said, woo, I dropped 7 lbs in two weeks, despite that pizza. At 6', I'm now 230 lbs. 200 is my goal.
also for dinner, to keep things relevant? I have no clue. I'm up for suggestions. Lunch was rice with imitation crab, soy sauce, sesame seed and spicy garlic chili sauce.
for dinner tonight i am making greek lamb. i have marinated the lamb for 24 hours in olive oil, oregano. paprika and garlic.
i have roasted that for an hour in foil at 180C.
it is resting now.
later on i will shave the meat off and fry it in olive oil to make it crispy.
we will have that with a huge green salad. the girls have tortillas to wrap the meat and salad i, i have some low carb wraps 3g per wrap for mine.
smells awfully good here at the moment.
:)
-- joel.
We are having southern fried bunny.
for dinner tonight i am making greek lamb. i have marinated the lamb for 24 hours in olive oil, oregano. paprika and garlic.
<snip>
smells awfully good here at the moment.
:)
-- joel.
And your GPS coordinates are ?
We'll be right there.
meatloaf and au gratin 'taters.
For the boy - who will be home around one-ish after a long afternoon of scooping ice cream. :)
Chicken with Blackberry Bourbon Sauce
I found a bag of blackberries in the freezer when I went hunting for the chicken and decided it was time to make use of them. I also added a bit of blackberry jam to the bourbon to make a more saucy sauce. Served over exotic rices (brown, wild, red, and some other kind of hippie rice).
And your GPS coordinates are ?
We'll be right there.
:) it was darn good. all gone now. of, course, i just realized my iphone gives me these coordinates.
bad luck eh?
:D:D:D
Southwest King Ranch Casserole was last night and today for lunch.
I ended up using Herdez salsa verde instead of tomatillo sauce and I think it worked just fine.
Here is a picture for Sky, but I don't have the recipe on me. You can find it on Amazon if you search for the Whole Foods cookbook then look inside. Search for King Ranch and there it is. It was supposed to be in an 8x8 pan, but I didn't think it would fit. I think next time, I am going to take all the ingredients except the salsa verde and make enchiladas with it. Or maybe try putting it in a loaf pan.
Southwest King Ranch Casserole? I wonder if they have a Northeast King Ranch Csserole, for the King Ranch holdings here in PA? :haha:
It would probably have pierogies and kielbasa somewhere in it. If you want to get more northeast, maybe crab instead of chicken :D
Now I want Pierogie lasagna!
Now I want Pierogie lasagna!
OMG such a thing exists? I think I just had premature foodjaculation. :blush:
OMG such a thing exists? I think I just had premature foodjaculation. :blush:
Yes. Yes it does :drool:
http://crepesofwrath.net/2008/12/09/pierogi-lasagna/I think you'd need a forklift to get it in/out of the oven. :eek:
oooo - I had the first tomato of the summer today.
heaven!
tonight was farfalle (bowtie) pasta, mixed with kielbasa fried in a pan and a couple cans of tomatos with garlic/olive oil added, quartered artichoke hearts, red pepper flakes, and a few fresh chopped garlic cloves in there for an extra kick.
Chinese take out tonight.
It's late, it's the weekend, and I'll be eating turkey burgers.
Fried green maters, okra and pork chops
Tonight I had beans on toast.
But what I really wanted to report back about was the meal we had last week.
I admit I'm submitting this late AND there are no photos. Sorry.
Mum and Dad order wine by the case. It's not all that fancy, just a cheaper way of doing things. It's drinking wine, not storing wine. And if they leave it a couple of months, the wine club tempts them back with great offers; sometimes discounts and sometimes extras. Dad has perfected the art of playing off a couple of different companies against eachother :)
One of the extras was an Italian food package. And one of the Italian foods enclosed was Stinco Arrosto. We had no idea what it was. My Italian is already restricted to hello, goodbye and ordering from a menu and I'd never come across this item before. It came in a box and in a vacuum selaed pack, with instructions to boil for eight minutes, then brown for another ten in the oven (optional). From this we knew it had to be cured meat, but nothing more. The box gave a description of how delicious it was, but no real explanation of what lay within!
Turns out Stinco means shin. It was cured pork (nothing like ham) on the bone. It was so soft it literally fell off the bone as I tried to carve it. I thought of y'all - I ended up pulling it off with a fork.
It was bloody gorgeous.
We all went back for more, Maureen included and she eats so little compared to us.
If it wasn't so cor-blimey expensive (the one we had sells for £5.40 without P&P) I'd ask for it every week. Given that a raw chicken can be bought for under £3 and gives leftovers it's not a cheap option. But I'm thinking of surprising Mum with one for her birthday - yes, still thinking about that menu. After all, I can keep it under my bed!
The sweet potato souffles that went with it were a success too!
I had a very scrumptious dinner last night that included marinated top round roast cooked in the oven, potatoes kind of cooked in the oven (some were underdone) and Garlic Parmesan orzo.
I don't know what to do with the potatoes. I am thinking of throwing them in the skillet with ham and using that as breakfast. Tried that today without cooking them, but the potatoes are just not cooked enough.
The orzo is going to be hard not to sit with the whole bowl and eat it all! It was SOO good!
yeah, bbro, hash brown them taters.
Tonight is a recipe I've never tried before but is relatively simple, a sort of moroccan or north african lamb and bean stew.
I don't have the full recipe in front of me, but it involves 2.5 lbs chopped up leg of lamb, potatos, onions, and beans (fava in the original recipe, but I'm substituting canellini because I can't seem to find any fava beans for some reason. I think it'll work fine), along with harissa (a spicy red sauce), garlic, rosemary, anchovy, lemon juice, worchestershire sauce, and olive oil. probably a couple other things too, but that's the bulk of it. I can post the recipe if anybody really wants it.
Meat will be browned and onions softened in dutch oven on the range, then potatos added and the whole mess shoved in the oven to slow cook for 2 hours or so.
It should be pretty good, I think. It'll have a unique flavor for sure.
That was also my first time hacking up a leg of lamb like that, which was interesting. The meat texture was really markedly different from beef. I suppose I always knew that, and I know they taste different, but really handling and carving a large-ish slab of it made the point absolutely clear. Too used to seeing meat pre-cut into tiny pieces and not really handling it, I suppose, just chucking it in a pot or pan. Good learning experience, and not nearly as traumatic as it could've been. Admittedly it was also already boned by the butcher, but that was more for a lack of skill on my part than an avoidance thing.
Steak and mushrooms with roast potatoes, gravy and broccoli :yum:
Chicken dressing, with cranberry sauce
Ham, green beans, and sweet potato french fries.
Hot dogs from a gas station, chips, tea, and Ben & Jerry's Cinnamon Buns ice cream
mmm..
going to a friend's for BBQ, taking potato salad.
mayo, vinegar, salt, pepper, sugar
parsely
chives
green onion
onion
celery
green beans
bacon
potatoes
and frilly bits :D
:yum:
Pancakes (crepes) filled with ground beef, onion, mushroom, bacon, parsley, mozzarella and blue cheese.
fucking awesome, even if I do say so myself.
Essentially, pizzas for shrove Tuesday.
WTF I just typed pizza's. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY BRAIN?
Not that much mozzarella! :eek:
Jambalaya with andouille sausage and shrimp...from a box. I have made it from scratch and it tastes just as good to use Zatarain's, but Zatarain's is easier for a weekday and cheaper
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Right now, chips and salsa and white cheddar cheese. Then after the kids are in bed, chicken stir fry with bell peppers and pineapple. Then probably late at night a bowl of rice chex, blueberries, and almond milk.
Right now, chips and salsa and white cheddar cheese. Then after the kids are in bed, chicken stir fry with bell peppers and pineapple. Then probably late at night a bowl of rice chex, blueberries, and almond milk.
Are you pregnant?
We had burritos, guacamole, sour cream, chips, salsa
Right now, chips and salsa and white cheddar cheese. Then after the kids are in bed, chicken stir fry with bell peppers and pineapple. Then probably late at night a bowl of rice chex, blueberries, and almond milk.
Are you pregnant?
WHS ...aren't you the one who claims no interest in food? planning three eating events between now and bed seems pretty darned interested to me.... :lol:
Nah, I don't enjoy it, I just have to eat that much or else I fall under the line of being underweight. I probably burn as many calories as a professional athlete during the day, carrying my damn heavy kids all over the fucking place. Though for the record, I didn't end up eating the cereal.
Well they're not yet heavy damn kids, so that's a good sign.
They would be if mum would stop eating their food!
It was gonna be tacos last night until I called Pete and reminded her that her FiL wouldn't appreciate the whole meaty Friday thing during Lent. Spinach stuffed shells instead.
We had midwest (or maybe only St. Louis?) Catholic-lent-Friday-dinner.
Fish sticks and macaroni and cheese.
Baked rigatoni.
a lot like Baked Ziti only when you don't have ziti but DO have rigatoni.
A very late dinner tonight. I'll be meeting MB at one of our neighborhood taverns after he finishes work. Veggie burger for me, I think...and a pint or two of cider.
I bought too much chicken. I mean really too much. Instead of my usual pack of three boneless breasts, I ended up with six. I didn't want to freeze it, so I doused the whole lot in Iron Chef Orange Ginger sauce, threw it in the oven, and have hoped for the best.
I will still probably end up freezing some, but will eat chicken for the next couple of days ...
Cooked chicken is always good to have on hand for quick dinners. Shred it or cube it and keep it in the freezer.
Next time you might make that much on purpose. :)
Three of our favorites:
Tortilla soup
Stir fry
Chicken tetrazzini
I used to be unimpressed with boneless chicken breast. It was always tough and dry and rubbery. But then we learned how to cook it. We do two things differently now. Pound it a little to make it a uniform thickness. Got an instant read digital thermometer so we can monitor it and take it off the heat the instant it reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit. Now it's moist and tender every time. Cooking method doesn't really matter. Poach, broil, fry. It's all the same inside.
We had midwest (or maybe only St. Louis?) Catholic-lent-Friday-dinner.
Fish sticks and macaroni and cheese.
General Midwest. On the weeks you don't have that, you have tuna noodle casserole.
General Midwest. On the weeks you don't have that, you have tuna noodle casserole.
Oh yeah.
General Midwest. On the weeks you don't have that, you have tuna noodle casserole.
yeah, if you're RICH.
We had tomato soup and grilled cheese and we liked it, dammit.
yeah, if you're RICH.
We had tomato soup and grilled cheese and we liked it, dammit.
Another common choice. We had this a lot.
Nobody knew how to cook vegetarian back then, and coming from the midwest fish meant fish sticks or tuna.
One we didn't have often back then, but is a lot more common now - cheese pizza.
Shepherds' pie and carrots. yummeh.
.. or maybe it was only one shepherd?
Shepherds' pie and carrots. yummeh.
We had that for dinner tonight too! But the carrots were in a salad, so there was lettuce and red bell peppers too. A brownie for dessert.
Roast Chicken and Trader Joe's Harvest grain mix. I might throw some cauliflower in there, too.
I'm about to cook up some baked ziti for tonight's midnight meal.
Neighbors upstairs are having a party...hope they have plenty of their own food! I know what sautéed onions and peppers and baking cheese does to drunk people, and I'm not feeding any of them if they come down and bang on my door. :lol:
How'd your potato soup turn out, bbro?
That sounds so good!
How'd your potato soup turn out, bbro?
That sounds so good!
Too much pepper :greenface I don't know if I measured wrong, or the recipe just has too much
I am trying to figure out how to salvage it since I made about 10 servings. Also, it didn't thicken like I thought it would with the flour and half and half. Sometimes I don't see the thickening until after a day in the fridge though....trying to pawn some off on a guy friend of mine :cool:
I will be adding corn to it tonight and tomorrow. Then, I am going to add some cheese and bacon bits to try and get some of the Baked Potato feel. Then, some turkey sausage slices. Gotta change it up for a single person who has to eat 10 servings!! :D I am hoping some of this will balance out the pepper.
Other than that - it's not bad. Nice and chunky. I would probably add garlic to it next time, too.
Did you use the fat free half and half? Seems to me that things would be different in a fat-free version of something used for thickening. I wonder if it makes a difference?
I would forgo the bread bowl. They're cute and all but I'd rather enjoy the soup, not eat a loaf of bread.
I definitely did not use the bread bowl - it is way too many calories and seems like such a waste! I did use the fat free half and half. I have never used half and half period, so I just went with it. I usually use skim milk for everything, so never thought twice. This also might be the reason that my soups don't thicken until after a night in the fridge :)
most soups thicken with time. but fat-free half-and-half? what were you thinking? if it can't be named in 2-3 syllables, it shouldn't be cooked with. WTF is fat-free half-and-half anyway? Look at how many calories/how much fat is in the real stuff. Not a whole shitload more. It's not worth the sacrifice.
but fat-free half-and-half? what were you thinking?
I was thinking - hey look - a recipe, I will follow it.
Anyway - I added some cheddar cheese, corn and bacon bits to make a very tasty, filling soup. It cut down on the pepper taste, too. I suspect the cheese :) I will definitely be having this again for dinner tonight
I pretty much follow recipes word for word, I'm no chef.
The cheese will always make things better. :) Sometimes it stands alone.
I made spaghetti and meatballs and garlic bread last night. It sounded good but didn't taste so great. Frozen meatballs, way too many. Garlic bread always hits the spot, though.
I do not follow recipes. I don't like anyone telling me what to do :lol:
I do not follow recipes. I don't like anyone telling me what to do :lol:
:lol: - If it is my first time making the recipe, I try to follow it since I am not that intuitive of a cook. If I start to make it more often, I will kind of go off on my own.
monkey - that sounds good to me :) I just opened a jar of sauce. I have to doctor it up and do something with it. I might freeze it though.
Baked pork chops
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons ketchup
6 pork chops, trimmed
Directions
1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2.In a small bowl, thoroughly blend soy sauce, vegetable oil, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, brown sugar, and ketchup.
3.Place pork chops in a medium baking dish, and spread with 1/2 the sauce.
4.Bake pork chops 30 minutes in the preheated oven. Turn, and spread with remaining sauce. Continue baking 30 minutes.
Recipe adjusted as I'm not making for six. Fingers crossed
Last night we had butter chicken and spicy chickpea and lentil curry with rice. It was good!
Chops not nice.
Overcooked.
I forgot American chops are a much larger cut of meat.
Never mind. Worth a try.
I love Butter Chicken!
It sounds so innocent...
Someone would always make it for Diwali or Eid when I lived in Leicester.
Tonight will be shrimp stir fry - from a frozen package - and rice.
I took this photo 2.5 hours ago for a new high-end pizza/pasta restaurant website I'm doin'.
They packaged the meal up and gave it to me to take home.
Best clams I ever et. (I skipped the pasta because J is coming home with salad.)
I have never eaten clams. That looks tasty.
ick. Don't like that pic.
I had some Potatoes Going Funny Soup.
I checked out several potato soup recipes and realized I didn't half half that shit in my cupboard, so I made things up as I went along ...
See, I had these potatoes that I bought two weeks ago at not my regular supermarket ... and they went funny fast. Didn't just grow those stubby little eye things (which doesn't happen that swiftly with my regular market taties), but they put out these colored things that were starting to produce leaves and all.
Didn't want to throw them away, and needed a way to salvage three potatoes at once (I had used one for a cheese potato and sausage omelet last weekend).
Had an onion sitting around too ... peeled and diced, tossed into the pot with some oil (plain old veggie oil, couldn't find the olive oil, might have thrown it away post expiration date). While the onions were sweating, knocked off the eyes, scrubbed, peeled, and diced the taters.
Tossed them into the onions.
Added garlic powder, black pepper, cooked for 15 minutes, covered with water, cooked for another 15 minutes. Added a wee bit more water.
Then I tried to used the immersion blender attachment from my Kitchenaid Handmixer. Useless for this application ... put on regular beaters. Splashed soup around kitchen, but ended up with a smooth soup, which is what I wanted.
Awesome, particularly with a handful of cheese and some croutons tossed at it.
I took this photo 2.5 hours ago for a new high-end pizza/pasta restaurant website I'm doin'.
Could you PM me the name of the restaurant ... or I could wait until they appear in your customer list. But I might want to check them out sooner than that ...
Fish-n-chips. With plenty of salt and vinegar.
Have found a chippy that sells 'mini' fish portions. Which is great because I always end up leaving half the food. Now I might actually finish what I bought!
I have a charm that might not be obvious to the naked eye.
For every size and shape I've been, I've always hypnotised independent fast food sellers.
From when I was a tiny teen to the 'bab van, to getting a free drink at the 'bab shop (with the student nurses) to various chicken and pizza and F&C outlets.
When the rents were away I'd go to the F&C shop for Grandad.
I would ask for a piece of fish and half a scoop of chips.
I'd even advise them to remove chips from the scoop - he simply would not eat them. Over time they would only charge me for the fish :)
Same with the kebab place in Leyton.
So many times I told them only to put one layer of kebab on my roll.
So when I was really brassic I'd go in and lay my coins on the counter (no shame!) and ask what it would buy me. They always managed to make a full roll for me, and sometimes lied to give me chips too.
That's why we got discounted ice-creams!
True.
One way or another it looked like I would eat you if I didn't get enough icecream.
Pork chops , Greens , Augraten taters , it was DEEEEELISH !!!
I had a bratzel, a Breckenridge vanilla porter and a Bell's cream stout at Flying Saucer. That shit was good.
Dinner was in two decadent parts tonight:
Had an early fun meal at Austin Grill in Rockville, MD. Smokey barbacoa beef enchiladas with chipotle sauce, and gigantic margaritas! Grilled chicken wings and bites of fried cheesecake were also involved.
Later, had a half of a juicy gourmet burger at Vintage Wine Bar in Philly. Topped with Manchego cheese, bacon and roasted red pepper.
Pan fried blade steak, medium-rare, with bread fried in olive oil, Greek salad, beer.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.. :)
Lasagne and salad. It was good.
Tonight we're having slow roasted pork with baked potatoes and pumpkin. Roasted whole garlic and capsicum and zucchini with also brocoli and cauliflower in cheese sauce, all smothered in a rich thick gravy made from the pork juices.
I'm thinking tonight is fried chicken...
but grilled is more healthy
Smoked Salmon and Shrimp on a bed of lettuce with cocktail dipping sauce
Rib-Eye Steak
Sauteed potatoes
Mushrooms
Onion Rings
Snow Peas
Sauteed Asparagus
Quad-decker Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream, whipped cream and Mars Bar (Milky Way) slices
Trifle
:D
I forgot to mention the cheese and crackers, but we don't have room right now, so mybe I was seeing the future. :lol:
Made an awesome Turkey "Creole". Speechmarks because I don't want anyone to be offended by the fact it was a recipe from a British Turkey site, and actually had no creole flavouring that I could see. But I added some. Well, my version. Which might be even MORE offensive.
Look, okay, I'll let you make "Cornish" pasties if you let me make Turkey "Creole".
Made in advance and left to settle (covered of course).
But tasting while making says nom nom nom.
See what those dining think.....
Mum has already intefered by buying broccoli as a side (wtf?) and saying "It's okay, I'll cook that. And the potatoes" okay, so rice & peas is out then.
But I have a march on her as she's chopsing away, so at least I can try to do the two unwanted ingredients my way...?
Also bought some bread - it's a more "saucy" recipe than I had expected, perhaps because of my changes. You've gotta have crusty bread if you're making a recipe in sauce, right?
You've gotta have crusty bread if you're making a recipe in sauce, right?
That's what the Creole's say.
Turns out there was a bit too much of a "tingle".
Still, saying that, Mum still suggests I might like to make it for the next time the Girls come round. If a little bit less "tingly".
This is good, as I made the meal last time and it went down well.
I can be a culinary matermind once again (mwah-ha-ha-ha!!!!)
It's just this time I'll try not to get offended about any of her suggestions or amendments. Referring to the last Girl's Night, nit tonight. Hand on heart I realise that her main issue is the fact that the food is home cooked, as the only lady in her group who doesn't home cook is slightly looked down upon.
Tonight is the last night of chicken tacos. I will be starting the filling for the shells from the chicken sausage thread because I WILL be making them tomorrow night for dinner. I will have pictures over there, too.
Falafel. With heirloom tomatoes (the real star of the show, they were... inexpressibly delicious), butter lettuce, sweet onion on pita bread. The tziki sauce I made using my girlfriend's recipe was very tasty, but thin and on the sweet side.
Only the resolutely parasitical vote for Obama or a Democratic candidate, V. You should be bitterly ashamed. But not of your cooking.
I will be having chicken a la king over wheat egg noodles. Cross your fingers - I have never made it before!
Chicken korma tonight.
Low fat version.
Well, lower fat.
Breakfast
Sausage, eggs, Ezekiel raisin toast with peanut butter and marmalade
Tonight is a revamp of my stuffed zucchini boats
Tornado weather = chicken pot pie soup!!
Pastry in a soup?!
Or is Pot Pie a pie without pastry?
Which means it is not a pie at all....?
My head is e.x.p.l.o.d.i.n.g!
My mama makes a beef 'pot pie' that isn't actually a pie. It's squares of a thick pasta she cuts up and cooks in with the cooked beef that's now in a broth. So it's soupy. And it's the yum.
When we were kids I called it Popeye.
What does 'POG' stand for?
Papaya Orange Guava juice
or
Potato Onion Garlic soup
Pastry in a soup?!
Or is Pot Pie a pie without pastry?
Which means it is not a pie at all....?
My head is e.x.p.l.o.d.i.n.g!
LOL - it is more like the second. It is pretty much the filling for chicken pot pie (I think - I've never made it). This is the recipe I use:
http://crepesofwrath.net/2008/11/16/chicken-pot-pie-soup/
It is REALLY good. I haven't made it yet, but I will tonight and post some pictures for ya over on my cooking thread :D
LOL - it is more like the second. It is pretty much the filling for chicken pot pie (I think - I've never made it). This is the recipe I use: http://crepesofwrath.net/2008/11/16/chicken-pot-pie-soup/
It is REALLY good. I haven't made it yet, but I will tonight and post some pictures for ya over on my cooking thread :D
Boo - can't find my camera. Sorry Sundae! No pictures :(
The other night, guacamole was the MUST HAVE taste as dinner approached. We stopped at a fruit and vegetable stand on the side of the road and got some suitable avocados. Next to the avocados was a package of hush puppie mix, so we got some of that too. Hush puppies and... and fried catfish of course. I don't any pictures of the making (pretty simple rinse fish, pat dry, cover with beaten egg, dredge through fish fry mix, fry), but I do have before and after pictures.
Delicious!!!!
V - looks wonderful!
What are hush puppies?
I could look it up, but I'd prefer to hear it from a real person ;)
Chicken in BBQ sauce tonight.
With red rice and/ or roasted sweet potatoes (I'll have a bit of each, Mum doesn't like sweet potatoes much, Dad isn't fussy) and a side salad for greenery.
Home made pork and beans. YUM!!!
Thanks, it was delicious.
Hush puppies are made from finely ground cornmeal and some savory spices. Spices, I don't know, the spicy kind? Actually, they're not spicy they're just tasty. I bought a pre made dry mix, these weren't from scratch. I added an egg and four tablespoons of water to make a very thick paste. I formed them into rough spheres about the size of golf balls. I flattened these slightly so I could have a definite top and bottom as I fried them in about half an inch of oil, not immersed as in a deep fryer. This let me more easily control the evenness of the cooking. Anyhow, they're fried up for a couple minutes and you can see them in the upper left corner of the first picture. They came out hot of course with a steaming interior. They are about two or three bites each. We served them with honey on the table and tartar sauce, but you could use butter or hot sauce or whatever you like. The taste (indeed the ingredients, especially the corn meal) is very similar to the fish fry coating. I made about ten of them and we had three left over for snacking later.
Looks good BigV! Now I want hush puppies.
I think I am having a BBQ chicken wrap
I have cornmeal, egg, and I certainly have spices.
Do you think I could bake rather than fry?
They sound good.
Now I can justify looking up recipes.
Tonight:
Lamb Burgers with cucumber sauce and pickled red onions on top.
Asparagus in the oven with drizzled balsamic vinegar.
Orzo pasta.
Red wine.
I have cornmeal, egg, and I certainly have spices.
Do you think I could bake rather than fry?
They sound good.
Now I can justify looking up recipes.
No, I don't think you can bake hush puppies. Frying's kind of the point. You can make delicious cornbread by baking, different taste, different texture. Same corn, etc. Why wouldn't you fry them?
I'm lousy at frying.
I don't know exactly what I do wrong, but I always seem to have too much oil, on too low a heat (so it gets absorbed and doesn't crisp) or too little (so it sticks) or too high a heat so it burns. And I can't work out what is wrong quickly enough to change it.
I just never learned to fry properly.
Yes, I blame Mum ;)
Apparently Nanny Robinson (Dad's Mum) fried everything, which was common. So Mum set about converting him after they married.
To this day I can make a decent English breakfast, but not a fried one.
Last night we had something like a beef wellington, but with pork fillet instead, cause pork is cheap here at the moment.
I wrapped the fillet in bacon then fried it, then laid out the pastry and spread a desert plum and pepperberry jam over it. Then wrapped the cooled meat in it. Baked for about 30 mins. It was nice. I also served lightly steamed green veges with cheese sauce, and something I call a pumpkin puff, which didn't quite turn out how I was hoping, but pretty close. Basically it's just mashed pumpkin mixed up to a kind of batter with SR flour and baking powder with a bit of chicken stock, then into a pan to bake with cheese on the top. Oh, I folded a couple of whipped egg whites into it too. So almost a kind of souffle, but not quite.
To this day I can make a decent English breakfast, but not a fried one.
Oxymoron right there. It's not right without fried eggs and fried bread.....
(and how do you cook the tomatoes and mushrooms?)
I'll let you grill (broil) the meat, although over here that's apparently an anathema -the bacon must fry until it's so crispy it's a fire hazard.... ;)
Grilled bacon & sausage, poached or scrambled egg (although I always have fried if someone else is cooking!), beans and toast. And a mug of tea.
I always ask for no mushroom or tomato if I am eating out and I can't stand fried bread.
You eat at my house, you get my version :)
fried bread
Seriously, just bread that's fried? In a skillet, or deep fried? Plain, or buttered, dipped in something (eggs and milk would make it french toast in USA), or seasoned?
See Spexx, in the UK they don't have the same kind of bread that we have. Theirs is made of ground beef and cheese.
Seriously, plain bread, in a skillet, and the oil is traditionally the leftover from the bacon.
Seriously, plain bread, in a skillet, and the oil is traditionally the leftover from the [COLOR="Red"]bacon[/COLOR].
Well that's ok, then.
Seriously, plain bread, in a skillet, and the oil is traditionally the leftover from the bacon.
Back in the 70s, I knew a family who called that Puerto Rican toast, but I think it was an ethnic slur.
That doesn't sound much different than buttered toast, really.
I don't know. Toasted bread with a sheen of butter vs soft bread soaked and fried in a hot tub of bacon grease...
Infi has it right.
Fried bread is greasy. Toast is drier.
I thought this was the dinner thread?
Last night we had a chicken salad. It had crunchy iceberg lettuce with dried cranberries, mango, avocado, capsicum, grated cheese, spring onion, and of course roasted chicken. I used a lemon and garlic creamy dressing.
It was yummy.
Lettuce, cheese, spring onions & chicken.
Yup, sounds good to me. You can have the other ingredients ;)
I had shop-bought Mojito Chicken. It was originally £4.00, discounted to £1.50 (two portions) Bloody lovely. Am having the other portion for lunch today. With brown rice of course.
I've no idea what mojito chicken is, but it sounds good.
Tonight we're having a pasta dish with a spicy tomato sauce with chorizo. It's a bit of a fav here and always smells good cooking.
Infi has it right.
Fried bread is greasy. Toast is drier.
back on breakfast... or all day breakfast?
fried bread is only greasy if you do it wrong ( need fresh oil, medium to high heat ) or make the mistake of ordering it in a cafe.
p.s... last nights dinner... fresh made potato gnocci just swimming in butter and sage. :D
Last night I made steak sandwiches, with grilled onions, tomato, and worcestershire-mayonnaise. Asparagus on the side. Goddamn they were good.
Left over spag bol tonight.
And Mediterranean bread. Yummy.
Beef Mix 'N' Match Meatballs... Easy cheesey recipe.
fish n chips. homemade and so yummy. thanks, beest (he makes the best)
We're gonna have hamburgers tonight. I was thinking about doing a roast, but honestly, I can't be fucked. :)
I had salmon patties last night. And the night before...and the night before.
I can't seem to get enough of them. Also, they're easy and I haven't felt much like cooking.
Mostly I like them for the little round bones. :yum:
Mum & Dad are having fish tonight.
Pope Benedict says no meat on Fridays again. I think they'd rather he cleaned up the Church's act, but they tag along anyway.
I'll probably have beans on toast. Can't be arsed to cook.
Our burgers were good last night. :) In the end I think I put as much effort into making them yummy as I would have done with a roast, but the kids were probably happier with burgers.
Big-ass pot o' chili and cornbread.
Yummers!
NEED THAT!
Well.
Need that like I need oral sex.
A mouthful that I'd enjoy but won't help me lose weight and might make me feel bad afterwards.
Big-ass pot o' chili and cornbread.
Yummers!
I had that for dinner last night. It was awesome.
last nights diner was steak and potatoes
kinda.
Burgers, corn on the cob.
I'm making this now so it will be ready for dinner time:
http://gimmesomeoven.com/steak-soup-vegetable-beef-soup/Beef casserole. As in crock pot: beef potatoes carrots mushrooms onion seasoning herbs stock
I'm honestly not sure.
Chicken breasts defrosting in fridge.
Nice things on shopping list (onions, red peppers etc) but no idea what is planned.
Mum cooking tonight (obviously).
Slowly, slowly, trainee monkey, I have won her round to my way of cooking. Well, a bit. It is likely that she will be using some sort of marinade. Or at the very least a shake-bag of spices. I cook from scratch more than her, but she has been won over to sauces and spices.
We had roast pork and veges with the best gravy I've ever made. I decided to put in a bit more effort than usual, and took all the juices from the cooking pork plus the pan scrapings. I put them in a pot with a few cloves of garlic and a bit of extra stock (bovril) along with some salt, pepper and just a pinch of sugar. I cooked that down a bit, then added in a cup or so of champagne. After that I moved to the fry pan. I made a roux and then poured my sauce in along with some cream. After that, a good run through a sieve to get out the bits of garlic and stuff and we ended up with an extremely rich and tasty gravy. MmmmmMmmmm!
You have champagne and cream just hanging around?
Yeah - you know when I said you were welcome at mine any time?
Give me at least 48 hours notice, mmm-kay.
Sounds bloody good by the way.
Well I always have cream in the fridge, so it's a yes to that. I do often have champagne or sparkling wine around too, but we usually have a fair few different types of wine in the wine rack, for drinking or cooking.
We also have a fairly wide range of herbs and spices in the cupboard dried or fresh in the fridge. We also keep bones and stuff for making stock in the freezer.
It's part of our efforts to have a whole food diet as much as possible without going to extremes. Once you get your pantry sorted it's easy to replenish as you go, but it's taken us quite a while to get the kitchen to the stage where we feel quite confident that we can cook just about anything from scratch.
We're not the type of family that shops each day or every other day to cook specific meals, so that's part of it too. We buy in bulk to save money and freeze what we're not eating in the next couple of days.
The gravy was very yummy. I caught Aden drinking it out of the jug when he was cleaning up the kitchen. lol
I made a "rancher's pie" which is a shepherd's pie that uses left over steak instead of lamb and everyone knows that shepherds don't heard cows but rancher's do so that's the name I gave it.
Great comfort food and pretty easy to make which is good after a long week and weekend!
Whew. I have lost of herbs & spices and cupboard staples of pulses and dried stock and tinned veggies etc.
But you can bring the champers ;)
Chris, that sounds great to me right now.
I am about to have beans on toast!
I went out blackberrying about half an hour ago.
As I was walking back, carrying my healthy and free food, a man walked past from his car into his house carrying a KFC bag. I wanted to mug him. But that's illegal.
* Boneless, skinless chicken breast dredged in seasoned wheat germ and browned
* A 4-5 oz portabella mushroom sliced long ways and sauteed in garlic butter
* A fresh tomato sliced, with feta crumbled on top and a quick splash of a local greek salad dressing
* Vegetable-yet-to-be-named (could be roasted brussel sprouts, steamed broccoli or summer squash or carrots...or even something from a can :eek:). I'll see how I feel when I get to that point.
Cobb Salad. The ham is left over from earlier in the week, so all I have to do is boil the eggs and assemble. That's my favorite kind of prep time.
Mini-roast dinner.
Mum cooking.
I ate separately, but then I mostly do after the enormous row about her coughing at the dinner table.
Mum used the 15 minute seasoning on some lamb steaks/ chops. It was mint-based and yummy. They had the steaks but Mum said they were chewy and tasteless. I had the chops (because they were from the freezer and an afterthought!) and they were moist and delicious. Although you barely got a bite of meat out of either once fat and bone were accounted for. Hence my problem with lamb.
It was a HUGE dinner anyway - I put half the potatoes, carrots & peas aside for lunch tomorrow. I was intending to save half the lamb, but that would have been ridiculous. Might take a slice of cooked chicken from the fridge.
We had chicken satay last night. With saffron rice. It was good. :)
I think I'll drop by Wegman's after work. Last time I went, they had slabs of sushi grade raw tuna at the sushi bar. I need some more of that. I just wish they served beer like the one in Downingtown.
Had to move the older frozen chicken out of the freezer to make room for the new frozen chicken.
Browned the chicken, then had to figure out what to do with it ... found some orange marmalade in the cupboard, orange juice in the fridge, honeyed whiskey in the liquor cabinet, and for reasons that remain unclear, cinnamon in the spice drawer.
Cooked the chicken, reduced the sauce, did some rice and carrots for the sides.
I'm having pasta with sausage and ragu sauce with Pizza Seasoning from Penzey's
Moose balls!!! :eek::eek::eek:
Well, not those kind of balls, AKA Rocky Mountain Oysters but basically meatballs made with a large proportion of ground moose meat, some high grade beef or buffalo meat and some Italian sausage.
Mixed it up with some Italian style seasonings, garlic, egg and bread crumbs and made golf ball size meat balls. Rolled them in some bread crumbs for a crunch and fried in a pan of olive oil and then finished in the oven.
Great with pasta, rice or potatoes and moose is a lot like beef as far as taste, not too gamey.
Oh I forgot to add that I am using up last year's moose meat since my son shot a 1600 lb moose in Alaska and is planning on shipping some of it home along with about 100 lbs of King Salmon.
That is great Chris!
I never do anything special for dinner anymore and tonight wasn't different, but...
We had Ham steaks, mashed potatoes (fake) and broccoli - all made by Son2! His first dinner made solo in well over 2 years!
(Maybe this belongs in the proud parent thread)
We had tempura veges and thai style prawn cakes last night. It was yummy served with wasabi mayo.
Tonight I'm not sure, but it'll probably be something simple.
Might just have a cheese & onion cobs*.
I bought a pack of four today, not realising Mum already has six in the freezer.
So I can eat two fresh and freeze the other two, then take them into work for the next few days.
I only had a cuppasoup for lunch, so eating two isn't two piggy.
* crusty bread rolls.
It's cold and wet and snowing ... so it's time to get out the cauldron and make some ...
Stew.
Yes, I make a lot of stew.
Today we have Spice Drawer (I couldn't devote a cabinet to it, but I have more kitchen drawers than I know what to do with) Stew.
I had a pound of frozen stew beef that I defrosted about 3/4 of the way ... it's easier to cut those huge chunks into bite sized bits when there's still some freeze on it.
Browned the beef in a bit of oil (vegetable, it's what I had), and then took everything out of the spice drawer and threw some at it.
Okay, not quite everything. I didn't use the lemon peel, or anything containing salt, or any of the Emeril Essences, since I didn't want 'Asian' or 'Southwest' stew this time. I did use garlic powder, onion powder, onion pieces (yes, I had a real onion and real garlic, but they had gone funny on me and I didn't feel safe using either in food i actually intend to eat), basil, oregano, ginger, hot pepper flakes, black pepper, and my favorite cooking liquid, Wild Turkey American Honey. After much consideration, I decided not to use the cinnamon and nutmeg ... Don't gag. I have done this, and it's a really interesting flavor to bring into something savory.
The stew is yummy. And warming.
I have to get some cocoa going.
You and Pete are on the same wave length today as there is stew in the crock pot. Myself, I like stew very little. Boiled meat is teh ick, but I will compromise for the oh oh oh.
The trick is to let the meat do a lot of the cooking before you add the liquids ... it won't have that boily taste to it. Sear and brown the meat before you add the liquid. Nothing browns in the crock ... It just gets kind of uniformly gray. Another thing to watch is never really boil ... simmer for a long time, yeah.
I've been doing stews in my big-ass pot lately. I usually want food faster than the crockpot delivers it. For me, stew is done when the carrots reach the right stew-like consistency.
Ha! I'm with you. I made 8 quarts of wild mushroom & veggie soup today with whatever I had.
Considering I used stuff I had on hand and just winged it, I feel like I made 6 meals for two for basically nothing.
It was teh yummeh! Froze 4 quarts and gave one to my neighbor who has been begging me for some of my shrooms..
Well not for me. This particular species is called Grifola frondosa. I have gotten more this year than I can ever recall. I have about 30-40 lbs vacuum sealed, labeled and frozen. I also dried a few this year for the first time. I've had a great season and at $20+ per lb. I can eat well and they haven't cost me a dime (other than driving to hike about for them)
Dazza made a really nice pasta with prawns and italian herbs and grilled capsicum and olives. A little chilli too. It was good. Even better that I didn't cook it.
Looks like a lot of us had the same idea - I made beef stew on a whim tonight :)
Tonight we had chilli beef and rice, with a side of corn chips and salsa all the way from Arizona, courtesy of my Cellar Secret Santa. It was teh YUMMMEH!!
Leftover Chinese from Mum & Dad's dinner earlier.
I'd been back to the school for the evening performance of the play, so I was hon-grey.
Nom nom nom, thanks very much.
Got the staff room buffet lunch tomorrow.
I am taking boxes for leftovers.
There will be LOTS.
Approx 30 staff @ £4 per head. And obviously no alcohol.
£120 of food to be eaten in 40 minutes...? No.
But the office staff fall between two stools. They are salaried, like the teachers; but like the TAs their wage is below average.
So they err on the side of caution and try to provide a mixture of quantity and quality.
Anyway, I'm off to Boots after school, but I finish at 19.00.
Just in time to work up an appetite for my second round :yum:
I have sesame chicken cucumber salad on it's way. never tried that. sounded interesting.
MB is making salmon with red potatoes, acorn squash and arugula. Nice and healthy, after the chicken wings and onion rings we had for apps at happy hour.
Wild rice with cranberries, chicken thighs with sweet chili sauce, and sauteed mushrooms. I really would have preferred the orange-honey sauce with the chicken, but I was too tired to bother mixing it up.
Tonight I had dinner on the table at 5pm prompt. I was so amazed. It was from-scratch spag bol with mushrooms and carrots as sides. Well penne, not spag -because Hector finds it easier with his braces, but.....
$5.00 for a large pizza. At least the company was great.
I have sesame chicken cucumber salad on it's way. never tried that. sounded interesting.
Awesome. A new favorite.
I had salmon for dinner, at Led Robster. :yum: We met up for mom's birthday.
Spicy Thai Peanut Noodles with broccoli and Asian-spiced chicken.
The noodles were leftover from a New Year's party last night, made the chicken late last week, and the broccoli was frozen but of uncertain provenance ... it's been up there a while, I think.
ham , Black eyed peas , cabbage All for luck and Money in the new year
Bowl of Bachelor's mushroom soup with a couple of pieces of buttered bread.
earlier I had half a tin of baked beans eaten straight from the tin.
ham , Black eyed peas , cabbage All for luck and Money in the new year
It's official. This is now tonight's menu. Thanks zippyt!
Dont forget the corn bread There V !!
this is done, and it was delicious.
My Mom used to make corned beef and cabbage on the New Year "for luck", this was good too. The only interesting part was when I caught the oven on fire a couple times. I'm getting a new oven, goddammit. I'm tired of burning shit in it because it uses the broiler element all the time. There are pictures, but by the time I retreated to get the camera, the flames were unimpressive.
Dinner was delicious however.
We're having fish and mudcrab and salad. I'm not cooking, so it's going to taste great no matter what.
Today's kitchen experiment is ...
Carrot and Ginger soup, as a consequence of the recent carrot sale at my stupidmarket.
Onions and garlic sweated in oil, add in some ginger, dump in the carrots, add some pepper, and then a load of chicken stock (three cans for two pounds of carrots, I probably could have gone with two just fine) then bring to a boil, back off to simmer for 15 minutes (or until the carrots are nicely soft).
Then it got whizzed through the Very Dangerous Blender to make it more soupy.
I ran out of ladles and serving spoons because I kept dipping out a cup, putting the used ladle in the sink, and then I realized I wanted more and I had to get out a new ladle, and then I'd put it in the sink and realize I wanted more, and then ... well, you get it.
It is really good.
I'll probably back off on the pepper, and come up on the ginger next time.
I started feeling sick at work today, so my very understanding wife went out and got fixings for matzoh ball soup and made a large pot of it that I will be eating all weekend.
BTW, any of you Brits need to immediately cross the channel and try one of these
Darth Vader Burgers on a black bun and get back to me with a report.
BBTW Wolf, when are you coming over for dinner?
I started feeling sick at work today, so my very understanding wife went out and got fixings for matzoh ball soup and made a large pot of it that I will be eating all weekend.
ooooh. Light or heavy balls? My friend's grandmom made the heavy kind, and I dutifully ate them for many years, but I have a great fondness for the light, fluffy ones ...
BTW, any of you Brits need to immediately cross the channel and try one of these Darth Vader Burgers on a black bun and get back to me with a report.
gunmaster may be able to give us an on-the-ground report, I hope.
BBTW Wolf, when are you coming over for dinner?
What does your schedule look like?
that soup looks good
it does!
tonight is fresh nolan ryan ribeyes. oh and a tater of course!
[nostalgia] i remember waaaay back when, i was at the astros game where nolan ryan hit a homer to straight away center in the astrodome. ahhhhhh memories![/nostalgia]
Pork ribs, zucchini, and potatoes. Very tasty.
Somewhere on here I posted that I was making a ham pie from Christmas leftovers.
Given that we only have small pie dishes and the recipe served 6-8 I split it in two.
I thought it was yummy, and it certainly seemed to go down with the 'rents, but Mum seemed a bit keen to put the second pie in the freezer. That'll be discreetly disposed of, I thouhgt.
Nope, we had it again this week, and it was as good as I remembered.
I can't pat my back majorly - it was from a recipe after all, and in fact I didn't really put enough pastry on it. But it was my idea to use the ham this way (after carbonara was rejected) as all Mum could think of was cold ham with jacket pots and pickles or cold ham with aggs - both of which she did.
We have a turkey crown as our roast tonight.
Yummy.
I might even suggest a turkey pie along the same lines as long as enough is left (unlikely - Mum loves turkey sandwiches the next day).
oh, lord. Don't talk to me about pies. Imma doin' atkins again. I did in 2003 and lost a lot of weight and felt really, really good; so now that I am at my absolute nadir of exisistence, I've decided I"m NOT going to die anytime soon (not soon enough, anyway) and my plan to just lie on the couch until I decomposed wasn't working so I'd better do something different.
wish I knew how to post pics. truth is, I've no camera or pic taking instrument in the house. Im doing this for a solid year and then I'll re=evaluate if Imma gonna live.
In the meantine, enjoy that crust!!
PS
I know that post contains a lot of typos.
I'm tired.
I'm not sleeping.
i wonder if i'll ever sleep again????
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Brianna, is it expensive to do Atkins? I gotta do something. Apparently my metabolism expired at at age 47.
Brianna, is it expensive to do Atkins? I gotta do something. Apparently my metabolism expired at at age 47.
It doesn't have to be $$$$$ and you KNOW I'm on a budget.
The thing is - after a week (or even less) my cravings for sugar and carbs is DONE and I eat normal to small amounts of the food I am allowed to have. The freedom from the absolute control of carbs is, for me, a wonderful thing. I feel so good and then I wonder why I fall off the wagon when carbs make me feel so very, very tired and moody. eh, life.
It is protein heavy - and that means meat - (no dairy in first two weeks of induction) but if you throw in a lot of vegs (peppers, broccoli, snow peas, green beans, water chestnuts, etc) you can really make the meat stretch and I've found I just am NOT HUNGRY. When I'm eating carbs, I eat like I'm living at the county fair - high carbs, high fat. And every Burger King commercial sends me wandering into the kitchen for something to eat, I'm that addicted.
Chicken breasts are 1.99/lb. at Kroger all the time. You can make chicken salad with real mayo and celery and eat all you want. that's not $$$$.
It's pretty reasonable, really. The expensive things are the Atkins bars or shakes which I only use in dire emergencies - like no time or needing something sweet or I'll drink.
I know it's a controversial diet but it has worked for me in the past with very little pain - whereas low fat diets left me starving and miserable and feeling very, very deprived. Eggs are big on this diet and they are cheap, too.
A doctor I respect and admire actually recommended atkins for me. He says it's the best diet for alcoholics as it def. evens out your insulin levels and cravings.
I may look into it. I do love chicken and eggs.
But no bread, or rice, or...
Still, I know it works for people.
The beautiful thing is - if you can find what works for you you're nearly there.
Everytime i hear AA busllhit about "You must to the program this way or that way!" I think, wow, chemo wasn't (and isn't) like that. Not one chemo fits all - so why should one AA fit all? Or one approach to sobriety? or one diet?
Bodies are as different as plants. Some just have more mass, is all. :)
It's true you have to work with what works for you.
But the basic idea of Atkins is basically a load of old shit, and has been proven to be.
Long term it's extremely unhealthy.
Although that's without moderating it.
And the bottom line is that if you moderate it, or amend it to work for you, you are compromising the "science" that makes it work.
When I've lost weight it's always been on a low fat, high-fibre (high-carb) diet. So it's a given I'd be down on it from the start.
My body works extrememly well on a high carb diet. Which means beans, pulses, wholegrain bread, Shredded Wheat etc as opposed to crisps ;)
I haven't read anything to change my mind about Atkins.
A diet which proscribes many fruits for life while allowing processed meats...? Nah.
YMMV lovely people.
Brianna, tonight I'm having tacos then tomorrow I might look into atkins.
A diet which proscribes many fruits for life while allowing processed meats...? Nah.
I have never heard Atkins described this way. Which fruits are prohibited?
Atkins limits what you can eat based upon the stage of the program you are in.
A few fruits come in stage 2, but mostly in
Stage Three
Atkins OverviewI opened this thread to have a brag about how my husband cooked a no carb dinner for me last night after looking a recipe on the net and getting it all prepared to support me in my ATKINS diet! lol What a surprise I got when I opened it.
Sundae, I'm surprised that you say there's no evidence to support that the atkins diet is scientifically sound. There's a fair bit of it out there. Whether it works for you or not is certainly up to you though. ;)
I've discovered that the hardest part about losing weight and getting fit is shutting out all the voices that tell you which way you should be doing it, and just making a plan and sticking to it.
I've had a huge change in thinking myself over the last month or so, and I've started the atkins diet myself. In my first week I've lost 3kgs, and I haven't even been totally honest with it. I've been having a little milk in my coffee (less than 100mls per day though, so not bad, and I have had some nuts a couple of times when I've been in danger of letting myself down and eating something I really shouldn't.
Basically now though, I'm in the first day of my second week, and I feel awesome. It's like those carbs and sweets and crap were just making me sick. I am still eating plenty of green veges and stuff, and in my salad, if I feel I need a little bit of something for zing, I just slice up a strawberry and sprinkle it over the top. It's yum.
This week I'm planning on dropping the levels of fat right down and having only poached or boiled eggs for snacks and wean out the milk. It might mean that this week will really be my first week on the true diet, but I'm happy with the 3kg's I've lost this week.
I've also been to the gym once and have been using the treadmill. Off to the gym again today, so that'll be great.
We should start a low carb thread and support each other Bri. We could share recipes and what's working and so on. I'm so pumped for this. I'm losing 40kg (that's about 80lb) this year and there's no two ways about it. This is my year. :)
It's like those carbs and sweets and crap were just making me sick.
Yes indeed. Good for you!
ooooh. Light or heavy balls? My friend's grandmom made the heavy kind, and I dutifully ate them for many years, but I have a great fondness for the light, fluffy ones ...
gunmaster may be able to give us an on-the-ground report, I hope.
What does your schedule look like?
The balls were pretty light and fluffy. I like them both ways. The balls and broth are from a mix, but the carrots and chicken are homemade. Almost worth getting sick for.
We're free most weekends with notice, so let me know when is good. Maybe when we get a warm spell so I can put some lanterns out on the deck and enjoy the crisp night air after dinner.
Ali - we must be on the same wavelength here! That's great!
I, too, am going to lose around 80 pounds this year with no two ways about it - it WILL happen :) and I AM doing it. The year will trudge on whether we lose weight or not so we might as well lose it. Carbs made me feel like total crap, too. I think the proof is really in how you feel on the diet. I will start week two on tuesday and I feel pretty damn good myself. Less mental fog, more energy, etc.
If you haven't already started a low-carb thread, I'll start one and we can swap recipes and how we're doing.
we can DO THIS!
Mrs. Z had a virus over the holidays and pretty much missed Christmas. So her Mom, Dad, Sister, and B-i-L came up to Chicago this weekend to have a belated Christmas dinner.
Saturday night was baked chicken breasts, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, garlic bread, cheese polenta, and tossed salad. Dessert was a carrot cake made by Mrs. Z's sister.
Sunday was a smaller group. We had spaghetti carbonara, lasagna, caesar salad, and dinner rolls from Trader Joes. Dessert was apple pie and ice cream.
Mrs. Z is half Italian as you might guess by the menu.
Dinner was fish n chips. And battered mushrooms and baked beans (Heinz). Yes, I made a buttie.
I like turnip, swedes and the like. I eat the stuff two or three times a week, gnawing a big chunk of it raw for a snack and with meals too where iit takes on a whole new flavour when cooked.
It grows outside and spends most of its time buried in the ground with worms and just about every insect larva imaginable crawling over it. Birds shit on it from above and small mammals piss all over the exposed parts.
Today my daughter (19 y/o) dropped a piece on the kitchen floor and refused to eat it even after I'd rinsed it under the tap. Apparently it was 'dirty'.
I'm considering the possibilities afforded by fish and chips tonight. Have a brand new bottle of malt vinegar and everything.
is that a refrigerate after opening or can I just stick it back in the cupboard? I don't usually buy the stuff, but when I had the hankering for fish-bits, I happened to notice it on the shelf in the condiments aisle.
All vinegars are too acidic to worry about refrigeration.
Isn't vinegar alkaline?
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Tequila's
Overnight bachelor party in Philly. Four old guys.
Mr. Clod is making French Onion Soup.
The soup is really great, to be sure, but the most important part of the recipe is the first four words.
Chicken Noodle Barley Soup followed by fish and chips and battered mushrooms and baked beans. I've been reeeeeeeally good fooddietwise all weekend until this...... but I left most of the chips, so that's kind of good, right?
Fish and Chips (with proper malt vinegar).
Last night's leftovers.
Steak & kidney pudding, mashipots, carrots and cabbage.
I expect it will be even nicer today. Nomnom.
Just couldn't face it last night - still have a lot of cattarrh.
Actually, yeah, that's what was for dinner last night :(
Turkey wings adobo in the slow cooker (= crock pot).
( I love :heartpump slow cooker dinners cos I feel virtuous all day for having got the dinner organised just after breakfast!)
Trying to decide what to do with these purple potatoes I have. I might just do something simple, like bake them with tomatoes, onions, garlic...maybe add some spinach and grated cheese, too. It's probably going to look really weird, but oh well.
Dads is cooking paella.
It's his speciality. He got the recipe as a 20-something when he and his friends saved up to go abroad (unusual for East End lads in the 50s).
They mostly hated all the foreign muck, but Dad was more adventurous, and got a recipe for that thingy. He had never even eaten rice before. Painstakingly translated, he was never able to make it at home. It wasn't until he married Mum and set up home he could even try to recreate it. Saffron? What was that?
He used to make it on their anniversaries or on her birthday, but over the years she lost patience with the amount of time it took and the mess it made. She doesn't remember it that way, but I was living here then as well and I know.
This year - 20 years since he last tried! - she's been on at him to make it again. Today is the day. I have no idea of the portion sizes, so I don't know if I'm included. As children we never were, but we were generally considered "fussy". As if, when we had to force down everything on our plates but would beg for a spoonful of a Vesta curry. Humph.
All I know is the rule about NOTHING CLOGGING UP THE WORK-SURFACES, EVER! has been relaxed since Thursday, when paella ingredients have started arriving. And then the big paella pan was fished out of the cupboard to contain them.
We shall see what we shall see.
Paella recipes typically make enough to feed a small Portugeuse village..
Trying to decide what to do with these purple potatoes I have. I might just do something simple, like bake them with tomatoes, onions, garlic...maybe add some spinach and grated cheese, too. It's probably going to look really weird, but oh well.
How were the purple spuds? I've had them before - they're kind of sweet for a potato, aren't they?
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Paella recipes typically make enough to feed a small Portugeuse village..
SMALL?!?!!!??!!!
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How were the purple spuds? I've had them before - they're kind of sweet for a potato, aren't they?
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Well...turns out I'll be making that dish tonight. MB picked up cheesesteaks last night instead. :yum:
I've never had purple potatoes before, but I'll let you know how it turns out!
Tacos!! I love tacos. I don't eat beef very often so when I end up craving it, I usually go for tacos :)
Paella very good.
Very fishy, which surprised me.
I was touched to find the bowl labelled as being for me in the fridge.
I mean there's only 3 of us here and they both knew they were setting aside a portion.
When I went to put the water back in the fridge after eating, I saw a much bigger bowl labelled Mum and Dad - Lunch! Which explained it. And weirdly, I felt a bit hurt. It didn't last of course. The hurt I mean - the paella will still be there for lunch tomorrow.
Why were you hurt at all? You started with:
"I don't know if I'm included. As children we never were,"
You were included - How wonderful.
Their bowl probably had twice as much in it for the two of them - as it should.
Coming from where you started, instead of hurt, I would have felt thankful. YMMV
I love a good paella. A local restaurant we used to go to when we lived in Brisbane used to do a really good one. I've made it myself and it's been pretty good too. Yummy.
Now I want it for dinner, but I don't have any chorizo I don't think. I do have prawns. Hmmmm...and rice and saffron. I think I'll have to investigate the contents of my freezer.
I'm not sure where they came from, but I found two mini paella pans in a cabinet a little while back. You all are making me want to try making it now. I think each pan would be able to fit two prawns with all the other stuff...
Oh, and I made the purple potatoes last night. I have to say, they were gorgeous--the skins were a dark, rich color; even iridescent (I hope that's normal).
Besides baking them with onion, tomato and spinach, I also shook the cut-up potatoes in turmeric, smoked paprika, cayenne and olive oil. Then, I added some smoked brisket on top for the second half-hour of cooking. I forgot the garlic (argh), so I shook a little garlic powder and additional salt and pepper on the vegetables after cooking. It turned out very yummy, and didn't look weird at all!
I didn't know you could get a paella pan. I just use a normal stove top frypan when I make it.
blue, your dinner sounds great!
I am making shredded vegetable lo mein and adding some shrimp to it
Why were you hurt at all? You started with:
"I don't know if I'm included. As children we never were,"
You were included - How wonderful.
Their bowl probably had twice as much in it for the two of them - as it should.
Coming from where you started, instead of hurt, I would have felt thankful. YMMV
No, you are quite right. There was no reason to feel hurt, I had been allocated leftovers from a meal special to them and I really enjoyed it.
I have no idea why I got that little stab - it doesn't make any sense.
But as I say, I got over it pretty quickly.
Ali we have little tapas dishes - I wonder if that is what Blue means?
We cook paella in a large high sided frying pan - less gets on the hob that way.
The pans I have look like this:
blue, that looks a lot like my frypan. except my frypan has one long handle rather than two small side ones.
Sundae, yeah, I thought that might be it, but just wondered if the paella actually was cooked in them or in one large pot then divided up later.
We had grilled ham & cheese, and tomato soup. YUM!!!
Last night we had roast chicken stuffed with lemon and sage with a gravy made from the juices. Roast potato and pumpkin, green peas and vege crepe in honour of shrove Tuesday. It was a good meal.
Tonight I think it's going to be some kind of pasta.
Last night we had roast chicken stuffed with lemon and sage with a gravy made from the juices. Roast potato and pumpkin, green peas and vege crepe in honour of shrove Tuesday. It was a good meal.
Tonight I think it's going to be some kind of pasta.
I wish I'd been there!
Me too, that sounded delicious! Adding roast chicken to the list under paella.
Tonight though, it will be burgers with Vermont Sharp Cheddar and Amish bacon, on either Jewish onion rolls or sesame wheat rolls from Le Bus. These specific kinds of ingredients will make them fancy 'gourmet' burgers.
Pizza nite here after a few rounds of disc golf and a workout in the basement gym.
Should have all my offspring home as well. That'll be an added treat.
Tomato soup tonight.
Just to be on the safe side. [COLOR="White"]Although like Lucozade it is an odd childhood comfort in that it stains the toilet bowl if chucked up..[/COLOR]
Back to normal tomorrow.
I'm in satiation Satori right about now (FSB)
I made a
Coptic family re-union with the munchies-sized batch of Falafels tonight and I nibbled like a man possessed. Then I went down to the basement and worked on a bow I am making, but first I decided against better judgement to swing by the local Cumby's and grab a couple of tall boys. The three of us headed to the basement and I chipped away at the stave. Then I felt that a nice pipe might be just the thing that would would put a nice cap on the whole sensual program. It was a small batch of cheap tobacco that was a very close match to my preferred blend (Nat Sherman's 545 Broadway Nougat, if you were wondering what to get me for a present) and now I am riding a supremely mellow buzz, getting ready to wind down for the night.
Check out these Falafels:
http://www.dedemed.com/mediterranean/falafel-recipe
PS I cooked them in my proprietary blend of Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Lard, Bacon Grease.
I always thought the term 'extra virgin' was pretty funny. I mean, how virgin can you get? You're either virgin or you're not right? You can't get any more virgin than virgin can you?
I'm sure you know the facts, so I won't bother cutting and pasting.
Because although I too know the facts, it also makes me smile that in the original use of the word virgin, extra virgin cannot happen. Like recovering from a fatal illness, or being almost unique.
Anyway, I believe the extra virgin claim on olive oil to be pretty much a con these days.
Perhaps buying in a small village where the oil has been sampled after pressing - yes, it's special.
Whole shelves of supermarkets selling extra virgin? Ah - no.
Tonight I decided to go against all previous plans and have char sui bao.
Go figure.
I always thought the term 'extra virgin' was pretty funny. I mean, how virgin can you get? You're either virgin or you're not right? You can't get any more virgin than virgin can you?
I learned the distinction early in my food photography career from the woman who was food stylist,
"Virgin olive oil comes from ugly olives and extra virgin olive oil comes from fat and ugly olives."
Char siu bao as above.
Steamed by my own fair hands (obviously this photo is at the end of steaming - there was a lid on prior to this
Photo in celebration of Cellarity Day, which has nothing to do with Oriental cuisine, but much to do with what we do on the Cellar.
Which in my case is take photos of food :yum:
I made an awesome beef stew because I'd thawed some beef cubes. And so I ate some leftover spaghetti and meatballs while it was simmering.
Tonight is Chicken Pineapple stir fry.....as soon as I get up to make it :/
you got your arty chokes
you got your egg yolks, butter and lemon juice
which you make hollandaise sauce of
you got your tomatoes with parmesan and olive oil on in the oven
you got your ready to bake tilapia entrees from Wegmans
you got your mushrooms sauteed in lite olive oil with some S&P
you got your dinner
downstairs in the low light you dip the arty choke leaf into the sauce and eat the meaty part of it
Very nice UT. LOVE arty chokes.
'sgonna be chicken casserole/stew/whatever from the crock pot
/virtuous housewife
Leftover chicken casserole from last night.
/dutiful daughter
It was very salty though :greenface
(still, I'd have eaten my tongue rather than say that - free meals you have had no hand in preparing should not be criticised)
You got your tilapia fillets with some salt & pepper on a greased sheet
You dribble 3T lemon juice on
You mince and saute 2 cloves of garlic in 2T butter
You dribble that on
And some fresh italian parsley
And after 11 minutes at 400 F it comes out all cooked
And you eat it.
Here's an interesting fact.
Tilapia is a noxious pest in Australian waters. You can be fined if you catch and release one.
The meal looks yum though UT. :)
That beats the hell out of my secret family recipe which involves poaching fish in 7-Up.
Since I'm stranded without a car, I decided to do some cooking. I'd bought 3 pounds of ground beef and wanted to do something with it other than sticking it up in the freezer, so I ended up with a batch of Sloppy Joes and a Meatloaf. Ate some of the Sloppy Joes, cut the meatloaf and put it up in the freezer. I left a couple pieces in the fridge for a sandwich tomorrow.
These tilapia came from Ecuador.
Looking good UT.
I have one one lonely Tilapia Fillet that's been vacuum-sealed in my freezer for too long.
I may try this as well.
Nothing for me thanks, I've just thrown up.
Did Sundae mail you her bug?
Dinner was steak and butter-sauteed potatoes in honor of Hebe's most excellent swims. She's a steak and carbs girl.
I had a brunch meeting today, at a breakfast buffet at a local hotel. They had an omelet bar option. And bacon. And sausage. And biscuits and country gravy. And fresh fruit. And blintzes (I only had one of those, I didn't go completely mad). And some very awesome home fries. I passed up on the Belgian waffle with assorted fruit toppings.
If I am hungry again tonight I will probably end up with a bowl of cereal rather than the meatloaf sandwich I had planned on.
I think M is making fish...I think...I dunno...I'll eat whatever at this point...
We're having roasted pork belly and some veges. If I'd have thought of it earlier I would have done it Chinese style. I'll probably still marinate it in some five spice and soy, but it wont have the same intensity. Never mind. It'll still be good. :)
Not sure what veges we'll have, but I think honey carrots and some greens will be nice, and maybe some roasted potatoes. I'll have to think about it a bit. :)
We had some delicious tilapia along with garlic mashed potatoes...mmmm...
It's tilapia week here at The Cellar!
I'm cooking that lone tilapia fillet tomorrow for lunch. Gonna do it your way UT.
Having said that, my son (M's 9-yo son) did not want to eat it...he decided he didn't like it. So his options were to eat it or go to bed over an hour early. He chose to go to bed early...really? *shakes head*
They sure are making kids different today. Did you try the "children starving in Somalia" line?
On second thought, Somalia doesn't have the cachet that starving red Communist Chinese children had.
Max will usually choose bed if he doesn't want to eat what I cook. Normally it's close to his bed time anyway, so that's probably why.
Fried tilapia and a salad.
He pulled the "I hate my life" card out the other night, and I gave one of the finest speeches I have ever given...he immediately went silent and finished his meal after I was done.
hiya sycamore! long time no see. *waves*
I'm cooking that lone tilapia fillet tomorrow for lunch. Gonna do it your way UT.
You go boy...! It's a really quick meal, cos the fish cooks best quickly at a higher heat than your chickens and whatnot.
Just finished it... Damn, now I wish I had more :(
It was very good.
I had it with some spinach salad. Thanks again.
I'm hungry early, and I don't feel like making anything even remotely complex, so I'm throwing in some frozen french bread pizza.
We had Mom's homemade green chili with pork and potatoes. Not too hot and very flavorful.
Peanut butter and jelly!
On bread!
hiya sycamore! long time no see. *waves*
Hey man! I know...crazy busy with work and kid and Gran Turismo 5...or something like that.
I was going to cook a super-easy dinner of chicken sausage with roasted red potatoes, asparagus and red peppers...but I'm so tired. Too tired even for that.
So, I picked up some jalapeño chicken wraps and carrot soup from the wrap place on the corner. When I got back upstairs, I saw that they forgot my delicious banana pudding. It made me sad. But I'm too tired to pop downstairs and ask for it.
Tonight, i'll take it easy : ham and mashed potatoes
Sunday Night Dinner in 20 minutes
You got your carrots peelt and cut diagonal
You got your prepackaged boneless pork chops 1" thick, and you add some dried dill, garlic powder, S&P
You got your Foreman Grill
You got 2T olive oil and carrots into a hot pan, you push them all around every once in a while
After 10 minutes
After 10 minutes
Finish: pour off excess oil, add 1.5T balsamic vinegar...
and 1T brown sugar and mix that all around
Looks like this with microwaved mix veg. And then you eat it.
Lookin good there T...
We're having a crock pot special - Beef cubes with asst veggies.
I threw it all in there till it was full (seasoned as I went along) and turned the crock-pot on.
We'll see what it tastes like in an hour. smells good so far though.
Mine was pretty simple, but I don't have pictures like UT did there (great pics too!).
4 oz uncured ham, cut into julienne type slices, saute in pan to get the edges nicely browned.
2 oz penne pasta, boiled
Two heaping tablespoons of Four Rosa pasta sauce (like a red wine cheese sauce)
Stir
Half dozen fresh Brussel Sprouts, trimmed and lightly steamed (must still be firm)
Two slices of red onion
2-3 cloves fresh garlic, mashed
Preheat the broiler to high
Cut the sprouts in half and toss in a glass casserole
Add onions and garlic and drizzle very lightly with olive oil
Toss
Put in oven (not directly under the broiler yet) until onions and garlic are tender
Put pan under broiler, stirring frequently, until there some of the sprouts have begun to caramelize.
Sprinkle with fresh shaved parmesan cheese.
Presto! Protein, carbs, veggies and healthy fat.
Sounds good Stormie.
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Holy crap have we got leftovers ... We may be eating this for weeks.
I am having beef and onions (if the beef is still good) over mashed potatoes. It's a new recipe!
Holy crap have we got leftovers ... We may be eating this for weeks.
Starting with tonight :)
Ooh, I've never tried carrots with balsamic vinegar before. They look really good!
they et nicely and the whole thing is so quick to make.
J is confused as to why I would take pictures of it all and share. I don't know. But there it is.
We're having beef and vege soup, although I think it might turn into stew cause I've got an awful lot of veges in there.
I think I'll try that with carrots* UT - it looks and sounds scrumptious (and that's why you photograph, post and share! Keep at it, sir!).
[SIZE="1"]*Not Carrot, of course[/SIZE] :eek: !
Tomato bisque from a chain of soup restaurants called Zoup. This is the best tomato bisque available anywhere.
Mystery-brand of Canadian whole wheat spaghetti, 12oz/340g metrified package, bottled spaghetti sauce with a can of black olives and half its juice thrown in, along with a handful of raisins, which should go in late to preserve their entertaining burst of a bit of sweetness. Finished with a small can of tomato paste for deeper flavor and thickening. Seasoning corrected with about a tsp of herbes de Provence.
Managed to catch the spaghetti at al dente. No leftovers, none.
so my roommate has been pestering me to make my from scratch lasagna. today i did just that. the key to great marinara is FRESH spices. what i used today was all fresh of course: basil, thyme, oregano, marjoram (trust me on that one), rosemary, sage and peeled/smashed garlic. with the "stemy" spices i like to strip the stalks of the leaves then mince them up. whether or not that helps with the flavor, i know not. but i like to do it so as to not have a toothpick to use because i missed a stem while mincing. i also incorporated 5 fresh roma tomatoes, 5 links of hot spicy Italian sausage, 2 lbs coarse beef and a fullers ESB in place of water. you might note that there is no onion involved. that's because my roommate absolutely can't stand them. i so wish i could put them in there. i recommend a texas sweet 1015 onion. anyway, i also used 2 12 oz cans of tomato paste and then brought it to a boil and then covered it for an hour and a half stirring every 5-10 minutes or so. then turned the heat off and let it "rest" for an hour. after that i boiled the noodles and built the layers using LOTS of mozzarella and a light sprinkle of feta cheese in each layer. bake covered with foil for 45 minutes then 15 uncovered. now if you'll excuse me, i've got to go gain about 10 lbs now.
That there is what it's all about.
I hope to eat lasagne again some day.
I am on the same thread, but I had lasagna soup :)
Shredded chicken burritos a la monster. I have never made or eaten a burrito before, but I followed the destructions on the tortilla packet. They were teh yum. They were filled with
rice
shredded chicken
black eyed peas (in place of pinto beans)
shredded colby jack cheese
lettuce
chopped celery (the only salady thing all kids will eat and I had no tomatoes)
chopped onion and chives from the garden (in place of green onions)
So far dinner tonight is Swedish Fish. Red.
I went to a conference today, and got fed stupid.
Continental breakfast. Bagels, coffee cake, danish, yogurt, fresh fruit, coffee, tea
Gourmet lunch (no rubber chicken or boxed sandwiches in sight). Amazing dessert cart, including the best butter cake I have ever had, and an amazing warm cookie thing with a vanilla topping. The snickerdoodles were a bit too dry.
Afternoon snack. Soft Pretzels, Cheese, assorted hard candies, fresh veggies, cookie bars, Goldenbergs Peanut Chews.
and was there a job for the evening appetiser?
Ah, if only ... but I did talk to a few people who will be on the lookout for me.
My first Onigiri ...
I've been wanting to do this for a while, and finally got around to it. I have the right kind of Short-Grained Sticky Rice, but didn't have much in the way of fillings, so I found some chicken and added hot pepper flakes, onion powder, ginger, and an Asian spice mix that is mainly five spice powder to it.
I had my bowl of cold water all ready, and valiantly tried to shape them properly, but handling hot rice is not something I have a lot of experience with. Cold rice won't stick together properly, so I just toughed it out. I started trying to make them the size the "recipe" recommended (one cup of rice per ball), but that's just too darn huge for my purposes, so I started doing them a bit smaller. I do need to work out some kinks with the filling to rice ratio.
Overall, they're pretty good. I didn't bother with the Nori (seaweed sheets), even though I did have a package of it available. Maybe after I get a little better at smushing them together.
Pesach Seder at my trailer, though I will be the only one attending.
Happy Passover, Sarge.
Roast Lamb dinner for my sister's family tomorrow, I might well wish I was the only one there.
Mesquite smoked pork roast with my home brew rub, and salad.
Roast beef, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding and all the trimmings...... true Brit style
I had pan fried flounder last night. Then I threw up.
Oh joy.
Pesach Seder at my trailer, though I will be the only one attending.
Gut pesach!
We're all there with you, you're not alone! I'll have the goyische portion if the gefilte fish, but could I have extra haroset with my matzo? And I'll make you some awesome fried matzo in the morning ... My friend taught ne how to make it just right!
I can bring the challah, if'n you have that for Passover too.
I'm a dab hand at it now.
wolf - for the ongiri, I have seen tips for shaping them into balls with plastic wrap. Then, you just store it in the same plastic, ready to go
I have no idea what is for dinner. We are going over some extended family's house at 3 for dinner. Early so they can go visit my Great Aunt after.
I had the worst tom yum soup ever from the local chop shop. Wont be placing that order again.
We had baked ham, au' graten potatoes, broiled asparagus, and home made rolls.
Rib eyes , crab legs , Baked taters , and a spinach salad , No pics it were consumed !!!!!!!!
YUUUUUMMMMYYY !!!!!
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Too tired to 'splain ...
Sent by thought transference
For tonight's supper-yet-to-be:
Pan-fried Bluegill
Boiled potatos
Navy beans
wolf - for the ongiri, I have seen tips for shaping them into balls with plastic wrap. Then, you just store it in the same plastic, ready to go
I've seen those instructions. I decided to dispense with that as an unnecessary extra step. What this actually means is that I didn't have any plastic wrap.
Next trip to the market, maybe. I have some onigiri shapers coming, and also some clever little vegetable cutters. So I'll have to get some clever little vegetables next trip, too.
Chicken n veg stir fry -prepared by me, cooked by beest. ....and there was the dinner bell.....
Also posted in the My Family thread, but so you don't have to wade through that, my dinner last night.
(Leftover) lamb and four-in-one roast. I did go back for some more veg (broccoli and carrots) but at least this shows my beloved peas.
Oh and Limey - 'splain please!
I do see nuts and dried fruit, so I'm not sure where this might be going.
Moroccan?
I photograph food for you especially Sundae! Starting top left and going clockwise, the big square thing is a packet of lavash (a very thin flat bread common in Central Asia and the Caucasus). The stick next to it is a packet of dried melon, this is made of plaited strips of dried fruit and is very nice. The round jar top right is red caviare, strictly speaking lumpfish roe, which I prefer to the more expensive black varieties. The other round thing is a pot of honey. The herbs are dill and coriander, popular throughout the CIS and frequently referred to as simply "greens". These herbs are eaten by the fistful, rather than in tiny amounts of chopped up sprinkled leaves. Bottom left is a selection of dried fruit and nuts. Clockwise in that from top right are sugar coated pistachios, white raisins, cracked and roasted apricot kernels, black raisins, walnuts and pistachios in their shells, with a row of dried apricot across the middle. This little haul cost me about £17, of which £10 was the caviare.
MB made teh dinner tonight...Thai peanut chicken with brown basmati rice, and tempura shrimp with sweet chile pepper sauce. A lovely pan-asian type of meal which I'll be enjoying for lunch tomorrow as well. I don't know how he does it, but his tempura shrimp retain good texture into the next day.
I have run out of leftover spaghetti. I will have to make some new spaghetti.
I have run out of leftover spaghetti. I will have to make some new spaghetti.
Just make leftover spasketti. Save a step.
Down Home Diner, Reading Terminal Market: J's quesadilla with sour cream and salsa, my pan-fried chicken.
Katkeeper at Chinese last week:
Shrimp dumplingish things, rather gelatinous
Pork real dumplings
Garlic shrimp
My dinner is from here:
http://www.kevinandamanda.com/recipes/dinner/spicy-sausage-pasta.html
It was uber yum - maybe a little spicy - not so much pepper next time. I also got 6 servings out of it, not 4. Coming soon to my cookbook thread :D
Day off for me, so instead of doing the actual cooking I should have been doing, I cooked some bacon. Then realized it was dinner time and I should pair something with it ... scrambled eggs with cheese, and I put it on top of pop n fresh biscuits.
Thanks for the pics UT.
Except now I am craving Char Siu Bao with no way to obtain them.
Oh crikey. I can feel the texture in my mouth... :drool:
Cannot wait for tonight! I decided I am having a Pittsburgh steak salad! Or maybe steak, fries and salad - same thing :D Haven't decided which mode to have it in.
How do the primitive cannibals even have the technology to forge a huge cast iron kettle anyway?
How do the primitive cannibals even have the technology to forge a huge cast iron kettle anyway?
Prioritising
How do the primitive cannibals even have the technology to forge a huge cast iron kettle anyway?
How do you know they're primitive? Are you judging them because of what they wear? How dare you judge them because they're different from you. They could be modern day cannibals who don't conform to what you society types call 'fashion.' Hmmmph.
As a possible descendant of cannibals, I'm very offended and I would like for you to ban yourself IMMEDIATELY. :p:
Oh they're not cannibals they're just from the old country.
:crone:
Pork chops , sausage , Mac and cheese , and asperagoose , all on the grill
Oh yum. Is that smoked sausage? One of my favrites!
Somewhere in this thread, I don't doubt, we have had the discussion about whether dinner means midday or evening meal...I probably participated. But I seriously can't be arsed going back to find out ;P
For my dinner, by which I mean my midday meal, except that I ate it late, at tea-time...
*takes a breath*
ok...dinner was creamed garlic mushrooms over a jacket potato, with just a little grated cheese (extra-extra-read all about it-cheddar).
It was most tasty. I just wish i didn't have to shove the couch into the centre of the room before cooking. It's the only way to stop the little Carrotfiend from stealing bits of food and kitchen utensils. That and it's not really hygenic to be chopping on a chopping board whilst a bearded collie tries to lick up the bits.
Oh yum. Is that smoked sausage? One of my favrites!
Kielbasa actually
Yesterday when the SIL was here, I took some chicken thighs and used my flavor injector (a big syringe) to inject orange juice with garlic and poultry seasoning in it.
Because it was raining I had to bake them instead of grilling them. But I got rave reviews.
More Onigiri.
This time I did use an onigiri shaper ... two, actually. One traditional, one star. I have some others but didn't feel like washing all of them.
The process actually goes faster when you mush them together with your hands, but it's less painful to use the molds. And they're tidier. And I was able to put more filling into them.
Still using the chicken and spices as a filling. I went to the Asian market today, and after not finding any ume paste, I asked the owner. He explained that you don't see the paste because the stuff costs $15 for a very small jar. He did show me a big jar of preserved plums, but even at $5 I thought that was more of an investment that I was willing to make for something I'm not sure that I'll like.
Half a leftover roast chicken from last night.
I'm making chicken curry.
Going to serve it on naan bread, which will be different for the 'rents, as they are used to having bread as a side rather than as a plate!
Am making Tikka Massala as although Dad likes curry his palate is very much attuned to the shop-bought varieties - apparently mine have too many herbs and spices (?!) so I'm following quite a bland recipe.
The naans are also shop bought, but from M&S. The best naans I've ever had outside real Indian cookery. I'll be doing some kind of rice too, but not too much.
I'll take a pic.
Fingers crossed it will be acceptable to all parties.
More Onigiri.
This time I did use an onigiri shaper ... two, actually. One traditional, one star. I have some others but didn't feel like washing all of them.
The process actually goes faster when you mush them together with your hands, but it's less painful to use the molds. And they're tidier. And I was able to put more filling into them.
Still using the chicken and spices as a filling. I went to the Asian market today, and after not finding any ume paste, I asked the owner. He explained that you don't see the paste because the stuff costs $15 for a very small jar. He did show me a big jar of preserved plums, but even at $5 I thought that was more of an investment that I was willing to make for something I'm not sure that I'll like.
I bet I could find your "ume" downtown in the International District. There are numerous asian grocery stores, the all time king of which is Uwajimaya. ... interested?
Didn't take a pic. Oops.
Went down well.
Except...
Well it wasn't very spicy at all.
Fine - I was catering for my parents.
I forgot that the combination of drugs I'm on have given me... a slightly fluid response to food.
I was in agony last night. I honestly thought I would have to go to the Doctors today. I was as raw as a potato rubbed with salt.
I bet I could find your "ume" downtown in the International District. There are numerous asian grocery stores, the all time king of which is Uwajimaya. ... interested?
There is a big Asian grocer here over in North Wales, I'm hoping to be able to check it out at some point, but haven't been able to make the time with the new job and all the other stuff that is going on. I think that I might try to find a place that makes bento with the ume onigiri to try some before I invest in the stuff, since it's so darn expensive. I have no idea if I'll like it or not.
If I ever make it out to your neck of the woods, I'd certainly give the International District in your town a try.
Sundae, is that erythrimicin (sp?) you'e taking?
It's a bit of a sod on the old digestion. I take it when my eczema infects and it always knocks me sick to my stomach. One way to alleviate that is to drink actimel or yakult daily whilst you're on it.
That's the bugger.
Damn, I hoped it was the steroids.
I have another 2 weeks of this then!
Today has been much better though.
I can seriously recommend the actimel. A friend of mine who also gets queasy with the erethrimycin swears by them. Thought it was bollox m'self, but when I asked my doc, she agreed that it has been known to help, so I tried it. Certainly took the edge off.
Can you take something like Inner Health Plus? You don't take it at the same time as the pills. About half way in between doses. It helps keep your digestive tract working properly. Any high strength pro-biotic would do, but IHP is the one I take when I'm on anti-biotics.
Tonight I'm cooking Chinese style pork belly and some kind of veges. Not sure what yet. I have some prawns, so might do a garlic prawn and greens stir fry with some rice. We'll see how vomitous I am by cooking dinner time.
I think that I might try to find a place that makes bento with the ume onigiri to try some before I invest in the stuff, since it's so darn expensive. I have no idea if I'll like it or not.
Sounds like a great plan. You know, I don't know what ume paste is. I googled ume or umeboshi, as I found out, and still don't know exactly what that is. Seems like there are several flavors? I'm gonna check it out at the grocery store. Let us know how you like once you tried one. :)
Mom's takeout sushi
My takeout shrimp tempura. goes great with milk
I am tempted to say it looks horrible.
As revenge for the dissing of my bacon.
But I'm not that petty and anyway it looks teh yum.
Back bacon vs belly (or side) bacon. 'Canadian' bacon does not crisp in its own juices; it's more like what we call ham. What's ham over there, a gumball? ;)
We call back bacon canadian bacon. And while it's the yummeh, it is not and never will be as good as a crispy piece of belly bacon that melts in your mouth.
Bacon is a cut of pork and in North America we commonly eat what is called side bacon, or bacon cut from the side of the pork. In Canada the common cut of preference is bacon taken from the back, commonly referred to as "back bacon." This bacon is more like a slice of ham, and its taken from the "eye of the loin" which is very tender and lean.
North American bacon usually has a higher fat content earning it the nickname "streaky bacon" in Europe, because of the design the pork and fat combine to make in its long thin slices.
So all this time I thought the bacon meme was international, and y'all were really talking about a form of ham.
Bring on the ham memes!
Sounds like a great plan. You know, I don't know what ume paste is. I googled ume or umeboshi, as I found out, and still don't know exactly what that is. Seems like there are several flavors? I'm gonna check it out at the grocery store. Let us know how you like once you tried one.
[useless pedant]Ume is the Japanese word for plum. (Specifically, a species of plum indigenous to Japan.) It is very tart and doesn't really taste good fresh off the tree, so it is usually pickled, after which it is called umeboshi. They also siphon off the resulting vinegar from this process and sell it, and mash up some of the leftover plum grime to get ume paste. As the paste is a popular spread, there are varieties that have had additional flavors blended in.
Or you can ferment the plums into plum wine instead, which is much tastier than umeboshi.
[useless pedant]Ume is the Japanese word for plum. (Specifically, a species of plum indigenous to Japan.) It is very tart and doesn't really taste good fresh off the tree, so it is usually pickled, after which it is called umeboshi. They also siphon off the resulting vinegar from this process and sell it, and mash up some of the leftover plum grime to get ume paste. As the paste is a popular spread, there are varieties that have had additional flavors blended in.
Or you can ferment the plums into plum wine instead, which is much tastier than umeboshi.
Read all that, didn't explain it for me. But I guess what I was really looking for is to connect it to what I've eaten. :p: The descriptions I read remind me of preserved plums, which taste both salty and sweet and a wonderful snack. Yahoo image search didn't help much. But thank to Clobfobble's "pedantic" explanation :p: , I went back and did a google image search. I see now that I may have never tried umeboshi. To confess, the real reason I did a google image search is to show you this picture. Plum wine is an absolut delish. Well, this brand, at least. :D
Yeah, I like preserved plums, although I once got a packet that tasted really gross. Not sure what happened, but they went in the bin.
Tonight we're having roast pork.
I have had a homemade Asian plum wine that is awesome, and have not found a decent substitute, but that Gekkekeian is pretty good. There is a plum sake I can't remember the name of by the time I'm done drinking it that also rocks.
I made lasagne.
It was good.
I did roast chicken, roast potatoes, carrots, bbrroccolli, gravy.
It was good, too!
I had kebab meat from Iceland.
How scabby.
It was delicious and Mum asked if she could have some :)
Chicken Tamale Pie - holy crap it's good!
Creamy Chicken and Rice soup
BBQ!
Fire + meat = awesome.
Cauliflower with butter
Baked Potato fries tossed in olive oil
Mrs. Paul's Parchment Bake Classic Grilled Tilapia
I am quote looking forward to it :D
Imma make a chicken pot pie. :)
Sausage, egg and bacon sandwich from the village bakery. And a jam slice for afters!
The pace at the rehab is such that I really don't get to eat real food. I take sandwiches mainly. Tonight will be a perfectly ordinary turkey and cheese on Oatnut bread, but it is cut into the shape of two little dolphins and a heart.
I bought one of those sandwich cutter things. It is too cute.
Homemade pizza, several different flavours of pizza, actually. Its my youngest son's 17th birthday party, so its a pizza, pop and snacks night with 2 friends sleeping over. So I expect it to be 20 mins of kids in the front room eating, then in his room playing games until 3am, then sleeping until noon tomorrow.
I know I am making:
- bbq chicken pizza, (bbq sauce, cheese, onions, chicken, mushrooms and cranberries and pineapple)
-"house special" (marinara sauce, cheese, pepperoni, salami, ham, bacon, onions, green peppers, black olives, mushrooms, pineapple and fresh tomatoes added after)
-taco (mix of salsa and marniara sauce, ground beef with taco seasoning, cheese, diced onions hot peppers and green peppers, then topped with shredded lettuce, fresh tomatoes, sour cream, and more salsa if desired)
still not sure of the 4th one yet...
so wait, you use bbq sauce instead of the tomato base? Doesn't it dry out? Or doesn't that matter?
I use quite a bit of sauce, and no it does not dry out. When I make my donair pizza, I mix the sweet sauce with meditrainian dressing half and half, and its wonderful! We use quite a few different sauces, instead of basic marinara.
Alfredo sauce works great too... we use this for chicken or seafood pizzas.
cool, thanks. Beest may well start experimenting because he and goalie-boy are into the bbq stuff....
American style pulled pork, Hasselback potatoes and peas. Or beans - I haven't decided yet.
Offered to cook for my Dad.
He declined!
Miserable old buzzard.
Bet he has leftovers tomorrow when he sees how good it is.
May try to take a photo with his camera (mine is in Oz with Mum)
Pulled pork was yumm-eh!
Dad was watching the footie and I took him in a forkful to taste. He does like that. No more, just a sample.
Afterwards, when we were watching the football together I said I had plenty of leftovers (of course I did!) and they were in the fridge. He said, "Well, now I know what you mean [?!] I'd like some of that. Can I reheat it in the microwave for dinner tomorrow?"
So it might have been the way I described it which put him off the Father/ Daughter experience I was trying to engender... NB he said that after he had had his shop-bought pasta bake. So it wasn't prompted by hunger.
I did not have such a great meal as it turns out.
Hasselback Potatoes should be "seasoned". Not being a big salt eater I declined to douse them in salt n pepper. Instead went for a rarely used container in the cupboard called Season All. But it didn't have a sprinkle top. It had a free-for-all top. My poor potatoes were smothered in the stuff! Well, okay, not smothered, but I did not intend to put so much on.
I also did not know how salty the blend was, or I would not have cooked them for 50 minutes; I'd have binned them there and then and cut some new ones
It was an unpleasant surprise, when everything else was ready to dish up. As I said, I do not generally add salt to anything (hard boiled eggs and chips excepted) so it hit my mouth like a big salty smack up the chops.
Don't get me wrong, they were edible. I polished them off. But they were a disappointment when the texture and the crispness were just right (I made a low cal vesion with oil not butter and no cheese so I wasn't sure).
But the sheer overwhelming flavour of the salt bled into the BBQ pork and made it less of a treat. Which when it was eaten on its own, it was. P'raps the fact I served up the pork in the oven-to-tableware I cooked the potatoes in was partly to blame. WHAT?! I didn't realise I'd salted them to buggery at that point!
Mr. Clod is making kebabs with shrimp, mushrooms, and some other stuff I wasn't paying attention to. The only flag that went up in my mind was, "I don't have to cook? Done and done."
Fish and chips. From the chippy. Lots of salt and vinegar. Mmm.
PIZZA!
I got a voucher which means a large stuffed crust pizza will cost me less than a small standard one, so I'm going for it. I'll have to bin a lot of it, which goes against my conscience, but it brings it into my price range.
What is it with pizza companies and their stinginess on sauce and toppings?
I only want extra sauce because otherwise they might arrive dry as buggery and then my lovely treat ends up in having to make a complaint.
And yes, I also want 4 toppings, but some of your standard pizzas have 5 or 6. And trust me, you don't get anything more for the price, just something different.
Also, if I am taking off meat to add onion, is it really fair to charge me anyway?
Grrrrrr.
Looking forward to my pizza anyway.
Mexican Chicken Pizza, but I am enjoying this burrito bowl so much, I might make a bastardized version at home for dinner. Too much rice? Never!! lol
Pizza wasn't worth complaining about.
Delivery driver spoke very poor English, and could not find my house. I had to go out to meet him (barefoot).
I thought they'd all have satnav these days?!
Would've been nicer with double sauce but glad I didn't spend the extra on it. Ot hotter of course. Booked online, was 20 minutes late.
Tonight I made Hasselback potatoes. Again.
Third try and they get better each time.
Well... I wouldn't have served tonight's effort to anyone, because I overcooked them, but that was just a mistake of timing (and I loved the crunch!) it's just that I know the basics now. Next time I will try them with Boursin, as garlic and cheese are within the usual parameters.
Saying "usual", I'm making them with tiny Charlotte (new) potatoes, hence the need to experiment, as they are generally served jacket potato size.
I will def make them for my BBQ (on 30 July, day before my 40th birthday, you are all welcome). They can be enjoyed cold if cooked properly, which might be important if it hammers down on the day and the grill and oven are needed!
Tonight I did some hot italian sausages with green and red bell peppers, and onion. I just ate it as a big ol' mess on the plate with a big pile of mustard. Well, mustards; both french's and grey poopin'. And it was gooooood. :D
Baking a chicken with red potatoes, carrots, pearl onions, and mushrooms. Kinda boring, but the family likes this dish.
Yummeh!
•spoken in to my phone
Spanikopita and chocolate covered cherries
Mixed veg curry with my own mix of spices (curry powder, crushed cloves, grated nutmeg, ground ginger, garlic, ground cinnamon, crushed coriander seeds - whatever I've got really. Slam it all in.
Carrot and I walked to the village bakery, where i bought a hot turkey and stuffing sandwich. Ate the sandwich whilst sitting on a bench overlooking the village green and occasionally feeding little pieces of turkey to Carrot :)
Rounded it off with a custard tart.
Rounded it off with a commie tart.
:eek:
*slaps classicman upside the head*
Grilled fingerling potatoes, asparagus, and brussels sprouts (brush with olive oil, keep the heat low, let the brussels sprouts carmelize) - cracked pepper and minced garlic, fresh thyme and a little dill sprinkled over ... and for dessert, best. strawberries. ever. One little piece of dark chocolate with mint. Yummmm.
Duck a l'orange ...
Harsh!! :eek:
Homemade chicken in pjamas, homemade chips and beans with sultana's n pinenuts (beans from the garden)...we were going to have peas as well, but Tyler and I ate them all whilst we were picking them. :blush:
Explain chicken in pyjamas, unless that's your way of dining.
And for me - nothing.
Nope, nothing. Zilch, zero, nul.
Because it's too bloody hot.
Expect me to moan about this across the whole board and feel free to put me on temporary ignore until weather reports show a more sensible temperature in South East England.
Yep. Much as I appreciate the lack of rain, it's been way hot. Poor carrotchops was chasing the shade all through his walk.
SOS and toast.
You have it with extra toast? You wildman, you!
As a consequence of a trip to the Costco with wrongwaycorrigan, I will be eating chicken lunchmeat sandwiches for about the next two weeks. I got an assortment of cheese, though, so it won't be exactly the same sandwich every day, just repeat once every four days.
I am dying to know what chicken in pyjamas means. Like Sundae said - what you are wearing or did you do somethign to the chicken?
After the failure last night, I am making blackened chicken salad tonight. I am hoping this will be a much better result.
I had (shop bought) Chicken Jalfrezi for dinner last night.
Good enough, although I prefer take-away or home cooked (either way made by someone Asian and not me).
But it was authentic enough that I sweated onions all night.
Not good when you're waking up every 20 minutes anyway from heat/ cat attacks/ fear of onion fumes.
I'm having tortellini in a roast garlic sauce tonight.
Expect similar complaints tomorrow.
I, too, join the ranks of those who MUST KNOW what chicken pyjamas is.
Chicken Salad! Again. It is good, and it means I don't have to cook tonight....instead I can clean :facepalm: . That also means that tomorrow's lunch will be the same chicken salad, but tomorrow night is a new recipe.....in an already clean kitchen! Some of the trade-offs I do are odd.
I googled chicken in PJs.
Cheater.
I'd eat it though.
Shrimp scampi with oven roasted summer squash and a sliced fresh tomato. Nom nom nom!!!:D
I cheated too. Hell, from now on I'll call it chicken pyjamas ... much more fun :p:
Leftovers, clean-out-the-fridge-night here. Brown rice and black bean salad in high-fiber tortilla, almond dream, strawberries with a dash of liqueur ... mmm. The tiramisu I bought tasted like nasty oil-substitute crud. Dumped it.
My cousin gave me a recipe for spaghetti sauce and I thought he was foolin' but turns out it is DELISH. though mighty, mighty unhealthy.
1 lb ground chuck OR ground Bob Evans sausage (Plain sausage - no fennel)
onions, garlic - chopped and cooked in the meat grease
1 (15 oz.) can chopped tomatoes
1 stick of real butter
cook the meat, onions and garlic, throw in the 'maters and the butter. Simmer till hot thru. Throw on any pasta.
OMG. sooooooooooo good. And DO NOT drain the meat. Leave the grease IN. Will give you a coronary but you won't care.
Went to
Victory Brewing last night.
appetizer:
Caramelized Sea Scallops
pan seared sea scallops with ginger
cabbage slaw and sweet honey sesame
dressing $13*
pairs well with Headwaters Pale Ale
AMAZING. SOooooo tender and delicious... it was orgasmic.
Amanda had this:
Grilled Bratwurst
two grilled bratwurst with sautéed peppers and onions served
with spicy Prima mustard on a long roll $10*
pairs well with Victory Lager
Also delicious. juicy and sweet and a lil bit spicy
I had A spicy Orange glazed Chicken dish ( kind of like General Tso's, but with slivers of Orange peel stirred in) with rice and broccoli.
and beer(s)
Mad King Weiss, Kolsch, Hop Devil, Helios.
Then we went to her place and played Yahtzee. I had 2 or 3 Golden Monkeys, and woke up with the worst Hangover I've had in recent memory. just starting to feel human again.
Then we went to her place and played Yahtzee.
Pics or it didn't happen!
Dinner tonight is supposed to be Jambalaya. Except I didn't plan well, and my oven is currently in use, so I'm going to have to rush to throw it all in as soon as the other thing is out, and then eat late after the kids have gone to bed.
He gave his life, and his head, so that we could have tasty pork tonight and go on to rock the house of a large private party in the middle of nowhere.
Until the rain came and stopped us right at our fourth song, and we had to wait an hour and hope that all our gear didn't get too wet. It didn't, we continued on and rocked them all decently, including getting a bunch of women-folk to start line-dancing. Call it a win.
Jim, sounds like a great night.
Don't envy you the hangover though.
UT, that's living alright.
Presentation is a big part of good food. And a glistening pig's head doesn't really get the mouth watering. But I'm glad you had a good gig.
Pig's cheek is wonderful.
Never had it BBQ'd, ususally braised or stewed.
Presentation is a big part of good food. And a glistening pig's head doesn't really get the mouth watering.
Oh come on, what about the styrofoam container they put his head on? Gives it the proper send-off and respect for the dying so that we could eat well etc.
Bacon cheese burger with boiled potatoes planned for tonight!
Bacon cheese burger with boiled potatoes planned for tonight!
ahh...so you're kosher...
:bacon:
(I wanted to use the bacon smilie)
Well I intended to finish off the pasta from the other night.
Garlic and tomato sauce, roasted veg, turkey mince. It was good.
But Mum decided to thaw 2 lamp chops she had in the freezer.
Oddly, she mistook a portion of turkey mince for lamb chops.
And did not realise until seeing thawed turkey mince in the fridge this morning that it was not in fact lamb chops, or anything like them.
Yes I'm a bit cross.
But I accept it was a mistake.
Any temptation to punish her by suggesting she is stupid, senile, careless, uncaring, ignorant etc is just revenge for all the times she treats my Dad's mistakes in the same way.
So I intend to do the ironing this afternoon, to make her feel better. And probably feed the mince to Diz, as I won't be able to stomach 4 mince based meals in one week.
Although... although... If I make a meatloaf, can I freeze that? Even though the raw mince had already been frozen?
Although... although... If I make a meatloaf, can I freeze that? Even though the raw mince had already been frozen?
I think so. Re-freezing something can ruin the texture of it, it doesn't make it dangerous to eat. If you are making a meatloaf, that's changing the texture already, so I think it would be perfectly fine.
It's come out tasting like stuffing.
Oddly.
I guess the addition of onions, herbs, breadcrumbs and sausagemeat... oh yeah - stuffing.
I think it's over-seasoned. My bad, because the last one I made was so horribly bland.
Mum says it's okay - she's in two minds about freezing the new lamb chops after all and having meatloaf with green beans and mashipots instead.
I am likewise tempted to have meatloaf and bin the pasta - much as I hate food waste, fresh bacon topped meatloaf does look better than dried out pasta...
I did not know there was a bcaon smiliey, Bri! And nope, judging by the ham I am scarfing down with my eggs, not kosher.
Tonight is baked pizza pasta with garlic bread.
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what about those of us who didn't hear you the first time? ?? two black eyes? HMMM???
Although... although... If I make a meatloaf, can I freeze that? Even though the raw mince had already been frozen?
For future reference - yes, you can. If you cook meat that's been frozen, you can freeze the cooked dish again. You just shouldn't refreeze the meat raw.
Chicken in pj??? Hmm...... heheh
lol! Nice Lola!
Tonight is oven baked chicken, boiled potatoes and cauliflower
Curried cauliflower soup, acorn squash stuffed with quinoa, and for dessert, berries drizzled with a little agave nectar and sprinkled with dark chocolate shavings. (If I'm not ambitious enough it'll just be soup and dessert. Leave the entree for the weekend ...)
Ok - scratch the earlier. The chicken isn't thawed. Going with some leftovers of Inside out green pepper casserole turned taco casserole.
I discovered that you can bake frozen chicken.
taco salad for breakfast
taco salad for lunch
taco salad for dinner, plus margaritas
the salad's all gone now.
Sounds like my kind of day V - I love taco salad! Hmm.....might have to go on the menu next week....
baby bok choy with mushrooms ... garlic, ginger, tamari, sesame oil, you know ... oh my ... yum. And less than 15 min. Perfect.
Could be the perfect hookup ...
What's for Iftar?
Well, we're going to the local Chinese Buffet place. Might be frog's legs, might be chop suey. I can almost guarantee there will be cheese filled wontons. Probably sweet and sour chicken, bbq pork, jello-textured-food-product.
My friend got married today and we're breaking their fast at this restaurant. NOM!
Last night I made butter chicken, which is one of Mav's favourites. Because of my inferior health and energy levels I decided to use a recipe base instead of cooking it from scratch like I usually do. It was ok, but didn't have quite the same tangy smooth rich flavour you get when you build the flavours as you go along.
On the plus side, Mav's g/f thought it was great. Just wait till I cook the real thing!
I love butter chicken.
It sounds so innocent...
Am looking into making a rich fish stew.
Dads won't appreciate it, but I know Mum will.
Trouble is, fish does not need to be cooked for a long time (unlike cheaper cuts of meat) so the broth doesn't seem to thicken.
The photos of promising sounding recipes look like a pile of tumbled seafood in coloured water.
I'd like a tomato-y base (but not too rich as Mum has problems with that).
Am I thinking of a Tuscan dish? Or a Spanish one?
I can't even cheat and buy a jar of something as they are all for meat. And after the meatloaf I have a horror if making another over-seasoned dish :thepain:
Sorry, thinking out loud here. But if anyone can think of a lovely fresh tasting tomato based fish dish with fruits de mer and a little firm white fish, do share!
If you want a good fish stew, think about a gumbo type recipe.
You need to make your stock with some kind of carcass and head. Strain off, then start your veges (whatever you like) in the stock. After that, in a separate pot, fry off your spices (whatever takes your fancy) in a good dollop of butter, then make a roux which you then pour your veges and stock into. Lastly, add whatever seafood you're going to use.
Easy peasy Japanesey. ;)
Sez you.
Make a roux.
grumble grumble...
Make a roux. The secret to making a good white sauce is to ignore all the snobbiness about not using a wire whisk to beat out the the lumps.
So ... fry off spices, add approx double volume of flour to fat and stir til it all binds into a lump. Gradually add the stock (still hot is fine). Beat the bo11ocks out of any lumps at every stage using a wire whisk. :)
Still cleaning out the leftovers, so I am having baked pasta again.
I always use a wire whisk. I don't give a shit about 'how you are supposed to do it'. In the kitchen, it's what works most efficiently if you ask me. ;)
I have always used a wire whisk in a roux. I never heard that you weren't supposed to. I think a flat whisk would be even better. I really want one.
Yeah yeah yeah.
Ali & Limey haz it.
Despite my grumble, the more I think about it the more obvious it is.
I shall be practicing a roux over the next few days.
I won't add the more expensive ingredients until I am happy with the basics.
Thank you ladies.
Please accept full blame when I come back cross and covered with flour and looking like Lucille Ball.
blame acccepted.
pics or it didn't happen!
We're going shopping for fish on Tuesday. Having a day out in Thame.
I hope the weather will be better than our day out in Wendover, from which I promised you photos and then reneged.
In the mean time... I defrosted some steak by misteak.
Mum & I have agreed to start labelling things, following the minced turkey misturkey the other week as well.
It's frying steak, but I do not like to fry. I'm just no good at it. And I deplore over-cooked steak, while Mum retches at anything with a hint of pink.
So I checked online and found frying steak works just as well slowly baked with a little liquid.
It was already seasoned, so it is now in a ceramic oven-to-tableware dish, in the oven, covered with foil. I'll check on it in an hour.
Serving with oven-baked sliced new potatoes, roast garlic and onion.
And peas. Which Mum isn't keen on but we finished off the salad last night and I didn't put it on the shopping list today. My fault, no excuses.
Will inform you of how it went.
I am making pork diane and serving it with spinach orzo and cauliflower.
Turns out it went down very well.
Mum didn't tell me until afterwards that she moaned to Dad about the way I was cooking it. I thought maybe I'd got away with it, but it's true I heard her padding around the kitchen.
Anyway, she said when her SIL cooked it, it was gorgeous. Oh except it was too rare, so she had to cut it all up and ask for it to be re-fried.
And when she cooked it for Dad it was... okay...
But when I cooked it, it was LOVELY. Win! Win! Win!
She did make a point of telling me it was proper steak and would have been very good flash fried, but I think I set her mind at rest on that front, complimenting her on the steak and just criticising my own frying skills (no lie there).
So I am happy with my evening's work. Even though I am stuffed and she is still eating chocolate.
I'm really ashamed of myself. I don't go to 1/4 of the trouble/prep that you people do for eats. sometimes, I just have a pretzel for dinner. You guys, though, are pros. My hat is off to you. When you eat well you're treating yourself with love and respect and taking the time to matter. good for all of you! I wish I had that kind of constitution but I hardly ever prepare - I just wait till I get hungry then eat a piece of bread or something stupid like that.
Don't feel too bad. I don't always cook. Example - last night I didn't get home until after 8pm, so I actually didn't make my pork. I had some trail mix and called it good because I wasn't really hungry. Lunch today? Tuna salad. Lunch tomorrow? Possibly Bojangles. :)
some live to eat, some eat to live. We are the latter.
Mom brought home a whole chicken from Reading Terminal Market, that the butcher was nice enough to cut up for her. And sweet potatoes! Plus, I already had some Brussels sprouts and yellow peppers that I can sautée and round out the meal nicely.
I'd love to have baked sweet potatoes, but I want to make the chicken crispy oven-fried, too! I want it all! :D I guess I could do the sweet potatoes first, and hope they keep enough of their heat while I'm cooking everything else.
I'm really ashamed of myself. I don't go to 1/4 of the trouble/prep that you people do for eats. sometimes, I just have a pretzel for dinner. You guys, though, are pros. My hat is off to you. When you eat well you're treating yourself with love and respect and taking the time to matter. good for all of you! I wish I had that kind of constitution but I hardly ever prepare - I just wait till I get hungry then eat a piece of bread or something stupid like that.
I do this A LOT! It's rare these days that I actually feel like cooking, but when I do, it's always pretty simple.
Hebe cooked!
The whole dinner.
She rocks
Toad-in-the-Hole followed by apple pie and custard.
All from scratch
If it's any consolation Bri, I've hardly cooked a meal since I got pregnant. I will probably cook again some time in the hazy future after the baby is born, but i've become really lazy about it, and it doesn't help with sons who work in a bakery who bring home pies and savouries every other day...so really, there's no need for me to cook, since I don't eat anymore anyway. lol
Gambas Pil Pil.
My Aunt cooked it for Mum when she was in Oz, and sent her the recipe as Mum admired it so much. She just called it Chilli Prawns, but I recognised it as the standard tapas dish. Whatever you call it, it's the same - raw prawns cooked in hot oil with chilli and garlic.
Trouble is, Mum printed the recipe then deleted the email. Then lost the recipe. So I found one (many!) on the internet, all of which required far more prawns than Mum had defrosted. I think Glenys meant it as a starter. Or indeed a tapas dish!
Went well though. Should have had more chilli, but I was mindful of the people I was cooking it for and so followed the recipe exactly.
Mum liked it enough to ask for it again - double the chilli and double the prawns, so I call that a success. We had it with some Tiger bread to soak up the juice. Next time I think some salad as well, even with more prawns.
Homemade chicago style deep dish pizza with pepperoni. Is it too early for dinner? Cause I ate it already :D
Made my fish stew in the end.
Clams, mussels, prawns (all de-shelled), coley, tomatoes, onions, chillies, garlic etc.
Good. Bit thin. Mum said she liked it. Enough portions to both have leftovers the next day.
But on the whole it was a disaster.
Why?
Something blew a fuse about 10 minutes before I was ready to serve.
The stew was fine, in a pot on the hob, not about to cool down any time soon.
Dad's pie & potato were in the oven, keep the door closed, fine.
And I could put his peas on the burner that had had the stew on - I'd already boiled a kettle so that was okay.
What was not, was the panic from the 'rents. The wailing and gnashing of teeth.
I asked them could we not sit down and eat as pretty much everything was cooked, as Mum was under the stairs messing with the fuse box at this point and switching off things that had been on before.
The bruscetta wasn't done. But we dunked it.
And Dad had no gravy. And moaned more than once.
And we had to eat in the twilight.
Mum liked the flavour though.
I just think she'll always associate it with distress.
I think I will too.
Please wish me luck for my flatbread tomorrow.
I'm tired of cooking disasters.
Good luck with the flatbread!!
I am having hot dogs. Woot!! :)
dinner the other night was falafels. delicious! flatbread, red butter lettuce, heirloom tomatos, red onion, freshly made falafels. topped with homemade tzatziki sauce made from shredded drained english cucumber, greek yogurt, honey, red wine vinegar, salt, pepper, olive oil, lots of dill.
Man... It was really, really good.
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Did you not put honey in the tzatziki sauce?
dinner the other night was falafels. delicious! flatbread, red butter lettuce, heirloom tomatos, red onion, freshly made falafels. topped with homemade tzatziki sauce made from shredded drained english cucumber, greek yogurt, honey, red wine vinegar, salt, pepper, olive oil, lots of dill.
Man... It was really, really good.
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Did you not put honey in the tzatziki sauce?
Yes, honey.
That looks good V.
I am making Spinach Potato and Rosemary griddle cakes for dinner with pasta and sauce - if I can manage to salvage the horror that was a new sauce recipe
Another new recipe - Chicken Cordon Bleu pasta
Russian fish pie. Preceded by a couple of shots of good vodka, Russian style ...
Sent by thought transference
Making mackerel pâte this afternoon.
Hardly taxing, but making it with low-fat crème fraîche rather than cream.
The 'rents are doing an hour or so catsitting at my bro's, but Mum will be packing some up and taking it with her for supper. I get to snack on it alone in front of the TV. Yay me.
SIL in America with her Mum, bro left at 08.00 for the Paralympics, won't be back until very late.
They didn't want Hoshi to be on her own for such a long time. She will go out of the catflap but not come back in.
I've already been booked to help apply flea treatment (the one that goes on the back of the neck) next Sunday, because E will still be away. Then Stevo is coming over here and I'm cooking up a faux-American feast for us and Dad. Mum's dog-sitting for a friend (proper house-sitting, overnights and everything). So far I have ribs. Looking for some chicken palatable for our disparate tastes.
And mashipots. And another side I also haven't worked out yet.
Homemade burgers, homemade chips and Heinz baked beans.
Dinners this past week down here in Oz have been pretty good considering our flat only had a small set of stainless steel pots and pans and not much more. We have a Coles supermarket about a block away so I drop in and check what is fresh or on special. Roasted a chicken the other night which then became a meat pie last night. Fresh monkfish tonight from a local fish monger and maybe some kangaroo mid week. And everything is washed down with plenty of wine... LOTS OF WINE! It's good and about the cheapest thing I've found to consume.:drunk:
Don't over cook your roo if you get it. It's very gamey. Like venison, so if you've cooked that before, treat it very much the same. ;)
Wine is good. Very good. I'm looking forward to a glass or two very soon. hehe
Last night had ribs, chicken, garlic bread, potato wedges, onion rings and peas.
I wanted corn on the cob, but Dad wasn't keen and Stevo doesn't eat either peas or corn.
Ribs were over-cooked, wedges were too large so we only ate the small crispy ones and there is a shedload of chocken left. But it was £4.00 for a whole one or £4.00 for a couple of thighs so the choice was obvious... Dad says he is happy to have leftovers. And the cats are too.
The 'larky bread was teh yum. Tiny little rolls stuffed with garlic butter.
Will recommend them to Mum for 2 October when the girls come round.
Ahhh, British chips.... I remember shopping at the Tesco in Pembroke Dock when we were in Wales and noticing that one entire aisle in the freezer section was devoted to frozen chips of every type. And in the fresh produce section there were 20 or so different ones.
But the ones you buy in stores are nothing like real chips from the chippy.
I've just come here to bitch about the fact that I haven't really eaten dinner in so long I can't remember. I'd probably have to look through this thread to see what was last of note.
Lately, if I eat or drink anything but water after about 4pm the indigestion just kills me. As it is I can barely sleep an hour without having to take a pill.
Anyway, that's my bitch. I like dinner. I'm sick of not having it. :(
Let's start posting placenta recipes so we'll be ready. Or baby recipes. What?
Gross. Obviously it's been way too long since you saw your last placenta. lol
3 c-sections, no viewing, thank goodness.
Are you drinking raspberry leaf tea and olive oil tonight?
I think it's castor oil, and no, I don't have any. Wouldn't have it if I did to be honest.
The purpose of the raspberry leaf tea is to 'ripen' the cervix. They did an internal yesterday and it's ready to go in that regard, so all those wives tale type remedies are superfluous anyway (unfortunately).
I have a picture of Max's placenta if you'd like to see it. lol It's pretty gross. They collect the bits as they come out and put them back together like a puzzle to make sure it's all there and nothing is left inside to go septic.
Castor oil's for the (lack of) shits isn't it? Maybe works the same. The Greeks are all into Olive oil for inducing birth (was working in a greek chippy when awaiting Hector impatiently). Mind you, they're all into olive oil for everything.....
I'm running out of old wives tales, though. Maybe go and read a little current American politics -that's enough to shock anyone into labor -even Ibby.
Haha...yeah, Mitt's doing well for himself isn't he? Mind you, an Australian polly had to resign yesterday because he suggested that if we allow gay marriage, next thing people will be having sex with animals. lol What a fuckhead. lol
Dinner is roast chicken with bacon rolls, saudages, stuffing a(and various combinations thereof), roast spuds, kale, carrots and mushrooms. And gravy.
...because he suggested that if we allow gay marriage, next thing people will be having sex with animals. lol What a fuckhead. lol
Yeah we get that here too. "Oh! Where will it end?!"
Yesterday I had some disgusting fish pie from school. The potato topped kind. The dinner ladies told me it was grim. They only offered me a portion as it was minutes away from being binned. But the two ladies serving hated fish, so I was willing to give it a try.
No. It really was nasty. Stodgy, dense and even the potato was bad - like Smash if you haven't mixed it properly - powdery and claggy.
Still, it was free. And I nibbled round the edges and took the crispy bits off the top :)
I had baked beans with cheese. My goto meal when I can't be bothered cooking anything else. Dazza is cooking ravioli for him and the kids later, but I prefer to eat much earlier and go to bed on a close to empty stomach.
Chicken noodle/rice/barley soup.
yummy if i do say so myself. Beest just walked in frozen to the marrow from a day paintballing in the rain as I turned of the heat and dished up. Wife skillz, I haz em
Nice!
Eating meat for the first time in months, trying to raise my Hb before chemo starts. It tastes weird to me now. I'd go the veggie route but suspect this is faster, plus there are other considerations. So dinner was lamb chops and steamed veggies. At least it was quick to cook. Can't spend time in the kitchen right now; too much studying to do, aagghh! :eek:
Lamb chops? but you yanks don't eat the baby bahbahs!
When does chemo start?
(for extra wife skillz points, i have washed and put in the dryer his nasty clothes so he can do it all agian tomorrow. usually i just do it in my own time after the weekend is done, but they were so wet and muddy they were lighter when they came out of the washer.)
pizza
I ate too much of it.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Maybe my Brit heritage is showing :p:
Chemo is scheduled to start the first or second week of October, depending on how fast my skin graft heals (I get that done this Wed).
Tonight: Beef Kabobs.
The beef cubes have been marinating in scallions, ginger, garlic, pepper, balsamic vinegar, Worcestershire sauce and soy sauce since yesterday after work. Kabobs were supposed to be last night's dinner, but I laid down to take a tiny little nap and didn't wake up until 1:30AM.
I have never marinated anything for this long, so hoping they still kinda taste like meat...
Dinner Wings , Sausage , Taters and salad , MMMMMMMMM !!!!!
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Cool , i do a slight variation on this , i leave the Big bone in ( Oh shut UP !!!!)
chicken noodle soup and a grilled cheese - yummy
Meatloaf, baked beans, mashed potatoes, and deviled eggs.
:yum:
Moms rock!
ha! that they do.
I am having banananananananas on toast.
Moms totally rock!
This is the first dinnertime I've spent alone, since my mother moved in with us several months ago. The restaurant manager where MB works liked her so much, he created a position for her. So, that's where she is tonight.
For my rare solo dinner, I just enjoyed a little leftover lasagna and meatballs from the same restaurant.
Hambuger patty, salad and beer.
Slow cooked haunch of venison ...
I'll be having a hot pot with dumplings ready meal. Highly processed and with enough salt to transform your bloodstream into the Dead Sea, but 10 second prep time and 7 minutes in the microwave.
You should try a slow cooker. Dump a bag of prepared veg, two glugs of wine and a lump of meat in it in the morning. Eat a yummy dinner in the evening. Freeze another dinner or two for another time. Prep time 3 mins, cook time 7 hours. You can get fancier if you want, but you don't really have to.
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I wandered into Morrisons today. It's the only one of the Big Four supermarkets I rarely visit. Well, of of the three we have in town - I hardly ever get to Asda.
Only to find that the wonderful packet mix vegetarian meals I've been buying from Sainsburys are actually 20p cheaper in Morrisons! Hmmmm. Having stocked up on five recently I feel cheated out of a pound. Still - I know where to go in future.
Also got some chapattis for 65p - haven't seen them on sale in the other two places. Of course I should make my own but... well, I just can't be arsed. Much healthier for me than naan bread - much as I love it.
AND, best of all, I found
Gits ready meals! And yes, we've pretty much exhausted all the jokes about the names in the last month I've been searching for them...
They are half the price of the packet meals I've been buying and only require reheating. Trouble is they are twice as high in fat. Still, given they are my main meal of the day, 18g of fat or lower is a lot better than I was consuming previously.
So I have Punjabi Chhole, Pau Bhaji and Methi Matar to try. And again, I know where to go to get more. Shame they don't carry the whole range - some are healthier than others. But most Indian vegetarian food carries benefits - not least the fibre and flavour. Better to consume fat this way than in a Big Mac.
Packet mix-wise I've been eating Simon Rimmer's meal range
Si - Meat Free Cuisine. My restocked cupboard has the Mixed Bean Chilli which is GORGEOUS, Chickpea Tikka Masala which even Mum liked, even though she generally dislikes chickpeas and in the fridge is half a portion of Tomato Biryani leftover from tonight (that one's a two serving pack).
These all have to be cooked/ simmered in a pan. 15-20 minutes, so hardly "cooking". Just a little more washing up.
I will report back on my Gits meals for you.
All your talk of Indian food made me crave paprika. :)
I have some salmon in the freezer, so I searched for paprika and salmon recipes. Think I will try
this tonight:
Smoked Paprika Roasted Salmon with Wilted Spinach
• Low Calorie • Low Carbohydrates • Low Fat • Low Sodium
1/4 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon olive oil, divided
2 teaspoons thyme, divided
2 pounds salmon fillets
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon paprika, smoked
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon grated orange peel
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 bag (10 ounces) fresh spinach leaves
I'm out of smoked paprika but regular should be OK.
Are going veggie?
Are going low fat. I have veggie intervals anyway.
2 pounds salmon fillets
The recipe sounds teh yummy, but that's a LOT of salmon!
It is! I have less than half that, so will make do.
I'm just jeal because it costs so much here - 2lb is nearly 1kg and the average price for that would be £12.50. Not putting it in the realm of Kobe beef, just making it something you keep for special occasions.
Yeah, if I buy salmon, I buy one or two fillet portions. And that's a treat.
If that equals about $20, then it's the same price here. I paid 7 bucks for 0.7 lbs. of sockeye salmon. Blegh.
Ah there you go then.
I suppose the difference is that Dani and I generally cook for ourselves.
If I had £12.50 to spend on one ingredient I'd probably go out for a meal :)
...Highly processed and with enough salt to transform your bloodstream into the Dead Sea,
I'm a bit ashamed to say it but I LIKE my bloodstream that way.
with freshly cracked coarse black pepper, too.
give me a choice between salt and sugar and I'll take salt.
I even wrote a poim about salt, I love it so.
Of course I'm bloated like a blowfish, but I loves me some salt.
I like it's magical properties, too. And the fact that you can foil your enemies with it. It's handy stuff to have.
eta: interesting note got from bill bryson --- the world salary is derived from the word salt---which is what roman soldiers were sometimes paid in.
Made a very salty/peppery home-made chicken and rice (with hausenpfeffer! [carrotts]) soup today. And triple choco chip cookies; may make hamber/cheese/salsa mix-up for later. Nothing to do today but cook and laundry.
ugh. clouds and rain coming. could use a good book.
So I have Punjabi Chhole, Pau Bhaji and Methi Matar to try. And again, I know where to go to get more. Shame they don't carry the whole range - some are healthier than others. But most Indian vegetarian food carries benefits - not least the fibre and flavour. Better to consume fat this way than in a Big Mac.
I've always suspected that the whole British Empire thing wasn't so much about world domination as a country desperate for take-out.
I actually love Indian food myself. Right now my freezer is stocked with three different flavors of frozen samosas. Never heard of Gits. For ready made Indian I buy MTR, Tasty Bite, Kitchens of India, and one other I can't remember.
The pouches are OK, but really more of a sauce with some chunks of veggies or cheese than a stew. I usually pour over chicken strips or turkey meatballs and microwave.
Can't move for tripping over an Indian takeaway round here :p
We're quite limited here.
I mean there are a number of restaurants and they do take-away, but the menus are all the same.
Having lived in Leicester I've experienced a far wider range of Indian cuisine and eaten with Indians/ Pakistanis or people of that heritage, so I know I've been eating authentic food.
The take-aways I can get in Aylesbury aren't completely tailored to English tastes, but they are tweaked, and it's pretty much all Punjabi.
Still, it's more authentic than Chinese take-away, which is nothing like what you get in China. Not here anyway - possibly different in other cities or other countries. I'm sure I've told the story of when my Hong Kong born colleague took me out for my birthday and we ordered from the Chinese menu. Now that was a culture shock. Taught me that "authentic" was over-valued, despite my use of the word here :)
Packet mix-wise I've been eating Simon Rimmer's meal range
I prefer Dave Lister's meal range, myself.;)
Not so sure I'd want him to cook for me, though.
Captain Frank Hollister: For crying out loud, Rimmer!
Arnold Rimmer (alive): - the outcome of which was a proposal by the aforementioned Lister to the aforementioned Rimmer to cook him breakfast.
Captain Frank Hollister: Okay, I'm getting the picture.
Arnold Rimmer (alive): Breakfast comprised of two eggs, three rashers of bacon, a grilled tomato, two sausages, a small portion of fried potatoes... and a large quantity of _mushrooms_. Having consumed this repast, second technician Rimmer, Arnold J. experienced what can only be described as a voyage to trip-out city. To whit, a major hallucinogenic fit.
Captain Frank Hollister: Lister, is this true?
Lister: No, sir. I'm sure it was only one egg.
Arnold Rimmer (alive): The aforementioned Rimmer, to whit, me, then attended inspection parade. He was totally naked except for a pair of mock-leather driving gloves and some blue swimming goggles. Under the influence of this psychadelic breakfast he went on to attack two senior officers, believing them to be giraffes who were armed and dangerous.
[Rimmer is drunk]
Rimmer: I want a triple fried egg sandwich with...
Lister: With chili sauce and chutney.
Holly: You what?
Lister: It's a state-of-the-art sarnie.
Holly: It's the state of the floor I'm worried about. All right, okay.
[the sarnie appears in Rimmer's hand]
Lister: Trust me.
[several conflicting emotions cross Rimmer's face]
Rimmer: I think I'm having a baby.
Lister: It's good, innit?
Rimmer: It's incredible. Where did you get the recipe?
Lister: I can't remember. I think it was a book on bacteriological warfare.
Rimmer: It's like a cross between food and bowel surgery.
I'll admit I smirked at the idea of eating Rimmer's meals.
I had a major crush on him when I was at school though... something about men and nostrils.
I must be on a paprika kick, because I'm putting it on everything now.
A couple of nights ago, I made cod filets (cheaper than salmon, whew!) topped with butter, salt & pepper, and paprika. Baked them in a glass dish for 10 minutes, basted them, then baked for 5-10 minutes more. They were still frozen in the center while I was prepping them, so the melted butter would harden as I drizzled it on...it was weird. Used the leftover butter to steam some bok choy and julienned red bell pepper as a side.
The meal was a hit, but total butter overkill. Next time I'm using a mixture of butter and olive oil, instead of pure butter.
Last night was tuna casserole time. I used a basic recipe--mixed up cooked pasta (penne) with a large package of tuna, cream of chicken soup (can of condensed whisked with can of water), cup of shredded Cheddar, green beans and half a chopped onion. Sauteed the green beans and onion first in some olive oil and salt & pepper to soften them up. Topped the mixture with moar Cheddar, panko breadcrumbs, and PAPRIKA. Baked for 20 minutes, then broiled a few extra minutes for that browned crust.
I always forget about tuna casserole. Yours sounds fabuloso!, Blue!
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Naked juice. I'm trying a different route around treatment day this time, hoping to have fewer side effects. Keeping it very light with little in my system the day before, of, and after. We'll see. Things can only improve!
frittata with corn and spinach and cheese.
Attempting chicken noodle soup for the first time in my life. It went in the slow cooker at 11 this morning and should be done around 5 pm. It's supposed to get down in to the 40s tonight (WHAT THE HECK, FLORIDA?!) so I wanted something to help keep warm!
Attempting chicken noodle soup for the first time in my life. It went in the slow cooker at 11 this morning and should be done around 5 pm. It's supposed to get down in to the 40s tonight (WHAT THE HECK, FLORIDA?!) so I wanted something to help keep warm!
You're in Florida! There must be hundreds of Jewish grandmothers who would love to give you tutorials on cooking chicken soup. AND they'd be happy to march right into that doc in a box and give that turd a dressing down.
If that equals about $20, then it's the same price here. I paid 7 bucks for 0.7 lbs. of sockeye salmon. Blegh.
Saw an advert in the paper today. Tesco are doing whole salmon half price.
Must remember to ask Mum to get some in. I'd love to make your recipe.
Nothing to eat again tonight.
I really should try :headshake
Haven't eaten since Monday which I know is very unhealthy.
Still - will be offered a breakfast pack on the coach, and have dinner at Bibis with the girls on Saturday night.
Even if I can only manage a starter.
OOH! Must take a take-away box just in case!!
ETA - snickering at the idea of an adopted Jewish Granny laying into a Dr on Choc's behalf.
I have no grandparents left now (not unusual at 40). Can I adopt one too? I'd like an American one.
Can we start a Granny Exchange program? I'd like a British gran for a while.
There must be hundreds of Jewish grandmothers who would love to give you tutorials on cooking chicken soup. AND they'd be happy to march right into that doc in a box and give that turd a dressing down.
A two-fer! I'd go for it, Choco. A British gran would be cuddly and make great scones but she wouldn't be as good at dressing down the docturd.
Alternatively you could try an Italian or Ukrainian baba - equally good at dressing down stupid people but the soup would be different.
A two-fer! I'd go for it, Choco. A British gran would be cuddly and make great scones but she wouldn't be as good at dressing down the docturd.
Alternatively you could try an Italian or Ukrainian baba - equally good at dressing down stupid people but the soup would be different.
:lol2:
Saw an advert in the paper today. Tesco are doing whole salmon half price.
Must remember to ask Mum to get some in. I'd love to make your recipe.
Half price salmon...yessss!
I had to send that article to my mom...thanks for posting it, choco.
I want every dish on there, except for maybe the caterpillar one. But it doesn't look too terrible, either.
Banana Lady doesn't cook much any more (and tbh it was all packet stuff), but she loves to travel and is a great guest! She wouldn't dress down any doctors, but she'll bring Beano Comics for the kids and play family games and nod off in front of the TV after dinner. not sure I want any other granny in exchange, though -it takes years to accept our mess and love us despite it :) -Just happy to share the wealth ;)
Last night was my first time hosting Christmas dinner. I planned the menu and supervised the cooking, and I'm happy to say everything was delicious! We had:
-spiral ham with an orange, honey, & brown sugar glaze
-mashed potatoes with rosemary and roasted garlic
-roasted green beans with orange zest and toasted almonds
-orange cranberry sauce
YUM.
I forgot - I never posted Christmas dinner.
This year, as last, we went to the local pub. No it wasn't a ham, egg and chips affair. You book months in advance (and pay a fortune) and are served enormous quantities of food. We've never made it past dessert yet, passing on the cheeseboard and mince pies.
Dad and Maureen had the prawn cocktail, Mum and I had the pate.
There....that's me done. I'd never make it to the second course.*
* This appears only to be the case with actual nutrition. McDonalds and other junk I can eat my own bodyweight in 'food'.
Main courses.
I had the steak with peppercorn sauce on the side, the others had turkey (and ham).
Note that because more than one person ordered turkey they gave us extra pigs in blankets, roast potatoes and veg in that separate bowl.
I hadn't noticed before how much salt Maureen put on her dinner! Oh well, the cats are still alive (I took 2 leftovers boxes this year, just as well given the amount I ate)
Just desserts.
Christmas Pudding slice (it was cakey and much nicer than a real Christmas Pu) with custard for all of us.
that all looks really good!
There....that's me done. I'd never make it to the second course.*
* This appears only to be the case with actual nutrition. McDonalds and other junk I can eat my own bodyweight in 'food'.
This is an actual medical fact. Your brain's hunger signals are based on whether your body has gotten what it needs yet. If you eat very healthy food, you get your nutrients and your body knows you're done. If you're eating crap, your body will keep asking for more until it gets the vitamins it needs. (Of course there are many complicating factors, like rate of metabolism, variable caloric needs due to activity, and psychological addiction to eating... but all other things being equal, you'll get full faster on better food.)
And, given my previous pedantry, it is only right that I admit that so far my dinner has been chips, salsa, banana, yogurt, and honey. Supposedly I'm making some hamburgers and asparagus later this evening, but if Mr. Clod doesn't make it home in time I'll just snack on more leftovers instead.
so far my dinner has been chips, salsa, banana, yogurt, and honey.
That's healthier than most people eat.
Because I know everyone has been waiting on tenterhooks... I did make the hamburgers, but not the asparagus. Just had some dill pickles on the side instead.
I was going to have quinoa with dressed crab and roasted vegetables.
But when I got home Mum was making one of the Simon Rimmer's Tomato Biryanis I bought her. She offered me half and I just flopped down on the sofa and said, Yes Please.
I did have roasted orange pepper, cherry tomatoes, garlic and red onion with it though.
Finished off with a mini clementine.
All washed down with fizzy water.
Look at me with my rainbow menu.
Tomorrow we're having risotto with oven poached salmon, mixed green salad and crusty bread. I'm cooking and may just have salmon and salad.
I am trying to rapid thaw chicken because I have mango chipotle marinade. I will probably satisfy myself with thawing enough to pull off the styrofoam container. Yes, I'm bad, I froze chicken in the original packaging.
What's wrong with freezing things in the original packaging? I do it all the time. Always have and we're all still alive.
Chicken in the original packaging... which is chicken skin covered with feathers.
The mango chipotle chicken, sans plastic and styrofoam, turned out really yummy.
It is accompanied by carrots and toasted sesame ginger quinoa.
However, because of the protracted amount of time necessitated by the defrosting and other assorted mucking about I didn't get to eat it for dinner. It's ready to take for work this week, though. Dinner was spaghetti and meatballs.
I was going to have quinoa with dressed crab and roasted vegetables.
I did have roasted orange pepper, cherry tomatoes, garlic and red onion with it though.
Look at me with my rainbow menu.
Tomorrow we're having risotto with oven poached salmon, mixed green salad and crusty bread. I'm cooking and may just have salmon and salad.
The rainbow menu sounds wonderful! Any chance you're going to start a catering business? I'd be your first customer (we'd work out the shipping kinks somehow). Everything you've described sounds divine.
Dinner tonight ... starting a modified juice fast a bit early this time. Salad; juice; more juice. Water water water. Repeat (already rinsed).
Yesterday I made a big stock pot full of winter broth. Minced beef, potatoes, tinned plum tomatoes, bit of carrot, onions, leeks, peas, mushrooms, fresh sage and parsley. Dash of worcestershire sauce too.
Today I will be dipping in to that on and off served with rough cut crusty bread and butter. I've already had a small amount, reheated to near dry and served with a baked stuffed mushroom (bought not made :p). It was awesome.
Rfn, I'm tucking into another bowl of winter broth, with crusty bread to dip in.
Sounds delicious, especially with the crusty bread. Absolutely necessary. Yum!
Tonight I had crab claws, garlic mayo (full fat but a controlled portion) and a salad of watercress, spinach and rocket, yellow pepper and spring onion.
Should probably not eaten all the crab claws. It did say "Great for sharing!" on the box. But I bought it because it was reduced and I'd be wary of eating seafood after the Best Before date in a way that doesn't worry me with other food. Yeah, my excuse for pigging out :)
Ortho I'm afraid I'm a poor savoury cook. Salads I can do, but only to my own specific requirements. If you're a fan of tomato or cucumber you will find them sadly lacking...
Tonight I had roasted Apache potatoes (lightly tossed in olive oil and rosemary), baked carrots with Orange Honey and Dijon Mustard, Teriyaki Chicken slices and sugar snap peas. The most conventional meal I've had since mid December.
I put half the potatoes aside for tomorrow (oh, baked with a little red onion) because although I only had three, I cut them into quarters. I'll have the rest of the chicken then too.
Again, nice colours on the plate.
Apache potatoes:
Ooooh. That sounds mega tasty.
I was cooking up something interesting involving sausages, but then I sliced my finger open whilst chopping onions and gave up on the something interesting. Just threw the sausages onto some bread and that was that :P
Did you know you can buy single, cooked sausages?
I've seen them in our big Tesco.
Although chances are you don't have a Tesco Extra near you.
It appealed to me because I do fancy the occasional sausage (as well as cock) but they are so messy to cook...
Yeah. There's a big 24hr tesco near me but it's a drive/busride away. I've had their ready cooked cumberland sausage ring. Oh bloody hell. Verrrry tasty.
Y'see. I fall foul of the fallacy that it's grim up North every time.
When's your birthday btw?
Is this your 40th?
Feb 19th or 23rd come to mind...
Trying a recipe I found via Pinterest. Chicken breast coated with apricot-pineapple jam, Catalina dressing, and onion soup mix. It's in the slow cooker now. Smells pretty good! We'll find out...
Sounds good. Let us know how it turns out!
It was delicious!
2 lbs chicken breast
3/4 cup apricot-pineapple jam
3/4 cup Catalina dressing
1/4 cup (one packet) onion soup mix
Put the chicken in the bottom of the slow cooker. Mix the latter three ingredients together and pour over top. Cook on low for 4 hours. Could also do it in a pan in the oven at 350F for 1.5 hours.
We served it over brown rice with a side of broccoli. It had an orange chicken/BBQ type flavor going on. I'll definitely be making it again.
where does one find apricot-pineapple jam?
I'd never seen it before, but it turns out Smucker's makes some. Found it at our regular grocery store.
I find it in the fridge.
Before that, I found it at cash and carry.
Do not sully the noble pineapple in that way please.
Actually, never seen pineapple jam here. Spose it's too expensive to ship.
Well now.
I bought a microwave crisp maker (chip maker in Merkin terms.)
It was dirty for a start. Packaged, but grubby - not with food, just like it had been stored somewhere insalubrious.
And it did come with no instructions.
So of course I turned to t'internet.
Turns out it's a Chinese product and just about everyone is online asking how to use it. Except one sarcastic fool who was all like "What is your problem, slice food, put in holder, put in moicrowave, duh!" Luckily they died of their own toxicity, so we don't need to worry about them any more.
After iextensive research re how long and what setting, I am going to try and make Sweet Potato chips tonight.
Salivating already.
Went back to my old method for sweet potato chips. No comparison.
The little bit of olive oil I use on the baking tray is healthy anyway.
The slicer that came with the microvave kit did not produce results any more even in cut than my own knofe sliced ones - at least oven baking I can see which ones are crispiest and put them in the warming oven while the others catch up.
So tonight I had baked sweet potatos, roasted peppers and some dressed lobster (from a can). Meant to save some of the peppers for lunch tomorrow but they were the sweet mini ones and they just roast so well, breaking down into intensely flavoured chunnks of goodness, so I scoffed them all down.
Tomorrow's lunch already prepared.
I will HAVE to take a picture as I am really excited about it.
Sugar snap peas (steamed) topped with quinoa with a hint of spices topped with seafood antipasti. Couldn't help myself. Snagged a bit of octopus tentacle as I loaded up my lunchbox. Despite my shrinking stomach I could probably eat all the seafood right now.
Hmm... bloating, abdominal discomfort, craving for seafoood... Perhaps I am about to give birth to a shark! I would say spawn, but as I'm a mammal I don't want to stretch credulity too far. Still, remember me next time you read the National Enquirer.
ETA add my pics
So many tentacles ... :worried:
But I'm sure it's delish. Just not for me.
Um. Er.
Sundae--when you win the lotto and we buy that big mansion and stuff...you're going to have to eat that octopus stuff in another wing of the house. The Seafood Wing if you will.
Tril, out of respect for you I will only serve it blindfold until I have you converted.
You blindfolded I mean. Otherwise you might escape.
Ortho you can come and be inducted when Bri no longer needs strapping to the chair.
The tentacles make it look like Klingon food....
:p
Were the tentacles chewy or rubbery? Around here, we would have used your lunch as bait
I have several good friends who say octopus is delish. But i can never see past the little suckers...just does. not. look. like. food.
Oh, bloodyhell, Limes, that looks delightful.
The last boat from the mainland is 6pm. If you're quick you might make it ...
Hang on - where you getting Velveeta Cheese from?
I want some!
The octopus is neither chewy nor rubbery really.
Just... seafoody. And your mouth does not recognise the suckers. Or at least mine hasn't, and I believe it to be as sensitive as anyone else's.
I picked up some salmon fillets today - 50p each.
Straight in the freezer, defrost and eat at my pleasure.
I'm sure they were marked up wrong (the member of staff could not have been less interested in what he was doing and the reduced tag identified them as seafood sauce originally £1.
Meh - who am I to point out his mistake and potentially ruin his afternoon...
If it's done right, octopus isn't chewy -- like calamari, really. I had it once and it was yum.
Limey -- that casserole sounds delicious!
No velveeta cheese, just using cheesey cheese. Also, adding fried onions and red peppers ...
Oh, and Sundae. you can
make your own Velveeta cheese, apparently!
Sundae, you can send me all the extra calimari those philistines don't want. I love eating things with tentacles (much to the delight of Japanese businessmen, no doubt.)
Oh no Clod. I'm eating it myself!
Thanks for the recipe, Limes. Looks too much for me at the mo, but I will bear it in mind it in mind next time Mum has the girls round. It's supposed to be the perfect cheese for nachos.
Tonight I think I am having baked salmon with a chilli and balsamic glaze, roasted white sweet potatoes, peppers and red onion and roasted carros with honey and mustard.
However I can't hear the 'rents making their usual "getting reading for Mass" racket. I fear I will not have the place to myself as usual. So it might be just a handful of lychees.
Last night was supposed to be pulled pork. Then I remembered at 3:00, "Oh no! I haven't thawed it yet!" I rush home to start the process, dropping all the kids' school stuff on the floor and berating myself for making such a mistake, start filling the sink with hot water... until I discovered that actually, there was nothing in the freezer; I didn't even buy the pork when I went to the grocery store.
Somehow the bigger mistake made me happier. My screwup was so thorough, nothing I did yesterday could have fixed it, so I was off the hook. Plus, instead of having dinner late, we had Chipotle.
Dinner was pancakes/crepes. filled with meat and cheese sauces. All three components were made from scratch by my own scabby hand, Furthermore, it turned out that my stroke-weakened left hand/arm would not co-operate with the plan to flip the large pancakes with a spatula, so all were flipped traditional style using my good arm -but in a large heavy pan with s wobbly handle. No pancakes or fingers were harmed in my making of dinner.
I'd forgotten that my psrentd are now going to a different service, as their church is being completely reburbished. So I was able to have my dinner anyway. Trouble is, I couldn't get the lid off the new olive oil. I tried to compensate using my oil spray, but none of the veggies turned out particularly well.
Ate them all anyway.
The salmon was good.
Back on soup today.
Last night I went to my fridge and cupboard a few times looking for inspiration. Nothing in there that I fancied. Vaguely considered throwing some potatoes onto boil and having them with lamb chops, but a) seemed a bit heavy and b) couldn't quite be arsed.
I wasn't really that hungry. I needed food, but having been grazing on toast and cereal during the day I wasn't really hungry.
Eventually, I forced myself to stick a readymeal in the oven. Lamb Moussaka from Asda (rarely shop at Asda, on account of them being owned by Walmart). Still wasn't that hungry when I served it out. It didn't look at all appetising.
It was really nice! Nicest moussaka I've had in ages!
Every time I look at pre-made moussaka it looks really oily.
And I'm not all that fond of lamb.
Yet I'd eat a gosht curry with a film of oil on top.
Maybe I am aubergine-prejudiced.
Glad it was good.
You will be pleased to hear I am fighting slightly with my appetite now.
It's more about eating healthily rather than forcing myself to eat these days.
I'm still not worth taking to an all-you-can-eat-buffet, but I do have to keep myself from grazing on snacks after 20.00, given that I have eaten a reasonable, balanced and healthy dinner.
And I am eating clementines, apples and lychees daily. Fruit. Finally.
Carrots, sugar snap peas, onions, tomatoes and peppers make up the veggie complement.
Might not be quite 5 a day even so. But it's far better than it was.
Yeah, me too. On the Moussaka. Don't even know what possessed me to by it in the first place. Went shopping in the wrong frame of mind and bought two ready meals at random.
Am trying to cut down on the number of ready meals now though. Used to be pretty much all I ate. Am trying to get that down to two or three times a week.
I'm pretty much only eating things I can grow or kill. Heard that advice on Radio 4.
Except of course I can't grow or kill anything. But it's the thought that counts.
I'm having lots of brown rice and quinoa and I couldn't kill those for example.
But no Ian Hislop and I might be able to make him grow a bit.
Eating fresh and healthy has to become a lifestyle - like going to the gym.
It's not something you can dabble in. IMHO of course.
I'm committed. Or should be (old joke, haha, older than Zsa Zsa but still alive)
But it's working currently because it requires time and planning and I have much spare time to fill now.
So saying, I am waiting for the oven to be free so I can make a Nigella Vanilla Cake. Doubt I'll eat any, but I got a couple of vanilla items from school colleagues for Christmas, so I want to hit them with a BAM! vanilla treat. Sunday is Sundae's baking day.
I have nothing in the damned cupboard. Some half-used taco seasoning mix, some brown rice, cans of tomatoes....
I want a cook. I want to order food and have it brought to me from on high----I want the Star Trek Second Generation method of food-getting!
I have eggs!
But the pan is dirty.
I won't have eggs.
Boil the eggs. Just a thought.
We just got in to Oahu, Hawaii yesterday afternoon since we are in a condo with a full kitchen we hit Safeway to get stocked up. We were too tired to go out but still hungry so I got busy and did what I call potato hash, basically some chopped onions, garlic and potatoes pan fried until brown and crispy. Then I fried up a slice of bacon, what was left of the raw onion and a clove or 2 of garlic and then fried up something I have never tried before, Chinese mustard cabbage, they call it Kai Choy and it looked really fresh and locally grown. It had a swiss chard texture but was that pungent green like cabbage and had a peppery taste but not strong at all. Finished it off with a bit of New Zealand Sauvigon Blanc to finalize the braise.
Finished the dinner plates with some fresh pan seared marlin. I just dusted it with some Hawaiian sea salt and cracked pepper and seared it in olive oil until lightly done. Removed the fish, added some minced green onion tops to brown and a splash of white wine and a 2 TB of butter... My version of a brown butter sauce!
Looking forward to lots of local sourced ingredients and fresh fish while here in Hawaii where my wife will be working yet again while I go swimming or hiking around. :D
It's occurred to me, Dana, that cooking for one as you are, yo might benefit from getting one of
these. (I've mentioned it before,
here). It's very easy to use and cheap to run. Can be used to heat/reheat ready meals, slices of pizza, or for "proper" food ...
Fuck! I've just noticed the price, it was a lot cheaper when I got one. However, if you use it whenever you would have used a full-size oven to heat/reheat/grill something, you will have saved that amount of money on your leccy bill within the first year or less ...
Oh, I used tohave a similar thing. And a standard slow cooker too. Hardly ever used them. Since I absolutely won;t leave anything plugged in and switched on when I away from the house (except the fridge obviously:P) they didn;t prove all that easier than throwing something in the oven, pan or microwave.
I have a teeny tiny house with kitchen facilities that a caravan would despise as inadequate. Stuff like that (and the ill-fated juicer J bought me) just mean extra stuff to store or facilitate on my tiny worksurface.
I have a teeny tiny house with kitchen facilities that a caravan would despise as inadequate.
that is teh funneh.
Just had 3 x Hot & Spicy Chicken Wings (bought).
Pretty good.
Last night I slow roasted red onions, white sweet potatoes and Roquito peppers and also made my stanard honey and mustard carrots. So 15 mins for the chicken and we were good to go. I even left some. I do feel a bit bloaty now though.
The Marriott condo where we are staying in Oahu has grills so I threw on a butterflied leg of lamb and some asparagus and made a rice pilaf in the supplied rice cooker in our room's kitchen. Rather an Asian influence here.
Lamb should be interesting as I marinated it with a mix of EVOO, red wine, salt and pepper and miso and a touch of toasted sesame oil.
The Marriott condo where we are staying in Oahu has grills so I threw on a butterflied leg of lamb and some asparagus and made a rice pilaf in the supplied rice cooker in our room's kitchen. Rather an Asian influence here.
Lamb should be interesting as I marinated it with a mix of EVOO, red wine, salt and pepper and miso and a touch of toasted sesame oil.
Lamb was great! Wife gave the meal 5 stars and I reminded her if we had eaten out in Waikiki it would have been over $250
Sounds great, Chris. And you sound like you're having a ball :)
That lamb sounds outstanding.
Hawaii markets have a great stock of all kinds of Asian food supplies so I got some toasted nori sheets and have been experimenting with sushi since we also have a great supply of really fresh fish!
Mostly I'm making maki type rolls cut into sliced rounds and hand rolls. I use brown rice since I quit eating the white stuff awhile back.
Today I made a great roll with rice, cucumber, carrot and ahi tuna belly which is very tender and has a buttery taste.
@chris: I'm envious. I wish I could go back to Hawaii for a visit.
For Ortho, although it's just a quick knock-about dinner.
Tonight I had quinoa topped with
Galician Mussels in a Viera Sauce. Yes the mussels came in a tin :)
Was good.
All washed down with the finest supermarket-brand fizzy water.
Mum made a horrible pie the other day and left some out for me. So I teased out the filling (chicken and sausage), chopped the carrots & broccoli leftovers, fried in some onions and made it into a stew with half a jar of Weight Watchers Garlic Pasta sauce. It was still a bit meh, but better than dry pie (all that pastry!)
I've been a bit lazy recently.
Might make some roasted veg tomorrow.
The 'rents are out until late afternoon, so I can take my time and enjoy it.
End of month approaches. I have plenty of ready meals stashed, so they will be making an appearance soon.
Thank you! I love quinoa, especially the red kind. Haven't made it in ages. Maybe I'll try making just one dish this weekend.
See, I like so much for that's good for me.
Peppers, onions, garlic, quinoa, brown rice, seafood, houmous (in small portions - even if want to eat the lot!) most pulses, cottage cheese etc etc
I just get stuck in a cycle of "Well I've already failed, let's fail some more" where I'm not even enjoying what I eat. That McDonalds McMuffin I had the other day - bleurgh!
Oof- depressing.
The 'rents cried off going to Milton Keynes because it was so cold waiting for the bus and when it arrived it was full. Tcha. I'da made someone stand up for my Dad. He's 73 you know - and when he's cold he looks older. So no food prep for me today. Am probably going to have tinned soup - 3 Bean & Tomato. Or Indian.
Still, I'll be baking, so check that thread :)
Yeah...I get into a similar rut.
I was kind of glad of the horsemeat scandal really. Not that I have a particular problem with eating horse (though...it fucking reeks when you cook it as I recall from one of my Dad's cooking experiments - though not as much as the puffball steaks he tried drying out to use as an alternative fuel for the beehive smoker), but I do have a problem with not really knowing the provenance of my food. And I hate the idea that a burger is probably made from the mixed flesh of several cows. Add in the barnyard of other animals that may be in that burger and it's really started tolose any of its appeal.
The scandal has provided a nicely timed and graphic reminder of what I don't like about fast food and heavily processed food.
The hardest thing is getting through Leeds train station without going to Mac D's. I always go and get my lunch at MacD's on the station on the two days a week that i go into uni.
Last week i went and got a fillet'o'fish, but I found myself repulsed by what I was eating. Suddenly I started to wonder about the fish...yeah. Nice thought.
So this week I've been to uni twice and each time I've gone to the little Cafe Ritazza and got a cheese and tomato flatbread with a danish and a coffee. Slightly more expensive that the small mountain of fats, sugars and assorted fauna I usually get at MacDonalds, but very tasty and filling. Without that bloated feeling.
And then last night I cooked a proper meal for my tea. Lamb chops, potatoes and asparagus. There were three chops in the pack...two for me and one for the Carrotmonster.
I'll check the baking thread and daydream ... I'm not supposed to eat refined sugar anymore, along with a ton of other stuff. And since chemo I find that soy gives me migraines, which it never did before. It limits my choices to the really healthy stuff. :p:
At the moment I'm in a rut of homemade salad, microwaved veggies, and hard-boiled egg whites (usually in the salad). There's next to no prep work or mess and no major clean-up with those things. By next week I hope to add a bit of salmon or haddock to dinner.
Mum made spaghetti last night and saved me the leftover sauce.
I kept seeing it in the fridge and thinking it was chilli. I might have to chillify it up tonight so I'm not disappoint.
I have a can of adzuki beans crying out to be used, so I'll whack those in so I don't need pasta. Ha! Just caught Dad before he headed off to Tesco. One carrot added to the shopping list. Is good to sneak in extra veggies.
Salad. And a pinot gris from Oregon to make the day go down better, because the day sucked. But that's for another thread.
Elizabeth is cooking spaghetti, garlic bread, and a salad. It is so nice having someone to cook for me. BTW, she's studying to become a dietician
Elizabeth is studying again?
That's great news, Sarge.
I made the cobbled-together chilli for lunch, then had a kip and woke up surprisingly hungry. So I had baked carrot with honey & mustard glaze and roasted red onion on top of the ubiquitous quinoa. Oh I like the look of those words together!
I had a very windy evening.
Did a proper freezer dive and found one last portion of chicken curry and lentils and a carton of soup - BBQ Pulled Pork & Bean (from the New York Soup Company no less.)
Both now defrosting.
One of them gets added adzuki beans to finish off the tin.
Weather forecast? More high winds.
Sundae----when we get our castle in the clouds-type home together, you can do all the cooking/baking EXCEPT no fish/sea monster or similar.
I'll wash up.
You'll have to move here. I'm not sure I can take the emotional stress of being away from the British Isles. But we'll have plenty of culinary adventures in order to seduce you to our (my) way of eating. Thanks to the Cellar I know at the gourmet end, the UK is similar to the US after all.
And we'll be close enough to London and Oxford - American enclaves - so that you don't get too food/homesick. Anyway, it's not completely Baby Jane territory, you can come and go as you please.
You wait til we tour Northern Europe or the Med. I'll get you eating fishbits my girl.
Haven't eaten yet today.
Think it's going to be the curry and chappatis.
Got another week til the 'rents go away.
I'm so excited about my 24 hour cooked pork. Which is silly as I bet the soup is far nicer...
Still - if'n I don't get maximum pleasure from the pork (bought discounted after all) at least I'll have had pleasure from the planning. It's been like a little nugget of gold inside my head these last few weeks.
Oh, the soup was discounted too.
I have such a beady eye for the freezeable sign on packaging.
Back on Oahu, Hawaii for another 3 weeks. We got our apartment kitchen stocked with basics and fresh produce and found some really fresh marlin so I got a nice 2 lb loin, about 7 x 3 x 3 inches.
I made a fresh teriayaki glaze and basted the fish, I also prepped some firm tofu for later use this week and made a nice marinade with extra V olive oil, fresh herbs and some rice vinegar.
Grilled it all up on the public grills here at the Marriott resort. Served it with some nice short grain brown rice, fresh sauteed beet greens with bacon and a tropical salsa of mango, pineapple, sweet onion, capsicum, and minced parsley and cilantro and a dash of lime juice. Washed it down with a Cote de Rhone.
Wish you all could have been here!! :D
Big lobster tails tonight, I think they came from Brazil but were similar to the ones we had in Australia and probably spiny lobsters not like the ones with claws from Maine. I split the tails open to expose the meat and basted in a a mix of olive oil and fresh basil. Grilled them on an hot grill and basted with a garlic/shallot/butter and wine mix until done.
Served them over some fresh mashed red potatoes with a side of grilled beefsteak tomatoes and grilled capsicum.
A nice Cote de Rhone on the side. :cool: :D :lobstah: Hawaii rocks! :band:
Chris you have me swooning.
Blimey.
Monday night I cooked for Mum and me.
Baked salmon marinated in garlic, ginger and soy sauce, served with salad leaves on a bed of
lemon, mint and parsley couscous. Mum wasn't that keen on the couscous ("the grainy stuff"), but didn't leave anything. I overcooked the salmon by my standards, but I know Mum is paranoid about anything undercooked. So I found it a little dry around the edges, but she declared the fish perfect.
Last night I had
spelt with roasted red pepper and onion. I had intended to eat it for two meals, but it was so good I polished it all off in one sitting. Greedy guts. Checking the nutritional values it wasn't too bad - not like having two roast dinners or two Big Mac meals for example. And still within nutritional guidelines for losing weight.
I will buy it again. Perhaps when I am cooking for Mum again. So that way I
can't trough the lot without scratching and biting.
NB, there was a supermarket discount on Ainsley Harriott (UK TV chef) dishes. They're good stuff. 'Cepting that they are generally packaged for two, which makes it hard to resist an eat-a-thon.
The salmon on couscous sounds fantastic. Ditto for the spelt dish. I haven't tried it before. Still eating salads and microwaved veggies. I plan to cook things and then don't have enough energy at the end of the day.
Going to go and have some berries and then fall into bed. Maybe tomorrow I'll cook something.
giant salad (made with real giants! j/k), toast with butter and jam,
didn't feel like cooking.
We are having Crock Pot BBQ Beef, with roasted vegetables, acorn squash, sweet potatoes, and parsnips. YUM YUM.
I plan to cook things and then don't have enough energy at the end of the day. .
Sounds like a call for a crock pot!
Good thought! I have to get organized enough to put things together in the morning. I even have a vegan crockpot cookbook. :bolt:
I had Marinated venison backstraps, mashed pertaters, and frozen corn that I heated up.
That was last night, I think. I may not eat tonight, I had a late lunch.
Ortho, don't forget that you don't have to brown anything or even thaw anything first. Just fling it all in there and forget about it for the day. I love crock pot dinner days!
Sent by thought transference
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you are British, Limey. The name, for a start, is a dead giveaway.
Stick to beer and leave the cooking advice to the French, Italians, Chinese, Indians, Mexicans, well, pretty much any other country.
:D :bolt:
Hey, be nice!
Limes is talking specifically crockpot here, and I'm sure I've heard the same from Merkins. :yum: Only reason I don't have one is that it's just not economically viable for a single person.
Anyway, am going to document our trip to Borough Market tonight or tomorrow.
We have foodies too.
I've found myself correcting people who think American food is popcorn, McDs, Domino's... High fat, high salt, processed etc.
I'd like to think some Merkins here would correct people who think The British Isles are all about bad teeth and nasty food too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_cuisine
British cuisine is the specific set of cooking traditions and practices associated with the United Kingdom. British cuisine has been described as "unfussy dishes made with quality local ingredients, matched with simple sauces to accentuate flavour, rather than disguise it."[1] However, British cuisine has absorbed the cultural influence of those that have settled in Britain, producing hybrid dishes, such as the Anglo-Indian chicken tikka masala."[2][3]
Celtic agriculture and animal breeding produced a wide variety of foodstuffs for indigenous Celts and Britons. Anglo-Saxon England developed meat and savoury herb stewing techniques before the practice became common in Europe. The Norman conquest introduced exotic spices into England in the Middle Ages.[4] The British Empire facilitated a knowledge of India's elaborate food tradition of "strong, penetrating spices and herbs".[4] Food rationing policies, put in place by the British government during wartime periods of the 20th century,[5] are said to have been the stimulus for British cuisine's poor international reputation.[4
An ancient set of islands with several nations, many regions and millennia of continuous habitation, having at one time held sway over half the world and having acted as a magnet for migrants for thousands of years. Of course our cuisine is varied.
Romano-British agriculture, highly fertile soils and advanced animal breeding produced a wide variety of very high quality foodstuffs for indigenous Romano-British people. Anglo-Saxon England developed meat and savoury herb stewing techniques and the Norman conquest reintroduced exotic spices and continental influences back into Great Britain in the Middle Ages[4] as maritime Britain became a major player in the transcontinental spice trade for many centuries after. Following the Protestant Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries "plain and robust" food remained the mainstay of the British diet, reflecting tastes which are still shared with neighbouring north European countries and traditional North American Cuisine. In the 18th and 19th centuries, as the Colonial British Empire began to be influenced by India's elaborate food tradition of "strong, penetrating spices and herbs", the United Kingdom developed a worldwide reputation[7] for the quality of British beef and pedigree bulls were exported to form the bloodline of major modern beef herds in the New World.[4] Developments in plant breeding produced a multiplicity of fruit and vegetable varieties, with British disease-resistant rootstocks still used globally for fruits such as apples.
There was, amidst the long haul of British history, a relatively brief period during and after WW2 where continued shortages and rationing led to a decline in the quality and variety of British cuisine.
Modern British (or New British) cuisine is a style of British cooking which fully emerged in the late 1970s, and has become increasingly popular.[citation needed] It uses high-quality local ingredients,[citation needed] preparing them in ways which combine traditional British recipes with modern innovations, and has an affinity with the Slow Food movement.
It is not generally a nostalgic movement, although there are some efforts to re-introduce pre-20th-century recipes. Ingredients not native to the islands, particularly herbs and spices, are frequently added to traditional dishes (echoing the highly spiced nature of much British food in the mediaeval era).[citation needed]
Much of Modern British cooking also draws heavily on influences from Mediterranean cuisines, and more recently, Middle Eastern, South Asian, East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisines. The traditional influence of northern and central European cuisines is significant but fading.
The Modern British style of cooking emerged as a response to the depressing food rationing that persisted for several years after the Second World War, along with restrictions on foreign currency exchange, making travel difficult.[citation needed] A hunger for exotic cooking was satisfied by writers such as Elizabeth David, who from 1950 produced evocative books whose recipes (mostly French and Mediterranean) were then often impossible to produce in Britain, where even olive oil could only normally be found in dispensing chemists rather than food stores. By the 1960s foreign holidays, and foreign-style restaurants in Britain, further widened the popularity of foreign cuisine. Recent Modern British cuisine has been very much influenced and popularised by TV chefs, all also writing books, such as Fanny Cradock, Clement Freud, Robert Carrier, Robert Irvine, Keith Floyd, Delia Smith, Gordon Ramsay, Nigella Lawson Simon Hopkinson, Nigel Slater and Jamie Oliver, alongside the Food Programme, made by BBC Radio 4.
We're a pretty foodie nation these days. Yes, there are swathes of the population who won't deviate from their chicken nuggets and chips, but the average British town these days creaks under the weight of gastro pubs and experimental restaurants.
And yes, I know it was a flippant remark :P But ya know...I like things to be clear...
I am not much of a foodie myself. Used to be. Used to cook. Used to have stacks of cookery books and watched the more instructive cookery shows for inspiration, then made my own creations.
These days...ahhhh...I know what I like. And cooking for one in a teeny tiny kitchenette with a cooker that slopes slightly, so pans occasionally slide off the hob and therefore have to be monitored constantly (even more so since Carrotchops' arrival) does not inspire creative or elaborate cooking.
So anyway...I very nearly broke my McD-free streak today. Was sooo hungry. had very little time, didn't fancy anything at cafe ritazza...was walking towards McDs when I noticed there was a massive queue. Now...a massive queue at that McDs doesn't mean much. They zip through proper speedy usually. But it made me pause for thought...so I carried on walking and got a breakfast pannini at Starbucks. Yes they're the debil and don't pay proper taxes, but it was less toxic than what I'd have eaten in McDs.
I'm finding it hard to not eat heavily processed food and choccy bars and cakes and sweets. It's like my sugar and fastfood addiction has exploded this last year. I haven't managed to cut it all out. It's still a rare day that doesn't include at least one or two chocolate bars. But I'd effectively started replacing meals with this trash. Because whilst I can eat any amount of it without feeling full, I have a really tiny appetite (even without the trash) whenit comes to real food.
I think I've probably cut down on the heavily processed ready meals, fast food, chocolate and assorted stuffs by about three quarters. Having better fingerfood available in the cupboard and fridge helps a lot. If I'm going to graze, and four decades experience of being me says I will, better to graze on some deli ham, fruit pieces and cheese, buttered wholemeal breadroll with cream cheese and smoked salmon, giant 'queen satsumas', little tins of pear halves. And no-fuss, easy to make instant porridge tubs: pour on hot water and add a little sugar to taste.
Good lord. Once known for their sense of humor, you Brits seem a little touchy about my joke about your cuisine. I'm sure some of your food is quite palatable. But I have seen photos of what you call pizza.
:D
I know, I know...
But when you're making an effort to eat right, and have all the food necessary to do so, it stings a bit to be lumped in with the suet n' lard crowd.
And I'm just tetchy anyway.
Not enough suet or lard.
Well I have been pretty good with my new no-meat/vegetarian/fish diet for the past 6 weeks but my wife still craves a little red meat so yesterday morning when I stopped by the grocery near by to get another fix of raw tuna poke for my lunch I noticed they had some really nicely trimmed lean beef tenderloin fillet marked down. So I bought it, 4 small pieces, really still quite fresh and it said it was from The Big Island which is nice as it is locally sourced and not from some lonesome cow in Nebraska. I also figured that since it is really lean it is a really lean source of protein I would break my diet.
I Goggled some recipe ideas and found one from Jamie Oliver and adapted it for grilling instead of the oven. First I sliced some white mushrooms into thin slices and browned them in a bit of butter in a pan and let them cool. Then I rolled the meat in a some of Herbs de Provence and a mix of salt and pepper. I smeared the top side of the meat with some wasabi from a tube I got for sushi experiments. I wanted that beef Wellington kind of feel mixed with the idea of roast beef with horseradish. Then I shingled the meat with the cooled cooked mushrooms. I laid out 2 slices of prosciutto overlapping and put the meat with the mushrooms down right in the middle and then rolled it up with the ham. I put it on a hot grill for 2-3 minutes and rolled it over and finished cooking it. Served it with some small potatoes roasted in the oven and a side of carrots and a nice glass of Zinfandel red wine. My wife insisted I get a few pictures with my phone camera, here they are.
Yumm! I'm coming to your place for dinner!
Tonight is a recreation of the meal Mr. Clod made for me on Valentine's Day (well, the main part of it anyway, I'm not going balls-out with sides and dessert like he did...) It's a steak and arugula salad recipe from epicurious.com:
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese plus Parmesan cheese shavings
1 1/2 tablespoons butter, room temperature
1 12-ounce rib-eye steak
1 teaspoon olive oil
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup finely chopped shallots
1/2 teaspoon (packed) dark brown sugar
4 cups (lightly packed) arugula
2 large lemon wedges
Mix grated cheese and butter in small bowl. Season generously with salt and pepper; set aside. Sprinkle steak generously with salt and pepper. Heat oil in medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add steak; cook to desired doneness, about 4 minutes per side for medium-rare. Transfer to plate. Add vinegar, shallots, and sugar to skillet; boil until reduced to glaze, stirring constantly, about 1 minute. Divide arugula and Parmesan shavings between 2 plates. Squeeze lemon over. Slice steak; place atop arugula. Top steak with Parmesan butter. Drizzle lightly with glaze.
Yeah? Well we had spaghetti and a jar of tomato sauce. The parmesan was freshly grated though.
Fried shrimp, hushpuppys, and corn fritters.
Yeah? Well we had spaghetti and a jar of tomato sauce. The parmesan was freshly grated though.
Freshly-grated by you, or just non-powdered stuff that someone behind a deli counter somewhere grated? The latter is the kind I use. It's the same price, why would I do the work myself?!
By me. I find the flavor is a little stronger if it was grated just before dinner. But I'm not sure if you can taste the difference once it's on the food.
Tonight we are using up more of our pantry since we leave Hawaii for home on Friday. There used to be a show in the early days of the Food Network TV called Door Knock Dinners where the host would knock on doors in upscale neighborhoods with his celebrity chef and ask if they could come in and cook a dinner using only what was in the pantry and refrigerator/freezer. They came up with some pretty good meals actually!
So here is what I had.
2 cans of tuna (the good kind in olive oil).
Assorted vegetables like onion, celery, f. corn and f. peas.
Last of the milk my wife used for cereal.
Some cheeses like a bit of cheddar and Emmentaler and Parmesan.
small items like spices and flour
A package of premade pie crusts
So I made a tuna pot pie! The Marriott has a pretty nicely supplied kitchen for these self catered units but no rolling pin or pie plate so I used the stainless steel frying pan and a wine bottle to press the unrolled pie crust an inch or two larger to fit the pan. Poured in the other items I had done in another pan and topped with a crust. Even did an egg wash over the whole thing and baked until it was golden brown and bubbly.
Only 2 nights left and mostly vegetables so who knows?
Okay, no photos.
Just a precis of what we ate in the last week.
Wednesday (first evening)
Harissa couscous and roasted vegetables
Seemed to go down well. I wasn't happy with the carrots - had too much "bite" to them. Al dente carrots became my signature dish during the week.
Thursday
One of my Gits meals.
Methi Masar. With brown rice and naan bread. I think we all liked. I certainly did; did not taste like a ready-meal. I think maybe we are connoisseurs.
A very popular vegetable curry made of a combination of fenugreek leaves, green peas & fresh cream. And much liked by connoisseurs. Along with the aromatic taste of the fenugreek leaves and the green peas, the natural delicate flavours of Methi Matar are enhanced by a subtle aroma of spices and seasonings.
Friday
Tuna pasta bake. Made with "sandwich" tins of tuna (with tomato and beans.) Topped with real breadcrumbs and Arran cheese. Needed more seasoning and more tuna. But it went down well enough. The only time I think I got the portion size right! Sorry teh Limeys, I'm too used to cooking for one.
Saturday
No cooking - opening of the K Social Club that Limey has been a big part of. It means for half the week she has somewhere she can meet people and have a drink (soft or otherwise) within a two mile walk. Anyway - they provided a buffet. From which I salvaged cooked potatoes. I'm such a scavenger, but thankfully Limey was not embarrassed and seemed okay with my waste not want not approach.
Sunday
Chicken breasts marinated in soy sauce, honey, garlic and ginger. With leftover potatoes and baked carrots. Carrots still not quite soft enough in my opinion. But the chicken, although not highly flavoured (I should have made a sauce) was at least tender and moist.
Monday
My penultimate night.
More Gits.
Punjab Chhole - chickpeas in gravy with brown rice and naan bread. Again the pack was for two people, but the portions when divided into three were embarrassing this time. I consoled myself that chickpeas are very filling, as is brown rice.
A favourite from Punjab – " The Land of the Five Rivers", whose people are well known for their zest for life and their wholesome cuisine, Punjabi Chhole is a tangy dish of chickpeas in spiced, thick gravy of onions and tomatoes. Cooked slowly in a special sauce, its sour and tangy taste goes well with pitta bread or dinner rolls
Also made sweet potato crisps (chips) and knocked up a lazy salsa for dipping.
Tuesday - my last night
Limey sorted this one out really.
We had rollmops from Ikea, salad and boiled potatoes.
Guess what Mum and I are having to eat tonight? Well, the rollmops are from Sainsburys (sans dill) but the rest is the same!
I did toss the Limeys' potatoes in garlic butter, but I won't be doing that for Mum tonight.
In hindsight I should have taken up some of the recipes I've cooked before for Mum & Dad where we've had leftovers. Chicken & chorizo, chicken & dhaal, Spanish beef. Instead I took up food I could eat myself or share with just Limey. It would have been great to have had large cook-all-day recipes that the three of us could sit down to in the evening. We all sat down together every night anyway, but I felt I could have offered more than just assembling pre-made food.
Eating with the Limeys is pure pleasure. I always eat alone at home. And my eye is usually on the clock, so I can get everything eaten and cleared away before the 'rents come in and turn the kitchen into Piccadilly Circus. Even eating early I am often disturbed cooking and/ or eating by one or the other faffing about. And I can't complain; it's
their kitchen. The Limeys on the other hand seem to see pre-dinner as wind-down time and even if they do "invade" they are so laid back it's not an issue.
Anyway - see how tonight goes. Mum hasn't had rollmops in a long time and is really looking forward to it.
One step up already.
Thanks to the Limes for letting me play in their kitchen.
I'll do better next time x
It's almost always wind-down time at Chateau Limey, especially if someone else is in charge of getting the dinner!
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Limey, I finally remembered why coconut water is so good for you. Well, good for me.
It's choc-full of potassium.
And for an ex-heavy-drinker and banana-phobe like me it's a real boon.
Oh man, I love coconut water. On a hot day, there is nothing quite like it for refreshing.
Tonight I had gnocchi (fresh kind from the supermarket chiller, not dried long-life) with a leek and mushroom sauce (mushroom pasta sauce ready bought and added some leeks, done in very little water so there was a small amount of the liquor to go into the sauce) with some crusty bread.
Bought some coconut water today :)
One of the beverages I am toasting Thatch with.
Although if I were of the Catholic persuasion I would believe she was already being toasted sufficiently.
Little bit of politics for you there...
Ha! Nice Elton impression:)
Well I admit, it's a little bit funny...
not for dinner - least ways not tonight ... but I tried my hand at my first batch of sweet pickled onions today. They are one of Him's favourites - hopefully they didn't come out too soft and mushy...
Eugh! Nothing worse than a mushy onion.
Except maybe an undercooked chip.
Not impressed by sweet pickled onions myself, but good luck to you. Especially as it sounds like they're being made with love.
Eugh! Nothing worse than a mushy onion.
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A limp Onion God?
Limp I can work with darling, I'm a veritable faith healer when faced with that problem.
Mushy? Pass.
Yep. Nowt so offputting as a mushy one. Such a disappointment for a girl*.
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apparently - not mushy, a little soft, but they are holding structural integrity.
*shrug* much as it bloody annoys me - gotta do everything a first time
Lesson learned: wider base pot, thus speeding up the time to come back up to boil, leaving the onions in near boiling brine for less time.
OTOH.... they're purrrrrrrrrrrrty :)
We'll find out how they taste when Him gets back from the other side of the world
Oh I agree - I'm still to come to a proper recipe for Tuna Pasta Bake - which sounds like the easiest dish on Earth...
I'm defrosting and eating the remains this week - it's edible but not perfect.
So I totally get you being happy with your creation, but perhaps wanting to tweak it next time.
I'd be made up to be given one of those.
Like you say - purty.
there is something.... about the look of home canned stuff.
The strawberry jam is redder, the marmalade more golden, the pickles a brighter green....
Or maybe I'm just a sentimental sop.
But there is comfort in a pantry full of solid glass jars filled with the wonder of the summer's labours... or something
When I was a teen my BFF's Mum used to make her own jam.
I was not a jam fan.
Even as a child I never ate it - Laura would have jam sandwiches, I would have cheese.
Then I started spending time at Lou's house and lo and behold I started eating it.
My perfect breakfast was sitting in their tiny but sunlit dining room, eating homemade raspberry jam on wholemeal toast.
Like you say - there's something about it being made at home.
Sweet and sour chicken and an egg roll. Well, it wasn't a roll, it was kind of flat. Both home made, too.
Trying to decide between BBQ Chicken Quinoa Salad next or Creamy Garlic Pasta and Double Crunch Honey Garlic Chicken to make next.
Since my dietary change we are eating a lot more seafood and vegetarian stuff. Last night I fired up the Big Green Egg grill and seared some really fresh miso glazed mahi mahi. I also grilled a sliced up block of tofu that I had been marinating for a few days. Served the fish with short grain brown rice and some stir fried spinach with minced ginger and a dash of soy sauce. It all turned out well and was quite tasty.
The left over brown rice come in handy for other meals and the tofu will mostly be eaten for lunches.
Former NYTimes food writer Mark Bitman has a new book out called VB6 "Vegan before 6" where he outlines his diet of mostly vegan dishes until dinner when he has whatever he wants in moderation. Says it lowered his cholesterol greatly and also helped his blood sugar get back in line.
That whole menu sounds really good, Chris. Do you have the recipes for them? I would love to get them.
Trying to decide between BBQ Chicken Quinoa Salad next or Creamy Garlic Pasta and Double Crunch Honey Garlic Chicken to make next.
Quinoa! Quinoa! Quinoa!
Although I'll get you to make me Double Crunch Honey Garlic Chicken when I come to visit.
Unless it has nuts in it.
I'm thinking of pretending I have a nut allergy. It would be easier than explaining my general antipathy to them.
I actually made the Creamy Garlic Pasta (IT WAS GOOOOOD!), but the chicken for the salad has been sitting in my fridge for a bit. Hopefully I can get them cooked tonight and make the salad tomorrow.
And save the crunchiness for you (no nuts)
That whole menu sounds really good, Chris. Do you have the recipes for them? I would love to get them.
I'll put something together and pm you. I tend to create some things as I go based on the pantry supplies but I do love miso and have a lot in my fridge.
Thank you! Sadly, I don't know to cook so whenever I try to wing it, the food doesn't taste good. :(
Made a great vegetable curry tonight to serve over the left over brown rice. The curry was south India style, not too hot but a good after burn.
Trick was to use lots of the veggies I had and cook it all in a pressure cooker.... no jokes please... as my oven is not in my kitchen during the redo.
I also added tofu and Devil's Tongue or Konnyaku for a meaty base. That is a challenge as Devil's Tongue takes a bit of cooking to get done.
Overall a success but should have precooked the Konnyaku longer, it was a bit tough.
I am cooking corned beef for dinner tonight. Yum.
Last night I made sweet and sour pork and fried rice. That was yum too.
I showed my sister the shiritake (sp?) page, and she told me she had once bought and cooked it for us to try. Turns out we didn't like it. Hehe....anyways....
Dinner tonight will be a plethora of fruit, cheese, pepperoni (with some ants on a log thrown in). Not a lot, but ran out of calories when I decided I wasn't going to pig out until a new week, but had already drank a coke.
Jamaican Jerk Chicken, but I'm not expecting to have it for dinner tonight. It's intended to keep me from starving to death through the coming weekend at work. I'll probably end up microwaving something for dinner. I have some very nice beef stew.
the cats ate my steak.... I need a new plan
right outside my door > dinner for tomorrow...
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I like to experiment using up things I have in my pantry and mixing them with fresh items.
Last night I took some fresh cod fillets cut into 4-5 inch pieces. I added some salt and pepper and some minced herbs, basil and chives. Then I covered each piece of cod with some slices of smoked salmon that needed using up. I wrapped each fillet in 2-3 layers of filo dough that also needed using before it dried out in the fridge. Brushed liberally with olive oil as I rolled each parcel up.
Now the tricky part is we don't have any kind of oven in the kitchen as we are remodeling and the old oven broke (different thread) so I am using a propane smoker outside, kind of an upright box with a burner at the bottom and several shelves. It does get up to 400 degrees F so baking works, it is just a bit tricky.
It came out great and I served it with potato pancakes (again using up left overs) and fresh asparagus.
Tonight is the long awaited BBQ Chicken Quinoa Salad
Brains.
Nirvana is eating brains.
[heave]
Chris that dinner sounds gorgeous.
I'm just having left-over curry tongiht.
Swapsies?
Bbro, you had me at quinoa.
Sundae they are a mouthful of fabulous! I gave most of them away to a neighbor and my sister. Mushrooms once a year seems like a good trade for fresh eggs most of the year. :)
I'm still wary of mushrooms. I used to pretend I was allergic to them. I honestly can't remember why, but I was a child/ teen who who can fathom that thinking?
I'll admit I'd let you convert me.
Tonight, tabbouleh and roasted veg.
You know what? I've eaten tabbouleh for a while. I've only ever seen it written.
If I was ordering it from a menu I'd have to point at it like an ignorant furriner.
Although at least I'd ask for the pronounciation these days - there was a time I'd just have been too embarrassed to admoit my own shortcomings. Probably about the same time I was pretending to be allergic to fungus.
NB - Dads really is sensitive to mushrooms and our family friend Maureen is properly allergic. But with both it comes and goes. It's a fun thing to pretend because no-one can catch you out.
I used to tell people I was allergic to curry, which of course is ridiculous, like telling people you're allergic to "salad dressing." But every time I admitted that I actually just hated it, people would insist that I just hadn't had the right curry and make me eat some.
And then my tastes changed in college and I started liking it after all.
I had an eat-in date with a chap I met when working as a barmaid.
He was cute, in a hobbit kinda way. And smart and funny, which was why I gave it a go. No spark though.
Anyway.
He lived in a freezy house. I've always been a hot-body (in many ways, yuck-yuck) but this man had poor glazing and inadequate bedding.
AND (getting to the point here) on our first date he made me a lovely mushroom dish. Being a veggie.
No, sorry.
Just too many things not happening here.
In hindsight he was pretty cool. But I was cooller and fitter at that age and thought I had the time to choose.
He shoulda made me tabbouleh. And told me how to pronounce it.
My parting gift to him was a heavy tog duvet.
Skinny little hobbit chap with big eyes, he needed it. Hope his next lady enjoyed it - said with no prejudice.
I just had a really nice, simple tea.
Gnocchi (bought ready made but fresh from the cooler, not the dried stuff) - gotta love food that cooks in 2 minutes :P
To stir through: chopped forestierre mushrooms cooked slowly in butter, then added some chopped garlic, steamed baby spinach leaves, feta cheese, a little milk and some wholegrain mustard.
Served with a couple of chunks of cheese and onion sharing bread.
Delish!
Those aren't just mushrooms, they're morels! Where is Classic?
I've said it before, Sundae, and it bears repeating; all mushrooms are edible. Some of them, only once.
Shit, I came here to say I was having Vermont Cheddar, Gulden's mustard (it's golden on your tongue) and Snyder's of Hanover pretzels for dinner. Going vegetarian because I can't be arsed to slice some of the sopressata I have.
That is, of course the side dish to tonight's main course: My Robbing The Cradle Outmeal Stoat! On bottle two and I am feeling just a little out of control. Must check the ABV of that batch...
Good people, let me tell you, it is a party in your mouth and everyone is invited! Wholly and entirely mackerel. Tasty? Why, now that you ask, tasty doesn't begin, doesn't begin to finish my train of thought. It's goddamn delicious.
Are you down with GDD? yeah, you know me.
Shit. I'm out of Outmeal Stoat. Shall I wait fifteen minutes to see which direction inebriation is headed or should I damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead?
Also, listening to Fucking Kenny Burrell. Life is fucking suite. soooeeeet. Sue? Eat! La Dolce Vita.
Fucking Kenny Burrell.
Damn.
This just in from my brewing software: That batch was 6.6%ABV.
I think we are about to achieve
escape velocity.
LAIKA! SALLY RIDE! LOUIS ARMSTRONG!
(uhh, dude, that's Neil Armstrong, Neil. Not Louis.)
Can I put shit up into the cloud? How do I do that? I'd love for you all to hear this fucking amazing Kenny Burrell. It's right inside your ear. You can totally go places with this music.
I'm going to look into the cloud.
Ground Control to Major Tom ... don't forget to come back, now.
Eta - I'm too slow, you're out of sight.
[SOUNDCLOUD][./SOUNDCLOUD]
I uste my kyboar withcompres ar efore the mocveand now it'sl fuckedup,,,
Maybe it was just the batteries were dying. This is much more better.
fuck soundcloud and the horse they rode in on.
That was a major buzzkill. I signed up with my FB account and then when I wanted to delete my soundcloud account they told me my password was incorrect. I never gave them a fucking password.
Asshats.
[YOUTUBE]Ma5D2JqhZek[/YOUTUBE]
Someone who can think clearly in a crisis. Thanks Bruce!
Ribs tonight. With a smoky maple glaze.
Cooking for the 'rents.
Ribs and mashipots and... not sure actually. Veg of some sort.
I suggested corn on the cob but it was vetoed.
I may even manage to keep it down.
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Ribs tonight. Veg of some sort.
I suggested corn on the cob but it was vetoed.
Mushy peas?
Actually I found the British supermarkets had a pretty vast stock of fresh vegetables, especially the ones that grow well in that climate.
I made some nice fish tacos last night. There are one of those dishes that didn't exist outside of the Pacific coastal Mexico 15 years ago or so. My friend from Mexico City still laughs and says that they aren't really Mexican food! I prefer them to traditional meat ones because those can be real calorie bombs with all the meat and cheese.
Cod has been well priced so I got 2 or 3 fillets and sliced them into smaller strips. Floured them and dipped them in a beer batter (used Dos Equis) and then in hot oil. I actually prefer to grill the fish on my charcoal grill but my wife prefers the fried ones. Served them in warm corn tortillas with finely chipped Napa cabbage. I made the traditional creamy sauce but used no fat Greek yogurt with lofat mayo and some nice spices and lime juice.
Sounds Damn good to me !!!
Happy Union night! Shrimp and chicken in a brown sauce over rice. I am not blanching the chicken or frying the shrimp and replacing the broccoli with asparagus.
We had a xurf and turf salad , some left over verrrry rare steak, some crab meat , salad greens ,onion ( red and yellow ) sliced and grape tomatoes , a little extra sharp cheddar and some Vidalia onion vinegrett. Jethro Bodeen sized for me normal human sized for carol,
Yummmmmmmy !
Actually I found the British supermarkets had a pretty vast stock of fresh vegetables, especially the ones that grow well in that climate.
You're right. Mum & Dad favour what I call "Winter" vegetables. Cauliflower, cabbage, sprouts, carrots.
I like Summer ones better - beans and sprouts, peppers, scallions, peas. I like me some carrots, but I only really enjoy them when they're roasted.
Shrimp and chicken in a brown sauce over rice. I am not blanching the chicken or frying the shrimp and replacing the broccoli with asparagus.
All sounds good. But I doubt your brown sauce is like mine! Splain please!
We had a xurf and turf salad , some left over verrrry rare steak, some crab meat , salad greens ,onion ( red and yellow ) sliced and grape tomatoes , a little extra sharp cheddar and some Vidalia onion vinegrett.
Gosh that sounds yummy. As does Chris's.
I'm off my fish kick now.
Craving soft pappy foods like soft cheese, tinned fruit, custards. That might be slight dehydration, we've hit a pocket of warm weather for once.
We're having butter chicken with rice.
Also, maybe the kids will finish off the cheesecake I made the other day. I'm sick of looking at it in the fridge. :/
The recipe is actually called Happy Union, so the sauce was from that recipe. Off the top of my head it had the following: Salt, pepper, oyster sauce, soy sauce and chicken broth (I didn't use the sherry it called for). In a separate addition there was garlic, ginger and scallions
The recipe is actually called Happy Union
I spent a few minutes yesterday wondering if Union Night was a holiday I didn't know about, and finally decided it must've had something to do with May 1st's Labor Day. :lol:
Can the Kenny Burrell music be moved to a place that's more intuitive than 'What's for Dinner?'? I love this, keep wanting to listen but forgetting which thread it's in. Right now it's exactly what I need.
Dancing around my apartment right now. Love this stuff.
Can the Kenny Burrell music be moved to a place that's more intuitive than 'What's for Dinner?'? I love this, keep wanting to listen but forgetting which thread it's in. Right now it's exactly what I need.
Dancing around my apartment right now. Love this stuff.
check your pm
I spent a few minutes yesterday wondering if Union Night was a holiday I didn't know about, and finally decided it must've had something to do with May 1st's Labor Day. :lol:
LOL - that is too funny :D
Today is hot dogs and tortellini salad
We're having beef stroganoff for dinner tonight.
Oooh - I love beef stroganoff!
Me too bbro, but we don't have it too often cause Mav hates mushrooms! Can you believe that shit? lol
He's on a biology camp till tomorrow night though, so tonight is the night! :)
Well, to be perfectly honest, I hate them too :blush: When I made it, I just left out the mushrooms.
homemade sausages - not too shabby for a first attempt if I do say so myself :)
Gonna be making some BBQ Chicken Egg Rolls. Cross your fingers they turn out ok, I don't really have a recipe, just winging it.
I also need to figure out what to make to go along with the last servings of Happy Union. Maybe egg noodles? Buckwheat noodles? Wish I had udon noodles
last night was lightly breaded chicken breasts with mushroom, zucchini, onion sauteed then added to a Tikka Masala. Steamed broccoli on the side. Kids loved it.
Needed a bit more salt.
Tonight I am trying a technique I found to stretch ground beef - it uses chopped mushrooms as a filler. I am not sure about it, but the poster said they couldn't even tell there were mushrooms and her husband hates them, too. I am going to use it to make taco "meat" and make some quesadillas for dinner.
Going to be trying a new seasoning mix for tacos. Man - it's a twofer tuesday
PS - BBQ Chicken Egg Rolls were not bad
I was just looking for a little snack so went to the corner store. They had some dry roasted edamame (soy beans.) I like steamed edamame, so crunchy salty edamame sounded like it might be pretty good. It also has less fat and more protein than peanuts, which I was also considering getting.
Turns out there's a reason why dry roasted edamame hasn't caught on.
Tonight...no meal. Just grazing. Might have some ham on on a mini baguette.
Lastnight though I ate a good meal. Really healthy and tasty: tuna steak fried in a little oil, new potatoes and steamed baby leaf spinach.
We had spinach pie, lemon pepper chicken and left over rice from the moroccan meal we had the night before. It all went quite nicely together.
salsa, chips, cheddar, stout.
I forgot to mention that we also had a chocolate and raspberry triffle for desert. I made the cake a few days ago and no one ate it, so it got turned into triffle and poof! All gone!
Ohhhh. Oh I do love a good trifle.
This one was good Dana. :)
Dinner in the hospital (which in my head is sung to Roses in the Hospital by the Manic Street Preachers.)
First evening, salmon in a dill & mustard sauce, mashipots, green beans and cauliflower.
Do I like the cauli? No I do not. But I'd already asked about fresh fruit for dessert and told they didn't offer that. So I thought I'd best get my fibre where I could. Also the sauce covered the taste.
Apple and apricot pie with custard.
And no, that wasn't what I left, I was attacking it with such gusto that I almost forgot to take a photo for you!
That looks pretty good, and I love the dishes. I'd be tempted to swipe one for a souvenir.
Last night (Wednesday)
Chicken and leek pie with mixed veg (peas, beans and carrot), mashipots and cabbage.
Rice pudding.
(I was tempted too, but the same lady who served also cleared away!)
That looks way better then anything served in most hospitals here in the states. Here it would be all processed food with canned vegetables, usually overcooked and bland. Dessert is usually a small cup of ice cream.
I agree, the hospital food I've had (quite a lot, unfortunately) has been terrible. Watery overcooked veg; mystery meat; powdered eggs and powdered potatoes (retch); and margarine! In a hospital! Why don't they just invite us to light up cigarettes? :eyebrow:
Sorry about the rant. That food looks yummy, Sundae.
When I worked in a hospital, we served Lean Cuisines so that all the calories/fat/salts were easily accounted for. As if there were no dietitians on staff?
Tonight for dinner we had jambalaya. Sooo delicious.
I love Jambalaya.
I honed my recipe over the years.
My husband wasn't really a spicy food person, so it became more bland.
I went back to how I thought it should be cooked after we separated, but added more veg, because the Evil Ex ate no fruit or vegetables until he met me.
I readjusted it after moving home, because Mum gets bad gut-ache from peppers and Dad has such a small appetite.
But in all its incarnations it never became to Special Go-To dinner I wanted it to be.
Which was a shame, because even having tweaked it for other people's tastes, I still maintain my home-cooked version is better than any shop-bought one.
See, this is where I dropped the ball when I went to the Limeys'. I left home in too much of a hurry and in too scrambled a state. They'd have really appreciated something like this. Instead I reheated food prepared by other people. Which I admit was yummy, but lacked the personal touch.
Next time you visit we'll insist on Jambalaya.
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You paid my fare. I can't believe I tried to repay you with shop-bought food.
I'll be more proactive next time.
I'll bring as many of the ingredients as I can for that chocolate cake. Or Coffee & Walnut cake. Or any cake you fancy.
Made a batch of cheese scones today. But made tiny, tiny ones.
Because Erika wants some, so does Samuel, and I know Mum loves them too.
Dads says he wants them and he may get a chance with these miniature versions. I worry that they are too small and will therefore be dry, but you do what you can. All scones exist to be buttered!
Currently have chicken marinating for the Bank Holiday tomorrow.
And garlic infusing the butter I will use on the New Potatoes.
And red onion in lime juice to add to the salad (it takes the bite out.)
I'm a lousy cook, but occasionally I introduce the 'rents to something they might not have experienced.
Jambalaya and squidgy chocolate cake.
I can do.
Actually chick, if I get onto ESA I think I will come visit, depending on your plans.
I won't have to sign on every week and the environment on Arran and in your house is very good for me.
Of course I already have my interview for Waitrose, and I will go all out to get that job. But if I don't, and between hospital appointments, it would be magical to see your island in Summer, as I've always said I would.
And you and Mr Limey and Jasper make it especially special.
This time I will bring ingredients as opposed to ready meals. Although you can send me a wish list of course.
I might even be able to make the cook-all-day American recipes that terrify my Mum :)
I might even be able to make the cook-all-day American recipes that terrify my Mum
Why would letting something simmer all day terrify her ???
Nothing like Playing in the snow all day with a pot of beef stew or Soup cooking low and slow , you come in and smell the goodness !!
or chillie , or gumbo , or Jambalaya, or ,,,,,,
Has you no Crock pots in Blyty ???? ;)
Zip, I use a crockpot quite a lot. Sundae, you're welcome anytime, any time at all! x
Zing2's birthday is this week and we had the birthday party tonight. I made arni souvlaki (Greek shish kebab), Greek salad, and rice (with help from Zing2 herself).
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I might even be able to make the cook-all-day American recipes that terrify my Mum
Why would letting something simmer all day terrify her ???
Nothing like Playing in the snow all day with a pot of beef stew or Soup cooking low and slow , you come in and smell the goodness !!
or chillie , or gumbo , or Jambalaya, or ,,,,,,
Has you no Crock pots in Blyty ???? ;)
We don't have a crockpot in this house, no.
I don't know why she is so set against something that takes more than an hour to cook (except large roasts, which she has no reason to cook any more anyway.)
Just set in her ways I guess.
Had my wife's mother, son and his wife and 5 kids over for Memorial Day yesterday. Swam at the community pool and then did a sort of old fashioned cookout, hamburgers and hotdogs (I made lamb burgers for myself and anyone else who wanted one). Made a cole slaw and a potato salad in the French style using a vinaigrette instead of a mayonnaise base. Funny thing is that my wife insisted we buy 10 ears of corn as everyone likes that and it is sort of a traditional summer vegetable here. Completely forgot to cook the corn, I found the bag on one end of the kitchen counter this morning. Now thinking of alternate ways to use it all up. Maybe some corn chowder or corn fritters.
Sounds good, Chris, even if your fish recipes are more to my taste.
I ummed and aahed over buying some corn on the cob the other day, but then remembered 1) I am the only one who really likes it and 2) I mostly enjoy it as a means of transferring butter to my mouth.
Last night I was in charge of dinner.
We had marinated chicken breasts, which were flavourful and moist, even if I'm blowing my own trumpet. Just a hint of fiery glaze as I made my own sauce.
New potatoes in garlic butter.
Mixed leaf salad with a separate side dish of sliced cucumber and tomato with a little bit of olive oil for Mum & Dad.
And another separate dish of diced red onion with a lime and mint dressing.
Yummy.
And the weather even complied with the summery feel of the meal.
Although it's persisting it down again today.
Today I am totally experimenting with dinner for tonight. My wife has been craving some pork, like the kind that is shredded and can go in tacos- I think they call them carnitas. There was some boneless pork shoulder on sale today so I bought some.
Since my kitchen is a work zone for remodeling I decided to try a slow cooker/crockpot that my mother in law didn't want anymore since she just cooks for herself now. This is my first attempt at crock pot food. I always used to just use my Le Crusset cast iron pots but today I have the stove disconnected! ;)
So I spiced up the cut up strips of pork (major fat removed) with salt, pepper and Old Bay Seasoning. Browned it and dumped it into the cooker with some sliced up onion and cloves of garlic. Then for a liquid I added what was left from this morning's coffee, about 3 cups. I had pretty good success with coffee and meat when I used to try campfire Dutch Oven food. I also added a bottle of Dos XX amber beer, the last bit I even deglazed the pan for the browning with and it did smell very good. Stirred in a good sized teaspoon of cumin and paprika, 2 of my favorite spices.
Going to let it cook for 6-8 hours, pull the meat and shred it up. I'll post how it turns out.
While I can't speak for this particular recipe, you might want to try something like
http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/563/Cuban-Pork82340.shtmlthis with the next pork shoulder.
My grandmother had a sour orange tree in her yard, and its fruit went exclusively to the preparation of Cuban style pork. Yum.
Ahhh ... tonight has been a huge, delicious salad with baby spinach, baby kale, baby arugula, fresh sweet corn, baby carrots, grape tomatoes, avocado, green Mount Athos garlic-stuffed olives, and a few shavings of aged Manchego. Entree: grilled pressed tofu in black bean korma sauce with asparagus on the side. Dessert: almond nut-thins with a few more shavings of Manchego and a glass of Viognier. I think I have achieved ecstasy. ;)
Today I am totally experimenting with dinner for tonight. My wife has been craving some pork, like the kind that is shredded and can go in tacos- I think they call them carnitas. There was some boneless pork shoulder on sale today so I bought some.
Since my kitchen is a work zone for remodeling I decided to try a slow cooker/crockpot that my mother in law didn't want anymore since she just cooks for herself now. This is my first attempt at crock pot food. I always used to just use my Le Crusset cast iron pots but today I have the stove disconnected! ;)
So I spiced up the cut up strips of pork (major fat removed) with salt, pepper and Old Bay Seasoning. Browned it and dumped it into the cooker with some sliced up onion and cloves of garlic. Then for a liquid I added what was left from this morning's coffee, about 3 cups. I had pretty good success with coffee and meat when I used to try campfire Dutch Oven food. I also added a bottle of Dos XX amber beer, the last bit I even deglazed the pan for the browning with and it did smell very good. Stirred in a good sized teaspoon of cumin and paprika, 2 of my favorite spices.
Going to let it cook for 6-8 hours, pull the meat and shred it up. I'll post how it turns out.
Sounds brilliant. I quite often use a slow cooker and there's just two of us. I'd certainly keep using it just for me - one day you cook with the slow cooker, eat a portion and freeze several ... nothing beats home-made TV dinners IMHO!
Funny enough I had pork yesterday.
Mum made it for Sunday dinner and I just didn't fancy it. It was a packet mix for a start and I often find them too salty.
However there were plenty of leftovers and it smelled so nice that I thought it would be worth a try. I cut the pork up into bite sized pieces, then just lumped in all the sauce (to which had been added fresh onion and apple) then topped with glazed carrots. 20 minutes in the oven and it came out lovely. I did take the potatoes out though, and made some brown rice to go with it.
There was still enough left from the original meal for Mum and Dad to have it as their main too, not bad, five portions from one cook. Not bad for them anyway; I'm used to cooking and freezing but over the years Mum did get in the habit of binning leftovers. A combination of my influence and now having a kitchen caddy for plate scraping has certainly cut down on waste in the house.
I'm afraid I'm onto the WeightWatchers frozen meals now. Mum thinks I'm being a dutiful daughter and eating my way through the freezer. Don't like to tell her I literally have no money to restock my cupboard... I'm not going hungry of course. I'm such a food-monkey when I have money that I have plenty of pulses and spices to get buy on.
Ha! Having pork again this Sunday!
It's one of my favourite meats, whereas Mum favours chicken or lamb. But I'm guessing there was a Buy One Get One Free deal, because the packet in the freezer is exactly the same as the one she used last weekend.
the weekend after this, two of my Dad's friends and wives are coming for the weekend. It's John's 70th birthday. They're coming Saturday, going out for a meal and staying overnight at a B&B. They'll have some sort of unspecified meal here on Sunday. Brunch/ lunch/ BBQ.
Now as soon as Mum told me this I started making suggestions. I just love to feed people. And yes, I'm happy to clear up afterwards too. But she said, NO! No, don't. They will want to go back home. Don't start making all these plans. I swear I only wilted a little internally. I am confident I carried off the disappointment well.
Still, Mum might have sensed it.
Because a while later she said, "How about you do Sunday dinner this weekend? You can make that pork dish you mentioned."
She might be being nice because I'm still slowly killing myself. Or it might be because I was denied a chance to try out my salmon in a balsamic glaze. But either way I am chuffed to bits.
Shame it's only pork steaks and not a shoulder that I can slow cook.
But you don't look a gift pig in the mouth.
My step son and daughter in law are running around like crazy trying to get everything ready for the movers to move them to their new house across town. So we watched the kids at the new house, I repainted a bathroom and my wife put down clean shelf paper in the kitchen cabinets.
The new house has a pool so after awhile everyone went in for a swim. I volunteered to cook dinner and even brought along pots and pans and other tools as theirs are all packed awaiting the move. I made spaghetti, one with a meat sauce which the kids prefer and one more vegetarian for my wife and me. Normally I make everything from scratch, even my tomato sauce but for this I just added a jarred sauce and served it over the noodles with Parmesan, a green salad and garlic bread. Pretty basic fare.
What surprised me was when my 12 year old grandson asked if I had made mashed potatoes. "No" I told him, to which he explained that his mother always served their spaghetti over mashed potatoes with bread and never salad. Wow, I thought, that's really carbo loading. Later when their parents arrived with car loads of fragile things to unload I mentioned it to her. Both her parents died of cancer by the time she was 17 so she had a kind of strange childhood and I don't think she ever was mentored by someone on cooking technique. She admitted that she always served the kids like my GS had said. She also told me she also used a kit to make spaghetti. "A kit?" I asked. "Yes" she said, "Everything you need comes in the box, the noodles, the sauce, everything. Then we just make up some instant mashed potatoes to go with them."
Luckily my grand kids are super active. Always playing outside and involved in sports like soccer and football so they aren't overweight. But I do worry a bit about later. The kids hardly ever eat fresh vegatables or fruit unless it's at our house, I have never seen anything like potatoes, onions or any other vegetable at their house. They do get apples but that is about it. And most of the pantry food is highly processed. Lots of Lunchables, cartons of salty chips and other snack foods and things like Hamburger Helper and other pre-made dinner items where you only add a thing or to or not at all.
I consider myself lucky to have grown up with a parents who both liked to cook as well as my grandmother who taught me a lot.
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Beef it's whats for Dinner !!!!
Home-made pizza with mushrooms, cheese, tomatoes ... and glass of Chianti :)
I'm cooking something from Jamies 15 min mwals which i was gifted yesterday. The kids did one last night which tasted great although they did take about an hour. It was povely of them to cook for ke though. :)
welcome soul13! good to have you here in the cellar.
your pizza didn't come with a side of fava beans by and chance, did it? :worried:
Salmon and bleu cheese burger patties done on my panini grill, garlic and herb pita chips, and an Argentinean Malbec.
My God, go and get (apparently any) $12 bottle of Argentinean Malbec.
A couple of burgers.
A couple of burgers for yourself, specifically? Arnold tells a funny story about a group of 1970s bodybuilders going to a regular restaurant, and he orders 3 hamburgers. People are looking at him like, 'who the ƒuck eats three hamburgers?'
Arnold is Numero Uno.
Made a lamb tagine for my third son, who's visiting for the week. Since it needed more time to dimmer than we cared to wait, I also threw some chicken, a bunch of veggies, some herbs etc., in a big pot and cooked it up without fussing over it. The lamb was okay (needed more garlic), but the chicken was great!
Dinner on Sunday was a big deal--it was the first time ever that all six of us sat down and ate the same meal together. Ham (specially smoked by
these guys with no sugar or preservatives,) pineapple, and green beans sauteed with a little honey and crushed red pepper. My little ones were so happy to be eating what everyone else was (even though the reality is that we were eating what they were, but hey, same diff.)
Last few days I've really enjoyed, brown gravy w/ground beef and mashed taters, split pea mush. Yogurt blended w/kiwi, blueberries, dates, and prunes. No, not all at once. I'd kill for some chips, crackers anything salty and crunchy.
Aww, Clod, what a special dinner. Are the minifobs sensitive about the fact that they eat different food from everyone else, usually?
The girl isn't usually bothered by it, she actually thought it was pretty amusing that we were all eating the same thing, like if we'd all been wearing the same clothes. Minifob goes back and forth--on the one hand, he says he wants to eat what others eat, but on the other hand, he always has to be talked into trying new foods. Really he just wants everyone else to love his favorite foods. :)
I forgot to get eggs today, so the back up is a chicken salad sandwich with grapes and spinach dip
Three Hebrew National hotdogs (w/ Gulden's mustard and generic relish) and two stiff Tanqueray and Tonics.
It may not be all good, but it is pretty damn mostly good.
eta: also had some of those smoked almond things
A few handfuls of Virginia peanuts while I chopped up a very ripe cantaloupe. Soon, salmon burgers from Trader Joes, and a salad. Probably have some cantaloupe too. Currently enjoying a glass of red wine, while listening to the Kinks and Mrs. Glatt cooks up the burgers with her mom. Only one bad thing in all that.
Three Hebrew National hotdogs (w/ Gulden's mustard and generic relish) and two stiff Tanqueray and Tonics.
It may not be all good, but it is pretty damn mostly good.
eta: also had some of those smoked almond things
Goddamn, dude, your dinners rule.
I'm having more Malbec and pita chips. May cook some meat if I get motivated. I keep getting distracted by flexing in the mirror.
All day long I eat handfuls of almond and protien shakes, maybe a salad or some grilled fish. At least 3 times a week I eat a double-beef burger with mustard, no cheese, and extra jalapenoes. With unsweet iced tea. Oh, and also, daily: low fat cheese sticks and maybe an Odwalla Superfood here and there. AdvoCare Spark, every day. More or less a 'paleo' diet but I don't follow no damn rules. I will say this: red meat makes muscles.
Double Crunch Honey and Garlic Chicken and rice. :yum:
Italian Drunken Noodles tonight
Went to
Arthur's SteakHouse in Exton with two other couples. Brought my $100 restaurant.com certificate.
3 of us had the weekend buffet and 3 had a la carte. The buffet had a chicken breast with crispy skin and stuffed with mushrooms and vegetables in a brown sauce. There was also flounder florentine in a cream sauce. I also had the prime rib from the carving station, but instead of having them make pasta at the pasta station, I had the chef saute shrimp, sausage, garlic, and some chopped onion, tomato, and green pepper and pour it on top of the prime rib. The prime rib was rarer than I liked, so he put it in the au jus pot to cook some more.
Dessert was build your own coffee with whipped cream, caramel sauce, and chocolate sauce. I had the apple crumb pie which was made in-house (thanks Teresa) and a slice of cheesecake which was very creamy and delicious.
All of this except for my Diet Coke (funny but true) was included in the buffet. I think I liked the chicken best. For something out of a steam tray in sauce, the skin was golden and crispy.
We ended up $35 shy of the $200 required to take off the $100 gift card (coupon), so the non-buffet crowd each had dessert and coffee. We were still $3 shy so I got some wings to go.
At the end of it all, with 6 meals, two wines, tax, and tip, it was $24 per person after the coupon came off.
I didn't have any shrimp from the salad bar, but I did have the chicken tortilla soup and some corn bread.
I love that place.
I had Chicken and Dumpling Casserole last night and tonight is brinner!
With dessert like this, who needs dinner?
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Ribs tonight - done in the slow cooker with a rub from the Sticky Fingers and Tenderloins cookbook - finished with whatever barbeque sauce the kids like. I like doing ribs this way because they always turn out so tender they virtually fall off the bone, and the rub is delicious - plus cleanup is easy. I'll add a big salad of mixed greens (baby spinach, baby kale, chard, arugula) with carrots, grape tomatoes, avocado, and some fresh uncooked corn sprinkled in. The corn is so sweet, it's like candy.
Going meat free this week (with no beans, lentils or mushrooms), so tonight is a new recipe. I just haven't decided if I want Cabbage and onion pasta or Mini Veggie lasagnas.
Yesterday was taco dip platter. Yep - I had taco dip for lunch.....and dinner......and lunch today (and possibly breakfast tomorrow) :D
Very disappointing pasta today.
I bought pre-made fresh ravioli and froze it. This has never affected taste or quality in my memory. But it was supposed to be chicken and chilli. Couldn't taste either. Just bland meh.
Mum said the sauce, to which I added turkey mince as a healthier option, was very good. But again to me it was just meh.
Needed to whack up the Italian herbs and dump plenty hot sauce in there.
In fact I made it blander than usual for Mum's sake, and also because I thought the pasta would carry the flavour.
Too bloody hot in the kitchen tonight. I was sweating like a fat girl in a chipshop.
Three pans going at the very end (pasta and sauce for us, peas for Dad) and the microwave. Dad wanted a microwave lasagne rather than real food. With peas.
Still he spent the afternoon in hospital (see Upsetting thread) so what he wanted, he got.
Going to cobble together a faux-Caesar Salad for Mum and me tomorrow.
I'll cook some chicken earlier in the day so we can eat in a reasonably cool environment.
Yes I know I'm precious about them when restaurants deviate from the proper recipe, but they charge for serving it, I don't. I might even let Mum have cucumber in hers :eek:
I went with the carmelized cabbage and onion pasta. It was surprisingly good!
White vegetable lasagna cupcakes
Funny you should ask, Bruce. I just had to show you this picture
Those look amazing!
My kinda cupcake.
Last night's pizza. Mum's been craving it since we had an advertising leaflet through the door (these things work on simple but greedy minds like ours.) Dads wasn't having any of it. He had a meat pie in the fridge, and they had no money anyway.
Until Mum & I decided to go halfsies and the order was ready to be placed. He conceded sharing. Good job he did, we still had to bin 1/2 a slice of pizza and a piece of garlic bread!
Chav food, but oh so good when you rarely have it.
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Chav food, but oh so good when you rarely have it.
Chav, (/ˈtʃæv/ CHAV) is a stereotype and pejorative epithet used in Britain.[1][2] The stereotype was popularised in first decade of the 21st century by the British mass media to refer to youth subculture of the unemployed precariat in the United Kingdom.[3]
Etymology
The term has its origins in the Romani word chavi, meaning "child".[4][5] The 2010 book Stab Proof Scarecrows surmised that "chav" was an abbreviation for "council housed and violent";[6] however, this is a backronym.
Ohhhhh....Funny you should ask, Bruce. I just had to show you this picture
GREAT. Now I'm hungry again. Those look scrumptious.
Curried chicken, egg salad with dill, jalapone relish and yogurt. No Mayo.
Thanks BigV - They are really easy to make :)
here is the link:
http://www.emilybites.com/2012/08/white-vegetable-lasagna-cupcakes.html
But I made a bunch of changes. Ask me if you are interested or click on the link in my signature.
Spicy Chicken and Gnocchi Mac and Cheese.
Honey-Orange pork chops, sauteed green beans, orange slices.
Tonight SonofV and I will have
Iftar with W and his family. I expect there will be salad, falafels, sage tea.
Iftar:
Iftar (Arabic: إفطار‎ ifṭār "sunset meal"), refers to the evening meal when Muslims break their fast at the time of sunset, right at the time of maghrib adhan before Maghrib Prayer, during the Islamic month of Ramadan.
I made Pho last night.
Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup.
All the spices and the noodles came in a package, but I provided the stock and the beef, beansprouts and some scallions.
I cooked the shredded beef more than I would have liked, as Mum was sharing it.
But she had LARGE two servings; I was so happy it was to her taste.
There is a lickle bit left which I will freeze.
When the rents are on hols (and halfway trough the month when I will be potless) I've no doubt I'll appreciate a meal in a bowl.
I just conducted a grand experiment. I made a pecan based rub for pork, and tried it out on some baby back ribs. Everybody said it was pure genius. I am so good I just don't know what to do with myself.
We're fixin' whole wheat pasta, demiscratchbuilt marinara (canned crushed tomatoes are the base, w/Italian seasoning, bay, garlic, an onion) w/sausages. Might decide to emphasize one of the several herbs; I often do.
Homemade carbonara, according to
this recipe, looks pretty good, hope that it will also turn out to be delicious.
A leftover stew concoction that turned out pretty good.
Take some leftover roast pork, 2 or 3 chicken legs (bones removed), a 2 pound bag of parsnips (previously cooked), one baked potato cut up, 1 cup of frozen vegetables, 2 cooked onions cut up. Add to this beautiful mess 2 packages of reduced sodium Club House gravy mix. I used Turkey and Pork. At the last use a pinch of summer savory. Mm, Mm good!
Never ate so well for so little.
Last night it was pork wellington, cauliflower puree with roasted sweet potato and yellow cherry tomatoes.
Must be pork season... Safeway had boneless pork loins for $1.99 lb so I got 2. It's so damn hot outside I decided to cook on the stove. I cut off 4 fillets about an inch thick and proceeded to beat the bejesus out of them with a meat mallet to get them down to about 3/8". They went from the size of my palm to a carpet bag, perfect for frying.
Heated up some cooking oil and did the 3 dip method on the pork, dipped in flour, egg wash and panko crumbs and into the hot grease.
Served it up with some pasta pesto (from scratch with basil from the garden) and sweet corn on the cob. Finished with some leftover home made peach cobbler.
Sounds yum, Chris. But what's panko?
It's a Japanese style of breadcrumbs, large and flakey.
Mum & I are going on a diverticulitis-friendly detox & healthy eating plan when she comes back from hols.
Almost no cooking to start with (even
I don't count wholemeal toast, porridge, eggs etc as cooking!), but settling down into proper home-made healthy meals after 3-5 days.
Diverticulitis is a medical condition Mum was diagnosed with years back, so it's not a faddy diet. It's just that more and more information is now available about how to prevent flare-ups. And she's had two quite bad ones this year where she could barely move for pain. It can be aggravated by stress and present like depression/ anxiety. The diet addresses this and is also one used for patients with liver damage. Win win win.
So short term I will be eating solo from the cupboard, but by the end of the month I should be back to posting more in this thread.
Tonight I had a
Look What We Found Chicken Balti, which I had with brown rice. So yeah, not cooking, but it was healthy.
Oh and hello Ashlee.
Good luck with the healthy eating, Sundae.
I've been making an effort lately to change my diet. I got a couple blood tests in a row with slightly elevated blood sugar. So I'm focusing on cutting way back on carbs and sweets so I don't become a diabetic in the coming years.
It's a change. I always gorged myself on carbs and didn't pay much attention to the sweets I ate. I didn't eat a lot of sweets, but man, the carbs! I'd eat a big serving of pasta and then stuff in a second big serving to fill up my belly. There was never a need for those seconds, but I'd eat them anyway. Now I'm eating smaller more moderate servings of carbs and then not having seconds. I've been doing this for about two weeks now. Trying to have a big salad with every dinner instead of a second helping of carbs. It's crazy, because I'm so skinny. I wonder if I'm going to lose a lot of weight doing this. I can't really afford to.
Anyway, I've been reading nutritional labels with serious intent for the first time in my life. I don't care much for it. And I'm realizing how much our family diet was based on pasta, rice, bread etc. Two sandwiches for lunch and a couple big handfuls of pretzels was about twice the carbs I should have been eating.
It's crazy, because I'm so skinny.
[size=1]Ever been tested for celiac? Poor nutrient absorption can sometimes allow celiacs to eat a virtually unlimited number of carbs and never gain weight.
Sorry, I can't help it. It's my boogeyman; I see it everywhere.[/size]
No, I haven't. Wouldn't I have gut pain or something when I eat bread? My guts are normal.
I'm just skinny with slightly elevated blood sugar.
Tonight we're having some roast lamb with some roasted veges. Also some small pizzas of some description, and something with whiting.
No, I haven't. Wouldn't I have gut pain or something when I eat bread? My guts are normal.
I'm just skinny with slightly elevated blood sugar.
Not necessarily. I think it's estimated that as many as 40% of cases are "silent celiac," meaning no obvious GI symptoms. Secondary symptoms can be anything from grayish/yellowing teeth, to persistent high cholesterol despite an ostensibly healthy diet, to neurological problems, to skin rashes. It's very hard to pin down.
Are there studies that link yellow teeth, high cholesterol, neurological problems (what neuro issues, exactly?) and skin rashes (again, which rashes specifically?) to biopsy-proven celiac disease? If there are no GI symptoms, how does anyone assert that these other phenomena are associated with celiac?
I've followed the literature regarding leaky gut and schizophrenia and autism for personal reasons. Just wondering about the scientific support for these postulated associations with celiac, as opposed to anecdotal reports.
Absolutely. These are all known symptoms. The primary diagnosis tool for celiac is the detection of anti-gliadin antibodies in the bloodstream. This is often confirmed with a secondary, more reliable but more invasive diagnostic tool of endoscopic biopsy. Even those without outward GI symptoms still have the deformed villi internally, and they don't know why some don't have noticeable GI symptoms despite the internal damage. The skin rash associated with celiac is called dermatitis herpetiformis. Some forms are severe, but sometimes it is mild enough to be misdiagnosed as eczema. I'm on my phone now, but I can dig up a variety of studies on my real computer tomorrow morning if you want.
What is whiting?
Over here it's fish. Almost definitely the same in Oz.
Yep, its a fairly common fish here. Nice sweet white flesh. Good for tempura type cooking. Daryl prefers it crumbed.
I made a lasagna last night. We don't do it often but it's a great way to use up veggies and whatever you have if you aren't too caught up on only doing traditional recipes.
I used jar sauce as I was too busy to make it from scratch and ended up with alternating layers of flat pasta sheets, sauce, ricotta, spinach, baby portabello mushrooms, Italian sausage, paper thin sliced zucchini, mozzarella and Parmesan cheese.
The big challenge is that due to our kitchen remodeling project I don't have an oven inside anymore so I use a propane smoker box outside which gets quite hot like an oven. Only problem is I can't fit some of my larger baking pans into the box as it the shelves are about 13 inches square. I also have a big gas grill and a charcoal burning ceramic grill (Big Green Egg) and do still have a gas cooktop inside.
Is it difficult hitting a target temperature with that thing and keep close to it?
In my indoor oven, the temperature fluctuates by 50 degrees. Set it for 300, and the temperature goes up to 325 and the gas turns off, then it slowly drops down to 275 before the gas kicks on again. It cycles like that through the entire baking process. I watched it one time with a thermocouple on a multimeter.
Do you just adjust the gas valve to get a low steady flame to maintain a temp on that thing?
Is it difficult hitting a target temperature with that thing and keep close to it?
Do you just adjust the gas valve to get a low steady flame to maintain a temp on that thing?
It's taken a bit of experimenting to get to where I feel confident. Ideally as a smoker you would get it to 200-225 and let it do it's thing, it has a pan for wet wood chips. I turn on the propane tank and then the smoker and get it up to 400 or so. Then I put in what I am cooking and drop the heat control valve a bit. Since what I put in is cold it drops it to 350 or so and I just check it a few times over the next 10-15 minutes which isn't hard as I can look out the back kitchen window and see the thermometer on the door. I just adjust the valve on the smoker for the burner as needed.
The only time it gets real squirrely is if we have had a lot of rain or it is raining hard. The humidity seems to make it harder to get up to temperature.
So far I've baked pies, casseroles and roasted whole chickens with pretty good success. I also bake sweet potatoes and other vegetable dishes in it. We got a big crock pot when my mother in law down sized and I had never had one before but use it now for things I used to slow cook/braise in the oven before it died. When we tore out all the old kitchen cabinets to start our redo I had set our oven on a temporary stand and used it but then it died and was too expensive to bother fixing as it was 12 years old. I actually sold it on Craig's list as is for $80 which surprised me.
I think of this thread when ignorant people make comments about the oxymoron that is "American cuisine".
The sad thing is that some of these people are intelligent and educated.
Yep, its a fairly common fish here. Nice sweet white flesh. Good for tempura type cooking. Daryl prefers it crumbed.
I read that as crumbled. Twice.
But I'm making apple & blackberry crumble tomorrow, so maybe it's on my crumbled mind.
We were busy yesterday so had roast beef today (from the local butcher - excellent as usual!). With baby beets, tiny 'tatoes and bits of collosal carrot from a very local market garden (4 miles away). I did the veg in the slow cooker (=crockpot) for 3 hours on hot, wrapped in foil parcels so they cooked in their own steam and they were Teh Yum (TM), too!
We were busy yesterday so had roast beef today (from the local butcher - excellent as usual!). With baby beets, tiny 'tatoes and bits of collosal carrot from a very local market garden (4 miles away). I did the veg in the slow cooker (=crockpot) for 3 hours on hot, wrapped in foil parcels so they cooked in their own steam and they were Teh Yum (TM), too!
I'm always amazed at the quality of meat from local butchers in other nations since we mostly just have the mass produced supermarket meat here in the USA. When we were in Wales early last year and then in Australia later on I routinely popped into the butcher's shop ever few days to pick up something and was never dissapointed.
My local market Quillin's Has a fresh meat market in it. They have locally produced beef from Mn., pork from Ia., and chicken from Wi. It is a small little place with high prices, and no selection but we go there at least twice a week sometimes more often, because we would hate to see it close. And it is so convenient.
And yesterday I found fresh local rabbit there. I haven't eaten rabbit since last century! (It's currently being "jugged" in the slow cooker, in preparation for being a Wabbit Pie tomorrow :yum:
I have a Amish raised chicken of about 3 lbs. It needs to be cooked today, and I have no idea about what to do with it. As far as flavoring, it will be backed since it will be to hot this afternoon to smoke it.
HELP ME MR. WIZARD!!!
The one thing that has vastly improved the chicken we cook in our house is the purchase of an instant read meat thermometer.
Turns out we were
always overcooking our chicken, and that's why it was so dry and chewy. Everyone is paranoid of eating raw chicken, so they overcook. We did too. But when you cook a chicken until it is just done, the meat is so much more tender.
Also, the government tables for meat temperatures will result in over cooked meat. Use the tables that America's Test Kitchen uses. 160 for chicken. The government wants you to cook to 165.
This is the one we got.
I always cook chicken to 180 F in the thickest part if the thigh, and I never have dry chicken. I use a remote instant read thermometer smoking or backing.
WE had our chicken seasoned with Penzey's Forward and kosher salt. We had it with beets roasted with the chicken, and cole slaw with vinaigrette dressing.
YUM YUM!!!
Just had dessert, root beer float.
My G-son, Sam, just caught tonight's dinner... this chinook on the Deschutes
Delicious meals all around.
I don't often participate in these threads, but will now.
Last night we had some leftover cold pasta salad. Bowties with a sort of pesto sauce mixed with bits of radicchio and kalamata olives. A huge salad on the side, and some cut up deliciously ripe pineapple. Tall glass of milk. The pineapple and milk pairing was a little weird, but everything else worked well together.
My G-son, Sam, just caught tonight's dinner...
How many of there are you? Get a coupla loaves and that will feed the 5,000. Glad he's doing so well.
Last night we had some leftover cold pasta salad. Bowties with a sort of pesto sauce mixed with bits of radicchio and kalamata olives....
It does all sound great Glatt, but it made me smile for a slightly dufferent reason.
The younger partners I work with have generally never moved out of Aylesbury. They are on a steeper learning curve than me. I cannot claim to be a foodie but if you move around and stick around for 40+ years you pick up a lot. and I don't mean things that require antibiotics.
Last week a partner and a customer had the beginnings of a conversation headed in separate directions. The customer wanted to know if we sold kalamata olives. My cow-orker was trying to direct her to the fish counter to buy calimari. I stepped in like Wonder Woman (but without the short-shorts) and walked her down the prepacked deli aisle, where indeed we do sell kalamata olives.
I promise I wasn't smug. I'd never even eaten an olive when I was his age.
How funny. I knew what kalamata olives were long before I knew what calamari was. Would you say most teenagers (assuming that was the age of the coworker you were talking about) in your area are familiar with calamari?
Oh, and dinner last night was fantastic traditional Brazilian food. The tiny cafe that makes it is nowhere near us, but Mr. Clod's employer's data center is way out that way, so whenever he has to go rearrange servers or whatever, he picks up Brazilian food to bring home.
How funny. I knew what kalamata olives were long before I knew what calamari was. Would you say most teenagers (assuming that was the age of the coworker you were talking about) in your area are familiar with calamari?
Many families can afford overseas holidays now, so children will grow up seeing items like calimari on the menu, even if they don't eat it.
Snack/ tapas food like olives probably won't be named, even when sold by the same establishments. The English abroad like their seafood, and if you fry it they like it even more. Yes, I am English, and yes I like seafood. It's just that I don't get to travel..!
Oh and the colleague is mid-twenties with two children...
But he is a bit hard of understanding in that he will simply not take advice. So maybe he has painted-on-eyes syndrome too.
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Tonight was light - a spinach salad and 30 minutes on the bike trainer.
Last night, after a looong walk around every single monument in DC, we made our way (on foot, so all the subsequent calories were neutralized) to a mezze restaurant for dinner. They have a brussels sprouts dish that is to die for ... sounds crazy, I know. They separate all the little leaves by hand, flash fry them, and serve them with a spiced yogurt sauce ... wonderful. The sprouts were dry and crispy, no sense of oiliness at all. And I had a Turkish lamb dish - crispy outside, an inside you could cut with a spoon, braised with apricots and almonds. I think it was simply the best lamb I've ever tasted. The baba ghanoush and hummus were truly delicious. Their chicken with orzo and Greek cheese and spices was so good, you didn't want to eat anything else after it ... but then there were the desserts (sigh). It was fun. I'm not likely to do it again before leaving DC, but it was a lot of fun after a long walk.
Off to Arthur's Steakhouse tonight for their Saturday buffet. Prime Rib carvery, pasta station, 3 hot entrees and 1 hot side, soup, cold shrimp and salad bar.
There is a %10 chance I might eat some salad instead of a second helping of prime rib.
There will be three of us, and the gift certificate will cover about one meal. $22.95 + tax. That's about 14 British pounds.
I'll see if I can get a picture.
Oh that's sounds awesome, Rich!
definitely post pics.
Tonight, I had a simple repast of carrot and coriander soup (bought, but fresh from the chiller section, not tinned) with buttered crusty bread roll.
Delish. And made me feel better. There's nothing quite like soup when you're feeling ill and fragile.
So we went last night and it was just like always. The tables had white tableclothes with shiny metal plates already on the table The plates are decorative placeholders. Since the restaurant is really an offshoot of the banquet business, the service and food is basically upper level banquet quality. This means that most of the sauces are made from scratch, which caused me a problem in that there was only red sauce at the pasta bar since the chef hadn't made the Alfredo yet.
There were two hot entrees and two hot sides.
Chicken Cyclone - Chicken in a cream sauce with mushrooms.
Tilapia with pineapple salsa - Tilapia with bits of chopped pineapple and maybe some peppers but there was almost no heat.
Asparagus
Red Potatoes
I went to the prime rib bar and had the chef carve and throw a prime rib into one of the pans for the pasta and mix in some onions and mushrooms. I actually asked for onions and peppers, but this worked. I asked for a thick cut and what I got would probably be billed as a queen cut. One of the pictures below is my plate which shows the prime rib and all 4 hot items.
For my second course I went up to the pasta bar and had linquini with shrimp and bay scallops with onions and green peppers. Since the Alfredo sauce wasn't ready I got some butter from the bread station and added some pepper.
I ended up with a piece of chocolate cake. Some of their desserts are from an outside bakery and some are in-house. I should have gone for the lemon meringue pie instead. I also took a cheesecake and a carrot cake shooter. The shooters are 1/3 cake slices stuffed in shot glasses. They're great if you want to sample a few different cakes and not get whole slices.
The other pick is my son's plate. He just goes to the prime rib carvery and loads up on the meat. Since they had potatoes last night he was very happy.
Mrs. Levy had a big salad, some chicken, and at least tried the Tilapia, which she does not normally eat.
I did try a 1/3 cup of the mushroom and barley soup. The soup was a bit of a disappointment since I like the flavors of heavy soups to mix a bit. I think it would have tasted better if it had simmered for an extra hour.
I followed everything up with decaf coffee with chocolate syrup and whipped cream.
So I sampled everything except the salad, cold shrimp, and bread.
Delish. And made me feel better. There's nothing quite like soup when you're feeling ill and fragile.
I agree. I like chicken based soups when I'm sick but for winter I like heavier soups like barley, lentil, split pea. Also chili, which is not technically a soup but over here is packaged like one.
OK, thanks to Rich, I've gotta have a second helping of the venisonburger casserole I cooked earlier today. Didn't have enough macaroni...didn't have enough farfalle...so it has macaroni, farfalle, and little pieces of broken up spaghetti. :lol2: Fresh tomahtoes, but, canned tomahto sauce.
I'd post a photo, but, it's not particularly photogenic.
Mrs. Z makes an excellent baked chicken breast - juicy and tender. Add mashed potatoes and gravy. Mmmmmm.
Amanda made pork loin wrapped in bacon.
Perfect football watching food.
Amanda made pork loin wrapped in bacon.
Perfect football watching food.
:yum: That's perfect anydamnthing food right thar.
Pig wrapped in pig...You'll be watching NASCAR before ya know it.
I'm having Fig Newtons and chocolate milk tonight while I watch the playoffs. Yummm
I just ate a baked po-tae-toe, with chicken drumsticks, curry noodles and fresh tomahtoes from my garden.. for dessert I made some ginger snap cookies which are abso-fuckin-lutely devine:)
This all sounds delightful.
(though what is a fig newton?)
@ Rich: looks damn tasty. I mean, I could sit down and tuck into some of that right now. Though, I'd probably need a smaller plate ;p I can't be trusted with a big plate at an all you can eat - eyes bigger than belly.
...(though what is a fig newton?)...
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They also come in apple, strawberry, and blueberry, and prolly some more.
The Fig Newtons, not the squirrels.
Ahhh. We call them Fig Rolls.
Dinner tonight is spicy chicken burgers with avocado, chipotle mayo, tomato, and radish sprouts. And pineapple on the side.
Homemade Lasagnaish with real beef, not ground/mince, and cheese sauce not béchamel.
Last night i did a roasted chicken in a korma sauce (cant really call it a glaze, but thats how it was applied) with marsala potatoes and pumpkin and steamed broc and cauli. It turned out better than i thought it might.
Nothing, with a side of bike trainer. It hasn't been a good night.
Otoh, it never hurts to fast for a day.
Apparently the monks have been right all along. Fasting is good for the body and the mind!
I certainly hope so. I'm trying to work through a very trying time. I hope this will help.
A Dunkin's bagel. 'Cause I went straight from work to practice.
Dinner tonight is spicy chicken burgers with avocado, chipotle mayo, tomato, and radish sprouts. And pineapple on the side.
Remember what I said. If mr fob ever kicks you to the curb. I'll be there waiting with a high tech kitchen and your very own nerd station. .... Amanda will understand.
Um...
... We could go live in Utah.
This all sounds delightful.
(though what is a fig newton?)
it's Pig Newton
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what is a fig newton?
Please excuse my Northern chum. Perhaps they have a different name oop t'Naarth.
Fig Newtons are well known in this part of the country.
Pig Newtons remain a little harder to find.
Dinner tonight was Chicken Biryani (frozen, Waitrose) with a home made veggie curry in sauce. Accoutrements were poppodums with chutney and M&S naan bread (the best I've tasted outside an Indian restaurant - shall have to try ours soon.)
Although not really cooking, I liked filling the house with the smell of curry and also the fact there was barely half a bowlful of scraps left - which I shall have for tea tomorrow.
I love it when food I make is devoured voraciously.
Good news is I only used about 1/4 of the frozen biryani.
So I know I'll be called upon to make it again. And this time Mum won't be wary of buying the extras (without the starters and naan they were less then £1, but I know the 'rents love the addditional dishes.)
They both enjoyed it so much.
She won't ask Dad. He prefers Tesco's prepacked curry to anything else. Nothing to do with the taste, he just likes the routine of buying it and reheating it, makes him feel secure. She'll either tell him the same night we're having Cherry's curry, or just tell me to make enough for the two of us instead.
Either way is a little sad, but if I cook, by the end of the meal he'll be happy.
Whereas Mum will be very cross with his "fart-arsing around" if he's trying serve up his own meal at the same time I am.
Wish I had her voice.
But then she probably wishes she had my curry tonight.
I made crispy battered honey chicken with steamed bock choy with a little soy sauce and white rice last night. It was a hit. Almost as good as a chinese take away apparently. I wasn't happy with the batter. I will use different flour next time.
Why weren't you happy with the batter?
I used plain flour and cornflour. Next time i will use self raising flour and cornflour so the batter is a bit plumper.
Dinner tonight was Chicken Biryani (frozen, Waitrose) with a home made veggie curry in sauce. Accoutrements were poppodums with chutney and M&S naan bread (the best I've tasted outside an Indian restaurant - shall have to try ours soon.)
Great minds think alike. I recently made a subscribe and save order at Amazon for Vegetable Korma and Bombay Potatoes. They're the Tasty Bite microwave pouches.
As a further coincidence, I ordered Green Tea with Acerola Cherry, which I just realized sounds like Cherry's areola.;) I think I just figured out what to get Sarge for Secret Santa.:santa:
Teas' Tea Half and Half Green Tea with Acerola Cherry, 16.9 Ounce (Pack of 12) Tonight was thin steaks seasoned with rosemary, sauteed red bell peppers, and peach slices (from the giant mutant peach crop that we are apparently having this year; each person got 1/2 a peach and it was still too much.)
It was actually supposed to be sauteed zucchini instead of the peppers, but somehow the zucchini didn't get purchased.
Steamed and sauteed brussel sprouts and asparagus with pepper, garlic, and anise ... and a crisp Sauv Blanc. Plus a side of bike trainer. ;)
I used plain flour and cornflour. Next time i will use self raising flour and cornflour so the batter is a bit plumper.
I see. Never know until you experiment with different recipes. :)
As a further coincidence, I ordered Green Tea with Acerola Cherry, which I just realized sounds like Cherry's areola.;) I think I just figured out what to get Sarge for Secret Santa.:santa:
Teas' Tea Half and Half Green Tea with Acerola Cherry, 16.9 Ounce (Pack of 12)
Snort. It's cheaper than a plane ticket after all :D
My dad grows acerola cherries. They are quite yummy.
Do your acerolas get hard when you eat them?
Weeeeeooooowwweeeeeooooohhhhweeeeee
(Tune in Tokyo)
In case tune in Tokyo is not universally funny. ... that's when you pinch one of your girlfriend's nipples in each hand and turn them back and forth like radio knobs, while squealing like an old radio.
I like my men funny. They can laugh me into the bedroom.
And I like to maintain that whole relaxed atmosphere during sex (the best sex is always with someone you connect with, even if kissing and fumbling might be more exciting when you start out.)
But dialling Radio Tokyo?
No.
And you can pay for my curtains to be dry cleaned while you're at it.
And now for something completely different...
The fall Chinook run is in full swing on the coast.
Sam and his friend each took 2 today and part of Sam's was their dinner tonight.
Kenny's was really too dark for eating, but it was his first Chinook, so he kept it anyway.
Unfortunately, Sam did what fishermen often do in photo's...he held the 1st fish's head forward.
That distorts the size image of the fish a bit, but anyway it was a very nice Chinook.
Even after that first
day's meal, there was some left over...
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That looks like a couple hundred bucks worth of fish right there. This fishing gig is pretty lucrative.
Cannibal!
Hahahahahah. Nice.
Nabisco Fig Newtons are now made in Messico.
Oh. Dinner. Kidney beans, canned Salmond, milk and of course fig newtons
Bowl of Bran Flakes.
Got up, ate, went back to bed. Which apparently made my Dad cross. Whatever.
Damn, gotto dgo get some bean stew out of the freezer. Meal I am missing today is lunch. Just can't manage all three and work and still fit in the amount of sleep I crave.
But day off today. I walked into town to get Diz some catmilk (which he is now addicted to as it was all he could digest during Poo Week) then back to Watermead to feed the ducks. 3 miles easily.
Gotta get down to below 12 stone for our Christmas GTG!
Gonna go get bean stew outta freezer. Now.
Before I forget. And/ or fall alseep.
I had a chicken sandwich.
Whole wheat penne with blue eye's Marinara sauce
Thinly sliced roast beef with Spaetzle noodles, gravy made from the juices, mushrooms sautéed in butter, asparagus and kale, and carrots chopped with black pepper and ahembutter.
Moroccqn lamb cutlettes with cous cous, baby spinach, and topped with yoghurt and roasted broadbeans. Yummy.
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Yummy looking I like me some grilled meat.
Red curry with fellow residents at a great little Thai restaurant in Almost Heaven. Back in my own bed tonight!!! - for one night before a coal mine tour tomorrow. Bliss.
Tonight same as last night, a take on chowder:
Sweet potato, haddock and spinach soup with a little bit of horseradish and lemon.
Not home made, but very tasty all the same, finishing off the container tonight.
And day-dreaming about payday. Just one more sleep!
Okay the soup was from Waitrose but it was reduced to 99p and the result of a surprise Euromillions win. Limping to the end of a boring month food-wise. Then six days of excitement, then back to working on my target. Which might be boring, but it'll be for a reason other than that the cupboard is bare.
The excitement will also be low fat but I may sneak in a naughty treat or two, too.
It's the knowing that I can if I want to that gives me the pleasure.
ETA Ali, I'd give up my antipathy for lamb if it was served to me that way.
in Almost Heaven. Back in my own bed tonight!!! - for one night before a coal mine tour tomorrow. Bliss.
"I don't know why you'd want to go into a hole in the ground." - My grandfather with disdain in his voice, having grown up in coal country and seen his share of mine "accidents."
Sweet potato, haddock and spinach soup with a little bit of horseradish and lemon.
Not home made, but very tasty all the same, finishing off the container tonight.
Seems like a weird combination, but I like all those things, so I bet I would like that soup.
Un-stuffed Cabbage Rolls
Ingredients:
1 1/2 to 2 pounds lean ground beef
1 tablespoon oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 small cabbage, chopped
2 cans (14.5 ounces each) diced tomatoes [or fresh]
1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon sea salt
Preparation:
In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add the ground beef and onion and cook, stirring, until ground beef is no longer pink and onion is tender. [drain]
Add the garlic and continue cooking for 1 minute.
Add the water, chopped cabbage, tomatoes, tomato sauce, pepper, and salt. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes, or until cabbage is tender.
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Home made navy beans. Soaked 10 hours, and then cooked another 10 with maple syrup, a bit of salsa, onion, celery, bacon and tomatoes, and spices.. turned out very very yummy!
Rast night I had a steam dumprings. Wacist steam dumprings, ya Plick.
Simple Sautéed Turnips
INGREDIENTS
3–4 small turnips
1 cup onion of any kind, chopped
2 tablespoons butter
Salt and pepper
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Sauté onions on medium low in a skillet with half the butter.
Meanwhile, slice turnips as thinly as possible. Once onion is just starting to soften, add turnips to skillet with the rest of the butter. Cook for 5 minutes, reduce heat to low, and cook until soft. Once done, season to taste.
Sprinkle with juice, toss to coat, and serve.
Serves 2–3. Prep time, 5 minutes; cook time, 15 minutes.
YUM next use the same pan to fry up some hamburgers :D
The best Indian food I've ever had ... at Rasika, in DC. If you're ever in DC, do try this place. Small plates are $7-9 and very generous. The balance of flavors and spices is out of this world.
Took two of my sons out to Pesce tonight, also in DC. Very good cocktails, very good food - seasoned well, cooked well. Very tasty. Not quite the experience of Rasika, but worth trying.
For the rest of the weekend I'm eating salad. Once daily. Lots of cycling. ;)
Lasagne and salad last night. Tonight, leftovers. :)
The kids brought me some stew last night. I have enough left to eat while I watch the ball game tonight
Spicy chicken, homemade creamy chicken noodle side, corn. SO GOOD!
Collards, cornbread and Sautéed pork cutlet.
Last night I had boiled new potatoes with butter, marrowfat peas, and slices of fried haloumi.
Was bloody lovely.
Homemade pork and beans, and corn bread. YUMMY!!!
Pho tonight, completely corrupted by using a seafood medley.
I din't care, I'm crazy, me.
Well, I will care if I don't like it of couse...
Spag bol and garlic bread.
Nice.
Fish'n'chips. Oh yeah. With tartare sauce (homemade by the woman who runs the chippy).
Loverly.
Pho far, far too salty.
Must have been the stock, as I added no salt.
Still the accompanying rice & veg was good. Looking forward to some more of that tomorrow.
Frozen Mexican dinner with enchiladas. Sweet tea to drink.
Fish'n'chips. Oh yeah. With tartare sauce (homemade by the woman who runs the chippy).
Loverly.
We've got an expat who's opened a fish and chips shop. Mushy peas, tizer, aero bars.
Great food and whenever I go there it seems like a family reunion, all the faces look vaguely familiar.
I will have a number of candy bars and a few beers.
We've got an expat who's opened a fish and chips shop. Mushy peas, tizer, aero bars.
Great food and whenever I go there it seems like a family reunion, all the faces look vaguely familiar.
I will have a number of candy bars and a few beers.
Have one for me ... I miss seeing faces that look vaguely familiar. The last time that happened was 1985, in Scotland.
Feet Loaf anyone? ;)
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No. No. Nooooo ....
Dammit. I was all ready to go to sleep and you ruined it ... now I'll spend the night with visions of ground feet
Addie, Elizabeth, and Louis came over and cooked a 10 bean Cajun soup with ham. They also cooked brownies and monkey bread. I have leftovers to last for awhile
I am going to make a beef korma.
I am going to make a beef korma.
I had never heard of it, it looks good I think I might make it next week.
I was out sick last week and my wonderful wife decided to make me matzo ball soup. She starts with a soup and matzo ball mix, and sometimes adds another box of just matzo ball mix. In addition, she adds pulled chicken and carrots.
Since she sometimes adds the extra box of matzo balls, the matzo ball to soup ratio can be high. As you can see from the photo, you could walk across it.:)
I had two bowls the first day I was sick and 1 1/2 bowls the next day. On the first day I zapped some leftover chicken and rice.:yum:
BTW, I just got in some heat and eat pouches of vegetable korma. I usually throw in meat or chicken.
Addie, Elizabeth, and Louis came over and cooked a 10 bean Cajun soup with ham. They also cooked brownies and monkey bread. I have leftovers to last for awhile
Good for them. You said the kids were looking after you. I'm
so pleased that includes Addie.
I am going to make a beef korma.
I had never heard of it, it looks good I think I might make it next week.
Korma's too mild & creamy for me, but it used to be Dad's favourite. He's upgraded to Jalfreizi and Mum loves a good Biryani.
As you can see from the photo, you could walk across it.:)
(WWJWD)
ETA forgot to include my own plans. About to get ready for the Customer Services Counters dinner tonight. Frankie & Bennys. I have £10 to splash thanks to Mum. Well - can't drink, can't each much or anything rich. So it was always going to be a strater/ side anyway.
Trying on clothes when I get offa here. And looking forward to it, which is a good thing.
Menu attached.
Addie is able to come over more often because her mother & boyfriend have moved into a new house in another county. She's using us as "babysitters". We don't mind as long as we get to see Addie. Interesting point, she has moved 5 times in the last 3 1/2 years and the move is always because of some boyfriend.
Splurged on some really nice big swordfish steaks that I will grill and top with an avocado/tomato/fresh Basil salsa. Serving it with grilled asparagus and brown rice for me and potatoes for the Mrs.
Funny but I can't eat swordfish and not think of those lost souls from The Perfect Storm doing their best to get those fish to market. ;)
Canned Salmond and Brussel sprouts.
I love Brussel sprouts! Did you fry the salmon?
I love Brussel sprouts! Did you fry the salmon?
Nope. No fried foods for me, much :lol2:
I had similar.
Tuna cakes (which are canned tuna mixed with some stuff and made into patties that are fried, much like crab cakes.)
A sweet potato
asparagus
salad
What sort of "some stuff"? Sounds scrumptious.
Oh, I don't know. My wife made them. There was probably a little mayo in there or egg or something to hold the patty together, and a smattering of corn kernels and a dash of herbs.
Edit:
Here's a recipe that looks similar, except we don't typically have cress leaves, so the herb was probably something else.
Edit 2: Oh, and ours was fried, and not served on a rice cake. So really that recipe was nothing like ours.
I might be making pizza. I can't decide. I want taco pizza, but I don't have any ground beef thawed to cook.
I am also sick, so it was a struggle just to get myself to eat lunch (at 2:15pm). I may end up not eating at all :/
Lean chicken. Hard-boiled egg whites. Fat-free lemon yogurt. Sigh. This diet really works, but I fell off it hugely on the weekend after a big upset with son #2. What did I eat? Everything. :rolleyes:
I'm supposed to be adding all sorts of foods this week but have set myself back.
Back to the drawing board ...
I'm having boiled custard and some fruit cake for supper. you have to eat what you find until the kids bring more groceries
Mac and cheese, broccoli and salad
Rosemary steaks, broccoli with some balsamic dressing, and pears.
Except I really don't feel like cooking any of it. Even though there's barely any cooking to be done.
What part of the rosemary bush do the steaks come from?
But you have to be sure to get the right cultivar, Rosmarinus carnis.
First attempt at
adjaruli khachapuri. Notes for next time: put egg on sooner so that bread doesn't get overdone, less feta cheese, and half the size altogether, but otherwise, lookin' good! (Picture is about life-size!)
Larry David: Her vagina is so big you could play football in there.
Seafood paella. Very yummy!
I got to the store at the same time they put out the Rotisserie Chicken - SCORE!
Turkey quiche, steamed broccoli, and home made bread.
Slowly finishing off that leftover thanksgiving turkey.
Mexican baked potato with vegan nacho sauce. One ruby-chocolate muffin.
Collards, corn bread, and a pounded porkchop. Peach drink.
Sadly, this week will all be eaten out of the freezer so I don't have to worry about what to do with the leftovers when I leave for a week.
We had irish stew or lamb casserole. Call it whatever you like. It was good, cept it makes everyone fart.
We had irish stew or lamb casserole. Call it whatever you like. It was good, cept it makes everyone fart.
Even the horses?
Air Force one arrives at Heathrow, out steps President Obama to a warm and dignified reception from the Queen. Driven in a 1934 Bentley to the outskirts of London, where they change to a magnificent 17th century carriage pulled by 6 white horses, they continue into London to the cheers of the crowds. Suddenly, the rear right horse lets fly with the most horrendous, earth shattering fart ever heard in the British Empire. The smell is atrocious and both passengers must use handkerchiefs to cover their noses. The fart shakes the coach, but the two dignitaries of State do their best to ignore the incident.
The Queen says, "Mr President, please accept my regrets. I am sure you understand that there are some things even a Queen cannot control".
Obama, always trying to be tactful, replied, "Your Majesty, do not give the matter another thought... until you mentioned it, I thought it was one of the horses."
Haha yep. Even the horses.
Picked up a little cold yesterday traveling around. My wonderful wife surprised me tonight with matzoh ball soup and biscuits.
The original and most effective nasal decongestant... ;)
Potted meat, vinnea sausage and crackers.
The traditional dinner in Scotland on New Year's Day is steak pie. Ive gone all Russian and prepared a salmon coulibiac instead, to be served with caraway cabbage.
Sent by thought transference
That looks lovely.
I'll be having the remainder of last night's lamb hotpot. No pics, not pretty. But very tasty.
Prime Rib with roasted potatoes.
Limey, I love the little fish! Adorable.
Dinner last night was pork belly with a cinnamon-applesauce glaze, plus green beans and apple slices. Almost everyone in the family was put off by the large hunks of fat that are an inherent part of the pork belly... but not me. I ate everyone's leftovers.
Chips and salsa, artichoke dip and little baguette slices, apple slices, wine, and then sparkling cider, all consumed at the coffee table.
I made a recipe.....all by myself :) Sausage and pepper pasta. I was pretty proud of it.
Now, I don't know what to do with the other two pieces of sausage that I thawed. I had an idea, but then, I lost it. Now, I am lost again....
Get some potatoes and carrots and a can of sliced stewed tomatoes. Brown the sausages, cut everything up and make a stew. Maybe an onion and/or celery too. Throw anything in there you want.
Last night Mum fried four minute steaks with some mushrooms.
They had three between them, and I had my one later with peas and sweet potato chips. Frozen oven sweet potato chips. Much nicer than normal oven chips, although a little lazy on my part.
Followed by a posh apple pie I bought when it was discounted at work, and shop bought fresh custard. Again with the laziness, but I simply cannot be arsed to make it from scratch and fresh does taste better than tinned.
Well, if I don't get my luxuries just after payday, how will I be able to run out of money before the end of next month ;)
I forgot.
I took pics.
It was far yummier than it looked, honest.
Katsu chicken curry.
S'posed to feed two but I made it for the three of us, and all of us left some.
Although I did trial some home-made oven chips (fries) and made far too many.
The 'rents seemed to enjoy it all.
Personally I feel really queasy now. I just ate and ate and ate.
I'm not 100% sure this will negotiate my digestive system in the correct order, if you get what I mean.
I am having a bacon cheese burger with fries - all homemade :)
Scratch-made chili, & Momdigr's pimento cheese!!:yum:
Talked my daughter through making white clam sauce spaghetti while I made a salad. Now she knows. Hope to see it again in the future because it was quite yummy.
Pounded pork cutlet, Sautéed in EVOO, with homemade chili beans and a couple of slices of homemade bacon.
Cooked for the 'rents last night, which I'm doing two-three times a week now.
It's a mixture of cynical goodwill building, emptying the freezer (mostly of food I've bought) and because Mum is super-stressed and deserves it.
I served up a more palatable mixture last night of course.
Sticky chilli Gressingham duck.
Vegetable biryani.
By the time it was cooked I wasn't hungry any more, so my tea was a couple of Tuc sandwich biscuits, just so I could take my medication. Sadness.
But Mum said their meal was delish, so that works for me.
Just made a crazy-delicious soup whose recipe is on the Wegmans web site - Tomato Basil with Orzo. I had it this weekend ready-made and it was tasty and relatively low-cal, so I picked up the ingredients when I rolled back into M'town this afternoon and simmered up a batch.
Wow. This soup is not only delicious, it's versatile, sort of like that black pencil skirt (guys, I'm not sure what your equivalent is). It does use one cup of 'light' cream (out of 13 cups total soup), for which I substituted 1/2 and 1/2 - 10% fat instead of 18%. I liked it just as much, but if you're used to a bit more fat, go for the 18%. Using that, the soup is 170 cal per 1-cup serving. But it doesn't need the cream. Next time I'll make it without and throw in some black beans, fresh corn, and cilantro. A little cumin ... it'll be divine. You also have the choice to leave it chunky or puree it and make it velvety-smooth, whatever your likes dictate. I've never been a great fan of tomato soup but now I'm sold. And with garden tomatoes and peppers (roasted) ... sigh. I could have a Paula Deen-style foodgasm.
I had the healthier Brandy version of the Pittsburgh style salad. I didn't get a picture because I was too hungry - lol. Trust me. It is GOOOD!
When I shop at the Safeway store in our area (aka Randalls) I usually swing by the recently discounted meat section. No, I don't by the chicken packs where the plastic has all expanded from some kind of gas decomposition inside or anything that looks off color but I do look for things that still look fresh and are meats I like. For instance they often just move lamb cut there if they aren't selling. Today I found 2 packs of really nice meaty beef short ribs marked off 30%.
I grew up on cuts like this, potroast cuts or stew meat. I once heard Anthony Bourdain complaining about how most Americans don't realize that only a small percent of a cow or sheep or pig is the really nice tender grilling parts and that the majority are cuts for slow cooking.
So this morning I trimmed them up a bit and browned them in my Le Cruset dutch oven in some olive oil. I chopped up an onion and a few garlic cloves and a handful of celery and put it in the bottom of the big crock pot slow cooker. After the meat browned I put it all on top of the aromatics. Then I deglazed the pan with 2 cups of nice hearty wine and poured it and all the caramelized bits over the meat. I felt it need a bit more so I added a small can of tomato sauce puree.
Now, the only issue is that today I was planning on working on my kitchen drywall plastering so all the counters are on wheels and were getting moved out so I had to set the crock pot in the bar area.
Got done with the drywall by 5pm and put the kitchen back together. I really need to post some photos in the What I Did Today blog. I peeled and cut up 4 or 5 carrots and parsnips and added them. I usually add them later because they just get too overcooked for me if I do them for 8 hours in the crock pot. Then I added a Japanese touch and put in a bag of Konnyaku balls, which is a type of yam made into a block or balls of dough like stuff and really needs slow cooking (sort of resembles really hard tofu). It's offten used in a Japanese winter dish called oden and I figured it would absorb some of the gravy which tasted really nice but there was a bit too much. I only used salt and pepper and some herbs de Provence.
Figure I'll make some mashed potatoes or some polenta to serve it with and a nice hearty red wine. I may reduce the liquid down and thicken it a bit.
Just in time for the cold front, we won't get too many more here in Houston and it's a chilly 40 degrees out and rainy.
Good comfort food.:thumb:
Just, wow.
I just had dinner, but you're making me hungry.
Leftovers!
From the dinner I cooked for Mum and friends last night (in Aylesbury thread)
I am flattered by how very little of the Moroccan Lamb they actually left me. I think.
Ooooh. looks tasty!
I made a big pan of chilli yesterday so had that again today (always nicer after it's sat for a day), with steakcut oven chips, grated cheese and a spoon of soured cream.
Chris, I shop the same way at Safeway. Easy, cook it tonight, meat.
Your story sounds utterly delicious!
Hmm. Not sure about dinner tonight now (braised ox cheeks.)
No idea what the recipe writers deem a casserole dish, but my parents' biggest dish is so very full of liquid, having followed their recipe to the letter.
Which suggests to me there will be no thick and tasty sauce, but a thin and watery one, and that doesn't really cut it for my family.
Yes I can thicken it up, but it will make more mess and more washing up and negate one of the benefits of a one pot meal.
I have some pigs cheeks in the freezer. I will not use the same site for a recipe for them.
A casserole dish does not necessarily have a lid, in the US. If you covered it when the recipe intended it to be left open, that would retain a lot of liquid that would otherwise boil off...
Yeah, I think a recipe would normally call for a covered casserole dish if a lid was intended.
It is a British website and a casserole is covered.
Just double checked and it says that it should be covered, probably to help in these cases :)
I've had this before though.
I think I'm making a stew style meal and get lovely, well cooked and seasoned meat but no gravy. I can't pour flavoured water over mashipots. Or I can't expect the 'rents to enjoy it anyway.
It's probably a class thing. Like Gazpacho soup.
Oh.. oh god, I'm... posting. Been forever.
I made avocado chicken salad and it was really good. I disassembled half a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, chopped up a couple of avocados, green onions, cilantro, a couple few tablespoons of mayo, some lime juice, and salt/pepper and mooshed it all together for a while. Most supreme on a wheat pita, with a side of green onions rolled in salt and some chopped radish bits.
sad winslow!!!!!!
Bloody hell. How are you mate?
Hey Sad Winslow, good to see you.
In the end I siphoned off the juice and did make gravy from it and it worked really well.
Given that ox cheeks are cheap, I got them at discount anyway PLUS staff discount, it was a deal, a steal. The meat was like a cartoon parody of beef - so full of flavour and so soft I'd actually have been suspicious if I hadn't cooked it myself.
Oddly, the only thing I hadn't worried about were the veggies, only to find at the last minute (last 10 minutes) that I'd used up all the frozen ones on Sunday. Gah!
I mean I have my lovely Peas & Beans Mix, and we always have frozen peas, but Mum is not keen on any shelled peas/ beans.
She accepted a small spoon of peas, but I felt I let her down a little. She loves the frozen chunky veg I buy from work; carrots, broccoli and cauliflower. Me, not so much.
Still, we were all stuffed as ticks, to the extent we didn't even have room for pancakes.
Mum said she'd make them today instead; having dessert is a weird interpretation of a day of fasting, but that's between her and God I guess ;)
sad winslow!!!!!!
Bloody hell. How are you mate?
Hey Sad Winslow, good to see you.
Haha, I live, thanks! It's nice to be remembered :D Currently being slightly freaked out by the prospect of graduating from university, because it means I'll have to go looking for a Real Job again. Doing well otherwise. Glad to see things here seem to be the way I left them.
I think dinner tonight is going to feature black beans, spanish rice, and possibly chicken pitas (sans avocado, I finished that pile of tasty already.)
http://i.imgur.com/cyQO9Eb.jpg
Steak off the grill and some spicy boneless chicken wings on the side. Also with a kriek (cherry) lambicus on the side.
Because I am a Free American. :D
Because I am a Free American. :D
I'll hold out for a Buy One Get One Free American, better value.
Seafood stew.
I had Ripley make a mir poix(sans carrots cuz that's how I roll), then I added a blend of spices, including black pepper, hot pepper flakes, Mrs Dash, paprika, garlic salt and a lot of old bay. I added fresh chopped garlic, two squeezed oranges, a quarter of the big bottle of Louisiana hot sauce...5oz?... Half a bottle of white wine, Two boxes of seafood stock, then two large cans of diced tomato, and four little cans of tomato paste. Let that roll for probably 20 minutes on high heat, stirring a few times.
I added a can of okra, a can of green beans, and a can of those whole white potatoes that are already cooked.... chopped to soup size... Taking my time, still on high heat, but not boiling...
Now the good stuff...a small bag of frozen mussels (20 mussels maybe), and one of big bay scallops...two 3oz fillets of talapia, one of salmon, one cod, one white bass,(I cubed all of the fish), and a largish can of real crab meat(12oz?).... claws mostly, but shredded up.. That gives the stew some viscosity. Shrimp last, and reduce the heat. Orange slices spiral cut will garnish each bowl, and each will get a soccer game snack style orange wedge plunked in.
Everyone is taking a nap right now... Last week, I had a 3 hour nap, while they watched a movie... Spencer fell victim to my ridiculously overly comfortable sofa. Then Ripley, worn out from slaving over onions oil and celery... And finally, Amanda's magazine pulled her eyelids down. A good time to sneak in some pottery, and recount my culinary victory.
Its fookin yummeh.
This is my 10 gallon stock pot.
LJ I can't deny that looks and sounds gorgeous, but despite your beard you are not Jebus.
So why are you trying to feed the 5,000?
Seriously, does that freeze?
Or are teenage appetites a factor here?
Please send some using Bruce's secret helicopter which he "liberated" when he retired...
It's really only 10 quarts. But yeah. I sent a big tub home with the kids, a large chinee take out soup container with Amanda, and I still have about a gallon left. I'll take half to work and share it.
Internationally?
Sent by thought transference
Jim says he's going to come cook for us in the UK.
He really will.
He didn't type this or anything, he just projected it into my brain, so I know it's true.
I told him he can leave out the okra though, and he was okay with that.
I told him he can leave out the okra though, and he was okay with that.
Oh, good. I need okra-free seafood delight.
You have to get here first, Ortho :)
Beef stir-fry tonight.
I'm worried about the amount of beef available.
I may sneakily have mine veggie, so there's enough meat for the 'rents.
Seafood risotto on Friday - Catholic household of course.
Dad doesn't have to observe due to age and health, but does out of habit. Mum is most likely to shrug it off, but then she goes to Mass for Stations of the Cross every Friday, so I think she feels she evens things out with Him.
She's going to defrost some extra prawns for me to put in it. Which makes it a luxury meal in my eyes. I'm making an effort to prepare and cook meals for the three of us these days. The prawns are her way of saying she appreciates that. Frozen prawns of love.
And no okra.
Do I cook something that I have in the fridge? Do I order pizza from the place I can walk to? Do I drive a short distance and get different cheap restaurant items? Do I drive further to the supermarket and get similarly-priced ready to eat meals with real veggies? I am stuck. I have pasta and sauce. I have beans, I have frozen veggies. I have eggs. All that is nutritious. I even have fresh broc. I might even have a frozen salmon chunk, but I don't know how old it is. Maybe if I looked at it, I could tell. But maybe I don't want frozen salmon. All I do with it is broil it and eat it. I could make a sauce. But now we're into over a half hour of preparation, when the local burrito place puts a wide variety of things into one big burrito, and it's always very tasty. I could go get that and be back in less than a half hour. But now I've been thinking about it for a half hour when I would already be eating anyway. How late do those places stay open anyway? Oh you know you can get a burrito up until 10 pm, but after about 8 pm you know all the burrito fillings are getting pretty gross, I don't know if you should order from them after about 8 pm, maybe I should just get a cheesesteak from the place up the street, what time is it now?
Lil Griff made these awesome burgers tonight. Avacado, onion fries, monty jack cheese, with a homemade chipoltle mayo on a toasted roll.
I get it, it's hard to eat healthy when you're up early and busy all day and tired at night. But it's easy to take the shortcut when you have dozens of options in fast food, so you put off the planning and wait until the next crisis.
How about cooking on Sunday afternoon, making up a grain dish, a bean dish, and chopping some veggies ahead of time? Assembling supper after a long day becomes easy. Or make a couple of dishes in large amounts, divide into portions, and refrigerate or freeze for the week.
Fast food companies count on us feeling that we're in crisis.
Sloppy joes, salad, cut up apples.
Oh that burrito was mighty healthy and I'm not kidding.
Blackened chicken, rice, black beans, Jack cheese, Caesar dressing, romaine lettuce and salsa.
Nothing wrong with it. And because it was Monday, and I ordered a regular size burrito, they made me spin the wheel of burrito for my special prize, and my special prize was $1 off. And that's what I wanted. So it was a great dinner. I may go there every day.
Blackened chicken, rice, black beans, Jack cheese, Caesar dressing, romaine lettuce and salsa.
I guess you didn't eat the tortilla? I noticed it was all torn open in the picture...
Tonight was balsamic lamb chops, frozen cherries, and salad (arugula) with various dressings.
We're having chicken burritos tonight. I've already made the shredded chicken and beans with chilli and stuff, and the guacamole. Just have to chop a bit of salady stuff and we're good to go.
Well it's paper thin the tortilla, rips right open like it was meant to, and yeah I ate the shit out of it. I might go back tomorrow. They have a card and you can get 5% off and stuff.
I get it, it's hard to eat healthy when you're up early and busy all day and tired at night. But it's easy to take the shortcut when you have dozens of options in fast food, so you put off the planning and wait until the next crisis.
More than that, for some people cooking is not fun, it's fucking drudgery. Even simple stuff that cooks throw together in a jiffy, are a pain in the ass to people that don't cook enough to have much of the kitchen dance become second nature.
Well the more you do it the easier it becomes.
Same with mountain climbing and triathlon, but they don't appeal to me either.
I wish the non cookers would just come to my place. I could cook for you all. You might appreciate my efforts.
I cooked scallops on a bed of hommus with harrisa dressing followed by spaghetti with a creamy sweet chilly prawn sauce. That was sunday night. Last night I cooked potato mash, steak and eggs (yep, very simple, but mans food, so I assumed since it was for men it'd be ok)
I had to remind one member of my family that a little thanks would go a long way towards further meals being forthcoming.
That's your problem, you spoil 'em. feed 'em canned beans and hot dogs more often. ;)
They wouldnt care. Well actually, i think aden would, and sometimes mav would. lol
They'll grow into it, Ali.
At least the children will...
I never used to thank my parents for food. It would have been like thanking them for being alive. Food was part of their job, feeding me ditto.
Once I moved out I started to understand.
I wouldn't let a waiter put a meal in front of me, or a bartender serve me a drink without acknowledging it. And they're strangers who are getting paid.
So I learned to appreciate people at home much more.
Eventually.
The boys almost always say thanks for cooking because thats how i raised them, and to give credit where its due, their father also believed in thanking the cook, so they have always been expected to show gratitude to those who do for them. Mostly they do, so thats nice. :)
Good for you, and good for them.
In hindsight I probably did automatically say thank you, because that's how I was raised too.
But I honestly didn't appreciate the time and effort put into cooking.
Which is a shame, because Mum is a reluctant cook. To her it was always too much time and too much effort (as Bruce says, fucking drudgery) so a bit more appreciation from us would have gone a long way.
Had we been born ten years later, we might have been brought up on frozen/ ready meals. As it was, we were lucky to grow up in the seventies, when home cooking was the norm, Mums bought fresh food from individual shops and stretched budgets using slow cooked cheap cuts. Which is what I'm going to do tonight!
I genuinely enjoy cooking.
More than I do baking, which I only do for the response.
I'm currently waiting for them to bugger off for the day so I can start my marinade ;)
More than that, for some people cooking is not fun, it's fucking drudgery. Even simple stuff that cooks throw together in a jiffy, are a pain in the ass to people that don't cook enough to have much of the kitchen dance become second nature.
You're damn right. I really don't care to cook. It's ridiculous when I have to cook. My sister cooks twice as fast as I do. My mom can do it 3X if not faster than I do.
I wish the non cookers would just come to my place. I could cook for you all. You might appreciate my efforts.
If you don't bitch while cooking, I'll come and thank you for your all your effort. :D
Butter chicken last night.
Very good.
Dad left nearly half of his Chicken Tikka Biryani, so I had it boxed and took it into work today for lunch.
Day before payday, you gotta eat what you can get, right?
And it was good - just not what I would choose. Too dry and too much rice. I like curries in sauce, and with naan bread, which is exactly what I had last night.
I surprised Diz with my brinjal pickle farts last bight.
So he is currently surprising me by sneaking the occasional one out. Fart I mean, not brinjal pickle.
Little stinker.
Oh, dang. That butter chicken looks awesome. So does the seafood stew on the last page. Wow.
I'm not normally much one for the processed luncheon meat food(-like) products, but today I made
spam musubi for the first time :D It's one of the few ways I've found that I actually enjoy spam, and if you've never had one of these out of fear of meat in a can then you're probably selling yourself short. I glazed them with teriyaki sauce, which is quite good. And they're really easy to churn out, so it's pretty easy to use a whole can (or one of those mini half-cans) and create a small stockpile to eat for a couple days or so. Just don't, uh, tell your cardiologist.
Cubed turkey breast, over night in buttermilk. Then tossed w/flour, cornstarch and Tony's. Deep fried.
Chicken Ga Kho Gung (chicken cooked in ginger).
From a kit, but all the ingredients were raw and fresh, so although I saved having to measure and chop, it was almost proper cooking.
No photo - it cooks so quickly and needs to be served whilst still hot.
Then it was eaten quickly.
I loved it.
Really loved it.
Sadly, the 'rents' responses were muted.
Dads rarely compliments my cooking. Thank you is his standard.
Mum said, "Well it's nice as a change."
NOOOOOOO.
It was double-plus-good!
Fed the three of us easily, despite being touted as a meal for two.
So I can't see myself making it again, sadly (too much for one lonely person).
Chicken [COLOR="Red"]Ga Kho Gung[/COLOR] (chicken cooked in ginger).
From a kit, but all the ingredients were raw and fresh, so although I saved having to measure and chop, it was almost proper cooking.
No photo - it cooks so quickly and needs to be served whilst still hot.
Then it was eaten quickly.
I loved it.
Really loved it.
Sadly, the 'rents' responses were muted.
Dads rarely compliments my cooking. Thank you is his standard.
Mum said, "Well it's nice as a change."
NOOOOOOO.
It was double-plus-good!
Fed the three of us easily, despite being touted as a meal for two.
So I can't see myself making it again, sadly (too much for one lonely person).
Maybe your mom is not used to the Asian flavor, and that comment of hers is a compliment. :D Do you realize "ga kho gung" are Vietnamese words? :D
Do they mean "I'm not sorry about ur finger"?
BURRITO standard american quarter coin shown for scale
with blackened chicken rice beans sour cream guacamole lettuce and salsa.
because it was monday I got to spin the burrito wheel of destiny and my prize today was a free bowl of chili. With little tortilla strips to put it to make it crunchy.
Tulip, yes! Sorry, I did know it was a Vietnamese dish and just forgot to mention it.
In fact there are three dishes available in the range and I deliberately chose that one because of you. Honestly - we have no access to Vietnamese food or culture in my little town, so I gobble up what I can when I can.
Monster, maybe...:o
I'm not hurt or offended by their reaction. It's just that quite often I cook and think "Meh" or am actually disappointed with the outcome and they have absolutely loved it.
So it's a bit ironical [sic] that I absolutely loved this and they simply appreciated sitting down to a dinner that they didn't cook themselves.
Oh, btw, I included the peanuts that came with it, because I figured I may as well make it the way the recipe was supposed to be made. And I still loved it! Don't expect me to convert to peanut butter any time soon though, there is such a thing as taking it too far.
UT. OMG.
Unfortunately your helpful handy size indicator doesn't help me, but the fork does.
Unless its a dolls house fork and plate, that looks enormous. And bloody gorgeous.
AND chilli as well?
My weight is always in a state of flux, but is reasonably under control at present. But I know if I lived in America I'd be the size of a MacMansion. I'd eat all that until it was gone and go back for more.
And the price for all that, since I got the free chili on the burrito wheel of destiny:
$7.32
£4.39 at current exchange rates
Well as my dinner was £5.10 for the three of us I don't feel too bad...
Although I'd love the chance to buy that meal too. That would also feed the three of us!
Sounds delish, Sundae.
@ Toad: that looks awesome.
I have just eaten my tea (note: dinner is the midday meal for me, or an evening meal that is special and grownup - so at a restaurant, or a dinner party) some chilli with cheesy sweet potato mash and a dollop of soured cream. Mmmmm. Tasty and very cheap. I bet the ingredients came to about £2:50 and I will get another few servings out of the chilli.
Do they mean "I'm not sorry about ur finger"?
It could be. :D
1 chicken tender, Sautéed, Spinach Sautéed with a touch of evoo + garrlic and herb.
Monday night I made teriyaki chicken.
The sauce came from a Wagamama jar and it smelled... Nothingy.
So instead of oven baking the chicken as was my original intention, I cut the breasts into cubes and stir-fried with onion, red pepper, a pinch of Moroccan spice and a little swish of Mum's white wine to keep it all moist.
Served with a prepacked mix of wild rice and quinoa with a hint of garlic.
I still thought it quite a bland meal, but Mum was in raptures.
She mentioned it the next day and yesterday. Pats on back all round.
Last night I made breaded turkey escalopes - home made breadcrumbs with a little Italian spice mix, coated in an egg wash and baked.
Served with pan-fried potatoes with a couple of crumbs of bacon, and baked beans. Good hearty fare. Working my way through the food cupboard and the freezer tbh.
The escalopes were a little dry for my taste, but I have to be super careful when cooking for Mum, whose tastes run to Saharan rather than risking the slightest possibility of being undercooked. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't eat undercooked turkey, but I'd put it on my plate far quicker and if it was undercooked I'd just smack it back in the oven.
Thanks from the 'rents. Very tasty. Just not as special as the other night, because that was really, REALLY good.
Late last night I had leftover venison burgers, Momdigr's homemade potater salad, potater chips, and frainch-fried potaters.
Yeah that's three taters, precious, ya wanna fight about it?:eyebrow:
I wanna fight about it. As long as I get potatoes after.
Got one of those magic $5 tubs of salad to go with dinner. Made a salad for 6 people.
And the tub is still completely full.
Since was cool this AM. I made damnifino soup.
Damnifino soup? (being led right to it) What's that made of?
Ha. Most of stuff in kitchen. Started with Bob's red mill vege soup mix, then what ever. Corn, green beans, diced taters, vegall, diced maters, sweet peas, mate sauce and damnifino.
I make something similar occasionally...I call it Son-of-a-bitch Stew. In my version you take a giant stew pot, and then you put everything in the kitchen in that son-of-a-bitch.
For dinner, I've got some Johnsonville Hot Italian sausages...I just don't know what to have with them.
Sauteed in butter w/onions and green peppers, over rice, maybe.
It's Passover so tonight's dinner was lamb and potatoes coated with onion soup mix. I took a break from eating matzo today so my only starch was potatoes for lunch and dinner.
Pan Scallops, with nuked Broccoli. I think my first scallops, and last at $13 bucks a lb. They were good, but not that much.
Lamb casserole - slow cooked with onions, potatoes, stock, a little barley and a sprinkling of dried herbs and pepper. Served with peas and sweet potato mash.
Was very nice :)
And for Carrot I cooked up the (cheap and nasty 'basics range' - essentially offcuts) chicken breast pieces I bought the other day as weekend treat for him. Boiled so lots of gravy and a few peas for a splash of green :p Served with a little boiled rice swirling in the juice.
He approved.
Yesterday's dinner: Pork chop w/
Garland Jack's Sweet Brown Sugar Secret Six BBQ Sauce, the last of last year's stolen Peaches 'n' Cream corn, fake garlic bread (hamburger bun w/butter & garlic powder), and some thick-cut seasoned fries.
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Last night was chicken stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped in prosciutto with baked zucchini fries
Tonight is steak stuffed with sauteed spinach and smoked gouda served with more baked zucchini fries
I think you just ruined steak.
:D
Thanks glatt!
Gravdigr - not to worry.....it wasn't that type of steak :) It was more of a round steak type thingy.
I'm gonna have some long boy burgers tonight - I'm excited!
Basically, it's an open face burger on a hoagie roll and baked.
The burger is baked on the roll, so it catches all the flavorful drippings?
School lunch in Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America.
The burger is baked on the roll, so it catches all the flavorful drippings?
I suppose so. I was unimpressed. It needed salt, but the recipe didn't give measurements, just "salt and pepper to taste" - how do you do that with raw meat??
It tasted more like meatloaf on a roll
Gravdigr - not to worry.....it wasn't that type of steak :) It was more of a round steak type thingy.
The only time steak should be stuffed with spinach is when the steak is still a cow.
:D
The only time steak should be stuffed with spinach is when the steak is still a cow.
:D
LOL
:p:
Pan Scallops and a salad, I hope.
Shrimp and linguini, garlic bread, and salad. I peeled the shrimp and made the salad, and my daughter went out of her comfort zone to cook up the linguini and shrimp while my boy did the garlic bread. It came out really well. The kids did a great job.
Sounds yummy!
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Hi again everyone! Haven't had time to post again for a while (I'm about to graduate with my first real college degree - a few months shy of my 33rd birthday), but you are all my favorite food people on the internets :D
Sooo I just wanted to run this one by everyone, because I found it in a magazine and just tried it out, and the result is resting in the fridge now. It's a "cole slaw" recipe with no mayo - more like a quick-pickled cabbage salad (despite what the article called it.)
Shredded cabbage and carrots, toss with salt and let sit for a little bit, then make like El Guapo and squeeze the s*** out of it to get the water out. Add in a bit of white vinegar (I am slightly regretting not using seasoned rice vinegar, I think it would've probably been nicer), some diced pineapple, and some pineapple juice. Aaaaaand that's it.
My results so far: try a bite and feel a little confused in the mouth. Not bad, but not at all what I was expecting; I've put it in the fridge to chill and settle down a bit before I give it a proper taste test later. Thoughts?
Today, I am planning on a Pittsburgh Style Chicken salad with fries and everything. Made at home, of course :)
take a pic! I had some crackers and cheese
man, that looks delicious.
Pounded pork chop, Brussels sprouts. Plus a buddy's wife sent me a blueberry lemon pound cake. Pig out yea!
Mum's here!
This means I get to eat out. Places I've only walked past and sniffed before.
Omnomnom.
I'm not bleeding her dry. It's not Michelin starred.
But so far we've both enjoyed ourselves, enjoyed eachother's company and probably put on at least 10lbs each.
On Saturday night we went to Red Pepper for a curry.
Mum had eaten on the train, so we ate reasonably late. Well - late for someone who wakes at 06.00 every morning and an OAP who is in bed by 22.00.
Started with poppadoms and pickles.
I can take or leave them, but I know it's an important part of the meal for Mum, so I forced myself to have one to her two.
I remember when these were complimentary... But that was probably only because they were still unfamiliar at the time. And because they make you thirsty!
We shared a starter of curried garlic prawns.
Photos show salad garnish before prawns arrived, then the portion we split.
The writing on the plate is in chilli sauce and does say Red Pepper.
I originally read it as Cherry and wondered if Mum had asked for it specially. She though it said something else (can't remember) but we worked it out between us in the end.
It was very good, and given that we had had poppadoms already, it was a a good idea to share a starter.
Main course.
OMG the naan bread.
It was a vast duvet of a thing. A veritable Moby Dick of a naan bread.
And more than that it tasted like the imagined first bite of anything when you are really hungry; the one which can never be realised. Only this was, and kept on being so.
Kubla Khan would have had naan breads like that in his stately pleasure dome.
We shared it and still didn't get through it all.
And my Christmasteers can attest that I love my naan bread.
Even the year I was so sick with the old liver/ alcoholism problems that I could barely force anything between my clenched teeth I still managed half a garlic naan.
This was even better.
Anyway.
I had Shah Jahan.
Minced lamb and pieces of chicken.
The spices were perfect, it was pitched exactly right for my tastes in that respect.
But too salty. I just don't eat that much salt, except for the occasional time I have chips.
I ate 2/3 of it anyway, and what I left was not out of protest - Mum was paying and I did not want her to feel bad - but because of a full belly.
Oh and no, I don't have rice. That's what naan bread is for.
I eat brown rice and home - I can eat it completely plain when I'm poor, although a dash of Tabasco never goes amiss. But boiled white rice? Nah.
Ma had a Biryani.
This is a dish that comes with a vegetable curry and rice. The curry has the sauce, the rice and meat is more dry.
I introduced her to it over 20 years ago [hubris] but it's a curry-house staple, so she'd probably have discovered it herself at some point [humble].
This was technically lunch today, but I may as well put it all in the same place.
My bro sent me Wetherspoons vouchers for my birthday, at my request.
I wanted to be able to treat Mum to at least one meal, and I know that after cooking a Sunday roast for years and years, she would appreciate having one cooked for her and no washing up to worry about.
So she went for the roast beef dinner.
I honestly didn't fancy a roast. So I had a Mexican Dog.
No jokes please. And no comments on the veracity of the meal, I do know that slapping guacamole, cheese and chillies on a hotdog does not make it Mexican. Oh go on then, if you want to :rolleyes:
Once again we both left a significant amount.
Look, neither of us like to waste food. But neither of us asked for maxed out portions either. There was just too much to cope with. If it helps, we just shared a panini for tea :yum:
Menu table mat showing roast deals.
Yum! Looks great. Your Mum looks like she's lost a lot of weight too Sundae. Has it been purposeful?
Your Mom looks beautiful, just like you. And that roast beef dinner looks good.
Yum! Looks great. Your Mum looks like she's lost a lot of weight too Sundae. Has it been purposeful?
Told her you said that, she was very flattered. Sends her love,
You know she is always trying to lose weight.
But I think this is a side effect of Dad losing his appetite and not eating [COLOR="White"](not cancer, please don't let it be cancer)[/COLOR]
and generally running round after him,
Your Mom looks beautiful, just like you. And that roast beef dinner looks good.
I'll tell her that too!
The pair of you look proper bonny :)
:). You can send it right back to her please Sundae, and let her know i think of her often. One day when i get some time (haha) i will send her a snail mail with some photos. Xx
Possibly bacon cheese burgers. Or pork chops.
For dinner (lunch) I just had a bowl of mushroom soup (from a tin: 60p) and a hunk of cheese topped baton bread (small baton = 45p, used about a third, so 15p)
a 75p lunch that was mega tasty :p
Pounded chicken thigh. Stewed Rotel maters, diced maters, okra, eggplant, mater sauce, 1 can mater soup, bit of onions, bell pepper, green onions and last of my shrimp. Not bad.
Sounds like you had a good supper, Buster. I had some Sushi that was pretty spicy. It was stuffed with crab meat and covered in Dynamite sauce.
Sounds like you had a good supper, Buster. I had some Sushi that was pretty spicy. It was stuffed with crab meat and covered in Dynamite sauce.
Sushi....yuuum.
I'm a bachelor this evening. Picked up some rotisserie chicken and made a salad.
Last night I made pork adobo. It was yummy.
The last time I asked this (what's for dinner?), it didn't go well. But then, the entire month has been this way. Pork adobo sounds great, Ali. :)
I had it for lunch today too. :). Tonight i have made corn fritters. I forgot to put the usual sneaky veges in though, so will have to think about that a bit more.
Chicken thigh, field peas/snaps and a hoe cake.
a hoe cake? is that a tart?
Pot Roast with boiled new potatoes -that Hector grew- drizzled in butter and steamed kale -that Thor grew- possibly chopped with a little butter.... and chopped carrots ....you got it ;)
Roast duck, mandarin oranges, and broccoli.
I had the nicest broth last night! Uber simple. Just a little minced beef, with barley, chopped onion, potato, carrot, greens and peas some salt and pepper and a little 'umame' flavouring shaken into it.
Sooooo good. And did a little mini broth for Carrotchops. As above, minus the onion and seasonings.
I still have half a pan left - so that'll be my tea tonight :)
I had a discounted roll from Asda (4p) with some discounted chicken and jalapeño sandwich filler (35p) from same. I had to eat it standing up, because despite feeding Diz first he obviously smelled the chicken and thought I should share.
Ohnonononono. Spicy even for a person-mouth, no good at all for kitty-mouths.
I did not trust him not to take a swipe at it if I sat down.
Consequently I didnt really enjoy it.
I shall keep a food record in my diary while I am away.
I won't bombard you with three months worth when I am back, but it will serve as a reminder of anything particularly enjoyable or grim.
Sauteed wild (hand picked) oyster mushrooms followed by chicken tortellini with three cheese sauce/gravy.
a hoe cake? is that a tart?
A real hoe cake is plain corn meal and boiling water, with some salt. then cooked on a griddle or hot pan. Crumbled up in greens, such as Collards, turnips.
Yes I know some sites call for sugar and other BS.:eek:
Ersatz ratatouille* with cheese topped baton on the side.
*shallots, mushrooms and courgette, chopped and stirfried with a little garlic and chilli, then throw in half a jar of pasta sauce :P
How do we feel about Thai food? I just had some leftover crab fried rice and pad thai, my two favorites. Anyone have recommendations for other Thai dishes?
Wreckage of a large grilled T-Bone and tater. First steak I've had in a long time. Plenty for later.
How do we feel about Thai food? I just had some leftover crab fried rice and pad thai, my two favorites. Anyone have recommendations for other Thai dishes?
I'm not over keen on Thai food. Too much seafood for my liking. :p But I love Chinese food.
Buster, that looks delicious. I haven't had a steak in years.
snip--
I haven't had a steak in years.
WTF?
Never thought I'd say this to Glatt, but...
Please turn in your Man card.
Wreckage of a large grilled T-Bone and tater.
Heh,
wreckage.
I'm not over keen on Thai food. Too much seafood for my liking. :p But I love Chinese food.
I don't do thai often, myself. I find a little bit goes a long way, and I only know a few dishes. I live in fear of accidentally ordering a coconut-heavy curried something, because I don't care for coconut or coconut milk in 99% of things I've tried (the remaining 1% that I do like is mostly made up of fresh coconut and fresh coconut milk, and even those only maybe once a year. Also pina coladas, okay.) But there are like 80 thai places in my small town for some reason, so I give them a crack every so often, but I generally stick to ordering pad thai and crab fried rice. Chicken satay is also pretty great stuff, and wins bonus points for being food on a stick. Hard to go wrong with food on a stick.
Oh yeah, that's the other problem for me with Thai food - I is allergic to peanut:P
There are some Thai dishes I enjoy - but I am never sure what to get.
I quite like the bufet style restaurants thathave a mix of Chinese and Thai foods, that way i can have a little bit of the Thai stuff that I like.
My go to grill for one or 2 people. I think it's called a sportsman's grill. @ Glatt. At around 30 bucks for 2, will be awhile before I have anymore.
Breaded, fried venison tenderloin, and field peas & snaps.
:yum:
God, that sounds gorgeous.
It's been a while, so I thought I would treat you to two wonderful dinners :)
The first is Chicken Florentine with Israeli cous cous, veggies and spinach patties made with leftover Florentine "breading"
Second is Jalapeno Popper Chicken with zucchini and potato cakes.
Living high on the hog, bbro. :D
Heh - it's funny you say that. I just decided I was going to buy a pork butt to cook this weekend :lol:
Today I made a sandwich. I didn't take a picture because it didn't look like much, but it was amazing. I share:
Hot coppa, serrano ham, anchovy filets, olive oil, red wine vinegar, and a dash of black pepper, on day-old baguette that I stuck in the toaster oven just long enough to soften up the bread and sweat the meat a little.
It was meaty, pungent, tangy, salty, crusty, chewy, and a dash of spicy. Like the archetype of "savory" just crawled up and had a party in my face. Utterly loved it, would recommend 10/10. Surprisingly cheap for the quality in it, too.
After I ate the sandwich, I was found dead in the kitchen (of sodium-induced hypertension), sporting a gloriously rich and dark mustache on my face that nobody had ever seen before. At the funeral, guests came for miles to caress and sigh at its glory before it was shut away forever in my tomb. The bravest menfolk dared to dream that one day they could wear such a glorious device upon their lips; the ladyfolk hoped through their tears that the menfolk would never try, on account that none of them could match the face-shrubbery lost to the world so quickly after it birth. Children whimpered (though they did not understand why) and looked at the weak upper lips of their fathers, growing older than their years in the blink of an eye, their innocence shattered; the pieces were forged into dreams and rebuilt into purpose and meaning to do better.
And somewhere far away (yet closer than our fragile minds can conceive) there is a deeply cowled figure standing tall amidst the fogs of time, a figure wrapped in a shadowy robe the color of an infinite midnight and who clutches a tall, wickedly gleaming scythe, wearing a face frozen in the eternal rictus of a skull... an immortal grin that is shrouded by a gloriously rich and dark mustache. The figure silently takes you by the hand, as it did me, and leads you Elsewhere.
Children whimpered (though they did not understand why) and looked at the weak upper lips of their fathers, growing older than their years in the blink of an eye,
OMG I can't stop laughing.
Thank you Winslow. I did not know I needed this this morning, but I did.
Rest In Peace, mustache, we hardly knew ya. :mecry:
Sad Winslow's post belongs in the Hall of Fame.
:notworthy
I've never shaved my moustache. Ever.
I celebrate it's birthday on my own every year.
It's 31. We first met when I was ~15.
But the sandwich, you guys. It was really good. That's all I'm sayin'.
What? With Anchovies? No way, that shit will kill ya... oh wait...
I don't know, but, if it ain't liquid, and alcohol, I'm betting it comes from a drive-thru and costs a dollar.
Last night's dinner was a brutally spicy and salty delicious bowl of noodles. I got some weird flat noodles with a spicy sesame oil packet at the store; they're ok by themselves, hot and with that weird sort of earthy, almost szechuan taste, but a little boring all alone. So I added some baby bok choy, kim chee, and fermented bean chili paste in there, with a little dash of extra sesame oil and soy sauce. The bean paste is utterly incredible stuff, by the by. It comes in a little red jar and utterly transforms a soup or bowl of noodles of just about any kind with a rich, loamy, salty hot spice that has to be tasted to be believed. It might be a little bit of an acquired taste. I acquired it, myself, and it drives me nuts in the best way.
The overall effect was that I had this deeply earthy-tasting bowl of noodles with this sort of rich, low-set spicy heat to it. Not "gargling a mouthful of sriracha" hot, but the sort of "you're standing next to the fireplace in a moodily lit room late on a winter evening, and Isaac Hayes is on the radio" level of hot - the smouldering and sexy kind that reminds you that you're still alive. The broth that formed in the bottom of the bowl was a bright crimson red and was salty as a heartbeat and spicy as houses.
Tonight's dinner: I'm thinkin' chicken.
Oh, man, I just larfed out way loud...
salty as a heartbeat and spicy as houses.
:lol2:
Spicy as houses?!!?:lol2: WTF, man?! Oh, God...
...the sort of "you're standing next to the fireplace in a moodily lit room late on a winter evening, and Isaac Hayes is on the radio" level of hot - the smouldering and sexy kind that reminds you that you're still alive.
Shot in the dark, man, but, uh, you wanna do something sometime?[SIZE="1"][/Stewie Griffin][/SIZE]
:p:
@ sad winslow: You should be a restaurant critic. I would so read a regular food column by you lol
Yesterday I went to my Bro's for a fullroast dinner - mmmmmmm. Godamn my brother can cook! Chicken for the meat eaters, spicy butternut squash for the veggies. Roast veg etc. That description doesn't doit justice, It was soooo good.
This evening I had lincolnshire sausages, with boiled potatoes, spinach and peas with gravy. was very tasty - but not nearly so mindblowing as yesterday's fayre!
:P
Last night I made meat loaf.
Tonight chicken stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped in bacon
Good grief, I'd weigh another hundred pounds at your house. :haha:
Aw, thanks guys. :) If there's one thing I can talk about it's food, as I just get bored and lonely and just start retching up words at you all and hope that they make some sense. If you encourage this it will only turn into further monster posts, so be wary of your praise lest ye unleash dragons. Fat dragons who won't shut up about food.
So, last night ended up just being a thai delivery junket instead of the chicken that I meditated briefly upon in my previous post. It was actually mostly a letdown - the pad thai was lacking and the satay skewers tasted a little more like coconut milk than I really care for. The exception, however, was the deep-fried "pumpkin" bits (really an asian kind of squash called a kabocha; it has a thin, dark green skin with pleasantly sweet, bright orange inner flesh) served with the usual kind of thai peanut sauce.
Living in the festering hell-pit of a desert called the Sacramento Valley (as I do) the temperature has finally just started to approach less than 80 degrees during the day, so it feels like Fall has, at last, fallen, if only grudgingly. It is a relief to me, though a nervous sort of relief that teeters on a seasonal edge; it feels like nature could change its mind at any moment and skip right back into blazing summer. But as it currently stands I have been reminded by the heavens that clouds are indeed real and can happen; there are rumours that a sort of damp substance may come out of them occasionally. I am not particularly a sunny-weather kind of person, so I look forward to Fall as a time for my brain cool and re-congeal after being out in the unrelenting sun for eight months of the year.
I bring all of this up because the fried pumpkin bits dipped in peanut sauce tastes _exactly_ like Fall should taste. It is the crackle of dry leaves and the smell of raked lawns and damp Earth, it is hooded sweatshirts and hot tea and baked things from the oven.
When you take a bite of these pumpkin bits, it's like a trip to an entirely different meal dimension, one where you're not on the couch late at night alone marathoning shows on Netflix while shoveling random bits of someone else's culture into your face: it takes you over like you're sitting down to a plate of baked acorn squash and sweet potatos at your parent(s') house and a pumpkin-pecan pie is baking in the oven (it might just be warming up, because it's really store-bought, but who cares? It still stinks up the house like delicious.)
When you first arrived home, your eyes were assaulted by oddly-colored and mysteriously inedible corn placed strategically around the house, and there lurks at least one of those weird wicker horns spilling forth a festive bounty of other things nobody can eat. These things are the legacy of America and serve as a reminder of Ye Olde Days; back when life in the New World was full of danger, mysteriously inedible corn, and weird wicker horns spilling forth a festive bounty of other things nobody can eat lurked hideously around every corner. Also pellagra.
You had to take your shoes off at the door, so you pad around in your nice wool socks (that you wore so your family won't think you're a total poor. They actually know the truth, and you're pretty sure they know the truth, but the charade is pleasant and your feet are ok with this.) You likely also slide about a bit on the hardwood or linoleum for a laugh, and might scoot across the carpet so you can amusingly electrocute a sibling, pet, and/or significant other. You're not used to taking your shoes off, or carpet that's seen a vacuum in the past decade, so walking about in socks is a refreshing novelty and you're determined to take full advantage of the situation while it lasts.
Later, you sit on the couch and loaf by the fireplace for a while before you trundle yourself back to your empty apartment. When you get there you find a leftover box of thai food sitting on the coffee table. Inside is something orange and deep-fried, with a side of peanut sauce. You take a bite, and...
So anyways, all in all not bad for a $6 appetizer, if you ask me.
This evening I revisited my original vision of poultry and actually cooked some chicken in the form of a casserole with rice, but I shall spare you all of my dwellings upon it for another night.
When you first arrived home, your eyes were assaulted by oddly-colored and mysteriously inedible corn placed strategically around the house, and there lurks at least one of those weird wicker horns spilling forth a festive bounty of other things nobody can eat. These things are the legacy of America and serve as a reminder of Ye Olde Days; back when life in the New World was full of danger, mysteriously inedible corn, and weird wicker horns spilling forth a festive bounty of other things nobody can eat lurked hideously around every corner. Also pellagra.
:lol:
Keep 'em coming, winslow. This really made me smile.
Yah, this kind of reflection about food is what our elders claimed we should always have but it turned into "saying grace".
We'd say Grace, sometimes, but usually we said Grannie or Grandma.
Bravo Winslow, make sure every good time gets kneecapped. :haha:
Ugh... Same old crap. There's about a dozen different meals we make over and over and over and over... I dislike eating - It's so... mundane.
We'd say Grace, sometimes, but usually we said Grannie or Grandma.
Bravo Winslow, make sure every good time gets kneecapped. :haha:
I do what I can :D
Honeys, Hens & Spinach. I had a side of homemade chicken/mushroom/veggie/rice soup and a nice roll on the side.
Looks yummy!
Sent by thought transference
From scratch lasagna made by beest. yummy and faster than we both expected. We always think it's a faffy dish, but apparently it really isn't. Hector went to nap for an hour after a hard but victorious water polo championships, he likes lasagna, so while he was sleeping.... Beest rocks. No pix, sorry
Lamb shank slow cooked in red wine, rosemary and garlic. Later .....
Off the bone, on a bed of broccoli risotto ...
wow. I dig the chicken and mushrooms with spinach, that looks incredible and I want to eat the hell out of it. The stuff on the left side looks like bones. Delicious old bones that should be cold, but they're still steaming from the hot earth they were dug up from, buried far beneath the eldrich pile of moss dressed on the right side of the plate.
Where did you get those? Did you forage them?
That lamb looks pretty excellent, too. The wine gave it a gloriously bruised sheen, like a broken heart at 3:30am on a tuesday, in the place where dreams crawl into the corner and shiver through the night. Best eaten with a side of smoky saxophone and smokier whiskey.
...
That lamb looks pretty excellent, too. The wine gave it a gloriously bruised sheen, like a broken heart at 3:30am on a tuesday, in the place where dreams crawl into the corner and shiver through the night. Best eaten with a side of smoky saxophone and smokier whiskey.
:notworthy:
wow. I dig the chicken and mushrooms with spinach, that looks incredible and I want to eat the hell out of it. The stuff on the left side looks like bones.
That stuff on the left is two kinds of mushrooms. One is the Hen of the Woods and the other is the Honey mushroom. There is no actual Chicken there, just shrooms and spinach.
Where did you get those? Did you forage them?
Not telling and yes. Its one of my hobbies. So far this year I've gotten about 25lbs of assorted shrooms.
That stuff on the left is two kinds of mushrooms. One is the Hen of the Wodds and the other is the Honey mushroom. There is no actual Chicken there, just shrooms and spinach.
Not telling and yes. Its one of my hobbies. So far this year I've gotten about 25lbs of assorted shrooms.
Oh! Of course. I think I saw that you also had the chicken soup and assumed that "honeys and hens" was clever wordplay.
I'd never ask for your foraging spot, hah! That's a great hobby you've got, though. I'm a big fan of fungus overall, fascinating stuff. Took some classes on it not too long ago, even. I'm nowhere near competent enough to start finding things on the ground and eating them, though. I can, however, talk about how some of the poisonous ones do their dirty work.
Took some classes on it not too long ago, even. I'm nowhere near competent enough to start finding things on the ground and eating them, though.
What part of the world are you in? There are typically a couple "no brainers" in every climate/area that are easy to go with. Take a walk and post some pics. For edibles, I only eat maybe 5-6 different kinds. I have some which are only good to dry and then use in soups or as a spice of sorts.
I can, however, talk about how some of the poisonous ones do their dirty work.
Fascinating, isn't it? The amanita's are one of my favorite killers. If you are into reading about them, the Audubon book is a fantastic one with which you can start.
What part of the world are you in? There are typically a couple "no brainers" in every climate/area that are easy to go with. Take a walk and post some pics. For edibles, I only eat maybe 5-6 different kinds. I have some which are only good to dry and then use in soups or as a spice of sorts.
Fascinating, isn't it? The amanita's are one of my favorite killers. If you are into reading about them, the Audubon book is a fantastic one with which you can start.
Oh, there's mushrooms to be had around here, for sure. I'm in California, not too far from Sacramento. All sorts of goodies can be found if you know where to look, particularly if you scoot in closer to the coast and start heading north. Chanterelles, king boletes, morels, even matsutakes all stretch from here up through Oregon. December-ish is supposed to be a really good time to go looking, though you have to watch out for competition with their iphones and tight pants and bad facial hair.
We actually had a mushroom poisoning a couple years ago in Sacramento that was a pretty big deal, when a caregiver for some elderly cooked up a meal that killed a couple old folks and made a few more people (including themselves, iirc) deathly ill. Some of the local deadlies are apparently pretty similar to perfectly edible varieties in Eastern Europe. Oops.
Amanitin toxicity is pretty interesting, but I'm more amused by
Gyromitra (one of the false morels) poisoning. Gyromitrin quite readily breaks down into a chemical called monomethylhydrazine, a substance that makes a very good propellant for spacecraft (usually for manuvering thrusters) but does not make a very good propellant for human metabolisms. IIRC not only is it pretty highly toxic, but if you do survive it's still a carcinogen, so good luck with that.
Awesome. One item on my bucket list is to go west on a massive morel hunt. Probably in Oregon. Sadly the east coast morels are tiny, at best, compared to their west coast counterparts.
OK, I know I'm limited in my cooking, but I like what I cook and I cook what I like. Its also the season for me so I'm flush with shrooms and looking for new ways to eat them.
Tonight's entrant is cheese raviolis atop a bed of sauteed baby spinach & Hen of the Woods with rough minced garlic and onion drizzled in an Olive oil and butter sauce.
Home made turkey soup......that seems to turn into a gelatin when cooled
I love that bbro! Then when its warmed up its still think and yummy!
Good to know :) I actually cooked the pasta separate with this batch so it doesn't soak up all the broth.
I just googled it and it looks like people have trouble getting the gel. Looks like I am just lucky. Two times I made home made broth, I got the gel - this time with just a turkey breast!
That's very weird. The gelatin comes from hooves and bones--that's where actual packets of gelatin come from--so if you just boil meat with no bones you should never get gelatin. On the other hand, it doesn't take much bone to gelatinize even a big pot of soup, and there is a little gelatin in cartilage, so maybe there was a chunk of cartilage still attached to the turkey breast.
That's very weird. The gelatin comes from hooves and bones--that's where actual packets of gelatin come from--so if you just boil meat with no bones you should never get gelatin. On the other hand, it doesn't take much bone to gelatinize even a big pot of soup, and there is a little gelatin in cartilage, so maybe there was a chunk of cartilage still attached to the turkey breast.
bone, cartilage, and tendon: all good gelatin sources. It doesn't take a whole lot of
any of them to turn a soup into meat jello :) You're probably right that it's some cartilage hanging around in there, even if it's a "boneless" store-cooked rotisserie breast.
That's very weird. The gelatin comes from hooves and bones--that's where actual packets of gelatin come from--so if you just boil meat with no bones you should never get gelatin. On the other hand, it doesn't take much bone to gelatinize even a big pot of soup, and there is a little gelatin in cartilage, so maybe there was a chunk of cartilage still attached to the turkey breast.
I think I see where the confusion is - it was a bone in turkey breast that I roasted and cleaned off. This was definitely a hunk of bone with some meat and I left the icky parts and skin on while simmering.
Pizza with peperoni, mushrooms, and anchovies.
I'm a [post=914029]rebel[/post].
Bacon & Banana, no anchovies.
homemade hummus, it's really good, very garlicy.
A store-roasted whole chicken (I bought the chicken whole. I won't eat the whole thing in this meal, it's two or three meals at least.
Corn chips, salsa.
Apple Ginger cider from Angry Orchard.
A store-roasted whole chicken (I bought the chicken whole. I won't eat the whole thing in this meal, it's two or three meals at least.
I keep telling myself that. :haha:
Today I decided the weather was right for braised beef short ribs. I had bought 4 lbs or so back on sale and frozen them so I let them thaw out in the fridge for a day or 2. I also had saved a bunch of beef scraps from when I had Frenched the ribs on a rib roast for a family get together, I had wrapped them up and frozen them so they got thawed out. Lots of nice bits of beef...
I've really taken a liking to my crock pot slow cooker. It was my mother in law's but was too big for her as she just can't lift heavy things and generally cooks smaller items for herself. I used to do braises in a Le Cruset cast iron pot on the stove but with the kitchen all torn up cooking on the stove isn't as easy and I think the crock pot actually cooks at a lower temp than on the stove on the lowest flame.
To fit it all in the pot I decided to trim off the bones, I know that they add flavor to the meat as it cooks but with all the beef I needed enough room. So I floured the beef a bit and tossed it into a skillet with some very hot grapeseed oil and let it all brown a bit. Then I rough cut an onion, 3 big garlic cloves, some celery and threw in a cup or so of those pre cut baby carrots that kind of needed to get used up and put all that in the bottom of the ceramic crock pot dish. After the meat browned I put it neatly on top of all the veg. and deglazed the pan with a cup of red wine and a 1/2 cup of orange juice. I don't know, it just sounded like a good liquid to add to the crock pot. Oh and I added some Herbes de Provence which is my all around go to spice mix for beef and lamb. Added some salt and fresh ground pepper, 2 bay leaves and put on the lid and set it for 10 hours on low. I didn't add any other liquid. I find some recipes call for more and with all the moisture that comes out of the meat and vegetables it cooks more like a soup and I have to reduce or dump some of it to serve.
Probably boil up some red skinned potatoes to serve it over or maybe make mashed potatoes. Pretty basic really.
A store-roasted whole chicken
Man, are those things handy as hell, or what? Price-Less/IGA's whole chickens absolutely rock.:yum:
Leek risotto. Chicken Marsala, made from scratch. Can't argue with that.
Man, are those things handy as hell, or what? Price-Less/IGA's whole chickens absolutely rock.:yum:
The price of each chicken, approximately the same size, a whole chicken, one roasted, one uncooked... the difference was about a quarter. WTF. I spend more than twenty-five cents cooking it and then cleaning the pan. For that matter, I don't even have to include the cost of a dirty dish for the first meal cause I start butchering it right in that clamshell bucket it get sold in. nom fucking nom.
Now.
It's not the BEST roasted chicken, I make a tastier, juicier chicken than one that's been mass produced and parked in hotplate purgatory. But. The convenience/grub factor is way, waaay higher.
Super Pollo Chicken is a local rotisserie chicken place two blocks from us, and when we don't know what we're having for dinner, I'll often walk there and pick up a whole chicken. They taste way better than the supermarket ones, but are a couple bucks more. Somehow they know how many to cook up, so they are taking them fresh off the spit just as you get there at dinner time.
I would not be able to resist calling that place "super chicken chicken" if I lived near one.
Yeah. We can't resist either.
Huh? Oh, pollo is chicken in Spanish... [SIZE="1"]nevermind[/SIZE] :smack:
And the La Brea Tar Pits translates to The "the tar" Tar Pits.
Anyone ever eaten at Pollos Hermanos?
And the La Brea Tar Pits translates to The "the tar" Tar Pits.
Have I been putting my fish in La Brea Tar sauce?
Food today was a downer. I ate at a burger place I hadn't tried before, and their schtick is to try and sell fancied-up mini-burgers, not much bigger than a slider, for relatively obscene amounts of money. $10 for a two mini-burger, boring fries, and drink combo. It felt like an appetizer. It was technically executed well on the cookery side, but I left hungry. And they're doing that awful new west coast thing where they decorate with concrete and brushed metal everything, so it's ugly and the acoustics are terrible to boot. It was a weirdly depressing experience.
Food generally should not be depressing, with two notable and delicious exceptions, both sandwiches from Frisch's Big Boy. First and foremost, the Brawny Lad: a burger on a dark brown rye bun with a slab of onion. That's it. It's short, squat, and brown, like an old shoe, and it is a marvel to behold on a white plate. Stark but filling, and tastes surprisingly good. The other is the Swiss Miss, which is the Brawny Lad's slightly perkier cousin for those with a little pep still in their step. It trades the onion for a slice of swiss cheese and a little shredded lettuce and secret (tartar) sauce.
Even then, it's important to recognize that the Brawny Lad and Swiss Miss aren't sandwiches of despair, but meals of grim determination. When you order your Brawny Lad you know you're low in the world, but you set your teeth and you bear through it, and you come out a better person on the other side. You don't leave feeling hopeful, exactly, but you at least leave feeling tenacious and maybe even a little absolved, in a Protestant sort of way. They are exactly what you needed.
The mini-burgers tonight, though, just left me feeling hungry and a little dirty. Like I needed a Brawny Lad.
Do it or don't, but never ever ever, mini anything. :headshake
I kinda like the mini-beef and mini-chicken quesadillas from the new $1 menu at Taco Bell.
Reasonably tasty and filling for a buck. Just don't travel very far with them. They're wrapped twice in foil to keep them warm, but, the tortilla tends to stick to the foil, and it wants to peel away with the foil.
Twil got the fixins for caprese sandwiches. We'll have those with cider, or maybe red wine
I won't eat any sandwich that is called a 'slider' or is referred to as 'like a slider." I mean, that's just gross. It's supposed to just slide down your throat, like oysters? Ugh. No. Never. It's a texture vs. value thing.
I think that term originated from that damn White Castle. Won't eat that crap either.
I won't eat any sandwich that is called a 'slider' or is referred to as 'like a slider." I mean, that's just gross. It's supposed to just slide down your throat, like oysters? Ugh. No. Never. It's a texture vs. value thing.
I think that term originated from that damn White Castle. Won't eat that crap either.
I think it's a dumb word too. I don't know what it means. Like you're trying to slide a diminutive hamburger by me, as if I won't notice that it's fucking tiny? I don't know. I don't have any sort of inherent problem with the concept of a tiny hamburger, I just prefer it to be honest about what it is so that I know to either laugh and go somewhere else or order like forty of the goddamn things so I don't leave hungry.
I like White Castle myself, but we don't have them around these parts at all, so they're a rare "treat" every couple of years when I get back to parts of the world where the Castle lurks. I fully admit that WC burgers are strange and horrible things, and the frozen ones from the grocery store are so bad that even I can't stomach them. But "fresh" from the Castle? Yeah, I can dig it. It's 3am and I want like eighty tiny weird cheeseburgers please. OK, that'll be $3. And then I go home and I am pleasantly full of tiny meats and regret for the evening. It goes back to what I was saying about sandwiches of grim determination in a previous post, but White Castle maintains a little bit of whimsy because hey, taking normal things and make them tiny? Recipe for comedy gold, right there. You get to feel good while feeling bad. And that's what life at the bottom of the tank is all about.
I shall be making Gumbo-laya from an online recipe (sans okra) :)
I think it's a dumb word too. I don't know what it means. Like you're trying to slide a diminutive hamburger by me, as if I won't notice that it's fucking tiny? I don't know. I don't have any sort of inherent problem with the concept of a tiny hamburger, I just prefer it to be honest about what it is so that I know to either laugh and go somewhere else or order like forty of the goddamn things so I don't leave hungry.
I like White Castle myself, but we don't have them around these parts at all, so they're a rare "treat" every couple of years when I get back to parts of the world where the Castle lurks. I fully admit that WC burgers are strange and horrible things, and the frozen ones from the grocery store are so bad that even I can't stomach them. But "fresh" from the Castle? Yeah, I can dig it. It's 3am and I want like eighty tiny weird cheeseburgers please. OK, that'll be $3. And then I go home and I am pleasantly full of tiny meats and regret for the evening. It goes back to what I was saying about sandwiches of grim determination in a previous post, but White Castle maintains a little bit of whimsy because hey, taking normal things and make them tiny? Recipe for comedy gold, right there. You get to feel good while feeling bad. And that's what life at the bottom of the tank is all about.
hahahaaha!
You know, if you get a square inch of processed cheese on those eighty tiny hamburgers, the price skyrockets to 17.50. Square inches of processed cheese ain't cheap, you know. Also, they're a mathematical oddity.
I made a paella in the crock pot, it sort of worked out but the rice didn't absorb as much of the liquid as I would have liked. The recipe said to only use long grain brown rice or it would be mushy but I think short grain would have worked better. Had chicken and some kielbasa type sausage in it and I added 1 lb of cleaned shrimp and some mussels for the last 20 minutes. The wife liked it ok.
Over here the instructions say that the best rice for crock pots is "easy cook" (i.e. already part-cooked). I'm with you, I prefer short grain every time.
What's for Dinner?
Don't know yet, but, it'll taste like ashes and regret.
What's for Dinner?
Don't know yet, but, it'll taste like ashes and regret.
I had Taco Bell today too.
You're funny winslow, sad.
Tonight was back to my staple favorite, baked chicken and rice. When it's cold out I can eat this almost every day, it's so good, and I keep toying with it to make it better. First I started replacing the water for the rice with chicken broth. Then I upgraded to peas, and tonight I added real actual mushrooms instead of relying on what was in the soup can. My next upgrade will be to find a better source of soup. Campbell's cream of chicken and mushroom (apparently a thing now, all in one can, conveniently) is good and all, but I'm ready to see what I can find that's a little less salt and a little more flavor.
http://i.imgur.com/sacM4Ev.jpg
It looks a little bit like a pod of sunburnt whales, or maybe like two undulating loch ness monsters in a litterbox, but I assure you, it tastes like chicken.
Tonight was back to my staple favorite, baked chicken and rice. When it's cold out I can eat this almost every day, it's so good, and I keep toying with it to make it better. First I started replacing the water for the rice with chicken broth. Then I upgraded to peas, and tonight I added real actual mushrooms instead of relying on what was in the soup can. My next upgrade will be to find a better source of soup. Campbell's cream of chicken and mushroom (apparently a thing now, all in one can, conveniently) is good and all, but I'm ready to see what I can find that's a little less salt and a little more flavor.
http://i.imgur.com/sacM4Ev.jpg
If you've subbed broth for water, do you really need soup at all?
It looks a little bit like a pod of sunburnt whales, or maybe like two undulating loch ness monsters in a litterbox, but I assure you, it tastes like chicken.
:lol2:
The can of soup is both convenient to use and cheap. But Campbell's soup is horrible for you. It's a can of salt. I'd get a small carton of real cream and those real mushrooms you already tried, and just try pouring that on top. The chicken broth will give a lot of flavor (and salt) anyway.
If you've subbed broth for water, do you really need soup at all?
:lol2:
Well, it's mostly there for the creamy quality. It wouldn't quite be the same without that little bit of creaminess to bring the rice all together in soft and almost gooey clumps. The broth just adds, I don't know, a hidden little dimension of richness. Maybe too rich for some folks. But I'm pretty sure my taste buds are, if not dead, at least due for a visit from a social worker to see about an assisted living facility.
The can of soup is both convenient to use and cheap. But Campbell's soup is horrible for you. It's a can of salt. I'd get a small carton of real cream and those real mushrooms you already tried, and just try pouring that on top. The chicken broth will give a lot of flavor (and salt) anyway.
Yeah, it's convenience that's really the big thing. It's a nice dish to just chuck together with a minimum of effort. Pretty much everything in it is stockpile food except for the chicken, which is easy to snag at the store and hit the door. But using the real cream is a pretty good idea and I may try an experimental batch that way: if i'm going to the store anyways for the chicken and mushrooms, getting a pint of cream isn't too hard too. I do, for what it's worth, stick with low-sodium broth, because otherwise it'd end up rather... dessicating. I could already probably bottle the stuff as electrolyte-enhanced energy glop and sell it to passing joggers. It's pretty good, though, and the real actual fungus adds a joyful texture.
Unrelated to soup, but earlier I had a mouthful of haribo happy cola gummy colas in my mouth and I suddenly sneezed, utterly hosing my desk down with sticky giblets everywhere. It looked like I'd just ejected some sort of terribly important organ, or maybe what I imagine gummy worm droppings would look like. Gummy castings, if you will. That was pretty much dinner. So I've got that going for me tonight.
Looks really good sw.
I'm headed to Sullivan's Steakhouse in an hour. My neighbor is treating me for helping him out while he was moving.
I guess he's a former neighbor now. :( Been neighbors over 20 years.
Made from 95% thanksgiving leftovers
an eclectic mix of homemade from scratch mac n cheese n tuna, value hotdogs in value buns (but I microwaved the fuckers myself) and homemade from scratch (including the chicken stock base) leek potato and onion soup. the latter is my fave, topped with grated cheese :)
You had me at "eclectic mix" ...
Sent by thought transference
I'm the only person I know who nukes their hotdogs.
yeah, I wouldn't normally, but they were the nearest thing to hand and I had 10 seconds to prepare hot food to go for child going from baritone lesson straight to hockey.
I[strike]'m [/strike] used to be the only person I know who nukes their hotdogs.
FTFY.
I'm the only person I know who nukes their hotdogs.
Only if I'm in a serious hurry to shove a meatstick down my facehole. I wrap the scraptube in a papertowel and wet it down at the counterwell before I throw it in the radiationbox for 30-40 seconds, try to unroll it without scalding my sausagefingers, and slam it into a breadbun before I dump god knows what on top of it and cram the whole thing into my slavering mouthgap.
Otherwise I usually just steam-boil them in just a little bit of water on the stove. It doesn't take too much longer, five or ten minutes tops, and tastes way better.
If I'm going to the trouble of starting the stove to "cook" a hotdog, I prefer to do it in the skillet, browning them a little, sometimes I cut them in half lengthwise to get more surface area to brown and also cook more quickly since I reduce the distance from the surface to the center by about half by doing so.
I had pretendy crabsticks.
Didn't eat the fattening dip though.
Well, only on two of them.
If I'm going to the trouble of starting the stove to "cook" a hotdog, I prefer to do it in the skillet, browning them a little, sometimes I cut them in half lengthwise to get more surface area to brown and also cook more quickly since I reduce the distance from the surface to the center by about half by doing so.
Try a spiral cut sometime if you want surface area. Use a paring knife or similar and run a shallow cut that twists around the dog. It adds plenty of surface area for browning to happen, can make a dinky dog fill out an overly large bun, and it looks pretty weirdly cool, too.
Tonight will be potato soup and beef rolls with spinach (if still good) and havarti rolled inside. But ONLY if I work out.
If I'm going to the trouble of starting the stove to "cook" a hotdog, I prefer to do it in the skillet, browning them a little, sometimes I cut them in half lengthwise to get more surface area to brown and also cook more quickly since I reduce the distance from the surface to the center by about half by doing so.
Couldn't you have cooked some real meat by then? At least a breakfast link or something (that's the closest you get to a normal sausage here, mah breetish chums....).
lasagna tonight. hopefully. Hockey-boy might have to eat his in the car, cooling each mouthful as it goes. yes, from scratch. I'm on a roll......
Kids are having leftovers tonight, hurriedly warmed and left in front of them as I run out the door to a school meeting. Mr. Clod and I will eat something later after I get back around 8:30. What that will be is as much a mystery to me as it is to you...
Turkey quiche, a loaf of bakery bread heated in the oven while the quiche cooks, a salad, and some broccoli.
Tonight will be potato soup and beef rolls with spinach (if still good) and havarti rolled inside. But ONLY if I work out.
I forgot my cheese at work so hot dogs and corn it is. The favorite of every preschooler.
The lot of you are living pretty high on the hog. I predict New Years resolutions to be weight loss heavy. :haha:
hey, beest and I just won prizes from our gym for weight loss/maintenance over November. I picked mine up today because they ran out when I "weighed out". It was supposed to be a draw-string bag, but they gave me a coffee mug. With the gym logo on it. I suspect they just lifted it from the staff break room.... :rolleyes:
Today breakfast, lunch, and dinner were all brought to my door via a soft rapping by a stranger. I nearly missed it, so soft was the tapping. I received by courier a strange perforated disk of heat-tempered starches, slathered in liquified Solanaceae fruits and coated in polymerised bovine suckling excretion. Embedded across the polymer surface were chunks of bacterially-treated porcine bowel products, and a second variety of Solanaceae fruit processed through an acid bath for long-term storage prior to use.
It was okay. Domino's is really, really junky, though. This town's purveyors of pie disappoint me.
Yesterday I had the potato soup (more like loaded baked potato soup) and beef with cheese and spinach inside. This is also for lunch today cause that's how I do :)
Today I am making skillet lasagna, but I'm using something other than lasagna noodles. Why? Cause I want to. I am hankering for a different noodle shape.
Oooo, I love it when you break the rules. :blush:
Today breakfast, lunch, and dinner were all brought to my door via a soft rapping by a stranger. I nearly missed it, so soft was the tapping. I received by courier a strange perforated disk of heat-tempered starches, slathered in liquified Solanaceae fruits and coated in polymerised bovine suckling excretion. Embedded across the polymer surface were chunks of bacterially-treated porcine bowel products, and a second variety of Solanaceae fruit processed through an acid bath for long-term storage prior to use.
It was okay. Domino's is really, really junky, though. This town's purveyors of pie disappoint me.
You use your tongue purtier 'n a twenty dollar whore.
-Taggart, "Blazing Saddles"
fucking T-bone steak. with yellow onions and mushrooms sauteed in red wine. smashed potatoes (not mashed). and the rest of the bottle of wine.
Life is good.
Oooo, I love it when you break the rules. :blush:
Yea? How about when I eat chicken for breakfast? Or tacos using lettuce? Or greek yogurt instead of sour cream on tacos? Or that I eat carbs even though I am losing weight?
Ya like that? ;)
Yea? How about when I eat chicken for breakfast? Or tacos using lettuce? Or greek yogurt instead of sour cream on tacos? Or that I eat carbs even though I am losing weight?
Ya like that? ;)
You naughty, naughty girl.
Yea? How about when I eat chicken for breakfast? Or tacos using lettuce? Or greek yogurt instead of sour cream on tacos? Or that I eat carbs even though I am losing weight?
Ya like that? ;)
[Heavy Panting] Yes! Yes! I had bologna and banana for breakfast. Squeee! [/Heavy Panting]
:lol2:
You two crack me up. Thoroughly needed today!
One more for ya: DORITOS FOR BREAKFAST!
Posers.
Two days ago I had a Red Baron pizza for breakfast.
And about two weeks ago I had chili. For breakfast.
Posers.
Two days ago I had a Red Baron pizza for breakfast.
And about two weeks ago I had chili. For breakfast.
I had the skillet lasagna/pasta for breakfast today :P
[Heavy Panting] Yes! Yes! I had bologna and banana for breakfast. Squeee! [/Heavy Panting]
:lol2:
You two crack me up. Thoroughly needed today!
One more for ya: DORITOS FOR BREAKFAST!
Posers.
Two days ago I had a Red Baron pizza for breakfast.
And about two weeks ago I had chili. For breakfast.
I had the skillet lasagna/pasta for breakfast today :P
Menu drift...I had bones for supper last nite
The aftermath
I tried to upload the aftermath, and after re sizing the pic three times it still would not load. FUCKING COMPUTERS!!!
Yesterday I had the potato soup (more like loaded baked potato soup) and beef with cheese and spinach inside. This is also for lunch today cause that's how I do :)
Today I am making skillet lasagna, but I'm using something other than lasagna noodles. Why? Cause I want to. I am hankering for a different noodle shape.
Lasagna noodles?
fargon - those look gorgeous. I have never been able to successfully make bones of any time
Dana - like these pictured. Do you have a different name for them?
Yeah - pasta sheets.
'noodle' is only ever used to refer to long thin strips/strands. Like the stuff you get in noodle soup, or chow mein. It isn't used as a wider word for pasta, as (I now realise) it is used in the US.
fargon, those look delicious. damn.
Yeah - pasta sheets.
'noodle' is only ever used to refer to long thin strips/strands. Like the stuff you get in noodle soup, or chow mein. It isn't used as a wider word for pasta, as (I now realise) it is used in the US.
It's funny, I call them Lasagna noodles, and spaghetti, capellini, fettucini, ramen, soba, are also noodles, but any other pasta shape is either pasta or whatever its Italian name is. Farfalle, Ditalini, gemelli and so on.
Addie fixed latkes with onion and garnished with a dollop of sour cream. Quite proud of my 7 year old. Of course, Elizabeth hovered over her. They just got through playing dreidel. They used pralines for coins.
It's funny, I call them Lasagna noodles, and spaghetti, capellini, fettucini, ramen, soba, are also noodles, but any other pasta shape is either pasta or whatever its Italian name is. Farfalle, Ditalini, gemelli and so on.
Ahh now - spaghetti is never called noodles here - that's spaghetti. Or pasta.
Hi guys. Those ribs look pretty excellent, and latkes, my god I'd shank someone kosher-style for a pile of good latkes about now. A smooth, clean draw across a major artery with a blade so fresh and sharp that god could shave with it and not realise for a week that it's taken an eyebrow and half an ear along with it. In exchange for potato things. Fair trade.
I just wanted to tell you guys I tried, and fucked up horribly, making african food tonight: a Tanzanian-style rice pilao with peanut sauce. I forgot to get normal, natural peanut butter from the store for the sauce, and it turns out that choosy africans don't actually choose Jif. Who knew? The end result isn't terrible, as such, but it's a lot like I'm eating some interesting and exotically seasoned food between bites of a peanut butter sandwich. Luckily, I did not actually add the sauce directly to the rice, so in the end what I've got left is a pot of wild rice with carrots, onions, and a few dabs of mushroom and potato, and some spicy peanut goober with mushrooms and onions. Lesson learned. I think I'll try just putting peanuts in the rice next time.
Other than that, I wanted to ask readers here: thoughts on "kombucha" tea? Anyone tried it, liked it, disliked it? I think I like it, but it's a very odd thing to me.
Does that mean you've had a proper "Tanzanian-style rice pilao with peanut sauce" to compare?
Kombucha is fermented, and tastes like it. If you enjoy things like kimchi, real sauerkraut, etc., then you will probably also enjoy the tang of kombucha. Most people I know drink it because it's good for them, not because they genuinely like the flavor.
Does that mean you've had a proper "Tanzanian-style rice pilao with peanut sauce" to compare?
Well, I think I had something closely approximating it, anyways. My boss is a wildlife ecologist specializing in large mammals of africa; he lives in africa quite a large portion of the year and has done so for ages, he and his wife both. They invited me to a christmas dinner party a couple weeks ago and what they served as the main course was an african rice pilao with mushrooms and onions and a spicy peanut sauce. A Tanzanian student was also in attendance and it seemed to meet with his approval, and I loved it to pieces, myself. Relatively simple in nature, but surprisingly complex in flavor thanks to the addition of a spice blend that's a combination of cumin, cardamom, cloves, black pepper, and cinnamon. Also some things like ginger, garlic, cayenne, and green chiles, and a little coconut milk. It's quite a lovely taste, a lovely sort of subdued, earthy spice going on. I had to blend the spice mix by hand, though, and one thing I probably need to do is let them all integrate together a bit longer before I use them again. I can say that today, after it's been in the fridge overnight, the cooked dish actually smells and tastes even better than it did last night, in part because the flavors were able to meld together a bit better.
Kombucha is fermented, and tastes like it. If you enjoy things like kimchi, real sauerkraut, etc., then you will probably also enjoy the tang of kombucha. Most people I know drink it because it's good for them, not because they genuinely like the flavor.
I think that it's probably sad to drink it if you don't like the flavor because it's not really that great for you in particular, although it's pretty likely not bad for you. Any magical health benefits ascribed to it are pretty much either outrageously overblown or outright false, so if you don't like the "unique" taste it seems silly to drink it. The "probiotic" nature of the unpasteurized stuff is maybe equivalent to that of yogurt, and how beneficial that is exactly is still kind of up in the air, even. Yogurt is good for you not necessarily because of the microorganisms directly, but rather what they've done to the milk sugars they're fed, not to mention the resulting dietary and lifestyle changes in people who decide it's time to eat more yogurt. Kombucha has also got some B vitamin content, which you can get from pretty much anything in a balanced diet, and any excess above what your body can use at the moment is just excreted in urine.
Otherwise, what you're pretty much doing is drinking sweet tea that's had the sugar converted to vinegar and fizz.
I like the taste, myself, though. Vinegary and acidic, a little fizz, earthy funk, I can dig it. I'm a sucker for fermented things in general, though, and I really like sour beers. Kombucha, I've found, is sort of like the non-alcoholic (mostly, there's still a fraction of a %) hippy version of a lambic.
The "probiotic" nature of the unpasteurized stuff is maybe equivalent to that of yogurt, and how beneficial that is exactly is still kind of up in the air, even.
This is not true, but you couldn't have known that you were accidentally diving into a conversation with a probiotic obsessive. :) Truly fresh kombucha that has been fermented for 24+ hours (which is not necessarily true for something you get from the store that calls itself kombucha, and certainly not "kombucha tea" which is like "cheese product,") has trillions of CFU of both beneficial bacteria and yeasts. Your average store yogurt has only about 5 billion CFU per serving, and what's more, it is artificially seeded with only 2-4 species of bacteria and no yeast, compared to literally hundreds of species in the kombucha mother which have evolved together into a balanced colony.
I'll grant you that store-bought yogurt is as probiotically useful as store-bought "kombucha tea." But real, fermented yogurt and kombucha are both entirely different things, and exponentially more potent.
As a favor to everyone else here, I'll leave the rant about the many proven health benefits for another time. :)
My point was that kombucha is ascribed magical healing properties that it doesn't have. It's not going to cure cancer, relieve gout, make arthritis go away, fix autism, stop heart attacks, replace vaccines, cure the common cold, make your immune system invincible, keep you alive until you're 120, cure HIV, or a dozen other things kombucha(or latest fad) is claimed to do. Whether there's a hundred or a hundred billion fungal/bacterial colonies isn't terribly important. A hundred billion multiplied by zero ability to cure cancer is still zero. That's what I was driving at.
I would never argue that probiotics overall aren't generally healthful. There's a pretty decent amount of evidence piling up for fermented, live-culture products being generally good for digestion and helping with conditions in which there is a gut flora imbalance, which is nice. But don't take up chain smoking thinking that it'll balance out the risk of cancer, and don't give up the chemo once you've got the cancer, either; nor should you throw away the ibuprofen and expect to be running marathons on those worn-out joints just because of some bacteria-rich spoiled fungus tea. And if you've got HIV/AIDS, my god, don't go near the stuff; for the immunocompromised, if pouring live microorganisms into your face doesn't at least sound like a bad idea, Darwin might have some words for you.
It's also worth noting that drinking too much kombucha can actually lead to some gastric problems, as it's really quite acidic, being loaded with vinegar and carbonic acid. It can erode the teeth, throat, and stomach lining, leading to ulcers, and has been implicated in cases of severe lactic acidosis. I'd argue that while it may not be quite as microbially loaded as kombucha, yogurt is a more gentle way to treat one's insides, and comes in a nice fat-and-protein buffer solution. Arguably tastes better, too.
But broadly, if drinking a little kombucha keeps a person from eating big macs and drinking cokes and motivates them to adjust their lifestyle to fit what they think a "kombucha drinker" consumes, then yeah, they're going to start feeling better physically. The same is going to happen if they start eating, say, oatmeal for breakfast instead of a hot pocket and a red bull.
I am overall very much an advocate of eating "whole" type foods, including fermented stuff. I can't get enough of (real, sour-type) pickled cucumbers and other vegetables, sauerkraut, sour beer, miso and other fermented bean pastes, yogurt, kefir, kimchee, kombucha, fermented chile pastes, on and on... I also once ate stinky tofu, and that's a story for another post. But I don't think that any of it is magical medicine, and I don't think anyone else should, either.
so I wasn't really asking about kombucha to bust anyone's chops or anything. I was more just wondering if anyone was drinking it and had any opinions the.. "unique" flavor, found a brand they like/hate, or started brewing a variety that they particularly love or hate. But you couldn't have known that you were accidentally diving into a conversation with a real scientist. :)
Citations available upon request.
(Also, I am so very going to try your way of cooking a duck. That looks amazing, and I've never actually cooked a duck before.)
This is not true, but you couldn't have known that you were accidentally diving into a conversation with a probiotic obsessive. :) Truly fresh kombucha that has been fermented for 24+ hours (which is not necessarily true for something you get from the store that calls itself kombucha, and certainly not "kombucha tea" which is like "cheese product,") has trillions of CFU of both beneficial bacteria and yeasts. Your average store yogurt has only about 5 billion CFU per serving, and what's more, it is artificially seeded with only 2-4 species of bacteria and no yeast, compared to literally hundreds of species in the kombucha mother which have evolved together into a balanced colony.
I'll grant you that store-bought yogurt is as probiotically useful as store-bought "kombucha tea." But real, fermented yogurt and kombucha are both entirely different things, and exponentially more potent.
As a favor to everyone else here, I'll leave the rant about the many proven health benefits for another time. :)
ribeye steak with yellow onions and wild mushrooms sauteed in red wine with a side of tri-color quinoa (really. brown, less brown and more brown. *snicker*)
Ground venison casserole.:yum:
Garlic Noodles and Shrimp. I have to cook a piece of Chicken breast for lunch the next two days, though. Not sure how I am going to cook it - probably just saute it or something
Beer and weed. Weed and beer.
I've had a salmony day today. For breakfast (as in first meal, actually eaten a little after lunchtime...) I had toast with smoked salmon pate and for tea (dinner) I had baked salmon with potatoes and peas.
Christmas dinner for one. First time in my life alone, think I did pretty good in not wallowing :)
Ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing (none of which I will be eating); scallops, small tuna steak for me. Plus a heaping side dish of family strife and rage, with possibly a police visit for dessert if things really get energetic.
Good for you bbro. Looks fantastic. I had some overdone ham & pineapple stuffing on Christmas day. It was marginal, at best. AND I had to drive so I couldn't really drink either.
Sorry if I upset anyone with my last bit of babbling, folks. Happy new year to everyone.
New Year's dinner today was in the style of the old country: sauerkraut with sausages (kielbasa and hot dogs), mashed potatos, potato-onion pierogies, and pickles.
I had a good time new year's eve, as well: after the ball dropped, I appeared out of nowhere with a bottle of whiskey, took a healthy belt, and recited auld lang syne in the proper dialect. The Californians asked me if I could turn on my subtitles. :D
No way, it takes a lot more than that to upsets these hardened troops. :haha:
Thanks classic - the gravy was way too salty, but I think I did really well on the roast.
Today will be chicken thighs and cauliflower covered in cheese or turkey soup depending on the thawing situation
Finally made the Hanoi chicken and Cauliflower cheese for a side.
Can't fool me, I know Cauliflower is Broccoli in sheep's clothing.
Can't fool me, I know Cauliflower is Broccoli in sheep's clothing.
DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT CAULIFLOWER THAT WAY!! Broccoli is the third backwoods cousin with no teeth of the wonderful cauliflower!!
OMG, bbro's been seized by the evil cauliflower creepy crawly borgs. :borg:
Ribs for dinner.
I may just have a giant batch of steamed broccoli too.
I lost my toothless, backwoods, third cousin on 9/11, you insensitive bastards!
I've got a couple of them you can have... free. :facepalm:
LOL
You guys crack me up :)
I am having Baked "Fried" chicken and CAULIFLOWER! :worried:
not tonight, but recently.
I found a recipe for smashed potatoes. so f*cking good. find these potatoes, boil them in heavily salted water. you want them very salty on the outside, a crust of salty residue upon removing them from the boiling water is just right (don't rinse them!). then transfer to a roasting pan. I only have this one very deep roaster, ymmv on cooking times. then smash them. I use a pint glass as you can see. break them down like so, intact, but smashed. then I drizzle olive oil on them, sprinkle them with fresh rosemary leaves (more is better. I harvested these from my little planter on the front steps). turn them over (the potatoes, not the rosemary leaves) so both sides get some oil and then salt them again. I have this smoked salt from the salish sea (the local name for the puget sound, oh so so, ever so, but the smell is intoxicating. ask sheldon, he got a batch for SS.) then roast them until they're crispy. in my oven, that means about 40 minutes at 450 in convection mode. halfway through, take them out and turn all of the potatoes over so the other side can crisp up. seriously, your mileage will vary. I've made this recipe a couple times. you might need a couple tries to satisfy your hunger. enjoy!
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They look great. :yum: I think I'd call them Road-Kill Taters.
Keryx has made them and they are very good.
I shall have Italian drunken noodles or a burger.....I haven't decided yet. Depends on how hungry I am after I get home from the gym......if I go to the gym
Dinner was mainly leftovers.
Leftover chicken strips sliced up with leftover sweet and spicy peanut sauce in lettuce wraps, with delicious roasted cauliflower and steamed asparagus.
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The complimentary hot "nibbles" and salad at the hotel :)
Nibbles being baked potatoes, chicken tenders, hot dogs... didn't even try the mac n cheese.
had some salad to ward off the cholesterol ;)
Chicken and Fries (home made of course).
Do you fry raw potato, or partially cook it first?
Neither. I bake them in the oven. It's not exactly the same, but I enjoy them and I can have a lot more for less calories :)
No problem. If you want more details, I can provide
No problem. If you want more details, I can provide
Yes. Please
Yes. Please
Preheat oven to 425-450 degrees
Cover baking pan with parchment
Peel and cut russet potatoes into strips
Toss in olive oil and desired seasoning
Put on one layer and put in preheated oven
Bake until desired crispyness
Notes:
- I usually do 425, but some recipes say 450
- Parchment paper is for anti-sticking and easy clean up
- My fries end up more like steak fries than shoestring
- Not much olive oil is needed. I use maybe a tsp. I find this makes a huge difference, though.
- I do spicy seasoning if I want bacon cheese fries (or an excuse to eat ranch) or garlic and salt for normal fries
- This usually takes me about 40-45 minutes. I usually start out by checking at 20-15 minutes and going by sight.
- You can turn halfway through to get even browning, but I am too lazy :D
Hope that helps :) And that you like them!!
Mmm :yum: sounds interesting, have to try them next week.
Made THE WORST meatloaf evah!
How the fuck do you mess up meatloaf? Dunno, but we managed.
Here are some shots for you. I made these this weekend. They were cut thinner than I usually go. They were cooked at 450 for 20 mins. It would have been more even if I had flipped halfway through
Meatball Parmesan with some crusty bread :drool:
Scratch that - it was pizza. Pizza with a friend, so it was an awesome replacement :)
ha ha!!
that Egg one is hilarious! I LOLed.
Last night, I had (top to bottom)
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Spinach salad (a pound of spinach rinsed, rough chopped, stems and all), croutons and romano parmesan caesar dressing and a sprinkling of parmesan cheese
steamed broccoli with a little butter and salt and pepper
NY strip steak and salt and pepper
gin and tonic with 1/4 lime
so goddamn delicious. the "plating" is completely absent but the food was sizzling hot from the skillet and steamer. so. damn. good.
I didn't actually finish all of the salad, about a pint of it went into the fridge and I had it for breakfast. likewise the broccoli (I'd steamed four good sized crowns, like softball sized) and about a pint of broccoli went into the fridge overnight and back out for breakfast along with a minute piece of the steak.
man, that was a good dinner.
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tonight is yellow curry with potatoes, broccoli, chicken, water chestnuts, mushrooms, and bamboo shoots over a rice medley. not very picturesque, but goddamn delicious. And another gin and tonic. I'm so hungry after work, it's really my only meal besides some protein for breakfast and coffee all day. And today I also had a Fanta Orange, super thirsty, then two bottles of water from the same bottle after the Fanta was gone.
Last night I made a big salad, and my wife made the main dish. A new dish, that was surprisingly yummy. Roasted cauliflower and cheese stuffed quesadillas. Usually, our quesadillas will be stiffed with chicken and cheese or even beans and cheese, but roasted cauliflower is yummy in there.
snigger. he said stiffed.
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Roasted cauliflower is great for stiffing. Leaves you feeling ready for anything. ;)
I love stiffing cauliflower, it makes me feel good.
OMG you guys, now he's snorting the cauli. It's time for an intervention.
Glatt, your friends are all here today because they love you, and they want you to get help. Gravdigr has written a letter he'd like to share. Grav?
Miss, Grav went to the bathroom so I'mma give his letter to Beyoncé. No wait, I'mma share his letter with Glatt
P.
Dear glatt,
As others have said, this comes from a place of love, from inside my heart. You are a wonderful person and moderator. We wouldn't be where we are today if it weren't for you.
But your cauliflower addiction is running your life. You can't have a meal, not even a snack, without the crutch you call "my sweet cauly" or "daddy's little meal helper." It was funny at first, but you don't realize how much you are hurting yourself and others with your constant focus on cauliflower.
We will support you if you choose to get help. However, if you choose to keep going down this road, we can no longer, I can no longer, be there when it all falls apart.
Yes, it was amusing at first. A little cauliflower, a little giggle. But then you started steaming it. Then you started roasting it. You know the only way this can end, if you do not get the help you need right now. Soon, you will be consuming cauliflower pies and cauliflower cookies. You have already started trying to conceal cauliflower by stiffing it into quesadillas. If it's so harmless, as you say, why do you feel the need to hide it?
"daddy's little meal helper"
Holy shit I can't stop laughing. I love you, infi.
Yesterday I slow roasted a shoulder of pork then shredded it and fried it up with beans and chilli etc. I also cooked saffron rice with black beans. Guacamole etc.
We had burritos.
The kids were happy.
Tonight we had the same. I made a lot.
I am making some chicken fajita type stuff tonight. I don't have tortillas, so I don't want to call them actual chicken fajitas!
Long time reader, first time poster.
Tonight we are dining on hamburger/sausage burgers with all the trimmings (onion, tomato, lettuce), and bushes baked beans. Oh, the bushes with maple.
1LB of extra lean ground beef
1LB of jimmy dean regular sausage
2 tbl spoons of worcestershire sause
1/3 of teaspoon of ground black pepper
1/2 cup of ground parmesan cheese
6 patties. seared and browned on a cast iron skillet, then put into the oven on the skillet at 400 degrees for about 3-4 minutes...which ever seems best.
Yum! Yum!
~ I may have to give that a try ~
Correction, 6 minutes to cook the sausage portion.
Pics or it didn't happen right?
pancakes/crepes!
and for supper and for breakfast and all day tomorrow. I made buttloads so we wouldn't miss out on Pancake Day!
Preheat oven to 425-450 degrees
Cover baking pan with parchment
Peel and cut russet potatoes into strips
Toss in olive oil and desired seasoning
Put on one layer and put in preheated oven
Bake until desired crispyness
Notes:
- I usually do 425, but some recipes say 450
- Parchment paper is for anti-sticking and easy clean up
- My fries end up more like steak fries than shoestring
- Not much olive oil is needed. I use maybe a tsp. I find this makes a huge difference, though.
- I do spicy seasoning if I want bacon cheese fries (or an excuse to eat ranch) or garlic and salt for normal fries
- This usually takes me about 40-45 minutes. I usually start out by checking at 20-15 minutes and going by sight.
- You can turn halfway through to get even browning, but I am too lazy :D
Hope that helps :) And that you like them!!
Did these last week. Like them a lot. :thumb:
Did these last week. Like them a lot. :thumb:
Sweet :D
Last night I had sweet potato and asparagus with homemade sweet and smoky bacon sauce. Imma have it again tonight :)
For the sweet and smoky bacon sauce:
Cubed bacon pieces fried in plenty of butter; add a teaspoon of plain flour to soak up the butter, then a glug of milk and half a teaspoon of honey, stirring continuously.
Man, I am really digging this thread. That sounds great bbro and Dana!
Now *THAT'S* Entertainment!
Dear glatt,
As others have said, this comes from a place of love, from inside my heart. You are a wonderful person and moderator. We wouldn't be where we are today if it weren't for you.
But your cauliflower addiction is running your life. You can't have a meal, not even a snack, without the crutch you call "my sweet cauly" or "daddy's little meal helper." It was funny at first, but you don't realize how much you are hurting yourself and others with your constant focus on cauliflower.
We will support you if you choose to get help. However, if you choose to keep going down this road, we can no longer, I can no longer, be there when it all falls apart.
Yes, it was amusing at first. A little cauliflower, a little giggle. But then you started steaming it. Then you started roasting it. You know the only way this can end, if you do not get the help you need right now. Soon, you will be consuming cauliflower pies and cauliflower cookies. You have already started trying to conceal cauliflower by stiffing it into quesadillas. If it's so harmless, as you say, why do you feel the need to hide it?
Cheesy eggplant parm. Lots of trouble for a one man band. Was OK. Proly not again.
So it kept you out of trouble for much of the afternoon and tasted ok. That's a win, buster. :thumb:
@regular.joe - I love onion buns!!!
Tonight is something with hot sausage (that's what she said). I bought it for lasagna soup, but I might just saute one with peppers and onions, mix with sauce, and serve with pasta
Broccoli Cheddar Quinoa Bites
I am marinating some pork tenderloin to be cooked tonight and served with isreali couscous and roasted asparagus
Leftovers from last night with potatoes instead of couscous
Crackers, potted meat, vienna sausage. ROLAIDS.
Just finished a few of Mom's meatballs with her homemade sauce. Ugghhh. Ate way too much too fast. Damn that is good though.
Man, meatballs sound good. I might bastardize your dinner and have a meatball sub from Subway.
What? I came here for inspiration.
Crackers, potted meat, vienna sausage. ROLAIDS.
They've either changed potted meat, or my tastes have changed. I find it
very salty, nowadays. I used to eat it occasionally. Potted meat and saltines would be waaay too much salt for me. Might try some with unsalted crackers.
Heav you tried the bourbon BBQ Viena Sausages?
Is teh yum.:yum:
GD, I find if I stay away from saltier foods for a bit, when I do eat them again, I'm like, "WTF is this shit?!" Same with sweets.
Salmon--lemon, capers, fresh dill, sweet red onions sliced thinly, a little butter, salt and pepper. Wrap tightly in foil, about 25 minutes at 350. Monitor it, don't overcook it.
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Asparagus--steamed, drizzled with olive oil, sprinkled with parmesan and garlic. Blasted under broiler for a few minutes to give some color to the topmost.
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There was wine, gin and tonics, hard cider, etc. And water. I'm not a complete sybarite.
...sybarite.
:bitching:Stop making me learn stuff!:bitching:
I am totally a sybarite.
2 Sautéed chicken strips, 3 steamed new taters in bag, with a dash of my Tony's and old bay. Leftover butter peas.
Looks like "no" is out of your vocabulary tonight.
Beef stir fry with baby bell peppers, red onion, and broccoli. Came out fantastic.
Looks like "no" is out of your vocabulary tonight.
Heh. The majority of ours last night said something about being the beer with which to pre-game the pre-game.
Last night, for tea, I had: a tin of Sainsburys Basics range baked beans (25p) with 2 slices of buttered wholemeal bread (55p per loaf).
Cheap and not particularly rounded, but I enjoyed it.
Were those free-range baked beans?
Well, of course they weren't...says right up there they cost 25p.
Late lunch/early dinner: boneless wings with medium buffalo sauce, miller lite, and a side of Countdown trivia...at B-dubs. I earned it this week. :)
Same as it is every day there's a lot of swimming involved (i.e. most days) ...Mac n Cheese with tuna in it. today, I switched it up by using pasta shells instead of elbow mac to give it a more seafood theme..... Mind you, that was just dinner #2. If a dinner #3 is required, someone else will be nominated as chef. (Dinner #1 was the bowls of cereal they had while waiting for the pasta to cook.
I'm fairly sure no vegetables have passed their lips though Maybe a fruit each. WTG bad momma. Lone parenting this weekend, fuck that balanced diet shit, get the carbs and protein in them before they eat each other and consider it a victory
get the carbs and protein in them before they eat each other and consider it a victory
I laughed so hard at that.
Sautéed Tilapia w/ green mustard on side, FFs and fried okra.
Fish. That sounds good. I gots cats, crappies, and black perch:drool: in the freezer.
I'd go for the perch, but, I'm not sure I have enough for a mess...Might wait til the 'rents are out.
Grilled cheese with ham night.
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Fake Chipotle Bowl with cilantro lime rice, corn salsa, chicken, cooked peppers and onions, and romaine lettuce.
I learned that cilantro needs to be chopped REALLY small. My bad..
Fake Chipotle Chicken bowl. Forgot the damn Corn Salsa (New camera pic :p: )
What is a fake chipotle? Never heard of such.
What is a fake chipotle? Never heard of such.
A restaurant called Chipotle - their chicken bowl made at home instead of buying it.
I see,said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.
top sirloin steak, baked potatoes with butter, sour cream, chives and sharp cheddar. and about four PBRs.
good night now.
I had a ham and cheese panini on jalapeno cheddar garlic bread with an apple.
Bell peppers stuffed with a mixture of chorizo pork, onions, and cilantro, plus pineapple on the side.
Gonna do chicken sauteed in garlic/onions > small dice >jalapeno jack, black beans, some chili sauce all wrapped up in a small corn taco then fried. Like a flauta or taquito if you must.
Taco tuesday! Taco salad for me.
B-less pork chop Sautéed in cnut oil. Kimchi with a dab of miso.
Damn Buster, don't let those rednecks find out you're a closet gourmet. ;)
Bush's baby butter beans. Tuna w/sriracha and Steen's syrup. Sweet chili sauce was over the hill. Baked swt. tater mashed w/cnut oil, cinnamon, and Splenda.
Turkey, asparagus, boiled red potatoes, and gravy
B-less pork chop Sautéed in cnut oil. Kimchi with a dab of miso.
Bush's baby butter beans. Tuna w/sriracha and Steen's syrup. Sweet chili sauce was over the hill. Baked swt. tater mashed w/cnut oil, cinnamon, and Splenda.
I don't think I need to say what I keep reading that as...:)
I mean, I know what he means...but, this is
me we're talking about.;)
I haven't decided yet. Either I am going to take the time to make meatballs and have meatball parm or I am going to be lazy and have meat sauce over pasta.
I haven't decided yet. Either I am going to take the time to make meatballs and have meatball parm or I am going to be lazy and have meat sauce over pasta.
I had bojangles yesterday. Today, I will have chicken seasoned with shallot pepper, roasted asparagus, and rice.
Mater samich and a boiled egg
I had bojangles yesterday.
Bojangles as in the restaurant, or something you made called that?
Mater samich and a boiled egg
About the end of the maters isn't it, or a longer season down there?
They're talking about frost up here.
Bojangles as in the restaurant, or something you made called that?
......
Sorry, I forget that not everyone the pleasure of having bojangles by them (
http://www.bojangles.com/locations ). It's a fast food fried chicken place with awesome chicken and biscuits. And the boberry biscuits :drool: All day breakfast biscuits. Ok, I'm hungry now....
I knew from working in places like Charlotte, and beyond.
Mexico has a very long season. :bolt:
About the end of the maters isn't it, or a longer season down there?
They're talking about frost up here.
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This was yesterday ... As some of you know, I have been mushrooming for about 40 years. I have NEVER seen two totally different species grow next to each other like this. One is the Hen of the Woods and the other is a Honey mushroom. I left the honeys behind to repopulate - they were very small. The hen became dinner. I tried a new style of cooking the hen and I am really happy with it. The inspiration came from the 2014 Cellar Santa book from Clodfobble. Thanks again!!!!! :)
I am drooling at that steak. I might have to use the last of my budget to buy one, now. Is there a sauce on it?
Oh my gosh Classic, I think I dribbled on the library keyboard...
I can't wait for tonight. I'm having fries topped with chicken, feta, banana peppers, onions, and garlic aoli. MMMmmmmmm
Is there a sauce on it?
I've been grilling them on :angry:
HIGH :angry: with a special marinade/spice mix and then as I flip them on the grill I gently drizzle and massage some melted butter on them and close the grill. They finish both smokey and sweet ...
I flip them on the grill I gently drizzle and massage some melted butter on them and close the grill
That's pornographic. :eek:
Food Porn baby. Thats where its at!
Damn, Classic...:yum:...Makes me wish I did more than just the morels.
Steak looks like it has just the right amount of char.
Food porn, indeed!
So, was it as good as it looks? I doubt if it could be...:)
I'm also curious as to the flavor of the Hen o' the Woods. How did you cook them, btw?
1) That steak was THE BOMB!
2) I tried a new recipe inspired from a book which SS2014 got me.
Basically - I put the butter Olive oil salt & pepper into a medium saute pan.
Set the heat on 6 and waited for pan to reach the right temp, then added chopped garlic and let it all swirl around the pan and let the garlic release its flavor. Another 30-45 second of rotation so the spices could all blend thoroughly and harmoniously. Then I added the UNWASHED fresh from the field mushrooms. Swirled them around to spread the goodness evenly then popped a lid on that bad boy for 4 minutes. Remixed them in the pan and popped the lid on for another 4 minutes and served IMMEDIATELY!
I got a little luck with the perfect timing with the steak as I did that for 12 minutes 4/flip baste 4/flip baste 4 baste & serve as it was kinda thick. I started the mushrooms after the first flip of the steak. Even the beer tasted better. Definitely one of the best meals I've cooked.
Glad to hear it was such a success!!
About the end of the maters isn't it, or a longer season down there?
Popdigr is still getting maters.
1) That steak was THE BOMB!
2) I tried a new recipe inspired from a book which SS2014 got me.
Basically - I put the butter Olive oil salt & pepper into a medium saute pan.
Set the heat on 6 and waited for pan to reach the right temp, then added chopped garlic and let it all swirl around the pan and let the garlic release its flavor. Another 30-45 second of rotation so the spices could all blend thoroughly and harmoniously. Then I added the UNWASHED fresh from the field mushrooms. Swirled them around to spread the goodness evenly then popped a lid on that bad boy for 4 minutes. Remixed them in the pan and popped the lid on for another 4 minutes and served IMMEDIATELY!
I got a little luck with the perfect timing with the steak as I did that for 12 minutes 4/flip baste 4/flip baste 4 baste & serve as it was kinda thick. I started the mushrooms after the first flip of the steak. Even the beer tasted better. Definitely one of the best meals I've cooked.
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Baked clams:
Fillet steak, bleu:
And crème brulée:
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Sweet elegance! Wonderful!
Damn, Limey, you'll need some lonnnnng walks after that. :yum:
Chicken, spicy cauliflower stir fry, and pearl couscous. This will also be lunch for the rest of the week
Last night I had Cream of Wheat and toast for dinner :D (It doesnt matter to me what time it is,I have whatever WHENEVER)
Oh my giddy aunt - that creme brulee. Creme brulee is one of my favourite desserts and that looks awesome.
Today, I figured I'd stop being a lazy cow and make actual spaghetti bolognese* instead of opening a tin of Tesco's Everyday Value 20p per tin spaghetti bolognese.
I was still a bit lazy - I used a jar of bolognese sauce - but fuck it, I chopped an onion and browned the mince, so that has to count for something.
It was very tasty. I went for a heavy pasta to sauce ratio, so there's still two-thirds of a pan of sauce left for tomorrow and the day after.
* or, what passes for it in my neck of the woods - I daresay it would make an Italian weep.
OK, so you all know that I forage and harvest wild mushrooms. I RIGIDLY stick to a few varieties of which I am 100% certain.
Well, last weekend my brother told me about a spot he knew of a decades ago before he moved away.
So, on Sunday I went there only to find a shitload of them! Of course I went and picked a few (dozen) of the
Chicken Fat Suillius.
I have never seen nor would I have picked them were I to see them alone, but I did.
Last night, my father and fried them up in an egg batter and
Kentucky Colonel fry mix. OMFG ... They were absolutely awesome!
Of course I have no pics of the meal (wine was involved), but here they are with the rest of the haul from the weekend.
The bags on the left are the (Grifola frondosa) AKA Maitake, Hen of the Woods, Rams Head, Sheep's Head, Cloud Mushroom, Dancing Mushroom.
My brother and his friends regularly pick mushrooms in the valley - but not that kind of mushroom...
I especially like that kind of mushroom Dana.
Tonight I had Pizza :) (Thick -- Pepperoni)
I'm making French Onion Skillet Chicken. I think I am doubling the chicken (if I can fit it in the skillet). If not, I am baking some chicken, too. Extra protein is always good, right?
Conflict of interest, protein for strength and stamina in the bedroom, but onion breath. :haha:
Conflict of interest, protein for strength and stamina in the bedroom, but onion breath. :haha:
But if both parties have onion breath, you can't really tell :cool:
But if both parties have onion breath, you can't really tell :cool:
Your right, also if your mouth is on a part without a nose.;)
Tuna with a dash of Sriracha, sweet chili sauce. Cole slaw with pumpkin seeds. Maybe good for you crackers made from bird seed.
Extra protein is always good, right?
Steady on there!
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Black bean turkey chili. Dude. I make good fucken chili.
Gah, that looks just awful. And delicious.
:yum:
does look good.
also looks like it's headed to the floor.
We had a nice steak and mashed potato. :)
Mmmm, thats looks really good Jim. I miss GOOD chili.
I may have to try and make some. I'll need to get a crock pot first.
I will probably have Clear Value Mac and Cheese :) (mmmmmmmmmmmmmm)
Fish and chips down at the Club...
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Taco salad followed by restraining myself from eating the bowl of taco meat by scooping it out chip by chip
Bbro has flung a craving on me. Dinner will be taco salad and a pitcher (or two;)) at the Mexican joint.
Bbro has flung a craving on me. Dinner will be taco salad and a pitcher (or two;)) at the Mexican joint.
Glad to be of influence :evil2:
PIZZA!
Well, actually it won't be. But I am craving it and wish it was.
Have just started some medication to deal with a constant stomachache caused by excess stomach acid. Caused mostly by poor diet/ not eating :mecry:
I eat vicariously via these threads.
Tomorrow will be steak, salad, and asparagus. Or possibly steak, rice pilaf, and asparagus. Definitely it will be steak and asparagus at the least
A 2-inch thick bacon-wrapped pork chop (yeah, that's pig-wrapped pig, wanna fight about it?:eyebrow:), Spanish rice, and a breadstick w/iced tea.
Today, I had a very early dinner. I had the other of those two holy-crap-look-how-thick-those-pork-chops-are pork chops, with field peas & snaps, washed down with decaf Pepsi.
My backbone was rubbing a blister on my bellybutton, I was so hungry.
Decaf? You'll be pinging on the hills. :eyebrow:
I am having taco salad because I was lazy after my workout. I may gnaw on some leftover steak later.
I am having taco salad because I was lazy after my workout. I may gnaw on some leftover steak later.
That was supposed to be taco DIP. I had taco dip last night.
Tonight, I had non-crappy tilapia that
I cooked! I'm so excited it tastes good.
I had 3 pretzels and 2 fun sized bags of peanut m&ms. Weird day.
Pork rinds, some kind of red-pepper-and-artichoke bruschetta thing, and goat cheese. Oh, plus like two remaining bites of my son's dinner (almond flour waffle, cashew butter and strawberry jelly) after he got full.
I'm going to try my hand at buttermilk fried chicken tonight. I've had the chicken marinating since 10:30 AM in buttermilk with cayenne, black pepper, garlic powder and paprika. I'll dredge the pieces in a mixture of flour, black pepper, onion powder, cayenne and garlic salt. Fry in peanut oil at 350°, and serve with mini yellow potatoes broccoli and wheat rolls.
I crushed the chocolate chip pancakes this morning, so I'm feeling confident. My kids will enjoy it, I think.
Chef Bois de Charpente Jacques . :thumb:
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I left the salt out of the recipe, and you can tell. Not the best fried chicken. Looks good. Needs salt.
Fried chicken looks real, when the chicken has a crust as tight and uniform as the shell of an M&M I get suspicious, what are they hiding.
I tossed a pack of tenderloins into the buttermilk marinade when I took the drumsticks out to fry them. Added some salt and garlic to the flour mixture.... Much better. I'll get this down.
That looks great lumberjim! I haven't tried bone on fried chicken. I like my boneless chicken better.
Last night I had very successful tortellini and sausage soup from a thekitchn recipe
Tonight is going to have to be Chicken Salad. I have 6 heads of Romaine to use up before next Tuesday or they will surely melt while I am out of town. Hmm.....maybe I'll make fried chicken salad....
Christmas Eve at
Sophie's Steakhouse in Covent Garden.
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Lovely dishes. All four of them!
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Dad - Classic burger
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She couldn't eat it all as it got too bloody (chemo, not personal taste)
They gave her a discount as she explained when ordering why it really did have to be well done
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I did eat chips (fries) and salad too, just not from that bowl
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Bacon, bacon, bacon pizza with extra bacon
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Left over black eyed peas and a chick strip.
Greek flank steak (lemon, oregano, and garlic,) stuffed tomatoes, dates, plus my kickass French onion soup that takes two days to make.
I just chucked a 2 pound roast in the crock pot (seasoned with Montreal rub and browned at ultra-high heat in iron skillet first), threw in 4 smoked cajun sausage links (made from scratch by neighborhood butcher shop), poured 3/4 pint of draught Guinness on top and all around, set it for 9 agonizingly long hours.
Simple. Easy. Brutally delicious.
Bacon, bacon, bacon pizza with extra bacon
You magnificent bastard.
You guys are making me hawngree...
Prime Rib, roasted potatoes, and spinach salad. With MIL, and SIL.
new taters, steamed w/old bay, tony's. 10 year old cheese and smoked salmon. Pop w/foam on top. Forgot the great crackers from cheesehead land.
...I'll be posting the same in the breakfast thread tomorrow ;)
Of course, who wouldn't? Warmed, room temp, or cold?
I made a bunch of food to be rotated between lunch and dinner:
- Beef rolls with gouda and spinach
- Chicken rolls with prosciutto and havarti
- Cous cous from a box
- Spaetzle from a recipe
Veggies will be corn on the cob and cauliflower.
Really looking forward to this week's food!
I bought an electric fryer. Tfal. It automatically filters and stores the oil after you finish. I've been trying to replicate that crispy fried chicken texture, but with pan frying, it's always too soft. The fryer made the difference
That does it, when the revolution comes you're the cook. :yesnod:
Those are probably the least photogenic pieces too. We ate the pretty ones first. The drumsticks were perfect.
Don't blame you, I try to eat the pretty ones first. :yesnod:
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I'm gonna try beer batter next. I have some breasts thawing.
Victory is mine
Well lj, when are you going to give the sweet tea and buttermilk soak a try???
I made wings and coleslaw last weekend for dinners. There is also leftover spatzle to tame the heat.
I am doing so much cooking this upcoming weekend. I can't decide which thread to post in!! We need a generic thread - lol
No problem, post it, and they will cum. ;)
My too damn big chicken pot pie. With crescent roll topping.
Making hand cut French fries
Soak them in ice water, heat the oil to 320°
Fry one time for 10-11 min
Rest for 30 min until room temp
Heat the oil to 375° Fry a second time for 4-6 minutes
Also made perfect spicy chicken breasts and beer battered onion rings
Great on a snowy lazy day
Aaaauuugggghhhhlllll/homer
Three cheese macaroni and cheese, spicy wings (made possible by freezing leftovers before they went bad, and cauliflower
Rainbow Trout, swim hard
Prepare for life's sudden turns
Now you are yummy
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a serious craving for veal parm. It's so funny these human bodies we walk around in!
But it will be breaded chicken tonight. Maybe I can get some tomato sauce somewhere
Spicy black bean soup. A few garlic-stuffed green Mount Athos olives. Heaven.
Fried fish, mac and cheese, and veggie dip.
Making Beef Stew right now, but it's for Sunday's dinner. Had a roast beef sandwich tonight
Oh my. It's fucken good. Will be even better on Sunday after reheating in the crock pot for a couple hours. I got bread bowls to serve it in, too.
I'd post a picture, but it looks gross.... Like beef Stew.
Fried chicken tenders and mac and cheese.
Funny story. I went to the bar on Saturday. Ordered food. And left. I forgot to pay my tab AND forgot my food. I go in today to pay and...THEY SAVED MY FOOD! Who does that?? I was so excited :D
Round of applause to LJ - that looks so fine I'd actually move to America for it.
(Had chowder that way in the States. Didn't eat again for 36 hours)
bbro - please tell me there was alcohol involved? I'd hate to think you were going the same way as my Dad. Saying that, I actually lost the toilet paper in my flat last night, so I'm not one to talk.
I lost my phone charger in my one-up-one-down house. Then found it - still plugged in to the socket behind the telly.
Yesterday,for dinner, I had the second half of a back-of-the-cupboard broth. I'd made it the day before - and it is always nicest second day.
Back-of-the-cupboard broth consisted of:
1 x distressed onion
2 x betentacled potatoes
2 x weary-looking carrots
6 exhausted runner beans
100 grams or so from the big bag of free-flo frozen mince
salt, pepper, dry mixed herbs and a beef stock cube
pint of water
teaspoon of raspberry jam.
For such an uninspiring list of ingredients, it made for a couple of very tasty meals. With buttered wholemeal bread and a spoon of pickled red cabbage.
It's one of my favourite meals actually. I like it because, aside from being delicious, it uses up odds and sods of veg that would otherwise get chucked out. So it feels almost like eating for free, and also makes me feel good about not wasting food - which I am getting better at but still not good enough. On those occasions when I buy a big bag of carrots or potatoes because they're on special offer, I usually end up chucking the last quarter of the bag. Same with most perishable foods - if I buy a lot of it, I eat my way through so much of it then have to throw the last bit. Hence I felt slightly triumphant that my last purchase of veg was almost entirely consumed, all but about five mushrooms anyway.
bbro - please tell me there was alcohol involved? I'd hate to think you were going the same way as my Dad. Saying that, I actually lost the toilet paper in my flat last night, so I'm not one to talk.
I lose things all the time, so it's nothing new, but in this instance, yes, there was a large amount of whiskey involved
I am so stoked. I just cooked some of my 3 week dry aged venison. OMG. It is so tender it cuts like butter. My tastebuds are touching themselves.
2 x betentacled potatoes
I am so in love with you right now.
I lose things all the time, so it's nothing new, but in this instance, yes, there was a large amount of whiskey involved
A wise sage once told me there are three things you will never find in this life; The perfect dry martini, a hooker that does it with real feeling, and your lost innocence.
Old food, however, is readily at hand.
Pinto beans, pork chop and well browned corn bread.
Last time I'm saying it. Veggie - two weeks. Tonight, I'm making either falafel (going to try to bake it, maybe) or ravioli gnudi. I think it will depend on how much effort I feel like making.
Bbro, I always used to bake my falafel. A tiny dab of butter on the top before cooking and you get the crisp outside and flavour, with none of the greasiness.
So. This is part of my hospital experience, so feel free to ignore.
Once I'd got past the incompetence (another thread, another time - left without food for over 30 hours despite being diagnosed with malnutrition) I had yummy yum yums for five days.
Delivered to me, no washing up, good times. They wanted to keep me in over the weekend, and usually I'd have been SO up for that, but I wanted to spend Mother's Day with my Mum, and my coach was booked for Saturday morning.
Anyway.
First meal was very poor. I'm (apparently) not supposed to eat processed meat. Sausages, bacon, HAM. What was left after they realised I was actually on the ward, two hours after lunch, four hours after I was transferred? Ham salad or ham salad sandwich.
This was my tea though. I had to have what was leftover, as I wasn't on the ward when the meal request sheets were completed. Lasagne. Looks like a mess, but I was that hungry I nommed it down. 30 hours with no food means you don't even question why lasagne has carrots in it. And blueberry tart with custard.
I was told to eat everything, as well as having high carb, high fibre shakes three times a day. So I did.
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My starter the next day. Minestrone. Lunch starters always included soup, and yet evening (dinner) starters were always fruit juice. Odd.
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Jacket potato with beans & cheese. Sod Atkins - I'm supposed to eat carbs. I've never really stopped that aspect, but it was reiterated. My liver damamge is somehow a factor. Dunno - I don't need an excuse tbh.
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Steak and kidney pie. I ordered it with peas and carrots. They ran out of carrots. See above re I don't care. I love me some peas.
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Looks better than hospital food on this side of the pond.
Mushroom soup starter. Really very good.
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Cheese & ham omelette. Yes, I know what I said about ham, but it's not completely verboten, and in fact you'd have needed a magnifying glass to see it.
I had to have two "sides" because my intake was being monitored, but I really didn't fancy much. So I had baked beans - which I love - and a beetroot and onion salad because I like that too, even if it didn't match in my mind. Well, the next day I did a pink poo. My immediate thought was, "OMG, I'm bleeding from my anus!"
Then I realised that blood in stools is usually black (been there, done that last December). And then I remembered the beetroot. Tcha. Should've remembered the time Jamie Bone made me go back and finish my salad even though I said I was feeling ill. Pink vom all over the cloakroom...
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Salmon crumble with savoy cabbage and potatoes.
YUMMY!
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Eve Pudding, which even though I made it at school I still can't tell you what is in it. Some kind of apple sponge. I had dessert every day (see above about Big Brother watching me) but I enjoyed all my meals.
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Salmon crumble with savoy cabbage and potatoes.
YUMMY!
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Not familiar with savoy cabbage, but, it looks like broccoli.:greenface
Hope it tasted better.:o
Not familiar with savoy cabbage, but, it looks like broccoli.
Aha! Yes, you see, I was just checking to make sure you were paying attention!
(Okay, yes, I got my photos mixed up)
For some reason the system is not liking my attachments today.
I promise you some savoy cabbage when it's playing ball again.
Falafel, garlic sauce, baked fries.
Falafel, garlic sauce, baked fries.
Didja bake it?
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Didja bake it?
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Yes. Yes I did
A small house salad from the bar, and Bud Light by the bucket.:D
A small house salad from the bar, [who are you and what have you done with Gravdigr?] and Bud Light by the bucket.:D [oh wait - there he is]
Taco dip. Who wants to come assemble it for me?
Shrimp....prepared some way.....probably just sauteed or roasted. With spaetzle and salad.
Shrimp....prepared some way.....probably just sauteed or roasted. With spaetzle and salad.
Sadly, this all went bad before I could eat more than one serving of it (last second trip home).
Tonight, though. Tonight will be a Pittsburgh style steak salad sans cheese, sadly. So, steak and fries - lol
You really try it thawed, it's much more gooder. :yesnod:
It was this morning's breakfast, actually.
You're right, it's gooder when it's hot.
Vinnie has the right idea although not CC for me.
Fried shrimp with bang bang sauce and cantaloupe. The breakfast took most of my calories, so I can't have a normal side - lol
Boioed potatoes and mixed veg, with minced beef.
For once I managed to achieve a proper, rich, brown gravy with the mince. It was delicious!
Mince and gravy:
1 small onion, chopped fine
c. 75 grams minced beef
a sprinkle of garlic flakes
a splash of worcestershire sauce
a little pepper and salt
1/2 a beef stock cube
1/2 a chicken 'stockpot'
teaspoon of rasberry jam
teaspoon of instant porridge
1/2 pint of water
a little oil for cooking
Heat the oil in a pan, and add the onion - once it starts to sizzle, reduce the heat, cover and sweat the onion for about 5 minutes. Then turn up the heat and add the mince - as it starts to brown throw in the garlic granules, salt and pepper and the splash of worcestershire sauce.
Once the mince is browned, sprinkle the instant porridge ( in lieu of flour, which I don't have) and let it soak up the grease - stir it round and then let it catch the bottom of the pan a little. Add some boiled water and give it a good stir. Throw in the stock cube and stock pot along with the spoon of jam, bring to the boil and then reduce heat and let it simmer, stirring regularly, uncovered to reduce the liquid and thicken.
Serve over potatoes and veg.
Brilliant, Dana!
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M-W-F - English Muffin Pepperoni Pizzas
T-H - Greek fries. I hope my mouth is un-numbed by dinner time after getting some cavities filled on Tuesday.
I needed to use up some food that was in danger of being wasted - the last two potatoes, which had grown legs and were about ready to walk off on their own, and the last, rather lonely looking rasher of bacon.
So, I cubed the potato and boiled til soft then allowed to cool, and whilst they were cooling, I heated some oil and a little butter in the frying pan, threw in a handful of frozen chopped onions and frozen chopped peppers (mixed colours), and the rasher of bacon chopped into little pieces. Once that was browning nicely, I added a couple of cloves of crushed garlic, and a little salt and pepper, then added the potato, stirred round til golden.
Delish!
Chicken, cauliflower, cucumber pasta salad
I had chicken and squirrely pasta unadulterated with the veggies.
bbro, did that meal taste as good as it looks??
i have a pan of chilli bubbling away (to be served with potato and sweet potato mash) so my house smells awesome right now.
bbro, did that meal taste as good as it looks??
....
Yep! The only problem was the pasta. I was lazy and didn't peel the cucumber and it was the most foul tasting skin ever. I just take out the cucumber when I eat it.
omg that chilli was damn near perfect!
omg that chilli was damn near perfect!
I don't eat chili enough. I don't like beans, but now I want chili. Off to peruse the interwebs
didn't peel the cucumber
:greenface
OMG, I think cuke skin has evolved to nauseate, if not kill, predators.
Simple dinner tonight - Chicken and asparagus
Tonight is steak and potatoes. Tomorrow is zucchini boats with sausage sauce and cheese
Boats!, At last a use for zucchini besides leaving on the neighbors doorstep after you ring the doorbell and run. :haha:
Alcohol.
Copious amounts of alcohol.
Last night I made a toned down version of Beef Wellington. The market had a special last week on beef tenderloin and we had bought a piece that I cut into 3 sections and grilled over charcoal as steaks. The 2 smaller sections we ate but the tail section was bigger so we put it in the fridge. It was quite rare and I had a pie crust left from a pie project and thought I might make something. Yes, the recipe calls for puff pastry but you go with what you have as Rummy said.
Not wanting to go to the time and trouble to make the classic mushroom duxelles I just sliced and browned some mushrooms in a bit of butter and covered the beef with them, wrapped it in some thin sliced prosciutto ham to hold everything in place and then wrapped in the pie crust, sealed it and brushed with an egg wash. Made a decoration with left over pastry crust and baked in an oven at 350 for about 30 minutes until brown.
Tasted great. Had to take a picture!
Damn, that looks delicious.
:yum:
I would bight the bujeezus out of that.
I know you can cook, Chris, but you have excelled yourself there.
Beef Wellington should be that colour.
Even I'd be tempted to have a mouthful.
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But that dinner would make me very happy, quasi-vegetarian that I am.
Ichiban buffet. I can't breathe
I wanted this for lunch, but had to go buy the parts, and Bob the Builder was at the house so I couldn't leave. Fresh grilled turkey breast with sage and rosemary, leaf lettuce, ripe tomato, smoked gouda on soft 21 grain wheat bread.
I forgot all about miracle whip. I love miracle whip.
Bread tastes like shit to me lately. Different kinds. Different brands. It's all pretty bad. I guess I don't like bread now.
:mad:
Does real bread from the bakery also taste bad?
Zucchini bread tastes weird.
Rolls from the bar taste weird.
All the same kind of weird/bad/not-as-good-as-it-used-to-be, too. I'm pretty sure something about me has caused my taste to have changed.
Haven't tried fresh-baked bread.
Tonight, I think I'll make fried catfish, corn fritters and tomatoes&okra
Man, catfish sounds good...I got some, too.:yum:
Tonight is a turkey, bacon, and cheese sandwich. Served with either a salad or baked fries
I had fish and chips on the boat and it was, quite unintentionally served up to me like this ....
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That's adorable. Even though I hate fish, PMS has me craving fried stuff and that plate looks darn tasty.
I wonder if it was really unintentional. :rolleyes:
so xoB, you're saying, there's something.... fishy going on?
Maybe a cook or server with a sense of humor... or gets to eat what the customer rejects. ;)
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Organic Thai Sticky Purple Rice
Pan Fried lemon garlic oven roast chicken breast
Local Kale
Julienne Carrots Drizzled with butter and black pepper
:D
Ok, in this thread, I can see limey's pic of dinner, but not monster's. Is one uploaded and the other hot linked? Tapatalk.
Monster's is not hot linked.
Limey's is uploaded from Tapatalk.
When I click "web view" in the upper right settings of Tapatalk, it is still trying to open an https version of the site (and also informing me that the site is not actually secure and therefore won't open it.)
I ran out of homemade fish fingers, so I have to go buy some chicken breast. I think I am going to make a recipe that includes bacon and cheese on top of the chicken. And a salad.
Everything's better with bacon and cheese. :thumb:
Meat loaf, mashed potatoes & gravy, broccoli, mandarin oranges,and coffee.
Pretty good, best hospital food I've ever had.
Well there's an unexpected bright spot.
I had Chicken noodles for breakfast.
Fried shrimp and coleslaw for veggie
When that's gone, spicy garlic shrimp and coleslaw for veggie
Shrimp sounds good for lunch.
The bar has a shrimp/tomato soup concoction they make, it's pretty damn good. Maybe they'll make me a grilled cheese to go with.
Sounds better the more I think about it.:yum:
Ever since orthodoc's article about shrimp, I haven't been able to eat any.
Salmon and potato patties with zucchini fries.
It's only me and Goalie Boy, and he got his first college acceptance today, so I'm using that as an excuse for the (Brit-style) student food we had for dinner. Microwaved jacket/"baked" potatoes, Heinz beans and bacon. I taught him that you have to stab potatoes if you cook them in the microwave..... I did good momming ;)
Bacon wrapped sirloin steak with sauteed onions, gorgonzola gnocchi, rosemary potato bread with garlic butter.
No pics, burps on request.
Last nite. Fried shrimp and onion rings.
Country fried pork chops with light gravy, mashed taters, sweet peas and scalded lettuce.
tarheel
Pork tenderloin, baked potato, black-eyed peas
It's done and ready to eat, but I'm just too scared to eat rfn.
Eat, it'll kill time while you wait and you'll be refueled if you're needed. Then when she calls and says everything is cool you won't be drinking on an empty stomach.
Man Pleasin' Chicken
It does what it says on the tin, I assure you.
THANK YOU TWIL!!!
I had a paneer and chicken roast for breakfast
Champagne (thanks Monster!), salmon and horseradish cream on seedy rolls, steak (expertly cooked "bleu" by Mr Limey), salad and potato wedges, with creme brûlée (inexpertly burnt by yours truly) for dessert. Also Hungarian Merlot.
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I sense there's a lot of love in that house. :yesnod:
Salad, Lettuce, tomato, onion, celery, mushroom, garlic, and cajun spiced chicken.
All Chinese food and noodles
Welcome to the cellar jessica94.
Scalded lettuce? WTH?
Use any greens but icebox lettuce.( too much water) Mix 1part water, 1 part cider vinegar, 1 part olive oil in a pot and bring to a roaring boil. Pour some liquid over greens in salad bowl. Greens wilt under the scalding heat. I usually dice some white onion in and some fake salt.
tarheel
Icebox lettuce is that round head. Practically all water.
tarheel
Icebox lettuce is that round head. Practically all water.
tarheel
Iceberg lettuce?
Iceberg lettuce?
Weezy I's in the South. Its(not It's or it is) icebox down chere.
tarheel
Bacon-wrapped pork chops and pinto beans over white bread.:yum:
Going easy on the heat today! Homemade bean and cheese burritos with berries from the garden on the side.
http://www.recipetineats.com/sun-dried-tomato-spinach-cheese-stuffed-chicken-breast/
in the oven now.
We'll see.
Out of the frying pan...
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Fucking delicious.
Damn! That looks good, V! I need to step my game up.....
Looks great! How was it?
Thanks! See post #1808.
I improvised a bit. I made the huge chicken breasts into pockets, not just butterflied them. I toasted some sliced garlic, added sliced mushrooms, smoked gouda, and fresh basil in addition to the base recipe at the link, which includes sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, and mozzarella. The result was delicious, but waaaay too much for one serving. I had it for dinner, and I'll have it for lunch.
I might butterfly the breasts next time, pound them to a uniform thickness. Maybe use smaller chicken breasts. I'll definitely make this one again.
See post #1808.
I didn't see the text with that amazing dish above it.
Last evening, baked Alaskan Cod, breaded/coated with finely shredded Alaskan Crab. Mashed sweet potatoes, and whole steamed string beans so fresh they must have grown in the kitchen. Home baked bread with basil in melted butter for dipping. A sterling wait person named Mary, with a great sense of humor. Bourbon & ginger with just enough ice so when the drink is gone so is the ice, every time. And an excellent dining companion. We got there a little early so we went shopping at Babies R US nearby.
Sounds awesome! (Also, does she have grandkids, or did you knock up some jailbait?)
Yes she has grandkids, but this was for a niece's shower. I was amazed and amused at the variety of stuff, apparently flat black furniture is the latest rage.
I noticed one huge mistake women were making. Pushing their less than 4 or 5 month old in a car seat/baby carrier set in the shopping cart where the child seat would be in the supermarket. Being face to face with the kid and babbling, cooing, smiling at each other, these women were buying four times as much stuff as the women who got a sitter.
Every tiny babies are con artists. :lol:
Sounds like the old man did a little conning of his own.
You sly old dog, you.;)
Dinner this week shall be turkey, baked potato, cauliflower, and salad.....and gravy
All week?
Today was an early dinner/late lunch. Dairy Queen double cheeseburger, plain, w/Chunky Firehouse chili on it, and I cooked some tater tots to go with.
Yep - all week. Cook once, don't have to worry about the rest of time.
I guess after eating the same thing all week it give you impetus to cook on the weekend.
I guess after eating the same thing all week it give you impetus to cook on the weekend.
Sometimes. I just have to make sure I have something that I wouldn't mind eating all week. It's not hard. One "normal" sized recipe has 6-8 servings. Boom. Lunch or Dinner is done. Any cooking I do is batch cooking since it's just me.:sniff:
Pizza rolls.
Yeah, I know.:neutral:
What?
You know that's my kid knocking on the kitchen door?
Uh-oh.
I kinda sold that kid to some passing gypsies.
You weren't especially fond of that one were ya?:o
Beer. It's what's for dinner.
Uh-oh.
I kinda sold that kid to some passing gypsies.
You weren't especially fond of that one were ya?:o
I'll take my half in beer.
With your half of the beer, and the impetus to replace the boy, it ought to be a fun weekend. :blush:
Pizza rolls again.
Go home, boy. Ya daddy's running low on kids.
Homemade spaghetti and meatballs (didn't make the pasta) for the guy.
Big ol' plate of chili-cheese-tater tots.
Five chicken tenders with ranch from Hardee's. What happened to their fries? They used to be so good.
Grazing, definitely got to shop tomorrow, been putting it off for a week. Lazy mofo, I am.:blush:
I'ma make baked fries (thin and crispy) topped with chicken, cucumber, red onion, lettuce, banana peppers, feta, and garlic aioli. :yum:
Cheeseburger(s)
ETA: And something.
I made Milanese Casserole from Stanley Tucci's cookbook. Stew, basically. In the summer. I am not smart, but I am eating tasty food.
I made Milanese Casserole from Stanley Tucci's cookbook. Stew, basically. In the summer. I am not smart, but I am eating tasty food.
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No problem with A/C, looks tasty.
Tonight, my evening meal consisted of:
Pan fried basa fillets, boiled potatoes with a knob of butter melting over them, and a salad of mixed baby leaves and avocado with mayonnaise.
Was very tasty.
Salad, pork tenderloin, green beans w/potatos, cream style corn, breadsticks
Roast chicken, roast potatoes, stuffing, sprouts, green beans, gravy.
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Almond flour pancakes, sugar-free uncured bacon, cantaloupe & strawberries. It's a breakfast-for-dinner night.
Some sort of lentils on pasta. And a salad.
cheddar on triscuits while we wait for my son's bus to get back from his band trip. Then dinner.
Colombian braised coconut chicken with coconut rice.
Homemade meatloaf and mash. Yum!
Pasta all'Amatriciana, Pete's been hitting Milk Street magazine hard. It smells amazing.
Sounds good. <--That the stuff?
Essentially. Substitute pancetta for pork cheek.
chicken cordon bleu ish. sauteed asparagus, pasta. Not bad for a Monday Night.... (was supposed to be last night's dinner but pooped out) and it was ready by 9pm -so before bedtime :D
chicken cordon bleu ish. sauteed asparagus, pasta. Not bad for a Monday Night.... (was supposed to be last night's dinner but pooped out) and it was ready by 9pm -so before bedtime :D
Oh that sounds delightful. That's two of my favourite things. Replace the pasta with boiled new potatoes (skins on) and that's pretty much my ideal meal.
For me, tonight, it was a Tesco's Finest beef burger* on a toasted sesame bun, with a slice of processed cheese (because it's a necessary component of the burger experience) mayonnaise and ketchup.
Granted I now have to hold the grill dial pushed in, to toast the sesame buns, because it no longer catches to stay lit after you let go - but other than that pretty darn groovy.
*Usually I just buy frozen - for about 1/3 the price.
Made a big bowl of homemade mac & cheese (not that box stuff), threw in a half pound of hot breakfast sausage.
Ya put that on top of yer head and yer tongue will beat yer brains out trying to get to it.
:yum:
I used bowtie pasta.
Just because.
Souplantation tries to make a lowfat pasta Alfredo. They try not to hit you in the cholesterol.
This is not one of their better ideas. Alfredo needs its cream, dammit, just as carbonara does. Low-fatting it completely misses the point of Alfredo.
Their lemon and caper cream mostaccioli is much more successful. That cream sauce would also do well on fish, I daresay, but the nearest Souplantation comes to a fish dish is their daily clam chowder -- good. To get any better chowder around here, you have to hit one of the coastal specialists that feed famished surfers all day. Those stand or fall on their burgers and their chowder.
From-scratch spag bol with tomatoes, parsley and oregano I picked from my garden this evening, served with fresh kale also picked from my garden this evening :D
*smug*
***and FAT***
From-scratch spag bol with tomatoes, parsley and oregano I picked from my garden this evening, served with fresh kale also picked from my garden this evening :D
*smug*
***and FAT***
What no garlic?
She must not have vampires...
Collards and Kale. I can't eat either one, because it contains vitamin K which promotes blood clots.[emoji22]
What no garlic?
there was plenty of garlic, but it came from a jar, pre-chopped. Never been successful growing that, also damn the pre-prepped stuff is handy. I usually (/used to) have fresh from store available too, but not right now. Maybe never again, prep plays havoc with my eczema and impossible to do with gloves on. Garlic prep was a beest job.
Roasted beets,and chicken Italian sausage.
Never had a roasted beet. Does it change the taste much?
Nope, they still taste like dirt.
Nope, they still taste like dirt.
Wash them first. Then they taste like beets, sweet and earthy.
earthy
Oh, right. Not dirt, just "earth." :rolleyes:
The best part is when the school calls you in a panic the next day because they think your kid is peeing blood.
Nope, they still taste like dirt.
HAHA!!! And this is why I don't eat beets.
I mean, seriuosly people.
Dirt? :eyebrow:
Heh...:D
I like putting a can of potatoes in my can of field peas & snaps.
Man, it tastes just like the dirt it all came out of.:lol2:
Canned veggies are for taking on camping trips as emergency back-up food and bringing home again for next time ...until the cans are so far past their expiry date their grandchildren are also refused by food banks.
I ate a bunch of leftover haloween candy.
dont judge me.
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It was braised lamb shoulder chops (with the last of the fresh herbs from the garden), baked potatoes and peas or corn. On a Friday night. Go me. And Thunderboy only left a scrap of potato (not his favorite)
We'll assume the corn and peas didn't come from a can.
:p:
I had a delicious organic cheeseburger tonight!!
With mayo,catchup,mustard and relish :)
And a glass of NON-GMO cola
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I had organic chocolate milk
I had mac and cheese tonight :) (Organic)
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Hamburger steak.
And nothing else.
Well besides a diet Dr. Pepper.
Dessert was an entire box of sugar-free Jello, black cherry. Idk how this stuff exists, it's nothing, it has literally nothing in it.
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