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What's for dinner?

Asked by Coloma (47193points) February 25th, 2016

1:44 p.m. in sunny California and I have just finished prepping a decadent dinner of spicey Linguica, yellow squash, red, yellow and orange bell peppers to stir fry later and have over pasta. Next a salad of yellow tomatoes, english cucumber and black olives in a red wine vinegarette. What’s for dinner at your place tonight?

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Hawaii_Jake's avatar

Lunch at my desk today is a ZipLoc bag full of salad with Caesar dressing, a hard boiled egg, a thick slice of cheese (Havarti today, good English cheddar yesterday), hummus on good toast, and a plum for dessert.

I won’t stay at my desk. After I eat, I always leave the office and walk outside. I’m next door to Washington Place, the governor’s house that used to be the Queen’s house a very long time ago. Just on the other side of that is the Episcopal Cathedral where I often go and sit outside by their beautiful fountain, or I go into the sanctuary and sit and meditate.

I often go to the State Museum of Art, too, and on Fridays, there’s the Royal Hawaiian Band at Iolani Palace.

NerdyKeith's avatar

I had southern fried chicken and chips (as in fries not pringles)

dammitjanetfromvegas's avatar

I’m making tacos for a taco salad.

Love_my_doggie's avatar

This: https://www.blueapron.com/recipes/butternut-squash-with-brussels-sprouts-white-beans-gremolata. We just finished, and the meal was fantastic.

Until now, I’d always hated Brussels sprouts. Of course, I’d always had the bitter-tasting frozen version, reheated and swimming in a pool of yucky liquid. I just learned that fresh, raw Brussels sprouts make a great salad green with a delicate flavor.

cookieman's avatar

Pad See You from our nearby Thai joint.

Jeruba's avatar

How timely for me. I was just trying and failing to remember a recipe I used to make that involved whitefish fillets rolled up with Stove Top stuffing inside and baked in a casserole dish with a creamy sauce, maybe a cheese sauce. Didn’t I ever write it down? Maybe it was one of the (too, too many) things I was just sure I’d remember. Dammit.

So this is a good time for ideas. Otherwise it’s just going to be spaghetti, albeit with homemade meatballs.

ragingloli's avatar

I had some goose liver pâté.

Cruiser's avatar

Chicken Picatta….cooking for BIL and SIL gonna be good!

Coloma's avatar

@Hawaii_Jake Sounds yummy, I adore cheese, I am a cheese-a-holic. I tried some fermented cashew cheese spread the other day, mind blowingly good.

@NerdyKeith Oooh…fried ( as we call it here ) shicken. I had a fried chciken sandwich last week, so deliciously fattening. haha

@dammitjanetfromvegas Oh wow…taco salad sounds wonderful, wanna trade dinners? lol

@Love my doggie THAT recipe sounds amazing! I love grilled brussel sprouts and steamed dipped in mayp. I know, that;s weird, but..haha

@cookieman Yum! Our fav. Vietnamese place is called, no joke, Pho King Good. lol

@Jeruba That long lost recipe sounds great too. I love stove top stuffing, so do my hips. haha

@ragingloli Hardy har har, but I gave you a GA. anyway.

@Cruiser Save some leftovers for me. :-)

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

@Coloma Fermented cashew cheese spread? I’ll try that. Send me some.

Coloma's avatar

@Hawaii_Jake It is made by ” The Cultured Kitchen” and is wheat, dairy, gluten and soy free. Check your local health food zone for it. There is a white cheddar, a sour cream and chives and, uh, uh..I forgot th 3rd one I bought. haha

rojo's avatar

Boneless Chicken Wings (Parmesan/Garlic) , A salad and a “Heart of Oak” Vienna lager. or two

johnpowell's avatar

Lasagna and garlic bread.

janbb's avatar

Not sure – going out with my nephew, his wife and my son. Only two more nights in Cali then it’s starvation diet time!

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Slices of Jarlsberg cheese and pepperoni. Salad was celery stocks with humus covered with hot salsa. Counting carbs.

Pachy's avatar

I fixed hotdogs and beans for dinner. I wasn’t even very hungry, yet I wolfed them down. I felt guilty while I was eating them and even guiltier as I admit it to all of you.

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

^ They are commonly called beenie weenies.

josie's avatar

Roasted brussel sprouts, cauliflower, and broccoli.
Balsamic vinegar, Parmesan cheese and hummus.
White wine.

Seek's avatar

The little one expressed interest in learning how to make sushi. Our neighborhood grocery doesn’t have the right supplies, so we headed down to the Oriental Market (that’s the name) for stuff.

While there we picked up an assortment of dumplings and dim sam. That was dinner tonight.

Tofu sushi tomorrow.

zenvelo's avatar

My daughter and I are having homemade chicken tacos. My son is having pizza.

ibstubro's avatar

Stouffer’s vegetable lasagna.
It’s the last of the “family sized” I baked a few days ago. It was actually better than I remembered (not hard to do!), and I made a tasty mushroom Alfredo sauce with garlic and sherry to top it with.

Coloma's avatar

Oh, it all sounds so good!
Lasagne, Hot dogs, Jarlsberg cheese, Sushi, chicken tacos, piazza, I am gaining just thinking about it all. haha
My dinner turned out great, friends very praiseworthy. :-)

I also made a fruit sald with canned, fresh peaches from last summer, frozen blackberries and fresh mandarin oranges, so good!

Coloma's avatar

@ibstubro Good stuff, really good stuff. Try it, you’ll like it! haha

janbb's avatar

We ended up having a great Indian meal out.

johnpowell's avatar

@ibstubro :: I had Stouffer’s lasagna too. But I got the meat version. My roommate makes very garlicly garlic butter. So tons of garlic butter in a pan and then toss in some slices from a baguette and crunch them up. Delicious.

Stinley's avatar

Chicken, rice and peas for me. Toothless husband was jealous!

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

I had mutton stew with a dollop of juniper berry jelly blended in. Swedish recipe. The sweetness of the juniper jelly goes perfectly with the sweetness of mutton meat. Excellent.

Coloma's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus Juniper berry jelly, sounds exotic and intriguing.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

@Coloma It’s big in Swedish cooking. Enbär gele. They use it on a lot of things. In moose, elk, reindeer stews. It goes great with sweet wild meats like that. Lamb and mutton as well. I made the stew spiced with a little red wine, thyme and juniper gele—a really good combination. Any sweet meat goes well with this, even, uh, certain fowl. A friend sends a couple of jars to me from Sweden around Christmas time every year. I’ve never seen it in the States. It’s a nice change from mint gele. It has a tartness to it as well.

marinelife's avatar

We had stir fry with ground turkey, onions, celery, red bell pepper, mushrooms, zucchini, sesame seeds, and a shot of siracha sauce. It was delicious!

jca's avatar

Last night I had two bites of cold, leftover sauerbraten from a restaurant I ate at last Saturday. I decided it’s better hot, and I wasn’t in the mood to heat anything up, so I put it away. Then I put some honey vanilla Greek yogurt on a plate and added chopped walnuts and blueberries. I was too tired to do anything else. It was good.

Indian food sounds good. Just reading all the things up above sounded great. Stouffer’s makes good lasagna. Vegetarian and the kind with meat are both good. Mutton sounds great. I love lamb. Havarti is the cheese that is currently opened in my refrigerator, and I love it. I’ll take crackers and have a few slices of Havarti any day for a snack. Reading Jake’s description of his lunch break brought back fond memories of Hawaii and how beautiful it was and how fragrant the air was. I went when I was 13. I remember coming back home from Kennedy Airport (NYC) and how gray and depressing that was, after the colors and beauty of Hawaii.

rojo's avatar

Tonight I think I will go with Nemo Nachos – Sashimi-grade tuna on top of fried wonton wrappers with cucumber, avocado and spring onion, then drizzled with a sweet and sour sauce and wasabi and washed back with a Timber Snake IPA. Then let things settle, sipping a Coffee Porter for desert.

janbb's avatar

@jca Tomorrow I’ll be returning to wintryNortheast from nearly a month in sunny and verdant California.

janbb's avatar

Just for details we had: chicken pakoras, samosa chaat, dal saag, chicken tikka masala, rice and garlic naan. Indian food is my favorite cuisine.

jca's avatar

@janbb: It’s been very windy in my neck of the woods. Big storms two nights ago and neighbors had power outage. Last night, cold and blustery, same today. California is so beautiful. I was last there 10 years ago, before my daughter was born. We rode down the coast. When she’s a bit older, I’d like to do Oregon, Washington and up to Canada.

Coloma's avatar

Tonight will be albacore tuna salad with minced celery and bread and butter pickle relish with sliced tomato and lettuce on an artisan bread with home made potato salad and fresh fruit salad with blackberries, mandarin orange segments, diced peaches we canned last fall and sliced Kiwi. I’m prone to picnic type dinners in the nice weather. Pushing 75 today in the CA, hills.

NerdyKeith's avatar

Tonight I’m making home made taco fries. But the supermarket only had vegetarian mince in stock, so that will have to do.

Coloma's avatar

@NerdyKeith Do tell, what are Taco Fries?

Stinley's avatar

My daughter made us shepherd’s pie. So nice to eat what she made and tasted pretty good too

NerdyKeith's avatar

@Coloma
Fries, topped with minced beef, mayonnaise, taco sauce and melted cheese

rojo's avatar

@Coloma It sounds like Taco Fries are a variation of Chili Cheese Fries

Coloma's avatar

@NerdyKeith and @rojo Gotcha! Oh, my ass is expanding just thinking about those fries. lol
I am craving fried Zucchini with ranch dressing right now.

ragingloli's avatar

@NerdyKeith
and a bottle of liquid butter, right?

NerdyKeith's avatar

@Coloma Haha you should try making it.

@ragingloli Oh but of course

Coloma's avatar

Just finishing up a giant crockpot of my delicious spaghetti sauce. Just about ready to add the meats, peppers, onions and shrooms all sauteed up together. Dinner at 6, come one, come all. :-D

dammitjanetfromvegas's avatar

I love this question because one of the things I hate the most is coming up with a meal that will please five family members every single day. It’s nearly impossible.

Coloma's avatar

@dammitjanetfromvegas You should try my famous chicken pepper ” steak” sandwiches. Slice up cooked chicken breast and sautee yellow onion strips and red, yellow and orange bell pepper strips in a little olive oil with, ( the secret ingredient haha ) seasoned, ( has to be seasoned ) meat tenderizer, use it on your chicken breasts when baking too )
Put your sliced chicken breasts in a skillet with a little olive oil, layer on the onions and peppers then melt sliced Provolone cheese onto the top. Slide onto sweet french rolls slathered in mayo and add sliced avocado if you want. To die for!

MollyMcGuire's avatar

Grilled ham/cheese sandwiches and homemade cream of broccoli soup.

Coloma's avatar

@MollyMcGuire Sounds great! My sauce is almost ready, time to make the garlic bread, just after this well deserved glass of wine. haha

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Today the wind died and the cloud cover trapped in the heat and humidity. So, dinner is cold and quick tonight. (1) A long, cold shower. (2) A big salad made from mustard greens (I think they call this Arugula nowadays), radishes, leek and bacon with Parmesan dressing of a goat’s milk base and lotsa coarse ground black pepper. (3) Fresh stone crab claws on ice with lemon and a spicy horse radish, mustard and creme fraische dip. If I had any around, I would be drinking ice-cold Pinot Grigio so dry it would make the paint peel.

Coloma's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus Oh my, my heart be still! Crab legs and that salad and I love the Pino.
I am having a delicious local vintage right now, a Verdajo white. Deeelicious! If you ever need a gally girl let me know, I am sure I could wow you with a handful of my specialties. haha

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

@Coloma Not legs, baby. Claws. Big muthas. Four pounds of ‘em.

Is your Verdajo from Napa or Sonoma vineyards?

Coloma's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus It is locally gorwn from here.

www.vinacastellano.com

I can hear the music venues from the porch here on Fri. & Sat. nights. :-)

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Can’t get the link to work, but it sounds great. Sierra Nevada mountain wines. Imagine that.

dammitjanetfromvegas's avatar

That sounds so good @Coloma! I’ll have to try that this week. Hopefully I’ll have bell pepper plants again this year to make the sandwich even better.

Tonight is bacon, eggs, pancakes and homemade strawberry topping.

Coloma's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus Link works now, just takes a minute.
@dammitjanetfromvegas Oooh…breakfast fr dinner, excellent choice. I haven’t made pancakes in about a thousand years. haha

Seek's avatar

Today I had a Michelina’s TV dinner after spending all day at Faire. In an attempt to avoid Faire food, I had an cappuccino with a packet of Carnation instant breakfast stirred in, a special K protein bar, and a glass of pear cider.

I’m pretty sure I’m at less than 700 calories for the day. Whatever.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

^^ pancakes! (snicker)

Coloma's avatar

@Seek Haha..I had, 3 tablespoons of vanilla yogurt, 3 glasses of wine ( hours later ) and a bowl of my spaghetti sauce, pasta and a slice of garlic bread.iI think I have a couple tootsle pops coming later. Got all my veggies in the sauce of course. End zone, maybe 1500. haha

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

@Coloma Got it. Auburn. Nice. Thanks.

Jeruba's avatar

Tonight: good old New England baked beans and steamed brown bread, which I do a few times a year. This was our menu, baked beans with molasses, every single Saturday night of my youth. We never had baked beans on any other day of the week. It was unthinkable.

Usually we had hot dogs with them, and through the winter months we’d have the brown bread too. I don’t know why we couldn’t have brown bread in the warmer months. It’s not like it requires using the oven.

Here in Northern California it never gets as cold as a northeastern winter, so I feel like I’m defying tradition to make brown bread in February when it’s been in the sixties all day. Somehow I manage it, though. Steamed brown bread is surpassingly delicious.

janbb's avatar

Just go in from the coast and hungry. Luckily, there’s some potato and pea samosas in the freezer that i’m heating up for supper.

And a friend is making me a luscious coffee concoction.

Coloma's avatar

Does anyone remember that canned brown bread with raisins? I think it was S&W brand maybe? It was so good with baked beans.

Jeruba's avatar

We have a can of that on hand for emergencies, but it is nothing like real steamed brown bread; or rather, it’s as much like it as a loaf of Wonder Bread is like home-baked bread.

dammitjanetfromvegas's avatar

Now I’m in the mood for an open-faced turkey sandwich with gravy.

janbb's avatar

@dammitjanetfromvegas That’s something I’m always in the mood for!

Kardamom's avatar

Leftovers from lunch: a vegan BBQ sandwich made with shredded sauteed trumpet mushrooms, topped with kale salad, and a side of beer battered onion rings.

Coloma's avatar

@Kardamom Hey there!

A friend and I stopped iny this little little off the wall est. 1963 burger shack in the city last week called ” Whiteys Jollu Kone.” lol
OMG! They made the BEST onion rings ever, the light tempura type batter. They were amazing!

NerdyKeith's avatar

Going to have Chicago town pepperoni pizza

Kardamom's avatar

@Coloma onion rings are one of life’s simple pleasures : )

NerdyKeith's avatar

Bagel with tomato, rocket lettuce and buffalo motzerella; and a cafe latte.

I was in a cafe in Dublin called Lemon Jelly (no affiliation of this website lol)

Coloma's avatar

@NerdyKeith Mmmm…sounds good. Chicken pepper “steak” sandwiches here tonight.

NerdyKeith's avatar

@Coloma, your means sounds pretty good too

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Chicken corn chowder made from two fresh, but very old hens I got from guy in town in trade for some of my crab claws. I boiled them for ten hours yesterday until the meat started falling off the bone. Garnished with lotsa leek. Homemade baguette and butter. Ice tea and lemon.

marinelife's avatar

I am making lamb koftas with masala sauce for tonight.

janbb's avatar

Red lentil soup and welsh rarebit on whole wheat toast.

Coloma's avatar

OMG you all, if we were hanging out in real life we’d all weight 300 lbs. haha

Coloma's avatar

Tonight is Subway sandwiches. haha

marinelife's avatar

Right now I am roasting a chicken with thyme under the skin and a whole head of garlic inside on a bed of vegetables. I expect it will be delicious even if we are eating chicken for days because it’s an eight pounder.

NerdyKeith's avatar

I had a four cheese pizza (which I added sweet corn to). It was amazing

dammitjanetfromvegas's avatar

I just ordered a pepperoni pizza, sausage pizza with onion, banana pepper and mushrooms, bread sticks and bosco sticks from our local family owned pizza place.

mmm bread

Coloma's avatar

@NerdyKeith Sweet corn, on pizza? Is this an Irish dish? lol
I had a cashew pizza once, it sounds bizarre but it was amazing!

Jeruba's avatar

@Coloma, I had a Thai roommate in college who was appalled at the idea that we use sweet corn as a vegetable. Where she came from, she said, it was a dessert. She would put it on ice cream.

NerdyKeith's avatar

@Coloma Yes it’s very common to have sweet corn on pizza here (and I think in the uk too). It tastes really great. I usually have a tin of sweet corn in the fridge with some grated motzerella. So I get a frozen pizza, add the extra cheese and sprinkle on the sweet corn with a spoon.

Stinley's avatar

I asked my daughter to put the quiche in the oven last night to be ready for 6.10pm when I get home. She thought that she would put it in when she remembered so that she didn’t forget to put it in. It went in at 5.20pm. One well cooked quiche….

Coloma's avatar

I have just returned from the quest for the perfect, giant baking potatos for a loaded potato bake tonight.
Toppings include, sauteed crookneck and zucchini squash, broccoli and cheese sauce, the usual sour cream, green onions etc. and burgundy braised beef tips. Oh my…I can’t wait!

rojo's avatar

Tatties and Neeps!

and Beer!

Oh my!

NerdyKeith's avatar

@Coloma Sounds great. I always have trouble deciding what fillings to use on my baked potato. I’ve tried mine with chicken tikka before. That was nice.

Mostly I use melted cheddar cheese and sweet corn.

Dutchess_III's avatar

A bean and cheese burrito.

janbb's avatar

@NerdyKeith You must own stock in the sweet corn industry!

Tuna melt with welsh rarebit for the cheese and salad.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Oh! But I did buy some “broccoli salad” (which is a stupid name because it’s mostly bean sprouts and has no broccoli at all) and some crab and some super duper new yogurt salad dressing! But that’s for tomorrow.

Coloma's avatar

I love bean & cheese burritos, a freezer staple, or sometimes I make my own with diced tomatoes and alfalfa sprouts and minced cucumber too.

marinelife's avatar

Nothing. Because I ate nachos for lunch. (Hangs head.) I’m still full.

NerdyKeith's avatar

@janbb Oh of course ;)

Coloma's avatar

Ricotta and spinach stuffed raviole tonight.

janbb's avatar

Breaded baked pork chop with deglazed wine sauce, home fries and cauliflower.

Coloma's avatar

@janbb Ooh…that sounds delicious, I haven’t had pork chops in forever and I adore cauliflower.
Bon Appetit !

Seek's avatar

The little one asked for Subway today, and I suggested maybe we make our own meatball subs. Ian insisted that he get to cook them, so we grabbed some frozen pre-cooked meatballs and some Ragu. He got to add onions and garlic, some Italian seasoning, etc. to doctor up the sauce, stirred in the meatballs, and let them simmer. Then he put a layer of shredded mozzarella on some hoagie rolls so I could spoon on the meatballs.

Not bad cooking for a seven year old. I had two, myself.

dammitjanetfromvegas's avatar

Fried chicken dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy and baked beans from the deli in our small grocery store in town.

Coloma's avatar

@Seek Awww….the little chef, stand back mama. lol
@dammitjanetfromvegas That sounds good too. I’m addicted to KFC cole slaw, I go by there at least once a week and eat a large side all by myself. :-)

ibstubro's avatar

I had spaghetti sandwiches for the second night in a row, and enjoyed every bite.

I thought I wanted a frozen pizza, but when I got to the grocery the options, other than cheese (I’m short on sweet corn), were damned slim. There for a while they had all kinds of non-meat pizzas, with 3–4 kinds of spinach alone. Today the only spinach options were square or rising crust. I wanted to use the Pizza Pizzazz!, so I skipped pizza.

marinelife's avatar

Last night I made BBQ with leftover pork shoulder, sauteed onions, no-sugar BBQ sauce, No-Sugar added catsup, apple cider vinegar and water. It was delicious! Brussels Sprouts on the side.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Last night was Long John Silvers.

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III OMG…I haven’t had fish-n-chips forever.

Today is going to be a junk food lunch before seeing “Dead Pool” with my daughter. Dinner will be carrot sticks and fruit for me after the Sat. junk fest. haha

ibstubro's avatar

Salmon.
I set an entire salmon filet out for dinner.
I’m open to indoor ideas on how I should prepare it.
Think simple and low mess.
:-)

Coloma's avatar

@ibstubro Bake it surrounded by asparagus spears and drizzled with a little butter and S&P. About 20 minutes in the oven and the asparagus is divine. One of my favs.

janbb's avatar

I make a sauce of miso paste, brown sugar,garlic and soy sauce, paint it on the top and bake it for a short time.

NerdyKeith's avatar

Smoked salmon with lemon

janbb's avatar

It was chili and rice. I made the chili for a potato toppers lunch at UU tomorrow.

Seek's avatar

Just got home from Renn Faire. After hawking jewelry all day, I’m exhausted. Mitch and Ian aren’t home, so unless they show up soon I’m skipping dinner entirely. Mitch’s mom can fend for herself.

ibstubro's avatar

THAT was the sample at Sam’s Club today, @Coloma! Baked salmon and asparagus.

I sauteed fresh mushrooms and salmon pieces (cut up with scissors because I like the skin). Added sea salt, white pepper, fresh lemon and Italian blend shredded cheese. Served over leftover brown Basmati rice.
Wasn’t as good as it sounds.

I have ⅔rds left to cook tomorrow.

Coloma's avatar

Went out for tacos here before catching ” Dead Pool” with my daughter. Now at almost 8 pm II am having a banana and a vanilla yogurt with chopped walnuts. haha

Dutchess_III's avatar

I only had one meal today, at about 3:00. Went to a Mom & Pop cafe in Ponca City. I had a plate of roast beef and a side order of sauteed mushrooms and onions. Mixed all that together…it was REALLY good!
And that’s all for today.

Coloma's avatar

Leftover spaghetti sauce from the freezer, salad and garlic bread now. I am starving, only had a banana and yogurt this morning.

marinelife's avatar

Last night we had Indian food: butter chicken, chicken saag, aloo gobi masala, samosas and naan. Delicious!

Seek's avatar

Tonight was fried chicken, Cole slaw, and potato salad from the grocery store deli. It was the closest thing to real food I could get without cooking. My feet are killing me. I’ll cook tomorrow, maybe.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Tonight was half a turkey and Swiss sandwich on Panera bread. I LOVE that place! We don’t get there often, though.

Coloma's avatar

I’m making a mock pot roast dinner.
Had a couple New York steaks, sliced them and seasoned/marinated them and tossed the strips in a big terra cotta roaster with sliced carrots, onion, potato and squash. Smells great, I’ll be taking a peek soon but the smell indicates success. :-D

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

It’s raining. 2 big bowls of chicken, or rather ancient hen, soup. Freshly made baguette & butter. I might have a third bowl later.

MollyMcGuire's avatar

Tonight I had ham, lettuce, and mayo rolled in a flour tortilla.

Seek's avatar

Pork tenderloin roast, Brussels sprouts, macaroni and cheese. All requested by Hubby. If have chosen potatoes as the starch, but whatever.

NerdyKeith's avatar

Mushroom soup and soda bread

Coloma's avatar

Oooh… @Seek I’ could just eat the man-n-cheese & brussels sprouts.
@NerdyKeith I love mushroom soup!

ibstubro's avatar

Pan seared fresh salmon steaks.
Sea salt, fresh ground black pepper, garlic and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice.
Hershey bar with almonds for dessert.

Coloma's avatar

^ Dude…you forgot the asparagus, hang on, I have a bunch right here. lol

I am having salted caramel chocolate for dessert. help me, help me…hel…

NerdyKeith's avatar

@Coloma It truly is the best soup ever :)

Coloma's avatar

@NerdyKeith Agreed, I could live on mushroom soup in all it;s variations.

Tonight I am babysitting a little 9 year old friend and we are having cheese pizza and fruit salad. Her request. :-)

NerdyKeith's avatar

@Coloma Oh me too love it

Oh that sounds good. I’m in The Bagal Bar cafe. I’m having the beef phili bagal and a latte.

Coloma's avatar

^ I might have to wrangle up a bagel from the depths of the freezer here and have it with some cream cheese this morning. :-)

NerdyKeith's avatar

@Coloma Ooooh cream cheese is delicious. Especially when you have smoked salmon with it (the deli kind)

jca's avatar

@Coloma: It’s funny you refer to “cheese pizza” that way. Here in NY, pizza with cheese is just “plain” or just “pizza.”

Seek's avatar

Ey, @jca, I’mma grab a pie on the way.

janbb's avatar

@jca NJ is with you on that.

Coloma's avatar

Home alone here for 5 days, so, dinner tonight will be a Havarti and honey ham sandwich with horse radish mustard, some Amish deli potato salad, a hard boiled egg and blackberries and honeydew melon. A picnic for one. :-)

Dutchess_III's avatar

Well, dinner, which I just had, was the same as dinner lat night. A bean and cheese burrito with extra cheese and lettuce and tomato and green onion and smothered with cheese. Only today I had some cream cheese to put on it because I had a bagel from McD’s for breakfast and asked for an extra cream cheese, which I then stole and took home at lunch to put on my burrito.

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III Do you need some food assistance, are you down to your last burrito? I can send something. lol

NerdyKeith's avatar

This evening, I am having mashed potatoes and garlic chicken kiev.

Coloma's avatar

^ and corn ice cream? lol

Dutchess_III's avatar

Actually, that was my last tortilla, and the cheese is almost gone so I guess I starve until we get more! Or eat lettuce or something. What I really want is peanut brittle and Girl Scout cookies, which we also have at home. Which is why I’m trying to avoid going home. But I don’t have any place else to sleep.

janbb's avatar

Couple slices of pizza with mushrooms and peppers.

Stinley's avatar

Chicken, rice and peas. My go to dinner

MollyMcGuire's avatar

I have a leg of lamb in the crock pot for tonight.

Dutchess_III's avatar

You fit an entire lamb’s leg in your crockpot??!!

MollyMcGuire's avatar

@Dutchess_III Yes, it will fit the six quart one, but the one I am cooking today has had the bone removed and is in a five quart crock. You can buy just the shank portion or, as I do, I get the meat man to cut one for you without the small end.

Coloma's avatar

^ Reminds me of a great murder mystery I once read, where the wife hits her husband over the head with a frozen leg of lamb then creates an alibi making sure she is seen shopping for the other dinner items at the market, fresh peas and potatoes.
When she returns home she feigns shock at finding her husband dead to the authorities and while they look for the murder weapon she tells them that it would be a shame to waste such a nice meal and serves them the murder weapon for dinner. The perfect crime. haha

Soup. salad and garlic bread for me tonight :-)

janbb's avatar

@Coloma I love that story too. I think it was made into an Alfred Hitchcock episode.

Coloma's avatar

@janbb I couldn’t remember, it’s been years, whether it was Hitchcock magazine or Ellery Queen when I read it. I miss the short mystery story mags.

NerdyKeith's avatar

This evening I’m out with some of my family enjoying stake on a stone, with pepper sauce and chunky fries. It’s amazing

Seek's avatar

Panko fried tofu sushi for lunch today… Not sure what I’m doing for dinner yet.

Coloma's avatar

@NerdyKeith What is steak on a stone? Is a stone a potato in Ireland?

@Seek…Oooh…I want Panko fried onion rings please.

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@NerdyKeith I am also having cream of mushroom soup for lunch. I credit you with sending me on a mushroom soup jag. haha

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@Coloma No the stone is actually more like a hot plate. Basically it is still cooking while it’s on the table.

Something like this (first time I’ve ever been served stake like this btw)

Oh enjoy that mushroom soup haha

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@NerdyKeith Oh yes, I get it now. Reminds me of asian cooking. Soups on, with soda crackers, Havarti cheese and green olives on the side. :-)

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@Coloma Yes I suppose it is very like Asian style of cooking :)

Oh that sounds nice, enjoy it

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I ate a lot at lunchtime and restricted myself to a tuna steak, one potato croquette and a small portion of baked beans. Tasted good and I feel full. Happy days!

Coloma's avatar

Going for Chinese takeout tonight, thinking almond chicken, fried rice and crab and cheese stuffed wontons on my way back from an errand in a few hours. :-)

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Taking a walk on the boardwalk with a friend then going to a coffee shop for their great hot turkey sandwich.

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@janbb Are you still in stormy NorCal?

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@Coloma Nope – been home in NJ for the past two weeks so I told Cali it could be stormy again. :-)

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Tonight I had sweet corn pizza and garlic bread.

janbb's avatar

Again with the sweet corn?

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Tonight, we are having homemade Italian chicken soup and grilled cheese sandwiches made with English mustard cheddar.

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@NerdyKeith I bet being a corn fed young bull you could walk away with a blue ribbon at the county fair. lol

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@marinelife That sounds delicious!
I haven’t made grilled cheese in forever. There is a restaurant near me that makes a grilled Monterey Jack with grilled green chiles sandwich. To die for!

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@NerdyKeith I usually stay away from dream interpretation, but I think you’re really an Iowan in deep sleep dreaming you’re an Irishman on an American Q&A site. This sweet corn thing is a big clue. Does this picture of Ireland look familiar?

Big Redfish filet baked in a bag (en papillote) with butter, smothered in sliced fresh white onions, garlic, sliced fresh green bell pepper, coarse ground black pepper and a little salt. Fried plantain in butter, sliced fresh tomatoes and my own special vinaigrette.

Fish head soup with fresh warm baguette and butter tomorrow morning.

Maggie the Cat is going nuts. She gets the leftover baitfish so I can eat in peace.

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@Espiritus_Corvus Well…I certainly hope you saute up a fine fishy dinner for dear little Maggie puss. I think she should have her fillet with a delicate cream sauce and sprinkling of catnip., :-)

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@NerdyKeith don’t listen to them! Sweet corn is great, cheap and easily available frozen or tinned. You get your fibre any way you want!!

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Thanks @Stinley and it’s even more amazing on pizza :D

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I used to have a friend that ate corn every day. She gained weight really quickly. Be careful with corn, @NerdyKeith. It’s what they use to fatten cows!

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@jca that’s so funny but I don’t quite know why. Still laughing. I think I might have an image of @NerdyKeith as a languorous Iowan cow in my head. That’s all your fault!

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@Stinley Haha that’s funny

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Yesterday was a green salad and some mashed potatoes and gravy. Actually, I got a to-go order of a one trip salad bar at an eatery across the street from where I work. They gave me a small Styrofoam container for the salad and a small bowl for soup. Well, I didn’t want soup. I wanted taters and gravy from the main course buffet, so I put the taters and gravy in my soup bowl.
I have been wrestling with my conscious ever since. HEY! If it had been potato SOUP it would have had the same stuff in it, just in a different form, right? So it’s OK, right??

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III Nah, you’re good, a fine rationale. lol
Hey, I had egg rolls at midnight so they don’t count ether because it was neither yesterday nor fully today yet. free space. haha

janbb's avatar

I’m having salad and coffee eclairs for lunch. They cancel each other out, right?

Coloma's avatar

@janbb As long as you eat the salad first. haha

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Well, getting ready to go to Oklahoma for breakfast. (It’s almost 1 p.m. Maybe I’ll have lunch instead.)

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Leftovers…....I love having them! :)

Coloma's avatar

Today is a grazing day for me. Who knows what it might be. maybe a tuna sandwich or a bowl of raisin bran. I splurged on chinese takeout yesterday so counting my calories again today.

@MollyMcGuire Pease porridge in the pot 9 days old? haha

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Okay…change of menu. I just realized I have a bundle of fresh Aspargus that needs to be used and tons of fresh eggs from the hens here and some leftover ham. Sooo…making a ham, cheese and Asparagus Omelet . :-)

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So my one meal for today was fried mushrooms as an appetizer, then a small plate full of roast beef with sauteed onions and mushrooms mixed in. Man, I was full! It was so good that I didn’t want to stop eating even after I was full, which is very unusual for me.
They forgot to give us our fresh. home made rolls though. Which is good. After the fried mushrooms, if I’d eaten a roll too, I wouldn’t have been able to eat near as much of the roast as I did.

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I had my last ever Garlic Parmesan Pasta Bowl Appetit for dinner. (I added a little tin of salmon for flavor.) The product line has been discontinued.

I used to work making those little bowls, and they really weren’t bad. I liked having some in the cabinet to use as a quick side for 2 people, or a 5 minute meal for one.

End of an era for me…I still have friends working to close out the run.

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Well, I just finished a BLT. I really want another, but we’re out of B.

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III Oh man, that sounds SO good, I haven’t made BLTs forever. I like BLTA’s..Bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado too!

Today is crazy stormy and I am going to eat weird foods. Leftover asparagus and stuffing. haha

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This evening I had salmon and mushroom tagliatelle in white wine sauce. It was to die for

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@NerdyKeith Sounds divine!

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Tailgate salmon, @NerdyKeith? Aren’t you concerned that the Chief’s fans would think you’re a wuss?

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@Coloma It really was

@Dutchess_III Lol not really

janbb's avatar

Cauliflower with cheese sauce for a light supper. Now about to have a fresh fruit tart.

Seek's avatar

An assortment of dumplings tonight, as it involves very little actual cooking.

marinelife's avatar

Celebrating spring with shrimp and asparagus over pasta.

Coloma's avatar

Quesadillas and salad here, simple as I am working late afternoons the next couple days, so dinner at 3 for me.

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Had chili on baked potato for lunch; out to an early dinner after the movie with a friend.

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Well, after my BLT yesterday I told ya I could have eaten another, but we had no more B. I ended up waiting another 5 hours before I ate again. I finally settled on….a turkey and mashed potato and peas Swanson TV dinner. It really hit the spot. Not too much food, no real work, it was all just right.

Seek's avatar

Happy Pi Day!

Today is Shepherd’s Pi with Cherry Pi for dessert.

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I’m going to be having the Chicago Town stuffed crust pepperoni pizza this evening.

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@NerdyKeith With corn right? lol

I am so out of it here I am still drinking coffee at almost noon. This damn time change. Soon I will have something to eat, not sure what yet.

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@Coloma Would you believe I ran out of corn?

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@NerdyKeith OH NO! A state of emergency, quick, go forth and buy corn! lol

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@Coloma Haha Its ok I think I’ll survive, I’ll gather my troops to acquire the supplies.

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Quick everyone – send corn to Ireland!

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40lbs of vacuum packed all-natural Polska Kielbasa arrived from Cincinnati today. It’s been a long, long time. Too long. I’m making a nice, spicy mustard right now. A crock of crispy sauerkraut is in the fridge and I have some Cuban bread. If you guys don’t hear from me for a while, check the St. Lucia hospitals for a more-than-middle-aged comatose white male suffering severe sodium overload. Nom, nom, baby!

If I can fit it in, I’ll have some hot pecan pi with vanilla goat’s milk ice cream in honor of the Day, but don’t count on it. Pi is not real high priority right now.

MollyMcGuire's avatar

Pork chops, cauliflower, baked potato.

Coloma's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus Haha…is there a sodium trauma unit?
Okay, one of my special soup recipes with Kielbasa.
Make or buy veggie stock, add the sliced sausage with chopped cabbage, diced potatoes, yellow squash and orange and red bell pepper strips. Add a dash of cracked red pepper and some italian seasons, oregano, thyme, basil and let simmer away until taters are soft.

Coick pot is best. Serve with a nice crusty french bread and butter.
40 lbs. that’s a lotta sausage there.

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This evening I had chicken dippers and a garlic baguette. But I had a breakfast bap in Starbucks earlier.

Coloma's avatar

I had a chicken salad sandwich and an asian salad, one of those whip it up, pre-mixed packages from the grocery store. Good! Yesterday I was SO BAD, had a burger, onion rings and a giant milkshake. A splurge day.

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Ummm… totally ended up hip-deep in reorganizing my craft stuff and a bottle of Cabernetand forgot about food. Hubby and I just reheated some leftovers and mixed up a can of tuna with crackers and celery.

MollyMcGuire's avatar

Crab casserole and salad

Coloma's avatar

Oooh crab!

Seek's avatar

I just bought OMG too many eggs at Target – $0.99 a dozen!

So it’ll probably be shakshuka if hubby gets home from work early, and breakfast-for-dinner if he doesn’t. Tomato sauce after about 6pm treats his stomach weird.

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@Seek Too bad we aren’t nearby I have fresh eggs coming out of my ears from the hens here that have gone into spring laying mode. I have about 5 dozen now and need to give some away.
I have 17 just sitting on the counter in a bowl from the last 2 days!

Tonight, leftover chicken and asian salad again, Ground Hog day dinner. haha

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I haven’t really had a a proper dinner yet. I had a sausage and cheese bap, which I made myself by toasting it on my George Forman. Added some mayonnaise to it. Had a latte from Insomnia on my way to the library.

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@NerdyKeith What’s a “bap”, did you mean a wrap?

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@Coloma No it’s a bap, it’s similar to a panini; just a bit smaller. Actually it’s a lot closer to a burger bun, it’s like this

Stinley's avatar

I call a bap a bread roll

Coloma's avatar

Never heard of bap. Interesting.

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@Stinley yeah it’s similar enough to bread roll

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Round where I live now they call them batches. I suppose because they are cooked in batches.

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I worked in a bakery in Bristol and the soft rolls were called baps and the crusty rolls were called cobs.

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If I can find the damned Australian Red 16 count shrimp, that’s for dinner. Butter, fresh garlic and sea salt. Jasmine rice to soak up the garlic butter.

Update – We’re on! I just put them out to thaw.

janbb's avatar

Chili over rice with cheddar cheese melted on top. A Magnum mini ice cream pop for dessert.

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Sunday it was 5 jalapeno poppers. On Monday and Tuesday it was 3 jalapeno poppers and half of a thick pork chop.

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Tonight it was Boneless Ribeye, we went out to a thick steak.

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@Tropical_Willie “we went out to a thick steak” gives me a mental image of people sitting around hacking bits off a mammoth piece of beef.

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12 ounce ribeye is about an inch thick. Mammoth piece of meat is steamship round 50 to 60 pounds of beef.

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@Tropical_Willie Nobody will be asking “where’s the beef” with that slab o’ meat. haha

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I used to go to a restaurant years ago (thirty or more) that served a steamship round at the end of the buffet line. The chef had a knife that was two foot long to carve the meat.

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I once attended a party with a buffet so large that there were beef hindquarters (like this) roasted and dressed with a frill on the end of each table – 4 in all!

My shrimp were delicious!, BTW.
After eating buffet shrimp there’s something so decadent about eating shrimp that you have to cut into pieces!

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I had a baked potato with chicken and korma sauce.

Seek's avatar

Shakshuka became tacos instead. These boys and their obsession with tacos.

Actual conversation from my house:

Hubby: “Hey, Ian, let’s send mama to join the circus, and we’ll run away, just us. What do you say?”

Ian: “No way. Who would make us tacos?”

Hubby: “Good point. We do need our tacos”.

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Tonight, it ground turkey and onion enchiladas.

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That was supposed to be: it’s not it.

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This evening I went a place in Dublin called Harry’s Cafe Bar. I had a char grilled bacon burger, fries and a latte. It wasn’t bad at all.

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Leftover casserole. It was good so we don’t mind.

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God, I miss leftovers.

Friggin’ mother in law is obsessed with throwing perfectly good food away.

She won’t prepare a goddamn thing. She hovers around anyone in the house who is eating, and stares at them until they offer her food. You know, like a poorly trained puppy. If you cook something, she shows up like a cat who heard a can opener. She’ll walk around saying “My stomach is bubbling!” if she feels like I should have had dinner made by now.

But she won’t heat a can of soup on her own.

But damned if she won’t throw away days worth of perfectly good leftovers if she decides she needs to wash the dish they’re happily stored in.

::screams::

Sorry, just found out she threw away half a jar of salsa that I was planning on using to make taco dip out of last night’s leftovers.

I hate waste.

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@Seek is this MIL thing permanent? It sounds pretty unbearable to me.

Seek's avatar

It is until I can find some nursing home to take a physically fit insane person.

Her or me at this point, doesn’t matter.

ragingloli's avatar

Put a lock on the fridge.

janbb's avatar

Yup – I had the same solution; lock on the fridge.

Coloma's avatar

@Seek if you cook something she shows up like a cat who heard a can opener
OMG! Pricelss, if nothing else maybe you can use her as a muse for the @Seek comedy hour.

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It’s a gorgeous 75 degree day here and I just walked down to the ocean and stuck my tootsies in. Really tempted to throw a burger on the barbie to start the season off but that would involve a trip to the supermarket so it may just be the chili stuffed baked potato I have in the fridge.

Coloma's avatar

Marie Calendar Chicken pot pie and making cole slaw. I’m too tired to cook tonight.
Freezer rummaging works for me. haha

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Today was the last two poppers and a green salad from the eatery across the street.

ragingloli's avatar

I had some goose chicken wings.

Seek's avatar

Bratwurst with sauerkraut, with a spinach and arugula salad on the side (with chopped boiled egg because OMG SO MANY EGGS).

Coloma's avatar

Boring low sodium chicken noodle soup and cole slaw. I’m lagging this week. haha

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Slow cooked chicken with vegetables and rice. I love my slow cooker

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Today was chicken noodle soup and another green salad. Soup was yummy. It had all kinds of bad stuff in it like sodium and chicken fat. :D

janbb's avatar

Leftover hot turkey sandwich from lunch or crispy orange beef from last night? Haven’t decided yet.

Stinley's avatar

Tonight merguez sausages with potatoes and veg. Very French

Coloma's avatar

Baked potato with broccoli topping.

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Fresh Pompano with garlic and lemon butter. Rice spiced with a little crab boil. Mustard greens and my special vinaigrette.

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I had one of of those microwave dinner meals. Mashed potatoes, ham, turkey, stuffing and gravy. It was very tasty. Although I had add my own gravy to prevent it from being too dry.

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I bought some frozen Heath Bar yogurt so that’s going to be dinner this evening. I made this plan yesterday since I’m alone tonight and no one will know. This is the only yogurt I can stand and I actually love it. It’s Publix brand if anyone is interested. I know I know, this is not the behavior of someone who is taking sugar our of her diet. I let myself lapse from time to time. Today is time.

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A grilled cheese sandwich, a smoothie, and chocolate. It’s Easter, so that’s okay.

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Looks like Banana bread. It’s 3:00 and I haven’t eaten anything! Well, except banana bread batter. I just wanted to be sure I didn’t screw it up. You know.

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Leg of lamb slow roasted with a rosemary, black pepper, basil, garlic powder and oregano rub. Sweet potatoes and salad (romaine, tomato, mixed pickled olives, cucumbers and bleu cheese dressing with extra bleu cheese).
Leftover lamb will be served tomorrow on fresh baked whole wheat tostada rolls with a garlic aïoli on lettuce.

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Just had a family Easter dinner with my friends at their restaurant. Ham with raisin chutney, beef tenderloin, torta rustica, mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables, Guinness cake and chocolates. And a blackberry margarita. I think I used up my calories for the week!

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A simple soup made with chopped vegetables and pork neckbones. Hubby and Ian are both under the weather, so the roast will wait for another day.

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:(. Give Ian a hug for me.

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A friend is coming up to spend the night and bringing me easter dinner from her brunch earlier.

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@Dutchess_III Hey, back off granny, you already have grand kids, so don’t hog the kid okay? ;-)

A hug for Ian from me as well. :-)

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….fight fight!!! What did you get Ian for Christmas, @Coloma?! Huh? Huh?! I got him something, didn’t I @Seek! What was it, though. I forget….

Well, it looks like I shall top off my banana bread with some left over short ribs from yesterday. There isn’t much meat on them. In fact, they’re kind of like sunflower seeds; you expend a lot of energy and calories just getting snippets of meat off!

Rick is making meat balls & mashed potatoes, along with his word famous bbq sauce. It’s my favorite dish that he makes! But it probably won’t be ready until 9:30 or 10:00 tonight so, as usual, I won’t be eating “dinner.” But I will be taking the leftovers to work with me for lunch / dinner tomorrow and Tuesday.

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Salmon tagliatelle. I was out with friends tonight for food and drink.

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The ladies from town brought baskets of food up with them for the Easter egg hunt and tonight I have jerked goat and chicken coming out of my ears. My favorite side is Cassaba, sliced into fat spears, rolled in egg, then in spiced flour, then in bread crumbs, then sauteed brown. Mmmmm.

You’re a starch guy, Keith. You really need to try this sometime. It might be a nice change from all that CORN!

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@Espiritus_Corvus
I’ll try it sometime, thanks :D

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All right, Ladies, there’s enough Ian love to go around! Hugs have been distributed.

Yes, Val, you gave him a cool $20, which became Pokemon cards.

ragingloli's avatar

unbelievable that pokémon is still a thing

Seek's avatar

Right? Honestly I stopped paying attention a long time ago. But he still likes it.

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Ah. Glad he got what he wanted!

Anyway, for “dinner” I got a helping of the mashed potatoes and the homemade bar b que sauce. Good stuff, Maynard.

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I am going for some more chicken wings and potato salad.

Coloma's avatar

Leftover ham, scalloped potatoes, carrots and cherry cobbler. Back to my diet tomorrow. haha

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Baked veggies with kielbasa. I quarter a cabbage and put in the corners of a big pyrex and fill the center with whole small potatoes, whole onions, and halved squashes. I slice a pound of sausage and put it over all the other stuff. I don’t add anything except coarse black pepper. No water or anything. I cover it tightly with foil and bake for two hours at 350. This is a delicious meal. Easy peasy!!!

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@MollyMcGuire I adore baked cabbage and all those veggies. I do a cabbage wedge and sliced onion dish, drizzled with a little olive oil and sea salt and white pepper and bake covered for about an hour or so. Yummy indeed! I love cabbage in every way, shape or form.

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Pasta bolognaise. Oh yes. It’s still a thing

ibstubro's avatar

New! Mediterranean style olive Triscuit crackers.
½ price Hershey’s candy coated milk chocolate Easter eggs for dessert.

Hey! You asked me! ~

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Dinner yesterday was three meatballs. They are so good.

Seek's avatar

Yesterday: Pork tenderloin roast, mac and cheese, and a chopped salad from a bag. Lazy but good.

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(How is pork tenderloin lazy??)

Seek's avatar

Because I didn’t have to do anything to it, just stick it in the oven, then cut it up when it was done.

Coloma's avatar

Tonight, Asian salad mix and cheese and crackers. I am trying to be good again after the easter scene.

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Well, today’s dinner (it’s 1:30) is a green salad and a cup a soup. I had a choice between chicken vegetable, or chicken and rice soup. I thought long and hard. Chicken and veggies would give me bragging rights here, but I chose rice in honor of whom ever it was who can’t find rice at restaurants. IT WAS REALLY GOOD!!!!!

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I still have half of that tenderloin. I’ll accept suggestions for what the heck to do with it.

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@Seek Just warm it up and make some yummy veggies, like potatoes, brussels sprouts, etc. Or…add some BBQ sauce and make pulled pork sandwiches.

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That’s the plan, Loli. I am trying to think of a good dish to make with it. The tenderloin itself was pretty bland, but that was me being too lazy to marinate it, since I’m nursing my dog back to health.

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Maybe the dog can eat it.

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Pulled port samwiches?

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Pulled pork sounds like a fantastic idea. I think I have some BBQ sauce in the cupboard.

Oh, Russell will take his “Mama is cooking” tax, make no mistake. Little mooch.

NerdyKeith's avatar

Roast potatoes, turkey and turkey gravy.

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III “Pulled port?” Did you just pull the cork on a bottle of Port? lol

Stinley's avatar

I’ll have some pulled port! I had a traditional alpine meal of Raclette tonight with some friends and a game of Heads Up afterwards. Very fun.

janbb's avatar

Probably left over turkey and stuffing with mashed potatoes and gravy.

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@Dutchess_III: That was me and @jleslie.

@Seek: I was thinking slice up the pork and stir fry it with some cooked rice and veggies, to make a pork stir fried rice type of dish.

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I just had burritos at my sister’s house. So yummy. Now I want to go to sleep. :)

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PORK PROK PRKO PORK PORK PURK PURK!!!!!

Ah, @jca. It was in your honor I chose the rice and chicken soup. It was really, really good.

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We had shrimp (boiled) and white rice and veggies. I thought of you when I ate the white rice, @Dutchess_III! I also have leftover pork from last night which I reheated but I’m too full to eat it.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Stir fry vegetables from the garden and jerked goat meat on rice. Chicken broth.

jca's avatar

I love love love jerk. Jerk chicken is da bomb when it’s made right.

Seek's avatar

BBQ pulled pork was a hit, I guess. Everyone else liked it. I’m not terribly fond of sweetened meats, so I had a bit, but nothing to write home about.

And now to bed, to drug myself to sleep. Oh, sweet benadryl.

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Shrimp Yucatan from the local Mexican restaurant. Wasn’t great – here in the Midwest they tend to boil the shrimp, then add to the dish when throwing it together. Makes the shrimp last longer, tastes like cotton.
The margarita was HUGE, and delicious! So, all’s good. lol

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I’m going with friends to the Fish House tonight. I’ve never been disappointed there.

Coloma's avatar

Albacore tuna sandwiches here on toasted artisan bread. dill pickle potato chips and salad, Entering spring/summer picnic dinner mode. I wish I had a watermelon, not quite time yet.

janbb's avatar

Going out with friends to a Mexican restaurant tonight. Three days of dieting down the drain but the food will be good!

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Fish sound good, @MollyMcGuire.

I’m eating sunflower seeds right now.

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III So I guess it’s safe to say you really do eat like a bird. lol

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I’m in a little place in Dublin called O Brian’s Sandwiches. I’m having cream of mixed vegetable soup. Served with a toasted sandwich with cheddar cheese, tomato amd ham. Very tasty.

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That sounds good too @NerdyKeith. Get some rice for @janbb and JLeslie.

ragingloli's avatar

Going to get a Döner later.

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@NerdyKeith Sounds delicious..I am still drinking coffee and will have a maple nut yougurt with chopped walnuts and a banana for breakfast soon.

@ragingloli Well, make sure you prey on fundamentalist sexist pastors okay?
Drain them of their very last drop. lol

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Well, damn. I ordered some French fries from the eatery across the street. That’s my calorie intake for the day!

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III Sunflower seeds and french fries, you are a bird.
I always thought someone should do a study on heart disease in McDonalds parking lot Sparrows and Blackbirds. You could just hop around the parking lot begging french fries under peoples car windows. lol

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Koo koo bird.

janbb's avatar

Get a room you two.

Coloma's avatar

@janbb Birds of a feather , I bet you go for the fish fillet sandwich. haha

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Cats got it made at McD’s!

ibstubro's avatar

I mixed about ½ cup fresh crab meat into some amazing lobster bisque soup. Dash of half and half and eaten over some sticky white rice.
OMG good!

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Chicken broth.

NerdyKeith's avatar

Chicken tikka panini and latte coffee.

Coloma's avatar

Take out dinner salad, Havarti cheese and Triscuit thins with a bowl of blackberries for dessert. I bought 4 new summer dresses today and I want them to fit all summer. lol

jca's avatar

I love havarti.

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OK. I’m jonesing. It’s 11:00 and I haven’t eaten since I ate that burrito yesterday at 2:00. I think we’re going to Ponca again and I shall get my roast beef and sauteed mushrooms and onions plate and IT IS SO GOOD AND I CAN’T WAIT!!! I’M STARVING!!! (I really shouldn’t say that. It’s an insult to humans who are, literally, starving.)
Then we have a 3 year old’s birthday to go to and I shall have cake.

Coloma's avatar

I’m going to the movies this afternoon so am getting a Subway tuna sandwich on the way home with lettuce, tomato, pickles and pepperoncini. Yummy!
Breakfast is a mini-blueberry bagel, peanut butter and a yogurt and banana.

ibstubro's avatar

A bit of chipotle is good on the tuna, too, @Coloma.

I had a huge crab meat (yeah, crab, not krabb) omelet with shredded Italian cheese.
I’m stuffed.

(So I had a few candy coated Hershey chocolate eggs for dessert.)

Coloma's avatar

Changed my mind about the Tuna, picked up deli Sea food salad which means faux crab meat, cabbage and assorted other stuff. haha Crackers and a Tootsie pop. lol

ibstubro's avatar

Oh, the Walmart seafood salad is great. Huge chunks of Krab.
And I prefer my tuna Subway on flatbread. Less mooshes out the end.

Coloma's avatar

@ibstubro I love th faux crab meat. Never tried the Walmart stuff, this is Bel Aire / Raleys market on the west coast. Raleys is an icon here, est. 1935 in Placerville CA.

Seek's avatar

Made corned beef and cabbage again. Had a hankering.

janbb's avatar

I’m having an at home day today after a very sad funeral yesterday. Going to make a baked pork chop, home fries and chopped kale for supper. Debating about how early I can call it suppertime.

Coloma's avatar

@janbb Sorry to hear that, hey, you can have dinner anytime you want to. I am trying to eat my dinner around 3–5 lately, then, if I am starving I’ll have a yogurt with some nuts later. This summer time change sucks, I hate not eating dinner until 8 o’ clock a lot of the time.

Tonight, a snacky dinner, lite, dry italian salami, havarti cheese, crackers, dill pickles, salad and fruit.

janbb's avatar

@Coloma I love a snacky dinner but you’d better not call it that when @Dutchess_III is around!

Stinley's avatar

I had a lovely pork fillet with rice and veggies. I made pea soup too which I liked but my husband said was too green.

@Coloma I was thinking about your troubles with daylight saving when I went to France and had an hour change two weeks ago from GMT to European time. Then last weekend we changed to European summer time. Then this weekend we came home to British summer time. Four different times in two weeks!

Coloma's avatar

@Stinley Oh man, that is how I found Fluther, langusihing from a bad case of jet lag. lol

Stinley's avatar

@Coloma when we got back it was 8.30. Or 7.30. Or 9.30. I have no idea. All the clocks were wrong

Coloma's avatar

^LOL, I know, I freaked out the other day driving because I thought I was really late and then remembered I hadn’t changed my damn car clock. haha

Dutchess_III's avatar

I don’t know what is for dinner. Probably nothing. I ate 1 and ½ BLT’s at about noon, and I did some yard work and played some basket ball with my son and his kids. Now I just want to take a shower, chill and watch 60 Minutes and get ready for work in the morning. I don’t wanna hassle with food. I’ll just wait for breakfast tomorrow.

Besides, yesterday I had that large portion of roast and the mushrooms and the onions, and some homemade rolls, and then at the birthday party I ate THREE (3!!! 3!!!) cupcakes and a bowl of ice cream! Gah!! I am still recovering!

MollyMcGuire's avatar

My kitchen has now been emptied….no cabinets, stove or microwave. My old frig is in the LR. I’ve been eating bagged salad and sandwiches. I think I’m going to have pizza or a calzone tonight from a family owned Italian place not far from here.

NerdyKeith's avatar

On old classic of mine…. two mini corn on the cobs and colcannon mashed potato.

Coloma's avatar

Making my famous Chicken Andouille medley to serve over pasta later.
Zippy cajun sausage with chunked zucchini, yellow crookneck squash, red, yellow and orange pepper strips with white pepper and italian seasonings. Good stuff!

Stinley's avatar

I had two crumpets with butter and Marmite. What a British meal. There was also a cup of tea of course

Dutchess_III's avatar

M. Green salad and mashed potatoes and gravy.

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III What’s an M. green Salad?

Dutchess_III's avatar

M=hmmm. Kinda like, “Hmm, well, let’s see.” Only a really super short version. Like that. Got it? Hmmmm? I’m just lazy and didn’t want to type the h and all those mmmmmmmmmmms. ~

Coloma's avatar

^ K, got it.

janbb's avatar

Why don’t you have two of them? Then they can be M & M salads!

Dutchess_III's avatar

Mmm cuz I can’t eat two of them!

Dutchess_III's avatar

What is a colcannon mashed potato @NerdyKeith?

NerdyKeith's avatar

@Dutchess_III Potato and cabbage boiled together; then mashed. I usually just have plain mash, but when its colcannon with just a small amount of cabbage its actually quite nice.

Seek's avatar

Uuuugh, I loooove colcannon. Dammit I didn’t want to cook today.

TOMORROW. Tomorrow will be colcannon. Or maybe bubble and squeak.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Chicken broth, Cuban bread, butter.

Coloma's avatar

Whew..I almost burned the garlic bread, saved by my brain bell. lol

ibstubro's avatar

Dinner? Are you kidding me?
We ate at Pizza hut for lunch today and as we were going in the pizza buffet was ending. The 5 of us ordered 2 medium pizzas and 3 of us got salad bar. When I went to get my salad, I told the waitress, “I’m grabbing a cheese bread to eat with my salad.” She replied that we could have anything on it we like…she was getting ready to throw it all away.
We feasted, then ate salad, then ate pizza.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Scratch-made steak and cheese burrito.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Me thinks we need to define “dinner.” Is it the final meal of the day, or is it a meal eaten at a certain time of the day? I’ve been using it as the final meal of the day, which for me is around 3:00. In @ibstubro‘s case above, then lunch and dinner were one and the same.

NerdyKeith's avatar

Chicken goujons, chips and garlic baguette. I tweeted my dinner this time :)

Coloma's avatar

Home made chicken salad sandwiches with diced celery and seasonings, potato salad and a marinated tomato, cucumber and black olive salad. CA. picnic dinner. :-)

janbb's avatar

Baked stuffed potato with chili and cheese and sour cream.

Dutchess_III's avatar

1½ cheese enchiladas. I couldn’t eat all of the second one.

Stinley's avatar

Bacon and eggs. I’ll leave you all with that one

ragingloli's avatar

The frozen baby elephant I ordered a few weeks ago has arrived today.
Having a feast this evening.

janbb's avatar

@ragingloli Will it be the funeral repast?

Seek's avatar

Tacos again yesterday. Used a different brand of taco sauce and they came out spicier than normal. Still good, I just have a low tolerance for capsaicin.

I’ll probably do something fun with the leftovers for dinner tonight – I make a good taco dip that’s a hit at parties – and then do something really weird tomorrow, because it’s getting repetitive around here.

Coloma's avatar

^ Nachos! Loaded with avaocado and diced tomatos and sour cream and, and,...

Turkey bacon BLTs here tonight with an asian, cole slaw type salad and left over potato salad.

Dutchess_III's avatar

French onion soup with Swiss cheese, a piece of garlic bread and a giant cookie that I did not ask for but I did eat. I’m stuffed.

Man, somebody needs to tell those restaurants, who have French onion soup on the menu, to pull their heads out and find a decent recipe. Every single time I’ve ordered it from anywhere, it’s barely distinguishable from really salty Lipton’s packaged soup mix. Actually, the only difference is they give a nod to a couple of pieces of actual onion.

I’m tempted to throw my homemade recipe at them. It’s addicting.

marinelife's avatar

Italian sausage and fresh green beans.

jca's avatar

@Dutchess_III: French onion soup that I’ve had usually has so much mozzarella on top that there’s no easy and neat way to eat it. I love French onion soup but they can hold the mozz LOL.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Mozzarella? Yuck! Yuckydoyoh! Need grated Swiss. Yummydoyoh! It’s not the cheese that bothers me. I asked for extra cheese. I don’t mind messy. It’s the thin, watery, salty barely-tastes-like-onions soup that I don’t care for. And it’s ALL the same, everywhere I’ve ordered it. It doesn’t compare to what I make, which is some serious onion soup.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

^^ Could you share that recipe in a PM, please?

Stinley's avatar

^me too please

ragingloli's avatar

Blasphemy. Mozzarella is divine.

Coloma's avatar

I love Mozzarella too, but provolone is right up there.

Tonights dinner remains yet a mystery. haha

janbb's avatar

I think I’ve done baked potato with chili, cheese and sour cream to death this week although it is yummy. Luckily, I’m invited to a friend’s restaurant for a family dinner tonight.

Coloma's avatar

Well…it’s unanimous here, Papa Murphys’s take-n-bake pizza for all!
Mine will be veggie with extra red sauce and sausage. lol

marinelife's avatar

Perfect spring meal: broiled sockeye salmon and fresh asparagus.

Coloma's avatar

@marinelife One of my favorites, I like to roast the asparagus so it’s a little crispy. :-)

NerdyKeith's avatar

I had peperoni pizza with some extra cheese. No sweetcorn this time. I wasn’t in much of a “corny” mood today hehe!

ibstubro's avatar

Grilled tuna and cheese sandwich and chips.

Those little foil packets of tuna are the same size as a piece of bread. Snip the corner and squeeze out all the water you can, then cut around 3 sides of the tuna. Put some mayo/mustard on the bread, top with tuna slab, then cheese. Grill. Delicious! I used lemon pepper tuna and havarti cheese.

Seek's avatar

Just a plate of raw veggies and some sourdough bread, with some spinach and artichoke dip made by the local grocery.

rojo's avatar

Rice and Asparagus (and beer).

Dutchess_III's avatar

Yesterday I had a green salad. I did something different, though. I used blue cheese dressing. I usually reserve blue cheese for if I’m having a salad before a meal. When I have a salad as the meal, I use French.
Anyway, I used blue cheese. The container was really low and as a result I got the most massive amount of blue cheese chunks in the dressing. It was SO good…and super filling, unlike my usual green salad with French.
I’m sure the calories saved by eating a green salad were just blown out of the water by the dressing! I probably had 500 calories just in dressing, compared to about 300, usually. It was good though.

Today is a burrito from the kids menu again. I also get a side salad, and put lettuce, onions, tomatoes, olives, and extra grated cheddar cheese on top, and nuke it. It’s filling too, and really good. Debating blue cheese tho….what do you guys think?

ragingloli's avatar

Had a Döner again.
Delicious muslim food.

Seek's avatar

I think blue cheese is vile, but that’s just me. Who was the first person that thought eating the chunks of blue mold off the cheese was a good idea?

Coloma's avatar

@Seek Speaking of vile, what about Head Cheese? Gah, who the hell thought that atrocity up anyway? lol

Dutchess_III's avatar

I know, right @Seek? I almost asked a question about it yesterday. I bought some blue cheese crumbles from the grocery store on a whim a few weeks ago. Yesterday I saw it in the fridge, and decided to take it to work to put on my salad.
Then I got to thinking….is there some point blue cheese goes bad? I mean, that’s what it is to begin with, molded cheese! Anyway, I ended up not eating it.

To answer your question, though…the first person to do it was probably someone who was very, very, very hungry and there was nothing else around to eat. Fastidiousness is probably the first thing to go when you’re starving.

ragingloli's avatar

all cheese is spoilt milk. a bit of mould on top of it is barely worth mentioning.

Coloma's avatar

Leftover Pizza here. My gourmet veggie is divine, everything you can imagine from spinach to zucchini to artichoke hearts. Yummy!

marinelife's avatar

Broiled chicken legs and wings with Brussels sprouts.

janbb's avatar

Lunch was for dinner today!

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

I’m about to have a Greek Salad using my own Feta cheese with @Dutchess_III‘s onion soup, and toasty garlic bread made with a Cuban baguette.

Seek's avatar

Everyone is fending for themselves tonight. I had some more bread and artichoke dip. Ian wanted a can of ravioli. Hubby took my brother out for a boy’s night out. Mother in law has decided not to eat anything, since she wanted vegetables but found them in individual containers and not conveniently laid out on a plate for her.

ibstubro's avatar

Pasta (Campanelle) with Alfredo, mushrooms and ripe olives.
Warm and filling.

Coloma's avatar

We baked chocolate chip cookies tonight, OMG..I ate like 5 of them. So good! haha

jca's avatar

Last night I had barbecue chicken salad from Panera. I took half home and today for lunch I’ll add cheese and hard boiled eggs to it.

I hate bleu cheese dressing. (I believe it’s spelled “bleu” and not “blue” when it’s in re: to the cheese but I could be wrong, of course). I also hate feta cheese. In some dishes, maybe with pears on a salad, it’s tolerable but I’m not a fan and would never order it on my own.

ragingloli's avatar

Cold Döner. Still delicious.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

King Mackerel. The spring King Mackerel run is on and I got me a three-footer yesterday. The water is boiling with them. I can see them from atop my hill running south in a glistening black and silver line just under the surface from a mile away. Spring has reached the Caribbean. I cut my fish into steaks and picked two sections out of the middle for tonight. The tail and head will go to make stock. Guts go to the cats. I’ll marinade a couple more steaks in teriyaki and freeze the rest.

Tonight I’ll simply wrap the steaks into aluminum foil with onions, green peppers, black pepper, garlic and other spices and throw them into the oven for about an hour at 350F/175C. No butter required as this extremely healthy oily fish provides it’s own moisture and will not dry out. I’ll stir fry some rice and vegetables. A noble feast for a noble peasant.

I’ll be going back out for more with a mind to smoke them—and share with these bloody screaming barn cats. They usually mind their own business, but they also know good fish when they smell it.

Just as stone crab season ends, in come the mackerel. Nature’s unceasing bounty.

jca's avatar

A friend of mine made a bluefish once and she put teriyaki on it, prior to cooking, and it tasted just like steak @Espiritus_Corvus.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

@jca I’ve never used teriyaki for maranade on fish before, but this is a very strong-flavored fish. I’d like to bring out the mackerel flavor and not overwhelm it, like the Japanese do. Thanks for the warning. Maybe I’ll just brush a little on.

jca's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus: Don’t get me wrong, this bluefish that tasted like steak was sooo good!

NerdyKeith's avatar

Well its not exactly a “dinner”, but more of a healthy after dinner snack. I’m having natural greek yogurt, mixed berries, grapes, granola and honey.

This is the best thing I can do to replace chocolate.

ragingloli's avatar

microwaved asian delivery from sunday

Coloma's avatar

Chinese take out here, maybe almond chicken.

Coloma's avatar

@NerdyKeith Oooh, your dessert looks delish.
I’m eating watermelon all day so I can feast on chinese later. haha

Dutchess_III's avatar

Yesterday was a fish sandwich and small fries from McD’s.

Today…I don’t know yet.

Coloma's avatar

I’ve been watching these videos the last few days, hilarious! This is for @NerdyKeith ” good thing I don’t live in Ireland. lol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fllvt5XryU8

Dutchess_III's avatar

I got another $3 salad bar to go. I got the soup. It was this awesome lemon turkey and rice soup. It was so good and so filling I couldn’t even eat my salad.

janbb's avatar

Baked chicken cutlet, rotelle with garlic butter and creamed spinach.

marinelife's avatar

Middle Eastern food.

Seek's avatar

Nathan’s Hot Dogs, and onion rings.

Blame @Kardamom for the onion rings thing. _

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Salad tossed with a bunch of random leafy stuff from the garden and goatsmilk dressing.

Risoto aka last week’s leftovers stir-fried and herbally altered, then served on dirty rice. It was delicious.

Iced tea made from Jamaican sorrel berries and mint.

jca's avatar

@Dutchess_III: In Greek diners they make a lemon chicken orzo soup and it is THE BEST!

Stinley's avatar

I made dinner this morning to slow cook today. Meatballs bolognaise. Then realised we are going out tonight. Ah well I put it in the fridge to be cooked tomorrow. Luckily I’m lazy with my slow cooker and just chuck in the ingredients without any pre-cooking, so no worries about half cooked meat.

ibstubro's avatar

Creamed spinach sounds so good @janbb!

Well, so does Middle Eastern food, @marinelife, but I actually have that as a treat 1–2 times a month. It’s about the only good, ‘exotic’ food I can find here in the Midwest, if I can lump Indian in with Middle Eastern. The communities here are small so they blend Asian, Indian and Middle Eastern for shopping and some dining.

marinelife's avatar

@ibstubro Sounds good. I pretty regularly eat Indian (they are separate here). Do you have Trader Joe’s? They have amazing lamb kofta meatballs and smaosas. Also, good Palak Paneer.

@janbb Did you know that creamed spinach is a regional specialty in San Francisco? I used to always get it when I stayed at the Sir Francis Drake hotel.

janbb's avatar

@marinelife I didn’t. It is a favorite of mine; will have to look for it out there.

I also find good frozen Indian food in my local supermarket. There are a couple of brands and I often get the vegetarian entrees such as palak paneer.

janbb's avatar

Last night was Taco Wednesday and tonight’s going to be Taco Thursday.

Stinley's avatar

See my answer above

Coloma's avatar

Not sure yet, but..last night was watermelon and pistachipo nuts. lol

ibstubro's avatar

I only get to Trader Joe’s once in a great while, @marinelife, and transporting frozen can be a problem.

What’s the good frozen Indian food brand, @janbb?

I have a Lucky’s Market I can access a couple times a month.

janbb's avatar

One is Ethnic Gourmet and the other is Tandoor Kitchen. I also get good samosas from a brand called Bombay Kitchen. None of it is as good as good freshly made Indian restaurant food but it scratches the itch.

rojo's avatar

Not sure, what day is it?

marinelife's avatar

Inspired by my suggestions to @ibstubro, we are going to have lamb koftas, chicken tikka samosas, palak paneer and naan for dinner.

jca's avatar

Trader Joe’s has good frozen Indian food.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Well, today I didn’t eat until 2:00, and I missed my McD’s breakfast…but they serve breakfast all day now! So I had a sausage McMuffin and a hashbrown, then later on I had a couple pieces of toast with butter and strawberry jam, with milk. And a donut. With caramel icing.

Coloma's avatar

A quickie Stouffers french bread pizza and salad. I went shopping today though so am set with some good sftuff for the week again.

janbb's avatar

Thursday Taco Night (leftovers from last night)

ibstubro's avatar

Garlic cheese bread from the local grocery. Basically cheese pizza with no tomato sauce that’s brushed with garlic butter. Parmesan cheese and pizza dipping sauce are free, and ½ a pie (cooked, sliced, and ready to eat) is $2.25.
I’m stuffed.

Seek's avatar

I got a good deal on a pre-cooked turkey, and made that, some stuffing, and a tossed salad.

Despite my best efforts, including an injected brine, the turkey came out disappointingly dry. I won’t buy a pre-cooked turkey again.

It’ll make a decent sandwich spread, I suppose.

ibstubro's avatar

My mother used to grind dry turkey and make sandwich spread. I’ve tasted freezer burn as good.

Seek's avatar

Ew. I’m generally pretty good at chicken salad and such like. Hubby requests that I make extra turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas so he can have turkey salad sandwiches.

ibstubro's avatar

Spread is what gave me the flashback. Cooked, ground turkey moistened with Miracle Whip and some pickle relish. Tasty as the sweepings off the floor of a carpentry shop after a day of heavy sawing a gluing.

Salmon salad sandwich. Canned salmon with dijon/mayo and lemon on oat bran bread with Havarti cheese. Beanito’s Nacho Chips as side and Dove dark chocolate covered cranberries for dessert. It was the first day of 80° weather here today.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Nothing. Sniff. Maybe my roast beef in Ponca tomorrow though!!

Seek's avatar

Today was pork dumplings and egg rolls from the freezer section. I can always count on my kid to eat dumplings.

Ian and I made an Oreo pie last night, and we had slices of that for dessert.

Coloma's avatar

I’ve been grazing all day, had a baked potato at about 5 and now watermelon. I’d sure like some of that Oreo pie @Seek. haha

Stinley's avatar

Sausages!

Dutchess_III's avatar

YAY! It’s tomorrow! It’s noon. We have a meeting with our CPA at 1:00 then it’s off to Ponca for lunch…I’ll just have to take a picture of my roast beef plate for ya’ll. Can’t wait. I am sooooo hungry!

And then to Lowes to spend some of that free money I got this week.

Coloma's avatar

Pushing 80 degrees here today. Had albacore tuna sandwiches on toast with bread and butter pickle relish, sliced tomatoes and lettuce, with dill pickles and pepperoncini flavored potato chips on the side and diced Cantaloupe. Yummy!

ibstubro's avatar

@Coloma made me eat the rest of the leftover salmon salad.
I thought it was tuna until I opened it.

I ate fried cheese curds this afternoon and it upset my stomach/spoiled my appetite. But they were good! lol

Coloma's avatar

What, pray twll, is a fried cheese curd anyway? Seriously skeptical. haha

Stinley's avatar

@Coloma in the wise words of Joey Tribiani – “what’s for dinner? Mm fried stuff with cheese”

For me today it’s going to be a BIRTHDAY dinner!!

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Happy Birthday, @Stinley!

Lamb stew with enbär gelé (juniper jelly) in lieu of mint jelly, buttered fresh pan Cubano, iced Roselle tea.

Today it is overcast and very humid, so I’ll spend most of the afternoon indoors cooking for next week: Mutton and lamb stew, chicken & vegetable soup from some stock I made last week and six loaves of Cuban bread. I’ll use some of the bread dough for dumplings in the chicken soup. I’ve put together a smoker from stuff in the barn for some mackerel I will by later this week. Watermelon rinds are a-pickling as are some eggs—these two are experiments.

I have to use up some goats milk that has been gathering the last few days in the refrigerator. I’ve separated the cream by hand and there isn’t enough for cheese making this time around. The cats love it and there seems to be no downside due to lactose intolerance as the fat molecules in goats milk are shorter than cow’s milk and therefore easier to break down. This goes for lactose-intolerant humans as well. I’ll trade tomorrow’s and the following days’ milk for casaba, rice or flour at the market.

janbb's avatar

Happy Brithday @Stinley!

Coloma's avatar

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Stinley!

Coloma's avatar

Going to grab some soup and spring rolls at the local Chinese place digs here before going to see the new “Jungle Book” movie this afternoon.

jca's avatar

@Coloma: We saw it last night. If your theater has IMAX 3D, I’m saying all over the place that it was really great with that. Effects and sound were great with IMAX 3D. It was a chunk of change (22 dollars each but it was great).

Coloma's avatar

@jca Yes, we have the 3D showing too, cool, looking forward to it at 2:40 this afternoon!

MollyMcGuire's avatar

I just had my dinner, which is the evening meal.. Today I had an early dinner consisting of Italian bread and black forrest ham. I’m alone and that’s all I wanted. :)

Dutchess_III's avatar

Well, it’s 4:00 and I just made some sort of whoopie surprise eggs things for breakfast/dinner. (We haven’t eaten yet.) I sauteed some green onions and tomatoes, beat some eggs up with cream cheese and cheddar cheese. I fried some bacon, mixed the whole mess together and poured it into a couple of muffin pans. We will see. I’m hungry enough that I’ll eat it even if it tastes like crap!

MollyMcGuire's avatar

@Dutchess_III I bet it’ll be good. I love those eggy concoctions.

ibstubro's avatar

Happy Birthday @Stinley!

It was very warm here today so when I got home I made pasta salad.
Dinner tomorrow is all set!

Dutchess_III's avatar

It was actually really, REALLY good @MollyMcGuire! I went to get seconds but it was all gone. I’ll remember that for the future, too. Only…more grease in the muffin pans.

I thought I was done for the day, but Rick had some pork chops in the fridge. I think he was thinking of grilling them, but it’s raining. So I took one and cooked it up. I ate half and put the other half in the fridge for tomorrow’s dinner.

MollyMcGuire's avatar

I’m going to a steak house tonight, so probably a rib eye.

Stinley's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus @janbb @Coloma @ibstubro thanks. Nice day. Dinner was steak pie and birthday cake cooked by my sisters <3

marinelife's avatar

Chinese. Wrestling with taxes all day. Ordered dinner delivered.

Coloma's avatar

My chicken pepper “steak” sandwiches and contemplating whipping up a batch of potato salad with some yummy little mini-gold taters.

Seek's avatar

Beef and bean chili, made with veggies I picked up at the flea market, and homemade bread.

MollyMcGuire's avatar

I had a rib eye cooked to perfection.

Dutchess_III's avatar

The other half of that pork chop, and half of a chili cheese dog. But I ate them about 5 hours apart.

rojo's avatar

Last night: Pork chops, fried okra, Couscous and Leinenkugels Pale Ale (with a Rolo for dessert).

Seek's avatar

Tonight: Probably more chili. I always make way too much and have days of leftovers. Maybe I’ll let it boil off a bit and make some rice and call it burritos.

janbb's avatar

@Seek I’ve been having chili on baked potatoes with cheddar and sour cream. It’s scrumptious!

Seek's avatar

Ooh, sounds like a plan!

Coloma's avatar

My coveted meatloaf with the secret glaze, baked surrounded by chunked potatoes, chunked yellow squash and cabbage wedges with sliced onions.

janbb's avatar

@Coloma Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s meatloaf!

Coloma's avatar

@janbb haha, actually it IS my neighbors that want to covet my meatloaf.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Bean and cheese burrito.

ibstubro's avatar

I had a 10 course dinner!

At Taco Bell. 3 layer nachos and a 7 layer burrito.
Water
Twas good.

Seek's avatar

Hubby asked for a night off of chili. So we had baked pesto rosso pork chops and roasted yellow squash and grape tomatoes.

ibstubro's avatar

Yippee!
I had course mustard and sweet onions for dinner! Yum.

Oh, I had some vegetarian hotdogs, too, as a vehicle.

Coloma's avatar

I had a meatloaf sandwich and cole slaw for lunch around 1 p.m. so “dinner” was just a bowl of Maple Nut yogurt with chopped walnuts and some red grapes. I do have a stash of fortune cookies I am going to snack on later, leftover from chinese takeout a few days ago. lol

Seek's avatar

Turkey pesto salad sandwiches and honeydew melon chunks.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Tons of steamed, fresh mussels in garlic butter and scallions.

jca's avatar

Outback: steak, sweet potato, Caesar salad, water. A few bites of strawberry shortcake parfait.

Stinley's avatar

Cottage pie which is minced (ground) beef with a layer of mashed potato on top. I don’t really like it

Coloma's avatar

@Stinley That’s called Shepherds pie in the sates here, I’ve never tried it though.

rojo's avatar

I make what my kids call a Mexican Shepherds Pie. I substitute corn and beans for the carrots and peas and instead of Bisto I use a combination of Salsa and hot sauce to taste. The rest is pretty much as the original recipe. I might use a pepper jack cheese along with the sharp cheddar as well.

Dammit.

Now I know what supper will be tonight.

Strauss's avatar

Last night we had some cilantro-chicken wontons with veggie fried rice. It was so good, I made some more for lunches today.

I’ve got some brats in the freezer, and some cauliflower and fresh artichoke that need to be used. Now that the snow is gone (mostly) I can fire up the grill!

Stinley's avatar

@Coloma we do call it shepherd’s pie if it’s made with lamb mince not beef.
Apparently there is leftovers for tonight :-(
@Yetanotheruser Brats? Badly behaved children??

Strauss's avatar

@Stinley yeah, if they don’t behave we put ‘em in the freezer. It’s an up-tech version of Hansel and Gretel.

Actually, it’s bratwurst.

ibstubro's avatar

I had Indian buffet for lunch, so dinner was a an avocado with sea salt an a granola bar. Still more than I actually needed. lol

MollyMcGuire's avatar

Well, tonight I am having dinner with a neighbor; she is going to both fry and boil shrimp. Yeah, I’m looking forward to it. She makes hush puppies too but I don’t really like those. But shrimp, salad, and seasoned rice is all great!! Yum.

marinelife's avatar

Grilling outside and first dinner on the deck. Cheeseburgers, cole slaw, and sliced tomatoes!

Strauss's avatar

I think we’ll either eat out or order in tonight. My vote is for a local Asian “fusion” place called Saigon-Tokyo. They have bento box meals featuring Japanese or Vietnamese entrées, along with sushi and hot/sour or egg drop soup.

Coloma's avatar

Quiche! We have so many fresh eggs here from our hens. Making quiche with hash brown crusts tonight. Veggie sausage, zucchini, goat cheese and whatever ever else aside from the kitchen sink. haha

Strauss's avatar

@Coloma Sounds better than a bento box. What time should I be there?

Seek's avatar

Bubble and squeak tonight. Last night was chili on baked potatoes.

(Have I mentioned how much I love this thread? SOO MUCH.)

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Spaghetti squash with tomato sauce and chicken sausage.

rojo's avatar

Gin.

and tonic.

and maybe some lime if I have any in the fridge.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Oh oh I forgot we are roasting the squash seeds in the oven with garlic powder and salt for dessert.

Coloma's avatar

@Yetanotheruser

Almost time, 5 minutes to go. I’ll set you a place. :-)

ibstubro's avatar

Pasta salad with added hickory smoked tuna and Swiss Cake rolls from Aldi.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Chicken Mango. It’s the same recipe as canard à l’orange, only instead of a duck, you use a chicken and instead of oranges, you use mangos.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Last night I just grazed on a pork loin my daughter and her husband had grilled, and we happened to show up. I’d go in the kitchen, grab some, and eat it on my way back out to the deck.

Coloma's avatar

On the go, go, go here, so dinner will be a Subway Tuna sandwich with lettuce, tomato and pepperoncini and salt & vinegar chippys. :-)

Dutchess_III's avatar

I think I’ll skip dinner tonight.

jca's avatar

@Coloma: I’m not a big Subway fan and I’m not a big tuna fan but coincidentally, on the very rare occasions I eat at Subway, they have good tuna. I get tuna with the yellow hot peppers and it’s yummy.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Subway used to have a seafood mix that I always got, but they discontinued it. I can pass on tuna.

Coloma's avatar

@jca I’m not a big Subway fan either but I do like their tuna now and then. Just got home here at 8:30 now and I am hungry again. Yes, the peppers are good, I get the yellow peppers too.

@Dutchess_III Really, never heard of a seafood mix at a Subway? Maybe a Kansas thing? haha

My housemate made another Quiche tonight, with fresh goose eggs in the hash brown crust with veggie sausage and asparagus and cheese, I have to have a little sliver in a minute here. Man, have we got eggs! haha

jca's avatar

@Coloma: How are goose eggs different than chicken eggs, other than their size? Taste? Consistency? Do tell. I don’t believe I’ve ever had a goose egg. I’ve eaten quail eggs in a gourmet restaurant.

marinelife's avatar

Meatloaf, mashed potatoes and green beans.

Coloma's avatar

@jca Well, they have a lot more cholesterol, haha, but they are about the same in flavor and have a creamier texture than chicken eggs and the texture is a little more dense like when you scramble them. One large goose egg is almost too much for one person to eat.They also are great for baking, the biggest, fluffiest cakes ever. I used to make giant, deviled goose eggs, quite impressive. haha

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@Coloma Gosh, they discontinued it…15 years ago, maybe?

I pulled out some imitation crab meat from the freezer yesterday thawing it in the fridge. Going to mix it up with some broccoli slaw…...which I don’t understand why they call it “broccoli” slaw when it’s mostly bean sprouts and literally NO broccoli.

Seek's avatar

Broccoli slaw is usually shredded broccoli stems…

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That’s about it, @jca! But I’m having my own version and it’s not on bread. Just the broccli slaw and the crab with Mazzariti dressing.

Ah. That could be it @Seek. You so smart!

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Its been a while since I’ve bumped up this thread. Anyway I’m having pizza on a bun.

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@NerdyKeith I thought Ireland ran out of corn! Welcome back!

Coloma's avatar

@NerdyKeith Double the fun? Does that come with a side of sexy twins chewing minty gum? lola

Well…went all out here at the ranch tonight, 30 minutes til the serving launch commences. I am leaving for 5 days tomorrow so treated my housemates to one of their favorite meals I make. my killer meatloaf with the secret glaze, roasted red potatoes, fresh string beans and…..lemon meringue pie! Dinner shall be served at 6 sharp, just after I finish this ‘Buxom Blonde” ale. hah

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@Espiritus_Corvus nah plenty of corn to last a lifetime haha

@Coloma lol

Omg that meal sounds to doe for. Sounds amazing

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Sheppard’s Pie, but instead of potatoes I’ll use mashed cassava. For cheese, I’ll use an aged cheddar-like goat cheese and instead of lamb I’ll use mutton.

marinelife's avatar

Chicken a la king over rice.

Coloma's avatar

3 p.m. in not so sunny California and I have been in go mode for hours with no time for lunch. Arrived about an hour ago for 4 days of house sitting and made a quickie tuna sandwich, some flatbread crackers and dinner…an exciting Lean Cuisine and a bowl of blackberries. haha Oh, I did bring a slice of that Lemon Meringue pie. :-D

Seek's avatar

Ham steak with mustard, brussels sprouts, and red potatoes.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Fried pork chops & green beans. Eating at the Elks it’s feed night.

MollyMcGuire's avatar

We’re going out to have deep dish pizza and salad tonight. I prefer just red onions and mushrooms. He prefers every single meat. Guess we’ll have the Supreme. [There’s that compromise thing again.] ;)

Dutchess_III's avatar

Two pieces of toasted Frontneck bread with butter and strawberry jam. And milk. Yum.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Elks don’t eat pork chops, @Tropical_Willie!!

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I ate junk all day today – a granola bar, Beanito’s chips, a Swiss cake roll, jalapeno/cream cheese poppers, etc. – so I settled on a nice nutritious supper.
Garlic flavored Jack cheese slathered with grained mustard and washed down with a Diet Cranberry Sierra Mist.
Top that!

Tropical_Willie's avatar

@Dutchess_III Es day do! They were excellent.

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I’m going to have two bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches on wheat only instead of bacon I’m going to use roast pork and instead of tomatoes I’m going to use pickled cucumbers and instead of wheat I’m going to use Cuban bread.

Coloma's avatar

^ Aren’t pickled cucumbers pickles? lol

I babysat my little 9 year old friend ” Sydney” tonight and made battered salmon sticks, broccoli rice and a big salad with pea pods, butter lettuce, shredded red cabbage and cucumbers. My healthy salmon “fish sticks” were a hit with the kid.

marinelife's avatar

Last night it was ground turkey chili, because it was so cold.

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I’m going to have an enormous chicken caesar salad. Only instead of chicken, I’m going to use the last of this season’s stone crab claw meat and instead of ceasar’s dressing, I’m going to use mustard sauce:

1 tablespoon Colman’s dry mustard, or more to taste,
1 cup mayonnaise
2 teaspoons Worcestershire
1 teaspoon A-1 sauce
2 tablespoons light cream
salt.

marinelife's avatar

BBQ’d Spareribs and asparagus.

Dutchess_III's avatar

I have decided to try and eat only 1 meal a day. Skip breakfast and eat about 3:00 P.M. Did OK today, but ate about 1:00. At 5:00 I had some popcorn though, so I guess that’s my dinner for today.

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PS…I discovered a can of crab meat. What can I do with it?

Seek's avatar

CRABCAKES!

Seek's avatar

Today, I’m making rotelle and meatballs in homemade-ish sauce. A quick dinner looking forward to this weekend.

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@Dutchess_III Put the shredded crab meat into a bowl.
Chop some celery.
Chop some scallions or spring onions.
Mince some parsley.

Make the sauce above to taste.

Or for 1 lb crabmeat:

½ cup of ranch dressing
⅓ cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon white sugar
Squeeze in ½ lemon (whip it in so it doesn’t break the mayo/ranch
Paprika powder
Black pepper
Sprinkle a little Old Bay seasoning into it to taste (optional)

Fold evenly into salad.
Serve chilled.

Coloma's avatar

Leftover salad here and some garlic bread and then vanilla yogurt with blackberries. I’m all cooked out after my Salmon fiesta last night.

@Dutchess_III Eating one meal a day is not healthy for you. Why such a hardcore eating regime?

ibstubro's avatar

Pasta with some sort of pink sauce that came from a jar. Tasted pretty good. Bread and butter with it and a Swiss roll for dessert.
Can you tell I’m not in cooking mode?

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Hot dogs, baked beans and potato chips. Grandsons are visiting they are 9, 7 and 4. Four year old’s choice of dinner, he was delight we said yes. Oranges and bananas for dessert.

Stinley's avatar

Fajitas. They were good. I had two

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A late lunch of delicious, pickled Ripley’s turtle eggs and Ripley’s turtle steak. But instead of Ripley’s turtle eggs and filet, I’m going to use mackerel steaks lightly seared in garlic butter smothered with sauteed leek.

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Hubs came home with some deli turkey slices last night, so I got one, slapped a piece of Swiss cheese in the middle, rolled it up and had a quicky finger food dinner! Really good, too. That was dinner last night.

Today…it’s off to Oklahoma again! Only we’re taking my son and his family this time. Looking forward to it.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Snagged that recipe @Espiritus_Corvus. Sounds wonderful! Thanks.

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@Dutchess_III The mustard sauce is my favorite, you should try it.

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@Coloma: In response to one of @Dutchess_III‘s similar posts, I’d asked her if her vitamin levels were ok and she said they were. I, too, don’t understand why the harsh eating regimen.

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Coloma's avatar

Splurging here tonight and no cooking. Picked up a turkey and avocado deli sandwich with lettuce and tomato on french bread, a little thing of deli potato salad and, I couldn’t resist, a singular piece of cherry pie from the bakery. Tomorrow will be fruit and cottage cheese night. haha

marinelife's avatar

Chicken thighs marinated in olive oil, lemon juice and garlic with spanokopita.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Last night it was a cheese enchilada from Taco Tico. We’d gone the day before where I got a bean and cheese burrito for dinner, and the enchilada to go for the next day. I love Taco Tico!

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MollyMcGuire's avatar

I’ll be by myself tonight and I’m eating mint chocolate chip sugar free ice cream right now at 3PM, so dinner will be either another serving tonight or peanut butter on toast.

Coloma's avatar

I’m having a snackie dinner too, probably more spinach dip, Jicama sticks, french bread and dried apricots. Maybe a banana or some other fruit too. A grazing dinner.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Beef pin-wheels (wrapped around cheese and spinach), asparagus (covered in blue cheese) and fried (in butter) mushrooms with onions.

Seek's avatar

Last night was salmon fillet cooked in butter, a baby greens salad with blue cheese crumbles, pineapple slices, and linguine. I tossed some mussels into a pot as an appetizer and used the cooking liquor to flavor the linguine.

Celebratory Got Rid of Mother in Law Dinner.

Strauss's avatar

Last night it was hearty home made chicken “stewp” (or is it “stoup”?), left over from the night before. Tonight I’ll fire up the wood-burning grill and do some beer brats (damn kids!) and fire roasted potatoes.

Coloma's avatar

@Seek Yay….ding dong the witch is dead gone!

@Yetanotheruser That sounds yummy.

Only 8:06 a.m. right now, so have no clue what the dinner choice might be yet.

jca's avatar

@Seek: You didn’t say much (unless I missed it) about the transfer and how much you miss the MIL.

Seek's avatar

I miss her so much. So. So very much.

I miss having someone wake me up first thing in the morning to drive her around. I especially miss having Ian’s school time interrupted with her shouting out answers from across the house. More than anything I miss being shouted at and being threatened with violence.

I miss it so so very much.

Ian told a joke on the way home from dropping her off with her sister.

Knock knock!
Who’s there?
NOT GRANDMA!

Coloma's avatar

^^^ Haha..that child is brilliant! Don’t forget how much you’ll miss finding random leftovers in the toilet, like meatloaf. LMAO!

Dutchess_III's avatar

Fish sammich and French fries. ... Wait….what @Seek? What did you do with her?

Seek's avatar

I left her in a WalMart parking lot in Tennessee.

Seek's avatar

Her sister was also in the parking lot. I’m not a total monster.

Coloma's avatar

Dinner here tonight, easy laen Cuisine Spaghetti, garlic bread and a little salad. Viola..I shall resume my week off from everything.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Did you get rid of her forever, @Seek???

Seek's avatar

YES. Her sister is putting her into assisted living as soon as possible. She just needs more help than any of us can handle.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Oh, holy crap! That as the BEST news I’ve heard in a long, long time! I think I shall burst out laughing uncontrollably now! High Five!

Coloma's avatar

I like the throw mama from the train. lol
I feel VERY strongly about putting up with lunatic people, gah!

Dinner here will be chinese takeout. Relishing the rest of my week off and am doing nothing but relaxing. My daughter is taking me out for dinner and a movie Sat. night for Mothers day, so, my vacation week and indulging some will probably result in gaining a few pounds this week. Oh well, life is short, enjoy ey? haha

Dutchess_III's avatar

Mother’s Day. That one day a year when I say, “I want to go to the Botanical gardens!” And we never go to the Botanical Gardens.
Last year Rick asked what I wanted to do for Mom’s day.
“I want to go to the Botanical Gardens!”
“You say that every year!”
“OK. When was the last time we went to the Botanical Gardens?”
Silence.

Dutchess_III's avatar

OK, back on track. For dinner…not corn. Other than that I haven’t decided yet.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Yes I have. A bowl of Wheat Chex. (Not Corn Chex, though…)

Strauss's avatar

No cooking night! Wife is picking me up at the house before we go to daughter’s class presentation. Then probably celebratory meal with MIL and other daughter.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Chris’ hoards descended upon me! I ended up making bean and cheese burritos for everyone. I took some taxes out of of them like I did when the kids were growing up. I took taxes out of all of their breakfast and lunch foods, instead of dishing myself up a whole separate plate.

Seek's avatar

Today was smorgasbord night. We cooked everything that was open in the freezer and reheated all the leftovers.

Starting fresh tomorrow.

ibstubro's avatar

Slop.
Also known as white rice mixed with garlic-parm sauce and lemon-pepper tuna. Extra pepper. Really made me wish I’d stopped and bought a bunch of fresh cut asparagus.
But it was good.

Stinley's avatar

@Seek I like that idea but I always end up making soup that never tastes quite right. Still, I can’t mess up the Start Again bit…

I had quiche and vegetables with a glass of rosé wine. Tonight I think we will have a pizza, maybe in the garden. It’s supposed to be hotter than Ibiza in England this week

Seek's avatar

I ended up with a Tater tot, frozen pea, and leftover chicken casserole, with a side of pork potstickers and chicken egg rolls. The only leftover that was left-over was a bit of salmon, which I might toss into some pasta for lunch today.

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I found this old lady wandering around a Walmart parking lot in Tennessee. She didn’t seem to have anything going on for dinner, so I’ll be having her—deep fried with sweet corn and hush puppies.

Seek's avatar

Bahahaha.

Go easy on the salt, she’s already incredibly bitter.

Coloma's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus Don’t forget the Fava beans and Chianti. lol

Dinner here, green salad with Balsamic vinaigrette and salsa verde doritos dipped with cottage cheese, Yummy!

Stinley's avatar

I decided that pizza was too boring so made a Spanish omelette. Fusion cuisine… Onions bacon cubed potatoes eggs cheese herbs salt pepper. Took ages to cook and was all the better for it. Served with salad. Lovely jubbly

Seek's avatar

Dinner last night didn’t happen. I wasn’t feeling well, and hubby and Ian fended for themselves.

I think Jason had a Guinness and Ian ate most of a pumpkin pie.

I swear those boys would die without me to feed them.

jca's avatar

I went out to dinner, and had some Caesar salad, a piece of friend Brie, a coconut curry soup with beans, rice and carrots in it and some French toast with ice cream for dessert. A few bites of everything and I was stuffed.

marinelife's avatar

Chicken thighs cooked with siracha sauce and peas and carrots.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Well, I’m working an event at our local park from 2 – 5. It’s a statewide deal, being held in our town this year. It’s a pretty big deal, and I have a baaaad feeling they’ll have fair food there. Oh, gimme some funnel cake! And onion blossoms! And barbecue pork sandwiches! And corn on a stick dunked in butter! And brownies! And lemonade!
Then I will come home and drink lite beer because it isn’t as fattening as regular beer.

MollyMcGuire's avatar

It was a ham/cheese/mushroom/onion omelet and grits.

Coloma's avatar

Had an early Mothers day dinner with my daughter at a local Italian place. Oh man, ate SO much. Had bread, salad, appetizers of stuffed, marinated mushrooms, fried raviole, zucchini and shrimp scampi with pasta and veggies. Then we took a nice walk and talked til after midnight, all the walking and talking had to have burned off a few extra calories. haha

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Grits? @MollyMcGuire. Flavored how? They seems so bland to me.

I splurged last night and treated myself to the Chinese Buffet. Unfortunately, it was late and the frog legs were cold and dry. They made new salt-and-pepper shrimp and the stir fried green beans were good, though.
I think all the protein helped me sleep, which was a big plus.

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Yep! It was fair food yesterday!

Today, for Mother’s Day, Rick, my son and his family, and I went to an out of the way restaurant in an old mill. They don’t have menus. They just serve you what ever they made for that day. Today it was BBQ chicken, green beans, some sort of potato, a green salad and a very yummy slice of home made pie and ice cream. That was 4 hours ago and I’m still so stuffed I can hardly move!

My goofy 2.5 year old grand daughter pretty much just ate butter and ranch dressing! Bleh! But at least she used her eating utensils and not just her fingers. When the waitress asked if we were ready for dessert I said, “Yeah, and this one just wants butter with some ranch dressing and sugar on it.” Waitress looked at me like I was crazy!

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@ibstubro With an omelet, I had them with just a little butter, salt, and pepper. When I have as as the whole meal at night I add kielbasa, cheese, and garlic. Sometimes I add some chopped spinach. Grits are a favorite. They are corn, a pure food. The Indians ate grits. They ground corn in every imaginable coarseness. Plain grits under any kind of meat is delish, just like rice would be. We Southerners have been eating that forever but today restaurants act like it’s a new delicacy. Funny. Note: Never buy the instant version of grits (or anything else as far as I’m concerned)

MollyMcGuire's avatar

Pork roast. I just took it out of the freezer. That’s all I know at 8 AM. :)

Seek's avatar

The boys took me out for Greek food yesterday for an early dinner yesterday. We try to avoid the crowds on holidays by eating at weird times and at small restaurants. So, 3:00pm dinner at a hole-in-the-wall Greek restaurant. We had awesome Spanakopita, gyros, and lemon chicken orzo soup. Ian had a pita pizza.

All in all pretty good. I’m a bit spoiled for Greek food due to growing up so close to Tarpon Springs. When I ordered the soup I was hoping for avgolemono, which is a creamier soup thickened with egg. It was just a regular broth. Good enough, though.

And I got free baklava, so who’s complaining?

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What, no saganaki? I thought this was special. Spanakopita and tzatziki are anough to make the meal, but why not have a little flare?
Marinated Salad?
I’m salivating like a Pavlovian dog.

It was unseasonably cold here so I started a pot of water to make spaghetti, my warm-up food. About that time I spied a can of vegetarian chili on the counter, realized I was running out of time to use it up this season, and had that instead. Doctored with garlic, chipotle sauce and cheese, it was decent.

marinelife's avatar

On the one day in the last 12 that has been sunny, we grilled bratwursts out and had them with broccoli.

Strauss's avatar

Last night we had cumin-cilantro shrimp. Here’s the recipe

one pound shrimp, peeled and deveined (we used medium, but I think the larger ones would be better)
4 garlic cloves, minced (or more to taste)
1 tsp salt plus to taste for seasoning
½ cup fresh lime juice
¼ cup orange marmalade (substitute fresh OJ with pulp plus 2 tbsp honey plus ½ tsp orange zest)
½ cup fresh cilantro finely chopped
5 tbs olive oil (divided)
1 tbs low sodium soy sauce (substitute tamari)
¾ tsp cumin
½ tsp red pepper flakes
pinch of sugar

Combine garlic and salt, crush garlic to form paste with salt. Whisk in lime juice, marmalade, cilantro, 3 tbs olive oil, tamari, cumin, redpepper flakes, and sugar

Add shrimp and marinade for at least one hour.

Remove shrimp, strain marinade into sauce pan and simmer over low heat to reduce.

While marinade is reducing, heat large skillet, with 1 tbsp of remaining olive oil. When skillet and oil are very hot (but not smoking) add half the shrimp. Cook on one side for about two minutes, flip over with tongs or spatula, continue to cook until shrimp is done. Remove shrimp to serving plate, repeat with the rest of the shrimp. When finished, drizzle with reduced marinade and serve with rice.

@MollyMcGuire I think this would also have been good with grits instead of rice!

Coloma's avatar

@Yetanotheruser Thanks! Sounds delicious!

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@Yetanotheruser That sounds like a great dish. I will copy it this week.

I’m having bouillabaisse. I made enough for about eight of my-size meals. I just threw everything in it. Conch, mackerel, pompano, four chicken legs and thighs, a little kielbasa for salt and a hint of smoke, fresh leek, tomatoes, fennel, persilja, garlic, more garlic, mango, tangerine juice and zest—all from the garden, a couple of glasses of red wine, saffron, black pepper. Hot buttered Cuban bread. A hearty Sangiovese. I’m about to go to pig heaven.

Coloma's avatar

Warm day here, in the low 80’s. The beginning of summer picnic fare.
I made chicken salad from leftover chicken breast with minced celery, seasonings and had a sandwich with cole slaw and soon I am going to dive into some chilled watermelon I cut up earlier. :-)

marinelife's avatar

Shrimp scampi and spinach wilted and sauteed with diced onions and a swirl of plain Greek yogurt.

Seek's avatar

Bacon wrapped pork tenderloin, green salad, fruit salad.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Yesterday was a Taco Burger from Tico Taco. The closest Taco Tico is about 15 miles away in another town, so whenever I go to that town I stock up, so I also brought home a bean and cheese burrito and a cheese enchilada for today’s dinner.

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I had a huge conch salad for lunch. Tenderized conch steaks cut into strips julienne and marinated overnight in something similar to @Yetanotheruser‘s concoction above. I tossed them with a bunch of random leafy vegetables from the garden with a bit of the marinade.

I’ll have more bouillabaisse tonight with hot buttered Cuban bread and the other half of the Sangiovese.

Dutchess_III's avatar

I had a bowl of vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce, and that cheese enchilada from Taco Tico.

MollyMcGuire's avatar

I had no dinner tonight other than a piece of wonderful French bread I tore off of a loaf around 7. Just not really hungry and am alone tonight. Tomorrow night we’re going to the fish house with friends and that’s always a high calorie dinner…....probably fried shrimp from the Gulf.

Strauss's avatar

Simple fare tonight—wontons and rice. Long day in the garden, didn’t feel much like cooking.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Didn’t I have another post about the garlic toast I ate late last night? Or did I put it in the wrong place?

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III I just read your garlic bread post, but I don’t remember where now. lol
Was it the why am I not hungry in the morning zone.

Tonight, beer battered fish fillets with potato salad and asian salad mix.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Prolly! brb.….It’s not there either! I probably put it in the retro-aversion thread or some off the wall place like that….

MollyMcGuire's avatar

I already answered I see….........fish tonight

Coloma's avatar

@MollyMcGuire Dinner out at a seafood place right?

Coloma's avatar

Who wants to guess if @NerdyKeith will have corn on his menu tonight? lol

Strauss's avatar

Andouille sausage on the grill along with grilled potato wedges and grilled artichoke.

Coloma's avatar

@Yetanotheruser Oooh…am I invited? :-)

Dutchess_III's avatar

Tonight I have a graduation barbecue to go to! So I don’t know, but it will be YUM!!

ibstubro's avatar

Jumbo shrimp sauteed in butter with fresh garlic and sea salt.
Fresh asparagus with butter, fresh garlic, lemon juice, sea salt and fresh grated Havarti cheese.
Damn, I wish I’d had a nice yeast roll!

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I had takes a deep breath barbecue ribs, brisket, CORN ON THE COB, baked beans, potato salad and cole slaw. On a super tiny plate, so I ate every scrap of it. Then I had a cup cake and a couple bites of a giant, pizza sized chocolate chip cookie. I wanted more, but I was too lazy to go and get it.
Then I hung out with my sister and her husband and daughters, and a bunch of their friends, for the first time in 20 years. It was awesome.
As a parting shot….they had one of those bean bag throw things that the guys, including my brother in law, were playing. You have two ramps set opposite of each other, like horse shoes, slanting up, with a hole in the top of the ramp. You’re supposed to throw bean bags and try to make the hole. (A LOT safer than yard darts, which I remember!)
We were getting ready to leave and I slipped in between two of the guys who were opposite of my BIL, and his other friend, and picked up a bean bag.
As soon as everyone had thrown, the guy, who didn’t know I had joined his team, turned to pick up the last bean bag, but I had it in my hand. I knew I didn’t have the strength to throw half way across the yard underhand, so I wound up with an over hand, fast pitch throw. It hit the bottom of the ramp, and every one said, “Awww…:” and then the damn bag started sliding UP the ramp, fast!! Slid all the way to within a half-inch of the hole! The corner of it was actually over the hole! Cool shit like that happens to me a lot.
I left everyone in an uproar and I exited the stage on that note. ♪

It was wonderful.

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III haha

Well…I am heading out to urgent care to get an antibiotic for a sinus infection that has been brewing the last few days. I feel like shit, pounding head, body aches, chills, plugged ears. I can’t taste anything so dinner tonight will probably just be something dull like cereal or yogurt with fruit. Ugh…. send tea and sympathy.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Oh, poor baby. :( Maybe beer will help.

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III Ugh…no, besides it will weaken the Z-Pac. lol

@Stinley Thanks.

Heading out now, I shall return in a few hours to languish on my bed, see you then. haha

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Well, this afternoon, for our first meal, we went to a steak place with an all you can eat buffet. The first thing I asked for was a fresh cut of roast beef. Man, that was a HUGE, THICK piece of meat! I put some fried onions and mushrooms on it. There was no room for anything else on that plate, so I took it to the table and got another plate.
On that plate I put mashed potatoes and gravy, seafood salad, a roll and…I forget. Something else. I ate that first, before I started on the meat.
I ate about 4 bites of the beef and I was done! Then I had a bit of some sort of peach dessert thing.
I didn’t think they’d let me get a to-go box for the meat, since it was a buffet, but they did. I took it to my son’s house for him and who ever.

Then we hung out there. babysat the kids while they went grocery shopping.

Then my son invited us to have dinner with them It was cheese enchiladas, with beef and rice. It was pretty good but I could only eat a little because FOOD earlier!

Seek's avatar

Hubby had a gig last night, and another dude crashed at our place rather than driving home, so I made my famous hangover breakfast this afternoon, when the guys finally woke up. Most of the underground metal bands that come through Tampa have had it at least once.

It’s basically a sausage quiche. But don’t tell them that. Haha.

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My son told me that his friend’s mom used to make banana bread with sausage in it. He said it sounds nasty but it is SO GOOD. Next time I make banana bread I’ll put some in a cupcake tin with some sausage in it for Rick. See how it turns out.

Coloma's avatar

Butternut Squash Soup and a few crackers maybe. The drugs for this sinus infection are making me nauseous and I can’t taste anything anyway so it is just a matter of taking the hunger edge the stomach.

ibstubro's avatar

Dinner at the Mexican restaurant.
Grilled fish with cheese sauce, guacamole salad, rice and salsa. I like to moosh it all together and then eat it with chips, like dip. Jumbo margarita. Home to bed, stuffed and buzzed.
Sorry @Coloma. But you’ll have better days, too!

MollyMcGuire's avatar

I skipped dinner because I was on the phone all evening. I’m now having a mug of toffee caramel ice cream and the coffee is brewing.

Coloma's avatar

Iwa nt some of your ice cream @MollyMcGuire ! I remember the old fashioned “Butter Brickle” from my childhood. It is gone now, fallen off into the abyss of ice creams past apparently.

@ibstubro Thank You, slightly better…

Dinner tonight a half of tuna salad sandwich, a mandarin orange and a macadamia nut cookie. Bleh, still not much of an appetite.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

@Coloma here you go for Butter Brickle in Sacramento, CA

We had salad and stuffed clams with strawberries for dessert.

Coloma's avatar

@Tropical_Willie Oooh….thanks! I might have to travel for that! haha

Dutchess_III's avatar

Please don’t say “clams!”

A bean and cheese burrito. I feel like I might be getting pneumonia again and I do not feel like eating.

Coloma's avatar

Spaghetti! Chilly and stormy here, just got a nice pot of sauce on, chock full of peppers and onions, mushrooms, zucchini and diced tomatoes. Dinner at 6!

Dutchess_III's avatar

This evening is a TV dinner that’s been lurking in the fridge for a couple of months. Salisbury steak, whipped tatoes, gravy and corn. Works.

Coloma's avatar

Chicken breast, mashed taters and cole slaw here, and…..we picked a giant box of cherries from the little cherry orchard yesterday. Eating tons of them. :-)

ibstubro's avatar

Salmon marinated in lemon juice, Greek seasoning, and olive oil.
Pan fried in a bit of coconut oil.
Delicious.

MollyMcGuire's avatar

Tomorrow will be a surprise. Tonight was cheese grits and scrambled eggs.

Coloma's avatar

Spring rolls and strawberries. haha

Seek's avatar

Tacos again last night. Night before that was chicken teriyaki.

Tonight I think it’s the law that we all have hot dogs, so I grabbed some Nathan’s at the store.

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We didn’t eat until about 2:00 yesterday. We went to a local place for “breakfast,” but then took a look at their all you can eat lunch / dinner buffet. I normally don’t get that, but I did yesterday.
I took a small chunk of pork and a small chunk of some sort of beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, a warm roll and a fried chicken breast. A whole breast! Usually I go for the wings because they’re much smaller portions. A couple fill me up. But I ate the whole breast this time! And about half of the other meat and most of my potatoes. All but one bite of my roll.

It was good!

ibstubro's avatar

Sale ran late and I needed to run to town so I had a 7-Layer Burrito from Taco Bell.
Twas good.

Coloma's avatar

Quesadillas and salad.

Stinley's avatar

Steak haché, pommes noisette, carottes, salade. Or burger, potato balls, carrots and salad. Sounds better in French and tastes better too.

Dutchess_III's avatar

A bowl of Campbell’s Bean with Bacon soup with crackers mixed in.

I FROZE WHAT I DIDN’T EAT!!!!

Seek's avatar

$1 taco Tuesday at the restaurant in town. Also $9/32oz margarita.

Woo hoo!

Coloma's avatar

Ugh…so-hot-here, had a tuna sandwich and a couple sun chips and will have some frozen blackberries later.

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III Watch that bean w/Bacon soup. Look out for “black” beans which might be Pill bugs. haha I found a rolly polly bug in my Campbells BWB soup once, I thought it was a bad bean. Kinda ruined things for me cause I always loved that soup.

Seek's avatar

Were they dried beans?

ibstubro's avatar

Was there “dried” in the package with the beans, @Seek!

I wasn’t really hungry so I picked up this odd little thing at Aldi. ‘Quinoa Meal Complete’, or something like that.
A little cup of cooked quinoa (relax, there was moist in the package) and a littler cup of artichoke-roasted red pepper ‘sauce’. Mix together and eat, hot or cold.
Pretty good taste. Reminded me of couscous – tabbouleh even.
Good thing I wasn’t hungry, though, and they claimed serving for 2! lol
$1.99

Seek's avatar

Next time stuff that quinoa into half an acorn squash, and add in some goat’s cheese and pistachios.

You could have a Vegetarian Thanksgiving with that. Om nom nom.

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Yesterday was a bowl of Wheat Chex. It was annoying. I poured as much as I wanted and what was left in the box wasn’t enough to make another real bowl, so I poured the rest in. Then I ate what I wanted and dumped the rest down the garbage disposal. I guess that’s preferable to leaving just a bit in the box.

Coloma's avatar

Yesterday I had a bagel and cream cheese and some applesauce for breakfast and then an egg salad sandwich and a nectarine for lunch. By the time I finished up another 6–7 hours of painting and work on my RV project I was too tired to eat dinner, so I had 2 Pacifico beers and a tootsie pop and went to bed. lol
Today is tuna sandwich for lunch while putting in anther day and I have some cole slaw in the fridge for tonight with cheese and crackers and some fresh cherries.

It is hot and so picnic food is where it’s at.

ibstubro's avatar

OMG
Last night I took Portabella mushroom caps from Aldi and cooked them on a George Foreman type grill. Olive oil and Greek seasoning. Melted Colby-cheddar on top.
Heaven. Best thing I’ve eaten in ages.
I’m back to Aldi today.

That would make a great lunch, stuffed in a tomato shell, too, @Seek!

Stinley's avatar

@ibstubro that’s more like it. Too many people just not trying hard enough on this thread. I’ll forgive @Coloma since she’s been poorly. Others – you need to get your game on. This was a thread almost as drooly as the pie thread

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We’re talking seriously delicious, @Stinley.

Have you ever heard of Creamed Asparagus?
I had not.
I uncovered the recipe whilst in the process of writing this comment.
Now I’m craving it.
With a baked potato sea salt/butter/sour cream.
And a broiled Portabella mushroom cap.
Don’t hold the applause.

Stinley's avatar

I’m not that fond of the sparrow grass but that sounds good. I do like a creamy dish. Mushrooms and cream with garlic. Yum

Seek's avatar

Breakfast this morning was a fritatta made with eggs, sausage, green and yellow onions, shredded zucchini, and goat’s cheese. It was served with chopped fresh tomatoes on top.

Photo

Dutchess_III's avatar

I finished off the second half of that Bean with Bacon soup that I froze.

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That looks good @Seek!

MollyMcGuire's avatar

Pasta. That’s all I know at the moment. :)

ibstubro's avatar

Sam’s Club had mini Shrimp Pot Pies, 24 for $6 – had to be clearance. I wanted them badly, but they had to bake in a conventional oven, and it was 80°+ here today. I got less than a mile down the road and the bank sign said it was 79°, so I wheeled around, went back, and bought them
They’re the same size as a mini cupcake. They really look homemade I had a little visual of an Asian woman crimping the crusts with a tiny fork. Cute as buttons.

Alas, the “filling” would probably fit on the end of a little finger, and is nearly tasteless. Even with salt, pepper and garlic powder. A little Alfredo would have been just the ticket, but I didn’t want to add even more empty calories to an already mediocre dish.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

I’m beat from building chicken condos in the heat. I made a quick Risotto of stir fried lamb and vegetables it’s own sauce. Iced sorrel berry tea sweetened with Splenda. It’s too hot for milk.

BellaB's avatar

ready to check out the scalloped potatoes – waiting for them to cool down is making me fidgety

Coloma's avatar

Still kicking extreme ass on my project. Just got in a bot ago and am having an ice cold Pacifico and then fruit and cheese and crackers. If I have the strength to cut up my melon. lol

MollyMcGuire's avatar

It’s early but I’m thinking shrimp creole.

Coloma's avatar

Ugh….I got chinese takeout last night, cashew chicken and rice and it was SO SALTY. I ate about half if it and this morning my eyes are so puffy. Gak!
What a disappointing dinner and waste of money. Never going back to this place again.

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The church down the (2 lane black-top) road is having their ice cream social today. I’m thinking ice cream and cake for dinner?
The government will not allow them to use eggs in the ice cream, so they have to buy a mix from Prairie Farms. What a crock. One of the ladies told me she would make me some homemade ice cream one day soon, with eggs, “But you have to cook the eggs.” “Oh, please, how many times has it killed you in the past??” I asked her.

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@Coloma I don’t eat Chinese takeaway because it gives me nightmares!

Tonight I made chicken and rice in a herby creamy wine sauce. With a glass of wine on the side :-)

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

I’m having a

MEAL, READY TO EAT, INDIVIDUAL
PENNE WITH VEGETABLE SAUSAGE CRUMBLES IN SPICY TOMATO SAUCE LOW SODIUM
Sopako, Inc.
Mullins, SC 29574–3004

A friend gave it to me.

Never had an MRE before. Hell, I’ve never even seen a picture of one. I think, however, they should have at least nine exclamation points in the first line. Other than the plain generics, the 2” bold, black, impact font screams at you:

MEAL!!! READY TO EAT!!! INDIVIDUAL!!!

It’s nice that they care so much about our service personnel’s health, though. Low sodium. That surprised me. You wouldn’t find that in the old K-ration of the Vietnam Era. They had salt tablets in them. Couldn’t get enough salt back in those days. And vegetarian sausage crumbles? No way. I think the guys would have taped these things to grenades and launched them at the VC.

I haven’t opened the clear Visqueen package yet. It’s got a plain brown box about 8” x 4” x ½”, and a 3” square 3/8” thick pack covered in quilted shiny silver material. I’m supposing the brown box is the pasta meal and the silver square is the chem-pack that will heat this meal up in seconds once activated. Once I open it up, I will read the directions very carefully.

I’m very curious about this. Wouldn’t it be cool if this was actually palatable? It doesn’t involve any pots and pans. If I can eat it, this will be the perfect hiking/sailing food, or excellent backup if anything happens to the regular stores. It weighs almost nothing. I can get my hands on a case of these fairly cheap.

Well, here goes…

I’M GOING TO EAT NOW!!!

Oh! Three tootsie rolls! That was a nice thought…

Coloma's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus Haha Enjoy your MRI, report back with your critique and have a Tootsie Roll for me. :-p

Coloma's avatar

Oops, I meant MRE. Well, maybe you will need and MRI after the MRE. lol

Seek's avatar

Low sodium could be bad though… Out in the heat and everything you might actually need the salt to keep your electrolyte balance. Once I kind of fell out at the Renn Faire, and my boss literally gave me a salt shaker and a bottle of water, and I’m pretty sure it saved me from going to the emergency room.

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I bought an odd product in the Walmart produce department tonight. From “The Little Potato Company”, it was tiny (nickel sized) fresh potatoes in a microwavable tray with a seasoning packet. Nuke 5 minute, open, season and butter (optional). They were pretty good, and under $3. It was my dinner, but would be better as a side. Worth a try, IMO.

Coloma's avatar

BBQ’d chicken, broccoli, carrot and raisin salad and watermelon. Yummy!

Stinley's avatar

I’m going out for dinner. I’m starting my new job on Monday and this is my leaving do. I’m a bit sad to say goodbye.

BellaB's avatar

stole a piece of sushi from Setanta last night when I got home from dance class. Had leftover wasabi and soy sauce, so I cooked up some hot dogs and dipped them in wasabi/soy slurry. Bizarrely tasty or else I was super hungry.

MollyMcGuire's avatar

I stopped at the German butcher shop and bought pork chops and smoked kielbasa; that is now in the oven. I also bought dark chocolate covered marzipan. I had not had that in years and to my surprise, it was a delightful sweet treat. I’m glad I just bought a small bar of it.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

I didn’t eat the MRE the other night. I was too damn hungry and it didn’t look very substantial, so saved it for later and had lamb stew instead.

Tonight it’s big, fat, juicy kielbasas in Cuban bread and homemade sauerkraut and hot mustard. I can usually put down four of them. And Coca-Cola. Ha. Maybe I’ll watch Field of Dreams or Moneyball or The Natural—something with baseball to go with my big hotdogs.

Where’s our corn-fed Irishman?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

Corn-fed Irishman?

Seek's avatar

Hubby is working late tonight, so it’s kid-friendly dinner.

Homemade turkey nuggets with green beans and fruit salad.

jca's avatar

@MollyMcGuire : I think the corn fed Irishman that @Espiritus_Corvus is referring to is @NerdyKeith.

BellaB's avatar

last night was pork burgers with coleslaw and fries. fruit chunks for dessert.

was so hungry that I forgot to add any seasonings to the pork. they were fiiiine straight up.

Coloma's avatar

I have no idea what dinner might be tonight yet. Maybe take out crap as I am moving tomorrow and today I am taking all my clothes to the new place, bathroom stuff, misc. weirdness and still have to vacuum and wash the floors after my painting and hang curtains. I have a nice little watermelon in the fridge, so will work around that. Maybe a Wiener Schnitzel weenie and melon. haha

Stinley's avatar

My dinner out was a mediterranean salad with side portion of fries. And profiteroles for pud!

Coloma's avatar

Oh-my…friends took me here tonight as a “Thank You”.

www.flameandfire.com

Amazing! I am too tired and too full to share every delectable moment, but, it was just fabulous!

MollyMcGuire's avatar

I roasted chicken breasts and had chopped broccoli and a baked onion with it. It was simple and delicious. I just had some caramel toffee ice cream and have a fresh cup of coffee as I’m typing.

Coloma's avatar

@MollyMcGuire Oh my, do send some of that ice cream over this way would you? Caramel Toffee, sounds sooo good right now.

I am having watermelon and a bagel with peanut butter. haha
I just got moved into my new place Fri. evening and it has been non-stop activity. I will get some groceries in tomorrow but still full from last nights decadent dinner.

MollyMcGuire's avatar

@Coloma it looks like we are the only ones having dinner. Tonight will be shrimp skillet cooked with butter, garlic, lemon tossed with linguini, and the left-over broccoli from last night. Looking forward to it.

Coloma's avatar

@MollyMcGuire Haha, I guess nobody else has been having dinner lately.
Your shrimp saute sounds delicious.
Did some grocery shopping today but just having a tuna salad sandwich with diced cucumber, sweet pickle relish and lettuce/tomatoes a few chips and a fresh plum. Having a little privacy fence built and monitoring my poor cats that are still very stressed about the new place. My one guy keeps running and hiding in his litter box every time he hears a car pull up or strange vices.

Poor scardy cat, he came out for a fast bite of tuna when I was making sandwiches and then he ran back into his giant, covered box when the fence builder guys pulled up. haha

BellaB's avatar

last night after class I made pasta shells with a fabulous mushroom/meat sauce. put some chipotle in with the diced tomatoes and onions. gave it a nice smoky taste

MollyMcGuire's avatar

I had dinner with family and friends; today was my birthday. They smoked pork and had potato salad, baked beans, and a mixed vegetable salad. Very nice. They sent a ton of leftovers home with me. I’m not sure what to do with all of it. :)

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It’s 2:23 p.m. on Sunday, Father’s day. We are going to my husband’s daughter’s for a barbecue this evening. I have baked beans going in the oven, and a veggie and fruit tray all made up. There will be deviled eggs and ribs and potato salad. Probably cupcakes. That will be my dinner tonight. I AM STARVING!!!

Now, I shall introduce my husband to “Milo & Otis” while the beans cook! “I hope those are kittens!!”

Coloma's avatar

Happy Birthday @MollyMcGuire Isn’t it still your B-day today? haha

12:35 pm on the west coast and I am waiting on my daughter to arrive, for a hangout day and dinner.
Her father is in Texas so I get the fathers day holiday too. We are going to dinner but not sure where or what yet. I’m kinda craving Italian. :-)

ibstubro's avatar

It’s hot here and we had an auction today, so I just made a tomato and Miracle Whip sandwich and ate some leftover deep fried cauliflower – cold. Simple, fast and tasty.

BellaB's avatar

yesterday was my birthday
too hot to eat
had an Arizona Strawberry Ice Tea as my evening meal

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I finally ate my Meal, Ready-to-Eat, Individual, Low Sodium last night. It wasn’t bad at all. Compared to C and K rations, this was a gourmet meal. It came with a sealed packet of already hydrated penne pasta in a tasty tomato-based sauce with little pieces of vegetable sausage in ample amounts—which needed only a little salt to complete.

The portion was adequate. It had a longish plastic packet with a water-activated heating element inside that I slipped the food pack into, added water—which didn’t have to be potable as it wouldn’t touch the food—fold over the top over once, then let sit at an incline for 12 minutes. TaDa! I had a hot meal that I removed from the heating envelope and ate right out of the food packet with the plastic spork which was included. No pots, no pans, and no potable water needed—for the meal itself. The beverages were dehydrated and did require water, but not the food.

This is perfect hiking and long-distance sailing food, when water, at 8 lbs per gallon, and pot-washing on a storm-tossed boat can be a real pain in the ass. The total weight of the MRE was an unbelievable 10 oz. The total dimensions, upon measurement was a little larger than I stated above: 12” x 8“x ¾”. A bunch of them can easily go into a backpack where the food-prep equipment usually goes. No implements of any kind were required in the preparation and consumption of this very edible meal. I am very impressed.

To round out the caloric requirements of one of three meals for a person who must carry upon their backs an 80 lb pack and an M-16 all day in the heat or cold, the MRE pack also contained 4 large saltine crackers in two separate packages and a pack each of Apple jam, Strawberry jam and Peanut Butter in amounts more than required to cover the crackers. It also had 3 large tootsie rolls, a packet of BEVERAGE BASED POWDER, ORANGE (which tasted suspiciously like Tang® ), a packet of Taster’s Choice instant coffee, a packet of Domino granulated sugar, and—Lo and behold!—a small packet of Morton’s iodized salt for the low-sodium cheaters.

The shelf life of a typical MRE is 3½ years at room temperature of 81F or less. This sure as hell beats being stuck at sea in the doldrums for three days on what was supposed to be an afternoon tour with only a small tin of liver pate’ and a box of crackers on board. As long as shit happens, there will always be MREs onboard. If it hasn’t already been done, I vote the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the people who came up with this.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Looks like today’s shall be abut half a bowl of canned oyster soup. I only had about half as much milk as I needed, so it was really salty and I couldn’t eat it all.

Coloma's avatar

Yes, Happy Birthday @BellaB !

@Espiritus_Corvus What’s the difference between C rations and K rations, I know they are military issue food but clueless about what they stand for. I shall look it up now.
Your post made me think of “Tang” for the 1st time in about 100 years. Is that stuff even in existence still?

Coloma's avatar

Oh, I had a Cobb salad for dinner last night and tonight is fresh cucumbers marinated in a red wine vinegar from my new garden zone here and a Stouffers french bread pizza. haha
It is over 90 degrees and I am not very hungry. Have plums and peaches too. Good enough.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

@Coloma

The K-Ration came in a series of small round cans containing hydrated, or wet, unprepared, notoriously unpalatable food requiring the soldier to build a fire, which could get him killed in the field. The most infamous and most plentiful cans contained a fatty pork product called Spam —probably the result of aggressive bribery by the pork lobby headed up by such companies as Smithfield (now owned by the mainland Chinese), Swift and Hormel. The rations didn’t meet the caloric intake required of a combat soldier and were discontinued in 1948.

One good thing came out of K-rations, though. The cans were supposed to be opened with a key, which came soft-soldered to each can, by attaching it the tab at the edge of the lid, then rolling back the top of the can. But the tab almost always broke off, often causing the infuriated soldier—already suffering from terminal exhaustion, stress and low blood sugar—to toss the motherfucking can at the enemy. My father, a WWII combat Marine, said the more determined soldiers would find a patch of rough cement to grind the bottom of the can against until the bottom dropped out, then eat the food before it seeped out on the sidewalk. But sidewalks were hard to find on deserted South Pacific islands. So, I expect the immediate off-shores of these islands are lined with old K-rations where they were thrown in frustration. He told me of once seeing a corpsman whip out his service .45, toss a can into the air and shoot one. Blew all to hell and everybody cheered.

Anyway, the one good thing that came out it all was the amazingly effective P-38 US military can opener, which nobody should ever be without. It is one of the best can openers ever designed, is compact—only 1.5” long (38mm) and—trust me on this—works every time forever and ever. It is indestructible and today costs only a buck. I have had one on my key chain for years. Beware of cheap immitations—they are ineffective and have given this amazing tool a bad name over the decades. Get the real thing and you will never be without a working can opener.

C-Rations were the answer to K-Rations and were issued during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. They came mostly in rectangular cans like sardines, contained prepared foods, were a little more palatable, had a better caloric content, but still had the fucked-up tab and key arrangement. Thanks to the standard GI issue P38, it was no longer a problem to open the cans. They were discontinued and replaced by the MRE—a fucking godsend in the field and in disaster zones, if you ask me. There is no longer a need for field kitchens, or to attract enemy fire with open flame—and no more pot-washing.

Coloma's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus Cool! Thanks for the micro-education of K & C rations. Spam…of course, duh! haha Jesus, I wouldn’t last a day in the military, shitty food products aside.

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@Coloma (Coffee speaking) I should add that a K-Bar knife or bayonet would open the cans as well, but make a mess of the contents and can itself, and was the cause of many hand injuries. But this dulled the all-important combat blade and the knife itself was often lost in the confusion of combat.

There is a lot to said for military training and discipline, but I agree with you, it is best to get that training elsewhere when possible. A lot these people had no parents to speak of, no mentors, no health care, no dental,.no training in basic hygiene or conduct, and the military can provide them with that, plus some self esteem and help with college. The price, sadly, is that one risks having to be placed in a combat situation in order to get these basic needs. Our voluntarily armed services are hardly voluntary as long as these conditions still exist.

I know a few of these guys. There are good people for the most part. But they didn’t have a chance in hell of staying out of jail or working unskilled jobs and substandard wages and living subsistence lives if it weren’t for their stint in the military.

Another for you and I to be thankful for.

ibstubro's avatar

I wasn’t really hungry last night but I felt like eating. I looked in cabinet and decided on a little expedition into Fantasy Food Land:
Vegetarian Fishless Tuna

This product decidedly does not look and feel like tuna, IMO. Chunky, spongy, and almost impossible to drain. The smell was vaguely fishy. The taste was vaguely fishy. If you’re unable or unwilling to eat fish, I think a passable, even tasty meal could come from this product.
For me, it was just a curiosity I bought out of the discontinued food bin at the market.
I love canned tuna.

Coloma's avatar

@ibstubro LMAO, the discontinued food bin…there is a reason for that don’t you think? haha
I love tuna too, infact, you have now prompted my dinner. Tuna salad sandwich and crackers and fruit. Heat wave here, 95+. Ugh!

I am having a banana and yogurt right now at 10:44 am west coast zone.
I also really like the “imitation” crab meat stuff but it is loaded with sodium and I have to watch my BP. Sucks because I used to have that with cocktail sauce and french bread and a salad a lot.

BellaB's avatar

greek yogurt with fruit and a spoon of granola before dance classes. 2 pieces of faux crab sushi after class. then I had Black Forest ham on a potato/green onion kaiser when I got home. lots and lots and lots of water.

ibstubro's avatar

It’s a proven fact that I will buy anything, @Coloma, and I haunt the discontinued food bins and Big Lots stores. Looking for a cheap food thrill. lol

It’s hot here and I’d already snacked, so I ate some Pimento Cheese spread out of the outdated food bin and pretzels also from the outdated food bin and called it Lunner. Thank goodness I’d stopped at Sonic and gotten a 44 oz seltzer water for 48¢. Actually, if it’s over 90° I give the kid $1.

BellaB's avatar

smoked cheddar pork sausage with mustard and macaroni cheese salad. tasty stuff. would be good picnic options.

Coloma's avatar

Fresh corn on the cob and, fresh corn on the cob. haha
I’m having lunch with a friend today so dinner is going to be fresh cucumbers and corn. Where’s @NerdyKeith anyway?

Stinley's avatar

Pizza. Boring

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Fried shrimp and coleslaw.

Stinley's avatar

I made spaghetti bolognaise and drank Rioja to stick my two fingers up at the Leave campaign. Even more foreign food on my menu from now on

Coloma's avatar

@Stinley Do you have mexican food igrediants in Briton? Corn or ‘flour tortillas, salsas, peppers, etc.?
Why not make tacos or burritos or enchiladas soon. :-) I could live on mexican food.

Stinley's avatar

Yes I love Mexican food. I’m going for European food at the moment though!

Dutchess_III's avatar

(What is European food?)

Bean and cheese (Extra cheese) burrito from Taco Tico, and a sundae. Chocolate.

Stinley's avatar

Um, French food , Italian food, Greek food, that sort of thing?

BellaB's avatar

it’s summ summ summertime

had slightly fancy (no preservatives etc) hot dogs and shared a big wedge of watermelon with the dog

MollyMcGuire's avatar

I was alone and had French bread, Swiss cheese, a sliced tomato, a barrel pickle, and a piece of ham. It was not a sandwich. Easy and good.

BellaB's avatar

@MollyMcGuire – in foodie speak you had a deconstructed ham and swiss

it’s a thing!

Coloma's avatar

@BellaB Your dog eats watermelon? I had a cat once that loved Cantaloupe. Cat-a-loupe. haha

Tonight a little bowl of chicken chili with diced fresh tomatoes and a few corn chips, and.., I found a Skor toffee bar in the fridge. Yummy!

BellaB's avatar

@Coloma – all of the dogs I’ve had have loved melon of all types. The current dog (Setanta’s avatar) is mad for raw red pepper. It is the only food she will bark for.

Seek's avatar

Last night was BBQ country-style ribs, collard greens and cheesy rice. Turns out my vegetable-adverse kid likes collard greens. I’m starting to question whether he’s been replaced by an alien clone.

Coloma's avatar

My new neighbors just brought me a heaping plate of fresh garden goodies. String beans, bell peppers, yellow crookneck squash and lemon cucumbers. A veggie feast but the main entree remains a mystery now at still only 10:04 a.m. haha

Pandora's avatar

I went out for dinner and had garlic spaghetti with meatballs and garlic bread. Followed by two bites of tiramisu because that was all I could fit.
Funny you should mention Linguica. I had some this morning with eggs and toast for breakfast. I don’t eat the spicy one. If you ever have the chance to have it on Pizza, it is amazing.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Caribbean lobster tails with drawn butter and lemon; a mash of potato, turnip, parsnip, carrot and parsley root with butter, salt&pepper and garlic; stir fried green vegetables and ice cold Pinot Grigio.

Seek's avatar

Teriyaki chicken, mixed vegetables (broccoli, pea pods, carrots, baby corn) with a light ginger sauce, and white rice.

The spawn ate his veggies again. If this happens again I’m calling SETI.

Coloma's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus Oh pshaw..thanks friend, rub in your amazing dinner and Pino…pffft!

I am making veggie quesadillas soon with marinated tomatoes and lemon cucumbers. Grilling sliced yellow crookneck and the bell peppers with a sharp cheddar in flour tortillas. I almost bought the low carb tortillas, then I thought, fuck it, I want the whole enchilada. lol String beans to munch on raw or cook up tomorrow.

Then..on a whim, I filled the frizzer with otter Pops. I shall have an 8 year old moment later sucking in an Otter pop n this hot evening.

ibstubro's avatar

Eggs scrambled with lightly browned onion, fresh asparagus, fresh tomato, Italian blend cheese, sea salt and fresh ground pepper. Oh, and garlic, of course.
With a piece of Naan. Walmart has little Naan loaves that you can just pop in the toaster. They’re great. And I buy them every time I see them in the discounted bread bin!

Coloma's avatar

I had a Quesadilla, salad and a plum about 5 0’ clock and now I am sucking on Otter Pops.
So damn hot here.
@ibstubro you will be proud, I got 24, unfrozen, for a buck at Dollar Tree. I bought 2 boxes, my frizzer overfloweth with frozen coolness. lol

BellaB's avatar

chocolate milk

Seek's avatar

It’s running in the 90s this week, so my desire to cook has gone right out the window.

Last night I sauteed some chicken breast fillets I had marinated in Italian dressing, and had a baby spinach salad and some pineapple and watermelon slices besides. Seven minutes of cooking, total.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

@Coloma Shell fish aren’t an extravagance here. They are as plentiful and common as good wine in your part of the world. And Otter Pops? How otterly cruel. Where does the ASPCA stand on this?

Tonight it’s going to be tough, ancient Hen cooked for many hours with savory, rosemary & marjoram, and an itsy bit of thyme and tarragon, onions. Reduce by 50%. Strain out onions and remove meat from bones. Cook meat in this stock for another hour with bay leaves, fennel, an itsy bit of garlic for flavoring – then at the end salt to taste, bring to a boil, finish with a tiny bit of lemon or lemon zest and voila. Serve. Eat with fresh hot, bread and butter.

Recommended wine: Poulet Fuissé, of course, ;-) but any Chardonnay will do for this French farmhouse dish.

BellaB's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus – that looks like a terrific recipe.

Coloma's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus I am, right now, watching 20, tough, ancient hens milling around on the expansive lawn here. They may be tough old birds but they are still a’layin’. haha
I am now going to have a bite of lunch and go for a swim. Otter pops on standby. :-p
Tonights fare, simple, fruit, cheese, and otter pops. Too hot to eat much.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

@BellaB You can save yourself a lot of trouble by going to the grocery and buying Herbes de Provence, a mixture of dried herbs typical of the Provence region of southeast France. You lose a bit of control of your dish, but you don’t have to hover over it all day in the heat either. I purposely exclude some of the traditional spices that are usually included in this mixture because I find them too dominant, such as oregano. I want the savory to come out on top just a bit. But, yes, it is a terrific recipe, like most French farmhouse cooking.

What else are you to do with an old hen? They are the original rubber chicken. The French found a way to make a gourmet meal out of a nobel animal that we Americans use as dog food.

LBM's avatar

Just had it, we had beef chilli and basmati rice. Lots of scotch bonnet chillies in, and some birds eye ones on top of mine. The hotter the better.

BellaB's avatar

@Espiritus Corvus – I’ve got Herbes de Provence in the house but don’t often use it for the reason you’ve given -loss of control of the flavour mix. I wonder what it would be like to use fennel and/or leeks instead of onions. I guess once it cools off, I can experiment with the basic concept.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Today was onion rings.

Seek's avatar

Steamed salmon, mashed potatoes, and a mix of steamed veggies: pea pods, broccoli, carrots, and water chestnuts.

Stinley's avatar

I’ve been a bit overwhelmed by my new job and getting back too late to cook properly, or if my husband has cooked, getting back to find all the food eaten :-(

But tonight is a night off. I will cook roast pork and serve with vegetables and potatoes and, of course, gravy.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

I had a big, late lunch, so dinner was necessarily light.

I found some Knäckebröd and Matjessill while I was in Guadeloupe of all places. Knäckebröd is Swedish crispbread, or hard bread (aka Wasa bread), usually rye without the caraway. It’s hard, thick (about a ¼” or 6mm), coarse, bland and healthy, but it also makes a perfectly strong foundation for multi-tiered open faced sandwiches without interfering with the flavors of the other sandwich ingredients. I used to eat it for snacks, or a light lunch, with cheese like Jarlsberg, cucumbers, a sprig of dill and a cup of bouillon.

But when a jar of Matjessill was around, I would build a sandwich by laying on a 1/8” (3mm) thick slab of strong, rich golden-yellow Västerbotten cheese which is a semi-hard, crumbly cheese that tastes kind of like a strong, aged cheddar with a hint of Parmesan.

Next I’d unroll a filet of the Matjessill onto the cheese. Matjessill are small herring filets pickled in vinegar, onion, a little sugar, ginger, allspice, oregano, black pepper and bay leaf. (It comes out red – the original red herring.) Then I’d put a slice of red onion on the herring, about as thick as the cheese. Then, because the Matjessill spices are so strong, I’d slap on a dollop of creme fraiche to tone it down a bit. Then, to give the whole thing a nice freshness, I’d press a couple of slices of fresh cucumber into the creme fraiche. And lastly, I’d sprinkle just a sprig or two of dill on top of the cucumber. Trust me, it was delicious. Most Swedes drink beer with this, but to my Swedish wife’s horror, I would drink fish bouillon.

Anyway, tonight I substituted a run-of-the-mill cheddar for the Västerbotten cheese, yellow onion for the red, and sour cream instead of creme fraiche. I used fresh cucumber and dill from the garden. It was good, but nothing like the sandwich described above. Didn’t even come close. But I had four of them with some fishhead soup. It would have been a great sandwich, though, if I’d never tasted Matjessill with Västerbotten cheese.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Well, my dinner was around 1:00. 6” Subway turkey with Provolone cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions and mayo. I am STUFFED.

Coloma's avatar

I;m thinking either tuna or chicken salad, and I have ice cold plums, but my celery froze.
Yeah, the irony, hotter than hell here and my little AC unit isn’t cutting it, but, go figure, my fridge is running super cold, cold enough to freeze a bunch of celery. Maybe I’ll just stick my head in the frizzer for awhile. lol

BellaB's avatar

we missed the bbq at the legion so we went to the Rib House for takeout

I had a hot liver sandwich. Liver on white bread, gravy and fries. Super old school and tasty.

A nice treat every couple of years.

Coloma's avatar

@BellaB I have never heard of a liver sandwich. Are you in England or Australia, I don’t remember? Here in the states some people go nuts for fried liver and onions. Not my thing but whatever floats your boat. haha

BellaB's avatar

I’m in Canada. Hot hamburg sandwiches (and others like hot liver) are a very Canadian Maritime tradition, especially if served with tinned peas. The same cook at the Rib House does a great liver and onion dinner with fresh mash and steamed broccoli. As I said, a good treat every couple of years <big smile>

Coloma's avatar

@BellaB Oh, Canada, oops, sorry. :-)

Coloma's avatar

My new neighbor just rolled up in his golf cart, loaded with fresh produce from the mega garden here on this property. He is such a sweetheart, turns 88 this year and puts me to shame, always out on his golf cart, tending the garden, driving his tractor/backhoe around, in his giant workshop puttering and tinkering. He just rolled up with buckets full of squashes, cucumbers, fresh blackberries and all kinds of greens.
I took a big bowl of berries, cucumbers and a couple squash.

Dinner will be marinated cuckes, lemons and green and sauteed squash and blackberries with vanilla yogurt for dessert. Not sure what else I might add, maybe some bread and cheese. He is so cute in his shorts, suspenders and garden hat. Man, if I am still that active when I am 88 it will be a miracle. haha

jca's avatar

@Coloma: it sounds like you need a bigger air conditioner.

Coloma's avatar

@jca Yes, but, not in the budget right now, so, I am improvising and eating a lot fo cool foods. haha

BellaB's avatar

poking around – discovered leftover rotisserie chicken and potato wedges

heated them up with fresh peas and some bottled tikka sauce and some fresh herbs

ate it with yogurt

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good stuff. I could eat too much of that concoction

ibstubro's avatar

I had a huge salad.
They had a 2-gallon sized bag of mixed baby greens clearanced for 99¢. Leftover tomato, free cucumber, shredded Italian blend cheese, and the Ranch dressing that came free with the fried cauliflower the other day.
I forgot the best part – the onions. Damn.

Coloma's avatar

I grazed on mixed nuts, fresh cherries and a piece of beef jerky. haha
Then I had a thin mint ice cream sandwich.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Well, it’s the 4th, so dinner tonight will be jalapeno poppers with a side of cheeseburger, which I may not eat. I think I’ll make my beans too, and measure the ingredients out. I will eat those.

ibstubro's avatar

I had a Subway sandwich late afternoon, so I was indifferent to the dinner table.
I ended up cooking some eggplant fries on my Pizza Pizzazz. Like traditional fries, they were mostly a vehicle for eating ketchup.

Coloma's avatar

Small Ham and cheese sandwich with horseradish mustard, cabbage wedges, fresh cherries and soon, ice cream!

Coloma's avatar

Home made veggie burritos with garden fresh tomatoes, diced cucumber, squash, yellow peppers and cheddar cheese and alfalfa sprouts.

Stinley's avatar

Cheese , hummus and red pepper. Which sounds a lot more planned and prepared than it was. I just grabbed stuff from the fridge because I was home late

Dutchess_III's avatar

A small bowl of 4th of July baked beans, what little was left of a crab salad and two deviled eggs.

Coloma's avatar

A ham and cheese melt on a tortilla with marinated cucumbers and tomatoes and cantaloupe.

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III Baked beans sound really good, I haven’t had them in a long time.

ibstubro's avatar

Fresh never frozen steelhead trout from Chile and a a huge chunk of farmed salmon (also never frozen).
I cooked them both on a George Foreman type cooker and I was sadly unimpressed.
I now wish I’d sauteed them in some butter with lemon and capers.

Seek's avatar

Today:

I picked up some pork shoulder steaks on BOGO, dredged them in a bit of flour, browned them in a bit of oil, then braised in a little beer with onions and rosemary. I’ll probably turn the braising liquid into a sauce before serving.

On the side we’re having potato and cheddar pierogi cooked in a tin of stewed tomatoes, the rest of the onion, a handful of peas for color, and some garlic.

Seek's avatar

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