So...whats for dinner?

carberry

You guys are making me hungry for a big hunk of seared meat!!! AARRGGG  I feel the beast in me coming out...I may have to have a big burger when we go out tonight. Maybe a tall beer too...geesh I must be turning into a man, now that my hormones have been deleted!

SeasideMemories

We're heading to a wine tasting party tonight! So dinner tonight will be...... umm... wine? lol.....

Lacey12

This carnivorous talk also has me drooling! Beef and lamb, yum! Gotta try both of those cooking methods....soon!!

But DH is at the store getting shrimp that's on sale. He promised he'd clean it since my hands are totally dysfunctional today....had planned to sew...not a chance. I would really like to stop this Tamoxifen!! We will probably have the shrimp with pasta and maybe asparagus, salad, and crusty bread.



Carrie, my sons also had those Carter's blankets with the satin bindings. DS1 loved his and chomped on one corner then known as "favorite corner of bu (blue) banky". I had to keep downsizing the blanket since it was a weave, which shredded over the years. It ended up 4 by 4 inches, by the time he abandoned it! So that "satin comfort" is just what inspired the moms who invented the taggies.....wish I had been one of them! I just love making ones with interesting colorful patterns, sports teams, etc. I have a few in the hopper with one side Red Sox and the other side, Yankees, for children of mixed marriages! Now if my hands would work, I could finish them before the opening pitch!



Have a good Friday evening everyone....

Lacey12

Oh, and Carrie, have a fabulous visit with your daughter! Those times are precious....

bedo

Michelle and Laurie I wish the best for you

My brother has stayed with me since he is living in his car,  My daughter has stayed with me too, as she lives 40 minutes away from her job which is 1 mile from my place.  My 2 cats, my daughter's dog and the landlord's  dog, have also loved staying here.  This is a one room cabin.

I finally broke down and called into work sick and slept until 12:30 because I was finally alone yesterday.

Tonight for dinner I had wasabi peas and wine with my landlord, as she and her partner-guy were back

The wasabi peas were really good. 

So was the wine

carolehalston

Good to have you check in, Bedo.  Sounds like a meager dinner, wasabi peas!  I bought a can of those a while back and ate them as a snack.  They were peppery.  I could never decide whether I liked the wasabi taste.

The lamb chops were good last night, but DH and I agreed that we prefer them cooked on the grill.

Tonight's dinner will be a combined cooking effort at the home of another couple.  They're doing an appetizer, fresh brats and a dessert.  I'm cooking German potato salad and thawing out some home-made baked beans that are in my freezer.

bobogirl

Dessert alert!  I have not been feeding myself well lately, I admit it.  Starting the whole process of having a new lump checked out.  I had a fresh veg juice for breakfast.

Getting a dessert ready for my daughter's 'human circus' event today (!): blueberry cobbler with organic wild blueberries.  But I forgot the sugar and it was already in the oven.  Not for long, though, so I took it out, dumped it into a bowl, whisked in sugar, back in pan, then returned it to the oven!

Now it looks like a hot mess -- it's not out yet -- so I'm throwing together a Moosewood six-minute chocolate cake with cacao and a chocolate glaze.  Please note: I will not be eating either of these things.  I just thought you ladies -- all of whom sound like you are excellent cooks -- would like a glimpse into the chaotic world of what I'm "having for dinner."    I used to be a pretty good cook myself, but it seems I am seriously off my game.

Bedo, I loved the wasabi peas story.  Congrats on that 'me' time!

{{{{hugs}}}}}

LeeA

Carole, those lamb chops sound delicious!  I just copied your post.  

Moonflwr912

Carrie, enjoy your daughters visit.

The lamb chops sound do good. I had chicken with peanut sauce yesterday. Today the leftover chicken, or possibly tacos. What ever thrills me when I think about it again. Much love

eric95us

Tonight is going out.  DD's old school is having a get together for the parents of the former students...so we're going to that and will eat there.

In the mean time, I'm cleaning some more of the old cast iron that my mom gave me.  Lye (and my personal protective equipment) and later, electrolysis, to get rid of rust....

My mom suggested flax seed oil to season the cookware.  She said that it worked better than anything else she tried.  I found some at the health food store.

LuvRVing

Kauai pictures and links are on my blog:

www.mch-breastcancer.blogspot.com

Enjoy!!!

Moonflwr912

Eric, a blacksmith told me once he seasoned his cast iron for edibles after he formed it when it was almost red hot, with bees wax. He said it worked the best. Just FYI.of course he did it outside.

Tazzy

Michelle:  beautiful pics of Kauai.  Never been to Hawaii.??  On my never ending list of places to go.  You look great too.

LeeA

Aha!  I see you ate at the Kilauea Fish Market - and it looks like you ordered the same dinner I always get.  Grilled Ono?  

Great photos!  

You look great, Bali Hai looks great, light house looks great - thanks for sharing!

bedo

Bobogirl what is a human circus?  I love the Moosewood cookbooks and went to Cornell for a bit.  ( I loved college hopping)  I hope that your dessert turns out well.  I think that if it is sweet the kids will love it!  I also am sending calming thoughts to you about your work up.  I hope it all turns out to be a "well that was really stressful for no reason thing"

I am researching Ecuador.  I am hoping and saving to go there and spend maybe 6-12 months there in a year or so  (I hope my job takes me back, hehe)

And I hope that they are not reading this.

If you are, I am kidding really, guys, I would never really do this.

My goal:  I want to find a really good blueberry pancake recipe that is not too hard, as it seems the season to do this.

auntienance

So far the Texas gulf coast meals have included Baja fish tacos, grouper, spicy jumbo shrimp on the grill and tomorrow, golden tile. We also threw a pizza in there for good measure.



The weather has been coolish (60's) and mostly cloudy, but we're due for a few warmer and sunnier days. We've already missed

one snow storm at home and another one that seems headed our way, so I'm happy to be here. Hopefully we'll get some bicycling and birding in these next few days.



Great pictures Michelle. Carole, your lamb chops sounded wonderful. Susan, I can't wait to hear what the wedding menu is going to be.



Take care y'all (I love Texas.)

chabba

Nancy, what is golden tile?

bobogirl

Memo to Bedo's work: 

Bedo is going to work there forever.  She is not going to Ecuador, she was just teasing.  It's 'work Ecuador into a sentence' day.  

I guess a 'human circus' is without elephants!  The whole circus was just the children.  It was pretty great -- better than I expected.  It's such a little tiny school. All wore homemade clown pants.  And they'd painted flats and they performed in front of them.  It was outside.  The flats had giant polka dots on them.  And there were homemade flags made of cloth, and it was windy, and the flags... well... flew.  I've never eaten at the real Moosewood!

Important update:  both of my desserts sold out!  I was sweating bullets at the dessert table.  Silly, right?  I put a lot of stock into doing the silliest things well these days.  It seems so important to make her really happy.  I want to give it everything I've got.

bobogirl

For dinner I had steamed broccoli and a sliced avocado, absolutely plain, and then a tempeh reuben with handmade sauerkraut and russian dressing on Ezekiel bread.

bobogirl

For dinner I had steamed broccoli and a sliced avocado, absolutely plain, and then a tempeh reuben with handmade sauerkraut and russian dressing on Ezekiel bread.

auntienance

Chabba, golden tilefish is a mild fish with a buttery flavor that reminds me of lobster. Although it's abundant in the gulf, it's difficult to find in fish markets except here. A fish monger in gulf shores Alabama told me that although it was his personal favorite, they don't sell it because there is no demand for it. The good thing about that is that it keeps the price reasonable when you can find it.

chabba

Thanks for the answer Nancy. 

bedo

Nancy, where I live we are having 2 Eating with the Ecosystem days at local restaurants.  They will be serving and teaching about those fish that are not popular and are thrown back such as sea robins, dogfish, skate, periwinkles and mackerel.  One will focus on the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank the other the southern New England coastal region. 

It's an idea to rebalance the ecosystem

I hope to pick up some new ideas

Congratulations on your success, bobogirl

Michelle I will have to check out your pictures.

Lacey12

Bedo, that sounds like a great idea....and some adventurous eating!

Michelle, loved your photos....especially as I look out at the suddenly heavy snow squalls!

Bobo, glad your desserts were a hit.



Need to brave the snowstorm to get to the food store... which I have avoided all week. Last evening after the movie (saw Zero Dark Thirty) came home and DH had a Trader's soup, while I microwave heated up a mini casserole of what I thought was roasted butternut squash.....by the time I was finished, it seemed like I had just eaten roasted sweet potatoes. I might want to be better at labeling! It was orange and roasted.

bobogirl

Lacey, I love roasted orange things!  Jealous that you got to go to the movies.  I have no babysitter here yet.

I just made vegetarian chicken and dumplings: they are the baby's favorite!  I can't stand the sight of them, myself.  Sometimes, as I'm ladling them out, I get a little sauce on my thumb and I can't even stand to lick it off!    I feel like I've taken a bath in vegetarian chicken and dumplings.

I realize I just made this post extra-inviting!  I think I'm going to have sauteed organic collards, sliced very thin, japanese-style, with fresh rice noodles thrown in at last minute.  A sweet brown sauce.  More greens than noodles.  I will have it while watching the Oscars, if I can stay up.  I was up at 2 a.m., worried.  I'm in the thick of it.

xxxxoooo

eric95us

I'm still cleaning the rusted cast iron skillet.  The lye cleaned off most of the crud.  The derusting solution (washings soda in water, a piece of scrap iron and a car battery charger) is a perfect diet aid.  Even the guy who pumps out septic tanks would say it's ***NASTY*** looking . :-)  But it is getting the cast iron back to bare metal.

Meanwhile, some chicken is cooking in the dutch oven. 

Eric

bobogirl

Eric:  Will you please do my pans after yours?  Mine are not really rusty, but they could really use a going-over.  

Laurie08

Bobo- Welcome!!

Michelle- Love the pics.  I hope I get to go there someday.

Eric- Talk about a labor of love.  Great job with the pans.

Bedo- The ecosystem thing sounds interesting.  Glad all is well.

Lacey- Hope you made it to the store safely.  It was pretty nasty here earlier.

So we were snowed in all day.  Went to a neighbors birthday party for turning 5.  DH took the boys for a long snowmobile ride while I enjoyed the fire and a few quiet moments.  This week coming up is school vacation week- no idea what we will do to pass the time.

Dinner tonight is stuffed shells- I am STARVING.

auntienance

Bedo, I would be very interested in hearing how the eco dinners turn out. Sounds really interesting.



Vietnamese pho for lunch, the ultimate comfort food.

carberry

last night was dinner at friends, kinda, just nibbled on apps she put out then we hit the town for a fundraiser at a local winery for Habitat for humanity.  Fun night lots of dancing.  Daughter seems to think we are a lot more fun than her friends that went to bed at 10pm. Guys everywhere always hitting on her!! But she had a blast dancing with everyone.

Interesting about the golden tile fish...never heard of it.  They say monk fish is cheap and taste like lobster also, but my grocery store fish guy says its seasonal and he didnt know what the season for it is. Told me to keep checking back. Ha Ha

Bobogirl  when you say "babies"  how old is that? Funny getting bedo off the hook with her job.

Eric WOW you are going to have some brand new pans! And probably very well worth the effort

Auntinance  Sounds like you having a great time.  Any weather is better than what we are having here, although we do not have any snow here in NY at the present time.