for lunch we had steamed corn on the cob with butter

followed by Baked potatoes with butter, cheese, sour cream, baked beans, green onions, regular onions, chives and bacon. With a mixed lettuce and heritage tomato side salad.

Then rounded it off with fresh home-baked scottish shortbread smothered with whipped cream and strawberries. I didn't gt a pic until it was all over, though..... :yum:

I made my own version of the buffalo wing. I fried them crispy brown and before I pulled them out of the skillet I brushed them with a mixture of Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce and hot sauce. Baked baby red potato on the side with celery sticks.

For desert I made a small batch of chocolate cupcakes with homemade chocolate icing. I didn't know homemade icing would be so so good.:yum:

Shrimp Sauce Piquant. Shrimp from the GULF, of Siam, whatever!
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/...ee93d818_b.jpg

Dinner tonight will be shrimp from the grill, Israeli cous cous and corn on the cob (if I can get it thawed/cooked by the time the shrimp is done).

We are having beef and shrimp ka-bobs, with macaroni salad and basimati rice tonight. With whatever extras my best freind and hubby bring. Its Litha tonight! So even on a Monday, we celebrate :)

That sounds WONDERFUL for ya.

Hallo. Long-time lurker, first-time poster. I had a good laugh that this is a thread rolling since 2004, at least. That's pretty incredible. That being said, since I'm eating dinner and this is a food thread:

i'm eating chicken breasts pan-cooked in soy and fish sauce, soju, garlic, and green and red onions over white rice. It's surprisingly good for something I just sort of.. pulled out of the fridge and dumped stuff that was sitting on the countertop into.

hi winslow, welcome. Why are you sad? we have older threads than this one still running I think. Sometimes trolls resurrect them for us and we take it as a challenge! :lol:

It would be dangerous indeed to cook some of the things lying around on our countertop :eek:

I had to look up soju. Nice!

A variation on this: http://amberveggies.blogspot.com/200...ology-pie.html
I am going to use chicken instead of beef. I have tried it the beef way and it was GOOOOD. Let's hope the chicken turns out well, too.

You seasoned it with both soy and fish sauce?? Hmm....I didn't think those two would mix well.

Just a little dash of fish sauce mixed in to add an extra shot of savoury kind of taste. I've never really cooked with it before, but it's got a bit of anchovy salty funk to it that's not too bad in moderation. it added a little undertone that was fairly nice.

Don't worry, it's mostly just a name. :) Yeah, I've been poking around here off and on for quite some time(several years, even) and seen some ancient threads, which I really appreciate compared to a lot of other more, err, "trendy" sites where threads happen for about 24 hours and then die off, never to be heard from again. I like rolling conversations, it really gives a nice sense of continuity and community.

Sundae_girl: soju is pretty darn good and is great to cook with. To be honest, I prefer cooking with it to drinking it, although on plenty of ice with a good twist of lemon it's pretty good too.

Nice meeting you all in actual text now, by the by. I need to hop over to Home Base too and see if I can find whatever happened to that guy who bought the hot dog cart!

i coulda sworn i replied to this once. Yeah, i used both a shot of soy sauce, and just a few drops of fish sauce for a little extra savoury hiding on the back-end. I've never really cooked with it before. It smells HORRIBLE out of the bottle, but tastes decent. To be truthful I think I still just prefer anchovies (one of my favorite foods EVER, right there.)

also to sundae_girl re: soju: it's pretty good stuff! I prefer it for cooking mostly, but on the rocks with a good twist of lemon it's not terrible either.

Thankfully, the dangerous things in the house live properly away from the kitchen :D

tonight: fish fry from a diner. some sort of white fish, hushpuppies, fries and cole slaw. bad for me, but tasted pretty darn good.