What's for Dinner?
 

I'm making pork chops. Brown them in the skillet hit them with black pepper then dump a can of mushroom soup +water over them and slow cook for a couple hours. Serve with baked potatoes and use that gravy!

I made fried-egg-tomato-and-cheese sandwiches. My husband's sick and he said it was the one thing that didn't make him nauseous just thinking about it.

Quesadillas. Quick, easy, and a good base preparing myself for a night of drunken debauchery on the town. :)

Toasted Cheese and Bacon Sandwich, on Pumpernickel. With leftover coleslaw and a handful of cashews.

Tea for afters.

Pizza Hut pizza for two, half and half, Pepsi and cheese breadsticks on the side.

Pizza Hut pizza for two, half and half, Pepsi and cheese breadsticks on the side.

OHHHH... the pizza had half one kind of topping and half another! That's much better than drinking half-and-half with your dinner... :vomit:

Chinese! BBQ spare ribs and beef fried rice. Orange Capri Sun to wash it all down.

I'm not sure yet. We had Chinese takeout night before last, and there's shrimp with garlic sauce and eggrolls left. Last night we had take-out pizza (so sue me! It's been a rough week and I've been tired every night). As I speak, the other half is eating honey-roasted turkey breast and dangerously sharp cheddar on potato rolls, and I'm drinking Cape Cods by the gallon. The kids are gone with their grandparents to the fall festival at school, and spending the night with them tonight. So I'm not cooking today either.

Vodka and cranberry juice. It's what's for dinner.

Halupke and margaritas :D

green peppers and scrambled eggs, fried together in olive oil, between two thick slices of breadworks tuscan loaf...that's all you need

oh, and a vodka martini with a lemon wedge as an apertif, one up with no garnish with the meal, and one on the rocks with olive garnish as a digestif

Cafeteria chicken patty sandwich and/or cheeseburger, fries, pizza, Diet Pepsi. The chicken/burger is the default, every so often they make an attempt at real food that I eat for the novelty of it.

I've been on a crusade to get them to change the menu listing over the Italian section to just read "egg noodles" and "ketchup". What they call veal parmigiana? One of those On-Cor Redi-Serve pre-cooked veal patties with some white cheese, sause, and parsley on top. I couldn't have made that up if I tried.

Okay...I have to ask...what are Halupke?

Polish food, I think. Hamburger, pork, nnstuff wrapped in cabbage cooked in tomato sauce. Pete snuck a little hot sausage in the meat. Its much better than it reads.

I make a completely Americanized version of that with ground beef, rice, tomato sauce and spices rolled up into cabbage leaves. It's everyone's favorite at my house and I make it about twice a month evne though it's kind of time-consuming. I usually make two big pans of it at a time and freeze one. Week before last I made it when the inlaws came over, with parslied potatoes, sauteed zucchini and onions, yeast rolls and banana pudding. I'm still about to suffocate. My seven-year-old daughter ate three (!) in one sitting.

Now I'm jonesing for cabbage rolls. :D

Oooh we call those Polutchkis

And i make a huge pan of them every November....you're welcome to come up Jane :)

Also stuffed cabbage rolls. I did a Google on Halupke it's the same. But as Jane says, lots of work. From the heart of dixie. Good food, good friends, cold beer. What more can you ask? BB

I may take you up that, Dagney, especially if Mr. Jane doesn't get his ass in line in a quick hurry. :D

And buster, with your armadillos and threats of delicious food and libations, I may head in your direction once I clean out Dagney's place.

Filet Mignon, salad with bleu cheese, hash browns with sour cream, stewed tomatoes with butter and croutons. A few Sing-A-Pore Sling's for apertif and later. Then---DESERT! Dark Chocolate Hershey Cake from a chain---it's actually v. good.

Well Sunday looks like a boned, stuffed w/green onions, garlic & bacon deer hindqt, marinaded & injected w/ "Claude's brisket marinade" on smoker w/tater salad. If not too much cold beer, I might get a photo.

Well here it was. Not bad, a little over done. :D

Nice work bb. My venison dinners are always pretty rudimentary, maybe I need to take it up a notch.

"Ariaga, Ariaga Deux, Bariaga, Uglia and Mushatsa."
 

Tonight we have a lovely paella (pronounced pie-A-ah, for those of you que no hablan espanol), after I convinced the family that a little bit of gastronomic exploration can be rewarding. Basically, I cooked down sweet sausage (no chorizo conveniently available), chicken, green peppers, tomatos, onions and long-grain brown rice in chicken stock for a while, and it was quite lovely. PM for a recipe with numbers, if you're interested...


Edit: The quote in the title is from the Simpsons....it's the stars of the international soccer game they attend, where Bart gets a snack from the wandering paella man.

We did a turkey over the weekend to make room in the freezer. Gluten free stuffing was the key for me. Wild rice instead of bread everything else was pretty similar. Honestly it isn't the same as regular stuffing, it just doesn't become part of the bird. It does make a nice side and is really good.

Fall is in the air:
Herb encrusted roast pork loin with fig chutney and roasted root vegetables. Mashed potatos and sauted greens. Apple crisp for desert. Super simple and delish.


PS my Russian Mennonite relatives make good Holupche- I even have lazy version thats tasty- you dont have to roll.

Tonight was Papa John's new Spinach-Alfredo Chicken Tomato pizza. It was ok. Spinach-to-alfredo sauce ratio was way too high. But I got two free DVDs with it, and now I don't have to worry about what to eat for tomorrow night either.

Last night was Taco Bell for me, Wendy's for Badger.
Tonight, I think I'll make fried catfish, corn fritters and tomatoes&okra (if I can find any; otherwise green beans). I guess I'm feeling my inner Southerner.
When the temperature drops on Sunday, I'm thinking I'll make a batch of chili. It's about the right time of year...
- Pie

Oh the irony!

Looks like deer hash, If I'll get my lazyass started & dice taters, onions, & bell pepper.

Hash almost went to hell. Was reading the "great" post on Cellar & stopped the damn reminded, forgot to turn fire off. If bad just call Dotty & jack.

dinner 10-09-04 Stuffed Pork Chops
 

I wish I had a camera to show how yummy this is when I'm done.

One inch think chops, stuffed with homemade dressing. Cranberry sauce on the side with some veggie or other for health's sake. Perhaps I'll make a cheese dressing to pour over! Then I can have that broccoli! YEAH! That's the ticket!

Brian :yum:

How about some fried biscuits & sausage?

We're starting to cook again at my house now that everyone is on a regular schedule (for a month or so, anyway). The other half made steak bombs, which the kids call "stink bombs" last night. He sliced up a pound and a half of ribeye thinly, fried it with onions, mushrooms, Worcestershire, tons of garlic and spices. He served it on big old crusty rolls with Provolone and fries. Yum. I washed it down with a few beers and burped until I felt better.

Today we're heading off to the inlaws for dinner. His family is Italian and I live for her chicken parmesan, salad made from vegetables out of their garden and topped with his dad's homemade dressing and yeasty bread. I'm hungry NOW. :D

Buster,
Is thems deep fried biscuits?

Ohhhhhhhh I am getting so hungry.

Tonight was simple, cliché hotdogs and sauerkraut (from our cabbages!) It was too light, but I am not going to try and improvise a biscuit fryer at midnight...

I'm ashamed to admit that my dinner tonight consisted of two frozen hamburger patties (Topps) on store-brand buns. I did dress them properly with the usual condiments and bread-and-butter pickle slices but I plead only fifteen minutes to heat and eat before I had to run. More time tomorrow!

Think tonight will be grilled cheese, ham w/Jalapeno slices hot mustard. But watch out for wkend, I have a fish story! Yum

I now can contribute to this thread as I have something slightly interesting to eat!Multi-grain and spinach cake, asparagus (steamed) and flounder with Miso and rice wine combo that carmelizes while baking (saw on oprah show with gwyneth paltrow cooking). :yum:

PS--cake is like a crabcake only no crab.

Oprah cooked Paltrow? Boy maybe she needs to switch diet plans again.......

Argh this thread is making me think of Thanksgiving! Can't wait for that turkey!!!!!!!!!! :thumbsup: :) ;) :D

Anyone do the deep fried method of cooking a turkey? Busterb? :D

Yep trying to make up my small mind between fried or drunk turkey. Drunk is cheaper. No oil to buy. You really need a good size pot, a rack to make adding & removing the bird safe. also a long stemed therometer.

I think we should organize a cellar summer cook out. Maybe like a sort of food oriented rainbow/burning man/ gathering of the clan thing.

A week of just non stop cooking, eating, drinking. We wouldn't have to actually talk to one another (Ya know, if you are shy) we could just have a big bulletin board that we could tack notes up on, and

Whoa, dinner is going to my head pretty quickly. Sam Smith's organic ale and triple chocolate cake.

Why yes, it is bachelor night.

You've just described Plastic Forks.

Be there.

(Saturday closest to the Summer Solstice and the full moon, unless the date selected by this algorithm is Father's Day weekend, in which case it's the week following.)

Wolf, I just got back from looking at plastic forks 2003. I guess I'll have to wait till 2005.

I'll get the grill ready.

For this wkend. The 2 fish yelded almost 6lbs. of meat. FFs, hushpuppys, corn fritters & of course cold beer. ;)

A friend of mine, who just got back from a pipeline job in CO., brought a sack of onoins w/him. Look at size of the damn things. Can someone tell me how to make the font size smaller in this last Sig?

Hmmm...I might actually cook something tonight...like really cook, not just microwaving.

A grilled pork tenderloin sounds good...I haven't used my Foreman grill in a while...hmmm...

My Supper. Sorry yanks, I don't do dinner :eek: Cat fish mealed w/popcorn meal, corn meal, a dash of Tony's & what ever. Hushpuppys w/jalapenos, corn fritters. A sauce made from ketchup, horseradish, lemon, & a big shot of hot sauce from hell! :3_eyes:

I had calamari for the first time tonight. Had to have a few Cosmo's before I tried it--it was OK-certainly not my favorite but a victory over my seafood phobia for sure.

Hit "User CP", "Edit Signature", select the signature text, then select a font and a size in the dropboxes on the top row of controls.

Arial Narrow size 1 is pretty small.

I give up. even pasted in word then reposted it oh hell. Thanks night BB

We had a frost last night so I harvested some handsome sweet kale.
Made a stew with spicy Italian pork sausage, garlic, onions, tomato, lots o' kale, cannelini beans, chic broth, sage, basil, spices,...bubbly hot and topped with grated parm.
yum!

Sunday lunch. Smoked wild pig, baked sweet taters, turnips & cornbread!! YUM

My drunk turkey rack is here

Completely out of spite, tonight I will have one combination Totinos Pizza and one giant idaho potato, baked, topped with butter and shredded cheddar.

For good measure I might eat some cheesy poofs. For dessert I'm thinking Klondike Bar.

Then I will have to starve for a week.

What about the snickerdoodle?!?!?!??!?!

I don't care for snickerdoodles much. They just don't do it for me.

Hmmm, maybe some fried cinnamon rolls with maple icing. :yum:

Eh, I drank some beers with my buddy last night. I'm craving carbs today.

Recipe please.

Get in your car. Drive to Ulbrich's IGA, a little small town market, walk to the doughnut counter. Pick up cinnamon rolls with maple icing (no no no the white icing sux) and proceed to register.

I've only ever bought them. They are round but flattish...not like cinnamon rolls from teh Doughboy. They are the bomb. They kind of look like this, except flatter:

IGA donuts are the best donuts in the world. In the world!

Yeah, this little store has been around forever...owned by the same family. They now have other doughnut shops scattered about. Soooooo good! Sometimes I'll go into the store and as I check out they ask if I want some free doughnuts. They'll put a couple or three in a bag and give them to customers instead of throwing the older ones away.

eta: (hahahaha...instead of throwing away the doughnuts, not the customers)

It HAS to be the same family because this one is family owned too and been around forever.

They bake their own donuts.I am not sure what they do with their old ones.

They don't give these away free but if they did I am sure they would insist someone carries it out to the car for you. Of which they always carry your things no matter what it seems.