So, what's for supper?

[Richard Steele]

Today is my day to cook for my housemates- since I've been working,
I only do real cooking on my day off.

Tonight's menu:
Appetizer-sized grilled cheese sandwiches (artisan rye bread & fontina cheese)

Thai coconut curry tomato soup

Flounder poached in homemade vegetable stock with
crimini mushrooms and some asparagus straight from our garden.
(after cooking, I reduce the fish broth on the stovetop
and blend in a little butter and flour to make a creamy sauce-
it's da bomb!)

Dessert is "catch as you can"; I was gonna make a pie
but seem to be missing some ingredients I had stashed away.
So, no pie tonight. :(


So, what are the rest of you having?

[MissMillie]

1. spaghetti and meatballs

and a healthy dose of red wine

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Ordering Chinese

Graduating in the morning, have to be up at 6. I'm not cooking!

[MissMillie]

3. many congrats to you!!!!!

You're one smart cookie... I hope to see you at the grad school where I work.

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Awwww, thank you babe!

I made Summa Cum Laude, and am graduating with Distinction in Economics. We had Honors Convocation last night. :)

:hug:

:loveya:

[MissMillie]

8. so.....

HBS here you come?????


I work w/ economics people. I'm woefully uneducated in that area (well, in most areas) but I'm tremendously envious and proud of you.... you have so much promise.

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. Congrats!

[malta blue]

4. sounds like a great meal over at your place....

I am making pork chops, baked potatos and asparagus.

Simple and quick.

[fizzgig]

5. i haven't thought that far in advance yet

but probably left overs, unless i can talk my fiance into taking me out :)

[Bertha Venation]

7. Tilapia cooked gently in a little olive oil with salt and lemon pepper

rice
broccoli

simple and luscious

[Richard Steele]

15. That's my favorite way to season the tilapia: just salt and lemon pepper.

It's just the best. :9

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. Aw man, I want to come over. I've got kids begging me to make dinner and no clue...

what I feel like rustling up.

[Richard Steele]

26. KIDS? You and I took different paths in life, eh?

Now that I'm 40, I'm starting to regret the path i took.

I'm alone, friendless, partnerless and kidless.

You lucky bastard.

[Pacifist Patriot]

27. Different paths, but often the same sentiments.

Now that I'm 40 I sometimes regret the path I took. There are days I think I would make a splendid hermit. I guess the grass is always greener. You don't need kids, but you do need friends.

[Richard Steele]

28. We all regret the paths we took, I suppose.

I have no children, and probably never will...
(I'm 40 and "recently single" again)

It was a great life I led- I went everywhere and did everything.
But now, what do I have to show for it? A few blurry photos,
and a whole bunch of alcohol-blurred stories that really aren't interesting
to anyone who wasn't actually there...

My little sister has 3 kids, she never went ANYWHERE...
and I'm kinda jealous of her life these days.

[SeattleGirl]

11. Cornish game hens

Not sure what else yet. Still several hours before dinner here.

[fizzgig]

12. that sounds tasty

it's been far to long since i've had cornish game hens. i'll have to rectify that soon.

[Richard Steele]

21. Those are so tasty (I know several folks who raise them), BUT....

They are so darned SMALL, I don't thnk it's worth the effort
to pick the meat off the bones.

[dana_b]

13. appetizer: grilled cheese sandwiches, Thai coconut tomato soup,

poached flounder.... what time should I be there?? ;-)

um... probably homemade potato salad, a green salad, barbeque salmon for the kids and tofu for me. Oh, and broccoli. The kids are on a broccoli kick. I could think of worse things to be hooked on at 19 y.o. :D

[Richard Steele]

14. Too late- they finished EVERYTHING but the soup.

I make about a gallon of that at a time; I'm canning
the last 3 pints as we speak.

I overcooked the flounder just a bit- it was falling apart,
and had to be eaten with spoons. Still very tasty stuff, though! :9

[elleng]

35. Would you mind sharing soup recipe???

PLEASE???


:9

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

16. Harvest Pork from Henry Chung's Hunan cookbook

boiled pork, thinly sliced, then stir fried with Chinese black beans, garlic, kosher salt and ginger

then add cabbage and green peppers, stir fry some more.

Add pork broth, soy sauce, chopped Thai bird peppers and a dash of Chenkong vinegar and simmer a minute.

Finish with slivered scallions and a little liquid cornstarch to thicken the sauce.

Serve with freshly made rice.

Ideally, this is almost too hot to eat. :9

[Richard Steele]

19. I have that cookbook- it totally ROCKS!

I really wish my current housemates were more palatably sophisticated,
because there's just SO MUCH STUFF I could make for them.
I'm bringing them along SLOWLY, one step at a time,
but it's a time consuming process.

When I first came begging at the door for a floor to sleep on,
my current housemates didn't own a cutting board,
or a cheese grater, or a potato peeler, or even a WHISK.

So I've been executing some very BASIC recipe techniques here,
and they think I'm some sort of master Chef.

That Henry Chung dude is some sort of mad Genius:
His Cookbook is YEARS beyond what i'm gonna try with my housemates!

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

29. AFAIK, Henry is still alive, though his kids now run the

restaurants, which are still in SF. I think there are two or three locations now, all serving Henry's original Hunan food.

[Richard Steele]

32. You know, I've turned down several offers to travel to SF in the last few years...

If my feeble little brain had realized
that *THAT'S* where his restaurants are,
I would have TOTALLY gone there every single time.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

40. All of the recipes in the book came from

his impeccably Hunanese grandma. This is family home cooking, nothing from any fancy restaurants. And lordy lu, is it delicious. That cookbook is a pearl beyond price.

[Left Is Write]

17. I made a friend's recipe.

I sauteed chopped garlic in olive oil, added basil and oregano, coarsely chopped sun-dried tomatoes, bite-sized pieces of chicken breast, chopped sweet peppers, sliced Italian sausage, and a couple of splashes of wine. I cooked it until the chicken and sausage were done, tossed the whole thing with pasta, and topped it with freshly shredded Parmesan.

[Richard Steele]

20. If you and I ever cooked together, we could rock the world.

If we got along, that is....because that sounds like
something I would do.

But you know that folks who are serious about their food
don't cororoborate well.

Perhaps we could arrange some sort of "Weekend" where
we meet on NEUTRAL GROUND with groups of friends
and each cook one meal at a time for the group as a whole?

That would be some AWESOME list of food
by the end of the weekend, wouldn't it?

[leftyclimber]

18. Chicken thighs in a lemon-basil marinade

and cole slaw (due to a cole slaw accident last night -- need to use up the dressing).

And Yuengling. Maybe some fruit for dessert. It's kind of muggy.

[vadawg]

22. hopefully my buddy picked up a deer that i euthanized last night

so we will probuably bbq that this afternoon.

[Richard Steele]

23. "euthanized"...That's an EXPRESSION, isn't it?

I'm a Toothless hillbilly from Polecat Hollow,
so "euthanized" has a lot more meanings to me
than it does to most folks.

But free meat is free meat in any language, no?

[vadawg]

24. yup free meat, it was a whitetail hit by a car, not to badly injured but enough

so i euthanised it and my buddy should have rolled by to collect it.

[Richard Steele]

25. That organic, grain-fed venison is $15.99/lb in the "whole foods" markets....

But back up in Polecat Hollow where I grew up,
we used to find 150 -200 pounds of it lying alongside the road
every week of the year, just lying along the roadside.

WEALTHY people pay assloads of dollars for "fine cuisine"...
wealthy people have more $$$ than brain cells.

[av8rdave]

30. Something in Pittsburgh tonight

Will know more when I get there and look around!

[Richard Steele]

33. Lotsa good stuff in Pittsburg- that's a GREAT city to be in if you like to EAT!

Please report back and tell us where you went and what you had.

[av8rdave]

36. Had Parma Pizza and drank at Harry somethingoranother

Nice place, nice people...I'm off all day here tomorrow, so no curfew!

[LiberalEsto]

31. Frozen pizzas - it's my night off from cooking

One is a spinach and goat cheese pizza, the other has Mediterranean veggies like artichokes, olives, peppers, etc, Both are the supermarket brand, and they aren't bad. Better than the lousy stuff Marylanders think is pizza, anyway.!

[Richard Steele]

34. Don't even get me STARTED on what Marylanders think is pizza.

During my time in Baltimore, I found TWO truly decent Pizza restaraunts,
and both of them closed because the owners got tired of trying
to offer REAL FOOD to schmucks who wanted "slices"

[LiberalEsto]

38. That's not surprising

We moved to the Rockville area from New Jersey 19 years ago and we have YET to find a pizza place that can hold a candle to the average NJ pie. The nearest pizzeria to us (besides the abominable Pizza Hut) is Ledo's, which offers a peculiar rectangular crust with no resemblance whatsoever to either a tossed-dough crust or a deep-dish crust. Their sauce tastes something like barbecue sauce. Gaaaah!
:puke:

When if ever, will civilization come to Maryland?

[old mark]

37. Portugese kale soup.......nt

[LiberalEsto]

39. Caldo verde. Yum! nt