What are you cooking for supper? (9/2)

[demgurl]

Looks like we will have grilled chicken that is marinating in a semi-spicy liquid right now. We will have baked potato and a stir fry mix of veggies - onions, green pepper, snow peas and garlic.

What will be on your table tonight?

[NMDemDist2]

1. I was gonna make meatloaf but worked my butt off this morning

doing the guest room and laundry

it's raining like crazy so the BBQ steaks are out too

:banghead:

I may get a second wind here in a minute, but there's paint stuff in the sink and I fear once I get it cleaned up I'm not gonna have much "get up and go" left

can you bring me some of your dinner??

please? it sounds so yummy

:evilgrin:

[Skidmore]

3. Sounds like take home or delivery would be the ideal supper tonight

for you. On "project weekends" at our house, I have no energy for cooking and we generally get something at a deli or ready made.

[NMDemDist2]

4. I called the pizza man last night so that's out

and take home in this small town sucks.

I'll figure something out........

anybody up for a PBJ???


:hide:

[Skidmore]

5. Does your local grocery have a deli? Do they do those

rotissierie chickens? One of those with a tossed salad on the side might work. Nuke a couple of potatoes or yams for a side and break out the sour cream and chives or brown sugar and butter to top. Dessert--ice cream.

[NMDemDist2]

6. 25 miles round trip to the "good" grocery store

and I'm grubby from cleaning and painting

I have some potato salad made and a pound of good bacon.

Dinner is solved! BLTs and tater salad

works for me......

[Skidmore]

7. Yum. That would work for me.

BLTs!! We had those for dinner last night. Garden maters and some fresh bacon from some pork we just purchased last month. Stuff is so much better than the packaged bacon. It's like strips of ham.

[NMDemDist2]

8. our local meat market is awesome

Local Angus cattle, free range and then finished with organic alfalfa. no hormones or anti biotics

same with the pork, locally produced by small farms, organic and non injected


YUM!

an next year i'll have the garden maters too, no chance this year though....

[Skidmore]

9. Sounds like a great market. Twice a year we purchase

meat still mooing and oinking on the hoof from local farmers and have it prepared at a local butcher. We know how it is raised and it is dollars/lb cheaper than anything we can buy in the stores. We got pork at $1.50/lb and beef at $1.19/lb. and could specify what cuts we wanted. The pork was also processed into sausage for us--really good sausage in patties low on the salt side and not too heavily seasoned. You cook the patties and they don't shrink to half their size. The ham steaks are fresh and aren't so loaded down with salt that you can't taste the meat.

[demgurl]

22. I love BLT's.

Maybe I should come to your house.......Nevermind, my diet will not allow it. I hate being on a diet. I am so jealous of you.

[demgurl]

20. PBJ????

You have to eat better than that. No left over pizza from last night?

I am a mystery shopper for a pizza place and there have been times when we have ordered pizza four or five nights in a row. I am so tired of pizzas now. I order them to put in the kid's lunch boxes every once in a while.

I used to do the pizza shops just for the money and there were times when I would do route shops and come home with 20-30 pizzas! The most I ever came home with was 36 pizzas. But you have to understand that the pay was really great (at that time) and they would give me something like $20 a pizza to do route shops. I would bring them home, we would take pix for the report and then throw them out. They would be no good for consumption when they would be sitting in my car for up to 6 or 7 hours. The most they ever paid, for the pizza shops, was something like $30 per shop!!!! Those were the days.

[NMDemDist2]

24. i mystery shopped in PHX too

and they wanted me to do pizza shops for $10 (McDonalds too)

forget that! but some gigs paid pretty well and now I'm on the list for over here too

[demgurl]

28. Do you go to Volition?

They have a pretty good list of MS companies.

[NMDemDist2]

33. nope. I forget where I got the names

but the best pay is RQA, inc. it's hourly and mileage and it's mostly getting recalls and stuff

[demgurl]

18. Gee, AZ is a little far from NC!

How about if you just come over? I'll keep it warm in the oven for ya.

[NMDemDist2]

19. ROFL, nah, wrap it up. Skidmore helped me come up with an easy

menu for my tired self

BLTs and tater salad I made a couple days ago. There's grapes and vanilla pudding in the fridge too when we crave a little sweet later on

but thanks for the thought :pals:

[demgurl]

23. Grapes? Green?

They have not had grapes at the Farmer's Market and I refuse to pay store prices. Yum!

[NMDemDist2]

26. yup. $1 a bag and they're lots better than I saw last year n/t

[demgurl]

31. A dollar a bag?

Is that market price in your area or is that store bought? That price is incredible.

[NMDemDist2]

34. they were at Albertson's here. in one of those oversized sandwich

ziplock style baggies things. not the bigger paper with the handle bags

[Skidmore]

2. Mine is under this thread I started earlier.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x25159

[demgurl]

25. I love French bread.

Sounds like a wonderful supper. Hope you enjoy it.

[mtnester]

10. Tamale pie

black beans, ground sirloin, green onion, sour cream, corn, corn muffin mix, 4 cheeses. Yum.

And for dessert, angel food cake cubes with blackberries in syrup and french vanilla yogurt. Kind of like a trifle, kind of not.

[NMDemDist2]

11. would you post your recipe?

that sounds yummy

[mtnester]

14. Even better...I stole the tamale pie from here!

here you go!

http://www.txbeef.org/recipe.php3?969642436

The angel food cake thing is easy...angel food cake cubes, a large container of yogurt, and 2 cups blackberries, with sugar to your taste, and two teaspoons cornstarch. Put berries in a pot w/ sugar and cornstarch, cook em a while, then pour the yogurt over the cake cubes, then the blackberry compote over that, and stir. You can eat it warm or cold...you can also use vanilla pudding if you would rather than the yogurt.

I happened to have an angel food cake that needed using, some field picked berries, and a large container of organic french vanilla yogurt, and thought hmmm, bet I can stir this up.

[NMDemDist2]

15. thanks! n/t

[Skidmore]

16. That reminds me of a yogurt dessert I used to make when the kids

were little. You take a carton of lemon yogurt and mix it with an equal amount of whip cream or Cool Whip. Add chopped strawberries or blueberries or fruit of your choice. Put in a fancy stemmed dish and top with a little dollop of whipped cream. Looks great. Has a mousse like texture, and I could get yogurt into the kids without an argument.

[demgurl]

27. That sounds to die for.

Thanks for posting that recipe.

[eleny]

12. I got two lamb sausages the other day

I'm not sure what to do with them. I think I'll make one of Zatarain's rice mixes and add in the sausages after browning. Salad on the side.

[demgurl]

29. I have never had lamb....

let alone lamb sausage. What does it taste like? Is it spicy at all?

[eleny]

40. The lamb sausages were good

They had a very savory flavor. I could see leafy herbs visible through the casing. I've never had lamb sausages before and will get them again. I'll ask them what they use to spice them up. They didn't taste or smell like lamb when I prepared them.

I cut them into chunks and browned them. Then I made some brown rice in chicken broth water. Diced and sauteed onion, green & red sweet peppers, celery & garlic. Added in the meat and served it over the rice for a one bowl meal. We enjoyed it and my hubby is not a huge fan of lamb.

[demgurl]

42. I can just smell you cooking them now.

I really wish I was much more adventurous when it came to food. I think I want to start trying one new thing a month and if that works I will step it up to one new item a week.

[eleny]

44. I'm always looking for something different

It's easy to make the usual and love it. But I get bored fixing things I can prepare in my sleep. I think you'll like the challenge. With something unusual like lamb, you can always get one chop and experiment. If it's a bust, there's always the disposal. :D

[wildeyed]

13. Sent the hubby away with the kidlets and I'm going to have......

popcorn! Seriously. With kids, you feel some obligation to model decent eating habits, which includes not eating snack food for dinner. But occasionally, it is what I really want so I have to sneak it.

[Warpy]

17. Dinner today was leftover Chinese takeout

but while I was out, I ran into a sale: prawns, cleaned, $7.99/lb.

They were still frozen when I got them home. I have a feeling tomorrow will be cold weather food (it's dank and guess what? RAINING again) but as soon as the temperature bounces back up it'll be garlicky baked stuffed prawns, rice pilaf, and something seasonal and special, like artichoke. Might as well get my hands really, really greasy.

[NMDemDist2]

21. that sounds yummy. and you just reminded me I have the start of a

good chicken soup in the freezer. and if tomorrow is anything like today was...... :cry:

according to the weather service it's supposed to get COLDER tomorrow or Monday so I have a feeling the guest room is on hold tomorrow so we can install the e-heaters in the main rooms

:brrrrr:

[demgurl]

32. AZ, have you tried the e-heaters yet?

We installed ours last year and had to turn it off several times because they produced too much heat!!! If you have not tried it, I think you will like it.

[NMDemDist2]

35. we've only installed one so far in the master bath and DH didn't

realize it was on when we installed it. in 95 degree heat.

several hours later I walked in there and OH YEAH it was toasty alright!!! :rofl:

glad to hear of another happy customer of theirs

we'll put the rest of them up tomorrow (we got 6 in all)

[demgurl]

36. You may want to hold off on turning them on....

until it gets down to 89 or so!!!! :rofl: Thanks for that smile, I really needed it.

They work well but they are a pain to put up. I hope you guys get them put up without any effort at all. If you have pets (especially kitties, you will find they love to sleep in front of the heaters.

[NMDemDist2]

37. the high here is supposed to by 68 on Monday

we have a cold storm blowing through this weekend

[demgurl]

41. Holy cow!

I wish it were that cold here. I hate living in the south, I wish I could move back north but hubby is very attached to his family even if they are not all that attached to him!

[NMDemDist2]

43. it's very unusual weather for the desert plains of the South West

:brrr:

but we installed the rest of the e-heaters (other than the one that was snapped in half in shipping)

they're on and have raised the temp 1 degree already (in 15 minutes)

they look good too!

[demgurl]

30. I love anything garlic and I love Chinese even more.

I have not had any restaurant Chinese since I started my diet about two months ago. I do make stir fry but I miss things like Sweet and Sour Chicken.

Talking about Chinese, I went to New York this summer and had the best meal in China town. Wish I lived closer.

[mike_c]

38. arrgghh-- I took lamb chops out of the freezer but I forgot dinner....

I've been working all day, and just worked through dinner.

[politicat]

39. We had pasta with myzithra cheese, meatball soup and chicken sausage.

The meatball soup was made with the leftovers of a robusto sauce base I canned today (tomatoes, garlic, sage, basil and oregano) and Costco meatballs; we raided the cheese shop yesterday and picked up the myzithra (along with a gazillion others) and the sausage was the feta and spinach that Costco sells.

It has been chilly the last couple of days here, so we spent the day in the house.

[NMDemDist2]

45. I got my meatloaf done today

with mashed taters steamed squash and home made biscuits (that's the plan anyway)

the meatloaf's in the oven now

:bounce:

[demgurl]

47. Meatloaf is great comfort food.

Sounds like you really got it together tonight. I like making mashed potatoes from scratch. How do you make them?

[NMDemDist2]

49. i did instant tonight cuz my mom called and i wanted to do that biscuit

recipe

when i do em from scratch i like to add lots of butter and some sour cream (instead of milk) in the stand mixer

[Gregorian]

46. Tacos!

For the fourth month in a row.

Except tonight instead of seasoned lamb that I coursely grind, it'll be barbequed ribs that have been beboned and coursely ground.

I love tacos.

Tapatio hot sauce.

Finely ground lettuce
Chopped cilentro
Lime juice
Toms
Extra sharp cheddar

Corn taco shells that are simply put on a dry frying pan and turned once after getting slightly hard. No oil. I learned after years of doing this.

Well, that's about it. I'm really tired of being single. I think it's time to find someone to help out in life. New ideas and recipes. But that's another forum. At fifty, I'm still not really sure I want to give up being completely free and independent.

[demgurl]

48. Gregorian........

The tacos do not stick when you dry cook them? Is it hard to learn to walk the line between heating and sticking when you first start cooking this way?

You could always make different types of tacos if you are getting bored.

[Gregorian]

50. Nope. I have had no sticking with them.

Oh, I'm using a teflon pan. I doubt they'd stick on any kind of pan, if you leave it long enough to get partially hardend on that side, first. It's a fine line between too soft and too tough.

By they way, I'm half way done with this evenings tacos, and they're awesome! The bbq'd pork ribs really are excellent.

Lamb was my different type.


What I mean is, I'm fifty and have been cooking ever since I left home thirty something years ago. I've enjoyed it. I even worked in restaurants when I was younger. But after thirty years, a couple of things have happened. I'm enjoying my tacos without anyone to share them with. When things go great, it's kind of sad to be the only one to experience it. And when I run out of ideas, I don't have anyone else's experience to fall back on. I don't even think I had an overbearing mother. Haha. So why I've enjoyed being single so many years is sort of a mystery to me.

I'm kind of slow at learning. Hell, I've recently figured out how to get whole wheat bread to rise properly, after who knows how many years of failed attempts. I've refrained from posting it here because I think it's so utterly basic. (:

Anyways, it's back to tacoland...