What's for dinner?

Lunch at my desk today is a ZipLoc bag full of salad with Caesar dressing, a hard boiled egg, a thick slice of cheese (Havarti today, good English cheddar yesterday), hummus on good toast, and a plum for dessert.

I won’t stay at my desk. After I eat, I always leave the office and walk outside. I’m next door to Washington Place, the governor’s house that used to be the Queen’s house a very long time ago. Just on the other side of that is the Episcopal Cathedral where I often go and sit outside by their beautiful fountain, or I go into the sanctuary and sit and meditate.

I often go to the State Museum of Art, too, and on Fridays, there’s the Royal Hawaiian Band at Iolani Palace.

I had southern fried chicken and chips (as in fries not pringles)

I’m making tacos for a taco salad.

This: https://www.blueapron.com/recipes/butternut-squash-with-brussels-sprouts-white-beans-gremolata. We just finished, and the meal was fantastic.

Until now, I’d always hated Brussels sprouts. Of course, I’d always had the bitter-tasting frozen version, reheated and swimming in a pool of yucky liquid. I just learned that fresh, raw Brussels sprouts make a great salad green with a delicate flavor.

Pad See You from our nearby Thai joint.

How timely for me. I was just trying and failing to remember a recipe I used to make that involved whitefish fillets rolled up with Stove Top stuffing inside and baked in a casserole dish with a creamy sauce, maybe a cheese sauce. Didn’t I ever write it down? Maybe it was one of the (too, too many) things I was just sure I’d remember. Dammit.

So this is a good time for ideas. Otherwise it’s just going to be spaghetti, albeit with homemade meatballs.

I had some goose liver pâté.

Chicken Picatta….cooking for BIL and SIL gonna be good!

@Hawaii_Jake Sounds yummy, I adore cheese, I am a cheese-a-holic. I tried some fermented cashew cheese spread the other day, mind blowingly good.

@NerdyKeith Oooh…fried ( as we call it here ) shicken. I had a fried chciken sandwich last week, so deliciously fattening. haha

@dammitjanetfromvegas Oh wow…taco salad sounds wonderful, wanna trade dinners? lol

@Love my doggie THAT recipe sounds amazing! I love grilled brussel sprouts and steamed dipped in mayp. I know, that;s weird, but..haha

@cookieman Yum! Our fav. Vietnamese place is called, no joke, Pho King Good. lol

@Jeruba That long lost recipe sounds great too. I love stove top stuffing, so do my hips. haha

@ragingloli Hardy har har, but I gave you a GA. anyway.

@Cruiser Save some leftovers for me. :-)

@Coloma Fermented cashew cheese spread? I’ll try that. Send me some.

@Hawaii_Jake It is made by ” The Cultured Kitchen” and is wheat, dairy, gluten and soy free. Check your local health food zone for it. There is a white cheddar, a sour cream and chives and, uh, uh..I forgot th 3rd one I bought. haha

Boneless Chicken Wings (Parmesan/Garlic) , A salad and a “Heart of Oak” Vienna lager. or two

Lasagna and garlic bread.

Not sure – going out with my nephew, his wife and my son. Only two more nights in Cali then it’s starvation diet time!

Slices of Jarlsberg cheese and pepperoni. Salad was celery stocks with humus covered with hot salsa. Counting carbs.

I fixed hotdogs and beans for dinner. I wasn’t even very hungry, yet I wolfed them down. I felt guilty while I was eating them and even guiltier as I admit it to all of you.

^ They are commonly called beenie weenies.

Roasted brussel sprouts, cauliflower, and broccoli.
Balsamic vinegar, Parmesan cheese and hummus.
White wine.

The little one expressed interest in learning how to make sushi. Our neighborhood grocery doesn’t have the right supplies, so we headed down to the Oriental Market (that’s the name) for stuff.

While there we picked up an assortment of dumplings and dim sam. That was dinner tonight.

Tofu sushi tomorrow.

My daughter and I are having homemade chicken tacos. My son is having pizza.

Stouffer’s vegetable lasagna.
It’s the last of the “family sized” I baked a few days ago. It was actually better than I remembered (not hard to do!), and I made a tasty mushroom Alfredo sauce with garlic and sherry to top it with.

Oh, it all sounds so good!
Lasagne, Hot dogs, Jarlsberg cheese, Sushi, chicken tacos, piazza, I am gaining just thinking about it all. haha
My dinner turned out great, friends very praiseworthy. :-)

I also made a fruit sald with canned, fresh peaches from last summer, frozen blackberries and fresh mandarin oranges, so good!

Cultured Cashew

@ibstubro Good stuff, really good stuff. Try it, you’ll like it! haha

We ended up having a great Indian meal out.

@ibstubro :: I had Stouffer’s lasagna too. But I got the meat version. My roommate makes very garlicly garlic butter. So tons of garlic butter in a pan and then toss in some slices from a baguette and crunch them up. Delicious.

Chicken, rice and peas for me. Toothless husband was jealous!

I had mutton stew with a dollop of juniper berry jelly blended in. Swedish recipe. The sweetness of the juniper jelly goes perfectly with the sweetness of mutton meat. Excellent.

@Espiritus_Corvus Juniper berry jelly, sounds exotic and intriguing.

@Coloma It’s big in Swedish cooking. Enbär gele. They use it on a lot of things. In moose, elk, reindeer stews. It goes great with sweet wild meats like that. Lamb and mutton as well. I made the stew spiced with a little red wine, thyme and juniper gele—a really good combination. Any sweet meat goes well with this, even, uh, certain fowl. A friend sends a couple of jars to me from Sweden around Christmas time every year. I’ve never seen it in the States. It’s a nice change from mint gele. It has a tartness to it as well.

We had stir fry with ground turkey, onions, celery, red bell pepper, mushrooms, zucchini, sesame seeds, and a shot of siracha sauce. It was delicious!

Last night I had two bites of cold, leftover sauerbraten from a restaurant I ate at last Saturday. I decided it’s better hot, and I wasn’t in the mood to heat anything up, so I put it away. Then I put some honey vanilla Greek yogurt on a plate and added chopped walnuts and blueberries. I was too tired to do anything else. It was good.

Indian food sounds good. Just reading all the things up above sounded great. Stouffer’s makes good lasagna. Vegetarian and the kind with meat are both good. Mutton sounds great. I love lamb. Havarti is the cheese that is currently opened in my refrigerator, and I love it. I’ll take crackers and have a few slices of Havarti any day for a snack. Reading Jake’s description of his lunch break brought back fond memories of Hawaii and how beautiful it was and how fragrant the air was. I went when I was 13. I remember coming back home from Kennedy Airport (NYC) and how gray and depressing that was, after the colors and beauty of Hawaii.

Tonight I think I will go with Nemo Nachos – Sashimi-grade tuna on top of fried wonton wrappers with cucumber, avocado and spring onion, then drizzled with a sweet and sour sauce and wasabi and washed back with a Timber Snake IPA. Then let things settle, sipping a Coffee Porter for desert.

@jca Tomorrow I’ll be returning to wintryNortheast from nearly a month in sunny and verdant California.

Just for details we had: chicken pakoras, samosa chaat, dal saag, chicken tikka masala, rice and garlic naan. Indian food is my favorite cuisine.

@janbb: It’s been very windy in my neck of the woods. Big storms two nights ago and neighbors had power outage. Last night, cold and blustery, same today. California is so beautiful. I was last there 10 years ago, before my daughter was born. We rode down the coast. When she’s a bit older, I’d like to do Oregon, Washington and up to Canada.

Tonight will be albacore tuna salad with minced celery and bread and butter pickle relish with sliced tomato and lettuce on an artisan bread with home made potato salad and fresh fruit salad with blackberries, mandarin orange segments, diced peaches we canned last fall and sliced Kiwi. I’m prone to picnic type dinners in the nice weather. Pushing 75 today in the CA, hills.

Tonight I’m making home made taco fries. But the supermarket only had vegetarian mince in stock, so that will have to do.

@NerdyKeith Do tell, what are Taco Fries?

My daughter made us shepherd’s pie. So nice to eat what she made and tasted pretty good too

@Coloma
Fries, topped with minced beef, mayonnaise, taco sauce and melted cheese

@Coloma It sounds like Taco Fries are a variation of Chili Cheese Fries

@NerdyKeith and @rojo Gotcha! Oh, my ass is expanding just thinking about those fries. lol
I am craving fried Zucchini with ranch dressing right now.

@NerdyKeith
and a bottle of liquid butter, right?

@Coloma Haha you should try making it.

@ragingloli Oh but of course

Just finishing up a giant crockpot of my delicious spaghetti sauce. Just about ready to add the meats, peppers, onions and shrooms all sauteed up together. Dinner at 6, come one, come all. :-D

I love this question because one of the things I hate the most is coming up with a meal that will please five family members every single day. It’s nearly impossible.

@dammitjanetfromvegas You should try my famous chicken pepper ” steak” sandwiches. Slice up cooked chicken breast and sautee yellow onion strips and red, yellow and orange bell pepper strips in a little olive oil with, ( the secret ingredient haha ) seasoned, ( has to be seasoned ) meat tenderizer, use it on your chicken breasts when baking too )
Put your sliced chicken breasts in a skillet with a little olive oil, layer on the onions and peppers then melt sliced Provolone cheese onto the top. Slide onto sweet french rolls slathered in mayo and add sliced avocado if you want. To die for!

Grilled ham/cheese sandwiches and homemade cream of broccoli soup.

@MollyMcGuire Sounds great! My sauce is almost ready, time to make the garlic bread, just after this well deserved glass of wine. haha

Today the wind died and the cloud cover trapped in the heat and humidity. So, dinner is cold and quick tonight. (1) A long, cold shower. (2) A big salad made from mustard greens (I think they call this Arugula nowadays), radishes, leek and bacon with Parmesan dressing of a goat’s milk base and lotsa coarse ground black pepper. (3) Fresh stone crab claws on ice with lemon and a spicy horse radish, mustard and creme fraische dip. If I had any around, I would be drinking ice-cold Pinot Grigio so dry it would make the paint peel.

@Espiritus_Corvus Oh my, my heart be still! Crab legs and that salad and I love the Pino.
I am having a delicious local vintage right now, a Verdajo white. Deeelicious! If you ever need a gally girl let me know, I am sure I could wow you with a handful of my specialties. haha

@Coloma Not legs, baby. Claws. Big muthas. Four pounds of ‘em.

Is your Verdajo from Napa or Sonoma vineyards?

@Espiritus_Corvus It is locally gorwn from here.

www.vinacastellano.com

I can hear the music venues from the porch here on Fri. & Sat. nights. :-)

Can’t get the link to work, but it sounds great. Sierra Nevada mountain wines. Imagine that.

That sounds so good @Coloma! I’ll have to try that this week. Hopefully I’ll have bell pepper plants again this year to make the sandwich even better.

Tonight is bacon, eggs, pancakes and homemade strawberry topping.

@Espiritus_Corvus Link works now, just takes a minute.
@dammitjanetfromvegas Oooh…breakfast fr dinner, excellent choice. I haven’t made pancakes in about a thousand years. haha

Today I had a Michelina’s TV dinner after spending all day at Faire. In an attempt to avoid Faire food, I had an cappuccino with a packet of Carnation instant breakfast stirred in, a special K protein bar, and a glass of pear cider.

I’m pretty sure I’m at less than 700 calories for the day. Whatever.

^^ pancakes! (snicker)

@Seek Haha..I had, 3 tablespoons of vanilla yogurt, 3 glasses of wine ( hours later ) and a bowl of my spaghetti sauce, pasta and a slice of garlic bread.iI think I have a couple tootsle pops coming later. Got all my veggies in the sauce of course. End zone, maybe 1500. haha

@Coloma Got it. Auburn. Nice. Thanks.

Tonight: good old New England baked beans and steamed brown bread, which I do a few times a year. This was our menu, baked beans with molasses, every single Saturday night of my youth. We never had baked beans on any other day of the week. It was unthinkable.

Usually we had hot dogs with them, and through the winter months we’d have the brown bread too. I don’t know why we couldn’t have brown bread in the warmer months. It’s not like it requires using the oven.

Here in Northern California it never gets as cold as a northeastern winter, so I feel like I’m defying tradition to make brown bread in February when it’s been in the sixties all day. Somehow I manage it, though. Steamed brown bread is surpassingly delicious.

Just go in from the coast and hungry. Luckily, there’s some potato and pea samosas in the freezer that i’m heating up for supper.

And a friend is making me a luscious coffee concoction.

Does anyone remember that canned brown bread with raisins? I think it was S&W brand maybe? It was so good with baked beans.

No…it was B&M this…

www.famousfoods.com/bmbrbrp.html

We have a can of that on hand for emergencies, but it is nothing like real steamed brown bread; or rather, it’s as much like it as a loaf of Wonder Bread is like home-baked bread.

Now I’m in the mood for an open-faced turkey sandwich with gravy.

@dammitjanetfromvegas That’s something I’m always in the mood for!

Leftovers from lunch: a vegan BBQ sandwich made with shredded sauteed trumpet mushrooms, topped with kale salad, and a side of beer battered onion rings.

@Kardamom Hey there!

A friend and I stopped iny this little little off the wall est. 1963 burger shack in the city last week called ” Whiteys Jollu Kone.” lol
OMG! They made the BEST onion rings ever, the light tempura type batter. They were amazing!

Going to have Chicago town pepperoni pizza

@Coloma onion rings are one of life’s simple pleasures : )

Bagel with tomato, rocket lettuce and buffalo motzerella; and a cafe latte.

I was in a cafe in Dublin called Lemon Jelly (no affiliation of this website lol)

@NerdyKeith Mmmm…sounds good. Chicken pepper “steak” sandwiches here tonight.

@Coloma, your means sounds pretty good too

Chicken corn chowder made from two fresh, but very old hens I got from guy in town in trade for some of my crab claws. I boiled them for ten hours yesterday until the meat started falling off the bone. Garnished with lotsa leek. Homemade baguette and butter. Ice tea and lemon.

I am making lamb koftas with masala sauce for tonight.

Red lentil soup and welsh rarebit on whole wheat toast.

OMG you all, if we were hanging out in real life we’d all weight 300 lbs. haha

Tonight is Subway sandwiches. haha

Right now I am roasting a chicken with thyme under the skin and a whole head of garlic inside on a bed of vegetables. I expect it will be delicious even if we are eating chicken for days because it’s an eight pounder.

I had a four cheese pizza (which I added sweet corn to). It was amazing

I just ordered a pepperoni pizza, sausage pizza with onion, banana pepper and mushrooms, bread sticks and bosco sticks from our local family owned pizza place.

mmm bread

@NerdyKeith Sweet corn, on pizza? Is this an Irish dish? lol
I had a cashew pizza once, it sounds bizarre but it was amazing!

@Coloma, I had a Thai roommate in college who was appalled at the idea that we use sweet corn as a vegetable. Where she came from, she said, it was a dessert. She would put it on ice cream.

@Coloma Yes it’s very common to have sweet corn on pizza here (and I think in the uk too). It tastes really great. I usually have a tin of sweet corn in the fridge with some grated motzerella. So I get a frozen pizza, add the extra cheese and sprinkle on the sweet corn with a spoon.

I asked my daughter to put the quiche in the oven last night to be ready for 6.10pm when I get home. She thought that she would put it in when she remembered so that she didn’t forget to put it in. It went in at 5.20pm. One well cooked quiche….

I have just returned from the quest for the perfect, giant baking potatos for a loaded potato bake tonight.
Toppings include, sauteed crookneck and zucchini squash, broccoli and cheese sauce, the usual sour cream, green onions etc. and burgundy braised beef tips. Oh my…I can’t wait!

Tatties and Neeps!

and Beer!

Oh my!

@Coloma Sounds great. I always have trouble deciding what fillings to use on my baked potato. I’ve tried mine with chicken tikka before. That was nice.

Mostly I use melted cheddar cheese and sweet corn.

A bean and cheese burrito.

@NerdyKeith You must own stock in the sweet corn industry!

Tuna melt with welsh rarebit for the cheese and salad.

Oh! But I did buy some “broccoli salad” (which is a stupid name because it’s mostly bean sprouts and has no broccoli at all) and some crab and some super duper new yogurt salad dressing! But that’s for tomorrow.

I love bean & cheese burritos, a freezer staple, or sometimes I make my own with diced tomatoes and alfalfa sprouts and minced cucumber too.

Nothing. Because I ate nachos for lunch. (Hangs head.) I’m still full.

@janbb Oh of course ;)

Ricotta and spinach stuffed raviole tonight.

Breaded baked pork chop with deglazed wine sauce, home fries and cauliflower.

@janbb Ooh…that sounds delicious, I haven’t had pork chops in forever and I adore cauliflower.
Bon Appetit !

The little one asked for Subway today, and I suggested maybe we make our own meatball subs. Ian insisted that he get to cook them, so we grabbed some frozen pre-cooked meatballs and some Ragu. He got to add onions and garlic, some Italian seasoning, etc. to doctor up the sauce, stirred in the meatballs, and let them simmer. Then he put a layer of shredded mozzarella on some hoagie rolls so I could spoon on the meatballs.

Not bad cooking for a seven year old. I had two, myself.

Fried chicken dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy and baked beans from the deli in our small grocery store in town.

@Seek Awww….the little chef, stand back mama. lol
@dammitjanetfromvegas That sounds good too. I’m addicted to KFC cole slaw, I go by there at least once a week and eat a large side all by myself. :-)

I had spaghetti sandwiches for the second night in a row, and enjoyed every bite.

I thought I wanted a frozen pizza, but when I got to the grocery the options, other than cheese (I’m short on sweet corn), were damned slim. There for a while they had all kinds of non-meat pizzas, with 3–4 kinds of spinach alone. Today the only spinach options were square or rising crust. I wanted to use the Pizza Pizzazz!, so I skipped pizza.

Last night I made BBQ with leftover pork shoulder, sauteed onions, no-sugar BBQ sauce, No-Sugar added catsup, apple cider vinegar and water. It was delicious! Brussels Sprouts on the side.

Last night was Long John Silvers.

@Dutchess_III OMG…I haven’t had fish-n-chips forever.

Today is going to be a junk food lunch before seeing “Dead Pool” with my daughter. Dinner will be carrot sticks and fruit for me after the Sat. junk fest. haha

@Dutchess_III
Innuendo?

Salmon.
I set an entire salmon filet out for dinner.
I’m open to indoor ideas on how I should prepare it.
Think simple and low mess.
:-)

@ibstubro Bake it surrounded by asparagus spears and drizzled with a little butter and S&P. About 20 minutes in the oven and the asparagus is divine. One of my favs.

I make a sauce of miso paste, brown sugar,garlic and soy sauce, paint it on the top and bake it for a short time.

Smoked salmon with lemon

Bacon quesadillas

It was chili and rice. I made the chili for a potato toppers lunch at UU tomorrow.

Just got home from Renn Faire. After hawking jewelry all day, I’m exhausted. Mitch and Ian aren’t home, so unless they show up soon I’m skipping dinner entirely. Mitch’s mom can fend for herself.

THAT was the sample at Sam’s Club today, @Coloma! Baked salmon and asparagus.

I sauteed fresh mushrooms and salmon pieces (cut up with scissors because I like the skin). Added sea salt, white pepper, fresh lemon and Italian blend shredded cheese. Served over leftover brown Basmati rice.
Wasn’t as good as it sounds.

I have ⅔rds left to cook tomorrow.

Went out for tacos here before catching ” Dead Pool” with my daughter. Now at almost 8 pm II am having a banana and a vanilla yogurt with chopped walnuts. haha

I only had one meal today, at about 3:00. Went to a Mom & Pop cafe in Ponca City. I had a plate of roast beef and a side order of sauteed mushrooms and onions. Mixed all that together…it was REALLY good!
And that’s all for today.

Leftover spaghetti sauce from the freezer, salad and garlic bread now. I am starving, only had a banana and yogurt this morning.

Last night we had Indian food: butter chicken, chicken saag, aloo gobi masala, samosas and naan. Delicious!

Tonight was fried chicken, Cole slaw, and potato salad from the grocery store deli. It was the closest thing to real food I could get without cooking. My feet are killing me. I’ll cook tomorrow, maybe.

Tonight was half a turkey and Swiss sandwich on Panera bread. I LOVE that place! We don’t get there often, though.

I’m making a mock pot roast dinner.
Had a couple New York steaks, sliced them and seasoned/marinated them and tossed the strips in a big terra cotta roaster with sliced carrots, onion, potato and squash. Smells great, I’ll be taking a peek soon but the smell indicates success. :-D

It’s raining. 2 big bowls of chicken, or rather ancient hen, soup. Freshly made baguette & butter. I might have a third bowl later.

Tonight I had ham, lettuce, and mayo rolled in a flour tortilla.

Pork tenderloin roast, Brussels sprouts, macaroni and cheese. All requested by Hubby. If have chosen potatoes as the starch, but whatever.

Mushroom soup and soda bread

Oooh… @Seek I’ could just eat the man-n-cheese & brussels sprouts.
@NerdyKeith I love mushroom soup!

Pan seared fresh salmon steaks.
Sea salt, fresh ground black pepper, garlic and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice.
Hershey bar with almonds for dessert.

^ Dude…you forgot the asparagus, hang on, I have a bunch right here. lol

I am having salted caramel chocolate for dessert. help me, help me…hel…

@Coloma It truly is the best soup ever :)

@NerdyKeith Agreed, I could live on mushroom soup in all it;s variations.

Tonight I am babysitting a little 9 year old friend and we are having cheese pizza and fruit salad. Her request. :-)

@Coloma Oh me too love it

Oh that sounds good. I’m in The Bagal Bar cafe. I’m having the beef phili bagal and a latte.

^ I might have to wrangle up a bagel from the depths of the freezer here and have it with some cream cheese this morning. :-)

@Coloma Ooooh cream cheese is delicious. Especially when you have smoked salmon with it (the deli kind)

@Coloma: It’s funny you refer to “cheese pizza” that way. Here in NY, pizza with cheese is just “plain” or just “pizza.”

Ey, @jca, I’mma grab a pie on the way.

@jca NJ is with you on that.

Home alone here for 5 days, so, dinner tonight will be a Havarti and honey ham sandwich with horse radish mustard, some Amish deli potato salad, a hard boiled egg and blackberries and honeydew melon. A picnic for one. :-)

Well, dinner, which I just had, was the same as dinner lat night. A bean and cheese burrito with extra cheese and lettuce and tomato and green onion and smothered with cheese. Only today I had some cream cheese to put on it because I had a bagel from McD’s for breakfast and asked for an extra cream cheese, which I then stole and took home at lunch to put on my burrito.

@Dutchess_III Do you need some food assistance, are you down to your last burrito? I can send something. lol

This evening, I am having mashed potatoes and garlic chicken kiev.

^ and corn ice cream? lol

Actually, that was my last tortilla, and the cheese is almost gone so I guess I starve until we get more! Or eat lettuce or something. What I really want is peanut brittle and Girl Scout cookies, which we also have at home. Which is why I’m trying to avoid going home. But I don’t have any place else to sleep.

Couple slices of pizza with mushrooms and peppers.

Chicken, rice and peas. My go to dinner

I have a leg of lamb in the crock pot for tonight.

You fit an entire lamb’s leg in your crockpot??!!

@Dutchess_III Yes, it will fit the six quart one, but the one I am cooking today has had the bone removed and is in a five quart crock. You can buy just the shank portion or, as I do, I get the meat man to cut one for you without the small end.

^ Reminds me of a great murder mystery I once read, where the wife hits her husband over the head with a frozen leg of lamb then creates an alibi making sure she is seen shopping for the other dinner items at the market, fresh peas and potatoes.
When she returns home she feigns shock at finding her husband dead to the authorities and while they look for the murder weapon she tells them that it would be a shame to waste such a nice meal and serves them the murder weapon for dinner. The perfect crime. haha

Soup. salad and garlic bread for me tonight :-)

@Coloma I love that story too. I think it was made into an Alfred Hitchcock episode.

@janbb I couldn’t remember, it’s been years, whether it was Hitchcock magazine or Ellery Queen when I read it. I miss the short mystery story mags.

This evening I’m out with some of my family enjoying stake on a stone, with pepper sauce and chunky fries. It’s amazing

Panko fried tofu sushi for lunch today… Not sure what I’m doing for dinner yet.

@NerdyKeith What is steak on a stone? Is a stone a potato in Ireland?

@Seek…Oooh…I want Panko fried onion rings please.

@NerdyKeith I am also having cream of mushroom soup for lunch. I credit you with sending me on a mushroom soup jag. haha

@Coloma No the stone is actually more like a hot plate. Basically it is still cooking while it’s on the table.

Something like this (first time I’ve ever been served stake like this btw)

Oh enjoy that mushroom soup haha

@NerdyKeith Oh yes, I get it now. Reminds me of asian cooking. Soups on, with soda crackers, Havarti cheese and green olives on the side. :-)

@Coloma Yes I suppose it is very like Asian style of cooking :)

Oh that sounds nice, enjoy it

I ate a lot at lunchtime and restricted myself to a tuna steak, one potato croquette and a small portion of baked beans. Tasted good and I feel full. Happy days!

Going for Chinese takeout tonight, thinking almond chicken, fried rice and crab and cheese stuffed wontons on my way back from an errand in a few hours. :-)

Taking a walk on the boardwalk with a friend then going to a coffee shop for their great hot turkey sandwich.

@janbb Are you still in stormy NorCal?

@Coloma Nope – been home in NJ for the past two weeks so I told Cali it could be stormy again. :-)

Tonight I had sweet corn pizza and garlic bread.

Again with the sweet corn?

Tonight, we are having homemade Italian chicken soup and grilled cheese sandwiches made with English mustard cheddar.

@NerdyKeith I bet being a corn fed young bull you could walk away with a blue ribbon at the county fair. lol

@marinelife That sounds delicious!
I haven’t made grilled cheese in forever. There is a restaurant near me that makes a grilled Monterey Jack with grilled green chiles sandwich. To die for!

@NerdyKeith I usually stay away from dream interpretation, but I think you’re really an Iowan in deep sleep dreaming you’re an Irishman on an American Q&A site. This sweet corn thing is a big clue. Does this picture of Ireland look familiar?

Big Redfish filet baked in a bag (en papillote) with butter, smothered in sliced fresh white onions, garlic, sliced fresh green bell pepper, coarse ground black pepper and a little salt. Fried plantain in butter, sliced fresh tomatoes and my own special vinaigrette.

Fish head soup with fresh warm baguette and butter tomorrow morning.

Maggie the Cat is going nuts. She gets the leftover baitfish so I can eat in peace.

@Espiritus_Corvus Well…I certainly hope you saute up a fine fishy dinner for dear little Maggie puss. I think she should have her fillet with a delicate cream sauce and sprinkling of catnip., :-)

@Espiritus_Corvus haha maybe I am

@NerdyKeith don’t listen to them! Sweet corn is great, cheap and easily available frozen or tinned. You get your fibre any way you want!!

Thanks @Stinley and it’s even more amazing on pizza :D

I used to have a friend that ate corn every day. She gained weight really quickly. Be careful with corn, @NerdyKeith. It’s what they use to fatten cows!

@jca that’s so funny but I don’t quite know why. Still laughing. I think I might have an image of @NerdyKeith as a languorous Iowan cow in my head. That’s all your fault!

@Stinley Haha that’s funny

Yesterday was a green salad and some mashed potatoes and gravy. Actually, I got a to-go order of a one trip salad bar at an eatery across the street from where I work. They gave me a small Styrofoam container for the salad and a small bowl for soup. Well, I didn’t want soup. I wanted taters and gravy from the main course buffet, so I put the taters and gravy in my soup bowl.
I have been wrestling with my conscious ever since. HEY! If it had been potato SOUP it would have had the same stuff in it, just in a different form, right? So it’s OK, right??

@Dutchess_III Nah, you’re good, a fine rationale. lol
Hey, I had egg rolls at midnight so they don’t count ether because it was neither yesterday nor fully today yet. free space. haha

I’m having salad and coffee eclairs for lunch. They cancel each other out, right?

@janbb As long as you eat the salad first. haha

Well, getting ready to go to Oklahoma for breakfast. (It’s almost 1 p.m. Maybe I’ll have lunch instead.)

Leftovers…....I love having them! :)

Today is a grazing day for me. Who knows what it might be. maybe a tuna sandwich or a bowl of raisin bran. I splurged on chinese takeout yesterday so counting my calories again today.

@MollyMcGuire Pease porridge in the pot 9 days old? haha

Okay…change of menu. I just realized I have a bundle of fresh Aspargus that needs to be used and tons of fresh eggs from the hens here and some leftover ham. Sooo…making a ham, cheese and Asparagus Omelet . :-)

So my one meal for today was fried mushrooms as an appetizer, then a small plate full of roast beef with sauteed onions and mushrooms mixed in. Man, I was full! It was so good that I didn’t want to stop eating even after I was full, which is very unusual for me.
They forgot to give us our fresh. home made rolls though. Which is good. After the fried mushrooms, if I’d eaten a roll too, I wouldn’t have been able to eat near as much of the roast as I did.

I had my last ever Garlic Parmesan Pasta Bowl Appetit for dinner. (I added a little tin of salmon for flavor.) The product line has been discontinued.

I used to work making those little bowls, and they really weren’t bad. I liked having some in the cabinet to use as a quick side for 2 people, or a 5 minute meal for one.

End of an era for me…I still have friends working to close out the run.

Well, I just finished a BLT. I really want another, but we’re out of B.

@Dutchess_III Oh man, that sounds SO good, I haven’t made BLTs forever. I like BLTA’s..Bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado too!

Today is crazy stormy and I am going to eat weird foods. Leftover asparagus and stuffing. haha

This evening I had salmon and mushroom tagliatelle in white wine sauce. It was to die for

@NerdyKeith Sounds divine!

Tailgate salmon, @NerdyKeith? Aren’t you concerned that the Chief’s fans would think you’re a wuss?

@Coloma It really was

@Dutchess_III Lol not really

Cauliflower with cheese sauce for a light supper. Now about to have a fresh fruit tart.

An assortment of dumplings tonight, as it involves very little actual cooking.

Celebrating spring with shrimp and asparagus over pasta.

Quesadillas and salad here, simple as I am working late afternoons the next couple days, so dinner at 3 for me.

Had chili on baked potato for lunch; out to an early dinner after the movie with a friend.

Well, after my BLT yesterday I told ya I could have eaten another, but we had no more B. I ended up waiting another 5 hours before I ate again. I finally settled on….a turkey and mashed potato and peas Swanson TV dinner. It really hit the spot. Not too much food, no real work, it was all just right.

Happy Pi Day!

Today is Shepherd’s Pi with Cherry Pi for dessert.

I’m going to be having the Chicago Town stuffed crust pepperoni pizza this evening.

@NerdyKeith With corn right? lol

I am so out of it here I am still drinking coffee at almost noon. This damn time change. Soon I will have something to eat, not sure what yet.

@Coloma Would you believe I ran out of corn?

@NerdyKeith OH NO! A state of emergency, quick, go forth and buy corn! lol

@Coloma Haha Its ok I think I’ll survive, I’ll gather my troops to acquire the supplies.

Quick everyone – send corn to Ireland!

@janbb Haha

40lbs of vacuum packed all-natural Polska Kielbasa arrived from Cincinnati today. It’s been a long, long time. Too long. I’m making a nice, spicy mustard right now. A crock of crispy sauerkraut is in the fridge and I have some Cuban bread. If you guys don’t hear from me for a while, check the St. Lucia hospitals for a more-than-middle-aged comatose white male suffering severe sodium overload. Nom, nom, baby!

If I can fit it in, I’ll have some hot pecan pi with vanilla goat’s milk ice cream in honor of the Day, but don’t count on it. Pi is not real high priority right now.

Pork chops, cauliflower, baked potato.

@Espiritus_Corvus Haha…is there a sodium trauma unit?
Okay, one of my special soup recipes with Kielbasa.
Make or buy veggie stock, add the sliced sausage with chopped cabbage, diced potatoes, yellow squash and orange and red bell pepper strips. Add a dash of cracked red pepper and some italian seasons, oregano, thyme, basil and let simmer away until taters are soft.

Coick pot is best. Serve with a nice crusty french bread and butter.
40 lbs. that’s a lotta sausage there.

This evening I had chicken dippers and a garlic baguette. But I had a breakfast bap in Starbucks earlier.

I had a chicken salad sandwich and an asian salad, one of those whip it up, pre-mixed packages from the grocery store. Good! Yesterday I was SO BAD, had a burger, onion rings and a giant milkshake. A splurge day.

Ummm… totally ended up hip-deep in reorganizing my craft stuff and a bottle of Cabernetand forgot about food. Hubby and I just reheated some leftovers and mixed up a can of tuna with crackers and celery.

Crab casserole and salad

Oooh crab!

I just bought OMG too many eggs at Target – $0.99 a dozen!

So it’ll probably be shakshuka if hubby gets home from work early, and breakfast-for-dinner if he doesn’t. Tomato sauce after about 6pm treats his stomach weird.

@Seek Too bad we aren’t nearby I have fresh eggs coming out of my ears from the hens here that have gone into spring laying mode. I have about 5 dozen now and need to give some away.
I have 17 just sitting on the counter in a bowl from the last 2 days!

Tonight, leftover chicken and asian salad again, Ground Hog day dinner. haha

I haven’t really had a a proper dinner yet. I had a sausage and cheese bap, which I made myself by toasting it on my George Forman. Added some mayonnaise to it. Had a latte from Insomnia on my way to the library.

@NerdyKeith What’s a “bap”, did you mean a wrap?

@Coloma No it’s a bap, it’s similar to a panini; just a bit smaller. Actually it’s a lot closer to a burger bun, it’s like this

I call a bap a bread roll

Never heard of bap. Interesting.

@Stinley yeah it’s similar enough to bread roll

Round where I live now they call them batches. I suppose because they are cooked in batches.

I worked in a bakery in Bristol and the soft rolls were called baps and the crusty rolls were called cobs.

If I can find the damned Australian Red 16 count shrimp, that’s for dinner. Butter, fresh garlic and sea salt. Jasmine rice to soak up the garlic butter.

Update – We’re on! I just put them out to thaw.

Chili over rice with cheddar cheese melted on top. A Magnum mini ice cream pop for dessert.

Sunday it was 5 jalapeno poppers. On Monday and Tuesday it was 3 jalapeno poppers and half of a thick pork chop.

Tonight it was Boneless Ribeye, we went out to a thick steak.

@Tropical_Willie “we went out to a thick steak” gives me a mental image of people sitting around hacking bits off a mammoth piece of beef.

12 ounce ribeye is about an inch thick. Mammoth piece of meat is steamship round 50 to 60 pounds of beef.

@Tropical_Willie Nobody will be asking “where’s the beef” with that slab o’ meat. haha

I used to go to a restaurant years ago (thirty or more) that served a steamship round at the end of the buffet line. The chef had a knife that was two foot long to carve the meat.

I once attended a party with a buffet so large that there were beef hindquarters (like this) roasted and dressed with a frill on the end of each table – 4 in all!

My shrimp were delicious!, BTW.
After eating buffet shrimp there’s something so decadent about eating shrimp that you have to cut into pieces!

I had a baked potato with chicken and korma sauce.

Shakshuka became tacos instead. These boys and their obsession with tacos.

Actual conversation from my house:

Hubby: “Hey, Ian, let’s send mama to join the circus, and we’ll run away, just us. What do you say?”

Ian: “No way. Who would make us tacos?”

Hubby: “Good point. We do need our tacos”.

Tonight, it ground turkey and onion enchiladas.

That was supposed to be: it’s not it.

This evening I went a place in Dublin called Harry’s Cafe Bar. I had a char grilled bacon burger, fries and a latte. It wasn’t bad at all.

Leftover casserole. It was good so we don’t mind.

God, I miss leftovers.

Friggin’ mother in law is obsessed with throwing perfectly good food away.

She won’t prepare a goddamn thing. She hovers around anyone in the house who is eating, and stares at them until they offer her food. You know, like a poorly trained puppy. If you cook something, she shows up like a cat who heard a can opener. She’ll walk around saying “My stomach is bubbling!” if she feels like I should have had dinner made by now.

But she won’t heat a can of soup on her own.

But damned if she won’t throw away days worth of perfectly good leftovers if she decides she needs to wash the dish they’re happily stored in.

::screams::

Sorry, just found out she threw away half a jar of salsa that I was planning on using to make taco dip out of last night’s leftovers.

I hate waste.

@Seek is this MIL thing permanent? It sounds pretty unbearable to me.

It is until I can find some nursing home to take a physically fit insane person.

Her or me at this point, doesn’t matter.

Put a lock on the fridge.

Yup – I had the same solution; lock on the fridge.

@Seek if you cook something she shows up like a cat who heard a can opener
OMG! Pricelss, if nothing else maybe you can use her as a muse for the @Seek comedy hour.

Ratatouille.

It’s a gorgeous 75 degree day here and I just walked down to the ocean and stuck my tootsies in. Really tempted to throw a burger on the barbie to start the season off but that would involve a trip to the supermarket so it may just be the chili stuffed baked potato I have in the fridge.

Marie Calendar Chicken pot pie and making cole slaw. I’m too tired to cook tonight.
Freezer rummaging works for me. haha

Today was the last two poppers and a green salad from the eatery across the street.

I had some goose chicken wings.

Bratwurst with sauerkraut, with a spinach and arugula salad on the side (with chopped boiled egg because OMG SO MANY EGGS).

Boring low sodium chicken noodle soup and cole slaw. I’m lagging this week. haha

Slow cooked chicken with vegetables and rice. I love my slow cooker

Today was chicken noodle soup and another green salad. Soup was yummy. It had all kinds of bad stuff in it like sodium and chicken fat. :D

Leftover hot turkey sandwich from lunch or crispy orange beef from last night? Haven’t decided yet.

Tonight merguez sausages with potatoes and veg. Very French

Baked potato with broccoli topping.

Fresh Pompano with garlic and lemon butter. Rice spiced with a little crab boil. Mustard greens and my special vinaigrette.

I had one of of those microwave dinner meals. Mashed potatoes, ham, turkey, stuffing and gravy. It was very tasty. Although I had add my own gravy to prevent it from being too dry.

I bought some frozen Heath Bar yogurt so that’s going to be dinner this evening. I made this plan yesterday since I’m alone tonight and no one will know. This is the only yogurt I can stand and I actually love it. It’s Publix brand if anyone is interested. I know I know, this is not the behavior of someone who is taking sugar our of her diet. I let myself lapse from time to time. Today is time.

A grilled cheese sandwich, a smoothie, and chocolate. It’s Easter, so that’s okay.

Looks like Banana bread. It’s 3:00 and I haven’t eaten anything! Well, except banana bread batter. I just wanted to be sure I didn’t screw it up. You know.

Leg of lamb slow roasted with a rosemary, black pepper, basil, garlic powder and oregano rub. Sweet potatoes and salad (romaine, tomato, mixed pickled olives, cucumbers and bleu cheese dressing with extra bleu cheese).
Leftover lamb will be served tomorrow on fresh baked whole wheat tostada rolls with a garlic aïoli on lettuce.

Just had a family Easter dinner with my friends at their restaurant. Ham with raisin chutney, beef tenderloin, torta rustica, mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables, Guinness cake and chocolates. And a blackberry margarita. I think I used up my calories for the week!

A simple soup made with chopped vegetables and pork neckbones. Hubby and Ian are both under the weather, so the roast will wait for another day.

:(. Give Ian a hug for me.

A friend is coming up to spend the night and bringing me easter dinner from her brunch earlier.

@Dutchess_III Hey, back off granny, you already have grand kids, so don’t hog the kid okay? ;-)

A hug for Ian from me as well. :-)

….fight fight!!! What did you get Ian for Christmas, @Coloma?! Huh? Huh?! I got him something, didn’t I @Seek! What was it, though. I forget….

Well, it looks like I shall top off my banana bread with some left over short ribs from yesterday. There isn’t much meat on them. In fact, they’re kind of like sunflower seeds; you expend a lot of energy and calories just getting snippets of meat off!

Rick is making meat balls & mashed potatoes, along with his word famous bbq sauce. It’s my favorite dish that he makes! But it probably won’t be ready until 9:30 or 10:00 tonight so, as usual, I won’t be eating “dinner.” But I will be taking the leftovers to work with me for lunch / dinner tomorrow and Tuesday.

Salmon tagliatelle. I was out with friends tonight for food and drink.

The ladies from town brought baskets of food up with them for the Easter egg hunt and tonight I have jerked goat and chicken coming out of my ears. My favorite side is Cassaba, sliced into fat spears, rolled in egg, then in spiced flour, then in bread crumbs, then sauteed brown. Mmmmm.

You’re a starch guy, Keith. You really need to try this sometime. It might be a nice change from all that CORN!

@Espiritus_Corvus
I’ll try it sometime, thanks :D

All right, Ladies, there’s enough Ian love to go around! Hugs have been distributed.

Yes, Val, you gave him a cool $20, which became Pokemon cards.

unbelievable that pokémon is still a thing

Right? Honestly I stopped paying attention a long time ago. But he still likes it.

Ah. Glad he got what he wanted!

Anyway, for “dinner” I got a helping of the mashed potatoes and the homemade bar b que sauce. Good stuff, Maynard.

I am going for some more chicken wings and potato salad.

Leftover ham, scalloped potatoes, carrots and cherry cobbler. Back to my diet tomorrow. haha

Baked veggies with kielbasa. I quarter a cabbage and put in the corners of a big pyrex and fill the center with whole small potatoes, whole onions, and halved squashes. I slice a pound of sausage and put it over all the other stuff. I don’t add anything except coarse black pepper. No water or anything. I cover it tightly with foil and bake for two hours at 350. This is a delicious meal. Easy peasy!!!

@MollyMcGuire I adore baked cabbage and all those veggies. I do a cabbage wedge and sliced onion dish, drizzled with a little olive oil and sea salt and white pepper and bake covered for about an hour or so. Yummy indeed! I love cabbage in every way, shape or form.

Pasta bolognaise. Oh yes. It’s still a thing

New! Mediterranean style olive Triscuit crackers.
½ price Hershey’s candy coated milk chocolate Easter eggs for dessert.

Hey! You asked me! ~

Dinner yesterday was three meatballs. They are so good.

Yesterday: Pork tenderloin roast, mac and cheese, and a chopped salad from a bag. Lazy but good.

(How is pork tenderloin lazy??)

Because I didn’t have to do anything to it, just stick it in the oven, then cut it up when it was done.

Ah!

Tonight, Asian salad mix and cheese and crackers. I am trying to be good again after the easter scene.

Well, today’s dinner (it’s 1:30) is a green salad and a cup a soup. I had a choice between chicken vegetable, or chicken and rice soup. I thought long and hard. Chicken and veggies would give me bragging rights here, but I chose rice in honor of whom ever it was who can’t find rice at restaurants. IT WAS REALLY GOOD!!!!!

I still have half of that tenderloin. I’ll accept suggestions for what the heck to do with it.

Eat it.

@Seek Just warm it up and make some yummy veggies, like potatoes, brussels sprouts, etc. Or…add some BBQ sauce and make pulled pork sandwiches.

That’s the plan, Loli. I am trying to think of a good dish to make with it. The tenderloin itself was pretty bland, but that was me being too lazy to marinate it, since I’m nursing my dog back to health.

Maybe the dog can eat it.

Pulled port samwiches?

Pulled pork sounds like a fantastic idea. I think I have some BBQ sauce in the cupboard.

Oh, Russell will take his “Mama is cooking” tax, make no mistake. Little mooch.

Roast potatoes, turkey and turkey gravy.

@Dutchess_III “Pulled port?” Did you just pull the cork on a bottle of Port? lol

I’ll have some pulled port! I had a traditional alpine meal of Raclette tonight with some friends and a game of Heads Up afterwards. Very fun.

Probably left over turkey and stuffing with mashed potatoes and gravy.

@Dutchess_III: That was me and @jleslie.

@Seek: I was thinking slice up the pork and stir fry it with some cooked rice and veggies, to make a pork stir fried rice type of dish.

I just had burritos at my sister’s house. So yummy. Now I want to go to sleep. :)

PORK PROK PRKO PORK PORK PURK PURK!!!!!

Ah, @jca. It was in your honor I chose the rice and chicken soup. It was really, really good.

We had shrimp (boiled) and white rice and veggies. I thought of you when I ate the white rice, @Dutchess_III! I also have leftover pork from last night which I reheated but I’m too full to eat it.

LOLL!!

Stir fry vegetables from the garden and jerked goat meat on rice. Chicken broth.

I love love love jerk. Jerk chicken is da bomb when it’s made right.

BBQ pulled pork was a hit, I guess. Everyone else liked it. I’m not terribly fond of sweetened meats, so I had a bit, but nothing to write home about.

And now to bed, to drug myself to sleep. Oh, sweet benadryl.

Shrimp Yucatan from the local Mexican restaurant. Wasn’t great – here in the Midwest they tend to boil the shrimp, then add to the dish when throwing it together. Makes the shrimp last longer, tastes like cotton.
The margarita was HUGE, and delicious! So, all’s good. lol

I’m going with friends to the Fish House tonight. I’ve never been disappointed there.

Albacore tuna sandwiches here on toasted artisan bread. dill pickle potato chips and salad, Entering spring/summer picnic dinner mode. I wish I had a watermelon, not quite time yet.

Going out with friends to a Mexican restaurant tonight. Three days of dieting down the drain but the food will be good!

Fish sound good, @MollyMcGuire.

I’m eating sunflower seeds right now.

@Dutchess_III So I guess it’s safe to say you really do eat like a bird. lol

I’m in a little place in Dublin called O Brian’s Sandwiches. I’m having cream of mixed vegetable soup. Served with a toasted sandwich with cheddar cheese, tomato amd ham. Very tasty.

That sounds good too @NerdyKeith. Get some rice for @janbb and JLeslie.

Going to get a Döner later.

@NerdyKeith Sounds delicious..I am still drinking coffee and will have a maple nut yougurt with chopped walnuts and a banana for breakfast soon.

@ragingloli Well, make sure you prey on fundamentalist sexist pastors okay?
Drain them of their very last drop. lol

Well, damn. I ordered some French fries from the eatery across the street. That’s my calorie intake for the day!

@Dutchess_III Sunflower seeds and french fries, you are a bird.
I always thought someone should do a study on heart disease in McDonalds parking lot Sparrows and Blackbirds. You could just hop around the parking lot begging french fries under peoples car windows. lol

Koo koo bird.

Get a room you two.

@janbb Birds of a feather , I bet you go for the fish fillet sandwich. haha

Cats got it made at McD’s!

I mixed about ½ cup fresh crab meat into some amazing lobster bisque soup. Dash of half and half and eaten over some sticky white rice.
OMG good!

Chicken broth.

A burrito.

Chicken tikka panini and latte coffee.

Take out dinner salad, Havarti cheese and Triscuit thins with a bowl of blackberries for dessert. I bought 4 new summer dresses today and I want them to fit all summer. lol

I love havarti.

OK. I’m jonesing. It’s 11:00 and I haven’t eaten since I ate that burrito yesterday at 2:00. I think we’re going to Ponca again and I shall get my roast beef and sauteed mushrooms and onions plate and IT IS SO GOOD AND I CAN’T WAIT!!! I’M STARVING!!! (I really shouldn’t say that. It’s an insult to humans who are, literally, starving.)
Then we have a 3 year old’s birthday to go to and I shall have cake.

I’m going to the movies this afternoon so am getting a Subway tuna sandwich on the way home with lettuce, tomato, pickles and pepperoncini. Yummy!
Breakfast is a mini-blueberry bagel, peanut butter and a yogurt and banana.

A bit of chipotle is good on the tuna, too, @Coloma.

I had a huge crab meat (yeah, crab, not krabb) omelet with shredded Italian cheese.
I’m stuffed.

(So I had a few candy coated Hershey chocolate eggs for dessert.)

Changed my mind about the Tuna, picked up deli Sea food salad which means faux crab meat, cabbage and assorted other stuff. haha Crackers and a Tootsie pop. lol

Oh, the Walmart seafood salad is great. Huge chunks of Krab.
And I prefer my tuna Subway on flatbread. Less mooshes out the end.

@ibstubro I love th faux crab meat. Never tried the Walmart stuff, this is Bel Aire / Raleys market on the west coast. Raleys is an icon here, est. 1935 in Placerville CA.

Made corned beef and cabbage again. Had a hankering.

I’m having an at home day today after a very sad funeral yesterday. Going to make a baked pork chop, home fries and chopped kale for supper. Debating about how early I can call it suppertime.

@janbb Sorry to hear that, hey, you can have dinner anytime you want to. I am trying to eat my dinner around 3–5 lately, then, if I am starving I’ll have a yogurt with some nuts later. This summer time change sucks, I hate not eating dinner until 8 o’ clock a lot of the time.

Tonight, a snacky dinner, lite, dry italian salami, havarti cheese, crackers, dill pickles, salad and fruit.

@Coloma I love a snacky dinner but you’d better not call it that when @Dutchess_III is around!

I had a lovely pork fillet with rice and veggies. I made pea soup too which I liked but my husband said was too green.

@Coloma I was thinking about your troubles with daylight saving when I went to France and had an hour change two weeks ago from GMT to European time. Then last weekend we changed to European summer time. Then this weekend we came home to British summer time. Four different times in two weeks!

@Stinley Oh man, that is how I found Fluther, langusihing from a bad case of jet lag. lol

@Coloma when we got back it was 8.30. Or 7.30. Or 9.30. I have no idea. All the clocks were wrong

^LOL, I know, I freaked out the other day driving because I thought I was really late and then remembered I hadn’t changed my damn car clock. haha

I don’t know what is for dinner. Probably nothing. I ate 1 and ½ BLT’s at about noon, and I did some yard work and played some basket ball with my son and his kids. Now I just want to take a shower, chill and watch 60 Minutes and get ready for work in the morning. I don’t wanna hassle with food. I’ll just wait for breakfast tomorrow.

Besides, yesterday I had that large portion of roast and the mushrooms and the onions, and some homemade rolls, and then at the birthday party I ate THREE (3!!! 3!!!) cupcakes and a bowl of ice cream! Gah!! I am still recovering!

My kitchen has now been emptied….no cabinets, stove or microwave. My old frig is in the LR. I’ve been eating bagged salad and sandwiches. I think I’m going to have pizza or a calzone tonight from a family owned Italian place not far from here.

On old classic of mine…. two mini corn on the cobs and colcannon mashed potato.

Making my famous Chicken Andouille medley to serve over pasta later.
Zippy cajun sausage with chunked zucchini, yellow crookneck squash, red, yellow and orange pepper strips with white pepper and italian seasonings. Good stuff!

I had two crumpets with butter and Marmite. What a British meal. There was also a cup of tea of course

M. Green salad and mashed potatoes and gravy.

@Dutchess_III What’s an M. green Salad?

M=hmmm. Kinda like, “Hmm, well, let’s see.” Only a really super short version. Like that. Got it? Hmmmm? I’m just lazy and didn’t want to type the h and all those mmmmmmmmmmms. ~

^ K, got it.

Why don’t you have two of them? Then they can be M & M salads!

Mmm cuz I can’t eat two of them!

What is a colcannon mashed potato @NerdyKeith?

@Dutchess_III Potato and cabbage boiled together; then mashed. I usually just have plain mash, but when its colcannon with just a small amount of cabbage its actually quite nice.

Uuuugh, I loooove colcannon. Dammit I didn’t want to cook today.

TOMORROW. Tomorrow will be colcannon. Or maybe bubble and squeak.

Chicken broth, Cuban bread, butter.

Whew..I almost burned the garlic bread, saved by my brain bell. lol

Dinner? Are you kidding me?
We ate at Pizza hut for lunch today and as we were going in the pizza buffet was ending. The 5 of us ordered 2 medium pizzas and 3 of us got salad bar. When I went to get my salad, I told the waitress, “I’m grabbing a cheese bread to eat with my salad.” She replied that we could have anything on it we like…she was getting ready to throw it all away.
We feasted, then ate salad, then ate pizza.

Scratch-made steak and cheese burrito.

Me thinks we need to define “dinner.” Is it the final meal of the day, or is it a meal eaten at a certain time of the day? I’ve been using it as the final meal of the day, which for me is around 3:00. In @ibstubro‘s case above, then lunch and dinner were one and the same.

Chicken goujons, chips and garlic baguette. I tweeted my dinner this time :)

Home made chicken salad sandwiches with diced celery and seasonings, potato salad and a marinated tomato, cucumber and black olive salad. CA. picnic dinner. :-)

Baked stuffed potato with chili and cheese and sour cream.

1½ cheese enchiladas. I couldn’t eat all of the second one.

Bacon and eggs. I’ll leave you all with that one

The frozen baby elephant I ordered a few weeks ago has arrived today.
Having a feast this evening.

@ragingloli Will it be the funeral repast?

Tacos again yesterday. Used a different brand of taco sauce and they came out spicier than normal. Still good, I just have a low tolerance for capsaicin.

I’ll probably do something fun with the leftovers for dinner tonight – I make a good taco dip that’s a hit at parties – and then do something really weird tomorrow, because it’s getting repetitive around here.

^ Nachos! Loaded with avaocado and diced tomatos and sour cream and, and,...

Turkey bacon BLTs here tonight with an asian, cole slaw type salad and left over potato salad.

French onion soup with Swiss cheese, a piece of garlic bread and a giant cookie that I did not ask for but I did eat. I’m stuffed.

Man, somebody needs to tell those restaurants, who have French onion soup on the menu, to pull their heads out and find a decent recipe. Every single time I’ve ordered it from anywhere, it’s barely distinguishable from really salty Lipton’s packaged soup mix. Actually, the only difference is they give a nod to a couple of pieces of actual onion.

I’m tempted to throw my homemade recipe at them. It’s addicting.

Italian sausage and fresh green beans.

@Dutchess_III: French onion soup that I’ve had usually has so much mozzarella on top that there’s no easy and neat way to eat it. I love French onion soup but they can hold the mozz LOL.

Mozzarella? Yuck! Yuckydoyoh! Need grated Swiss. Yummydoyoh! It’s not the cheese that bothers me. I asked for extra cheese. I don’t mind messy. It’s the thin, watery, salty barely-tastes-like-onions soup that I don’t care for. And it’s ALL the same, everywhere I’ve ordered it. It doesn’t compare to what I make, which is some serious onion soup.

^^ Could you share that recipe in a PM, please?

^me too please

Blasphemy. Mozzarella is divine.

I love Mozzarella too, but provolone is right up there.

Tonights dinner remains yet a mystery. haha

I think I’ve done baked potato with chili, cheese and sour cream to death this week although it is yummy. Luckily, I’m invited to a friend’s restaurant for a family dinner tonight.

Well…it’s unanimous here, Papa Murphys’s take-n-bake pizza for all!
Mine will be veggie with extra red sauce and sausage. lol

Perfect spring meal: broiled sockeye salmon and fresh asparagus.

@marinelife One of my favorites, I like to roast the asparagus so it’s a little crispy. :-)

I had peperoni pizza with some extra cheese. No sweetcorn this time. I wasn’t in much of a “corny” mood today hehe!

Grilled tuna and cheese sandwich and chips.

Those little foil packets of tuna are the same size as a piece of bread. Snip the corner and squeeze out all the water you can, then cut around 3 sides of the tuna. Put some mayo/mustard on the bread, top with tuna slab, then cheese. Grill. Delicious! I used lemon pepper tuna and havarti cheese.

Just a plate of raw veggies and some sourdough bread, with some spinach and artichoke dip made by the local grocery.

Rice and Asparagus (and beer).

Yesterday I had a green salad. I did something different, though. I used blue cheese dressing. I usually reserve blue cheese for if I’m having a salad before a meal. When I have a salad as the meal, I use French.
Anyway, I used blue cheese. The container was really low and as a result I got the most massive amount of blue cheese chunks in the dressing. It was SO good…and super filling, unlike my usual green salad with French.
I’m sure the calories saved by eating a green salad were just blown out of the water by the dressing! I probably had 500 calories just in dressing, compared to about 300, usually. It was good though.

Today is a burrito from the kids menu again. I also get a side salad, and put lettuce, onions, tomatoes, olives, and extra grated cheddar cheese on top, and nuke it. It’s filling too, and really good. Debating blue cheese tho….what do you guys think?

Had a Döner again.
Delicious muslim food.

I think blue cheese is vile, but that’s just me. Who was the first person that thought eating the chunks of blue mold off the cheese was a good idea?

@Seek Speaking of vile, what about Head Cheese? Gah, who the hell thought that atrocity up anyway? lol

I know, right @Seek? I almost asked a question about it yesterday. I bought some blue cheese crumbles from the grocery store on a whim a few weeks ago. Yesterday I saw it in the fridge, and decided to take it to work to put on my salad.
Then I got to thinking….is there some point blue cheese goes bad? I mean, that’s what it is to begin with, molded cheese! Anyway, I ended up not eating it.

To answer your question, though…the first person to do it was probably someone who was very, very, very hungry and there was nothing else around to eat. Fastidiousness is probably the first thing to go when you’re starving.

all cheese is spoilt milk. a bit of mould on top of it is barely worth mentioning.

Leftover Pizza here. My gourmet veggie is divine, everything you can imagine from spinach to zucchini to artichoke hearts. Yummy!

Broiled chicken legs and wings with Brussels sprouts.

Lunch was for dinner today!

I’m about to have a Greek Salad using my own Feta cheese with @Dutchess_III‘s onion soup, and toasty garlic bread made with a Cuban baguette.

Everyone is fending for themselves tonight. I had some more bread and artichoke dip. Ian wanted a can of ravioli. Hubby took my brother out for a boy’s night out. Mother in law has decided not to eat anything, since she wanted vegetables but found them in individual containers and not conveniently laid out on a plate for her.

Pasta (Campanelle) with Alfredo, mushrooms and ripe olives.
Warm and filling.

We baked chocolate chip cookies tonight, OMG..I ate like 5 of them. So good! haha

Last night I had barbecue chicken salad from Panera. I took half home and today for lunch I’ll add cheese and hard boiled eggs to it.

I hate bleu cheese dressing. (I believe it’s spelled “bleu” and not “blue” when it’s in re: to the cheese but I could be wrong, of course). I also hate feta cheese. In some dishes, maybe with pears on a salad, it’s tolerable but I’m not a fan and would never order it on my own.

Cold Döner. Still delicious.

King Mackerel. The spring King Mackerel run is on and I got me a three-footer yesterday. The water is boiling with them. I can see them from atop my hill running south in a glistening black and silver line just under the surface from a mile away. Spring has reached the Caribbean. I cut my fish into steaks and picked two sections out of the middle for tonight. The tail and head will go to make stock. Guts go to the cats. I’ll marinade a couple more steaks in teriyaki and freeze the rest.

Tonight I’ll simply wrap the steaks into aluminum foil with onions, green peppers, black pepper, garlic and other spices and throw them into the oven for about an hour at 350F/175C. No butter required as this extremely healthy oily fish provides it’s own moisture and will not dry out. I’ll stir fry some rice and vegetables. A noble feast for a noble peasant.

I’ll be going back out for more with a mind to smoke them—and share with these bloody screaming barn cats. They usually mind their own business, but they also know good fish when they smell it.

Just as stone crab season ends, in come the mackerel. Nature’s unceasing bounty.

A friend of mine made a bluefish once and she put teriyaki on it, prior to cooking, and it tasted just like steak @Espiritus_Corvus.

@jca I’ve never used teriyaki for maranade on fish before, but this is a very strong-flavored fish. I’d like to bring out the mackerel flavor and not overwhelm it, like the Japanese do. Thanks for the warning. Maybe I’ll just brush a little on.

@Espiritus_Corvus: Don’t get me wrong, this bluefish that tasted like steak was sooo good!

Well its not exactly a “dinner”, but more of a healthy after dinner snack. I’m having natural greek yogurt, mixed berries, grapes, granola and honey.

This is the best thing I can do to replace chocolate.

microwaved asian delivery from sunday

Chinese take out here, maybe almond chicken.

@NerdyKeith Oooh, your dessert looks delish.
I’m eating watermelon all day so I can feast on chinese later. haha

Yesterday was a fish sandwich and small fries from McD’s.

Today…I don’t know yet.

I’ve been watching these videos the last few days, hilarious! This is for @NerdyKeith ” good thing I don’t live in Ireland. lol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fllvt5XryU8

I got another $3 salad bar to go. I got the soup. It was this awesome lemon turkey and rice soup. It was so good and so filling I couldn’t even eat my salad.

Baked chicken cutlet, rotelle with garlic butter and creamed spinach.

Middle Eastern food.