Thank you Robin....but I have to say it isn't my recipe but rather a dish that is made in every tapas bar here and give or take a little more oil, garlic or chili pepper, it is basically the same, and is served as a tapa or starter dish often together with salad, goat cheese, bread and wine.

I'm sure you'll enjoy your own variations though, as garlic and shrimp just go so well together.

Lou our problem with the peaches is the Mediterranean fruit fly (Med fly) and there is no non-poisonous way to eliminate it. Believe me I've been the rounds of garden centres, specialists and the Agricultural Extension Dept. of the local university. Organic bio solutions just don't work here, so I try to catch as many peaches as I can before the fly has attacked them.
(Sorry to talk about bugs on the food thread.) :-)

SharonCb

Sharon :
I saw the photo's finally. didn't look into the World's Best Meatloaf yet. Busy !!!

How about Lady Bugs , For your Peach Tree problem ???
I gave my daughter about 200 of them to put in her Garden.
But she didn't have a Med fly problem.

We can talk about Bugs here . People eat them.
Protien ! Have to go.
Lou

I had my first cardiac rehab session today and left the hospital totally wiped out. I know it will get easier because I am definitely noticing that I am stronger when I climb the stairs at home - I no longer need to rest at the landing. My next PT sessions are Wednesday and Thursday.

Happily Max made dinner and we had wonderful prime steaks, perfectly seasoned and charred on the outside and rare inside. He also made baked potatoes and steamed asparagus. Even though I don't have therapy tomorrow, I think dinner will be a roast chicken from Costco.

Lee

It's "night off" in our town tonite - IOW, the whole family is supposed to forego work/gym/activities [school issues no homework] to have dinner together and spend the evening playing board games or sharing a movie. So I informed DH and started early so I could do a fast dinner when he came home - made apple walnut cole slaw and bleu cheese potato salad in advance to go with the turkey burgers I'll make when he's 15 minutes out. :)

tick tock...

Lee, stick with the rehab. It is rough but will do you a world of good. Let others do the cooking but report back.

SharonCB, thanks to you we eat more veggies. your photos inspire me.

Sands, I love the idea of "night off". What a shame we have to plan it though.

On topic: tonight was crab cakes made from the Biltmore cookbook I bought during the Pigeon Forge get together. Truth be told, they were POOF'd from the freezer and just as good as they were in November when I froze them. Love the foodsaver. Served with a side of sauteed spinach with pine nuts and yellow rice supplemented with onoin, red peppers and a dose of garlic. The plan was to make the seafood casserole, but I got home too late.

Monday was pork chops, grilled with potato salad and homemade red cabbage and Sunday was baked chicken. All simple and good.

Pk "night off" sadly has to be planned in our part of the world, too many people have to work too long and hard to maintain their way of life in the northeast its a bummer. But we did have a nice night playing Cranium "wow" and eating together a luxury we don't get enough of...

the blue cheese potato salad was good the apple cole slaw needed something so I think I'll add some craisins. I think the potato salad would have been better accompanied by a real beef burger as opposed to the turkey burgers. Just being a part of this forum makes me consider better avenues and accoutrements for the meals I plan so that in itself is a forward movement in my estimation. Making everything better is why I came here, meeting you all just makes it all that much more fun to improve :) thank you!

Tonight was comfort food through and through... Mashed potatoes with steak stroganoff and lemon pepper asparagus. Lots of butter, 1/2 & 1/2, salt and pepper in the potatoes, my favorite. Oh how I love comfort food. Unfortunately, we were so psyched to eat dinner I forgot to take pictures. Oh well. I did manage to take a picture of dessert: samoa bars (like the girl scout cookies). They're not bad, but the recipe needs some tweaking.

Bri

Bri, you are such a tease with that dessert...you need to post that pic and a follow up on the dessert thread when you work out that recipe.

Love this thread with all of the great pics and recipes!! Thanks for sharing and posting!

Dinner tonight was steak on the grill with popcorn cauliflower and parm. baked potatoes.

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David

Oh yum! I see a lot of good dinners here. No way can I bring my comments up to date.
David, your steak looks good, but I'd like the teriyaki chicken, please. I can't wait for our grill to be free of snow. Right now you can't even get to it because of the snow mountains. I have a built in grill in the kitchen but I rarely use it...just not the same flavor.
Lyndaluu, you hit one of my favorites with that Chicken Caccitore, guess I'll have to make some soon.
Peppi, I caught the crabcake comment about using the recipe from the Biltmore Cookbook. I bought that book too so I'll have to try that recipe.

I have been doing some cooking. I'll back up a few days...

Last Thursday a round roast of some kind found it's way into my grocery cart... a weekly special. Pretty lean and usually I would roast it med. rare. But instead I browned it well, pushed in garlic cloves all over, smothered it with onions and braised it on the stove in beef broth and red wine. There just happened to be a couple of partial bottles sitting around... :) I cooked it long enough to be nice and tender. Added a few carrots near the end.

Friday night Kim brought home Thai food....yum.
Saturday night we had coconut shrimp, I posted the dinner on the Carrot Cookalong thread.

Then on Sunday I tried a new recipe from the Feb/March issue of Fine Cooking. The article is titled 'Roast Pork Replay'. First day you make the roast... you have to start it the night before, rubbing it all over with salt and pepper.. then roast slow in the over adding onions, carrots, garlic and white wine. The flavor was great.

Then the next night (here's the replay part) you make pulled pork sandwiches. I forgot to take a picture until it was too late.
Then last night I made their recipe for Pork Ragout with Soft Polenta. Neither of us had even even had polenta before. But we will again.

Three very different dinners from one roast. We'll do it again for sure. The roast I used was a semi-boneless shoulder roast, on special at the store for 1.19lb. So all this was very economical also. I can post the recipes if anyone is interested.

Tonight we are having the rest of the pork ragout. Then it will be time to do a clean out the refrigerator dinner.
We are leaving Saturday very early for a vacation in Myrtle Beach. Seafood here I come!
I'll just sneak this in here also, I will be meeting up with Duane (dukerdawg) as he is boarding Roxie for us while we are gone. Can't wait!

Nancy

Very cool...that Duane is boarding your girl for you!
I would be very interested in the recipes..I wonder if anyone has blogged them on the WWW yet...I'll go search.

Enjoy your vacation and seafood!

ah hah found it..in a pdf...the whole article!

Just popped in for a Quickie:

I had Open Faced Stuffed Pepper. I named it,
Pepper " Prelibato " Nobody's Recipe ! Just winged it.

Cut a very Large pepper in Half , Green or Red.
Make a stuffing mix , with Italian bread crumbs and Cubes.

Add simmered, chopped small,Onions , Celery and chopped simmered Italian Sausage.
Garlic powder, Black Pepper, a pinch of Oregano, and some Parsley

Soften the Crumb mixture with beaten egg and some Chicken Stock.
Put this on the Peppers and Sprinkle with Parmesan Cheese, top with Provolone Cheese.

On top of this lay slices of Tomatoes, then slices of Bacon.
You can spoon some Spaghetti Sauce (Gravy ) over this.
Bake in the Oven 325 Deg., until Peppers are cooked.
About 25 minutes.?

Here are a couple of Photo's. Frost on my windows,
about 1 1/4 in round.( half dollar size ) Bad lighting.

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Haven't been here lately and will never get caught up with comments on all the wonderful meals and pics nut just have to say "how cool" to Nancy about boarding Roxie with Duane!

While away I did cook quite a bit, lots of CF recipes. Gina's Lemon Scampi, Ann's Spinach salad, Nancy's Flank steak and Sue's ribs to mention a few. All were big hits.

Monday night I made pizza, Tuesday was roast chicken dinner, last night Sweet and sour Pork with fried rice and steamed broccoli.

Tonight will be ribs, fries and slaw. Clive is very happy he is finished cooking his own meals !

Everything looks great, but that's par for the course here.

Thumper has been home from school this week, due to a stomach flu, so my cooking has dwindled a bit.
That said, I did make my Seafood Gumbo last night, but I've posted pictures of this dish so many times in the past, that I'm afraid to do it again, lest the CF attack me with their SLR cameras.
However, you're also welcome to launch your leftovers in my direction.

Hey Sharon, I'm off to check out your blog. I moused over your link, and liked the title.

Sol

I am way too behind on this thread also. I have been cooking but not as much as I normally do. Life just gets in the way sometimes darn it!:)

Late doctor's appt. for my hubby tonight to sit down with the surgeon to discuss when we should do surgery for him (hips - yes both) so I have beef defrosted to make burgers and potato wedges when we get back which shouldn't take long. Will probably have some celery and carrot sticks along side to have some veggies.

Lou I love the "snowflakes" on your window. Very pretty. We had lots of snow this week and cold but today is warming up and by the weekend should be close to 70. I'll feel like running around in shorts.

Looks like no one is cooking dinner. I'll bump it up.

All I had was another Roast Chicken, with Stuffing and my Gravy. and some Veggies. Boring !!!
But it was great! even the Gravy?
LOU

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SharonCb: here is a Golden Fronted Woodpecker.

I don't know what this guy is doing here. Maybe migrating ?

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Well, I've been back for two days and I cleaned the refrigerator out before I left. I haven't gone shopping yet, LOL, so I POOFed dinner, a jar of home canned collard greens mixed with some frozen edamame, along with some onion and garlic and carrot for color. I tossed in some frozen shrimp and it was supper:

I needed something to go with it, I haven't had time to bake bread either, but somehow some of these jumped into my luggage and made their way back to Michigan:

the tortillas were so good, a little store on South Padre got them fresh every day and kept them in a warmer. They were extremely thin, more like flour tortillas, and just so good I had to bring some home. They're still not bad...

Annie

Yes, lots of good looking food here again, but I'll go ahead with just a couple of comments.
Lou you always have fat looking chickens twice as wide across the chest as the ones we get here. Ours look much narrower and scrawnier LOL.
The woodpecker looks a little thinner though. We have fat blackbirds because they eat all the dry cat food I put out on the porch.
And if they don't find any they walk into the house, down the hall into the kitchen looking for another cat's dish!

Annie...tell me what you do with those corn tortillas, as I've never seen them here or used them.

Sol thank you for the visit....I went over to your house too. It's lovely! :-)

We've been having fish the last few days. Haven't posted much because I had rain leaking through my computer room roof and then the electricity was off one morning.
This constant rain is making me feel like I'm back in Vancouver again LOL.

So today I made chicken tenders, cut into little nuggets, rolled in almond flour and thyme and baked for 20 minutes in the toaster oven. In the steamer went potatoes, yams, squash, carrots, onion and broccoli. It all went together so well. Melted brown butter over top for Wolfram and a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper for me.

Banana for dessert followed by a strong cafe cortado and a siesta with the cat on the sofa.

SharonCb

Sharon, I use the tortillas in place of bread, it's not as filling as those big slices of bread.

I put nearly anything inside a tortilla that I put into bread, or I just eat them alongside my supper. I think I like them best cut into wedges and deep fried until crispy, then used to scoop up hummus, salsa or guacamole, but they're good wrapped around beans and rice and covered with salsa and a bit of melted cheese or just filled with meat, lettuce, tomato, red onion, some sour cream or dressing. Another favorite filling is fried or blackened fish (leftover is good), any vegetables you like and pico de gallo or Jessica's lime chipotle sauce/marinade. I like to warm leftover fried fish, put it on a tortilla, top it with cole slaw and roll it up, my "midwestern" version of a fish taco.

I don't like the thick ones we mostly get commercially here, but these were nearly paper thin and so they didn't overwhelm any food that got scooped up with them.

Annie

Nancy, have a wonderful time. I love MB.

I sure hope Thumper is feeling better. The flu is no fun at all.

Annie, since I am loaded with red cabbage, I will try growing collards again this summer. We love them and they are not easy to find here.

The last few nights dinners have been a home grown version of take out on Wednesday. Brats in buns with sauteed onions and fries, and Thursday was grilled pork tenderloin, bakers, corn and a Caesar salad. Temps went to 65 so I uncovered the grill and had some fun.

Tonight I grabbed a strip steak, sauteed some mushrooms and did a potato gratin and steamed some asparagus. Not to bad for not knowing what was going to be for dinner. It was good after a rotten Friday, including a flat tire.

We have heavy rain coming this weekend, so say a prayer for a dry basement please. I am in no mood to clean up again.

Sharon Cb:
Sorry ! I put in the wrong Photo in the above Thread.
They are both Perdue, usually always wide.

This Chicken is a little smaller ( Only 3 lbs.+ )

I'll put in another Bird Photo for you.

This Guy is a regular . He's a little Spooky.
The American Goldfinch's are just starting to get their
Gold color in Spots.
Maybe in a month they will be all Gold or Canary Yellow.
Lou

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Oh Lou he's adorable - looks just like "Apple" our new Cardinal Webkin.

We had a rather intricate tuna noodle casserole for dinner - took an hour to prep, too long! but I improv'ed the essential 'tato chips on top :) it was a nice savory dish.

Sands :
Did you save me some?

I'm not going to bump this again.Someone else better put in a meal.
Or Bird Photo.
I have to start getting clothes together for Ft. Myers,
on St Paddy's Day, for a week.
I heard some say ,Whew, that's a break. !!!

Lou

Thanks for that explanation Annie....your ideas sound good.
I would have to try some of them using my homemade crepes though as corn tortillas aren't seen here and a tortilla is an omelette lol.

Lou I like your bird feeder, and the cardinal. I will have to look around to find something like that because I'm using open trays to feed the birds and when it rains the food turns mushy, so I need something with a little roof over top as your does. And okay about the chickens, although I had to Google to see what is a Perdue LOL.

Sands I love tuna noodle casserole...it's my version of mac & cheese and I usually add a few frozen peas as well.

Okay so here are a couple of meals:
Saturday at the restaurant...Cevapcici (grilled meat patties) with chips & salad, with Austrian Palatschinken for dessert. That's a fine crepe filled with apricot jam.

Today's lunch was baked salmon in sauce with steamed potato, squash, carrot, broccoli and leek.

SharonCb

Lou, I have been craving a whole roasted bird since you posted.

The weekend was plain yucky here. Grey and raining both Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday i made a new comfort food for me, Greek style shrimp with pasta, a recipe that Doucanoe sent me two years ago. Full of shrimps, tomato, feta, oregano and artichokes. Fast and wonderful with flavor.

On Sunday I made an old favorite, Beef Rouladen.I made so much that I called a neighbor to come for dinner but they were out, so into the fridge it went, I POOF'ed a dinner of pre-cooked pork roast, mashed potatoes, gravy and brussel spouts and we had the dinner party tonight. The rouladen, eight of them, my homemade/canned red cabbage and potato gnocci. Four people, and nothing but some gravy was left. I think the best compliment you can get is when your guests ask that you call them when you make this again.

Pkramer:
Don't just sit there and Crave it! ( Do It )

I don't do nothing special, just stuff it, sprinkle on some Spices and in the Waterless Cooker.
Add a cup of water,with Potatoes, onions, and Celery.
Turn the oven up to 350 Deg. put it in for 2 hours or less,
depending on the size.
Save me a Thigh !!!

Sharon Cb:
I put up a 7 in. Alluminum Pole about 15 high, with a small pole that extends from it,
to hang the feeder
I can reach the end of the small pole with an extendable Rod that a Slot on the end.
With the rod I can swing the pole in to my deck and hook on the feeder, to bring it down.

I only fill it with sunflower seeds. That way you get only the more desireaable birds. No Blackbirds.
Shells fall to a small area and eventually turn to Mulch.

Had to do this because of the Squirrels, now the Bears climb up and out to the feeder.
They drop it down, it falls on a Stone Dry Wall, the seeds go in between the Stones.

You guessed it,he tears the wall apart, to get the seeds.

I went thru 2 chairs and 2 brooms already. I think they are getting the picture ???

Leave the feeders be, Unless you want to wear a Broom for an earing.
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Where do you get all the fancy names, for food.???

They look like small Burgers on the Chips.
You can't fool me !!!!!

I'll have to stop by one day for lunch. Is the food good as it looks ?
Lou

Peppi I can imagine your friends loved your homemade rouladen and red cabbage. That's one of my favourite meals when it's done right.

Lou...Lol...the fancy name comes from east Europe, around Serbia/Croatia but you're right, they could also be called little burgers.
Otherwise they are called Cevapcici, and I'll leave off the accents because they sometimes corrupt the text format.

About your bird feeder, it was the roof over the food to protect it from rain that I need, not a pole swinging apparatus, since I don't get bears or squirrels in this tree by my computer room window. But I will add some sunflower seeds to my mixture. I was using alpiste and crackers to try and lure the small birds, but I love the blackbirds and wouldn't stop feeding them. They have nested nearby and their singing is so beautiful. (That's a small video I made of one singing but you can't see him as he's hidden in the tree.)

Food today at the Austrian restaurant:
Wolf had a special of the day...smoked trout; I had a pepper steak in gravy. Both really good value for a low price.

Tomorrow we're taking my friend Anne out for a Canary dinner at a favourite local place near the sea, for salty wrinkled potatoes, salad and whatever, with plenty of garlic and red wine.

SharonCb

Today's dinner was garden salad, my own interpretation of Mini Fritatas with Potatoes, Broccoli & Cheese (link included) and stuffed chicken with apples and cranberries.

We loved the look and the taste :)

Sharon Cb:
I tried but couldn't hear the Birds singing.
I didn't mean for you to put up a pole. That was a small project.
Your food today, I can understand that! LOL
That's my kind of food.

Punamy: I had to shorten your name. I got my tongue caught in my eye tooth .
When I looked at you Photo, I smelled Bacon. I couldn't believe it.
When I went out to the kitchen, my son was cooking Bacon and eggs.
Looks great, like something I would do.

BUT !!! I only had " Rotini " Pasta, Spaghetti Sauce, Meatballs and Sausage.
Didn't sprinkle with Parmesan yet.
Lou

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LOL Lou :)

Sharon , Lou , Peppi and punamytsike (you need to help us out with your handle!! LOL) seem to be the only people eating dinner lately !

Actually I have been too but I never seem to get around to the pictures!

Last night was Chicken Chop Suey, rice and snow peas. Clive was happier with it than I. Tonight is breaded veal cutlets, steamed broccoli and Sharon CB's scalloped potatoes which CLive just loves. I'll try and take picks.

Looking forward to the weekend menu. Homemade Halibut and Chips with cole slaw Friday. French Onion Soup and Beef Stroganoff with egg noodles Saturday.

Speaking of Fish and Chips, funny story from my holiday in Florida. We were out for lunch one day and my GF had a hankering for Fish and Chips. Not meaning any disrespect to Floridians, I would never order Fish and Chips in Florida, not a chance, but this restaurant claimed to serve "authentic fish and chips" so she did.

The dish arrived and the fish, which was pan fried not deep fried, was accompanied by "chips" as in potato chips! You should have seen the look on her face! LOL So she ordered a side of french fries and also asked for malt vinegar.....by this time the waiter really thought she was bonkers! LOL

The moral of the story, don't order food that isn't "local"

I've been awol for a while! Travelling and long weekends, but I'm baaaacck! And you thought you were through with me! :)

I thought I'd pop in for some inspiration as I haven't cooked a total dinner in days. Last night was a Lenten church supper (potluck of bread, soups and salads). I brought two big loaves of homemade pumpernickel and served it on a board with a dish of herb butter. It disappeared in record time.

Tonight is DH Joe's poker night and I'll be late in town after an appt, so no dinner together for us. I think I'll go to the grocery store and lay in some food for the week, so that I can post some pics!

Grace

Wow, this is a slow moving WFD....they don't usually go this long.

I don't have time at the moment to comment on every dish but will say there is some mighty fine looking food here.

We have been eating fairly well since I last posted!

Chicken/noodles for Howard.

Nothing picture worthy, I've been eating a pot of beans that I cooked over last weekend. They weren't all that picture worthy, LOL.

I just ate the last of them with some maple cornbread I made with a recipe from King Arthur flour, it was good but not spectacular.

Other than that I've had bean soup, bean dip, bean burritos, baked beans and then I started over again. Elery worked last weekend and this weekend, I won't see him for another week. I took Amanda to the doctor, they "installed" a little computer chip in her esophagus, she's been having some problems that her doc, the "Boy Wonder" diagnosed as asthma. The pulmonary guy says she doesn't have asthma, and never has had, that it's some kind of acid reflux or a hiatal hernia, something along that line. Add this problem to her diverticulitis and her seizures and the kid is getting uncomfortably thin, I'm starting to worry. And she can't eat the beans, so I can't take her any leftovers!

Annie

Annie

Marigene, I scrolled backwards, but knew that was yours!!
Everything looks delicious..lucky Howard..now if you would only make him some spare ribs! or bones as you call them!

Grace, is your recipe for Pumpernickel bread posted?? I love it..

Punamy..that looks excellent!

Sharon, beautiful pics, as always...a Canary dinner..?? How tweet...:)

Hi Annie...I'll have the cornbread, hold the beans..

Lou, I am so disappointed you didn't come sing Happy Birthday on my Birthday thread!! Just wasn't the same without you!

Chase, your pork looks good, and I loved your St.Patrick's Day story!

Meatless Fri..so
Shrimp Francaise, and baked scallops over orzo..

kathleen:
Sorry about you birthday song. I've been popping in and out of the CF.

My Birthday wasn't even announced , so I thought they stopped that.

I'll make it up to you, somehow.
How about Now !!!!!

Hey Guys are you ready to sing a

Belated Happy Birthday !!!

Sure LOU , anything for Kathleen Here we go !
It will be for St Paddy's day too!!!

Happy BIRRRRTHDAYYY!!! to YOUUU!!! Happy BIRTHDAYYY to YOUUUUUUUUUUuu~~~~~~~~~~~~
HAPPY BIRRRTHDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa
Deaaarrrrrrrr Katthhhhhhhleeeeeeeeeen !!!!!!

Happy BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYYYYY !!! to youuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!

DOO WOPA DOOO OOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RAY ! WHOOOOO !!CHEAR! CHEAR ! CLAP! CLAP! HOOT! HOOT!!! BOOM ! BOOM !!!WOOOHIEEEEEEEEEE !!!!! YAE
DOOO WOPA DOO ! Haaaappyyyyy Birrrrrthdaaaaaaaaaay tooooooo youuuuuu

Tweeeeeeeeetttt!!!!! YAHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

LOU

Wuuuuuooooeeeeeee!!! Ba da Ba Da Bing !!!

How's that Kathy !!!
LOU

About four or five years ago, I decided to learn more about herbs, wines/vermouth/liquors in general, vinegars, etc. and how they can best be used in cooking. I knew how to "cook", but I was ready to take it closer to the artform so many of you attain. I'm nowhere near, and will never attain "Ann mouthwateringness", "Sol status" or "Monique beauty" (they have that extra bornwithit gene I didn't get), but I'm better than I was. :) At any rate, my first way to dip my toes in was to read. I found an articile in the Los Angeles Times, saw a recipe for scallops in balsamic glaze and filed it away ("you had at scallops"). Almost four years later, I've now tried it. It's awesome. The wonderful mixture of the tart/sweet balsalmic vinegar, the stickiness of the mustard coating, searing it crispy, the sweet smooth scallops! Oh my. Try it if you dare. (he got custody of the camera and I haven't bought my own)

Balsamic-glazed scallops
Total time: 10 minutes
Servings: 4
16 sea scallops (about 1 1/2 pounds)
Sea salt and freshly ground white pepper to taste
1/4 cup top-quality aged balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon very sharp Dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon tamari or soy sauce
Dash cayenne
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon chopped chervil
1. Rinse the scallops and remove any white membrane. Pat dry and season well with salt and pepper. Set aside.
2. In small bowl, whisk the vinegar, mustard, tamari and cayenne. Set aside.
3. Heat the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Carefully lay the scallops into the sizzling butter and cook until crusty brown on the first side, about 1 to 2 minutes. Turn each scallop over.
4. Immediately pour the vinegar mixture over the scallops. Cook them 2 to 3 minutes, until just cooked through. Spoon the remaining glaze around the scallops and sprinkle with the chervil. Serve immediately.
Each serving: 262 calories; 29 grams protein; 7 grams carbohydrates; 0 fiber; 13 grams fat; 7 grams saturated fat; 86 mg. cholesterol; 353 mg. sodium.

OMG!!! Everyone's dishes look so good!!!!
We had Lamb riblets with soy scallion sauce, twice baked potatoes and asparagus last night.

Thank you, Lou, I feel better now!!!

Lynda, your meal look very good...I have never had riblets of lamb..

Rob, I make scallops for dh, but we use the small ones. Sometimes he even gets them himself from the Bay, but they have been hard to find the last few seasons..

David, I missed your pics, but just saw them..A lot of cooking went on...it all looks good..esp the cookies!

We've been eating out a lot these past days but I get hungry looking at what everyone has been cooking. Good to see this thread is still moving ahead!
Marigene I could dive right in to that gravy!

Annie that's a worry about Amanda if she's getting thin. I do hope they can quickly diagnose her problem. Sending good vibes her way!

Lou I don't know how we missed your birthday because I have you in my birthday book with the date - Nov 29. Were you by chance out of touch with the forum at that time? I still have your birthday card from 2007 in my files if you'd like me to repeat it :-). We won't miss your birthday this year... promise!

We took my friend Anne out for our 'Canary' lunch on Thursday. One of our favourite places by the sea. We had a big salad (forgot photo), those pimientos de padron crusted in seasalt, grilled bread & ali oli, wrinkled potatoes, Anne had sole, Wolf had an unusual meat & egg scramble which I didn't photograph and I had sizzling garlic prawns (gambas al ajillo) which had forkfuls of wonderful garlic! We had wine and coffee, and then bumped into some old friends there who had also just dined.

Our sports centre, where I go for Pilates, has just opened a restaurant run by a German couple whose parents have another well known restaurant where we used to go, so Wolf and I wanted to try out their new menu of the day....turkey and mushrooms in cream sauce over noodles. It came with bread and guacamole, a drink each and a fresh fruit salad (no photo this time), really good espresso coffee and all for under $10 each. It was really high quality and we were both pleased and will be repeating there since I can check out after my class what's on the menu and then run and get Wolfram if it sounds interesting. (Sometimes the cooking smells come downstairs to our exercise room and make it hard to resist.) We sat outdoors on the balcony to dine with friends overlooking the tennis court and it was a perfect blue sky day, really pleasant.

Saturday out for chicken and salad, and Wolf had smoked trout again. Must cook tomorrow!

SharonCb

I'm finally taking the time to read through WFD and catch up!
Annie- IIRC, your Amanda didn't have any weight to lose! I hope that she feels better soon. If she's not, she might go the allergy route or something with a total diet change. Is she allowed to drive yet?

There's way too much good looking food here, I'm trying to do better! We're working on a roll of polenta from the grocery store, I've been sauteing it with some 'fresh' bruscetta from TJ's and serving with similarly sauteed chicken cutlets topped with more bruscetta and grated parmesan. It's my new comfort food since I'm not eating pasta!
Weds night's dinner was lamb chops on the grill that I had dumped in a thrown together marinade of leftover red wine, Penzey's Turkish oregano and some garlic. Suffice it to say that the chops were great but the marinade wasn't! I think that I served them with steamed broccoli.
We were out Thursday night and last night. Not sure what tonight holds for us!
I will be posting a picture on the basil thread of a wonderful dip that I made for DGS's birthday party, DH LOVED it!

I'm finally back to posting and cooking something besides "odds and ends"!

Such delicious food! I'll just comment on the scallops .... they're one of my favorite foods, but can be so expensive down here. I just may have to splurge though and try that balsamic recipe.

Marigene, I'll post the pumpernickel recipe tomorrow on a separate link. Its a delicious recipe.

Annie, I hope that Amanda's problems are resolved.... it must be frustrating for her to have things that she can't eat or isn't sure about.

Tonight we had a recipe that I discovered last year called Skillet Lasagna.... made all in the skillet (no separate sauce, no boiling noodles). The white blobs are ricotta cheese.... no mozzarella used. It serves 4 so it's great for just Joe and I and of course I'll eat the leftovers for lunches.

Grace

In the skillet:

A sloppy job of serving, but it tasted good! Served with brocolli cooked with some preserved lemon and a salad with "sensation" dressing.

Dinner tonight is Chicken Cordon Bleu (in the crock pot)

Linda

Grace, your Skillet Lasagna sounds good. I just received a new Skillet Cookbook from Cook's Illustrated today (I'm on auto ship) I'll have to look and see if they have anything like that.

Linda, I love Chicken Cordon Bleu. Haven't made it in ages.

Tonight it was Cheap Eats here. I ran into a bargain at the grocery store....chicken thighs were 60% off. I bought several pkgs!
I figure tonight's dinner cost around $2.50 total. The four chicken thighs were $.82, I had bought Rice a Roni a few weeks ago when it was 10/$10 (no I didn't buy 10 but I did buy several as we like it for a quick side dish) and the ingredients for the teriyaki couldn't add up to $.70 and we didn't have veg or salad...
So here is my under $2.50 dinner for two:

I didn't plan very well or I would have picked up broccoli to go with afterall, it was on sale also. But in my defense I really didn't know what I was going to make. When I got home a new cookbook had been delivered so I looked to see what it had in it for chicken thighs and decided on the teriyaki. Very good.

Nancy

It is hard to beleive but this thread has been here a month today. If I am posting to it, it must be slow.

Can I please have the recipe for skillet lasagna and the chicken cordon bleu in a crock pot?

Nancy, yours looks so good to me but the old man will not touch teriyaki. Too sweet for him.

Since our weather has been wonderful, I am cooking on the grill. Saturday was some bassa fish (catfish) with black beans and rice, Sunday I grilled pork chops, baked potatoes and a bean medley and tonight was grilled marinaded skirt steak with cottage fries and a greek salad. Dad opened an drained a can of beets to round it all off.He had the patients of a saint tonight. We had more layoffs today and 5 close co-workers were let go. My mind was not on cooking.

Lou, I did do the whole bird thing, but I cheated. I grabbed one at Sams Club on Friday. good but not homemade.

BTW, where is AnnT?

Pk, I'll post the skillet lasagna on the main page tomorrow. I think you'll like it....you only use one measuring cup, one skillet and lid and you've got a delicious meal in 45 minutes.

Linda, nothing I ever cook in the crockpot looks that good!

Nancy, your teriyaki looks SOOooo good and what a bargain!

We had a light dinner of "Ranch House Salad" with Chicken Piccata.

Ann T where are you??

Grace

I'd wondered if Ann was on holiday? I miss her food pics too :)

My daughter sent me this web site for cooking in a crock pot and every thing that I've tried so far turns out great. It's called A Year of Crock Potting. I don't always use a crock pot for cooking as I'm retired but now and then I like the convenience.

http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/

Linda

I'm still here and drooling over everyone's delicious looking dinners.

I've been posting, although probably not quite as often. I started a blog Thibeault's Table and it has taken up much more time than I expected it too. It is a work in progress.

I didn't realize that it had been so long since I posted on the WFD thread. We are still eating well. Here are a few of the meals we have had in the past few weeks .

Lori's Parmesan Crusted Halibut

Clams steamed with white wine and garlic with homemade bread for dipping.

Chicken and Dumplings (Southern Style)

Homemade Donuts. Made three different neighbours very happy with fresh warm donuts.

Wings with homemade Potato Chips

Tex Mex - Pork Chili Verde with homemade flour tortillas

Greek Ribs - Grilled

Roast Leg of Pork

Saucisson Au Chocolate et aux Figues (Chocolate Salami)

I made crepes one night and we had them for dinner and dessert. The main course was crepes were filled with chicken and mushroom in a cream sauce and the dessert crepes will filled with goat cheese and dulce de leche. A recreation of Matthew's favourite dessert from a little Mexican restaurant that we use to go to in Toronto.

Panfried Breaded Pork chops

Nigella's Chocolate Chip Muffins

Roast Chicken again.

Matthew and Dana came up for dinner one night and we had Grilled Prime Rib steaks.

Dessert was Blackberry cobbler.

I'm still baking bread on a regular basis, and I'm trying to keep Bagels in the freezer. Moe loves them toasted for breakfast.

Chicken Kung Pao

Spaghetti with bolognese sauce. We usually have pasta of some sort once a week or at least every 10 days.

Made Pancakes for breakfast one morning and yesterday's breakfast was a bacon, mushroom and potato hash with poached eggs and hollandaise sauce.

Pizza

Anna Olson's Ultimate Chocolate Cake. I drizzled it with caramel sauce although that wasn't part of the recipe.

And last night we had a Corned beef and Cabbage dinner.

Ann, you sure caught up! I thought of you last week, I went to Russo's and bought some cheese and a bottle of wine for Elery.

Supper last night? I had corned beef, I meant to make hash, but I didn't. I ate black jelly beans and a cup of tea, no pictures, LOLOLOL.

Annie

Well you sure did catch up Ann.....you've been doing lots of cooking. Everyone's food looks delicious!

I'll just finish off this thread with a repeat of what I did for the basil thread...my homemade pesto with fettucini, because that ties in with today's lunch.

SharonCb