Oh I'm so far behind I haven't even said a word yet on this new WFD. Everything looks so good and the photos are wonderful!

I've had a busy past couple of days and today was down in the town for a few hours with my friend Anne. I'll get to posting the past dinners tomorrow but have to say we had a great time walking around, looking at the wind-whipped waves crashing onto the seawall and having a tapas lunch in an old Canary house which was built in 1730. I managed to get some good photos of our walk and the restaurant interior.
For now...here's where we had our tapas today:

It was a charming place! Must go there again. I'm making up an album of the street scenes from today. The town was full of people and flowers and it was a great feeling to walk around and window shop the bakeries, cafes and boutiques. It was very warm too. Many people were dressed in shorts and summer clothing. I'll post the album link when pics are organized.

SharonCb

Ann, your rib dinner looks amazing! How did you like the broccoli flan?

Stacy, wonderful looking pasta. I am not a big blue cheese fan, but I am trying and I would definately try that pasta if if was put in front of me.

Nancy great looking coffee cake. How do you like your new cookbook? Would you reccommend it?

Sharon I am glad you and your friend had such a good time. The restaurant looks wonderful. It's nice that you are able to get out and enjoy yourself!

Getting ready to go on holidays so trying to finish off stuff in my fridge. Made a pork roast the other day that I brined for three days first, then slathered the pork with grainy mustard, maple syrup, fresh thyme and lots of pepper, roasted on top of fennel, apple and a bit of olive oil. It was to die for. Served it with a cabbage and bacon recipe, that my son loves, some fingerling potatoes and some soy beans. We had leftover last night.
Tonight I am making Pizza! Thanks to Linda! I am going to clean out my veggie drawer, and make individual sized pizzas thanks to the pans she sent me. I am also going to try out the semolina crust she sent as it looks like it is easy, (which is what I need right now) and tasty. I will try to take photos. I did try two of the new salts she sent me and they are wonderful! (thanks again Linda).

Shelley

aww, Sharon, that is so sweet -thank you. Maybe next time I concoct something it won't be in the likes of the most popular "bar food" around here - lol. maybe something a little more elegant? :-)

Sharon, that restaurant looks wonderful to me. Call me crazy, but I'd rather have a bowl of chips and a bottle of beer in a place with an ambiance like that, than an amazing meal in a brightly lit cold place with no "atmosphere". It looks so inviting. It makes me think of this little place that we ate in Carmel. But that was pretty much outside. Come to think of it, we had to move tables after a bird let loose on my sister's shoulder...:-)

Shelley, I hope you succeed with those pics - I am really anxious to see those little pizza pans in action! And your pork sounds great.

Oh and Ann, I read over that previous smashed potato recipe from marigene and hers were oven roasted - can you tell me how you did yours, please? Gosh they all look so good - and I'm not even a big potato person!

No idea what we're having - oh wait, yes I do! Marilyn's salmon cakes - I'm pretty sure.

Stacy

Last night we had my version of pork machaca, refried beans and rice. Not very photogenic. I did bake a few small loaves of 5-min. artisan bread which always turns out pretty good!

Tonight will be something with chicken breasts, not sure what, yet.

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Dinner last night was super yummy -- Marcella Hazan's bolognese ragu over homemade fettuccine... I make it with a mix of beef, pork, and veal, and it was SO rich and luscious... I was worried at first since I didn't have whole milk, only 2%, but it made no difference in the end! Not to mention the bonus of making the house smell divine for the 4 hours it simmered...

Emily

No pictures here, My camera is still fine but my computer has decided to toast the hard drive. It's terminal. Sigh. So, until I get it replaced, all posts will have to be done at work, LOL. However, the county's firewall won't allow access to photobucket, so there will be no pictures.

It won't stop me from drooling over everyone elses's pictures, though. Yum.

Stacy, you have come a long way from setting fire to the pizza. (grin)

Jim, I'd be perfectly happy with cream cheese and smoked salmon every day for about a week, at least. Love it...

Elery and I had scallops in a white wine reduction on Saturday and I baked Harvest Bread from the Electric Bread cookbook that I got from Dishesdone, I'm gonna make every darned recipe in there yet. Sunday we made sushi with the "sushi magic" sushi roller Elery brought, it was fun and he loves sushi. Monday I had leftovers because cabbage was 18 cents a pound and I packed about 20 pounds of sauerkraut.

Thanks to Ann T, on Tuesday I made pot roast. I had more of that last night while I played with making sugar eggs. Remember those panoramic eggs with the scenes inside? It's just sugar and water, packed into a mold like mud pies, then left to harden and hollowed out. Sounds easy enough, but I broke 4 or 5 of the halves while hollowing them out, so I made a bunch, just reusing the sugar. Finally got a front with the window and a back, it's on my counter now. Tonight I'll put it together and decorate it, it'll go on top of my Easter cake. Maybe by then I'll figure out how to load pictures to Ashley's laptop and be able to post them again.

tonight? It's anyone's guess. I think I'm going to spend the evening playing with fondant and make some cocoa krispie/peanut butter treats. I'm still (as always) trying to clean the pantry.....

Sharon, I'm going to miss Blackie's weather reports. :-(

Annie

As always, this thread rocks! Ann, you had my favorite ribs, that's the only way I make them now since you introduced them to me!

I'm on vacation and not posting much but I wanted to thank Wizardnm for her cream cheese wrap recipe - we had company for lunch today and Ken said PLEASE just a plain sandwich for a change (cause they're playing golf after lunch) so I actually complied! I made a nice platter of turkey wrap pinwheel sandwiches and they were just great, so very tasty, thanks Nancy! I also made Linda in Tenessee's "So Long Sub" and they loved that too - pastrami, fresh mozz, basil, tomato, balsamic, evoo on French. Tomorrow's breakfast will be Ginger's English Muffin strata - with sausage and swiss/grueyre/cheddar/green onions and eggs. Great lunch and breakfast and I thank you my friends.

I'm behind too in cooking and at looking at this thread! Ran into problems at Mom's with the renovation - let's just say plumbing problems and it wasn't pretty. But, all is well as of right now.

moniqueb- record snow. We didn't get much this year but I think it is so pretty as long as I don't have to drive in it - LOL!

jimtex - Salmon on bread sounds super to me. Ann your ribs look beautiful. Wizard shrimp fried rice is one of my favorite dishes (I really love Asian food) and coffee cake to boot. Gina your penne rigato looks super and Stacy your casserole looks FAB. - I love creamy texture and it sure looked it and the salmon cakes will definetly make for a great meal.

disney there is nothing wrong with leftovers as we have been eating them for the last two nights with all this business going on at my Mom's.

Canary that rest. is beautiful looking. I love the colors and it looks so cozy. I'm glad you enjoyed it so much. ssomm., I love fingerling potatoes and pizza too! Two great sounding meals to me.

marigene - OH YOUR BREAD! It looks wonderful. I love, love, love bread. Have I told you that I love home made bread?

fear your dish sounds wonderful and Annie sorry about the computer but your scallop dish sounds lovely and well, you know what I told you about the sushi and I know what you told me - I need to give it a try - just need some more pushing.:)

As I stated above, lots of leftovers so hopefully I will get back to some cooking over the weekend - I actually miss it. Thank you for the kinds words about my picture above. I'm learning from the pros here!

Dinner tonight was:
Elk burger meatloaf
Mac & cheese with cheese curds (which are really yummy) and cheddar cheese.
Mixed veggies.
Confetti white cake with vanilla frosting and sprinkles.

Linda

hee hee,.

I dragged this over from another Post. I should have put it in here.

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Thu, Mar 13, 08 at 23:14
Ohiomom:
I made a Stromboli for supper. I used some Chicken Stir Fries.
With all kinds of veggies Brocolli, Peppers,Carrots, etc.
Simmered for 8 minutes and laid them on the dough, along with,
Ham, Pepperoni, Cooked Sausage, Meatball pieces, Mozzerella and Parmesan Cheese.
The dough was 9in. X 14in. I dampened the edges and rolled it carefully.
Seam is on the bottom, tucked the ends under and pressed them down to seal.

LOU

Welcome back Lou, your heavenly Stromboli looks delicious.

Sorry about your hardrive Annie. My desktop, with all of my photos and editing software is in for repairs after a big BANG and an instant black screen told me something was wrong two nights ago. The power source blew up (out?) inside the tower. That alone was pretty inexpensive to replace but my choices were OEM part for about $175 or generic for $70. The generic one wouldn't fit with the existing video card so I decided to upgrade and replace the video card too. It was a little cheaper to do that than get the OEM part. I hope I'll have it back on Saturday. Should be about $310. with the labor - I hope I don't have another $$$ surp;rise when I go to pick it up.

So here is a Tinypic version of tonights Asian soup. I overbought on vegies when I went to the Korean market last weekend and wanted to use some up. For the broth I used beef Pho base with a little sesame oil, soy sauce and a touch of a very flavorful and very hot chile paste that a Laotian friend of mine makes with fresh chiles, garlic, fish sauce and sugar. She sells it at our farmers market along with vegetables from her garden. She almost always sells out of the chile paste. I had some fresh soba noodles in the bottom of the bowls and added baby bok choy leaves, shitake mushrooms, snow peas, fresh bean sprouts, and some strips of beef. Comfort food with a kick.

Lee

Yummy dinners again! Lee that Asian soup must have been delicious...I know I'd love it!

Lou I've never had stromboli but it looks really good.

And up there are some beautiful blueberry cupcakes from Sol. They look lovely and making me hungry!

I'm doing a hit and run today as I have to go out in a little while, so want to get caught up here from last Monday evening.
I was out for a ladies' night at the French restaurant to meet another lady friend from Sweden who comes here on holiday twice a year.
Good excuse for us to reserve a table and go out for lots of chatter, food and some wine! There were seven of us at the table and although some had steaks or cordon bleu, three of us had my favourite chicken salad with avocado and roquefort. We all finished off with crepes flambe Grand Marnier, and after we'd had a couple of bottles of wine, one of the girls (Anne's daughter also visiting from England) decided it would be easier if we just drank the Grand Marnier straight from the bottle! (Just kidding of course!!!)

Next day I made almond crusted salmon fillet with parmesan roasted asparagus & steamed potatoes.

Wednesday Anne and I went down into the town for some shopping and walking around. The town was busy with tourists and as we have another African wind , it was quite warm. You can see that people are dressed for summer. We had a cafe con leche and a lovely fresh raisin-filled magdalena in a sidewalk cafe and after walking around the main plaza we stopped for lunch at the old Canary house (built 1730) seen in my other photos above. After checking out the upper floor dining room, we decided we'd rather have just a few tapas downstairs on the little green tables where it was cooler.

We both ordered Russian Salad (ensaladilla rusa)...a typical potato and tuna salad found in tapas bars, and sizzling garlic prawns....another tapas bar favourite. We walked around the rooms of this old house and looked at the Spanish Serrano hams and chorizos hanging up in the wine bodega then we continued on our way to the main San Telmo seawall where we watched the huge waves and did some people watching as well.

I'll be posting a full album of the street scenes, boutique and bakery windows and the beautiful sea views....over on The Gallery some time in the next day or so.

Happy Weekend!

SharonCb

Dinner last night was grilled chicken topped with saffron tomato sauce with capers, mashed potatoes, sautéed thinly sliced radishes and broccoli.

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Lou, your stromboli looks wonderful!!

Lee I would so love a bowl of your soup right now and it's only breakfast time here. It looks fantastic.

Sharon, beautiful pics as usual. I especially like the last one with the waves.

Marigene, your dinner looks so yummy. I've never tried sauteed radishes...I will have too.

Last night I made pizza using my new pans from Linda. Also used the semolina crust mix she sent. It was wonderful! We loved the crust and my son had a great time making his.

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Of course my son had to sample both, and declared his the best! We will be using these new pizza pans alot, I can tell.

Shelley

SharonCB, I love the look of that restaurant. Your meal looks delicous. I'd like a glass of white wine with those garlic shrimp though. I know it doesn't matter but I just can't drink red with fish. I've tried, but I get a metalic strange taste regardless of good the wine is.

Lou, now that is a fine looking stromboli. And Lee I would love a bowl of you asian soup.

Shelley, I'd like a slice of the pizza with sausage. Yum.

I worked the last two days so needed something that was quick to put together when I got home. Wednesday night was pasta with prawns and garlic toast. And last night was lamb shanks on a bed of yellow cauliflower puree. I put them in the oven in the morning and Moe took them out when the timer went off. He also put them back in the oven with potatoes and rutabaga before I got home. All I had to do was cook the yellow cauliflower and puree it.

Nothing Fancy tonight, like all of you made.
There isn't enough time to describe all the Great Meals.

How 's that sound ??? Good ? !!! I got out of that OK !

I just made a thin Pepperoni Pizza with a Large Crust.

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But I had to have some Sinbuns too !!!

I hit the wrong button again.

Here are the Sinbuns, to my Post above.

Linda, nice to see that you're using your new pans - and the pizza mix. I always put semolina flour in my pizza crust. I was in the mood for Italian, but eggplant was on sale and so I made:
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Eggplant Parmigiano with fettuccine and broccoli. Lori sent me these plates in a previous swap - perfect for pasta.

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Lars

Everything looks soooooo good! I'm just home for a short break to walk the dog (Dixie) and eat some late lunch and then back to Mom's. We more then likely will be ordering take-out (again) sigh...not enough hours in the day to do everything.

Shelley,

Isn't fun making individual pizza's; they look so good.

Linda

OMG y'all are just killing me! Pizzas, Strombolis, Eggplant Parm, Lamb Shanks, Oh My!!!

Lee, that soup looks soooo good - and the blue bowls do too.

Sharon you MUST start a living-in-the-Canary Islands blog!

Last night I pooped a fast cassoulet containing smoked kielbasa, cauliflower, white beans and greens with the last of my fresh herbs, some wine and a bit of concentrated oxtail stock. C-O-M-F-O-R-T!

I need to shop to replenish the pantry and fridge tomorrow. I also need to make more chicken stock. Keeping frozen homemade stock on hand makes all my recipes turn out tastier. No more store-bought stock - I'm just not going to buy anymore.

Everything looks so wonderful!
I've been MIA in this thread...we've been eating but it's so quick..and late that I just have to get food in their mouths!

Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration you guys keep it rockin!

I am so hungry right now! I really only cook on the weekends, my husband is retired so he kind of cooks or brings something home for our 17 year old son. I decided earlier this week when I opened this thread & saw ann's pizza that I am making pizza this weekend. I've made homemade pizza before, but it is kind of a hit/miss sort of thing, I'm not sure why. I'm never quite as happy as if I went out & got it though, but these look scrumptious. My son requested calzone instead, so I'll make both. That stromboli looks wonderful. I would attempt something like that, but I know DH & son would look at it & see VEGETABLES, & I just can't take the whining. Looks perfect as it is to me.

Here we are again and I'm really admiring your eggplant parmigiano Lars! You are so organized in that lineup too.
Have you posted the recipe? I would like to try that as I haven't done any eggplant for a long time.

All dishes look so good: Marigene's chicken, Shelley's pizza, Ann's lamb and shrimp (we had shrimp yesterday too)....I would love to have rutabaga now too...my favourite vegetable. Lou your sinbuns look absolutely sinful! And Gina....you're giving me ideas about the blog.
I love to go out and take pics of the local colour and events here and that might ensure I do get in a daily walk. LOL.

Have a good weekend everyone!

SharonCb

Sharon I am usually quite contenet at home..even in winter..
This winter..oy..

Your photos are like a travel brochure..and your kitty is one lucky kitty.Look at that face. That would be me.I think he looks sooo content.
Ann I bet the puréed cauliflower is delish..Never done that..

oh boy back to the radishes - does that change the taste of them? I would like to konw more about this...

Shelley, your pizzas look great - I just love those little pans!

Ann, YUM! That pasta pic looks great to me - carb lover that I am...

and speaking of carbs...Lou, Lou, you're making me gain weight just looking at those beauties!

Lars, I see your wok - did you use it for the eggplant parm? It looks great.

Oh Sharon that pic of Tigger made me laugh right out loud - what a character!

Last night we had filets, with a salad on the new platter I got in the swap from karen - and marigenes crispy smashed potatoes - they are fabulous. (Go peek at Exchanges to see the amazing crawfish pottery...)

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Tonight, it is a St Paddy's day dinner at the neighbor's - not sure what - but we're looking forward to it!

Stacy

I am finally getting over the hump of this flu and breathing better! Sheewesh!

Last night ended up being a cheese pizza using the five minute bread recipe. Everyone said it was great!

My chest is still very congested and I am not 100% so maybe I will give that Egg Drop Soup from the other week that looked so good a try.

For some reason, I am craving a rich eggy bread pudding and lots of rummy sauce. Maybe that will be my dinner!

I came here for inspiration and wish I could just place an order for any one of these meals to be delivered!

Sharon - Tigger is adoreable! Your shrimp vol au vent looks outstanding. No wonder Tigger wants in so bad.

Stacy your salad looks beauiful. I love salads.

I'm glad to hear that you are feeling better Disney.

Lou, sorry but I made spaghetti real quick tonight so no meatballs. I would have liked you at my table to critique.

Sharon this is my favorite picture of my kitty...

Sharon, Seeing Tiger taking over for his pal Blackie brought a smile and a tear. Would love your shrimp vol au vent.

Lars, I haven't made eggplant Parmesan in a while. I wouldn't mind some of yours it looks delicious.

Dixiedog,Your kitty is beautiful.

Monique, nice to see you here.

Oh Stacy, that picture makes me wish I liked salads. Beautiful.

I was up late baking bread last night. I started a biga Tuesday night and kneaded up some bread dough on Wednesday morning that I put in the fridge in the mudroom and promptly forgot until yesterday. But we were out most of the day so I didn't get around to taking the dough out of the fridge until around 4:00. It took a while for the dough to come to room temperature so it was after 11:30 PM before the bread came out of the oven.

Sliced this morning.

Pan fried a T-Bone steak for dinner. Wonderful piece of beef that I picked up at a little butcher in Ladysmith.

Sharon, here's my eggplant recipe. We had it again tonight as leftovers, but with Lima beans instead of broccoli. I've decided that fettucini is the best pasta side dish, but the green dish can been anything. I really don't like the leftovers as much as the first day, but as leftover go, it's pretty good. We were at Wizard World at the Convention Center downtown today, for DB's birthday celebration. There might be some videos later. I had a rather poor Caesar chicken salad for lunch at the Center - it was not even a true Caesar salad, but it got me through the afternoon.

Stacey, yes I do use my wok for frying the eggplant. I also have a wire rack that fits inside on one side of the wok, but I forgot to put that in for the picture. It makes the process go more efficiently. This dish is a lot of work, but I love eggplant so much that I do it fairly often anyway, but it does make a meal that I consider special.

We had sushi for dinner yesterday, with shrimp summer rolls, all from Ralphs Waterside Marina Market!

Lars

Did you have fun at Wizard World Lars? Tell Kevin Happy Birthday from me please.

I brined pork chops for a few hours, then pan-cooked them. I deglazed the pan with a smidge of orange juice, let that cook down, then added butter, garlic and fresh chopped sage and let the butter brown and the sage get crispy. Poured that over the chops and - oh my! I think brown butter sage sauce is my new favorite. Some simple baby bok choy, carrots and a small salad rounded off the meal.

Dixie : I would like to be at your table just to eat!!!!
I also like T- Bone Steak.
With some Bread with all the nooks and Crannies for dipping.

And Eggplant Parm.
And Brined Pork Chops.

Stacie :
How many pounds did you gain ???
I told you I would get even. Heh! heh! Heh!

I'm outta here.
LOU

Monique ...thank you for your kind comments! I hope we'll be seeing some of your lovely photos over here again soon.

Stacy your fresh salad....yum!

Ginger I hope you continue to get over your cold. I hate it when it lingers on as a chest cold.

Dixie your lovely kitty looks so soft and fluffy.....that's a beautiful photo! Your spaghetti looks good too.

Ann your bread and steak look delicious. It's just about time that I did some steak too for a change.

Lars...thank you for your eggplant recipe. You can be sure that I'll be trying that soon! It looks so good.

Today was another warm day....beautiful sunshine since early morning. I took some recycle bags to the dropoff with the car and then picked up some more fresh fruit and juice at the supermarket. Didn't feel like cooking but I had bought some liver and bacon so went ahead and made a quick salad, cooked bacon, plenty of onion and the liver and again, the liver turned out perfect.....tender and delicious.
I made some nice crispy roasted potato wedges in the toaster oven to go with it.

We sat outside on the patio and really enjoyed our dinner. Did some fresh green beans & carrots as well and we opened a bottle of the local red wine. Great way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

I've now uploaded to The Gallery the photos I took last Wednesday on my walk through town with my friend Anne, our stop for lunch at the tapas restaurant in the old Canary house and our wander by the seawall to watch the waves. Here are a couple more of the photos from this album along with our lunch today:

And here below is the link to The Gallery where there is an account of what is seen in the photos, as well as the link to the album.

Have a good rest of Sunday!

SharonCb

Here is a link that might be useful: Let's Go For A Walk

Lars, thanks for sharing your eggplant recipe, I am copying it and will certainly make it.

I made pulled pork barbeque and served it on toasted buns, some homemade mayonnaise type potato salad made out of red potatoes that turned out pretty good, and produce department packaged corn on the cob that was surprisingly good. I was starving for pickles and ate half a jar of them by myself I think.

I made a coconut cream pie that was only okay. It was a new recipe that had me fold some whipped cream into the coconut custard and we thought it ruined the rich coconut custard and "watered" down the flavor. Live and learn..

Just a quick hit and run here, I'm at the office, doing some emergency catch-up. Yes. at 8 p.m. on Sunday night. Sigh.

Sharon, tell Tigger thank you for standing in for Blackie and Bunny. I understand that he can't commit to a full time gig doing this, after all, it took two cats to do it before. LOL What a hard-working guy!

Dixe, your kitty is lovely.

Supper? Not yet, but yesterday I had salmon and roasted potatoe. I have Sue's Roadhouse ribs in the crockpot waiting for me, if I can manage to actually get home!

Well, back to work or I'll have to sleep here1

Annie

Ann your bread looks wonderful as well as the T-Bone Steak. I could eat a whole loaf in one sitting if I wanted but that wouldn't be very good would it? LOL!

Gina your chops sound good. I love baby bok choy.

Lou you are welcome at my home anytime when you make your way to VA.

Sharon your lunch looks devine...it sounds like you and your friend have a great time together and that is wonderful to hear.

Disney I LOVE pork BBQ and potato salad.

Dinner tonight was Grilled Salmon with Tuscan Beans (Bobby Flay recipe) and Green Beans (cooked quickly Barefoot Contessa style).

P.S. Annie GO HOME! I used to work those crazy hours.

Did you ever have one of those dinners that was a total hit and you can't wait to have it again? This was it. Great dinner for us! A keeper. Started with Jain's version of Chevy's Salsa, I pureed it, the kids don't like chunky. Excellent recipe! Then I used some of it on the plate with a recipe I found on the Simply Recipes blog

Grilled Lime Chicken with Black Bean Sauce I made a couple changes to the sauce, used chicken broth instead of water. I thought it was thin so I added two more cans of black beans, some cumin, lime juice, chili powder, a couple jalapeno's. Two and half hours in the frig to marinate was fine and I did not re-use the marinade. Very flavorful. Loved it! Tomorrow we'll have the leftover "sauce" for lunch. It was basically black bean soup :)

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Dinner looks delicious everyone. I would especially love Lou's stromboli and Lars' eggplant.

We had a forum dinner last night.
- Nancy's Asian Marinade Chicken
- Marigene's roasted smashed potatoes
- Maureen's roasted broccoli
- Jessica's kumquats
and girl scout cookies.

Thank you for dinner!

Carol, you have now given me a craving for Mexican. It all looks really good.

Dixie, love your kitty pic.

Sharon, even if I don't do liver, I'd love to be there with you. Thanks for the wonderful pictures.

Annie, I'll bet today seemed extra long at work since you were there last night. Hope you were able to eat some ribs.

Denise, did you grill the chicken outside? I can hardly wait for spring...it's not here yet! Here's the snow that's been pushed from the driveway into a space the width of a car and about 24 ft long.

We went out for dinner on Saturday night. The Rowe Inn is just a few miles from the house and a favorite. Our dinner's were all excellent as usual and I didn't think about taking pic's quick enough, before we had eaten most of our dinners. I did however manage to take a pic of Kim's dessert...a chocolate ganache with ice cream and a raspberry coulis...

Last night we had our traditional boiled dinner. Corned Beef, red potatoes, rutabaga, parsnips, carrots and cabbage.

I can't wait for leftovers tonight!

Nancy

Nancy, I had ribs last night about 10 p.m. I knew it was late but I was going to have them, by gosh. A bit overcooked, frankly, but still good.

Tonight I have my corned beef, cabbage and red ptoatoes in the crockpot. And yes, I'm still at work. We're working hard on a case against a corrupt police officer, something we have a serious distaste for as I'm sure you know. Sigh. Who polices the police? That would be us.

At any rate, another hour or so I'll be home eating my supper and celebrating St. Patrick's Day. Also, incidentally, the anniversary of the day the Judge signed my divorce judgment. Double celebrations!

Annie

Nancy, I did grill. Our weather has been beautiful and I try to appreciate that fact every day.

Wouldn't it be great if WFD was a takeout menu and we could phone in our order?

This respiratory infection has taken me down again this afternoon. My daughter is bringing over some New York Style pizza from our favorite joint for my husband, herself and her SO, and our son and DIL and two of our grandkids.

I'm having Celestial Seasonings tea and an early bedtime.

Last night our DIL made a salad dressing I have to share with you all.

She took a few ripe avocados and just fork mashed and whipped them with some blue cheese and THAT was it! A little coarse ground pepper and the salad! It was the best salad dressing I've ever had in my life.

Very rich and fresh and wonderful.

I'll be back to peek at the posts above..

Seems alot of us were having a Mexican flair thing going on. LOL

Here's tonight's dinner or part of it..Notice my wonderful swap gifts.Pork baked in Enchilada sauce, refried beans, spanish rice and coleslaw for me. I did some fried cabbage for hubby.
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And dessert Wheat Free Brownies "dressed" up.

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Beautiful dinners, lovely bread and steak Ann.

Stacey, I love salad, your looks delicious..

Nancy, you must be so sick of that snow. Dinner looks good..

Carol, now don't forget where you put that recipe! I know you are young, so you don't forget things!

Lars, your eggplant looks very good. I leave that meal to dh..he does an excellent job, and I am not going to try !!

CB, great pics as usual!

Shelley, pizzas look good..

Terri, like your shamrock goody!

The other night I had a small boneless pork loin. I sliced it and stuffed it with apples and raisins...cooked some apples and onions in apricot brandy to pour on the top..

Last night we had pot roast, red cabbage and mashed potatoes..and shamrock biscuits..

Another corned beef dinner....with cupcakes for dessert.

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Marigene, your dinner looks good! And the cupcakes..looks like a special wax liner? And what kind of icing. They look delicious!!!

After seeing Nancy's and Marigene'c corn beef dinner I have a craving for corn beef. Especially for a corn beef sandwich.

Terri, I would love your dinner and how nice to see you putting your new dishes from Maggie to good use.

Kathleen, both your dinners look delicious.

I grilled a small Prime Rib for dinner last night. Just big enough for two thick slices. Served with homemade horseradish, purple cauliflower, zucchini and roasted potato wedges.