We had broiled scrod, couscous with pine nuts and steamed asparagus.

I went to lunch with my neighbor, we had Vietnamese food, not very hungry. So I am making tuna salad served in lettuce leaves.

Pork ribs with saurkraut over rice. One of my mom's dishes that I never make because my kids never liked it.

toast and tea.......again.

I've had a stomach bug

Today is our anniversaryâ¦.55 years. We went out for lobster dinners. It was delicious.. Glad we made that choice.

Stuffed mushrooms, snow grapes, and a marguerita. Sounds strange, but very tasty.

Ellendi, I had to look up scrod to remind myself what it is, lol. Not something we see in the south. Too bad, because it would be very popular.

Raven, I've never eaten at a Vietnamese restaurant. How would you describe the food? What did you have....I'm curious. I love tuna, salmon, or chicken salads served in lettuce wraps.

Kath, I grew up near an area that was a major grower of cabbage destined for a sourkraut factory. I could never develop a tasteformm sourkraut, sad to say. It was eaten often by my relatives and popular in local restaurarants, but I could never eat it. Maybe one day?

Aww, jean....sorry that you're not well. Tea and toast is my 'sick' food of choice, too.

Congratulation, georgy....55 years! I'm happy that you went out for something special. What a treat; it makes my mouth water.

Say.....has anyone seen gadgets (Shirley)? She always posted in our Dinner threads.

I've also been missing pasta Mary....I always think of her as "Mary of the Shells ". She would create great dishes for her husband, but never ate anything but pasta herself.

I hope that Patti surprises us soon and that Laura pops in when she can.

Dinner was leftover lasagna and a salad. We have had workmen galore the last few weeks. Painters, floor refinisher, and the tile man this week along with the draperies coming back today and the pond guy hooked up the filters. I am very thankful for freezer meals.

Could Shirley be the forum reader that passed away?

That's who came to mind to for me ?

Albertsons deli chicken..
Kellan had a baseball game.. They finally won..they have won 3 total..but their record the last two weeks was 5-1.

Phyllis, that sounds like a great happy hour, to me! Pass me some of those mushrooms and grapes! ('Snow grapes ' are a favorite appetizer of mine.

Pkramer, is the work about to be finished up? I know what a ordeal that can be. It's always good to keep something in the freezer!

The post about Shirley, but no screen name, triggered my query about Gadgets. I'm hoping that someone knows something.

I made nearly the same meal as a week ago. Roast pork tenderloin with a maderia/mushroom/mustard cream sauce, Mashed potatoes, and steamed broccoli.

I have been worried too that gadgets could be the Shirley that was mentioned as having passed away. Using the poor searching capabilities at garden web I've been unable to determine anything one way of the other.

I sleuthed around today, too, to no avail.

Terri.....YAY KELLAN! :-)

Gadgets had posted on the Apr. 4th thread, but none since then. I hope she is just taking a break.

Rhizo, they were pretty happy young men. They came from behind..and tied then got that run across in the 7th. Game over. He's had some troubling days on that field of late. He is a Jr, with 2 Sr's ahead of him at 1st, so he plays JV. They came down last year as Jr's as well and played more than he did. So he's looked at as a team leader, but often is held accountable for much more than his share. He's not at all an emotional kid. Very even keeled, but earlier this week he'd had enough. And let it show a bit. Which suprised his very emotional coach..and they had a bit of a stand off. Lol..
Today he will coach the Freshman boys at a double header. So he's a bit excited about that. He was asked if he wanted to stay home and workout with Varsity or come to the C team games and coach. He chose coach.
It's off Island, so we may stop by while over that way shopping at Costco to check on him and them. :)

well this was my first time to a Vietnamese restaurant too. It was very similar to Oriental menus. I love orange chicken and they did have an orange chicken but I was intrigued by the crispy honey shrimp with vegetables so that is what I ordered. It was very good. The shrimp were in a kind of tempura batter and fried there was a sauce that was slightly sweet looked similar to honey but not that sweet, sauteed onions, bell peppers, and carrots were mixed in. I also had an egg roll that contained shrimp and shredded pork with vegetables. It was served with a fish sauce for dipping. I did not care for the fish sauce at all it was very fishy and extremely salty.
Everything else was fantastic.
They had a very nice menu and I would love to go back and try some of the other items. My neighbor that drove us there said they go there often and it is one of their faves.
It is a brand new restaurant so was very nice and clean but it was loud, one big room with high ceilings, we hit the lunch crowd.

Raven, I've been looking at recipes and menus and am really surprised that I haven't had Vietnamese food on my radar. There are a couple of restaurants in my city and will be giving them some business soon!

There was a Vietnamese Restaurant here that we loved going to, that was run by a Vietnamese family. You'd come in and the high school age kids would be working on their homework at at table near the bar, they'd get up, lead you to your table and take your order, and go back to their homework.

Many of the dishes there were similar to Thai or Chinese recipes, although more things had fish or other seafood in them than Chinese recipes. Our favorites were the Garden Rolls appetizers which were shaped like spring rolls or egg rolls but not deep fried.

I've heard the fish sauce described as: "You know how they make apple cider? You take all the old, bruised, not-otherwise-sale-able apples and press them until all the juice runs out. Well, its that but with fish instead of apples." Yummy.

Oh God, I hope Gadgets is okay and not the person who the poster was talking about.
I know she posted a couple of times on April 4.

I too have noticed that she hasn't posted on the dinner thread the last few days.

Vietnamese food has Chinese influences but it's very different. Some of it is unique, some seems like a mix of Chinese and Thai as the geography would suggest. Orange chicken sounds Chinese. A very popular dish that many restaurants feature is Pho (pronounce Fa), a soup. Many dishes are prepared with a good measure of chile pepper heat - like using jalapenos.

A noticeable % of "Vietnamese" people in the US are from the country's Chinese minority, their food traditions are more Chinese. One very successful Vietnamese immigrant family produces the Sriracha chile sauce products. If you haven't had it, buy some right away. They are a Chinese - Vietnamese family.

Here's menus of a two places I've been to, to give an idea. It's delicious food, most restaurants are holes in the wall.

http://pho79.com/menu1.html

http://www.vungtaurestaurant.com/docs/vungtau_menu.pdf

I worked with a large amount of Asians. Vietnamese, Thailand, and Laos being the most common.

At lunch my Vietnamese friend would eat his dinner, and it always looked so good. Noodles, etc. He offered me some, holy moly it was hot!!!! The hotter the spice the better.....too hot for me.

I'm sold! Thanks to raven bob, and snidely for educating me. If we didn't have a rack o ribs on the Weber (using his new toy, the Smokenator 1000, not kidding), we'd be heading out to try Vietnamese food tonight.