LOL Shirley. I love the way you wrote that.

My friends took me out to lunch today for my early Birthday anniversary lunch, it is actually on Saturday the 20th. I had some huge delicious shrimp so am not very hungry. We will probably pick something up while we are out later.
We then went and treated ourselves to pedicures. I need cute toes for the beach ! LOL

Oh man! I miss Louisiana Shrimp Raven!!! And crawfish boils too. whaaa! Happy Birthday anniversary

I made some chicken fingers for Joe (boneless, skinless chicken breasts with shake-n-bake on them). So I cut up a couple and put on my salad. My salad also had baby romaine, celery, mushrooms & grapes.

Dirty rice:)

I had lunch out with some neighbors today. DH had a hamburger smothered in mushrooms and onions with a tortellini salad side. I had a little of the tortellini salad.

Grilled hot dogs, baked beans and a ginger bok choy salad. Worked in the yard all day and neither DH or I thought to take anything out of the freezer, so wieners it was. LOL

Wow everyone's meals sound so good.!!!

Gadgets, your poor little chicken nuggets made me laugh.

Raven, Happy Birthday and Anniversary! (early, I know) Glad you filled up on some shrimp and that your toes look happy!

Casey, your salad and chicken sound perfect. That sounds like a meal that I should make one night next week.

Musicgale, how do you make your dirty rice? It sounds great!

GM, you have an amazing social life. Good friends and good food.

Hi Prairie_Rose! Nothing wrong with wieners in a pinch. Hubby will take a hot dog over a hamburger any day.

DH had leftover stroganoff. I am thinking about fixing a lamb steak with some rice for my dinner or just heating a 1/4 pound beef hot dog with some chili. Won't be eating dinner for a couple hours yet. It's too early and warm for me.

I had some minor surgery today so didn't feel up to making anything. I had yogurt and blueberries.

Jasdip- traditionally, you make dirty rice with chicken livers like you would make a rice dressing. For our purposes, we use lean ground meat and Zatarains boxed spice and rice mix. Yum. Even the babies love it.

had meatloaf that dh made couple of weeks ago and froze..(I was sick) it wasn't bad at all for his first attempt...

Spicy fish tacos with some grilled tilapia and napa cabbage slaw. An abundance of baby pattypan squash this year, so I cooked up a few to stuff with cream cheese and herbs for a little appetizer.

It's been too hot to enjoy the patio lately and we both miss that.

I made a stir-fry with chicken, broccoli, onion, peppers, and mushrooms over cooked ramen noodles rather than rice. There's enough left that I'm taking some to work for lunch.

I had a lamb chop and twice baked potato. Pork steak and regular baked potato for hubby.

I made 5 qts. Of gumbo with Chicken, shrimp and okra. Fried okra, garlic butter drizzled over corn bread and cheap ice cold beer. If the question comes up, that's dinner for a few days unless my neighbors find out :-)

I like your gumbo minus the okra Jeff!

Some don't like gumbo, I tell e'm throw them back in the pot. Wait, are you saying you don't like fried okra?! Well, maybe you should keep that a secret:-)

I've only ever had okra in soups where it has the texture of the excrement from your nose. I doubt if I would buy it to see if I'd like it fried. :-)

I made stuffed cabbage rolls with hamburger, onions, tomato sauce, spices and rice. Since it has everything you would eat for dinner; meat, starch and veggie, I just serve it with a salad and rolls.

Now that's a pleasant thought to go with my first cup of coffee. Putting okra in a soup can be risky. It can go from just cooked to slime globs in seconds. The trick is, turn the heat off and then put in the okra. Let it cook in the heat of the soup.

Fried okra is great If you know how. Ask around , if you like fried green tomatoes or squash you'll love it.

Jeff, I very respectfully disagree with that last statement, lol. I adore fried green tomatoes, squash, zucchini, mushrooms, asparagus, cauliflower, and even fried pickles. But, I am one of the droves of people for whom NO preparation will make okra palatable. There is no adequate disguise, as far as I'm concerned.

Every few years, I'll give them a try...always from someone else's plate....but the verdict is always the same. Blech.

No matter who the cook is or how they've made them.

Okra isn't popular or common in my area. I've had it on trips to NO and other places in the South. I'm a pretty adventuresome eater and I enjoy almost all foods and ethnic styles, but okra is on the very short list of foods I try to avoid eating.

Rhizo--have you had Indian fried okra? I can't stand any slime, but they generally fry it dry then add lots of flavors. It's pretty good. :)

Like Snidely, I experienced okra for the first time in gumbo while in NO.

Nope didn't like it then or since if it accidentally reached my lips.

Lol, I tell my wife the same thing about eggplants. Have mercy, I wouldn't put those vile things in the compost :-)

Oh Jeff, try them grilled or breaded! We discovered eggplant last summer and I've made it often. Grilled in panini sandwiches, or roasted as part of ratatouille.

Roflmao. Only if I knew the gun was loaded Jasdip.