It's Monday again?,,,,,,SHOOT! I missed the weekend altogether!

Vegetarian tostados.....vanilla pecan ice cream for dessert....

A friend is on the local rescue squad. They had a fundraiser event this evening where four local restaurants had a cooking competition. They were given several local ingredients including grass-fed beef, quails eggs, asian pears and hickory syrup ? And had an hour (or maybe 90 minutes) to make dishes.

The had several appetizers for the spectators to eat while the chef's were cooking. So my dinner was mostly that. But the had a raffle for four people to each get one of the dinners, and a different raffle for a spot as the fourth judge.

Two people I know won the raffle for the dinners, and shared a bite or two of their dishes with me. As well as a taste off their dessert. Yum.

We stopped late this afternoon at Applebee's for our favorite dessert...Triple Chocolate Meltdown so we weren't hungry at supper time. Around 7:30 I was hungry so off we went to the Dairy Queen and got hotdogs.

geez, Bob, I thought for sure you'd have been a judge.

It was gorgeous today and I played golf -- posted pic on another thread. :)

Went to a nice sports bar after the round and chose their Labatt's Blue Light, Buffalo Chicken sandwich (grilled) and sweet potato fries. The sandwich is based on a local favorite called 'Buffalo Wings', where they deep fry chicken wings then smother them in a sauce made of butter and hot sauce (like Red Hot), and serve with a blue cheese dressing. It was great!

PS: rhizo, I wish it was always so easy to change the day! :)

Hi Rhizo!

We picked up a couple of blade steaks and I made one into Swiss Steak. Tomatoes with some Ro-Tel, green peppers, onions, celery, worcestershire sauce, and some broth. Simmered for 1.5 hours and served over egg noodles. Hubby loved it. Hadn't had it before.

Yum, everything sounds so good! I love that fundraiser idea, Bob. Was everything delicious?

Nicole, your supper sounds great; absolutely like something that I would fix. I've found a couple of recipes and may try one this weekend.

Party, I've tried to like Buffalo chicken wings but I don't care for the sauce. I love grilled chicken wings, though, sprinkled with some cayenne! The bleu cheese dressing is a perfect foil for something spicy. I like celery sticks with it, too.

Jasdip....there's no way that your supper wasn't delicious! I can almost taste it, now.

We have a new chef. I think he is beginning to turn out quite good meals. Tonight was choice of creamy cucumber salad or French onion soup; roast pork with fruit chutney; roasted Yukon potatoes; baby carrots, and pound cake with strawberries. The cucumbers in the salad were strips (they had been seeded) and small slices of red onion in a sour cream sauce. The soup looked quite good, too. Instead of the pound cake I chose a small scoop of vanilla ice cream with some caramel sauce. All in all a good meal!

Wow, seniorgal! That sounds top knotch.

Rhizo_1: That recipe looks marvelous and easy too! Thank you.

I finally picked up one of the big freshly made chicken pot pies they make at Costco. Omg it was delicious. Huge and delicious! I have left overs. I will be buying them again.

Tee hee, Lee! Glad you liked the picture of that great dish.

Raven, that pie sounds like something worthwhile to keep in the freezer for when I'm not cooking.

Husband had leftover Linguini with white clam sauce. If he finishes up the chicken enchiladas, tonight will be Mongolian pork with fresh veggies and steamed rice.

Rhizo, when I told hubby that I wanted to make a Swiss steak, he crinkled up his nose. His memories were of his mom making something like that. What I made was nothing like his mom's and he gobbled it up. He hadn't had it my way before.