I made smothered pork chops, mac and cheese, collard greens,chicken dressing and cornbread. Everything from scratch. This is SOs plate. Mine doesn't have collards or corn bread.

What did you make?

We're sharing a steak for dinner, which DH will cook, and I'm making a big spinach salad to go with it. Baby spinch, red onions, gorgonzola cheese, candied walnuts and dried cranberries with a balsamic vinaigrette. I can't eat much meat but will really enjoy the salad. We have 2 servings of store made tiramisu for dessert.

We're going to split a steak on the grill tonight too! Tomorrow making ribs and the whole spread to go with it.

I have a headache. We are ordering in. Eggplant parmiggiana and chicken with lemon with plain spaghetti and fried squid to start.

Not many vegetables, I know.

Eggplant is a veggie!!!!!

I made my new favorite: fresh spinach leaves topped with seasoned ground turkey/sausage/onions mixture, beans, cheese & spicy guacamole sauce. (heat until cheese melts). Then mango smoothies.

Amylou that is a seriously good looking plate! Your SO is a lucky man (or is he just exceptionally discerning?!)

Tonight is leftovers. A slice of muffaletta, and an eggy-rice dish that I like. Plus broccoli, we eat so much broccoli it's a wonder we're not green.

Making shrimp etouffee for dinner. Made zabaglione earlier for dessert.

I spent quite a bit of time in the kitchen today. Made homemade chicken soup, which I will freeze. For supper, we had chicken fricassee, rice with black beans, fried sweet plantains. For a snack later, I made banana bread. I love cooking and baking. Amy, that plate looks delicious!

Something easy. Been working int he yard for the past couple of hours. Cutting down a massive grapevine and whatever is growing up with it messed my chainsaw chain come off the blade thing so I came inside to watch a you tube video on how to fix it. I thought I knew but it didn't work.

I may just open a can of ravioli after I shower. Going to mess with the chain saw again and see if I can get it working. I can feel the ticks crawling on me so I think I'm going to shower. lol...just kidding, kinda.

Judi, you have given me quite a craving now!

Amylou, I had not noticed the adorable heart shaped muffin on your sweetheart's plate.

OT, but à propos of all things amylou, when I was little I got the message girls were supposed to like pink, so me being me, I decided to not like pink. Turns out, deep down inside, though, I really liked pink. By the time I reached high school, I embraced my love of pink unabashedly. Add to this my mother disapproved of heart shaped anything. And, naturally, I have an affinity for hearts. I converted my mother in the end.

Kathsgrdn - DH pulled 5 ticks off of himself after planting some perennials this afternoon.

Zalco, every single meal in this house will have something heart shaped. If its not food of some sort made into a heart shape,I will serve his on one of my heart shaped plates. I even have tiny little ceramic heart shaped sauce dipping things and i will use those to put ketchup or jelly in. So that all the looooooooove I put into the food has a visible representation. Also its a justification for the huge collection of hearts I have!

He doesn't notice anymore though....he just eats it. :)

I bought a pork loin that comes in a vacuum bag and sliced most of it into pork chops. Ileft a bit of it whole for a loin roast. I kept 2 pork chops out and browned one quickly to make into a rice and vegetables dish in a couple of days.

The remaining one I breaded and had with scalloped potatoes that I had in the freezer, and green beans.

Seagrass, found one attached to my leg a couple weeks ago. I hate those things. No ticks today. Shocked, as I was in the literal weeds and stuff was falling on my head.

Amylou, every time I'm out and about and see especially cookware in pink, I think of you lol.

Everytime I see a possum, I think of Marilyn.

My mate has been making a pasta sauce since late morning. We live in an Italian neighborhood with several stores that sell good cheeses, and I was supposed to go get some parmesan this week, but I kinda forgot. Now the shops are closed. Oops. :-(

Amylou, I bet he would notice the absence of the hearts.

Probably. It's like dusting isn't it? No one notices if you do it, but when you don't EVERYONE notices..

He would probably be afraid to eat a heartless plate of food....

I could have nothing but collards for dinner and be happy as a clam! Lucky SO, amylou! I’m having pimento cheese and celery sticks. Not exactly well-balanced, but it scratches an itch. Lunch was better, shrimp quesadilla stuffed with peppers, onions, and spinach.

Amylou, do you have coeur la creme molds? They are heart-shaped, of course. I love making it with raspberry coulis for dessert when I have company.

I made chicken and potatoes on the grill. I went to the farmers market today so the potatoes had onions, dill and garlic. I coated my chicken with olive oil and parmesan cheese. I bought one of the new cheese graters and it was magic on that block of parmesan.. I also bought cinnamon rolls at the market so I am looking forward to breakfast in the morning.

Today was an outing, while things are pretty calm. Museum and fine dining. No cooking! And the food was really good, which isn't always the case with fine dining. Mine was a pasta with fresh favas, cherry tomatoes and tiny squash, with chicken, and an amazing sauce. Sounds simple, but the level of perfection in the cooking, and the flavor, were perfection, and not something I'd make. Tomorrow is rhubarb day (if I'm not too tired).

Reheating bread and calamari. Dang close.

If we do it again, low and slow (totally worked!), but keeping it moisturized somehow?

Improvedwith holes poked by fork in the foil.

It was lunch day with my dad, but my child did not feel well enough to eat anything. Dad's lost at least 20 pounds, if not 25 since Christmas. He had half a bowl of soup.

Neither ate very much. 😩

Steak for breakfast/ lunch and steak for supper and probably steak again tomorrow.

I had to run to the USPS this afternoon. Next door is a café/deli that has some pretty good food. I stopped in and got little containers of potato salad and Waldorf salad, AND a tiny chocolate cream pie. I fried-up a frozen veal thingy from Omaha Steak and had that along with a scoop of each of my salads. I had intended to have only half the pie for dessert, but ended up eating the whole thing. 😁 (I am unrepentant.)

The Waldorf Salad was a last minute purchase since I've never had their's before. It was soooo good with the veal.

Yesterday late-afternoon I made a Fresh Berry Clafoutis. I then cooked up Beyond Beef for a taco buffet dinner for us all. Then cut up all the tomatoes, cheeses, etc. for it. Then made a big bowl of Guacamole. I set up the kitchen for the buffet. And then my healing broken foot said “Enough!“ and I sat down and let DH and our DD finish up everything. DD and her BF did up the dishes and then we all watched the wonderful “Secondhand Lions”.

Well everyone else was doing the cooking for me apparently. First of all I walked in the kitchen and DH was making buttermilk rye pancakes for breakfast. He accompanied that with a cheddar and blue cheese omelette. Delicious!

Then dear nephew came up the stairs to say he had made a huge platter of split chicken wings. So then I had Frank's Red hot sauce slathered chicken wings for lunch. Delicious!

For supper we will have leftover pancakes because it was very thin and can be used as a blintz type of thing. DH and I love it with cheesy spinach. Since there will be likely leftovers as he always makes a big bowl full at my request we will have the next ones with strawberry sauce and yogurt. Yum!

For supper we will have leftover pancake because it was very thin and can be used as a blintz type of thing. DH and I love it with cheesy spinach. Since there will be likely leftovers as he always makes a big bowl full at my request we will have the next ones with strawberry sauce and yogurt. Yum! as a blintz type of thing. DH and I love it with cheesy spinach. Since there will be likely leftovers as he always makes a big bowl full at my request we will have the next ones with strawberry sauce and yogurt. Yum!

In days of yore, we had a large family picnic for the 3 big holidays: Memorial Day, 4th of July and Labor Day. But alas, no more. So to reminisce, I make a "picnic" dinner on those holidays by grilling up some burgers with slaw on the side. DH has some french fries too.

Fried chicken. Nothing else. Just fried chicken. We worked hard in the yard, fixed the garage door, and tried to get the gazebo fixed again (don't ask 🙄), so we "needed" it. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Tomorrow will be grilled hotdogs and Mexican street corn. And PIE! 🥧

We are grilling burgers and corn for dinner, then Bananas Foster for dessert.

bbtx, I do not. I have certainly seen them and was very very tempted to get one, but that is not a dish I would make, and I like all my hearts to be used. Maybe I can buy one and use it to put mail in or something!!!!!

I did not do any real cooking today. SO ate leftovers from yesterdays feast, and I got a salad from Zaxbys on my way to work.

But, because tomorrow is Memorial Day and SO got it into his head that he wants to grill, I did do some prep work for that. Whenever he grills, he has this notion that he has to cook enough food for an army. I do not know why. I guess he feels like if he is going to light charcoal, he does not want to waste the heat. So I bought hot dogs, polish sausages, bratwurst, ground beef and a rack of baby back ribs. Today, I seasoned the ribs with a premixed dry rub, and formed and seasoned the hamburger patties. We will be working on those for the rest of the week probably, if he actually grills them that is. Last time he asked me to do all of that, he decided he did not feel like grilling or had a last minute thing he had to do that took all day or whatever and I ended up cooking the ribs in the oven, the burgers on the stove and freezing the hot dogs and stuff.

I will end up making some sides. Probably loaded baked potatoes and corn on the cob or something.

Currently making some pork curry with some purple new potatoes from the garden. I had some regular, store bought ones and carrots I needed to use so that helped make my decison. While I was out playing in the garden I just had to check to see if there were any baby potatoes lurking. I shouldn't have because then I used one less store bought potatoe for my curry. I'm actually making it for tomorrow since I have to do a 12.5 hour shift and it's going to be rough. Every holiday is. I don't want to have to spend my short lunch break trying to fix something.

On my way home from the nursery this afternoon I decided to get some Chik Fil A. Pulled into the shopping center it is in, expecting a massive line as usual, only to realize it was SUNDAY! Why do I always want their food on Sundays? Seems to happen a lot. So I went to Qdoba across the street. So am going to have 1/3 of the giant burrito for dinner tonight. Probably eat the rest for breakfast.

@amylou321, next time you have to cook ribs indoors, try this recipe from Leite’s Culinaria. https://leitesculinaria.com/84152/recipes-slow-cooker-barbecued-ribs.html I don’t make the rub. I use pre-made Rendezvous Famous Seasoning and add a little brown sugar.

@Kathsgrdn, I’ve been known to buy an extra large tea (no ice) from CFA on Saturday afternoon so I can have it on Sunday!

Kathy,

We're back to masks in ALL areas at work, not just clinical.. And if I had to guess I would say to at least until second week of July to accommodate Memorial Day and the 4th of July. I'll be thinking of you through this hard time.

Rob333, I work from home. It's just rough because the phone never stops ringing on holidays. You don't even have time to take a sip of coffee in between calls. We get hundreds of calls, 500 to 800. No way we can even answer them all. I am thankful I'm not working in the hospital, as bad as holidays do get for us. I wouldn't be able to do my job working in a hospital because of my bum ankle and is the reason I left the floor some 5 or 6 years ago.

I just mean it's ramping up for us again!

Yikes! I hope everybody will stay safe and special protections for the care pros.

Inspired by the food rotation thread, I figured out a new trick today: Order the groceries/chicken to be delivered just in time to make dinner so I can make awesome roast chicken and not have to store the danged chicken. :) A beautiful little, locally grown, heirloom bird, brushed with citrus chipotle vinaigrette and sprinkled with herbs and spices, is steam roasting on top of a bed of Spanish onion slices, baby carrots, fennel and sugar snap peas. I have some purple potatoes which may be seeing their doom in a few minutes since I didn't think to buy corn.

Been a beautiful holiday weekend here. Saturday a couple of the kids came over and we had a summer squash and fennel tart. Yesterday fired up the grill and my love did perfectly cooked burgers, I did potato salad. Not sure what we will do today yet, I'm seriously considering setting up a crockpot of garlic sausages, kraut, and taters. We got holes to dig and a lot of containers to get into the ground so I might not feel like cooking later.

i diced an arm roast and put it in the IP. making hot beef sammies