What's for dinner?
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Comments (4)Hi Jude, I'm trying to get the thread to pop up, but it's being stubborn. Hang tight for a bit. Thanks, Tamara...See MoreWhat's for Dinner #420 Spring/Summer 2025
Comments (104)sleevendog, your meals always look fresh and healthy, but those tomatoes, yum. I'm just waiting for mine.... John, my single year of high school French class 53 years ago is not serving me well, it took me a little time to puzzle through that menu, LOL. The only bao I've ever had was frozen from the freezer section of a local grocery, that one looks much nicer and fluffier. Jasdip, I hope it's cooled off a bit there. Here it was nice for a couple of days, now it's back up to above 90F tomorrow. In Michigan in June!!! It's just not supposed to happen, ugh. And yet, I still cook. (grin) Today we had peanut butter chicken with rice and roasted asparagus, and strawberry shortcake for dessert with what are probably the last berries this year as the groundhogs keep eating them the minute they get at all red. We've been having salads regularly because I had a lot of various leaves in a raised bed, until the same blasted groundhog decided to just chew on everything. It wasn't actually eaten, just nibbled, walked upon and chewed to pieces, so it seems I'll have to buy my leaves until I can trap the whistle pig. It's also burrowing under the foundation of the house, so it's got to go. Anyway, other meals were some sauteed shrimp with more asparagus and some chickpea salad: Southern style blackberry cobbler with ice cream: Amanda's lunch of a cheese omelette, some gluten free toast and fresh strawberries on a day when she was here visiting: Salmon patties and air fryer potato slices, with some more asparagus. Oddly, nothing seems to want the asparagus, but it's nearing the end of the season for that. Biscuits for breakfast, baked in a "pone" instead of individual biscuits, Elery made these and we had them with eggs. A nicely rare high heat roasted sirloin tip, sliced on the slicer for sandwiches: Panini made from the above beef.... Penne with home canned tomato sauce and garlic bread: I picked some broccolini and "Fioretto" cauliflower from the garden, the purple Fioretto is very colorful and tastes more like cabbage than cauliflower. We will process meat chickens in the next couple of weeks, so I'm trying to make more freezer room, that seems like a constant endeavor. I had the "leaf" fat from the pig we got from a neighbor and so rendered two "almost" pints of lard: I know there were others, but I sure don't remember what! Annie...See MoreWhat's for dinner #423
Comments (111)Thank-you! That is informative, but I still can't imagine it (though I did know about turning it out and setting it on fire from TV). I did find a local (SoCal area somewhere) brewery that makes barley wine (Guiness stout is readily available at most grocery stores), and the butcher at the snooty market has jars of beef tallow and lard, so I don't think they'd faint if asked for suet, but it might have to be a special order. But, please, what is "whole candied peel"? Oh, never mind. I googled it in quotes and it showed me packages. We have chocolate chip cookies... ;) But seriously, I've read about Christmas pudding so really enjoyed seeing it in the basin. ("pudding basin", right?) Does it get frozen, or is this like some fruitcakes which sit out in their wrappers and get fed bourbon once a week?...See MoreWhat's for Dinner #424, Fall/Winter 2025
Comments (104)Oh mercy, I'm behind again. I had a couple of "set backs", but I think I"m good to go now. My family will have their Christmas dinner on Saturday, so I'm in the middle of planning and cooking. John, kittens are so cute when they're sleeping. :-) I've never seen a crab heart either, that's....interesting. Here we've been eating and I'm cooking. This was baked salmon with roasted potatoes and a pea and peanut salad. I made a surprisingly good tomato basil soup with white beans: And enchilada casserole with salad on the side: And some of Diane/craftyrn's cuccidati. I know, not really heart healthy, but Elery loves it: Saturday's meal is scheduled to be glazed ham, stuffed and rolled turkey breast, green beans, au gratin potatoes, homemade rolls, a potato dressing that I"ve never tried before, some sausage and cheese stuffed "shotgun shells" which is a manicotto stuffed and wrapped with bacon, then smoked, a Godiva chocolate cheesecake, lemon meringue bars, snickerdoodle apple cobbler and the usual plate of cookies and fudge, with some Chex Mix and firecrackers on the side. I'll try to remember to take pictures... Annie...See More- 3 years agolast modified: 3 years agolucillle thanked littlebug Zone 5 Missouri
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