BS: Say. What's for dinner????

Subject: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Beccy
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 04:51 PM

It is officially over 20 degrees for the first time in 3 months! I'm feeling a bit punchy and thinking of summer-type meals. So far I've gotten as far as steaks on the grill, macaroni salad, corn on the cob dripping with melted butter, sliced fresh beefsteak tomatoes with black pepper and salt, strawberry shortcake...

What's your favorite summer meal combo?

Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: DougR
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:07 PM

Beccy, I'll certainly go along with steaks on the grill but since I'm on a Lo Carb diet I won't be able to have my favorite sides with it. So I'll probably opt for half a baked, buttered, potato skin and a green salad.

My next best is a hamburger (without a bun now of course).

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:15 PM

Beccy:

Warmin' up here in Wes Ginny, too, and I reckon I'll be tillin' up the garden for plantin' next month so that come along around the middle of July I'll have fresh bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, pole beans, cukes and maybe some lettuce left if it ain't oo hot. So I'll take me a basket out and pick all this stuff fresh, give them beans a few minutes in the steamer while choppin' up the rest fir a refreshin salad with a little oil and vinigar and fresh basil sprinkled on top.

While that's going on, the P-Vine will be grillin' chicken breasts with mesquite seasoning mixed in oil and a few extra large shrimp just fir good measure.

As fir desert, I nice bowl of chilled cantelope sliced and diced, ummm, ummm nice.

All served on the back deck overlookin' these wonderful gardens I have all whilst the humming birds will be diving in and out of their feeder...

Yeah, thanks fir askin'.

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: DougR
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:42 PM

How about Black-Eyed peas, Bobert? You raise them too? Fresh black-eyes boiled with a ham hock are just about my favorite veggie. Unfortunately they are crammed full of carbs so I won't be eating them this summer.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:47 PM

I likes 'em all right, Doug, but I don't eat no four legged creatures. And I know you ain't gonna believe this, but having four legs, I don't eat no possum either. But you can trown in some onions and broth 'er butter and some cyanne pepper and salt and they mightly good eatin' with cooked greens with taragon vinegar on 'em. Yum.

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:48 PM

Me? A BLT with home grown tomato and lettuce, fresh cooked green beans,cold macaroni salad and for dessert, raspberries with cream on them! Oh be still my growling stomach!

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:58 PM

Local grown corn and I have a couple of favorite places to get it! Starting in mid July and through the first part of September, I go nuts. I pray to the great god Diverticula and last year he allowed me to eat a "reasonable amount" without surgery. I always eat corn without a shirt and no one will get close to me as it is best to stay away from the machinery. Karen always is threatening divorce by mid August.

Outside of that we char the hell out of assorted animal flesh and consume mass quantities.

My other favs? Home grown tomatoes, fried green tomatos, and WILTED LETTUCE!!!! I make a killer wilter with bacon grease and also dine without a shirt on this delicacy. Karen again threatens divorce.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Kim C
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 05:58 PM

Bobert, if you ever were a critter eater, I recommend Gardenburgers or Boca Burgers. Even a meat-eater like me likes 'em. I especially like the Savory Mushroom Gardenburger. And I've made great chili before with that TVP stuff. I like ham hocks in the blackeyed peas, too, but you can replace that with plenty of onions and garlic!

DougR, if you have a whole-grain bun, you'll be all right. I did a low-carb diet a couple years ago, and while I cut WAY back on bread and potatoes, I never did cut them out completely, and still had great success. Nothing I lost has ever come back. And while I don't "diet" now, I do pay attention to my intake of refined carbs, and try to eat mostly whole grains. They taste better anyway! :-) I still treat myself to potato chips now and again.

When it's really hot out, I like to make big ol' green salads with grilled chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, marinated artichoke hearts, gorgonzola cheese, walnuts, and top it off with Ken's Steak House Raspberry Vinaigrette. yummmm!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Kim C
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 06:02 PM

Spaw, you need to get down to Nashville so you and Mister can have Dueling Dinners. I know, he looks like he never eats anything, but don't let him fool you. He does keep his shirt on, though. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: NicoleC
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 06:38 PM

Doug, you might want to check out sprouted bread or Ezekiel bread if you can get it in your neck of the wood. Most of it has about 20 carbs a slice -- depending on how low carb you're going that might still be too much. But one slice has about 3 times the filling and nutrition (and taste) of your run of the mill "whole wheat" bread (which usually isn't really, but that's another story.) I've done the low carb thing, and sometimes you just want a tuna sandwich with the BREAD!

Everytime my Mom comes to Cal she goes home with a suitcase full of bread...

It's in the 70's here. Tonight, I'm thinking roast pheasant with a honey lime sauce with steamed asparagus.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 07:55 PM

When it's harvest time, I like to do a what-ever I have stir fry. I make it different everytime but it always turns out good.

Cut up chicken breasts into chunks that have been marinated in olive oil, vinegar, garlic, (fresh)ginger, thyme, pepper, tamari or soy sauce and cayanne. Stir fry the chicken with the marinade juice. Remove chicken and add to pan; green beans, bell pepper, carrot, radish (I like the black or sweetheart), cook awhile, add onion, corn(scrapped) tomato, zuccinni, and peas. I usually add more tamari for liquid, little water, little olive oil. Add chicken back when veggies are still slightly crunchy, warm chicken and feast. I've also added cukes, kolrabi, parsnips, beets, cabbage, Jeez.. I think I'm making my garden list here! This is good with a polish sausage too.
Now it's bragging time. I tell you what, I pride myself in my garden. I grow some of the sweetest corn you'll ever eat, I make the best pickles in the county, salsa that warms you right up and and damn fine grape wine! Now I'm thinking of all the work that's coming up!
Peace. Rustic

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 08:01 PM

And for a midnight snack, a bowl of homemade black raspberry ice cream.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 08:15 PM

Antelope backstrap (whole filet)marinated in raspberry balsamic vinegar,olive oil, oregano and black pepper, cooked rare on the grill.

Local sweet corn
Home grown tomatoes
Wilted lettuce (with bacon grease)
Sourdough chocolate cake
Nuff said?

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 08:24 PM

Oh Man, we could do up a Mudcat Cookbook.

Speaking of Mud Cat. I'd give my good left arm right now for some fresh catfish!

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 08:47 PM

Its called "Bush" chicken. It tastes a bit like snake.
This is what it looks like. http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/bushburst6.1.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 10:09 PM

Walking Eagle, we already have, sort of do a search for either Cookbook or Recipes.

LOL, Donuel.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: NicoleC
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 10:21 PM

We SHOULD do a MudCat cookbook; always yummy recipes around here. Proceeds to the 'Cat, of course. I'll volunteer to collect, sort and do layout for the recipes, if folks are interested.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 10:38 PM

Rustic Rebel:

Danged! If yir ever 'round these parts, stop in. I'd be glad to turn the kitchen over to ya. That stuff sounds great! I'm gonna try it! Fir real!

Nicole:

GREAT IDEA! Sorry fir shoutin'. I ain't mad 'er nuthin. But danged good idea!

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 10:46 PM

Save me some of that wilted lettuce salad, Spaw! I'll bring you a freshly picked batch of bib lettuce and we'll have us a feed! **someday**

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Mar 03 - 11:34 PM

Favorite summertime food? Easy. Homegrown gaspacho. The trick is getting all the ingredients to ripen at the same time so it can be truly "homegrown". It's just not quite the same if you have to buy the tomatoes because yours are already played out before the cukes are ripe. Make a big ole pot and when you get tired of gaspacho just scald some bulgur wheat and throw it in the same pot and call it tabouli.

But, before we get too far into Summer let us not forget springtime's own culinary delight. Fresh-picked sugarsnap peas. Don't even cook 'em. Hell, don't even take 'em in the house. Just pick 'em off the vine and eat 'em raw.

Sure wish it'd quit raining so I can get the garden beds tilled. Can't roto-till mud.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: gnu
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 05:32 AM

Lobster and cold beer on a 35C day at my buddy's place on the shore of Shediac Bay. He's got the first shore lot west of Parlee Beach, a major draw for tourists and locals. The beach extends close to a km in front of his place at low tide. And a ramp from the road to the beach is about thirty feet from his lawn. Yup, lobsters and cold beer and binoculars and reflective sunglasses at the edge of the lawn... all you can eat.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 06:37 AM

O.K. a couple of lines of doggerel, which I vaguely remember, can someone complete them ?

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..ooking
Pa comes home and says "What's cooking"
In Winter time, when hunger pangs are gnawing,
Pa comes home and says "What's thawing"

Anyone ??

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 06:44 AM

Bacon/ranch pasta salad with tomato/basil smoked Alaskan salmon in it instead of bacon.

Smoked salmon with finely sliced fresh sweet onions and capers.

Freshly baked, hot sourdough bread with "country" or "Amish" butter and/or creamed cinnamon honey.

Black or red rasberry pie, or razzleberry pie (topped with homemade French vanilla ice cream if you wish).

Lots of GOOD beer (Budweiser tax of fifty cents per can or bottle applies, used to buy GOOD beer for thoe who appreciate GOOD beer). (Yes, Seamus, I stole the idea, but it's a good one.)

Talking and singing until 4 a.m. or dawn, whichever comes first.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: GUEST,Loqui
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:16 AM

Chitlins from cheatam county

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Sam L
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 09:59 AM

Roasting corn in the husk in the backyard soon. Probably won't grow it this year, just tomatoes, basil, maybe cucumbers. I don't eat most critters, but might do some trout. Trout on melba toast with hot mustard, capers.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: gnu
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 01:27 PM

Fresh salmon boiled with salt beef and veggies. So fresh, there's nare a tag and she's been blunt nosed to grilse size. And caught on a fly first introduced to me by a gentleman from Flat Bay, near Stephenville, NF. He called it a Silver Illegal... a weighted tri-hook... you think the buggers are the King of Fish ? Wait 'til you see 'em hooked on the dorsal. (Of course, this is all FICTIONAL, told as a late night camp story. Kinda like them one-eyed deer Kendall talks about.)

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Beccy
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 05:25 PM

Okay... how about blueberries that you and your kids JUST picked with sour cream and sugar and a big, tall, frosty glass of lemonade???

Beccy

P.S. Doug- don't cut carbs out totally! Your body needs some.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 06:31 PM

Walking Eagle made me long for my days at Univ. Illinois. We had hoousing near the RR tracks (ILL. Central?) and blackberry bushes had been planted paralleling the tracks. Mashed the berries into good vanilla ice cream with whole ones on top- every evening in season. My thesis work was in southern Illinois and along the rivers. Catfish was served free with beer in the taverns. Wonderful for a poor student.

There is a thread on Mudcat recipes, the purpose to get a book together for Mudcat.
Look for the threads on cornbread and other delights. Many good recipes.
Cornbread, 43283: Cornbread
Stews and Chile, 43692: Stews Chile>
Deep Fat Frying, etc. 57117: Fry Me to the Moon

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: DougR
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 06:59 PM

Kim, Nicole, Beccy, thanks for the lo-carb tips. My lady and I are doing well on the diet but we are not going into it full hog. We are just reducing our Carbs, not cutting them out entirely. I had a physical early this week and I've lost eleven pounds, my cholestral has dropped below 200 (for the first time in years) and triglycerides (have dropped from 189 to 128) all within a month. Sorry for the thread creep Beccy.

Nicole, I'm going to look for that bread. Trader Joe's has a decent low-carb bread too.

Spaw: my mother-in-law made a great wilted spinach salad with bacon grease, vinigar, onions and I don't know what else. It was a warm salad and if anyone has a recipe, I wish they would PM me.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: NicoleC
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 07:58 PM

Did some checking Doug -- locally, I often buy the Alvarado Street Bakery brand. They also sell online.

Then there's also Food 4 Life Bread, which I think is better but also almost too filling to make a sandwich out of. Their web site has a retail locater, including lots of stores in AZ. Apparently they have a "Low Carb" variety in two flavors I haven't seen -- 4g per slice!

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: jimmyt
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 08:36 PM

Spaw, damned if your Ohio corn and wilted lettuce isn't the best in the world!! I have NEVER tasted anything to compare woth OHIO fresh picked corn. Just as an aside. on Sunday I took some baby spinach and made a hot dressing with some butter, olive oil lemon and vinegar., salt and pepper and garlic, Poured it over the spinach and topped it with some grilled chicken strips and hot roasted pecans Damn good eatin' for a country boy!

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: GUEST,DancingMom
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 09:53 PM

Oh, you guys....
My grandma used to make "creases, or creasy greens." Is that a Virginia thing. They're gathered wild. They're wonderful.
My absolute favorite is vine-ripe tomatoes in the summer, sliced onto bread, topped with a thin slice of mozzarella and a sprinkling of basil or oregano, and toasted. For a fine dinner, add some of that corn of Spaw's and Bobert's cukes and cantelope. Yum.Sharon

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: NicoleC
Date: 13 Mar 03 - 10:57 PM

Don't know, Sharon, but some of my family used to grab a potato sack and wander out in the WV fields, then come back with all kinds of greens. They just knew which one's were edible. Maw Clara used to call it "field salad," and it was a way of getting fresh greens for free. Free, in this case, was kinda important.

On the other side, my Grandpa Castle used to make dandelion wine, as well as the grape kind, in his bathtub.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: DougR
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 12:20 AM

Nicole: thanks for those leads for low-carb bread!

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: GUEST,Ely
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 02:16 AM

Since I'm a carb devotee, I could live on black-eyed pease. I could also live on watermelon.

Other favorites include:
Coleslaw--I hate mayonnaise but I found a recipe for a killer boiled dressing; I tried making it once and will never eat restaurant coleslaw again, and
Pandy--not sure where this came from; it's basically yellow squash, chickpeas, celery, and white onions (1015's here in Texas) steamed in vegetable broth with a dab of butter.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: GUEST,Ely
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 02:17 AM

Peas. Black-eyed PEAS. Jesus, I don't want anyone to think I can't spell "peas".

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 02:23 AM

My garden had some surprises last summer--we bought a few packs of things on sale kind of late in the season to poke in the ground--beggars can't be choosers--and ended up with some absolutely wonderful eggplants and tomatoes. I found a nice recipe in a Middle Eastern cookbook that would work for homegrown onions, tomatoes and eggplant. It calls for stewing pork but I've used cubed sirloin and it's marvelous.

I recently helped a friend revise the research information (links for ethnic organizations) in his Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook. I can't find it on my bookshelf--it may be I loaned it out (a friend admired it a couple of weeks ago. . . geez, but my memory is going!). We worked together on Ellis many years ago as interpretive historians. He conducted a nationwide search for recipes that people had in their families that they knew came from the old country. These were compiled into the book, along with a lot of Ellis history. I asked Tom once if he'd made everything in the book--he said that he'd tried quite a few, but that if they don't turn out (some of the instructions and measures are pretty unique!) he can always say that the recipe is as much a historic document as it is a viable recipe to make today. But there is some good stuff in there. It might be an interesting challenge to figure out modern day equivalents and measures for some of the measures and ingredients in those recipes.

This reminds me that my mother had some recipes that she had to experiment with to get them right, because her step-mother had written them out using household objects as the measures, not standardized utensils.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 02:30 AM

Ely,

I think "pease" is an old-fashioned way of spelling the word today we recognize as "peas." I've seen it that way in print in older stories or texts.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 06:40 PM

Several months have passed since this thread last surfaced. The hot summer, when cooking is calculated in such a way to avoid heating the house and people don't feel like eating as much, has almost passed.

NOW, however, I am beginning to feel the urge to cruise the grocery store shelves for interesting ingredients, to stock up on produce that I haven't used in months because they go in heavier meals. Anyone else experience this seasonal shift that manifests itself in the desire to cook?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: mg
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 07:00 PM

no...we're 55 degrees most of the year here...although I sure wat ice cream in the summer...but I will probably have fishsticks and green beans tonight..

mg

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Raedwulf
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 07:07 PM

Seasonal shifts? Yeah, I don't often cook soups & stews & pottages during the summer. But it's cooling down over here in the UK too, thankfully. And dinner today was a rather fab Kidney's Turbigo, with one portion for the freezer! :)))

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 07:34 PM

Tenderized, small, buffalo (bison bison) steak with a lemon-herb seasoning,quickly seared in a hot pan, and small new Idaho potatoes in herbed butter. And a salad of fairly fresh organic mescul greens with dried blueberries, seasoned almonds, and a huckleberry dressing.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Amergin
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 09:53 PM

well tonight it will be fried tuna steak....with sauteed mushrooms and a salad....

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Peg
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 10:51 PM

late summer is traditionaly a season to fast/cleanse in preparation for the heavier foods and lesser amount of exercise inwinter...why not utilize summer's produce to have a detoxifying few days of fruits and salads and veggies?

My favorite summer meal: fresh corn on the cob, steamed greens or a crisp salad, and a nice loaf of crusty bread...and some nice fruity white wine.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: maire-aine
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 10:06 AM

I went to the farmers market on Saturday and bought a half-bushel of tomatoes to put up for the winter. Plus peaches are at their peak right now, and I'm eating one or two a day, every day. I've been bringing fire-wood on to the porch so it's close by. I expect to be using the fireplace soon. Then I'll start making soup-- yellow split pea with ham is one of my favorites.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 10:17 AM

The lows could be under the freezing mark this week, and the highs could go as far as 70F. Soups and stews...and I'm told that I make great soups and stews.... With a nice foccaccia bread, perhaps. Fresh veggies used, of course. Maybe a nice thick potato soup with a hint of good smoked sausage, or a good lentil soup, or maybe just whatever seems good to me at the time....

Fish chowder -- there's a restaurant here in town that make a wonderful cream of aspargus soup with smoked salmon in it. Must try to make something like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 10:23 AM

Sage: Yes, "pease" is the original form, as in "pease porridge hot". It could be an uncountable noun, or a countable one with plural "peasen". Then, first in London & then in the rest of the world, the bare word "pease" was taken for a plural and "pea" was invented. That happened about 1600.

The transition to summer is marked in my dinners by having a salad instead of cooked vegetables. Lettuce, cucumber, tomato, avocado, Italian pepper, scallion, radishes, vinegar, oil, salt, pepper. The end is in sight for this year.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Raptor
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 12:20 PM

Tonight I'm hopeing that my folks take me out for the traditional Prime rib Birthday Dinner That they'd done for the past 10 years!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 03:56 PM

I did a joint birthday dinner for my daughter and myself last night. Our birthdays are a week apart, end of August and early Sept. My kids both love chicken strips (dipped in flour, dipped in egg, dipped in highly seasoned bread crumbs, pan-fried in canola oil and margarine). That's labor intensive and heats the house so is better now that it is cooler. We added corn on the cob, and a nice salad. For dessert we had some really ripe peaches.

As we proceed into the winter I agree--we enter the cooked veggie stage. Soups, stews, beans. And some of those Brits get going about Brussel Sprouts. ;-)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 05:14 PM

That Macaronni & cheese mix you get in America - will
someone send me a packet mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 11:45 PM

Sorry, we make it from scratch. Much better!

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: open mike
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 12:14 AM

had a craving for zuchinni (a.k.a. marrow or courgettes)
with basil--yum yum....
and also for fresh sliced tomatoe drizzled with
balsamic vineger, cracked pepper, red onion and
more basil!

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Jeanie
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 04:56 AM

Mmmm... this is making me hungry..well, it would do, but I still feel full from my last night's first try out cooking some (Very) Old English dishes: "Mearh Smeamete" (= sausage, onion, apple, bread, milk, flour: pottage kind of thing, with cinnamon, cardamon, wine vinegar) with "Hunigbære Moran" (=carrots and radish cooked in honey, butter, cider vinegar, cinnamon, mint, cress) and "Peru on Wine" (= pears in honey and spiced red wine sauce). The kind of thing to set you up nicely for a day's ploughing or axe-wielding !

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 09:18 AM

My furniture arrived yesterday, and as stiff and sore as I am today I think that tonight I'll make reservations.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 11:19 AM

Been eating lovely giant mixed greens salads. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Beccy
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 12:28 PM

Well... as I am under strict orders to gain weight (I've only gained 10 pounds and I'm nearly 9 months preggers... I'm eating everything in the cupboards AND some.

Breakfast was plum oolong tea with bamboo honey, a toasted English muffin with homemade blueberry jam and a bowl of cottage cheese.

Second breakfast (yes I'm a Tolkein fan) was white cheddar on triscuits

Elevensies was a peanut butter and homemade strawberry jam sandwich on homemade pain de mie.

Lunch will be whatever grabs my fancy when I open the fridge and pantry.

Wish me luck- you probably wouldn't think that weight gain would be hard, but it IS- especially for a foodie like me. I can't just eat a Hot Pocket and call it a meal!!!

Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: bbc
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 08:36 PM

Well, I'm just cooking for myself now, but tonight I made chicken scampi over rice, corn on the cob, leeks w/ butter & rubbed sage, & a nice salad w/ a glass of sauvignon blanc. Bon appetit!

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 08:51 PM

It sounds like folks are taking good care of themselves with their food choices! I agree--hot pockets sound pretty horrible for any meal, let alone making it an entire meal.

Milkshakes put the weight on me when I was pregnant with my two--and it was hard to take it off!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Arnie
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 02:23 PM

You just can't beat black pudding - either for breakfast or dinner! I get mine sent down to the South Coast from Yorkshire where I reckon they make the best - (of course I may be just a bit biased there)

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 02:26 PM

tonight it's Alaskan King Crab legs - all you can eat!!!! (and that is gonna be a lot!

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Raedwulf
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 02:45 PM

Soups and stews...

Rap - Stop it you're making me hungry... When's dinner... ;)

SRS - There's nothing wrong with Brussel sprouts, provided they're not cooked yellow. Brussel sprouts should still crunch when you eat them, otherwise they're overdone. Next you'll be telling me you don't like offal...

Oh, & I'll vouch for Jeanie's cooking... cos I was helping her eat it! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 02:59 PM

beef heart and oxtail stew.....yummmm! gotta make some when the weather turns colder.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Beccy
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 03:54 PM

I LOVE BRUSSELL SPROUTS! I like 'em just about any way they're cooked. I especially loved them when they're cooked in a little chicken broth and served with hot pepper vinegar shaken over the top. Oooooooh- there's afternoon snack!


Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: kendall
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 03:23 AM

bbc, I didn't know you could cook! hhmmm. Beccy, I also like Brussels sprouts; with a little bit of vinegar. However, my favorite meal is 3 or 4 steamed lobsters, Belgian fries and corn on the cob, washed down with a pint of Guinness.

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Raptor
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 04:12 PM

Last night I slowww Bar-b-qued a large rack of Back Ribs and steamed some veg It Was Orgasmic!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 07:38 PM

Raedwulf--I don't have an opinion about Brussels sprouts, except that there seem to be several spellings for them so I put off saying anything more for a few posts. I read some pretty funny stuff about them last year, the only reason I rattled that cage on this thread. There seem to be some tall tales attached to this particular veggie. :)


SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Say. What's for dinner????
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 10:47 PM

My wife will arrive Monday or Tuesday. What shall I make? Hmmmm....

A nice salad, of course. Mescul, I think, with herbed chevre and dried blueberries.

Perhaps I can still get some Copper River salmon. Or tuna steaks.

Tuna steaks rubbed with olive oil, red pepper flakes, lemon juice, and a touch of salt, perhaps, and left to sit a bit. Then quickly seared.

Boiled and then briefly microwaved new potatoes with minted and parsleyed butter.

Steamed aspargus, or perhaps artichokes, with curried mayonnaise.

Blue Bunny "Bunny Tracks" ice cream for dessert.