What's for dinner?

Me100, just yesterday I was wondering what to do with the rest of the box of macaroni. Tuna macaroni. Those small cans are so expensive and salty, I rarely buy it. Sales should be coming up.

Ok captain, you both have no convinced me! I will definitely give it a try! Mayo in cake, I just wont tell my family until after they try it!

Good luck bookluvr with you wiring and stove.


Keep the dinners coming you all, it all sounds great! You all have given me some great ideas! I have no idea what Im cooking tonight, maybe Tuna Helper with vegetables?

a good appliance repairperson might be able to help you out , book . you may have the wrong jets in the range . lp and nat gas require different jets , or your gas regulator valve outside may need recalibrated .
a kitchen sink half full of warm - to hot water will thaw any meat in minutes . fish should be thawed in cold water because hot water may prematurely start cooking them . you cook fish quickly and get em out of the heat or theyll melt down ..
my grandkids werent too crazy about the chicken filled brotchen rolls but while i was resting my headache thursday my son made the same rolls filled with perreroni , cheese , and tomato sauce and the kids destroyed them ..

Book, did you check YouTube for video on how to adjust the stove? It may be simple enough for someone to try, otherwise get a repairman. Maybe it is a piece of packing material or another foreign object, like maybe a cockroach, causing the flare up? LOL!

Really???? Darn! Thanks for the heads up. We have this new gas range that fave sis bought years ago. We tried asking the gas man to check it, oldest bro of next door, etc.. no one seriously can figure out how to adjust the wide flaring of the "whoosh" when you first turn on the gas range. Then when you turn it off, that same "whoooosh" FLARES out again. Okay, I will ask sis that we first find a real gas stove expert to come over and check it out. BUT, the gas in the gas tank hasn't been used for over 2 years. Maybe best to order a new tank of gas???

Our house is old. The wiring is old. My bedroom ceiling light flickers and then shuts off when it's rainy weather. and non-rainy weather. Thanks, Glad. I will text sis because she's going to do an electric range shopping tomorrow.

Book, be careful on the electric range. It will probably require one of those large 240 outlets to plug it into. That may require an electrician to upgrade wiring in the house. I once almost did that, then realized the type of power supply needs for an electric range.

About that Red velvet cake the dye they use in it turns your poop red so beware you or more likely mom don't have colon cancer

When I was in elementary age, my dad would raise pigs. Then donated/sold it for parties/fiestas. They'd roast the pig over the barbecue pit, turning it slowly to roast. Anyway, on the day of the party, my dad, my brothers and relatives would come over to kill the pig. Today, it would be called animal cruelty because they would slit the throat and the poor pig would squeal in pain for a long time as the blood flowed out of it. No instant kill. While the boys were helping dad kill the pig, us girls were helping mom with the baking (mixing the ingredients, etc...) My brothers told us younger kids that mom's famous red velvet cake was made of the pig's blood. We believed them. Since then, I cannot eat that cake.

Because I'm now trying to cook, this past week, when I was eating out, I purposely avoided my regular food that I ordered. This time, I chose something else. I can tell you that the word "ground beef" is always substituted with a fancier name in restaurants. Today, at a Japanese restaurant, I ordered a rice bowl, with a round meat-loaf tasting ground beef, with lettuce and drowned with teriyaki sauce (found out that I hate that taste!) and topped with a very runny sunnyside up egg. I did not care for this food.

For dinner, I still had 3 frozen pork chops. I spent like an hour googling how to defrost pork chops fast, and the simplest easiest seasonings for it. In the end, I gave up. I put the meat in the micro to defrost. Chopped up onions, threw it into the nonstick pan. Looked at my limited seasonings, and grabbed Paprika, Cayenne Pepper, Garlic Powder, Italian Seasoning, and salt. I took my whole black peppercorn grinder and adjusted it so that I would grind large black peppers and not the teeny tiny ones. When the onions were done, I took it out, and put the meat in the pan. The single burner kept shutting off. I was sweating and it took me a long time to cook those meat.

Sis saw me cooking. She asked if I was cooking it plain - just salt and pepper. I said yeah, but not much salt, but lots of black pepper, cayenne, etc.. Sigh... I like tonight's meal the best. Simple and plain. I can taste the meat - and not all those spicy gravy, etc... To add the "crunch" with my meal, I just chopped up some onions lengthwise, threw it into my usual soy sauce dipping mix - and it just like that with the meal.

FYI, in frustration, I told fave sis that I want to get rid of our gas range (fire hazard - you turn it on and the fire flares out wide with this loud 'whoooosh'.) Since dad is bedridden, I don't want to use the gas range. I said if she can find an electric range, she can have the gas range and sell it to someone else. I just want a simple electric range to cook on - where I can actually 'simmer' food and not having to keep turning it on because it automatically shuts off.

mayo rocks in a choc cake too.
we didnt make it to the naval museum , i rode home today instead. back home safely ..
thanks ike..

Well, so far all of your meals look interesting and yummy!

Chocolate Cherry Cake- jeannegibbs- Im hungry! Mayo? Really? Yes, please post the recipe! Well, I have to agree that red velvet doesn't have a flavor, it is the icing that makes it. But, I love the look, and still make it once in a while. Its like a "fancy or love cake" lol.

Im going to keep up with this trhead so I can respond to more of you! You all look like your having some fun on this thread too, hope I can keep up!

ba8alou, did you get the salmon from Costco too? Last week they had Copper River Sockeye. OMG -- good! I am not found of brown rice, but everything else sounds great. Nice birthday meal.

I have to say, as a MidWesterner, I've never "got" red velvet cake. I guess it is a regional thing. It looks red (from an entire bottle of food color) but it doesn't taste red -- not strawberry or cherry or cinnamon or red hots or anything red. It uses a tiny bit of cocoa to enhance the red color but not enough to flavor the cake. It is moist. It is pretty. To me it doesn't taste like anything special. It is a tease cake that doesn't deliver. :) Usually it has great frosting. I'd certainly eat it if that is what a hostess is serving, but I'd never order it if their were other choices.

My mother used to make a chocolate cherry cake that turned out almost the color of red velvet but actually tasted like it looked. I'm going to see if I can scare up that old recipe. (It had mayonnaise, I remember.)

Any of you Dixie folks want to defend red velvet cake?

ba8 thats sounds nice and very healthy apart from the red velvet cake i made aunt bessies one of these last month it was yummy! and im here on a diet! SNIFF! have 2wks to get into a bikini LOL

salmon with soy ginger sauce and garlic scapes. Brown rice with dried wild mushrooms. Kale/spinach salad; think I'll saute some fresh crimini mushrooms in with the grape tomatoes. And red velvet cake from Costco for my son in law's birthday.

Deer burgers. Deer burgers are what's for dinner.

mmmmm -- BARIUM ..
hehehe
h*ll yea Jeanne . cooking is a creativity outlet and much more.

Oh well wont be buying that spicey mix again!!! spent most of today in the loo!! those red chillies are burning!!!!! Tuna tonight out of a tin with green salad and tomatoes!!

OMG, I have said it once, I will say it many, many times. I wish these folks enjoyed something adventurous, that would wake up their taste buds! I have tried a number of times, and to receive nothing other than wrinkled up noses is disappointing to say the least!

Oh Captain sounds like fun for all...You're the cool GP..

Captain I'm so very happy for you! Way to go dude!

Jeanne-I didn't baste the salmon just put the salsa on top after cooking. Roasted fennel is really good.
I love white beans..will have to try it puff pastry.

How did that work, Nennie? Did MIL like the burger?

Oh, my dinner tonight was a recipe chosen by my boarder/son Pat, for twice cooked white beans. The beans are first boiled in broth, then simmered with additional ingredients, then poured into a casserole, covered with puff pastry and baked. I thought the beans looked too soupy when I poured them into the casserole, but I followed the times and the recipe did not describe how they were supposed to look at that point.

The flavor was very, very good. Turned out to be a keeper recipe ... But I would make adjustments next time to have the mixture less soupy. It would be a fun dish to make in individual casserole dishes (which I happen to have, of course :) ) and cover each with the puff pastry. Yup, think I'll try that next time.

See ... cooking is part science, part art. Lots of following directions and a pinch or two of creativity.

sharynmarie, that sounds like an awesome salsa for the salmon. Do you baste the salmon while it is cooking, or just use the salsa on it after it is cooked. I've never tried roasted fennel. Sounds interesting.

The eggplant sounds delicious! Do you have any more quick, easy recipies?

Very appetizing Veronica....poor thing. I hope all comes out well. Wow, that was NOT meant as a pun! Seriously though, I hope you are ok. Follow up with Ice cream, it's a miracle drug.

Capt you deserve any treats you get. You have more than paid your dues then some.

Well tonight's dinner was 450 mls of barium. Yuck.Same thing for breakfast in the morning then a nice relaxing CT scan.

funnier yet kaz . bought a new bike at 26, still driving it . that aint braggin , just a fun fact . ike will turn 30 next year ..

Cap glad youre having fun cant believe youre a "gramps" you must have had your kids young?

the kids just lost a grandpa in fla , a rather young death -- he was about 58 . not far fronm losing the grandma also from lung cancer . its a great time for me to get involved with them . when the care for my 2 elders is behind me i planned to turn my attention to kids anyway -- any kids .. our first ride this am around the appt complex resulted in 3 kids pouring out of another appt and begging a ride on ike . their mother was all kinds of consenting . said their attention had been on ike since my arrival here yesterday .
thanks boni . in a mild upswing of arrogance i might say that i deserve this treat ..