What's for dinner?

Susan, You have the same weather we do. It's rained close to 2" today and looks bad for the next six days, Spring Schming! Rain is ponding so much in the backyard, there's a Mallard duck swimming around. That's a first in our 10 years here!

Hot roast beef sandwiches sound soooo good, especially with mashed potatoes. Good for you having your freezer stocked up. I love that for the days when it finally gets nice and you want to be working out in the yard. Nuke a good homecooked meal in the microwave and you're good to go.

We just had some homemade pizza. It turned out nice and crispy so I'm pretty satisfied with it. My teenage son has a 101 fever though, so it was kind of sad that he wasn't able to eat much. When my kiddo's appetite is off, I don't usually feel much like eating either.

And now you have me thinking about making lasagna. Num-num. :P

rice and apricots sounds good to me, so does stir fry, and also crock pot roasts with veggies.

I am still in the hotel, and had a great brunch with G, so supper will be very light -maybe spinach salad with a chicken breast.

cap, I am with you - I will eat things I don't particularly like if they are good for me.

pam - re a pressure cooker, have fears from seeing the results of the neighbour's pressure cooker, in which she was making head cheese, having exploded all over their ceiling. It left a lasting impression. I have never purchase or used one. Head cheese, for anyone who doesn't know it, is a jellied meat dish usually made from the head and sometimes feet of a pig or calf. I think it was a pig head she used.

Last week, I got all ambitious and made a big pan of lasagna plus 3 small ones for the freezer, plus 2 roasts with veggies cooked all day in the crock pot. (I like to make bigger meals, even though it's just Mom and I eating - I put all extras into the freezer for future meals). Tonight we had hot roast beef sandwiches w/mashed potatoes. It's a heavier meal than I like to prepare most of the time, but it's been colder than normal here today and there's a gloomy week ahead with lots of rain - I think a little comfort food was in order! :-)

The rest of the roast will go into the freezer for later meals.

Captain, a good pressure cooker saves all the juices, but if you go to Amazon and order a pressure cooker today, you get red-flagged by Homeland Security and have to promise not to overthrow the government with it.

woops, reread your entry , book. stir frying does lend itself well to high temps.
aunt edna told me 30 years ago that she bakes a turkey at 425 to 450. sure enough i read later in the joy of cooking book that high baking temps seers the bird and locks in the juices. so theres a place for high temps i guess.

too much heat is lost to the steam process at high temp, book. food cooks more quickly at a simmer..
my stone landscaping job is exeeding all expectations so im going all out tonight to celebrate -- with fried chicken livers. anemia is loser talk, aint gonna happen.
made edna some more rice but the only fruit i have is apricots. she likes apricot preserves so maybe she'll like the rice. ill eat it cause its cheap and healthy. i dont have to like it..

Spent the afternoon buying cheap (most likely quality too) cooking utensils. Got a flat spatula and also another wooden spoon. I found out the last time, I had no counter or wood to place the first hot pan with the fried rice. So, I bought a heat resistant mat. It's almost 9pm. I'm currently watching YouTube. Ha! I did learn the correct way to cook (or flip) over-easy eggs. And how to burn the edges. According to YouTube I'm suppose to cook in low heat. Ain't going to happen. I have no patience for cooking. I will still fry my eggs and rice on medium heat, and raise it to high if I think it's cooking too slow. My next shopping trip will include extra ingredients like onions, garlic, uhm...and other spices that I recognize the name of but never used. I asked sis to buy hot sausages-it actually has grinded peppers in it with the seeds. Boy, that would go great with the eggs and fried rice. And there goes my cholest.

OK, I made a huge vat of 15 bean soup with the Easter Ham bone. It is very hearty and thick. And my dog really enjoyed the huge bone. In, fact she starts whining as soon as the water comes to a boil, she knows that bone is hers.

the liver processes your food. the stomach is only a grinder.
And your intestines frack up the gas.....
Yes, this is the gastronomic banter I was hoping for when I started this thread. LOL!

And your intestines frack up the gas.....

the liver processes your food. the stomach is only a grinder.

i finally got some reinforcement for my lifelong " diet " concept. i was talking to an asian va doc last week and told her i thought a big dinner , then hibernation, followed by a hearty breakfast seemed rather absurd to me. she agreed and said it was an american fallacy. in other cultures the day is started by a very significant breakfast and the other two meals are snack - ish. considering the source of this correction, " lilly " is a very lean , young - ish woman.
ive always preferred a large dinner then nothing till dinnertime again. the food gets processed as you sleep and the fuel tanks are full for the morning. the body becomes accustomed and theres no such thing as a hunger pang. i surmise that early humans, as meat eaters, probably ate well 3 - 4 times a week.

MO - lasses.
usedta use that in my whole wheat breadsticks. that and grated orange rind. i took those s**ts pretty seriously. they are not the same without these ingredients.
i took aunt edna some sweetened rice with crushed pineapple yesterday. she liked it so much she was rationing it to make it last. lol. silly a** , i made 6 quarts of it..
so i have someone to cook for again.

LadeeC~that sounds awesome. Will have to do that next time we do a ham!!

::drools over the ham recipe::

My own is very similar: I use frozen OJ concentrate mixed with the natural juices of a can of crushed pineapple (reserved), w/ brown sugar and molasses (have you noticed that most people don't even consider molasses these days?). Cook together until it's a thick syrup. Score a diamond pattern in the outer skin of the ham, press whole cloves into the center or the intersections of the diamonds. Pour the mixture over a room temp ham and then bake at 325F for about 10 minutes a pound, basting regularly. After about an hour mix the reserved pineapple with enough of the drippings to saturate it and slather the mixture over the top of the ham and increase the temp to 350F until slightly browned or crusty. [Note: This is NOT recommended for a spiral cut ham. Beyond my expectations, it just dries the whole thing out. It sucked that I had to find that out on a 12-lb ham.] This is a variation on the recipe my mom used with ringed pineapple and maraschino cherries stuck in their centers. Makes for pretty, but I like the crushed pineapple even more.

Cap, perhaps instead of being called Crack ham, it should be Viagra ham. The guys did love it! My husband had too much to check out the theory. Zzzzzzzz.....

i have notes prepared for my next va visit. phlegm in my bronchial tubes, possibility of reinfection from my own toothbrush / dental pick, etc , and sondras behind. they said dont hold back anything on us.. careful what ya ask for suckers !!..

that ham recipe gave me an erection. i think i have some circuits crossed upstairs.

We had 14 people over for Easter today at 3:00. I made a 14 lb. ham using the Crack Ham recipe - so addicting it's like crack. I don't know about crack but the darn thing keeps calling me to the fridge for more...on one of those King's Hawaiian Bread rolls slathered with real butter.

The ham was basted with 2 cups of o.j. boiled down to 1/2, 2 cups of Kentucky Bourbon, 3 cups of dark brown sugar, 1/2 cup of molasses and 5 good dollops of dijon mustard. Oh boy! The reserved drippings and basting liquid made an excellent sauce for the ham.

I also made the traditional fresh asparagus, blanched ahead of time and reheated briefly in lemon herb butter, twice baked potatoes, coleslaw and bacon and blue cheese melts (like savory cookies!) for an app. The sisters in-law brought a relish tray, deviled eggs, green beans almondine, broccoli salad, smokies wrapped in bacon with maple syrup, scratch banana pudding and carrot cake.

My fridge is groaning with leftovers and I'm rubbing my hands together in glee just thinking about using that big ol' ham bone to make split pea soup.

My mother had a lovely time being out of the AL for 7 entire hours - we picked her up early. Just sitting out on the deck and enjoying conversation with my in-laws was a treat on this 73 degree day. Did I mention, just four days ago, we had a seven inch snowfall??? Yahoo! Great day! Hope everyone had a wonderful and blessed Easter,

Risufowlay. It's a Syrian Lamb stew with allspice,onions, garlic, tomato sauce and green beans. Slow cooked until it melts in your mouth. Served over rice. For dessert.....chocolate molten lava cakes. Nighty night!

I had a great brunch with mom and sis today, salmon, green beans with french fried onions, rice, egg frattata, ham, sausage, pulled pork, salad and rolls. Champagne and Mimosa was served but we passed on the that, LOL!! Mom and sis are recovered alcoholics.

For dinner, hubby and I are bbqing (Cali style) hamburgers with potato salad and a raw veggie spread of celery, green onions, jalapenos, tomatoes, and broccoli. Enjoy the day everyone!

im having more 250 bean soup. i know thats a mild exxageration but its just soup, no real harm done by hyping it up a bit.
s'posedta be drinking 10 glasses of water a day to protect my kidneys from these meds but short of sticking a garden hose up my nose i just aint seeing it.
i get a drug screen in another week. they forewarned me, lol.. im complying people, relax a little.. turn around real slowly -- yea, thats the s**t.. he he
lilly, gasp .
cassie, my god.
sondra, this aint funny sondra, quit f - in with me.

" sliders " havent heard that terminology since the army. id just get them to slide them onto my plate. with the meat and fries i just didnt need all that bread.
of course i have a cool mess hall story. one morning a rather big mouthed kid is making his way thru the line just annoying everyone around him when suddenly a cook who was frying eggs hopped the counter and wordlessly beat him down, then rehopped the counter, put his hat back on and never burnt an egg. man thats timing.. the little creep sthu too..

Homemade White Castle Sliders and french fries. It was pretty good, too!
We made chocolate chip cookies earlier today, so guess what's for dessert??

cooking is fun, book, if you have someone to cook for. i debated whether or not to take edna some 15 bean soup this am but decided to go for it. she told me this evening that " them " was good. actually them s**ts were pretty good..
im feeling so good i cleaned out the fridge and washed it this afternoon , then threw the renters dogs off the hill. yea, im gettin better.

I'm a terrible cook because I have absolutely no interest at all in cooking. This Easter morning, I was going to have peanut butter on toasted bread.

To you all, this was a simple breakfast. For me, it was complicated because I rarely cook and truly never grew up seeing how food was cooked. I’m learning from watching the Food Network channel. (Our mom always shooed us away from the kitchen. She did all the cooking.) I fried the rice first with just butter and soy sauce. Put it aside. Sauteed the onions with butter (yes we have Crisco oil but ...), threw in sausages, put it aside when done. Because I still did not know how I wanted my eggs. I cracked 3 eggs onto the pan. Sunny side up? Over easy? Scrambled? I cringed as I sprinkled some salt into the eggs as I debated. In the end, I did the Over Easy, then quickly dumped it onto the meat/onions and quickly did a token scrambling of the ingredient. This way, I still have the lumpy eggs stuck together and not spread out as one does with scrambles. A good compromise. As usual, my food always lack salt. But I am so happy with the outcome. For once, I did not undercook the fried rice or burnt the bottom but the top was still cold from being in the fridge. Nor was the eggs overcooked (usually comes out so dry). Overall, my food was bland but moist. I really need to overcome my aversion to using salt.

Sigh… When I was frying the rice, the rice kept falling off the non-stick pan. Made a mess. I got fed up because the rate I was going, I would have more rice on the stove than in the pan. I took a spoon, used it along with the rubber spoon so that both hands were mixing the rice together. Much better control on preventing the rice from leaving the pan and unto the stove than using one hand to hold the pan while the other tried to turn the food.

Argh! I just pulled the blunder assandache7 told us about. The timer went off, I checked the brownies, and discovered that the oven was off!! :( Brownies are pretty hard to ruin, but I'm not sure how they'll react to sitting in a warm over for 40 minutes before actually getting to bake.

pam. he , he , he ..
riba rage. it shifts from one subject to another..

Cap are you getting Sovaldi or Viagra?

jeanne. ive never rolled dough to make stuffed rolls. just roll it into a ball and stretch it out by hand on a floured board. 30 % whole wheat flour makes em sweet .
im making 15 been soup tonight with cornbread tonight.. it will never be as good as ednas cornbread. that nut usedta grind up spicy cracklin style onion rings in hers, but she'll eat it or ill punch her in the face. i think im going to be going to live with her this monday. i made the offer and it looks like doc took me seriously. lol .. she nursed me back to health 15 yrs ago during a particularily wicked hepc tx and subsequent divorce. this is a debt im repaying. this could all work out wonderfully. my kid could get up here and keep the bats swatted out of the bunker and i could give edna the care she needs. hes going to have to give up the blunts and make with some responsibility but im guessing hes wishing someone would give him the nudge to do it anyway. nudging, i can do . my homemade sledgehammer is so heavy most people cant even pick it up ..