Attention What are you having for dinner?

[me203]

Salad, walnuts, whole wheat bread, and blueberries.

The walnuts were salted with Himalayan pink salt. The package announces the fact quite clearly on the front. The nuts seemed (to me) pretty salty--so I guess even the hot salt of the moment can be overdone! (Remember when salt was just salt? )

And a crisis looms: I'm almost out of blueberries. And none of the stores I shop have them on sale.

 

[rareboy]

Slow cooked brisket with vegetables.

 

[NotHardUp1]

May go to Mildred's, a go-to buffet that does country food, with remarkably good fried chicken, and decent cobbler. It's a 20-minute drive to Ardmore, Tennessee, but so is the south of Huntsville from my house.

This morning, I had a moment and started out frying up some less-than-wonderful breakfast sausage, just to get rid of it, then thought better and worked to improve the seasoning. Added a bit of pepper flakes, a can of green chilies, and a box of Zatarain's Dirty Rice mix.

It cooked up well, but then I added some canned chicken meat and in another skillet, warmed refried beans, and made some killer burrito wraps for lunches this week. Never thought of tilting it to the dirty rice end of the spectrum, but really worked well. Didn't use any cheese either.

Sounds almost like an ethnic slur, but it ain't: Dirty Rice & Bean Burritoes.

 

[Thula]

Macaroni with Mushrooms & Onions
Creamed Spinach
Finish off with a large mug of Tea.

 

[Vannie]

My Nephew and his wife dropped us off homemade Roasted Tomato soup that was smokey and good. And homemade chocolate chip cookies that were still warm in the zipper bag. They were all stuck together so really I only ate 1 cookie.

 

[me203]

My Nephew and his wife dropped us off homemade Roasted Tomato soup that was smokey and good.

Were the tomatoes intentionally roasted? Or was it an oh, shit, I scorched some tomatoes--what do I do? deal?

 

[me203]

Not sure what I'll be doing, apart from pinto beans, which I have soaking as I speak type. Maybe chili, which I haven't made recently.

 

[me203]

Well, as I'd thought earlier, I ended up making chili. Served with whole wheat bread. If I were ambitious, I'd have baked biscuits like my mother did--but I'm a lazy sloth.

 

[Vannie]

Were the tomatoes intentionally roasted? Or was it an oh, shit, I scorched some tomatoes--what do I do? deal?

They have both turned out to be good cooks and love to learn. I think they used a little liquid smoke to give it flavor and along with roasted garlic and a bit of cream it was very good.

 

[rareboy]

Total Vicky b'day meal.

Hamburgers.

Only not on our new grille because we discovered we need some contractor work to set it properly in place.

Too old for this shit. Thank god it is the last one we will ever have to have installed.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

I think they used a little liquid smoke to give it flavor

Vannie, what exactly is liquid smoke?

 

[FPNY]

best damn chicken marsala ever made, left ovah....

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

best damn chicken marsala ever made, left ovah....

Frank, did you make it or did Rick?

 

[me203]

Salad, whole wheat bread with almond butter (the rut to replace the soup rut...), and a banana.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I skipped dinner. At work for lunch I had corkscrew pasta, buttered and with parmesan, with bits of brisket in it for fun. Was so satisfying, I didn't need supper.

 

[Vannie]

Vannie, what exactly is liquid smoke?

I kinda think of it as an extract of cooking wood. Hickory probably being the most used. Some kind of burning wood and steam method to give you a liquid smoke extract in a bottle. Its a shortcut to getting a smokey flavor in foods without actual smoking.

I have a bottle of Stubbs Hickory at the moment.

 

[Vannie]

Thats rather large

 

[FPNY]

Frank, did you make it or did Rick?

We both do it, it's kind of labor intensive. There are a lot of steps. It's a recipe by a chef we watch on You Tube, Brian Lagerstrome he's a trained chef who is doing cooking lessons. His recipes are outstanding.

 

[The Loner]

Chicken curry

 

[rareboy]

Chicken Burrito tonight.