What's for Dinner ~ Saturday Sept 1st

[Lucinda]

Looks like homemade Fish & Onion Rings (instead of chips) or some form of Chinese for us.

You?

[yellerpup]

1. New recipe today -- Kerala beef stew

Beef chunks, potatoes, onion, carrot, with tumeric and coconut milk. I'm excited to try this one.

[Callalily]

6. Please let us know the results!

Turmeric and coconut milk sound like interesting ingredients for a roast.

[yellerpup]

8. We both loved it!

I was intrigued by the flavor combination, too. I made a few modifications to the recipe that I will link below.

Modifications: Sauteed the beef in coconut oil instead of vegetable oil. I had to use two very large (and unfortunately mild) jalapenos instead of the serranos and chopped half a large onion instead of backpacking to the grocery store for pearl onions. I also gave it a couple of squirts of sriracha near the end to make up for the lack of heat in the fresh peppers and I added in fresh green beans and the corn cut off a leftover ear of fresh corn. It was really good hearty and flavorful but not heavy. The tumeric gives it the most amazing color! I'll be doing this one again. It's so easy.

http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/quick-recipes/2012/09/kerala-style-beef-stew

[Lucinda]

27. Sounds delish! Thankie for the link and the idea!

[yellerpup]

33. Hey, Lucinda!

Glad you are feeling better. Sending strength for your steady improvement day by day.

[Lucinda]

38. Thankie sweetie. It is MUCh appreciated.

[cbayer]

17. I love beef stew, but have never made it with coconut milk.

Sounds delish.

[yellerpup]

25. The coconut flavor is not pronounced in this dish.

I boosted it a bit by frying in coconut oil, but I must say that the beef chunks were very tender from braising in the broth/coconut milk mixture. Happy to have leftovers tonight!

[livetohike]

2. Homemade Onion Rings! Sounds great! We are having leftovers

stuffed peppers, corn, last night's cauliflower gratin and I guess some kind of salad, or I will lazily just slice up some tomatoes .

[Lucinda]

37. I wish we had planted our heirlooms this year.

I have tomato envy - our grocers tomatoes just don't make me happy.

[livetohike]

40. We can't grow tomatoes here. Too much shade and the only time we tried

in the past five years, the tomatoes were hollow! Hollow! Have you ever seen anything like that? They looked beautiful, but not one tomato had anything in it, just like a ping pong ball LOL.

Heirloom tomatoes....my mouth is watering thinking about it.

[Lucinda]

42. Wow. Nope...that's a first!

Talk about seedless! lol

We have a 4x15 foot (ish) patch that actually tapers to a narrower point on both ends. VERY small, but it usually produces pretty well. Tomatoes, peppers and a few herbs. I loooove heirlooms.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. going all out

got a houseful of kids home for the weekend. Tonight is sweet and sour pork, pork fried rice and garlic broccoli. yum

Lucinda, I hope you're feeling well

[Lucinda]

36. Thankie! Today is a better day. We're doing stirfry tonight!

Hope yours was yummy!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

39. Well, the pork fried rice was a failure

but the Sweet and Sour pork was perfection.

Note to self: don't overcook the rice so it becomes a mushy mess

[Lucinda]

41. Awww...i'm sorry!

Glad the Sweet and Sour Pork was good though!

[hobbit709]

4. Rib-eye steak sandwich

with grilled onions and jalapenos and blue cheese on a ciabatta bread bun.

[yellerpup]

11. My favorite cheese

was always blue cheese and I love it, love it, love it on grilled steak. Enjoy that sandwich!

[Lucinda]

35. Yum. Hard to beat beef with bleu cheese.

And I looove cibatta. The onions and jalapenos sounds like a great addition too!

[cbayer]

5. Going out to the bar. We have a guest for a few days, but little

to no food.

Will scrounge something up for him tomorrow (quesadillas?), but will let him take us out tonight.

Enjoy your fish and rings! You must be feeling better.

[yellerpup]

10. Have a fun evening out!

Hope you know a place with great bar food.

[cbayer]

13. There is only ONE place and the food is ok, but I have eaten everything on the very small

menu dozens of times.

Once in a while, they have a special, so I will keep my fingers crossed, but it is most likely chicken wings and pot stickers.

[yellerpup]

14. I'll keep my fingers crossed for a special.

It's always fun to eat out. Enjoy your company!

[cbayer]

15. Ok, here we go. Our guest is feeling "punky" and wants to return to the boat for the evening.

That means that I will be cooking...... something.

Time to pull out the leftovers and come up with something.

[pinto]

19. Quesadillas are always good, versatile with whatever's on hand, and I hear you've got cheese...

[cbayer]

21. Cheese I have, and leftover grilled chicken and some pork w/peaches.

I am thinking of making one quesadilla a pork/peach/cheese combo.

What do you think?

[pinto]

22. Pork, peach, cheese quesadilla sounds real good. I'd add a bit of cinnamon or some savory spice,

but I add cinnamon to almost anything. Have fun.

[Lucinda]

34. One day is much better, the next not so good.

I'm beginning to wonder if a change in climate might really be helpful. Bill's folks had moved to Florida from Ohio before he was born due to her chronic pain. It helped her a lot.

And quesadillas are always a great choice! We love them!

[Callalily]

7. Because I had a large, and I mean large breakfast

eating out with a friend, (hanging head here, and not only hanging head but very, very low), I'm going to have some store bought sushi! Please don't kick me out of the Cooking and Baking Group. Sometimes a gal has to do what a gal has to do!

[yellerpup]

9. That looks good!

We had sushi last night.

[cbayer]

16. I like sushi of all kinds, including the stuff you buy in the grocery store, but

have no access to it at all.

That picture makes me very envious.

[Lucinda]

32. We occasionally do store bought fried chicken.

Don't tell anyone!
It's delicious, and I don't have to clean up the mess!

[yellerpup]

12. Do you make onion rings often?

I've only made them once where I was truly satisfied with them and that recipe required soaking the onion rings and resting batter so it messed up a lot of dishes and was very messy. If you have a special way of making onion rings, I hope you'll share the recipe.

[Lucinda]

26. Every time we make fried fish. The secret with onions is the size of the slice.

We usually cheat and just use a good boxed Vidalia Onion Beer Batter mix (without the beer) and Bill adds onion and garlic powder, salt and pepper to the batter.

We cut them thin, between 1/8th and 1/4 of an inch, and they are able to cook through in the time it takes for the batter to get a nice golden brown.
If you slice them too thick, they never cook through - or the batter is ovedone if you cook them longer.
Too thin and the onion disappears.

Bill also cuts the fish into bite size bits. We like crust!

Hope all is well with you!

[yellerpup]

43. I'm all for the crust!

Sounds like you have the method down! Yummmmm!

[applegrove]

18. We had chicken Kiev, vegetable rice pilaf, green beans and strawberries with whipped cream.

[Lucinda]

31. Sounds perfect.

I haven't made Chicken Kiev in years. Love it!

[pinto]

20. Ham, cheese and avocado wraps, brown rice, tomato salsa.

[Lucinda]

30. After days of avocado envy I finally had one

It was heaven.
Your wrap sounds really yummy. I looove brown rice.

[Denninmi]

23. I ran away from home tonight. So, this was dinner.

Passable, with a lot of diet Coke to wash it down.

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[Lucinda]

29. Nice!

If I were to run away from home I think they'd find me before I got down the hill.
Unless I rolled.

[Lugnut]

24. I made sliders.

We have a big family party scheduled for tomorrow. I was busy picking up some last minute groceries, cutting up fruit for a fruit tray and other prep stuff. Sometimes you just need to have a burger and today was the day!

[Lucinda]

28. Sounds good to me. Hope the party was a hit!

And now I want a burger and some nice cold fruit. lol