What's for Dinner ~ Saturday August 31st

[Lucinda]

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[maddezmom]

1. Trying to decide

Having some friends over for dinner. Thinking something simple like filets, baked potatoes, Caesar salad and some fresh berries with whipped cream for dessert. .

[Callalily]

2. Just make some tabbouleh

with home grown tomatoes and cucumbers (given to me). Most likely will grill some salmon burger to go with the tabbouleh.

[Glassunion]

5. That looks great

[flamin lib]

3. Daughter's special birthday menu.

Tiny bites of salmon cruddo three ways: topped with sour cream and smoked sea salt, sour cream and caviar and sour cream and sweet jalapeno jelly.

Main course is sous vide ribeye seared in brown butter served with sides of sous vide asparagus in rosemary garlic butter and baked sweet potatoe flavored with sage maple syrup compound butter. Note a trend here? (Back to South Beach diet tomorrow) Paired with Pino noir.

Desert is coconut cream pie and sumatra coffee.

After dinner drink is two fingers of TX blended Whiskey, a locally distilled product here in Ft. Worth and likely the finest blended whiskey anywhere.

Go ahead and sell my clothes, I've gone to heaven . . .

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. More of my short ribs.

[Glassunion]

6. Fried chicken, roasted mashed potatoes and corn on the cob.

[NJCher]

7. grazing

Nice pic, callalily!

flamin lib, what a menu! Sounds so good.

Me: Tonight I'm just grazing. I had to take on the bureaucracy today and that just wears me out. I had to register a car. While I was there it was hot and despite the holiday, there were a skazillion people. Somebody sneezed on me, right on my arm. Yuck. And on my cup of coffee, which I had to throw away. It took an hour and 20" to get the car registered. Not to mention all the $$$.

Worn out, I'm not doing anything but munching on a little of this, a little of that. Crab rangoons. Spring rolls. That type of thing. A little pistachio gelato.


Cher

[fizzgig]

8. another night on the grill

sirloin, zucchini from my cousin's garden, tater salad and slaw. lemon pie for dessert once there's room.

[Galileo126]

9. Halibut in foil

with roma tomatoes, zucchini, sweet onions, lemon slices, and butter.

Served with rice, and when the pouch comes out of the oven, drain the juices onto the rice. One of my favorite meals. Since the halibut portion is a bit small, I added a few ounces of bay scallops in the pouch too.

This makes up for last night's laziness regarding cooking!

[Alameda]

10. Meat patties made from ground lamb and beef with

whole wheat bread, egg, chopped yellow onion and berberi an Ethiopian spice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbere.

Then a salad with home grown tomatoes,cucumbers, wild olive leaf arugula garlic chives, fenugreek sprouts and green onions. Dressed with a blend of extra virgin olive oil, rice, apple cider and balsamic vinegar, with a touch of garlic. I make the dressing every other day and place a few pieces of raw garlic in it to just give it a kiss of garlic taste.

[NJCher]

11. can you tell a little more about this?

wild olive leaf arugula

Never heard of it!

And I am an arugula aficionado.


Cher

[Alameda]

12. It is probably the original

arugula. It doesn't keep well after it's been picked, it should be used right away.It's more spicey than commercial arugula. Here in the Bay Area it thrives. Mine has been going for the whole 8 years, never stopping giving me fresh arugula. In fact it is so proficient, I have a problem keeping it down. It's the perfect drought tolerant plant, as I'm not great at watering or babying plants, but this one thrives. It doesn't go to seed like other arugula. It gets a pretty yellow flower that is tasty and bees love. It was rare out of the mediterrenian, but I've started seeing it sprouting up in strange places now. Birds love the seeds. I let mine get seeds and the birds flock into my yard to eat the seeds.

You can purchase seeds here:

http://www.italianseedandtool.com/product/ZRU04/Arugula-Seeds-Wild-Olive-Leaf.html

[NJCher]

15. thanks

I have used that seed company before and I have their rustica growing all over my place. It's like yours, I think, but a different strain. The bees do love it!


Cher

[Alameda]

16. You garden?

What kind of things do you grow? I'm pretty spoiled in as much as I like home grown, and as wild as possible. I think the wild strains have more vitality. Have you ever eaten Lambs Quarters? It' like super spinach. I can harldy wait for nettle to come back, it is very tasty and nutritious. I found this blog with good photos and some ideas of what to do with it. When I cook it, I'll go through my recipe for it.

http://www.greenbasket.me/tag/lambsquarters/

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. Baked chicken breast with guacamole and undressed angel hair cole slaw with...

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... balsamic vinegar glaze on a whole-grain pita.
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It is GOODNESS!!!!!
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[bif]

14. Bar food before the Detroit Tiger's game.

One crappy burger. I only eat meat a couple times a year. This was a waste of that allotment. A burger should be spectacular. This one wasn't And I ordered it medium rare which seems so hard for most bars to understand. And get right. Argh!