What's for Dinner, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014

[pinto]

[pinto]

1. Seared chicken breast, finished foil wrapped in the oven with that tricky five spice.

(I often over do it). Lots of fried rice and veggies left over from yesterday for a good side.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Leftover chicken tenders and a baked potato.

[Galileo126]

3. Sausage and peppahs

with mushrooms, onions and garlic. I think I have about 4 oz of marinara left, so all that will make one nice sangwich.

Not much else on the plate tonight, except maybe a beer or two.

[pinto]

5. LOL. "sangwich". In New England we could spot someone's hometown by the phrase.

New England still has, as far as I know, distinctly local dialects, euphemisms, phrases.

Ask me about Seabrook...

[Galileo126]

6. Oh yeah. Drive 5 or 10 miles and the vocabulary changes

as well as inflection, tone and "letter droppage".

I'm heading back to Rhody this Christmas, and when I get back to SoCal, I'll need to enter the re-vocalization camps we set up at the border. "Help him! He's dropping his R's!!!"

[pinto]

9. I had to do the same thing just in my county.

I moved to the coast - 25 miles or less - and everyone caught it. No biggie, but just a neat, old local quirk.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Read the other day that "sangwich" originated in Ireland.

[pinto]

10. No clue. I know it's supposed to be ascribed to that Earl of Sandwich.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. Sandwich, yes. But the term "sangwich" is different.

Wish I remember where I read that.

[pinto]

12. I've heard it said "sang-a-wich"

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. That I've never heard.

It's not really a Chicago term.

[pinto]

14. New Jersey coast, I think, or somewhere in that area.

Yankee fans...

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. Oh, them!

Probably akin to White Sox fans.

[Galileo126]

18. Not sure where 'sangwich' came from

But we all said it, no matter where you grew up in the NorthEast,

My ol' college roommate from Naperville (IL) used to say it, and he was of Polish-German heritage.

Who knows, I chalk it up to "American" slang, and that good enough for me. But Pinto and myself are correct, "Ask me about (a town)... and I'll tell you a story."

So what about Seabrook, MA, Pinto?

I'm asking.

[pinto]

23. Seabrook, NH. Just over the border from Salisbury, MA.

They are a tight knit small town. Kind of wary of "outsiders" to put it mildly. Most residents speak a form of old English dialect. Very distinct from neighboring towns. "Ayah, bubba" is a pretty commonly heard greeting or reply. All the vowels are really nasal and the speaking tone rises and falls with each word. Interesting place, I'm not sure of its history. Locally it was said they didn't come over from England with the typical land grant other towns had, settled along the salt marshes that line the coast there, and kept to themselves.

[NJCher]

4. Been working on these items all day

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Zucchini muffins and curried butternut squash soup. Tossed green salad with 1000 Island dressing.

I'm making the zucchini muffins with almond flour. Will be curious to see how they turn out.

Also, I remembered to buy buttermilk to make onion rings! Trying Galileo's recipe.


Cher

on edit: posting this link to the curried squash soup. Really turned out well.

http://www.ivu.org/recipes/indian-rice/curried-j.html

The muffins with almond flour are way better than any zucchini muffin I've had that used wheat.

[TreasonousBastard]

20. I make a similar curried pumpkin soup...

the recipe changes each time, but the curried basics are there.

I Also like to throw beans in it-- black and red for color and garbanzos because they just go so well. Slicing up some bell peppers works, too. Sometimes sour cream and walnuts find their way in there.

The fun part is to hollow out a Halloween pumpkin and use it as the bowl.

But, no matter how you do it, it seems everyone loves pumpkin soup.

[littlewolf]

8. sweet n sour porkchops in the crockpot, roast asparagus, califlower "rice" nt

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

16. The housemate picked up a 'family style meal' from Bob Evans.

It was our local beggar's night, so they ran a special knocking the price down, so she picked that up and we shared it with my parents.

Our beggar's night numbers were unreal. We normally get somewhere in the neighbourhood of 125-150 kids. so I'd picked up enough candy for 175. This year, the weather was decent, the city decided to make it 2 hours instead of an hour and a half, and the city had also bumped it a day earlier because the local high school had a football game tomorrow, so only one of the other nearby towns was holding theirs as well tonight.

First I ran through the candy for the 175. Then I ran through another 30 bucks or so of half dollars. Then I ran through about a dozen dollar coins before the last kid had gone through. So basically, instead of our 125-150, we had 250 or so kids. Came pretty close to cleaning out my emergency stash of coinage. Definitely going to pick up more candy again next year, if the city's going to do another 2 hour marathon on us.

[NJCher]

17. That is an astounding

number of trick or treaters.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

21. Well, we're a 'safe' neighbourhood.

I live 5 or so houses down from an elementary school, so the 'view the local sex offenders map' on the police website is basically bare, with a single pin in it 6 streets away or so. On the other hand, my street was pretty hit or miss as far as people giving out candy. My new neighbours on the one side were out with their kids, the house across from me is empty atm, neither of the houses on either side of it were giving out anything, and I could see that neither was the guy on the other side of my parents. So I'm guessing maybe half the houses on the street, tops, were actually giving anything out.

I was careful to make sure nobody 'double dipped' while I was handing things out, and I don't think anyone actually came back for a second round, so those were straight up numbers. It was actually kind of fun when I moved on to half dollars, because almost nobody even recognized them. To be honest, I don't think I've been handed one in change in decades myself, all of the ones I had on hand came from the bank. Who knows, maybe there's a budding coin collector out there who might keep it, especially since about a third of them were 1976 bicentennial edition ones.

[TreasonousBastard]

19. Stuffed acorn squash...

Very simple.

One small can of salmon mixed with panko crumbs, an egg, chooped onion & garlic, and whatever herbs and spices I had hanging about.

Mix it up and shove as much of it as fits in the hole, cover with cheese and bake at 350 for however long it takes. The other half of the squash and remaining mix will be tomorrow's lunch.

The seeds I took out of the squash will be roasted for snacks. (I have to try the roasted seeds in melted chocolate.)

[Galileo126]

22. Squash seeds rock

Indeed, TB - I always save the seeds when I cut up a butternut squash (my fave). A little olive oil and salt, and into the toaster oven they go. After the first seed pops, you know they are done. It's an awesome snack. I'm sure this works with any gourd seed, though.