Yay! Car is fixed! We can eat again!! What's for dinner DU?

[bicentennial_baby]

Damn, our car was f'd up...Oil pump was trashed, the oil leak fucked up some line that needed to be replaced...All done! Not sure what else they did, since we haven't paid for the repairs yet and haven't gotten the itemization. $672...better than Sniffa thought it would be. :woohoo:

So now we have food in the house again! :bounce:

We're having fettucine, combined with steak, pearl onions, red bell pepper, and zucchini. :9

What are you having? :hi:

[taterguy]

1. Freedom

[bicentennial_baby]

2. What's that taste like?

:shrug:

[Wcross]

40. Freedom tastes like Eagle meat! n/t

[Critters2]

10. For dinner? You must be a helluva cook! nt

[querelle]

3. Chicken

I saute the boneless chicken breasts in a skillet with some olive oil, butter, and garlic. When the chicken is cooked, I spread salsa over the breasts and a generous heap of mozzarella cheese. Bake in the oven until the cheese is melted. Serve with rice and a veg of your choice. Tonight it's Uncle Ben's Spanish rice and steamed green beans.

Yum......

Q

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Hey YOU!!

:bounce:

:hi:

That sounds wonderful! Enjoy! :hi:

[querelle]

5. Oh I Will!

Good to see you again bi-baby..........I took a bit of a breather from DU. Kinda needed it. But I'm back now!

Q

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Understood, and I'm so glad you're back!

:loveya:

[DS1]

7. Gumbo

right out the can, w00t!

[bicentennial_baby]

12. For reals?

:o

[DS1]

18. oh yes

I have but a shitty little tiny kitchen, with no real space to actually build up a meal. poor excuse, but that's what you're getting.

I need to move.

[bicentennial_baby]

22. We have to have you over for dinnah some time...

Series! :bounce:

[DS1]

24. Yes

I know.

How about when it warms up a little.

[bicentennial_baby]

25. Yes indeed...

Let's make plans, homie. :toast:

[DS1]

27. and so it was

While matcom poorly explained away the SB lick photo the Mrs., and Writer fumbled away on the keyboard trying to get people to understand the part in the thread title where it said "ego-check" that plans to make plans on a weekend visit of sorts were made.



:yoiks:

[bicentennial_baby]

28. !

:rofl:

And this time, we are *actually* making plans, Mercer! Got that?

[DS1]

29. My hotwire is telling me there's no escape

[bicentennial_baby]

32. You have been assimilated, finally...

:woohoo:

[Sugar Smack]

8. Artichoke-heart salad, braised with cinnamon & pepper,

cold salsa soup with nachos on the side, elephant cutlets with gold leaf, sprayed with liquefied butter and topped with pepper & bearnaise sauce, red potatoes, diced, with clam sauce and home- grown parsley on the side, green beans a la mode, and pouf-pouf-a-choo for dessert.

:P

[bicentennial_baby]

11. Fibber! Menteur!!

:rofl: "elephant cutlets with gold leaf", "green beans a la mode, and pouf-pouf-a-choo for dessert" :rofl:

[Sugar Smack]

20. *SSSSsssssssnort*

Would you rather believe I had corned-beef hash from a can & two eggs? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

21. Well, this *is* a reality based community...

Other than GDP that is... :rofl:

[Sugar Smack]

31. OK, then, I'll be brutally honest-

I had fried ostrich with batshit stuffing, covered and smothered with calimata olive paste and wrapped in filo pastry, a side of "nonononotavista" sprinkled with onion powder and tossed lightly in bread crumbs. Tomahto-witchet salad, and herb cottage-cheese-a-la-New-York for dessert.

:P happle?

[Sugar Smack]

34. I'm saving the gin-soaked poppinjay for tomorrow.

:D Breakfast.

[bicentennial_baby]

35. d00d, you are *killing* me!!1

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[qwertyMike]

9. Irish Stew

With cabbage !

[bicentennial_baby]

14. What's in Irish Stew?

:)

[qwertyMike]

36. Well you remember the Irish Famine 1848 -or not

From Wikipedia:

"Irish stew (in Irish Stobhach Gaelach) is a traditional Irish dish made from lamb or mutton<1> as well as potatoes, onions, and parsley. <2> It originated in Ireland but appears in cookbooks all over Europe, including in Escoffier's Guide Culinaire. The essence of Irish stew is summed up in the recipe's entry in The Joy of Cooking: "This famous stew is not browned."

Irish stew is a filling, flavorful dish made with the most readily-available ingredients. The Irish raised primarily sheep and root crops for subsistence. The sheep provided wool for warm clothing, milk for drinking and making cheese, and eventually food. Potatoes were the main food crop, particularly during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The potatoes are added when the stew is well under way, not to be overcooked; sometimes the potatoes are boiled separately, and added before serving.

Mediterranean herbs have no place in an authentic Irish stew. Sometimes, lamb or mutton neckbones, shanks, and other trimmings were the only basis for the stock. Yet, these would-be discards still held enough flavor after a long simmering process to do justice to a hearty bowl of stew. The root vegetables added further flavor and thickening power, as well as filling sustenance. Some cooks added turnips or parsnips, carrots, and barley when available.

More recently, other lamb stews made with the addition of Guinness or whiskey; Irish Stew as it is solely made with lamb."

I happened to have some (New Zealand Lamb - but alas no Guinness or whiskey.
I added brussell sprouts.

Made me hate the English all over again :)

Mike - burp

[bicentennial_baby]

37. Oh wow, that sounds great!

Thanks for the info! I never noticed it in my Joy of Cooking! You rawk! :hi:

[zabet]

13. I made

veggie soup with
veggies from our
garden I had put
up over the summer.
Grilled cheeses too!

:9

[bicentennial_baby]

15. Oooh, delicious!!

Eat well and be happy! :hi:

[zabet]

17. I am so full...

I would have to roll
instead of walk to get
anywhere!

:rofl:

:hi:

[trof]

16. Borscht and a grilled bacon-cheese sammich.

Kinda leftovers.

[bicentennial_baby]

23. Hmm, never had a grilled bacon and cheese...

Genius!! :o

[trof]

49. It's goooood!

[huskerlaw]

19. Last night

was cooked salmon and potato. I don't cook, so that was a huge deal.

Tonight? I have no idea. Lunch was a Pop Tart. That's much more my typical fare. :D

[bicentennial_baby]

26. I won't tell you the PopTart story my Dad told me...

:D

[huskerlaw]

38. Oh no...

are there rat feces in it or something??

:scared:

[bicentennial_baby]

39. Damn, you're good!

Well, this was back in the day, but his friend worked at a PopTart mfg. plant, and they had open grate walkways above the tanks, and stuff from people's shoes and rat feces, etc would fall in the tanks where they were making the fillings. My parents wouldn't let me eat them, and I've never, ever had one. :o

[huskerlaw]

48. ...

:puke: :puke: :puke:

I am going to delude myself into believing that is no longer the case.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Shakespeare]

30. Not sure, but probably red beans & rice...

...with a healthy dose of nice, hot andouille sausage. :9

[bicentennial_baby]

33. Yum-O!

:loveya:

[Gormy Cuss]

41. Yay on the car!

The rain has returned and so has soup on the menu -- a quasi-Thai style fish soup (lime, fish sauce, cilantro & red pepper broth with Alaskan cod, shrimp,shallots,and green beans.) Mostly it's using what I had in the house and yard. The limes and cilantro are VERY locally grown -- about 100 feet from the kitchen.

[bicentennial_baby]

43. Oh! I envy you!! The one thing this dish is missing..

is the fish sauce. It's kinda a recreation of the dish my professor's wife, who is from Vietnam, served to us last Saturday. It was awesome!!! Sniffa, the fishophobe, easily detected the fish sauce/paste, but thought it was yummy anyway. So, tonight, we go without. :P

[triguy46]

42. So now you can wrap food up in foil and cook it on the engine?

http://www.slashfood.com/2006/06/23/step-by-step-car-engine-cooking/

[bicentennial_baby]

44. Squeee! Slashfood is my favorite food blog!

:woohoo:

I have heard of doing that with fish...I guess, you gotta do what you gotta do :P

[Aristus]

45. Mongolian Beef from the local Vietnamese restaurant.

YUM! :9

[malta blue]

46. I'm making doctored up ramen....

I just got home to find we have no heat AGAIN :banghead:

So it is quick dinner and up to bed with all the furbabies to keep warm....

Your dinner sounds delish

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

47. I'm having breakfast for dinner.

:9