Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
Need to know, mine is med. rare, hubby is well done but how do you finish hubby's steak without ruining your own, and still eat together?
Can't believe I am explaining this to a bird of prey, Falcon. No, but really, I am enjoying the language differences from across the ocean, or pond.
What I really want to know, JEANNE, are you actually cooking, preparing, serving those excellent menus, or are you just 'pulling my leg?' You could make a fortune just writing for a food magazine!
I give up now, will go off into my CLEAN kitchen, and make some mac n' cheese comfort food. Even that turns out different each time, as I am not a fan of following recipes exactly. Mostly because my shopping skills have declined.
Can hardly wait for Costco to start selling their pumpkin pies for the season ahead.
Falcon, Orange and Plum sauce, that sounds soooo very good! Looking up terminology for road-prep critters. Growing up, we were 'aware' that someone cut the heads off the ranch chickens, then plucked it, but knew nothing about what happened with the 'innards', as my sister and I were limited to setting the table at that time. I have, however, shucked corn cobs, caught and cleaned fish, etc. The usual.
Cwilie, my SIL (who was not Italian) taught me how to make batches of spaghetti sauce, simmered two days. It is a great way to plan meals, and I especially liked the homemade lasagne. Cooking the meatball, carefully simmering them because of the parmesan cheese , then pulling them apart to make the meat in the lasagne, layering all the ingredients. Wish I could remember all that now. But I never understood how no one who was italian in that family knew how to cook italian.
Now I want a hot beverage while I'm cleaning the kitchen, but it is after my caffeine cutoff. Sigh. Think I'll make a pot of decaff English Breakfast tea. (My tea shop has that and decaff Earl Grey that each taste like the real deal.)
Send do we eat what warm cranberry and brie croissants - yes roadkill - well normally no but I have been known to eat a pheasant that the car in front of me hit. It's actually illegal in the UK to hit a pheasant and then pick it up and take it home - classed as poaching but you can pick up one the car in front hit. It was jolly good too - wasn't quite so keen on plucking and drawing it (do you use that term drawing for removing innards?) but it was lovely with a tangy orange and plum sauce
What do you serve when the best cook you know is coming for dinner? That would be my sister, who came for dinner with her husband tonight. We live in the same metro area, about an hour and a half apart, but usually when we see each other there are 16 to 25 other people around. It was nice to just have a small dinner party.
I made green goddess dressing to go over romaine and spinach with cucumbers and shallots. Pistachios and pepitas garnished the top. I served a very small portion of the wild rice dish I made yesterday, just so they could sample the recipe. Main course was a beans-tomato-corn-cheese mixture layers with tortillas, baked, and sliced into wedges. Homemade salsa verde. Dessert was very simple: sliced fresh pears with caramel sauce drizzle, and a homemade sandwich cookie with caramelized condensed milk as the filling, and coconut flakes around the edges.
They liked it. We are not in the least competitive and I had no compulsion to "out do" her meals. I just went for things we might all enjoy.
I think I have enough leftovers on hand to coast tomorrow! :D
It started with a salad kit Costco sells ... Taylor's Farm Asian Cashew Chopped salad. That includes 2 kinds of cabbage, carrots, celery, cilantro, cashews, sesame seeds, almonds, and wanton strips. I added tomato, cucumber, chicken breast strips, and bacon. The dressing that comes in the kit is sesame ginger. Almost worth getting a Costco membership for on its own!
Later I'm going to whip some cream and have it over fresh raspberries and blueberries.
Very good choice!
Jeanne, you could make liver and onions sound good the way you serve it with great things and write it up like a foody magazine.
In-N-Out is starting to depend on us for support! Again, late lunch, 3 p.m.
We, (my husband and I), love it.
Tonight I had grilled pork chop on a stick. Cold chocolate rum raisin bread pudding with whipped cream. Lightly battered deep fried veggies, and warm chocolate chip cookies. All eaten while walking around at the State Fair. And the woman I was walking around with was also walking around the fair grounds with me more than a half century ago!
We lamented that now that we have cash to eat anything we want, and we are old enough and wise enough to call a moratorium on healthy eating for one day, we just don't WANT to eat everything we see! Sort of like youth is wasted on the young -- money in the pocket is wasted on old ladies at the fair!
Add mashed potato. Mix it all together in the pan and press it down so that the base of the pan is covered – Now you fry it a bit like a pancake it shouldcatch slightly on the base of the pan before you flip it. It’s the bits of potato that catch in the pan that define the term ‘bubble and squeak’, Cut into wedges and serve.
I have brown sauce on it so a bit like your A1 sauce - scrumptious
Have it your way.