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Lol, if I am the cook, he gets it my way!
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Sharadale, You deserve applause for that awesome meal! Hubby, ask and receive in an instant, was he sooooo very happy?
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?
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Okay dinner tonight was awesome! My pain level was tolerable and Mom was feeling better, so we had a grilled sirloin, baked or sweet potatoes, asparagus, and biscuits. When my hubby came out he said, oh honey I have been wondering, could you make biscuits someday? I answered ,I just made them, they are on the table! The steak was done to perfection. We bought a new gas grill in the beginning of May and I still am just dialing in on it. My husband always cooks everything well done. Mom and I like rare or medium rare and I won't let him ruin a good cut of meat.
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Sunnygirl, Yes, eating healthy, a good plan, but I agree about Sunday meals, they were traditional in my family growing up, and when my son was growing up, then too, we always sat down together for dinners. Yesterday, I made healthy smoothies.
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Falcon, Plucking, drawing, cleaning the game birds. People I know avoid the use of the word 'innards', and would just say cleaning the bird, but I don't have a problem with the real terminlogy, having once attended an 'autopsy'.
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.
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I've been trying to eat healthy lately, including lean meats and lots of veggies and some fruit. I decided to splurge today though and made a nice beef roast with onions celery and carrots, creamed potatoes, green beans and pineapple salad. I think something about childhood brings me back to this meal and Sundays.
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Jeanne, is it possible to 'hoard' tea? Because my DH has a huge supply I found when cleaning out our cupboards, more than he or I could ever drink. We have a small space, very small. Maybe tea lasts forever?

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.
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For supper I toasted the last two slices of sourdough bread in the house, spread them with left-over green goddess dressing, added romaine lettuce, and chicken breast. Great! (Borders out tonight.)

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.)
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Today I am making a big pot of spaghetti sauce. Its a good way to make sure I get my veggies as I usually throw in some of everything I have on hand and just a very little ground beef for flavour. It's so versatile too, it can be used over pasta as is or with meatballs or as the base of a minestrone soup. When I'm tired of it it can become chili with the addition of beans and spices. Freezes well too.
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That sounds good Jeanne
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
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Sendme2help, I believe it! More than once I've had to find my own recipe by tracking down who I'd sent it to or where I posted it!

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
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Unbelievable!! Had to come back here to review the recipe ingredients for Mrs. Cubbison's dressing with warm cranberry. The sad part? I wrote it. Meh.
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Mmm, we are having Salmon, which my Nephew caught up in Alaska and had flash frozen and shipped home. All in all, he caught 55#'s, and thoughtfully gave us 3 nice big fillet's, so we are BBQing those, and having pease w/white sauce, and red potatoes. I cheat and buy Aunt Penny's white sauce in a can, but it is a nice and rich white gravy that I really like with salmon, yummy, can't wait! I hope you all enjoy your meals tonight, oh, and Butterfinger Ice Cream! Umm that is the highlighy in my book, I Love Ice cream, and have the backside to prove it!
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Cwillie, we have a little hibachi that cooked great turkey breast tenderloins, and then swordfish. Someone left hibachi out in the rain, and I don't think that I can take it, cause it would take so long to clean it, and even longer to restore it...... again, oh no!
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Oh my goodness, dinner was good! And easy. And quick. But definitely good!

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.
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Green beans, baby potatoes and carrots, all harvested from my little container gardens, and a nice striploin steak I found reduced in the 'last day of sale' bin. If only I had a barbeque!
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Do people eat that in the UK, Falcon?
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Twopupsmom, that sounds similar to costco's spinach salad, which I buy.
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.
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Sending its roadkill!!!!!!!
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2 pups sounds scrummy Mums having brie and cranberry sauce croissants for breakfast this morning
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Warm cranberry, yum. Think I will put that in some stove-top recipe of Mrs. Cubbison's dressing, celery, onion, butter, chicken bouillon, then bake in toaster oven with french's dried onions on top.
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Babalou, did you say vermin and curry? What's that?
In-N-Out is starting to depend on us for support! Again, late lunch, 3 p.m.
We, (my husband and I), love it.
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Spinach salad with cranberries toasted pecans blue cheese crumbled dressing topped with nice portion of smoked salmon topped with a bit of warm cranberry with Port topping! Yum
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I haven't had bubble and squeak, but it sounds good. And the eggplant dish sounds good, too. (That would be cumin with the curry poweder?)

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!
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Roasted an eggplant, sliced, dusted with vumin and curry. Sauted shallots and garlic, stirred in garbanzos. Added some escarole on top. Added eggplant and some quarter tomatos.
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jeanne have you ever had bubble n squeak? It is called by a variety of names around the world but in the uk we melt some fat in a pan and heat till fairly hot hot, then add some bacon. As it begins to brown, add some onion and garlic (if you like garlic - it is optional). Then add chopped up sprouts and/or cabbage and let it colour - do watch it it burns easily so no more than 5-6 mins.
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
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Ok, must have gotten the dose right on my husband's vitamins this week. The DH (that is dear husband) made yams in the microwave, with butter, cinnamon, nutmeg as he does sometimes. It is my favorite late night meal, especially because he cooks it. Tonight, he was very creative and cut the potato open face, lying on the plate one just could not tell it wasn't salmon! It was the exact pink color of salmon, he even had crosswise cuts that looked like the sections of the fish. We're calling the yammy meal faux salmon.
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Leftovers tonight. Don't you love when there are good leftovers?
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Brownies.
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Salad, just right, feel healthy. Salad is also easy to prepare when you live alone.
Have it your way.
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