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.
I did say she was lucky I even heard her at stupid o'clock let alone making her a meal in the middle of the night ....her reply...yes but you like cooking don't you and this is nice. SCREEEEEEAM
Last night was beef stroganoff loaf from the Rhodes web site. It is a great hamburger mixture baked inside bread dough. And a lovely green salad with cucumbers, avocados, pistachios, and a home-made dressing with parsley and avocado. Hmm ... wonder if there is any left. Gotta go check. Thinking of it makes me hungry. :D
Wishing I had some cornbread, pancakes, or what, I don't know.
Have it your way.
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
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!
In-N-Out is starting to depend on us for support! Again, late lunch, 3 p.m.
We, (my husband and I), love it.
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.
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.
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
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