What Are You Having For Dinner

[Peanut]

Having recently gained renewed appreciation for the benefits of fermented foods, I have since done four batches of curtido.

Curtido appeals to my frugal engineering spirit as alternative to Kim chi.

My last couple of batches have been fast and easy and delicious. Ends up costing about $1 per quart jar. A two pound cabbage is just about perfect after adding a small onion, A cup of shredded carrots, and a cup of shredded bell peppers; for two quart jars. And spiced with cayenne and ginger leaves me satisfied from my usual store bought Kim chi $6/ jar.

Thanks for posting, never heard of it but definitely something I'd try. Years ago I lived near a little Guatemalan place, lots of flavors I liked.

I don't like kim chi at all, detest would be a better word. I really like sauerkraut and cabbage. Not found of slaw though. But a fermented cabbage slaw? Sounds good!! I found several recipes on the net..
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Ate in town twice today. Lunch at my favorite chinese place in the big town. Supper was in the little town... on a tuesday. Not much to choose from, ff or subway, too much bread. Got a couple soft taco's from the mexican place, pretty good.

 

[Wingnut]

Had a steaming hot meatloaf sandwich earlier on toasted Italian loaf bread with mayo, cheese & ketchup... SO GOOD that I immediately made another and macked it too, lol. That was midmorning, so I've had time to develop an appetite, and guess what I'm having for dinner? Lol... why change a good thing? I might have a green salad first, but MAN, those hot meatloaf sandwiches are TASTY! I don't eat 'em often enough... I used Angus ground beef too, so this meatloaf batch is delicious, I'll slap together another sandwich here AFTER I drink another beer (or two, lol). Didn't drink beer earlier, so I'm gonna have a few tonight... meh, it's Friday, that's a good enough reason here in the boondocks, lol.

P.S. I sliced the Italian loaf bread the thin way, like a regular loaf of sliced bread, so the sandwiches this morning didn't have too much bread in em... I stacked the meatloaf too, lol. If I have enough leftover meatloaf to make a sandwich for riding whenever I ride the bike next, I'll slice the bread the other way as if I were making a sub sandwich, those hold up better on the trail, lol.

 

[Pearl]

Last night was chicken fried steak, gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, biscuits, and milk (of course)! Repeat, leftovers tonight!!

 

[dademoss]

tonight is leftover spacatti.

 

[ABR]

Baked ravioli. Have dough rising for cinnamon rolls as well

 

[LadyLocust]

Chicken fried steak with gravy and delicata fries.

 

[Pearl]

tonight is leftover spacatti.

Catscketti??

 

[Pearl]

Chicken fried steak with gravy and delicata fries.

Fancy pantsy!! Just having leftover ck fried steak with mashed taters!!

 

[Patchouli]

Dinner at my son’s, grandson’s birthday. New son-in-law is a beginning chef and he made a bunch of fajita steak and cilantro lime rice, I brought a black bean salad heavy on cilantro. Also sweet potatoes. Cupcakes. Ice cream. Was a great time, great food.

 

[hashbrown]

I forgot how much I love to cook over a fire. I used to do it several times a week until I had the aneurysm. I cleaned up my fire pit and did a bit of stir fry on my plow disk this evening.

 

[joel]

Chili

 

[Pearl]

Spaghetti! Not pisketti, not catsketti, just good ol' spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic bread!!

 

[backlash]

A friend gave us 2 huge T-Bone steaks.
I fired up the Pit Boss and cooked them to perfection, according to my wife.
Medium rare, tender and juice.
I came so close to dropping one it was not funny.
I managed to save it but my hand is also medium rare now.

 

[Pearl]

A friend gave us 2 huge T-Bone steaks.
I fired up the Pit Boss and cooked them to perfection, according to my wife.
Medium rare, tender and juice.
I came so close to dropping one it was not funny.
I managed to save it but my hand is also medium rare now.

One time when we were young, Hubby's boss gave him some steaks. We had a propane grill with the lava rocks, remember those!! So we heated the grill, threw the steaks on and heard a thumping sound??? The neighbor's hamster that was missing for a week was in the grill!!! We picked it out of the grill with tongs, tossed it over the fence into their yard and cooked and ate wonderful steaks!! Alcohol may have been involved!!

 

[hashbrown]

One time when we were young, Hubby's boss gave him some steaks. We had a propane grill with the lava rocks, remember those!! So we heated the grill, threw the steaks on and heard a thumping sound??? The neighbor's hamster that was missing for a week was in the grill!!! We picked it out of the grill with tongs, tossed it over the fence into their yard and cooked and ate wonderful steaks!! Alcohol may have been involved!!

If there was much alcohol involved I would have been trying medium rare hamster!

 

[Peanut]

In the navy… stopped at several small islands in the caribbean. Little towns always a bar. Another feature was the ever present guy cooking some kind of meat on a grill. After too much to drink came food. We called the grilled meat on skews, “monkey meat on a stick”. Hey, we never really knew? It was what the locals ate… what ever that was!!!

Hey, it wasn’t just a job, it was an adventure! (with an excellent medical staff)

 

[Bacpacker]

Pork chops and scalloped taters

 

[Pearl]

Fajitas tonight!!

 

[Bacpacker]

We're having tacos

 

[backlash]

In the navy… stopped at several small islands in the caribbean. Little towns always a bar. Another feature was the ever present guy cooking some kind of meat on a grill. After too much to drink came food. We called the grilled meat on skews, “monkey meat on a stick”. Hey, we never really knew? It was what the locals ate… what ever that was!!!

Hey, it wasn’t just a job, it was an adventure! (with an excellent medical staff)

I have eaten a lot of monkey meat. After all the bars closed and we were staggering back to the ship there were people selling BBQ. If I remember it cost around 10 pesos for 5 sticks so about $1.40 US. You could never be sure what it was but my policy was don't ask.

 

[Haertig]

Tonight the wife is heading out to the AVs hockey game with a friend. So I'll be bach'ing it. I'm not cooking. I'll either go for leftovers - grilled pork chops from last night or some Vietnamese chicken/shrimp fried rice from the night before. Or I'll just be super lazy and hit the local BBQ joint for a beef brisket sandwich. I should go for the leftovers to get rid of them, but I have a hunch the BBQ might win out! I could add one of my new found beer likes - Carlsberg - and maybe some fries done of the air fryer. It's sounding even better now!

I try not to do too many prepared foods in the air fryer, but the occasional french fries are one thing I'll sometimes do if I'm making burgers on the grill or eating something similar. This brand ("Lamb Weston") are pretty good to my taste buds. I think they clearly beat the standard grocery store Ore Ida brand (but of course that's a personal preference). I air fry them at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.

 

[sonya123]

Schnitzel, sweet potatoes , mixed vegetables with butter
Trying to empty the freezers of older stuff.

 

[Bacpacker]

We need to do that as well

 

[Haertig]

Well, if THIS is coming to grocery stores, I will have no reason to go to Wendy's again (except maybe for their chocolate Frosty):

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/wendys-chili-coming-grocery-stores
I must say, I think Wendy's chili is very good. Probably the best thing on their menu IMHO. I wonder how it will hold up through the commercial canning process?

 

[Wingnut]

Albacore tuna melt or steak sandwich... dunno which yet.

Carlsberg is good beer, I used to drink that fairly often back on the beach, but I don't think the stores here even carry it, I would've bought some already if they did. One drawback to living in the boondocks, lol... can't find any Samuel Smith Winter Welcome Ale either, or Tadcaster Porter, those are both delicious! Anything brewed by Samuel Smith is good, Yorkshire's oldest brewery, est. 1758. Carlsberg used to make that Elephant Malt Beer too, maybe they still do... that stuff was good, but it'd creep on ya, lol. Nothing wrong with Carlsberg!

Here's a link to the Samuel Smith site...

Samuel Smith

They have cool photos at that site, lol.

 

[Wingnut]

In the navy… stopped at several small islands in the caribbean. Little towns always a bar. Another feature was the ever present guy cooking some kind of meat on a grill. After too much to drink came food. We called the grilled meat on skews, “monkey meat on a stick”. Hey, we never really knew? It was what the locals ate… what ever that was!!!

Hey, it wasn’t just a job, it was an adventure! (with an excellent medical staff)

Missed this earlier, reminds me of eating some sketchy dogmeat tacos & burritos down in Tijuana, standing on some street corner with friends while hammered at zero-dark-thirty, lol. Meh, we figured the alcohol in our system would kill anything, aye? But I wouldn't wanna sample some of that taco cart fare while sober, that would be asking for trouble... same way ya don't drink the water down there in Mexico, stick to bottled beer or booze and you'll be alright, lol.

 

[Peanut]

Fried up some catfish, had a nice salad on the side.

 

[joel]

Red Bowl /Asian restaurant, cashews nut chicken.

 

[Amish Heart]

EW Gross, Pearl. Just read about the hamster.
I am going to go pick up amish takeout. I ordered chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes with cream gravy, and green beans. I'll get the cinnamon rolls, too.

 

[ABR]

Heat up some leftover lasagna or enchilada casserole. Maybe have some salad with it. I'm beat.