What's For Dinner?

[Ojai Sam]

Making a childhood favorite of mine which we haven't prepared in many, many years: Toad-in-the-Hole (Yorkshire pudding with blobs of homemade, sage-y pork sausage baked in and served with an onion sauce) and haricot verts and a green salad on the size. Going to drink a Gruener Veltliner with it. And then!........apple brown betty with vanilla ice cream for dessert.

The gruener is a great choice!

 

[Nickyboy]

A few years ago I had been reading about what the ancient Romans used to eat. There were a lot of dishes which had a sweet/sour element, which you still find in Italian agro-dolce recipes. I decided to make up my own dish which we simple call Nick's Roman Chicken. It uses chicken, hot Italian sausage, honey, red wine vinegar, rosemary sprigs, broth, and white wine. It's hot, it's sweet, its sour all at the same time and fantastic. It's served over mini penne or orechietti pasta. Going to serve broccoli di rape with it.

 

[Ojai Sam]

A few years ago I had been reading about what the ancient Romans used to eat. There were a lot of dishes which had a sweet/sour element, which you still find in Italian agro-dolce recipes. I decided to make up my own dish which we simple call Nick's Roman Chicken. It uses chicken, hot Italian sausage, honey, red wine vinegar, rosemary sprigs, broth, and white wine. It's hot, it's sweet, its sour all at the same time and fantastic. It's served over mini penne or orechietti pasta. Going to serve broccoli di rape with it.

Don’t forget the Caesar salad and Orange Julius.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Don’t forget the Caesar salad and Orange Julius.

Your sense of humor is very Brutus.

 

[axolotl]

Your sense of humor is very Brutus.

I give it an A, 2.

 

[Nickyboy]

We are going to make kimchi-fried rice tonight. Going to get my mise en place ready.

 

[Nickyboy]

We are going to make kimchi-fried rice tonight. Going to get my mise en place ready.

That was really good, by the way. Definitely making that again.

tonight: it's nice an warm so I will be grilling this evening. Grilled, marinated Haloumi slabs and Greek-style, marinated shrimp (garlic, orange zest, thyme, toasted ground coriander and fennel seeds, bound with some nice olive oil), Kalamata olives, and a green salad.

 

[axolotl]

:drool:

What?

No drool emoji?

Where did we go wrong?

 

[Nickyboy]

tonight: it's nice an warm so I will be grilling this evening. Grilled, marinated Haloumi slabs and Greek-style, marinated shrimp (garlic, orange zest, thyme, toasted ground coriander and fennel seeds, bound with some nice olive oil), Kalamata olives, and a green salad.

We stepped it up: instead of the salad, we cut up onions, zucchini, mushrooms, and eggplant into chunks, tossed them with olive oil and oregano and cooked them in the grill basked on the grill. So tasty.

 

[Nickyboy]

Grilled mahi-mahi filets rubbed with Thai, red curry paste and a salad of quick-marinated cucumber slices.

 

[Nickyboy]

A pot of Nickyboy's Famous chili con carne and cornbread muffins. Smells good in here right now.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

A pot of Nickyboy's Famous chili con carne and cornbread muffins. Smells good in here right now.

Not clams and fish?

 

[Nickyboy]

Not clams and fish?

Maybe I will go foraging for some mussels today.

 

[Nickyboy]

cornbread muffins.

We discovered something last night that, if you like cornbread, might interest you. When we don't make it from scratch, we use the little boxes of Jiffy-brand mix. For some reason, last time my wife picked up a box, it was labeled "vegetarian". I thought that was odd, but then surmised that the regular one probably has dried lard in it. Looked it up, and sure enough, it does. The vegetarian one uses palm oil (yeah, bad stuff. I know).

Anyway, the bottom line is that these vegetarian ones baked up higher, browner, and tasted much, much cornier than the regular ones. TRY IT YOURSELF.

 

[Nickyboy]

Wurst und Kaese Salat. I made a few concessions to my wife and added a few leaves of Boston lettuce and some cherry tomatoes. Don't tell my relatives.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Wurst und Kaese Salat. I made a few concessions to my wife and added a few leaves of Boston lettuce and some cherry tomatoes. Don't tell my relatives.

Ok, I won't.

 

[Nickyboy]

Ok, I won't.

I thank you greatly. You're a real Mensch.

 

[Nickyboy]

Sloppy Joe's, since it is National Sloppy Joe day and we had a container of it in the freezer. Going old school/low school tonight and it is going to be good, as usual.

Spoiler

yes, I have a recipe for homemade Sloppy Joe's. No cans or packets opened here!

 

[axolotl]

old school/low school

What?

Oh. I see that says low school. Never mind.

Yes, I'm a Mensch, too.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Sloppy Joe's, since it is National Sloppy Joe day and we had a container of it in the freezer. Going old school/low school tonight and it is going to be good, as usual.

Spoiler

yes, I have a recipe for homemade Sloppy Joe's. No cans or packets opened here!

And here I thought this day was about people named Joe being able to walk around unshaven and in a dirty bathrobe.