What's on the menu for 2011?

Come on we are doing GOOD...SABROSO Donnie...you should be glad you are not in this neck of the woods..too stormy these days...

RAPTURE?? OMG gotta think how that sounds. ja ja ja....hey boy behave tonite with the wifie...I am I cannot even MOVE...GRR...lol...Enjoy dinner you all..

Clemen - you are not kidding about the storms! Here is a shot my son sent me from the latest 20 inches he got today. This is the entrance to his dog's back yard area from the garage/carport area. He had to snow blow a path through this for his dog.

and this is his driveway with our Jeep in the carport side. The shrubs are completely covered beside the driveway.

Yeah, we're glad to be down here! :)

Will try the dill out next time thanks Deb!

Well hubby liked the soup, so I guess that's what really matters

Yikes..Bonnie, we are in the same boat...tOO MUCH WHITE STUFF, GRRRRR...

...need more white stuff here.

Fish & Fries tonight. Waking up at 4:30am to start shoveling snow threw me off and I lost a day, thought it was Friday today! lol!!

Mmmm, meatballs simmered all day in my mother-in-law's famous sauce (aka Ragu traditional with a few things added - it is actually pretty good, lol), spinach & beef ravioli and sourdough bread.

I could eat Italian food every day...

Oh, I could, too......a friend and I, both suffering from cabin fever, are heading out to lunch today......I'll give her some of the pea soup I made yesterday......I used pepper ham & it's a tad spicy......

I LOVE Italian food but the tomato sauce does not love me

My face as well, but only homemade sauce.

Looks like dinner tonight will be sauteed tilapia fish fillets and noodles with cottage cheese mixed in. My mother used to do that with noodles and I do it occasionally. Saute chopped onions in butter, add the cooked noodles and stir in the cottage cheese. Sort of like an Alfredo.

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My mom used to do that too!

Must be a Slavic thing, flowAjen. Definitely a comfort food for me.

Ended up at the Chinese buffet.....

Love the idea of the cottage cheese mixed in...lower in fat..great tip guys...I am not slovic, but I am ALL about low low fat.


Pork chops on the grill, homemade apple sauce....just microwaved the apples, no FAT in them....salad with sun dried tomatoes..hearts of palm....and spaguetti squash..

LOVE IT...

ENJOY you all..it is FRIDAY, YAY YAY YAY....I do not work until next thrusday...more YAY YAY..

Enjoy your time off, Clemen! Your supper sounds yummy and healthy! A lovely Thai gentleman in Hank's golf league took us out to lunch at a "real" Chinese restaurant where he is friends with the owner. They had two menus - one for American guests and one for Chinese guests. He ordered from the Chinese menu - a lot of different appetizers of all types and then a really good entree. I have no idea what all I ate.....some squid and eggplant and lots of other things, but everything was good. I drew the line at chicken feet. :) He also brought along a special bottle of something that was a Chinese alcoholic drink that you honor special friends with before a meal. It was sort of like a brandy and you could only sip a little bit. It was a lovely outing....He also took us to his gorgeous home on the water and I was really drooling. There was an Asian grapefruit tree in his yard with the largest grapefruit I have ever seen. He is now almost 80, but was an architect in Denver & Pittsburgh before moving here. Interesting day and no need for supper!

AHhhhh I can appreciate it that...we have good chinese friends here too and they treat us to different things too...that liquor...wowhoooooo....strong.......Love squid, specially the salted one!!!

We have one of those Chinese restaurants about 45mins north of here. The best Chinese food I've had in NJ

Must have at least 6 Chinese restaurants here within ½ mile from me, I only like one.. the smallest and the cheapest one that makes the best food! lol

- Red Snapper w/ fries & watercress for me, leftover pot roast for DW with old style Italian bread. (the one that has a slightly burned bottom to add to the taste..)

Freshly baked Sfogliatelles dusted with powdered sugar for dessert. ☺

You know guys chinese people do not like american chinese restaurants...and that is what we get here all over....

Nice on the snapper, how did you make it water can?

Love fish, could live on it every single day!

Nite all....

We have the real Chinese here, including the good luck temple in the store with oranges and everything..

Fish is great, easy to digest and healthy. Picked up a nice whole fish along with some flounder fillets for mid week from 'Uncle Giuseppe's'
- I like the taste of fresh fish so I just did a basic salt, pepper & oregano, no coating, scored the skin a bit and just fried it! ☺

When I lived in Fla I used to go fresh water fishing every now and then. I caught a fish and put it in the frying pan. I was warned by the locals to fillet the fish off hte skin, but since I like the taste of fish I decided not to...
- Well about 5 min into the frying the fish exploded and went all over the kitchen! - The skin shrinked like a spring and blew up the fish!

(another reason why I like salt water fish better! lol!)

Wendy's, ugh and I'm still stuffed and I didn't even have any fries I had a baked potato... not doing that again for a LONG while

Louise, you're braver than I am.....I would have stayed with all veggies! WC, funny story about the fish exploding....I'll have to tell my stepson who was a commercial fisherman & lobsterman his whole life. My DIL made minestrone with meatballs, that was my meal for today.....

Yikes Water can....a big mess in the kitchen I assume from the oil and all..

I agree, skin on the fish is delicious..

I was so hungry for fish..went to the water front around here and was about to get fish but could not pass up the snow CRAB leggs, so that is dinner tonite. Making some baked potatoes. oops... opps, sorry miss flowajen, lol, I hope you are feeling better now from the Wendy's experience...HONEST!!!

Guys I have been absent from the NE that I forget names so bear wtih me PLEASE PLEASE>..


ALl have a nice dinner, I am preparing my feast as I write....

RObindog, one meal a day??? come on...you gotta eat a little more, but sounds great...

Yum now I wish I would have had fish! Maybe tomorow...
Left over penne pasta with meat sauce and salad, a few butter cookies for dessert. Lazy day for me.

I love fish!
I eat fish, go fishing for fish, keep fish in a tank, swim with fish, ... everything fishy! Wheee!

- Tonight is pizza night though, ½ cheese, ½ pepperoni, (made by authentic Italians) ☺

YUm yum..fish fish....Crab leggs..yumm yumm...


nite guys...

Funny story, WC! I am not wild about fish....will eat it just because it's good for me, but the only fish I ever really liked was pompano, my Dad's favorite too. I definitely am not a fan of the skin. Gross!

Meatball minestrone sounds pretty good to me, Marilyn! Need a few tums, Jen?

Clemen - hope you enjoyed your crab legs!!

Tonight was pork sirloin cutlet, salad and green beans. Mine are forming little beans now and I am EXCITED! YAY! FRESH BEANS SOON!

True story Louise! ... unfortunately! lol!

Fresh Green Beans! Never tasted them, must be WAY tastier than store bought! ☺

Oh, they are! Plant several rows several times during the season....Louise is lucky, she gets winter beans! Clemen, I wish I could limit myself to one meal a day.....I meant that was my big meal....had a sandwich for dinner, & a pomegranate for dessert....

Well YUm YUM YUMMM on all of your meals today..

So I need your names..can you please post for me for the next few days so I can greet you by YOUR real names, not our knick names, lol..you guys know mine already,,,grrr....no guessing here...I AM HERE TO STAY AND PARK...lol...


Gotta Know Louise, what is POMPANo fish...just gotta know..I adore fish...do not like the oily ones though..


OK OK gotta goooooooo...NITE NITE...

My name is Roxanne.

Roxy for short. I'm just Robin, you can leave off the dog part!

Mira VICTOR...you little little mentiroso...now Robin..I believe you, lol...

I guess Vic is showing EMOTIONS...ja ja ja..

Going for a night walk...nite nite..

here is my frozen canal tonite...


Poor fish ..I do not live there YET...

WC for short. ☺
(lol)

(nice pic by the way!)

we went to my hometown and had the greatest steaks & buffalo wings ever!!!!!

Funny, exploding fish story....don't know how I missed it last night.

Pizza

Afternoon all..still thinking what to make tonite...may do some grill chicken..craving some of the spanish zucchini...koreans eat it too, it is very sweet. Italinas have it too, forget the name of it.

Gotta go get some...later guys!