tonight pork loin with mushrooms/garlic (can't get enough), green beans, maybe a baked potato.
Hey! Good Lookin' .......
We always say dinner.
I LOVE pork loin.
we always say "what's for supper?"
Don't think I've ever had sardines. And am afraid to try :)
I had some broccoli, chopped carrot, mushrooms all sautee'd together, then put in scrambled egg. Prefer with onion but I ran out of that. So lots of veggies to a little egg (in terms of ratios). And I'm finding that fried tofu (in olive oil) lasts longer than the egg (in keeping away hunger). And is tastier too.
I use semi hard tofu, pat hard to get water out, then dice and fry in a little olive oil with some salt. use in smaller quantities with large amounts of veggies and you don't taste it much at all, though I actually like the taste when cooked this way.
Tonight it is "Vietnamese night" for me. #41 = lots of garlic, veggies, protein with side of rice. because I'm trying to only eat local or grain fed meat, I'll get tofu for my protein
I say dinner. Love pork loin too. Love baked pork chops with potatoes in tomato sauce. Yummy!
growing up it was supper now that i'm more distinguished its dinner :)
Never had pork with tomato sauce before
Pork chops and sauerkraut with potatoes and apples
he's Italian - tomato sauce can go on anything - its like ketchup
hee hee
I'm suprised he didn't call it gravy
Nice thread, Willie.
When I lived in the midwest we had breakfast, dinner and supper. ( I think because lunch was often the largest meal for farmers).
Now we have breakfast lunch and supper when I forget to say dinnah.
We are having clam and haddock chowdah inside a boule bread. Instant dinner.
yummmm chowdah
Thanks, Cyndie! And everyone! for joining in ....
I truly am really interested in everyone's regular cookin' & comfort foods, esp. breakfast, lunch and dinner/supper/vittles/eats/whatever and everything in between!
Hmmmmmm gravy. Makes me wanna make biscuits! Who's got the best southern biscuit and gravy recipe??!?!? mmmmmmm
I didn't mean to come off so provocatively, there, Bill!!! ^-^ They need one of these smilies with horns for me! I did not want to use Recipe, or Food, or such in the title. More fun this way. You notice who was first, didn't ya?? Where's the devil smiley when you need him!!!
Never called sauce gravy! Sacrilege in my book.
Really??? all the Italians I know call it gravy.
I know that many do. Always sounded ridiculous to me. So gravy is then, what?
Brown gravy?
'Pisketti' always drove me nuts too.
OK Pork
I buy the Country style spare ribs and put them in a slowcooker with tomato sauce.
Turn on low for 6 hours.
You can start dinner at 9:AM and garden all day ansd serve them,no sweat.
Just read my recipe and I meant Pasta sauce,any brand you like including your own if you want to go to that much trouble.
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Or ribs laid on top of sliced onions in the slow cooker with my BBQ sauce that is never the same twice.
ketchup
brown sugar
cider vinegar
relis (sometimes)
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Ever mashed turnips in with mashed potatoes? That's good.
ew, call pasta sauce gravy? I agree, that's just wrong (1/2 italian here). then again, in general I don't get gravy (if you need gravy to help moisten or flavor then you cooked it wrong). and then yet again, I didn't grow up with gravy type meals, so who knows what I'm talking about :)
Okay, Willie,
I will post some of my quick meals and favs this weekend.
I love to cook, and have spent all day doing it sometimes, but I also love to fix a quick easy and good-tasting meal. I especially love the one-dish meals with a salad.
As far as gravy goes-when I was growing up it had to involve some kind of fat, leftover from cooking meat and then added flour and milk. That would include the biscuits and gravy. But, we typically ate that when we went out for breakfast. Currently in Iowa, where my mother lives, it is a great and economical meal of around $3.00. ;)
Great thread, Willie! I like to hear what people have for everyday meals. It is good to get ideas. I'll pull a couple good, easy recipes together tomorrow and share them. I'm a 'supper' kind of gal, but I like going out for 'dinner'. LOL Thanks to all of you who have shared the above.....yummm.
Last night was date night so we went to our usual place---Goose & the Gander---I had Chicken Milanese, my DH had salmon with chopped tomatoes & capers---we both have enough left for lunch---tonight pancakes with homemade maple syrup---we didn't make it, a friend did. Tomorrow (like EVERY Sun.) my Mom & sister will be here for dinner---our big meal on Sun.---I am roasting an all natural, free range chicken. I put lemon slices & fresh sage under the breast skin, stuffing it with whole wheat stuffing--because of my Mom's sugar----mashed rutabaga mixed with sauteed onions & bacon, & a salad sis is bringing. For dessert, gelato for DH &me, sugar-free ice cream for Mom, & nothing for sis, who is anorexic---I believe she only nibbles on Sun. when I cook---eats yogurt & fruit the rest of the week!
mmmmmmm Eats at Robin's tomorrow!!!
What's for breakfast!??
Bum, here this morning ..... Oatmeal, added raisins and brown sugar this time.
And a nice thick slice of placek and coffee. I broke down and bought a loaf!
breakfast for me is eggo nutragrain waffles topped with some peanut butter and maple syrup, with coffee
What's breakfast??
Breakfast for me is generally a moderate-sized fruit bowl (typically 1/2 cup of fresh blueberries, 1/2 cup of red seedless grapes, sometimes a few slices of banana and always some walnuts or almonds), fresh squeezed juice from our trees here and coffee. Sometimes I'll throw in a "biscuit" of shredded wheat and fat-free milk with the fruit. I prefer the plain fruit bowl though.
At least once a week I make the following: This concoction makes enough for at least a second dinner for the 2 of us, if not plenty to include a neighbor as well.
Saute in olive oil until just barely tender: 4 cloves of garlic, sliced, 1 large onion sliced into eighths, 1/3 each of a red, yellow and orange bell pepper, about a cup of sliced fresh mushrooms.
Add 1 pkg of fresh chicken strips (sold for stir fry). Season with freshly ground coarse black pepper and sea salt to taste.
Add a few shots of hot pepper sauce (like Tiger Sauce or Red Cayenne Pepper sauce). Alternatively, I sometimes add a can of diced tomatoes with green chiles. Turn heat down to simmer and cover pan for about 5 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through, lifting the lid about halfway to turn the chicken strips over.
Lift lid and add about one cup of fresh broccoli cut into small pieces and about 2 cups of fresh baby spinach leaves. Replace lid and simmer for another 5 minutes or so until broccoli is dark green and cuttable and spinach is wilted.
Serve over whole grain brown rice or any kind of rice you prefer.
Yum!
hmmmmm - I just noticed that I said I make that concoction "at least once a week". That's a bit misleading.....I never make it more than once a week. LOL ! Since the leftovers microwave so well, one concoction generally provides us with at least 2 meals a week. That's what I meant to say. I mean, I'm pretty lazy and boring when it comes to cooking, but not THAT bad!
This is my neighbor's wonderfully moist blueberry bread recipe:
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup oil
1 egg
3/4 cup buttermilk (substitute = 1 Tablespoon white vinegar in 1 cup; fill with milk to = one cup, but use only 3/4 cup in this recipe)
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 and 3/4 cup flour
1 and 1/2 cups of fresh or frozen blueberries
Mix ingredients in order given; Place in loaf pan that has been greased and floured;
TOPPING:
1/2 tablespoon melted butter
1/4 cup sugar
Mix together and sprinkle over batter; lightly press topping into batter
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour
Try not to eat the whole loaf by yourself before it cools! LOL
speaking from experience Louise?
That does sound like a good blueberry bread, Louise. Thanks!
Decided the grill was looking awfully unused, so tonight was grill night.
Rib-eyes - aka Delmonico (finally! plans for Thurs. dashed)
Grilled potatoes with dill
String Beans with lemon juice, marjoram and a sliver of butter
always a favorite around here. mmmmmm
Pretty close, Deb! She invited me for coffee and served the bread, then sent me home with the rest of the loaf because she had baked two. My husband got "some" and my older neighbor got 2 pieces and I had my share too. LOL .... It's dangerous stuff.
Yumm, Willie. How do you grill your potatoes with dill?
Well, I guess technically they are roasted on the grill. Drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with salt, pepper and chopped dill. Topped with more fresh chopped dill before serving.
Sometimes I will add onions or green peppers. Sometimes I make it in the cast iron skillet, adding the dill after cooking, or change the herbs to match the meat better. Sometimes I roast them in to oven.
Kind of a throw back to the boy scouting days when we would wrap everything together in foil and drop it into the campfire to cook.
I will definitely be trying the blueberry bread.
I propose we name the NE Forum restaurant, 'Chez What?'
Willie - do you put the potatoes in a cast iron skillet on the grill?
Victor - Why not?!
I'm gaining weight just reading this thread. Now I'm craving some of that blueberry bread. Oh Dear!
That blueberry bread sounds wonderful..I've been in a baking mood for the past few months.
I do potatoes with smart balance(butter), sliced onion, salt and pepper and ice cubes in individual foil packets on the grill.
Never thought to put the cast iron on the grill, but I don't see why i couldn't. I usually just put them into foil. A while back I had a thing-a-ma-bob, that would fold over and hold slices of what ever for grilling. I haven't seen it in years .... I think mom might have "found" it. ^_^
It was basically a grid of wires that folded over onto itself with a handle off the one side. made for using on the campfire I believe.
Breakfast for today is a bowl of my fav. cereal to which I added blueberries and 1/2 a cinnamon raisin bagel with coffee.
Thinking today might be a good day to bake some goodies. ..... hmmmm .... what to make ..... what to make ..... still trying to find a good placek recipe.