What you having for dinner tonight?

[Walsingham]

 

Serves you right for eating kale in the first place!

 

I didn't even know what kale was until I looked it up, it looks healthy

 

 

I now feel like I've got a hairbrush in my guts. More fibre than a jute handbag.

[BruceVC]

Tonight I'm making Beef Stir Fry with spring onions, onions, garlic and chilli's. I'll add Chinese noodles at the end and some Coriander for flavour

[Walsingham]

No meat in the house, so I'm going to have to settle for a vegetable soup, using meat stock cubes, and some toast with fish paste.

Edited September 25, 2013 by Walsingham

[kgambit]

Chili (very light on the onions) with some French bread on the side. 

[Ravenskya]

Tacos with guacamole and refried beans... I seem to have added too many layers of tastiness and now have a plate full of mess that won't stay on my taco

[Monte Carlo]

No meat in the house, so I'm going to have to settle for a vegetable soup, using meat stock cubes, and some toast with fish paste.

 

FFS, Wals are you living in a POW camp or something? Can I send you a Red Cross parcel? Is James Garner cutting about having made some potato vodka?

[Guard Dog]

I had some ground turkey so I mixed it with an egg, onion powder and chopped fresh jalapenos and made turkey burgers on the grill. It was pretty good. For dessert I'm having a cup of French Roast coffee while I sit on the porch enjoying the first cool weather of the year and type out a message to you folks.

[LadyCrimson]

Tacos with guacamole and refried beans... I seem to have added too many layers of tastiness and now have a plate full of mess that won't stay on my taco

 

That happens to me all the time when I make something that has a lot of loose stuff to put in or on top. Like when I make mini-pizza rounds and I want to pile on too many toppings for the small breads to hold...I've never been a minimalist.

[Ravenskya]

Now I find myself debating.... One more hard apple cider or just go to bed because I have to work tomorrow

[BruceVC]

Now I find myself debating.... One more hard apple cider or just go to bed because I have to work tomorrow

 

Keep the cider till the weekend, that would be my advice

[Walsingham]

Probably the single most useful thing I absorbed in my military training was the two can rule. Never have more than two drinks unless:

 

a) You haven't any work the next day

b) You have got your sights on a pretty girl

c) You have decided to settle for a quite ugly girl

d) You are in an odd mood

e) Someone else is buying

f) By doing so you can cause someone who is lightweight to drink far too much and get themselves into trouble.

Edited September 26, 2013 by Walsingham

[BruceVC]

Probably the single most useful thing I absorbed in my military training was the two can rule. Never have more than two drinks unless:

 

a) You haven't any work the next day

b) You have got your sights on a pretty girl

c) You have decided to settle for a quite ugly girl

d) You are in an odd mood

e) Someone else is buying

f) By doing so you can cause someone who is lightweight to drink far too much and get themselves into trouble.

 

Good points but I can add another relevant one

 

• You are taking customers out for a celebratory drink after the closing a good deal and you are expected to drink with them (technically the company pays for this so this may be the same as point e )

[Monte Carlo]

 

 

Probably the single most useful thing I absorbed in my military training was the two can rule. Never have more than two drinks unless:

 

a) You haven't any work the next day

 

No way am I having a hangover in my own time.

[Walsingham]

 

No meat in the house, so I'm going to have to settle for a vegetable soup, using meat stock cubes, and some toast with fish paste.

 

FFS, Wals are you living in a POW camp or something? Can I send you a Red Cross parcel? Is James Garner cutting about having made some potato vodka?

 

 

 

No meat in the house, so I'm going to have to settle for a vegetable soup, using meat stock cubes, and some toast with fish paste.

 

FFS, Wals are you living in a POW camp or something? Can I send you a Red Cross parcel? Is James Garner cutting about having made some potato vodka?

 

 

Funnily enough I was considering breeding up some rats...

 

No, the other night i grilled some supermarket pork chops and they came out BOILED in their own injected brine. Like eating pine boards.

 

So I'm really fed up with supermarket meat, and am preferring to eat veggie instead, assuming I can't get to a butchers. Which I usually can.

[Gromnir]

gotta simple lentil dal recipe--

 

saute onions (1/2 onion-chopped,) garlic (4-5 cloves minced,) tumeric, cumin seed, crushed red pepper, and ginger... add garlic last.  add a couple cups each diced roma tomatoes and cauliflower florets, 2.5 C water and 1 C red lentils. bring to boil. reduce heat. simmer covered for 35-40 minutes. salt to taste. throw in liberal amounts o' cilantro and Fresh lime juice. do self a favor and buy a freaking lime or 2 rather than use stuff that comes in a bottle or plastic faux lime. ick. server over your choice o' rice. 

 

we prefer red lentils, but yellow works ok. green/brown don't break down enough with relative short cook time. yellow spit peas is perhaps even better than red lentils, but we like lentils, so sue us.

 

HA! Good Fun!

[Hurlshort]

I love lentils.

 

 

I made lasagna last night.  It was my first attempt, and I was happy with the result.  I wish I had layered in more of the macaroni, but the sauce came out really well, and it was on the back of a Safeway Macaroni box!  It was basically some tomato paste, diced tomatoes, some sugar and red pepper flakes, and some fresh basil.  There was garlic and onions as well.  I went with ricotta and mozzarella cheese as the other layers.

[Malcador]

Leftover spaghetti with ground beef, cheap and cheerful.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Vodka, Doritos, and a Snickers.

[Gromnir]

hmmm

 

Vodka, Doritos, and a Snickers.

 

vodka?  depending on the variety o' doritos, wouldn't a cabernet go better with the snickers? just saying.

 

HA! Good Fun!

[LadyCrimson]

Vodka, Doritos, and a Snickers.

I prefer a chocolate shake, Baby Ruth and Cheeto's, myself. Actually, I'll just take the chocolate shake. A real one, none of that weird, gummy McDonald's type glop.

[LadyCrimson]

Trying a new simple random baked chicken/rice dish. Winter's coming so that means I'm more likely to run the oven, since it's nice to toss things in there and forget about it for an hour or three. Over the many years, I've constantly tried to do something with baking chicken (via an oven, not grilling/pan fry/fried) that appeals to me enough that I want to make it regularly. So far, I'm largely convinced such a thing doesn't exist.

 

It's not that I don't like chicken, I just don't like healthy-ily prepared chicken (skinless, low salt, low fat, etc). It's boring and tastes flat and bland, especially if in large chunks/whole sections. The best I've come up with is just pouring a ton of fresh made Mexican type tomato/onion/pepper salsa over skinless chicken breasts.

 

What spices and such do you like to use with chicken?

[Gromnir]

Trying a new simple random baked chicken/rice dish. Winter's coming so that means I'm more likely to run the oven, since it's nice to toss things in there and forget about it for an hour or three. Over the many years, I've constantly tried to do something with baking chicken (via an oven, not grilling/pan fry/fried) that appeals to me enough that I want to make it regularly. So far, I'm largely convinced such a thing doesn't exist.

 

It's not that I don't like chicken, I just don't like healthy-ily prepared chicken (skinless, low salt, low fat, etc). It's boring and tastes flat and bland, especially if in large chunks/whole sections. The best I've come up with is just pouring a ton of fresh made Mexican type tomato/onion/pepper salsa over skinless chicken breasts.

 

What spices and such do you like to use with chicken?

you want ez?

 

whole chicken... cut into pieces. coat a cast iron skillet with a little olive oil-- don't worry, we ain't frying. set oven at  450... middle rack. put chicken in pan. pour 1/4C white wine over chicken. throw on a couple sprigs o' rosemary, and a couple more thyme. salt & pepper. bake for 40 minutes. broil for a few minutes. take outta oven and squeeze a lemon over the chicken. let stand a few minutes.

 

eat. yum. is ridiculous simple.

 

thyme and rosemary is chicken staples btw.

 

coq au vin? is probable not what you is looking for as is not a "toss in the oven and forget" kinda thing. 

 

boneless and skinless chicken breasts? is like cooking with cardboard. add flavor to those things by baking is like trying to do Beethoven's 9th on a kazoo. sure, you can do it, but results is laughable. still wanna bake boneless skinless chicken breasts? mince 1T rosemary and 2T thyme... combine with salt, pepper and 1T olive oil-- coat chicken and a bunch o' seedless grapes with oil mixture. sear breasts both sides in skillet. throw in some shallots and sherry... bake at 350 degrees. time depends on how much you cooked chicken in pan. throw grapes into pan for last 5 minutes o' cook time.

 

how 'bout slow cooker instead? is loads o' great ways to do chicken breasts in slow cooker-- tandori, curry. barbecue, etc. is throw-in-pot-and-forgets recipes, but typical more flavor = less healthy. *shrug*

 

HA! Good Fun!

[Hurlshort]

We used to cook our chickens over a pan of bacon grease.  Not in the grease, but on a rack above it, so that the grease would pop and sizzle up and help flavor the chicken.  Pretty awesome.  We'd also brine it first with rosemary and a bit of salt.

Edited September 27, 2013 by Hurlshot

[Guard Dog]

Turkey sub from Subway. Not great, not terrible.

[Walsingham]

Completely ignored my own advice about drinking last night. Four ales and a strong cider. I now feel as if I have molerats in my brainstem.