The What's For Dinner Tonight Chat

[Adalaide]

If you go to the store to buy fresh mint it is $3-4 for a teensy bit, I figure I have easily $100 worth of mint in my yard right now. And it is probably 500 kinds of illegal to sell it. We have a market here that sells things like that, but there is all sorts of licensing and crap. At least once I have it as extract and oil it will be far easier to use. Heck, I can even use the oil to just make the house smell good.

[IrishHeart]

If you go to the store to buy fresh mint it is $3-4 for a teensy bit, I figure I have easily $100 worth of mint in my yard right now. And it is probably 500 kinds of illegal to sell it. We have a market here that sells things like that, but there is all sorts of licensing and crap. At least once I have it as extract and oil it will be far easier to use. Heck, I can even use the oil to just make the house smell good.

 yup, we'll smell good and make lotions and potions and extracts....but I swear to the heavens, I'll still have a big stupid plant 

 

wish I could grow a "money herb" this big......how cool would THAT be??

[Adalaide]

Got a text yesterday afternoon asking me to sub today. Sure, what could possibly go wrong working on a Monday right? Well it turns out I hadn't left my house all weekend, not since Friday, so I didn't know what was waiting for me out front when I left my house. I was all set to head off to work this morning and hopped in my Jeep only to realize there was something poured all over the driver's side of my windshield.  Looked like soap, stoopid teenagers. I flipped on my wipers and figure I may run out of fluid but this will only take a few minutes and it'll clean right up right? Nope. It was soap poured over motor oil poured over polyurethane. You have got to be f'n kidding me right?  The worst? Even though I know who did it, the cops said that unless the stupid b%$@# outright admits to it there isn't a damn thing they can do about it.     

 

So, instead of showing up to work at 7:30 like I'm supposed to. I was leaving my house at 7:35. I can not even say in words how hard it is to get that crap off of a windshield. Plus I really wish I had an outlet for my anger right now. Instead of being able to headshot a few guys in Fallout and watch them pop cleanly off so I can feel better I am smiling and helping students and being polite, which while this positively angry makes me just a little dead inside. 

 

So... dinner? Psh... l-e-f-t-o-v-e-r-s. I'll make some gravy, pour it over some warmed up roast and veggies. Maybe I'll cook up some squash or something as a late night snack. I've got a couple of teensy little yellow beauties to eat. 

[notme]

Nope. It was soap poured over motor oil poured over polyurethane. You have got to be f'n kidding me right?  The worst? Even though I know who did it, the cops said that unless the stupid b%$@# outright admits to it there isn't a damn thing they can do about it.     

that is BULLSH!T - i'd be bustin' some heads.        

 

most people around here are afraid of us.  that's the way we like it.  (plus my hubs 'boyfriend' <"your boyfriend is texting you"< is the mayor lolz)  and we are armed.  and we both have our carry permit.

 

that sucks, addy    i hope your day improves, sweetie.

[kareng]

Last night we had this! OMG! So good!

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Peanut-Butter-Milk-Chocolate-Puddings-350968

And we had something else.....

[Adalaide]

I obviously need to make people more afraid of me. There is no law in Utah preventing people from openly carrying so maybe I should just start that. That'll make people a bit scared. Nothing is legally stopping me from shopping at Wal-Mart with a shotgun or a handgun as long as it is openly carried and secure and unchambered. Or you know... concealed with a permit. But that doesn't scare people. Clearly I need to cultivate my scary person attitude/persona. And make friends with our mayor.   Local primaries are in two weeks, then I can find out who I need to buddy up to. 

[GottaSki]

And we had something else.....

 

 

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[kareng]

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Forgot what it was.... The PB pudding was so good.

We had burgers on the grill ( we mix a tomato based BBQ sauce in the burger), corn on the cob and oven fries

[Adalaide]

 

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I just assumed that it was some sort of innuendo. The pudding was so good that it led to having.... other things.  We all know what road my mind tends to wander down now. 

[GottaSki]

Forgot what it was.... The PB pudding was so good.

We had burgers on the grill ( we mix a tomato based BBQ sauce in the burger), corn on the cob and oven fries

 

yum...just was living vicariously and thot you were teasing us

[GottaSki]

I just assumed that it was some sort of innuendo. The pudding was so good that it led to having.... other things.  We all know what road my mind tends to wander down now. 

 

As you can tell my brain is not all the way clear of the flare or gluten that took me out for for over a week...getting there but not all the way back quite yet

[Adalaide]

As you can tell my brain is not all the way clear of the flare or gluten that took me out for for over a week...getting there but not all the way back quite yet

 

I doubt I'm ever all there so I can hardly fault anyone else for not being altogether there.  At least you're getting there. Hopefully all those mens are taking good care of you. What would we do without our mens? 

[Adalaide]

I haven't entirely decided yet on dinner. I'm thinking though that it'll be something easy to eat, today was the next to last of my dental work. WOOHOOOOOO!!!!! All I have left is to choose between a bridge and an implant and I'm waiting until next year because I'm at my insurance limit this year.

 

For sure I am thinking cheesebread. Soft, easy to chew, but not chew free so I feel like an invalid. Maybe I'll toss together a last minute meatloaf or something. I feel half starved to death because all I had for lunch was a Chobani. Too close to dinner to truly eat, and not enough self-restraint to simply snack. I need to just keep telling myself that being a little hungry once in a while is not going to hurt me. Or my butt.

 

I already have plans for tomorrow though. BLTs! I'm going to roast my little yellow cherry tomatoes, pop their skins off, mush them, chill them and use that as a spread instead of just plain tomatoes sliced. I have some of that Hormel uncured bacon in the fridge I need to use up. And lettuce of course. Ranch instead of mayo because... well why not! And all on toast. Sounds positively like perfection to me. But tomorrow, when I am more comfortable chewing.

[notme]

ha HAAAAA! karen, we made it back  

 

tonight we are having that famous french dish:

 

leftd'ouvres 

 

it's my 3 yr anniversary today on this board, when y'all took a crazy sick person and made her better  and maybe a little crazier lolz

 

THANK YOU DINNER CHATTERS!  and everybody, too, as well     although now i have a food porn habit and hafta check into kabana boy rehab.......  

[love2travel]

Greek roast chicken quarters - am tempted to peel off the crispy skin to insert into my tummy before my man gets home from work but methinks he will notice!

Greek lemon oegano and roasted garlic roast potatoes

Steamed broccoli

Apple crisp with vanilla beans

[GottaSki]

ha HAAAAA! karen, we made it back  

 

tonight we are having that famous french dish:

 

leftd'ouvres 

 

it's my 3 yr anniversary today on this board, when y'all took a crazy sick person and made her better  and maybe a little crazier lolz

 

THANK YOU DINNER CHATTERS!  and everybody, too, as well     although now i have a food porn habit and hafta check into kabana boy rehab.......  

 

no capabilty for fun smileys on this computer so I'll just yell......

 

Happy Happy 3rd Anniversary to you...can't imagine this place without ya!

[Adalaide]

ha HAAAAA! karen, we made it back  

 

tonight we are having that famous french dish:

 

leftd'ouvres 

 

it's my 3 yr anniversary today on this board, when y'all took a crazy sick person and made her better  and maybe a little crazier lolz

 

THANK YOU DINNER CHATTERS!  and everybody, too, as well     although now i have a food porn habit and hafta check into kabana boy rehab.......  

 

French..... *snicker* you're gonna get yourself beat with a stick!

 

Rehab is for people who want to quit their habits. I am never going to kabana boy rehab. No how. No way. I also will not be held at all responsible for anyone's craziness. Heck, I don't barely let anyone hold me responsible for my own.

[whitepine]

tonight I'm cooking pork apple salad with quinoa.  I've just used  a bit of salt and pepper and cut up the pork into squares, then I'm going to cook that with a bit of olive oil, some pecans, broccoli, green pepper, (wish I had green beens etc) then I'll let all that cool down and mix it in with a cut up apple, spinach and some other lettuce and maybe some broccoli slaw. I wish I had some balsamic vinegar because that would be really good reduced.
 

[Adalaide]

Greek roast chicken quarters - am tempted to peel off the crispy skin to insert into my tummy before my man gets home from work but methinks he will notice!

Greek lemon oegano and roasted garlic roast potatoes

Steamed broccoli

Apple crisp with vanilla beans

 

I'm not supposed to eat chicken skin, but fortunately my husband doesn't like it. So if it was all gone before he was home he would never know! Well... except the whole migraine and being half blind thing, but it is possible that it would be almost worth it! Just tell him you made skinless chicken. Think he'll buy it?

[GottaSki]

So I am still on extremely limited Meat, Z- or Sweet Potato Spirals with Veggie meals which is boring and have not helped the men cook their food in over a week...

 

but I did make a twist on my old Chocolate Mousse Recipe -- trying to limit even Choc for a bit -- Hubby walked in and asked what I was making but I had no idea...it is now called "Snickerdoodle Mousse" -- will need some adjustment, but it wasn't bad...didn't set in the frig so the remainder will be "Snickerdoodle Ice Cream" tonight.

 

Coconut Oil

Coconut Milk

Agave

Vanilla

Cinnamon - went light as I couldn't remember...but fairly sure this is a Histamine

 

Next batch will likely be simply Vanilla Mousse.

[GottaSki]

I'm not supposed to eat chicken skin, but fortunately my husband doesn't like it. So if it was all gone before he was home he would never know! Well... except the whole migraine and being half blind thing, but it is possible that it would be almost worth it! Just tell him you made skinless chicken. Think he'll buy it?

 

Huh...how does the Chicken Skin react with you?  Since I've given up so many other things - stealing Crunchy Chicken Skins has before meat hits the table has become a guilty pleasure for me.

[GottaSki]

tonight I'm cooking pork apple salad with quinoa.  I've just used  a bit of salt and pepper and cut up the pork into squares, then I'm going to cook that with a bit of olive oil, some pecans, broccoli, green pepper, (wish I had green beens etc) then I'll let all that cool down and mix it in with a cut up apple, spinach and some other lettuce and maybe some broccoli slaw. I wish I had some balsamic vinegar because that would be really good reduced.

 

 

Yum...Welcome to the Dinner Thread...glad to have you and your dinner sounds delicious

[love2travel]

I'm not supposed to eat chicken skin, but fortunately my husband doesn't like it. So if it was all gone before he was home he would never know! Well... except the whole migraine and being half blind thing, but it is possible that it would be almost worth it! Just tell him you made skinless chicken. Think he'll buy it?

Dang. I had a delectable hunk of skin in my mouth when I heard the garage open. DARN IT!

[IrishHeart]

Dang. I had a delectable hunk of skin in my mouth when I heard the garage open. DARN IT!

 

holymotherof pearl, I knew it....you're a vampire!!!!!!!!???

[IrishHeart]

all right,let' s do this properly!!

 

 

 

congrats, Miss Arlene  aka "Notme..... yes you!"

 

On being a valued and loveable (and totally whacko)  member of this board. !! 3 years--wtf--nothing else to do, girlfriend?? J/K

 

I  appreciate your humor so much! (you nutjob)

and I cannot imagine this kitchen w/o you.

xxxooo