The What's For Dinner Thread - Feb '09(recipe index in OP)

[shovan]

Sorry, you guys. It's just in the midst of reading everything else, hearing kind words, people calling each other, I was just worried that I had done something to the group. I don't know. I really don't have anyone to talk to about all this going on (outside of Scott) and after awhile I got the idea no one was was really reading my posts anymore.

Lindsay, I didn't respond about the Hawaii stuff, because I must have missed the earlier posts on that. So I really didn't really understand what was going on with that. Since I'm in & out a lot lately, I can't always comment on stuff

I have been praying a lot for Jan & your family.

 

[EJ4Disney]

Let's see if this works. I am trying to get a banner for my upcoming trip.

Whoohoo it did. I feel so smart!!

 

[Nancyg56]

Now you can't tease us like that, print it woman!

Yeah, what she said!

Kat- are you taking it easy???????

I don't know you must make one heck of a gravy if your niece is drinking it! Just the thought makes my stomach hurt!

Speaking of rice, I made this cuban style rice last week

I'm not sure if it is good or Kim is a nut! She took a bet with Debbie that she would eat a dog cookie. She ate it but Deb never paid her the $20 Sisters!

Hopefully, he heard today that he passed the mountain phase and is on to swamp. His last letter said that he got injured falling down a slope, so he failed something due to the injury. After that, he was able to get some medical attention, and he felt good going into this week. I'll let you know if I hear more.

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And still he continues! I am in awe of these dedicated strong, strong-willed men!

I agree with the Irish influence. My Mom and Dad never had a meal without boiled potatoes. My Mom was French and my Dad Irish. (Buddy says that I am definitely a product of that combination....and he is never smiling when he says that)

All this talk about gravy.....I made hamburg gravy and will have that with mashed potatoes, leftover veggies and a salad.

Right now I am enjoying a glass of Welby's Wedding Wine. Yup....she made her own wine for their wedding and she won't drink white wine. It was a tough decision but someone has to drink all that wine so I agreed to help her out.

 

[Aimeedyan]

Ladies, this is just a quick check in but I had to share my fabulous news. The MRI has come back and the cancer has NOT spread to Daddy's brain. Because of the position of the tumor on his vertebrae this was a concern of the oncologist. So this is one hurdle we have made it over.

He is getting his chemo today and will get another treatment in 3 weeks. Two weeks after that they will do another PET scan to see how effective the treatment is.

The next step is replacing the joint and I'm not ready for that. Oh well, there are much worse things in life than a bad jaw.

Okay, all this talk about gravy. Are we talking about that brown watery gravy or the yummy, creamy, loaded with grease and calories white gravy?

I have found the motherland from which I came from - the Pottery Barn outlet. Thank goodness I was shopping alone as I wandered for 1.5 hours or so... it was kiss the ground worthy. It's a combo William Sonoma, PB, West Elm, and PB kids. I can't wait to get home and put all my new stuff out! I also got some great deals at the Crate and Barrel outlet.

Wedding update... my mother is in tears, I've been doing counseling by cell phone all afternoon. Once the rehearsal dinner is over tonight, I'm taking mom to the hotel bar and buying her a round (or two!). She told me she wished she had told my sister to kiss her rear and gone shopping with me

 

[bigmerle1966]

WFD - Boiled crabs & crawfish....

What time is dinner?

Greg would have gravy for breakfast if he could get away with it
My FIL even at the end of his life would leave chemo & want sausage, biscuits & gravy. I'm sure it had something to do with it being his comfort food.

Okay, now I want biscuits and sausage gravy.

Sorry, you guys. It's just in the midst of reading everything else, hearing kind words, people calling each other, I was just worried that I had done something to the group. I don't know. I really don't have anyone to talk to about all this going on (outside of Scott) and after awhile I got the idea no one was was really reading my posts anymore.

I am, I just forget it if I don't quote it.

Oh well ladies, it's off to VA for the weekend, see you all later.

 

[shovan]

I'm not sure if it is good or Kim is a nut! She took a bet with Debbie that she would eat a dog cookie. She ate it but Deb never paid her the $20 Sisters!


And still he continues! I am in awe of these dedicated strong, strong-willed men!

I agree with the Irish influence. My Mom and Dad never had a meal without boiled potatoes. My Mom was French and my Dad Irish. (Buddy says that I am definitely a product of that combination....and he is never smiling when he says that)

All this talk about gravy.....I made hamburg gravy and will have that with mashed potatoes, leftover veggies and a salad.

Right now I am enjoying a glass of Welby's Wedding Wine. Yup....she made her own wine for their wedding and she won't drink white wine. It was a tough decision but someone has to drink all that wine so I agreed to help her out.

Nan, You really shouldn't have told us that Kim would eat anything! You almost wiped out the Nanatizing stigma with her drinking your gravy!

Enjoy your wedding wine!


Laura I'm sorry I totally missed the post about Greg! I'm glad he's feeling better & will continue pushing on. Prayers for Greg!

 

[shovan]

Okay, all this talk about gravy. Are we talking about that brown watery gravy or the yummy, creamy, loaded with grease and calories white gravy?

I have found the motherland from which I came from - the Pottery Barn outlet. Thank goodness I was shopping alone as I wandered for 1.5 hours or so... it was kiss the ground worthy. It's a combo William Sonoma, PB, West Elm, and PB kids. I can't wait to get home and put all my new stuff out! I also got some great deals at the Crate and Barrel outlet.

Wedding update... my mother is in tears, I've been doing counseling by cell phone all afternoon. Once the rehearsal dinner is over tonight, I'm taking mom to the hotel bar and buying her a round (or two!). She told me she wished she had told my sister to kiss her rear and gone shopping with me

Maybe we'll need a cook-off Texas White Gravy against Louisiana Brown Gravy!

Boy that sure sounds like one great shopping trip!

I'm sorry your Mom is upset. Brides can do that to Mom's for sure!


Merle, Have fun!


I haven't done a darn thing today. I've got to go figure out something for dinner. I'm not in the mood to go out, cus that would mean brushing my hair & putting on makeup. Cooking feels easier right now.

 

[OKWMom]

Sheryl, here is the recipe:

Veal Scaloppini Charleston (Adapted from Charleston Receipts Repeats)

2 tbs olive oil
1 lb veal scaloppini, pounded flat,
Flour (enough to lightly bread veal)
½ pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
2 ounces Proscuitto ham, julienned
Salt and pepper to taste
1-2 tbl white wine

Knead together the following:
¼ cup softened butter
Juice from ½ lemon
¼ tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tbl chopped parsley
½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
(I never really understood the whole kneading together thing. I think you could just melt the butter in the pan and add everything else and stir.)

Heat oil in sauté pan. Flour veal and season with salt and pepper. Sauté quickly until veal is light brown. Remove from pan to a platter (keep warm).

Add proscuitto to pan and cook to crisp. Remove. Add shrimp to pan and cook just until done. Remove.

Deglaze pan with wine. Add butter mixture. When butter mixture is hot, add shrimp and ham back to pan. Toss until all are heated and mixed through.

Serve on top of veal.

 

[shovan]

Sheryl, here is the recipe:

Veal Scaloppini Charleston (Adapted from Charleston Receipts Repeats)

2 tbs olive oil
1 lb veal scaloppini, pounded flat,
Flour (enough to lightly bread veal)
½ pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
2 ounces Proscuitto ham, julienned
Salt and pepper to taste
1-2 tbl white wine

Knead together the following:
¼ cup softened butter
Juice from ½ lemon
¼ tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tbl chopped parsley
½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
(I never really understood the whole kneading together thing. I think you could just melt the butter in the pan and add everything else and stir.)

Heat oil in sauté pan. Flour veal and season with salt and pepper. Sauté quickly until veal is light brown. Remove from pan to a platter (keep warm).

Add proscuitto to pan and cook to crisp. Remove. Add shrimp to pan and cook just until done. Remove.

Deglaze pan with wine. Add butter mixture. When butter mixture is hot, add shrimp and ham back to pan. Toss until all are heated and mixed through.

Serve on top of veal.

Oh YUUUMMMM!!! Wow does that sound good! I will be on a hunt for veal now. Thanks so much, this really sounds so good.

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

I have no idea WFD. I can, however, assure you that I will not be "scrounging up" anything like liamsaunt!

So, being that it's now MAY (WHERE is the year GOING?!?), I technically move NEXT MONTH! ____ <<< not sure what smiley to put there. I need one that combines the following:

 

[TigerKat]

Sorry, you guys. It's just in the midst of reading everything else, hearing kind words, people calling each other, I was just worried that I had done something to the group. I don't know. I really don't have anyone to talk to about all this going on (outside of Scott) and after awhile I got the idea no one was was really reading my posts anymore.

It may help if you show concern for us as well, it works both ways.

Kat- are you taking it easy???????

Yes ma'am, I am.

Wedding update... my mother is in tears, I've been doing counseling by cell phone all afternoon. Once the rehearsal dinner is over tonight, I'm taking mom to the hotel bar and buying her a round (or two!). She told me she wished she had told my sister to kiss her rear and gone shopping with me

Poor Mom, y'all deserve at least two rounds, enjoy!

 

[TigerKat]

Oh YUUUMMMM!!! Wow does that sound good! I will be on a hunt for veal now. Thanks so much, this really sounds so good.

Let me know if you find the veal and where. Gretchen, that sounds so darn good!

 

[HERSEY]

Ladies, this is just a quick check in but I had to share my fabulous news. The MRI has come back and the cancer has NOT spread to Daddy's brain. Because of the position of the tumor on his vertebrae this was a concern of the oncologist. So this is one hurdle we have made it over.

He is getting his chemo today and will get another treatment in 3 weeks. Two weeks after that they will do another PET scan to see how effective the treatment is.

wHAT GREAT NEWS.

Greg would have gravy for breakfast if he could get away with it
My FIL even at the end of his life would leave chemo & want sausage, biscuits & gravy. I'm sure it had something to do with it being his comfort food.
I like sauces...lemony, cheesy, tomato, yummy.

Sheryl my nose is clear! Just some pain left in my sinuses.
Robin, I just had a paragraph written about rice but deleted it because I thought I sounded nuts
Lindsay,

You can't just leave it like that! I sound goofy more often than not.

I am glad Greg is getting better.

Lindsay I not ignoring you sorry if it seems like it . Do you still have that cat that comes around?

You all have been extra chatty today I have no idea what I was going to say. I better go back and reread. I'll be back

 

[OKWMom]

I would just like to say I hate the dentist. I have no cavities but I get to go back next week and have my teeth ground down and my bite rebuilt because my jaw is so bad that MIGHT help. I can barely open my mouth for them to clean my teeth, I don't know how they are going to to all that. The next step is replacing the joint and I'm not ready for that. Oh well, there are much worse things in life than a bad jaw.

If I had to have all of that done I would hate the dentist too! Bless you. I hope they are able to do all that with minimal pain. Or really good pain killers.

Of course not! It's just getting harder each day, for me anyway, to respond to everyone.

Me too Kat. Lyndsay, I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings when I forget them, but I am just not mentally with it and like Sheryl, I didn't really understand the Hawaii trip. That must have been going on while I was MIA.

I don't know about everybody else but I'll eat gravy on just about anything, including bread and butter.

Merle, you and Kenny would get along just fine. As a matter of fact, one of his new favorites is the new orleans po boys that Sheryl and Kat mentioned. When he realized I could make him a sandwich WITH gravy, well now, that boy was in heaven. And if I buttered the sub roll before baking, all the better. Honestly though, it doesn't really resemble the po boy after he fixes it. It requires a knife and fork because the sandwich is swimming in gravy.

I usually make gravy any time I have potatoes, Buddy then takes a spoon and "samples" it, gets some bread and butter and dunks it. My niece Kim filled a coffee to go cup with it and drank it on the way home. She did have her buns and butter but . Kady tests it "I'm not afraid, Pa!" to see if it has been Nanatized Yup....we are gravy people! I did not need WW for nothin'

Us too! I think that (well and the Hagan Daas he eats every night) is responsible for Kenny growing out of his 34s. Even if he thinks I shrunk them in the washer.

As Kat said, we usually put brown gravy over rice. In my family turkey gravy goes over the turkey dressing & the potatoes.

Yes, but is the turkey gravy with or without the giblets? Boiled egg or not? Hope you enjoy the veal by the way. I really love it but don't make it often since veal is so expensive.

Gretchen -- Wonderful news!
I always make potatoes when I make gravy. Occasionally, I put leftovers on noodles or sometimes a hot roast beef and gravy sandwich, but never on rice. When I make rice, I either make it plain for the kids, fried rice or served under something like Indian food. I also like risotto.

Me too. As a matter of fact, I've never met a risotto I didn't like. Congrats to Greg, by the way. I hope he makes it the rest of the way injury free.

My FIL even at the end of his life would leave chemo & want sausage, biscuits & gravy. I'm sure it had something to do with it being his comfort food.

My Dad wants biscuits and maple syrup. But because his blood sugar is elevated, he isn't supposed to have it. And that sugar free stuff just isn't the same.

Now you can't tease us like that, print it woman!

Let's see if this works. I am trying to get a banner for my upcoming trip.

Whoohoo it did. I feel so smart!!

Ellen that cracks me up. Not laughing AT you. Laughing WITH you. I'm technologically challenged myself. The first time I added one of those holiday thingies to my signature successfully, I almost did a little dance.

I have found the motherland from which I came from - the Pottery Barn outlet. Thank goodness I was shopping alone as I wandered for 1.5 hours or so... it was kiss the ground worthy. It's a combo William Sonoma, PB, West Elm, and PB kids. I can't wait to get home and put all my new stuff out! I also got some great deals at the Crate and Barrel outlet.

Wedding update... my mother is in tears, I've been doing counseling by cell phone all afternoon. Once the rehearsal dinner is over tonight, I'm taking mom to the hotel bar and buying her a round (or two!). She told me she wished she had told my sister to kiss her rear and gone shopping with me

I'm glad you had a great time shopping. That sounds like a place I could stay all day long. Sorry your mother's day didn't go as well. Drinks for her are definitely in order. And for the record, I still think she should tell your sister to kiss her rear.

 

[OKWMom]

Kat, I forgot to ask. How's Kyle doing?

 

[TigerKat]

Kat, I forgot to ask. How's Kyle doing?

He's doing a bit better. I think we'll soon be able to "talk openly" about that situation we spoke about! It's been killing me.

 

[shovan]

Merle, you and Kenny would get along just fine. As a matter of fact, one of his new favorites is the new orleans po boys that Sheryl and Kat mentioned. When he realized I could make him a sandwich WITH gravy, well now, that boy was in heaven. And if I buttered the sub roll before baking, all the better. Honestly though, it doesn't really resemble the po boy after he fixes it. It requires a knife and fork because the sandwich is swimming in gravy.

Yes, but is the turkey gravy with or without the giblets? Boiled egg or not? Hope you enjoy the veal by the way. I really love it but don't make it often since veal is so expensive.

My Dad wants biscuits and maple syrup. But because his blood sugar is elevated, he isn't supposed to have it. And that sugar free stuff just isn't the same.


Ellen that cracks me up. Not laughing AT you. Laughing WITH you. I'm technologically challenged myself. The first time I added one of those holiday thingies to my signature successfully, I almost did a little dance.
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I'm glad Kenny likes his sloppy po-boy! The sloppier the better!

Turkey gravy WITH giblets! But boiled egg? That's a new one on me!

Thanks again for that recipe. I haven't bought veal in a while, but that is one dish I just have to try! Bob would go through the moon over that & oh yeah me too!

He's doing a bit better. I think we'll soon be able to "talk openly" about that situation we spoke about! It's been killing me.

Kat, I must have missed this too? Or is this a private conversation I'm jumping in on? Is everything okay with Kyle?

 

[TigerKat]

Or is this a private conversation I'm jumping in on? Is everything okay with Kyle?

I really shouldn't have said anything but if you think about it we've talked about it too. It's almost official and then I can say more. I'm sorry I don't want anyone to feel left out.

 

[shovan]

I really shouldn't have said anything but if you think about it we've talked about it too. It's almost official and then I can say more. I'm sorry I don't want anyone to feel left out.

Sorry I do remember & apologize for butting in!

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Kat, I must have missed this too? Or is this a private conversation I'm jumping in on? Is everything okay with Kyle?

How did I miss something was wrong with Kyle? It's more than his ribs?!?

Ok, rice. My girlfriends Grandma makes black beans & rice with chunks of chorizo it is amazing! I was having a food fantasy when I typed it earlier! I really need to get a life
When I was little my Grandma used to make regular white rice & put a giant pat of butter on it for me, that was pure heaven...she also used to make a pork roast stuffed with wild rice. If there was wild rice left over she would mix that into homemade stuffing & put it in a roasting chicken......nothing like double carbs

Tonight I scraped together Greek salads & Greek fries.......was actually pretty good.