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It's Wednesday night!! (BFD, right?) Whats for dinner?

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  • MikM Offline
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    Mik
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    Here we are having homemade Neapolitan pizza with Rao's marinara as sauce, homemade meatballs, mushrooms and fresh basil - kind of cleaning out the fridge of leftover stuff.

    Made a lemon-basil panna cotta for dessert, with blueberry compote (compote being a fancy term for cooked fruits with a little honey and water).

    Cheap Italian red for dinner, cheap French rose for aperitif (aperitif being a fancy word for what you get drunk on while cooking)

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      Have you used the Rao's sauce on pizza before? I love love it as a quick pasta.

      I'm going to try to use a simple san marzano tomato sauce next time on our pizza (just the tomatoes, crushed, olive oil, herbs, simmer), but I'll use Rao's if it works well too.

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        No, I haven't, but I sauce pretty sparingly so it should work out ok. I don't like too much sauce on a pizza, or too much cheese for that matter. I want a crust you can taste and that is crisp on the bottom and edges but chewy inside.

        The sauce and meatballs were left over from a pasta dinner last weekend. They needed to be used. The basil is getting kind of blinky and needed to be used too, as were the mushrooms.

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        • X xenon

          Have you used the Rao's sauce on pizza before? I love love it as a quick pasta.

          I'm going to try to use a simple san marzano tomato sauce next time on our pizza (just the tomatoes, crushed, olive oil, herbs, simmer), but I'll use Rao's if it works well too.

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          @xenon said in It's Wednesday night!! (BFD, right?) Whats for dinner?:

          a simple san marzano tomato sauce next time on our pizza (just the tomatoes, crushed, olive oil, herbs, simmer)

          That sounds awfully good, Xenon.

          Banana smoothie and some mixed nuts here.

          My life is a glorious cycle of song, no shit.

          Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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          • MikM Offline
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            Ready for the oven. The cheese looks heavier than it actually is and my pizza shaping skills need work.

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            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              #6

              Cut some eggplant today and had a stale half-loaf of French bread, so it's eggplant casserole.

              Waste not, want not

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                YUM, Mik!

                Burgers, homegrown tomatoes, basil. Yes, put that basil on your tomato on your burger.

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                  Rainman
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                  Costco string cheese and tortilla chips.

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                    Costco string cheese and tortilla chips.

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                    @Rainman said in It's Wednesday night!! (BFD, right?) Whats for dinner?:

                    Costco string cheese and tortilla chips.

                    Got a recipe for that?😄

                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                      #10

                      Creamy Jif Peanut Butter on Wheat
                      And a Lofthouse cookie with pink frosting

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                        Miso Glazed Chilean Sea Bass sauted with sesame-orange spinach & arugula, pickled red onions. Caesar salad and a nice Chiante.

                        Ok... Long John Silvers fish and fries $2.59 special And small Diet Cokes......

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                        • MikM Offline
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                          I like Long John’s batter. They used to have the greatest fried scallops back in the 70’s.

                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                            Pork ribs baked in Korean spicy BBQ and Bulgogi sauce mix served over steamed rice with mixed vegetables.

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                              Pork ribs baked in Korean spicy BBQ and Bulgogi sauce mix served over steamed rice with mixed vegetables.

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                              wrote on last edited by
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                              @Axtremus said in It's Wednesday night!! (BFD, right?) Whats for dinner?:

                              Pork ribs baked in Korean spicy BBQ and Bulgogi sauce mix served over steamed rice with mixed vegetables.

                              You and me, bud!
                              That's one of my favorites.
                              But I always like a few heaping spoonfuls of Kim-Chee.
                              Probably spelled it wrong. But really, once you down one bite, spelling is the least of worries, right?

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                                #15

                                Panna cotta was not great last night, and the compote was not good. I think the blueberries were too old.

                                BUT - I took a bite and the other container of panna cotta is delicious this morning, if too much basil. Live and learn. Nothing ever seems to get enough lemon flavor for me. Going to buy some lemon extract for next time.

                                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                  Had sushi this evening. Actually, more like a kim bop, so a seaweed roll with stuff in the center.

                                  Easy, tasty, and (somewhat) healthy. LOL

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                                    Friday
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                                    I ate left over pizza and left over curry last night (clearing out the fridge). Dinner tonight will be lengua con platano (tongue with bananas) and pozole (type of stew) from this Afro-Mexican place we like to go to.

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                                      You would have to hog tie me and suspend me over a vat of acid and tell me the rest of my family would be thrown in after me to get me to eat a tongue.

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                                        You would have to hog tie me and suspend me over a vat of acid and tell me the rest of my family would be thrown in after me to get me to eat a tongue.

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                                        #19

                                        @Larry In the book I just finish reading, Winter Fortress, a group of Norway commandos is forced to over winter in northern Norway. Obviously, somewhat limited in food.

                                        From the book:

                                        "they had become connoisseurs of reindeer...... They could tell an old bull from a calf from a yearling....... Eyelid fat and bone marrow were the finest of delicacies. As was gorr, a soup made from the contents of the deers stomach, rich in moss, mixed with meat, blood and water. Truth however, is that they were indiscriminate. They ate the heart, kidneys, liver, brain, larynx, tongue, tooth nerves, eyes, nose, every sliver of meat on the bones, and then the bones themselves. Other than the hooves, horns and pelts, nothing escaped their plates."

                                        In taiwan, we eat some "weird" things, but the above is too much for me! LOL

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                                        • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                                          @Larry In the book I just finish reading, Winter Fortress, a group of Norway commandos is forced to over winter in northern Norway. Obviously, somewhat limited in food.

                                          From the book:

                                          "they had become connoisseurs of reindeer...... They could tell an old bull from a calf from a yearling....... Eyelid fat and bone marrow were the finest of delicacies. As was gorr, a soup made from the contents of the deers stomach, rich in moss, mixed with meat, blood and water. Truth however, is that they were indiscriminate. They ate the heart, kidneys, liver, brain, larynx, tongue, tooth nerves, eyes, nose, every sliver of meat on the bones, and then the bones themselves. Other than the hooves, horns and pelts, nothing escaped their plates."

                                          In taiwan, we eat some "weird" things, but the above is too much for me! LOL

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                                          @taiwan_girl

                                          Ax would eat all that, and more, bet-chya. Just like a commando.
                                          I would, or will, too, once I run out of string cheese and tortilla chips.
                                          Now Horace will call me fat, again.
                                          Just Can't Win.

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