What Are You Eating Today?

[ZiprHead]

I usually do all the cooking in the house but the wife wanted to try making a homemade chicken pot pie.



I must say, it was pretty damned good.

 

[gmbteach]

Pan fried ribeye steak (medium rare and well seared/caramelised on the outside and perfectly pink in the middle) with par cooked potatoes, carrots and corn that were then sauteed in the butter left over from sautéing the mushrooms in butter!

I would pay $40 for such a dinner!

 

[ideologyhunter]

Coconut brittle from a mail order place in Michigan called Granny's Confections. Omigod yum...baby gots to have his brittle!!

 

[Emily Lake]

Pan fried ribeye steak (medium rare and well seared/caramelised on the outside and perfectly pink in the middle) with par cooked potatoes, carrots and corn that were then sauteed in the butter left over from sautéing the mushrooms in butter!

I would pay $40 for such a dinner!

 

[Emily Lake]

Braised chuck roast with smashed potatoes and corn. Maybe gravy if I feel like dealing with the drippings.

Roast is already seared, and is currently in the oven braising for a couple of hours. The house smells really good right now.

 

[Playball40]

pixy stix

 

[thebeave]

pixy stix

Those are still around? I haven't seen them in years. Popular when I was a kid. IIRC, if you pour the pixie stix contents into a coke, it will create a foamy coke geyser. A good trick to play when you see an annoying kid holding a bottle of Coke.

 

[robnisch]

pixy stix

Those are still around? I haven't seen them in years. Popular when I was a kid. IIRC, if you pour the pixie stix contents into a coke, it will create a foamy coke geyser. A good trick to play when you see an annoying kid holding a bottle of Coke.

My last job was in retail. Part of my job was to order candy. There are still vendors that sell old brands that I thought were gone.

 

[crazyfingers]

I order some Quaker Oats grits. I keep hearing about it. Corn based. Never had them. I thought I'd try it as a substitute for mashed potatoes that are not great if you're trying to avoid kidney stones.

 

[gmbteach]

I am starting to cook for the freezer for our house sitter we will have in a couple of weeks. So I’ve cooked Lamb shanks on a bed of tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, onions, mushrooms and capsicum, with tinned tomatoes and used red wine to rinse out the tin. Slow cooked in the oven for a few hours until the meat falls off the bone.

I use a similar base for rissoles. The butcher makes ones the size of my fist and when done this way they come out tender and juicy.

 

[ideologyhunter]

I buy Dixy Lily grits or Jim Dandy grits. Great change of pace. Good for breakfast or dinner (at dinner, it's a side.) Great with raisins (no need to cook them with the grits -- pour the hot grits over the raisins you've spooned into your cereal bowl), butter, sugar. I use cinnamon sugar. Also I splash a little vanilla into the cooking water. Grits -- besides blues and Jimmie Rodgers records, one of the nicer things the South gave us.

 

[Politesse]

Popular when I was a kid. IIRC, if you pour the pixie stix contents into a coke, it will create a foamy coke geyser.

A sure sign that these are wise things to consume.

 

[robnisch]

I order some Quaker Oats grits. I keep hearing about it. Corn based. Never had them. I thought I'd try it as a substitute for mashed potatoes that are not great if you're trying to avoid kidney stones.

Polenta is a nice alternative to potatoes. Serve with a marinera or fresh parm cheese.

 

[brewer]

Trying to figure how I'm going to cook a London broil that I picked up.

 

[Emily Lake]

I order some Quaker Oats grits. I keep hearing about it. Corn based. Never had them. I thought I'd try it as a substitute for mashed potatoes that are not great if you're trying to avoid kidney stones.

It's going to be more like polenta or the small kind of couscous. It gets gooey though, especially if you add some cheese. I do like some cheesy grits. If you like cauliflower, I've heard that it makes a good mashed potato substitute... but I've never been able to get past the cauliflower aroma. You might consider cream of wheat, just use a bit less water than it calls for.

Is it specifically potatoes that are a concern for kidney stones?

 

[Emily Lake]

Trying to figure how I'm going to cook a London broil that I picked up.

I suggest an oven.