Dinner Bell - What Are You Eating Today?

[Portabella]

What are you eating today/tonight? I am having Vegetable Lasagna and Cottage Fries. Yummm.....I am soooo hungry too.

[Linda]

Ohhh, you really touched my favorite topic!
I absolutelly LOVE to coock. Unfortunatelly, because it is pretty hard to be a full-time employee, a full-time student, and a full-time housekeeper, I had to trust by step-son to coock for the family until I'm graduated. :loopy:
Tonught, he prepered a beef tounge in tomato salsa. I ate a piece of it with a plate of brown rice, and feel so nice and full now!

[Scott_Fraser]

You can't beet an Indian Curry like a Madras or a Korma, with a large slice of Naan Bread, and watered down with a glass of Ice Cold Beer. MMM Lovely. Although be warned, a Madras is very hot and can blow your ass off afterwards.
Scott:rofl:

[mac]

Last night I had a 1/2 lb burger/cheese, katsup, on a bun. Several fish sticks. A large bowl of frosted mini wheats/milk. Several Hershey Choc Kisses. A Gatorade drink. I might be forgetting something.

[Scott_Fraser]

I thought you were on a diet Mac, or is that a "seafood" diet. Everytime you see food you eat it.:rofl:
Scott

[Linda]

-Which birds are most useful for humans?
-Fried ones!

I'm a chicken lover :loopy:

[Scott_Fraser]

Not at the moment Linda, nearly all the chickens and turkeys have Asian Bird Flu, which has reached the UK. So be wary what you are buying ok.
Scott
PS nothing beets a good plate of Borsch

[becvan]

I just got told I have to eat because I'm dropping weight rapidly... again.. So I made a "dad rescue me" call and asked him to go and buy every fattening thing he can get his hands on.. Doctor orders to munch! LOL

So I have no idea what I will end up eating.. but I know it has to be very fattening! The opposite of most women's diets.. it's annoying as hell.

bec

[Linda]

Scott, it is not that's easy to get the bird flu from the chicken boutgh is the store wnd well-cooked :crazy-eye
By the way, my mom is going to coock Borsch tomorrow. She is always using bones with marrow for the broth, and it tastes AMAZING!
Do you like Salo? :occasion:

[Linda]

Bec, I wish to be dropping some weight! :dont-know
Here is a recipi for those who wants to be chunky.
Take a pound of beef, chop it in cubes, and rub with salt and pepper. Put in the ceramic baking dish. Then take a pound of white potato, cut in cubes, rub with salt and pepper, mix with a mid-size chopped onion, and put over the meat. Cover the form with foil. Put some bay leavesm peppercorn, ir whatever spice you usually use. Bake in the oven in medium temperature until the meat is tender.
Or, the Latino version.
Take a pound of fat pork, and cut in cubes. Soak in lime juice, add chopped jalapenio peppers, garlick, onion, and ground annato seeds, and leave for a half hour. Then put on the pan and sautee until tender. In the meantime, peel a large yucka, adn boil it until soft. Put yucka on the plate, and then put pork over it. Eat while hot!
Have a good appetite :occasion:

[Nam]

Chicken alfredo with veggies on top of linguine noodles. YUM.

[Portabella]

Earlier this evening I ate a large bowl of lime flavored Ramen Noodles that my son had left over. I was not going to eat, but he couldn't finish, so I hate waste so I ate it. Essentially I had second hand noodles........:crazy-eye

[Scott_Fraser]

Hi Linda, no I haven't tried Salo. But when I was in Moscow I loved the little dumplings that you got in the local cafes and bars, they were delicious. Do you have a recipe for them. I also went into a Georgian Restaurant in Moscow and the food was brilliant as well. I ate this lamb casserole that was truly amazing, it just melted in the mouth.
Scott:hello:

[Linda]

Scott, Salo is a salted pork fat which makes Russians high :rolleyes:
Last time I visited MOscow in 2005, my friend/s friend from the village killed a pig, so I bought a kilo of Salo, and my dad and me ate it with Russian black bread every day... I gained 7 pounds!:wink: During the same trip, I was volunteering in the local animal shelter, and one of the cat attendants, a lady in her 70s, invited me to stay in her house overnight. For a dinner she offered a Borsch. To say it was delicious means to say nothing... (Where is a smile with a huge spoon?) She had 16 cats lining in her apartment, so while I was eating, she was talking to the cats:
-Look, my kitties. This poor hungry thing is an American. Americans are always hungry, since they don't eat good food. They only eat burgers...
:clap:
The dumplings your are talking about are called Pelmeni. I've never seen anyone who does not like it!

[Scott_Fraser]

Hi Linda, how do you make Pelmeni, I'd love to try and make them myself.
Scott:hello:

[Linda]

Well, I became pretty laisy here, so I buy the dough instead of making it myself :) usually the dough includes flour and water and should be thick enough to make a firm sheet when you work it with Skalka (a stick to roll the dough and a weapon against the disobedient husband :) ). When the dough is ready, prepare the stuffing. I take ground beef mixed with gorund pork (2/1ratio). Then add a little bread soaked in milk. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Put a sheet of dough on the firm surface. Take a glass or a cup. Using the edge of the glass of a sup, cut the round pieces form the dough. On each piece, put the stuffing, and stick the edges of the dough together (this is a hard part: they often fall apart). When the Pelmeni are ready, you can eaither cook them immediatelly, or store in the freezer, with some four on them.
To cook: but pelmeni to the boiling water. They sould go to the bottom. Stir from time to time carefully. When they are floating, let them about 5 minutes, and then take out, put on the plate, and enjoy. We use ground black pepper with it, but some people prefer to dip it in vinegar, or aet with Mayo.
Have a good appetite!

[Scott_Fraser]

Hi Linda, can you make sweet pelmeni as well. With apples in them or berries.
Scott

[Linda]

Scott, sweet pelmeni are called "Vareniki"! :wink:
Yes, of course, I can make them. You just add sugar to the dough, and prepare stuffing as follows:
A pound of cottage cheese, a half-cup of flour, a cup of sugar, and an egg mix well
Or
Sour cherries, without seeds, mixed with sugar to your taste
Then, follow the procedure as with regular Pelmeni.
Another recepi is called Laisy Vareniki. You simple mix cottage cheese, flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, and raisin to get firm dough as sweet as you like it. Then you make small balls of it, throw in in boilind water, wait for them to float, and take out.
Have a good appetite!

[Gradon]

I didn't eat so well today. Had a banana around noon, then ate McDonald's around 5, then ate appertizers at a friend's house tonight. :dont-know

[Terry]

Whatever it is it will be too much too fattening, yatta, yatta

[Marlene]

After I go to the grocery store (which means I have to actually get out of my PJ's, shower, get dressed, etc. LOL) dinner tonight is going to be cream of chicken and wild rice soup with French baguettes on the side. Simple and good...just the way I like it.

[Scott_Fraser]

Well tonight I had a large Bacon Double Cheese Burger, it was brill. Haven't had one for ages.
Scott

[Portabella]

Today we are having broiled fish and Cottage fries. However, I am hungry now, so I am going to have some asparagus fries to hold me out. Yum.

[Linda]

Not a fan of junk food, but ate a large pizza just now...

[batgirl]

Today we are having broiled fish and Cottage fries.

Portabella, what are cottage fries?

[veiled]

Cooked tonight woo hoo. But collapsed soon as the FIL left. Hubs kindly cleaned up as I promptly passed out. I was so woozy but hubs thought I did well with my "act" of normalcy and said I deserved the rest, so down I went.

But made Chicken fried steak with cream gravy, fried okra, red potatoes with green beans mixed in with dill and butter, and biscuits. A true Southern meal. I am still full and think I gained 10 pounds!

Evie, if I recall right the cottage fries are the waffle looking slices of potatoes that a cooked just like french fries, just look different.

[becvan]

Ohhh Crinkle fries!

LOL, even I was wondereing what those things were.

bec

[kers]

I had vegetarian fake-chicken taquitos and apples for dinner. One thing I like about being single is that no one looks askance at strange combinations in my meals.

[Kathy]

I am making my lasagna recipe with ground lamb, turkey and four cheeses, a spinach salad and pineapple flan for dessert. It's Evie's favourite, so I'm hoping she can eat some of it, but if not I did make a large pot of Scotch broth as well.

[Jim]

And a fine meal it was! Sadly when left to my own defenses I am limited to barbeque cooking, sandwiches and take away.

Jim.