What's for supper?

[thegrammalady]

blueberries
Georgia peaches
cherries
strawberries

yum  yum

i'm jealous

[twirl]

went to a local farmer's market
I did not know there were Georgia peaches ----- so good
tonight--- swollen feet and all
small - hot and sour soup
1/2 order of chicken chop suey
tea--- too  much I'm sure
I am going to hell......

[monrein]

Our nephew is taking us to dinner tonight at he and his sister's favorite korean/japanese restaurant here.  I'll probably have veggie tempura and rice with a couple of pieces of raw yellowtail or white tuna.  I might also have some chap chae (transparent noodles stir fried with shiitake mushrooms, red peppers and lots of black pepper).  Oh and a nice seaweed salad (with rice wine vinegar but no salt or soy sauce).

One of the waitresses' husband is on dialysis so she helps me get what I need and the owner has known me a long time (I used to always bring her back a little present from France, like soap shaped like fish, or chocolate sardines in a tin that looked just like real sardines) so we usually get special treatment and a freebie or two.   I kinda wish I didn't love food so much but then I'd be someone else altogether.

[thegrammalady]

1/2 of a safeway just right frozen dinner (it's for two and i'm being good) balsamic chicken, rice and veggies (green beans, carrots and corn) not bad at all for something you stick in the microwave (i've gotten so lazy) but have lost 26 pounds since january (and my labs are perfect)

[kitkatz]

Twirl I am right there on the way to hell with you!   Caldo de Res tonight

[MyssAnne]

Gail, I thought I was a foodie, I am an amateur compared to you!!! I love reading your posts, of what you're had or seen!!! Please, be as explicit as possible (seriously!!!), I love descriptions of food!!!  Come to think of it, that goes for everyone...you too, Mimi!!! Your dinners always sound so good!!!

[twirl]

I agree.... I never heard of most of the food Monrein writes about....it is fun picturing the foods in my mind....who knew you could stuff a grape leaf and eat it...sea weed salad? It is amazing.......... I wonder if she eats esgargo"

[MIbarra]

I have had escargot in garlic butter sauce. They were delicious. You just have to not think about what the little creatures truly are.

[monrein]

I sure do eat escargots and at our friends' home near Bordeaux, they gather them from the garden, put them overnight in the old inside drum of a washing machine (lots of air holes but the snails can't get out) then put cornmeal in with them.  The escargots then eat that and that cleans out their systems entirely, leaving cornmeal inside instead of the plants or whatever else they've been eating before.  My friend then sautes them up with white wine, garlic and herbs, pressure cooks them for superb tenderness, we run to the boulangerie for fresh bread and the feast is on.  Those are only the pre-appetizers and we linger at the table on average for about three hours.  My friend's Dad is an oyster cultivator and their family supplies some of France's best oysters to movie stars like Gerard Depardieu and notables like the President of France.  I don't eat oysters myself because of the kidney situation but her Dad always used to bring me other seashore treats that weren't eaten raw.  He loved that I'd try and almost always really like whatever he presented.  He got a real kick out of my first experience with grilled quails and guinea fowl but was disappointed that he couldn't be the one to introduce me to pigeon.  We used to raise and eat those in Jamaica and I used to go bird hunting for a relative of pigeon called bald pate.  Good eating also unless full of buckshot.

My trips to France always revolved around amazing food and we always had a big, long two hour minimum lunch and a much smaller meal at night.  I can drool on the sight of the Red Michelin Guide to restaurants in France.

Tomorrow I'm thinking of taking the kids for a Dim Sum lunch at a Chinese restaurant.  Chicken feet anyone??  Of course, these days I am very careful and the salt is the biggest problem.

[Mimi]

Well I think I will pass on the escargots at this time, maybe later.  Tonight we had chicken Philly cheese on a hoagie,
from the restaurant round the corner and up the road from us.  Everything this place has is delicious.  We also had a side salad and onion rings.  I had half the sandwich, which had grilled onions and mushrooms on it, the side salad,
three onion rings, and a glass of diet coke.  YummmYummmmmm...........
I'm telling you MyssAnne and Bolta, I love to eat and cook, too.

Love, Mimi

[thegrammalady]

we went to white fence farm. the kids played in the playground while we waited for our table, and we wondered around 1 or 4 gift shops. chayton went down the "pig chute" a big tunnel of a slide. we went to the petting zoo and fed the goats. we had fried chicken family style with potatoes, cole slaw, cottage cheese, pickled beets, kidney bean salad, and corn fritters, lots of corn fritters. i may not eat for a week.

[twirl]

you capture and kill your own snails to eat
and I thought my red-neck possum eating students had something on you
pigeons - you eat pigeons----- they look tuff to me
oysters --- love them fried --- not raw
I am not asking what you do with any bugs you find around you house

[karen547]

I'm going to Romano's Macaroni Grill tonight! I don't know what I am going to have, but I know it will involve PASTA!

[kitkatz]

Romano's is good! Enjoy a plate for me, too.  I had spinach chicken and mac and cheese for dinner plus three binders and cherry diet soda

[monrein]

Hey Twirl, the pigeons are young (they're called squab) so they're not tough at all.  They are raised for food but in much better conditions than most chickens eaten in North America.  On our farm they were fed special grain meal and were quite pampered.

Food is such a cultural thing and when I used to travel a lot I found it was a great way to connect with others.  On the other hand I can very easily live without fast food, sodas, potato or other chips and I really dislike processed cheese that tastes like soap to me.  Also not a fan of deep-fried stuff or other unhealthy things, not because I don't like the taste but out of concern for my body and my genetic predisposition to gain weight. 

Tonight we took the kids to an Indian restaurant where I ate not very much because it's my two day stretch between dialyses.  I ordered for them a goat curry, a chicken dish with a sauce of ground almonds and spices, an eggplant curry with green peas, tandoori chicken (marinated overnight in yogurt and spices then baked in the clay tandoor oven) rice with cumin seeds and naan bread which is also baked in the tandoor.  This Indian restaurant is a favorite of mine and the owners are a really nice family originally from the Punjab region of India where the Sikhs come from.  My nephew liked the food but my niece much prefers Asian dishes and sushi.  They're both game though to try anything and I always feel that my duty is to expose them to various things and let them decide what they like.

At lunch we had Asian tapas.  Har Gow (steamed shrimp dumplings with hot sauce),  beef rolls stuffed with garlic and green onions, california rolls, shrimp tempura for Syd and fresh vietnamese rolls.

I feel I'm being a bit of a masochist as I have to be so careful but I enjoy seeing them try and enjoy all this good stuff. 

[Zach]

Yum, Chicken Tandoori and naan!  Add a little Seekh Kebab with lemon flavored basmati rice, and I'm set for the night.
We have a lot of Indian restaurants here in NYC.

[thegrammalady]

april and i grilled steaks and had a salad. i love my bbq, i've been known to grill in the snow.

[MIbarra]

I had Schnitzel with fried German potatoes.

Schnitzels are thin cuts of meat (traditionally veal, but I usually have pork). The meat is breaded and then fried. You can get it with many different sauces on top, but I like mine plain with lemon squeezed over it. German potatoes are cut up or sliced, fried in butter or oil with bacon and onion. Yummm! I miss my mother's german cooking.

[okarol]

hush puppies           this is the best recipe
ingredients:
1 c cornmeal
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 c buttermilk
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg beaten
1/2 c chopped onion
1 c fresh or frozen corn kernels or drained kernels from can
chopped jalapeno or mild chilies, as desired
Preparation:
combine all the ingredients; drop by spoonfuls in hot fat    cook until the hush puppies are a golden brown

It sounds so good, but so fattening too.
By hot fat, you mean deep fry in oil? Sorry, I know it's a dumb question but I never have made them.

[twirl]

Monrein   I want to come spend a week with you
Okarol-------- it means deep fry in oil--- I need to send you a bottle of the green tom sauce but would it break----- ain't the same without the
                 green tomato sauce           you think UPS is up to the challenge

supper         ice cold fresh blueberries, 8 ounce Pepsi, bean chalupas with avacodo

[twirl]

this is so bad, I have to confess to some people who will understand
I am eating egg rolls and strawberry ice cream and drinking Pepsi for breakfast
the road to hell is lined with Chinese food and sometimes ice cream
no one will know
my cats and dogs never tell on me
 
and I am not going to church---- after eating like this, who would feel like church----what is on A&E

[David13]

this is so bad, I have to confess to some people who will understand
I am eating egg rolls and strawberry ice cream and drinking Pepsi for breakfast
the road to hell is lined with Chinese food and sometimes ice cream
no one will know
my cats and dogs never tell on me
 
and I am not going to church---- after eating like this, who would feel like church----what is on A&E

Twirl, you are so funny!  You always give me a good laugh when I need it most! 

Last night I had garlic shrimp, steamed broccoli, and for dessert fresh strawberries. Yum!

Not sure about tonight. . .

[monrein]

I agree totally with David.  Twirl you are the funniest, I almost always crack up when I read your posts.  Love seeing you on here.

[kitkatz]

this is so bad, I have to confess to some people who will understand
I am eating egg rolls and strawberry ice cream and drinking Pepsi for breakfast
the road to hell is lined with Chinese food and sometimes ice cream
no one will know
my cats and dogs never tell on me
 
and I am not going to church---- after eating like this, who would feel like church----what is on A&E

You are going to H*** with that morning diet Twirl!   I am kidding of course, but it sounds about right twith the Chinese food and ice cream. My personal hell will be lined with chocolate I cannot eat!

[Gramapat]

My family had tri-tip cooked on the grill, baked potatoes, asparagus and baked beans.  I was sick so I had a Vanilla Ensure - mmmmmmmmm! (Not)  I felt very jealous.