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percyn Pleeease invite me for dinner! (I'd prefer the Friday one) Everybody's dinners look delicious. I've noticed shrimp seems to be the popular theme lately . I'm Russian, and I craved some comfort food tonight. But I wasn't up to starting making borsch or pelmeni (takes forever!), so I had the next best thing: a perfect Greek salad with the freshest ingredients. I'm full and happy now .

I hope I'm not tiring you with my dinners every night . Tonight I had Susan in FL's oldie-but-goodie salad: I did make some changes: used whole wheat pasta, champaigne vinegar, and hazelnut oil. It might be a strange combination, but I like it!

I used to have the same problem with my Olympus, very frustrating. But after I got Canon PowerShot, there ain't stopping me!

Blueberry Pancakes for Saturday morning... Why can't I eat this fluffy tenderness every day? My favorite recipe comes from Cook's Illustrated.

? Is that asparagus I see there? How do you make the sauce? ← I posted the oldie-but-goodie pasta recipe. Click here for RecipeGullet. It's one of those simple dishes, the goodness of which is determined by quality of ingredients. Home grown tomatoes and flavorful avocados make it divine! Asparagus... with the quail? Those are nice young skinny green beans, or should I say Haricot Verts. ← No, no, I meant in your "oldie-but-goodie pasta" - I thought I saw something green asparagus-looking in there . I guess it was just avocado. Your salad and especially bagel sandwich look good! Looove sandwiches for dinner. Well, salads too: (My panini press is working hard this summer again.)

"Currywurst" was one of my unexpected culinary discoveries in Germany. I'd never heard of it before. I was so impressed that I took a picture of it (that, and also because fries came with MAYO! :)). (Behemoth, enjoy )

Everyone's dinner looks so delicious! It's dangerous to read this thread before lunchtime. Susan in FL Can you tell more about your ? Is that asparagus I see there? How do you make the sauce?

Tonight I had shrimp and avocado salad with grapefruit dressing, from Jack Bishop's Vegetables Every Day. It. Was. So. Good! The dressing is just perfect: you saute garlic in olive oil; add grapefruit juice; reduce; add fresh mint, capers, salt and freshly ground pepper; eat, trying not to swallow your tounge .

Russian breakfast. First of all, to make sure my family was not the weird one, I looked through the “What I had for breakfast today” thread on one of the Russian cooking forums. My information basically corresponds to what the folks there had to say . - Porridge (“kasha” in Russian) made from rice, oatmeal, buckwheat, etc. cooked with milk (usually for children); - Eggs fried with pork fat, ham, sausage (often bologna-type), hotdogs, etc. or omelet; - Pancakes, bliny (crepes) or syrniki (sort of like pancakes made with farmer’s cheese); - French toast (often not sweet); - And most often: simply a cup of tea or coffee with an open-face sandwich (bread + butter, jam, cheese, cold cuts. My earliest memory from childhood is breakfast of a boiled egg, bread-and-butter and instant coffee with milk (coffee! what was my mom thinking? ). Also, milk-noodle soup.

Looking at everybody's breakfast makes my mouth water. My favorite meal of the day! Today I had leftover homemade pain au chocolat and a slice of brioche (three days old - the results of my not-so-successful experiments in the kichen ). But here's what I much prefer when I'm not too hungry to actually make a sandwich (whole grain bread, cream cheese, avocado, salmon):

Hi everyone, I am new to this forum, and I'm fascinated to read what everyone had for dinner . Since I didn't have one yet today, I'll share yesterday's - just salmon fillet and steamed vegetables with roasted garlic peanut sauce (diet ).