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leftover steamed broccoli with chicken saltimbucco.... but i WANTED a chili cheese dog - and fries.

here's one johnnybird and i like, especially the wine truffles: http://www.jemanuel.com/items/stores/1/index.aspx

oh..... i think there are some dill pickle lay's potato chips downstairs

had broccoli and leftover chicken saltimbucco... i WANTED a quarter pound chili cheese dog... with fries.

but it is too early for corndogs up here(nw nj) - that is state fair food and usually the wrong time of the month

why not? toast dope(johnnybird pm'd me that he is using the word dope to mean good) is whatever tastes good to you. john has made it with both refined white sugar and raw. i like the dope made with raw sugar better for baking and making streusels; john likes the white sugar on toast because it kinda melts a bit like the crust of a brulee when he pops it into the microwave to heat up at work.

gee, fifi - if the nephew practices(d) criminal or as a pd he would know dope . if any consolation johnnybird's dad is an attorney - and we give him bathches of this stuff prominantly labeled...

Please, what is toast dope? I remember reading about it on here awhile back, but I couldn't find the thread... ← here you go basilgirl, susan in fl's homage to the dope: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=36283&hl=dope p.s. love your sig line - got a plaque with that saying for my 10th anniversary at work n.b. and here i thought you were going to ask about my portugese sweet bread!

we are supposed to get some freezing rain so it was clean out the fridge day and a vegetable soup. froze 1 and 2 cup containers of the turkey stock i made and then used the rest. carrots, carmelized onions, garlic, thyme, a bay leaf, reconstituted mushrooms, wild rice, salt and pepper..... will have it for dinner(with some to freeze for our lunches and mother-in-law #1) with some cheddar biscuits. and there is a piece of sweet potato pie left.........

we've been having up and down weather - and an ice storm supposed to turn to rain later today. took the stock i made sunday and after freezing a bit, made a vegetable soup for dinner. will make some cheddar biscuits to go with the soup and have a set of portugese sweet bread risisng to bake off tomorrow morning so john can have some warm bread for breakfast topped with toast dope...

Wow! Thanks for the warning. I guess a roadtrip to Newburgh is in order, though. Dana ←

here's one mother-in-law #3 told at christmas need i say she is blonde: Blonde Construction Worker An Irishman, a Mexican and a blonde guy were doing construction work on scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building. They were eating lunch and the Irishman said, "Corned beef and cabbage! If I get corned beef and cabbage one more time for lunch, I'm going to jump off this building." The Mexican opened his lunch box and exclaimed, "Burritos again! If I get burritos one more time I'm going to jump off, too." The blonde opened his lunch and said, "Bologna" again. If I get a bologna sandwich one more time I'm jumping too." The next day the Irishman opened his lunch box, saw corned beef and cabbage and jumped to his death. The Mexican opened his lunch, saw a burrito and jumped too. The blonde opened his lunch, saw the bologna and jumped to his death as well. At the funeral the Irishman's wife was weeping. She said, "If I'd known how really tired he was of corned beef and cabbage I never would have given it to him again!" The Mexican's wife also wept and said, "I could have given him tacos or enchiladas! I didn't realize he hated burritos so much." Everyone turned and stared at the blonde's wife... "Hey, don't look at me," she said, "he makes his own lunch."

10 months later.... and the polar express has hit northwest new jersey so after 2 hours of shoveling and spreading seed for the birds this morning started roasting turkey necks, chicken rib cages and capon bones with aromatics to make a rich turkey stock(got them turkey necks for 1.35 for 3 lbs). still haven't decided what to make with the stock - possibly some risotto... right now have a macaroni cheese in the oven for my dinner. along with some garlic broccoli johnnybird is in poughkeepsie for a family event and won't be home till tomorrow so i think i will make some banana bread for a welcome home snack. i do have a yen to make some cuban black bean soup, though....... anyone else inspired by the colder weather?

finally made the butter braised beef(though with olive oil not butter so johnnybird could eat it). what a wonderfully simple but elegant dish. i had gotten a piece of beef from my butcher that i cut in half then cooked. we had half the meat with garlic mashed potatoes and green beans. i took the rest, cut it into smallish pieces, resurrected some beef gravy from the freezer and cooked up a some potatoes, carrots, and onions then made a truly great stew.... thanks klary!

how about roasting them in a hot oven with some onion and carrot then serve as a side? or roast and add to some risotto? or roast and add to some chicken stock, some thyme and shredded chicken for a soup?

AVOID CHUMLEYS!! i stopped in one day to get some takeout. the pulled pork was totally flavorless and the beef was stringy - like it had been cut across the grain the wrong way. haven't tried indigo smoke or the one in summit/chatham - pop's? but am now craving the brisket wrap from hot rod's

i have been the unfortunate recipient of several horrible items including: http://www.slatonbakery.com/images/cj/IMG_1964.jpg cat with goldfish bowl and my mother-in-law informed me it wasn't cheap - 20.00 at a yard sale. johnnybird said this was my best bit of acting ever... this year - a bottle of Andre from father-in-law and mother-in-law #3.

i, too am a dinosaur. my "recipe box" now is two big workout shoe boxes that i am constantly adding to and deleting from. i copy out recipes from my cooking magazines then pass them on - cooking light to my friend 'chelle, other assorted ones i hoard up and throw in whenever i send cookbooks out to eg's who reply on the FREE COOKBOOKS thread as a lagnaippe... when i want to do some cooking or try a new recipe(or an old one) i pull the boxes out and start going through them... i pull the cards move them around, thinking of the colors, textures, temperature the food is served at until i get a menu i like. right now i have recipes for a sweet potato pie and sweet and sour onions pulled to go with our christmas dinner on new year's eve.

put something in the toaster at work WITHOUT FIRST checking the darkness level. i had made a blue cheese buffalo burger yesterday for lunch and had toasted the bun. went to do the same thing today and it seems the director, who has a passion for well browned bread, must have made some yesterdayafter me. i set the fire alarm off and cleared the whole library and recreation department out into the rain.... i'm so ashamed...

we're 2/3 of the way through the celebrations: christmas eve was at my sister-in-law's house with all the crew including 4 brothers, 2 wives, her boyfriend, father-in-law and mother-in-laws #1 & #3. cheese and crackers veges and dips scallops wrapped in bacon shrimp lasagna bread beef pot pies(sister-in-law's first attempt at this - we WILL be having a crimping seminar later) fried potatoes salad cookies christmas day- ham sweet potato gratin carrots with thyme and honey white and green asparagus baked beans saturday will be johnnybird and my christmas celebration. so far i am making roast capon sausage dressing smashed potatoes sweet potato pie still ruminating on the veg and i may do what daniel did and serve a hot cheese course of those wonderful looking rarebits. any suggestions?

Why??? I mean, is there a rampant family allergy??? ← this family doesn't believe in any vegetable - especially "rabbit food"

it wasn't a holiday pot luck but my husband's grandmother's funeral luncheon... my mother-in-law ordered subway sandwiches - then took out the lettuce and tomatoes edited to say i am a librarian - we always have good potlucks since most libarians live for two things - food and sex and not necessarily in that order. this year we started with crudite and a sun-dried tomato dip, homemade pimento cheese with bread to slather it onto. then came grilled filet, ham, shrimp, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, asparagus, chocolate silk cake and a grasshopper pie.

a standard shelter island, ny funeral food

just back from the inlaws and still have christmas with johnnybird to do friday night was just three of us - chicken ruby(chicken breasts lightly sauteed then baked with a sauce of cranberries, onion, orange juice and spices), green beans with garlic and whole wheat noodles. christmas eve was at my sister-in-law's place. all i had to do was make salad, a dressing for it and bring bread. sil made beef pot pies though we have to work on her crimping skills since the pastry tops collapsed and burned and fried potatoes. mil #3 brought lasagna and precooked frozen shrimp . christmas day was at my mother-in-law's house. ham, a sweet potato gratin, tarragon carrots, baked beans, macaroni and cheese and white and green asparagus. right now at work but saturday, when we celebrate our christmas, it will be a capon,sausage stuffing and the rest is up in the air now....

chef - Red Hat Ladies are groups of women age 50+ who get together for social gatherings based on a poem including the lines...when i am an old woman i will wear a purple dress with a red hat. kinda between Junior Woman's Club and the Senior Center...http://www.redhatsociety.com/ now the Sweet Potato Queens have mush more of a southern flavor. currently we are using the newest book to help a coworker through the "suprise" divorce her husband asked her for...http://www.sweetpotatoqueens.com/spq/