Basilgirl

Any ideas for cooking pork sirloin chops? Use like any other chop? Thanks

Friday night: "Jambalaya" (mix from some Louisiana company, not Zatarain's) with smoked turkey sausage - I added Cajun seasoning and it was too salty, even for me Saturday night: Buttermilk/hot sauce marinated fried chicken, carrot slaw with onions, celery, raisins and tons of mayonnaise, biscuits, Sierra Nevadas Sunday night: Ina Garten's turkey sausage lasagna - very good but I left out the goat cheese , Barbera d'Alba. Also made "Italian Beef" in the slow cooker for sandwiches tonight.

Last night: Cheeseburgers with really good aged Wisconsin cheddar and Nueske's bacon , catsup, spicy mustard, Vidalia onion and big fat Vlasic pickle slices. On toasted Thomas' English muffins. Trader Joe's garlic fries on the side. Sierra Nevadas. Tuesday night: "Italian" chicken salad with shredded roasted chicken, thinly sliced red onion, capers, red wine vinaigrette. Rolled up in these new "Flat Out" wraps things I saw at Safeway. Utz rippled chips and my mom's recipe for cukes and onions. Monday night: Leftover homemade pizza from Sunday - one three cheese white pie with anchovies on one side for my sweetie, capers on the other for me. The other was Lidia's pizza sauce, Genoa salami, Vidalias, mozzarella from the farmers market. Saturday night: All alone. A perfectly sized New York strip, seared on stove and finished in the oven, with white button mushrooms sauteed in lots of butter, garlic and parsley, Smith & Wollensky steak sauce. Red wine. Since my boyfriend grew shiitakes, I haven't been allowed to have a button mushroom in my house for quite some time. What a treat. Friday night: Alone. Made a frittata with leftover roasted asparagus, grape tomatoes, Kalamata olives. Fresh cheese from the farmers market on top. Cooked mostly on the stove; broiled to finish off. A big wedge of that on top of garlicky olive oily toasted "Tuscan" bread. White wine. While watching American Beauty again.

Um, forgotten menu item from Saturday: corn on the cob roasted in the husk with parmesan-cayenne butter.

The pictures on this thread are awesome. Friday: Pipette pasta with a sauce from Mario's new book (for ricotta gnocchi, but I wasn't that ambitious) of tomatoes, fennel, celery, carrots, onions, garlic and tons of red pepper flakes Saturday: "Barbequed" chicken on the grill pan, baked beans, and something else I can't remember Sunday: Marinated flat iron steak sandwiches on olive oil soaked toast; fennel salad with blue cheese; very cheap Merlot Monday: Beer-battered fried chicken and onion rings, coleslaw, biscuits, cukes & onions

G&M in Linthicum, MD

Strawberries from the farmers' market with sugar, balsamic and black pepper. Wine.

Forgot to mention Thai basil, Genovese basil, English thyme, lemon thyme, two kinds of rosemary, and sage. Tarragon might go in this weekend.

Chilly and rainy weather in D.C. lately. Last night was Trader Joe's lentil soup doctored up with canned tomatoes, garlic, red onion, balsamic, thyme, cayenne and lots of pepper. Olive-oiled bread toasted and rubbed with garlic, sea salt, then toasted again with Fontina.

My boyfriend once again went nuts this year and has planted over 40 kinds of peppers (sweet and hot) and at least that many kinds of tomatoes. He also has a kick-ass greens garden going on, with spinach, broccoli rabe, mustard, etc. I will be cursing him mightily in about two months. I can't wait until the Peter Peppers come up. Supposedly they look like what the name implies.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/re...36_4317,00.html Mario's excellent recipe for turkey cutlets. Sorry I don't know how to post a link Edited to add the eg did it for me

Roasted pork quesadillas with provolone, red onion & aspargus. The homestyle flour tortillas from Trader Joe's are really, really good. Strawberries and cream with Pepperidge Farm Bordeaux cookies crumbled in. Yum. The Boyfriend said he liked that even better than strawberry shortcake! Cheap Cabernet-Shiraz. While engrossed in the last 24 of the season

Yum is right! Both of these are dishes I want to make. Basilgirl, in which of Marcella's books can I find that recipe? ← It is in Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Marcella's asparagus and fontina wrapped in prosciutto, baked with butter, on top of toasted olive-oiled Tuscan style bread sprinkled with Maldon sea salt and rubbed with garlic, topped with eggs fried in tons of butter. Yum. Devoured while watching Desperate Housewives.

Free-range Australian beef burgers from Trader Joe's on butter-broiled English muffins with mustard, ketchup, pickles. Not sure I liked the burgers. And Thomas' beats Pepperidge Farm hands down in the muffin department. My mom's cukes and onions Ore-Ida Vidalia-o's One glass of chardonnay in between Sierra Nevadas Tonight: grilled cheddar and bacon on raisin bread. Don't laugh. It's good. Plus I'm tired and lazy.

Chicken breasts in a vodka-tomato-lemon-cream-chicken broth sauce Rice/orzo with tons of parmesan (working girl's risotto) Salad with KRAFT SEVEN SEAS GREEN GODDESS DRESSING!!!!

A huge antipasto salad with marinated mushrooms, red onions, roasted red peppers, sun-dried tomato stuffed olives, provolone, pepperoni, genoa Mario's chickpea bruschetta topping, substituted white beans and added red onion St. Andre with La Brea French bread Much cheap white wine

Lidia's pork chops braised in a spicy tomato sauce Garlic mashed potatoes with lots of sour cream Roasted zucchini, grape tomatoes and garlic-stuffed olives drizzled with red wine vinegar So pedestrian compared to all that great stuff up thread. All of the pictures are truly amazing. What a lot of great cooks here on e-gullet!

I remember my mom (now 81, but she doesn't look it or act like it) getting all excited when we got to "start a new meat." She used to have PITCHERS of martinis ready for when my dad came home from work. She cooked for her 6 children nearly every night that I can remember. My dad was in Vietnam (two tours) when I was little, and then my brothers and sisters all moved out (I'm the baby - well, the 43-year-old baby) and soon it was just Mom, Dad, me. Things I still make that I remember her making are her beef stroganoff (braise round steak strips for a couple of hours - she would never have used tenderloin or sirloin - way too expensive); "Sicilian Meat Roll" (meatloaf stuffed with ham and cheese); pot roast French dips; killer thin sliced potatoes layered in a spiral pattern, sprinkled with oregano and paprika, a little water, tons of butter, baked until crispy. She always put mustard on her roast beef before putting it in the oven. On Fat Tuesday she would let me stay home from school and we would make homemade doughnuts. She's a great mom.

Sunday: Braciole made with on-sale-cheap round steak, prosciutto, provolone, capers. Rolled up and stabbed with toothpicks. Braised in a garlic/basil tomato sauce with white wine and a little red pepper flakes. The cheese all oozed out into the sauce oh well. Tossed the sauce with bucatini, put more cheese on top of the meat. Saturday: Lasagna using wonton wrappers as the noodle. Hot Italian sausage/tomato sauce, ricotta/parsley/garlic/mozzarella. Cheap Pinot Noir; serious headache Sunday a.m. Boyfriend made me VERY STRONG coffee and raisin bread with cream cheese and jalapeno jelly Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.

Well, I've had my dehydrated onions for a long time now. I guess they just lose their potency over time, like herbs? Maybe it's time to invest in a new jar. By the way, my sister made Swedish meatballs once using dehydrated onions, but she didn't read the label and used the full amount of fresh onions called for. One of my earliest memories from childhood was her crying about her onion balls.

Every once in awhile I get a serious jones on for the hot & sour soup from a really bad Chinese carryout near my old job. That soup was the only thing on the menu worth eating, along with a side of fried wontons for 99 cents. The total for this fabulous lunch came to $2.10 Also have been craving the scallion pancakes from a different Chinese place. They have recently taken them off the menu . When they came to the table, 3 to a plate, they looked exactly like balloons. I always wondered how they did that.

Agreed, but it is a vital component in my Mom's French Dips she made me as a kid (and which I still make today - I almost panicked a few weeks back when I could not find them in the depths of my spice cabinet. Thankfully there they were.)

Made Marcella Hazan's pot roast from Marcella Says, made with pancetta, garlic, anchovies, Dijon, red wine vinegar on Sunday. Last night I chopped up the meat, added it to the sauce along with a little tomato, heavy cream, butter & fresh rosemary. Cooked up some Barilla tortelloni. Combined pasta and sauce and simmered with parmesan and enough olive oil to make it "smile" (thanks, Lidia). Delicious.

Progresso French Onion soup doctored up with sherry, balsamic and Better Than Bouillion beef broth, asiago cheese bread croutons, asiago and provolone, almost burnt under my new broiler ; romaine salad with Emerald pecan pie pecans, Fuji apple, blue cheese, scallions, Caesar dressing. All choked down while immersed in "24" - Chloe can shoot a mean automatic rifle!