Dinner tonight - or last night.

Linguini with butter and roasted garlic topped with spicy baked chicken breasts with gravy to pour over. Quite tasty. Oh! And cherry tomatoes from the garden. Cheesecake for dessert, which we rarely have. And I had a tequila sunriser. Think hubby had vodka and OJ.

Hello, Beth

It's very simple, just cut the corn into pieces, about 5cm each, and stew it with the pork with bone, and Dong gua. Fresh small sweet corn would be the best. Don't put too much salt, because you'd like to drink the soup. If you don't want too much calorie, you can use bones with little meat on them. (And You can substitute Dong gua with water chestnuts, crisp and slightly sweet)

The crux is to stew it for a long time, at least 2 hours, to make the collagen in the bones come into the soup. (It's said good for women's skin)

^_^

Thanks, bluestblue.

I wouldn't have thought of replacing a squash with water chestnuts.

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I just looked it up. Dong gua is winter melon. I can get that here. I may give it a try, I've never really cooked with winter melon.

Don't put dong gua too soon in the pot; it can only stand about 30 minutes' stewing. (but even if it's over-stewed, nothing big bad would happen, just too soft :wink: )

Good luck for your trying ^_^

Last night I had thirteen potato chips, one egg, and a small glass of lemonade.

I had a friend over, so I cooked - happens once in a blue moon or less.

I made Halushky (Slovak take on gnocchi) with paprikash (Slovak take on a Hungarian dish that involves lots of paprika. Our takes none).

It was as if my mama made it. Umm umm good.

Only thing missing was zhinchitsa - a non-pasteurized buttermilk from sheep milk. We get it on mountain side sheep farms, straight from shepherds. Sigh.

We had Icelandic food.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbYqznD0R5M&feature=dir

Ewwwwwwwwwww.......

Rice noodle poached with xue li hong (potherb mustard) and julienned pork; slightly sour and hot flavor.

Shish Kebab! Bloody delicious!

yes, and not often it's that way around :wink:


So? Did you get your fish n chips?

shish

But are you now water-logged & freezing cold, Endy? (I saw the news last night! Momma mia! )

Nah, didn't get my fix of fish 'n' chips. I was just dreaming of golden days gone by. And where would I find a place that makes really good ones these days? Perhaps no such place exists anymore? So <sigh> I settled for a sensible dinner instead: Spinach & rice soup. Home made. Very nice, very healthy, but ......

Last night I put a bunch of jalapenos in the blender with lemon juice, salt black pepper, and enough water to make it blend. Then I marinated some chicken breasts in it.

It was good, but it would have been better if I'd let them marinate over night, and then wiped the excess off, because the peppers were so fresh and green, that when I cooked the chicken it got a bit of that burned chlorophyll taste to it.

I gotta figured out a way to get the jalapeno flavor and heat without all the green.

Soup from the freezer tonight. With buttered toast.
Fabulous, hey?

A killer. Fresh is best. Wrap the food. You do it.

wish i could share with you my freshly cooked beetroot - with cheese sauce
OMG - it's delicious (and rather pink)

Tonight, beer braised brats with baked mac & cheese and roasted garden veggies.

I wish I could share it, too, Endy.
Great when you cook something that really hits the spot, isn't it?

Tonight, the wok! (Thought I'd better make a bit of an effort, tired or not!) So I cooked this beef (porterhouse -I've discovered that those "stir fry" pieces they sell at the butcher's are useless... too tough.) with capsicum & broccoli, with a variety of flavourings including soy sauce, hoisin sauce, dry sherry, ginger etc, etc ... Not bad!

Funny thing about wok cookery. It's supposed to be dead simple, but often my efforts leave a bit to be desired. Can never figure out why, considering I often closely follow recipes, trying to get things right.. Anyway, tonight's effort was one of my better ones. A generous serve of steamed Jasmine rice with it, plus some toasted slivered almonds on top was good!

Tonight I'm thinking a shrimp scampi over angel hair pasta - quick and easy. Or else just regular spaghetti. I've been in the mood for some pasta the last few days