Dinner tonight - or last night.

My italian housemate is leaving us after 3 years. She will be here for just one more month. So, she wants to have lots of dinner parties before she goes. We'll be having one tomorrow.

We are having:

Bruschetta, ala us - several herbs, garlic, grape tomatoes tossed with olive oil, salt, pepper and french feta over sliced bagette. Probably will toss in some toasted, chopped pinenuts.

Risotto of some sort, I think she decided on asparagus.

Salad of her making.

Berries and cream parfait, ala me - I made a simple syrup with water, sugar, honey and chambord, simmered blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and strawberries and a couple sprigs of thyme. Tomorrow, I'll mix creme frais with lemon yogurt and layer the berries, cream with angel food cake. And I'll even garnish it with fresh raspberries, blueberries and thyme.

Tada! I want flowers.

Sounds yummy! I love bruschetta!

And I loooove that kind of dessert! It's my favorite kind, fruit and cream over a light angel food cake! It's sweet, but not icky sweet.

The whole meals sounds delicious and filling, but in a nice, light way.

Good choices!

I wanna be there

Me too - lil hungry hand waving!

I just can't imagine all you strange people liking those evil green bullets - sheesh! Deviates the lot of you!

You're all welcome.... I'll go get more tomatoes.

I have a thing of grape tomatoes, and I can certainly get flowers. Anything else I should get?

Dasha, if A and M are coming, we may need more food. Don't worry about flowers, I was joking.

A will come. M, I'm not sure. I can get whatever's needed in the am, just gimme a call.

We'll see. There's always the expensive store down the street.

Tonight's soup (leftover from yesterday) seems very mundane after that!

Evil green bullets, Margo? Very poetic.

I suppose that the first and last time you tasted one, it had been cooked to a slimy foul-smelling shadow of its true self.

Just discovered an almost identical thread to this one, I started way back in 2003! I'd forgotten all about it! During an A2K lull, you might to interested to see what some of you & others (some no longer with us <sigh>) were having for dinner 2 years ago.:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7732&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

msolga, I didn't want to be the one to point this out, but you have started seventeen of these "What did you have for dinner?" threads over the years.

About a month from now I expect you will start another.

Not true, Gus!

(there were lunch & breakfast ones, too!)

Anyway, lovely to read some of Cav's words of wisdom & inspiration on food again! Gosh he was good & such fun, too. So sadly missed.

Yep, he was a good guy.

... & brilliant & funny & creative & ........ Aw you know!

Yes, all those...


will check out the link, msolga.

Tonight I will be cooking for the lady.

Shrimp linguine with saffron, tomato, red peppers, and peas. Garnished with scallions. I got a free loaf of whole grain bread with the purchase of a nice checkered shirt at the thrift store today, so we will enjoy bread, too. Maybe salad; red wine definitely.

I misread Gargamel's opening line as "Tonight I will be cooking the lady."

soft taco bake

sun-dried tomato tortillas, cut to fit the casserole dish (the scraps will reappear)
ground beef cooked with chipotle/seasonings to make a goopy sloppy joe kinda mess
sliced portabellinis
diced olive bits
diced sundried tomatoes
freshly grated mozzarella
chili con queso from a jar

about four layers of tortilla, chili con queso, meat, mushrooms, olives, tomatoes, mozza

top layer of the tortilla scraps and the last bit of grated mozza

baked about 20 minutes at 350

served with fat-free sour cream, salsa with pineapple, green onion

no avocado/guacamole today

the whole mess was verra verra tasty

Makes me think of dys and his oft-mentioned Frito Pie.