Dinner tonight - or last night.

dang, that sounds smellicious

So, not an entire waste of time, eh?

would it be crass to say it was the only redeeming outcome?

I try not to eat anything that doesn't actually have to be swallowed. But I do love scalloped oysters, oyster dressing, and fried oysters (provided they're done right.)

I was lucky I guess in that hubby shares most of my eclectic food tastes though we differ here and there. He won't eat liver and onions and I won't eat bologna.

Tonight we're enjoying some yummy savory seasoned baked porkchops--pork is a really good buy now that demand has dropped because of the 'swine flu'--they say you can't get it from eating cooked pork though so we're trusting them on that. Add some fresh fruit, cole slaw, and homemade cookies and it is a feast.

I'm hankering for some pancetta and basil tomato sauce on pasta.. but I'm on my way outside to work in the yard. May end up tired and just do what dj mentioned.. have an orange, oh, and maybe a cookie.

I bought a sirloin tip roast the other day for $7 - it was 3lbs too!

I rubbed it with olive oil and smashed some garlic cloves with ground pepper and thyme - then rubbed that on it and roasted it with some carrots. Had our usual salad, romaine, spinach, grape tomatoes, cucumber and a lite honey mustard dressing. And watermelon...and sweet tea. Only I didn't get to eat it because I am not eating after 6:00pm and it didn't finish roasting until 6:30 (trying to be good - beach is not far away) so I will get to eat it tomorrow. Even the three little picky boys ate it all up.

Set put together a Singapore style stir fry for when I got back from class. Lots of mushrooms, peppers, skinny skinny noodles, peppery sauce, more of that faux lobster. Pretty dang tasty and surprisingly healthy. Not as many calories as I'd expected.

Babyback ribs. Slow cooked in covered tray, half of inch of water, two to three hours. Grilled, until sauce is bubbly, and has a nice carmelized bark. French fries, corn.

yum Alex...makes my tumbly rumbly.

Taco salad tonight. Nothing fancy. G-baby's b'day supper and it's his choice.

We're having lamb chops tonight. Made it with a herb crust a few weeks ago
and by popular demand will make it tonight again.

<drool>

Exactly what we had last night C/J, I did them on the BBQ, yummy.

That's something else I've never had any luck getting ElStud to eat: lamb chops. This 100% all testosterone, macho, alpha male kind of guy gets all squishy when he thinks about eating a cute, innocent, little, fluffy, baby sheep.

So.....if I snuck some in at dinner one night, how many chops for the average dinner portion?

Those look wonderful CJ. Recipe?

love lamb, chops, curry, stew, you name it

for supper tonight, spaghettini tossed with some parmesan cheese, plain and simple

penne pasta with asparagoose and shrimp.

Off to make one of our house specialties and favorites for dinner tonight: BIEROCHS. (I wonder if anybody outside of Kansas--except me of course--makes these? And I learned to make them in Kansas.)

Hey Dys, your pasta sounds good.

Your Leonard Cohen signature quote is one of my favorites. Forget your perfect offering....etc.

dang Festus, bring me a heapin plate of that....

poppin in to report on the Tiki Bar night out.
The "dirty oysters" were great and my bro shared his grouper Reuben sandwich with me...oh, and we drank Planter's Punch...man, that's livin right.

Grouper Reuben? how's that work?