Dinner tonight - or last night.

Tommy and Jeff is a couple we met, they have been together for seven years now. They moved to Florida a year ago from San Antonio Texas. Tommy is a pretty good cook. Tonight he made a chicken and shrimp gumbo that was to die for.

That sounds absolutely delicious, Marco. Wish I could have had some!

My last night's dinner & also left-overs for tonight's dinner: pasta with a vegetarian "Bolognaise" sauce.
Not bad yesterday but tastes even better today.

Mrs F made some great panini -like sammiches with a penne pasta salad with parmeson cheese. Then she apparently found some cannolis near town and she snuck them into the frdige without me seeing. It was a great dinner for a sat night. Small portions except for the cannolis. (A dessert for which Ive been known to kill indescriminantly)

Now i've got an ad at the bottom of the page for: Great vegetarian recipes and more! Silk Beverages. Coupon available

Morgan has been in the kitchen making chicken gumbo. I watched him make the rue and so far so good.

Stoli vodka martini, straight up, twist
Lump crab cakes with mustard sauce, red cabbage salad, crusty rolls
Caffe latte

bacon and eggs. Shes been busy all day and Im still not up to heavy industrial cooking.

Now why did you have to put this idea into my head, farmer?



Now I'm going to have to fight the urge to visit the Italian pastry place when I go shopping this afternoon! Love those cannolis! Yum.

Tonight: Deb's chicken, garlic & lemon recipe. With steamed rice & some green vegetable yet to be determined. Depends on what looks appealing at the market this afternoon.

How you finding that? I do all manner of variants these days.

Dinner for me was a pear....lovely one.

I still cook the original recipe you gave me, Deb.
One of the easiest "success guaranteed" recipes I know of.
You have no idea how many times I've cooked it now! Last summer we called it "the dish of the season", I cooked it so many times. Ha.

Variants?
Do tell!

Yeah - and tell me the recipe again! pleeaassee!

The Lovely Bride made lobster Cantonese last night.
Messy, but delicious.

whats in lobster cantonese?

She is making pork potstickers and some kind of rice dish . # pot stickers and about 1 cup of the rice stuff. A nice dessert of esperesso and shortbreads with jelly.

Get a chook. Pop it on its back and split it down the middle and squish it out.

Put oil in a really tightly closeable pot and put in a head of garlic, with the cloves separated and some of the "paper" rubbed off, but leaving a skin on each clove.

Pop in the chook and brown on both sides. Pop in the juice of one or two lemons, I use little, and some soy sauce or coarse salt and ground black pepper. Put lid on pan and allow to cook over a low heat until meat is tender.

Eat...with what takes your fancy.

I often no longer bother to cut the chook open, and I take off the fattiest parts. I also often leave out the lemon and add veggies, and/or barley and beans or lentils and such, whatever I feel like. If you add beans you may well need to add some stock. Flavor to taste.

Glad it's been such a success!

Merci, madame!

Last night's left-overs for tonight's dinner: very spicy chick peas (& I mean VERY spicy!), steamed Jasmine rice, plus some steamed flat green beans.
I'll put the rest of the humongous batch of chick peas I made last night in the freezer. I think I've had enough of spice for a little while!

I'm making chick pea surprise for tomorrow.

Put some stuff in it...still needs some other stuff.....still making it up.

that sounds fun!

I'm making my first attempt at chicken tandoori. It's been marinating since yesterday. Can't wait to try it!

That sounds great! Could I have the recipe, please?

No seriously, Deb, what did you end up making?
Good?

Dinner tonight: salmon steaks & salad.
The good news: I won't be cooking or preparing anything.
Yay!