Dinner tonight - or last night.

Excellent sushi tonight.

That recipe sounds good! Is that a traditional way of cooking habichuelas?

Red beans, i.e. kidney beans.

This reminds me:

Michael Franti & Spearhead "Red Beans and Rice"

Git down!

Here's one of my favorite cake recipes:

http://able2know.org/topic/180673-7#post-4813586

BBB

I have become meat challenged, but don't call me vegan...

baked butternut squash and some sauteed spinach with big sliced mushrooms.

Funny! I just had this conversation with my teenager who enlightened me that she'll eat only beans and rice from now on. She doesn't like meat too well and I gave her a long nutritional talk about the necessity of proteins etc. and then she comes up with beans + rice. Oh well, teenagers...

Tonight Marco is making pork chops with collard greens, I never had collard greens before.

Collards are good eatings. A pat of butter (if it's allowed) or a drizzle of olive oil make it a tasty treat.

She is of course right, mostly.

This will pass.

I like them too. Got to cook them right away as they are large re my fridge places.

I only bought collard greens once. Found a worm, cleaning them. Traumatized for life!

He cooked them with onion and a hamhock, we did put a little butter and salt over them, quite tasty!

nice. Some point you mgiht try ham with a currant sauce and a little brown sugar as it cooks.

Shared one of those big "four corners" pizzas & a couple of glasses of wine with a friend tonight. Sitting on her back veranda, being eaten alive by mosquitoes, on this very pleasant warm evening.

Our pals Tommy and Jeff invited the three of us over for dinner at 7:00. Then we will come home and make it a movie night!

We are having a bit of a cold spell so I’m going to be making a homemade beef stew. I’m trying to follow a recipe. Carrots, onion, garlic, celery and potatoes, oh and busch light too!

Mr.Irish is making chili with beer (some might even make it into the chili lol).

went to the Noodle Bowl with Brenda Lee last night - in anticipation of a window shopping adventure and then a wonderful Spanish Christmas concert.

We shared chicken dumplings and then crispy bbq chow mein and beef with ginger and onion on rice. Lots of leftovers for Setanta for last night AND this morning.

I thinking of gearing up for some cooking - a kale/zucchini/onion/ricotta torte, maybe two of them, to freeze, and a torta di mele (a cakey thing with a lot of sliced apples) - in which case I'll have a slice of each.

Or, if I pass and do other stuff than cooking, I'll have some leftover weird soup - part of a package of Tasty Bites spicy eggplant that I mixed with a leftover homemade spicy tomato noodle soup that I mixed with a thawed package of cauliflower (if you follow that - I was taming the spices in the eggplant, which I've liked before but struck me as too hot when I tasted it this time, and I'm pretty brave on spices). It's only two here, plenty of time..

On packaged products, I usually shun, but I like that company, except that they use, to me, way too much salt. It's possible I might kill for their Kashmir spinach (saag paneer), though I generally love that at indian restaurants, and the packaged stuff is not as good.. but, frankly, addictive. The only time I tried to make it myself, the recipe was oinking full of too much flavor relative to my experience in bunches of indian restaurants. I'd be trying it again but spinach in my market here is pathetic. So...... I need to play with changing the greens, to chard/collards/mustard greens, etc. I'll save that for another day.

I cooked tonight, baked potatoes, green beans and T-bones on the grill. Easy pesy.