Dinner tonight - or last night.

That Dr. is still in practice, I think. Principled man.

Geez, this is starting to not be funny at all.

try spending an evening in a restaurant with them

Lo siento, MM.

really really excellent soup with rye bread

It started as a tomato-based veggie soup (with about 3x the recommended onion - which I sauteed in advance), then I tossed in some diced ham and coins of smoked sausage. It's an almost-perfect autumn soup. Either fennel or leek would have made it perfect.

Sounds great to me, like both.

(I've a present tomato soup in the fridge - tomato, chicken stock, mushrooms, other stuff, pasta I let cook too long, gah, how could I.)

I'm a surprised person that my ricotta container only contained broth - I reuse containers but usually label them, so now I can't make ricotta gnocchi, that I've recently gotten to love. So I'm off trying to make potato gnocchi, which I'm less fond of, especially if I'm the one to cook them. We'll see. If I hate it, I'll move along to gnocchi alla romana, which involves cooked semolina.

Beth, I want to bend your ear about Dog Soup. I think I want to try that. I guess I'll start a thread.

Set just discovered the soup - it seems to have met with his approval as well.


I kinda hate when I get a soup right - I know I'll never replicate it exactly.

Years on end of soup never the same, here.

The potato gnocchi turned out ok, but nowhere as delicious (to me) as ricotta gnocchi. Next time, semolina..

I had my monthly luxury item tonight. Shrimp. I like it cold in a salad--like a gigantic shrimp cocktail.

I make the dipping sauce the same way every time, but of course it never tastes the same. Tonight it was perfect. Poifect, I tell ya. I want more! It will likely never taste that good again. C'est la vie. Sigh.

tonight, in celebration of my chickens beginning to lay eggs after their moult, I made some Dietz and Watson honey glazed ham slices, sunny side up eggs, fried sliced potatoes nd toast. WE HAD Breakfass at 4:30 PM . Were enjoying tea on the back porch nd shes visiting her quilt site and Im here

Yes, I know just what you mean!

The soup sounds lovely.

I'm gonna go check my chickens.

If there are no eggs, I'm having pulled pork on white...

mebbe some canned baked beans.

your bird moulting? They should be done soon , its warmer here and they love being out when its like this

no molting.

but they should be of age now.

the damn rooster crows his arse off...

but no eggs yet.

mine get to run when I'm here in the afternoons.

I don't trust the fox and hawk when I'm gone for the day...

Meat empanada, linguine with clam sauce.
I was testing a recipe.

Any other odd surf and turfs?

Hi, Alex.

I'm not a surf and turf person, but I'm very interested in empanadas.

Hello and happy holidays ossobuco.
The empanada recipe I used was Paula Deens at food tv.com

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/chicken-empanadas-recipe/index.html

I used one pound of ground chuck instead of chicken, and a orange bell pepper instead of a red. Also, near the end of the recipe preparation, I rolled all the dough scraps and made one frisbee sized empanada. Eight inches approximate. That worked very well too.

excellent faux pizza tonight

naan covered with roasted red pepper spread then tomato sauce
shredded cheese topped with capicolla and olives
a little more cheese to hold the olives on

mmmmmmmmmmm


naan makes everything delicious

now I'm cooking a turkey breast in the convection toaster oven to start my leftovers for Christmas

the turkey breast is cooking in chicken broth with black pepper, red pepper flakes and garlic - threw a dab of butter on top and covered the whole thing with foil. It smells wonderful.

Next up will be the duck breasts.