Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics Food, Drink and Cooking What are you making/having for dinner tonight?

Joe...I picked up a slow cooker at Costco before the holidays. Hadn't used one much before. After a coupon and rebate it was just under $25. I love it.

Last night's dinner was a spring mix salad, along with vegetable soup I'd made the day before in the slow cooker. Threw together a bunch of stuff: garden vegetables from the freezer (2 kinds of kale, tomatoes, leeks) along with garlic, sage, rosemary, carrots, canellini beans, a potato and a handful of rice...in a vegetable broth and white wine base. Came out pretty good!

Slow cookers are great for making something out of odds and ends you want to use up (like that handful of rice ).

Roast pork loin & apple sauce: My favorite pork dish.

I love a nice pork loin, crispy on the outside, moist and tender on the inside. Dip eat bite in the apple sauce, and there you have it! Best ever.

I think the swine flu epidemic put people off eating pork over the past year. I keep finding whole pork loins in the supermarket for $2-$3/pound. This is the pork equivalent of filet mignon!

That reminds me: I still have a few barbequed ribs left in the fridge. Excuse me....

I cooked cashew chicken tonight. It was good but the yellow bean sauce I used was too, too salty. I cut it with some peanut butter mixed with some milk, and that helped some.

EmmaG

Yummm...PIA! I'm still pondering (LOL) getting some pork but ifn I do it will be from the locally grown folks.
A recent documentary didn't sit too well with me.

I have been trying to learn Thai food and had great success tonight with a green curry dish and rice. I listened to Greger and my daughter (who knows everything dontcha know!) and looked at a couple of recipes. Bought some ingredients, melded the information and then free lanced it.
Totally wonderful.

The beef stew was perfect, and Mr. Scoutgsl is off to Coldstone for some ice cream for him and lemon sorbet for me. I had just enough leftover stew to make my older son two lunches for work, Monday and Tuesday.

tomorrows delight.

Homemade Tandoori chicken and onion Bahjis, with a mint yoghurt sauce. green leaves, cherry toms cucumber and red onion.

Chicken has been marinating since yesterday!

Total price for dinner for 4 = 7 Euro

Im thinking of making some chipati bread too but have some shop bought naans so will likely use these

I wasnt a great fan of indian cooking but its growing on me.

That happened to me recently too, Schlack. Learning to cook it.

Your dinner sounds good!

Same with Thai. I recently made a wonderful green curry.

I love Phad Thai and anything noodlish. Very popular in these parts as Thai restaurants are all up and down the west coast and I would assume elsewhere in the good ol US of A. Is that true you for easterners? Hep me here.

But one thing I just cannot shake from my punny mind—Phad Thai. It just evokes visions of a chunky lady with shorts that do her no favors waddling down the street with cellulite running up and down her legs……….but especially in the thai's.

Sorry if I have ruined your dinner but I just cannot help myself. My annalist told me that I was right out of my head. Thank you Joni and I hope your noodles are delicious.

Something like this?
My favorite meal at our favorite restaurant here. No not a thai restaurant but a few thai offerings.
If Greger sees this he can answer your question better than me. He has an association with a Thai restaurant.

No Thai isn't as prevalent here. We've one really really good one here. And a couple of pretty good ones.
One shut down recently that broke everybody's heart. (it's the economy)
But what we've got here isn't indicative to the region. This is a college/art/music town.

My daughter went to grad school in Oregon. It seems that your biggest minority is Asian so that is why you have so much of that influence.

Yum. As you might know I grew up in Hawaii. I was exposed to every ethnic food known to man, and I loved just about all of it. But my parents were from Canada and my dad was an Irish meat and potatoes guy. He didn’t even like rice. Oh the humanity.

But when I went to school we always had rice served in the cafeterias along with the whatever they made meals. My mom would sometimes take me to a Chinese restaurant on the way home when she picked me to take me home from school. Around 7th grade she introduced me to a dish she had eaten in Vancouver Canada while growing up there. Crispy Gau Gee Mien. Hmmmm good. Yes! It consists of a bed of noodles topped with a mix of stir fried selected veggies and slivers of meat and topped with pillows of gau gee. The noodles float in a delicious thin gravy surrounded with the rest of the goodies.

Gau gee are something like won ton only better. Little deep fried pillows of shredded meat/veggies surrounded in a won ton pastry crust. You dip them in a bowl of mixed mustard and shoyu (soy sauce) and chow them down while eating the rest of the delicious concoction. It is the best one dish meal you can possibly eat, except of course—perhaps—for the dreaded Phaded Thai’s.