Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics Food, Drink and Cooking Wonder what the poor folks are eatin' tonight?

Planning on tomato sauce, pasta, meatballs & sausage. Seeded about 15 lbs Roma tomatoes, about 3 cups fresh basil, garlic, onion, red wine, spices, etc. Also dumped in two cans of peeled plum tomatoes. I let it simmer anywhere from 3-6 hrs +, depending upon how hungry I get.

With some fresh bread (semolina), it's about as good as it gets. Also, a salad. Nothing fancy. Just Romaine, tomatoes, garlic, black olives, and a vinaigrette. Maybe some Parmesan.

Sounds good, Joe. if I get up off my ass right now I've got about 10 pounds of assorted homegrown tomatoes that need to be run through the tomato mill. My basil is starting to go to seed so I need to cut the tops off all of them. Almost 4:00 here now and and I can have spaghetti and meatballs ready by 7:00....

Schlack, the Roti turned out great! I made a few patties and froze them to see if they would hold up to being deep fried later.

Headed to the kitchen...........

I got the watermelon-it was so delicious served ice cold. My mother used to sprinkle salt on hers, and I did like that, but I can't do that anymore. But it still tastes great just plain and cold! I also picked up some peaches and apricots at the farmer's Market. Those were good, too.

I did up a fresh fruit plate for my guests watching the hockey game last night. It was a great dessert/snack that hit the spot. Peach slices, watermelon slices, red and green seedless grapes, apple slices(I sprinkle them with a little lemon juice, so that they won't turn brown), strawberries, blue berries, black berries, raspberries and pineapple chunks. Some sliced cheddar cheese and baked brie, too. Since these fruits are in season here in SoCal, it wasn't that expensive.

Just got back from a hike along the Gila River, below what's known as The Bird Area. We were about 25 miles from the big fire, wind blowing from us to it, so no smoke. Walked about 2-1/2 miles before noticing that a bear was walking the same way recently, so we turned around. Had a snack with our feet in the river, sardines on garlic crackers.


Got back to the truck and pulled the watermelon out and had to go back and sit on some rocks while the terriers hunted and we watched dragon flies and crawdads. I'd like to get me some of them crawdads...

My mother loved crawdads. But they are just medium-sized looking bugs(shrimp being small bugs and lobster being big bugs-crabs are spiders). I remember visiting family in Arkansas and Louisiana where they would boil up some crawdads in a big outdoor kettle, seasoned with some Old Bay seasoning and Louisiana hot sauce.Cooked with potatoes and corn on the cob, it was all dumped out on a newspaper covered table and people(except for me) would just go to town on the feast. I had a peanut butter sandwich.

Funny. I don't think of Crawdads as food, they are the little ones and good only for catfish bait.
Crayfish are the bigger ones, those beloved Mudbugs. They really aren't much good unless they are thrown live into the crab-boil. Frozen crayfish dry out. Most of you probably know this but the proper way to eat one is to tear off the head and suck the juice out of the back of it before pealing the rest like a shrimp. There aint no goody in the heads of frozen crayfish.

Sistah, sistah! We talkin' bite size lobsta, heah! They may be bugs, but they be badass bitchin' tasty bugs!

Long time ago I went with some buddies fishing on the Bitterrot River in Montana. We put on the river in a twelve foot aluminum fishing boat with a small outboard engine about 20 miles upstream of Missoula. Being kind of lazy in the hunting/gathering department, I drove the boat, which was a boatload of fun.

Fishing wasn't too productive and just before town we stopped under a railroad bridge to look for crawdads in the rocks. We got a bunch, took them home, and had an excellent feast.

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Uppity Cracker...

I made some smoked chicken tacos last night: Slow-smoked chicken breast meat chunks, feta cheese, late-season home-grown Hass avocado, sliced hot-house cocktail tomatoes, salsa, and thin-sliced romaine lettuce.

Damn, those were good!

I dunno, Logtroll. I love lobster and shrimp of every variety, but crawdads alwasy taste a litle too much like mud to me. At least that's my impression from all the times I have eaten them down in Lousiana.

Now a shrimp po'boy, on the other hand...