What are you cooking?

[jaylach]

got online and couldn't find anyone doing this so I thought I would give it a try. made another key lime pie and added a cup of fine ground pecans.
got it in the freezer now and won't know how I did till later on.

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well, my Key-Lime Crunch was pretty good. surprised me in that you still had all the key lime flavor and you could discern the separate flavor of the pecans. kinda the way you can tell the flavors of sweet sour sauces.

Actually I would much prefer a pecan pie over key lime. Makes me wonder though how a pecan pie with some key lime mixed in would be. Actually sounds pretty good to me.

 

[jaylach]

Tonight will probably be another meatball sub with bell peppers, onions and a bunch of an Parmesan, Romano & Asiago shaved cheese mix. Normally there would also be sliced black olives but I'm out of them and it is a minor loss. LOL! My meatball subs are more of an open face that needs a fork to eat. If you tried to pick up a LOT would end up loose on the plate.

Tonight's sub will leave me two vacuum bags of balls for other subs and a vacuum bag of sauce with a couple of balls for pasta from my last medium batch. Then we start again with another sauce batch.

 

[jaylach]

Tonight is going to be quesadillas just not yet sure on the details. It will be chicken with a mix of red, green and gold bell peppers and red onions. Just have to decide on a more Mexican twist with cheddar cheese and some chili powder and cumin. Or I could add an Asian aspect probably with a bit of sweet chili sauce. And then it could be a more Italian 'white cheese' mix.

The actual decision is which one to throw out as I'll be doing two quesadillas. I think that I'll do two different, one with cheddar and a Mexican twist and one with Italian cheese shaved blend.

 

[Fishmanic]

No cooking for me today. I had a large stir fry chicken sub from the local sub shop. They make awesome subs. Chicken, peppers, mushrooms, onions, tomatoes and provolone cheese. They charge $12 including tax which is a bargain for what you get....enough for 2 days of good eating.

 

[lottabubbles]

Actually I would much prefer a pecan pie over key lime.

I can get into that pecan pie. actually I could scrape off the pecans and dive into that filling.

 

[fishorama]

We had victory cheese steaks takeout after our Eagles win, leftovers yesterday. They fly in Amoroso rolls (& Tastykake's & maybe Herr's chips. We skip those). No cooking today either. Many things sound good but too much effort today. I may be having a little bit of Superbowl anxiety or just too many petty little chores stole my cooking ambitions. The joy of a variety of frozen foods!

I love most kinds of pie; my husband is more of a cake man. We don't even agree on most cookies. My favorite pie is "magic lemon" from my childhood. Sweetened condensed milk is the "magic" part. I haven't made it w/Meyer lemons from my yard since my mom died (sniffle).

 

[MuddyWaters]

Today was my birthday, so my saint of a wife took me out to a local restaurant. She asked me what I wanted- my birthday is the only day of the year I can get her to go eat sushi with me or Indian food. I was going to go to sushi, but last minute decision made me turn in to another favorite place of ours- much to my wife's delight LOL.

They had a ribeye with bleu cheese risotto on special this week. We ate there just a few days ago, and I had the halibut special (which was phenomenal) but I was thinking about that ribeye- and the bleu cheese risotto. You could put bleu cheese on a lump of dirt and I would love it.

I got the LAST ribeye they had, so I think it was fate. Happy birthday to me!

 

[fishorama]

What a great birthday present! I'm not a blue cheese or sushi fan but I'm happy for you...& your wife. I love Indian foods & steaks home or out!

I think you need to go for the "birthday month" of food like we do. Boom! You get to choose at least 2 or 3 x/week. Dinner out. take out or favorite homemade. Dessert counts as extra if homemade.

Happy Birthday & many more awesome dinners!!

 

[lottabubbles]

I got the LAST ribeye they had, so I think it was fate. Happy birthday to me!

I went for 8 years not being able to swallow a piece of steak, finally bit the bullet and got my throat stretched, man what a difference.
here is a shot of probably the best big rib eye I ever had. it was up in Milwaukee Wisconsin. at a restaurant where you cook your own food and could pick any kind or size steak you wanted all one price.

 

[gwand]

Costco sells prime New York strip steak and rib eye for 50% less than a butcher shop or grocery store. It is my birthday today. Seventy two years young. Guess what I’m having for dinner?

 

[fishorama]

Birthday steaks sound good! I have NY strips in the freezer...no need to wait a couple months for my B'day

 

[jaylach]

Tonight is sketti and meatballs as I have no choice if I am to keep my honor.

Some posts back I stated that I had 3 frozen vacuum bags with meatballs and some sauce for subs along with 1 bag of sauce and balls for pasta. Turns out I have 2 bags of balls and sauce for pasta instead of 1. To keep my honor and not be a liar I MUST get rid of the extra freezer bag of sauce. Pasta and red sauce... well Alfredo also fits... but for me pasta is its own food group.


Still there is a problem as to the pasta. There are three choices, thin sketti, medium pasta shells and cheese mini ravioli. This will be last minute decision. The thin sketti is fun to twirl while the shells are like little spoons to hold the sauce but the raviolis are filled with cheese which is never a bad thing. I have a favorite brand of ravioli, Celentano, that is REALLY good but I wish they offered a ricotta and spinach. Sadly it is just cheese or meat and I go with the cheese. Still REALLY good stuff!

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I have all my food delivered between Omaha Steaks for most meats but there are exceptions such a a large bag of frozen raw chicken wings that are really good. I also get SOME veggies from Omaha Steaks, their Brussels's Sprouts are to die for.

I also have orders delivered from my local grocery. From the grocery I get things like fresh produce which is always very good and fresh. I DO get some meat from my local grocery but not often.

Anyway I just added an item to my next local grocery order. Added a pound of their in house pizza dough which is surprisingly good. I'll cut the dough in half and two of my remaining bags of meatballs for subs will become calzones.

My local grocery has a pretty good deli with REALLY good fried chicken that is not brought in frozen but fresh breaded and fried in the deli. They just don't have good deli cut meats. Can't off the top of my head remember the brand they use but pretty much everything I've tried is like a salt bomb. I wish I could get the Boar's Head brand of deli meats but it is just not available here. When it comes to getting deli meats sliced Boar's Head rules the pack!

BTW! Thin sketti pasta has won the war of what pasta is for tonight.

 

[fishorama]

We're having chicken stuffed poblano pepper halves wrapped in bacon & grilled. A sliver of onion under the chicken & a sprinkle of seasoned salt. It's an adaptation of a jalapeno appetizer, just bigger, less spicy & easier.

I have to grill before it rains for days (our version of winter). Steak (& mushrooms for me) last night, chicken tonight.

jaylach, we're working on switching to WW spag gradually for health. I started with ~25% & we're up to 2/3s ww. We're almost used to it, but it takes longer to cook so I cook the ww for ~4 minutes then add angel hair. Not as many ww pasta shapes available where I shop, so I still use regular for other dishes. I haven't tried "alternative" pastas like chick pea (my sister said it's "slimy" ewww), brown rice, quinoa, etc. Baby steps, lol.

Is your store made pizza crust able to be stretched fairly thin? That's my preferred pizza style. I've seen it but never tried it. I "should" just learn to make my own, but it makes it into a separate project.

I just found Italian marinated chicken breast & the MIA ham

 

[jaylach]

@fishorama : Yes the store bought pizza dough can be stretched anyway wanted. It isn't like a pre-rolled and formed crust you often see. It is made and sold in the deli section as a lump. Actually I need to put some olive oil on my hand to get it cleanly out of the bag.

I've used Whole Wheat pasta and it is OK. I wouldn't use it for things such as shells for mayo based pasta salad but for use with sauces it is fine.

 

[gwand]

If you’re only eating several ounces of pasta twice per week I would stick to regular pasta. The health concerns are minimal if your weekly portion size is reasonable. And I never ate a whole wheat pasta I cared for. Give me old fashioned Italian semolina.