Cioppino....

dad's Lentil soup an crusty french bread!

Absolutely nothing. I can live off the last two weeks for quite a while.

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Originally posted by Board-O:
Absolutely nothing. I can live off the last two weeks for quite a while.

Typical.

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Originally posted by Board-O:
Absolutely nothing. I can live off the last two weeks for quite a while.

Me too!
Those crazy kids insist on eating something though...
So, chicken parm tonight.

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dad's Lentil soup an crusty french bread!

LOVE good lentil soup! Sounds great.

Fried smelt
bread and cheese.
some grapes to go along with.

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Originally posted by bez780:
Lentil soup

That is what I am making tomorrow night!!!

Baked Honey/Dijon/Pecan crusted Salmon, Asp, and rice. Yummy. Oh with a Evans and Tate Chard.

Sauteed chicken breast with avocado and shiitake mushroom sauce

stuffed meatloaf draped with schinkenspreck, served w/mashed potatoes, carrots and a Crimini mushroom sauce...

DVD,

heated up the leftovers after skaking last night !
the kids love it!


they eat the heck out of the white chili i make!

I made a "full blown" Cassoulet yesterday. Yikes. 7 hours to prepare, but pretty frickin good. Rich and carnivorous.

I'm new here so this is probably not the way I want to brand myself (trailer trash) but I recently made a chicken and dumplings recipe from Real Simple's "Fake It, Don't Make It" section and it was great.

The same meal is artfully and lovingly prepared from scratch in the Barefoot Contessa Family Style cookbook if you want to be authentic. But if you are pressed for time like me, here's the recipe:

Pick meat from rotissere chicken
Mix meat, one can of Campbell's cream of mushroom soup and one package of frozen vegetables (your choice, I used peas)
Spread in casserole dish
Bake for 20 mins at 350
Open one package of Pillsbury biscuits (the pop from the biscuit tube actually startled me; that's how infrequently I open biscuit tubes)
Place biscuits on top of mixture
Bake for another 10 minutes, or until biscuits are done

This is such a good rib-sticking meal. Check out Barefoot Contessa if you're a stylist.

And I've probably succeeded in getting no one to chat with me on this forum ever.

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Originally posted by HaleyBettis:

And I've probably succeeded in getting no one to chat with me on this forum ever.

Au contraire HB, your post may very well provoke a few comments. Hope you have thick skin and welcome to the forums.

Made roasted garlic and chicken pizza last night paired with some full sail pale ale. Good pizza and beer, hard to beat.

Thanks, steve8.

Anyone who wants to fight me and my crockpot, please bring it. (I actually don't have a crockpot).

Welcome, Haley. I have only one problem with that recipe- Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup. Pardon me whilst I shudder uncontrollably.

Ribeyes on the grill tonight.

I would have expected more of a shudder from the Pillsbury biscuits!

I actually do have what (I think/you guys can be the judge) are some good recipes at home that I'd like to share with the group. I'll try to post them this weekend.

I am relatively new to cooking (started trying to learn 3-4 years ago), and to pairing food with wine. I hope to learn a lot here.

Welcome to the jungle.

Got one for Beef Stroganoff?

And one question, could I substitute a no-name brand Cream of Mushroom for the Campbell's?

It wouldn't take too long to chop up a few mushrooms, maybe a little garlic, sautee them in a little butter, then add some cream and maybe Amontillado and a bit of sea salt, pepper, and nutmeg, reduce it a bit, and use that instead.

Sounds like we might have a friend for Bella....

Well I'm not sure I can compete with the cream of mushroom soup, but...

New year's dinner (was up on the mountain with no TV, internet, etc til now....nice):
For fun we blind tasted 3 new world pinots with roasted red and yellow pepper goat cheese tarts and salmon puff pastries with cream shallot sauce.

Entree: Prime Rib roast, Yorkshire pudding, rosemary roast potatoes, sautéed wild mushrooms and Brussels sprouts with Santa Rita Floresta Petite Sirah Syrah 2003

Very nice night.

Went out to the local place tonight. I had a 16 oz. prime rib, cooked in a Jack Daniels glaze with mashed potatoes and veggie, after an appetizer of a stuffed red pepper with goat cheese. My wife went with the red bean and rice soup and the "shrimp boat". Washed it down with the house zinfandel. Not a memorable wine, but it was ok.

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Originally posted by Board-O:
It wouldn't take too long to chop up a few mushrooms, maybe a little garlic, sautee them in a little butter, then add some cream and maybe Amontillado and a bit of sea salt, pepper, and nutmeg, reduce it a bit, and use that instead.

wait wait wait.... How many thingies of garlic???