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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1250 on: October 19, 2013, 09:49:21 PM »
Nope. And I'm CONSISTENT with my eating preferences.

If it swims in the ocean, it ain't goin' on my plate. 
Bad experience in Germany?

(I've never heard of Germans being big on seafood.)
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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1251 on: October 19, 2013, 10:06:48 PM »
Nope. And I'm CONSISTENT with my eating preferences.

If it swims in the ocean, it ain't goin' on my plate.  :killemall:

I grew up on Fish and chips(french-fries), not to mention lamb and curry. YUM!!
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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1252 on: October 19, 2013, 10:14:37 PM »
I grew up on Fish and chips(french-fries), not to mention lamb and curry. YUM!!
British fish and chips are a beautiful thing.  I've tried the fish and chips at a couple of local pubs here and it just isn't the same.  Maybe it's the ink from the newspaper they're served on.
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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1253 on: October 20, 2013, 03:57:45 AM »
Last night was In-n-Out Burgers and fries.

I'm kind of a mood eater, but I never, never, ever turn down an In-n-Out burger..... :-)

In n Out is awesome

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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1254 on: October 20, 2013, 03:58:48 AM »
When on business travel to the western US, I commonly eat at an In-N-Out Burger. It is the best fast food burger I have ever eaten. They don't have them in the Midwest.

In the Midwest they have Culver's.

www.culvers.com

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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1255 on: October 20, 2013, 10:00:45 AM »
In the Midwest they have Culver's.

www.culvers.com

Not around here. There may be one in INDY but that would 70-80 miles away.
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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1256 on: October 20, 2013, 11:54:37 AM »
Why do you think that is?  Seafood is one of my favorites.  I can't imagine why people don't like it.

I took a break from seafood for several years when I was younger. I helped set up a wedding reception that had smoked salmon and the smell of it all day and the taste of it did not go well with me. For several years I could not even stand the smell of any thing from water.

When I was in high school I would bake fish when the rest of my family was eating red meat, but then after that wedding I could no longer eat it.

It took several years to work my way back into it. After 20 years my taste is still limited. Heavy seafood smell still gets to me.
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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1257 on: October 20, 2013, 11:58:12 AM »
Not around here. There may be one in INDY but that would 70-80 miles away.

That stinks.

They only use fresh Midwest steer meet for their burgers. All burgers are cooked to order just like In n Out. They even put real butter on the toasted bun. 

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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1258 on: October 20, 2013, 05:19:09 PM »
In the Midwest they have Culver's.

www.culvers.com
I kept an eye out for Culver's driving through southern IL but didn't have any luck.
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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1259 on: October 20, 2013, 06:33:49 PM »
I kept an eye out for Culver's driving through southern IL but didn't have any luck.

We have one of them here where I live. The burgers aren't too expensive, but their desserts cost as much as the meal.

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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1260 on: October 20, 2013, 06:37:08 PM »
I took a break from seafood for several years when I was younger. I helped set up a wedding reception that had smoked salmon and the smell of it all day and the taste of it did not go well with me. For several years I could not even stand the smell of any thing from water.

When I was in high school I would bake fish when the rest of my family was eating red meat, but then after that wedding I could no longer eat it.

It took several years to work my way back into it. After 20 years my taste is still limited. Heavy seafood smell still gets to me.

I can see that.  Strong fish smells are not pleasant. Salmon isn't big on my list.  I can only eat a few bites of it because it is so rich.  I prefer halibut, cod and a few other mild flavor ones.  Of course my very favorites are the crustaceans like crab, shrimp and lobster.    :drool:
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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1261 on: October 20, 2013, 07:07:17 PM »
I made a seafood boil for my wife tonight.

It had mussels, two types of clams, shrimp, lobster tail, corn on the cob, red potatoes and kielbasa.

For seasoning we used two pouches of McCormick crap boil, quartered fresh lemon, a medium quartered onion, a medium clove of garlic and salt.

We made it in my turkey fryer.  It was done quickly and came out fairly well.  We did slightly over cook the seafood, but not a bad result for our first time trying it.

I just bought the Turkey fryer last week and I plan on treating it like the new toy that it is.  I'm going to be doing a lot of deep frying in the immediate future. LOL.
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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1262 on: October 20, 2013, 07:09:31 PM »
Damn, that sound tasty. :hyper:
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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1263 on: October 20, 2013, 10:22:11 PM »
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For seasoning we used two pouches of McCormick crap boil, quartered fresh lemon

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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1264 on: October 21, 2013, 10:23:57 AM »
Rich ...that sounds really good!!

I want a new turkey fryer. The new ones are much safer than the old ones like I had. It made me so nervous to use it.

I made the family happy happy happy yesterday. Pot roast with onion and mushrooms, smashed potatoes with butter and sour cream, buttered corn, romaine salad with dried cranberries, candied pecans, and strawberry blush vinegrette, and little soft buttered Sister Shubert rolls....  :drool:

Did the roasts a bit different yesterday. I had 4.5lbs of chuck roast (2 of them about 2" thick, still frozen in the middle cause I forgot to take them out of the freezer yesterday morning  :thatsright:), sprinkled with garlic powder, coarse black pepper and Kosher salt, browned in olive oil. I finally found a cast iron Dutch oven
:yahoo:  a beautiful red glazed one that I can lift!) sprayed it with olive oil, dumped in a can of Progresso French onion soup, crammed in the browned roasts, covered them with sliced mushrooms, poured over a mix of hot water, Lipton onion soup packet, and a packet of Good Seasons Zesty Italian dressing mix. Cooked them covered for 3 hours at 325. They were so tender, but not falling apart into shredded meat (another hour and they would have) and had a wonderful flavor. Scooped out about have the onion and mushrooms and put on the meat, left the rest in the pot for gravy, that I added one of those Knorr beef stock tubs to along with flour and water. Didn't need any additional seasoning.
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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1265 on: October 21, 2013, 10:45:35 AM »
Why do you think that is?  Seafood is one of my favorites.  I can't imagine why people don't like it.

I think it's the visuals. Do you like monkfish? Supposedly good-eatin' (if you can get past what the damned fish looks like before cleaning and cooking):



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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1266 on: October 21, 2013, 10:50:46 AM »
Monkfish is delicious!!  :drool:
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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1267 on: October 21, 2013, 05:32:10 PM »
I think it's the visuals. Do you like monkfish? Supposedly good-eatin' (if you can get past what the damned fish looks like before cleaning and cooking):




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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1268 on: October 22, 2013, 02:49:17 AM »
We have one of them here where I live. The burgers aren't too expensive, but their desserts cost as much as the meal.

The food cost is high on the frozen custard. Unlike most restaurants' "ice milk" that is 80 to 150% whipped air, the custard is more dense & takes more dairy, including real cream and butter fats.

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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1269 on: October 22, 2013, 02:52:10 AM »
I can see that.  Strong fish smells are not pleasant. Salmon isn't big on my list.  I can only eat a few bites of it because it is so rich.  I prefer halibut, cod and a few other mild flavor ones.  Of course my very favorites are the crustaceans like crab, shrimp and lobster.    :drool:

I had steak and shrimp for dinner Sunday night.

Today I had to take a friend to the doctor, the poor guy could hardly walk. He has never had any type of back problems and he was in a world of hurt. After that we had a nice lunch. BLT pizza. White sauce, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayo...yes on a pizza. It was excellent.

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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1270 on: October 22, 2013, 02:54:25 AM »
Rich ...that sounds really good!!

I want a new turkey fryer. The new ones are much safer than the old ones like I had. It made me so nervous to use it.

I made the family happy happy happy yesterday. Pot roast with onion and mushrooms, smashed potatoes with butter and sour cream, buttered corn, romaine salad with dried cranberries, candied pecans, and strawberry blush vinegrette, and little soft buttered Sister Shubert rolls....  :drool:

Did the roasts a bit different yesterday. I had 4.5lbs of chuck roast (2 of them about 2" thick, still frozen in the middle cause I forgot to take them out of the freezer yesterday morning  :thatsright:), sprinkled with garlic powder, coarse black pepper and Kosher salt, browned in olive oil. I finally found a cast iron Dutch oven
:yahoo:  a beautiful red glazed one that I can lift!) sprayed it with olive oil, dumped in a can of Progresso French onion soup, crammed in the browned roasts, covered them with sliced mushrooms, poured over a mix of hot water, Lipton onion soup packet, and a packet of Good Seasons Zesty Italian dressing mix. Cooked them covered for 3 hours at 325. They were so tender, but not falling apart into shredded meat (another hour and they would have) and had a wonderful flavor. Scooped out about have the onion and mushrooms and put on the meat, left the rest in the pot for gravy, that I added one of those Knorr beef stock tubs to along with flour and water. Didn't need any additional seasoning.

Sounds good.

The seafood boil sounds good. I've really only had one in my life at a coworkers home back in Illinois. He knew what he was doing as he was in the restaurant biz all his life, it was great and some of the stuff in that boil I would not of normally ate.

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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1271 on: October 22, 2013, 06:24:53 AM »
Rich ...that sounds really good!!

I want a new turkey fryer. The new ones are much safer than the old ones like I had. It made me so nervous to use it.

I made the family happy happy happy yesterday. Pot roast with onion and mushrooms, smashed potatoes with butter and sour cream, buttered corn, romaine salad with dried cranberries, candied pecans, and strawberry blush vinegrette, and little soft buttered Sister Shubert rolls....  :drool:

Did the roasts a bit different yesterday. I had 4.5lbs of chuck roast (2 of them about 2" thick, still frozen in the middle cause I forgot to take them out of the freezer yesterday morning  :thatsright:), sprinkled with garlic powder, coarse black pepper and Kosher salt, browned in olive oil. I finally found a cast iron Dutch oven
:yahoo:  a beautiful red glazed one that I can lift!) sprayed it with olive oil, dumped in a can of Progresso French onion soup, crammed in the browned roasts, covered them with sliced mushrooms, poured over a mix of hot water, Lipton onion soup packet, and a packet of Good Seasons Zesty Italian dressing mix. Cooked them covered for 3 hours at 325. They were so tender, but not falling apart into shredded meat (another hour and they would have) and had a wonderful flavor. Scooped out about have the onion and mushrooms and put on the meat, left the rest in the pot for gravy, that I added one of those Knorr beef stock tubs to along with flour and water. Didn't need any additional seasoning.

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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1272 on: October 22, 2013, 11:28:09 AM »
Welcome to Cast Iron Club! Your dinner sounds great.

I've been looking for a long time, but I don't have a lot of upper body strength, and the Lodge ones were heavy for me when they were empty! And so expensive. I have also been looking at rumtoph's - but they are as bad or worse from a cost standpoint, and I was pretty sure I would have trouble lifting.

I'm really happy with this one I found at Sam's. Granted it is no where near a Lodge... but it's really pretty AND most importantly, I can lift it. I have double wall ovens, and I had no problem getting it into the lower oven. Not going to try the upper though.
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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1273 on: October 22, 2013, 04:23:17 PM »
Rich ...that sounds really good!!

I want a new turkey fryer. The new ones are much safer than the old ones like I had. It made me so nervous to use it.

I made the family happy happy happy yesterday. Pot roast with onion and mushrooms, smashed potatoes with butter and sour cream, buttered corn, romaine salad with dried cranberries, candied pecans, and strawberry blush vinegrette, and little soft buttered Sister Shubert rolls....  :drool:

Did the roasts a bit different yesterday. I had 4.5lbs of chuck roast (2 of them about 2" thick, still frozen in the middle cause I forgot to take them out of the freezer yesterday morning  :thatsright:), sprinkled with garlic powder, coarse black pepper and Kosher salt, browned in olive oil. I finally found a cast iron Dutch oven
:yahoo:  a beautiful red glazed one that I can lift!) sprayed it with olive oil, dumped in a can of Progresso French onion soup, crammed in the browned roasts, covered them with sliced mushrooms, poured over a mix of hot water, Lipton onion soup packet, and a packet of Good Seasons Zesty Italian dressing mix. Cooked them covered for 3 hours at 325. They were so tender, but not falling apart into shredded meat (another hour and they would have) and had a wonderful flavor. Scooped out about have the onion and mushrooms and put on the meat, left the rest in the pot for gravy, that I added one of those Knorr beef stock tubs to along with flour and water. Didn't need any additional seasoning.


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Re: Whats for Dinner Tonight?
« Reply #1274 on: October 22, 2013, 09:44:02 PM »
Saturday, at Hammoneggers in Fayetteville, I shared a plate of sweet potato fries with cheese and bacon, and a cucumber sauce. It was incredibly tasty !
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