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primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« on: April 18, 2011, 05:15:34 PM »
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yellerpup  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-18-11 10:36 AM
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What's for Dinner? Tax Day, 2011 Edition

We will be having leftovers, which is all we can afford after paying our taxes. Luckily, I can't wait to have the leftovers waiting in my refrigerator.

Yesterday, I made a braised lamb and prune dish spiced with cinnamon, ginger, tumeric, fresh cilantro, and pepper. The recipe called for saffron as well, but I passed on that as it prices the results out of our category. The lamb was fork tender and the gravy worked miracles on the couscous served under it. Another accompaniment was a lemony, shaved asparagus slaw that tasted green and fresh with just a suggestion of bitterness on the back bite, a nice counterbalance to the sweetness of the prunes and a drizzle of honey added at the last minute to the braise. SO good!

What's on the table for dinner at your house tonight?

I dunno; franksolich has been really busy, and so probably he'll just run to town and buy a slice of pizza at the convenience store.

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Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-18-11 02:42 PM
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1. I'm eating vegetarian flautas right noW and supper will be a pear.

I did my taxes on April Fool's Day and mailed them last Thursday.

Does this vegetarian flautas stuff cause one to pass gas?

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Phentex  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-18-11 02:50 PM
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2. Was just coming here to ask the same thing! ...

Well, I have gotten myself into a theme for the next 49 days. My husband will be turning 50 and we are doing a countdown. Somehow I thought it would be fun to look up each day in history and have a meal or treat or fill-in-the-blank based on that for the fifty days counting down to his birthday. Yesterday was The Bay of Pigs (too late for pork because he wanted to grill meat) so we had a Cuban dessert of grilled pineapple. Today is an anniversary of a SF earthquake so I could make a rice-a-roni dish. It's also the warning day for Paul Revere and the Am Rev so I could do salmon (two if by sea, river). I should probably start a new thread and get HELP from you guys!

That asparagus sounds good!

I am in desperate need of a big grocery shop. I'm out of many of the basics needed for throwing meals together. *sigh*

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yellerpup  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-18-11 06:12 PM
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5. Too late to edit, but thought you should know...

I didn't make the sugary "gravy" from the prunes. I did cook the prunes until soft and added them to the pan drippings. After a taste, I drizzled a scant tsp. of honey into the pot to burnish the spices a bit. The idea of loading it with sugar at the last minute just didn't appeal to me. Turns out, it wasn't necessary after all!
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2011, 07:14:58 PM »
What happened since a few months ago when they were all cheering about the huge refunds they were getting because of Obama?
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2011, 07:29:49 PM »
Quote from: ScubaGuy on April 18, 2011, 07:14:58 PM
What happened since a few months ago when they were all cheering about the huge refunds they were getting because of Obama?


You got me.

And I suspect Tax Day next year's going to be an even bigger disappointment for the primitives.
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2011, 07:33:18 PM »
Quote from: ScubaGuy on April 18, 2011, 07:14:58 PM
What happened since a few months ago when they were all cheering about the huge refunds they were getting because of Obama?
That's a great question Scuba.
I wonder what they think of the gas and food prices as of late.
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2011, 08:29:28 PM »
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the gravy worked miracles on the couscous served under it.
tasted green and fresh with just a suggestion of bitterness on the back bite
I drizzled a scant tsp. of honey into the pot to burnish the spices a bit.

I think if I were an implacable foe of pretension, I'd be after DUmmy yellerpup with my longest, sharpest knives.
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2011, 07:14:41 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on April 18, 2011, 08:29:28 PM

I think if I were an implacable foe of pretension, I'd be after DUmmy yellerpup with my longest, sharpest knives.

With the absence of so many regulars from the cooking and baking forum, I just might do that, out of desperation.

I mean, I got to assail some primitive for pretension, even if only an unterprimitiven, one of the faceless lynch mob.

By the way, one wonders where the regulars went, and why they went.
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2011, 07:56:31 AM »
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I made a braised lamb and prune dish spiced with cinnamon, ginger, tumeric, fresh cilantro, and pepper. The recipe called for saffron as well, but I passed on that as it prices the results out of our category. The lamb was fork tender and the gravy worked miracles on the couscous served under it. Another accompaniment was a lemony, shaved asparagus slaw

Oh my God, that sounds disgusting.  Maybe that's just me, but it incorporates a lot of things I hate.  To me:

Cinnamon belongs with apples, and possibly mummies.
Tumeric tastes like aluminum, and is the very, very poor man's saffron
Ginger--a little goes a very long way
Lamb--not my favorite and never eat it since divorcing the raghead.   :-)
Prunes--invites jokes, and I do not like fruit in food. 
Couscous--what is the point of microscopic pasta balls that taste like nothing, and only stick in your teeth?  You can't chew them, only swallow them, they're stupid. 
Shaved asparagus sounds like a stringy mess that'll make your bathroom smell like a catbox. 
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2011, 08:20:45 AM »
Couscous = filler.  The only time I ever use it is when I don't feel like cooking.
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2011, 10:20:42 AM »
Ditto on the couscous, the one thing I have found it useful for is soaking up the liquid in the filling of meat pies, where old stew goes when it's done being stew.

And with their glorious leader in the White Mosque, shouldn't they be having a chicken in every pot to enshrine the prosperity he has bestowed upon them? 
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2011, 12:08:27 PM »
How could a real man even pronounce the word "couscous?"  It sounds like something you'd say to your adorable kitten, i.e. the kind of talk that sends GOBUCKS into a rage.   :-)
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2011, 12:09:24 PM »
:rofl:

It's not bad with beef or vegetable soup.  If you own a micro wave, it only takes a minute to cook.
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2011, 03:45:55 PM »
Quote from: Karin on April 19, 2011, 07:56:31 AM
Shaved asparagus sounds like a stringy mess that'll make your bathroom smell like a catbox.

Go tell Stinky--he should love 'em! :fuelfire:
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2011, 03:58:28 PM »
Quote from: Karin on April 19, 2011, 12:08:27 PM
How could a real man even pronounce the word "couscous?"  It sounds like something you'd say to your adorable kitten, i.e. the kind of talk that sends GOBUCKS into a rage.   :-)

Couscous and hummus have always sounded rather, shall we say, "flaming" to me. :gay2:
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2011, 04:05:15 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on April 19, 2011, 03:58:28 PM
Couscous and hummus have always sounded rather, shall we say, "flaming" to me. :gay2:

Mmm... Hummus...
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Re: primitives discuss Tax Day dinner
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2011, 05:40:37 PM »
Quote from: Karin on April 19, 2011, 12:08:27 PM
How could a real man even pronounce the word "couscous?"  It sounds like something you'd say to your adorable kitten, i.e. the kind of talk that sends GOBUCKS into a rage.
Come now, it's not a rage, as in a towering inferno meltdown rage. It's just a very strong aversion, a sort of shuddering revulsion. I agree with Mr. Wiggum that all these euroethnic silly food names have a strong flaming component, but they're hard to get away from.

Even here in the heart of red state hell, our local Publix stocks an English treat called "spotted dick". I'm afraid to even check out what one of those looks like. Thankfully, there's no photo on the can. If I ever eat one, I hope someone will arrange to have me killed.
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