What are the DUmmies having for dinner these days?

[Karin]

Just try to picture this mess:

Response to NJCher (Original post)
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 09:28 PM
 Yonnie3 (587 posts)
4. An open faced sandwich

It needs a fancier name. It looked like a pregnant pizza.

I started with a large slice of sourdough onion bread.

Piled on it were bell pepper slices of various colors, baby spinach leaves, small tomato wedges and possibly other veggies all pulled out of a leftover salad. Plus a small amount of ground beef in taco sauce, a few pickled jalapeno slices and some picante sauce. It was topped with Havarti and cheddar cheeses and placed in a medium-hot oven for about ten minutes until the cheese melted and the spinach wilted.

No, it doesn't need a fancier name.

Response to NJCher (Original post)
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 07:53 PM
 k8conant (2,266 posts)
1. Octopus pressure-cooked then broiled...

Mixing soul food with Italian food:

Mon Mar 13, 2017, 02:06 PM
 elleng (74,939 posts)

Italian Food With Southern Soul

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/dining/italian-food-memphis-hog-and-hominy.html?

Sweet Potato Confit With Chorizo and Crème Fraîche

Response to elleng (Original post)
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 04:24 PM
Warpy (92,051 posts)
1. Zimmern impresses the hell out of me

because, like me, he doesn't drink. Unlike me, he'll try anything. Plus, he does it cold sober.

Now I've tried a wide variety of things, fried grasshoppers, rattlesnake, dog, and the list does go on for a while. I do draw the line at a few of the things he's tried, like some of the stuff he ate in the Kalahari that he pronounced utterly foul but it kept them alive. I have a few standards. They're low, but I have them.

The only thing I ever saw him spit out was durian. If the faint whiff I've had through the peel at the international market is any indication, I don't think I'd have been able to put it into my mouth in the first place.

Durian is an Asian fruit that smells like

“turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock”

Response to elleng (Reply #2)
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 05:41 PM
Warpy (92,051 posts)
3. In vegetarian cooking, walnuts and cheese were made for each other

and one of my favorite 10 minute meals is walnuts, broccoli, cottage cheese, and pasta. Grind some black pepper over it and it's heaven.

Here's a chili recipe, I don't see any beef in there:

Response to NJCher (Original post)
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 06:49 PM
 democrank (7,410 posts)
2. Chili....not high test....

into which I added some whole kernel corn that I sautéed, carmelized, in a tiny bit of olive oil and thyme. Dark red kidney beans, garbanzo beans, tomatoes, garlic, onion, tomato sauce, seasonings. Thick, dark, rich and delicious. Also, homemade cornbread and my favorite drink...ice water with lemon and/or cucumber.

Corn and garbanzo beans!  YUCK!  Cucumber in a glass of water, her favorite drink.   

Here's someone's experiment:

Response to NJCher (Original post)
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 05:19 PM
Galileo126 (1,680 posts)
2. Veggie lo mein and ... sticky pig tails

I never had pig tails, but I thought I'd be adventurous. I simmered the tails for 3 hours yesterday in onion, ginger, cilantro, coriander, sugar, salt, & rice wine vinegar. Cooled overnight in the simmer liquid. Tonight I'll portion them into 2-inch chucks, deep fry them, and then sauce them with hoisin, oyster and soy sauces, brown sugar and chili garlic sauce.

Call it a $4 dollar experiment.

pscot, the biggest food snob over there, makes your old Auntie Gladys's Three Bean Salad, which is always revolting:

Response to irisblue (Reply #7)
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 09:17 PM
pscot (20,380 posts)
8. kidney beans, garbanzos & canned green beans

are the base. A half cup of Finely chopped onion, lots of fresh parsley and a vinaigrette, good seasons works fine. It goes together quick. The hardest part is opening the cans.

****ing garbanzo beans again. 

Wed Mar 1, 2017, 06:52 PM
 Else You Are Mad (2,525 posts)

What to do with Marmite?

I found a jar of Marmite in Stop & Shop today. Since I have never had it before, it was an impulse buy. What can I do with this British yeast extract?

Response to Else You Are Mad (Original post)
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 06:56 PM
 TygrBright (15,371 posts)
3. Encase it in concrete, dig a trench in the deepest ocean trench, and drop that sucker in. n/t

Response to Else You Are Mad (Original post)
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 07:04 PM
 catbyte (8,350 posts)
6. Bury it in your back yard. Seriously. Unless you're Australian & have grown up

with the stuff, it's nasty beyond belief. 

I'm not kidding. It's rank.

Response to packman (Reply #12)
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 05:01 AM
Warpy (92,052 posts)
14. I talked my drunken ex into drinking the yeast

at the bottom of the bottles of home brew in an attempt to get enough thiamine into him so he wouldn't start developing neurological problems from his alcoholism. He developed a taste for it.

No link, just an anthology from the C&B. 

[Maverick1987]

It's like I've seen this before...

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O-3LD1JRmuc
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[Dblhaul]

These DUmmies take the simplest of foods and f them up to the highest order. Eat some bacon ya freaks.

[Carl]

Response to NJCher (Original post)
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 09:28 PM
 Yonnie3 (587 posts)
4. An open faced sandwich

It needs a fancier name. It looked like a pregnant pizza.

I started with a large slice of sourdough onion bread.

Piled on it were bell pepper slices of various colors, baby spinach leaves, small tomato wedges and possibly other veggies all pulled out of a leftover salad. Plus a small amount of ground beef in taco sauce, a few pickled jalapeno slices and some picante sauce. It was topped with Havarti and cheddar cheeses and placed in a medium-hot oven for about ten minutes until the cheese melted and the spinach wilted.

 

[Happy Fun Ball]

What else?

[FiddyBeowulf]

****ing garbanzo beans again.

They must have gotten tired of eating kale.

[Skul]

DUmpmonkey's discard their left-overs.

The buzzard appears a bit apprehensive. Can't really blame him.

[SVPete]

Else You Are Mad (2,525 posts)

What to do with Marmite?

I found a jar of Marmite in Stop & Shop today. Since I have never had it before, it was an impulse buy. What can I do with this British yeast extract?

Response to Else You Are Mad (Original post)
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 06:56 PM
 TygrBright (15,371 posts)
3. Encase it in concrete, dig a trench in the deepest ocean trench, and drop that sucker in. n/t

Response to Else You Are Mad (Original post)
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 07:04 PM
 catbyte (8,350 posts)
6. Bury it in your back yard. Seriously. Unless you're Australian & have grown up

with the stuff, it's nasty beyond belief. 

I'm not kidding. It's rank.

This conversation was truly . I've not tried Marmite, but I've seen (online) Denizens of Oz talk about how awful the stuff is.

Warpy (92,051 posts)
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The only thing I ever saw him spit out was durian. If the faint whiff I've had through the peel at the international market is any indication, I don't think I'd have been able to put it into my mouth in the first place.

Yeppers, I've heard the same from friends who've been near durian fruit. But she needs to work in some humor ... for our entertainment. Maybe she should try balut.

[SVPete]

They must have gotten tired of eating kale.

OMG! I tried the stuff in a salad recently. I grew up on a farm and am fine with most veggies (except okra, I'm won't be diminishing the gumbo industry's supply of okra). That kale was like a near-tasteless fibrous mass that expanded in my mouth as I chewed it. Not shockingly horrible, just not something I'm eager to eat again. I don't much like iceberg lettuce (almost flavor-free water held in suspension by a little fiber), but it's easily better than kale.

[FiddyBeowulf]

OMG! I tried the stuff in a salad recently. I grew up on a farm and am fine with most veggies (except okra, I'm won't be diminishing the gumbo industry's supply of okra). That kale was like a near-tasteless fibrous mass that expanded in my mouth as I chewed it. Not shockingly horrible, just not something I'm eager to eat again. I don't much like iceberg lettuce (almost flavor-free water held in suspension by a little fiber), but it's easily better than kale.

The only reason I ever had kale was because the only baby spinach I could get at the store one time was mixed with kale. Kale tastes to me what I imagine eating crab grass would taste like.

[BattleHymn]

Durian is one of the most vile things I've ever eaten.  It's so vile it gives me a gut ache just thinking about it.  It trascends gross and nasty foods to a whole new level.


Without hesitation, I would eat an entire plate full of brussels sprouts before taking one bite of that stuff again. 


With that said, DUmmies should love it. 

[BattleHymn]

Durian is an Asian fruit that smells like

“turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock”

I'd have to disagree.  Turpentine smells downright pleasant when compared to durian.  It smells like sulphur and formaldehyde to me, with a hint of fruit something-or-another added in just for laughs. 

[lastparker]

I thought I'd row over to see what's up for tonight.

NJCher (20,628 posts)

What's for Dinner, Tues., Mar. 14, 2017


Polenta with tomato sauce. It has bits of roasted veal breast in it.

I'm not sure what else. I know the RG will be cooking up something else that will be snowstorm comfort food. I may post back when I find out what it is.

We're binge watching Netflix's "Rectify" on our snow day.

For dessert, I'm making flourless carrot cake from a recipe at the NY Times.

Veal BREAST? I don't think I've ever heard of a cut of meat from any animal other than poultry referred to this way. But then again, I'm a philistine. And flourless carrot cake sounds undigestible.

 

msanthrope (37,224 posts)
2. It's Pi day......

So, pizza, followed by cherry pie.

Lazy.

[lastparker]

Good GAWD - I think I just found the most arrogant C&B post EVER.

Fortinbras Armstrong (3,403 posts)
1. I started making a cassoulet

I'm doing it right, using the recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, volume 1.

My wife suggested that since we will have the time, I should listen to the whole of Wagner's Ring. The problem is that I loathe Wagner (well, I like a few things, such as Siegfried's funeral music). So instead, I am listening to Mitsuko Uchida's recordings of Mozart's piano concerti (with the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Tate).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115763460

[I_B_Perky]

Ain't any damn wonder the dummies are in a foul mood all the time. If I ate the shit they fix, I'd be called I_B_Asshole and make Attila the Hun look like a saint.

[BlueStateSaint]

Ain't any damn wonder the dummies are in a foul mood all the time. If I ate the shit they fix, I'd be called I_B_Asshole and make Attila the Hun look like a saint.

 
 
 
 

H5!

We're having reheated "Cheesy Crockpot Cowboy Casserole" tonight.  Four small/medium red potatoes; a can each of diced tomatoes, corn, kidney beans; a chopped onion; a pound of browned hamburger; 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup.  Put in the crockpot and put on high for four hours.  Take the top off after that, add 8 oz. shredded cheddar, and put the top back on.  Run another half-hour.  It's a filling dish.

[thundley4]

I thought I'd row over to see what's up for tonight.

Veal BREAST? I don't think I've ever heard of a cut of meat from any animal other than poultry referred to this way.

From what I read, the veal breast is the cheapest, stringiest and least flavorful cut found in a young cow that was killed too soon.

[Crazy Horse]

Ain't any damn wonder the dummies are in a foul mood all the time. If I ate the shit they fix, I'd be called I_B_Asshole and make Attila the Hun look like a saint.

You keep dissing chick peas and that name may stick.

[SVPete]

"NJCher" used the V-Word! Didn't she get dumped on for daring to eat veal?

Good GAWD - I think I just found the most arrogant C&B post EVER.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115763460

I'd add in pretentious, condescending, and effete.

[Fourwinds]

Ain't any damn wonder the dummies are in a foul mood all the time. If I ate the shit they fix, I'd be called I_B_Asshole and make Attila the Hun look like a saint.

Chances are they aren't eating it either. They are just trying to one up each other.

[I_B_Perky]

We're having reheated "Cheesy Crockpot Cowboy Casserole" tonight.  Four small/medium red potatoes; a can each of diced tomatoes, corn, kidney beans; a chopped onion; a pound of browned hamburger; 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup.  Put in the crockpot and put on high for four hours.  Take the top off after that, add 8 oz. shredded cheddar, and put the top back on.  Run another half-hour.  It's a filling dish.

Man that sounds good!   Now that is what we here in West by God Virginia call a meal.   

You keep dissing chick peas and that name may stick.

 

Guess it is too late to change my screen name?   

[Happy Fun Ball]

I repeat...lots and LOTS of crow, especially after last night.

[BlueStateSaint]

Man that sounds good!   Now that is what we here in West by God Virginia call a meal.   

I may have the last bowlful for lunch today, after snowblowing three driveways this morning.

[Karin]

Listen to this mess of a dinner that Cher had on Monday:

Mon Mar 20, 2017, 03:32 PM
 NJCher (20,641 posts)

What's for Dinner, Mon., Mar. 20, 2017

Roasted red pepper over spinach salad. Also has feta cheese and toasted walnuts.

Butternut squash spiralized, tossed with a little butter, and topped with a little blueberry hemp granola for crispness.

Soup with rutabaga and pork. Topped with caramelized onions.

Response to NJCher (Original post)
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 04:02 PM
 livetohike (18,842 posts)
3. Mushroom/Barley Pilaf, beets and a tossed salad

[67 Rover]

Listen to this mess of a dinner that Cher had on Monday:

Not sure which is worse the DUmmie picture threads or the food threads.  Both make me hurl for much of the same reasons.