the cbayer primitive takes over dear old sweet Lu's job

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115723456

And it's a definite improvement.

Karin said it all, about ten days ago:

Look, I've been good enough to give you a topic of conversation.  What more could you possibly ask of me? --in reference to dear old sweet Lu's habit of just starting a subject and then going away instead of engaging with the other primitives, just like the big guy in Bellevue does

cbayer (118,751 posts)   Wed Mar 13, 2013, 07:26 PM

Hey! What's for dinner - Wednesday, March 13, 2013.

I am making hamburgers (no buns) and braised endive baked with a béchamel/cheese sauce.
 
Happy birthday to number 1 son, who would love this meal!

^^^franksolich would dine on that.

annabanana (45,273 posts)    Wed Mar 13, 2013, 07:35 PM

1. "No. 1" Chinese Restaurant take out

(just couldn't face the range)

yellerpup (10,772 posts)   Wed Mar 13, 2013, 07:36 PM

2. Endive baked with bechamel/cheese

was a favorite when I could still eat cheese. I'm so bored. I baked chicken thighs with thyme and mashed a pot of potatoes. I would have sauteed a pan of Swiss chard to go with it, but Mr. Pup emailed that he had to stay late again at the office. He has had one full day off in the past month and his boss is a notorious wage thief. During busy times they will work 15-20 hour shifts (no overtime) and the workers who live farther away just sleep on the floor because they are too tired to drive home. They are working on four cases now and moving the office by the end of the month. I had chicken and potatoes when they were ready. He'll have his reheated the next time I see him--or, the time after that. This really gets old. Sorry, cbayer, you wanted to know what's for supper and all I have is bad mood.

cbayer (118,751 posts)    Wed Mar 13, 2013, 07:38 PM

4. Poor hubby! I hope things lighten up soon.

Your chicken and potatoes sounds good and should cheer you up. Sorry you have to eat it alone.

LiberalEsto (16,072 posts)    Wed Mar 13, 2013, 07:36 PM

3. It's the Grand Festival of the Leftovers featuring Vietnamese vegetables and rice noodles, pasta with asparagus, and pierogies with stir-fried red cabbage.

<<<wonders how "Vietnamese" vegetables are different from Burmese vegetables or Mozambiquan vegetables or Ghanaian vegetables or Paraguayan vegetables or Australian vegetables or Nebraskan vegetables or Norwegian vegetables.

Laura PourMeADrink (14,860 posts)   Wed Mar 13, 2013, 07:48 PM

5. potato crusted salmon, asparagus tips, and heirloom baby tomatoes w/ argula. I wanted to make cream of asparagus soup (my fav Campbells as a kid), so I cut the base of the aspargus and boiled for the stock. Put in food processor and it was stringy and fibery as hell - so dumped it out. Wonder how Campbells did it ! haha

livetohike (14,516 posts)    Wed Mar 13, 2013, 07:50 PM

7. We had red beans and rice and cornbread

Happy Birthday to your #1 son Hope he's having a good one!

<<<had a good birthday, in case any of the primitives are interested.

                (21,150 posts)    Wed Mar 13, 2013, 08:16 PM

8. Lefftovers from yesterday... I finally made the shepherd's pie with horseradish potatoes on top.

All I can say is, YUMMY!!!

And very low in sodium, too -- I used a little Worcestershire to flavor the ground beef and about half-an-envelope of Lipton Onion Soup Mix.

greatauntoftriplets (127,859 posts)    Wed Mar 13, 2013, 08:34 PM

9. Leftover chicken kapama.

Small world. Today is the triplets' mother's birthday! Happy birthday to #1 son.

littlewolf (1,507 posts)    Wed Mar 13, 2013, 09:03 PM

10. BBQ beef in the crock pot, cauliflower in cheese sauce, scalloped spuds

[Skul]

The only thing around my place that eats endive, is the squirrels.
Meh, they can have it.

[GOBUCKS]

braised endive baked with a béchamel/cheese sauce.

They even have to lie about what they're eating with hamburgers.


My favorite memory of endive is when that little unibrowed midget DUkakis ran against President Bush.

Campaigning in Iowa, at a time when farmers were having a very tough time, he suggested they consider switching from corn and soybeans to Belgian endive. Tens of thousands of acres of Belgian endive. The breadbasket of democracy planted in Belgian endive, whatever that is.

[franksolich]

The only thing around my place that eats endive, is the squirrels.

Meh, they can have it.

Endives are fine, if they're used in the right things.

Now I'm beginning to wonder if dear old sweet Lu is ill or something, and couldn't post her usual one-sentence original topic and run away.

On that, she's exactly like the big guy in Bellevue; both of them apparently think that just by "being," they're a gift to the rest of us, that they don't have to do anything else.

I wonder if she treats her husband, old bewhiskered Bill in faded overalls, that way.

Which has now given me an idea for a new story.

I have to first read up on what life's like in the southern Appalachians, say around western North Carolina, to make it credible, because I've never been there; dear old sweet Lu might not like it, but it's her own fault, she being the way she is, supposing she has no responsibilites in her job as hostess of the cooking and baking forum.

Don't get me wrong, as I like dear old sweet Lu, but she has a too-high opinion of herself, thinking she doesn't have to do any work.

[GOBUCKS]

I would not know an endive if it fell on my head.

I guess they have it at the grocery store, probably in that section of weird Central American stuff, like the big black banana-like things, and those things that look like slabs from a cactus plant, or the stuff that looks like red celery, or those things that look like brown fuzzy golf balls. Maybe one of those is endive.

Not exactly something you'd want to plant on ten thousand acres of farmland.

[franksolich]

I would not know an endive if it fell on my head.

I guess they have it at the grocery store, probably in that section of weird Central American stuff, like the big black banana-like things, and those things that look like slabs from a cactus plant, or the stuff that looks like red celery, or those things that look like brown fuzzy golf balls. Maybe one of those is endive.

Not exactly something you'd want to plant on ten thousand acres of farmland.

Well, yeah, I'm sure a thousand acres worldwide would take care of the global demand for endive.

But Dukakis didn't know shit about growing food.

[Dori]

I would not know an endive if it fell on my head.

I guess they have it at the grocery store, probably in that section of weird Central American stuff, like the big black banana-like things, and those things that look like slabs from a cactus plant, or the stuff that looks like red celery, or those things that look like brown fuzzy golf balls. Maybe one of those is endive.

Not exactly something you'd want to plant on ten thousand acres of farmland.

LOL...Endive is in the chicory family.  Looks like fancy curly lettuce.  Not great for eating (in my opinion).  They put it in salads here.  But to me it tastes bitter and like chewing on a stringy rag.

I've never seen it braised then baked with cheeze.  But then I'm not a fan of cooked leafy greens, except for maybe cabbage.

[franksolich]

LOL...Endive is in the chicory family.  Looks like fancy curly lettuce.  Not great for eating (in my opinion).  They put it in salads here.  But to me it tastes bitter and like chewing on a stringy rag.

I've never seen it braised then baked with cheeze.  But then I'm not a fan of cooked leafy greens, except for maybe cabbage.

Whoa, that's a way people have endives?

I had to nadin it.

The only way I've ever seen endives are dried crumbles of them, purchased at the grocery store in those little metal cans--in other words, something among the spices and herbs.

Sprinkled on top of potatoes, it's great.

[Karin]

   That's chives, Frank.  Did you know they're part of the onion family? 

Endive is curly bitter lettuce-type thing, and I'd forgotten all about Dukakis saying that.  He was so embarrassingly idiotic. 

Wasn't it Lu who, heading back to Vegetarian Land, made herself an item that I cannot even type?  Something in a tortilla.   

[franksolich]

  That's chives, Frank.  Did you know they're part of the onion family? 

Ooops.

Oh well, it's a good thing I don't claim to be like the oblate spheroid, and Know All.

[GOBUCKS]

  That's chives, Frank.  Did you know they're part of the onion family? 

Endive is curly bitter lettuce-type thing, and I'd forgotten all about Dukakis saying that.  He was so embarrassingly idiotic. 

Wasn't it Lu who, heading back to Vegetarian Land, made herself an item that I cannot even type?  Something in a tortilla.   

Are you sure it's not that red celery stuff? DUkakis said it was great.

[Skul]

Are you sure it's not that red celery stuff? DUkakis said it was great.

Nah, it looks like miniature Bok Choy.
Farmers have to put out scare-squirrels to keep their thousands of acres from being decimated by the tree rats.

[njpines]

Wasn't it Lu who, heading back to Vegetarian Land, made herself an item that I cannot even type?  Something in a tortilla.   

Probably made herself sick eating it which is why she isn't posting her daily What's for Dinner OPs   

[IassaFTots]

  That's chives, Frank.  Did you know they're part of the onion family? 

Endive is curly bitter lettuce-type thing, and I'd forgotten all about Dukakis saying that.  He was so embarrassingly idiotic. 

Wasn't it Lu who, heading back to Vegetarian Land, made herself an item that I cannot even type?  Something in a tortilla.   

It will always be an alcoholic beverage to me.  It's the only way I can continue living. 

[Karin]

Absolutely.  And how good would a pear Mojito be right about now?  Sounds delicious. 

[IassaFTots]

Absolutely.  And how good would a pear Mojito be right about now?  Sounds delicious. 

Yes, it is a nice spring day here.  Perfect for one. 

found a recipe!

ABSOLUT Spiced Pear Mojito cocktail recipe
Ingredients

    2 Parts ABSOLUT PEARS
    2 Parts Apple Juice
    1 Part Lime Juice
    1 Part Cinnamon Syrup
    8 Leaves Mint Leaf

How to mix this cocktail

Fill a shaker with ice cubes. Add all ingredients. Shake and strain into a highball glass filled with crushed ice.

[GOBUCKS]

Yes, it is a nice spring day here.  Perfect for one. 

found a recipe!

Pour the drink into a blender.

Add a handful of leftover peas.

Blend on "Liquify" for fifteen seconds.

Enjoy your Pea Mojito

[njpines]

Pour the drink into a blender.

Add a handful of leftover peas.

Blend on "Liquify" for fifteen seconds.

Enjoy your Pea Mojito

dammit GOBUCKS!!   

So much for keeping lunch down . . .

[IassaFTots]

Pour the drink into a blender.

Add a handful of leftover peas.

Blend on "Liquify" for fifteen seconds.

Enjoy your Pea Mojito

That ain't right man, that just ain't right.

[BlueStateSaint]

Pour the drink into a blender.

Add a handful of leftover peas.

Blend on "Liquify" for fifteen seconds.

Enjoy your Pea Mojito

 

H5!

[Karin]

Oh my God.  Too funny!