What's for Dinner ~ Saturday Sept 29th

[Lucinda]

[cbayer]

1. Roasted Beet Sandwiches with goat cheese and Red Peppers with a vinaigrette.

It's hot here, so I am reluctant to roast these beets, but I don't want them to go bad, so I am going to do it!

How about you?

[fizzgig]

16. drool

sounds wonderful

[yellerpup]

2. We attended our annual village street fair today

and had Thai barbecued chicken on a stick, then pulled pork sliders, then a candy-bar cupcake that was chocolate with chocolate chunks and toasted nuts in the batter, frosted with marshmallow cream and topped with toasted coconut flakes. Also, Mr. Pup tried the chocolate dipped bacon and I opted for a small bag of sea salt and a handmade candy bar of roasted coffee beans and bittersweet chocolate. He also had a falafel and a beer. We ran into lots of friends and acquaintances, signed up for clean energy to be delivered by ConEd (!), so not only are we off oil, coal, and nuclear energy, we have the option of paying an extra $5/month to create jobs in the wind and solar energy fields. I don't think I'll be cooking tonight.

[cbayer]

3. Cook? I think you will spend the evening trying not to explode, lol!

Chocolate covered bacon is a big yes in my book. How did he like it?

[yellerpup]

4. He said it was so good it was kind of scary.

Then he said he didn't think he'd ever need to taste it again. Yes, I am trying not to explode!

[cbayer]

5. I had a bacon cheesecake last year that I still dream about.

They incorporated bacon into the graham cracker crust and then sprinkled chocolate covered bacon on the top. I still dream about it.

I love fair food and yours sounds perfect.

[yellerpup]

6. He would love that.

When you dream of food, do you taste it? Interesting.

[cbayer]

8. I do. We were just talking about this last night.

My husband was saying that he can't recollect a single meal he has ever eaten. He can remember places, people, conversation, etc, but not the food.

I on the other hand can recollect many, many meals and can taste the food if I dream of them. There are a couple of dishes served in a couple of my most favorite places in the country that I dream of repeatedly. It's not exactly the same as actually eating it, but it's the closest I can get.

Do you taste food in your dreams?

[yellerpup]

10. Yes, I recall waking up dreaming of food.

Although, I have not dreamt of food so much since my surgery (esophagus). For a couple of years, I could not swallow and I could only taste food in small amounts and I was starving. All my friends found this ironic. Anyway, when I was hungry (always) I would dream of food, pillowy mashed potatoes and turkey gravy, tart cranberries and apples. Yes, I would dream and taste and wake up hungry. I'd get up and make myself a bowl of oatmeal (heavy enough and slippery enough to go down) and sit up for the next two hours or so until it all went down so I wouldn't aspirate it. So maybe it's because of that time that I no longer dream of food.

[grasswire]

12. Did you have to unzip your dress?

[yellerpup]

14. I was wearing nice stretchy jeans...

think there was a little more jiggle in there after gorging, but I've been trying to seed a little jiggle in that area anyway.

[NJCher]

7. turkey chili

Oh, yellerpup, I am laughing so hard about "trying not to explode." Your food adventure today sounds like great fun!

After cbayer's comment about the bacon cheesecake, I will start categorizing this as "heroin." One of life's little pleasures that I think I will forego.

I made up a big pot of turkey chili this afternoon! Used one of our big Creuset pots; love those things. I used the orange one:



They are just the greatest for soups, stews, and chili.

I used my homegrown tomatoes, but the cannellini beans were from a can. Bay leaf and herbs from the garden, though.

It was so good that I had three bowls, so then I went outside and did a workout by cleaning up the leaves and hauling summer furniture down to the shed for storage. Had to make up for my indulgence.


Cher

[cbayer]

9. Did you use ground turkey?

I have about 3/4 pound in the freezer and was thinking of making a chili out of it this week. I made turkey burgers last week, but I don't want to necessarily repeat that and am not sure what else to do with it.

My beets are roasting in the over right now. This is one of my favorite veggies and most favorite way to cook them.

[NJCher]

15. yep, ground turkey

I gave a friend a serving and he said he liked it better than chili made with beef or pork.

I'm curious about the Cobalt pan, yellerpup. Going to Google image it.


Cher

[yellerpup]

11. Turkey makes such good chili!

I don't usually put tomatoes in chili, but I certainly would if I had home grown ones. I have a big oval pot like the one above, but it's not Creuset, I found one at Chef Central on sale in Cobalt. Nothing braises better. Chili is soul food to me. Enjoy!

[grasswire]

13. Creamed chicken, baking powder biscuits....

...and a sliced melon plate. Peas, carrots, celery, onion, and pearl onions in the chicken.

Almost October and still 80 degrees for most of the upcoming week. I think I'll have to go back to summer food.

Today being game day for my beloved Oregon Ducks football, it's chip day! I can have a 50 cent bag of potato chips. Wheeee! That's the only time I allow chips.

[Lugnut]

17. It was burger night.

I cleaned, packed and froze the last of the Cubanelle peppers from the garden all afternoon. I picked up five pounds of fresh ground chuck yesterday for burgers and to freeze what was left.

[Le Taz Hot]

18. Soup.

We were VERY fortunate recently and had many pounds of food donated to us. One of those items were a couple of parsnips so we took the donated parsnips, donated onions, went out to the garden and snagged some bell peppers, added some veggie stock and we made soup for almost no cost.