What's for Dinner, Tues., Jan. 20, 2014

[NJCher]

It will be a late dinner of whatever looks good from the frig when I arrive home around 11 p.m. tonight--first night of a new class!

I look forward to getting back home on this cold night to see what everyone else's culinary concoctions were.


Cher

[cbayer]

1. Albondigas Soup (Meatball Soup)

This has been an all day project and it's looking pretty good. It's a Mexican staple and I have never made it before.

We have guests coming and are doing a kind of pot luck thing.

Hope you class went well!

[pinto]

11. I love albondigas. How did it come out?

There's a local place in the county that makes that as their specialty. It's great.

Plus they do the Sunday menudo.

[cbayer]

14. It came out perfectly - one of the best things I have made in a while.

After I told our guests what I was having, they told me they go to a place in San Blas that makes the best albondigas on earth and they would be rating mine in comparison.

OMG!!


They loved it, one had a big bowl of seconds. It took most of the day to make, but I will definitely do this one again.

[noamnety]

2. pasta for dinner

with tomato sauce, nothing fancy. With wax beans - I'm thinking I'll just use the last of them even if it's a ridiculous amount.

And now I've acquired a stupid amount of grapes, so I'm making a grape pie for dessert.

[Texasgal]

10. Intriged by the "grape pie"

What is it and recipe please?

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Went out to lunch today (eggs benedict) and wasn't very hungry.

So I had a chicken Kiev for dinner.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. My birthday dinner, cooked by my wife and daughter (with a little help from me!).

Slow cooker Mexican spiced pulled chicken thighs over black rice with sauteed peppers, caramelized onions, avocado and scallions

Prosecco to start....my favorite devils food cake with vanilla bean icing.

59 years young!



and about to start my book tour this weekend in Decatur GA!

[japple]

6. Happy Birthday!! You're still a young whippersnapper. Have a great

evening/dinner/celebration. You are starting your book tour in a wonderful place--Decatur, GA is a very nice community. Cheers!

[pinto]

12. Yay! Happy birthday.

[cbayer]

15. Happy, happy birthday, you rascal!!

Enjoy the last of your 50's.

[japple]

5. Leftovers: Chicken pie from Sunday dinner, and mushroom/

brown rice dish I made on Saturday. Cranberry/orange relish. Tomorrow, I'll cook up a pot of black beans.

[pinto]

7. Had a simple pasta for lunch. Garlic and red pepper flakes sauteed in olive oil, grated hard cheese.

(Spaghetti aglio e olio con formaggio.)

And a nap, lol. May just pick my way through tonight or order out.

[bif]

8. Made a big batch of chicken noodle soup.

[surrealAmerican]

9. posole

It's a pork and hominy stew.

[grasswire]

13. ham and eggs and pancakes with strawberry freezer jam

The last of the Christmas ham from the freezer.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

16. RUNZAS!!!!! Home made

If you're from Nebraska, you know what I'm talking about.

Dug out the stand mixer and the big cast iron stew pot, and let loose.

Cabbage carnage, flying bits of onion, and the big stainless bowl I like for dough rising.

The Wife said "I was just going to eat a little bit of one, but it was all gone before I knew it."

They're like that.