I had chicken patty with tater tots and chicken strips. Pretty much once healthy food ruined in the worst possible ways to ensure my body remembers who the boss is.
@JonT I think you were behind this whole deal and it was just an elaborate setup so that you could humble brag your badass culinary skills. I'm only saying that because it's what I would have done.
@joelmw.. Waa! Joe, I'm so distraught that you view me as an outsider.. I would have to be slightly meh associated else I wouldn't even know about this forum.. Oops! 'Squeeze me, must have been a stray bean (sniff-sniff) uh! oh! I think I now understand what you mean.
@unkabob Of course I was mostly just joshing. You can even call me "Josh." Just don't call me "Joe." Or "Phil"--yeah, that one happens and I hate it, honestly I hate it way more than "Joe," so I guess I prefer "Joe" to "Phil" . . . maybe.
Best regards, Joel (which, in all fairness, I can see how you might not know that, kinda like @janetv only different)
@unkabob BTW I have an Uncle Bob. It's a good name for an uncle. And I'm fond of "Bob's your uncle"--and can't help wondering how Bobs feel about it. Or maybe Bob's not even your name?
@joelmw.. Sorry Joel, I didn't look far enough (shouldn't have tried to shorten your handle) and no, my name isn't Bob, I'm using unkabob to celebrate one of my dearest relatives who passed on last year and left me all by myself (a bit selfish on my part but I do miss him). Thanks for the clarification joelmw I'll watch meh typing from now on.. jane tv? Now THAT'S a righteous handle (☺).
@unkabob No problem. It was probably narcissistic of me to even say anything about it, but, yaknow, what's the point of these forums, anyway, if not narcissism. I agree that janetv is a cool handle. And so is unkabob; and that seems like a great reason and the opposite of selfish.
@joelmw..This is one of the first forums that I've haunted that would allow such silly goings-on.. Nothing serious just good fun and being a little 'Narso' isn't at all bad, just keep it up and enjoy the ride.
@unkabob@joelmw I love the vagueness of screennames. My name means so much to me, and I can bet others feel the same way about their own but to everyone else it just becomes a salutation.
I was playing in a musical tonight and my wife made us shrimp in bechamel sauce on linguine. And had an Irish Whiskey sour waiting for me when I got home. I love my wife.
I bought a mystery meat spread sandwich and noodle ham and cheese cold pasta dish from our vending machine at work. It was, uh... food. Mostly. Sort of. Meh.
I made spinach egg drop soup and a big pan of roasted veggies -- squash,potatoes, carrots,celery, hot peppers and garlic cloves. Then just to make sure I didn't overload my body on too much good stuff I had an Almond Roca for dessert.
I made some kickass chili. Three peppers (four, if you count golden bell and green bell as separate), celery, diced tomatoes, onion, three beans and beef. With a really good spice mix. I found it on allrecipes (Sarah's chili seasoning mix). I had been making my own spice mix, but it was always improvised and balanced by taste. Her mix had basically everything mine had, but the amounts are fixed so I don't have to guess. Well, she added mustard powder and coriander. Also used the cinnamon-sugar trick to cut acidity, which is a good idea in chili.
@curtise, @JonT - The Onion has some concern: Commas, Turning Up, Everywhere WASHINGTON—In the midst of a crisis that may have reached a breaking, point Tuesday afternoon, linguists, and grammarians, everywhere say they are baffled, by the sudden and seemingly random, appearance of commas, in our nation's sentences. The epidemic of errant punctuation has spread, like wildfire, since signs of the epidemic first, appeared in a Washington Post article, on Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben, Bernanke. "This, is an unsettling trend," columnist William Sa,fire, told reporters. "We're seeing a collapse of the grammatical rules that have, held, the English language, together for, centuries." Experts warn, that if this same, phenomenon, should occur with ellipses…
We ate at Cheeburger Cheeburger. Great burgers ans shakes. Then, we went and saw a movie. Gone Girl. Highly recommended if you're into David Fincher stuff (Fight Club, Se7en, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc).
Last night was chicken biryani. Spice mix from a recent trip through an indian market, wasn't to my taste so will be making my own next time around.
Tonight: Garlic Pizza knots that are currently cold proofing. I used a BIT more garlic, and I did make the dough too, since it's easier than going to the store and waiting for it to defrost.
@Mavyn The last batch I made, I used AP, and it really had a nice tang and was very workable after a few weeks (one of the thinnest crusts I've ever made), but it kinda failed at being strong enough to actually hold the ingredients. My fault for making it that thin, but actual bread dough might help that. What are you putting on yours these days?
@editorkid Depends on who's eating. :) Kids are very basic: tomato sauce, cheese. Pepperoni for the youngest. The Mr and I enjoy a layer of ricotta, a layer of slice garlic, sliced mozz. Last pizzas made, we had leftover chili, so put a layer of that, topped with cheddar. The ease of working with the cold proof dough is just SO much nicer.
@editorkid Sorry necro, but I use Focaccia as my pizza "dough". I can bake it ahead of time, it stores well, and handles any kind of sauce I want. Pesto, garlic, red sauce, vodka sauce, you get the idea. It's supper yummy too.
@xarous I'm a focaccia fan, but that dough's even wetter than my pizza dough and it's usually so thick that I end up basically filling up on bread. But when I'm in the mood, yeah, don't get between it and me.
@editorkid I tried out my new baking steel tonight. Got tired of breaking the stones. Quite please with it--the pizza had a lovely dark, crispy bottom, chewy crumb, and the top was just blistering when I removed it from the oven. Well worth the money.
(Thursday, 'cause I saw this at 11) My lovely wife threw together a delicious thing that we call not-spaghetti sauce, because we don't eat pasta, but instead she loads it up with meat (usually sweet Italian sausage and turkey burger) and a wide variety of veggies, partly depending on what's in the fridge (zucchini and usually two or three other kinds squash, usually cut up chunky--my preference--but sometimes rendered with the nicely-named but IMO totally unnecessary Vegetti, carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, cauliflower, spinach, kale, onion, etc.). I say "threw" and she would probably humbly say so herself, but there's a lot of chopping shit up and she's also got timing on the cooking down to an art.
(Friday) I'm hoping Rudy's on account of they're awesome and they're also cognizant of the glutens.
@marklog I have mixed feelings. Seen this so many times. On the one hand, I know what gluten is and avoid it because it was literally killing me (I have celiac disease) and kinda always thought Kimmel was a dick anyway. On the other hand, people are idiots. I like that the fadsters are making gluten-free more of a thing. I hate that I'm associated with their ignorance and that, because of them, some people think it's all a joke. No offense. And not to be humorless about it; I just know that too many people (including restaurant staff) are too fucking lazy to make the distinction between people following a fad and people who have serious medical conditions. Despite his little (tiny, like the size of his penis) disclaimer, I don't think Kimmel is helping (and, like I said, never liked him anyway). Trust me, I'm neither a trend follower nor particularly health conscious. Sigh.
@marklog And I never really liked this kind of "gotcha" "comedy" anyway. It's pretty damn easy to make people look stupid, because they are. It's also pretty unfair for a "comic" with a camera to ambush people about things that that "comic" doesn't know from his ass either (or wouldn't were it not for staff that researched it and told him). Leno did this bullshit too, and I hated it from him just as much.
@marklog Fallon is way better. I approve. "Et al." as a Latin abbreviation is totally legit. I had three or four years of high school Latin so I can say that. And I do tend to believe that there are allergies and serious intolerances, and will generally defer to those who claim them now that I know better how it feels to be seen as "that guy." And, seriously, there's meaningful scientific support for gluten intolerance being a thing, even though it is a tricky thing to diagnose. But, hell, they can fight their own damned fight, right? As long as you know celiac is a thing, we're cool.
@joelmw Having been gluten free (celiac) since before it was a fad, I agree about the "fad thing" making GF better and more available, while still feeling irritated at the faddies. Aside from the occasional visit to a place that is totally GF, I just don't eat out. It's just too much trouble making sure I'm not mistaken for one of the "faddies" asking for gluten free. The last time I got asked if I was ordering GF food "to keep from being fat" I responded with uncharacteristic (for me) irritation : "No, it's to keep me from being dead."
Beef ribs, slow cooked, dry rubbed, and braised with a little special sauce. Well it's still in the resting phase I might just eat it tomorrow. EST here.
My contribution to this conversation was "leftovers" (of which I just froze the remaining spaghetti). So who is going to cook me my birthday dinner today?
@Mavyn I'm in!! Where? Please don't tell me it will take an airline ticket.. if so can you freeze it all, pack the stuff in dry ice and next day deliver it?
You left out leftovers
@Kidsandliz coming from the microwave?
@katylava Of course - how else would heat leftovers? LOL Heat it in whatever you plan to eat out of. Saves washing a pan.
We need to go grocery shopping in a serious way.
@conandlibrarian I remember those, they were pretty good. And in fact, I am having chicken tonight.
A few hours ago was a big, hearty feast for 12 here. That's why tonight will be fast food or carryout. I'm beat.
It's my anniversary, so we're eating out! :-)
@PurplePawprints Happy Anniversary!!!
@Thumperchick Thank you!
Whoohoo! Party at @PurplePawprints' house! (P.S. H.A.!)
@PurplePawprints Happy Anniversary! (Don't lose your ring, I hear it's a trend.)
I had chicken patty with tater tots and chicken strips. Pretty much once healthy food ruined in the worst possible ways to ensure my body remembers who the boss is.
It's Shake 'N Bake....and I didn't do shit.
@The_Baron ... right out of the box?
@editorkid Pour it on the floor and roll around.
Big fat juicy roasted chicken from Costco.
@KDemo My kids chose this over Pizza!
@tightwad - smart kids. And only $4.99!
I made salmon in a garlic lime butter cilantro sauce. My girlfriend made sweet roasted carrots with honey, and a corn and black bean salsa.
@JonT
@conandlibrarian I like to cook!
@JonT me too, I'm just jealous.
@JonT Yum. I fully endorse good food.
@JonT You made Salmon for tonights dinner...but cooked it the day before? Eww....
@JonT can i pay you to bring me yummy food every day?
@katylava Yes, if you pay me enough.
@JonT Everyone has their price.
@JonT I think you were behind this whole deal and it was just an elaborate setup so that you could humble brag your badass culinary skills. I'm only saying that because it's what I would have done.
Beans over rice with a beer chaser.. (loud 'n proud!)
@unkabob That's not even meh. I weep for you. And for anyone who has to be near you after said meal. ;-)
@joelmw.. Waa! Joe, I'm so distraught that you view me as an outsider.. I would have to be slightly meh associated else I wouldn't even know about this forum.. Oops! 'Squeeze me, must have been a stray bean (sniff-sniff) uh! oh! I think I now understand what you mean.
@unkabob Of course I was mostly just joshing. You can even call me "Josh." Just don't call me "Joe." Or "Phil"--yeah, that one happens and I hate it, honestly I hate it way more than "Joe," so I guess I prefer "Joe" to "Phil" . . . maybe.
Best regards,
Joel (which, in all fairness, I can see how you might not know that, kinda like @janetv only different)
@unkabob BTW I have an Uncle Bob. It's a good name for an uncle. And I'm fond of "Bob's your uncle"--and can't help wondering how Bobs feel about it. Or maybe Bob's not even your name?
@joelmw haha well, it really is jane tv but I like to say it's janet v.
@joelmw.. Sorry Joel, I didn't look far enough (shouldn't have tried to shorten your handle) and no, my name isn't Bob, I'm using unkabob to celebrate one of my dearest relatives who passed on last year and left me all by myself (a bit selfish on my part but I do miss him). Thanks for the clarification joelmw I'll watch meh typing from now on.. jane tv? Now THAT'S a righteous handle (☺).
@janetv You succeed in confusing me, which for some reason I respect. Either way, um, yeah. :-)
@unkabob No problem. It was probably narcissistic of me to even say anything about it, but, yaknow, what's the point of these forums, anyway, if not narcissism. I agree that janetv is a cool handle. And so is unkabob; and that seems like a great reason and the opposite of selfish.
@joelmw..This is one of the first forums that I've haunted that would allow such silly goings-on.. Nothing serious just good fun and being a little 'Narso' isn't at all bad, just keep it up and enjoy the ride.
@unkabob @joelmw I love the vagueness of screennames. My name means so much to me, and I can bet others feel the same way about their own but to everyone else it just becomes a salutation.
@janetv Thanks janet and your correct, each handle carries it's own bio.
@janetv You sure it isn't the German "Ja Net V"? I'm pretty sure your name is Yes Net Five!
@curtise Ja ja you have figured it out!
I was playing in a musical tonight and my wife made us shrimp in bechamel sauce on linguine. And had an Irish Whiskey sour waiting for me when I got home. I love my wife.
And while she was finishing making that, I made pirate marinade for tomorrow night's flank steak. It's marinating now.
I bought a mystery meat spread sandwich and noodle ham and cheese cold pasta dish from our vending machine at work.
It was, uh... food. Mostly. Sort of. Meh.
I made spinach egg drop soup and a big pan of roasted veggies -- squash,potatoes, carrots,celery, hot peppers and garlic cloves.
Then just to make sure I didn't overload my body on too much good stuff I had an Almond Roca for dessert.
Came home to tofu and noodle soup with crackers and pumpkin bread. My roommate is pretty great.
Leftovers from dinners I cooked earlier this week. Hubby finished off the chicken fettuccini, and I had the fajitas.
I made some kickass chili. Three peppers (four, if you count golden bell and green bell as separate), celery, diced tomatoes, onion, three beans and beef. With a really good spice mix. I found it on allrecipes (Sarah's chili seasoning mix). I had been making my own spice mix, but it was always improvised and balanced by taste. Her mix had basically everything mine had, but the amounts are fixed so I don't have to guess. Well, she added mustard powder and coriander. Also used the cinnamon-sugar trick to cut acidity, which is a good idea in chili.
Tonight is salad. Tomorrow is dinner for 12, made from scratch. Still don't know what to make.
@olperfesser chili.
@olperfesser Reservations
@olperfesser I was shopping this morning, it will be garlic chicken. garlic, white wine and herbs from the garden.,
@olperfesser You grow white wine in your garden? I'm impressed!
@pitamuffin ;-) Missed that comma...
@pitamuffin ah, the oxford comma <3
I love punctuation!
@curtise oxford comma for life!
@curtise, @JonT - The Onion has some concern: Commas, Turning Up, Everywhere WASHINGTON—In the midst of a crisis that may have reached a breaking, point Tuesday afternoon, linguists, and grammarians, everywhere say they are baffled, by the sudden and seemingly random, appearance of commas, in our nation's sentences. The epidemic of errant punctuation has spread, like wildfire, since signs of the epidemic first, appeared in a Washington Post article, on Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben, Bernanke. "This, is an unsettling trend," columnist William Sa,fire, told reporters. "We're seeing a collapse of the grammatical rules that have, held, the English language, together for, centuries." Experts warn, that if this same, phenomenon, should occur with ellipses…
@JonT Aabsolutely.
Calzones and IPA
hi
@younghoheo: Greet.
We ate at Cheeburger Cheeburger. Great burgers ans shakes. Then, we went and saw a movie. Gone Girl. Highly recommended if you're into David Fincher stuff (Fight Club, Se7en, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc).
@jsh139 I've been past a few of those lately. Haven't gone in, always loud and noisy. Worth tolerating other people's children?
@Mavyn Well worth it. They're crowded on the weekends but it was dead last night. We got right in.
@jsh139 Ohhh my god, I haven't been to Cheeburger Cheeburger in so long that I forgot it existed! I loved that place.
@JonT I like the retro atmosphere there, and their food is really good.
Half a bag of BBQ Chips from Utz, and 2 beers from Saranac.
@alinko You and @unkabob need to start a recipe exchange.
@joelmw.. BBQ chips, beans 'n beer always go good together (hold the rice pleeze).
Last night was chicken biryani. Spice mix from a recent trip through an indian market, wasn't to my taste so will be making my own next time around.
Tonight: Garlic Pizza knots that are currently cold proofing. I used a BIT more garlic, and I did make the dough too, since it's easier than going to the store and waiting for it to defrost.
Who even plans for dinner? I have no idea what'll happen. I might not even be alive by then. Live in the now.
Made pizza dough a couple of weeks ago and put it in the back of the fridge. Should be worth trying tonight, but it'll be better in a week or two.
@editorkid 00 flour or AP?
@Mavyn KA bread flour, but in general, whatever's around. 00 usually isn't, unfortunately.
@editorkid Same here--whatever is handy. I usually use AP, unless I have bread flour I want to use up.
@Mavyn The last batch I made, I used AP, and it really had a nice tang and was very workable after a few weeks (one of the thinnest crusts I've ever made), but it kinda failed at being strong enough to actually hold the ingredients. My fault for making it that thin, but actual bread dough might help that. What are you putting on yours these days?
@editorkid Depends on who's eating. :) Kids are very basic: tomato sauce, cheese. Pepperoni for the youngest. The Mr and I enjoy a layer of ricotta, a layer of slice garlic, sliced mozz. Last pizzas made, we had leftover chili, so put a layer of that, topped with cheddar. The ease of working with the cold proof dough is just SO much nicer.
@editorkid Sorry necro, but I use Focaccia as my pizza "dough". I can bake it ahead of time, it stores well, and handles any kind of sauce I want. Pesto, garlic, red sauce, vodka sauce, you get the idea. It's supper yummy too.
@xarous I'm a focaccia fan, but that dough's even wetter than my pizza dough and it's usually so thick that I end up basically filling up on bread. But when I'm in the mood, yeah, don't get between it and me.
@editorkid I tried out my new baking steel tonight. Got tired of breaking the stones. Quite please with it--the pizza had a lovely dark, crispy bottom, chewy crumb, and the top was just blistering when I removed it from the oven. Well worth the money.
(Thursday, 'cause I saw this at 11) My lovely wife threw together a delicious thing that we call not-spaghetti sauce, because we don't eat pasta, but instead she loads it up with meat (usually sweet Italian sausage and turkey burger) and a wide variety of veggies, partly depending on what's in the fridge (zucchini and usually two or three other kinds squash, usually cut up chunky--my preference--but sometimes rendered with the nicely-named but IMO totally unnecessary Vegetti, carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, cauliflower, spinach, kale, onion, etc.). I say "threw" and she would probably humbly say so herself, but there's a lot of chopping shit up and she's also got timing on the cooking down to an art.
(Friday) I'm hoping Rudy's on account of they're awesome and they're also cognizant of the glutens.
@joelmw This is how I feel about the glutens.
@marklog I have mixed feelings. Seen this so many times. On the one hand, I know what gluten is and avoid it because it was literally killing me (I have celiac disease) and kinda always thought Kimmel was a dick anyway. On the other hand, people are idiots. I like that the fadsters are making gluten-free more of a thing. I hate that I'm associated with their ignorance and that, because of them, some people think it's all a joke. No offense. And not to be humorless about it; I just know that too many people (including restaurant staff) are too fucking lazy to make the distinction between people following a fad and people who have serious medical conditions. Despite his little (tiny, like the size of his penis) disclaimer, I don't think Kimmel is helping (and, like I said, never liked him anyway). Trust me, I'm neither a trend follower nor particularly health conscious. Sigh.
@marklog TL;DR? Kimmel's a dick. Celiac disease (et al.) is real. People are idiots.
@marklog And I never really liked this kind of "gotcha" "comedy" anyway. It's pretty damn easy to make people look stupid, because they are. It's also pretty unfair for a "comic" with a camera to ambush people about things that that "comic" doesn't know from his ass either (or wouldn't were it not for staff that researched it and told him). Leno did this bullshit too, and I hated it from him just as much.
@joelmw celiac is real. 'Et al' is rather general and likely bunk.
@jont this can be solved by the South Park episode 'Gluten Free Ebola' from last week.
Also, I prefer Fallon.
@marklog Fallon is way better. I approve. "Et al." as a Latin abbreviation is totally legit. I had three or four years of high school Latin so I can say that. And I do tend to believe that there are allergies and serious intolerances, and will generally defer to those who claim them now that I know better how it feels to be seen as "that guy." And, seriously, there's meaningful scientific support for gluten intolerance being a thing, even though it is a tricky thing to diagnose. But, hell, they can fight their own damned fight, right? As long as you know celiac is a thing, we're cool.
@joelmw Having been gluten free (celiac) since before it was a fad, I agree about the "fad thing" making GF better and more available, while still feeling irritated at the faddies. Aside from the occasional visit to a place that is totally GF, I just don't eat out. It's just too much trouble making sure I'm not mistaken for one of the "faddies" asking for gluten free. The last time I got asked if I was ordering GF food "to keep from being fat" I responded with uncharacteristic (for me) irritation : "No, it's to keep me from being dead."
@joelmw But acknowledging the possibility of gluten intolerance/sensitivity isn't nearly as fun as a blanket statement mocking people.
@rockblossom Nicely said. I've used "I'm not doing this because it's trendy, I'm doing it so I don't die."
@Thumperchick May I say, you're being a horrible goat. Sheesh. One job, you've got one job. Don't make me like you, damnit.
@joelmw Sorry. You know that's my fault, too, right?
home-made Pupusas -- if i practice every week eventually i'll make them right.
i mean, through sheer luck, not skill.
@katylava Those sound awesome. I suspect I will be trying them in the near future!
Helping a buddy move stuff tonight/tomorrow. I foresee pizza and beer (especially because one of things we're moving is his home brew kegerator.)
@Cinoclav yes. yes. yes.
@marklog Turned out to be pizza, beer, and homemade chili! He's a gluttonous fool for not considering the 3 hour ride in a small truck cab tomorrow!
I having leftovers too.
I don't cook steaks on the grill anymore thanks to this video...
@Kevin i have a man crush on that man.
@marklog oh yeah. He responded to two of my tweets. Felt like we were BFFs.
@Kevin
@Kevin I've used his videos to help teach family members I didn't have the patience to teach certain ways too cook items. Like his egg videos.
When pizza's on a bagel, you can eat pizza anytime!
I ended up making chicken chili. It's cold and rainy today, so I figured that sounds good.
@remo28 I will be making turkey chili in the morning. I love ground turkey
Beef ribs, slow cooked, dry rubbed, and braised with a little special sauce. Well it's still in the resting phase I might just eat it tomorrow. EST here.
Bevo... it's what's for dinner.
My contribution to this conversation was "leftovers" (of which I just froze the remaining spaghetti). So who is going to cook me my birthday dinner today?
@Kidsandliz Happy birthday? I'm not even sure what I'm having, but you're welcome to it. Suggestions might be helpful.
@Mavyn anything I don't have to cook plus ice cream for desert! No cake needed :)
@Kidsandliz Chicken strips and shoestring fries for everyone! Wooooo! And for dessert, Party Cake Ice cream.
@Mavyn I'm in!! Where? Please don't tell me it will take an airline ticket.. if so can you freeze it all, pack the stuff in dry ice and next day deliver it?
@Kidsandliz Head towards New Jersey--stop before you get there. ;)