What's for dinner tonight?

[Raineyrocks]

Broiled pork tenderloin stuffed with garlic , sauteed squash and zucchini with more garlic, and tri colored rotini.  Mmmmmmmmmmmm.  The veggies are from Dawn's garden so they taste even better.

Now that sounds delicious!  I especially love sauteed squash and zucchini!  Did you ever thinly slice fresh zucchini and roll it in flour then fry it in oil and add salt?  My mom used to make that for us and I love it to this day.  I guess it's not the healthiest thing but it's delicious.  I also love steaming squash, then beating it with a mixer and add salt & butter.

[Raineyrocks]

Gruel

What is gruel?

[Raineyrocks]

Trout from the river nearby.
Corn-on-the-cob from the field on the walk back to the house.
Fresh picked green beans from the garden next to the house.
Fresh baked bread.
Fresh churned butter on all.

That sounds really good!  I love steamed green beans with butter.  How do you churn your own butter?  I remember doing that in 1st grade but I forget and is it cheaper than buying regular butter?

[Raineyrocks]

A couple of shake and bake pork chops and probably some chips or fries.

I love shake and bake pork chops, that gives me a good idea for dinner next week.   

[Raineyrocks]

I avoid like the plague:

Boiled okra.
Hogshead cheese.

I'm not sure if Hogshead cheese is the same as head cheese but when I was a teenager my grandfather wanted me to try his beloved head cheese one time and I said, "no way"!  I could see eyeballs and parts of tongue in it, it's see through cheese and I guess it's really made from an animals head at least from what I saw.  Yuk!

[Raineyrocks]

A bowl of rice, with some soy sauce, eaten with chop sticks.

As much as I have tried to learn how to eat with chop sticks I've never been able to.  I swear there is a story that has gone around in my family that either me or my twin sister were dropped on our head and I think it was me.    My kids learned how to eat with them in 1 hour and it's been years for me and I still can't.

That is why we invented the fork.

Thank goodness!  Can you eat with chop sticks, Dreepa?  It would make me feel so much better knowing that I'm not the only one. 

[Raineyrocks]

A bowl of rice, with some soy sauce, eaten with chop sticks.

As much as I have tried to learn how to eat with chop sticks I've never been able to.  I swear there is a story that has gone around in my family that either me or my twin sister were dropped on our head and I think it was me.    My kids learned how to eat with them in 1 hour and it's been years for me and I still can't.

That is why we invented the fork.

If you added milk, sugar and cinnamon instead of soy sauce you would need a spoon.

I'll have to try the milk, sugar and cinnamon.  I hate soy sauce unless it's mixed with wasabi!  Does anyone like wasabi?  It burns right through your sinuses and clears them up real fast. 

[Braddogg]

I'll have to try the milk, sugar and cinnamon.  I hate soy sauce unless it's mixed with wasabi!  Does anyone like wasabi?  It burns right through your sinuses and clears them up real fast. 

Same!  I keep some on hand for allergy season.

[Pat K]

I like Wasabi peas.

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What is gruel?

Take your milk and boil it. Grind up your breakfast cereal finely and wet it into a paste. Drop the paste in the boiling milk and enjoy.

But even that is a rich meal compared to your typical gruel.

[Dreepa]

I like Wasabi peas.

hell ya!
I get them at Trader Joes when I cross the Rubicon into MA.

[NHRes2004]

Trout from the river nearby.
Corn-on-the-cob from the field on the walk back to the house.
Fresh picked green beans from the garden next to the house.
Fresh baked bread.
Fresh churned butter on all.

That sounds really good!  I love steamed green beans with butter.  How do you churn your own butter?  I remember doing that in 1st grade but I forget and is it cheaper than buying regular butter?

http://webexhibits.org/butter/doityourself.html

The cost is cream, electricity and time.
Expense has nothing on taste.

[Lloyd Danforth]

[Raineyrocks]

[Beth221]

I made Green soup last night, its like chicken soup. 

Chicken, leeks, onions, celery, and cauliflower all in a chicken stock base. 

Its good, but needs pasta or something, which Dan, aka Mister Atkins cant eat! 

Tonight is a pork roast with broccoli, and the other night was pot roast!

I love cooking!