Believe it or not, once our project was done, I lost interest in remodeling shows. When we’re ready to do our bathrooms, I expect I’ll be tuning in again. But I think that bordello wallpaper beats my mushrooms for sure!
Oooh…pork (I could use a lightbulb smiley just about now).
I know, pork has been mentioned in here since the OP, but I’m having a slow day. It just occurred to me that I have some very nice boneless pork chops in the freezer. I’m thinking I’ll make them with rice and a nice chile ancho sauce. It’s one of those cook-them-till-they-fall-apart dishes. Hopefully I can remember how to make it…
Dinner was chili and oyster crackers with a nice intimate group of…50 or so people. Very good chili, I must say.
GT
I took the girl for dinner at Skyline (3-way for her, 4-way bean for me) so that she could reminisce about Cincinnati without subjecting us to ~truly~ frigid temperatures. Thus ends my run of successive highbrow dinners at four. Couldn’t last forever, I know. Also, Skyline, to the best of my knowledge, contains no pork.
Speaking of, don’t worry, Tanookie, I got the MP reference, but was afraid to start chanting, “Pork, pork, pork, pork, pork, pork, pork, pork…” since someone (I’m guessing Swampy or Ex) would take it as a command and then I’d somehow cop the blame when something went all askew on the treadle…
I’m not real sure, but I think Shibb just accused me of something nasty. :dubious:
There was no pork in the chili ACBG made,well actually reheated, cause he made it a couple weeks ago. I know this because I was there at the making of the chili and know for a fact that he used ground round beef. I was even present for the buying of the ground round. He’s hell to grocery shop with btw. He has to look at every last single package of meat before he’ll pick one. He’s also one of those people who will shop at many, many different grocery stores. He took out a subscription to the local paper just so he could have the little grocery store ads that come out on Wednesday. Me, I go to one store and shop for it all. There was gonna be a point to all this but I can’t remember what it is now. The fact that I had a sausage, egg and cheese biscuit for breakfast was gonna figure in it, I think.
-swampbear (I’ll be back when the caffiene kicks in)
Skyline doesn’t have pork Shibb, but that other Cincinnati delicacy goetta does. To quote the Barenaked Ladies “it’s like oatmeal… with pork”.
Last time I was at the store I got a pound of goetta. It came in one of those bullet-shaped plastic packs sausage and sometimes hamburger comes in. The “chub” pack. (Really. That’s what it’s called. A “chub”.) So, right now, I have a chub full of pork. That’s why the chicks dig me.
Man, what I wouldn’t give to live the Life of Rue-lie. Chubs full of pork and Bare Naked Ladies digging him. All I got is a package of Lil’ Smokies and a woman in the next cube who thinks that if she coughs when she farts I can’t hear her. Which is technically true. But my sense of smell is, sadly, keen as ever.
Say, swampy, does ACBG stack everthin’ nice and neat in his buggy, too? I used to just toss but then got made fun of by an ex-beau so now I feel compelled to stack neatly. I’d like to shop at several different stores but Saturday is grocery shopping day and it takes me a couple of hours as it is to get it all done at one store. I confess I check all the meat packages, too. Ya hasta iffen you want just the right one. Mostly I buy from the butcher counter cause I can choose the cuts I want and not have to make do with, say, one good pork chop and a couple of so-so ones they stack underneath it. Jeesh! Plus, I can get four porkchops instead of buying two three-packs and having to freeze two chops. That ticks me off. Also, now I’m semi-palsy with the butcher and sometimes he gives me a good deal on steaks or whatnot. 
ashes, honey, was there a lot of sugar in them cookies, too??? I’m only asking cause your post is, well, pretty bouncy. I’m just sayin…
I’m feelin’ all :o what with rue talkin about his chub pack. :o :o
Tupug
But it would be a fair cop.
Poor welby, stuck next to a woman who never learned how to fart in public. It’s not a difficult skill–say I’m in Sears and feel the need. I simply stroll over to the tool department, or even men’s clothing, wait for the opportune moment, and then stroll on back to my shopping. Anyone around is going to assume that it was a guy, ‘cuz women don’t fart in public, and anyway, it’s the tool department. A friend of mine who works in an office sometimes drops by the engineers’ work area, or the computer department. Of course, silent but deadly are easiest to pass off to someone else, but a woman confident enough to fart in public can find ways to mask the sound.
Really, what are they teaching girls in schools these days? 
Hmmm puggy, I wonder if it’s the sugar or the caffeine that makes me run around like a crazy person? At this point it’s kinda hard to seperate out the effects of either.
Welby, you need one of those little battery operated fans for to blow back her stinkiness.
What should I cook? I have a bunch of heavy cream, two lobsters, a duck, salmon, ground lamb, tomato paste, ham boullion, procciutto, provolone, farmer’s cheese, bread cubes, bread crumbs, panko, and pickled pea pods, among other things. But I just made alfredo shrimp over angel hair pasta, so I’ve no clue what next. Halp! Stamp out culinary ennui!
Take the ground lamb and make patties, coat them with seasoned breadcrumbs and fry. Wrap them with procciutto and provolone and then put them in the oven long enough to melt the cheese. Make a sauce with the whipping cream and tomato paste (Got any wine?) to use for dipping. What is panko? Make a salad of the pickled pea pods and serve with bread cubes. Dress the lobsters in little Carmen Miranda outfits and make them into a centerpiece. Duck the Duck and call Dominos. (Well, whaddya want for off the cuff? Emeril???)
Just be careful that the odor is fully cleared before strolling back to your shopping, you don’t want to engage in the heinous practice of “cropdusting”.
Put the lobsters into the salmon, put the salmon in the duck, coat the duck with the ground lamb in such a way that it looks like a kneeling lamb, coat with the tomato paste, put details on with procciutto and provolone.
Save the rest for tomorrow.
And don’t forget to floss.
I just finished a big bowl of home made chili that my wife sent me for lunch. mmm…tasty. With it being extremely cold (by Jawja standards), a hot bowl of chili really hit the spot.
Had bacon, eggs and home made biscuits for dinner last night. Having breakfast foods for dinner can be confusing. Part of me wanted to get ready for work after I finished eating. Luckily, the part that decided it would be a good idea to crawl in bed and snuggle to keep warm won out. Snuggling is better than food, even a really good bowl of home made chili.
Thus, I have completed my self imposed requirement of at least one post per week.
-Belz
OK, don’t fret - I got home fine, despite the snow and the idiots around here who don’t know how to drive in it. I passed one, count 'em, one vehicle in a ditch. A shiny SUV. Make of it what you will.
I shoveled most of the driveway, but the snow was still falling, so it was a futile gesture. I’m taking a break, and I’ll get back out there in a while. My sweetie is enroute, stuck in the horror that is the DC Beltway. His one hour commute should last at least 2 1/2 hours. So the least I can do is shovel for him.
Too bad we can’t post pictures here - I took some. They’re very white.
Kalley why you never opened a charm school is beyond me.
Ashes[sup]2[/sup] you cooked last night. Make reservations for dinner tonight.
Puggy ACBG does stack everything neatly in the grocery cart. I do too. I also wait until last to go down the aisles where squishy stuff like bread is. I don’t want bread squished or tater chips crunched or cookies smashed whilst in the cart.
BelZarak you got me wanting waffles for supper. Waffles and bacon. I got waffle fixins, I got bacon, I got (real) maple syrup, I got butter and I got a waffle maker. It’s like it was destined to be.
NO!
Plus Miz SmartyPantsMerrily, I ain’t gonna touch no ground meat with my bare hands. Making a fake lamb outta bits don’t fly around here.
And Puggy, the lobsters ain’t gots heads anymore so Carmen Miranda outfits are especially out.
But Swampy, I didn’t cook last night. Huh? Oh! That’s correct, I DID cook last night, so it’s off to make reservations. Wait. There isn’t actually any restaurant that accepts reservations around here. Well, they’d probably accept reservations if they knew what that word meant and/or could stop laughing at such a fool notion as needing to make an appointment to eat. Yeah, you can almost see the sticks from where I live.
Panko is Japanese bread crumbs. Why do I have them? Because they were there, just sitting on the shelf, all lonely, needing a good home. Poor lil’ panko.
So I still gots nada for dinner. C’mon people! Hustle! 110% Erm, uh, something about the Gipper, or don’t make the baby Jesus cry. I dunno, my sport is shopping.
I could make a whole week’s worth of dinners from your list:
Heavy cream and lobster = Lobster Newburg or Lobster Thermidor
Duck = Magret du Canard or all kinds of good Chinese or Thai or Vietnamese foods, including some kickin’ soups.
Salmon = Peppercorn crusted salmon with white wine butter sauce.
Ground lamb = Awesome spaghetti sauce. Brown the lamb, throw it in with a jar of decent store bought marinara… voila!
Prosciutto = eat plain, add to melon, or cut into small pieces and pan fry in olive oil and butter with chopped sweet onions. Add (lightly cooked) frozen peas and pasta al dente. Add copious amounts of grated hard Italian cheese (Romano or Parmesan) and ground black pepper to taste.
The other items are fairly versatile and mainly non-perishables, so I’ll let you sort out what to do with them.
Oh! You wanted *good * ideas!
How about: Take-away!