I think it’s time to put that old multi-page thread to rest- it’s too sad to read it now.
So, what do you have cooking today, or this weekend, at your house? This weekend I will be making blueberry streusel scones (never made scones- scared!), strawberry shortcake, barbeque pulled pork sandwiches, and la piece de resistance, a beef tenderloin roast. I will cut a couple of steaks of it, then use the leftovers for beef stroganoff later in the week. YUM. I am not making all of this for one meal, or even all in one day, but that’s what I’ve got going here in the Goon household for the weekend.
The Fella was here this evening, so I actually cooked for a change. We were both hungry for comfort food, so I made baked macaroni and cheese, pork chops, fresh snap beans with bacon and onion and a nice spinach salad.
There are enough leftovers for both of us to take to work a couple of days next week.
We are having a BBQ at my brand new spanking house (rental but yeah! I’m outta the ghetto!). Going to have Salmon briefly marinated with soy sauce and rubbed with Zesty Italian dressing (thanks to the nameless doper who supplied that recipe, impresses everyone!). Grilled baby potatoes and some kind of vegetable my sisters will bring. Plus, dad gave me a gigantic bag of peaches so going to make some kind of peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream. Hopefully, sisters will bring some sides/nibbles as well because I’ll be busy removing pet hair from every inch of my house so sis #2 doesn’t go into anaphylactic allergic reaction - that’s mostly an exaggeration but with four dogs and two cats, it’s a chore.
Nothing now, but I’m getting hungry. I have some nice new potatoes (can’t remember the strain, but they look good), and some OK looking bacon, so that’s a no-brainer. Actually, I’ll probably just eat that, oooh, I grabbed some nice dill from my sister’s garden, so that’ll go on, and maybe I’ll dice some red onion if my ring finger RH doesn’t hurt to bad after peeling a bunch of potatoes on Friday. I’m getting fatter by the second, so what’s the diff, I’ll shred some pecorino and call it a day, and, no, I won’t skimp on the gravy (=hot sauce = “So Glad I stopped by my hispanic grocery store this morning!”)
Today we have a pot full of hamburger soup going and just raided the rhubarb patch to make some crumble to go with a bit of ice cream for dessert. We also made some muffins and banana bread for the weekly snacks/baking.
Special Father’s Day Menu tonight. We’re marinating some shrimp in garlic, olive oil, lemon juice and pepper to go on the grill. Alongside, small little fillet-not-mignons wrapped in bacon. (They taste good, but they’ve obviously been tenderized with something, and are most certainly not from the lion.)
To accompany, a lemony pasta with basil, petite peas and pearl onions and a side salad.
I’m hungry and feeling indulgent. We’re spending almost $5 a person for dinner, twice what we usually do!
A Trader Joe’s Dinner tonight, I think. I have a pair of swordfish steaks in the fridge, plus mixed squash, asparagus, and a red bell pepper all from there.
I think I’ll mix some olive oil, basil, garlic, salt, and pepper and brush the fish with it, then throw them on the barbie. I’ll add the red bell pepper to the squash and sauté them. The asparagus will be chopped and added to some rice to cook with it.
At the moment, there’s a batch of Pakistani beef curry going in the crock-pot, and it smells fabulous! That’s not for tonight, though - that’s to reheat and eat during the week when we have less time to cook yummy things that take hours.
Next up: putting together the cochinita pibil, which will marinate in the fridge and get plunked in the Crock-Pot some morning this week.
For tonight’s dinner, Tom Scud is doing something involving a fish, some thyme, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper, and a banana leaf, to go on the grill. Will probably be eaten with rice and veggies TBD.
I gots to know, what’s a hamburger soup? I love ground beef, but I don’t really eat hamburgers more than a few times a month, but that sounds good. (Please say there are lentils or other legumes in there! [Hopes while muttering to self sotto voce])
Recipe, please!
ETA gallblangit. I haven’t eaten in two days – my mother’s retiring from schoolteaching, so I helped her clear out her classroom and didn’t have a chance to eat except, quite literally, a crust of bread. She’s not a cook – the men in my family are the cooks – and I’m starved. Good inspiration for dinner, this thread.
Bumps table angrily while waiting for a recipe for hamburger soup while considering running (literally) to the grocery for hamburger. That sounds very good, and now I’m officially hungry, so I’m like a mental patient for a good, nutritious soup. Chop, chop – I need to know!
ETA you’re no fun – I’m going to cook my fingerlings and make a shepherd’s pie. I would have druthered a soup, though. I’ve got it – split peas as a side (careful!) fried in bacon fat with onion and carrot. Not going to make bread, but maybe a few more potatoes, to balance things out, maybe make a French-style potato salad, with some of that pretty good balsamic vinegar I got, plus some crushed mustard seed.
This is probably not the “Hamburger Soup” of which Flutterby speaks, but it reminded me I’ve been intending to make this sometime soon. It’s crazy good, and starts with ground beef.
Looks like I posted it once in an archived thread, so I’ll cut and paste myself:
The thread is being saved as we speak – thanks, WhyNot – and it’s good for me since I still have about 15 pounds of carrots from the winter that I’ve been putting off processing (by hook or crook). Thanks again.
I think I’ll try it and use some of my TVP I keep meaning to use, but never do, for some reason.
I fired up the grill and made lamb chops with grilled veggies: seasoned the lamb chops with smoked paprika and steak seasoning, and put a cast iron pan in the grill with sliced zucchini, tomatoes, onion, and sweet potato. Appetizers consisted of hummus and pitas that were smoked a little on the grill beforehand. Mmmmmmm.
I hate you, nashiitashii – now I can’t get lamb off my brain. But I shall make hummus tonight – it’ll be good for breakfast tomorrow. Good thinking! I like how good food has a way of communicating with like.
Chefguy had a recipe for lamb nuggets. I made them, and they really are good. Roomie had never eaten lamb before, and she liked them too.
EDIT:
Rather than look for his post (it was in the What’s for dinner thread), I’ll just post his recipe as I saved it:
1 pound ground lamb
4 cloves garlic, minced
3 TBSP minced onion
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
1 TBSP ground coriander
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1/4 tsp cayenne
1/4 tsp ground mustard
1/4 tsp pepper
salt
Mix it all together. Grill, or cook in a cast-iron skillet.
Johnny – you’re the man! My next meat purchase is going to be some lamb shoulder (or whatever – I only know hog cuts, really) and borrow the old man’s (=my father’s) KitchenAid meat grinder attachment to take to my apartment and get some good ground lamb whose provenance I know (I’ve never seen it pre-ground since I moved out here – I get a super deal on some acceptable ground pork, but Portland is kind of a cowtown, when all is said and done).
Damn – I could make a good sausage out of ground lamb. If only I didn’t hate stuffing the casings, and weren’t terrible at it. No, for something special, I’ll grab my casings and do it up good. Ginger or galangal would be good, I guess. Anyway, that’s way OT, since I’m not doing that tonight.
Too late – I’m using your recipe for my little lamb sausages. Looks good and sounds good.
I’m simmering a nice meaty ham bone overnight while I soak some beans. In the morning I’ll pull the meat off the bone and chop it and by this time timorrow it’s be ham and bean soup after I’ve added carrot, celery, onion, potatoes and tomato.
- that’s mostly an exaggeration but with four dogs and two cats, it’s a chore.
