Pizzacato pizza. Lamb sausage, feta, onion, basil, olive oil, garlic and tsatsiki.
Homemade chicken pot pie… first time attempting this recipe and it smells yummy!
Shrimp creole. 30 minutes to plate time.
Whistle Dogs, just like at A&W. There’s only the two of us home this week, and now is the time to indulge my craving.
Spaghetti, with meatballs, tossed salad w/ nothing but fresh veggies, Italian Dressing.
vino
leftover birthday cake
Daughters begged for Ethiopian vegetarian platter from the restaurant down the street, so I was forced to comply.
Last night was BLTs with the Brandywine tomatoes from our garden; I think I have a new religion. Never much cared for BLTs before, but that’s because I didn’t have them with a garden tomato. Dang, they’re tasty.
Tonight was pasta with roasted tomatoes and some sort of spinach-garlic-parmesan saute. It was pretty good, but nothing amazing, not like a BLT where the juices run down your arm.
Goat curry, jerk chicken, rice & peas, steamed cabbage, fried plantains.
A barbecue brisket and cheddar sandwich and a glass of lychee soda. (I’m experimenting with the soda widget I picked up today, and carbonated some lychee juice.) Healthy, no?
On my own for dinner tonight so I had a couple ham and cheese roll-ups leftover from the kids’ lunches this past week.
Note: These are an excellent way to get veggies into kids who would never ordinarily eat them. Once a month or so I raid the produce in the fridge and roast off anything we haven’t used along with some onions and garlic. Then I just puree all the roasted veggies and mix with some cream cheese, spread it on wraps, lay on thin-sliced turkey, ham, chicken, whatever we’ve got and roll them up. The kids LOVE them and are none the wiser about all the veggies.
I may go crazy later and have an orange. I like to live on the edge.
A friend called me up at the last minute and wanted to go out to dinner – at a particularly excellent Italian place nearby.
Dinner was tomato/mozzarella and fresh fig/gorgonzola/proscuito appetizers (we split); rack of lamb, rare (ate the roast potatoes, had a mouthful or two of the sauteed carrots/squash); mango sorbet; almond biscotti with the coffee.
Yum!
Tonight’s dinner was a bowl of honey bunches of oats and some green seedless grapes. It wasn’t elaborate or intensive, but it was tasty.
Yep, sure enough, it ended up being both lunch and dinner, especially after adding to the feast the two large buckets of popcorn when we went to see Salt, plus the Earthquake we then ordered at Swensen’s afterward. Mmmmm. Now for a little fasting on Sunday.
Are you sure you’re in Thailand?
Thai food is so boring! Eat it every day, then see how much you like it. 
The fresh fig/gorgonzola/prosciutto appetizers sound incredible (the rest of the meal doesn’t sound too shabby, either). Were they rolled up or something?
Thank you for spelling prosciutto correctly – I knew it was wrong but trial-and-error wasn’t getting me anywhere with spellcheck.
They did a layer of prosciutto on the plate and placed the figs on it, so we were kind of draping a piece around each fig. The figs were quartered pole to pole, not going all the way through at the bottom, and opened – the gorgonzola must have been mixed with something, because it was kind of creamy, but I don’t remember what. Whatever it was, there was a nice dab of it in the middle of each fig.
And, yeah, they were pretty doggone good. The lamb, though – I was humming and wiggling after every bite. They know how to cook lamb there.
TheKid is gone for the week, so I can have anything I want. Whee!
I’m debating whether I should order in a nom nom pepperoni pizza with extra cheese or whether I want to face the ridiculous heat and humidity and pick up Indian food.
Please share (if it was good) … I love me some chicken pot pie but most recipes are either waaay too involved (I’m looking at you, Cook’s Illustrated*) or take too many shortcuts (like using biscuits-in-a-can to make the crust).
Or involve heating up a frozen Marie C’s pot pie.
- delicious but a multi-hour procedure and that’s not including the crust. I cheated and used Pillsbury’s refrigerated pre-made pie crusts, which are awesome, very nearly as good as homemade and with absolutely none of the work. Would your recipe work with those? I need a good recipe for the filling.
It’s hot as hell here, so I decided to make something hotter.
Nothing fancy, just a box of Zatarain’s Jumbalaya, with some sliced up hot Italian sausage and a little Tobasco added to the mix.
Came out fine.