Tomorrow is the Fella’s birthday, so tonight, I’m cooking his favorite meal. Chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and milk gravy, fried okra, turnip greens, sauteed yellow squash, buttermilk biscuits and iced tea.
Instead of the traditional birthday cake, I just took a blackberry cobbler out of the oven (his choice).
Good thing we don’t eat like this every day. 
Cold and rainy here, so dinner is rigatoni with sausage and a green salad. Warm, filling, and perfect with this syrah I’m sipping.
The local Catholic church is having a fish fry every Friday during Lent. For $7.00, you get two pieces of fried fish (fried right there in the church kitchen, none of this Gorton’s crap), home-made cole slaw, French fries, a soft drink, and dessert; for $4.00 you get the same meal, but only one piece of fish. So I decided to take mudgirl to a fish fry. For $11.00 we both got dinner, and I didn’t have to cook! Yay!
Hawaiian fish day at the market, so pan seared ono, liberally coated with salt, pepper and cayenne. Tasty! Salad on the side.
I picked up a couple of rockfish fillets on the way home.
I think I’ll just pan-fry them in butter with a little salt, and give them a dash of Hungarian paprika at the end. I’ll steam some asparagus, and cook some rice in chicken stock. If the avocados are still good, I’ll slice one up for another flavour on the plate.
In St. Louis, was out and about all day from 8am to 7pm so we went to the mall and sat down in the first place we saw which was…California Pizza Kitchen. Everyone kept trying to recommend us Italian or Sushi, both of which we trust a leetle more in Pittsburgh :p.
Italian? Mall?
Sbarro?
Haha no, earlier in the day they recommended us some real authentic Italian places. But we walked all over campus and talked to various admissions people and students and sat in on a few classes and were too beat to put our usual intensive effort into eating good food and decided to eat at the first place with soft comfy booths that we saw.
That was the first time I cooked rockfish. I can’t remember ever pan-frying fish in butter. (Although dad fried up some freshly-caught campside trout in butter when I was ten. It was great.) It turned out well. A little crispy around the edges, white and flaky in the middle. In addition to the salt and butter, I also gave it a squirt of lemon juice. And I did sprinkle the Hungarian paprika on after the fish was on the plate.
Except for all of the butter, it was a fairly healthy dinner.
Gotta eat the other avocados soon. Soon.
Mmmmm, grilled salmon w/cous-cous and cooked spinach w/red pepper. Thanks, Mrs. AG! 
I asked roomie if she wanted steaks tonight. She said yes, so I said I was going to take them out of the freezer. She said she’s not going to stop me. ‘Are you sure? Because I’m going to pull them out! Don’t even try to stop me!’
So it looks like rib eyes tonight, with steamed asparagus and possibly baked potatoes. For afters we have German chocolate cake, cookie dough ice cream, or banana split ice cream. And yes, I said ‘or’.
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I bought a little cryovacked Hormel pork roast (in the refrigerated meat section). Not the long thin tenderloins, though it’s related. This one was a round piece of marinated tenderized pork, it comes in different flavors like onion and garlic and teriyaki. I got the ‘roast’ flavor. I wasn’t expecting much, but … holy cow, was that thing GOOD! Baked it at 350 degrees about 70 minutes, sliced, served with asparagus and mashed potatoes. I was sure it would be a wholly unnatural, adulterated piece of mystery meat filled with sodium and chemicals, but it was just absolutely the most tender and delicious pork roast we’ve had in decades. I bought a couple of kimmelwick rolls to make sandwiches with the leftovers, but it was a bit fatty, and after I cut away most of the fat in my OCD way, only had enough for one biggish sandwich, with lettuce, tomato, and onion.
My husband was away this weekend, so last night me and the kids ate stuff he wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole: Kraft mac and cheese, peas, and Boca chicken patties. My daughter tried to make some chocolate no-bake cookies, which failed to harden, but they were still delicious. At one point I said to my son, “No, you have to eat all your crap before you can have any sludge!” Mmmm, sludge.
I got take out fried chicken, because we spring cleaned all weekend, and we were tahred. With mashed potatoes, cole slaw and fried okra.
When we made meatloaf week before last, I made double. I always make doubles of meatloaf. So for tonight, I’m going to thaw some leftover meatloaf, whip up some mashed potatoes and pan gravy, and steam some frozen veggies. Quick, easy, tasty.
Leftover vegetable curry from last night with coconut rice and a fried egg. It was so much more delicious than the simple description makes it sound.
Leftover rib eye steaks and baked potatoes from Saturday. (I’d bought big steaks and potatoes.)
I tried the ratatouille recipe from the Volumetrics Eating Plan. It was so yummy. And only 75 calories a serving. So I had two servings on 2 ounces of Angel Hair Pasta for a 350 calorie dinner.
Not bad at all.
Steamed veggie dumplings with shiitake, carrots, green onions and baby bok choy, garlic chicken with brown rice, washed down with an Arnold Palmer. Nom nom nom. Courtesy of the Bluth parents.
I made chef salad with leftover ham and leftover fried chicken.