What's For Dinner?

[Spice]

This might help: Squirrels are tasty.

Yes they are! Specially fried like chicken - just a bit tough cause those rascals are so active. LOL

 

[JustGeorge]

Bagel and cream cheese.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Yes they are! Specially fried like chicken - just a bit tough cause those rascals are so active. LOL

That is the way that my mother did it. Except for the first time. She had never cooked the little buggers and the first one she cooked whole. It looked far too much like a rat. I do not think that anyone at much of that.

I might cheat tonight and buy some frozen pizzas. I bought a bunch of pork chops last night but have not found anything new and interesting. Last night the request was for the good old pork chops with mushroom soup. Easy and boring, but still tasty. Any amazing but doable prok chop recipes out there? I could always do some bone work and make them pork loin chops and then cut it up for various pork recipes. Hmm, Indian pork curry! That is almost as bad as Indian beef curry. Let's not irritate the gods of cooking too much.

 

[We Never Know]

Yes they are! Specially fried like chicken - just a bit tough cause those rascals are so active. LOL

You can tender it up by marinating it before cooking.

 

[Spice]

You can tender it up by marinating it before cooking.

Or just boil them into a nice thick stew.

 

[Spice]

That is the way that my mother did it. Except for the first time. She had never cooked the little buggers and the first one she cooked whole. It looked far too much like a rat. I do not think that anyone at much of that.

I might cheat tonight and buy some frozen pizzas. I bought a bunch of pork chops last night but have not found anything new and interesting. Last night the request was for the good old pork chops with mushroom soup. Easy and boring, but still tasty. Any amazing but doable prok chop recipes out there? I could always do some bone work and make them pork loin chops and then cut it up for various pork recipes. Hmm, Indian pork curry! That is almost as bad as Indian beef curry. Let's not irritate the gods of cooking too much.

Very simple and very good:
Covered & Smothered Baked Chops
In the baking dish, lay out chops, salt & pepper to taste, cover with slices of bell pepper and sweet onion, then smother with crushed tomatoes, cover and bake at 350 for an hour (if chops are medium to thin cut). Serve over rice with garlic toast side.

 

[crossfire]

OK, we are experimenting tonight.

At the restaurant supply store, I picked up a jug of peach real fruit smoothie mix, thinking it would be good in tea. Notso good.

So, I mixed a good portion of it with some sweet chili sauce, some green curry paste, some incredibly weak fish sauce, and some white vinegar, and am now marinating skinned chicken thighs in it to cook up like Chicken Adobo. I'll let you know how it comes out.

It was a hit. My son wanted to know how I made chicken thighs taste like pulled pork.

 

[The Hammer]

Grilled cheese and tomato basil soup

 

[ChristineM]

Sounds like me last year. I was walking home and noticed some chestnuts. I have never had them or even seen them. I took a few home because the nuts themselves were beautiful. I then found a recipe for roasting them but right away something was wrong. They would not come out of their shells. And when it chipped out little bits they were extremely better. Turns out that horse chestnuts do not taste very good.

We have plenty of chestnut groves in the forests, no horse chestnuts im glad to say

 

[ChristineM]

I have a walnut tree and haven't a clue as to how to harvest them. That outer covering is TOUGH. And I've never seen one without it.
I also have a Pecan tree, but the Squirrels only leave me the duds.

The walnuts will drop when they are ready

Collect them, remove the green envelope if it's still on and leave them in a dry place for a month or so.

A walnut cracker is a good tool to invest in, (or a hammer)

Break the shell, the nut looks like a
2 brains held together with a fibrerous membrane. If not already split down the middle and remove the membrane.

More often than not the nut will break anyway, just pick it out of the shell discarding the membrane

Voila...

 

[ChristineM]

Roast pork (or veg flan for the veggie), boiled potatoes, broccoli.
Strawberries and cream.

Edit, garlic potatoes

 

[Spice]

The walnuts will drop when they are ready

Collect them, remove the green envelope if it's still on and leave them in a dry place for a month or so.

A walnut cracker is a good tool to invest in, (or a hammer)

Break the shell, the nut looks like a
2 brains held together with a fibrerous membrane. If not already split down the middle and remove the membrane.

More often than not the nut will break anyway, just pick it out of the shell discarding the membrane

Voila...

LOL When mine fall they look like tennis balls. And that outer covering, the part walnut stain is made from, is the dickens to deal with. Evidently the Squirrels get the good walnuts, too, as I've never seen one off this tree without the outer covering!!

 

[ChristineM]

LOL When mine fall they look like tennis balls. And that outer covering, the part walnut stain is made from, is the dickens to deal with. Evidently the Squirrels get the good walnuts, too, as I've never seen one off this tree without the outer covering!!

Oh!!! Usually the outer envelope is usually easy to move on the walnuts around here, mostly it breaks up when it hits the ground. If there is any left on it just peels off.

 

[ChristineM]

White asparagus soup.
Fish pie, smoked haddock, cod and prawns, mornay sauce, topped with potatoes and sprinked with parmesan. And, you guessed it, white asparagus.
Walnut salad.
For dessert, it's left over strawberry tart that i made yesterday.

I've just finished peeling and cleaning the prawns and prepping the pie so it's ready to pop in the oven later.

 

[Subduction Zone]

 

[ChristineM]

Back on the he prawns... Thai green seafood curry. Prawns, crab, oysters and muscles. With boiled Thai rice

 

[ChristineM]

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I would say pork belly and other animal bits.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I would say pork belly and other animal bits.

Oddly enough no one commented on the "tomato puree". On a hotdog purists (like me) consider that a huge sin. Mustard. Maybe relish if one is a sugar addict.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Oddly enough no one commented on the "tomato puree". On a hotdog purists (like me) consider that a huge sin. Mustard. Maybe relish if one is a sugar addict.

 

[ChristineM]

Oddly enough no one commented on the "tomato puree". On a hotdog purists (like me) consider that a huge sin. Mustard. Maybe relish if one is a sugar addict.

Not had a hotdog since my student days. But a sausage sandwich with tomato ketchup makes a nice quick meal.