Dinner Saturday 21 March -What's on??

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VeraBlue

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The past two saturdays have been restaurant affairs - first with my son and his girlfriend to celebrate my birthday, and last week in Williamsburg. I have missed our Saturday meals and am sooooo happy to be cooking tonight.

Lou and I both were raised in traditional catholic italian homes, celebrating the Feast of St. Joseph on March 19th. Unfortunately, we were not together that night this week, so the traditional meal is tonight.

The first course tonight is grilled cantaloupe and prosciutto over arugula with a goat cheese medallion topped with a lemon and honey viniagrette.

Dinner is pasta con sarde e finoccio, which translates to pasta with sardines and fennel. We serve that with a special pasta which looks like a spaghetti but is tubular, instead. There are also currants and pignoli nuts in the sauce, and the whole plate is topped with warm toasted seasoned breadcrumbs.

Dessert is St. Joseph zeppoles. It's like a cream puff, shaped in a ring form, and filled with ricotta cheese that's been spiked with chocolate chips, cinnamon oil, candied orange peel and brandy.

I believe the cocktail for the evening is Sazeracs; I believe Lou is looking at a cabernet for dinner (but I could be wrong...)

What are you having???
 
I have a couple of NY Strips thawing, and probably some zucchini fritters and potato bakers...
 
Vera, that sounds delicious. I'm taking the night off and attending a dinner party so someone else gets the cooking honors.
 
VeraBlue said:
The past two saturdays have been restaurant affairs - first with my son and his girlfriend to celebrate my birthday, and last week in Williamsburg. I have missed our Saturday meals and am sooooo happy to be cooking tonight.

Lou and I both were raised in traditional catholic italian homes, celebrating the Feast of St. Joseph on March 19th. Unfortunately, we were not together that night this week, so the traditional meal is tonight.

The first course tonight is grilled cantaloupe and prosciutto over arugula with a goat cheese medallion topped with a lemon and honey viniagrette.

Dinner is pasta con sarde e finoccio, which translates to pasta with sardines and fennel. We serve that with a special pasta which looks like a spaghetti but is tubular, instead. There are also currants and pignoli nuts in the sauce, and the whole plate is topped with warm toasted seasoned breadcrumbs.

Dessert is St. Joseph zeppoles. It's like a cream puff, shaped in a ring form, and filled with ricotta cheese that's been spiked with chocolate chips, cinnamon oil, candied orange peel and brandy.

I believe the cocktail for the evening is Sazeracs; I believe Lou is looking at a cabernet for dinner (but I could be wrong...)

What are you having???
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That filling sounds similar to what I have had in cannoli! MMMMM Enjoy your feast, and it is good to see you VeraBlue. You were missed.
 
I'm thinking about smoking some babybacks tonight. They're on sale in town here, so if I get over to pick some racks up, that's what it'll be. Need to get some charcoal, too. I'll probably just buy some mac salad while there and maybe Dr up some Bush's beans.
 
Dinner today- 3/21

Well, we usually do take-out on saturdays, such as chinese, or pizza, or something from the wing joint on the corner (urp!)
but seeing as how we have these really fresh organ meats, we will do chicken hearts, gizzards and livers in a country gravy, over rice, with baked onions on the side.
:tongue:
 
Hopefully I won't be cooking. lol Heb is coming out today and we have some running around to do. Maybe we'll stop somewhere and grab a bite.

Barb
 
Dang! Here I thought I was going to be pampered tonight at a mansion on beautiful Venitian Bay. DW woke up sick and I had to call and cancel. Dang! Dang! Dang! #+&!@

Looks like it's gonna be fresh steamed clams and pasta and I'll be eating alone.

Dang!


:pat:​
 
Re: Dinner today- 3/21

White chili with a free from loaf of multigrain bread <glazed with a coarse salt topping, I like to dip my bread>
 
Salad:Fresh greens-onion, cucumber, sliced boiled egg, croutons and chopped smoked almonds.
Dressing on the side: Honey dijon
An orange.
Little box of Goldfish crackers.

Yup, brown baggin' it for work.
 
well ... going to try smoking a london broil ..
will see how that works out ..
also going to smoke some wings then toss them in
the fryer to crisp up .. then coat them with a store bought rasberry chipotle
dressing ..
maybe baked potatoes ..some green beans
and a fatty that will be breakfast tomorrow ...
 
Well...if I don't make it to Lucky's for dinner....

We'll be having good old leftovers.

Will somebody teach me to cook for TWO instead of SIX?
 
VeraBlue said:
The past two saturdays have been restaurant affairs - first with my son and his girlfriend to celebrate my birthday, and last week in Williamsburg. I have missed our Saturday meals and am sooooo happy to be cooking tonight.

Lou and I both were raised in traditional catholic italian homes, celebrating the Feast of St. Joseph on March 19th. Unfortunately, we were not together that night this week, so the traditional meal is tonight.

The first course tonight is grilled cantaloupe and prosciutto over arugula with a goat cheese medallion topped with a lemon and honey viniagrette.

Dinner is pasta con sarde e finoccio, which translates to pasta with sardines and fennel. We serve that with a special pasta which looks like a spaghetti but is tubular, instead. There are also currants and pignoli nuts in the sauce, and the whole plate is topped with warm toasted seasoned breadcrumbs.

Dessert is St. Joseph zeppoles. It's like a cream puff, shaped in a ring form, and filled with ricotta cheese that's been spiked with chocolate chips, cinnamon oil, candied orange peel and brandy.

I believe the cocktail for the evening is Sazeracs; I believe Lou is looking at a cabernet for dinner (but I could be wrong...)

What are you having???
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And just where is the braided St. Joseph Bread? The Italians used to make it for St. Joseph Day and then distribute it to the poor. All that beautiful food and no bread? I guess I'll have to take care of that for you. Here's a loaf of plain and a braided loaf to symbolize the unity of the Holy Family. Enjoy!

ItalianBread.jpg
 
Here's part of tonight's dinner. Time to get out of the kitchen though it is a beautiful afternoon here in the PNW and my bike is feeling a tad neglected. A few miles on the trail and then I can carb load this evening!
 
I changed my mind. I'm just going to go with sausage subs again from the other night. Gotta use up those sub rolls and I never made it to the store today after work. There'll be time enough for ribs tomorrow instead.
 
so far it's fried chicken livers, left over cheddar mashed potatoes. some veggie. don't know what yet.
 
Sushi swung over today and we are grilling up rib eye steaks, ribs, wings, and Italian sausages. Got chips, macaroni salad and potato salad on the side with watermelon for dessert.
Sushi brought over some chicken and a Thai sauce and some blue cheese. I am waiting to see what he does with it, assuming I can get DW to stop talking his ear off long enough, LOL!
 
You two are becoming quite a pair. The rest of us are getting jealous. Have fun!
 
Here ya go: We started with macaroni salad, potato salad and chips while I 'smoked' the spare ribs and fried the chicken wings (coated with flour and fried in oil). Then I smothered the wings in BBQ sauce and baked in the oven while I re-fueled the charcoal grill and started the Italian sausages. We started in on them while I started cooking the ribs, brushing with BBQ as I went. We we started eating those I did up the chicken Sushi brought (He will have to describe the marinade, made it himself and it was good!), then while that was getting eating I did up the steaks and then we ate them. Finished with watermelon then remembered we had deviled eggs in the fridge so got them out too!
Filled ourselves up with ice tea all day too! LOL. It was a lot of fun and great food! Katie also had her friend over for a sleep over so we had 7 here. These are the pics that I got, there is some sort of smudge on the upper left of the pics that I think is on the lens:
 

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DW insists that any pictures I take with her in them she has to be made to look slimmer than everyone else... had no choice dude! LOL!
 
I couldn't remember what all you put in the chicken marinade... but I remember that the thing I grilled with the chicken was a fennel bulb...
 
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