What's for dinner?
Jun 28, 2020, 10:09 pm
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Jun 28, 2020, 10:37 pm
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Grilled chicken apple sausage with fresh cilantro chutney
spaghetti with meatballs in Rao’s marinara sauce
penne with Parm & olive oil
banana cream pie with Nilla wafers (I think I last had Nilla wafers in the 80s!)
spaghetti with meatballs in Rao’s marinara sauce
penne with Parm & olive oil
banana cream pie with Nilla wafers (I think I last had Nilla wafers in the 80s!)
Jun 29, 2020, 2:34 am
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Jun 29, 2020, 8:03 am
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Last night I made the gourmet, no-bechamel/no-boil mac and cheese that a friend came up with and Mr Gfunk loves. I used cheddar and half a can of Allagash White.
Jun 29, 2020, 9:34 am
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how did you make the cilantro chutney ?
Jun 29, 2020, 9:43 am
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cilantro chutney - my spouse found an easy recipe using a blender. Cilantro, lime juice, some pepper (suggestion of Serrano or an India green, but we only had bell). I haven’t had any chutney because I had spaghetti. But the cilantro chutney required a minute or three.
as for 2 different shapes of pasta... why not? What can’t I do? Ok. I cannot parachute or fly aircraft.
Jun 29, 2020, 10:00 am
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Jun 29, 2020, 10:50 am
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Just as an example, these ACF poker plaques cost $35 apiece. What normal person pays $35 for a single poker plaque for a fun home poker game when $35 would cover hundreds of individual chips? That’s the kind of degen kitchen cooker that I am!
Jun 29, 2020, 12:26 pm
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I had a good friend in college that grew up in a big (but not huge) Italian family. I loved going to his house for dinner because there would be about 3 entrees and a huge bowl of pasta on the table for about 7 people. This was normal for them. It was unusual to me then, but it made an impression on me, thinking how wonderful it must have been to have such a nice spread for dinner every night. Now, looking back, I just wonder how his mother had the time. And the whole family was surprisingly thin too!
Jun 29, 2020, 6:36 pm
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Jun 29, 2020, 7:50 pm
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Homemade chicken curry with lemon rice.
Served with a jar of pickled mango that seems to be exponentially more spicy than the last time it was opened.
Heading back to the kitchen for a spoon or two of yogurt.
Served with a jar of pickled mango that seems to be exponentially more spicy than the last time it was opened.
Heading back to the kitchen for a spoon or two of yogurt.
Jun 29, 2020, 8:08 pm
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supper tonight:
(still full from luncheon)
Haagen daaz strawberry ice cream
Safeway organic butter pecan ice cream
Jun 29, 2020, 8:45 pm
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Try your parmesan and olive oil concoction with spaghetti, maybe an egg yolk too and a little lemon juice. Heaven.
Jun 30, 2020, 6:36 am
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Yeah, I prefer penne (specifically the rigate typem which is sort of roughed up so holds a sauce even better) for marinara. And for oil based stuff or something like carbonara then I'd use spaghetti. I know Italian-American classic is spaghetti with meatballs, but it's an exercise in futility trying to eat it. The pasta doesn't hold the sauce of the meatballs so you end up eating plain pasta followed by a big bowl of marinara meatballs!
Try your parmesan and olive oil concoction with spaghetti, maybe an egg yolk too and a little lemon juice. Heaven.
Try your parmesan and olive oil concoction with spaghetti, maybe an egg yolk too and a little lemon juice. Heaven.
Jun 30, 2020, 7:26 am
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