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Adults had lasagna, which I kinda overbaked as I had to play lifeguard as the kids were swimming.

9 year old niece had an avacado quesadilla, fried rice and peas.

5 year old nephew has the innate inability to say "Yes/Please/Thank You" claimed he was not hungry when everyone else are, so when he was, he was given a bagged lunch which his parents brought with them. Not a Lunchables, but one of those summer program giveaway lunches you can pick up at a local school.

The lasagna looks delicious!

I remember liking Portillos salads but who goes to Portillos for the salad?! My dad used to always get Italian beef on a croissant with sweet and hot peppers. And an angioplasty.

I screwed up the layering as I had fresh mozzarella for a middle layer and ended up using it as a toping as I was working somewhat distracted. As a result, one of the layers of no boil noodles started curling up before I could add a wet layer over them. I added red pepper pesto into one of the ricotta layers too. Wow!

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I’ve had the big salad at portillos - I’ve had a salad at Wrigley as well. less calories.

So was it avocado and cheese, and which cheese, or sin queso? Yummy.

What? No cheddar with the beef on the croissant? :confused:

The thing about the salads is that they're huge - they can easily be shared or cover two meals and they're ridiculously cheap, about $8.00 and much better for carryout. My cousin picked them up for lunch and drove to my place. While I like my beef dipped, cold and soggy isn't very appetizing.

Three* cheese. Sharp Cheddar, Monterey Jack and Velveeta

*-if you consider Velveeta a cheese. :D

Wish there was one near me. :(

I was planning to have grilled chicken with BBQ sauce and corn on the cob, plus green beans for dinner last night, but there was a grilled cheese food truck set up in another neighborhood, so I enjoyed a buffalo chicken grilled cheese and a vanilla milkshake from the same people that provide them at my state's annual farm show. If you've attended the farm show, you know those are in high demand!

First of all, I didn't realize they even had a croissant option. But more importantly, Italian beef on a croissant -- messy heresy!

Ok...I'm a season ticket holder and never seen a salad at Wrigley, unless you mean the restaurant with tables by the right field corner? Or perhaps I just don't see the salad through the heavy fog of real ballpark food! :)


More heresy! Your only Italian beef options shall be sweet peppers (meh) or hot peppers (correct :)), and dipped (correct) or dry. Now, if it was just a roast beef croissant sandwich, I'm right there with you.

Yeah, I have my rules. I also only eat tavern style pizza, not deep dish.

Having grown up in Wisconsin, and buying all our cheese from small "cheese factories", we also always had a block of Velveeta. It still makes the best queso dip. Pluto isn't a planet, and buffaloes don't have wings. Velveeta gets my vote for a cheese.

I agree with your Italian beef - dipped with giardiniera.

However, Portillo's beef and cheddar croissant is very popular. I've never had it and only mentioned the cheddar because that's how the sandwich normally comes. It's Kyle Schwarber's favorite, however. :D

One food stand has a salad - I got it with hot dogs etc for others, I think. The salad is definitely not ballpark food and yes, that’s what I carried back to my seat :-)

You got a salad at a baseball game--am I reading this correctly?

at Wrigley - so yes, baseball. I love big salads and small salads. One of my favorite former restaurant luncheon meals was a short stack of pancakes, side salad, and side of fries.

I've heard of breakfast for dinner, but not whatever that is. :D

Tonight's dinner is a grilled chicken sandwich topped with melted cheese, served on a pretzel roll, with a side of fries and a side of green beans.

I love salads too. I also like Peking Duck and pasta Carbonara but I am not going to eat any of those at a baseball game. Oh well, you must not be the only one if they have them there.

Dinner was 2 eggs over easy, sourdough toast, bacon.

I'd take duck pancakes at a stadium. That would be fantastic. Much better than the warm beer and cold pie I usually end up with.

Dinner last night was takeaway pad-see-ew with chicken and a couple of satay skewers.

Finally roasted beets for the first time in a few years. Delicious alone and then a slice of beef with a cheeseburger on roll-ppang. Maybe I’ll try making a salad sandwich for an upcoming luncheon.

Beer and pie?
It would never occur to me to have anything but beer and a hot dog (or 2) at a baseball game. All these other things are just wrong.

You put beets and a slice of beef on a cheeseburger? Shudder.

A pie, not pie. ;) And a meat pie not a fruit pie. The pie is like the hot dog in America. Every petrol station sells them and they run the fully span from petrol station pies right through to hipster gourmet things.

You go to watch sport in Australia and you're eating a pie, not a hot dog.

Got it. I was picturing a slice of lemon meringue pie at the concession stand.

Tonight, one of my favorite meals. Shrimp Aguachili with lots of fresh tortilla chips from a small mom and pop in Eureka, CA. that has become a go-to for us.

Thank you, Voice of Reason.

Actually, I'd suggest any type of sausage on a bun is acceptable, but the local hot dog variant is required the first time you visit any ballpark (I've been to about half). The only exception I've found so far is in Milwaukee, it's a brat with "stadium sauce" instead of a dog.

You need to discover sodium citrate. You can buy a tub of it from amazon. Melt any cheese with a little liquid, like water or stock or beer or wine, and add a teaspoon of sodium citrate. It emulsifies the fat in the cheese and turns any cheese into a melty velveeta consistency.

I've made different cheese sauces before using real cheese. The problem with them is that as soon as I add that liquid, it seems to dilute the cheese flavor, even when you use milk or cream. I like beer or white wine cheese sauce, but it's not for nachos or queso dip IMO.

That said, I didn't know about sodium citrate. Is it available in grocery stores...in other words any way I can try it without committing to "a tub of it from Amazon"?

You might be able to find it at the grocery store. Another name for it is "sour salt". The " " I got was $15 and is about a pound. It's not gigantic. And the advantage is that sodium citrate only requires a little bit of liquid so you really just get melty cheese. You want the kind that is granular and looks like salt/sugar, not the liquid type. It's also good for fixing a sauce that's cracked.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nacho...rate_n_6108794
https://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/melty-queso-dip/

Costco used to sell some good Aussie pies in their frozen section. They stopped carrying them quite a few years ago.

I’ve gotten some really nice meat pies in Australia, South Africa and Indonesia. I just had a couple nice ones today from Pie World in BDO.

oops the cheeseburger had a slice of BEET - not a slice of beef. Apologies.
I’ve also had poutine, pizza, Mexican food, rice bowls, sushi, and other non-sausage sandwiches at the Sf baseball stadium. Mega yum.

ive only been to the stadiums in New York, Chicago, and sf/Oakland - total 6!

Dinner tonight will be a traditional roast beef, mashed potatoes with gravy, and a Caesar salad. Haven't decided on the wine yet.

ramona singer Pinot Grigio

I finally butchered my top sirloin to create and cook Picahna, but they sure didn't stay on the skewers like at a rodizio. I used the kettle but should've used the gas grill. Had to trim down the fat cap as I knew my folks would just eat that for dinner.

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I wouldn't pair a pinot grigio with roast beef.

ROFL!!
btw---she hasn't said pinot grigio once this season. And those women are getting so drunk every episode...falling down drunk.

What do you mean they wouldn't stay on the skewers? Those look like wood---maybe metal would be better?

They would not stay curled like these.

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I butchered a top sirloin cap about 7#. I only cooked about 35% of what was left after trimming. I have most of the trimmings and some fat to my brother's dog before the came to pick him up.

Each one was on three bamboo skewers. Shape didn't hold.

Got it. Only 35%? trimmings for chili maybe?
Looks beautiful--I can't imagine why it didn't hold but I bet it was delicious.

I had low expectations, but it was really tender and went over well. I bought it vacuum sealed on a whim for $20 and it was taking too much room in the deep freezer so I put it in the "soda mini fridge" on the enclosed patio for the last month and knew it needed to be cut and grilled.


I have ribs to smoke tomorrow. Sadly, I was an hour late to $6.99/rack sale on baby backs and was only able to get $8.99/rack full ribs so I'll trim to St Louis cut in the morning.

Costco is my go to for baby backs.
How did you season the meat? How many people are you feeding?

I have a Costco membership still. but it is more out of the way than my outlet stores and both the local BJ's and Sams. I'll roll past Costco if I feel the need for Top Tier gasoline most often. I drive past BJ's more than the other warehouse stores by far.

I now just use a "basic" 54321 or 4321 rub with sugar as the 5/4 with a split of dark brown and raw sugars. Whatever my sugar level is, the salt level is 50% of that.

I've basically retired at 47 to take care of my parents, but while there are three in the house, I generally cook dinner for those two as I eat grilled poultry on salad greens with avocado Monday-Thursday. If no pandemic, I;d likely have two more adults and two carb-heavy kids over more often. Then again, during breakfast, those four will eat a loaf of bread. I could say more but that is more of an OMNI "Parent's Corner/Talk About Your Siblings and Family" thread.

During the start of the shutdown, Restaurant Depot was open to the public. Did anybody here go? I am not sure if they still are and I really don't have spae now, but it ight be worth a cal lfor some

Grilled pizza with fresh made pesto, bacon, shaved pecorino romano, goat cheese.
Weber gas got up to 600 degrees
Pineapple/basil margarita as a sous-chef
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