Yummy chinese - Bon app!!
rice?

Rice is a given!

I’ve tried brown so much but ultimately I’m most jolly with cooking white. I guess I’ve gotten brown at restaurants while my spouse prefers white.

Mexican chicken soup and fajitas.

A day late. Last night's dinner, Lamprais.

As described by Bill Addison, the Los Angeles Times food critic: "[A] Sri Lankan feast designed for portability. In the center of a banana leaf, Hashim bundles boneless chicken or beef curry; melted rounds of eggplant; fried green bananas; seeni sambol, a tangled of fiercely spiced and caramelized onions; a squishy fish croquette; and a bed of short-grained rice. The steam when you unwrap this parcel releases a perfumed cloud of sweet spice and coconut palms."

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That sounds so good.

How does a Wisconsin style old fashioned differ to a regular one?

If you are a connoisseur of old fashions you do not want to know! Among other things they ask if you want it sour or sweet and you have the option of having pickled items in it.

Another another way of thinking about it, Brandy may be a fine girl, but do you want her in your old fashioned?

I'm sorry. I can live with a splash of sweet and sour, Sprite or 7Up, or even grapefruit soda in my Old Fashioned, but the garnish is just weird:

Wow. Those are some things I would never consider adding to my drink.

Yeah, the first time I was in Wisconsin and heard friends order their old fashioned sour with pickled mushrooms I threw up a little bit in my mouth. Plus, in Wisconsin you can get your drinks in to go cups. I was the designated driver that night, and the next morning discovered my car had half empty cups of nasty old fashions left in it.

Mashed potatoes (new best recipe)
rockfish filets & mushroom white gravy
Crescent rolls
Roasted Brussels sprouts with slivers of turkey bacon

Dinner was a bust. We added Mongolian beef at the last minute and somehow ended up with two of those and no cumin lamb. Plus we both spaced out and forgot to specify no bell peppers (I have a sensitivity) so I was basically stuck with eggs rolls, fish and rice. :( (Soup too but we saved that for lunch today.)

carryout paella
French Toast
mixed green salad
leftover mashed potatoes with fish & mushroom gravy
leftover Brussels sprouts with turkey bacon

sorry about the bell peppers!! Eek

I can relate with the bell peppers. I can handle a few on a pizza, but a bunch in a stir fry, no way. I always substitute jalapenos or anaheims in any recipe that calls for them.
Side note: Almost every Thai restaurant I've tried in the US uses them in great abundance, whereas I've never seen them once in many many months in Thailand.

Finally, some latkes with guacamole or sour cream and homemade applesauce. Crème fraîche and caviar would have been nice, but we didn't have any in the house.

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And Chocolate chip, tahini, halva and cardamom cookies.

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That has to be one of the oddest dinner combos have ever read. Lol. Fish and mushroom gravy? French toast?
I have never seen Paella as a take out item....interesting.

Pan fried halibut with simply salt, cracked pepper, and garlic powder.
Sauteed sugar snap peas
Oven fried wedge cut potatoes

I agree, an odd combo, but with the Covid restrictions, virtually everything is now a takeout item.

Lamb kofta with a yogurt and lemon sauce, "Greek salad" and Mexican pita bread. Oh and some grilled halumi, because why not!?
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Fun!
what is Mexican pita bread? We don’t even get that in USA.

A tortilla, bro. I just didn't have any pita bread so improvised.

pure genius! I didn’t consider using a tortilla! Did it taste pretty similar?

yes...takeout, delivery or cook at home..That is nothing new.

Early dinner tonight will be a birthday celebration for our 8-year old girl. She wanted pizza (what a surprise) so we're going to a local Italian place that still has outdoor dining. It's a rainy day here today, so should be fun :D

enjoy and let us know what y’all get :-)

Oddly, other peppers don't upset my stomach, so I'll substitute poblano or fresno in most instances.

Pepperoni pizza for the birthday girl, local snapper in a buerre blanc for my better half, fettuccine alfredo for my boy, and a pizza calabrese for me. Caesar and caprese salads to start, and Baskin Robbins ice cream cake at home to finish.

Done eating for the day!

It's all basically the same. Wheat based flat bread.

Unhealthy but delicious:

Caviar
egg white
egg yolk truffle butter (a touch)
bagel
champagne

Fusilli with Parmesan
meatballs
spaghetti with Rao’s marinara and meatballs
fresh spaghetti with Rao’s marinara

assd cookies

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Peeled off early from work and played golf (85 off the stick) then had my mate I played with round for dinner. Glorious evening so we sat outside and I just put a few bangers on the barbie and served it with salad and the aforementioned Mexican pita.

Haven't been to a country pub for Sunday lunch all year, so particularly enjoyed the full works yesterday with some elderly relatives in the "outdoor" tent at The Noah's Ark in Lurgeshall. A very happy scene with so many extended families enjoying their roasts and sticky toffee puddings. Reminds me what life should be like, even if we were all wrapped in blankets against the cold!

Sorry, just saw this. You and others have kind of covered it, but having grown up in Wisconsin, let me reply to a few of the posts:

- The main difference is they use brandy rather than some type of whiskey. Specifically, Korbel brandy, which is more similar in flavor to whiskey, without some of the strong flavors fancier brandies often have.
- As others have said, you order it either sweet or sour. Either a splash of Sprite or sour mix.

Other than these two things, there's really zero difference between the classic version and the Wisconsin version. The standard garnish is cherries. I've never personally seen anyone get pickled vegetables or anything weird in their drink. But I'm sure it happens...somewhere, sometimes. It's NOT prevalent.

If you were to walk into a bar or supper club in northern WI and ask for an old fashioned, the default is almost always brandy, sweet (Sprite), with cherries, and sometimes an orange peel. If you want "sour" you'd have to be specific, and I'm certain that's the case if you want bloody mary vegetables in it. That said, most people from there will automatically order "an old fashioned sweet/sour" out of habit. Lately, I've seen some places where they ask you if you want brandy or something else, which I attribute to the classic cocktail becoming more popular in Illinois.

We make them sweet, and it's one of the few non-Vodka cocktails my wife enjoys. She won't drink them with any type of whiskey, but I enjoy those too.

I'd encourage people to try mixing one. Make sure you use Korbel, and don't call it an old fashioned if that throws you off. It's a delicious drink.

PS: Having empty to-go cups in your car is gross no matter what was in it. The thought of that smell is making me a little shaky as I sip my coffee.

I was going to make Beef Wellington tonight, but I given the snow, I think i'm going to make potato soup instead.

Mr CE made doro wat last night. (Ethiopian chicken dish using a New York Times recipe.) I love Ethiopian food, this was way too spicy for me! And he even cut the cayenne in half. So sadly, lunch jas now rolled around and most of the leftovers in my fridge are things I cannot eat.

ooh I do love spice. I’ll look up this dish.

I do hope that you’ll post your Monday luncheon because I’m extremely curious.

You're talking to someone who is an editor at heart, so I would never claim that I had a luncheon today. There was nothing formal about my lunch. It was a little leftover Chinese that I could eat, reheated in the microwave, and a samosa that I bought at the Indian grocery store yesterday, heated up in the toaster oven. It was lunch, not a luncheon.

Red king crab legs with assorted dippers
snow crab claws
raw vegetable platter
baguette with butter
leftover Calibur French fries

the snow crab claws cost about the same as red king crab legs and they’re also really delicious.

Bucatini Carbonara
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Still working on (and enjoying) boeuf bourguignon. Tomorrow, it will be gone.