What's for Dinner?

[LocktownDog]

Lamb sausage diavolo over penne. Home baked rosemary bread.
No chance to eat it, due to ex-wife and teenage son drama ... but it'll be in the fridge to warm up tomorrow.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Well..glad you got to eat,at least
Combo sandwiched on your plate
Juicey steak is overated
And the sugary things that bake.
Spaghetti laughs at you
When completely sauced
Burns the heart with fire
Till all seems almost lost.
Chicken can be finger lickin
For kings as well as bums
Relieves the pangs of hunger
And without the need of Tums.

 

[nice hat dude!]

Just to clear things up for you I'll send a couple photos

 

[nice hat dude!]

Made a huge batch of meatballs on ground elk (you Americans would call it moose since you mean a different animal with 'elk'; one of those confusing British-American translation thingies), mixed with ground pork since elk is too lean to work on it's own. Put most of them in the freezer but had some for dinner with oven-baked butternut squash, parsnips, carrots and beetroots with a little cinnamon and nutmeg to go along. Really yummy.

ETA: afterwards I had a slice of parsnip cake that I made according to the recipe for a carrot cake but supplanted the carrot for parsnip. It was inspired by a long discussion I had on baking, experimenting and wartime cuisine with two friends when I was in London last week. Worked really well; no taste of parsnip but a little sweeter than carrot.

I posted a few photos just to clear things up for you 1st one is a moose ,2nd being the elk

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Fried chicken breasts...browned diced potatoes...slaw..bisquits and apple butter. Iced sweet tea.

 

[jamespowers]

Fried chicken breasts...browned diced potatoes...slaw..bisquits and apple butter. Iced sweet tea.

You had dinner with the Duke Boys?

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Lard no Jimmy Bob. Jus Cuzin Daisy!!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

You had dinner with the Duke Boys?

 

[jamespowers]

Lard no Jimmy Bob. Jus Cuzin Daisy!!

That would be a good place to start.

 

[jamespowers]

You caught HD sleeping against the gas pump. lol lol

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

It must have been a pretty good meal then.

 

[jamespowers]

It must have been a pretty good meal then.

With that kind of scenery, who cares what you eat?

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Had to run errands after work and didn't feel like cooking. Dinner from the Golden Arches.

 

[jamespowers]

Had to run errands after work and didn't feel like cooking. Dinner from the Golden Arches.

The 1/4 pounder again eh?

 

[HoosierDaddy]

You caught HD sleeping against the gas pump. lol lol

....and it was all served in a warshed out chromed spinner hubcap too..!

 

[jamespowers]

....and it was all served in a warshed out chromed spinner hubcap too..!

Figures.

 

[splintercellsz]

Had some French Toast, Melon, and Orange Juice. One of the faster things we have had for dinner. Pretty good too!

 

[AtomicEraTom]

McNuggets and a medium fries

The 1/4 pounder again eh?

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Figures.

No..I ate with a fork.

 

[Flicka]

I posted a few photos just to clear things up for you 1st one is a moose ,2nd being the elk

I don't know what I needed cleared up? I am talking about the species alces alces, known in North America as a moose and in British English as an elk and in Swedish as an älg. I've met plenty of that species IRL (they're everywhere here) so I know what they look like. What I don't know is why Americans took the British word and applied it to a completely different species (one, moreover, you don't find here) and made up a completely new one for alces alces, but there you are. But just to avoid confusion I shall henceforth refer to it by its Latin name, which was incidentally invented by a Swede (Linnaeus) and therefore should have been my primary choice anyway.

ETA: for a quick description on the name issue I quote Wikipedia (not the best of sources but a readily available one):

The animal bearing the scientific name Alces alces is known in Britain as the "elk", and in North America as the "moose".

The British English word "elk" has cognates in other Indo-European languages, for example elg in Danish/Norwegian, älg in Swedish, Elch in German and łoś in Polish. Confusingly, the word elk is used in North America to refer to a different animal, the elk or less commonly wapiti (Cervus canadensis), which is similar though slightly smaller (the North American species is the second largest deer species) and behaviorally and genetically divergent from the smaller red deer of central and western Europe. Presumably early European explorers in North America called it elk because of its size and presumably because, as men coming from the British Isles they would have had no opportunity to see the difference between a member of the genus Cervus and an animal fitting the description of Alces at home, where the latter was nowhere present in the 17th and 18th century.