What's for Dinner?

[Bamaboots]

Have a couple rib eyes laid out waiting on Lady B to get home and I'll let her decide if we just do a steak salad or something more substantial. I'm good with the former. The kids not here so that means I can use my hot chili powder rub and go spicy.

 

[Babydoll]

Have a couple rib eyes laid out waiting on Lady B to get home and I'll let her decide if we just do a steak salad or something more substantial. I'm good with the former. The kids not here so that means I can use my hot chili powder rub and go spicy.

Do you make your own rub?

 

[Stanley Doble]

Grilled pork chop, green beans, Rice a Roni

 

[Touchofevil]

Busy evening so: turkey sandwich with pepperjack cheese, dijon mustard, zesty dill spears, tomatoes, cracked pepper, on sourdough bread with honey mustard dijon kettle chips.

 

[Babydoll]

Last night was mesquite grilled pork chops, butter noodles, grilled zucchini, and broccoli.

Tonight we are having the last of the beef smoked sausages we brought back home & stashed in our freezer after last summer's visit to Texas to see Grandma. I will also make smashed potato salad, and corn-on-the-cob.

Added a coconut cream pie to the menu, too.

Corn was so good, I was requested to go and buy more to have again tomorrow night.

 

[dh66]

An omelette and home fried potatoes, all smothered with leftover chili.

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[Bamaboots]

Do you make your own rub?

Babydoll, I have and still do, though my concoctions aren't always well received by the ladies in the house. Too much heat. Last night I used McCormick Hot Mexican Style chili powder. It's been my go to of late, pretty tasty and not too much heat for the sissy tounges in the house.

 

[Fading Fast]

Babydoll, I have and still do, though my concoctions aren't always well received by the ladies in the house. Too much heat. Last night I used McCormick Hot Mexican Style chili powder. It's been my go to of late, pretty tasty and not too much heat for the sissy tounges in the house.

While I can hold my own in the amateur leagues for heat, I'll match my girlfriend against anyone's Tiger Woods in the "bring the heat" eater category.

She's so distorted my sense of what is really hot, I'll be out with friends sharing a meal and we'll order something with heat that I'll think is mild and they are all mopping their foreheads and reaching for water. But I know their pain, as she can bring me to tears (literally my eyes watering from the heat), while she blithely goes about eating it like nothing.

Tangentially related, Bamboots, she has asked me (I've shown her many of your incredible food posts) if there is a "real" southern / regional cookbook that you recommend?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Fish tacos last night.

 

[Bamaboots]

Tangentially related, Bamboots, she has asked me (I've shown her many of your incredible food posts) if there is a "real" southern / regional cookbook that you recommend?

FF, there are many "Southern" cookbooks out there and I've looked around this morning and can't find where we put mine. As I know you're familiar with remodeling, new kitchen cabinets were installed last week and the granite counter tops come tomorrow so, things are strewn around. Sadly ours is a contemporary home but the kitchen will now have more cabinet space and way more functionality. The books I recommend you start with are the Southern Living cookbooks. There are many of them out there and they cover everything from baking to BBQ. I particularly like them as recipes from every region of the South can be found. You may be familiar with Southern Living magazine, a subscription I held for many years, mostly for the food section. It is published in Birmingham and there was a time it was found on every coffee table down here.

Many of their recipes can be found online and since I know lady FF enjoys baking, here's a recipe I've used many times. If you enjoy carrot cake, and I do. I've found none better. Perfect for the holidays. http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/best-carrot-cake

 

[Vera Godfrey]

Going out for youngest DD's birthday. She's twelve today!

 

[dh66]

Happy Birthday to your young'un Vera Godfrey!

Me and mine had tacos. A friend sent a jar of Hatch green chile's from NM. That turned 'em up a little.

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[Julian Shellhammer]

Teriyaki chicken bbq'd by son-in-law, with cauliflower rice.

 

[Touchofevil]

Teriyaki chicken bbq'd by son-in-law, with cauliflower rice.

One of my favorite meals. I will it eat it until I am one mouthful away from a coma. I never tire of anything teriyaki.

 

[Babydoll]

Hamburgers and corn-on-the-cob. Excellent corn! Tender & sweet.

 

[Fading Fast]

FF, there are many "Southern" cookbooks out there and I've looked around this morning and can't find where we put mine. As I know you're familiar with remodeling, new kitchen cabinets were installed last week and the granite counter tops come tomorrow so, things are strewn around. Sadly ours is a contemporary home but the kitchen will now have more cabinet space and way more functionality. The books I recommend you start with are the Southern Living cookbooks. There are many of them out there and they cover everything from baking to BBQ. I particularly like them as recipes from every region of the South can be found. You may be familiar with Southern Living magazine, a subscription I held for many years, mostly for the food section. It is published in Birmingham and there was a time it was found on every coffee table down here.

Many of their recipes can be found online and since I know lady FF enjoys baking, here's a recipe I've used many times. If you enjoy carrot cake, and I do. I've found none better. Perfect for the holidays. http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/best-carrot-cake

Not only thank you, but congratulations on the remodeling. I hope the granite counter install goes well. All your info (and the recipe) have been passed on to the girlfriend (who is recovering from two broken toes, so the kitchen has been all but shut down, but she's itching to get back in once healed up enough).

 

[Bamaboots]

Not only thank you, but congratulations on the remodeling. I hope the granite counter install goes well. All your info (and the recipe) have been passed on to the girlfriend (who is recovering from two broken toes, so the kitchen has been all but shut down, but she's itching to get back in once healed up enough).

You're welcome. Having broken a couple of toes myself, I know how she feels. Quite painful. Sending her my best wishes for a speedy recovery.

 

[Vera Godfrey]

Thank you, dh66! She had a wonderful day!

Tonight: penne with red sauce and spicy sausage, green salad with choice of dressing

 

[Babydoll]

Babydoll, I have and still do, though my concoctions aren't always well received by the ladies in the house. Too much heat. Last night I used McCormick Hot Mexican Style chili powder. It's been my go to of late, pretty tasty and not too much heat for the sissy tounges in the house.

My house rub is usually dozen or more spices mixed together, using whatever is in the spice cupboard at the time. It always includes kosher salt, 2-3 kinds of black pepper (regular, smoked, Worcestershire, and lemon are my choices), garlic powder (not salt), onion powder (not salt), Italian seasoning, a tiny pinch all spice, and a tiny pinch of cloves, mustard powder, extra oregano, paprika (smoked), cayenne. I don't measure any of it, I just eyeball based on how much finished product I want to make. I usually do 1 1/2 cups, and whizz it in my mini-food processor to blend it all together.

I also can't make it to spicy because Lily eats what we eat, and her little mouth can't handle too much spice. She likes flavor, not heat.

 

[Babydoll]

Tonight, beef-and-broccoli stir fry, and Jasmine rice. Not sure why I picked something hot to eat tonight when it is supposed to be 90+ degrees today, but it is what it is.