What's for dinner?

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

he he, those peppers in the adobo sauce are pretty warm.  I made some grilled pumpkin glazed with a maple-chipotle sauce one time and it was like slowly consuming a fire.... they were really good, but the heat just built up until my mouth was on fire.
The chili sounds good... my dad always makes chili with round steak.  He makes really good chili. 

The hotdogs are a very rare thing in our house.  In fact, my middle daughter had never even had a hotdog until she was about four years old, and she didn't know what they were the first time she tried them.  But they were pretty good.  A while back, on a night the girls were in charge of doing supper, they made homemade wheat buns to put tuna salad on, and they were so darn good.  Tuna salad is one of those things that I've never thought really made me feel very full, but DH and I were both so stuffed we needed to be rolled away from the table after that meal.  The buns made all the difference. They were delicious.  Yes, I let my five and six year old handle sharp knives and cook in the oven, with oversight, of course.  I'm working up to having them cook one night a week.  Then when they're older, maybe we can give each of them their own night. 

  The chili sounds so good, and the weather has cooled off quite drastically in the last few days, maybe I can find something to make some chili with for supper tonight... I think I have both some pork and beef in the freezer.

[Windpower]

The anchos add a lot to this chilli -- a very rich and smokey --(with hints of prunes according to my dw) flavor

after about an hour simmering the top of the chilli gets these growing very dark, almost black, pools of flavor condensing on the top


OMG this is hard to wait to age this stuff 2 more days

maybe a brief trip to see if it is 'ok'

you know just a little taste ......

later

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

tonight:  pot of beans, pan of buttermilk cornbread, and squash pie.  I know.... probably not great for the blood sugar, but will taste really good.  Never made a pie of butternut squash before, but it smells really good, and as good as those squash are, I'm sure it is bound to taste good.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Oh my gosh, that pie was soooooo good!!!  I think I'm making some for Thanksgiving this year.  It was better than a pumpkin pie.  I sweetened it with a couple of tablespoons of blackstrap molasses, and that's all it needed.  A little cinnamon and nutmeg, couple of eggs, a cup of cream, bit of salt.  It was so simple that I was amazed at how good it turned out. 

[glenn kangiser]

Sounds great.  We have some pumpkins we grew.  I'm pretty sure Sassy will enjoy making pies out of them.  Maybe a Butternut or two also.

[Redoverfarm]

Pretty neat recipe site for crockpot cooking.


http://www.50plusfriends.com/cookbook/crockpot/index-5b.html

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Thanks for posting, Red.
Last night we had homemade chicken noodle soup.  To accompany it, we had salad with onions and peppers from the garden (can't believe we're still eating from the garden) and homemade garlic potato bread dipped in balsamic vinegar and olive oil.  The kids ate 3/4 of the loaf of bread by themselves... I don't know how they weren't bursting at the seams. 

I may use a crockpot recipe for tonight because I have to make a run to the city, so otherwise dinner would be take-out or frozen pizza or something fast. 

[Sassy]

Sounds good, HG!  Are you using the artisan bread recipe?  Now that it's getting cooler I've started doing a little more baking...  biscuits, rhubarb pie (didn't have strawberries so put in a few apples with the rhubarb - tasted really good). 

We still have tomatoes, some melons, zucchini & other types of squash, lots of carrots, beets, celery, broccoli, onions, peppers & probably some other stuff I can't remember...  our property has the ideal climate for year round growing.  Need to shred the zucchini today & put in freezer, gotta go back to the valley later today for work... 

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Yep.   I finally broke down and bought the book on sale from Amazon.  Now I'm wanting to bake it all right now... it all sounds so good.  So this week it is the roasted garlic potato bread.

[Sassy]

I'll have to check that book out...   

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

There's one I'm really wanting to try that is an apricot pastry that looks like sunny-side up eggs... I think the kids would get a kick out of it, plus, how could you go wrong with apricots?
 
But, that said, I think I need to lay off the bread a bit... tested my blood sugar today and it was a little higher than I thought it should have been, although not in the diabetic range yet, either....

Got some steak waiting to go on the grill tonight, butternut squash, and salad.

[glenn kangiser]

Sassy made some good Apple Rhubarb pie a bit ago.  Last piece is in the fridge.  I guess I'll get to eat that.  She's working and I have to cook for myself -- she didn't leave me anything because I didn't eat all of my leftovers last time. 

I had instant re-fried beans and dried out biscuits with butter on them last night.

[Redoverfarm]

Don't forget to "nuke" it and throw a dipper of ice cream on top.

[glenn kangiser]

I nuked it and put whipped cream and butter all over it. Yum.

Tonight I started a fire in the fireplace in the great room and barbecued a steak and made some instant mashed potatoes, so dinner is steak and potatoes.   [burp]

I had to reward myself for getting the fireplace hooked up.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Ate at Jimmy's Egg for lunch and am still stuffed.  Any suggestions for dinner?  I'm not even really hungry, but I'm sure hubby and kids will be.

[glenn kangiser]

I'm too late to help.

I could have said instant mashed potatoes or something like that...

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

We had canned chicken soup + some noodles+ celery + extra chicken + lots of pepper + oregano... the final product didn't taste a whole lot like canned soup. 

[muldoon]

rotissery chicken with garlic, butter and basil + french bread with butter, italian seasoning + shredded mozz + 4 cheese macaroni & cheese.  served with iced green tea. 

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Sounds good except needs a salad to go with! 

[glenn kangiser]

Tri-tip barbecued over oak, Bush's Beans, Broiled buttered sourdough bread, macaroni salad, brownies.  Not bad.

[Redoverfarm]

No ice cream?

[glenn kangiser]

I'm getting it now.  Thanks....

...actually I was a bit bloated earlier... [burp]

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Baked chicken, tabouleh, turnip greens, and wheat blueberry muffins.

[muldoon]

chicken legs, rubbed in jalapeno salt and chili pequin seasoning.  grilled over mesquite hearts.

[Sassy]

Looks good!