What's for dinner?

[Drew]

Soup for dinner and a PB sammich on the way to the farm.  it's a work weekend!  Yessss!

[Daddymem]

A nice big piece of cod, some rice pilaf and cauliflower.

[MountainDon]

A big venison pot roast with carrots and onions. Potatoes.

Family from out of town coming in for the memorial service.

[glenn kangiser]

What, Daddymem, no Lobsta?

[Daddymem]

Heh, had one a couple weekends ago actually.  Now you got me cravin' the sea bugs...I could go for some dungeness.

[MountainDon]

Mmmm. Prefer crab myself

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Chopped steak and eggs.  It was good.  Mushrooms and onions with the steak.  MMMM

[Redoverfarm]

I used to think shrimp was number one for me next to crabs. But in the last several years I have grown to lust for scallops and oysters(half-shelled). Never really liked Lobster that much. But hay I will eat any seafood. I guess because it is no always available in my neck of the woods so I generally settle for rainbow or brook.

[tanya]

So far I had strawberry smoothie, pizza, two kinds, an orange, and baked chicken and cottage cheese.  I want CANDY and there isn't a store open anywhere!!! I wish I just would have gone and got the candy when I first started craving it.  There is only plain old sugar in this house and I am trying very hard not to eat the cake mix but you know what I am going right now to eat it because that is what I want now that I remembered I have it plain old cake mix right out of the box.  No kidding. 

[glenn kangiser]

I think you can snort it through a straw to keep from getting the powder all over your face, tanya.

Don't want you walking around looking suspicious in todays world.

Sorry, tanya -- I keep having this illusion that I'm funny.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Tanya, I have cravings like that sometimes, but I'm pregnant...What's your excuse??

[tanya]

I have no excuse I just like sweets.  as far as snorting it well that wont work because no nose tastebuds.  Anyway I only ate a few spoonfuls and that took care of the craving usually I eat about half a box.  And now I have my sugar stash for awhile no one else here eats cake mix so I don't have to be paranoid about that. 

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Dinner tonight will be samgyetang (Korean chicken and ginseng soup) iff I can get the rest of the floor outside the kitchen replaced in time to cook it.  We're still tearing out all the senseless old layers of flooring at the moment, and we've been at it almost all day.  You see, we have a portable dishwasher which sits just outside the door of the tiny kitchen, and we rolled it into the kitchen and ran it just as we started tearing up the floor...  now we have to have a floor to roll it back onto before I can access the fridge!  (I can't squeeze past the dishwasher because of my belly, though DH can.)  Anyway, our kitchen is so small that when the dishwasher is in there, there is room for nothing else (and no one else!)  I'm taking a break until DH pulls up the last little bit of the ancient tile covered by ancient linoleum, covered by 1/4 inch plywood, covered by another ugly layer of linoleum, etc.  Then I'll go in and pull up the rest of the staples (there were literally thousands in this tiny 8' by 8' room while he hauls the contractors garbage bags out.  THEN we can start on the floor and eventually get the dishwasher out of the kitchen so that maybe by midnight we can have supper.   

[Daddymem]

Hamburger soup has been cooking all day in the slow cooker....mmmm

[williet]

We went to the Pizza Hut. I had the new Bistro Chicken Bake....it was fantastic.

[Redoverfarm]

Ha guess what. The wife's stove worked today and it a "Saturday". We had Fried Chicken , dumplings and broccoli. But I have already been told that it is acting up again and she doesn't think it will be working tomarrow. Had plans on driving to Elkins then to do some shopping. Yeah we will probably eat out.

[glenn kangiser]

Sassy is at work -- I had a tuna sandwich and peanut butter and chocolate ice cream.

There are some frozen shrimps and salt and butter -- I could make some microwave scampi.

[Daddymem]

Nova Scotian Hodge podge from leftover ham.

[Drew]

Dan and Robin made Brinner.  That's breakfast for dinner.  Scrambled eggs with pepper jack, skillet potatoes, grapefruit, kiwi, and blood oranges.

[glenn kangiser]

I like that too-- and many times I'd rather have dinner for breakfast.

Today I went to the mountain and received a vision.

Seriously.  I was prospecting with one of my buddies and after a few hours of climbing over rocks , under brush and up mountainsides looking for old gold mines, I had a vision of this nice big steak in the freezer.  I knew it was going to be dinner tonight.

After a trip down the hill that was probably harder than the way up I was ready.

I fired up the Round Oak wood stove when I got home- got a nice bed of coals going -- nuked the steak on defrost to hasten it's demise , coated it with Montreal Steak Seasoning on both sides and threw it in a barbecue basket.  The oak had burned down to a mild inferno so it was about 3 minutes each side and I was ready to dig in. 

It was every bit as good as I thought it was going to be when I was up on the mountain.  I brought down the stone tablets--- OK -- so it was just a big bag of rocks, but failed to find the burning Bush.  Wish I could have.

[Drew]

I may be a vegetarian, Glenn, but I sure know how to appreciate a good steak and a good steak story.

Tell us the story of the Three Little Pork Chops, Uncle Glenn!   

A few years ago when my daughter was 8 (Hmm.  Maybe more than a few), we were standing at a >good< meat counter.  Gazing at the beautiful red meat, Robin said, "Daddy's in beef heaven.  And so is the cow."

[glenn kangiser]

Thanks, Drew -- vegetables are just a state of mind.

It really was good.  Hope we don't turn you back into a carnivore, nephew.

[Daddymem]

Snow day today-Nor'Eastah.  Beanie Weenies cookin' in da crock.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Hmmm... trying to remember what the past few days have been...  We had kimchee chigae one night, I know (kimchee stew served boiling hot).  And we had veggie and chicken stir fry last night with some soggy leftover rice.    But we got the whole first floor of our house replaced during this span of time, so... worth it to eat plain.  The new floor looks great.  Shiny and bright and clean.    I love it.  Somewhere in there we had corn pone (hot water cornbread sticks) that were kind of plain, but filling... that might not have been a "meal" though; I can't remember.

[Drew]

I think I'm making enchiladas tonight.  Either that or soup.

We went to the Rainbow Grocery in SF yesterday.  Think Whole Foods with a CCW.  This place is employee owned and hard core. It sits south of Market (SOMA) under the freeway.  You won't find a butcher counter but you can find anything in bulk.  Malt syrup, hemp seeds, all kinds of coffee (Including ones where you choose your cause - Lift the embargo on Cuba?  Do it one pound at a time!), and don't even ask about the beans and pasta.  There's a matrix of producers and farming practices on the egg counter.  No debeaking?  Don't buy Clyde's Eggs.  Everything you need for intentional eating.

This was not your father's Safeway and it made me feel so good to be in this place.  It was a place of strong inner-city commerce in organic, clean food.  Money collects around things that are happening, and this is a thing that needs to happen.  Maybe its easier to eat local organic in rural areas, but seeing the market forces bring it to the city gives me hope that this isn't a lost cause.