What's for dinner?

[glenn kangiser]

Good job.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Dinner last night was Mexican food at one of our favorite local places.  DH had shrimp tostadas, and I wished I'd ordered them... they were really good.  Instead, DD and I split an order of fajitas, and I still ended up taking over half of them home.

I keep thinking about the surveyor who called the other night during dinner and thinking how pointless it is to even try to tell them what you think.  Of course, on places like this forum, I can say stuff like that and it makes sense to people because there are a lot of good, practical, sensible folks on here, but sometimes it would be nice to have a way to persuade folks who've never thought about stuff like that much.  It's frustrating because a lot of people just don't think for themselves much to begin with... they sit around and let CNN or FOX tell them who to vote for and what the issues are, and I think most of them miss the real core issues.  I dreamt the other night that I was arguing a case before the supreme court (I think I was a lawyer-yikes!) about how that the USDA is violating our basic liberties by regulating what Americans CAN eat and what farm products are sold, etc.  My argument was that everyone has a right to choose what to feed their family, and if they want to feed them fresh local milk and meat from their neighbor's pasture, they ought to have the right to choose that, and the farmer who grows it ought to have the right to get paid for it, whether or not he has the USDA's stamp of approval. 

[glenn kangiser]

The Mexicans always look at me funny when I walk into a Mexican restaurant and order Fajitas pronouncing it phonetically like I don't know how.  Darn near a Redneck.   I won't pronounce it here, but you can imagine what I do to it.


I agree -- It may very likely be much better cleaner milk that the Corporate Produced Tits dragged in Cow Sh-t milk you get from the store.



Note that the above picture is much cleaner than what I see on the corporate dairies in the winter time.

http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2007/06/dairy-farming/

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Yep, I'd like some of them thar FA-JEE-TUHS.  And do you have any "wrench" dressin' or barbeque sauce t' go on 'em?

[glenn kangiser]

I always use the long "I" --- it's...  like....What did you say? hmm

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

    You trouble maker!

[Redoverfarm]

DW's birthday today.  So I fixed supper.  Tossed salad, Linguine w/ clam sauce, sauted shrimp & scallops.  Finished it off with White Zinfandel. 

[muldoon]

wife picked up some salmon, going to grill it with butter and lemon over charcoals.  got some nice cucumbers from the garden to pair with the head of broccoli and cheese.   I'm gonna drink some homebrew beer I made 3 months ago, a very strong 9.8% abv trappist style tripple that went into bottle 2 weeks ago.  I'm looking forward to dinner 

[glenn kangiser]

The beer sounds goooood, muldoon.

[muldoon]

if your familiar with the belgium style trappists, it's a clone of a rochefort 10. 

[glenn kangiser]

Haven't had that.  I just read up on it- not a simple beer.

I made some dark beer  a long time ago -- one somehow malfunctioned and I could drink a bottle and it would make me sleep for 3 hours....just one bottle.  My ex-FIL kept rippng it off but he had the same problem with it.  I quit making it as I couldn't keep him out of it and didn't need him missing work...... then I never got back into it again.

[ScottA]

Charcoaled hamburgers, hotdogs and hot links with guiness ale. 

[Daddymem]

Pan seared ocean scallops in wine, steamed green beans, white rice, and a glass of Moscato.  Life is good sometimes...

[glenn kangiser]

A nice cold bowl of ice cream. 

Daddymem, I wanna eat with you. 

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Tonight is BBQ chicken, salad and taters.  That's about all I can scrape up.  We're low on groceries and after having a houseguest for a month, I don't think I can afford the grocery store just yet.  The container garden is keeping us in cucumbers and tomatoes and basil and yard-long beans.  You can make a salad with little more, just not really diverse.   

[Daddymem]

Martguerita pizza with tomatoes from the farm stand and basil from the gahden.

[glenn kangiser]

What? hmm

No Beah?

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Forgot to mention that I saw the write up from that AP pollster that I talked to the other day, and that they didn't even mention that there were people who disagree that we need more USDA inspectors... they made it sound like it was unanimous and that everyone in this country is afraid of their food!  I was a little ticked off reading it.  People believe that idiocy because they think the inspection process actually involves science (ie, that cultures are taken, etc., which DOES NOT happen unless there IS an outbreak of something terrible.)       The sad thing is that their results aren't based upon truth... they're based upon the mistaken notion that the food inspectors are truly unbiased and don't have a vested interest in mass production of cheap food, and that they are actually doing something to prevent illness.  I had really hoped that when they called me back and kept me on the phone for over half an hour asking more in depth questions and typing out my answers that they would at least give the dissenters their two cent's worth!  GRRRR.  Should have known better and hung up on them like I do the telemarketers, I guess.  As I told DH, I'm probably now on some anti-government watch list for telling them that I thought we oughtta do away with the USDA inspectors entirely.

[Daddymem]

Jagacida tonight

[glenn kangiser]

You got me on that one, Daddymem. hmm

Join the club, Homey.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Jagacida tonight

Jug of cider?  What in the world are you eating for dinner?

[Daddymem]

Cabo Verde.
http://www.recipezaar.com/305846
It's all about the linguica.

[glenn kangiser]

I'll be darned - looks pretty good.

[muldoon]

This was dinner last night.  I bbq'd a pork shoulder on the smoker all day, then made fusion tacos by blending the bbq style in a texmax taco.  Got started around 8:30am and we ate around 8pm.  I went with a 9lb picnic cut, drinking a fat tire clone beer nearly the entire time.  Great day, great food. 

Entire cook was over pear and oak. 








After 5 hours into it, I decided it was time to wrap. 


These were my veggies


After 4 more hours, 9 total I judged it done at 190.


Grilled veggies in little olive oil


Salsa made with fresh tomatoes, peppers, garlic in the blender with some cilantro


Finished product, mixed the veggies with the meat and let them meld together.  The one on the left was spicy with some smoked jalapenos added.  They were HOT. 


Georgia got some shoulder bone.  Happy girl. 

[glenn kangiser]

That looks good, muldoon