So...whats for dinner?
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Debbie I like the grilled pan idea for pizza.. was just thinking that I really would like to get a good cast iron pan with the ridges. I have the pizza stone from pampered chef and really like it.
Last night...out with the girls....I had a spinach salad with chicken, mandarin oranges and blue cheese with a warm viniagrette dressing...delicious!
Hmmm...bat wings, eye of newt,hair of the dog, and we will all be cured for the new year!
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I am still laughing over the bat leaf! Too funny! And the broccoli slaw sounds good. I've never made homemade pizza unless you count the Joe Corbis that the kids sell for school. I think I am missing out though. We had take out pizza last night. It was okay, but I really like a different place better, but let my DH and DD pick. Tonight we're going to a restaurant downtown for DH work Christmas party. He has no idea what we're having. Men! Tomorrow is my birthday, so trying to decide what to do for that.
Debbie, have a safe and wonderful trip! I am so jealous.0 -
I think i will prep for pizza today, go downtown to play the organ, come home and assemble and bake it. it sounds so good. .. or maybe make reubens.. i love those. (I don't eat that much but feed big eaters and they will be working all day building the top of a huge storage shed.. (50 by 70)
a shed.. heh
Michelle - hope you are healing.
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the pizza didn't turn golden? Half way through I tried to fix it by putting it right on the oven rack without the pan, it didn't help.
Carrie- glad you had a good night out, the salad sounds delicious!
Kay- Happy Birthday!!!!!!
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Laurie, how hot was your oven? You want to have the oven about as hot as it can get. Also try to make the dough fairly thin.
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I loved going into China Town in Boston. Have not done that in years.
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momine- the recipe said 375 and the crust was actually rolled very thin-I guess it wasn't hot enough? I might try again tomorrow with the other half of the dough at a higher temp.....
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I have found that recipes i got off the Internet called for way less cooking time than needed, some needed twice as much. Maybe I like food more cooked, but one potato recipe, the potatoes tasted raw. I don't know, but I no longer believe the suggested cooking times.
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375 fahrenheit? If so, not hot enough, no. try 450 next time.
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Carrie-Those pans are great, i like to cook my hamburgers, steaks and chx in them it dosnt sit in the grease which makes it a little healthier.
Laurie- My recipes for pizza call for the oven to be at 500% so im assuming the 350 is why it didnt get brown enough
Kay-HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Michelle- You will have finished your tx while im gone, feel better my friend!
Ok, Sunglasses, check-suntan lotion, check- bikini, (not) ha bathing suit, check-! I think im ready to get the heck out of dodge. We leave in a couple hours to portland, fly out tooo early in the morning but will be in hawaii by 11;30 am- (yay)
HUGS and ALOHA to everyone!
ALOHA!
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thank you ladies for the pizza and beef stew tips
The beef stew has been cooking all day, hopefully it comes out good, if not back to my old ways ;P0 -
I know the feeling Joyce. When I'm alone for dinner, I end up just snacking all night. But yippee, you get to go to Florida on Saturday! Hoping the weather holds out for another week for Michelle too. I think the forecast looks good. Heading out to the last Christmas party in a few minutes. Hope the food is good. It's an Italian restaurant, so I have high hopes.
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Happy Birthday, Kay! And enjoy the party/Italian food!
Laurie - I agree about the higher heat for pizza. I used 425 for the one I made on Friday and I think it could have been a bit higher.
Joyce - LOL at potato chips!!! We weren't much better. We stopped at a bar & grill in Haverhill and I had an artisinal cheese plate and DH had fried pickles. Yes, fried pickles...and beer, of course. I guess you could say we ate vegetarian tonight
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Saw a lot of ppl golfing today at the golf course in Hudson, NH. It's the one you see when you take the exit to go to walmart off rt 3.
Not hungry because we had a late breakfast so made tuna sandwiches.
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I thought my DH would want to play today but instead we went on a hunt for an area rug for our living room. The bottom level of our house is on a concrete slab and the floors are Pergo - cold! We'll probably have to order a custom sized rug.
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Kay Happy Birthday!!!
Debbie have a great trip!!!
I'm being wild today and having a "decadent soup" Broccoli cheese with bread and a glass of white wine. Ooooooo, I'm bad, Bad to the bone.
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Joyce- lol at the potato chips! I don't know what I would eat if I had no one else here....I am sure it wouldn't be far off from potato chips
Hope you enjoy the quiet tonight, though I am sure you will be missing your DH.Kay- I hope you have fun!
Michelle- lol at the fried pickles and beer, kind of cracked me up. Men eat funny. One time I went to the boardwalk in SC with my mom and I missed having my DH with me. I wanted to eat a bunch of the bad food but only wanted "bites". If he would have been there he would have been eating all the "bad food" the whole time and I would have gotten to have a bite of each. Did you try the fried pickles? I rented a home once a long time ago that was built on a slab, wow was it COLD! What size rug are you looking for?
I am going to start calling my Dh the early bird. Last night he was asleep on the couch for 8, tonight he is asleep again and it's not 9 quite yet. On the upside, he wakes up early because hes not tired anymore and is up when the boys wake up so I can sleep in a bit. I on the other hand slept for an hour with our 2 year old today and am no where near ready for bed.
The beef stew was pretty good. I think Mccoarmick's packet is better though. It wasn't as thick, I guess I didn't account for the fact that the packet probably has flour in it and I add extra. I put in about 3 Tbsp of flour, 2 Bat leaves, thyme, parsley, garlic and onion powder, a can of diced tomatoes, beef broth and half a beer. How's that for random?
Aloha DEBBIE!!!!!! SOOOOOOO jealous!!!
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bedo, it would be bad to the bone if you added bacon--but even more yum!
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Well tonight we set out to do pizzas at home.... gee... wherever did that idea come from??! lol
We wanted to do 2.... One that was a traditional, pizza sauce, onion, pepper type and one that was more unusual.... The store only had one ball of dough so we used that for the traditional pie....
For the unusual one we made a Thai Peanut Chicken one on flour tortillas and it came out really good.... Take however many flour tortillas you need and put them on an oven sheet... Spread with a nice layer of peanut dressing (we used House of Tsang brand Bangkok Padang Peanut Sauce from the asian section of the grocery store).... sprinkle with some finely chopped red onion, diced cooked chicken, shredded cole slaw cabbage from a bag and some shredded mozzarella and
bake in the middle of a 400 degree oven until the cheese is melted to you liking.....
I thought it came out sooooo good... Spicey but not crazy so and the tortilla 'crust' had a wonderful cracker-like crispness!!
Ps... We were out of parchment paper and used the cornmeal suggestion for the regular pizza.
Worked like a charm, no sticking... Baked the regular pizza at 450 on the second lowest rack until the crust looked brown and the cheese was melty....0 -
Chabba it would be b-b-b-bad to the b-b-b-bone ( George Strait) But I'm vegetarian and get my thrills where I can! Stay warm!
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bedo's lost in the chat room with me.
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Lost in Space. lol Goodnight Deb!
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good night
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Laurie - I did eat one of the pickles, really yummy with beer! They are very popular in the midwest but these were so much better. They were hand cut from a big Claussen pickle. More pickle, less batter. The ones I've had before were made from your usual hamburger dill slices.
We've been watching the Republican debate. There's so much hot air in that room that Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopolous were dripping in sweat, literally running down their faces!!!
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Seaside, that was inventive on the tortilla pizza.
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We have the dill pickle chips here all the time, my girlfriend actually taught one restaurant owner how to make them for us as they didnt have them on their menu. Its one of our favorite winter time hangouts on Wednesday evenings. they serve them with ranch dsg for dipping. YUM
I think if I was alone and didnt have to cook it would be chips or popcorn every night...I am a saltaholic!
Kay Have a Great Birthday!
I think because the weather is so calm we will do something on the grill tonight. Yesterday was 57 degrees!!
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Carrie - I agree with you...salt much more than sweet. And as I've mentioned many times, popcorn is often the Sunday night supper!
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