So...whats for dinner?
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Scandi lutefisk can be pretty tragic, but salt cod is also a stable food in the Mediterranean. Here the dried fish is soaked and rinsed, cut in smaller pieces, dipped in batter and fried in hot olive oil. It is served with garlic dip, sliced beets and beet greens. The other way to cook it is in the oven (no batter) on a bed of sliced potato, tomato and onion.
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thanks Momine - how come you know so many interesting things? Are you Scandinavian?
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Never heard of lutefish either, but my brother uses salt cod for his fish and chips at the restraunt and i love the flavor I cant get it at my local market but love cod.
Carol- the braised apple turkey sounds delish will have to make that sometime.
Kaara- Happy Birthday to the boyfriend, dinner sounds so good!
Laurie- You are on my mind, and hugssss for tomorrow i know it will be a tough day.
Everyone have a fun time tomorrow on your getogethers.!
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I grew up on both lutefisk and salt cod but I haven't fixed tem in years because DH dosen't like them. Mom always made fish balls of creamed cod with the soaked fish.
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Kaara- your dinner out sounds like it was really good! I LOVE a good brunch too.
Apple- I hope you had fin today with your estate shopping and yay for a night off of cooking! Enjoy your dinner.
Carol- I am so glad it stopped raining there for you, 5 inches is a lot of water.
Bedo great pic of the grandoggie, she's a cutie!
Thanks for the thoughts everyone. I am going to be up and out of the house by 8 to pick up a friend and drive over. We are going to flip a coin at her house to see who drives. I went and got my eyes checked today since it had not been done since I was 19! I have 20/25 vision which is pretty good! No glasses needed. But I don't ever recall having my eyes dilated before, holy moley!! The drive home was interesting and trying to eat a salad for lunch was interesting too. I couldn't even see what I was stabbing at, lol! So I had a mindless afternoon watching a movie on the couch because I couldn't do much else. I couldn't see the computer, couldn't read and focusing on anything at arms length was impossible so cleaning the bathrooms was out. (Yay!) I watched this foreign film called War in Winter and it was amazing. Nothing DH would watch so it was perfect timing.
My in laws are bring the boys back any minute and I am going to indulge the boys and let them have cheeseburgers again. All week DS #1 insists he can't grow unless he has one. earlier in the week we had them and he ate every bite and was quite proud of himself and wants to do it again. DH and I will make ours patty melts. I don't know if they do those out of New England? It's grilled pumpernickel, sauteed onions and mushrooms, melted swiss and the burger patty. We put mayo and ketchup on ours and it awesome. I am going to off set it with some salad. Now you know why I had salad for lunch! I am going to be bad at dinner
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I love a good patty melt.
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Laurie - I think patty melts are pretty universal. My DH loves them, too, and they were on most menus in the Kansas City area.
I went to the grocery store today and saw the meat manager filling shelves. I had to ask about pink slime. He showed me how to figure out which ground beef doesn't have it and which does. He said that Shaws has stopped ordering it so it will soon be out of the chain. He said the meat guys never liked it because it makes a mess when they would grind it with other beef. It's funny, I always thought it was odd that I would buy 96% lean ground beef and there would be this liquid in the pan when I would brown the meat. It really should have been pretty dry. Now it all makes sense. I hope people start making a fuss about the injected saline solution in chicken and pork. That needs to go, too. I think I am going to start buying CSA meat. It will be hormone free and I'll know what I am getting. Expensive, but safer.
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Michelle- what did he show you? How do you figure it out? I recently checked prices on organic ground beef and it was 5.50 a pound.
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Laurie - he showed me the organic that was $7.49 a pound!!! LOL!!! With Shaws, you'll see 80% or 85% ground chuck that says it's a product of the US. The other ground beef containing the slime says it's a product of many countries (in other words, they don't really keep track of its origin). So supposedly, if you pick the beef that lists only the US, you are not getting slime. And who was the marketing genius that came up with that descriptor???
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Laurie- Too funny on the blury eyes, a couple of years ago after leaving the eye dr my eyes were blurry and i backed up then put it in drive and drove over the top of a 3 foot wall i messed up my front end pretty bad DH was so mad at me LOL! I love patty melts we make them pretty much the same, minus the mushrooms and i put jack cheese and 1000 island dressing. MMM its making my mouth water right now.
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Michelle- I was going to bring this up last night but forgot, we went shopping at safeway last night (They had announced a couple days ago they have pulled anything with pink slime and will no longer use it) So i go over to the meat counter and ask the meat guy if they still use the pink slime he said there are some with it but the ones we make here dont have it, i said how do you know they dont use it, he said because i grind it myself, i said can you point me to the ones you make and are slime free, he points to several packages, i thank him and he walks away i look at the packages and they say "Product of Canada" WTH! I couldnt belive this, so i asked him why it says from Canada if they make it here, he say, oh i guess we are out of the ones we do here. I just said thank-you and walked away, but DH and i were shocked how he tryed to cover up. Bottom line, i dont trust these people and i dont believe they are really pulling it, in fact they dont have to tell us anything so they say what we want to hear. Im disgusted by this. And the kids in the schools ohhh, it makes me so angry they are feeding kids this crap. Why is it just hamburger is the topic in the news it should be chx, sausage, ground turkery, hot dogs. Oh im so ready to become a vegetarian again.
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I love patty melts, but reading about all the pink slime, I'm glad I haven't had any ground beef in a long while. I normall use ground turkey for most recipes now. Wonder what's in that!
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I just pattied my burgers. It read "100% ground beef made in store" maybe there's no slime?
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LOL at Laurie, whose funny typos strike again! Apple I hope you enjoyed your fin while shopping too! Was it Shark fin? Tuna fin? Let us know the recipe!
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What time is Pickety Place? I worked for 12 hours Weds and Thurs and then only 10 today so I'm going to sleep. My eyes are burning, but I will be there or be square. Deb I have to pick up my dump of a New/old car at the garage in the morning and it is a 2 hour drive so I think I will just have to meet you there, although I'm "sure* we will make up the time by talking during lunch, lol.
Is it 12:00 noon? I am too tired to check back in posts. I have a Tom Tom so I'm sure I won't get lost!
See you there, let me know about the time!!!!!
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sally
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Hey bedo, I just called you. Left a Voice Mail.
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I hope you can make it.
Our seating is at 12:45pm. I have a burgundy PT Cruiser. I'll bring some bug spray.
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Laurie - I think your burgers were "slime-free"
Back when all my kids were home, I would go to the grocery store, pick out a round or rump roast, then ask the butcher to grind it for me. I was pretty sure that I was getting real ground beef and not some manufactured product. I asked Shaw's if they still do it and the meat manager said yes. Might have to start that again - I like knowing what's in the beef!We just got back from having prime rib at the Glenview. It was excellent tonight and I have a box of leftovers in the fridge.
Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!
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I didn't know about the pink slime. Must have missed those posts.
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Deb, are we thinking early black flies? Is the last stretch of that road really rugged?
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I'm wearing black jeans tomorrow. You'll see people dressed from casual to "tea party" fancy. The last bit is definitely a little bumpy but it's not very long. Black flies...surely not yet!
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Thanks Michelle. The place will probably be in beautiful early bloom with all this heat.
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Have fun tomorrow ladies!
Lacey I had to laugh at your question about the road. When I went last time I had never been and had the address plugged into my GPS on my phone, it was telling me where to go and I was like....really? A crooked dirt road in the middle of nowhere going up a hill....ok....but it was right and the place was wonderful!
I can't wait to see the pictures of all of you. It should be a great day for it tomorrow, not hot and not cold.
Sweet dreams everyone and safe travels.
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Apple, I am Danish, but am married to a Greek and we live in Greece, after having lived in the US for many years. I used to work in restaurants and grew up with a grandmother who collected cook books (among other things).
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Have fun tomorrow everyone wish i could be there too! take some pics please
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Hope you all have a blast at Pickety Place!! Dittonwhat Debbie said....Wish I could be there!
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Interesting Momine.... I lived in Greece (Salonika) for a while.. and then worked for a Lebanese (excellently trained restauranteur ).. our food rocked. I watch shows on northern European cooking. There is this guy who cooks outside up in the arctic circle and all over mostly Norway. Right out of college, i applied for and immediately received a grant to categorize (librarian style) manuscripts, but i was supposed to male so i lost the grant.. but i stayed in Thessaloniki as an au pair. (sp?) and vegetable picker.
On place I'd love to visit is Estonia.. and then St. Petersburg. I will most likely not, but i ordered my piano from Estonia. (quite the deal.. and quite the piano).
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Apple, that is so cool. Thessalonica is a pretty town. I hope you make it to Petersburg. I was there, once a long time ago, and it is absolutely stunning. You should take one of those baltic cruises and start in Copenhagen
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Ladies...your lunch today sounds magical! Please take lots of photos and post so the rest of us can enjoy the event with you! Have a wonderful time!
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I went to Copehagen about 4 years ago with my DS who was playing in a World Poker Tour event there. We spent 6 days and managed to tour a bit of Denmark. That was my first-ever trip to Europe and I just loved it. The Danes are said to be the happiest people on earth!
I am so looking forward to today. Hauntie is meeting me at my house and then we'll drive in together. It's about 50 degrees, heading to 58 and it's fairly cloudy. I hope the sun comes out but it's not supposed to rain.
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