What's for Dinner ~ Tuesday July 16th

[Lucinda]

Spinach and Garlic White Pizza for me!

(Monday's leftovers)

You? ♥

[bif]

1. Too hot and muggy to cook indoors

May grill some sausages.

[livetohike]

2. Black eyed peas, collards, cheese grits and sliced tomatoes

Too hot to turn on the oven for cornbread .

[cbayer]

3. (t)BLT's and something using a red pepper, I think.

I've got turkey bacon and other fixings for the sandwiches.

Not sure what to do with this red pepper, but it needs eating.

[cbayer]

9. Changed my mind - Cobb Salad

No avocado, but I can use the red pepper.

[spinbaby]

4. Probably tuna salad

Or something else that involves not heating anything.

[pinto]

5. Used to get an occasional white lobster pizza in New England.

Lobster, 3-cheese sauce, green spices, black pepper. Expensive, even for a small, but I did a splurge every so often. Loved it.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Sounds YUMMY. I have been thinking pizza and lobster. Watched Mystic

Pizza the other night - hadn't seen it in many years. BTW it was released in 1988 ! 25 years ago !!

Anyway, there is the greatest scene when Julia Roberts opens the fridge and it's full of lobster and she groans - no (her mom worked the lobster docks)

[pinto]

11. My cousin worked on a lobster boat. Very tough job.

Fishermen's Memorial Statue (1925)
Gloucester, MA

[cbayer]

12. Book recommendation - Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert

It's about lobster(wo)men in Maine.

Excellent, even though I really did not like this author's later book, "Eat, Pray. Love"

[pinto]

6. Basic - Chicken, sauteed bell pepper, onion, broccoli in tomato sauce over pasta.

Left over supermarket deli fried chicken, shredded.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. The rest of my ribs and corn.

A piece of Trader Joe's blueberry pie for dessert.

[maddezmom]

10. Your leftovers sound yummy!

Homemade chicken fingers for the kids with corn and watermelon for dessert. I cleaning out the fridge so making personal size batch of Ratatouille. Will probably just eat it with a little parm and hot pepper flakes.

[NJCher]

13. Nuttin'

No time! I still have a three-hour drive to northern Wisconsin yet tonight. I am in Chicago. I will be skipping dinner.

I am waiting on an air conditioning coolant change before I set off. I had the whole car looked over thoroughly by a dealership to avoid problems down the road.

Thanks, cbayer, for recommending pinto's train food thread. I so wish I'd known about it before I left. And pinto, thank you for your suggestions on yesterday's thread. I will copy and paste for future reference. I'd love to try the starlight ride, but we only had a one-level train and furthermore, it didn't even have wi-fi!! But I was OK, despite the screaming brat who went on for 24 hours. I planned: had earplugs.

I did go to the dining car and have a fun time with other passengers! That was one of the best parts of the trip! We stayed up until 3 a.m. laughing, joking, and talking. Great people whom I would never have met otherwise. It "enlarged my world," as they say.

Everyone's dinners sound so good.


Cher

[cbayer]

14. Be careful! These are the times when I am strongly drawn to the Mickey D's drive thru!

Glad you enjoyed our train trip and had a great late night experience.

[pinto]

15. That's the best part of a long ride, for me, along with the views. Meeting all sorts of people.

And it's not like being stuck in a seat the whole way. Glad you did a meal and an evening in the dining car, met some folks and had a good time. Good splurge. Hands down, if someone has the time I'd recommend a train trip.

[Callalily]

16. Chilled Pasta Chicken Salad

Very tasty and great on a hot and humid evening.

[KC]

18. That sounds

perfect for these hot days. How do you make yours?

[msanthrope]

17. I made pizza---98 degree day, and the family wanted pizza. Dough was sticky, took

forever to work.

I made white pizza--with garlic salt, provolone, mozzarella, and parmesan.

Then I made a veggie--carmelized onions, mushrooms and spinach was the base, mozzarella and parmesan the cheese, and marinated tomatoes as the topping.

Delicious!