What's for dinner? - Friday, 12/5.

[pinto]

[pinto]

1. I'm having egg scramble w/ chopped ham & veggies. Sliced, sauteed new potatoes.

Simple and quick is my plate for tonight.

[Galileo126]

2. Corn and cod chowduh

Cod fish was on sale today, and I just wasn't in the mood for the same ol' fish n chips.

So - chowduh it is!

[pinto]

4. How do you do your chowder?

I'm a basic butter, milk, black pepper in the mix chowder guy.

[Galileo126]

8. Naked

(No cream or tomato). It's a Rhodey thing....

Spuds, onion, celery, salt pork boiling in a broth, then I add the fish and corn (and cream corn, too) at the end.

Red pepper to taste.

(People in New England freak out that I put celery in my chowders. To heck wit'em.)

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

9. Whoa...

I'm embarrassed at the images your title provoked

[pinto]

12. Celery?

[Galileo126]

14. LOL!

Yeah, I get that reaction.

Funny thing is... when my family makes a clam chowder with live clams, they always add celery sticks and onion to the water while the clams are cooking. THEN, they remove the celery sticks, and add spuds to cook while they are chopping the clams.

Hypocrites all!

(Gump voice: And that's all I have to say about that, Jen-nay.)

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Chicken/fettucine alfredo.

Haven't decided whether to have a vegetable or salad to go with it yet.

[bif]

5. Leftover city chicken

From my dad's 90th birthday party.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

6. Salad for dinner, and more canning tonight.

Had more lettuce to use up, and use a bit over half of the black raspberry liquid I'd squeezed out with the food mill this week to make 21 jars of black raspberry jelly. It was easier and faster than the jam, and we won't have to constantly be picking seeds out of our teeth, so I think we'll probably switch entirely to jelly in the future, even if the output is roughly halved. Probably got enough juice left for another 14 jars or so.

[The empressof all]

7. "Korean" Chicken

It's just a simple chicken, cut in half and marinated with soy, rice vinager, sugar and Gochujang. I will probably make a quick salad and maybe some rice.

[raven mad]

10. Hungarian Mushroom Soup.

Roast beef and Swiss on light rye, and a salad. I'm lazy today!

[SheilaT]

11. Chicken of Muchness.

It's a kind of soup, loosely adapted from a Middle Eastern (no specific country) recipe. It is one of my all time favorites and I made a double sized amount tonight and am freezing up most of it.

Here's the recipe:

Chicken of Muchness

2 chicken leg quarters
3 or 4 carrots
1 or 2 cans of diced or crushed tomatoes
1 medium onion
1 small green pepper
3 or 4 cups of chicken broth
3 bay leaves
3 cinnammon sticks
½ to ¾ tsp each of celery salt, marjoram, thyme, basil, and tarragon
olive oil
2 Tablespoons butter
2 Tablespoons flour

In reality I don't actually measure anything, but the amounts I've given should work. Most here cook, and so you can adjust as you wish.

Bring the chicken to a boil with just enough water to cover. Turn heat down to simmer and skim off scum and fat that comes to the surface. This will take ten to fifteen minutes.

Once skimming is done, put the bay leaves, peeled carrots, and cinnamon sticks in pot with chicken, cover and let simmer for an hour.

Remove carrots and chicken. Let them cool while you sauté the sliced onion and green pepper in a little olive oil. You want them to get a little brown. Put in soup pot. Add the tomatoes.

Make a roux with the butter and flour in that same pan, then add a cup or two of broth. Stir and let it thicken over the heat until it seems thick enough. Pour into pot.

Cut up the carrots, strip the chicken from the bones and return to soup pot. Now add the other seasonings. You will probably need to add more chicken broth to have the right amount of liquid.

Cover and simmer for an hour or so.

Make rice, which takes about 20 minutes, when you’re ready to eat. Put rice in a bowl, then add the chicken of muchness. Ground pepper and some salt and enjoy!

I happen to like this with a lot of rice in the bowl. The essential flavoring is the stick cinnamon. You absolutely do NOT want to add garlic to this. You could, of course, use garlic instead of cinnamon, but then it would be a totally different soup.

[grasswire]

13. chicken enchiladas with red sauce

Made with lots of colby jack, olives, scallion, some tomatillo sauce on the side and sour cream. Pink lady apples and perfectly ripe Bartlet pears. The enchiladas were so good. Especially good for watching college football playoff!

And there's enough left for Sunday when we come home from a Scandinavian Christmas Fair.

Oh! And today at Trader Joe's I got some bottles of their special Triple Ginger Brew. It knocked my socks off! Wow!! If you like ginger, try to get some of this. Won't be around long. Last year when they introduced it at the holidays I never did get a bottle.