Last but not least, What's for dinner??  Do YOU cook or is the responsiblity
shared with someone else [or if ya dined out, where did you go and
what did you order??]

154 responses total.

My wife cooks a gourmet dinner at least 5 nights per week.  It's a miracle
I don't weigh in as a heavyweight.  Stupendo salads, Lots of Atlantic salmon,
swordfish, etc.  Great meat. Unbelievable desserts.  Left to my own resources
I end up eating a lot of peanut butter.

um.. last night's dinner was an experiment.
it was an adaptaion of something i saw on pbs, 'the urban peasant'.
it was basically the same, except i used chicken instead of tuna.
it was a miserable failure. we went to burgerking for whoppers.

My wife's out of town, so my evening repast shall be a bag of stale
oreo cookies and a 6-pack of Mountain Dew.

What are stale oreo cookies? And, how do they get that way?
Last night I made some eggplant sort of thing with peppers, onions, bacon,
lots of garlic, and served on toast.

  Recipe for Stale Oreos:


  1 bag oreos
  1 humid day

  expose oreos to humid day. enjoy with Mountain Dew ;)

and i had sausage....:)

Tonight's dinner was going to be leftover chinese food but 
Geoff's roommate ate it... So we doctored up a pizza...

        Hi everybody! This is my first time on grex. I just joined an hour
ago. As a Dinning hall cook for Syracuse University (yes I admit it) I find
I really don't feel like cooking when I get home at night. Lately the dinner
menu at my house has been Doritos and Pepsi (no. thats not a dinning hall
recipe)  If my roommate stays home (not usually) I try to get her to cook
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 Welcome to Grex. It does get easier.

Hi Michael!  Welcome to Grex!
Hey, if you work as a dining hall cook, does that mean you can confirm lots
of those urban legends about the ingredients in dorm food?  For example, the
dorm I lived in was reputed to use the lowest possible grade of meat that was
considered fit for human consumption; the next lower grade was used only for
animal food.  Is that true?

(meg thinks that valerie was lucky to get such high-grade meat for a dorm!  :)

There is only one kind of meat used in mass cooking:  (That is, dorms,
hospital cafes, government cafes...)  MYSSTERY MEAT!

I try to cook...I am a good cook but often too tired to get past
that first hurdle:  What do I make today?

I had herb slathered pork roast, baked potatoes, fresh snapped green beans,
and dinner rolls (homemade).

what ever people show up with at the potluck will be dinner!  :)

Homemade biscuits with homemade applebutter, pork chops slathered with
raspberry/pear butter and grilled, yellow spanish rice, fresh green salad with
that wonderful buttermilk dressing recipe from Valerie, and fresh snapped
green beans.  I also included a glass of Zinfandel.  It was great!

<valerie faints that someone would use a recipe she posted>  Cool!

  re 15. drool.

Valerie, I've made a number of your recipes and they've been
very good.  Stop that. ;-)

Maybe I'm projecting my own thoughts onto other people... I'm not sure I've
ever made a recipe I found here.  I've gotten some of my favorites from
Usenet, once upon a time, though, so it's not like I don't use on-line
recipes.

Today is Thanksgiving and we ate at a friend's house.  She served the lowest
fat Turkey dinner I ever ate and it wasn't bad.  Akmost everything you
typically eat, only with reduced fat.  The gravy was watery but filled with
chopped fresh mushrooms.  The stuffing was also filled with lots of fresh
chopped verggies and almost no fat.  Sweet potatoe caserole with cinammon
apples on top.  Great fresh salad with rasberry vinegrette dressing.

Tonight for dinner I am chopping deer meat and adding it to hamburger to make
patties...we'll see if the kids notice the difference.

Tonight, I had tamales from La Gloria Bakery in Detroit.  We bought a dozen
a couple of weeks ago and froze them.

Last night I had some leftovers from lunch--a chicken 'folded' pizza
from La Giorgio's, a fairly new Italian restaurant in Raleigh, NC. It
was actually good and interesting! The 'crust' was tasty, as was the
sliced chicken breast, tomatos, onion slices, a couple cheeses, and
some seasonings. The cheese wasn't overwhelming which kept the fat
content down and there was the right amount of seasonings to make it
good.  

Crock-pot chicken cacciatore, rice, and asparagus.

It's cheap asparagus time again.  

Yay cool -- the first sign of spring!

dinner is pizza...i haven't had anything else today...and i'm waiting for the
pizza to show up...(sigh)

Since I found out after making 22 quarts of bean soup that my guest did not
like beans, I ended up freezing it in dinner size portions.  This worked out
perfectly because tonight we are eating bean soup and homemade bread...one
less dinner to cook...yeah!

that's the way that my mom does things...:)

dinner tonight is spagetti....and it's on the stove as we speak...homemade!
 :)

I ate a peanutbutter sandwich for dinner tonight.  Breadmaker rye bread,
organic crunchy Deaf Smith peanut butter from the co-op, and organic blueberry
preserves.  I'm still getting used to the idea that I actually *like* jelly
with my peanutbutter sandwiches.  It's a recent discovery.

eeyore, have you tried my spaghetti recipe printed elsewhere in this conf?

Tonight, we are going "all out" and I am making noodles and "pot cheese". 
Second course, salmon salad sandwiches with lettuce and tomatoes.  Dairy night
at the Brickers.

  I can vouch for the yumminess of freida's spaghetti sauce. It's good.

nope....i just use my momma's tried amd true recipe....brown meat and onions,
add tomatoes (or canned tomatoes), and whatever else you feel like adding this
time 'round, and then simmer for several hours.  it seems to work well for
me.  :)

I go to the store and buy lots of whatever veggies look good, slice them up,
fry them in *spaghetti sauce* instead of in oil, and then add the rest of the
spaghetti sauce and heat until warm.  I like this a bunch.  Veggies that work
well in this include: carrots, corn, summer squashes, zucchini, eggplant,
mushrooms, firm tofu cut into cubes, and most anything else.

And definitely onions and garlic!

 Tonight we made Chelsea's lasagna, something that I had never tried, but had
the recipe for on my computer. We didn't have enough sauce so Mom made her
own, and we were a bit short on the ricotta mixture, but everything came out
very well. It was killer! 
 Hopefully this will be a regular dish instead of Tuna Helper (yuk!)

<abchan looks at all the responses with yummy-sounding food and sighs that
she has to be content with meal plan>

Cooked chicken soup last night with an overflow of dried bean curd thrown in.

  Tonight we did a new meatloaf recipe. It was the best I ever had, and to
think I got the recipe from Cooking Live. Go figure.

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