So, whats for dinner tonight?

Fins, sounds good. I could go for a good pizza. I made jerk seasoned scallops with carribean rice (yellow rice with coconut and pineapple). Tomorrow is pot roast.

Tomorrow night I'm making simple and easy baked chicken. I think I'm going to make a 7-layer salad..My favorite thing.

FIns, I had that salad for the first time about a year ago at a catered event. It was really good. I would love to make it for me but I would be the only one to eat it. Baked chicken is always good...comfort food.

Fins, I remember you talking about that salad before. :D

yeah the 7 layer salad. we have pictures of it somewhere on this thread.
I had salad and pork chop

I have no idea what I am having....

Here's my favorite salad ever...

we get to have a catered lunch tomorrow at work...Steak, baked potato, roll, brownie, and green beans almondine. Can't wait!!

i knew we had a picture.

well since yesterday i had the chicken kiev.
tonight i'm making the fajitas.

what kind of meat are you using Paul?

STEAK,NICE LEAN STEAK.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Tonight I am having Chicken Fried Chicken! It is like Chicken Fried Steak but its chicken. Does that make sense? Its on the menu at Cracker Barrel! If it works for them it works for me! With Jalapeno corn bread and some kind of greens. Pass the hot sauce!

So its like a breaded chicken ****? That sounds good! Definitely need the hot sauce!

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Hey Paul....what do you season your fajitas with?

I love chicken fried chicken..Frog, there is a restaurant in Port Richey, Fat Boy's, that makes the BEST!! Slap on some country gravy and you are good!

Cracker Barrel chicken fried chicken is one of my favorites there. Fins...I love Fat Boys. They had the best brunswick stew. There was one in Crystal River too. I do not know if it is still there.

Roxy, did you ever live in Crystal River? It's not very far from my home town, Port Richey. My dad worked at the Consumers energy plant in Crystal river!

The Fat Boys in Port Richey is still there, as of the last time I went home 3 years ago..Still dirty as ever, and so good!

Fins, I lived in Inverness for awhile . I have also lived in Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale and went to school in Tallahassee. I have been to New Port Richy to shop at the mall there quite a few times.

Tomorrow will be Venison Stew. I figured with the snow coming it would be a good time to make it yum :) With homemade dinner rolls too.

puddle, that sounds great. I havent had any venison since I have been back to Minnesota to visit family. I had some venison jerkey (yum) and the stew...both very good.

Any plans for Valentines Meals out there???

I had to improvise for dinner tonight because V day happens to fall the day before I get paid. So shopping in my kitchen I had to come up with something I can cook in 30 minutes or less because i won't be home until 6:30 at the earliest. No I am not Mr Yummo! I do not have an endless pantry and budget like one of our other posters so I have to make do. Here is what I came up with:
Peppercorn crusted pork tenderloin with raspberry mustard sauce with fresh rosemary.
Orzo with gorgonzola, butter, lemon zest and parsley. (poor mans risotto)
All I need to buy is a vegetable on the way home. Roasted Asparagus would be nice but it is really expensive right now. I am not sure what to get. Florida vegs are not great even though its our season.
We got a pile of fresh strawberries from office management yesterday so I took some home with some chocolate dipping sauce. That will be good. It is strawberry season here. Plant City Fla is the Eastern Strawberry Capitol of the US.
And then to go with dinner a bottle of fruity Beaujolais or a Gewurtztraminer might work. Thats my splurge!

I personally prefer orzo over risotto....I think its a texture thing. Orzo and gorgonzola sounds like a great combo with the pork.

I have asparagus in the fridge...$1.99.

How about some broccolini (aka broccoli raab)?

I had broccoli rabe with rigatoni and sausage for dinner Saturday and lunch on tuesday! Thats really hard to get here! Asparagus is 3.99 right now. I was thinking maybe brussels sprouts. I know a lot of people will say yuck! It is all about freshness! If they are old they taste like dirt.

asparagus in NYC is 1.39 for a pound and it is so delicious

Mmmmmm...slice the brussel sprouts in half, then just a quick saute with garlic and olive oil. pinch of salt.

Sounds like a wonderful dinner!!

Roxy..we were neighbors!! I am from Port Richey, not New Port Richey. It's right by Tarpon Springs, about 10 minutes from Weeki Wachi! I went to high school in NPR, though..I went to Ridgewood high.

We lived in inverness for about 5 years. My parents went to St. Leo in Dade city and I was born there. Moved when I was 6 mo old. I have lived all over, NY CT, ME, FL. I went to college in Tallahassee. I went to my senior year of HS in Ft. Lauderdale. I had an aunt we used to go visit in Port Richey...on the water? We went back in Jan to see the grandbaby..the kids are in Tampa and Land O Lakes. Do you get to go back often? We went down 27 from Crystal River down through Brooksville and Spring Hill. I could not believe how much things have changed. But I will digress, I do not want to hijack Volley's thread.

i go away for ten days and what happens.this thread almost goes off into the sunset.well i won't let that happen.tonight i will dine on homemade pasta,alfredo sauce,shrimp,with good garlic bread.
any thoughts?

My thought is YUM. Sounds really good.I dont know what I am having.

hey there paul! glad to see you're back..we missed ya! I have no idea what I'm having tonight either something low fat & low cal I would imagine!

Paul is back in the building!

Well, I had a few things to do today, so while I was out I sprang for a trip to Steak n' Shake. I love that place, just don't get to go all that often recently.

No Job + No Money/The Need To Save Wherever Possible = No trips to Steak n' Shake.

I feel like I was a pig, though, so I'll be skipping dinner tonight.

Now I wonder just how my pants seem to keep getting tighter, though.

ha ha ha Steak & Shake god i love their french fries. The closest one to me is either Des Moines or KC so I don't get them at all! I certainly miss them!!!

Enlighten me....whats the specialty at Steak n Shake? (we dont have them here)

LMK we dont have them in NY either. What kind of place is it. Sounds yummy just by the name

well,it is like a poor man's in-n-out.i find culver's
better.they had steak-n-shake in ga,but no
culver's.anyway,that is a brief description
of steak-n-shake.

What is an in and out. what is culvers. We are missing out here in NYC

what famous burger is in nyc?i will try to compare if i can.

do you mean the cheapie type like Burger King, Wendy's

nope,they are chains,but not national.culvers is located north,and midwest.in-n-out is southwest,west.
steak-n-shake is branching out.i did not know they were located by ron.anyway they all have good reps for cooking for when you order.takes a little longer but it is worth it.

So its good burgers not the cheap ones we have here. actually NYC really does not have any burger chains like that.

Steak and Shake is all over here in Fla. We have a new burger chain called 5 Guys. They tell me it is great! They give you your food in a brown paper bag!

Oh, my bad! I really thought Steak n' Shake was a national chain.

They're sort of a retro 50's diner type restaurant. Their specialty is Steak burgers and real milk, milkshakes. They're definitely a step above the main burger chains.

Very worth the trip.

We have nothing like them here in NYC. We have the cheapie burgers on every corner.We do need a good burger chain here.

The Steak n Shake here is not fit to eat. They are way overpriced, too. I am surprised they are still open.

Its hard to get a good burger AND shake in the same place out there. In N Out for burgers but their shakes are sub-par.

I will have to keep my eyes peeled for the Steak n Shake when I am traveling...I'll try anything at least once.

Gotta say, though, the best place I ever ate burgers at was a little burger-joint in the French Quarter of New Orleans called The Clover Grill!

Man I have such good memories of that place. Partying all night (literally, the bars are 24/7 there) and hitting Clover Grill on the way home to sleep it off.

Good times.

Of course I don't party like that anymore; one glass of wine gives me a raging headache the next day. And I really need to lay off the burgers as my pants are getting a tad bit snug.

I will add the Clover Grill to my list...Nola in general is on my list.


Over the weekend, the Food Channel featured Bon Appetits Top Food Places in America. Not anyplace snooty, but real places to eat and the burger category was won by a place in New Mexico called Bobcat Bite. Apparently the secret is green chiles and the 50-year cast iron griddle.

But oh my...the other food categories! Especially the Fried Chicken! I cannot get good fried chicken in CA.

OK, get this. I just Google'd Clover Grill and they actually have a website. Is there anyone or anything that doesn't have a website these days?

.clovergrill.com

just type the www in front of the .clovergrill.com.