A Gardeners Forum Forums Willy's Place Members Favorite Recipes Hey Ma, What's fer supper???

(Jillie had started a topic like this,
Thought I'd put it back up again!!)

I made home made grilled cheese sam~iches,
*half Colby and half X~tra sharp cheese and some fine black pepper*
And home made Tomato/Beef Rice soup...
*water, beef boullion cubes, and a can of hunts tomato sauce, rice and some fine black pepper to taste.
YUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
~EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The wee~one's are fickle, the one only eats
the tom. soup, the other only eats the sandwich,
I like the two together.
Go figure!!!

Weezie

WHAT DID YOU HAVE FOR SUPPER??
*OR LUNCH OR BREAKFAST???*

Last night for supper I made what I refer to as a Student Stir-fry

consisting of potatos, carrots, and chicken all cooked up together with a lemos stirfry sauce (of the package variety) served on rice, yeah for cheap meals

Homemade French bread pizza last night.
(heartburn city! ! !)

Homemade cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing for breakfast today.
(yummm!)

Grilled cheese sandwich for lunch.
:p

Jim Beam and Pepsi for supper!



Cindy

You mean we were eatin' grill sam~iches together, Cindy????????? NEAT!!!

Weezie
Still tryin' to figure out what to have for dinner!!!

I never mind the cookin' part but it's the figuring out part I hate!!! :p

I've got some chuck steaks that I'm marinating in Italian dressing for the grill. Gonna make some twice baked potatos and a salad.

YUM...getting hungry just thinking about it!

G-Mom

Tonight...biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, and sausage.

I ate about 3 bites of it. :p

We ended up going out to dinner,
had a fish fry, oh, I love those!

Last night we had homemade ghoulash!!! :rolleyes:

And tonight, we're having leftovers, of a
roast I did Friday night!

I think tomorrow it may be TACO's!!!! mouth is watering already!!!

Weezie

P/S Hey Cindy,
Got the recipe for those rolls and especially for that cream cheese icing??????

G~mom,
Got a recipe for that steak?? And the
twice baked taters????

Just pour Italian Dressing over the meat and let it sit for a few hours. It's really good on beef and chicken. I didn't make the salad,I stir-fried some carrots,broccoli,zuchini,corn and lima beans in a couple of tablespoons of Italian Dressing...YUMMY!! I also didn't make the twice baked potatoes,I made homemade scalloped potatos instead.

Gonna make Chicken and Dumplings for dinner tonight.

G-mom

We do the Italian dressing for the chicken alot..
Wishbone Robusto Italian... very tasty..

And hubby likes to do the Chivetta's marinade and the dip it in Robusto afterwards, just for a change of pace...

Weezie

It works real good on beef...the vinegar tenderizes just about any tough cut of meat. My daughter marinates pot roast in it and uses the leftover marinade in the gravy...melt in your mouth good!

I use marinades alot to give my meat a kick. Last week I used a steak marinade for chicken. Cooked it on the top rack of the grill and put a baking pan full of carrots,potatos and onions on the bottom rack. I added all of the marinade from the chicken to the pan added enough water to cover and slow-cooked it for 2 hours. All of the chicken juices fell into the pan with the veggies. My God,was it GOOD! The kids even sopped up all the juice in the pan!

G-Mom

When you guys grill stuff, do you use propane or charcoal?

Propane......
Used to use the Charcoal a long time ago..
and when I first switched over, I did miss
the taste a bit, but the time to set it up,
GET IT STARTED, let it heat up a bit to get
the charcoals red, and then finally put your item on to cook, was just toooooo long...
Then they made the propane very accessable and
alot quicker...Light it, let it warm a tad
and go...

I like to mix the marinades/sause's up a bit, I like Krafts Hickory Smoke BBQ sauce and then I also like the HOT and then I like to take the two and put them together... Oh man, now I want chicken on the grill tonight instead of the taco's, we'll see which one wins!!!

Weezie

We use propane too. We like to use the wood chips made for propane grills,gives it "that charcoal" flavor.

I think I'm changing my mind. Chicken on the grill is sounding better than chicken&dumplings. Hmmmm...I've got the veggies for the drip pan too.

G-Mom

Wow...I must be the only one left that uses charcoal. I'm gonna have to check out the propane grills! I have three of them! One on the pontoon, one on the deck, one in the garage and one out front. (Duh! That's four!)

I have NEVER even used the propane. I've probably screwed them ALL up by putting charcoal in them! I know I've destroyed this one in the front yard! Some burner thing that the flames come out of....well, I got mad at it one day and jerked it out!

Well, you all have gotten me wanting to use the gas grill.....but I don't know how! I can't find any owner's manuals to them. (Actually, I doubt if I have the directions to two of them, since they were given to me second-hand.)

Just tell me this.....is there a snowball's chance in hell that this thing is gonna EXPLODE!??
If not, I'm gonna just try to figure it out by my own bad self.

Cindy

Cindy,
I am not a good one to reply to this, but...
with all that said, I still use them...

We had one as a kid, that the push igniter wouldn't always co~operate... and you'd turn on
the gas, and push the starter and it would lite..
Well, once it started going, you'd turn on the gas and click the starter but you'd have to do it a bunch of times, it would finally click and POOF! You'd hear it take ahold of the gas and light it...
Wellllllllllllll, one time it took a tad bit longer, and when it finally went POOFED I looked like this *well, my arm did and the side of my hair* it went poof and the tips' of all my hair on my arm and face/head got tinged!!!

Needless to say, I still use them, and am VERY MINDFULL when using one..
we still sort a have a similiar problem now, the starter doesn't work, so we manually put flame to it, and sometimes, the match gets blown out on the way down when I throw it in, and have to turn the gas off right away, grab another match and retry, you don't dare let the gas go even while you're just getting another match, OMG!!!
Knock on Wood, haven't re~sorched myself at all since that, but, it's been semi close on occasions!!!

I still use them though, the alternative to pan frying, just doesn't turn me on! :p

Weezie

Well...I partially blew a building up one time by pouring kerosene into a coal stove that was smouldering, so I think I'd better not try the gas grill until I find someone to SHOW me how to use one.
Sounds too complicated for me. I have some big ribeye steaks in there marinading right now!

Oh, well...I got plenty of charcoal, and a Bic!


Cindy

Wellllll...Weezie....what did you fix...did you do the "Tacos" or the "Chicken"?

I ended up cooking the chicken on the grill..I simmered it on low and it was YUMMY!!!!!

G-Mom

ok, i have a request... if you make something that needs a recipe, you have to post the recipe with the menu...

i had home made potato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.

soup:

make a white sauce by melting butter (i used 1 stick), stir flour in it (i used about 1/3c but i use the "dump & pour" method of measuring), add salt and onion powder (if you want to use real onion, saute the onions in butter and add when you add the potatoes) keep stirring, add milk or heavy cream a little at a time, stirring well until it is liquid. when liquid, add chicken broth (or ham chunks and water), stir well, put on low heat.

peel and chunk 4-5 potatoes and put in sauce, let simmer, stirring regularly. when potatoes are done, it's soup!

Hey, I'll come show you how to use the gas grill someday,

one important thing if you do try it-

• lift the lid
• turn gas bottle on
• get long matches ready
• I like to go in from the bottom, so squat down in front of grill and look up, you should see some air holes on the bottom of the grill.
• turn one burner on and quickly light the match and stick it in one of the holes
• poof
• then you can turn on the other burner, should light itself off the other side

Oh yeah, dinner tonight was a roasted chicken that I doused with last night's leftover Merlot, Smilie Fries (kid's love em) and peas!

Jiffy,that sounds yummy and great idea posting the recipe!! <img border="0" alt="[clappy]" title="" src="graemlins/clappy.gif" />

**G~mom, I ended up havin' Pizza Hut Pizza, Bunch~a~bites, and Bread Sticks....
It's really screwy around my house some days...
Never know if you're comin' or goin'!!!
Husband was in the mood for Pizza and wanted it
"TO GO ~~~~>, so he brought it home...
and I didn't even have to cook!

Weezie

What is that?

Mel,
quote:
-------------------------------------
Bunch~a~bits
-------------------------------------

What is that?

Ooops!! I left out the "e"

Those are things from Pizza Hut!!
It has a "bunch" of Onion Rings, Hot Poppers w/ Cream Cheese, Chicken Finger and Cheese Sticks...

Weezie

Yum,Yum that sounds awesome!

THATS MY KIND OF MAN!

Does he have a brother?

Nope!!!!

And I waited a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG
time to find that man!!!
And I am sooooooooooooooooooooo glad I did!!!

Weezie

A chicken leg from KFC for me tonight.

it was pizza (home made) for supper. i'll try to describe how to make the crust after i get it right (it still isn't quite right)

i put the left over ham (we've been eating it for 3 days now, but it's all gone, finally) and some mushrooms on top. wasn't bad.


now, about the lighting of the gas grill... a trick i learned from my momma.... (and cindy, even you could get this one right )

you take one of those long fire place matches (that is important because of how long it burns) and light it. lay it across the burner and leave it burning. turn on the gas bottle, then turn on the burner SLOWLY. the burner will catch at the first sign of the gas, so you don't get the "poof" explosive type of ignition. the poof comes from the build up of gas in the area of the spark when the spark happens. no build up, no poof.

one note... if the match goes out before the burner starts, shut the gas off and start over.

You THINK so?

It would give me a good excuse to buy some of those big matches. I've always wanted some of those for some reason. They just look so COOL!

cindy, i do. you just have to do it in the proper order.

Homemade chicken noodle soup with some fresh thyme and parsley from the garden ! With some warm biscuits (from a can). It's so windy and cold outside today, this was perfect.

Mel,
Ooooh~Ooooh, got

Weezie

Rough one, I threw a whole chicken breast in a pot (I only like white meat) covered with water and simmered for something like two hours. Pulled it out and picked it off the bone and threw the meat back in the pot. Peeled 5 carrots,sliced em and threw in . About 1 Tbs. of thyme leaves from the garden, chopped a little parsley, too. Cut up one good-sized head of broccoli into bite size florets, threw that in , simmer,simmer,simmer........taste, added three chicken bullion cubes.Put in a few handfulls of med. egg noodles cooked for 10 minutes while the rolls cooked.

Yum, yum burnt my tongue!!

Albertsons had a "Mega" sale going on. Bacon wrapped Filet mignons for a buck a piece They also had large Shrimp for $3.49 a pound. Can you guess what I cooked!
I grilled the steaks,sauteed the shrimp,baked potatos and made a salad. Even had a cake for dessert!

Yum,Yum!

G-Mom

OH that sounds AWESOME !! Around here, the large shrimp would run, at the least, $9.99 - $12.99lb.

And I love shrimp,now Maine shrimp which is wwwwwaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy too small, (a little bit bigger than a langostino) Is only in season here about a month now , because of new fishing regs. but you can pick it up for $.99lb. :p

Today is my daughters(Kareena) 22nd B-Day. I'm having her and her boyfriend over for dinner. I'm gonna grill some more of those awesome steaks,probably grill some shrimp too,twice baked potatos,grilled veggies and of course some Cake and Ice Cream!

G-Mom

:p Gee, thanks...I've got soup beans cooking already!
(Actually, just about burned them already thanks to the forum!)
My smoke alarm went off before they burned, thank GOD!

cin

They make the best cooking timers!!



G-Mom

(I thought at first it was an alarm telling me it was my turn to post on the forum...
...so I started to post something before I checked it out...then smelled SMOKE!)

Like YOU really need that!!!



G-Mom

That's tooooooooo funny!!!!

I think I have one of those too!!!

My smoke alarm would go off every time when
I would use the toaster!!!
(go figure... :rolleyes: )
And I am sooooooo short, that I would have to get a spatula or something of the likes to whack the turn off button to get it to stop....


Weezie

I'm pretty short, too!
And, had to replace my smoke alarm last week because I whacked it with a frying pan and knocked the whole thing off the ceiling!

We could take over the WORLD if we could REACH STUFF!

(Do you have a little step stool in your kitchen like I do?)

No...I'm quite adept at climbing on the counter to reach the top shelf

I've tried to teach Lola to fly up and get stuff for me, but she just keeps coming back with the Cheese-Nips!

Well then...DON'T BUY CHEESE NIPS!



G-Mom

(Have you ever been bitten by a parrot?)

You DON'T tell a parrot there's no more Cheese-Nips!

Well yeahhhhhhhhh, and to get my cookbooks,
I have to climb the step ladder, step on to the counter top and get them from there..... :p
I am almost to the point, where I'm really serious of taking everything out of my kitchen
and having my husband drop all the kitchen cabinets down about 2 1/2", I can barely reach the second shelves in my cabinets.....

Never have a 6'3" MAN install your cabinets,
unless he's on his knees to view the view you get to see..

They put a wonderful light over my sink,
*oh, so I could see the dirty dishes a little better* :rolleyes: but when I stand there, it
shines right into my eyes, he says, he doesn't have that problem, well, yeah~duh!!!

and I have a step~stool in the bathroom...
andddddddd my father~in~law made me a specially lonnnnnnnnng step~stool, for the side of the waterbed frame we have...
We have a waterbed frame with one of those really neat sponge mattris's...but when I tried to get out of bed, with your butt sinking into the mattris, and the hard wooden frame, it's very uncomfortable, *this all transpired when I was pregnant with my first kid* so, he made one the length of the bed, so no matter where I got up or out or my feet landed on the side of the bed,
I landed on the step~stool...

Weezie

George is always teasing me about being so short And now the worst has happened...MY YOUNGEST(12) IS TALLER THAN ME

I am now shorter than my husband and ALL MY CHILDREN :p

G-Mom

Well, at least I CAN get on the commode without a step stool!

I meant for the medicine cabinet :p :p :p :p


The kids use it mostly for brushing there teeth,
*to stand on, not the stool to brush their with**)

Ok...fess up ya'll...how tall are you?

I'm 5'2"...Ok...5'1 3/4 inches...and yes I count that 1/4 inch cause every little bit helps!

G-Mom

It's a good thing you clarified THAT!

5ft!!!!


I knew if I didn't someone would!!!! :p

Weezie

I took the leftover steak from last night,sliced it up,sauteed it with onions and garlic,made brown gravy and added sour cream...Steak Stroganoff!! Served it over pasta and reheated the veggies from last night. Soooo easy and soooo GOOD!

G-Mom

I didn't have delivery...

.....I had DiGiorno's!


Cindy

we had chicken that my dad battered up with some kind of mildly hot breader and some kind of chinese hot sauce and cooked it in the deep fryer,homemade sweet potato fries, and good ol' pilsbury biscuits (the kind that are frozen and in the bag.) delicious!

Gawd, you southerners know how to eat!!Yum , yum, that sounds sooooooo good. c'mon Miss J. I'm drooling here

lol it was good and we had some good homemade spicy chili beans that my dad made the other day. my dad is a really really good cook lol

Chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast today!

kids just got picked up :rolleyes: by their dad for the weekend so .................having a box of Cheezits and a lovely 1999 Meridian Vineyards California Cabernet Sauvignon!

had shepards pie tonight, topping that off with some patchwork ice cream and hhmmmmmmmmmmm..........

thinking about washing the whole thing down with a nice merlot, went to the NH state liquor store this weekend for some bottles to fill the wine rack up!

(Afgrey, this is real )

Cheezits?????

It's Cheese NIPS with wine, CheezITS with tequila!

Cindy

P.S.
Where r u ?

My mistake, I had NO idea!!

Where am I at 11:00 at night????? In bed dreaming of penguins under Kareena's bed, of course!