What's for dinner tonight?

[Arcticdude]

I may have ruined the cabin with dinner tonight. I decided to make tacos. Who would of thought a skillet full of hot peppers would create such a toxic cloud, eyes and throat burning. The tacos were great but it's going to take awhile to air this place out.

 

[DrHenley]

Looks good. The 2 most important things is the roux and the freshness of the seafood. Down in south Louisianna we can make it a bit cheaper, but $50 a pot is not that bad. My gumbo usually cost me about $20 a gallon. Thats loaded with fresh shrimp, crab and oysters.

I grew up in Mississippi due north of New Orleans, and we had a lot of Creole and Cajun influence on the cooking. I've always known that "First, you make a roux".

 

[Maverick]

Corned beef and Cabbage

 

[Brent S]

Left over Mexican fajitas. Chicken, beef and shrimp. Good times.

 

[Arcticdude]

Just made up a batch of Korean BBQ sauce. Got it on the wood stove to reduce down and thicken up some. It wont be ready to use until tomorrow, so tonight I'll have left over chili.

 

[Brent S]

I ate the whole thing! Normally I will save half, but, well, I just don’t have an excuse.... there ain’t much better than a medium rare ribeye.

 

[DrPrepper]

tacos for dinner tonight... I am feeling lazy..

 

[Brent S]

Walmart rotisserie chicken. I did manage to make some rice and gravy to go with it too.

 

[Proud Prepper]

Walmart rotisserie chicken. I did manage to make some rice and gravy to go with it too.

I do the same thing and add some baby carrots, onion and lil red potatoes in a pan with olive oil and seasoning, then add the chicke and everything in a pan and heat it in the oven. Nice inexspensive meal.

 

[Brent S]

I do the same thing and add some baby carrots, onion and lil red potatoes in a pan with olive oil and seasoning, then add the chicke and everything in a pan and heat it in the oven. Nice inexspensive meal.

I read an article about it actually being cheaper to buy and cook a chicken that these rotisserie ones. They use smaller birds than the uncooked ones you buy, so per pound you’re better off cooking. Just the fact it’s pre cooked and seasoned well usually wins for me lately. I have loads of red potatoes and carrots that I canned from the garden, which are basically pre cooked, that are easy to add quickly too. It just seems there aren’t enough hours in the day lately.

 

[Brent S]

I just pan seared a 7lb seasoned pork butt and put it in the oven for a late lunch/early dinner. I love doing a large meat like this as I will eat off it for most of the week. Normally I would smoke this for thirty mins before cookin it in the oven, but was just being lazy today. I used a little smoke flavoring with the rub I used as a quick fix. So, roasted pork for a couple days, then some pork sandwiches, maybe pulled pork barbecue. Damn, I’m getting hungry already.

 

[bigpaul]

scrambled eggs on toast, we normally have eggs on a Sunday, its sort of an English tradition, sometimes scrambled sometimes boiled.

 

[DrPrepper]

I guess we have been lazy the whole weekend...my husband just made pancakes for dinner.... I am in

 

[Arcticdude]

Last night was tacos.

 

[bigpaul]

cheese and bacon quiche with branston baked beans, followed by greek yoghurt and raspberries.

 

[Maverick]

Spaghetti last night

Watching the news this morning, around the metro area (Portland-Vancouver area) they got 2” of snow so the headline is “February Snow Storm” My first laugh of today.

Tonight is beans fried cornbread and deep fried battered zucchini squash

 

[Maverick]

Last night Pork chops mashed potatoes with corn on the cob and green beans ... I screwed up the homemade mushroom gravy. It was nice eating under an oil lamp, we been without power for two days and have about 5 1/2 feet of snow.

Tonight is grilled cheese sandwich and split pea soup

 

[Gazrok]

Had our grown kids over, and their roommate, so his first time seeing the ranch....so that was fun. Since we were gone at the Ren Fest all day, I had some cinnamon rolls ready for when they came over in the am (just the store ones, Pillsbury, but I sprinkle on some cinnamon sugar, and we usually have some bagged buttercream icing left from doing cakes, so used that on top along with the buttercream icing that came with them.

And prepped crock pots with some corned beef and cabbage, (I use half beef broth, and half water), and put in some cut up potatoes, baby carrots, and some onion and carrots. That way, it was ready when we all got home. It's not my favorite meal, but the kids really love it (and one of the few crock meals they do). They all attacked it, so I'm glad I made (what I thought to be) extra.

Of course, strawberry season here in Plant City, FL, so I made sure we had strawberry shortcake for dessert...I like mine plain, but we had the canned whipped cream that they like. I also picked up this white fruit dip that they all went crazy for, so I'll have to look at the name....but all of them really liked it. Publix had this really hearty strawberry bread, so we used this for it, as well as pound cake as an option.

We had some fruit based meads and wines from past local Ren Fests (and the winery down the road), to have with dinner and dessert too, so was a fun night.

 

[bigpaul]

fish cakes and sliced potatoes pieces.

 

[Gazrok]

we been without power for two days and have about 5 1/2 feet of snow

What cooking method are you using during the outage? (and with all that snow out)!