What's For Dinner Today?

[Ida]

Hah, WE ARE GOING TO USE OTHER PARTS OF THE FORUM TOO, NOT JUST THE 10k THREAD!

Anyhow..

As the title says, what are you going to have for dinner today?

[Ida]

I have cod in the oven. It SMELLS delicious, so I hope it's as good as it smells! If this is good, it's definitively becoming one of my fish-recipes. It was seriously easy to prepare, and hopefully good. But next time I'll make sure to have all the ingredients.

[Andy]

We were supposed to have fish too! But Peter didnt catch anything today. He's going back tomorrow so maybe he'll have better luck then.

IDK whats for dinner. I'm not very hungry and its too hot to cook.

[Andy]

I scrolled down too far and I'm too lazy to scroll back up and hit the edit button!

We had lemon pepper chicken with rosemary garlic potatoes and rice with peas and carrots. It was goooooooooooood.

[Nok]

We'll probably unfrozen a pizza. They are from the supermarket in front of my appartment and they are really good. It's really convenient to have one too, when you don't have time or wants to cook.

Yesterday, I cooked beef chops, we put big salt, basilic, pepper and cumin.
And I made a salad with a nice salsa, olive oil + red wine vinegar + my secret and favorite ingredient maple syrup

[Ida]

Today I'm making chicken in the oven with bacon, bananas and tomatoes. Going to have rice together with it.

The fish yesterday was awesome, it was cod, with mustard on it, then I spiced it with maldon-salt and white pepper, then chopped tomatoes to cover the fish(es), breadcrumbs(ish) on top of that. Gawd, it was good! Seriously. I ate a whole filet all by myself, and that is good concidering it was fish!

I'm also making cheesecake atm. It says in the recipe it's American cheesecake, but eh.. What IS american cheesecake anyhow??

[Carla]

omg Ida is posting outside of 10k thread! haha Glad to see you dusted off the cobwebs

YAY FOOD

Today I had pollock (fish - not my favorite but really cheap) with garlic butter parsley sauce (just melt butter, saute garlic for a bit and throw in dried or fresh parsley), parmesan noodles from a package (lipton noodles are my weakness) and fresh snow peas. If I actually planned dinner today, I would've made bread. It was more like hey let's have fish for dinner. *as I'm cooking fish* hey I have some peas in the fridge. Oh look, noodles! *makes*

As far as cheesecake, I know there's New York Cheesecake. Then Nigella Lawson's book (British cook) has recipes for London and Italian cheesecake. Italian one uses ricotta. London has some kind of thin layer of sour cream mixture on top of the cream cheese mixture. NY is made without a water bath. Honestly, the only cheesecake I've ever made from scratch was http://chocolatemoosey.blogspot.com/2008/1...and-creamy.html which is none of the three mentioned. I found a Wiki article that describes the styles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheesecake

edit - I just realized you said chicken with bananas. That goes with bacon?? Then again, I've seen chocolate-covered bacon.

[Ida]

I have no idea, it says so in the recipe. I didn't make it today, because we were busy, and the cake took longer to bake than I thought. The cake was yummy though, but not photo-material. XD I need a smaller form-thingy for that..

I'm making the chicken today though (Saturday).

[Andy]

Tonight we had pasta with beef and onion. EW! I HATE plain pasta. Grosssssss.

I only ate a tiny bit and then I threw a tortilla with a smidgen of cheese our LEAN MEAN GRILLING MACHINE! Aka our little George Foreman.

[Carla]

We ate out for my mom's bday, which is technically tomorrow (16th) but Carl's Tavern is closed on Sundays. I wasn't happy bc my fish fillet was long and varied in thickness, so the thick parts were fine but the thin parts were overfried and dry.

[Nok]

Tonight we're having poutine. A traditional Quebecker meal. My dad brought the cheese(which cant be found here in Spain), and we already have the sauce (which cant be found here either..)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine
The photos never do justice to poutine, you have to taste it, it's amazing. Quite bad for your health, but occasionnaly it's very good.

I want my boyfriend to taste it
Then I'm doing Brigadeiro (brasilian dessert), quite international lol!

[Carla]

I made bbq beef and mashed potatoes. The beef is supposed to be made in a slow cooker (which I own and never used) but it also said stove top for 2-3 hours. I wanted to make garlic parsley mashed potatoes but my mother hates garlic, so I used lots of butter and milk to make it creamy since we had no gravy mix and I have no clue how to make it from scratch. That and I didn't think about it until after the potatoes were boiling. My bad. I was going to make homemade hamburger buns, but my dad came home with a brand new pack of buns from the store -_-

Anybody see a point in actually using a slow cooker? I guess it's great to keep stuff warm like dips and fondue, especially at picnics but why cook for 6-8 hours? I'm too scared to turn it on and just leave the house. I guess if I'm doing extensive house work or something, I put it in and not have to worry about stirring it or burning it.

[Ida]

If things take 8 hours to cook, you're not going to see me making it.

Today I'm making chicken with cheese and ham, cooked in the oven. Then with it I'm making a tomato-sauce-thingy..

[Nok]

Carla: the foos is just SOOOOOO yummy from a slow cooker. There's a difference, and it's so easy. Plus if you have a modern one, you shoudl have a timer and all. It's safe.

Ida: It doesn't actually take 8 hours to cook. You cook whatever you want, the normal time, you just put it in and let it do the work for a couple of hours slowly but oh so delicious. So for example, if you put something in the morning, you go to work and when you come home, it smells incredible and you have a meal ready. It's very good especially during winter, it's a winter type of plate you get from it.

Tonight I'm making my dad a Tortilla de Patatas (it's really an omelette), because I have eggs and potatoes. And I don't want to buy food just before I go, and anyway, everything is closed since it's sunday.

[Andy]

My dad and I were going to make aji de gallina but my mom vetoed it. Booo. I'd post a picture or link to one but it looks pretty puke-tastic, not going to lie. Its beyond delicious though.