It has been too long since we did this...

[qbu]

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DH made chicken wrapped in bacon on the grill...had broccoli with garlic as a side.

[2big4mysize]

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pulled pork , spicey slaw, fruit salad, nullo momndo's flaz roll and blackbeans

[jimmie 48]

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we had a big fat hamburger with grilled onions, jack had sweet corn and some hot garden mix.
later he'll have the usually ice cream (don't fret my friends, he is not doing atkins) and i'll have some cooked up cranberries and cream.

[sadie147]

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Miss P, that sounds like a plan to me! We rarely go out, but we are going out this weekend to celebrate and we have a gift certificate for the OutBack Steak House!

Hope that's not still the gift cert from your birthday! (if i remember correctly?)


I had wings for dinner, hubby had pizza. boring. i didn't feel like cooking tonight. actually it really wasn't that, i just didn't feel like washing the dishes after.

[julirama723]

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I had roast turkey, and spaghetti squash with cheese and butter sauce. And about 39 gallons of water.

[MotherOfGizmo]

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LOL, yep Sadie, that's the one he got from the xboss that we were going to use on my b-day and never did! Now we're going to use it to celebrate winning the case against the x-boss! LOL--how's that for ironic! I think we'll take a pic of us enjoying the meal on HIM! and send it to him with a thank you note! LOLOLOLOL, poetic justice!

We ended up having baked Asian Basa topped with a little olive oil, slice tomatos and basil and an awesome salad with parmeseano reggiano and crumbled bacon on top! Yummy!

[not2late]

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I borrowed a really interesting cookbook from a co-worker yesterday. It's Happy in the Kitchen by Michel Ricard. Anyhow, he has a recipe for stuffed pasta shells....but he doesn't use pasta: he uses large onions. He bakes the onions then slices them in half lengthwise, peels the layers and uses them as 'pasta shells'. The stuffing is the typical ricotta cheese thing.

There's also a recipe for snow pea linguine (snow peas are sliced into strips, cooked, then tossed with butter, grated Parmesan), and some interesting ideas for breading/coatings.

[ValidRouge]

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Oooh megs, that sounds like a great book! I'd have never thought of the onion "pasta shells." Isn't that clever? I bet they would be VERY tasty.

[ValidRouge]

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We had pork alfredo the other night. The night before we'd grilled country style pork ribs and the next night, I chopped up the meat to use in this dish.

Take a vegetable peeler and use it to slice a fresh zucchini into "ribbons"
sautee the zucchini ribbons in olive oil and butter until tender. Don't over cook, and don't stir too much or they'll break up.

I don't measure, sorry...

melt 2 tablespoons butter into a separate pan (don't allow to brown)
sprinkle with parmesan cheese (the stuff in the can works great), you want to make a "paste"
add whipping cream (a tbspn or so) to thin.

THis will thicken as you cook it. You can thin it out with water in your cream too.

Put the pork in the sauce to reheat, serve over the zucchini.

[MotherOfGizmo]

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You guys are making me hungry!

Megs, that sounds like a really interesting cookbook. I wish John and I were bigger onion fans because the onion layers would work so well as little "shells"

[not2late]

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MoG, it's huge coffee-table type book. Anyhow, there also a recipe where he takes those little pearl onions, half cooks them, wraps them with bacon, bakes until the bacon is crispy and serves with a salad. I figure you could probably use it as an appetizer too.

[MotherOfGizmo]

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Now that sounds pretty good not2, you know how I love things wrapped in bacon!

[not2late]

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I might have to give the stuffed no-shells a try. They look good! So do the bacon wrapped pearl onions.