Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
my visit here isnt an intrusion on anyones schedule or anything .
the hepc tx is done and looks like a success after 15 years of failed treatment attempts and the future looks pretty promising . got a request for brotchen rolls with pizza filling tonight ..
thanks boni . in a mild upswing of arrogance i might say that i deserve this treat ..
The flavor was very, very good. Turned out to be a keeper recipe ... But I would make adjustments next time to have the mixture less soupy. It would be a fun dish to make in individual casserole dishes (which I happen to have, of course :) ) and cover each with the puff pastry. Yup, think I'll try that next time.
See ... cooking is part science, part art. Lots of following directions and a pinch or two of creativity.
I love white beans..will have to try it puff pastry.
hehehe
h*ll yea Jeanne . cooking is a creativity outlet and much more.
I have to say, as a MidWesterner, I've never "got" red velvet cake. I guess it is a regional thing. It looks red (from an entire bottle of food color) but it doesn't taste red -- not strawberry or cherry or cinnamon or red hots or anything red. It uses a tiny bit of cocoa to enhance the red color but not enough to flavor the cake. It is moist. It is pretty. To me it doesn't taste like anything special. It is a tease cake that doesn't deliver. :) Usually it has great frosting. I'd certainly eat it if that is what a hostess is serving, but I'd never order it if their were other choices.
My mother used to make a chocolate cherry cake that turned out almost the color of red velvet but actually tasted like it looked. I'm going to see if I can scare up that old recipe. (It had mayonnaise, I remember.)
Any of you Dixie folks want to defend red velvet cake?
Chocolate Cherry Cake- jeannegibbs- Im hungry! Mayo? Really? Yes, please post the recipe! Well, I have to agree that red velvet doesn't have a flavor, it is the icing that makes it. But, I love the look, and still make it once in a while. Its like a "fancy or love cake" lol.
Im going to keep up with this trhead so I can respond to more of you! You all look like your having some fun on this thread too, hope I can keep up!
we didnt make it to the naval museum , i rode home today instead. back home safely ..
thanks ike..
Because I'm now trying to cook, this past week, when I was eating out, I purposely avoided my regular food that I ordered. This time, I chose something else. I can tell you that the word "ground beef" is always substituted with a fancier name in restaurants. Today, at a Japanese restaurant, I ordered a rice bowl, with a round meat-loaf tasting ground beef, with lettuce and drowned with teriyaki sauce (found out that I hate that taste!) and topped with a very runny sunnyside up egg. I did not care for this food.
For dinner, I still had 3 frozen pork chops. I spent like an hour googling how to defrost pork chops fast, and the simplest easiest seasonings for it. In the end, I gave up. I put the meat in the micro to defrost. Chopped up onions, threw it into the nonstick pan. Looked at my limited seasonings, and grabbed Paprika, Cayenne Pepper, Garlic Powder, Italian Seasoning, and salt. I took my whole black peppercorn grinder and adjusted it so that I would grind large black peppers and not the teeny tiny ones. When the onions were done, I took it out, and put the meat in the pan. The single burner kept shutting off. I was sweating and it took me a long time to cook those meat.
Sis saw me cooking. She asked if I was cooking it plain - just salt and pepper. I said yeah, but not much salt, but lots of black pepper, cayenne, etc.. Sigh... I like tonight's meal the best. Simple and plain. I can taste the meat - and not all those spicy gravy, etc... To add the "crunch" with my meal, I just chopped up some onions lengthwise, threw it into my usual soy sauce dipping mix - and it just like that with the meal.
FYI, in frustration, I told fave sis that I want to get rid of our gas range (fire hazard - you turn it on and the fire flares out wide with this loud 'whoooosh'.) Since dad is bedridden, I don't want to use the gas range. I said if she can find an electric range, she can have the gas range and sell it to someone else. I just want a simple electric range to cook on - where I can actually 'simmer' food and not having to keep turning it on because it automatically shuts off.