What Did You Cook Tonight ???

[mark the shoeshine boy]

Alright....let's hear what you cooked tonight or did you go out ???

or did you bake a cake or cookies....

Please everything you list be LOW CALORIE !!!!! :lol:

mark tssb

[moses]

I forgot to eat dinner. Dammit.

[mark the shoeshine boy]

well tonight...

i baked talipia fish with zucchini, squash, broccoli an donion in a italian dreesing and oldbay sauce....quick and easy...

then i baked low fat chocolate chips cookies....i guess they were good, the kids had thier mouths shoved full of them...

so what did you have ???

mark tssb

[Mama Bear]

12 different soap flavors tonight! Yum! Very lo cal and lots of good clean fun!! :001_smile

and a beer :w00t:

[EL Alamein]

We had left-over chinese. But when I cook I usually cook French so low-fat is out.

One of my wife's favorites is chicken breasts is cream and aromatic vegetables (diced: onions, carrots and celery). It is prepared by sweating the diced vegetables in clarified butter then rolling the seasoned breasts in the hot butter and then baking them covered (and with buttered waxpaper on top of them) for about 6 to 8 minutes at 400. Finally the breasts are removed to a hot plate, the excess fat is removed and then the pan is deglazed with dry vermouth and beef stock. Once that is reduced cream is added, reduced slightly and the breasts are re-introduced.

The breasts are very tender and moist and the vegetables are just as tender and delicious. Sometimes we eat this "as is" or serve it over a bed of fresh steamed rice. Very delicious and satsifying.

Chris

[moses]

Sounds very very tasty. How large a quantity of vegetables do you use?

[EL Alamein]

Sounds very very tasty. How large a quantity of vegetables do you use?

It depends usually 1 medium carrot, 1 medium onion and 1 medium celery stalk but I may double this if we have company.

Chris

[With The Grain]

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[Mama Bear]

If you married me, you could have free shaving soaps for the rest of your life..... !! :tongue_sm

Mama Bear

[With The Grain]

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[Tito]

Sue you'd better be careful making statements like that around here. You just might have some takers.

[Mama Bear]

Sue you'd better be careful making statements like that around here. You just might have some takers.

Nah, they all run screaming after they see my kitchen..... :biggrin:

[Mama Bear]

mama bear make this one up some time then (notice this invloves sherry wine and the bisque does NOT):

Lobster or Seafood Newburg

Many recipes for Newburg Sauce call for paprika as the coloring agent rather than using a tomato product. While a sauce colored with paprika may be more stable, paprika has a tendency to be bitter tasting. For this reason we use tomato puree to color our Newburg Sauce. Take special care not to boil the sauce as the acidity of the tomato may cause the sauce to break or separate.

Preparation Time: Approx. 45 minutes
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients:
4 each, puff pastry shells
8 ounces lobster meat (bite sized cubes)
8 ounces sea scallops
8 ounces shrimp (peeled & de-veined)
¼ cup butter
2 cups milk
3 tablespoons all purpose flour
½ cup tomato puree
salt to taste
2 tablespoons sherry wine

Method:
Puff pastry shells are an optional item in this recipe and can be found in the frozen food section of most grocery stores. Cook the pastry shells according to the manufacturers' directions and put them aside.

Heat the milk in a heavy saucepan over a medium heat until the milk begins to simmer. In a separate saucepan melt the butter and add the flour to it making a roux and cook the roux over a medium heat for about a minute while whisking. Add the tomato puree to the roux and cook while whisking for an additional minute.

Add the hot milk to the roux –tomato mixture a ½ cup at a time while continually whisking. Once the milk is incorporated into the sauce add the sherry wine and check the seasoning for saltiness. Simmer the sauce over a low heat for about 10 minutes to allow the alcohol to burn off then remove the sauce from the fire and cover.

In a sauté pan melt 3 tablespoons of butter over a medium heat. When the butter begins to bubble add the shrimp and sauté for about a minute. Next add the scallops and lobster meat and sauté until the scallops are white and firm. Add enough Newburg Sauce to the sauté pan to just cover the seafood and simmer for about 2 minutes. If the sauce seems too thick you may thin it down with a little milk. Adjust the seasoning. Serve over pastry shell and garnish with parsley sprigs and a lemon wedge.

Maybe I could adopt you????? lol

[inkling]

Tonight was our night to go out with the toddlers (to a "rest-not", as they pronounce it). We went to a local Hawaiian place called Moki's where I got the artery-clogging island favorite, Loco Moco. They're the only place I've been to since I lived in Hawaii that gets it right.

SWMBO got the Teriyaki Beef and TWMBCUA (they who must be cleaned up after) shared the Chicken Katsu. Actually, our 2-1/2-year-old didn't eat much since she was busy imitating all the hula dancing on the Plasma screen. Moki's also offered an interesting version of chips and salsa, where the dip consisted of sweet corn, avocado, pineapple, guava, etc. Never tasted anything like it.

[rossination]

We went to a local Mexican place with the cheapest, hugest burritos you've ever seen (Seattlites: it was Gorditos, on 85th and Greenwood. Anyone been?). I didn't believe the reviewer when I read that they were the size of "dura flame logs", but it's true! Lots of leftovers, needless to say.

Now SWMBO is making blackberry pie with the berries she picked earlier today. Normally I'm the cook around here, but she likes to bake. She makes a mean pie!

[TheYoshi]

Tri-tip steak with a port/cream pan sauce (I use beef stock as the base), green beans and some fried julliene (sp? it's late) potatoes.

I can't say enough about pan sauces, so easy, yet so good.... So help me if I hear about any of you putting A-1 or something on a steak.

[Queen of Blades]

We went to a local Mexican place with the cheapest, hugest burritos you've ever seen (Seattlites: it was Gorditos, on 85th and Greenwood. Anyone been?). I didn't believe the reviewer when I read that they were the size of "dura flame logs", but it's true! Lots of leftovers, needless to say.

Now SWMBO is making blackberry pie with the berries she picked earlier today. Normally I'm the cook around here, but she likes to bake. She makes a mean pie!

Now you have made me sad. I went blueberry picking last week while I was in Tacoma, but didn't bring the berries home with me. I want blueberry pie, blueberry muffins, and more. No blueberries from here will suffice. :crying:

JoAnna

[rtaylor61]

We have a hispanic gentleman who visits the office about twice a month, selling homemade tamales. ONE is a meal! So, tonight I set the oven on 250, gave it 45 minutes, and chased it with chips and homemade salsa.

Randy

[Jim]

Soft shelled crabs- sweet potato fries -a huge salad and ice cold black tea>>!:biggrin:

[mr_economy]

I'm on a fairly strict clean diet. What does that mean? Well I'm not cutting any food groups (fad diets are foolish), but have cut out just about every processed piece of junk food out there.

Tonight I had a chicken breast grilled on a George Foreman grill, topped with a slice of fat-free swiss cheese and then covered with salsa. As sides were 1 cup of brown rice, with a little olive oil and salsa mixed in, and 2 cups of mixed veggies. To drink, I had a glass of skim milk. Deeeeelish. :001_smile

[Shane]

i went to my southern roots today.

fried catfish
cole slaw
collard greens
black eyed peas
home fries
cornbread

and sweet potato pie for dessert

[rtaylor61]

i went to my southern roots today.

fried catfish
cole slaw
collard greens
black eyed peas
home fries
cornbread

and sweet potato pie for dessert

No onion? Tonight I almost made the trip to Cracker Barrel to get an order of catfish, but decided I was too tired to make the drive.

[Shane]

there were loads of sweet vidalias in the home fries...soooooo delicious.

[rtaylor61]

there were loads of sweet vidalias in the home fries...soooooo delicious.

Damn you...:lol:

I'm making the trip to Cracker Barrel tomorrow! Not great, but not bad stuff.

Randy

[Scorpio]

Suateed onions with EVO
throw in a couple of seasoned cube steaks let it cook
white rice with one cup of water and a little salt
Pink beans with Goya sofrito seasoning
Just like mom used to make it!!!
then you marry the rice and beans...pour the beans on a bed of rice and mix so that the sauce of the beans gives the rice great flavor. Serve the steaks with the sauteed onions on top. You cook the rice until all the water has been absorbed or evaporated and you boil the beans until soft. You mix the Goya sofrito with the beans as they boil about a tablespoon is enough.

[mrob]

Turkey cutlets with cilantro, almond and garlic chimichuri sauce

sweet corn cut off the cob and sauteed with garlic lime butter

Both recipes from Gourmet--yum.

[TheYoshi]

Turkey cutlets with cilantro, almond and garlic chimichuri sauce

sweet corn cut off the cob and sauteed with garlic lime butter

Both recipes from Gourmet--yum.


Mmmm cilantro....

I made crab with cilantro and lime tonight... also several cheeses and meats... tasting wine at a friends house to determine if I'll be carrying it or not (I'm a wholesaler)

[mrob]

From the sublime to the ridiculous. . .

Last night's bedtime story was Bread and Jam for Frances, a classic kids story about a little animal who was so fussy that all she ate was bread and jam. In the end of the story she finally gets tired of eating the same thing every day, and begs her parents for spaghetti and meatballs. So. . .

. . .tonight we had spaghetti and meatballs! Always fun when its 90 degrees outside!

[moses]

Well, nothing interesting for other meals, but fun desert tonight.

Homemade Meringues. These alone are really good. If you've ever had crappy store-bought ones and thought they were good, you have no idea what you're in for when you get the real thing.

BUT, we did not stop there. Very carefully cut the top off. Then layer on Haagen Daz vanilla ice cream and raspberry sobert, and cap with the meringue top. MMMMMM...........

[mark the shoeshine boy]

well it was sunday and I had time to cook....actually i have to cook enough for my kids and i to have a good lunch for a couple of days.

grilled boneless chicken (salt pepper and garlic) and bbq with Jack Daniels sausce....i usually make my own, but i wanted to try the JD for once...and it was pretty good for bottled sauces.

sirloin steak grilled with the same seasonings...

grilled corn on the cob, baked white potatoe and a yam...since my cholesterol number came out, i have to stay away from the white starches.....

wild rice and cucumbers on the side...my kids dug in like you wouldn't believe....and now i have a lunch for today, too.

[BGog]

Kyle, Sounds just like my meal!!

First I made chicken breast seasoned with onion-powder and lemon pepper, grilled on a George-Forman. I then made a sandwich as follows.

1. Two slices wheat bread
2. Smear bread with Guacamole
3. Schlep a little salsa on for flavor
4. Two slices of tomato
5. 1 slice of provalone melted on the chicken.
6, small sprinkling of italian herbs.

Now that is a pretty darn healthy chicken sandwhich and it tastes twice as good as any from a fast food joint.

[Mama Bear]

Spinach Basil Garlic Fettuccini
quick tomato sauce with citrus seasonings
calamari, shrimp, scallops sauted in butter, garlic and italian seasonings
added roasted red papers

Don't ask me about the spices tho.. I just toss on whatever sounds good that night. I normally don't cook like this tho......!

[mark the shoeshine boy]

i married the wrong woman !!!!! :w00t:

[Mama Bear]

No you didn't... I only cook once or maybe twice a week....lol

I usually have too much soap stuff in the kitchen to get at the stove but since I am out of soaping stuff I figured I would make this instead.

[Quagmire]

Caesar Salad
Grilled pork steaks (marinated in beer)
Baked potato
No sugar added apple pie w/low carb vanilla ice cream

[mark the shoeshine boy]

No you didn't... I only cook once or maybe twice a week....lol

I usually have too much soap stuff in the kitchen to get at the stove but since I am out of soaping stuff I figured I would make this instead.

i'd gain weight at that rate....!!!! Let's try once or twice a year !!! :bored:

[Mama Bear]

i'd gain weight at that rate....!!!! Let's try once or twice a year !!! :bored:

That's probably why I'm still single at 47......lol :001_rolle