or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?

Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.

You?

Jill

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
. ..
> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>
> You?
>
> Jill

Crisp Skin Baked Potatoes
Grilled Marinated Sirloin Steak
(marinade -Syrah, red wine vinegar, evoo, salt, pepper, garlic, & onion)
French Cut Green Beans & Bacon
Salad
Dressing (EVOO Salt, Pepper, Sugar, Garlic Lemon juice)
Ice Cream W/Chocolate Sauce

+
Grilled Hot Dog
Corn
Tortilla chips
Apple
Brownie bites
(grandkid)

I may have the grandkid dinner :-)

Dimitri

We're having beef tenderloin on the grill, some boiled new potatoes
fresh from the ground last weekend, compliments of our neighbor, along
with some sliced tomatoes he also gave us. I also have some leftover
cole slaw from yesterday.
The tomatoes and potatoes are my favorites.

Libby

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:19:08 -0400, "jmcquown" >
wrote:

>or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
>Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
>she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
>soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>
>You?
>
>Jill

Not sure. I just got two new Indian cookbooks (Indian Home Cooking,
and American Masala, by Suvir Saran) and am thinking about trying
something from there. I finally have most of the ingredients to fix
some of the dishes from those books!

I also have some squash and am thinking of trying this dish from one
of the food blogs I read:

http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com...summer-squash/

Christine

On Aug 23, 8:19*pm, "jmcquown" > wrote:
> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
> she didn't want a cheese omelet. *She said she'd love it if I made potato
> soup. *So homemade potato soup it was *With some saltine crackers.
>
> You?
>
> Jill

Chicken with lemon and olives.
Potato soup sounds good though....

-Tracy

jmcquown wrote:
>
> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?

I'm digesting a bowl of three very small halved,
sliced, and fried yellow potatoes, a yellow onion
cut into strips and caramelized, and two habanero
peppers sliced into thin strips.

If my friend Cindy hadn't called in the middle
of the process, I would have remembered to toss
in a handful of walnut pieces toward the end.

Since Tuesday, I've been following a strict
anti-gout diet. Apparently, those chicken
sausages I've been eating put me very close
to the gout threshold, and something triggered
it on Wednesday. Either the extra exercise
(I doubled my use of the elliptical trainer
on Monday and Tuesday), or a piece of cheese
I ate on Tuesday, or maybe I didn't drink
enough water.

It was never a severe case. I only needed
one Advil on Thursday, and I didn't need one
on Friday but I took it anyway. I had a warning
sign on Wednesday, actual gout on Thursday,
in recovery mode on Friday, and it's no longer
painful or stiff today, but I know that I should
wait another day or two before consuming the
one last sausage, which will be consumed one-half
sausage per day, rather than the previous rate
of one sausage per day. Alas, they are good
sausages but I guess I won't buy them anymore.

jmcquown wrote:
> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother
> said she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made
> potato soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine
> crackers.
>
> You?
>
> Jill
Eldest granddaughter and her SO came to visit today. I smoked a ham,
prepared fried potatoes, vegetarian beans, home made Polish rye bread,
and a nice pear cobbler with grated ginger and lime zest. They enjoyed
the meal as did we and they went home to Texas about 6:30 pm. Now we're
resting. Kids are twenty-one but they're still kids to us old fogies. We
still love them though. <VBG>

PS: the food was what they wanted, I usually don't go to that much
trouble on the weekend.

In article >,
"jmcquown" > wrote:

> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>
> You?
>
> Jill

Lentils and veggies with a lot of curry and caradamom and other spices.
Probably throw a handful of barley in too and that will save me making
basmati rice.

jmcquown wrote:
> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother
> said she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I
> made potato soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some
> saltine crackers.
> You?
>
> Jill

TFM® steamed up some cauliflower. I'm having leftover homemade coleslaw.

kili

"jmcquown" > wrote in
:

> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother
> said she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I
> made potato soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some
> saltine crackers.
>
> You?
>
> Jill
>
>

twas a stove top chicken-rice-canned soup thing with musgovian
vegetables (I know, I know. I'm trying to clear out my pantry and didn't
think I'd ever actually eat it as soup.). Not half bad, and actually
needed salt after I cooked it, which I didn't expect.

I made blueberry cobbler (went u-picking today!) from scratch, though,
so I figure it all evens out...

Saerah (blueberry pancakes for breakfast! and blueberry muffins for the
rest of the week...)

jmcquown wrote:
> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?

Peruano beans in the pressure-cooker with onions, cubes of the fat left
from the prosciutto, and smoked paprika. I'll make rice and put out
carrots with it.

> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother
> said she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made
> potato soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine
> crackers.

I'm so happy your mom has you.

Serene

--
"I am an agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at
the bottom of the garden." -- Richard Dawkins

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
. ..
> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>
> You?
>


I dunno, maybe some nice Thai noodles in peanut (butter) sauce. Or maybe
some nice satay with peanut (butter) dipping sauce.

Paul

"Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
...
>
> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> . ..
>> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>>
>> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
>> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
>> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>>
>> You?
>>
>
>
> I dunno, maybe some nice Thai noodles in peanut (butter) sauce. Or maybe
> some nice satay with peanut (butter) dipping sauce.


I'm thinking a nice stir fried Thai broccoli with peanut butter sauce would
be great too. Or perhaps even this:

http://diy-thai-food-recipes.blogspo...rs-recipe.html

Hey, I'm rich - I can afford peanut butter - the most expensive ingredient
you will find in a Thai market according to "some."

Paul

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
. ..
> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>

Boneless pork chops roasted in the oven with pears, onions, garlic, carrots,
and onions (I know some think they aren't chops without the bone, but i'll
call em what the store called em)
Sauteed green beans, Sugar Snap Peas
Waldorf Salad
Glass of Chardonnay

Debbie

Jill wrote:

> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?

"Caldo Linda de Lengua"

Bob

jmcquown wrote:

> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother
> said
> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made
> potato
> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>
> You?

We had grilled chicken satay with peanut sauce (which was made from
scratch by DH - yum) and a salad... We decided to give the 'boerewors'
(spicy sausage) a miss.
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Egg tastes better when it's not on your face...

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:07:38 -0700, Serene Vannoy
> wrote:


>Peruano beans in the pressure-cooker with onions, cubes of the fat left
>from the prosciutto, and smoked paprika. I'll make rice and put out
>carrots with it.

How are those beans? They are sold in bulk at the huge Mexican market
here.. I have never tried them, but have thought about getting
some...

Christine

Christine Dabney wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:07:38 -0700, Serene Vannoy
> > wrote:
>
>
>>Peruano beans in the pressure-cooker with onions, cubes of the fat left
>>from the prosciutto, and smoked paprika. I'll make rice and put out
>>carrots with it.
>
> How are those beans? They are sold in bulk at the huge Mexican market
> here.. I have never tried them, but have thought about getting
> some...

I went to this page from Google, looking up peruano beans.

http://www.purcellmountainfarms.com/Peruano%20Beans.htm

Scroll down...

....Good grief! This planet does NOT NEED that many different kinds of
beans!



--
Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org
Need a new news feed? http://blinkynet.net/comp/newfeed.html

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
. ..
> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>
> You?
>
> Jill

Today it was a Bertolli bag o' food in the electric skillet. It wasn't
particularly good. Tomorrow we're having real food. I found the box the
crock pot is in and I have a nice chuck roast, some red potatoes, a bag of
baby carrots and an onion. I'll throw it all in the crock pot in the
morning and work on getting more of this junk unpacked.

I hate moving.

Ms P

jmcquown wrote:

> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?

Preseason football tonight, so we stopped for pizza afterwards.




Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

Serene Vannoy wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Peruano beans in the pressure-cooker with onions, cubes of the fat
> left from the prosciutto, and smoked paprika. I'll make rice and put
> out carrots with it.
>
>> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother
>> said she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I
>> made potato soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some
>> saltine crackers.
>
> I'm so happy your mom has you.
>
> Serene

Thanks, Serene The soup was very good and we both enjoyed it. Your
beans sound good. And I'll be making your lentil soup very soon.

Jill

jmcquown wrote:

> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>
> You?


It was a warm and muggy day in Chicawgo...

I actually used the crockpot for the first time since Spring. I made a
pork - vegetable curry with some pork and frozen veg from the freezer and
some fresh veg, e.g, eggplant, bell pepper, basil, etc. It's very good, not
too shabby...I used a can of Maesri red curry paste in this.


--
Best
Greg

In article >,
"jmcquown" > wrote:

> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>
> You?

Just about to make Thai green curry fish for dinner.

Miche

--
Electricians do it in three phases

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
. ..
> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>
> You?
>
> Jill

Stir fry tonight. Chicken, with snap peas, water chestnuts, carrots,
broccoli, and asparagus tips. Brown rice. Volcanic orange juice mixed with
ginger ale for beverage. Yummy stuff

kimberly
--
http://eating-sandiego.blogspot.com/
http://www.revver.com/video/1100047/patriot-pilot/#

"jmcquown" > ha scritto nel messaggio
. ..
> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>
> You?
>
> Jill

This morning it is tomato sauce made from 5 pounds of extra tomatoes from
the garden. It's cooling there preparatory to being frozen in 2 cup sacks.
It's good, too. I wish I felt like
eating something with that on top.
--
http://www.judithgreenwood.com/thinkonit/

On 2008-08-24, Paul M. Cook > wrote:

>> I dunno, maybe some nice Thai noodles in peanut (butter) sauce.

Give it a rest, Paul. Your starting to come off like some petulent 6 yr
old.

nb

On 2008-08-24, Nina > wrote:

> Very weird bisque recipe that needed rescuing, but turned out tasting
> good anyway.

Did it include rice as a thickener?

nb

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:19:08 -0400, "jmcquown" >
wrote:

>or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
>Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
>she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
>soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>
>You?
>
>Jill


I have a cake in the oven, the Buttercake Bakery's Marble Cake, the
recipe for which I have tweaked and played with to turn it into the
latest family favorite.

Next up is Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies, as interpreted by
the NYT and then re-interpreted by me (have you figured out that I
have this habit of never using a recipe without leaving my own stamp
on it?).

Ribs for dinner tonight. Two fine slabs sitting in the kitchen and
they'll hit the grill later. Four-bean salad has to be made, too.

Boron

Baked fresh Haddock, steamed asparagus, and a salad of Romaine tossed
with Poppy seed dressing, fresh strawberry slices, blackberries from my
garden, fresh mozzarella chunks and pecans.

Denise

Some left over roast veg which im planning to serve with wile rice and salad. Its a lazy Sunday:-)

jmcquown > wrote:

> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?

I again bought some tripe (rumen, blanket tripe) and made a very thick
soup in a pressure cooker, improvising as I went along. The result is a
fusion thing, mainly owing to the addition of Thai red curry paste and
nam pla. Amounts are approximate.

Sopa de mondongo a mi manera

2 medium onions, roughly chopped
4 celery sticks, finely chopped
2 medium carrots, finely chopped
1 celery root (celeriac), finely chopped
1 leek, thinly sliced
3 tablespoons sunflower oil
about 1 kg (2.2 pounds) blanket tripe, cut into 1-inch squares
250 ml (1 cup) dry white wine
400 mg (0.9 pound, a standard small can) tomato passata
5 garlic cloves, chopped
3 dried piquin peppers, crushed
powdered cayenne pepper
dried oregano
dried cumin
dried marjoram
3 fresh bay leaves
1 tablespoon Thai red curry paste
a splash of nam pla (Thai fish sauce)
mixed beef-and-chicken broth
salt and freshly ground black pepper

Heat the olive oil in the open pressure cooker and put in the chopped
onion, carrot and celery, and slowly fry them. Add the tripe and fry it
over high heat until it sheds its water - there will be a lot - and the
water evaporates. Pour in the wine, deglazing the pot, and let it
evaporate for the most part. Add the tomato passata, garlic, piquin
peppers, cayenne, oregano, cumin, and bay leaves. Pour in the stock.
Add salt and pepper and mix well. Bring up to pressure over high heat,
reduce heat to as low as possible to maintain the pressure and cook for
40 minutes. Let the pressure get released naturally, about 10 minutes.

Victor

"notbob" > wrote in message
...
> On 2008-08-24, Paul M. Cook > wrote:
>
>>> I dunno, maybe some nice Thai noodles in peanut (butter) sauce.
>
> Give it a rest, Paul. Your starting to come off like some petulent 6 yr
> old.

For all you know I am a petulant 6 year old. I'd feel shame if I started
these things.

Paul

In article >,
"jmcquown" > wrote:

> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>
> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>
> You?
>
> Jill

Leftovers.
Menu choices:

Nancy's Hungarian Short Ribs
Holubky
Sweet Sour Ribs
Sweet Corn Cut From Last Night's Corn-On-The-Cob
White Rice
Green Beans
Graduation Beans

Pick what you want, put it on a plate, nuke to heat, eat.

--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.mac.com/barbschaller, blahblahblog is back and
most recently updated last night, 8-17-2008. Fair entries are DONE!

In article >,
Boron Elgar > wrote:

> I have a cake in the oven, the Buttercake Bakery's Marble Cake, the
> recipe for which I have tweaked and played with to turn it into the
> latest family favorite.
>
> Next up is Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies, as interpreted by
> the NYT and then re-interpreted by me (have you figured out that I
> have this habit of never using a recipe without leaving my own stamp
> on it?).
>
> Ribs for dinner tonight. Two fine slabs sitting in the kitchen and
> they'll hit the grill later. Four-bean salad has to be made, too.
>
> Boron

The ribs sound wonderful! What'd you do to the marble cake?

--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.mac.com/barbschaller, blahblahblog is back and
most recently updated last night, 8-17-2008. Fair entries are DONE!

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:44:10 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>In article >,
> Boron Elgar > wrote:
>
>> I have a cake in the oven, the Buttercake Bakery's Marble Cake, the
>> recipe for which I have tweaked and played with to turn it into the
>> latest family favorite.
>>
>> Next up is Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies, as interpreted by
>> the NYT and then re-interpreted by me (have you figured out that I
>> have this habit of never using a recipe without leaving my own stamp
>> on it?).
>>
>> Ribs for dinner tonight. Two fine slabs sitting in the kitchen and
>> they'll hit the grill later. Four-bean salad has to be made, too.
>>
>> Boron
>
>The ribs sound wonderful! What'd you do to the marble cake?


I used whole buttermilk instead of milk - about 1-1/4 cups - and extra
large eggs. I think that made it more moist. Oh, and pecans.

I experimented too much today, though, and the chocolate part was
mixed with too much of the batter. It wound up looking more like a
chocolate cake this time. Tastes great, though.

And I really need a new bundt pan.

Boron

Melba's Jammin' > wrote in news:barbschaller-
:

> Pick what you want, put it on a plate, nuke to heat, eat.
>
>

I don't see any beets?

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

In article >,
Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
> Leftovers.
> Menu choices:
>
> Nancy's Hungarian Short Ribs
> Holubky
> Sweet Sour Ribs
> Sweet Corn Cut From Last Night's Corn-On-The-Cob
> White Rice
> Green Beans
> Graduation Beans
>
> Pick what you want, put it on a plate, nuke to heat, eat.

Of those offerings, I had the short ribs with rice and picked at the
cold corn; Rob had a holubka with some of the accompanying kraut and
cabbage. And some of the bean mixture.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.mac.com/barbschaller, blahblahblog is back and
most recently updated last night, 8-17-2008. Fair entries are DONE!

wrote:
>Since Tuesday, I've been following a strict
>anti-gout diet. Apparently, those chicken
>sausages I've been eating put me very close
>to the gout threshold, and something triggered
>it on Wednesday. Either the extra exercise
>(I doubled my use of the elliptical trainer
>on Monday and Tuesday), or a piece of cheese
>I ate on Tuesday, or maybe I didn't drink
>enough water.

I have gout too and haven't had an attack in six months since finding
the right balance of Alopurinol and Culchasene. Have you tried those
medications yet? What about black cherry extract with your copious
amounts of water?

>It was never a severe case. I only needed
>one Advil on Thursday, and I didn't need one
>on Friday but I took it anyway.

After my last major attack, I asked for Prednezone prescriptions for
severe situations where I can't walk.

>I had a warning sign on Wednesday, actual gout on Thursday,
>in recovery mode on Friday, and it's no longer
>painful or stiff today, but I know that I should
>wait another day or two before consuming the
>one last sausage, which will be consumed one-half
>sausage per day, rather than the previous rate
>of one sausage per day. Alas, they are good
>sausages but I guess I won't buy them anymore.

Honestly, I don't think your chicken sausages are triggering your
attacks. You might want to consult a reumatologist before depriving
yourself needlessly.

Orlando

"Orlando Enrique Fiol" > wrote
> Honestly, I don't think your chicken sausages are triggering your
> attacks. You might want to consult a reumatologist before depriving
> yourself needlessly.
>

I'm sorry that you, the OP--or anyone--has to go through this. My mother
suffered with gout from time to time and it seems terrible. You mentioned
cherry juice and this was a big help for her arthritis pain, I had not heard
of it for gout.

Is a rheumatologist someone who treats rheumatoid arthritis? I was not aware
of a link between gout and RA.

"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "jmcquown" > wrote:
>
>> or in the oven, crockpot, pressure cooker or on the grill?
>>
>> Rest assured, despite what one poster has to say about it, my mother said
>> she didn't want a cheese omelet. She said she'd love it if I made potato
>> soup. So homemade potato soup it was With some saltine crackers.
>>
>> You?
>>
>> Jill



> Sweet Corn Cut From Last Night's Corn-On-The-Cob


Creamed??????


Dimitri