What Are You Eating Tonight?

[Ollie 1,375]

I made a stew in the crockpot.

1 can of kidney beans

1 can black beans

4 cans of ranch style beans

fresh stew meat, 2 lbs

2 large potatoes, diced

Green onions, diced

2 fresh tomatoes, diced

1/2 cup barbecue sauce

1/2 cup of water

salt and pepper to taste and let cook for 6 to 8 hours.

You could also add cilantro, maybe a small Jalepeno pepper, diced, or a 1/4 cup of Italian dressing.

[Wojo 2,458]

That sounds very good! I think I'll try it this week as I have most of the ingredients and a great crock pot I've used four times.

[Jay 46,244]

Crock pots are awesome, I try to use mine weekly outside of the summer

[JoeinAR 1,957]

I never use mine. probably should.

tonight I'm making homemade fried rice and eggrolls. I will make a large amount of fried rice for left overs.

I promised a couple of my coworkers I will make them some eggrolls too.

So tomorrow I'll run to the house at lunch time, fry them up and bring some fresh eggrolls back.

[Wojo 2,458]

How you make egg roll? Push it!

[Jay 46,244]

Marcy made naan last night. Holy. Shit., it was amazing

Tonight I'm making chinese stir fry

[Brónach 1,330]

I don't know what to cook tonight. I'll invent something.

[Wojo 2,458]

I've got a chicken breast thawing in the fridge. I'll probably pair it with a Velveeta box of something.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

How you make egg roll? Push it!

easy Wojo

1 package eggroll wrappers, or spring roll wrappers (novices need to avoid spring roll wrappers)

Oil to fry and stirfry

1lb package shredded cabbage

1 small carrot shredded

1 package cooked salad shrimp

2 eggs srambled and cooked omlet style then shredded.

1/2 pound ground pork

Sesame oil

Soy Sauce

garlic powder

ginger powder.

I use my wok, or big skillet, heat a couple of tablespoons of oil and a couple of dashes of sesame oil, as it's heatting sprinkle in some garlic powder and ginger powder till fragrant. Add shredded cabbage and carrots. I use a silicone spatula since it wont melt and keep tossing the veggies until they wilt, try not to scorch. Remove to a bowl, Brown ground pork too a fine crumble, a few tablespoons of milk will help the ground meat crumble. Add a tablespoon or so of soy sauce, a dash of sesame oil. If you have hoisin sauce or oyster or fish sauce a tablespoon of that is good too. I add a handful of the salad shrimp to the meat just to heat. I then mix it with the shredded cabbage. I add the shredded egg to the cabbage mix as well. If you like bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc in your eggrolls add them. It's so easy to customize to your liking.

If you prefer pork loin, bacon, all work. I used to make them with ground turkey because of my Jewish friend wouldn't eat pork.

Then I take the eggroll wrappers and add a couple of tablespoons of the mix and fold as shown on the directions of the package. I use a mix of water and cornstarch in a bowl to "glue" the wrapper in place. repeat until the filling is gone. I usually get about a dozen eggrolls folded up. cook what you want and freeze the rest. Cook at about 350 for 3 or 4 minutes. You'll have to roll them in the oil as they fry for even browning as one side always wants to face up.

Spring roll wrappers are wonderful, but they are a chore to properly fold.

[Ren 77]

I recently went to a freezer meal swap and having home cooked meals in the freezer ready for a slow cooker has been great!

Just this week I've had sloppy joes (premade then frozen), maple Dijon chicken, and Mac n cheese. The latter two are both basically throw ingredients in a bag and freeze it. They were wonderful.

[Jay 46,244]

Yea, slow cookers are awesome!! Preparing a bunch of stuff to freeze and slow cook on short notice later is a brilliant idea, I will have to do that!

[Brónach 1,330]

I think I'm throwing into a frying pan onion, garlic, pepper, chicken. marrow, tomato, broccoli and see what happens.

[Jay 46,244]

I made a stir fry last night that came out awesome!

1 whole red and 1 whole green bell pepper, sliced into bite-size strips (yellow would be more fun than green but there wasn't any at the market)

1/2 a white onion, chopped up

1 stalk of celery, chopped

1 handful of baby carrots, each sliced lengthwise a few times (hard to do without a nice sharp knife)

-(The recipe I was following called for edamames too, but I couldn't find any)-

1 package tofu (we used medium-firm, but any should work) sliced into strips

Cut all that up first and put it in a bowl.

Heat a skillet with a tablespoon of olive oil on medium head. Once that's bubbling, throw in all the veggies and the tofu and stir it around for about 3 minutes. Then add 2 tablespoons of lite soy souce and 3 tablespoons of lemon juice. Stir well and cook that on medium for 15 minutes, stirring often. I served it over couscous, but had intended to serve it over brown rice (however I forgot to start the brown rice ahead of time, and the couscous we have cooks in 5 minutes). Delicious!

The recipe I followed actually called for chicken instead of tofu, but we didn't have any and Marcy's a vegetarian anyway. But you could marinate that in some of the soy and lemon juice with some salt and pepper sprinkled on it for a bit then cut it up into stripes and cook it with everything else.

Super easy recipe, super delicious, fairly low in calories!

[Koray Savas 2,260]

Sounds good.

[Ren 77]

Ill post some of the "throw shit in a bag" recipes if younwant

[Brónach 1,330]

Please do, I'm lacking in imagination lately when it comes to eating.

[Wojo 2,458]

How many different ways can you really imagine to eat? See food, want food, put food in mouth.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

I'm probably the only person in the world that hated Mac and cheese as a kid and don't care for it as an adult. Yet I love cheese.

tonights meal consists of bbq buffalo chicken strips. don't know what side, maybe some baby peas. Dave will want fries too I'm sure.

[Jay 46,244]

BBQ and Buffalo together?

[Wojo 2,458]

http://americanfood.about.com/od/appetizers/r/BBQ_Wings.htm

[JoeinAR 1,957]

BBQ and Buffalo together?

yes, I made the wings last week using a bbq buffalo recipe, but this week boneless skinless chicken breast is what I got so I'm slightly modifying the recipe to make these without creating some dried out chicken.

[Jay 46,244]

Sounds incredible!

[JoeinAR 1,957]

it's finger licking good without meaning to infringe on any restaurant's advertising.

[alicebrallice 134]

made some sushi tonight:

[Brónach 1,330]

I think I'm throwing into a frying pan onion, garlic, pepper, chicken. marrow, tomato, broccoli and see what happens.

I did this, with parsley, curry, and vinegar, and it was good.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

made some sushi tonight:

Looks pretty delish, but I hope you're not one of the people that says they like sushi while they only mean cooked rolls. In other words they don't like sushi.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,388]

Looks delightful

[Ren 77]

made some sushi tonight:

Looks pretty delish, but I hope you're not one of the people that says they like sushi while they only mean cooked rolls. In other words they don't like sushi.

And what's wrong with that. No judging. Not nice.

In other words people who like burgers are lying if the eat them without a bun? Cuz in my book a burger needs a bun. Lol

For the record I like certain uncooked sushi, not all

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,388]

I've enjoyed all the types I've tried so far. Some people are scared of the concept of eating uncooked fish, but it's fine.

[alicebrallice 134]

made some sushi tonight:

Looks pretty delish, but I hope you're not one of the people that says they like sushi while they only mean cooked rolls. In other words they don't like sushi.

not at all! different types of nigiri is actually my favorite sushi, and I made some avocado and raw salmon ones but they were too ugly to be shown. also, "they don't like sushi"? that makes no sense whatsoever to me. that'd be kinda like saying to someone who only likes cappuccinos: "you don't like coffee".

And what's wrong with that. No judging. Not nice.

In other words people who like burgers are lying if the eat them without a bun? Cuz in my book a burger needs a bun. Lol

For the record I like certain uncooked sushi, not all

what is uncooked sushi? all sushi is cooked, more or less. are you talking about sashimi?

[hornist 1,261]

I think they mean raw vs. cooked stuff.

I like more raw salmon in my Magi. Cooked is too dry.

[alicebrallice 134]

indeed! love that fine, juicy raw salmon. yum.

[Brónach 1,330]

I just realized I've barely eaten sushi in my life and I understand nothing about it. Or Japanese cuisine in general.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

Sushi by definition includes raw fish. It's on a bed of rice and can be wrapped in seaweed or not. Sashimi is simply the raw fish without anything else.

[Jay 46,244]

No, sushi is the type of rice. It's not required to contain raw fish, you can put anything inside that rice and still call it sushi

[Brónach 1,330]

I'd eat that right now.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

I will not eat sushi with any raw fish or cooked. I also do not like that black stuff that it's rolled in .

I do like the stick rice and sauces. I like cooked lobster rolls, stuff with cream cheese and avocados.

as an international cuisine I put japanese food low, but above indian food.

I'd much rather have some delicious Chinese food. Jeez now I'm craving hot and sour soup and some eggplant in garlic sauce.

[alicebrallice 134]

No, sushi is the type of rice. It's not required to contain raw fish, you can put anything inside that rice and still call it sushi

exactly. by koray's definition any sushi without raw fish wouldn't be proper sushi. wrong wrong wrong! a waiter at a sushi restaurant taught me that sushi is basically the vinegared rice. with raw fish, without it... whatever! still sushi.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

and sushi actually originated in China

[Wojo 2,458]

DEFINITION:

Sushi (すし, 寿司, 鮨, 鮓, 寿斗, 寿し, 壽司?) is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice (shari) combined with other ingredients (neta), usually raw fish or other seafood. Neta and forms of sushi presentation vary, but the ingredient which all sushi have in common is vinegared rice called sushi-meshi.

The fish can be raw or smoked. I'm not sure if the sushi you'd get in a supermarket or convenience store is cooked or not, simply because it is meant to have a longer shelf life than what you'd get freshly made in the restaurant; raw fish gets funky before too long, so cooking it would make it last longer. I've seen shrimp used in nigiri sushi, and it looks and tastes cooked to me -- pink as opposed to gray. And sushi can be made using items that aren't fish, including squid, octopus, roe, clam, crab, sea urchin, and a number of vegetables. Wasabi helps kill parasites that could linger in the raw meat, but professional chefs are trained to recognize what's good and what'll make patrons sick.

I think what I like best about eating sushi is using chopsticks to dip food into the sauce made of wasabi mixed with soy sauce. It could be chicken fingers for all I care.

I like cooked lobster rolls, stuff with cream cheese and avocados

The Japanese-like items you mentioned are simply westernized versions of Japanese originals.

[alicebrallice 134]

I'd love to try sushi with smoked salmon. do you guys prefer it to raw?

I have some grave salmon in the fridge. could be interesting.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

in any internation cuisine this is always the case Wojo, the style is Japanese but the ingrediant are local.

at the local The Fresh Market, they have Asian chefs preparing sushi, the sell date is always short so they don't make just tons of the stuff. I've never bought any but I have bought the Chinese dumplings. when in Little Rock I like to shop at the 3 local Oriental Grocery stores and the Vietnamese store. You can buy whole Peking duck. All the stuff you need to make your own sushi, wood ears and black tree fungus for soup, and they have frozen dumplings much cheaper than even the big Sams and Costco's. I get my eggroll and spring roll wrappers much cheaper than the regular grocery stores. Jason mention tofu in one of his dishes, it seems like you can find 30 different kinds of tofu

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,388]

Having rice with Curry tonight....

[Brónach 1,330]

I'll try this for sure. I hope the algae arent too expensive over here. Specially since it doesn't seem to fill the stomach much.

[Wojo 2,458]

I'm visiting my very first Brazilian churrascaria tonight. Looking forward to the meal immensely. The bill...not so much.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

I'm visiting my very first Brazilian churrascaria tonight. Looking forward to the meal immensely. The bill...not so much.

Wojo there is one in memphis called Texas De Brazil that dave and I visit, not exactly with regularity, but once or twice a year.

we oriiginally went to eat for the meats, but we ended up pigging out on the salad bar as well. They had so many cheese I'd never tried before. We might have to go for our anniversary.

Have a great time.

[Wojo 2,458]

Thanks!

[JoeinAR 1,957]

oh yeah, wear your most comfortable pants....

[Wojo 2,458]

Understood. Loud and clear.

I go back on my diet tomorrow.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,388]

We might have to go for our anniversary.

How many years now?