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I had a private dinner at Pizzeria Bianco downtown Tucson tonight. We had the place to ourselves, and the food was all that AND a bag of chips!

That place is going to help put Downtown on the map.

That pizza remains my favorite in the world .

Sunday night I tried to make carne seca from the recipe above, although I used pablanos instead of green chilies, and used a ball tip roast since that's what I had in my freezer.



also some tomatoes from my garden:

Last night we had dinner at Stack inside The Mirage because we had friends in town. It was fantastic.

Yellow Tail Sashimi
King Crab & Jalapeno Tacos
Chilean Sea Bass with Lobster Risotto & a shellfish broth

I enjoyed it so much I kept thinking, "this will be my first post in the dinner thread"...haha

Leftover chicken over the sink.

Merk, that makes my mouth water and I want to eat it all for breakfast.

Longhorned wrote:Merk, that makes my mouth water and I want to eat it all for breakfast.

Merk, looks tasty in the photo. How was it?


Oh, pb&j with bbq chips last night. That's all I had in me.

I bought some obscure ocean fish called Dab, which doesn't sound appetizing, so at least my expectations are in check. I'm going to broil it with olive oil, lemon, pancetta, pine nuts, and kalamata olives. A variation of a Jamie Oliver recipe: http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fish ... -style-dab

Eating Dab is good for the environment. Leave it to the virtues of the UCLA fans.

Grilled cheese tonight.

azgreg wrote:Grilled cheese tonight.

A classic that I have been eating more often lately. Love a good grilled cheese

There are some things that are as good as a grilled cheese sandwich, but few things better than a grilled cheese sandwich.

Longhorned wrote:There are some things that are as good as a grilled cheese sandwich, but few things better than a grilled cheese sandwich.

On a cold day with tomato soup...mmmmm.........

Grilled cheese sandwich with cream of tomato soup is one of the great triumphs of humanity.

Yes it is.

I hate tomato soup.

I also vote for the tomato soup grilled cheese combo.

Not this:

https://www.minds.com/blog/view/3427934 ... omach-acid

WATCH What Happens When You Dunk a McDonald’s Cheeseburger in Stomach Acid

[youtube]NddZ5ftQb0Q[/youtube]

Growing up in the upper midwest there was no better comfort food during winter than grilled cheese and tomato soup.

BearDown89 wrote:

Longhorned wrote:Merk, that makes my mouth water and I want to eat it all for breakfast.

Merk, looks tasty in the photo. How was it?

It was very good, truly. It was a little 'wetter' than I thought it was going to be, so therefore not very authentic but everyone loved it.

Last night my son asked me to make quesadillas with the leftovers.

UAdevil wrote:Not this:

https://www.minds.com/blog/view/3427934 ... omach-acid

WATCH What Happens When You Dunk a McDonald’s Cheeseburger in Stomach Acid

[youtube]NddZ5ftQb0Q[/youtube]

Looks normal to me. Isn't your stomach supposed to turn food into poop?

Merk, those quesadillas look fantastic.

Boom!

I want those 'dillas right now. lol.

I want those 'dillas right now,
I want those 'dillas with a cow,
I'd eat those 'dillas upside-down,
I'd eat those 'dillas with a clown.

Merkin wrote:Growing up in the upper midwest there was no better comfort food during winter than grilled cheese and tomato soup.

BearDown89 wrote:

Longhorned wrote:Merk, that makes my mouth water and I want to eat it all for breakfast.

Merk, looks tasty in the photo. How was it?

It was very good, truly. It was a little 'wetter' than I thought it was going to be, so therefore not very authentic but everyone loved it.

Last night my son asked me to make quesadillas with the leftovers.

Funny, I made quesadillas with the leftover London Broil from the grill the other night.

As to the Carne Seca, excellent! I think you just dry it out further in the pan by reducing the liquids down. I notice that the moisture content can vary from restaurant to restaurant. When I make some sort of shredded Mexican protein in the crock pot, I usually toss some leftovers in the frying pan and dry it out for a carne seca-ish variation.

I always give up on any place that serves me a burrito that, when I hold it up to my mouth to take a bite, it starts dripping out the other end and makes a pond on the plate.

Had chicken with a homemade mango/lime/jalapeno/honey salsa on a bed of chimichurri rice. Delicious.

Speaking of delish...Anyone go to Blanco? Most amazing corn dish Ive ever had:

“ESQUITES GRILLED MEXICAN STREET CORN - Cilantro, Lime, Onions, Cotija Cheese $3"

$1.50 during happy hour

I'm going to get some soul food take-out tonight. I'll be proud to report back.

I'm thinking along the lines of fried okra, collard greens, mac and cheese, fried chicken, black-eyed peas. That kind of thing.

fried chicken (thighs and legs)
wings
cole slaw
mac & cheese
fried okra
greens with smoked turkey

Just going to snack out of the fridge tonight.

I'm just so proud, I'm gonna post a link to the place I got this amazing take-out from:

http://theseaboat.com/Home/tabid/117/la ... fault.aspx

I hate diets...

I did make some great sliders on the grill tonight...

Too lazy tonight to cook for real...egg salad sammich over the sink watching tv. You can tell the gf wasn't around this evening

scumdevils86 wrote:Too lazy tonight to cook for real...egg salad sammich over the sink watching tv. You can tell the gf wasn't around this evening

What is it with this whole eating over the sink thing? Isn't it just as easy to put it on a plate and sit on the sofa and eat in comfort?

Seriously, I picture the twins hunkered over the sink after a fresh kill and long day at work voraciously wolfing down whatever can be thrown together from the fridge. Ranks order comes into play if its only one sink instead of a double - Who came from the womb first?

A sink is a basin in which to store dirty pots, pans, and dishes. Eventually, all of one's dishes fill the sink and overflow onto the counter. Should one require a clean eating implement, one must rummage through the sink to find it, and then proceed to wash its contents over and onto the other dirty dishes, which fills with dirty dishwater that doesn't drain, leaving the germ-filled, fermenting accumulation to marinate. Once a month or so, a kind of inspiration will seize the inhabitant, suddenly causing the inhabitant to clean and dry all of the dishes and put them away. He may even wipe down the counters almost half-way at this point. And then the accumulation begins again. With neither a functioning sink, nor any readily usable pots and pans, cooking becomes too ponderous a task to begin, leading the inhabitant to simply remove items from the refrigerator and consume them while hovering over the marinating accumulation and dropping their crumbs and drippings into it.

CalStateTempe wrote:I did make some great sliders on the grill tonight...

Just food semantics, but I don't consider mini-hamburgers to be sliders.


I prefer the White Castle type of hamburgers as sliders:

http://www.thedailymeal.com/how-make-yo ... -slideshow

Merkin wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:I did make some great sliders on the grill tonight...

Just food semantics, but I don't consider mini-hamburgers to be sliders.


I prefer the White Castle type of hamburgers as sliders:

http://www.thedailymeal.com/how-make-yo ... -slideshow

Good point. Mine were more of a gastropub mini-hamburger.

Tonight, peanut butter and jelly sandwich for sure. With grape jelly. The classic. For me, that or plum. Or strawberry if I'm slumming it.

My wife will eat a peanut butter and lingonberry jam sandwich. That's basically cranberry sauce. All kinds of wrong. Even makes me a little mad.

Longhorned wrote:Tonight, peanut butter and jelly sandwich for sure. With grape jelly. The classic. For me, that or plum. Or strawberry if I'm slumming it.

My wife will eat a peanut butter and lingonberry jam sandwich. That's basically cranberry sauce. All kinds of wrong. Even makes me a little mad.

I did the classic pb and grape a couple of nights ago. The only little kid jelly we had. Tasted like I was 7 again.

CalStateTempe wrote:Seriously, I picture the twins hunkered over the sink after a fresh kill and long day at work voraciously wolfing down whatever can be thrown together from the fridge. Ranks order comes into play if its only one sink instead of a double - Who came from the womb first?

Lmao that's good. I've been really good about meal planning and shopping on Sundays lately so I've been cooking 5/6 nights a week. But truly I do end up at home alone a couple times a month without the twin or gf around and end up eating a sammich or leftovers over the sink.

What do you think of a restaurant with sinks instead of tables?

I could not enjoy a quality, well planned meal over a sink

Ok but I'm thinking more like a restaurant serving cold meatloaf and leftover mexican food and stuff.

Longhorned wrote:What do you think of a restaurant with sinks instead of tables?

No that, but we did have an idea about a restaurant called "Mom's". All the tables are TV trays with lounge chairs all facing a giant screen TV. The hostess would be an older woman in a long flower print dress with an apron and her silver hair up in buns.

azgreg wrote:

Longhorned wrote:What do you think of a restaurant with sinks instead of tables?

No that, but we did have an idea about a restaurant called "Mom's". All the tables are TV trays with lounge chairs all facing a giant screen TV. The hostess would be an older woman in a long flower print dress with an apron and her silver hair up in buns.

"What's this?"

"What's what, honey?"

"This. On the ice cream."

"What? You don't like freezer-made protective coating?"

Too f'ing hot to cook.

Bread, cheeses, tomatoes, olives, prosciutto, white wine, pears.

Unfortunately, this simple little dinner for two set me back $79 plus tax. After all, those tomatoes -- which are made out of water -- cost a man $5 each.

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Bread: baguette ($4)

Cheese: some pretty amazing local cheese that's as stinky and gooey as a nice epoisses ($14), and a regional age cheddar from Iowa ($6). The quantities are so small that some would argue that they don't exist.

Tomatoes: locally-grown heirloom ($10 for two tomatoes)

Olives: "estate kalamatas", castelvaltrano, Mt. Pelion blonde ($15)

Prosciutto: La Quercia - my favoite ($9)

White wine: 2013 Vermentino Toscano ($16)

Pears: two Asian pears ($6)

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I can't afford this. It would be much cheaper to let the air conditioner battle against my oven cooking meatloaf.

Now that I'm done for, what's a Mamwich?

We had Manwichs last night made with ground turkey.

Going to Joe's Seafood on Saturday in Vegas. One of the better restaurants in Vegas and a awesome location in the Forum Shops. Cannot wait!

http://www.joes.net/?loc=vegas