What Are You Going to Have for Dinner Tonight? Showing 2,051-2,100 of 3,757

[Félix]

That's like the molten chocolate cake at Chili's.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

German chocolate bombe.

[Félix]

I could eat that.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Chocolate, ginger and praline bombe.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

[Félix]

I'll pass.

[Sally, la reina]

I'll eat his portion.

[Phil]

I had BBQ pork at the county fair. Then we watched sorting, and took my son and his friend to the carnival rides. Ah, the county fair. You get in for free, but you never get out for less than $50.

[Félix]

Sorting?

[Phil]

Two cowboys on horses enter a ring with 11 cows. Ten of the cows are wearing numbers (0-9), the last is called the "spoiler."

A number is given by the caller, and the cowboys must sort (cut) that cow from the group & maneuver it through to another pen. They must then do the same for the remaining cows in numerical order.

If a cow gets through the gate when it's not time for that number, or if the spoiler gets through, the cowboys are DQ'd for that round.

It's a lot of fun to watch.

[Félix]

Like playing nine ball. No, not really. Lots of riding skill required for that.

[Jim]

There's a lot of riding skills required for nine ball? I thought that just took good stick work.

[Félix]

I've got your stick work.

[Sally, la reina]

::watches::

[Félix]

I've got your watches.

[Sally, la reina]

Close that trench coat!


::runs away::

[Phil]

I've got your runs right here.



No, wait a minute. That came out wrong.


Aargh! That was wrong, too. So wrong.


::waits for Felarry to post a sarong::

[Sally, la reina]

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

[Félix]

That sa wrong one.

[evie]

We're having pizza .

[[deleted user]]

Nuthin!

(My five bosses are taking me out to lunch for my birthday. I never want dinner when they do that.)

[Phil]

Happy birthday!

[Jim]

Hope you have a great birthday.

[[deleted user]]

Thanks, it's tomorrow, but I'm going out for dinner then so I opted for lunch today. :) I like to spread it out; my birthday usually lasts at least a week!

[Emily]

I'm going to make home-made pizza, using pita bread as a base. Yum!

[Emily]

I'm going to start by freshly shucking some Tasmanian oysters and opening a bottle of pinot grigio. I'm hoping it will help me ignore my new mullet-do...

[evie]

We had marguerita pizza on a gluten free base . It was thin and crispy with about half the KJ of the regular pizza base.

[Cynthia]

Kahlua pork, cooked in an Emu pit.

[evie]

What's an Emu pit?

[Félix]

Emus have pits?

[Cynthia]

It's a hole in the ground lined with rocks, typically volcanic.
You build a fire in the pit, heating the rocks. When the rocks are good and hot, you wrap your gutted, shaved pig (skin on) with about 1,000 banana leaves. Also you place a hot rock or two inside the gutted pig. once you have placed the pig in the pit, you add more banana leaves and cover that with a lid of moistened burlap. coffee bags work well.

On top of the wet burlap and hot rocks you place dirt.

You monitor the pig's cooking temp with a thermometer placed in the pig's thigh, using a digital hand-held thing that tells you the temperature of the meat. Right now, the pig is hovering at 190 degrees.

[Félix]

Are you in Hawaii?

[evie]

Cynthia wrote: "It's a hole in the ground lined with rocks, typically volcanic.
You build a fire in the pit, heating the rocks.
You monitor the pig's cooking temp with a thermometer placed in the pig's thigh, using a digital hand-held thing that tells you the temperature of the meat. Right now, the pig is hovering at 190 degrees.

It must take quite a few hours for the pig to cook.
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[Cynthia]

Félix wrote: "Are you in Hawaii?"

Nope, Ames Iowa. Pig was great.

[Cynthia]

evie wrote: "Cynthia wrote: "It's a hole in the ground lined with rocks, typically volcanic.
You build a fire in the pit, heating the rocks.
You monitor the pig's cooking temp with a thermometer placed in the..."

This year the pig took from 5 p.m. Friday to about 4 p.m. Saturday, a bit longer than usual. We had some nice cool weather and an overcast sky, served about 150 people, a great day.

[Emily]

Impressive feat!

[Félix]

Feat or feet? I don't care for the feet, myself.

[Cynthia]

Nope Felarry, we did not serve the piggie's feet. Some of the customers at the local international market use the pig's head for soup. We did not do this either.

[evie]

My mother used to cook pig head and make this disgusting cold meat thing called Braun.
I remember lifting the lid on the big pot on the stove and seeing the head bubbling away.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

My mother never did that. About the fanciest thing she ever cooked from scratch was beef stroganoff. And when I say "from scratch," I mean she used the McCormick flavoring envelope.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Subway BLT.

[Phil]

evie wrote: "We had marguerita pizza on a gluten free base . It was thin and crispy with about half the KJ of the regular pizza base."

What is a KJ?

[evie]

Phil wrote: "evie wrote: "We had marguerita pizza on a gluten free base . It was thin and crispy with about half the KJ of the regular pizza base."

What is a KJ?"

Kilojoule.

[Phil]

I know what a joule is, so by definition I know what a kilojoule is. I'm assuming the meaning here is what we Yanks call "calories." And a pizza crust with half the calories is a win!

[evie]

Yes.

[[deleted user]]

I think I'm just going to feed the boy leftover stew from yesterday.

[[deleted user]]

It's homemade; it was good...

[Riona]

I have some braciole simmering in red wine and tomato sauce on the stove. I threw some spinach and artichoke hearts in there too. Hope it's good!


UPDATE: It was good. I could have done with a little less wine and some more red pepper flakes, though.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Angel hair pasta in butter, garlic, and chopped tomato.