What's for Dinner?

[KartRacerBoy]

I've been unemployed for over a year so I've taken up the task of stay at home day. As part of that, I have learned to cook. Luckily, my wife already has a library of 100 cookbooks. So I have a lot to look at and learn from.

Tonight I'm making a marinated pork loin. Marinaid is a lemon, dijon, olive oil blend with various spices. I'm also making chiive risito cakes fried in olive oil and a simple veggie.

I try to make two or three interesting dinners a week since many of the cookbook recipes I like can cost $20/dinner or more. I have no skills yet for looking in the fridge and concocting something on a whim. I try on occasion but my wife is far better at that skill

What are you folks having for dinner?

[SassyLady]

Grilled petite fillet and veggies.

[Gunny]

I've been unemployed for over a year so I've taken up the task of stay at home day. As part of that, I have learned to cook. Luckily, my wife already has a library of 100 cookbooks. So I have a lot to look at and learn from.

Tonight I'm making a marinated pork loin. Marinaid is a lemon, dijon, olive oil blend with various spices. I'm also making chiive risito cakes fried in olive oil and a simple veggie.

I try to make two or three interesting dinners a week since many of the cookbook recipes I like can cost $20/dinner or more. I have no skills yet for looking in the fridge and concocting something on a whim. I try on occasion but my wife is far better at that skill

What are you folks having for dinner?

Join the club. Ain't Obamanomics great?

In honor of the Al Gore thread, we're doing dead cow here. Oh, and I was a professional cook before I joined the Marines so I have no problem there.

[ConHog]

Join the club. Ain't Obamanomics great?

In honor of the Al Gore thread, we're doing dead cow here. Oh, and I was a professional cook before I joined the Marines so I have no problem there.

I LOVE to cook. And have a bit of a talent for it. I don't know that I could make a living doing it, but I love to cook for my family. We had BBQ hamburgers tonight.

[KartRacerBoy]

If you girls want to have a pissing match, get the fuck outta my dinner thread. Christ, can't one thread on this damn forum be half way civil? And mods, delete the pissy posts, please.

Just finished dinner and the chive risotto fried cakes were awesome. First time we tried them, out of the Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics cookbook. If we didn't have my daughter's friend here, I think my wife would agree to pull a George Constanza (Seinfeld) and have sex with me while eating the risotto cakes. Alas, the visitors have put off that experiement!

And the marinated herb pork loin comes from that cookbook, too. Delicious. My mother in law has made pork loin so many times that was as dry as dirt. She tends to overcook things. The marinade really makes the meat moist and delicious. I wish mom in law would learn.

[Gunny]

If you girls want to have a pissing match, get the fuck outta my dinner thread. Christ, can't one thread on this damn forum be half way civil? And mods, delete the pissy posts, please.

Just finished dinner and the chive risotto fried cakes were awesome. First time we tried them, out of the Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics cookbook. If we didn't have my daughter's friend here, I think my wife would agree to pull a George Constanza (Seinfeld) and have sex with me while eating the risotto cakes. Alas, the visitors have put off that experiement!

And the marinated herb pork loin comes from that cookbook, too. Delicious. My mother in law has made pork loin so many times that was as dry as dirt. She tends to overcook things. The marinade really makes the meat moist and delicious. I wish mom in law would learn.

I've only had one or two good pork loins. Most are as you say, dry as dirt. The best one I can recall I of coursed cooked. It was marinaded in BBQ sauce overnight then smoked for 5 hours the next day.

[Missileman]

I've only had one or two good pork loins. Most are as you say, dry as dirt. The best one I can recall I of coursed cooked. It was marinaded in BBQ sauce overnight then smoked for 5 hours the next day.

Pour some teriyaki glaze over the pork loin and throw it in the oven in a covered roaster. The juiciest, most tender pork loin awaits you.

[Gunny]

Pour some teriyaki glaze over the pork loin and throw it in the oven in a covered roaster. The juiciest, most tender pork loin awaits you.

I'll give it a shot sometime. Can't do worse than to date.

[Gaffer]

If you girls want to have a pissing match, get the fuck outta my dinner thread. Christ, can't one thread on this damn forum be half way civil? And mods, delete the pissy posts, please.

Just finished dinner and the chive risotto fried cakes were awesome. First time we tried them, out of the Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics cookbook. If we didn't have my daughter's friend here, I think my wife would agree to pull a George Constanza (Seinfeld) and have sex with me while eating the risotto cakes. Alas, the visitors have put off that experiement!

And the marinated herb pork loin comes from that cookbook, too. Delicious. My mother in law has made pork loin so many times that was as dry as dirt. She tends to overcook things. The marinade really makes the meat moist and delicious. I wish mom in law would learn.

I think I have figured out where that extra 40 pounds your carrying comes from.

[Gunny]

I think I have figured out where that extra 40 pounds your carrying comes from.

Was thinking the same thing.

[ConHog]

Was thinking the same thing.

that makes three of us. Hell I run 5 miles a day and swim, and I don't eat fried foods that often.

[Noir]

Simple but delicious; Potato, leek, and onion soup -



(:

[Noir]

Cheap, quick, simple, and nomy ^,^

Butternut Squash Risotto, with peppers, sweetcorn, baby tomatoes, onion, garlic, red wine, and oregano.


Instructions -

• Pan-fry half a finely cut onion and 2 cloves of garlic in a teaspoon of vegetable oil, until onion translucent (3/4 mins)
• Add 250grams of Risotto rice and stir for a minute.
• Boil 600ml of water and add vegetable stock cube, then add stock water to pan.
• Let cook on a medium heat, stirring occasionally, until most of the water is absorbed. (about 10 minutes)
• Add a chopped pepper, half a dozen baby toms, 200 grams of sweetcorn, and 300ml of boiling water. Let cook with occasional stiring on a medium heat until squash is tender (about 15 mins) add more water if necessary.
• Add splash of wine and generous pinch of oregano, stir in well while on heat for 3/4 minutes
• Serve, enjoy.
• Attempt to convince someone else to do the dishes since you cooked dinner, fail in your attempts and do them yourself.

[Roo]

Tacos and Margaritas

[Wild Duck]

Grilled some burgers tonight. Wife made potato salad.