August - What is for Dinner

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Popeye's is a weekly STAPLE at my place, Cookie! LOVE me some Popeye's!

Tonight I tossed a huge portion of Fusili Pesto w/ Chicken & Sausage w/ a bag of fresh baby spinach and got enuf for two meals- supper at home, and my midnight meal at work. Yummy!

[jglass]

Yesterday I roasted a chicken and made some mashed potatoes and gravy.
Today I smoked chicken wing drummets. I like to take the smoked wings and roll them in some seasoned flour and pop them in some hot oil so I can get a crust on them. Then I dip then in a mixture of my fav bbq sauce and honey. I laid fresh rosemary and garlic cloves underneath the wings on the smoker rack ...it smells so good!

[cookie]

PIZZA- Saturday's Dinner! Cookie

[chubbyalaskagriz]

I had a dairy-farmer friend (I went to school w/ he and his wife) over for supper tonight. He was intrigued by my Alaska years and wanted to hear stories, so of course I decided to go w/ an Alaskan menu- but also wanted to show adherance to his dairy prefrences as well, so I used lotsa milk/cream and cheese... We started w/ a mini wheel of brie, a wedge of cheddar, some proscuitto, crackers & cranberry relish. The entree was salmon/spinach pie w/ sides of chilled dilled string beans & grape 'maters, caramel apple salad, and dessert was blackberry coffeecake w/ whipped cream. He seemed to love it all so I packed him up w/ a huge Tupperware of leftovers... his wife is out of town so it'll be perfect for him for tomorrow!

[Keziah]

I really like the sound of the blackberry cake. Can you post the recipe and please can you post a detailed recipe on fried green tomatoes. I've never had them.

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Sure, Keziah!

Blackberry Sour-Cream Coffee Cake

1 stick butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup sour cream
2 cups sifted unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup blackberries or huckleberries

Topping:
1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup firmly packaged light brown sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon

Cooking Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8-inch square baking pan.

In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar at high speed until pale and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Add the sour cream, beating until smooth. Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda and add to the egg mixture. Add the vanilla and blend thoroughly. Fold in the blackberries.

In a small bowl, combine the ingredients for the topping. Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan and sprinkle with half of the topping mixture. Add the remaining batter and sprinkle with the reaminder to the topping mixture. Bake approximately 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Fried Green Tomatoes

4 large green tomatoes
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup bread crumbs
2 teaspoons coarse kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 quart vegetable oil for frying

Slice tomatoes 1/2 inch thick. Discard the ends.
Whisk eggs and milk together in a medium-size bowl. Scoop flour onto a plate. Mix cornmeal, bread crumbs and salt and pepper on another plate. Dip tomatoes into flour to coat. Then dip the tomatoes into milk and egg mixture. Dredge in breadcrumbs to completely coat.

In a large skillet, pour vegetable oil (enough so that there is 1/2 inch of oil in the pan) and heat over a medium heat. Place tomatoes into the frying pan in batches of 4 or 5, depending on the size of your skillet. Do not crowd the tomatoes, they should not touch each other. When the tomatoes are browned, flip and fry them on the other side. Drain them on paper towels.

[Keziah]

chubbyalaskagriz
Thank you for the recipes. I have seen fried green tomatoes on loads of programmes and always wanted to try them.

and thanks Cook Chatty Cathy. I had forgotten about looking ebay.

[cookie]

We had oven chicken with teriake sauce with mashed potatoes and a Cesar salad, we ate outside on the deck. It was such a nice day today, went to a Farmers Market today bought sweet green peppers, corn, green beans, tomatoes, zucchini and a cucumber. I made the corn already for tomato's dinner, I'm making beef taco's with onion and sweet peppers, salsa w/ sour cream & grated cheddar cheese. Cookie

[jglass]

I made burrito casserole earlier today.
I also made us a pizza with fresh mozerella, parm and pepperoni. I made the crust from scratch. It was yummy.
I also made sugar cookies.

[Keziah]

Today

Lamb Rogan Josh
Cucumber, yoghurt and mint dip
Naan
Boiled rice.

Either
Vanilla Ice cream or blackberry yoghurt (to take the sting out afterwards)