What's for Dinner ~ Wednesday Sept 19th

[Lucinda]

[livetohike]

1. Penne with triple tomato sauce, a salad and garlic bread

Hope you are doing well Lucinda .

[The empressof all]

2. Not sure yet...I have a wealth of veg I need to use

I may make a Cauliflower Pizza crust Pizza with peppers and mushrooms or I might make a ratatouille with the egg plant and huge zucchini I pulled out of the garden. I really should do both and stick the stew in the freezer for those less bountiful times.

[bif]

3. Lobster tails. acorn squash and LOTS of tomatoes.

[pinto]

4. Got a great deal on a rib eye locally So it's simple BBQ with marinated onion and a green bean side.

We've been overcast here every day, but a sunny window about now for some outdoor cooking.

[grasswire]

5. chicken in sage and celery gravy, smashed redskins, apple salad..

...and apple pie. It's 85 degrees today, but I had pies to make. Since the kitchen was going to be hot anyway, a fall-ish dinner happened.

The oven in this apartment does not retain the heat within very well. There's a 1 inch space between the bottom of the oven door and the top of the lower storage drawer. And the stovetop itself gets very hot from oven use. Nice in the winter; not so nice in the summer.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Oven-barbecued ribs (I don't have a grill).

Made a rub of salt, pepper, white sugar, brown sugar, garlic powder, onion powder, oregano, thyme, paprika and a bit of cayenne pepper. Wrapped the ribs after slathering them with a generous amount of rub in tinfoil and baked in a 300-oven for two hours. Put them back in the oven uncovered at 325 for about 1/2 hour with Sweet Baby Ray's hickory barbecue sauce.

Sides were Irish potatoes (from a can) browned in butter and an heirloom tomato.

[cbayer]

9. That sounds fabulous!

I have been wanting some ribs and you have made me drool.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. They were really good, and I have enough left for tomorrow night.

I do miss having a barbecue at times, but I can't have one where I live. Also, there's no place to put one!

[pinto]

14. I really like doing ribs in the oven like that. Foiled and slow cooked then browned a bit. The rub

really sounds great.

On a grill I usually overcook ribs, under cook, cook too fast, too slow, etc.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. I didn't measure the rub ingredients.

Had a single slab and eyeballed the amounts.

[pinto]

17. Measure? What's that?

[greatauntoftriplets]

18. I tend to be pretty lax about measuring, too.

Usually, it works out, though.

[yellerpup]

7. BBQ Ribs

deviled cauliflower, big salad with lots of tomato and avocado. Nice roll from the grocery store crisped in the oven. Rich but flavorful.

[cbayer]

10. Two of y'all having ribs?!?!

I am so envious.

[yellerpup]

16. Had some in the back of the freezer

and forgot about them. When I was looking for my hambone yesterday I decided to thaw it out and see what it was. Sometimes I save just flavor bones or fat to render into lard. When it thawed, I recognized it as the tag ends of ribs that I cooked for the fundraiser in July. Made it all so easy! Pretty moon tonight. Throw it a kiss for me from the boat!

[cbayer]

8. Yay! A friend just brought over some sushi grade yellowtail, some crabmeat and

some small peppers.

She is going to do the preparing and cooking. We will eat the tuna raw and she is going to stuff the peppers with crabmeat and cream cheese.

Oh, yeah! I'm not cooking and will have a treat.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. Nice! A catered dinner, sort of.

[pinto]

13. Stuffed peppers with crabmeat and cream cheese...