What's for Dinner, Sat., Oct. 24, 2015

[NJCher]

Homemade salsa (not made yet!) with garden tomatoes. Homemade corn chips, made from corn tortillas. I put in all these peppers at my garden and got a paltry four peppers from them. Pathetic. But one is a hot red pepper, so I will go pick it and put it my salsa.

Hah, my garden is on a plot of land for which I am paying around $6000 a year (on just that section) in property taxes. So tell me how smart gardening is for me.

Later, if I am still hungry, I will have a hamburger.



Cher

[Lunabell]

1. BBQ chicken

homemade baked beans and potato salad. MMM One of my favorite meals.

[Galileo126]

2. BLTA's

Gotta have the avocado! This is my once/month bacon indulgence. Tomorrow, I promise - nothing with nitrites.



ps: Cher - my parent's garden (in RI) had a similar issue - low yield, despite healthy plants. Maybe a pollination problem? I think RI got too much rain this season, not enough strong sunshine...

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Roasted a turkey breast yesterday.

Ate more of that. Salad on the side.

[littlewolf]

4. London Broil on the grill and salad and sweet taters. nt

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. burgers.

We needed something simple because we day-tripped today, an 11 hour round trip up to NE Ohio to hit a couple of places up in Amish territory. It should have been an hour or more less, but in the couple of decades since I last went up there, apparently it's become a giant tourist trap, and traffic in several places was absolutely hideous. Not horses and buggy hideous, just regular old gas guzzlers hideous, with people constantly whipping through flashing yellow lights at 55 while the people on the crossroads sat for eons trying to get in between them. We learned A) never to go up there on a Saturday, and B) most especially never to go up there during peak foliage change season on a Saturday. Went into a cheese shop I wanted to hit, and simply turned around and left again, there must have been several hundred people inside, packing the whole damn place in one giant conga line that surely would have taken more than an hour to wend through. We did manage to pick up some hard to find baking supplies, as well as a new Christmas tree that will fit our available space much more easily than the prior one did. Hallelujah, no more moving a giant heavy tree and giant heavy couches to make space for it.

This was the first time both my housemate and I have both been away from the house at the same time for more than 4 hours in the last decade or more, but we got my Mom to keep coming over every couple of hours to let the dogs into the yard to run off energy and take care of business. Even so, I don't think we're likely to go back up there for another couple of decades, since we now know where to order the things we're after and simply have them shipped.

[Texasgal]

6. Black bean soup

with avacados and sour cream. Warm corn tortillas on the side.