What's for Dinner, Sat., Aug. 26, 2017

[NJCher]

Dinner party at friends tonight. Here's the menu:

pork chops

polenta w/mushrooms

strozzapreti (literally means "choke the priest&quot with leeks, bacon, and spicy tomato sauce

peaches stuffed with shortbread cookies, crushed, with mascarpone and topped with hazelnut cream sauce

Lots of wine.


Cher

[Runningdawg]

1. Very nice menu OP!

We are having burgers on the grill. Neither of us are much for gourmet burgers, we like it simple but recently in a book I borrowed from the library, we found a keeper. The burger is topped with pimento cheese and fried okra. What a fantastic combo! Tonight we are having coleslaw and corn on the cob on the side.

[NJCher]

5. that sounds delicious

is it the pimiento cheese you can buy at the store, already made up? I think Kraft makes one in a jar. Not sure if they still do.

Gonna' try this.

Cher

[Runningdawg]

6. You can use the type in the jar

or make it from scratch. I usually make it because we like ours spicy.

[Galileo126]

7. Yep Kraft still sells it.

It's $5 per 6 oz jar, but they still make it.

Growing up, that was my dad's guilty pleasure - and we had an endless supply of juice glasses thereafter!

[NJCher]

8. hahah

I used to buy it a lot, too. Yep, made great juice glasses. I remember when it was something like $2.49!


Cher

[Galileo126]

2. A quicky mussel chowdah

Maybe a green salad, too.

And beer.

[PennyK]

3. My daughter took over

Homemade tomato sauce with heirloom tomatoes, fresh pasta, spinach salad, spicy chicken sausage, roasted asparagus. I defrosted two big pieces of chocolate cake from a few months ago. And the Albert Finney "Murder on the Orient Express."

[BigmanPigman]

4. Chicken lightly breaded and fried with a sauce of pine nuts, raisins and vinegar.

My mom makes it with veal but I am broke due to health bills. Also cold cucumber tazaki and fresh figs with chevre and honey for dessert.