Wutcha makin' fer Memorial Day?

[Stinky The Clown]

We're going next door for a Pot Luck.

I made steak salad. I grilled eight chuck eye steaks. They got cooled and sliced and then marinated. The marinade is olive oil, balsamic vinegar, red wine, sliced onions, minced garlic, chopped basil, oregano, and parsley, salt and pepper.

Sparkly and I collaborated on Cucumber salad. Thin sliced kirby cukes, thin sliced onions, olive oil, white vinegar, salt and pepper, dried parsley and oregano, a tiny pinch of sugar.

Sparkly made Tomato salad. Quartered tomatoes, olive oil, salt and pepper, basil, oregano, and parsley, and sliced fresh mozzarella (on the side).

[hippywife]

1. A very good morning to ya, Stinky.

Gonna try to get some of those bison ribs out on the grill today. Just took them outta the freezer yesterday so I hope they thaw in time and the rain holds off.

Steak salad sounds very yummy! Have a great time at the pot luck! :hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Totally non-Memorial Day type food

:rofl: Game hens, mashed potatoes, and steamed asparagus drizzled with oilve oil and garlic. :D

Having company over for dinnah...A DUer, in fact :)

[japple]

3. Leftovers. Yesterday was a marathon session in the kitchen

for me which is pretty typical of Sundays in my home. We had

Roasted chicken stuffed with Vidalia onions, sage, garlic and celery.
Squash casserole with leeks and more Vidalia onions.
Carmelized Vidalia onions with carrots and red peppers, splashed with balsamic vinegar.
English peas from the garden with salt, pepper and butter.
Asparagus (roasted) from the garden with olive oil and salt, pepper.
Grape tomato, spinach, cress & cucumber with vinagerette

Homemade ice cream topped with strawberries from the garden, or with toasted cashews & toasted coconut, or plain vanilla. Crispy pecan cookies made by my dear sister.

It was a Memorial Day meal of sorts since we were eating the last of the peas, asparagas, spinach, cress, and those will soon be a memory until next year.

My son gave me a 10 lb. bag of Vidalias that were already starting to go bad, so I did my best to include them in as many dishes as possible.

[MountainLaurel]

4. I think Mr. Laurel is doing Thai rolls

Coconut, shrimp, and veggied in a rice wrapper, served cold.

[sandnsea]

5. All depends on the sun

If the sun shines, family bbq. If not... pizza??

Yours sounds delish!!

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Argh .... I forgot one more salad ...... red potato salad with dill

I got the small red spuds, so all I had to do was quarter them. Boil in salted water till done.

The dressing was sour cream, fresh dill, dijon mustard, dried chipotle, salt and pepper and thin slided shallot.

[htuttle]

10. I'm making almost the same potato salad

...But I also added some mayo, red onions and chopped hardboiled eggs.

I was going to make New Orleans style sausage po'boys with a garlic sauce, but my wife wanted red beans and rice with the sausage instead.

After I made a really massive amount of potato salad and homemade cole slaw, and about a gallon of red beans and rice with smoked andouille sausage, I think I'm just going to skip the po'boys and have some french bread on the side.

Got WAY too much food here... I think we'll be eating it all week...

[Stinky The Clown]

14. I put some hard boiled eggs in mine, too.

Sparkly had cooked three eggs that had old expiration dates. I didn't know we had them, so the got added at the last minute. I'll add them next time. They made a nice textural contrast to the spuds.

[grasswire]

7. just two of us here

Everyone else including teenagers is gone for the weekend. So we're making egg fu yung, egg rolls and rice. The kids don't like fu yung. I make it very simply. Fresh bean sprouts, diced celery, sliced scallions, diced crimini mushrooms, and eggs and some soy sauce. Fry in patties. I can't eat any rice, but I'll have a homemade shrimp & ginger egg roll.

Low carb. The name of the game. I don't know if I'll ever have my scrumptious New England potato salad again. Wahhh.

[knitter4democracy]

8. Grilled lamb steaks

I haven't figured out the rest yet. Everyone's napping.

[knitter4democracy]

11. Hubby figured out the rest:

Grilled asparagus, baked potatoes, baby carrots, and Lebanese garlic sauce for the meat for me and rhubarb steak sauce for him. Yum!

The lamb is one we bought from a local farm for Easter. She doesn't grain-finish, so it's a lot less fatty/greasy and has great flavor. It worked out to $4.21/lb for the whole lamb, which we thought was fair.

[fortyfeetunder]

9. I had Copper River Sockeye Salmon

baked over mesquite smoke. a 4 pounder I found at Costco. With grilled asparagus, grilled corn on the cob (roasted in its husk) and tossed salad. And I cooked enough for two meals of this!

[Catshrink]

12. Brats on the grill

I'll also grill some chicken breasts while I have the grill heated and use them for salads the rest of the week.

Question: If my wiener dog named Bratwurst eats a bratwurst, does that make him a cannibal? No matter -- I don't like to give my dogs pork.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

13. We made grilled Kielbasa, swiss and sauerkraut grinders

with dijon mustard of course. And corn on the cob and potato salad. I made a different potato salad that had potatoes, apple,celery, onion, minced dill pickles in a sour cream mustard dressing. Very yummy. Strawberry cream cake for dessert.

[Tab]

15. Cucumber marinade

My dad, he's passed on now, made some kind of cucumber salad that was very simple with salt and I want to say a rice wine vinegar. Honestly he wasn't the best cook in many departments, but he seemed to have this one nailed. I was too young to be smart enough to ask him how it actually went together. There wasn't much more to it than that, though, I think.