What's for dinner? ~ Tuesday the 17th ~ St. Paddys Edition

[Lucinda]

It's roast chicken and veggies for us tonight with fresh bread unless we wander over to the pub. They are doing a special menu.

We both have projects we're working on, so I expect we'll stay in though...


What's for dinner where you are?

[grasswire]

1. where everybody knows your name?

That kind of a pub? I never had one of those, but I did have a piano bar that I adored. Good times, good times.

(On edit: I once spent seven hours of a St. Patrick's Day at the Elks Lodge in Butte Montana where my best friend was playing music. Oh, Lordy.)

Dinner? Kinda crazy here. I've been yearning for tortilla soup and everything is in the house for it, using the leftover chicken from the soft tacos the other night.

But not everyone wants tortilla soup. So I was just at Trader Joe's and got a roll of polenta and some chicken sausages. I have fresh basil and mozzarella in the house, still. That could go along.

Every several days I fall heir to a huge loaf of day-old sliced levain bread that is left over from the coffee house. That's what the panini and sandwiches are made from there, and it is from the Pearl Bakery and delicious. I've been cutting it into strips and making giant croutons with diced garlic, rosemary, olive oil and butter. Baked slowly, slowly until very crispy. Everyone loves to snack on them, and they are always on hand for salad crunchies or to throw in soup.

They won't go in the tortilla soup, but sure were delicious in last night's salad of romaine, grated parm, and La Martinique original french vinaigrette. La Martinique is a little New Orleans salad dressing company. Their products are available at some Safeway stores.

So this afternoon I am making the crust for a test run of coffee toffee pie, and working on the reader board sign for the coffee house sidewalk. It will read "Old School Pie. Made here." I have collected a lot of images of pies and of pie making and will do a sort of mixed media collage. I have some wooden letters (P, I, E) in different sizes and also a couple of old metal pie tins that I have hammered flat that look pretty cool. Somehow it will all go together, and then I will have to seal it against rainy weather.

So I've got lots to do and a sick kitty to keep an eye on, too.

[pengillian101]

6. Please post pics of your reader board sign for the coffee house sidewalk n/t

:hi:

[Lucinda]

9. The sign sounds really cool! And coffee toffee pie got my attnetion!

What kind of crust are you using?

We got to a British pub that is in the Smoky Mountain Arts and Crafts Village here in town. Not too far from our house and the food is great. :)

[sniffa]

2. Black velvet pork loin

Stuffed with garlic and roasted on a bed of baby red onions. Served with pork stuffing (box), pork gravy and asparagus sauteed in garlic and olive oil. :9

[Lucinda]

10. I've never cooked red onions with pork. Gonna have to give that a try!

Sounds uuber yummy. :)

[KitchenWitch]

3. Shepherd's Pie since my quest for corned beef was an epic fail

I may do potato pancakes as well.

[Lucinda]

11. Sorry the corned beef tanked. ;( Hope your dinner was yummy anyway!

I've never made Shepherd's Pie. I should do something about that!

[eleny]

4. Campbell's cream of shrimp soup

Stop laughing!!!

It's catch as catch can around here tonight. Hubby is pretty much off beef, so the corned beef is still in the freezer.

[Lucinda]

12. No laughter from me.

LOL
Ok maybe a little. Do you doctor it up or is it good straight from the can. Never tried Campbell's....
I miss shrimpy things. Can't eat it anymore. :(

[hippywife]

5. Bill ate more beans and

finished off the wheat bread I almost ruined on Sunday. I wasn't really hungry (I never am at dinner time) so I just had a cereal.

But I did just squeeze the last three oranges and made orange vanilla ice cream. At the end, I roughly chopped an Endangered Species orange flavored dark chocolate bar into small chunks and added it. It tastes so yummy! :9

[grasswire]

7. I might have to get a little ice cream maker...

so it's not such a big deal to make it during the year. My big one is messy and noisy.

[Lucinda]

13. Like a 50/50 bar? Sounds tres yummy.

Chocolate, orange and ice Cream. Yum.

[hippywife]

15. Not sure what that is.

This was just orange ice cream with the chocolate bar chips in it. The chocolate bar was dark chocolate with an orange flavoring to it. :shrug:

[eridani]

8. Class all day, meeting all evening, hubby thawed some frozen split pea soup

Waiting when I got home. Car will be fixed tomorrow and I won't have to spend so much time hitching rides.

[Lucinda]

14. Yay for the thoughtful hubby and the car problems solved!

That's a win/win, yes?