What's for dinner ~ Friday ~ April the 10th Edition

[hippywife]

Where is that Lucinda today? Hmmmm.

Since it's Friday, we had pizza. Maybe the best one yet. I used a good size hunk of Ain5 bread dough for the crust and spread it with some garlic scape pesto. I put fontina cheese on top of that. I took all my toppings marinated artichokes, assorted Greek olives, mushrooms, onions, banana peppers, a small stick of good pepperoni and chopped them up bruschetta style and tossed them in the marinade from the artichokes. Piled them heavy on top and added more shredded cheese and some dried basil on the top. It came out great! The crust is thick but crisp outside, tender inside.

What's cookin' out your way tonight? :hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

1. If anything, frozen pizza

Stouffer's.

I'm in a BIG family crisis, and living on frozen food right now. :shrug:

[elleng]

20. Hey b_b,

hope you and yours recover. Similar here.

I prefer Stouffers to any other frozen P; have to put on list.

THANKS and good luck.

:hi:

[grasswire]

2. your pizza sounds deee-lish.

If only it came without carbs!

Regular old homemade macaroni and cheese is the dish here, and a huge green salad with vinaigrette. I've been cooking all day, and the household is busy with people going in all directions. One teenager is doing crew for the school production of "Bye Bye Birdie" and gone for dinner. The other teenager just came home from a week at outdoor school and is so dirty and exhausted that I may have to spoonfeed him. One adult went to the musical. Another adult is at the Friday Night Races at the radio control car racetrack. So that leaves two of us others here.

My no-knead multi-grain bread is in the oven right now. Today I did a lot of boiled and colored eggs for various occasions. And two dozen carrot cupcakes for a teenager to take to something Sunday morning. And several salads made ahead to keep in the fridge for the weekend: tabbouli, pasta salad, carrot-raisin. And after the play's over tonight several teenage girls are coming for a sleep-over, so I made some rice krispie treats, some Jell-O eggs, and some muffins for tomorrow's breakfast.

This is beginning to approach the level of stuff you always manage to do on a weekend! I'm exhausted and need some ibuprofen. Ha!

Tomorrow is pie day. I'll be making individual lemon angel pies, a rhubarb pie, maybe a peanut butter pie. I'd like to find some kind of a mango pie but haven't developed that yet. Maybe a cream pie with a fresh mango glaze. A customer really wants a tropical kind of pie.

[hippywife]

3. Wow that is alot!

You have to understand that I do very little during the week so that's the only reason I kill myself on the weekends. LOL

This looks like a really lovely tropical pie:
http://elinluv.blogspot.com/2009/03/pineapple-mango-pie_10.html


And since when does mac and cheese not have carbs in it, missy?

[grasswire]

4. ha!

I had scrambled eggs. That's my default.

[hippywife]

5. Well, see...

you didn't specify. LOL

This looks really lucious, too:

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=445548

[grasswire]

7. oh, that's beautiful

I would have to make a practice run, just to make sure the filling thickens properly. Thanks!

[hippywife]

8. You'd knock 'em dead with

that presentation. Good luck! :hi:

[hippywife]

14. Damn! I wish I hadn't found that.

Now I'm wanting it in the worst way. Either that or a nice lemon or key lime.

[grasswire]

18. did you read the reviews of that recipe?

Apparently some cooks had the trouble that I always fear -- it didn't jell for them the way it is written. But cooking a bit longer is the apparent remedy. I'll try it soon.

[grasswire]

6. that pie is interesting

fresh pineapple and mango and eggs in the filling.

[hippywife]

9. I love a really good

double crust pie. I'll take that over any dessert you can come up with. Every time.

Well that gives you two to ponder, one of each variety, anyway. :hi:

[grasswire]

10. yep -- thanks

The multi-grain bread just came out of the oven. I won't know more until it cools off a bit.

[hippywife]

11. Are you gonna share a pic with us?

[grasswire]

15. I can't find the working camera

It looks pretty much like the photo, except that my slashing isn't as pretty. I haven't cut it yet, so can't vouch for the crumb or the taste. I have to say that I didn't really like the smell of it baking that much. I think it was the whole wheat flour getting too brown on the bottom of the pan. There wasn't any delicious yeasty smell.

[htuttle]

12. Meatloaf and potatoes au gratin

A local beef farm started selling their beef at the coop down the street from me. It's grass fed, really fresh and it only costs about half of what the certified organic stuff does.

Meatloaf had: 80/20 lean ground beef, breadcrumbs, 2 eggs, some milk, basil, parsley, garlic, shallots, ground mustard and black pepper. I glazed it with a honey dijon sauce twice.

Yum, and we got leftovers... :)

[hippywife]

13. That sounds like a really

delish recipe for meatloaf. Great score on the grassfed beef, too. :thumbsup:

[eridani]

16. Enchiladas. Didn't slaughter the beef or make my own tomato sauce, but just about everything else-

--was from scratch. Cooked a whole pressure cooker full of pinto beans and refried them all in olive oil. Enough for tonight and 8 other meals, frozen. I got some masa harina, and they have a nice scaled recipe for making 4, 8 or 16 tortillas. Tortilla press works just fine with the plastic lining. I fried 1/4 lb of lean hamburger with some of the sauce and olives, and then made 8 enchiladas in a casserole dish with beef, cheese and refried beans. It was very tasty.

Next, I'll make 4 tortillas for 4 tostadas. Surprised to find out how easy homemade tortillas are--no more buying more than I need and then finding them with green fur at the back of the fridge a few months later. A kilo of masa looks like it's going to last a loooong time.

[grasswire]

17. be sure to freeze your masa when you bring it home

It has a way of hatching little creepy crawlies.

[eridani]

19. Good thought

Is it worse that wheat flour that way for some reason? Also, soes freezing make it more difficult to measure out?

[grasswire]

21. you just have to freeze it for a bit

....that kills any critters. I think half a day would be sufficient. Then you can take it back out and keep it in a sealed container or zip bag.