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What is for Dinner April 2010

TY Kev -
they have chicken on sale this week and I was going to pick one up to roast and then make soup from the carcass - most likely sometime his week I will - maybe I'll get two - then I can make my pot pie!
 
After a busy weekend, I'm taking out the crockpot and making a pot roast for dinner tonight. I love coming home after a long days work to some home cooking!
 
jpshaw said:
Do you mean you can just take a roast out of the freezer and cook it? I will have to try that.
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Yes you can - and you can also place it in the crockpot frozen. I was originally going to make homemade macaroni in sauce, etc. but I felt lazy. It had to be close to 4 lbs. Turned out moist and juicy - no problem.
 
lesley said:
Mashed potato, pork sausages & onion gravy yum!
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I agree lesley- sound delish!

I work nights and sleep days- my supper at work a few hours ago was cold fried chicken, potato salad and canned peaches over cottage cheese. Just came home and had my bowl of oatmeal w/ chopped dried apricots and a drizzle of honey and milk.
 
Yesterday we tried a Mexican restaurant that opened here about a year ago. The food was fantastic but the music blasted over the speakers and the booth seats held together with tape will keep us from going back. The walls had booths all the way around and the center of the room had two long tables like a cafeteria. With the loud music it was very difficult to read the menu to Jon.
Tomorrow for Sunday supper I am making waffles, bacon, sausage, home fries, scrambled eggs, macerated strawberries, biscuits and gravy. My hubby wanted breakfast for dinner.
 
jglass said:
Yesterday we tried a Mexican restaurant that opened here about a year ago. The food was fantastic but the music blasted over the speakers and the booth seats held together with tape will keep us from going back. The walls had booths all the way around and the center of the room had two long tables like a cafeteria. With the loud music it was very difficult to read the menu to Jon.
Tomorrow for Sunday supper I am making waffles, bacon, sausage, home fries, scrambled eggs, macerated strawberries, biscuits and gravy. My hubby wanted breakfast for dinner.
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I just read an article in the news about loud music in restaurants. There was a study that showed people eat faster with loud music and that equals a faster turn rate on tables.
 
ricksrealpitbbq said:
I just read an article in the news about loud music in restaurants. There was a study that showed people eat faster with loud music and that equals a faster turn rate on tables.
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So that is why they do that! Jon had said maybe it was to keep people from over hearing your conversations and I said that makes no sense because you talk louder to try and be heard over the music.
I hope the little restaurant makes it but the music and the seating will keep us from going back. A friend of Jon's took us to Texas Roadhouse a few weeks back and they to were blasting a local coutry music station super loud. Since Jon does everything by sound restaurants like that drive him up the wall.
 
If a restaurant has loud music - I don't eat there - I walk right out. I can't stand walking into a place to eat and the music is blaring. If they are doing it for table turnover - they should think twice - it drives customers away as well.
 
Do ya'll ever listen to "The Splendid Table" on Sunday NPR? It's a fantastic food/cooking radio show carried coast-to-coast on NPR stations. I just love this program- always learn lots! From recipes and food science, to careers of famous chefs and down-home cooks' wisdom.

A couple weeks back they were interviewing a cultural anthropologist who offered many interesting food/restaurant observations.

Among them were these: Showing split-second subliminal messages of "Golden Arches" and fast-food sandwich cartons to people caused them to walk faster, speak faster and spend money more freely without thinking.

On the flip-side, showing them subliminal messages of a casual or fancy, sit-down restaurant w/ menus resulted in people slowing down, blood-pressure lowering, and (this is interesting!) making them behave more politely!

(Also- showing subliminal messages of a library- and of a baby sleeping made folks lower their voices to a WHISPER. Kinda interesting, huh?)
 
Stopped at little caesars on the way home today and picked up a couple of pizzas to snack on for the next couple of days.
 
Since it's Friday, we are having leftovers. It's a way for us to start clearing out the fridge so we can load it up again on Sunday!
 
Today we had chinese at our fav place.
Tomorrow I am roasting a hen stuffed with thyme, sage, galic and onions. I put a compound butter with roasted garlic and sage in between the skin and breast. Brushed the outside of the hen with olive oil and sprinkled with salt, olive oil and herbs de provence. I am also roasting baby red potatoes with the same herbs as the hen. I made a dutch oven full of some beautiful green beans and found at Krogers today with some taters in there and some bacon for flavor. We are also having corn on the cob, biscuits, brownies, dressing and salad.
I downloaded some Christmas episodes of Nigella Lawson's cooking show and was totally craving a holiday like dinner but no turkey. It is great right now I have sage and thyme in the garden.
 
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