WHAT DID YOU HAVE FOR DINNER!!

[mouse_chalk]

kherrmann3 wrote:

mouse_chalk wrote:

Kelly, you never did post that honey pork chop recipe! I'd like to try it!

OK! :biggrin2:

It's a super-easy marinade, and it sounds really simple compared to some of the stuff you eat, but here it is (all three ingredients of fury!).

- 1/2 cup Worchestershire sauce (we use the "French's" brand, you probably don't have it there...
- 4 teaspoons of honey (I like clover honey)
- Black pepper, to taste.

I just whisk that up and marinate pork chops in it (around 6 hours). I tend to make the marinade in the morning and add the chops around noon. They're popular at my apartment, but I don't know if that's just because Will is a picky eater.

That is super easy! I will have to try that! What do you normally have with it?


We have lea and perins (I think I spelt that right) and to be honest I didn't even know there were other brands! I don't use it too often so it's one of those things I just buy without thinking about...


And LOL I don't always eat complicated stuff! I'm quite stuck in my ways actually- I have my recipes but I need to start trying more new things. I'm not proud of our once-to-twice a week takeaway habit either lol! It's showing a lot more now that I'm posting about my dinner each night!:blushan:

 

[SnowyShiloh]

I'm going to try that honey marinade too! Sounds like it would be tasty grilled.

 

[kirbyultra]

I had Korean short ribs, sesame tofu and snowpeas, soup, and leftover pork chops with steamed rice. There was too much beef. I brought most of it to share with my coworkers the next day

 

[trailsend]

We had homemade leek and potato soup. Our winter and early spring favorite. Last night we had Beef ribs with roasted Cubanelle peppers.

 

[BethM]

kherrmann3 wrote:

ETA: Can you maybe get a grinder? I know Will has a sausage grinder that mashes up meat so you can fill sausages. I bet it would make good ground chicken. Also, ground chicken is $2.99 for a package (I don't remember the weight).

OK, so the funny thing is that I'm sitting here bellyaching about not being able to buy ground chicken in the store. I do actually have a meat grinder. But I'm too lazy to use it.
Last year, I managed to score an Artisan series KitchenAid mixer for super-cheap. (On Clearance at Bed Bath and Beyond for 60% off, then they let me use a 20% coupon on top of that, and I had a gift card.) There was a promotion where you could send in your receipt and get a free veggie slicer or meat grinder attachment. I got the grinder.
But I've never actually taken it out of the box. Because I'm lazy.

 

[BethM]

slavetoabunny wrote:

mouse_chalk wrote:

Or would a food processor work for grinding/mincing stuff? I would think you could use one of the attachments for it.

I would DIE for a Magimix food processor! I just made coleslaw for dinner and I was thinking how I could have shredded the cabbage and grated the carrot in about 30 seconds as opposed to aching my wrists doing it all by hand!

Food processors are really awesome, but........cleaning them stinks! I have one and most of the time I elect to chop manually. It takes less time.

I used the money I made from the yard sale last summer to get myself a nice food processor. The one I got is SUPER easy to clean.
I use it tons. Especially in the summer, I grow basil in pots on my deck, and spend the summer eating fresh made pesto sauce. And it's a must for shredding carrots for carrot cake.

This summer, I hope to make enough to get a nice blender.

 

[kherrmann3]

I understand the whole "lazy" thing with kitchen items! There have been plenty of times where I don't want to open a new gadget and bring it out! Don't you have a boyfriend or other significant other to harass into grinding up some chicken? I do that one to Will all the time...
("Honey! My hands hurt. Can you grate some cheese?") :biggrin2:

Normally, I serve my honey pork chops with whatever we have laying around! My meals are normally based on the "1/3 rule". Well, it's my rule, whatever. I make 1/3 of my meal meat, 1/3 a carb of some sort, and 1/3 a vegetable. It works out OK. Normally with the pork, I serve corn (canned, frozen or fresh) and either a potato of some sort or a noodle dish. Yup, I'm simple!

I have prepared the pork chops in a pan on the stove and on a mini-indoor grill. We don't have an outdoor grill, so we can't try it out!

 

[mouse_chalk]

I think I would gladly do the washing up to not have to grate 6 carrots or whatever! I don't mind shredding the cabbage so much, but I always scrape my fingers on the grater when I do the carrots! It can't help that I am totally addicted to watching Barefoot Contessa and every day she uses her Kitchen Aid mixer and her Magimix food processor! She used it to make coleslaw yesterday and I was insanely jealous! :grumpy:

I'm not sure if I'll get dinner tonight or not- me and my friends are going to watch another friend of mine who is in a dance show, at 6 so we're leaving at 5.30. That's too early for me to eat dinner so I might have to just grab a sandwich when I get back or something...

 

[BethM]

mouse_chalk wrote:

I think I would gladly do the washing up to not have to grate 6 carrots or whatever! I don't mind shredding the cabbage so much, but I always scrape my fingers on the grater when I do the carrots! It can't help that I am totally addicted to watching Barefoot Contessa and every day she uses her Kitchen Aid mixer and her Magimix food processor! She used it to make coleslaw yesterday and I was insanely jealous! :grumpy:

Well, you are getting married soon, yes? And people give gifts when you get married. Maybe you should ask for a food processor as a wedding gift? Perhaps a couple of your friends would go in together on one.
And since you cook for Steve, it would benefit both of you!

Or a mixer, whichever one you think you'd use more. (I use my processor more. I hardly bake at all, so I don't use the mixer much. Good thing I didn't pay much for it!)

I have a KitchenAid food processor, 7-cup capacity with a mini-bowl for small jobs. It's less expensive than the Magimix, but probably not as nice! (Much better than the $20 thing I used to have, though.)

Ok, sorry, I love kitchen gadgets and could go on and on about them.

 

[mouse_chalk]

BethM wrote:

mouse_chalk wrote:

I think I would gladly do the washing up to not have to grate 6 carrots or whatever! I don't mind shredding the cabbage so much, but I always scrape my fingers on the grater when I do the carrots! It can't help that I am totally addicted to watching Barefoot Contessa and every day she uses her Kitchen Aid mixer and her Magimix food processor! She used it to make coleslaw yesterday and I was insanely jealous! :grumpy:

Well, you are getting married soon, yes? And people give gifts when you get married. Maybe you should ask for a food processor as a wedding gift? Perhaps a couple of your friends would go in together on one.
And since you cook for Steve, it would benefit both of you!

Or a mixer, whichever one you think you'd use more. (I use my processor more. I hardly bake at all, so I don't use the mixer much. Good thing I didn't pay much for it!)

I have a KitchenAid food processor, 7-cup capacity with a mini-bowl for small jobs. It's less expensive than the Magimix, but probably not as nice! (Much better than the $20 thing I used to have, though.)

Ok, sorry, I love kitchen gadgets and could go on and on about them.

LOL! We went to register at a department store the other night and we scanned the Magimix and the Kitchen Aid mixer! Plus a Dualit blender LOL..... Our family will probably think we're being really cheeky but then again some people might buy it, like you said. We got vouchers from Steve's mum and my parents as our engagement present, which we're saving towards a new fridge, but we're sooo tempted to go buy the Magimix instead..... :shock:

I could go on and on about gadgets too! All I have is a really cheap blender that takes forever to make soup, and we have a juicer that we barely ever use unless a bunny is sick and I need to make them fresh juice lol! Although we did get a new kettle that lights up and changes colour recently, that's pretty cool

 

[BethM]

mouse_chalk wrote:

LOL! We went to register at a department store the other night and we scanned the Magimix and the Kitchen Aid mixer! Plus a Dualit blender LOL..... Our family will probably think we're being really cheeky but then again some people might buy it, like you said. We got vouchers from Steve's mum and my parents as our engagement present, which we're saving towards a new fridge, but we're sooo tempted to go buy the Magimix instead..... :shock:

I could go on and on about gadgets too! All I have is a really cheap blender that takes forever to make soup, and we have a juicer that we barely ever use unless a bunny is sick and I need to make them fresh juice lol! Although we did get a new kettle that lights up and changes colour recently, that's pretty cool

I've got WAY too many kitchen gadgets! I use most of them, though. I know it will be a problem if we ever try to buy a house, because I demand a good-sized kitchen! LOL!
The one thing I need is a blender, I've got a cheap one that is almost useless. I'm hoping to sell enough stuff at my yard sale this summer to get a nice Breville blender. (Probably the mid-range one.) I've got an immersion blender for soup, though. I highly recommend them. Just stick the end in in the pot, and blend away. (I love fruit smoothies in the summer, though, and only a blender will do that.)

I got a Breville electric kettle this winter, to encourage myself to drink more tea. I love it! It doesn't change color, but it has a pretty blue light on it.

 

[kherrmann3]

Well, we were lazy tonight and got Little Caesar's pizza. Mmm... Cheese pizza and Crazy Bread! :biggrin2:

 

[trailsend]

We are having pork roast with cranberry gravy (been cooking all day in the crockpot)roasted asparagus, and mashed potatoes.

 

[mouse_chalk]

BethM wrote:

mouse_chalk wrote:

LOL! We went to register at a department store the other night and we scanned the Magimix and the Kitchen Aid mixer! Plus a Dualit blender LOL..... Our family will probably think we're being really cheeky but then again some people might buy it, like you said. We got vouchers from Steve's mum and my parents as our engagement present, which we're saving towards a new fridge, but we're sooo tempted to go buy the Magimix instead..... :shock:

I could go on and on about gadgets too! All I have is a really cheap blender that takes forever to make soup, and we have a juicer that we barely ever use unless a bunny is sick and I need to make them fresh juice lol! Although we did get a new kettle that lights up and changes colour recently, that's pretty cool

I've got WAY too many kitchen gadgets! I use most of them, though. I know it will be a problem if we ever try to buy a house, because I demand a good-sized kitchen! LOL!
The one thing I need is a blender, I've got a cheap one that is almost useless. I'm hoping to sell enough stuff at my yard sale this summer to get a nice Breville blender. (Probably the mid-range one.) I've got an immersion blender for soup, though. I highly recommend them. Just stick the end in in the pot, and blend away. (I love fruit smoothies in the summer, though, and only a blender will do that.)

I got a Breville electric kettle this winter, to encourage myself to drink more tea. I love it! It doesn't change color, but it has a pretty blue light on it.

Our blender is breville! It is part of the juicer we got, we just don't use the juicer attachment. I have an immersion blender as well, that's the one that's crappy, and I prefer to use those rather than the big blender for soups because it's a pain to have to use another pan to pour the blended soup into, if that makes sense....

Our light-up kettle is Breville too! It has a built in water filter, because I was sick of having scummy cups of tea.


I got in about an hour ago, so I just made myself my 'easy breezy' pasta sauce with mushrooms, capers and olives, but I stupidly forgot about cheese and had cheese on top :expressionless My stomach is starting to hurt already! :cry1:


Kelly, what's Crazy Bread?

 

[kherrmann3]

It's a doughy bread stick that is really greasy and covered with Parmesan and garlic. Little Caesar's just calls theirs "Crazy Bread" for whatever reason! It's delicious (and a heart attack waiting to happen)!

 

[Pet_Bunny]

I've got pictures of supper the last few days but was too lazy to post them. :baghead

We are going out for supper tonight. It is a farewell party for one of my Uncles who is moving to Whistler, B.C. (Olympics 2010). He bought a new condo out there.

 

[BethM]

Well, we were lazy tonight and just got Chick-fil-A.

I (heart) waffle fries.

 

[RexyRex]

BethM wrote:

Well, we were lazy tonight and just got Chick-fil-A.

I (heart) waffle fries.

Mmmmm, waffle fries dipped in Polynesian Sauce. I go to Chik-fil-A so much I should be ashamed!

 

[BethM]

mouse_chalk wrote:

Our blender is breville! It is part of the juicer we got, we just don't use the juicer attachment. I have an immersion blender as well, that's the one that's crappy, and I prefer to use those rather than the big blender for soups because it's a pain to have to use another pan to pour the blended soup into, if that makes sense....

Our light-up kettle is Breville too! It has a built in water filter, because I was sick of having scummy cups of tea.

Sometimes I torture myself by looking at the Australia and UK sites for Breville, because they offer much more and cooler items for you guys than we get here.
I love Breville products, they're brilliant. I've got their small size juicer, and small indoor grill/panini press. I see they now sell a toaster oven here, but it is HUGE and wouldn't remotely fit in my kitchen.

 

[JimD]

Tonight we had brisket in tomato & mushroom sauce, white potatoes, and garlic toast ... yummers!!