I have been accused of having a deep bias towards cats, and I must confess, it is true. But Tammy sends along another picture of her pooch, so maybe this will be some balance.
What to do for dinner….
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smiley
Pretty pedestrian here. Meatloaf, baked potato, spinach salad.
greynoldsct00
That baby is just too cute! Love the cape; must have quite a puppy wardrobe. Did you tell us what kind of dog the first time you posted? If you did, I missed it.
TenguPhule
A hearty soup with a cheese sandwich using real homestyle bread.
greynoldsct00
Sounds good to me, got room for one more?
Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)
My 14 year old daughter is a Food Channel junkie, and esp. loves Alton Brown. Last night, Alton was cooking with power drills and wood bits, and blow torches.
I see culinary adventure on the horizon…..
Cruel Jest
Is that dog wearing chainmail?
Also, too, frozen pizza.
Buzzybill
I am waiting for my family to get home for the final yes or no vote, but I am thinking tacos.
Cute outfit on the dog, by the way. Our Shi Tzu has more clothes in her regular rotation than I do.
Zifnab
He looks a bit scrawny, but if you frickasee him and use a thick sauce, I think you can get enough flavor to justify the time it takes to cook him.
Oh, wait. That was unrelated to the doggie pic. My bad. Disregard.
Evil Parallel Universe
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/3007664237_d2659b6257.jpg
Dennis - SGMM
I reside in cooking hell. My family tradition is that the man of the house does the cooking and baking. I like new recipes, sauces, spices, garnish, exotic veggies, elaborate salads and fish. My dear wife and my wonderful son like pizza, spaghetti, and those marinated tri-tips that you get at Costco. Ever try to cook an asparagus and cheese tart for one? Don’t.
Punchy
Armando’s liver, farva beans, n a nice bottle of Chianti,
demkat620
Beef Stew, crusty french bread, and Punkin Pie!
Michael D.
I suggest a good slab of Beef. Too bad you can’t get a good Burundi Rib Eye.
Michael D.
Off topic, but this seems timely:
demimondian
Somehow, I don’t think that Tammy *really* meant for you to eat her puppy for dinner.
Jennifer
Cutest. Dog. Evah.
Lasagna. With cheesy garlic bread. Salad optional, but highly recommended.
smiley
@greynoldsct00:
Sure, take the next left and follow the scent of meatloaf.
smiley
@Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon):
Didn’t see the show but if your daughter wants to cook a chicken with a blowotorch, you might want to intervene.
South of I-10
I think Mr. South of I-10 is working late, so pretty much whatever little South of I-10 will eat. That probably means red beans and rice, which is the only thing she will eat with any regularity. I have now learned to always have some frozen.
mxh
It’s not John’s bias towards cats that’s troubling. It’s his bias towards cat-sized dogs. First a corgi and now this. What’s next, a shih-tzu? No more pussy-dogs!
Laura W
Like the Obama girls, my favorite food is CHEESE. Can I say how multi-orgasmic is the Dietz&Watson NY State Aged Cheddar with Horseradish?
Also, too, I recently received a Foreman Lean Mean Fat Grilling Machine. Last night…grilled, halved, yellow squash soaked in olive oil and spices. Duplicating tonight, it was so good. I hate to cook more than words can express, but the Foreman Grill almost makes it…choke…fun?
2008 Yellow Tail Pinot (went back for 6 today for that 10% discount!)
Those are the highlights. The rest involves beef and salad.
Speaking of cults, "Witness to Jonestown" is entertaining and well worth a watch.
As is the DARLING PUPPY in stylish top coat.
jake 4 that 1
Not the best thing to write under the picture of a pet. John Cole: He’ll roast your dog and boil your bunny.
Cain
@Zifnab:
I was going to suggest chiuaua cutlets with poodle sauce.
cain
J.
Just get a pizza — delivery, DiGiorno, or whatever. And get some decent beer. Grolsch looks good but looks can be deceiving (see "Sarah Palin").
As for the doggy in the blog post, very cute. But what is it with humans needing to dress dogs?
Also, I detect no cat bias. As a matter of fact, it seems to me that there are far more dog pictures on display.
Cats rule, dogs drool.
Matthew
Cat cultist!
South of I-10
@Laura W: Cheese makes everything better. The wine doesn’t hurt either.
John Cole
I like stinky cheeses and sharp cheeses. Basically, the more a cheese smells like an old sweat sock, the more I like it.
I think the reason I like wings is because they give me a way to get more blue cheese in my mouth. Love it.
smiley
@South of I-10:
I grew up right on I-20. Red beans and rice was served every week in the school cafeterium , but not on Monday. Fridays. It was awful. Good thing I grew up and had the good stuff. My scarred youth has been unscarred. Funny how we learn to eat things we used to hate.
spinkbottle
I’m making beer chicken. Remove skin and pat dry 4-6 chicken pieces and brown in a bit of canola oil in dutch oven at medium-high heat. Add a packet of dry onion soup mix, hot red pepper to taste, and a whole beer, stir, cover, and simmer until cooked, 35-45 minutes to an hour (depending on whether chicken has bones). Uncover and reduce sauce on medium-high heat until smooth and thickened. Serve over brown rice with a green salad. No one ever believes how easy this is to make.
South of I-10
That’s too funny. The red beans at my school were not that bad. I did end up with a life long hatred of tater tots.
Just Some Fuckhead
Yeah, cuz simmering shit in beer seems so complicated.
JohnY
Was having wings but was at the store and bought a roti chicken which I will douse with wing sauce. Add buttery broccoli, avocado and greens with blue cheese dressing. A glass of chardonnay. After the several glasses of Makers.
I’m on a low carb diet to get rid of all the flab I’ve gained sitting in front of this machine and the teevee for the last 2 endless years of this campaign.
Laura W
@John Cole: Well in that case I should have mentioned that my salad has DRY BLUE CHEESE all over it, and my burgers have JALEPENO CHEESE inside of them.
I am a true Cheese Head.
The bad news is…I just sat down with this huge bowl of bliss to find Mika on MSNBC.
The good news is…4 hours from now, TOP CHEF NEW YORK debuts.
That is my favorite reality show ever. Ever.
How can that be? you axe? Because I hate to cook, but LOVE to eat. Too, also, food and beverage jobs in fine dining joints and wineries in Carmel, Napa, Yountville… were some of my favorite jobs in life. I’d love to own a wine bar or small restaurant some day. If I could find a chef I could get along with.
Dreamer in NC
smiley
@South of I-10:
That’s probably the difference between south Louisiana and north Louisiana. Um, right… That’s the ticket!
Laura W
@South of I-10: I promise I won’t say this again: Find the 2008 Yellow Tail Pinot. For $5.50, I promise you won’t be disappointed. (Be sure it’s the 2008! I tried the 2007 last night and it sucked ass. Literally.)
Perry Como
Beef cheek ravioli.
boonagain
Also looking forward to Top Chef tonight.
How many faux hawks will there be?
Will Padma be stoned?
Will Tom be all bearish and grumpy?
Will Anthony Bourdain be a guest Judge and cause a contestant to slit his/her wrists?
Litlebritdifrnt
Hmmmmm cheese. Moving to the US was a real culture shock for me in more than one way. One of the worst was the first time I went to the "deli" (Ha fucking ha) to buy some "cheese" (dies laughing). Yellow american or white american? The personage behind the counter asked I suddenly realized that I had died and had been cast into cheeselovers hell. One of my fondest memories from the mother country was visiting Cheddar Gorge, sitting outside an ancient pub eating a Ploughman’s lunch made with "real, honest to god had been in the caves in the gorge just earlier that morning" aged cheddar and drinking a cold Carlsberg god it was bliss. What is it with regular americans aversion to "proper" cheese? Luckily I now have a Fresh Market fairly close (well an hour away) so I can go and stock up and get my cheese fix about once a month.
PS) American cheese is not cheese and should not be allowed to call itself such, it is processed cheese or as my daddy used to call it "plastic cheese" which was different from "invisible cheese" which was cheese spread. Calling american cheese "cheese" is like calling Welches sparkling white grapejuice "champagne" PAH!
Rant over.
Litlebritdifrnt
Laura – I am drinking the Yellow Tail Cabernet/Shiraz blend as we speak, it is pretty much the only wine I drink these days. If I really fancy White I will go for the Yellow Tail Chardonney. The Australian wines are great (they actually don’t travel that well, they taste even better in Oz) and I was delighted when they began to be introduced over here, I cannot drink American wine (too many sulphides). I really wish I could get a good Chablis over here on a regular basis that is, (see American wine comment above). I really miss a seriously chilled really nice Chablis.
BTW – I got a pomegranate (sp) wine from Fresh Market recently, very interesting, it is almost like a port in that it is really light in the mouth but once it starts going down the throat it warms you all the way down, very nice. You should try it.
OniHanzo
Anyone else seen this? Too damn funny.
And for the record… Jay Sekulow is as big a theocratic douchebag as they come.
Laura W
@boonagain: and most importantly: How many surly, angry lesbians will there be?
Tiffany still holds that special place in my heart, although she wasn’t angry or surly, just cute and awesomely "fierce". Mixing Bravo reality show contestants now. I actually had a "tiff" (HA!) with a woman about Tiffany’s sexual preferences. I knew she was a lesbian all along, but this other woman thought she was into men and tried to make it a muddled issue on the show, ie, pretending she was straight or bi. Honestly. People see what they want to see in reality TeeVee.
Litlebritdifrnt
PPS) When it comes to reality food shows I love Gordon Ramsey’s "The F Word"
R-Jud
@ Laura W: I am in expat foodie heaven with the Snowdonia Cheese Company at the moment. Their Green Thunder is just the thing with homemade bread, second only to baked camembert.
Dinner tonight was wholewheat tagliatelle with the last of the garden spinach, garlic, red onions, and heaps of blue cheese (Danish, not stilton– stilton should be baked in a pie with venison or steak).
Since then I’ve brushed my teeth twice.
Laura W
@Litlebritdifrnt: No way! The weird thing about that is just last night (or night before) on this very blog I trashed the Grenache/Shiraz, stating it was previously a fave. Well, today I looked at the label again and it was the Cab/Shiraz, 2007 I was drinking, not the G/S! Not horrible, but not as good as the 2008 Pinot (in my mouth) and certainly NOT my beloved Grenache/Shiraz. I’d pulled the wrong bottle from the shelf, intending to pull the G/S.
So I googled Yellow Tail and discovered they have a Rose, too, (and a sparkler I will seek out) so when I went to the market today and got my 6 bottles, 4 were Pinot and two are Rose. I am going to wait for the 2008 Grenache/Shiraz to show up. They had it in the 1.5, but I’ll try the .750 when it shows on shelves.
Oh yeah…I have a Pinot Grigio in the fridge I’ve not tried yet also by YT. I am enjoying my red wine binge while I can. So far, no horrible side effects. Although I was super irritable, depressed and anxious today.
I blame Obama.
Krista
Squeeeeeeeeeee!
Samantha! Oh my goodness she is just adorable in this picture. Love her, love her, love her. If I lived anywhere near Tammy I’d be constantly bugging her to dog-sit.
For dinner, I did up some pasta carbonara with lots of Parmesan — ’twas quite tasty.
And yes, I’d give up meat before I’d give up cheese. Actually, that’s the part of my meal I enjoyed the most when we went to Babbo for our wedding supper. Evidently, Mario Batali’s father-in-law makes cheese, but only for Mario’s restaurants. Let me tell you, I was smashed out of my gourd by the time the cheese course came around, but it still stands out in my mind as being freaking phenomenal.
Laura W
@R-Jud: Ginger Spice – Medium Mature Cheddar with chunks of stem ginger in an orange wax
TWELVE NOW PLEEZE!
gbear
My dinner decision was made in the car on the way home from work. The chow-mein, fried rice, egg fu young take-out combo #3 from Golden Chow Mein on West 7th Street. Not the best thing on the menu but it’s what sounded good this evening. It was.
PS: stinky cheese makes me leave the room. I’m a cheddarhead like Laura.
dewberry
Are we food blogging again?
Tonight’s fare was chicken tagine with apricots and raisins and carrots and red peppers. Served over couscous. The kids love it; the adults love it.
Litlebritdifrnt
Laura – red wine is good for you, millions of french people could not be wrong.
As for cheese I still have an aged Wenslydale from Yorkshire in the fridge, from Wensyldale creamery, they do mail order
http://www.wensleydale.co.uk/
JohnY
Ah! Cheese.
Cowgirl Creamery here in Northern Cal. The best. The Mount Tam is the best triple cream EVAH!
Litlebritdifrnt
Speaking of cheese have any of you guys tried Lancashire Cheese? It is my favorite (after a really good cheddar), there are lots of types, creamy, crumbly, mild, tasty, etc., etc., IMHO it is the BEST cheese in the world for Cheese on Toast, it has such a velvety texture when melted it is brilliant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_cheese
Laura W
@JohnY: Power to you! I had made incredible strides in the early part of this year, low carbing (which I love, actually.) Then summer came along. I totally blame Hillary for making it impossible for me to stay committed. Sometime after July 4th I started losing it, on all levels (except weight, I guess). I told myself: "It’s OK…ease up on yourself until election day. Who can possibly stay on a diet NOW???" It’s seems that now I’m easing up on myself until Inauguration Day. I blame Palin and McCain. After that, I figure I’ll use "Re-election campaign 2012" and blame all political blogs.
I did not, however, come home with a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Pumpkin Cheesecake Limited Edition flavor tonight.
Baby steps.
Litlebritdifrnt
Hmmm if this is a duplicate post sorry. Have any of you tried Lancashire Cheese, it is my favorite after a really good mature cheddar, it comes in crumbly and creamy and mild and tasty, it is the best toasting cheese in the world because of its velvety texture when melted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_cheese
OriGuy
Scottish dance class tonight, so a light dinner on the way. Probably a kofti kebab and rice at the Persian market, under $5.
On the subject of food, my housemate was reminiscing about the cinnamon coffee cake they served at her high school cafeteria. I guess attendance at LA Unified schools was way up the days that was on the menu. It was so popular, in fact, that when they published the recipe, it made the SF paper. She made it a while back. It is the best I’ve ever had.
Los Angeles Unified School District Coffee Cake
Litlebritdifrnt
One last attempt Lancashire Cheese, the best toasting cheese in the worldhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_cheese
andrea
Seconding JohnY’s Mt. Tam triple creme. I bought it to work and it was gone within hours. I left the Pt. Reyes bleu at home. More for me!
Laura W
@Dennis – SGMM:
Do you have a brother? (It’s even OK if he’s a car, as long as he cooks and bakes.)
Litlebritdifrnt
dammnit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_cheese
patrick
That dog is so wrong on so many levels.
Comrade The Other Steve
Ok, I sent you a dog pic. Where’s my dog? My dog is much cuter than these mutts.
WHERE’S MY FUCKING DOG PICTURE, KOS!?
oops, wrong website.
Comrade The Other Steve
Two things:
#1. Visit Wisconsin. Or hell, even Minnesota. We’ve good cheese out here.
#2. You’re from Britain for christ sake. To come to America and complain about the quality of the food? Unbelievable!
Now, our Indian food is not nearly as good. But have you tried the Mexican? Try to get good Mexican over in Britain, I dare you!
Blue Raven
@Comrade The Other Steve:
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and while I admit I’ve never had British Indian food, I doubt it’s that much better than what I can find in any steam table between San Francisco and Gilroy.
ScreaminginAtlanta
OK, that dog totally deserves to have it’s picture posted. Too too cute.
Tattoosydney
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Mmmmm, cheese.
I was excited beyond words on our last visit to London, stepping into a deli to see cheeses everywhere that don’t manage to make their way to Australia…
However, that pales into insignificance against Portugal – the supermarket that we used to visit was standard, big supermarket size, and almost 1/3 of the supermarket was devoted just to cheese and sausage… there were literally hundreds (possibly up to 1000) different cheeses… Heaven.
OriGuy
Reminds me of the joke Herb Caen told about Chico (town in the central valley of California). They had Velveeta in the gourmet cheese section.