Whats for Dinner?

The local Asian grocery has the Yoshinoya beef and onion in sauce packets again! Just missing the slivered pickled ginger for the full as-served-in-the-restaurant gyudon taste.

$5.99 per pouch? So what. I bought ten. :D
 
Friend wanted to go to the Cheesecake Cafe for his birthday. Haven't been since I was 18, but I don't have bad memories of the place, so why not, I'll join.

Took an hour for our food orders to be taken, another hour for it to arrive and finally, the food was complete and utter expensive shit. I should have known we were in for some trash when they had poutine on the menu but it listed it's ingredients as fries, MOZZARELLA and gravy. That's not poutine, that's fries and cheese with some gravy.

Once we entered hour 3 of being there, I was too God damn tired (still nursing this cold) to want to even bother trying cheesecake.

What a pisshole. -10 stars.
 
Yay. Picked up some microwaveable steamed rice packs so I can have gyudon for lunch at work. Also found some beni shoga (the shredded pickled ginger). That'll stay at home since it's in a refrigerated jar.
 
Went to the Cheescake Factory in Virginia the other day, and it was quite good.

On the other hand, I got drug to the Grand Lux in Dallas once (created by the same people as the Cheesecake Factory) because the girl who wanted to go with me told me it was an awesome upscale restaurant where "important" people go.


It had a tacky, kind of over-the-top opulence that looked somehow cheap at the same time. I got the chicken saltimbocca (which I don't even see on their menu any longer), which didn't have the rudimentary customary ingredients for the dish. I mean saltimbocca without prosciutto is like marsala chicken without mushrooms or poutine without cheese curds. It was a huge disappointment.
 
Made homemade pizza on Saturday night. It was good, except the mozzarella was old and the liquid had separated out, so the cheese was a bit dry instead of gooey.

My recipe for a whole wheat-ish crust:

3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups warm water
2 tablespoons dry yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons olive oil

combine flours and salt in mixing bowl
heat water to 110-120 degrees F (any hotter and it kills the yeast)
add sugar and yeast to water, stir and let bloom for a few minutes, then add to flour mixture
use mixer with dough hook, mix at medium speed, adding oil 1 tablespoon at a time until mixed in. Mix until dough is smooth. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in bowl for 2 hours. Makes 2 large pizza pies.
 
Green chili (pasilla, Hatch, serrano, jalapeno) tamale pie. My wife is out of town for work for the week, so I have to get as much of my spicy food cravings taken care of as I can.
 
No, the planning went something like this:

1) look for meat in freezer
2) see bacon
3) remove bacon
4) realize we had eggs 2 days ago
5) decide on waffles to accompany said bacon
 

Cajungal

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After the wedding I was hurting pretty bad. I ran and did bridges with weight before... Turns out those 2 exercises + dancing + secret parking lot whiskey = pain. So I'm eating some pad thai with tofu and pea pods to grease the pain away.
 
@Terrik That fish looks amazing. Reminds me of the pattaya fish I used to get at my favorite thai restaurant in houston. The one that was closed down last time I visited :'(

Tonight's dinner: Cowboy casserole. Like shepherd's pie, but with ground beef and texas style spices.
 
Taco goulash, while not accurate it's the best name I can think of for two crushed tacos collected in a sort of mound with salsa and sour cream. They wrap they gyros, why not tacos? IS THERE NO JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD?!
 
Farmhouse chicken chowder (Warning: Paywall).
I hear some of you ask, "What's so special about it?"
Well, it's a bit like hearty chicken soup and New England-style clam chowder got together and had a baby, and that baby had bacon in it.
Shredded rotisserie chicken, carrots, scallions, bacon, mushrooms, potatoes...it's like eating a bacon-topped baked potato that's been soaked in homestyle chicken soup.
Sooooo good.

--Patrick
 
Farmhouse chicken chowder (Warning: Paywall).
I hear some of you ask, "What's so special about it?"
Well, it's a bit like hearty chicken soup and New England-style clam chowder got together and had a baby, and that baby had bacon in it.
Shredded rotisserie chicken, carrots, scallions, bacon, mushrooms, potatoes...it's like eating a bacon-topped baked potato that's been soaked in homestyle chicken soup.
Sooooo good.

--Patrick
You want me to move to Hawaii wherever the hell you are so you can cook for me, right? Right? I'll bring doomweasels dachshunds and poutine and do all the dishes.
Sorry, Wasabi, I'm not moving to Hawaii anymore. :p
 
Sorry, Wasabi, I'm not moving to Hawaii anymore. :p
You'll have to fight Cranky for the position.
He already announced when he moved here that in exchange for feeding him he would do all the dishes.
I'm sure we have more stuff around here that could be done, though.

--Patrick
 
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