We are taking our grandnephew out for lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant in Boston. It is scorchingly hot here, hopefully we won't have to walk too far to the restaurant!
Tonight is garlic grilled shrimp, a mixture of new red potatoes, green beans, and yellow squash (we like to keep dinner colorful!) and a chilled Pinot Grigio.
I made Tamales with a chili sauce of neuvo mexico peppers. That was a lot of work for some cheap mexican food. I cheated and put the boston butt in a pressure cooker. I hate bay leaves so used some fresh pineapple sage and chives. Masa dough with lard because that may never happen again but it happened once for a tasty treat.
Good for you DM! I bet they were good. We've made tamales just once. They were delicious, but yes, a lot of work.
I think the hardest part was corn lacing the husks. I was not very good at that part. I tried different ways. Who knew corn husks were so hard?
Baked half fryers coated with a puree of garlic, sweet vidalia onion, pineapple thyme and chives, with cracked black pepper and oil.
Tonight I slapped together spaghetti sauce, fresh zucchini, mushrooms and left-over meat loaf. Simmered a while and boiled up some linguini. Topped it with some of that parm cheese (that comes in the green container) and called it dinner. Making due with what was on hand. Anyone else surprised by last minute put togethers?
Ha! Crackers, hard salami and pepperjack cheese. And a gallon of tea. The heat index was100 or more today.
Don't have any leftovers apart from a few potatoes and the boys have them. But it sounds great @cuatro-gatos
Should not have read all your different, but delicious meals.. We have mostly been eating Salads we have our own Potatoes on the go now so they are making a good meal with butter and mint leaves...Tonight it is Chicken Breasts stuffed with sage and onion wrapped in slices of Yamon served with Large Heavily Buttered Corn Cobs, already packaged, take 5 mins to boil only, not sure what other veggies yet, definitely at least Potatoes and something green... .We picked some corn cobs once in the South of France whilst camping... we were next to the farm..it was tough alright..cooked for half and hour boiling and it never soften, had to got with it....I do know they also grow I for cattle feed but the farmer said it was for human consumption!. Never.....
