Damn. I have Kung Pao chicken from the local take-out. Now my dinner looks sad by comparison.

If it makes you feel better Ufez, I'm having a lean pocket.

I just had melted cheese on a tortilla, but will probably have a chopped salad later.

Is that a meat thermometer sticking out of the left side?

Missing, presumed fed.
Dinned was that plus haricots verts Provencales and sliced crusty bread with herbed goat cheese, brie, and gouda.

Home made chicken noodle soup. Stock has been simmering all day. Yum.

I'm in a hotel room so I'm nuking a frozen mac 'n' cheese thingy. A banana for dessert.

I made totally from scratch pizza tonight, and thought I was pretty bad-ass. Your salt crust has humbled me. I'm not even going to address your side dishes, since my side dish was Target wine-in-a-box.

I am willing to purchase your leftovers. Send me a message at the email address in my profile to hammer out the details.

Tonight it's just some quick chili with homemade skillet cornbread because of a photoshoot this evening. But last night was caramelized onion and mushroom melt that was just basically refrigerator leftovers but so, so good.

The stir fried Mongolian lamb with scallions I made last night, along with Thai jasmine rice and a green salad. And some lovely red wine.

Mmm, these all sound great! My dinner is a mystery: The Fella is in the kitchen rustling things around right now! Mmmm, mystery dinner.

I had a late dinner after the theatre. Steak, followed by crème brûlée.

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Portobello mushroom risotto and broiled salmon. Two great tastes that don't really work well together but hey, what the hell, I had the ingredients. It was good and I'm stuffed. My almost 19 year old son had leftover pot roast and potatoes at about 6 and then risotto and salmon at about 7:30 and now, 9ish, he's having pizza. No wonder I'm going broke buying groceries.

Man, that dinner looks like an artwork, plinth.

Us, we ordered pizza.

I know nothing about this salt crust thing but I am intrigued. Tonight was the annual Dad's Birthday Dinner [his b'day is on Monday] so my sis and her boyfriend cooked up a big dinenr including roast chicken w/ butter & herbs, refrigerator rolls, twice stuffed potatoes and maple glazed [Grade C!] carrots. Dinner was a mocha torte which is neither mocha, nor a torte, and some ice cream. Usually I have soup and crackers for dinner, this was pretty great. I did all the dishes. That is my job.

Our actual dinner is going to be delivery from this Costa Rican restaurant I've always wanted to try. They have kind of odd hours so I feel lucky to catch them while they're still delivering. I am now eagerly awaiting the arrival of my fried plantains, among other things.

Mmmm beef. Sounds delish, plinth. I imagine a complete tenderloin must be a pretty costly cut, but probably works out pretty well once you get all those high-end cuts out of it.

Dinner here was pretty haphazard, because we decided to make a side trip for a late lunch at an old-school diner we've been meaning to check out. It was well worth the trip - they make everything from scratch. The meal started with snowflake rolls and a cup of beef stew or tomato soup, then LT had chicken pie and I had chicken croquettes, which came smothered in yellow gravy with real, fluffy mashed potatoes, a mountain of green beans and cranberry sauce. And coffee. All this for $8.75, not including the slice of pie. Needless to say, with a lunch like this dinner was not a very interesting idea. I ate some leftover salad and LT got a sandwich from down the street, and we had a couple beers and are ready to turn in.

Linguini in a sort of puttanesca. It's the first pasta I've had in a couple of months, I think. But it seemed right for a rainy night.

Spaghetti with lotsa little balls of meat.

Veggie Mussamun curry and four pieces of crab rangoon from the Thai restaurant around the block. It. was. delicious.

For a salt crust, you need about 6 pounds of Kosher salt. You add just enough water to make it into a paste. Lay down a layer in your roasting pan about 1cm thick (ha! I'm mixing English and Metric units!) put the meat on top, put in the meat thermometer, add some rosemary, then cover with salt paste. Bake at 350 until the thermometer reads ~135. Take the roast out of the oven and let it sit for 15 minutes (the temp will carry over to 145 or so). Break open the crust, remove the spent herbs and remove the meat to a serving platter.

I had an early dinner/late lunch of (leftover) channa dal, which I'd made from my Foods of the World: India spiral notebook.

Late snack was a black and white cookie.

Breakfast was coffee from Alaska and spanikopita from Costco.

Some recent dinners...

Bow Tie Pasta with Chicken, Eggplant, Ricotta & Tomato Sauce

Baked Noms

Chickpea, Cauliflower & Spinach in Coconut Cream Curry

Heartwarming Chicken Pies

Baked Crab Rangoon