Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Q-man, Happy Birthday to you.
My wild west sensibilities required me to sing that out loud! I am surprised that I was able to retrieve the date in my memory bank which has been remiss lately. Hope you and your lovely guests are having a great time.
I made wild Alaskan King salmon with cranberry/orange sauce, stuffed sweet potatoes(broccoli,walnut,currents,cranberries,canola,salt&pepper), spring green & herbs salad with balsamic vinegrette. Then instead of cake he requested a bread pudding. That had real maple syrup and Muscovado sugar along with lots of melted butter and eggs soaked into cubed Brioche bread and baked. He and his guys had it with fresh berries and whipped cream.
He could have had a pork/cream of mushroom casserole topped with canned onion rings. He also could have a different girlfriend who has that recipe.
Cory,
I'm glad to hear somebody loves sweet potatoes.
Bake them and cut in half.
Scoop a small amount out.
Do ahead of time:
In a bowl mix some lightly steamed broccoli florets cut small, a few dried cranberries (craisins), a few currents, and some chopped walnuts. Lightly coat with canola oil. Salt and pepper to taste. Top the baked sweet potatoes and serve warm.
RW- Your meal sounds delicious. I would love for someone to cook for me again. One of the few times I've been cooked for was June of last year, and that felt soooo nice.
Man RW sure spoiled you rotten with that great sounding meal!
When I returned recently from one of my long business trips I was treated to a good home cooked meal....Lamb Hot Pot with Cake and cream cheese icing...hmmmm....its nice to be spoiled with food isn't it?
We'll begin with an in-depth analysis of the significant other's (S.O.) recipe files.
What ingredients are acceptable and what are not? Why?
Then we'll move on to examining the S.O.'s current equipment and skill levels.
Do they have too much equipment they don't use? Perhaps they don't have the basics. We'll make necessary adjustments. We may need to study some manuals and put dormant equipment to use.
Lastly, the S.O. will be charting a well-known course to her man's heart.
charlie wrote >>RW - I'm darned curious what those basics are. Care to enlighten us?<<
Don't answer that, RW. It's a trap. I'm not sure what kind of trap but I'm pretty sure it's a trap.
MM wrote >>[Sweet potato] also complements a nice hunk of pork or salmon<<
Funny you should mention that because just the other night, I overheard my sweet potato say "that sure is a beautiful hunk of pork". Or, it could have said "What're you doing you stupid dork?" except that sweet potatoes don't usually talk that way.
I'll be your sweet potato if you'll be my pork loin
Let's meet at the supper table and don't be late,
We'll hang together on a Noritake plate
So butter me up and I'll hang around,
Then we can go dancin all over town.
Quinn,
It seems I’m always too late to the party. I go away for a few days and miss all the fun. I don’t have any songs, or poems, or great recipes, but I do want to wish you a belated Happy Birthday. It sounds like you were well taken care of on your special day.
RW
I’m going to try your sweet potato recipe. It sounds much healthier than my brown sugar and marshmallow version (don’t cringe – where I come from sweet potatoes are dessert).
Chris,
Maybe you’ll get lucky and your next SO won’t need any lessons. Maybe she’ll have a firm grasp of the basics, equipment in perfect working order, and files bursting with good ideas . . . and maybe she’ll know how to cook, too.
2. Do you take the cardboard out from under the frozen pizza before you cook it?
3. Do you boil the potatoes before you try to mash them?
4. Do you know how to hard boil eggs?
These are not just questions off the top of my head. I actually KNOW a young lady who will answer "No" to every one of those questions.
She's my daughter... I'm SO ashamed.....
And don't look at me and ask why I didn't teach her. I offered many times to teach her how to cook. She was always too busy, watching MTV, talking on the phone, etc.
As proof, my other daughter is a very good cook, and my son is fast becoming one... Showed him today how to make the famous family recipe... Goop Soup.
RW, you will NOT want that recipe. Nor you, MM. Trust me on this one... LOL
Cory
You are not a human being having a spiritual experience, but a spiritual being having a human experience.
Cory- you wrote <Nor you, MM.> You'd be surprised what I'll eat if I'm hungry enough. HA
When I was a kid my aunt made something called slumgum-sounds like gum you get at the dime store in the ghetto. It was just macaroni, groung beef and tomatoes. I loved it. My taste buds are more into fresh linguine with garlic and olive oil now. Unless of course barbequed baby back ribs are nearby. Can't wait for a cook-out with a gang of wild ones.
Okay, these measurements are estimates, as I'm not sure..
Get a BIG soup pot, one that holds a gallon or two. I have one of those big, white enamel soup pots, the kind you can use to boil a pork shoulder in (for those heathens that cook pork shoulder that way). That size pot works perfectly.
Fill it 2/3 of the way with water.
Crumble 8 of those little blocks of chicken buillon cubes into it.
Add a normal size can of tomato sauce
Add a can of whole kernel corn
Add a can of Italian style diced tomatoes
Add about 2 tablespoons Celery Salt, Garlic Pepper and Onion Powder. You won't need any other seasonings, the linguisa handles that.
Add about 8 - 10 handfulls of barley, maybe a little more
Add a package of frozen pearl onions
Bring all that to a boil, then turn down to a mild simmer.
Pre-boil a package of hot dogs, cut into bite size pieces. Toss that in the pot
Cut 2 pounds of linguisa into bite sized piece. Toss that in.
Cut 2 pounds of stew beef into bite sized pieces. Toss that in too.
Add a 1 pound package of baby carrots
Cover and simmer that mess for about 2 hours, and you have Goop Soup!
Serve with saltines and a good dark beer. Chris, we tried Sam Adams Black Lager this past weekend. I give it an A+. I wasn't as impressed with the Scotch Ale, I'd give that about a C.
Cory
PS: Don't even THINK about altering this recipe. Many people have tried removing or adding things to it, and disaster results. It's perfect as is! LOL
You are not a human being having a spiritual experience, but a spiritual being having a human experience.
Maybe we won't see them for a while hehe
