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Here's what's for dinner tonight at our house, How 'bout you?

Deluxe Pot Roast
"The Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook"

1 4-5 lb boneless chuck roast
2 large cloves of garlic, sliced
1/2 t salt
1/2 t pepper
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/3 cup olive oil
1 medium onion, sliced
1 cup dry red wine
1 8-oz can tomato sauce
1 T brown sugar
1 t dried oregano
1 t prepared horseradish
1 t prepared mustard
1 bay leaf
8 small potatoes
6 carrots, scraped and quartered
4 stalks celery, cut in 2 inch pieces (I sometimes use sliced mushrooms instead)

Make small slits in top of roast. Insert a garlic slice in each slit. Rub roast with salt and pepper; dredge in flour and shake off excess. Heat olive oil in Dutch oven or skillet. Add roast and brown on all sides. Add onions and wine.

Combine tomato sauce and next 5 ingredients (through bay leaf). Stir well and Pour over roast. Bring liquid to a boil. Cover and reduce heat. Simmer 1 1/2 hours. Add potatoes, carrots nad celery. Cover and simmer 1 more hour or unti roast and veggies are tender.

Transfer roast to a serving platter; spoon veggies around roast using a slotted spoon. Discard bay leaf. Spoon sauce over roast and veggies.

If I use the crock pot instead. I brown the roast on the stove as directed then use the red wine to deglaze the pan (you know, scraping all the good stuff of the pan so it gets into the sauce) then put all the ingredients in the crock pot -- I don't even bother to wait to add the veggies and it comes out just fine.

I suppose one could substitute tofu for the roast.

bigtallhusseinguy said

I got hungry after playing that!

Damn, Mama just got a million times cooler
Move over, Rachael Ray! This bitch kills animals!

Why won't Mama snap the turkeys neck?

Lapinblanc saidWhy won't Mama snap the turkeys neck?

'Cuz she ran it over on the way home??

So I'm gonna be a little bit of a sissy right now and ask you guys if you've ever seen any recipes that have a soft stool product when it is excreted. experiment and write the results if not. the goal is for easy and comfortable slide of the penis in the rectum.

OK back on topic, fixed pouched salmon in Chardonnay with roasted rosemary red potatoes and asparagus the other night. One of my standard dinners for entertaining.

We rarely eat at home, though my partner is a great cook. He's best when he cooks for a mob, so unless we have guests, we eat out. In the last few days I have eaten the following restaurant suppers:

- half-dozen chilled raw oysters on the half shell, followed by 2 Maine lobster tails in drawn butter
- salmon Florentine, chocolate mousse dessert
- mussels marinara, with a crepe Suzette dessert (ideal before attending the theatre, where our friends performed)
- crispy Thai duck (I have no idea how it was prepared, but spectacular)
- Stone Crab claws, in season here now
- tonight: I think perhaps an Italian seafood platter of scallops, shrimp, sea bass, lobster & calamari on pasta, but I'll see what they have for specials before I decide
- this Tuesday: we've already made reservations, I'll be having my favorite, whole lobster

Wow. That sounds really good.

Tonight, I made this for myself. I usually eat more vegetables, but. . .

Baked flounder
Steamed spinach
Toasted whole grain bread dipped in a teaspoon of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Green Tea

4 oz. Grape Juice while making dinner

I had turkey smoked sausage, all natural baked french fries and steamed carrots+peas. With some grape juice.

I add warm french bread, chevre, blueberries, and a banana. I miss my kitchen!

Once upon a time I could of have had a list of what I making and the adjoining recipes, but since landlocked at my brothers all I can say I'm having leftover Caldo de Queso(Mexican Cheese Soup, with potatoes and green chilis added), and a side of Calavasitas(Mexican version of Ratatouille) with the usual side of Spanish Rice(self explanitory). Oh, and homemade tortillas! So delicious, so bad for me too, hahaha! Only once in a while

When I'm in a big hurry or don't have a lot of time I make monster manly salads. The great thing is that you can make it however you want.


This is what I've been doing lately.

I heat up the nonstick grill to cook one chicken breast (50g of protein). I lightly salt and add quite a bit of fresh cracked pepper.

While that's cooking I mix

1. Two cups of fresh raw spinach
2. Shredded romaine lettuce or other leafy greens
3. One shredded carrot.
4. Two apples diced.
5. Chopped onions.
6. Instead of salad dressing loaded with MSG I use fat free Kefir plain flavored yogurt and spice it to taste like Ranch salad dressing.
7. Two ounces of feta cheese.
8. Two ounces of real bacon bits.
9. Two crumbled hard boiled eggs.

Once all is prepared I mix it all together and toss with the Kefir salad dressing and then sprinkle with more fresh crushed black pepper and for a kick I add a couple pinches of cayenne.

It's very tasty and very nutritious. Sometimes I substitute grilled chopped salmon instead.