What's for dinner?

[Suzanimal]

Orange in icing CAN be done right, it just usually isn't. My favorite cake/frosting flavors are the classics, but I have had Halloween-themed Kahlua cupcakes with orange icing that were amazing. The trick is to make it yourself with fresh citrus zested in there, and to remember to be SUBTLE so that it doesn't taste like a weird gloopy Sunny D thing. Vanilla cupcakes with orange frosting can taste a little like those orange popsicles with the cream in the middle, which is nice in summer. Strawberry cupcakes with whippy light creamy icing is also good. It just doesn't sound like she can pull off the right ratios, or she might be buying the premade stuff. Their idea of "flavoring" is sometimes questionable. To me, most of it tastes like cough syrup somehow.

Is she close enough for you to bring a covered dish? Knowing it's pizza and cupcakes, you could bring a good salad or some kind of portable finger food that you could then gorge on. I'm not talking gourmet, but at least you would not starve, and you would be other parents' hero.

I have done stuff like that with money I have given someone $217.88 (the number had some significance) before by giving them a card that said the money was hidden around their house and wishing them luck. Some of it was taped to the top of the ceiling fan, some was rolled up in shoes, some was in the coffee maker (in a Ziploc bag, and in the top, so they'd see it before they made the coffee), and so on. Small bills/coins.

She makes it. *gag* It's not worth the hassle to take something. My niece is nutty as a fruitcake (bi-polar, schizophrenic with multiple personalities - that's not a joke) and would take offense. I don't want to stir the pot with a crazy person. I love my niece, I love my great-niece and I just want them both to have a good day. I only bitch about it here because I would never say anything about it in real life. Anyway, I have to eat one and brag on it because she'll hound me until I do. Plus, I don't think her meds have been working lately because she's been doing crazy $#@!.

HAHA, I may steal hiding the money on the fan. Since my kids have gotten older, I give them money for Christmas but I just wrap a bunch of rolled coins and other miscellaneous bills in with the clothes I buy them.

[MelissaWV]

HAHA, I may steal hiding the money on the fan. Since my kids have gotten older, I give them money for Christmas but I just wrap a bunch of rolled coins and other miscellaneous bills in with the clothes I buy them.

Bonus: It usually gets them to clean their house over time, since they run into all those dusty neglected areas looking for money.

[tod evans]

This belongs in this thread;

[Suzanimal]

This belongs in this thread;

My doge just lays there and licks his ass until someone feels sorry for him or gets grossed out. Seriously, I've thrown steak down there and he just sniffed it and went right back to licking his butt hole. O_o

[specsaregood]

bacon with butternut squash and kale, with some smoked ghost pepper powder for heat.

edit:
and I got a pot of chicken stock working up on the stove for a: chicken, fennel, artichoke and escarole soup for the next couple days.

[Suzanimal]

I sprang for some Yuengling and an order of loaded fries at the birthday party. The fries were suppose to have cheese (I don't think that was cheese), bacon (It didn't even smell good), and sour cream (that's the only part that seemed legit).

The cupcakes were surprisingly good, though. My niece didn't make them, thank God. A friend of hers who works in a bakery made them and once I peeled off the Pac Man fondant, they were yummy.

[oyarde]

Grilled shrimp & scallops , fried shrimp and clams , fries , onion rings , slaw , hush puppies and Big Butt Dopplebock .

[tod evans]

Grilled shrimp & scallops , fried shrimp and clams , fries , onion rings , slaw , hush puppies and Big Butt Dopplebock .

Got any leftovers?

[oyarde]

Orange in icing CAN be done right, it just usually isn't. My favorite cake/frosting flavors are the classics, but I have had Halloween-themed Kahlua cupcakes with orange icing that were amazing. The trick is to make it yourself with fresh citrus zested in there, and to remember to be SUBTLE so that it doesn't taste like a weird gloopy Sunny D thing. Vanilla cupcakes with orange frosting can taste a little like those orange popsicles with the cream in the middle, which is nice in summer. Strawberry cupcakes with whippy light creamy icing is also good. It just doesn't sound like she can pull off the right ratios, or she might be buying the premade stuff. Their idea of "flavoring" is sometimes questionable. To me, most of it tastes like cough syrup somehow.

Is she close enough for you to bring a covered dish? Knowing it's pizza and cupcakes, you could bring a good salad or some kind of portable finger food that you could then gorge on. I'm not talking gourmet, but at least you would not starve, and you would be other parents' hero.

I have done stuff like that with money I have given someone $217.88 (the number had some significance) before by giving them a card that said the money was hidden around their house and wishing them luck. Some of it was taped to the top of the ceiling fan, some was rolled up in shoes, some was in the coffee maker (in a Ziploc bag, and in the top, so they'd see it before they made the coffee), and so on. Small bills/coins.

I thought it was cough syrup .

[oyarde]

Got any leftovers?

I ate them all a little later .

[tod evans]

I ate them all a little later .

Damn it!

[specsaregood]

edit: and I got a pot of chicken stock working up on the stove for a: chicken, fennel, artichoke and escarole soup for the next couple days.

I gotta say, this chicken soup turned out great, it has impressed everyone from the 92yr old Sicilian GIL, the MIL and DW. not to mention the chef himself.

Chicken stock made from 12 broken leg bones, cartilage, skin, peppercorn, salt, couple splashes of red wine vinegar, 1 bundle of parsley, and all the leaves/stalks from one fennel bulb.
+
1 pureed garlic bulb
1 pureed white onion
1 chopped fennel bulb
2x 12oz bags of quartered frozen artichoke hearts
^all that sautéed in olive oil in that order
add 1 big bag of chopped escarole after everything else is cooked tender and soup is cooling.
+ 1/2 box of ditalini (or other small pasta) cooked separately.
serve with a spoonful of grated parmesan on top.

It is definitely on the to cook again list...

[LibertyEagle]

My doge just lays there and licks his ass until someone feels sorry for him or gets grossed out. Seriously, I've thrown steak down there and he just sniffed it and went right back to licking his butt hole. O_o

Have you taken him to the vet? His anal glands may be swollen and need to be expressed, or he could have parasites. There's a reason he is doing this.

[specsaregood]

My doge just lays there and licks his ass until someone feels sorry for him or gets grossed out. Seriously, I've thrown steak down there and he just sniffed it and went right back to licking his butt hole. O_o

Have you taken him to the vet? His anal glands may be swollen and need to be expressed, or he could have parasites. There's a reason he is doing this.

Now ladies, I consider myself as much of an adventuresome eater as the next guy without his own food network series. But could we take the talk of ass licking, anal gland expressing and parasite hunting in one's nether regions to any of the many threads on the site dedicated to Hillary, Trump or Johnson rather than the Dinner thread?

[Suzanimal]

Have you taken him to the vet? His anal glands may be swollen and need to be expressed, or he could have parasites. There's a reason he is doing this.

Yes, my doge is well vetted. Aside form being blind, he's in excellent health.

[Danke]

Have you taken him to the vet? His anal glands may be swollen and need to be expressed, or he could have parasites. There's a reason he is doing this.

I think it is imitation of something he saw his owners do.

[Suzanimal]

Pork chops. cornbread, mashed potatoes, turnip greens...

My mom cooked and our kitchen looks like a disaster. She is the messiest cook I've ever seen. Seriously, I swear she throws flour up in the air when I'm not looking.

[Carlybee]

Quiche and mushroom soup.

[oyarde]

Chicken pot pie last night , enough of the cat food , real Bratwurts tonight .

[luctor-et-emergo]

Burgers, fries and salad.. Maybe pics later.

[Suzanimal]

Halloween candy.

[tod evans]

Steak-n-taters

[luctor-et-emergo]

Halloween candy.

Whut about pumpkin soup ?

[Suzanimal]

Whut about pumpkin soup ?

I'm not part of the pumpkin culture.That $#@! has gotten out of hand. I forgo pumpkin on principle. Although I did have a pumpkin facial that was lovely the other week. I didn't choose it, though. That just happened to be the special.

[specsaregood]

I'm not part of the pumpkin culture.That $#@! has gotten out of hand. I forgo pumpkin on principle. Although I did have a pumpkin facial that was lovely the other week. I didn't choose it, though. That just happened to be the special.

yeah, stuff tastes like barf, especially the pumpkin beers.

[luctor-et-emergo]

I'm not part of the pumpkin culture.That $#@! has gotten out of hand. I forgo pumpkin on principle. Although I did have a pumpkin facial that was lovely the other week. I didn't choose it, though. That just happened to be the special.

yeah, stuff tastes like barf, especially the pumpkin beers.

Well, pumpkin soup can actually be pretty tasty.

[LibertyEagle]

Now ladies, I consider myself as much of an adventuresome eater as the next guy without his own food network series. But could we take the talk of ass licking, anal gland expressing and parasite hunting in one's nether regions to any of the many threads on the site dedicated to Hillary, Trump or Johnson rather than the Dinner thread?

lol

[tod evans]

Home made pork pot pie tonight...

[Suzanimal]

I dunno. There's still some Halloween candy left...

[presence]

burgers on home grown crooked neck squash bread