Dinner thread...What's cooking...

[snoseek]

Chilis is freaking good though..

If you like food made in a factory. Their food is brought in mostly cooked. They just warm and assemble it. They bank on heavy hitters like yourself, not the occasional diner. You are very detached from food in general when you eat this crap too much IMO. I bet if you cooked your own food and ate out only once per month you could go heli-skiing with your savings.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

If you like food made in a factory. Their food is brought in mostly cooked. They just warm and assemble it. They bank on heavy hitters like yourself, not the occasional diner. You are very detached from food in general when you eat this crap too much IMO. I bet if you cooked your own food and ate out only once per month you could go heli-skiing with your savings.

I'm sure I could..I used to get Outback takeout once a week and now I've weened myself down to once a month...As for eating out only once a month total..that would be tough for me..I usually go out to dinner a couple times a month with family...and a couple times a month on dates..plus countless times by myself..I just have to make healthier choices. I know I eat way to much salt and fat..oh well..I'm dieting again..I was down 5 pounds in the past 3 weeks and I put it all back on this past weekend..

 

[severine]

There are some people who just don't cook. That's pretty common for single folks from what I understand... even my FIL who's a personal trainer and quite healthy eats out many of his meals. There's never any food in his house.

Dinner tonight.... I'm not feeling very inspired. I took chicken and ground turkey out of the freezer last night, but they're both still frozen and I hate microwave thawing. So probably something easy like pasta. Maybe raviolis....

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

There are some people who just don't cook. That's pretty common for single folks from what I understand... even my FIL who's a personal trainer and quite healthy eats out many of his meals. There's never any food in his house.

Dinner tonight.... I'm not feeling very inspired. I took chicken and ground turkey out of the freezer last night, but they're both still frozen and I hate microwave thawing. So probably something easy like pasta. Maybe raviolis....

A good way to thaw is to run the meat under warm water..

 

[deadheadskier]

A good way to thaw is to run the meat under warm water..

also a good way to get sick. cold water only is the safe way to go.

 

[bvibert]

There are some people who just don't cook. That's pretty common for single folks from what I understand... even my FIL who's a personal trainer and quite healthy eats out many of his meals. There's never any food in his house.

Dinner tonight.... I'm not feeling very inspired. I took chicken and ground turkey out of the freezer last night, but they're both still frozen and I hate microwave thawing. So probably something easy like pasta. Maybe raviolis....

Mmmm.. raviolis...

I don't really like to cook. If I were single I'd eat out a lot or have pre-packaged and/or frozen food.

 

[drjeff]

Tonight, no ifs and or buts about it is going to be all about the large variety of tupperware containing various leftovers from the last few days.

 

[hardline]

finally after weeks on not cooking. i am. on the menu:
chipotle burgers with smoked guda ans sauted shrooms.
with some fresh corn.

 

[andyzee]

Cucumber soup.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

At the local seafood restaurant..

Roll with Butter
Ceaser salad..dressing on the side
Mussels..in a steezy sauce
Guinness...Cabernet..

 

[severine]

Likely to be turkey meatloaf with pepper relish on top... not sure on the sides yet.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Tonight something from the Allentown farmers market...maybe some steak...mmmmmm

 

[Moe Ghoul]

Dead bird, not sure how we'll make it. Ricotta cheese was on sale, so I'm gonna batch cook some lasagna tonite to freeze.

 

[drjeff]

Tonight's "date night" with my wife! The sitter is all lined up for the kids, and we're going to dress up a bit and head on over to the GREAT italian restaurants in the Federal Hill area of Providence and see which one we feel like eating at. No matter which one we decide on, I know I'll be eating a tasty meal tonight!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Tonight's "date night" with my wife! The sitter is all lined up for the kids, and we're going to dress up a bit and head on over to the GREAT italian restaurants in the Federal Hill area of Providence and see which one we feel like eating at. No matter which one we decide on, I know I'll be eating a tasty meal tonight!

People dress up to go out for dinner..yikes.at the fancy restaurants..I still rock my Tevas..the 90s called and they want my Tevas..:???:

I went to the farmers market and picked up a really good strip steak. It was pretty expensive..I think $13 a pound and the one I bought was like .8 so it was more than $10..another stand had a similar steak for $8 but it didn't look nearly as fresh...I'm thinking that I'll broil it later tonight with some soy sauce and save a little bit for tomorrow morning. I also bought gazpaucho, PA dutch style hard pretzals, and some trail mix with dried apricots, almonds, sunflower seeds, raisons, and cashews...I want to sample that with my dinner and save the rest for when I go hiking tomorrow.

 

[Moe Ghoul]

Wife picked up a PeacePizza on the way home. And fresh baked cookies. I got cucumbers coming outta the wazzoo from the garden, so I whipped up a cold cuke melon soup and a cuke n vidalia salad.

 

[deadheadskier]

..another stand had a similar steak for $8 but it didn't look nearly as fresh....

not necessarily important. many steakhouses dry age their meat. The beef is left out in a refridgerator uncovered for sometimes up to 60 days and just padded with towels daily. The meat turns almost black even though it's raw and becomes PACKED with flavor.

 

[deadheadskier]

Tonight's "date night" with my wife! The sitter is all lined up for the kids, and we're going to dress up a bit and head on over to the GREAT italian restaurants in the Federal Hill area of Providence and see which one we feel like eating at. No matter which one we decide on, I know I'll be eating a tasty meal tonight!

Al Forno?

 

[Moe Ghoul]

not necessarily important. many steakhouses dry age their meat. The beef is left out in a refridgerator uncovered for sometimes up to 60 days and just padded with towels daily. The meat turns almost black even though it's raw and becomes PACKED with flavor.

IS dry aging something that can be done at home or is that risky?

 

[deadheadskier]

IS dry aging something that can be done at home or is that risky?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_aged_beef

I've never tried it at home, but have been tempted. I do know that most (but not all) steakhouses have an aging room that they use separate from other refrigerated goods. Eventually mold crusts over the meat, which is (obviously) trimmed before cooking and serving. The possibility of cross contanimation of that mold to other goods should be taken seriously, but not all places do. It's this reality that makes me hesitant to try it at home as I do not have a second refrigerator to dedicate to doing it safely.

It's by no means common to dry age beef. The reason being is that the beef loses upwards of 30% of weight during the process. So, the steak steeze bought at $13 a pound would be $18 a pound when aged if not more because the cost of caring for it and electricity is typically factored in as well. Those latter factors mean the longer the age, the higher the price.

One thing to remember is that the term 'fresh' with beef really doesn't exist. Almost every cut of beef at the store that you see was processed off a cow a minimum of a good three weeks before you've purchased it and possibly up to three months ago. Processing plants vacuum pack the hole ribeye, stip whatever and hold onto it for a good 14 to 21 days before they ship to a distributor. The beef is likely to spend an additional one to two weeks at the distributor before it is sold to the store and then the store is likely not to cut the meat for quite awhile after that.

Quite a different scenario than chicken. Most chicken you eat was walking no more than eight days prior to you buying it. You buy a dry aged beef product and it could very well be coming from a cow that was slaughtered upwards of three months ago!