WHAT'S FOR DINNER TONIGHT?

[Bigsmoke]

Fries with no salt?  Well, all I can say is you get used to it.  Kinda.
Fortunately, I have never been much on salting any food, so fries and hash browns without salt is no big deal.
Actually, I prefer blue cheese dressing, but the 1,000 island is easier to make.  Once in a while, I do break down and buy a bottle of Light House chunky blue cheese, usually if someone who I know likes it is coming over for dinner.
John

[BEAVERMAN]

I do break down and buy a bottle of Light House chunky blue cheese, usually if someone who I know likes it is coming over for dinner.

On my way! as far as I'm concerned BC is it's own food group, kind of like Laura thinks that way about Ivars tartar sauce!

[Winter Hawk]

a homemade dressing of mayonnaise and ketchup and garlic powder.

Now that kicked in memories of mess cooking on board ship, w-a-y back in the dim recesses of the past!  I was the spud locker guy, and part of my duties were to make salads and salad dressings.  The "French" dressing was the canned salad dressing, a.k.a. mayonnaise mixed with an equal part of ketchup.  No garlic powder, though.  Thanks for the trip down memory lane! 

~Kees~[/size]

[Bigsmoke]

Actually, my dressing (really stolen from my grandmother) is about 3/4 mayo and 1/4 ketchup.  But, I'm Italian and for recipes like this, I don't measure.  I taste and adjust accordingly.

[Bigsmoke]

Cooked up my rendition of taco salad last night for dinner.
10 oz 85/15 hamburger.
1 sm can tomato sauce
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp chile powder
1 tbsp garlic powder
2 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
1 bag salad mix
1 yellow onion
3 large white mushrooms
olive oil
10 or 12 grape tomatoes
2 tbsp mayonnaise
4 oz shredded cheddar cheese

Slice mushrooms and onion and saute in olive oil
brown hamburger with garlic powder and Worcestershire Sauce
mix in mayonnaise and blend in completely
In a large bowl add salad mix
Mix thoroughly with the  mushrooms and onion and hamburger
garnish with sliced tomatoes and cheddar cheese

Usually I use medium Picante Sauce, but mine had sat in the refrigerator toooooooooo long and I did not feel like I wanted to try it.  So, tomato sauce, cumin and chili powder.  It worked OK but Picante Sauce is better.  Normally, I would also add tortilla chips, but I didn't have any on hand.  Probably would use a generous handful of them and crush half to mix in and reserve the other half to eat with the salad.
Buen provecho
John (Bigsmoke)

[RedOneFive]

Last nice was deer tenderloins, and baked sweet taters.. I cooked the loins in butter and rubbed the taters wth bacon grease, then baked them, then butter and brown sugar and a little salt.  Mmm m mmmm

[BEAVERMAN]

Last nice was deer tenderloins, and baked sweet taters.. I cooked the loins in butter and rubbed the taters wth bacon grease, then baked them, then butter and brown sugar and a little salt.  Mmm m mmmm

I'm in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm drooling here like a pet Boxer!

[RedOneFive]

The boss whipped up a big pan of elk bean cheese enchiladas last night! Gorged myself like the idiot I am, so I get to enjoy the heartburn of it today.. It's worth it though!

[BEAVERMAN]

Cold here this am 24F, have beans soaking overnight going to make some 15 bean soup tonight, boiling up a ham bone for the base, stripping the ham off, beans, onions, garlic, celery, some canned diced tomatoes, juice from one lemon, a couple bay leaves then tonight I'm going to add a rope of smoked sausage and 3-6" hot links , make a pan of cornbread to go with it, should be able to eat on this a couple 3 days or freeze what's left if we get tired of it!

[Bigsmoke]

Cold here this am 24F, have beans soaking overnight going to make some 15 bean soup tonight, boiling up a ham bone for the base, stripping the ham off, beans, onions, garlic, celery, some canned diced tomatoes, juice from one lemon, a couple bay leaves then tonight I'm going to add a rope of smoked sausage and 3-6" hot links , make a pan of cornbread to go with it, should be able to eat on this a couple 3 days or freeze what's left if we get tired of it!

Beav,
Get an InstaPot!!!  No more overnight bean soaking, no long slow cooks.  Ready in about an hour.  I love it!!!
Your recipe sounds pretty darn good.  I buy ham steaks at Costco and use them in my beans.  Works pretty well.  As a matter of fact, that's what I fixed for dinner last night.
John

[BEAVERMAN]

Nope, no insta pot, I like doing it old school, besides the stove helps heat the motorhome as I'm cooking!

[Winter Hawk]

I made a pot of pinto beans last week.  Soaked them over night, boiled them 2 hours before adding the rest of the fixings and boiled them another hour, when we bit into them they were still crunchy.  Boiled them another 3 hours the following day and STILL crunchy!  I've never had problems before cooking beans; must be the water.  I mind what my Dad told me: don't add salt until the beans are done or they won't GET done.

~Kees~

[Winter Hawk]

Last night I made a pizza, home made dough and sauce, diced onion, crumbled up fried turkey sausage, sliced olives, cauliflower, shredded mozzarella and grated Parmesan cheese.  Half is in the freezer for next week.

Nothing fancy today.  Made some patties from canned salmon & fried them up, with boiled rice and beets I put up last summer.  Some non-fat Greek yogurt on the fish and soy sauce on the rice and it was good.

~Kees~

[BEAVERMAN]

Had another knee shot in the right knee today so while we were in town we stopped at Costco and picked up a rotisserie chicken, SWMBO is having a chefs salad with chicken instead of ham, I'm nuking some Yaki Soba and adding chicken to it and some sauce and s green salad wham , bam quick dinner tonight, may make some chicken stew with dumplings tomorrow or chicken soup with egg drop dumplings, mmmmmmmmmmm, haven't had that since I left home for the corps, have to call m Sis, I know she's made it before!

[Nessmuk]

I don't know about dinner tonight but I made Maple Onion Bacon Jam today. interesting flavor, trying it on different things. I like it better warm than cold.