September 2016, Whats for Dinner??

bethk wrote:I checked the nutritional info on the packages and I was amazed it said there was only 45 calories in the hot dog.....the sodium was off the chart but the calories were low.  So I guess it wasn't as awful as I anticipated.

bethk wrote:Tonight is supper by request ~ Mr. Amazing finally had an overpowering urge for a meal suggestion!

We're having chili dogs with potato salad.

I know, I KNOW.....not exactly the low calorie fare I said I need to eat.  But, that's life.  Sometimes plans change and you just have to roll with it.  I did pick up the low fat Nathan's hot dogs (97% fat free).  I've had them before and they really aren't much different in taste than the regular ones, IMO.

So, my potato salad is made.  It's about half & half potatoes and eggs/celery/carrot.....lightened up where I could.

Maybe tomorrow we'll be better.....

maybe not.

Crybaby wrote:We weren't that hungry tonight and I couldn't seem to get going, as I fell asleep in the afternoon sitting on the sofa watching television and I woke up groggy as I usually do if I nap in the afternoon.  

We had a decent size piece of the smoked eye of round left so Brian sliced it thinly and I made some beef au jus and heated up the smoked beef in it.  I toasted some bread and then spread some beef in two piles on a big plate, one sandwich size for me and one spread out with more meat to fit Brian's sandwich, which he wanted open face.  

so I just got out some nice sliced Swiss cheese and put three generous slices on each pile of meat!  Nuked them for a minute to melt the cheese while I put mayo on the bread.  Put some black pepper and some of that Citrus A'peel seasoning on it and then proceeded with serving both of them.  We had leftover pasta salad but

I think it's the heat, though neither of us spent much time outside.  But, man, it was hot and what I call "dishrag humid" -- walk outside and it's so humid, you feel  I felt sorry for the workmen who worked in the sun of our backyard until mid-afternoon.  They were both soaking wet all day long.  

neither one of us was hungry enough to eat any.    

I was too lazy to even slice some onion    

as if you've been hit in the face with a wet dishrag!  

I woke up groggy as I usually do if I nap in the afternoon.    

OMG.... That was a wake up on the wrong side of the bed....for sure!!

Uncle Jimmy wrote:OMG.... That was a wake up on the wrong side of the bed....for sure!!

bethk wrote:Taco salad for supper.....I've got everything ready to go and now I'm STARVING!  I had exercise today at noon so when I got home at 1:00 it was too late for me to eat a lunch so I just started prepping for supper.  And now it's 3:30 and I'm ready to put everything on the table......but I'll be patient for a while longer.

I've got some romaine and the last bit of iceburg lettuce chopped and ready.  I think I'll mix some taco sauce (bottled) with a tiny bit of Catalina dressing to give the lettuce a bit of flavor.  That was the old 'secret recipe' I used back in the 1970's when I started making taco salads.  It's the sweet/spicy taste that compliments the meat and crunched up salty chips.

For toppings I've got tomatoes, black olives, sour cream and from the hidden recesses of the refrigerator.....some hot pickled peppers.  I had forgotten about them and they are so spicy....good stuff!  I thought I had an avacado but I must have been mistaken....none to be found.  But it'll be just fine with what I have.

Gee, maybe it's 5:00 someplace ~ I think it's time for a cocktail.     LOL

You've got to have that cocktail. It'll give you a better appetite.
That's my explanation, anyway!

bethk wrote:OK, I held off until a little after 5:00.....I couldn't wait any longer.

I told Dane to come to the kitchen to fix his salad, I had all the fixin's on the countertop.  First crunch up as many tortilla chips as you want.  Then top with the sweet/spicy dressed lettuce.  Take as much warmed taco meat as you like.  Then, the toppings....tomatoes, onions, pickled hot peppers and black olives....top it all with a squeeze of sour cream I put in a zip bag.



I took too much and couldn't finish more than 2/3 of what I had on my plate....but now I'm stuffed.

Is it bedtime yet?   LOL

Not bedtime till after Ice Cream...
Ice cream settles the stomach and sooth's it.

NormM wrote:This is something we have had several times now. It's Cuban Style chuck steak with chimichurri sauce and bolillo rolls.

NormM wrote:It was not too chewy but it depends on how it's cooked. If it is medium rare, it isn't very tough but if it is cooked too much it will be very tough.  You can either slow cooker it for hours or grill it for a few minutes, nothing in between.  This was cooked for about 30 minutes.

NormM wrote:The Cuban style steak calls for chuck eye steak but the guy behind the meat counter didn't know what that was so I got a small chuck roast since that was all he had out.  At the time I couldn't remember another name for the steak but he surly wouldn't have known it either.  I looked it up and found chuck fillet and chuck tender steak are other names.

Bugster2 wrote:I am sorry, but I am laughing. Out here in SoCal, a tube steak refers to a male part of the anatomy.