What are you having for dinner? 2.0

[Julia1996]

All this food talk and then the mention of lamb though I don't know what suede is, assuming it's gravy, got me thinking about my first time cooking lamb.

Prior to this adventure I had never tried lamb. Okay, so my 1st wife and I are at the store and they have a rack of lamb for sale.  I mentioned I had never eaten lamb so we get it.  A short time later my birthday comes around and I only had a half-day workday.  I get home and I think, wow we can have the lamb but I don't have a clue on how to cook it so I call my wife at work.  She says find a cookbook and I said okay.

Well, my grandmother had a number of cookbooks and just a note, no internet back then - stone age.  Anyway, I go thru her cookbooks about 20 of them and only find one lamb recipe and with my luck it was rack of lamb - exactly what we had purchased.

So I go and prep the lamb, turn the oven on, wait for it to heat at the right temp and decide to call the W to tell her what I've done.  She said okay,

I put the lamb in the oven and leave to go into the den and do something.  About 25 minutes later I hear a rustling noise and think it's the dogs playing outside - My nose was stuff up so I couldn't smell the lamb cooking.

I look outside thru the patio door and the dogs are sleeping in the driveway. I walk into the kitchen and whammy the oven looks like the building from the 70's movie "Towering Inferno".

I walk over to the gas valve and shut off the gas to the stove and the only thing I could use to put out the fire was baking soda which I did.

By this time the entire house was full of smoke and I ended up opening everything up and got fans blowing.

By the time the major smoke was out of the house I walked back to the kitchen and took the rack of lamb out of the oven and was going to feed it to the dogs.  But I decided that not cutting it up would result in a dog fight.

As I began cutting it up, I took notice that once you got past the charcoaled outside, that the insides were cook just right and ended up cutting it up to eat.

A short time later my wife arrived home from work and saw me and a neighbor sitting on the porch.  She asks what are you doing and I responded letting the house air out - the lamb and stove caught on fire.  She says did you follow
the recipe and I said yes and did it EXACTLY how I told you on the phone.

She says what pan did you use?  And I responded What pan, it was rack of lamb and I laid it on the rack.

Ended up having a cook birthday dinner and the insurance company replaced the oven.

Learn two things, one is that wives sometimes don't listen to what you're saying and secondly lamb is the most greasy food.

That's too funny. Lol. My brother wanted boiled eggs once to he put 3 eggs in the microwave.  He just set them on the turntable, no bowl or anything. He had fun cleaning up that mess.

[Cassi]

Sounds like something I would have done.

[Kendra]

When I was in college at Washington State University near the Idaho border.  I had sold my car to pay for a year of school, 400cc motorcycle was my only transportation - and my budget often didn't allow even that so I walked almost everywhere rain or shine, one mile each way to/from school.  One miserable day was near freezing with heavy rain pouring on deep slush, got home and had a brilliant idea.  Put my frozen soaked boots in the oven for just a minute.  Several minutes later the smoke alarm went off, flames pouring out of the oven.  Here's the part I really shouldn't admit... filled a bowl with water and threw it onto the flaming boots a couple times and the fire was out.  I later realized yeah that's a 40 amp 220 volt appliance. 

I repainted the entire kitchen to hide smoke damage.  The home owner lived upstairs and I didn't want them to know about the damage... this was a rental duplex.

[V M]

I walk into the kitchen and whammy the oven looks like the building from the 70's movie "Towering Inferno".    LOL

Oh my, decisions, decisions... Pizza?    Lamb chop? Pizza?    Lamb chop?  Pizza?

[Cassi]

Yep

[Maddie86]

I had a bunch of leftover smoked brisket from new year's eve that I wanted to use up, so I made chili! it was my first time making it and I think it came out good! I also made cornbread waffles with honey butter to go with it, yum!

[V M]

I'm making a pizza    Yay pizza!!!

[Julia1996]

I had a bunch of leftover smoked brisket from new year's eve that I wanted to use up, so I made chili! it was my first time making it and I think it came out good! I also made cornbread waffles with honey butter to go with it, yum!

Cornbread waffles? How do you make them? I don't like cornbread but my dad does and I bet he would love them. Do you make them sweet or the regular ones?

[Maddie86]

Cornbread waffles? How do you make them? I don't like cornbread but my dad does and I bet he would love them. Do you make them sweet or the regular ones?

I just did my usual cornbread batter and put it in a waffle maker. I do a sweet cornbread and it worked really well for waffles. the texture could have been better though, but that's my waffle maker's fault, I feel like a super crisp Belgian waffle would be great for this but this is a different style and my waffle maker is kinda cheap anyways. here's the recipe I used:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/76594/grandmothers-buttermilk-cornbread/?internalSource=hub%20recipe&referringContentType=search%20results&clickId=cardslot%209

[V M]

Cornbread waffles sound pretty cool 

[Devlyn]

Glorious Spam!

[V M]

You just had to say that 

[Colleen_definitely]

BAKED BEANS ARE OFF!   


I'm making fish tacos (mind the dirty thoughts dear...) with fresh pico de gallo and a salad.

[Julia1996]

BAKED BEANS ARE OFF!   


I'm making fish tacos (mind the dirty thoughts dear...) with fresh pico de gallo and a salad.

Lol. I didn't have any kind of dirty thoughts about fish tacos until you mentioned having dirty thoughts about it. Ewwwwww LOL

[Roll]

I saw it as a euphemism before i knew fish tacos were a real thing, and for a long time I thought all references to fish tacos was a dirty joke. I couldn't imagine eating fish in tacos, it still is gross to me.

[Julia1996]

I saw it as a euphemism before i knew fish tacos were a real thing, and for a long time I thought all references to fish tacos was a dirty joke. I couldn't imagine eating fish in tacos, it still is gross to me.

Yeah I think tacos are someplace fish should never be. Just...NO! To me chicken tacos are just as nasty. Chicken in spaghetti or on pizza is also messed up. I didn't now gay guys used the word fish to describe a cis woman. One of my gay friends once told me I looked like a real fish. Well I got offended until he told me what it meant. Lol

[Cassi]

Eeeew, fish tacos have always sounded gross to me.  Chicken in a burrito maybe but not a taco says I.  So, he called you a fish.  Congrats.

[Colleen_definitely]

It's just lightly breaded cod pieces in a tortilla with some pico and queso fresco. It's not terribly exotic or weird to me anyway.

Though I suppose if you don't like fish this wouldn't do much for you anyway.

[Dena]

Fish tacos are really quite good. They don't have a heavy taste and you can add lettuce and tomatoes without overpowering the taste. I know it sounds a bit strange but try it before you knock it. Remember that Mexico has several types of cuisines and they range from no spice to overpowering and include fishing villages with fish as the primary meat.

[V M]

I love fish tacos    I also make a really groovy mango/pineapple salsa to use when I make them