We did a great menu for Super Bowl of Wings, rice balls , pizza bites, chips dips nachos and nuts topped off with ice cream sundaes.

Out to dinner tonight and the rest of the week will be home cooking….some chili and chicken dinner into weekend.

Sounds like it was a great time DP. Enjoy my friend!

I gotta get all my favs in these few days since we fast for lent and I give up beer until Easter starting next Wed.

Thanks Brother.

If you had to choose between really great homemade Chicken Cacciatore or Chicken Parmesan, which one would you go with tonight for dinner?

Chicken Parm

Thanks Irishman! Tonight it’s going to be Chicken Vesuvio with a side of sausage and peppers. Along with baked veal & eggplant in red gravy with fresh buffalo mozzarella.

Sounds delicious. Enjoy it!

Tonight I made Chicken Chardonnay.

Our local pub/restaurant changed chefs (not for the better) sometime after the Pandemic Lockdown, so it's just not worth it anymore. How do you screw up a simple Chicken Chardonnay? Well, they've managed.

A baked potato and some steamed string beans and we had a very nice dinner.

Incidentally, I used Coppola Chardonnay and it was quite serviceable.


Signor V.

Ok got a question for you guys..

You have two options to go with.

1. Homemade 8 finger Cavatelli with fresh basil, parmesan cheese in a rich romano sauce.

or....

2. Homemade Chicken Parmesan in a spicy Diavolo sauce with a side of Capellini pasta.

Both are served with a side of sausage and peppers and of course fresh bread with a good red wine.

2.

Not exactly tonight's dinner, but...

Signora V. is a bit under the weather, so I'm making her old-fashioned chicken soup from scratch. Yep - Jewish penicillin.

Into the giant stock pot went a whole chicken (cut up), an additional pound of chicken feet, celery, carrots, onion, garlic, fresh dill, peppercorns, salt, bay leaves and, of course, water. Pretty close to what my grandmothers used to make back in the day.

Gonna take at least four hours so I'll be burning the midnight oil tonight.

Should be ready by tomorrow.


Signor V.

Hope Mrs V. Feeling better……

Sound like a solid traditional soup.
I changed my original recipe recently switching out egg noodles for bow tie pasta.

Haven't posted in here for a while but yesterday's recipe was AMAZING! I meal prep on Sunday's for the week and I tried this gnocchi with sausage and peppers for the first time and I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. Definitely one of the best I've ever made!

That looks great i12

We did taco pasta tonight for Cinco de Mayo.

It’s simple but really good, fussili pasta a pound of chop meat mixed with a hot taco seasoning.

We cook the meat first add the mix with some water, add the pasta and melt cheddar on top, really good.
We also fry a few corn muffin tops in butter.

Wish I took a pic.

Noodles teriyaki beef I had, love Japanese but I eat it too little.

I love Japanese food as well H. You ever try musubi?

No we are not familiar wirh the canned meat Spam. I read it's sort of cross between a nigiri and a maki. Those I do know once you got familiar with their kitchen it's awesome.

Me and my mom would make sushi and also Sukiyaki when I was young.

I've never had spam until recently and got hooked on musubi since it's made with it. Haven't made it myself yet but I want to.

Haha I just found out we have spam here, but we call it Smac. I used that stuff often for my macaroni. Is a bit of a tradition in Holland.

It's kind of a joke here in the States but on but fried and put on rice, I'm hooked!

Haha the other day I had some great spareribs when I think about USA I think of BBQ.

We just found out it was national hot dog day, too bad we ate early at the local diner.

I love a good hot dog.

You and me both DP, especially if it's loaded up.

I like mustard sour Kraft and little red onions on one and chili on another if chili an option.

I'm going to eat some Bapao, very good with hot chili sauce.

What's Bapao H?

Bapao ( bakpao ) is a well-known Indonesian snack that can be filled with both minced meat and chicken or even made with a sweet filling.

Bapao flour is actually just wheat flour as we can also buy it at the supermarket, but extra finely ground, bleached beautifully white and with a much lower gluten content . That means that if you make bapao yourself, the result will be much lighter, softer and fluffy than if you used regular flour.

My favorite snacks are Croquette and Frikandel though typically Dutch awesome lol.

Sounds good H! What's the liquid on the bottom of the dish? Is that some type of hot sauce?