They were quite juicy and delicious.

Thanks Geoff, you broke my heart. Did you forget I VOLUNTERED to be the star of one of your movies.

The star of your next flick? I guess now that you are a big time film maker women don't fake it with you..they're just auditioning

Geoffy has a casting bed?

That reminds me of a marinade I would make for chicken:

Equal parts of ketchup, soy sauce, orange juice and brown sugar.

Love orange juice and brown sugar in a marinade. Thank goodness it's close to lunchtime - I'm starving!!

Upon first reading this all I saw was what SB wrote about Clorox and Oxyclean, then you wrote it reminds you of a marinade. I was thinking how I don't want to be invited to your house for dinner.

I did the same thing Beth, I had to go back and see how his marinade was similar to Clorox

At the rate my kids have pissed me off the past few days, that may be my new secret ingredient.

That particular marinade is one that nobody has ever had twice.

I did the same thing also Beth.

Which brings me to a cute little story.

I used to drive into work everyday with one of the brokers that used to work for me. Besides his working for me we were personal friends. His mom used to be a floor manager on the exchange for many years and retired about 10 years ago. I knew him and his family very well.

Anyway his mom has the beginnings of Alzheimer's disease. One morning he picks me up and we are talking and I ask him how his mother is doing (she lives with his sister downstairs from him).

He looks at me and says "You don't want to know what happened yesterday."

He goes on to tell me that he was upstairs, about to sit down to dinner with his wife and kids, when he heard his sister scream
" What did you do? What is this?"

So he runs downstairs and his sister guzzling water down her throat and he asks "what's the matter?" and his sister goes
"Just taste this!" So he takes a piece of chicken cutlet and eats it and then spits it out!

He looks at his mother and then his sister and says? "What the hell did she do?"

Apparently the mother was frying Chicken cutlets for dinner and about halfway through frying she needed more oil in the pan. So she reached under the sink to where they keep the oil to get it and add it to the pan.

They figured out that she never picked up the oil. Instead she picked up Palmolive dish washing liquid and fried the second batch of chicken cutlets in the dish washing liquid!

I don't think that they ever let her cook from that day on!

Sad, but if you knew my friend's mom, it's pretty funny.

That's a great story, DC. I have seen relatives of mine live through senility, and if you don't take the time to have a laugh or two, the disease will beat you as well.

I don't want to get removed from the food topic, but I was visiting my grandmother in the early 80s when she was recovering from a broken hip at the time when her mind was fading...the line between past and present had been becoming blurred for her.

There was a knock on the door, and expecting another family member, I was shocked to see the bishop at the door to visit. He had gone to school with my uncle, and was in the hospital and decided to stop by. My grandmother looked at him, but couldn't remember his name. He said, "Jimmy Timlin."

She then smiled and spoke to him as if he were getting ready to enter the seminary. He played along, but before he left, she told him, "Now study hard and you'll make yourself a damn good priest some day, and your ma will be proud some day."

He said, "Maybe someday I'll be bishop here."

My grandmother burst in to laughter, and when she finally caught her breath said, "Now that's a good one."

Tonight I'm having my right hand.

You should have started with your feet. Hands are useful in lifting food.

Catfish tonight, simply covered in flour and fried in a mixture of butter and canola oil. They were fresh and delicious.

I've grilled catfish quite a few times, and have found that there is not much room for error in knowing when it's ready.

I had the last batch of meatballs and sauce that I had frozen, I usually make it every month or so and freeze most of it, because I am only one person, a few hours worth of cooking on a sunday usually gets me 2 meals a week for a month or two!

Salmon over spinach (I passed on the hollandaise sauce) w/ mixed veggies and a seafood bisque...

Tonite i had something i havent had in awhile... Pasta Carbonara, or, the "Coal Miner's Pasta" -- pancetta fried in a bit of olive oil till crispy (italian bacon, its cured, just not smoked), plenty of fresh black pepper (thats where the "Coal/carbon/carbonara) term comes from) then you cook your linguine, spaghetti or cappelini, retain some of the pasta water, dump into the pan with the pancetta, cook for a min or 2, turn off flame, add your egg (quickly and stir so its not a scrambled egg locked in pasta), add some parsley, grated cheese and the salty, meaty taste is great... bacon works too if you cant get/find/have pancetta... its a great meal, the simplest dishes taste the best...

BACON??!! Please!! Shield my eyes!!! Pancetta and pancetta ONLY!!

I made a roast beef on Saturday and we had so much left over that it seemed a shame to waste it. I made some shells and broccoli cooked in garlic and oil to go with it.

I think that I posted a recipe for Spaghetti Carbonara a while back somewhere in this thread.

You are exactly right about adding the egg quickly so as not to have scrambled eggs!

Definitely my favorite pasta dish JRCX!


As for tonight's dinner :

Probably Candy, candy, a Pizza and Calzone, and more candy!

I agree completely SB. If you use bacon in spaghetti carbonara,
you may as well also use egg beaters.

BTW Linguine or even Fettucine make a great carbonaras also. Because the pasta is thicker more sauce sticks to it.

Funny you mention Spaghetti Carbonara, DC. Last night we had it's southern Italian cousin, Perciatelli Filetto Pomodoro, which is one of my favorites (pancetta, onions and garlic, simmered in a light tomato, basil sauce) topped off with some fresh locatelli, mmmmmmmm. The leftover sauce makes a great pasta fagioli, by adding some broth, white beans and ditalini. That's what we're having tonight.

Well, bacon has great smokey flavor, maybe it has no place in italian cooking but let's face it, bacon tastes great even on bananas lol... no escaping that as a guilty pleasure, but tonite I tried one of Lidia's recipes, of course it failed because i only watched her do it, i didnt look at the recipe on her website, basically it was "italian home fries" where you use onions, pancetta, and boiled potatoes... for me, i over cooked the potatoes so when i tried to get them crispy in the pan basically it turned into great mashed potatoes, which is fine... had a T-Bone steak on the grill since it was on sale, and i tend to always eat meat on halloween -- something about charred animal flesh, the red meat and the red juices just bring out the vampire in me <-:

Tonight I'm eating my left foot.

Hmmmm.

Butter in his Garlic and Oil.

Bacon in his Carbonara.

And he questions my use of Basil?

Not the first time you had your foot in your mouth, is it?

(I had to beat SC to this line).

I got home early from work, and took my sons to the neighborhood pub for dinner. We split a large plate of hot wings, and I had eggplant parmagian with a side of spaghetti while my boys had steak tenderloin sandwiches.

We brought some honey barbecue wings home for my wife and daughter, who were out.

I made an "italian" version of black beans and rice... came out pretty good i must say... i may just have to add it as one of my signature dishes lol...