Quiche Lorraine and asparagus.

Girl food.

Where's the steak and potatoes??

Vegetable tortellini with a zingy pepper sauce!

They had a segment on the news the other day about how the two genders gravitate towards different foods. Steak and potatoes were considered man food, while fruits and salads were considered women food.

Duh! How much money did they spend on that survey? When was the last time I guy was out with his buddies and told the waitress, "No thanks. I'll pass on the porterhouse steak. I'll take the three bean salad".

Thats why I like ya, Beth. You eat like a man but look like a girl.

Especially when it comes to Spumoni Gardens.

Actually, thats TWO men.

It'd be cheaper to keep you in furs and diamonds than to feed you over there.

I don't like furs or jewelry. Give me the meat.

We still talking about steak??

I have nice red snapper for tonight and couple dozen littleneck clams. I'll probably broil the snapper and make some clam sauce as a side dish.

And on JL's New Holiday, no less! What was I thinking???

you'll save me the leftovers right?

Those clams sound good.... a little lemon juice and voila!!

I do love a nice raw bar. I had raw clams at a Chinese place last week and they were NOT good. The weird thing was, I saw the waiters walking by with plates piled high with empty shells, so maybe it was me.

We gotta do a raw bar, SB. I MAY even be talked into going to City Island.

City Island? Where's that?

We had this great seafood buffet near us when we first got married, but it was a bit pricey ($28 pp in the late 1980s was expensive) and we only used to go once or twice a year. They had a raw bar, shrimp cocktail, tons of seafood salads, fried fish, and all the steamed lobster you could eat. Plus, a fantastic dessert table, including make your own sundaes.

We went there once with my brother and his wife. My brother had recently gained some weight and couldn't fit into a suit. He found an old navy blue sports jacket with red stitching in the back of his closet, so all night long we called him Captain Kangaroo. Anyway, we sat there through two seatings. All we did was point to other people while we were stuffing our faces, and talk about how much food they were taking from the buffet. I think I ate two and a half lobsters.

We tried to make another reservation a few months later, and they told us that they had discontinued the buffet. I thought Mr. Babe was going to cry. We told my brother that they said that some big fat guy in a Captain Kangaroo jacket put them out of business.

You're mean!

I'm not much of a fan of seafood, but that sounds like it was my kind of place!

The food was really great. I can't tell you how much we laughed at that jacket, though (and still do).

I was starving, and DIEING that it was Friday cuz no quick food is meatless apparently. Ended up going out w/ a couple friends for karaoke at an Italian place I hadn't been to since I was a kid w/ my family, and back then they had a great carbonara. Alas, 25+ years later it wasn't on the menu any more, so just got an order of calamari and eggplant rollatini... not bad, not terrific... unlike most of the singing...

I have'nt karaoke'd in years....

Which is no bad thing probably

There are none!

We went to a local Italian place. I had the baked ziti with eggplant, my daughter had gnocchi alfredo, and my husband had gnocchi with a four cheese sauce. The gnocchi was outstanding, but the ziti was only so-so. I got it because it used to be fantastic, but maybe I had built it up too much in my mind. Ah, well. The tartufo almost made up for it.

A very tasty chicken curry.

Chili

Pasta and meat sauce...(I mean gravy).

Klyd, NOW you got it right!

It was so sunny today that we decided to grill some steaks. Well, by 7:00 a stiff breeze had sprung up and it was COLD out there. Still, it was nice to have some meat fresh off the grill, accompanied by some rice and stir-fried mushrooms, onions and fresh garlic. It sort of almost felt like a summer dinner.

Taco Bell....Then McDonalds.

Mince pies with chips.

What goes in those pies, other than meat? You've got my mouth watering.

The mince ones just have minced beef and onion in them Klyd.

Serve them with chips(fries to you guys obviously) and garden peas. Slather some ketchup over your chips and hey presto

I am lucky that my wife loves to bake and she is damn good at it to!
We often have pie frenzies here of a night time