Smoked Meat sandwich

PArty at a friend's house. Double crusted white pizza with and without broccoli, ziti and meat sauce (I mean gravy), shrimp, pork barbecue, assorted fruit and cheeses, some other side dishes and birthday cake.

Have to say I was proud of my ten year old daughter. At one point of the evening, one of the moms, who is a good friend of ours, asked me politely to talk to her because she struck her son, who is a couple years younger than she. I went to the basement where all the kids told me that her son would repeatedly run up behind another child, Joey, (my daughter's age), who happens to have Down Syndrome, and tease him and knock him to the floor. Both times my daughter saw this, she walloped him.

Before I could say anything to her, she told me very calmly, "Dad, even if you tell me not to hit him, if he's mean to Joey, I'm going to let him have it." I gave her my approval. Red heads are tough.

Not big on Chinese Buffets, but last night I was at my brother's house in Upper Westchester and he took me to one in Cortlandt? Well, I know it was on Route 6 . . . It was absolutely fantastic. The buffet included 1-and-a-half pound lobsters, on top of the usual items. I can't wait to go back. Now if I could only remember the name of the place.

8 China Buffet?

I never could figure out the 8.

I hope you gave her an extra piece of cake, Klyd. Hell, take her out today and buy her a whole cake of her own.

A play on words?

8 = ATE

ATE (8) China Buffet.

Good for her!

SantinA "Klyd" Corleone!

We have a Chinese Buffet called The Hard Wok Buffet, a name I always thought was cute.

We have a Chinese place called New Dragon and I always want to call it Red Dragon. I don't care about the name because the food is awesome.

hamburger and onionrings! perfect.

Chicken and rice yesterday!

We gave my mom some tomatoes from our garden, and she whipped up an incredible tomato sauce, and then made lasagna with it. It was out of this world.

Chicken and rice for me tonight

A darned tasty meal it is too eh?

Corned Beef and Cabbage tonight

It's bad enough I hear people use the disgusting phrase "lunch meat" rather than "cold cuts"... but smoked "meat"?? What is that, like, beef jerky or something?? Using the term "meat" is foul (I know, an almost oxymoron lol) -- just tell us what KIND of meat! Smoked pork? Fine. Smoked turkey? Fine. Smoked "meat"? NOT fine.

How about "processed cheese food?" That's my favorite.

I'm marinating some meat to put on the grill later.


Oh - right. The meat is pork chops with the bone in. The marinade is chipolte and lime.

wasn't very hungry, Had Muesli for dinner

We had soup. I had some broth frozen from a chicken soup I made a month or so ago. I defrosted it, cooked some orzo, and homemade chicken soup for dinner!

I made scalloped potatoes and ham.

Curious, Mig. What do you use? Did you have a leftover baked ham, or did you used ham steak??

I like to use leftovers from a baked ham to make the scalloped potatoes, but then I realized that I could probably use a ham steak and not have to wait to bake a whole darned ham.

I use leftovers mostly. Sometimes I'll add in a little broccoli.

Oh, so you baked a ham recently? I love ham. I need to bake a ham soon, because I'm craving it big time.

I never tried broccoli in it. I'll have to keep that in mind.

We had fish and chips last night,with peas and sweetcorn!

Nice!

Give it a whirl. It's good.

I just got roped into going to Outback tonight; a place I LOATHE. There's one just over the Throgs Neck Bridge in Bayside. At least it's convenient.

Eh, it's not too horrible, but it ain't great either.

It's not so much the food as the atmosphere. I've yet to eat at one that wasn't a total zoo.

The steaks are decent, although DAMN it's gotten expensive for a chain. We were at the mall a few months ago, and we were starving and just walked in. The bill came to almost $40 per person with tip and tax. It was ridiculous.