The barbecued pork roast worked again. The Phillies won. I plan on making it for Game 1 of the world series wheter or not the Phillies make it.

Friday night is pizza night at our house. Since I'm still following a bit of a diet, I'm going to grill chicken breasts and cook green beans and cabbage.

Cabbage?? Say it isn't so, Klyd!! One of my coworkers went on the cabbage soup diet. He said that he really did lose weight like crazy, but his wife refused to share a ROOM with him, much less anything else.

Ya' gotta' get over your fear of cabbage, Babe.

Ironically, the absolute BEST cabbage dish I ever had in my life was in a tiny trattoria in Trapani. It was sauteed with golden raisins and pignoli.

So don't go telling me it's just an Irish dish!

I do NOT do cabbage. I will, on occasion, eat cole slaw, but am very picky (yes, I know, big surprise). My m-i-l does make the best cole slaw I've ever had.

Going up to my Dad's tonight in Lake Isle. There's a Columbus Day/Italian thing going on. Gonna' eat some "street food."

You don't even like cabbage rolls? My grandmother made the best cabbage rolls ever. I wish she was still alive to make some. Thank God I have her recipie.

No cabbage for me. As I said, I might eat cole slaw on occasion, but that's as close as I'll come.

Buffalo wings from a bar that does them better than the wing places around here. Martini's.

Had baked chicken and bacon with spicy cous cous yesterday!

I made it

Don't forget the cabbage.

As you said it's not just for the Irish, but for anyone else of peasant stock. Be sure to tell us the street food you had.

By the way, I did the zuchinni in balsamic, and it was good. I'll try it again because I think I overdid the balsamic.

Just put a rack of ribs in a marinade made from garlic, soy sauce, water, ketchup and cognac. They should be perfect to throw on the grill tonight.

Beef stew. First pot this fall.

That sounds like a nice marinade. For chicken I have used a marinade of equal parts of soy sauce, ketchup, brown sugar and orange juice.

I love brown sugar and OJ in a marinade. Delicious. Just so you know - it's 1/4 cup soy sauce, 1/4 water, garlic powder to taste (depends on how garlicky you like your food), 2 tbs. sherry or cognac and 1 tbs. ketchup.

Hot steak sandwiches tonight!

With chips or crisps?

Chips

It's hard to eat crisps with no teeth

Last night we had a lovely big pot of pappa al pomodoro!

I made it,it was luvvverly

Tonight we had spaghetti with garlic, anchovies and olive oil. Lots of fresh grated cheese (Locatelli Romano).

On a cool night, a big dish of macaroni is better than a sleeping pill. I can barely keep my eyes open.

On a cool night I like to make a big pot of veggie soup or chilli.

If it's not too much trouble, I'd be interested in knowing how you make your vegetable soup.

My wife makes vegetable soup in the winter months. She also makes a lovely spicy tomato one. Delicious!

Mig, where's that recipe of yours????

I'm sorry Klyd, I just now seen that you wanted the recipe.

Add the following to a big pot:
uncooked hamburger
a bag of frozen veggies(I add cut up cabbage and potatoes,onion and throw them in)
A big can of tomato juice
Salt & pepper,garlic salt to taste.
Boil for about 1 hour. Stir occasionaly

I notice that you didn't mention water. Do you use stock?

Edit: you just toss in the chopped meat? You don't brown it first? Just curious.

I'm sorry yeah I use enough water to cover the veggies. No I don't brown the meat first. Unless I use stew meat then I boil it first then use the stock with the tomato juice. Lately I've been using the tomato juice I've canned.

V-8 is just for the special holidays, DC. Like good wine with us.

Ya gotta love this man I bet you can't wait to come to Becky's wedding to get all you can eat Spaghettio's.