No olives for the martinis?? I guess I'll have to bring those.

Yes indeed. Don't leave them laying around though. I like olives and may get the munchies whilst charring the sausages and draining cans of ale

Fish and chips tonight!

Smothered in malt vinegar and wrapped in newspaper?

(Actually, I thought I heard that it's not served that way any more in the UK... )

Signor V.

Nathan's hotdogs and french fries. And chow-chow.

No,SV,you can still get them in newspaper,but some places now sell them in those awful polystyrene cartons....

Awful

Grilled pork chops w/mash taters,green beans,corn and cut up cukes.

Cereal

Chicken dinner in about 15 minutes.

Yum yum

Subway sandwiches tonight ...talked my better half out of Quizno's (Yuck!)

I'm with you on Quizno's. I stayed in New Jersey a couple years ago. It was rainy so didn't want to venture to far to find a place to eat and they had a Quizno's across from my hotel. That was the worst sandwich I've had in my life.

The preacher at the church I go to at my inlaws house him and his wife go to Quizno's after church every Sunday afternoon and they love it. I've never had a Quizno's sub.

If you ever find yourself in Florida, Bethee, try Miami Subs. Or better yet, don't try Miami Subs. They easily outpoint Quizno's on the puke-a-bility scale.

Anyone ever eat at Fire + Ice?? It's a buffet of raw seafood, meats and vegetables, which you mix together any way you like. Then they have an enormous grill where they cook up your selection. You can make as many trips to the buffet as you like. Everything was very good, and they also have a salad bar.

Fire + Ice Menu

Last night we had a slow cooked gammon joint with lots of veg.

Deeeeeelicious

What the heck is a gammon????

It's a hunk of meat that grows on the side opposite the chest. Thus the term, "backgammon".

FWIW - I had a henway last night.

SC, you are SO funny. What would I do without you??

SB, I'm making your rib recipe tonight. Along with home made macaroni salad.

Are you?? I love ribs. I wanted to make them tonight, but my daughter's boyfriend is eating with us and he doesn't eat pork. Actually, I think we're corrupting him. He had pork fried rice and crab rangoon the other night. I told him that the whirring sound he heard was his grandfather spinning in his grave.

What's your recipe for macaroni salad? I made some last week like the recipe in the salad thread, but I kept some separate and didn't add the crumbled bacon.

My ribs are half way done. I took the foil off and just enjoying the aroma.

There's no specific recipe or measurement that I use in my mac salad.

Boil 1 box of elbows macaroni. Cut up 2 or 3 celery stalks and carrots; 2 radishes chopped up fine; 1 1/2 tubs of small sour cream, touch of vingegar, celery seeds and sugar to taste.

Tonight is homemade gravy with meatballs and sausage served with penne pasta and my "knock off" Olive Garden salad - Food Network magazine printed O.G.'s breadstick and salad recipes. I gotta admit, they are good!

I never tried radishes. Sounds good, Beth. I also use mayo instead of sour cream, but in my potato salad, I use both mayo and sour cream.

Mark, if you could post those recipes. I love breadsticks.

Babe - recipes are way too long for a "y - yo" like me to type out. I will scan the copy and post. Be patient though, I am busy this weekend watching my White Sox whoop up on your Yankees.

You must have gammon in the US do you not SB?

It is from pigs,just like bacon but longer cured and more salty. It is very nice.

Just like a ham joint i guess?

I don't believe we do have gammon, Yogi. Or, if we do, it's called something else.

Fat back, Babe.

I was curious about this and Googled it.... it's the hind leg of the pig which can be cut into "steaks". See the link below:


GAMMON - Click Here

So that's what they mean by "smoked" ham!

Signor V.

Last night I grilled some pork chops that I had marinated in a homemade marinade of soy sauce, sherry, water, garlic powder and ketchup. I made spinach and macaroni and cheese to go with it. Three of us devoured five pork chops in record time.