So. What's for Dinner?

[think positive]

Yeah I like broad beans!

[mandy]

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You never know what you will do until you face the circumstances.

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Went out for Mrs WPT & my birthdays to a place called Epocha in Rathdowne Street Carlton close to Victoria Street with my youngest & her bf.

http://www.epocha.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Epocha-Menu-12.05.pdf

Big dinner, with 2 large entrees, 2 large mains, & various veges
2 bottles of French rose
4 sharing 2 deserts

very nice!

(need to work another overtime shift though)

[think positive]

[think positive]

[ronrat]

I used to hate broccoli and cauliflower too, and I think it was because mum boiled everything into oblivion and I prefer my veggies crunchy. I tried that theory with Brussel sprouts a couple of years ago. Nup. Still taste like crap![/quote]

When I was i n primary school we lived in Kilsyth South which was still semi rural. We had stuff all to do during the school holidays so would crawl all over the old quarry, the small farms etc and we came upon a sprout patch. About 6 of us decided to play cricket using the hoes and we basically destroyed them. The italian bloke growing them turned up with his family to pick them and we were spotted. There were a dozen or so houses in our patch and 6 families had to buy the crop. We had sprouts from arsehole to breakfast. So every kid in the street had sprouts for every meal for a fortnight. Those not involved were given fish and chips on the fridays but not us. Fish and sprouts. To this day I have never eaten another one.

[stui magpie]

I always hated sprouts but I'm stubborn so I try different ways to see if they're edible.

Roasted in the air roaster they weren't bad, better than boiled or steamed. Might try roasting them in a covered pan with some bacon and garlic, heard good things about that.

As a kid, my mum also used to boil the guts out of all vegetables, it took me years to get to appreciate beans and cabbage for what they could be when they weren't cooked to mush.

I still have a problem with raw tomatoes though. I love them cooked and tomato soup but I can only eat raw tomato in small doses.

And for dinner tonight, I'm getting takeaway. Pizza and ribs.

[think positive]

Hah, must have been a generational thing! Hubby said his mum did too!

Ronrat what a punishment! Ugh, that's just cruel!

If you can get sweet tomatoes, or just ones that aren't bitter, I love them raw. Lots of sea salt, pepper and apple cider vinegar! Chop em up with red onion and cucumber.

Funny, tomatoes are one of the few things better for you cooked than raw, it apparently inhances the lycopene in them.

[stui magpie]

Chili con Cerdo tonight.

No kids coming over so I'll have leftovers. I dialed back the heat to focus on flavour but it's still got a reasonable kick. Hope the old girl can eat it.

Can't wait for my tomatillo seedlings to get a bit bigger so I can pot them out and harvest some fruit.

Planning on making up some Salsa Verde and some Chili Verde con Cerdo.

[think positive]

Dunno but it smells good! I did a shirt load of paperwork today, and hubby didn't tell me he invited people over, so he cooked everything! You gotta love that!

I'd never heard of anything Cerdo, googled it, sounds alright! I love Mexican or South American food.

[stui magpie]

^

yeah, chili con carne with diced pork.

The "verde" is spanish for green so when you use the tomatillos as a base rather than tomatoes you get green salsa and green chili.

[Dark Beanie]

I must be one of the few people that like brussel sprouts - lightly steamed with a bit of butter. But I eat most vegies anyway.

And I too grew up on vegies boiled to within an inch of their life.

Did go through a period where I couldn't eat tomatoes. Was after a summer school holidays picking tomatoes at a farm near Tatura. Hot and damn hard work to fill a bin. And the smell if happened to grab a rotten one! Even now the smell of tomato plants or the leaves gives me chills.

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