Like, a real one. At a restaurant, with hot food and everything. My wife and I had gotten out of the habit of doing that, obviously; but now that things are approaching normalcy again we can start eating out again. I’m looking forward to it. I missed having people around, shockingly.
Tag: dinner
Medieval Dinner tonight!
My wife’s doing it for her Northern European medieval group, but I just got off of ‘put steak gobbets on skewers for charcoal grilling’ detail. It’s one of those dinners, you see. There’s going to be hunks of steak on sticks and roasted parsnips and something involving spinach and something else involving a wine sauce and I took most of the rest of the jug* of sweet red wine and made sangria out of it and it isn’t actually wretched. It’s also not European, but people rarely object to glasses of not-actually-wretched sangria, so there.
Should all be tasty.
Moe Lane
*Not Gallo, but not much farther up the wine evolutionary ladder, either. Brings back memories of drinking the stuff when I was half this age, with one-fifth the household income. Good times.
So, I got some chicken, and I got some cooked rice, and I want to bake.
I was thinking doing an egg batter and bake ’em in the rice, but I dunno about whether the rice would crispy up like I’d like. Anybody got any suggestions? – Because the wife just walked in.
[UPDATE: I tried to do an egg batter, but the rice and cheese didn’t stick, so I just dumped the rice and cheese and egg into the cast iron pot , let it cook up, then tossed it in the oven to broil with the chicken. I’ll let you know if it was awful.]
[Another UPDATE: My wife told me to cook the rice/cheese/egg mix in a ceramic pan next time so that she wouldn’t have to peel tin foil off of the last few bits remaining, so I’m going to say: not-awful.]
Post-dinner food coma and last-minute Amazon shopping forget it I don’t want to think of a better title.
Glenn Reynolds reminds us that tomorrow is the last day for 2-day free shipping with Amazon Prime. I am currently far too bloated from a truly excellent standing rib roast (we have the in-laws visiting) to come up with a half-baked way of hiding my naked greed, so here we are.
Moe Lane
PS: Shelled, salted pistachios go extremely well with Chilean Cabernet Sauvignons. There. I have provided you with something useful to know. I may now consider having another slice of coconut pineapple cake (it was a REALLY good meal).