what's for dinner?

What's a Maid-Rites?
Is it good or bad?

t

On Tue 14 Mar 2006 05:32:25a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Drongo?

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What are you or did you have for dinner tonight?

I crumbed lamb rump fillets in bread crumbs that I seasoned with
freshly ground fennel seed and black peppercorns. Finally got myself a
morter and pestle satisfyingly big enough for pounding up spices. I pan
fried the lamb in olive oil and baby spinach salad on the side.
Delicious! My children will eat anything if it's crumbed.

Leftovers schnitzels are going into the kids lunch boxes tomorrow with
corn cobs and cherry tomatoes.

What do others put in kids' lunchboxes?

A friend had Maid-Rites shipped from Iowa. We'll be having those for dinner.

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

On Tue 14 Mar 2006 05:40:31a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Drongo?

Quoted message said:

What's a Maid-Rites?
Is it good or bad?

t

It's made from ground beef, loosely cooked in a seasoned broth base until
most of the broth is gone. The beef is spooned onto buns and usually served
with mustard, pickle, and onion.

Good or bad? That's a very personal thing. Folks who like them REALLY like
them. They also have their detractors.

Made-Rites is a franchise and the "recipe" is copyrighted. There are
numerous copycat recipes for them on the web, but I doubt any of them are
really authentic.

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

"Drongo" <[email hidden]> hitched up their panties and posted
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Quoted message said:

What are you or did you have for dinner tonight?

I crumbed lamb rump fillets in bread crumbs that I seasoned with
freshly ground fennel seed and black peppercorns. Finally got myself a
morter and pestle satisfyingly big enough for pounding up spices. I pan
fried the lamb in olive oil and baby spinach salad on the side.
Delicious! My children will eat anything if it's crumbed.

Leftovers schnitzels are going into the kids lunch boxes tomorrow with
corn cobs and cherry tomatoes.

What do others put in kids' lunchboxes?

t

I did a chicken salad thingy. It was good. Your lamb sounds really good.
Your kids are A okay in my book 😉

Michael

--
"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she
served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been
found."

--Calvin Trillin

Wayne Boatwright <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> hitched up their panties
and posted news:[email hidden]:

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On Tue 14 Mar 2006 05:40:31a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
Drongo?

Quoted message said:

What's a Maid-Rites?
Is it good or bad?

t

It's made from ground beef, loosely cooked in a seasoned broth base
until most of the broth is gone. The beef is spooned onto buns and
usually served with mustard, pickle, and onion.

Good or bad? That's a very personal thing. Folks who like them
REALLY like them. They also have their detractors.

Made-Rites is a franchise and the "recipe" is copyrighted. There are
numerous copycat recipes for them on the web, but I doubt any of them
are really authentic.

*I* am a Maid-Rite fan. We had one of the stores in the town I grew up in.
Springfield Illinois. I don't know if it's still there. Today I use Barb
Schaller's recipe for them and make them at home. Mustard, pickle and
onion RULE on a Maid-Rite.

Michael

--
"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she
served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been
found."

--Calvin Trillin

"Drongo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

What are you or did you have for dinner tonight?

I crumbed lamb rump fillets in bread crumbs that I seasoned with
freshly ground fennel seed and black peppercorns. Finally got myself a
morter and pestle satisfyingly big enough for pounding up spices. I pan
fried the lamb in olive oil and baby spinach salad on the side.
Delicious! My children will eat anything if it's crumbed.

We had beef tongue with one of Julia's incredibly rich tomato sauces, mashed
potato/cauliflower, green beans with tons of garlic.I am looking forward to
tongue sandwiches for lunch!

--
Peter Aitken
Visit my recipe and kitchen myths page at www.pgacon.com/cooking.htm

On Tue 14 Mar 2006 07:01:06a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Michael
"Dog3" Lonergan?

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Wayne Boatwright <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> hitched up their panties
and posted news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

On Tue 14 Mar 2006 05:40:31a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
Drongo?

Quoted message said:

What's a Maid-Rites?
Is it good or bad?

t

It's made from ground beef, loosely cooked in a seasoned broth base
until most of the broth is gone. The beef is spooned onto buns and
usually served with mustard, pickle, and onion.

Good or bad? That's a very personal thing. Folks who like them
REALLY like them. They also have their detractors.

Made-Rites is a franchise and the "recipe" is copyrighted. There are
numerous copycat recipes for them on the web, but I doubt any of them
are really authentic.

*I* am a Maid-Rite fan. We had one of the stores in the town I grew up
in. Springfield Illinois. I don't know if it's still there. Today I
use Barb Schaller's recipe for them and make them at home. Mustard,
pickle and onion RULE on a Maid-Rite.

Michael

Can you pass along Barb's recipe, Michael? I googled for it, but didn't
find it.

--
Wayne Boatwright Õ¿Õ¬
________________________________________

Okay, okay, I take it back! UnScrew you!

Drongo said:

What are you or did you have for dinner tonight?

Dinner MOnday:
shrimp mole with guacamole and chopped tomatoes, served over softened
corn tortillas, alongside calibacitas (squash, onions, corn, green
chile sauteed together then tossed with cheddar and jack cheeses);
southwestern caesar salad with cotija cheese and fried tortilla strips
and chipotle ranch dressing, and a tropical fruit salad. Frozen
margaritas to drink. Dessert was a pineapple-pecan cake with cream
cheese frosting.

Dinner Tuesday: red lentil, carrot and carmelized onion soup with cubes
of paneer, roasted califlower and squash, and cornbread. Chocolate
buttermilk pie for dessert.

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What do others put in kids' lunchboxes?

Well, yesterday she had pasta pesto salad, a string cheese, some
grapes, and a rice krispie treat.

Today she's got a wrap with white bean spread and sun dried tomato
pesto and asiago cheese, carrots, grape tomatoes, apple slices, and a
fruit roll.

But of course, we're vegetarian and pretty healthy eaters, so the other
kids make fun of whats in her lunchbox a lot. She went through a phase
where all she would take was PB&J or a cream-cheese bagel becasue that
was okay with the other kids.

Fun idea for a thread; I'm hoping I can get some new ideas! This week's
goodies have been because we're in a lunchbox rut. Time to break out of
it.

Drongo said:

What are you or did you have for dinner tonight?

Burgers, grilled dammit (if it doesn't rain again)

Quoted message said:

I crumbed lamb rump fillets in bread crumbs that I seasoned with
freshly ground fennel seed and black peppercorns. Finally got myself a
morter and pestle satisfyingly big enough for pounding up spices. I
pan fried the lamb in olive oil and baby spinach salad on the side.
Delicious! My children will eat anything if it's crumbed.

Leftovers schnitzels are going into the kids lunch boxes tomorrow with
corn cobs and cherry tomatoes.

What do others put in kids' lunchboxes?

t

No kids here so I have no idea. When I decide to cook it just comes to me
but I couldn't find any decent lamb at the store the other day. I was
looking for shanks to make a nice stew. No veal, either... I'm craving
piccata.

When I lived in Bangkok I ate a bag of peanuts and a carton of milk for
lunch. Wasn't big on the "hamburgers" or the "hotdogs" they served. It was
ISB (International School of Bangkok) campus so there was no Thai food
served; and there were no Thai students. Strictly families of foreign
diplomats.

I did, however, cook rice every morning for breakfast. That was the first
thing I ever learned to cook, at the age of nine. On a pot, on the stove.
No rice-cooker. Butter, salt & pepper. YUM!

Jill

"Jude" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Drongo said:

What are you or did you have for dinner tonight?

snip.........

But of course, we're vegetarian and pretty healthy eaters, so the other

Quoted message said:

kids make fun of whats in her lunchbox a lot. She went through a phase
where all she would take was PB&J or a cream-cheese bagel becasue that
was okay with the other kids

Question:
Did she choose to be a vegetarian or was that your choice for her?

Elaine

"jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Drongo said:

What are you or did you have for dinner tonight?

Burgers, grilled dammit (if it doesn't rain again)

Quoted message said:

I crumbed lamb rump fillets in bread crumbs that I seasoned with
freshly ground fennel seed and black peppercorns. Finally got myself
a morter and pestle satisfyingly big enough for pounding up spices. I
pan fried the lamb in olive oil and baby spinach salad on the side.
Delicious! My children will eat anything if it's crumbed.

Leftovers schnitzels are going into the kids lunch boxes tomorrow
with corn cobs and cherry tomatoes.

What do others put in kids' lunchboxes?

t

No kids here so I have no idea. When I decide to cook it just comes
to me but I couldn't find any decent lamb at the store the other day.
I was looking for shanks to make a nice stew. No veal, either... I'm
craving piccata.

When I lived in Bangkok I ate a bag of peanuts and a carton of milk
for lunch. Wasn't big on the "hamburgers" or the "hotdogs" they
served. It was ISB (International School of Bangkok) campus so there
was no Thai food served; and there were no Thai students. Strictly
families of foreign diplomats.

I did, however, cook rice every morning for breakfast. That was the
first thing I ever learned to cook, at the age of nine. On a pot, on
the stove. No rice-cooker. Butter, salt & pepper. YUM!

Jill

Jill,

You lucky stiff!!! Wish I'd travelled like that in my youth.

How many languages were you fluent in, if that's a fair question?

OB Food: Dinner: processed veggie burger with tomato slice with a swipe
of garlic hummus dip wrapped in romaine lettuce and maybe another one
after that.

Andy
¿Dondé esta el bano?

"Jude" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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But of course, we're vegetarian and pretty healthy eaters, so the other
kids make fun of whats in her lunchbox a lot. She went through a phase
where all she would take was PB&J or a cream-cheese bagel becasue that
was okay with the other kids.

Ooh, that can be infuriating 🙁 Luckily, the kids at my daughter's school
are more intrigued than sarky about "strange" foods.

Quoted message said:

Fun idea for a thread; I'm hoping I can get some new ideas! This week's
goodies have been because we're in a lunchbox rut. Time to break out of
it.

Let's see, what have I done over the last term or so ... a layered salad box
(mixed green salad, pasta with mayo, grated cheese, grated carrot, olives)
with a wholemeal or crusty-white bread roll. A baggie with a mix of little
strawberries, grapes, melon chunks, pineapple chunks. Similar, with three or
four different types of cheese cubes. Couple of mini-croissants with a tiny
individual pot of jam (and a plastic picnic knife 🙂 Slice of homemade
pizza. Little carton of hummus with breadsticks. Whole scrubbed carrots; big
slices of melon or pineapple.

As we've now gone hi-tech with an unbreakable thermos, soup has also
appeared on the menu 🙂

Jani

elaine said:

"Jude" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Drongo said:

What are you or did you have for dinner tonight?

snip.........

But of course, we're vegetarian and pretty healthy eaters, so the other

Quoted message said:

kids make fun of whats in her lunchbox a lot. She went through a phase
where all she would take was PB&J or a cream-cheese bagel becasue that
was okay with the other kids

Question:
Did she choose to be a vegetarian or was that your choice for her?

Elaine

Actually, her New Years resolution this past year was to give up meat
again.

I fed her vegetarina food as an infant, but she was exposed to meat
when she spent time with her dad, grandparents, etc. I never prevented
her from eating any meat she wanted, including ordering chicken tenders
off a kids menu if she so chose, but I did not cook it at home. She
mostly ate veg and usually ordered veg at restaurants, but liked to
have tastes of steak, chicken, and bacon. Didn't like ham or turkey.
Never had the opportunity, as far as I'm aware, to eat lamb or pork.

About a year ago, my boyfriend moved in. He's a meat eater, but loves
my veg/fish cooking. He buys steaks and burgers and chicken when we're
grilling, and he gets that pre-cooked chicken for salads or sandwiches
at the store, as far as meat at home. We eat out once or twice a week
when he wants a meat meal. I've been veg/seafood only for 18 years now
(since high school), so I really never learned to cook meat.

The kiddo enjoyed sharing his steaks, although she never got into
burgers. She definitely liked chicken. And pepperoni on pizza. But she
wants to be a veteranarian, and has decided she loves animals too much
to eat them. So she hasn't had anything since Dec 31 2005. She's stuck
to it well. (Only once had to pick the pepperoni off the pizza at
school cuz they were out of cheese.)

So it's definitely her choice at this point. Interesting to see what
she'll choose as she gets older.

Jani said:

"Jude" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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But of course, we're vegetarian and pretty healthy eaters, so the other
kids make fun of whats in her lunchbox a lot. She went through a phase
where all she would take was PB&J or a cream-cheese bagel becasue that
was okay with the other kids.

Ooh, that can be infuriating 🙁 Luckily, the kids at my daughter's school
are more intrigued than sarky about "strange" foods.

It drives me crazy. And they think everything's weird. Pesto is gross
because it's green. Veggies and dip with string cheese is a weird lunch
becasue nobody likes vegetables that much. Bagels are okay, but smoked
salmon spread makes you smell bad. Anything in a wrap is suspect. and
cut-up cheeses with crackers gets "are you too poor to buy lunchables?"
!!! Hummus and pita chips and black olives and feta cheese cubes, eyew
yucky look at the babyfood tara has. And on and on.

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Quoted message said:

Fun idea for a thread; I'm hoping I can get some new ideas! This week's
goodies have been because we're in a lunchbox rut. Time to break out of
it.

Let's see, what have I done over the last term or so ... a layered salad box
(mixed green salad, pasta with mayo, grated cheese, grated carrot, olives)
with a wholemeal or crusty-white bread roll. A baggie with a mix of little
strawberries, grapes, melon chunks, pineapple chunks. Similar, with three or
four different types of cheese cubes. Couple of mini-croissants with a tiny
individual pot of jam (and a plastic picnic knife 🙂 Slice of homemade
pizza. Little carton of hummus with breadsticks. Whole scrubbed carrots; big
slices of melon or pineapple.

Your kids eat well! Tara loevs mini-croisaants but I usually fill them
with something. She'd love a small pot of jam. I'd put a small
tupperware of cottage cheese or yogurt alongside and then some fruit.
She loves lunches like that. Thanks for the inspirations (and thanks
for respecting our diet in your suggestions)!

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As we've now gone hi-tech with an unbreakable thermos, soup has also
appeared on the menu 🙂

Always a good thing. Our thermos gets filled with mac&cheese regularly.
Or spaghetti-os, She loves those things! Oh well, gotta give in
somewhere, right?

Andy said:

How many languages were you fluent in, if that's a fair question?

Andy, you're obviously not fluent in English.... or you'd have written:
_In_ how many languages ARE you fluent? Your command of the English
language barely supasses that of Dumbdora.

Sheldon

Andy said:

"jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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I did, however, cook rice every morning for breakfast. That was the
first thing I ever learned to cook, at the age of nine. On a pot, on
the stove. No rice-cooker. Butter, salt & pepper. YUM!

Jill,

You lucky stiff!!! Wish I'd travelled like that in my youth.

Yeah, sure you did. Live inside a huge gated place with no friends and an
alarm system. That was fun. I was nine; wasn't like I really wandered
around much. I did get to walk around Sukumvit to some of the shops. It
was there I got hooked on watermelon seeds. Yes, soaked, salted and dried
like American sunflower seeds. Oh, and dried squid. Like jerky. Yum!

I went to the Pratunam market with our maid once. Had a couple of baht in
my pocket and brought home some tiny spotted fish. They looked like tiny
whales; their tails were horizontal rather than vertical. I turned them
loose in the fish pond under the steps. Unfortunately they died.

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How many languages were you fluent in, if that's a fair question?

Put Thai nitnoy. Let's just say when I watched "Anna and the King" with
Jodie Foster and that hunk of a (Chinese) actor Chow Yun-Fat, I understood
some of what was being said. The Thai language is all about nuances. The
same word said three different ways means three different things. You have
to know how to pronounce things correctly, otherwise you're asking someone
to step on your head rather than asking directions to the restaurant!

Example (and I can't demonstrate the inflection here): Mai mai mai. It
means the wood will not break. But Mai taken by itself with one inflection
means NO.

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OB Food: Dinner: processed veggie burger with tomato slice with a
swipe of garlic hummus dip wrapped in romaine lettuce and maybe
another one after that.

¿Dondé esta el bano?

I think you meant to ask ¿Dondé esta el quarto de bano?

Jill (giggling) Dinner will be Scottish ground minced beef with mashed
tatties

Sheldon said:

Andy said:

How many languages were you fluent in, if that's a fair question?

Andy, you're obviously not fluent in English.... or you'd have written:
_In_ how many languages ARE you fluent? Your command of the English
language barely supasses that of Dumbdora.

Sheldon

Hey, give him some credit. He managed to tag on a clause, so at least
his sentence didn't end in a preposition!

Jude said:

Sheldon said:

Andy said:

How many languages _were_ you fluent in, if that's a fair question?

Andy, you're obviously not fluent in English.... or you'd have written:
_In_ how many languages ARE you fluent? Your command of the English
language barely surpasses that of Dumbdora.

Sheldon

Hey, give him some credit. He managed to tag on a clause, so at least
his sentence didn't end in a preposition!

Yeah, but... _"were"_ Andy fluent in (whatever), then he'd be dead.
hehe

Sheldon

Michael \'Dog3\' Lonergan said:

I did a chicken salad thingy. It was good. Your lamb sounds really good.

I did chicken salad, too. Now I don't feel so bad.
I grilled some chicken and put it on a bed of mixed greens, bacon,
tomato, chopped sweet yellow pepper, blue cheese crumbles and asiago.
It's tasty stuff.
The lamb sounds really good though. Yum!

Stacia