This is an ongoing thread on another board that I belong to and since we have an international audience here, I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone cooks, bakes, or orders out. Recipes can be exchanged. Everyone bonds over food,right. And do you call it dinner? Supper? Or something else.

sometimes my "late" meal is breakfast since I work at night. Although springie can vow that it's not always breakfast food... (was chatting with her while I ate it)

I call the meal dinner, but when use that word with my students I get the strangest looks. Tonight I plan on having steak, done on the BBQ, and salad for dinner. I may end up bringing home roast chicken, depending on how long my staff meeting goes on.

Hey CD...we are thinking alike!! I just ran to the grocery store on my lunch hour and I picked up some steak kabobs from the butcher that I plan on grillling. I also picked up a bag of lettuce too!! I probably won't steamed this tonight, but I also picked up the hugest artichoke that I've ever seen. oh...and I do the roasted chickens alot too. It's nice to have for dinner and then make a sandwich or taco's from the leftovers the next night.

Originally posted by Lolabella clip.... won't steamed this tonight, but I also picked up the hugest artichoke that I've ever seen.

Artichokes have been on sale with me just recently. I have looked at them and wondered what to do with them. /How to cook and eat them./ So, you steam them do you? Then what?

Artichokes are one of my most favorite foods! First, I snipe the tops off of all the leaves and then I put them in a deep pot of boiling water and put a lid on it. Make sure the water covers the artichoke completely. Depending on the size, I usually boil them for about 45 minutes. Meanwhile I microwave a 1/2 stick of butter with some garlic for dipping. Once artichokes are done they are very soft. You break off the leaves dip in butter and skim them between your teeth to get the delicate 'meat' off of them. SOOOOO GOOOD!!

Ooh ... I am lazy considering I am recovering from a girl's night out (baby free, husband free!!) ... So I will try to convince Flash to let us do takeout tonight. I have a hankering for Vietnamese food. Chances are We'll end up doing Hungry Man TV dinners ... Usually we eat well, but every once in a while I'm just too freaking lazy and too freaking tired to worry about such trivial shit as dishes ... Oh, and I call it "Tea" "Dinner" is lunch and Breakfast is "Brekkie" And gosh darn I would kill for a damn Petrol Station nuked meat pie! SJ

Brekkie, I like that. Depends on what I have but if it's not full blown dinner, then it's lunch and tea but if I am having full blown meal, eg roast beef, then it's dinner, whether it's at lunch time or tea time.

So...what is usually eaten at 'Tea'? Is that a lighter meal? Is the 'Tea' the focus? In Mexican culture, the afternoon meal is the biggest one of the day. Followed by an afternoon siesta.

They have siesta's in Spain as I found out as I was trying to get a roll of film developed in Ibiza. To mean, Tea is just a lighter meal for example cheese and biscuits with pork pie or scotch egg or, just pie and chips from the chippy (Fish and Chip shop)

Originally posted by Metaliant They have siesta's in Spain as I found out as I was trying to get a roll of film developed in Ibiza. To mean, Tea is just a lighter meal for example cheese and biscuits with pork pie or scotch egg or, just pie and chips from the chippy (Fish and Chip shop)

You visited Ibiza?!!?!?! That is one place that is on my list of places to visit!!

Lots of brits go to Ibiza. Lots of germans too.... I think I've been to Ibiza about 6 times in the last 10 years.

I think there's a section across the bay in San Antonia where I have been that has Americans and possibly French but can't remember.

so many foods above sound really good. Lola thanks for the imput on artichokes, I've often wondered myself how to prepare and eat them... Are they kinda bland without the garlic butter sauce? Some here will not eat anything with spices.. Remind me to ask the board fot food help!

What? Help to eat it or help to cook it ?

To me Dinner is the meal served at 5:00pm - 7:00pm At the moment my lady and I are very heavily into Nando's when eating out.

What is Nandos? Last night's dinner was ruined. I put the steak kabobs on the grill and forgot about them. I like a good medium rare steak and these were over done...bleh!! No dinner for me tonight as I go from one job to the next.

Its a Portuguese....restaurant I guess you would call it that. Basically everything on the menu is chicken and you place an order at the bar and then the food is brought to you but we looooooooove nandos, the peri peri sauce is lovely even if we are cowards and go for the lemon spice level. There is lemon, medium, spicy and extreme peri peri sauce. I tried medium once and I couldn't taste the chicken

See...I don't even know what Porteguese food consists of...but it sounds good!! I'm a foodie and will try anything new. But, I don't even think that there is a Porteguese restaurant anywhere around here. I'd probably have to go to a bigger city that is nearby, like Chicago.

Ugh. I'm not eating dinner anymore... part of my diet. I need to lose some poundage!!!!

I have had a mixed grill for dinner tonight - I was going to cook pork chops and steamed veg, but the place where we went out to is so cheap that we could just about buy the meat and cook it ourselves for the price of the whole meal there. It's in the middle of an urban nature reserve too - about 1 square mile of nature surrounded by factories and polluted waterways and a big shopping mall. When you're surrounded by the trees and looking at the bluebell wood, it's only the traffic noise that suggests that there are suburbs stretching out for a minimum of 3 miles all around it.

That sounds like a lovely way to enjoy a meal. Were you able to dine al fresco?

Not quite a warm enough evening for that - and too many flies unfortunately. But we waited outside until the food arrived, since it's got a decent children's play area too.

I've started using the oven timer. You know, you put stuff in, then tell it to turn on at 4:00. I try to start it around 2:30, just before leaving to pick up the kids, so the raw food's not in for too long, and add an extra 15 minutes for it to warm up. Put lids on everything, and add a bit extra water, then take the lids off when we're back from school if I want things crispier. It even works for rice (add an extra 1/8cup water, and grease the dish first for easy clean-up. Bit crusty on top at times.) Root veggies, stir them in a touch of oil and wrap a cup or so in foil. Haven't tried them just in a dish yet. Taters just bake or cut in cubes and season and dry-roast, or scalloped.

That's a great idea Cricket! I'm always afraid to use my oven timer. With the warmer summer months just around the bend, I tend to use my grill on a nightly basis. Dinner tonight will be out. I'm meeting my best galpal for drinks, movie, and then dinner. She says she needs a mini-vacation from her family. Not sure where we will end up for dinner though.

oh do make it somewhere fancy! For a mini-vacation from family outing , gal-pal will enjoy eating something that isnt wrapped in paper, and doesnt come with a little toy! and whateva you do NEVER bring up the family in conversation...that alone will seem like a mini break! lol!

hee...she wants to go to very adult-like place for Martinis. The place is called Twist and Olive. It'll give a chance to get all doll-ed up and be pretentious. Well...we will pretend to at least. No family talk! We usually end up talking about the our high school hijinx and all the boys that we used to make out with.

Good Girl. As wives, we cant stop talking /bitching/whining about the hubby; as mothers we can endlessly talk/boast/whine about the kids yet there are very few times you can actually just take a breather and talk about yourself! so Im so glad you girls are gonna have fun living it up and reminiscing about those carefree days! Enjoy!!

Well, my dinner ended up being a watermelon martini last night. My friend forgot about dinner and intended to save her appetite for movie house popcorn so she had a late lunch. When we arrived at the movie theater we discovered that the movie we (actually she) wanted to see ended the previous night. The place was swarming with kids wanting to see Spiderman 3 and we decided to come back on another occassion. So we headed to the martini bar.

I went cinema the other night to watch Wild Hogs (good film) and there was a guy dressed like spider man, wish I had taken a pic he actually looked like the real spiderman from the movie!

In keeping with the theme of the thread...did you have popcorn at the movie theater? Are you one of those that gets the big tub and goes back for refills. Me, personally, am not a popcorn muncher. If someone else buys it/makes it and it's out...then I snack on it. I remember when my mom used to make it on the stove.

Originally posted by Cep I went cinema the other night to watch Wild Hogs (good film) and there was a guy dressed like spider man, wish I had taken a pic he actually looked like the real spiderman from the movie!

There was a crossover from Spiderman and Wild Hogs? Nice film. All I had for my tea was chese and biscuits. I was planning to have something else but couldn't be bothered.

Dinner last night was chicken salad on whole wheat. Then I made one of those single serving Betty Crocker brownie mixes. It comes out all hot and gooey out of the microwave. I chased it down with a cold glass of milk.

My dinner last night was a rather nice chicken tikka karahi from the local balti district. Yummm! It turns out they do chicken nuggets and chips for the fussy kid as well. My husband's vindaloo was so hot it gave him hiccups

Wow Meri!! Your dinner sounds fantatic!! Much better than mine. I had to look up you dished on wikipedia because I've never heard of them. Honestly, we need better restaurants (more ethnic) where I live.

Originally posted by meridianday My dinner last night was a rather nice chicken tikka karahi from the local balti district. Yummm! It turns out they do chicken nuggets and chips for the fussy kid as well. My husband's vindaloo was so hot it gave him hiccups

These are supposdly Indian meals, but us Brits invented them for Friday and Saturday nights out after drinking too much.

Originally posted by Metaliant

Originally posted by meridianday My dinner last night was a rather nice chicken tikka karahi from the local balti district. Yummm! It turns out they do chicken nuggets and chips for the fussy kid as well. My husband's vindaloo was so hot it gave him hiccups

These are supposdly Indian meals, but us Brits invented them for Friday and Saturday nights out after drinking too much.

We tend to do Taco Bell after a much celebrated Friday or Saturday night.

You wouldn't beleive it but I am actually going to be boring for tea. Just a chicken sandwich.

My sexy baby made up this dinner last night and it was sooooooo good. Basically it was Turkey breast, crunchy salad from Sainsburys, some chicken flavouring, shredded cheese and a dollop of light mayonnaise. Basically she pan friend the turkey breast giving it a coating of that chicken flavouring, then laid it on a bed of crunchy salad which she also put some honey and mustard dressing on, then put the shredded cheese on the top of the turkey so it melted. For something that mostly made up of sainsburys basics it was fan-***-tastic!!

Sounds like a Jamie Oliver ad!

Or "Nigella Bites" (a.k.a Nigella Eats)

Originally posted by meridianday Sounds like a Jamie Oliver ad!

Don't say that he's taking over Cep?

Oh hell no, it was actually spur of the moment stuff, unlike Jamie Oliver my baby is a student

Thank god, I was getting worried then.

dinner last night was yummy. Egg noodles mixed with red peppers and peas in a garlic cream sauce with turkey meatballs. What made dinner so lovely is that I ate it while watching a handyman fix my patio fence. *grins*

Canadians are cute. The first ray of Spring sunshine and they're out BBQ'ing. I like it ... But enough's enough! If I have to do one more BBQ ... :wibble: Usually Flash is an awesome cook, but he keeps failing to remember that ever since I got pregnant I can't do the Rare steaks anymore. Yes, I used to ask for my meat to be mooing on the plate, but now I can't do it. I haven't been able to in three years! notices the a smilie on the side and giggles To abruptly change the subject: Didn't the Mythbusters bust this myth, like years ago? A penny cannot reach a high enough terminal velocity to do any real harm ... Ahhh ... am I an official "Trekkie" type person now??!! SJ

Several times I have been to my brother's for a BBq. Usually he says about 1 or 2 pm. Oh about 5 pm we have our food ready. Nothing to do with the weather but sometimes he kinda of slightly mis-caluating when the food will be ready. Also, we have a TV advert in Britain for Argos catalogue summer stuff, where a man is trying to set up a table and chairs when it's about hurricane speed winds and tries to start a BBQ while it pissing it down with rain, while his family looks er a bit non-happy (and thinks the bloke is mad ) to have a BBQ in that kind of weather. Finally, the bad weather disappears and nice sunny warm weather comes out.

Originally posted by SJ_SwanJun notices the a smilie on the side and giggles Didn't the Mythbusters bust this myth, like years ago? A penny cannot reach a high enough terminal velocity to do any real harm ... SJ

Yes they did bust this myth. Although Adam got some bad bruises using his body to prove it.

The first ray of Spring sunshine and they're out BBQ'ing. (SJ)

Yes.. yes.. they are so cute.. especially my back-to-back neighbors. They have been splashing in the pool for the past week or so!!! I just know that we won't get a pool though.. for me, the only time that's good for swimming in an outdoor pool is between Jun 21st to Aug 21st. All the other days are too damn cold.. brrrrr... Anyhow.. back to dinner.. I am the most boring.. we normally have fish for 2 days, tofu for a day, egg for another day and take out or eat out for the rest! Kinda easy to arrange... Used to do more beef before but got scared by the media on all the news about the Mad Cow disease and the linkage between low-sperm count and the hormones in beef (ok..ok.. the research was on preggo moms and their boys when they grew up, but who knows if it is going to affect growing boys too. You know.. I plan to have grandkids some day, gotta take care of my sons' well-being.) Anyhow, I'd better duck out before you guys throw rotten tomato at me.. hee..hee.. Have fun.. Yuki