What's for dinner?

[Damelon]

Mmmmm.

Good eats, Jenn.

Cold pizza for me tonight.

[Worm of Despite]

Went to IHOP: corned beef hash omelet with a short stack of pancakes.

[Cameraman Jenn]

I love corned beef hash. Thanks Damelon, that's very sweet knowing you speak from having experienced my spags first hand. The vino/formaggio makes a nice change.

[sgt.null]

chicken breast, mashed potatoes, gravy, lima beans, fresca.

[stonemaybe]

Tonight I'll be having the remnants of last night's spaghetti bolognese- and I can't wait cos it was the best I'd ever made!

(Decided to put in about four times the amount of basil leaves as I actually thought was sensible)

[Menolly]

Hmm...

Love basil in pasta sauce.

Tonight is the first night of Sukkot. Holiday dinner tonight, tomorrow night, and Friday night at Lubavitch.

[drew]

Beef stew made all day in the slow cooker, made by the woman)

Buttery bisquits, made by the man.

[Worm of Despite]

Manwich sandwiches and tater tots.

[Menolly]

I honestly have no clue.

Perhaps pan seared polski kielbasa and Kraft blue box with peas.

...the fridge still isn't working; time to call the landlord on Monday I guess...

[stonemaybe]

Friday's becoming sausage and chips day, but as S wasn't hungry last night, tonight we had pork and apple sausages, cheesy (oven-roasted) chips (that's fries but nicer to you USers), cherry tomatoes, cucumber, roasted portobello mushrooms with chilli and garlic, & pickled onions. simple but oh so yum!

[bloodguard bob]

Blue box and tuna

[Menolly]

Fresh tuna or canned, BGB?
Served separately or mixed together?
Do you add peas to it?

With canned tuna and peas mixed in, that was a staple I had growing up.

[bloodguard bob]

Jenn made it.
2 blue boxes
2 cans of solid white tuna
grated med.sharp cheddar

[Menolly]

*nod*

Sounds about the same as what I grew up with.

Quick, easy, and tastey.

[bloodguard bob]

Tonight we're having this:



Yeah I know, I'm a big show-off. I didn't even catch it.

[Menolly]

Wow, that is one gorgeous creature.

[matrixman]

Just ate chicken breast in wine and mushroom sauce.

[Menolly]

Tonight is Johnsonville bratwurst cooked in the Showtime, simmered in Leinenkugels and butter, served on toasted kaiser rolls with raw sweet onion, sliced kosher dill pickles, and Guldens mustard. Quickie southern-style green beans on the side.

Awww...

I have never been to Sheboygan but to hear FIL's tales of the brats of Summerfest...

[Mortice Root]

Menolly, that is a perfect description of a brat. I'm jealous. Certainly sounds like it was prepared by a Wisconsinite. What's the Sheboygan connection?

[Menolly]

What's the Sheboygan connection?

*nostalgic smile*

Though raised in southeast Florida, I am the oldest child of two Jews from Brooklyn. No, we didn't have a kosher home, and occasionally we would eat at a German deli, where I would have a wurst platter that might have one boiled to death white colored "bratwurst" along with a couple other varieties of "wurst." What did I know by a true brat?

20 years ago this month, when I met Hyperception in south Florida, he was residing with his dad, a native born and raised Sheboyganite, "the wurst capital of the world." Hyperception's mom, a native from Milwaukee (but one that I have never seen eat a brat in all the time I've known her), lived in Barbados with her second husband. So FIL is who I met first.

Our first meal together, he introduced me to the "brat fry." Holy !@#$! As a foodie, I was in heaven and intrigued. And the brat had to be what I was told is the Sheboygan double brat. Never one brat on the kaiser roll but two (I had to stretch them when I made them at ElohimFest, so I served singles; but I was told they were pretty impressive all the same), regardless of them sliding around on the roll under the onion and pickle. That was all part of the experience.

Hyperception took brat frys for granted, and never expressed interest in learning how to do them. But FIL and I bonded over them. He would insist on using Johnsonville only; claimed there were better from the local butchers of his childhood in Sheboyagan, but that in south Florida, those were the closest to what he remembered. And he would tell me tales of various Summerfests down on the shores of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, claiming all the while that the best brats served there were those from the proprieters of Sheboygan.

I think it took a year before he let me turn my first brat on the grill with bare fingers, and about three years before I could do the entire thing on my own. As I mentioned in the beer thread, the type of beer used to simmer the brats after they're cooked is just as important as not bursting the skin if at all possible.

We live about five hours away from FIL now, and I use the Showtime with the basket (never on skewers, never, never, never!!!) more often than firing up the grill, but I think of FIL, and his patience teaching this Floridian Jew how to make the perfect Sheboygan double brat, whenever I make this meal.