What did you cook or eat today? (October 2025)

[Puggles]

Yes, catfish and hush puppies is a thing around here. Fish fries are a big deal too. We've lots of rivers, lakes, coastline so fish is plentiful. I'm fixing them broiled white fish tomorrow, enough frying already! 🫟

Do you live near Alton Brown? I thought I remember reading he lives in Rome.

 

[Barriehie]

Do you live near Alton Brown? I thought I remember reading he lives in Rome.

He lives in Marietta which is about an hour or so from here.

 

[Rocklobster]

Halibut with a tapenade I made with Sicilian olives, caper berries, fresh parsley. I threw on some teeny weeny garlic cloves from the garden.

 

[medtran49]

When Covid hit, the town grocer had a literal wall of TP as soon as you entered the store. It was well over my head, maybe 12ft high and the length of the shopping cart area, maybe 50ft.
It took them several years for that wall of toilet paper to whittle down
Obviously we did not experience the shortage some predicted.

You're lucky. I managed to snag some online at Wal-Mart by staying up really late and refreshing every few minutes. When we went to pick up, I went in while Craig drove around. On coming out, I was really worried given the looks I was getting since it was a giant sized package. We were going to grocery shop after, but decided to go home and drop the TP off since even Craig noticed and we were driving my car that was an SUV with no trunk.

 

[medtran49]

Buffalo chicken wings, carrot and celery crudites, blue cheese dipping sauce, and potato salad, which was mainly for Craig.

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

Neighborhood Gal Pals Luncheon

Peanut Butter Chocolate Martini

Lump Blue Crab Dip for the table

My plate, Red Wine Braised Short Ribs, Roasted Butternut Squash, Garlic Smashed Potatoes and Creamed Corn - that's Diane Sauce atop the Short Rib meat, that was pulled off the bone --- probably just fell off, it was that tender!

Mrs. Next Door Neighbor's lunch of Pulled Pork Sliders

And the birthday girl's lunch: Steelhead Trout, Garlic Smashed Potatoes and Roasted Beets & Carrot.
Everything was wonderful!
We had been to this restaurant just once before.
The service was great and the food even better.
We all decided that we needed to come back here again.

 

[PAcanis]

Crudites?
I live 90 minutes from Buffalo and I can pretty much guarantee they don't call cut celery crudites
Until I googled crudites, I had it confused with morlocks

Anyhoo...
Chicken fried steak, mashed redskins, and shaved B sprouts with shallots, garlic and parm.

 

[JAS_OH1]

Lunch.
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If the cheese looks a little off, it was.
The deli person gave me a pound of sharp American rather than plain old yellow American.
I didn't notice the difference until I opened the bag and went to take out a couple slices. Too late then.
But it worked out.

I'd like sharp American. I didn't know it was a thing!

 

[JAS_OH1]

Made some hush puppies to go with their fish for the GG's... (These came out really tasty!) Used the Southern Living recipe here.View attachment 135524

Yep, that's it. A little sugar adds a little je ne sais quois though.