What's for Dinner, Wed., Sept. 17, 2014

[NJCher]

The RG just phoned from the restaurant on the mountain that has the NYC skyline view. He's bringing dinner home from there, so it will be a surprise!


Cher

[grasswire]

1. tortilla soup

also apple salad and pineapple upside down cake

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. The last of the spaghetti from Sunday.

A salad.

[Galileo126]

3. Sausage and peppiz sangwich

Not sure what else...

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. We splurged

And grilled NY strip steaks, albeit very skinny ones. Probably half the size of ones I normally see in the stores, so either they came from a small cow, or were from the 'end' of a side or something.

Then I went out and worked off the calories by mowing the back yard and pulling a whole bunch of morning glories down off the back fence. The neighbours on the other side had been weed whacking, and most of them appear to have been severed and were wilting, so not much point in leaving them up. The raspberry patch is looking a lot better contained, but I still need to get the large pavers I have sitting along the side of the house moved out between the patch and my shed so I'm not squelching through mud to get to the compost heap when it gets rainy again. Also looks to be about time to harvest the next pumpkin, that vine is dying back. Leaves us with one more still growing and dark green still.

[grasswire]

5. I'm considering pulling my tomatoes

It's still in the 80s here (so weird) but I have this feeling we are going to plummet from that directly into cold rainy autumn soon. I don't think any new fruit is setting on the tomatoes, but I do have a lot of green ones out there. I usually freeze some of those for sauces, and have fried ones a couple of times. I pulled the zinnias today and planted some pansies.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

6. I only had one volunteer tomato this year

and I gave the last green ones off that to Dad a few days ago I think it was. Nothing really left out in my yard besides the pumpkins and a handful of autumn gold raspberries that are coming ripe over a very long timeframe.