What's for dinner?

[BerryBaby]

We went to a Japanese steakhouse. It was my day off!

[Food Network Fan]

I am not sure what we will do tonight. It's parent teacher conference for us, (thankfully he does pretty well on his report card) and the school is offering "taco in a bag" which appears to be all the toppings for a taco dumped into a snack sized bag of fritos. My husband is speaking at a seminar today and will probably get here just in time to go to the school ... I do not want to eat "taco in a bag".

Maybe I can just make the ground beef for real tacos and have my daughter keep an eye on it over simmer until we get back. Then have all the lettuce and other toppings ready to go in the fridge.

[Pajangle]

Right now (for lunch) it's leftover Mongolian Beef I made the other night and for dinner it's either chicken marsala or Alton's stuffed pork chops.

[BerryBaby]

Just had a big salad....lettuce, red cabbage, cherry tomatoes (from my plants), carrots, parmesan cheese, kalamata olives and a bit of chopped salami with Italian dressing. A juicy, little tangerine for dessert and I'm full!

Maybe I'll make stuffed peppers for dinner. Right now, it's hard to think about any food.

[Pluff Mudder]

It's gotten cooler here so I've taken a Boston butt out of the freezer with plans to make a pork & sweet potato stew. Using my beef stew recipe with some changes in the veggie lineup like sweet potatoes in place of the red potatoes, black-eyed peas in place of the green peas, etc. We'll see how this goes...

[BerryBaby]

What's Boston Butt? We don't have that cut of meat out here.

The stuffed peppers were absolutely perfect and delicious!

[Food Network Fan]

It's just pork butt here. We leave Boston out of it. Sometimes you will see it as pork shoulder.

[Pluff Mudder]

What's Boston Butt? We don't have that cut of meat out here.

A Boston butt is a cut of pork that comes from the upper part of the shoulder from the front leg. Here in this part of the South, butts are normally smoked and pulled for pulled pork BBQ.

Supposedly how this cut of meat got it's name is from the casks or barrels (also known as butts) this and some other cuts where packed into for storage and shipment back in the early 1770's. And, the way the hog shoulder was cut in Boston in these barrels, became known in other parts of the county as Boston butt.

[Pluff Mudder]

Made a pizza from out of The Pioneer Woman cookbook and it was so good! Potato, leeks, bacon and three different cheeses. Had some baby portabella mushrooms in the fridge, so added them to the pie. It was one of those dishes that makes your toes curl!

[Food Network Fan]

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