What's for Dinner?

[sour_grapes]

i use to go to Usinger's, every time I was in milwaukee

Excellent! This is what I expected! It is great that I just knew that a certain food-lovin' guy from LA/TX would know the best sausage place in Milwaukee.

 

[Rocky]

Tonight is burger night at Rocky's. We are having my World famous Philly cheeseburger steak "sangwich" which I make from the ground trimmings from a beef tenderloin, red bell peppers, onions, provolone cheese and a whole wheat bun. We will have some sweet potato fries and, of course, wine with the burgers and then watch Penn State destroy Ohio State! If I drink enough by game time, I can dream any outcome I desire.

 

[Runningwolf]

Rocky, I wished I lived closer and was invited. The dinner sounds astounding. When I get done playing in the basement I'll be making my famous hot sausage dip to take to friends tonight for the same game. I'm sure we'd be sitting on separate sides of the room but they are my two favorite college teams.

 

[Rocky]

Dan, that dip sounds really good. I think you and I would be on the same side. I am a Penn State fan. You can take the boy out of Pennsylvania but you can't take the Pennsylvania out of the boy!

 

[DoodleBug]

Go Penn State!

I'm having lasagna for dinner.

 

[jamesngalveston]

Go LSU>...I am having butterflyed fried gulf shrimp, fresh crab cakes, and marinated crab claws, with a cabbage slaw, and hush puppies..

 

[jamesngalveston]

sour grapes, there is so many good places to eat and shop in milwaukee....
its like a little chicago to me...I try to make summer fest every year, but did not this year...I drive up, and load up with cheese and sausage on the way home...pack it in 3 are 4 coolers with dry ice..it usually holds me for a year .....omg. last time I bough 50 lbs of cheese curds.lol

 

[sour_grapes]

sour grapes, there is so many good places to eat and shop in milwaukee....
its like a little chicago to me...I try to make summer fest every year, but did not this year...I drive up, and load up with cheese and sausage on the way home...pack it in 3 are 4 coolers with dry ice..it usually holds me for a year .....omg. last time I bough 50 lbs of cheese curds.lol

50 lbs! Wow, what did you do the next month?

Yeah, Milwaukee is a good city to be a foodie in. I am not from here originally, and I didn't really choose it (just wound up here because of my job), but it was a fine place to land. Beer, brats, and cheese -- what could go wrong?!

its like a little chicago to me

That would rub some Milwaukeeans the wrong way, but not me. I like to say "It is like Chicago .... 6 million people ago." I live about 3/4 mile from Lake Michigan, about 10 minutes from downtown, and my house is about 1/3 the price of what it would be in Chicago.

 

[pjd]

50 lbs! Wow, what did you do the next month?

Yeah, Milwaukee is a good city to be a foodie in. I am not from here originally, and I didn't really choose it (just wound up here because of my job), but it was a fine place to land. Beer, brats, and cheese -- what could go wrong?!

Ah yes the Beer! My favorite beer is only available in Wisconsin. New Glarus Moon Man! Luckily I have a few connections in that fine state!

 

[GreginND]

Would post my dinner but the hotel internet is down. So I haven't been able to upload pictures.

 

[GreginND]

Wifi here at the Prado museum. Here's my lunch - at museum prices!

Tortilla Española and a shrimp salad.

 

[jamesngalveston]

Greg,,,I have to tell the truth...It does not look appetizing to me.
The Tortilla Española looks like a hunk of banana bread, and the salad looks like dont know.....
Compared with pictures of home prepared foods on this thread...well, thats why i dont eat out, unless it is an absoulute must...
Hope you enjoyed the museum...

 

[sour_grapes]

In another thread, James wrote:

hey sourgrapes, ever go to barnacle buds/

sour grapes, I have eaten burgers in about every state, theres is by far one of the best.

Well, last night, I was very hungry, having worked hard all day at changing storm windows. We were casting about for places to go, and my wife remembered this comment from James. Off we went, finding this small, out-of-the way restaurant. It is "out of the way" because it is on one of the rivers here. If you are on a boat, of course, you cannot miss it, but by car, you have to navigate industrial buildings on a small road.

Anyway, I had the surf and turf that they did not know they had on the menu. They had a grouper po' boy that I wanted to try, but I also wanted the burger that James recommended. To complicate matters, their burger is 10 oz., with the words on the menu challenging "We dare you to finish it." I said, what the hell, I will have both the grouper AND the burger. After all, there are doggie bags, right?

Welll, I almost ate all of both. I polished off half the burger, then ate the whole grouper, then returned to the burger and nearly finished it, about three bites left.

The grouper was quite good, but I do wish I hadn't ordered the po'-boy version of it. They put "cajun spices" on it, which were quite good and tasty, but dominated the taste of the grouper. The burger, as James predicted, was excellent.

 

[jamesngalveston]

cool place to go in the spring and summer....they used to have the menu on a huge black chalkboard.

 

[Tess]

Sunday Dinner...Lemon Roasted chicken sprinkled with Herbes de Provence and roasted to a golden brown. Oven baked three cheese mac&Cheese and a Mixed vegetable medley. It was very good but a lot of food we are stuffed. No wine its was a sweet tea kinda night but headed for a glass of Shiraz right now

 

[Tess]

Wifi here at the Prado museum. Here's my lunch - at museum prices!

Tortilla Española and a shrimp salad.

that looks wonderful. I bet it was good

 

[GreginND]

And a few more delights. Last night I found a large market with 40 or so different vendors selling tapas and drinks. You could wander around and just buy what you want. It was great.

At most bars they give you free bread and chorizo with your drink:

At one restaurant I had some good Galician style jamon.

Jamon Iberica es muy bien . . .

More delicious chorizo with potatoes . . .

Fresh oysters - delicious! Served with sparkling cava.

Y paella con vino tinto . .

Grilled meats - I think pork

Saben lo que es eso? . . . Conejo and it was delicious!!!

I like octopus but most of the time it's very chewy. This was the most tender delectable octopus I have ever had in my life. . .

Y, el vino ??

And the god of wine . . . from the Prado museum . . Bacchus (Dionysus)

 

[Tess]

Thanks or sharing. I love to see what different cultures are eating. Not sure I could do the Calamari but Id at least give it a little taste

 

[sour_grapes]

Ooooh, those look heavenly. It just kept getting better! I don't imagine James is going to diss this set of pix!

 

[jamesngalveston]

I dont think so, it was a wonder full set of pics...now i got to go get some oysters.