Had a lovely chicken salad on Wednesday night. The first time in my life where I've eaten salad as a main meal - go Mike!!!!! Had a takeaway pizza last night (go on, shoot me) and then a chicken / rice / vegetable stir-fry this evening. Good stuff!

Your first salad as a main meal?! Interesting milestone. Salad bars have been a way of life for me since I was a teenager. I confess that I, too, had carryout pizza last night (but still had a salad on the side!)

Wolfgang Puck frozen pizza (the best), salad, gator aid for din din.

I couldn't bear eating salad when I was younger...I guess I'm changing my tastes!!!

yup! Me, too. Now I make great big ones with all sorts of goodies in them so they are a complete meal. On a hot day they are perfect. We have especially bedacious avocandoes over here (about 2 pounds each and NO strings with a buttery flavor and no bitterness) which I add liberally. If I ever leave Hawaii, I will miss them most of all I think! The one I made last night had white boneless, skinless chicken in it, and small herbed tofu slices along with fresh spinach, tomatoes and other greens. And two kinds of cheeses.

had another salad this evening, along with a good sirloin steak. lovely stuff.

I actually cooked tonight--we had spinach tortellini, couscous w/Old Bay seasoning, and green beans for dinner.

Hi Autumn ....can you think of something to put in food and culture in Cultures conference???? We should be able to get something 'yummy' going onthere!

We already have British, African and ethnic categories here in Food...what did you have in mind, Maggie?

Hi Autumn, there's a topic on cultural aspects of food in the cultures conference (of which for my sins I am now host) created last year on someones suggestion. Bit broader than specific countries/continents food I think ...probably some overlap inevitably. One of the things I hope to think about there for example is customs or rituals surrounding eating.

I will go there and check it out!

Looks like we need another round of salads. It is too hot to cook. Please, there are sensitive people about. No junk pizzas mentioned... we care!

Tri-color egg noodles green beans baked potatoes tossed salad

Friends round to dinner Roast pork with apple and cranberry sauce potatoes snap beans parsnips christmas pudding (flambe) brandy butter double cream followed by an hilarious card game

Two loaves banana bread, scrambled eggs... everything else was just heated up in the microwave!

I heated up last nights pizza.

Homemade or storebought??

storebought.

How do you feel about those new fangled, stuffed crust, self-rising, over-the-top frozen pizzas???

Oh that was off topic, sorry. Today I made a batch of vegetarian chili.

Them new fangled pizzas are purty good, thar' Stace.

Do you have Nick N Willys in Austin? It's a take and bake place and we had some delicious four cheese, tomato and mushroom pizza from there last night! Oh, and I made Chex Mix today...

I haven't heard of that being in Austin.

bagels and english muffins (in the toaster oven)

baked a red velvet cake from scratch *yummy*

Brown rice.