Kim's mention of having cereal for dinner made me think about the ludicrous things I sometimes eat for dinner when I'm home alone. Like tonight.

Someone should take away my claim to being a grown up.

I took slices of homemade banana nut bread, slathered them with cream cheese on the inside and butter knock-off on the outside and then grilled them in my little sandwich maker. That was my dinner. No vegetables, no whole grains, no redeeming value whatsoever, other than maybe the bananas. But I had fun!

Ok, call the emergency nutritionist, then tell me what your most recent junk food dinner was.

Birthday cake and Bailys.

Ginger

Is pop-corn and ice cream bad?

english muffin with butter and Nutella!
Oh so diet...not!

Sue

A variation of Palma's dinner - Crunch 'n Munch and ice cream.

So what's wrong with popcorn (a vegetable ) and dairy ?

Palma

quote:

Is pop-corn and ice cream bad?

Not as bad as popcorn and milk duds

Other pre-WW favorites:

• Frank and Bean Casserole
  
• Mac and Cheeze (from the box)
  
• Okay here's one that will make the Italians and Italian lovers cringe, spaghetti and ketchup (don't ask ....)
  

Last night as I was home alone( husband & son had plans) I really didn't have to cook anything ,so I asked my girlfriend Deb over for "dinner".... Macadamia Ice Cream & Mango Sorbet Swirled Pie (recipe in this months Bon Appetit). We were like 2 little kids laughing it up and I won't even tell you how much we ate! Our husbands will be gone again next week so who knows what "dinner " we'll be having then.

In winter sometimes my dinner is riso e latt, a sweet souplike concotion of milk and rice, a typical baby food. Obviously I have to make it with reduced lactose milk, since both my granny and I are lactase-deficient. Usually, I add either cocoa or diced dried dates, but I like dates best.
In case anyone wants to try it (in winter!), the recipe is extremely easy.

1 1/2 glasses (about 3 cups) of rice (round grain, no long grains in Italy)
Less than 1/2 liter of milk
Sugar
Salt

First boil the rice halfway in lightly salted water. Remove the water and add the milk. Boil the rice again until not-so-al dente, add sugar, stir. It should be soupy, with lightly concentrated milk to pool in the bowl.

I'm on a peppermint pattie frappuccino kick.
Venti sized.
Heavy sweet creme base
SIX pumps chocolate sauce
SIX pumps peppermint syrup
Blended with lots of ice.

I refuse to contemplate how many calories this may be.

I just close my eyes and let the frap transport me back to the old time movie theatres where my favorite treat was "Junior Mints"

Alice,
My mother used to make the same thing. I make it too, but I add cinnamon to the mixture (and butter)
Yum

I absolutely LOVE pancakes for dinner, and make it a habit of having them several times a year.

Terry

Does this count?? It was verrrrry hot here two nights ago and on the way home I said I don't want to cook anything, I just want to eat something cold! So I only had ice cream for supper - made a sundae with nutella, strawberries and toasted cashews. Then, an hour later I had a dish of the same thing for DESSERT!! I think this is a "once in a lifetime" indulgence, but it was very good and I felt very childishly decadent! Last night I had a huge bowl of freshly mixed greens from the garden, a dill dressing with the new garlic in our garden and cold shrimp (not from our garden). So now I feel kind of balanced... don't you just love summer!!

I have been known to have watermelon for dinner.

I also once read of someone who (when stawberries are in season) would make her family strawberry shortcakes for dinner (made with biscuits and real whipped cream, of course). That sounded like great fun. Another once a year treat!

When corn is in season, I like to make one special dinner of piping hot buttered corn on the cob.

Summer is the time for fun meals!

Watermelon and bread (and some prosciutto or samale if they had any) is a common farmers' dinner up here in northern Italy, or at least it used to be in the province of Mantova.

I'm with Palma -- a big bowl of popcorn, liberaly sprinkled with grated parmesan.

Have also been known to make my buttermilk pancakes for dinner when nothing else seemed to appeal.

And Alice -- thanks for reminding me about "milk-rice". Haven't made that in years.

Judy

peanut butter and jam sandwich,
washed down with
ice cold coffee - extra strong with lots of condensed milk

sugar OD

also channeling Palma....

in my twenties, living alone, my dinners often consisted of a green salad, popcorn, and alot of Almaden wine (remember THAT stuff?)

Diana -- you didn't follow the rules! Green salad = vegetable matter!! Much too healthy.

And my, yes, I do remember Almaden wines -- actually lived in the Almaden valley area of San Jose back when it was all farmland...

Judy

I have been known to eat a whole bowl of jello chocolate pudding with whipped cream for dinner.

THis is fun. And I'm amused that my next post after this was to say I'm eating at Charlie Trotter's!