A couple of weeks ago I made a thick chicken and garbanzo soup, flavored with ancho chili powder and smoked paprika. I thought it tasted like the posole I get at the local taqueria. So, I made posole. Shredded chicken thigh meat, hominy from a can, further seasoned with cumin. Decidedly non-traditional additions of mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and romano beans, because I’m perverse.
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Pappardelle with shallot, garlic, mushroom, splash of vermouth, Boursin garlic & herb, splash of cream sauce. Parsley, garlic bread. Tomato, cucumber, red onion, oo&v dressing, dried basil.
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I’ll play. Viet Cong kale? very crispy? Since I bought something, something?
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Very chewy and sautéed in butter with onions. Just me being a brat about all the acronyms I can’t figure out.
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Thank you!
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@BeefeaterRocksSister @janeh9 and others - because I am SERIOUSLY procrastinating on a bunch of mind-numbing work projects, I made a list of acronyms from the January and February threads. We have fun with them but it’s not good if they feel exclusionary to new members of the thread.
What’s For Dinner (WFD) acronyms/translations
ATK = America’s Test Kitchen
BGE = Big Green Egg
BISO = bone in, skin on
BLSL = boneless, skinless
BTB = Better Than Boullion
CH = Chowhound
CI = Cooks Illustrated
COTM = Cookbook of the Month
COTQ = Cuisine of the Quarter
DOTQ = Dish of the Quarter
FP = food processor
HBE = hard-boiled egg
KAF = King Arthur Flour
KOS = king oyster mushrooms
LW fries = Lamb and Weston frozen fries
M&C = mac n cheese
PIC = partner in crime
SBE = soft-boiled egg
Sinatra = cilantro
TPSTO = the proverbial sh!t ton of – variations include TPSTOG&G (the proverbial sh!t ton of garlic and ginger) and TPSTOSC&B (the proverbial sh!t ton of sour cream and butter)
YOLO = you only live once
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Thank you for this! The list is also useful for old timers too. I was wondering what Sinatra was other than the legendary crooner 
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Hard agree. With the exception of stuff like YOLO (which is understandable to a broad online audience), a lot of those feel like secret code that only “we” understand. I think the only one I use myself is CH.
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Interesting! Who knew that ugly veg was so versatile!
I was wondering! 
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It’s really just a silly name my PIC (uh-oh! acronym! 
) came up with for cilantro.
It was never my (nor his) intention to make anyone feel excluded. Just having a little fun, that is all.
@GretchenS good job, procrastinatrix! Maybe we can include this legend in the sticky section?
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Hmm. There are many more I could think of, like FOMO, BMTA, TOFTT, etc. that are used here and elsewhere on the interwebs with gusto.
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I wasn’t feeling excluded - I figured it was shorthand for something and half the fun (for me) is trying to figure out what the acronym is for
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Oh, I didn’t mean you … pacifically 
WOL = Woks of Life.
Agreed we should add the legend to a sticky section for easy reference and so we can add to it as acronyms arise.
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SE = Serious Eats
Do we need all the fam relations like DH, DD, etc. (?)
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Care to share the infractions that gave your significant other the name “Partner in Crime”??
Anything interesting?? Jaywalking?? Parking at an expired meter?? 
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I’ll give you FOMO, but BMTA? I googled it, and the first five things that came up were MTA bus time, Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, Benton MacKaye Trail Association, Bangkok Mass Transit Authority and British American Tobacco. So whatever that acronym stands for (and I have no idea), it doesn’t seem to be in common usage.
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“Brilliant minds think alike” …but apparently not all of them.
