So...whats for dinner?
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Thank you, Special. I don't expect to have as much reaction from the first as from the second but want to be prepared, just in case. Also, our weather is yucky, grey and wet, and won't help how we feel! 😕 Sunny days are so much more encouraging.
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I received my second dose of Moderna & have a bit of a sore arm and aching neck - like I slept wrong. Tonight is a ham steak with fried potatoes and green beans with mushrooms. The rain started this afternoon & it is just lovely. I see it as one more day we don't need to run the sprinklers.
Stay safe everyone,
Jane
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American Chop Suey for dinner. I think we should have invited more people
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Looks delicious Nance. Anything WARM!!
I try to do lots of prep on Thursdays since trash PU is Friday. Normally I wouldn't put any waste in the trash except the night before because It's so darn hot here, everything smells awful in 24 hours. So I freeze lots of things like meat trimmings & banana skins until Thursday. Then Thursday I prep things like boil & peel eggs for the fridge. Or cook & de-bone chicken for this weeks meals & the freezer.
I've had some red potatoes that really needed to be used. Was planning on Hasselback, but since I had lots of celery & green onions, I decided on potato salad. Who says we can't have that in the winter? I marinated the boiled potato chunks & onions in tarragon vinegar before assembling, And I use mayo & sour cream with no mustard. What a nice winter treat.
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Nance that looks delish!
Tonight was garlic parmesan baked chicken, scalloped potatoes and salad we needed to finish up.
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auntie - I never knew what American Chop Suey was, but now that I have seen your beautiful photo I realize it is the same/similar as my MIL's recipe that she called Mulligan Goulash. That was her go to for her five children when she and my FIL were going out for the evening, and I have made it many times also! All this time I had no idea, so thanks!
minus - I think there is a winter potato salad waiver - potato salad is so good we can have it year-round! My favorite potato salad is red potatoes with a lot of dill and green onion in a dressing of half mayo, half sour cream, with salt and lots of pepper. My other fave is baked potato salad, same dressing but I use leftover baked skin-on russets and add bacon. If I have to make the baked version in a hurry I microwave the potatoes and can put it together pretty quick - I cut the potatoes right after cooking and just let them air cool for a few minutes and then assemble - start to finish is about 15-20 mins. I like to dress both variations while the potatoes are a little warm so they absorb the flavors.
Dinner last night was roast beef and provolone flat bread sammies and tomato basil soup. DD's car is in the shop with a fairly catastrophic engine issue, so she is driving her dad's car for the next few days as the extended warranty folks and dealership work out what to do. We ate late because he stopped to drop off his car at her house and I picked him up. DH is driving his little convertible to work today - but is off Monday so prob will only need to take it today - hoping the fix of DD's car is done by Tuesday. He was at work late because he got a call that there was extra vaccine available for today and he had to line up folks from his list of eligible peeps - which took about two extra hours from the 5pm call that there were slots. Long day for him.
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Special - I think that dish is known by many names lol. And it certainly is good for a crowd. It actually calls for elbow mac but I didn’t have any, which was unusual. I almost always have that on hand.
I don’t know what’s for dinner but you all are making me hungry for potato salad! Maybe a grilled bunless burger. I don’t know if I can brave the 9 degree high temperature to use the grill so it may need to be griddled.
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auntie - when I made that recipe I usually used regular elbows but then discovered I liked it better with large elbows, which I never really knew existed. When we cleaned out MIL/FIL's house I found a box in the pantry - it was a revelation and have been purchasing them ever since. I would imagine, any short hearty pasta would work though as you used - I usually have a variety in the pantry - I'm a pasta girl. Except for not knowing about large elbows, lol!
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Winter potato salad? Maybe that would be the warm German potato salad that my Grandpa liked? I actually had potato salad for breakfast.
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In my family the dish was known as "goololli", I know not why. Actually made some last week. It's easy, warm, and filling. Great cold weather food.
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Special - lol I’m a pasta collector too - the smallest being acini de pepe to the largest giant shells. The cutest by far that I have are the tiny little farfalline.
Minus German potato salad would definitely qualify as a winter one. Love it too and would definitely eat it for breakfast because - bacon.
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How funny that the same dish has so many names! Regardless of the name, it is yummy!
auntie - have you ever made or heard of a salad called Frog-Eye that is made with acini de pepe? When we were stationed at Griffiss AFB in upstate NY, where summer lasts about 5 minutes, the squadron hosted a "luau" and that salad was a staple. I am not sure if I ever tasted it, but I remember it and the recipe is in the squadron cookbook - it seems to be a light custard-like situation, with the acini de pepe added, that then sets up and chills overnight, with tropical fruit folded in right before serving.
We went to my cousin's wedding in Austria in July 2013, so not long after I finished treatment, and DD had a German potato salad that she loved. We have tried in vain to find a similar one - she said it was pretty vinegar-y, so maybe marinating the cooked potatoes in vinegar before adding the other ingredients is the answer!
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Special- out here in New England its called American Chop Suey but my family back in Wisconsin call it Hot Dish.
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mommy - this is so interesting! Same basic recipe with a million different names depending on where people are!
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I can hardly wait for Carole & Moon & Puffin to weigh in aboot "hot dish". (funny spelling error that considering the territory of the discussion - it's close enough to Canada that I think I'll let it ride)
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At school the dish was called Johnny marzetti.
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thinking omelettes tonight
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Mae - so glad to see on another thread that your voice is coming back. What a long haul you've had.
Mommy - good to see you. Omelettes sound delicious but I have to eat or toss spinach salad today (no pun intended). And then there's the leftover pizza and also the fried rice. I'm not really complaining since I do like leftovers. I just have so many different things I'd like to make.
Just finished wrapping the last of the outside faucets & pipes with last summer's swimming noodles. Supposedly we're going to have the coldest sustained spell in 70 years.
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Special - never heard of frog eye but I can see why it’s called that.
Turkey pot pies tonight. Time to use up the last of that Thanksgiving turkey! King cake rising for dessert.
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Here's the Chinese BBQ Pork recipe. From 1963 San Francisco Chinatown restaurant "Tao Tao". Hope it's legible.0 -
The comment re availability of pork tenderloins is interesting. Yet another example of how things have changed!
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Running all the faucets, with the cabinet doors beneath the kitchen sink open. (That's the only pipe that's near an exterior wall). The bldg. housing the former Apple Store on Michigan Ave. had a pipe burst (the place was vacant, so nobody to take freeze precautions) and caused a huge slushy mess all over the sidewalk & into the roadway (like a frozen Slurpee sans flavor).
Last night Bob wanted Cajun/Creole, so I ordered out from Big Jones ("Mardi Gras dinner for 2") and he picked it up en route home from work. Started with oyster-okra gumbo; then BBQ shrimp (messy peel & eat, including heads, but yummy); alligator sauce piquant; crawfish etouffee; jalapeno cheese cornbread; and beignets. Yeah--carby as all get-out, but it's also c-c-c-c-COLD out; and I had smaller portions (1/3 of each dish for me, 2/3 for Bob) and none of the rice. First beignet I'd eaten since we were in NOLA 2 yrs ago for a medical convention and visited Cafe du Monde. (With it, Bob drank a K-Cup of Emeril's dark roast; I had a Nespresso decaf Vivalto Lungo espresso with mine. One beignet remaining--not calling dibs on it). Leftovers tonight.
Bob no longer has an office by a Polish bakery, so he won't be bringing home paczki for Fat Tuesday. Ordered ahead online from Bennison's in Evanston to pick up Tues. if it doesn't snow too hard (may have to double-park with flashers on: the "order ahead" window has no line). It's also a no-no on my diet, but I haven't had one (nor any kind of donut) since last year. No bakery that delivers them to our address. Dunkin's jelly or Boston Creme donuts are simply not the same.
For breakfast, I nuked a Jimmy Dean "Eggwich:" sausage patty & jack cheese between a "bun" made of 2 mini-omelets.
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Just too cold out (high of 5F) to risk driving & even handing off to a valet, so we canceled our dinner res. and will order out instead. My stomach was doing flip-flops all day over the prospect of that challenge--I realize that one of my greatest worries is logistics, whether about appointments, reservations, even gigs: where to park, how long it'll take to get there, bad-weather driving (had a freeway spin-out 10 yrs ago en route to Memphis that's still haunting me), drawing an audience, etc. I'm constantly catastrophizing. Now normally, I realize it's a neurosis that I need to work on, but sometimes (as the old joke goes) "just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean nobody's out to get you." Seeing as how it's brutally cold and driving is still hazardous due to snow & ice patches, sometimes anxiety is justifiable and so is avoiding the stressors.
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We never go out to eat on VD, do I made Stuffed Chicken with Sherry sauce, Brussels sprouts, sautéed creamy kale and roasted red potatoes. It was delicious, I ever drank some of the sauce, lol
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Really delicious Valentine’s Day dinner tonite - grass fed lamb chops for me and a beef tenderloin filet for dh - both reverse seared to medium rare, scalloped potatoes and a salad of baby butter lettuce with a simple vinaigrette. Steak house fare and very satisfying.
We finally got vaccine appointments for February 25th although have to go to our old hometown to get it. We still have doctors there and the info came through our patient portals so we jumped on them. Hope the weather cooperates by then because right now we’re waiting like a lot of you for a big (for us) snowstorm. Thankfully it looks the the subzero temps are going to moderate after this week. Minus, have you lost vegetation?
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We're looking at a foot or more of snow here by the lake by Tues. evening. (We got about an inch today, and the heavy stuff starts around rush hour tomorrow). Supposed to go to Evanston to pick up some (prepaid) paczki--my last carb-cheat before going back to keto--late Tues. aft. My snow guy might take me in his truck.
We ordered out from a place near Gordy tonight. Delivered 1/2 hr. late due to the weather. Chili to start; then shared a crab cake, slaw & tossed salad; then we each split Brussels sprouts, grilled glazed salmon (very good) and 1/2 rack of baby back ribs (meh). This may be heresy for a Chicagoan, but I vastly prefer spare (St. Louis) ribs. Not just that, but these weren't really BBQed: Chicago-style ribs are parboiled, sauced and then oven-baked. Not just that, but what little meat they have is "fall-off-the-bone," which I find insanely boring. Might as well be pulled pork. I like my ribs to fight back, and be meaty to boot.
Probably eat alone tomorrow night, as Bob will likely stay in Oak Lawn so as not to get stuck trying to get through our snowy alley into the garage. (On-street parking? Hahahaha...assuming you can even find a space, you need to dig out your car; and most spaces are marked by "dibs," a disgusting Chicago tradition of marking one' s empty dug-out--or even fortuitously-discovered--spot with substantial but expendable stuff like milk crates, folding chairs, traffic cones, etc. in order to reserve it).
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Sandy: That tradition also exists in South Philly and God forbid if you move someone's marker. It leads to an outright war. You could also identify any South Philly transplants in your neighborhood because they would do this at their new residence. It is illegal to "mark" the space but try telling that to them. It is not practiced just during snowstorms but if you want to reserve on street parking in front of your house at anytime. LOL.
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Mae - that looks delicious. Can you share your sauce?. Nance - your meal also sounds great. Hooray for vaccine appointments.
Three cheers to everyone on the dinner thread who is actually cooking. Oh how I MISS Susan. Eric - are you doing OK? I had the last two leftover slices of homemade pizza for dunch.
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Here to weigh in on 2 things. 1. Its fookin cold here ( Canadian reference joke,LOL) as it minus 4 right now. AND 2. Its American Chop Suey in Milwaukee area. Hot dish in Minnesota, where I lived for 3 years. Although in the western part it may be hot dish too, but I grew up calling it American Chop Suey. Mom made it with 2 big bags of noodles ( my Dad preferred curly egg noodles, so that's what she used.) and 3 lbs of ground beef. It filled the large oval blue splatter roaster pan to the lid. Fed all10 of us for our supper, which was at 4:30 as Dad went to bed by 8:30. He worked early.
Dinner was leftovers tonight, sigh. Stan was helping our DD2 again as she was working today, and her husband, while getting better, still cant chase the little one! LOL He Left by 9am, got home at 6, but he ate a late lunch at 3 so wasnt hungry. So i put the beautiful chops in the fridge for tomorrow, and ate the leftovers. LOL Happy Valentines. LOL. I did get roses, and he made coffee for me, even thought he didnt have time to drink a single cup. Ah, love...
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minus, here’s the recipe, enjoy!
https://ifood.tv/chicken/401095-stuffed-chicken-breasts-with-sherry-sauce
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