So...whats for dinner?
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Tonight’s dinner was leftovers from lunch, two slices of margherita pizza and some really great garlic bread with truffle oil and homemade ricotta.
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Made the unstuffed cabbage tonight with a few tweaks -- such as a dash of fish sauce, hot sauce and addition of brown rice.
Carole, it's been a while since I had a baked sweet potato - I must pick some up.
Sandy, which poach pods do you have?
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Mommy - hooray for your mushrooms.
My ex-DH treated me to Capital Grille for lunch. Celebrated with a cocktail - screwdriver for me & bloody mary for him. The waiter said the only complaint that he's seen about the lobster bisque was too much lobster. How can you have too much lobster?? Anyway, it was packet with lovely chunks. Delicious sour dough rolls. We each had a filet with whipped potatoes as an entree. He ordered coconut cream pie for dessert. I ordered a cup of decaf coffee. I brought home 1/2 of my 8 oz fillet for tomorrow. I will definitely not need to eat again tonight.
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The Bahn Mi bowl with the leftover meatballs was quite good. Enjoyed our dinner on the patio - finally cool enough and not too smokey. A nice rose went well with the dinner. And I absolutely know you cannot have too much lobster
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BBQ chicken in a Dutch oven.
Tonight and tomorrow night we are staying in Montpelier, ID.
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Nancy, I think my poach pods are OXO. They look like yellow rubber topless/bottomless hourglasses--crack the egg into the solid top part and it sinks into the bottom part, which is perforated so the water gets in & circulates, but the egg whites don't leak out. (I'd used some other kinds, but they really only heated the eggs). They fold up into nesting half-domes for storage. Ilona, homemade ricotta? I'm impressed. And truffle oil: mmm.
Tonight I tried the fresh pasta Bolognese again. The raw fresh fettucine didn't look like it'd cook in the sauce, so nuked it in the Fasta Pasta first, this time for only 1 min. Still came out like a gloppy lump of paste. Down the In-Sink-Erator it went...DeCecco pappardelle to the rescue again. Accompanied with sauteed kale and a slice of LaBrea rosemary-olive-oil sourdough for "shaving the cat" (mopping up the sauce by wiping the plate with the bread). Of course, no sooner had I plated it than Bob came home with half a chicken Parm sandwich and mostaccioli marinara (his dinner from Baracco's across from Advocate Christ Hospital).
DOTD: chocolate egg cream (albeit the seltzer was kinda flat).
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I've been making poached eggs lately in a skillet of simmering water with a bit of vinegar. I've decided that poached is my favorite cooked egg with soft boiled second favorite. The poached yolk is so creamy.
Dinner last night was pan-fried crappie fillets lightly breaded with fish fry breading seasoned with salt and cayenne. Side was left-over small red potatoes in a butter seasoning. I split the potatoes and cooked them cut side down in a skillet while the fish was cooking. DH made his usual tartar sauce and got out the ketchup for his potatoes. I squeezed fresh lemon on my fish.
Today we're driving about an hour to Pine River to attend the annual blue grass festival. Lunch will be festival food and dinner will be whatever.
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Wow, Sandy, you’ve been through a lot with that wrist/hand situation. But clearly it hasn’t kept you down. So good for you! I would need to ask my son to interpret all the medical terms....you obviously have more than a law degree!
Special, I may copy and print your advice to Katy. You are def the queen of meal planning/prep. You should write a book! I can see how you are able to cater with relative ease...so organized!
And a belated WELCOME Katy!
Carole, poached eggs are also my favorite.
Thanks for those links, Nance! And I hope you find and enjoy some yummy sweet potatoes. We ‘ve had them with two of our at home meals since being here, and they were really delicious. Somehow, I never think to buy them, but the grocery store here has potatoes displayed more prominently than my store at home, so I succumb to the attraction.
This week besides eating out at a restaurant that was just okay (we both had seafood dishes with spicy sauces.......DH’s on pasta), we ate bison burgers at home, and last night BLTs on sour dough bread.
Later today we have our association meeting at the beach, after which we have a social time. I am bringing cut up veggies and hummus. Not even a vague idea about dinner. I feel like all we do is eat here!
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Last night's dinner was brunsweiger (sp?) and tomato sandwiches. Tonight will be BLTs. My meal rotation won't rotate any good suggestion and a glance in the freezer didn't help.
It's very dark outside at noon. We're under a thunderstorm warning.
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Lighter fettuccini Alfredo (sub half and half for some cream) made with roasted garlic and fresh pasta I think. Probably a small side salad for balance.
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Dunch was a large salad with blue cheese crumbles, tomatoes & a whole avocado. Opened a bottle of Apothic Dark red blend wine - "...blends dark fruit flavors of blueberry & blackberry with opulent notes of coffee and dark chocolate..." It's as good as I remembered. I'll probably have popcorn around 8pm.
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Dinner tonight was oven roasted rainbow carrots and red potatoes with grilled squash and steaks, grilled until the grill started acting up and I accidentally burned my right hand and arm relighting the pilot. I had a friend take over and broil them while I iced my hand. The sides were so-so and the steaks were a little over done, oh well, looks like I’ll be grill shopping soon.
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Dinner tonight was a mix up. Despite the fact that a number of our neighbors decided we should have a spontaneous shared potluck at the beach to enjoy the full moon rising, DH was dying for fried clams. Sooo...he bought an order fried clams which we shared at home, then we brought a variety of cookies, pistachio nuts, chocolate candies for dessert options, and white wine to our beach gathering. There were lots of entree options there, but having just downed fried clams, I just tried...and enjoyed a portion of.... a wonderful caprese salad with delicious red, yellow and green tomatoes grown by a (part time) neighbor here in her Mass (home) garden. It was daunting to hear how much work it takes her to protect her crop from the chipmunks and groundhogs....confirming for me that I made the right decision to stop trying to part time garden at home!
Anyway, we enjoyed some delightfully smooth home made red wine from another neighbor while listening to my DH's selection of “moon related" songs on his new bluetooth speaker and watching the gorgeous full moon rise over the lake....until the mountain weatherclouds concealed it. A lovely evening. We are fortunate to have many wonderful neighbors here.
illimae, I hope your hand/arm heals quickly, and that you get a new grill even morequickly!
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Brunch at Cellars (Bob brought it home for me because I was tired and it was hot out) was tossed salad and quiche (broccoli, Gruyère, shallot). Tonight we walked around the corner to Ethiopian Diamond for their Traditional Sampler: asst'd sambusas (like flattened samosas--carrot, spinach, beef, lentil), doro wat, chicken alitcha, zilzil (lamb) tibs, beef tibs, red and yellow lentil stews, collard greens, potatoes & carrots and salad on injera (and more injera to tear up and use to scoop up food). Since I now have red nail polish, I didn't have to worry about turning my French manicure tips orange.
Harvested another handful of cherry tomatoes, and noticed one regular-sized tomato had started to ripen, so I snatched it up & brought it indoors. Squirrels got another one. Our Concords are ripening too.
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I added slices of avocado to my bacon and tomato sandwich last night. Delicious.
Tonight we're having cheddar brats, Bush's baked beans and a salad of sliced tomatoes, avocado and blue cheese. I found small wedges of blue cheese and gorgonzola today. The menu is dh's kind of food.
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I think tonight will be dinner that my DH makes. I do most of the coking but he can make this - shrimp red curry on rice. Easy and yummy!
I’ll be cooking a lot the next week to get ready for a trip to OR coast. We have a camping van with freezer so I like to stock it up ahead of time. The first thing I’ll make is burritos, breakfast ones with eggs, sausage, taters, cheese and others with diced chicken breast, pinto beans ( just made those today in crock pot), veggies, cheese, whatever sounds good! So easy to take from freezer to microwave when we’re on the road. Can’t wait to go. But first have to go to Salt Lake City for an appointment at the Huntsman cancer Institute. Out of state for me but going annually for second opinion. Anyone else go there
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Went to lunch with a friend at Sweet Paris Creperie. Disclaimer...no calories...LOL. I had a delicious breakfast crepe called Alaskan - smoked salmon & all the normal trimmings along with scrambled eggs. My friend had chicken with walnuts, gruyere & grapes. Comes with a salad. The crepes were probably 16" in diameter before they're folded. Then of course we had to have dessert. It was a big mistake since we were both sooooo full - in spite of the fact we both took most of our desserts home. I had the special of the month - Tres leches crepes w/strawberries. She had something with mixed berries. Yum. We'll go again.
I'm worried about sinking at water aerobics this evening even though we ate 7 hours ago.
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Leftover Ethiopian food tonight.
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BT on a toasted English muffin with a garden tomato and mayo. Just awesome. I love summer.
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minus - love crepes! I have a good and easy recipe for them, very versatile as can be apps, entree or dessert - as you experienced!
auntie - one of my fave childhood dinners was toasted English muffins with a big tomato slice, cooked bacon slices on top, then a slice of cheese - broiled until the cheese was melted.
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Dinner was a turkey burger with Swiss, sautéed red onions and avocado and a side salad, however, now I really want crepes.
I think I’ll make my own this week, Hungarian style with Apricot and walnuts.
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I used to make individual pizzas with English Muffins when my son was little. I still keep them on hand for a quick snack toasted with peanut butter.
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Oh those fun English muffin meals growing up. My brother and I thought we were hot stuff making Eng muffin pizzas when we were young. Since my mother was a real proprietary Italian kitchen mama, we rarely got to cook, but those somehow slipped by her watch!
Today our beach was practically empty, nary a family in sight...just a few of us old folk. So DH and I had a nice boat ride before heading back to get ready to dine out with a gift card DS2’s friends left for us after using the house with DS2 earlier in summer. We ate at a popular (but really pricey) steak house that sits way up on a hill overlooking Newfound to the west, so sunsets are lovely. Tonight’s was really unusual with a layer of clouds that could be residual atmosphere from the West Coast fires. Oddly beautiful.
We went full steakhouse mode ordering caesar salads, steaks (DH had a surf and turf, I had a petite filet) sauteed mushrooms and broccoli. AND...the desserts sounded so tasty (and we both recalled swooning over a chocolate cake we had there for our birthday celebration a couple of years ago)that we got two to take home, forgetting that each piece of cake could feed three people! So we had a bit of the delicious chocolate layer cake, and DH wants to head to the boat in the AM with our coffee and the lemon raspberry cake. So lemon raspberry cake it will be for breakfast!
Did I mention I will be needing WW verysoon!Better get to sleep so I can be awake for the morning dessert ride!
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Thinking since I have blueberries in the fridge, I might make some blueberry pancakes and bacon for dinner. It's day two of a heat wave and don't feel like having to stand over a hot stove for very long.
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Cake for breakfast - my fave!
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If I ate cake for breakfast, I would be ravenous in 45 minutes. I would need to take a jar of peanut butter along for a spoonful of protein and fat.
Our high today is supposed to be 58 degrees! I'm signed up for a charity golf event at 2:30 with a meal afterward. So I'll be eating taco salad bar. DH will be eating by himself, either leftover beans and brats or eggplant lasagna out of the freezer. His decision.
The charity that will benefit is a local one that supports cancer patients and family with expenses. DH donated a beautiful turned bowl, MN walnut, for the silent auction.
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My DH is a cake for breakfast fan - coffee cake, chocolate cake with frosting, doesn’t matter. I can’t handle the sweetness, but must confess that on vacation last year the chef’s breakfast at Half Mile Farm in Highlands, NC included an apple cobbler that I would have killed to get more of. It was a small ramekin but I could have eaten a large bucket of it, lol
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Two tomato plants blew over in the wind yesterday and got tangled with each other. It was a chore to set them upright and retrieve the fruit (green) that blew off them. But ALL my tomato plants got blown over during the night--and we've lost all the small green tomatoes, whether cherry or immature regular-size. Hoping they'll eventually ripen on the sill. (Could take till Oct. if prior years are any indication). Reinforced the pots with bungees and weights; the three full-size green ones about to ripen are (we hope) hidden from squirrels by window screening and plastic wine-bottle mesh.
Just had an herb-Gruyere omelette after my root canal novocain wore off. Dinner tonight is likely more salad and Ethiopian leftovers. (Bob came downstairs in the middle of the night and ate most of the injera--the sourdough crepe-like bread used to scoop up the food).
UPDATE: Just as I was leaving to get my guitar fixed, one of the plants blew over again (same as yesterday) and got tangled with its neighbor (ditto). We have a massive storm blowing through, so I quickly harvested all the ripe and ripening heirloom cherry tomatoes. The garden store giveth and the squirrels & weather taketh away.
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Dinner last night, in the Dixie National Forest, Utah, was BBQ chicken, rice and beans. The elevation here is about 8600 feet (2700 meters) above sea level so it's quite cool and there are spruce trees. We are the only ones here in a developed campground and there is a stream about 10 seconds walk from us, so picture one of the RV advertisements and you'll have a good idea what it's like at this campground.
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I spent some time clicking through pictures at Dixie National Forest. I see it's sort of between Bryce & Zion, but I'd never heard of it. Amazing rocks.
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