What's For Dinner?

[jazzmine]

Tonight I'm making meatloaf, seasoned oven potatoes and broccoli.

What are you cooking tonight?

[seal_cleaner]

Chili dogs.....cheap, easy, the kids love 'em.

[Harli]

Nuthin, I'm heading over to jazzmine's place...good eats there.....

[Ukulele Ike]

Vietnamese chicken soup.

The meat is cooling in the broth right now, where it simmered along with sliced shallots, minced garlic and ginger, and Thai fish sauce.

When I get back from picking the kids up, I'll remove the chicken, bone and dice it and put it back in. Turn the heat back up. Add sliced bok choy, red peppers, shiitake mushrooms, shredded carrot and daikon.

Cook up some rice noodles, put 'em in big bowls for the four of us, and ladle the soup over. Chopped scallions and cilantro in little bowls on the side for garnish.

Beer for the grownups, I think. Not really a "wine" dinner.

[Ethilrist]

Chicken whopper and a side salad with thousand island dressing.

[jazzmine]

Yum, Ike!

Harli, come on over. The more the merrier. Bring something good to drink to go with dinner.

[Washte]

Rosemary and minted lamb steaks, minted new potatoes and petit pois - I was in the mood for mint tonight.

Dessert... pumpkin pie I made last night.

[Kalhoun]

What the fuck? Are all youze trying to make the rest of us look bad? We're having Enchilada Casserole LEFTOVERS. I would much rather eat at anyone of your homes tonight! Talented bunch...especially for a Wednesday night!

[Lyllyan]

Now that I have satisfied my BBQ cravings, we are having Country Fried (or Chicken Fried, if you prefer) Steak, rice and some other stuff that I will think of once I get myself into the kitchen.

[Michael Ellis]

Red Baron microwaveable pizza, cran-rasberry juice, 2% milk, and maybe a salami sandwich with mustard.

A regular High Table dinner, it is.

[erislover]

It is a toss-up between Ramen and mac&cheese. My taste buds absolutely refuse to care about the issue so I usually have to read tea leaves to figure out which.

[Beadalin]

I have no idea. My whole parents, brother, sister, brother-in-law, and their three children just left after staying with me for 8 days. The fridge is a shadow of its former stocked glory. Please let me know of anything I can make with:
-- 5 slices of Swiss cheese
-- Several frozen juice cans
-- Peppermint candy ice cream
-- 1/2 loaf sourdough bread
-- Deer sausage
-- Assorted chocolates

I am thinking... some sort of sandwiches.

[Beadalin]

"My whole parents." Now there's a term. I started to write "my whole family," and changed my mind. See what lack of food can do to a person?

[jazzmine]

Originally posted by erislover
It is a toss-up between Ramen and mac&cheese. My taste buds absolutely refuse to care about the issue so I usually have to read tea leaves to figure out which.

You know where you should be for dinner then...

[vivalostwages]

Since it's kinda turning into soup weather here, I'm going for chicken vegetable and noodle soup.

[mnemosyne]

Shepherds Pie. I peeled the potatoes eariler, but my SO does the rest, because he makes the best food between the two of us, AND he even LIKES cooking! He's in the kitchen right now. My contribution to most meals involves me asking "Need help?" about every 5 minutes so that I don't feel like such a mooch I think I'll go prepare some juice to go with it.

[Angel of the Lord]

Salad, a muffin, and non-fat frozen yogurt, which means no taste, but that's all the cafeteria has for cheap.

I miss real food.

[False_God]

Ahem.

[Fionn]

A reheated steak and some black-eyed peas my mom made and froze for me. Ukulele Ike, Washte and Jazzmine all have my envy.

[World Eater]

Overseasoned hunk 'o meat, and a Corona.

[Tuckerfan]

Bratwurst cooked in beer, Hebrew National saurkraut, Jewish rye bread, and Natural Ice beer! Ah, I can feel the arteries clogging as I type.

[voguevixen]

Probably minestrone. We have a whole freezerful of thin tomato sauce because the garden went crazy this year.

[Harli]

Originally posted by jazzmine
Harli, come on over. The more the merrier. Bring something good to drink to go with dinner.

Well, I would have brought the bottle of Chilean wine that I have sitting on my bar cart, however, the SO and I ended up with salad (lettuce, onion, broccoli, feta) and this stuffing-topped turkey pot pie thing from Presidents Choice. Pretty damn tasty.

[Creaky]

Skinless baked Perdue chicken thighs (approx. 140 cal. each) with salt and pepper, frozen cut green beans nuked (no butter, approx. 50 cal. worth), prefab mashed potatoes, also no butter, also nuked. (Mashed potatoes were for the boyfriend, so I don't have to count those.)

Diet iced tea complimented this simple yet tasty meal. (Total approximate calories for my meal: 330.)

[dwyr]

Pfftt.

For dinner break at work tonight I feasted on Lean Cuisine Teriyaki Chicken, diced peaches, a Yoplait blackberry yogurt and a couple of Fig Newtons.

When I go home tonight I'm considering throwing some rice and lentils into the rice cooker along with whatever frozen veggies are around.

Or possibly just eating Fritos.

[El Elvis Rojo]

I had a bowl of Cheerios.

Beat that!

[Athena]

Well, tonight was pizza. Last night, though, was Smoked Whitefish Chowder. Bacon, celery, onion. Throw in some butter. Throw in some flour, make a roux. Add whole milk, cream, clam juice, and some chicken stock. Meanwhile, I boned some locally smoked whitefish - only about a cup, cuz it's strong. Then I boned and skinned a fresh Lake Superior Whitefish fillet. This fish was swimming in the Lake that morning, in my pot in the evening. Cut it into chunks. Add the smoked whitefish to the pot, along with some corn. Let that cook a bit to get the smokey taste through the soup. Then add the chunks of fresh whitefish and let them poach. Serve with crusty sourdough bread. Heaven!

[Eva Luna]

Man, if I'd read this thread before dinner, I'd have been on my way to other people's houses, post-haste! I'm coming down with a sore throat and swollen lymph nodes, so didn't really have the energy to cook (which I normally love to do). When I fell scummy, I crave carbos, so dinner was leftover polenta with tomato/mushroom sauce and some dill havarti melted on top. Washed it down with organge juice, and for dessert, unfrosted strawberry Pop-Tarts with Nutella.

[Mirror Image egamI rorriM]

I slept through dinner time. But I did have some KFC popcorn chicken and mashed potatoes with gravy when I got home from school. (I dip the chicken in the mashed potatoes. Everyone thinks I'm weird. I learned it from my mom.) I love popcorn chicken. So little and cute and full of bite-sized tastiness.

[sunstone]

Navy bean soup with kalamata olive bread. For dessert, ginger snaps and milk. We're a bit under the weather, and this is comfort food time.

[cherry]

swiss chalet dinner

[betenoir]

We had pepper-crusted salmon, spinach and rice. Came out rather well if I say so myself.

Should we move into "What are you having for a midnight snack?"

[erislover]

Originally posted by jazzmine
You know where you should be for dinner then...

so that's why there's meatloaf tonight...

[jazzmine]

[seal_cleaner]

Originally posted by seal_clubber
Chili dogs.....cheap, easy, the kids love 'em.

Well, shut my mouth! Got home last night, Mrs_clubber had already made (scratch) mashed potatoes, beef tips over noodles, corn....I'm unworthy.

OTOH, her meatloaf sucks.

[flodnak]

Tonight, it's sesame seed beef and vegetables, served over noodles, I think.

If you want some, you'd better hurry. We'll be eating in an hour

[susan_foster]

Not too much tonight - I have a big lunch out today (paid for by someone else - yay!). Planned so far is a can of spinach (I'm Popeye!) with part skim mozzarella mixed in, and ice cream. Might have an Amy's organic pizza toaster thingie - or I might go with a Lean cuisine meal (I have a couple choices).

Now - ask this question on the weekend, specifically Sunday night, and that's when I can give a more interesting answer. This weekend I plan on trying two new recipes, and one I have done before. For Sunday night, it's Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna - from one of my many healthy cooking cookbooks (I think it's Betty Crocker, but I'd have to be home to check). For the week, it's Sweet Potato Carrot muffins from Cooking Light, to be served along with Roasted Pepper Tomato soup from Weight Watchers.

I do love to cook!

Susan

[Mooch]

I don't feel like really cooking tonight so it's Zatarain's Creole Chicken Mix...but I will toss in some fresh andouille for a faux jambalaya type thingie.

[jazzmine]

I had to laugh at someone named "Mooch" posting in a thread titled "What's For Dinner?"



I haven't decided what do cook tonight. Which means I have nothing out thawing.

[Mooch]

Jazzmine, I probably should have started this thread.


My name actually comes from the comic strip Mutts.

[Breezy]

I think we'll have smothered pork chops tonight, with fresh, home made french fries and some corn...

Either that or Totino's combination pizza. Those little pizzas cost about a buck a piece, and they are the best frozen pizzas out there!

I guess it just depends on how I feel when I get home!

[Motorgirl]

We're having Pork Salad.

It's real name is something like "Salad of Snow Peas and Pan Seared Pork with Crunchy Noodles" but I like saying "pork salad."

It's from the latest issue of Eating Well. (Spring 2003)

[Pammipoo]

leftover macaroni and cheese. yum.

[jellen92]

Whatever I find lying on the ground on my way home. This can include flat gum, bites of a doughnut, or possibly a swig left of whiskey. The possibilities are endless.

[jazzmine]

I've decided on London Broil, green beans, and...something. I'm not sure. Rice? Potatoes? Pasta?

[Motorgirl]

Whatcha doing to the London Broil? Marinating it at all?
My starchy side would depend on what I'm doing to the London Broil.

[Motorgirl]

If you're doing a fairly plain London Broil, with just spices on the outside rather than a marinade, I've discovered recently that I like mac-n-cheese or some other cheesy noodle type thing with rare beef. I like the way it tastes when the blood runs into the cheesy noodles. Hm, that sounded kind of gross.
I discovered this because my fiance suggests Kraft Mac-n-Cheese as a side dish for everything and sometimes I give in.

[little*bit]

Grilled cheese (made w/Velveeta)
& Campbells Tomato Soup

...another "Under The Weather" production

[TaxGuy]

Whatever she cooks, god bless her soul. And it's usually pretty good.

(And then I get to clean up afterwards, and we have our nightly discussion about whether it's more difficult to cook or clean up, with me advocating the position that when she's doing the cooking, the cleaning is by far the most difficult [cooks: is there some reason that it takes twelve forks and three plates to marinade and cook one pork loin for two people?]).

[kung fu lola]

Tuscan chicken (over jasmine rice, because we ran out of fettuccine and I didn't notice). And parboiled Brussel sprouts breaded with Italian bread cumbs and romano cheese, then fried.

Christmas Crackle ice cream and pecan bars for dessert.