# So What's for Dinner Tonight? (2020 Anything Goes Edition) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [October 15, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037 "2020-10-15T20:06:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/381 "2020-12-24T03:39:43Z")
Ordered in from our local Pakistani restaurant. It was very good. šŸ˜ ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/382 "2020-12-24T04:11:06Z")
Spaghetti pie, the one with cream cheese & sour cream, also called million dollar spaghetti, out of the freezer, recipe makes a ton! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/383 "2020-12-24T14:17:18Z")
Chana Masala. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/384 "2020-12-25T00:36:30Z")
Tonight, we had the traditional Christmas Eve dinner of McDonaldā€™s. The brisket for tomorrow is on the smoker and with any luck Iā€™ll get it finished by 2AM and get some sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/385 "2020-12-25T01:34:07Z")
Zee escargots are in zee oven. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/386 "2020-12-28T17:18:54Z")
For xmas I deep fried a turkey. Two people didnā€™t even put a dent in the 18 pound bird. Iā€™ve had turkey for breakfast, lunch, and snacks ever since. Saturday evening we had take out that was very good. Tomato bisque with grilled cheese sammiches. The grilled cheese was made using jalapeno poppers. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/387 "2020-12-28T18:59:09Z")
Tonight is cheese-stuffed chiles rellenos, coated with fluffy eggy batter and deep-fried. Accompaniments are plain pinto beans and flour tortillas. Maybe Iā€™ll make some homemade salsa if I feel ambitious. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/388 "2020-12-28T20:22:28Z")
Christmas leftovers: Shrimp and crab cocktail, roast duck with orange sauce, cornbread stuffing with cranberries and sausage meat, wild rice and mushroom dressing, ratatouille, honey-glazed roast carrots, and New Yorkā€“style cheesecake. Probably will wash it all down with apple cider and/or cranberry juice. Sounds good now, but it gets kind of old after four or five days. What I really want now is a nice bowl of chicken soup. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/389 "2020-12-28T21:28:45Z")
Pastitsio and Greek salad today, mandarin beef stir fry tomorrow, made with some of the tangerine juice that was left over from Christmas breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/391 "2020-12-29T01:57:14Z")
Placating the house vegans tonight. Vegan version of shepherdā€™s pie, made with lentils, carrots, onions, mushrooms, topped with mashed mixture of potatoes and cauliflower with vegan butter. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/392 "2020-12-29T02:39:04Z")
Three bean soup and fresh biscuits. I make the soup all the time, but i experimented with dried beans instead of canned beans. You know, when you are just opening cans, it doesnā€™t matter that some of the beans are larger than others. The kidney beans and canolinni came out okay, but the butter beans kind of disintegrated. The biscuits were also sort of an experiment, since Iā€™ve only made them once before. But they came out terrific. Light and flaky and soft and buttery. Iā€™m getting better at rolling pastry, too. I managed to make a nice neat rectangle. (Which i cut into squares with a giant knife. Yes, squares, not rounds. Shoot me. They were great.) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/393 "2020-12-29T11:44:58Z")
Fish & Chips. I reused my turkey fryer to fry batter dipped cod, with French fries were made indoors in the air fryer. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/394 "2020-12-30T03:40:31Z")
Pseudo-Georgian chicken stew with onions, red and yellow bell peppers, and mushrooms with a blob of tomato sauce, seasoned with [Svanetian salt,](https://georgianrecipes.net/2013/09/05/svanetian-salt/) black pepper, and garlic, and served over baby potatoes from the CSA. I have been on a kick to use up some of the quirkier things in the pantry rather than letting them just age there until they are no good anymore (like the tiny glass vial of saffron I bought Mom when I studied in Spainā€¦in 1988! Yes, she still has it!) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/395 "2020-12-31T02:00:54Z")
For lunch I had some of @scabpickerā€™s DanDan Noodles (frozen and thawed from last time I made it), and for dinner Iā€™m having some of @romanspersonā€™s fagioli allā€™uccelletto. Yum! I"ll probably have some oranges for dessert, unless I break down and make a mug of chocolate cake-in-a-mug. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/396 "2020-12-31T04:33:32Z")
My darlinā€™ an I were given a ramen cookbook by my brother for Christmas. Among a vast array of noodles, it also includes what it describes as ā€œHiroshima-style Tantanmenā€, the Japanese version of DanDan noodles. I canā€™t wait. Between it and the sourdough cookbook we got, weā€™re gonna have to find new stuff to do to burn off the calories. But tonight, I ainā€™t proud. We happily chowed on Trader Joeā€™s beef and broccoli. Quick and filling. Tomorrow, itā€™s black eyed peas with jalapenos and chiles, jalapeno cornbread from a HEB box, and a mix of mustard and collard greens. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/397 "2020-12-31T18:35:23Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > (like the tiny glass vial of saffron I bought Mom when I studied in Spainā€¦in 1988! Yes, she still has it!) Frick. I still have the saffron that **Other Shoe** was so super happy to buy. Dude has been dead eight years. But ā€¦ he was so happy that day. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/398 "2020-12-31T19:04:28Z")
Tonight is New Yearā€™s Eve. Normally Iā€™d throw a party and cook up a storm: Roast goose with wild rice stuffing, Indian barbecued lamb, Indian refried potatoes, rice with whole spices, Indian chickpeas, cookies, lots of purchased treatsā€¦ Well, Iā€™m going to stuff a duck with the wild rice stuffing. Maybe Iā€™ll do the potatoes, too. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/399 "2020-12-31T21:50:43Z")
Pizza. šŸØ šŸ· ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/400 "2020-12-31T22:21:29Z")
Mac and cheese, ham slice, crescent roll, ice water. And leftover (but still good) Christmas cookies and chocolates for dessert with a big glass of cold milk. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037/401 "2021-01-01T00:27:36Z")
After a largely horrible week at work I went the comfort food route. I ordered soup and a half dozen appetizers from a nearby Japanese restaurant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-tonight-2020-anything-goes-edition/923037.md?page=21)