# What is (or was) for dinner tonight at your home?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 30, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547 "2010-09-30T01:30:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/81 "2010-10-03T00:25:41Z")
Rotisserie chicken from Safeway (for $8, I can’t make a chicken that good myself\*) and homemade dumplings cooked in low-salt chicken broth (since I didn’t have a pot of chicken water to use) and green peas. It was deeee-licious.
\*Can’t and won’t - for $8 I can get a raw chicken and bust my ass cooking it, or have someone do it for me. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/82 "2010-10-03T00:28:27Z")
A tagine of beef and dried plums, with whole wheat couscous.
I would have made a cabbage slaw with yogurt and lemon dressing to go with it and cut the richness, but my cabbage was liquefying. Curses.
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/83 "2010-10-03T00:56:31Z")
We had shrimp etoufee and a nice tossed salad, with garlic toast.
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/84 "2010-10-03T10:06:33Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#):
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> > [@lindsaybluth](#):
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> > So you really have $50/week. Try [EatingWell](http://www.eatingwell.com/)’s meals under $2. They’re delicious. Try getting some cheap spices in the Mexican aisle of your grocery store. Eat less meat; meat is crazy expensive. Don’t eat pepperoni; that’s a lotta salt and empty calories.
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> it depends on how much you eat. I get very thin-sliced pepperoni, and it costs about a dollar for a weeks worth. It’s not deli: it’s pre-packaged, and has very few calories per serving. The advantage of it is that its a lot of flavor for very little calories and expense.
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> I use the hot peppers for spice, and they’re pretty good, since it’s a few bucks for 2-3 weeks worth of food. In fact, I often spend more of my budget on my mom than myself.
I eat Cheddar, and I find that if I eat sharp or extra sharp, I’m quite satisfied with a much smaller portion. Similarly, I eat one or two small pieces of good chocolate a day. One of those Dove Promises, in dark chocolate, is just the thing for my chocolate fix. They’re about an inch square, and my doctor told me to eat a little bit of dark chocolate each day. This doesn’t mean that I can or should eat a huge amount each day. But eating a small amount of very flavorful food can be more satisfying that eating a larger amount of bland food. I’ve tried eating rice cakes. While they have a satisfying crunchiness, I suspect that I’d get more pleasure from eating styrofoam.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/85 "2010-10-03T10:11:20Z")
OK, it gets better than a shitty sandwich at my desk. I had some Italian friends round for dinner last night. I wanted to show them that English cuisine can be better than they think. So we had:[ul][_]Cherry tomato tarte tatin with green salad and feta cheese with an English mustard vinaigrette.[_]Beef Wellington made with £36 worth of fillet beef, wrapped in prosciutto with a truffle, mustard and chestnut mushroom duxelles, served on a bed of traditional English mash, with roast organic carrots and steamed broccoli with gravy.An inside-out chocolate ginger and cinnamon red wine cake.[/ul]It’s nice to see normally quite culinarily chauvinistic Italians eating English(ish) food and going “Mmmm! This is-a really good-a!”
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### Author:  [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/86 "2010-10-03T10:31:10Z")
I had some Hurry Curry tonight.
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### Author:  [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/87 "2010-10-03T11:01:25Z")
So I made my pork chops with escalloped apples. I also made cheesy hash brown potatoes, and baby peas with mushrooms and pearl onions. Since we had the apples to go on top of the pork chops, I wasn’t going to make gravy, but by the time I took them out of the oven (I cooked them on the stove top, then popped the pan in a warm oven to ‘keep’ while I finished up everything else), there were so many beautiful drippings in the bottom of the pan that I couldn’t bear to throw them away. So I deglazed the pan with a little dry white wine, then made a slurry with some corn starch and a little more wine, to thicken it. It didn’t need any extra seasoning, since there were lots of seasonings already in the pan from the pork chops.
Note, I don’t always make dinners this ambitious. But my hubby’s only home on weekends, during the week he’s traveling for work and eats a _lot_ of Boston Market, Golden Corral, Chinese buffet, etc. So when he’s home, I try to give him real home cooking!
We’re going to use the leftover cheesy hash browns with some eggs, for breakfast/brunch this morning.
Tonight’s dinner will be steamed shrimp (for me, at least) because we are going out to dinner, and the restaurant we’re going to has, on Sundays, a pound of steamed shrimp for $9.99!
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### Author:  [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/88 "2010-10-03T13:06:11Z")
I didn’t get to the grocery store yesterday, and the cupboard was seriously bare, but we did have bits of leftover cheese, so we had homemade mac and cheese. Sharp cheddar, provolone, asiago, gruyere, butter, cream, and chardonnay, without even a nod to health, since I didn’t have so much as a leaf of spinach in the house.
Salad tonight. 🙂
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### Author:  [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/89 "2010-10-03T16:40:09Z")
Tonight, in celebration of my husband’s birthday, I am making homemade chicken enchiladas with sides of picante rice and refried beans.
For dessert, his favorite Sock-It-to-Me-Cake.
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### Author:  [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/90 "2010-10-03T17:15:04Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#):
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> Just reading this makes me go ☹
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> I have less than 20$ a week for most of my meals. The best I can do is a pepperoni, muenster, and hot pepper sandwich. It’s not bad, I guess, but that’s about all I can afford. I have some canned corn, cheap carrots, and green beans sitting aorund.
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> It’s not all bad, though. I get to eat out three times a week. By myself. One time will be a plain burger and fries. Another will be soup and salad and pancakes. All meals are generally under 10$.
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> Oh god I’m so alone.
Aww, I wish you lived closer, you could come over to my house for dinner.☹
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/91 "2010-10-03T17:53:34Z")
And today’s lunch is chicken stew with vegetables from my garden. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/92 "2010-10-03T21:11:08Z")
Last night ws shrimp etoufee. Tonight we’re having grilled pork chops, cauliflower au gratin, and green-n-yellow beans.
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### Author:  [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/93 "2010-10-03T23:10:44Z")
Our Sunday afternoon dinner today was thick cut grilled pork chops, (boneless and seasoned with a salt, pepper, garlic powder blend), sweet potatoes baked on the grill, corn off the cob, and mini corn muffins with homemade butter.
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### Author:  [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/94 "2010-10-04T00:02:33Z")
Had a USDA prime ribeye today. Used Alton Brown’s steak cooking method. The steak was just a tad too rare for my taste but I ate it anyway. I still have one more in the freezer, maybe I’ll have another one tomorrow.
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/95 "2010-10-04T00:43:37Z")
A bowl of oatmeal with half-n-half, brown sugar, raisins, and walnuts.
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### Author:  [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/96 "2010-10-04T00:52:29Z")
Borscht.
A huge pot I will eat for a day or two before I freeze up portions for the freezer. Currently I have three other soups in the freezer and makes up the bulk of my winter meals.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/97 "2010-10-04T02:00:57Z")
Dry Szechuan stir-fried green beans, long beans, and pea greens, and tofu, with a ton of green onions and chopped garlic. Tasted great but didn’t look so good.
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### Author:  [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/98 "2010-10-04T04:19:06Z")
> [@Nava](#):
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> Yesterday it was roast-grilled _calabacín_ with parmigianno-style cheese. Calabacín is a relative of cucumbers and okra.
Calabacín is known as zucchini in the U.S.
I had what I call deconstructed rice balls: vinegared sushi rice, umeboshi (pickled plum), and seaweed to pick it all up and stuff it in my mouth. Plus miso soup and edamame.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/99 "2010-10-04T14:04:51Z")
Tonight I think will be grilled eland or gemsbok sausages, with a caprese salad.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-was-for-dinner-tonight-at-your-home/555547/100 "2010-10-04T14:28:26Z")
The wife and I just treated ourselves to a weekend at [Shanghai Mansion](http://www.shanghaimansion.com/), a boutique hotel right in the middle of Bangkok’s Chinatown. A fantastic place, actually not too expensive, made up to resemble 1935 Shanghai, including the rooms. A fun weekend, hanging out in Chinatown. Some excellent Chinese seafood restaurants there, including [T&K](http://food-4-thot.blogspot.com/2008/08/t-seafood-chinatown-bangkok.html) (we ate inside in the air-conditioning) and the equally bustling [Hua Seng Hong](http://www.bangkokpost.com/150808_Realtime/15Aug2008_real017.php). Mmmm. They finally had to roll us home when we checked out this morning (Monday morning).
And for lunch one day, we wandered into the adjacent Little India area to eat at the original branch of Royal India. This is arguably the best Indian restaurant in Bangkok, but the two satellite branches elsewhere are simply not up to snuff.
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