# What's For Dinner Tonight: Episode 2021 – A New Hope **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [January 20, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015 "2021-01-20T19:38:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 245
**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:** [July 14, 2026, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4882 "2026-07-14T12:15:03Z")
A simple but good one last night. Pan-seared ham steak, served with applesauce, brussels sprouts, and whomp biscuits. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4883 "2026-07-14T12:43:20Z")
Rice bowl last night, with black beans, a little cheddar cheese, toasted quinoa, and a whole mess of carrot tops and beet greens (the top half of carrots and beets from the farmers’ market this weekend) sauteed with garlic, with some basil and dill tossed in afterwards. It was fine, but the carrot tops were incredibly stringy and not that pleasant to eat/chew. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4884 "2026-07-14T18:05:40Z")
Having made the chorizo sausages late last night, in my usual fashion baked with chopped white onion and garlic pizza sauce, tonight’s dinner will involve minimal prep and minimal heat output – Bush’s Homestyle beans simmered with some of the sausage and the oven-sauteed onion and a touch of smoky BBQ sauce, and served with potato salad. Beans and potato salad is a simple but magical combo that has always been one of my fave comfort foods. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4885 "2026-07-16T05:56:31Z")
Tonight was trout sautéed in garlic butter plus olive oil, with lemon slices and garlic in the middle. It was delicious! The trout was caught 3 days ago and packed in ice until today. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4886 "2026-07-20T19:27:52Z")
Dinner tonight will be one of my faves – roast chicken breast stuffed with garlic sausage, with fries from the air fryer and turkey gravy. It’s part of a prepared dinner with fettuccine alfredo that I froze a couple of weeks ago. The plentiful fettuccine will be reserved for tomorrow, along with some broccoli and garlic butter and lots of parmigiano reggiano on top! ---
**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:** [July 21, 2026, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4887 "2026-07-21T00:30:32Z")
Tonight is a reuben sandwich. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2026, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4888 "2026-07-21T01:01:28Z")
Man, I would eat that every night. I made a Thai peanut curry recipe, hopefully using the kind of bagged veg that don’t make you shit your brains out. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2026, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4889 "2026-07-21T01:39:20Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > hopefully using the kind of bagged veg that don’t make you shit your brains out. It’s too bad they don’t put that on the packaging so you know. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4890 "2026-07-21T17:13:34Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Tonight was trout sautéed in garlic butter plus olive oil, with lemon slices and garlic in the middle. It was delicious! The trout was caught 3 days ago and packed in ice until today. Oh, there is not a much better meal than fresh-caught trout. Reminds me of a story, if I may be indulged-- let’s call it “What was for dinner a couple Summers ago” 😏 A friend has a few acres of land in the woods outside of the town of Grayling, Michigan. We’ve been camping up there for years. I try to fish, but my fishing luck is not often very good. One Summer we went into Grayling for supplies and decided to check out the fish hatchery in town that supplied the Au Sable River. Turned out they offered fresh trout right out of the hatchery pond, cleaned to order and ready to cook, so we bought a mess of it and took it back to camp. I lemoned, garlicked, buttered and grilled it. Outstanding feast! A month or two later that Summer we were camping up there again, and decided to pick up some more trout. At the hatchery, the same few 20-somethings who worked at the place, and fixed us up with the trout before, were working there again. I asked the same guy “hey, can you hook us up again?”, thinking he’d remember us. He uneasily looked at his young co-workers and said, “uhhhh… maybe? What were you looking for?” When I replied “trout” they seemed visibly relieved. “Oh sure, how much you need?” I think they thought we were looking for meth or something… ---
**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:** [July 21, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4891 "2026-07-21T17:38:20Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I asked the same guy “hey, can you hook us up again?”, thinking he’d remember us. He uneasily looked at his young co-workers and said, “uhhhh… maybe? What were you looking for?” When I replied “trout” they seemed visibly relieved. “Oh sure, how much you need?” I think they thought we were looking for meth or something… Lol! What’s funny is that _trout_ wasn’t even their first guess. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4892 "2026-07-21T18:55:35Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Lol! What’s funny is that _trout_ wasn’t even their first guess. Well, to be fair to them, I suppose I could have been asking for one of several trout-related services-- they had a trout fishing pond, they sold and cleaned fresh trout, which is what we wanted, and they were a commercial hatchery, so for all they maybe knew we were looking to pick up a truckload of hatchlings or whatever. It was just the way the one guy looked at the others uneasily when I said “can you hook us up again?” and cautiously replied “uhhhh…maybe” that made me kinda think _they_ thought I was looking for meth, or pot, or _something_ less legal than trout. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4893 "2026-07-21T22:13:33Z")
> [@solost](#): > > there is not a much better meal than fresh-caught trout. Agreed. I related earlier about cruising Georgian Bay one time with my friend and docking for dinner at a lakeside restaurant and enjoying the most wonderful pan-fried trout! Meanwhile, dinner tonight will be a sort of indoor picnic. I only ate about half the chicken breast last night – it was big, and stuffed with sausage, so tonight will be half a cold stuffed chicken breast with potato salad. If I’m still hungry I guess I could pig out later on and have the fettuccine, too. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2026, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4894 "2026-07-21T23:27:49Z")
Someone gifted me some Jamaican spices. Whoooo! I’m going to have to find some cautious recipes to use this in. Tonight, BBQ sandwiches and potato salad. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4895 "2026-07-22T20:29:52Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > If I’m still hungry I guess I could pig out later on and have the fettuccine, too. Just call me piggy. Oink! The fettuccine was consumed and everything run through the dishwasher. Off to a fresh start! I visited my favourite deli today and picked up a bounty of goodies which will enhance my culinary life over the next week or so, some of which I froze.. Tonight will be a chicken Caesar wrap with Caesar salad dressing for dipping. It’s so big that I may only be able to consume half of it, even though this deli makes the most delicious wraps! ---
**Author:** ![GoodOldKJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GoodOldKJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOldKJ)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4896 "2026-07-23T03:27:13Z")
We had sweet and sour chicken once again ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4897 "2026-07-23T22:41:58Z")
Due to my magnificent haul from my favourite deli yesterday, dinner tonight will be two small courses – latkes (potato pancakes) with sour cream and sprinkled with green onions, and a couple of beef cabbage rolls in tomato sauce. Both are delicious traditional eastern European fare. Both are somewhat labour-intensive to make, but are ideally suited to microwave re-heating if someone else has already made them! 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 23, 2026, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4898 "2026-07-23T23:26:08Z")
Sounds frickin awesome. Pasta fagioli here tonight. The best thing about this recipe is it makes two batches. Maybe three. 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4899 "2026-07-24T22:21:58Z")
Gonna make french bread pizzas. No sauce, but fresh farm stand 'maters, plopped on a sheet tray and roasted a little, garlic, mozz, and pepperoni, all from the farm stand. If my oven’s wiring hadn’t been gnawed by mice I would have made a real pizza. Instead I’m down to a toaster oven. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2026, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4900 "2026-07-25T04:08:30Z")
Chicken pot pie, and a coupla pierogi. Coupla bites of smoked Gouda cuz I was picking up a bit for my long shift tomorrow, and I was _CRAVING_ that cheese, and it was just sitting there, next to me, in my car. 🥺 * * * I need something sweet. How on earth did this 1/3 pint of coffee ice cream hop out of the freezer, and into my lap? … it’s a mystery. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2026, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4901 "2026-07-25T04:29:24Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > 1/3 pint of coffee ice cream Is it Häagen-Dasz? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015.md?page=244) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015.md?page=246)