Tonight was calamari, cocktail shrimp, green beans and blueberries. An Italian white wine blend mr. romans picked up at the store last week to drink. Pretty good.
Neither of us slept well last night, so tonight was a HEB frozen pepperoni pizza dressed up with fancy Parmesan instead of the dried stuff. It was a pretty dang good frozen pizza.
One of my comfort food treats tonight – hot roast beef sub with melted white cheddar, lettuce, and Dijon and a few glasses of Cabernet, homestyle coleslaw with creamy yogurt dressing on the side. Leftover coleslaw should go well with fish & chips tomorrow. I have frozen fries but I might slice up and soak a baking potato tomorrow for homemade fries in the air fryer. Damn, those things are good when tossed in olive oil with garlic salt!
I grilled turkey/spinach/feta burgers last night. One of the things I love about turkey burgers is that you can mix stuff into them and they always come out great.
So, I diced the grilled meat and placed it atop lettuce, onions, tomatoes. Dressed with ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise. We call it a deconstructed burger.
Served with air fryer potato chips. Red potatoes sliced just a bit thicker than regular potato chips. Vodka and lemon juice to drink.
Prompted by the cheesesteak thread, I ordered a #13 from the Lost Dog Café last night. My SO got the individual Popeye Pie.
My gf made Zuppa Toscana, using crumpled turkey sausage, potatoes, cannellini beans, kale, spinach, and gnocchi. Served with Sauvignon Blanc.
Appetizer of halibut croquettes with red pepper romesco. Main course was rare steak, 4 big garlic prawns, grilled asparagus and roasted garlic mashed potatoes. Dessert was huckleberry ice cream. Prosecco to drink.
I’ve made a version of this with lamb. Turkey would be a great idea as it lends itself to letting the other flavors you add shine.
I made a batch of Anthony Bourdain’s meatballs. I had a couple of lasagna rolls left to use up, so we each had one of those topped with a couple of the meatballs. It was a bit more filling than I’d anticipated but pretty damn good. Served with garlic bread and fresh strawberries. It’s getting to be strawberry season here so we’re looking forward to that.
Also picked up some fresh rhubarb today and froze that. I think I’ve finally learned to buy it when it shows up instead of looking for it when I decide I want some, which is good.
I need to do this. Too often I stew rhubarb three or four times a week and my gf questions my sanity. The rhubarb season is short, but intense.
Not exactly about dinner, although I’ll get to that in a moment, but my recent rediscovery of Cheez Whiz after literally about 40 years has proved to produce quite a nice snack when spread on a cracker and topped with half a stuffed olive (stuffed either with red pepper or my latest purchase, garlic-stuffed). But the funny thing is that doing a Google search for how unhealthy this artificial crap must be turned up this article.
No, it doesn’t say that Cheez Whiz is healthy, but it slightly pushes back against the claim that it actually is healthy because it contains a lot of CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) which is a good thing to consume because it’s associated with weight loss. The medical view seems to be that yes, it’s a good thing, but Cheez Whiz contains enough other crap to counteract its benefits.
The same article also says that “the best food sources of CLA are beef and full-fat dairy”. Hah! On my grocery run today I bought not one but two roast beef subs with white cheddar. Man, those things are good when nuked in the microwave to warm the beef, melt the cheese, and soften the bread. And then slathered with Dijon mustard. Beef and full-fat dairy? I gots it all in my roast beef sub!
And no, I’m not a pig – only one for dinner, with yogurt-dressed coleslaw, and one for lunch tomorrow.
I bought some really nice mahi-mahi, and was trying to figure out what to do. So, I also found some Thai peppers and mangos.
I sharpened my fillet knife and took the skin off the mahi. Made a Thai Ceviche using pineapple, lime juice, and Thai chilis. It was spicy.
To counter the spiciness I made Khao Niaow Ma Muang (Sticky Rice with Mango). What a great combo! The sticky rice was made with coconut milk and sugar, along with a lot of salt. The mango was the one-in-ten mango that was perfectly ripe without being overly ripe.
Sauvignon Blanc to drink, along with a pot of tea.
Beef enchilada casserole, which was delicious, but took way too long to make.
Last night I grilled salmon/spinach/feta burgers. Served with redskin potatoes I quartered and air fried. I used Old Bay Seasoning on the potatoes.
The salmon burgers were delicious. I love the spinach/feta version with salmon and with turkey burgers.
We buy enough fish from the supermarket so the woman at the fish counter will make feta/spinach burgers for us from salmon I pick out. (Ordinarily they use their old salmon).
Tonight, grilled strip loin steaks, British style jacket potatoes, bourbon crunch salad, Tuscan style sourdough garlic scape salt bread, and 1/2 a cinnamon bun with cream cheese icing with a bottle of Malivoire Marachel Foch. Steak sandwiches with smoked cheddar and sweet and smoky mustard on sourdough for lunch tomorrow!
A rotisserie chicken with some mole sauce, and an IPA.
Lunch was leftovers from last night’s dinner - a spicy restaurant salad made with tofu marinated with sambal olek and flash seared, spring mix blend with cucumbers, candied almonds, pickled carrots, daikon, and white balsamic sesame vinaigrette. I’m not ordinarily enamored of tofu although I eat plenty of it, but this tofu is like ambrosia.
Cookin’ up some old favourite comfort foods. Bush’s Homestyle beans with bacon, sauteed onion, and hickory barbecue sauce; homemade fries in the air fryer tossed in olive oil and garlic salt; breakfast sausages previously oven-baked and frozen which I’ll brown on a hot skillet if I feel like it, otherwise the microwave works tolerably well. An Aussie Cabernet-Shiraz to drink.
We hadn’t been to our local BBQ place in quite some time, so we went there tonight. I had a BBQ plate with hushpuppies, corn pudding and white slaw. My husband had the BBQ nachos. He had beer; I had chardonnay. Now I need a nap.
Yesterday morning I made a marinade using WoodWalker jerk paste and set up some chicken. Last night I grilled the chicken along with pineapple rings and sweet peppers. There was some heat!!!
To cool the heat, I made a black bean, chickpea, cilantro, mango, lime juice “salad”.
Actually it’s WalkersWood jerk seasoning.
If you like traditional Jamaican jerk seasoning, give it a try, it is awesome. Before grilling the chicken last night, I tasted the marinade (mmmm raw chicken juice) and it was HOT!!! The cooking process actually calms down the heat.
Today, my daughter made Taiwanese shrimp omelets with miso paste, shrimp, ketchup, sugar, sweet potato starch and eggs. Yesterday, my wife made Japanese oden おでん and the night before I made a typical American dinner of mashed potatoes, gravy, baked chicken and pumpkin soup. Got to keep the kids guessing what will be for dinner.