I wasn’t very hungry last night so I just had some Vietnamese fresh spring rolls with peanut sauce.
Spicy oven-baked marinated chicken breasts with homemade fries from the air fryer.
I thought I had these before and was miffed that the supermarket increased the price by $2, but I now see that the previous ones were chicken cutlets and these are whole boneless breasts. I’m not even sure I could finish one whole breast so there will be lots of leftovers to have tomorrow with my artisinal BBQ beans and more fries or with ramen noodles.
Making pork stroganoff for the weeks’s meals. Have to make 2 versions, I have to have the mushrooms, Mrs. D can’t abide them. Pork loin sliced thin and browned, onions, mushrooms (for me), paprika, mustard, and sour cream for the sauce, served over extra wide egg noodles (I can only have a small amount of the noodles because diabetes 
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Lazy Sunday so dinner was Bachelor Glop. In this case it consisted of a cup of microwave Rice-a-roni (4 cheese), a cup of cooked hamburger, a sprinkling of diced onions, some spices and a cup of frozen California mix. Nuke as appropriate then combine in a bowl. Eat while surfing the web and sipping a margarita.
A French feast of moules et frites. The mussels were in a tomato and garlic sauce, the fries were made in the air fryer and served with mayonnaise. My gf served a French wine with my meal.
I have chicken breasts marinating for Green Chile Chicken with black beans and rice.
Nachos and a chocolate brownie with ice cream.
We had an interesting salad. Lettuce of various types, some shredded cabbage, diced apples, raisins, shredded turkey, a bit of cheese, probably some other stuff, and a poppyseed dressing.
Chilled vodka to drink for me, my gf had vin blanc.
Trader Joe’s lasagna for me. I was considering felafel, but I’m feeling lazy and don’t want to make tzatziki and tahini sauces.
This isn’t really about dinner (more like lunch) but have you ever have one of those whimsical fancies for something that you haven’t had in a long time that worked out really great?
I happened to see a pack of mortadella at the supermarket that looked nice. I remember liking it but not having had it in a long time, and I do love sandwiches. I thought if I was going to make sandwiches with it, I should get some kind of lettuce, so for convenience I picked up a package of Sweet Baby Butter Leaf from Little Leaf Farms which I highly recommend – it’s packaged leaves of greenhouse-grown lettuce that’s a hybrid of iceberg and romaine. Perfect for sandwiches, and needs no washing.
Made a sandwich with lots of butter, the mortadella which turned out to be thinly sliced so arranged it on the sandwich in a heap, Dijon mustard, crispy leaves of Baby Butter Leaf lettuce, and Hellman’s mayo. OMG! Such a simple thing, but so delicious!
I immediately made another one. This may soon become a staple around here!
Beef teriyaki and potstickers with rice and cabbage slaw.
What shall I make?
- hash browns
- potato pancakes
- mashed potato pancakes
I find myself in the tri-horns of the dilemma
No contest! If you have the ingredients and the mandatory sour cream accompaniment, make latkes (authentic potato pancakes). (I’ve never made that particular recipe – just an example.)
Thanks @wolfpup !
My Amazon order of split pea soup cups arrived while I was at work. It’s vegan, so of course I added sliced kielbasa! 
About to slice a green onion to add in & go to town on that stuff. I’ve been looking forward to it for hours while at work!
Appetizers are my usual go-to right now, Triscuits with one of the 3 jars of various chili crisp camped out on my coffee table (angry grandma, and an onion- and a garlic-based version, both also off Amazon) although instead of my usual butter slices I’m slathering veggie cream cheese onto the crackers as a base.
I love those with shredded chicken.
Oh, this is the pea soup. I also very highly recommend their black beans:
I had a hankering for some junk food so got a tray (10 or 12?) heated mini tacos from 7-Eleven.
If I go after 6pm, sometimes the checker only charges me a dollar for the bunch. Once he just gave them to me.
It’s now an official standard around here! As a lover of sandwiches, on my last outing yesterday I picked up two more packs of fine Italian mortadella, a large pack of Black Forest ham just for variety (and a pack of sliced Swiss cheese), another box of Sweet Baby Butter Leaf lettuce, and another loaf of bread. I already had tomato and red onion. Plus I have a pre-made roast beef and cheese sub. I’m in sandwich heaven!
I didn’t realize until I looked it up the other day that mortadella is basically a fatty bologna – bologna with bits of pork fat in it. This doesn’t put me off it at all, as the only reason bologna has a bad rep is that supermarkets abound with cheap, crappy versions of it. I learned years ago that bologna from an upscale deli like Pusateri’s is a great, quality sandwich meat, and real Italian mortadella is even better.
Now I’m tempted to try out Anthony Bourdain’s mortadella sandwich recipe. It’s basically like my beloved roast beef and cheese, but with mortadella. I don’t have provolone but it should work with Swiss.
The HEB near us finally opened up the BBQ stand. So, we went with their barbecue. I went kinda nuts, and got their sliced brisket, pulled pork, pork ribs, collared greens, mac 'n cheese, and burnt ends.
All of it was excellent, and I got enough that it’s what’s for dinner and lunch tomorrow as well.
Doing bacon=wrapped pork loin roast smothered in a honey dijon garlic mixture, baby carrots roasted in butter with fresh tarragon, and garlic-rosemary mashed potatoes.
First day of not-closing at work all week, so I’m a bit wiped out, so don’t judge too hard.
One each of a chicken, and beef, empanada (frozen → oven baked).
Plus the last half of my chicken tamale from my “lunch” break (took so long for them to get me the food, I didn’t have a chance to eat much of it) and some of their refried beans & chips’n’salsa to go with.
I do have sour cream here if needed. There’s also guac in the fridge, but it’s unopened, so once I peel it open I gotta go to town on it, so that may wait till tomorrow.
They gave me plenty of chips, I should be O.K. for a guac brunch when I wake up.
Should dessert call my name, I have some nice probiotic vanilla yogurt … or chocolate pudding cups if I’m feeling less “lady of a certain age” and more “inner 8-year-old is in charge.”
ETA fuck it, you only live once. Guacamole, c’mere!!