Heading over to The Dubliner down the street for fantastic scallops as big as your fist!
Do you have any Top Ramen in the cupboard that you can doctor up with some cheap veggies? I wish I could send you some food!
Tonight my teenaged daughter made sandwiches with cold cuts, colby cheese, balsamic vinegar, Caesar dressing, cabbage (she knew it wasn’t lettuce, but tried it anyways; it worked fine), and homemade bread left over from our Tom Kah soup the other night. She’s quite the cook. (She complained to me a few days ago that we ran out of truffle oil.) Tomorrow, Italian sausage, cabbage and apple skillet-something-or-other, maybe with potatoes in it somewhere (sans truffle oil!).
How were these fist-of-fury-sized scallops served?
Dinner was a mishmash… half a baked potato with ketchup, sunny rolls (like Ca rolls but with carrot wrap instead of seaweed), an orange, and some split pea with ham soup from Fresh and Easy.
On a bed of spinach, with some pepitas and an amazing sauce (on the side, of cawce!) but don’t ask me what it was. Comes with bacon, but I declined. We also had some excellent mussels (they were huge, as well) and some unbelievable calamari. “Bar food” elevated to the nth power! If you’re ever in St. Louis, do yourselves a favor! Oh…you could also get them as a main course with some killer mashed potatoes!
I made a humongous pot of vegetable beef soup. I made a stock from leftover prime rib bones, and added some stew meat and some leftover veggies and some fresh onion, celery and potato. I’m gonna have to freeze at least half of this.
I also boiled a chicken, picked off the meat, saved the stock, and will be making chicken pot pie later this week. 
Lentil soup with andouille sausage, followed by pecan tarts.
Last night’s dinner was either a romaine lettuce salad with a bit of kidney beans and a chopped hardboiled egg eaten early OR two scoops of ice cream in a waffle bowl eaten late. It’s hard to decide which meal was dinner when neither really are.
Tonight was lula, cucumber-yogurt salad, and whole wheat couscous.
Well, around noon on Sunday, hubby went to pick up our Angel Food order, which included the “Seafood Special” box; he wanted the Rockfish stuffed with crab imperial, my sister wanted the Tilapia, and I (being not a fan of fish in general) wanted the crab cakes. But since they could all be cooked on one baking pan, at the same temp, we all got what we wanted. I also made some of the whole-wheat dinner rolls that came with the order, some mac and cheese, baby peas with pearl onions and mushrooms, and buttered corn.
Barbecued fish cakes with tamarind broth & rice noodles, with the first crop of spinach, coriander and kaffir lime leaves from our garden. It’s been nice and warm today, and something SE Asian was just the thing.
But with the temp expected to be higher tomorrow, I think it’s BBQ for both lunch and dinner.
Tonight, I’ll be making steaks, deep-fried shrimp, and a bigass salad.
I think I’m going to do chickpeas with chorizo and red pepper (capsicum) and chicken legs sprinkled with garlic and paprika cooked in the griddle pan, served with a green salad.
This is not a specific recipe- it is just what I happen to have about that needs using up.
Chickpeas go well with chorizo, and obviously garlic and paprika will work with chicken and will tie in with the garlic and paprika in the chorizo…hopefully.
Much of my cooking is somewhat of an experiment.
Last night, we had:
Roasted butternut squash (which I topped with manchego for the last 5 mins in the oven)
Garlic sweetpotato mash (just throw a couple of cloves of peeled garlic in the pot with the sweet potato, boil until tender- mash)
and
Pan fried pork loin chops with thyme and lime juice (I ran out of lemons)
served with a honey and mustard sauce (honey and mustard used to de-glaze pork pan).
Yummy.
Dinner last night was at the Elephant Bar: Sangria rojo and garlic noodles with shrimp. Mmmmmmmm.
Beans with ham hocks, Italian sausage & chopped greens, homemade apple pie (store-bought crust, I’m lazy).
Tuesday is Taco Night. If you don’t fry your own taco shells, you should. Store-bought are lousy.
Shepherd’s Pie or Spaghetti Squash casserole, whichever.
Tonight, we will be having Meatloaf a la Mom, which means my sister is making it, using our mother’s recipe; my mother always put cut up potatoes, onions and carrots around hers, and topped it with a tomato-soup-based sauce. My own meatloaf features mushrooms and a brown gravy, and is served with mashed potatoes.
However. . .I made a new recipe for lunch today that I will be making for dinner sometime soon. Very easy, definitely “comfort food”. Gave 10YO mudgirl a taste and she said she’d happily eat it. My sister and I both loved it!
Got it out of a magazine, Hearty Beef and Beans
1lb ground beef
Fresh ground pepper
1 large onion, diced
1 can (favorite brand) baked beans-I used Bush’s Grillin’ Beans, Bourbon and Brown Sugar flavor
1 can red (light or dark) kidney beans, drained
1 can butter beans, drained
2tsb Worcestershire sauce
1/2C ketchup
1/2C light brown sugar
Brown ground beef and onion in a large skillet, drain; add remaining ingredients, reduce heat. Simmer until you can’t stand the smell anymore ( 
)
Nom, nom, nom.
Comfort yourself with the thought that no matter how bad the ground beef, brown sugar and ketchup are for you, all those beans are doing great things for your colon! 