What's for dinner tonight?

Technically for dinner tonight is a meal I’ve posted before, so I’ll post what’s for dinner tomorrow night: Corn and Broccoli calzones! I may even stuff them with spinach or sauteed mushrooms & onions & garlic as well. I’ll also use a heavy hand with spices, because they seem to be lacking in that area. I’ll make it with frozen corn (but fresh broccoli) and a pre-made ball of whole wheat pizza dough from Trader Joe’s.

Not sure, really, probably something easy. (I have a gym class from 6-7, so I’m missing the prime dinner prep hour.) I might make Quiche Lorraine, but will probably end up with the box o’ mac-n-cheese. (It’s the Kraft Deluxe variety, if that helps. Probably not.)

Other meals this week will be grilled ham accompanied by scalloped potatoes and green beans, toasted ravioli with roasted tomato sauce (courtesy Cooking Light; we’ll see how it goes, it’s a new recipe), and probably some turkey ragu on rigatoni. I froze most of the huge ragu I made in a crock pot a few weeks ago, it’ll make a nice quick dinner that’ll feel like it took way longer to make. Hmmm - since it’s a relatively quick dinner, maybe that’ll be tonight’s meal. Or maybe my hubby will really love me and make the ham dinner. Anyway…

Something as easy as humanly possible. I got some frozen Indian food last night at the supermarket as a just in case. We’ll probably have that. My mom’s visiting Wednesday, and we usually clean like mad for the two days leading up to it, so we keep meal prep to a minimum to keep the kitchen clean. Now that I have two kids, it’s worse than cleaning up in college was. There’s lots more space to clean, more to sanitize and more dirt produced.

I’m not sure yet. The store had a nice special on whole (cryovac packed) pork loins so I probably should cut one up, use part of it and get the rest into the freezer. A nice thick, grilled chop is the easy and obvious choice but that’s not quite what sounds good to me. Maybe take a four inch block, brine it in honey, kosher salt and canned broth, roast it whole and slice it thin for sanwiches.

No matter what I do with the pork, I’ve got some nice broccoli and some leftover rice pilaf to use up.

Either leftover posole or leftover stuffed anchos, since I spent all weekend cooking and I’m not cooking again tonight.

Got ambitious.

Wasabi octopus.
DIY sashimi (chu toro and yellowtail).
Button mushrooms sauteed in butter and white miso paste (???)
Beef yakiniku.

Wish me luck.

Prosciutto-wrapped pork tenderloin, brown rice and broccoli.

Cool and wet outside, so I do believe the wife(Blessed be her name) is whomping up a pot of chili for dinner. Hope I picked enough chilis yesterday.

I DEMAND a cite! :smiley:

overlyverbose, at least you’re honest! I certainly don’t post in these threads when the answer is “whatever doesn’t make me topple over midway through making it” :wink:

BBQ baby back ribs, mashed red potatoes with garlic, brussels sprouts

Homemade tomato-vegetable soup, seseame crackers with Swiss cheese and gingerbread cookies.

Homemade ham & pineapple pizza (Okay, homemade with storebought pizza dough) and salad.

lindsay, those calzones sure look good!

I’ll be sure to report back on how they are - it’s my first time making them :slight_smile:

Hey, I’ve got no ego anymore. We usually have reasonably healthy food (though since my mom’s visiting, that’s over for about a week - she’s bringing me three birthday cakes, for crying out loud!), but on days when I don’t feel like preparing it, I don’t stress if dinner isn’t stellar. That’s why frozen food was invented. Today I’m just too tired to care. Especially after the six hours of sleep I’ve gotten in the past two days. I’m beat. If I stay awake through the kids’ bedtimes, I’ll be a happy camper.

The calzones sound delcious.

My husband smoked a passle of meat this weekend. Sure makes cooking easier for me. And he’s finally got it down.

Tonight it’s similar tocruel butterfly’s choice. Smoked baby back ribs with Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce, oven roasted red potatoes with thyme and rosemary, cole slaw, toast and rhubarb cream pie from the freezer.

We still have plenty of sticky wings hanging around from last night (chicken wings roasted with soy sauce, hot sauce, paprika, and garlic powder) and a head of lettuce for salad… I may or may not get around to making macaroni and cheese, which is supposed to carry us for a couple of nights. We can get by just fine if I don’t.

It’s Deep-Fried Night at Casa Horseshoe. A piece of fish is thawing in the fridge, and I brought in the last of the okra the other night. Add some onion rings or petals, throw everything into some tempura batter, and fry that shit up. The tempura batter comes from a store-bought mix; I have never produced a homemade batter as good as the stuff they sell at the grocery store in the produce aisle, I’m sorry to say.

There’s also an apple on the counter that we might split, in a nod to healthiness.

We just had leftover meat loaf (from the store - not as good as mine) cut up and cooked with onions and canned tomatoes (one Rotel and one plain), served over toast. Quick and easy, and leftovers again!

I’ll have to cook something from scratch next time.

Cottage pie with a garlicky edge. Not the best thing I’ve ever made, but pretty good.

I forgot/left out the pan-fried Japanese fishcakes.

This went over (over all) very well. I will work on variants of this for entertaining.