# What's for dinner tonight? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806 "2010-12-11T19:27:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/41 "2010-12-13T00:02:14Z")
Ended up going out for dinner with friends last night. Had some awesome sea bass over some sort of small, white beans (can’t remember what they were). Very light, but very good. Some great local chardonnay went really well with it. There’s so much good wine around here it’s insane! Tonight is leftover chicken stew for last week. Tastes even better heated up. That’ll go nicely with some Pino Noir. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/42 "2010-12-13T01:08:43Z")
> [@Shannon](#): > > “Laugh” as in “I think it’s cute”, not as in “I am laughing at your food choice because I deem it silly or some other such judgmental expression.” > > And I have made my pseudo-meat lasagna many times for heavily meat eating crowds and no one could tell the difference. It rules! Point taken. I guess I read more into it than was there. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/43 "2010-12-13T01:38:11Z")
It’s a toss up. I do all our weekly cooking on Sundays, so we have to choose from: 1. Lasagna with savory herb-garlic monkey bread 2. Enchiladas de mole 3. Stuffed poblanos I also made another batch of chocolate chocolate chip cookies. I was going to make homemade pizza for the kids, too, but it makes two pizzas, and their stomachs are only so big, even with leftovers. Right now I’m leaning toward eating the lasagna. The monkey bread is already half-demolished. Everyone loved it and kept walking in, grabbing a piece and munching. It turned out much better than I expected. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/44 "2010-12-13T02:00:49Z")
My wife is cooking tonight - ribs, green cauliflower w. cheddar sauce, rice. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/45 "2010-12-13T02:09:40Z")
Last night was Tofu Cheese patties with brown rice and peas as the sides. The patties were out of some vegetarian cookbook of ze future MIL. Very tasty actually, but I always salt 'em and season 'em a little more 🙂 Tonight we went out - I had a crabcake sammich and he had a burger. Yum! Hooo boy, tomorrow, let me _tell_ you – tomorrow is [Pasta with Tomato Cream sauce](http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/09/pasta-with-tomato-cream-sauce/). Gonna half the recipe, since it’s just the two of us! This is the first time I’ll be cooking with _cream_, so I’m terrifically nervous and excited. And terrified in case I like it too much 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/46 "2010-12-13T02:55:24Z")
Pumpkin whole grain waffles. Brown rice sushi leftovers, salad. B, L and D all at once ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/47 "2010-12-13T09:04:26Z")
Tortellini Alfredo. Thanks to a recent thread, I actually looked up some recipes for authentic alfredo sauce (quite easy to make) and bought a large bag of tortellinis from Trader Joe’s (great price, and really from Italy). Diced some cooked ham and added it, mixed together and voila - excellent, fairly cheap dish to make, and enough for leftovers tomorrow. Should there still be leftover from the leftovers - freezes well and makes for a great, quick dinner when you have no time. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/48 "2010-12-13T12:47:49Z")
> [@Shannon](#): > > It makes me laugh that an adult male’s favorite meal is English muffin pizzas! > > I am having some banging lasagna with Boca Ground Crumbles for dinner and I have been waiting all day for it. Yes, I find it pretty amusing, too, but most of his favorites are pretty basic: tuna salad, Kraft mac and cheese, steak and fries, hamburgers, hotdogs, and so on. Last night I made a wonderful (I thought) beef stew, but he complained that there was too much wine in it. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/49 "2010-12-13T12:59:30Z")
Risotto tonight, I think. Before that it was ramen with chicken, and the night before that, gnocchi with cream, mushrooms and chestnuts. Tomorrow it will probably be sloppy Joes made from leftover Thanksgiving turkey (it’s my turn to cook). ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/50 "2010-12-13T15:24:35Z")
> [@sparky\_1](#): > > I had Mexican Lasagna tonight (again from [allrecipes.com](http://allrecipes.com)). > > Cooked some ground beef and mixed it with refried beans, garlic powder, oregano and chili powder. > > The added half to cover lasagna noodles in a 9x13 pan. Then added diced tomatoes and mozzarella cheese followed by another layer of lasagna noodles and then the remaining beef/bean mix. Then added 2 cups of water and 2.5 cups of salsa. Next cooked covered at 350 for 1.5 hours. > > Finally added sour cream to the top with sliced black olives, mexican blend cheese and then a layer of pepper jack cheese. Then back in the oven for 10 minutes at 360 uncovered. > > Man, it was good. Ohhh, man it was good! That sounds much better than [Sandra Lee’s](http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2010/06/a-lasagna-show-down-sandra-lee-vs-matilda-cuo.html) lasagna recipe. She puts Campbell’s tomato soup in her version. Yuck! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/51 "2010-12-13T21:53:39Z")
Tonight it’s going to be baked potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower. Pretty much smothered in cheese sauce. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/52 "2010-12-13T22:32:20Z")
Because Thanksgiving is nearly 49 weeks away, yesterday Mrs. Urquhart and I made Thanksgiving dinner with (most) of the trimmings. Tonight: the inevitable but immensely enjoyable leftovers! ---
**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:** [December 13, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/53 "2010-12-13T23:00:33Z")
Either almond-crusted tilapia and broccoli, or some of the leftover butternut squash soup I made the other day. (Added quite a bit of curry powder this time around - must remember to do so again!) It was a big squash with lots of seeds. But … I’ve already eaten all the roasted seeds. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/54 "2010-12-13T23:38:16Z")
Tonight it’s corn chowder–my Grammie Rand’s recipe a la maritime Canada. To go with, I have crusty hearth-baked French bread from TJ’s, and yummy Fresh Apple Cake with cream cheese glaze for dessert. To make up for tonight’s carb overload, tomorrow’s dinner will be grilled chicken breast, broccoli, and sauteed leeks. I promise! ---
**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:** [December 14, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/55 "2010-12-14T00:53:45Z")
Picked up a bagful of bahn mi sandwiches this morning. Fifteen minutes later, ran into **Johnny L.A.** and gave him one, remembering his [earlier craving in this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13239819&postcount=11). Still have enough for dinner tonight and lunch for the daughter tomorrow. **Johnny L.A.** , I like your haircut! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/56 "2010-12-14T00:57:57Z")
> [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > Because Thanksgiving is nearly 49 weeks away, yesterday Mrs. Urquhart and I made Thanksgiving dinner with (most) of the trimmings. Tonight: the inevitable but immensely enjoyable leftovers! The last of the Thanksgiving leftovers will be eaten tonight. Alas, poor Turkey. I knew him well. I gotta get into the habit of just making one of those damn things every month. It’s just so easy, so good, and feeds you for so long! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/57 "2010-12-14T03:56:48Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Picked up a bagful of bahn mi sandwiches this morning. Fifteen minutes later, ran into **Johnny L.A.** and gave him one, remembering his [earlier craving in this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13239819&postcount=11). Still have enough for dinner tonight and lunch for the daughter tomorrow. > > **Johnny L.A.** , I like your haircut! I have my hair cut every six months whether it needs it or not! 😃 Thank you for the bahn mi! _Really_ appreciated it! I had the Uli’s lamb sausage onna bun for lunch, and had the bahn mi a couple of hours later. I couldn’t resist. Yum! I’m experimenting with dinner tonight. I’ve made polenta and sauce before, but this time I sliced the polenta and put it in the casserole dish, and then added Trader Joe’s vegetarian Italian sausages. Then the sauce. I’ll dump some quattro formaggio on it after it bakes a bit. I hope it’s good! (I told the roomie that’s the risk she takes. Sometimes I experiment in the kitchen.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/58 "2010-12-14T04:55:47Z")
The polenta came out pretty good. I think maybe less sauce and fewer sausages would have been better, since the point of the dish was to taste the polenta. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/59 "2010-12-17T01:08:50Z")
I tried making cod tonight: Cook onions and garlic in olive oil, then add italian diced tomatoes, sliced olives, salt, pepper, fresh parsley, white wine and oregano. Let simmer for 5 minutes. Add cod and fresh parmesan cheese and simmer until fish is cooked. Well, I’m new to cooking that involves anything more than eggs or pasta. It turns out my idea of simmering is no where near what simmering actually is. The cod was a rubbery mess. The sauce tasted great, but the fish was nasty as hell. I ended up just dumping the whole thing in the trash. So I ended up with toasted, buttery french bread and rice and the rest of the white wine. Hope someone will chime in with a mouth watery meal they enjoyed, because I am freak’n starving! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806/60 "2010-12-17T01:20:40Z")
Tonight we’re having bangers’n’mash, brown gravy, and peas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/563806.md?page=4)