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.
It’s a toss up. I do all our weekly cooking on Sundays, so we have to choose from:
Lasagna with savory herb-garlic monkey bread
Enchiladas de mole
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.
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. 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
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.
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.
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).
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!
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.
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!
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. Still have enough for dinner tonight and lunch for the daughter tomorrow.
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.)
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.
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!