Dinner tonight for me is leftover vegetarian chili that I made last night, from this Muir Glen recipe. I halve it, since it’s just for the two of us, and I still have plenty of leftovers! Penzey’s chili powder really made the dish great, and of course, I thrown in plenty of Tabasco. He adds shredded cheese, I add sour cream. I simmer some quinoa to mix it with. Delicious!
Something called Saigon Beef. Ought to be interesting. First time we’ve tried this recipe.
Grilled scallops with some sort of veg. Or pasta. I’m having difficulty in remembering what foods are actually available in my kitchen right now.
That looks amazing. Let us know how it is.
I’m doing a ham, because I got it free around Christmas. The local grocery store has a deal where they give out coupons the 6 weeks before Christmas, and if you save up enough of 'em, you can get a free turkey or ham. I figured WTH, and got a ham. want it 10% for the ham dinner and 90% for the ham bone to make pea soup with.
So glazed ham, red garnet yams, and broccoli. Yum.
Leftover crockpot cranberry pork loin roast (pre-browned, crockpotted with a can of whole-cranberry sauce, a few tablespoons of soy sauce, rosemary, and chopped onion) over mashed potatoes. I think I got the recipe from the SDMB. Very, very good.
I went for the free turkey, still patiently waiting in the freezer.
Probably unmarinaded chicken breast and greens with balsamic vinagrette. Because cold medicine absolutely kills my appetite, and that’s the easiest thing I have at hand for fuel. I’ll probably make the dressing, too, since that means I don’t have to go to the store, and if it’s bad, I won’t taste it, anyway.
I’m going to a BBQ tonight (Friday), ostensibly to ‘celebrate’ the latest sunset of the year. But it’s been raining on and off so far this morning, so the BBQ this evening may have to be moved indoors.
We’re trying out a “Five Guys Burgers” joint for the first time. I do hope it isn’t spectacularly good, because that’d be another temptation on top of In-N-Out and The Counter.
I’ll be reheating a meal that my mother introduced to me and my 7 brothers and sisters since the early 50s. It was her invention since moving to Canada to recapture as best as possible her culinary experiences when she was teaching in Indonesia.
We simply called it Rice and Tomatoes. Nothing fancy there.
Stir ground beef up in a hot pot until brown.
Add chopped onion and stir until brown clear.
Add a tin of diced tomatoes
Add a smaller tin of chopped mushrooms(my own addition)
Add a couple of dollops of peanut butter (very very important)
Add a couple of bay leaves
Add garlic (my own addition)
Simmer for several hours while rice is cooking.
Add mix to rice, stir up and add sambal oelek, white pepper , soya sauce and salt.
I’ve had this meal once a week for most of the 60 years of my life.
Fish. I bought some frozen swordfish and tuna steaks on sale a couple of weeks ago. I thawed out two of them and they’re marinading in some teriyaki right now.
I plan to throw a soup together with onions, sweet potatoes, acorn squash, and - something else. Don’t know yet. Or maybe just vegetarian onion soup with the rest roasted.
Pork chops, with a red pepper/artichoke tapenade on it. Asparagus and mushrooms with garlic, balsamic vinegar, and parmesan.
Carne asada fries with extra sour cream.
Mmmm.
chicken pot pie CHICKEN POT PIE! Cooks Illustrated recipe.
The two of us will eat 2/3 of a whole baking pan in one sitting. It’s so unhealthy for those of us carb-cutting but sooooo tasty as a special treat once in a while.
swoons That sounds delicious! How big was the loin to begin with?
Athena, I’ve never heard of red garnet yams. What do they taste like?
We had roasted chicken thighs and homemade chipotle fettucine with a sauce we threw together out of garlic, olive oil, cream, and lemon. It was awfully damn good, especially considering a) I never made fresh pasta before, b) I didn’t even start thinking about what we were going to have until after 5, and c) we threw it together out of odds and ends we had lying around from other meals. Everyone at work will be so jealous when I haul out my lunchbox tomorrow.
I didn’t make anything interesting tonight, so can I talk about tomorrow? I love beef and barley soup or Scotch broth, and my husband loves chicken noodle soup, so I’m planning to combine the tastes and try out some chicken and barley soup. My plan is to just make it like a chicken and noodle, but substitute barley for the noodles. I hope it turns out OK!
Like what you’ve spent your life dreaming that sweet potatoes/yams taste like. Seriously. They are sweet and flavorful and delicious, without adding any sugar or marshmallows or all those other things that people ruin sweet potatoes with.
Just poke 'em a few times with a sharp knife, throw 'em in the oven at 375 for an hour or so (put them on a cookie sheet covered in tinfoil, they leak), and eat them with butter and salt. Or no butter and salt - they’re that good. If I served them to you without telling you, you’d swear I put about a half a ton of brown sugar and syrup in them. But no, they just taste that way on their own.
Around here, I can only get them between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and usually only at the co-op. But when I lived in Colorado, they were available all year 'round at the regular grocery store. Very well worth it.
We had really good pizza from the best pizza place around here. The kind that has quality mozzerella, really good tomatoes, a drizzle of olive oil and a perfectly slightly charred thin crust. Yum.