# What's for dinner tonight? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652 "2011-01-06T20:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/343 "2011-03-10T13:45:10Z")
I haven’t thawed a tube of hamburger for tacos, so I guess we’re having broiled steaks, baked potatoes, and sauteed spinach with garlic and balsamic vinegar. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/344 "2011-03-10T14:26:44Z")
Last night I made salmon patties, boiled shrimp, and sliced tomatoes. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/345 "2011-03-10T17:37:37Z")
The multiple threads have made me want steak. Mmmm, steak… ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/346 "2011-03-10T20:54:45Z")
Wow. Those were good steaks. ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/347 "2011-03-10T21:02:43Z")
I’m doing a dry run on corned beef and cabbage tonight. I’m going to try it in the pressure cooker. Throwing a flat in with a quartered cabbage and a bottle of beer. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/348 "2011-03-10T21:08:30Z")
Tonight we’re having King Ranch Chicken and a tossed salad. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/349 "2011-03-10T21:43:12Z")
**Rebo** , nice - I saw those polenta cakes on Worst Cooks in America too. I do have a recipe (untested by me) for cheesy grits. It’s from The Pioneer Woman, so it’s gotta be good, right? (Even if it does have three sticks of butter and 2 pounds of cheddar. I kid, but not by much.) Maybe I’ll post it. We ended up having just plain white rice as a side, even with the rice already in the stuffed peppers. (My neighbor brought it; we had her over for dinner. We fed her, that is, we didn’t eat her.) Went over well, although the rice in the pepper stuffing didn’t get cooked through all the way. Hubby liked it, though, so I’ll probably make the peppers again. Maybe use cooked or parboiled rice next time. Tonight is “crunchy baked chicken” - I think it’s covered with smashed club crackers. Might be served with canned green beans sauteed in butter and garlic and maybe mashed potatoes. I might have the stuff for some other side, but I can’t remember what it was. Again, the chicken’s another new recipe, so we’ll see how it goes. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/350 "2011-03-11T00:59:17Z")
I never roasted a whole chicken before! Coated in cracked pepper, sea salt and olive oil. Roasted it in a cast iron skillet, stuffed with orange slices, onion and fennel. Then added for the last 30 minutes, carrots, potatoes, garlic, and big fennel bulb slices. It turned out really good! ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/351 "2011-03-11T01:39:22Z")
Quickie cheater lamb and eggplant curry in the pressure cooker: cube up ~ 1 lb. lamb leg chops, 1 huge onion, 1 medium eggplant, and sautee a bit. Add a 15 oz. can of diced tomatoes and a packet of curry paste. Cook on high presure for 15 minutes and eat over basmati. Quick and yummy! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/352 "2011-03-11T02:02:15Z")
Well, I laid down for a nap around 4PM today, got up around 5PM, talked to hubby on the phone. Tomorrow, **mudgirl** and I leave for Huntington, WV, for her bowling tournament, and I told her I wanted her to have her cell phone all charged up before we left (I’m picking her up from school and we’re leaving from there). I finished my conversation with mr. new, and was ready to start making the beefaroni for dinner, and I told **mudgirl** to put her cell phone on charge (mine died about a month ago); well, she just stood there for a minute, then guiltily told me she’d loaned it to a friend ‘just for tonight’. Well! Said friend has borrowed stuff from her before and always returned it promptly, but even if friend returns the phone tomorrow, it won’t be fully charged, and we’ve got a 3 hour drive ahead of us! (Stay with me here, this does have something to do with dinner!), so I said I’d better run to the store and buy a new phone (I’ve been needing to, anyway), and she said that since it was her fault I had to go right then, that _she_ would make dinner! Well, she doesn’t know how to make beefaroni. But we _did_ have canned spaghetti sauce, and she knows how to pre-heat the oven and boil pasta. So she decided she was going to make spaghetti with marinara sauce and the rest of the garlic toast we had in the freezer. So, now we’ve had spaghetti with marinara sauce, cheesy garlic toast (she sprinkled the toast with shredded mozzarella) for dinner, and I have a new cell phone! ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/353 "2011-03-11T02:29:38Z")
Well, last night it was leftover chili from the cookoff Saturday. Tonight, since I was out in the cold early in the evening at a rally to support teachers, it was a swing through Sonic for a steak and egg burrito and a cup of coffee. Mmmm…breakfast for supper! ---
**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:** [March 11, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/354 "2011-03-11T02:59:36Z")
Takeout teriyaki. ---
**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/355 "2011-03-11T03:01:43Z")
I’ve been reading this thread and gently drooling away. I guess I should contribute now. Light, healthy Indian food for dinner tonight. We’re having [puffed rice](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffed_rice) stir-fried with cabbage, carrots, onions, baby peas, chillies and [curry leaves](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_Tree). It’s cooked Indian style, so ‘stir-fry’ might not actually be the best way to describe it. Served with yoghurt, gooseberry pickles made by my mum-in-law, onions lightly pickled in salt and lemon juice, and a daub of [Puliyogare spice mix](http://preethisculinary.blogspot.com/2010/08/puliyogare-paste.html). Lots of intense flavours to compliment the gentle and bland base. (Well, bland by Indian standards!) Dessert, by the way, is neither light nor healthy. [Basundi](http://www.indianrecipes.co.in/desert-recipe/basundi-recipe.html)! Not for the faint-hearted and appreciated primarily by those with a really, _really_ sweet tooth. Also, don’t let that recipe fool you into thinking it’s easy to make… reducing the milk takes hours of periodic stirring on a low flame. ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/356 "2011-03-11T03:38:29Z")
Corned beef in a pressure cooker is wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/357 "2011-03-11T13:30:40Z")
Ground beef tacos from a box kit, with shredded cheese, lettuce, and tomato. The way god intended. God I love that meal. ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/358 "2011-03-12T00:33:16Z")
Went out last night with a friend for a donation dinner that included an awesome Indian chicken curry, but **Aankh**! Your dinner sounds like it was seriously numptious! Tonight is baked red trout filet with cilantro/pecan pesto. Adapted from [this](http://www.epicurious.com/services/referral?messageKey=74018ab4752e80a45a049daa2d5fc124) epicurious recipe. I’ll probably eat some greens with it. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/359 "2011-03-12T02:28:38Z")
Leftover pot roast and gravy on a hamburger bun, nuked for… No, just kidding. Roomie is making polenta, probably with (vegetarian?) Italian sausages, sauce, and cheese. It smells good, and I can hear her getting plates out. I guess I’ll know in a minute! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/360 "2011-03-12T13:56:10Z")
Goooooood question. I’m out of planned meals for the week. We are picking up lunch at the local soul food place; maybe I can wiggle out of dinner plans on that basis. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/361 "2011-03-12T15:32:42Z")
I’m thinking of making the roasted vegetables I made last weekend: Russet 'taters, onions and carrots all cut in chunks, covered tighty and baked at 350 for 90 minutes. I’m wondering what else I can throw in there with it? Would sausage work? ---
**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:** [March 12, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652/362 "2011-03-12T16:21:06Z")
The polenta was good. Should’ve had more plenta in it, though. (She didn’t use the whole chub.) Sausages were from Trader Joe’s, and were very tasty. Not vegetarian. I had a big can of tomatoes, which I was saving to make more peanut soup eventually. She used that and some marinara for the sauce. Not sure what kind of cheese she used. I think I’ll have some for breakfast. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight/566652.md?page=19)