What's for dinner, part two?

Grilled ribeye steak, corn on the cob, sauteed mushrooms, and maybe something with tomatoes. Our tomato plants have started to produce a bit, and our basil plant has taken off.

I think I’m making chicken with Boursin cheese.

Plus veggies.

Chicken thigh cacciatore over kabocha squash polenta.

What is kabocha squash polenta, R3?

Sunday ass

Gluten free lasagna

R4, a regular creamy polenta that I add some roasted kabocha squash into. It sounds weird but really good. More of a fall meal though.

Salmon, brussels sprouts and cous cous.

Wolf brand chili with beans doctored with pepper Monterey Jack cheese. Side salad.

Thanks, R7 - so there is corn in it. I thought it was something like "cauliflower rice," which isn't rice at all. I love squash so that sounds good!

Oh, I forgot grilled asparagus with aioli at R1.

R10, yep, it's still cornmeal-based. I just add pureed, roasted kabocha squash and it lends a nice orange color, too.

Curried spaghetti with coriander chutney.

I did creamy lemon pasta with chicken, basil, and peas. All cooks in one pot.

Bean and cheese burritos. Last night I cooked a steak and stir fried Brussels sprouts. Delicious but I don’t want to cook tonite.

Michelle Obama's bean salad.

^^^ I had white beans over stale Italian bread for lunch today

Grilled salmon with basil aioli, sauteed broccoli raab, and tomato salad with bulgur, Persian cucumbers, shallot, and vinaigrette dressing.

I was all ready to start my dinner - was going to poach a chicken breast, then cube it up onto salad greens. Then my stomach just started feeling really crampy and sick. I hate when that happens right before a meal.

Pizza, in front of the tv. Ya' know, a DL private banquet!

Stir fried vegetables with big chunks of tofu in white sauce. It was more like steamed vegetables but they turned out great. I only really fried the mushrooms, onions, and celery, then steamed the cabbage, snow peas, thin sliced carrots, and broccoli florets. Used a half can of bamboo shoots instead of water chestnuts, because the texture of the later gives me the willies. No rice and low carbs tonight.

Attempted to make apricot compote sweetened with Stevia that I was going to use in a ground almond meal cake, but aborted that effort and just ended up pouring boiled and cooled apricot soup over plain Greek yogurt. Partner added honey and ground cardamom or cloves or something to his and had seconds. Crushed, toasted pistachios might be a good addition next time.

Hamburger patty and Kraft Mac n cheese.

Haddock, bock toy, bulgar

Thai cashew salad

Grilled chicken shawarma bowl (which is really a glorified salad). Chicken, marinated in shawarma seasoning, oil, and lemon juice, then grilled in skewers. Bulgur, then chopped romaine, then red pepper, tomato, cucumber, and red onions, then the chicken, feta cheese, parsley, mint, and a lemon/olive oil vinaigrette.

It started simple (really) but I can't help myself, and the list of ingredients grew. It looked and tasted great. My partner heartily approved. He skewered and grilled the chicken, bless him.

[quote]I think I’m making chicken with Boursin cheese. Plus veggies.

Your post is disqualified because of your use of "veggies."

Nearly passed out in supermarket buying salmon, so had to buy an exorbitant hummus and crackers snack and a Coke Zero.

Said salmon will be served with rice, carrots and broccolini.

Vegetarian night. Penne with pomodoro sauce using the passata I made last fall, mixed with a bunch of "san marzano" tomatoes I bought at the Middle Eastern market a couple of weeks ago. They get vegetables that don't go to Kroger, etc. but are perfectly fine. They were like $.50/lb. We're going away for the weekend and what we had left was on it's last legs, so they got blitzed and added to the passata. On that same trip, I got a bag of five heads of romaine lettuce. Caesar salad to go with the pasta. Since I made the executive decision to have pasta (shouldn't have), I'm my wisdom I also decided to make a loaf of bread because I didn't have croutons. Pasta, homemade sauce, fresh bread, salad, fucking great dinner. All those carbs, I'm typing fat. But so it goes.

Well, veggies was easier to write than some fresh broccoli and the frozen vegetable mix that has peas, carrots corn and green beans. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Tonight I’m making barramundi fillets with more boursin and a side salad.

Steak Diane, beet salad with feta and candied walnuts, and sauteed broccoli rabe (garlic, Fresno peppers, evoo)

The tl;dr part - I had a large ribeye that I had defrosted. I cut it into two, and we had it grilled on Sunday. I didn't want to re-freeze the other half so we're having an extra meat night ton. I split it across it's length to make two thinner steaks and pounded them to 1/4 in. However, it was the part of the steak with the big fat part in the middle, so I cut that out and used Moo Glue to put it back together.

Carry on.

[quote]Well, veggies was easier to write than some fresh broccoli and the frozen vegetable mix that has peas, carrots corn and green beans.

Oh, come now. Would writing "vegetables" instead of "veggies" taxed you all that much that you needed to resort to frauspeak?

done made me a pizza - pepperoni, onion, red and yellow pepper, mushroom - just fridge stuff that needed to get eaten up - was great!

I do that with eggs. All the veggies, excuse, me, vegetables that I have left over in the fridge. Great omelette.

Three cheese ravioli and baby asparagus.

Based off something I saw on Top Chef, I hulled and emptied some strawberries and filled them with white chocolate and gorgonzola as an appetizer.

Hot dogs gilled out, corn-on-the-cob, 2696Cedar@potato salad, and homemade baked beans!

Grilled Rhodos beef kebab on a bed of rice with steamed asparagus spears on the side.

I ordered a "boom-boom" shrimp poboy with hush puppies from Walk-Ons.

One slice of stuffed spinach pizza, Chicago-style, that I picked up on the way home. Salad.

Swordfish, marinated in herbs, lemon, and garlic, and grilled. Roasted fennel with parmesan and balsamic vinegar, and Greek salad (horiatiki).

So I made chicken tenders and instead of the honey dipping sauce I made the knock-off version of the Canes sauce. It was delicious 😋

Gyro (just the meat) and a Greek salad.

Last night, I had undercooked sea bass, asparagus and couscous. I was up cramping/shitting/sweating ALL night long.

I hope you learned your lesson, R41.

Cappeletini in a blue cheese cream sauce

Trader Joe’s Lasagna-it’s easy.

I just had a baked potato topped with chopped kalamata and jalapeño-stuffed olives.

I had a Cheddar cheese omelet and string beans.

Today was a leftovers day. Yesterday, I found a kind of ground wagyu beef at the supermarket for 5.99/lb and I wanted something quick, so I took it home, mushed it with some garlic pepper and worcestershire sauce, formed it into two patties, and cooked it on a Forman Grill. Steamed some asparagus and nuked some Yukon Gold potatoes. It was satisfying to see most of the fat melt out of the burger. and run off the grill. I made some rhubarb sauce (rhubarb plus water plus sugar) from my rhubarb plant and mixed that with some 10 grain cereal which I cooked right into it.

Stouffer’s meatloaf on white bread, potato and green bean salad, cheesecake bars.

[quote]I made some rhubarb sauce (rhubarb plus water plus sugar) from my rhubarb plant

I'm envious that you have a rhubarb plant.

Navarin d'agneau - okay, it's lamb stew, but I made a fussy recipe that involved straining, cooking different vegetables separately, etc. Of course, I couldn't use just one recipe either, so it was a mashup of two. Anyway, it had carrots, turnips, those small C-size gold potatoes, carrots, peas, haricots verts, cipolline, and a bit of tomato paste. It was quite delicious. We were out of town last weekend and I should have waited to make it (red meat one day a week) but I had a craving. Oh, I used a lamb shoulder chop with a round bone that weighed 1 1/4 lbs. Perfect for two people.

Update on the swordfish steak. I may have made it once and didn't care for it, but it was $9.99/lb and looked super fresh. With the help of the internet, 130F is what the internal temp should be. My partner was on the case. It was phenomenal!

Arancini stuffed with cheese and spinach with my partner's grilled zucchini.

I made some Caprese salad with home-grown basil. It was very tasty .

Pkus left-over chicken and vegetables.

I marinated a London Broil all day in olive oil, red wine vinegar, a dash of mustard, garlic, thyme and black pepper. Grilled it to perfection, sliced thin and served with a half a baked potato, half an ear of corn on the cob, broccoli and a grilled tomato. I will have leftovers tomorrow night. And Friday will pick up some fresh Italian bread and make a Balboa.

I haven’t had steak in a long time, probably not at all in 2025. It was so good. It’s one of my favorite and easiest dinners.

Poulet Basquaise and pisotto? It was kind of a risotto, but I didn't do all the stirring, so it was kind of a pilaf. I did start it with shallots, sauteed the rice, added white wine, etc. Then I added a lot of chicken stock, let it go for a while, then added just a bit more stock. Finished it with some basil, a squeeze of lemon, parmesan, and a bit of butter. Turned out pretty good.

Dustin, I discovered some years ago that you can make risotto in a pressure-cooker, and not have to stand there stirring constantly. You have to check it fairly frequently, because the bottom of the pressure cooker can scorch the rice if you're not careful, but taste and texture-wise it's nearly indistinguishable. There are a million recipes online.. I've done it many times with my favorite risotto, which finishes up by adding fresh peas, the juice of a lemon, and fresh mint. Yum! Now my mouth is watering.

Thanks, R55 - I've seen those recipes, but there's just two of us. I used 2/3rds cup of rice. I wasn't dragging out the pressure cooker for that. I used a non-stick frying pan with a cover.

Looks like people have stopped posting here. It's too bad. I enjoy seeing what everyone is making and getting some ideas. Oh well.

Tonight was vegetarian night. I had some leftover sauteed broccoli rabe and some uncooked turnip that I didn't use in the lamb stew. I decided to make a frittata, adding onions, roasted red peppers, and Romano cheese. Came out great.

I also made potato and green bean salad, and used a mix of herbs we have growing in various places.

We're having hamburgers and home-made fries. Kids had the same thing!

I had a Cheddar cheese omelet and a mess of crowder peas. And some Cabernet Sauvignon. I need to get to the grocery store soon.

A big salad. I used an assortment of seeds, roasted soy beans. Hummus and tofu.

R60 = Elaine Benes

Pizza, sushi, key lime pie

OP = Kevin Sessums

Onward.

R57, Dustin, I find your posts to be great inspirations. I hope you'll continue. We already had a Heat Alert today (in Ohio!) so I didn't have much of an appetite. I had beef ramen with green chilis, green onions, and lots of freshy grated ginger.

Thanks R64 - I love ramen. Yours sounds really good.

Tonight we had grilled salmon with aioli, corn on the cob, zucchine alla scapece, and green beans topped with toasted panko, sauteed onions, chopped parsley and mint.

My partner's grilled chicken and tomato, onion zucchini casserole. Ice cream is sorely needed.

Baked Parmesan-encrusted chicken breast with marinara sauce, and a Caesar salad.

I’m making a pit of chili. I know it seems like a cold weather food, but I like to use it for taco salad. Which is one of my favorite things.

A taco salad sounds great.

Spinach + 5-cheese ravioli with shrimp in a rich tomato cream sauce, with a bacon Caesar salad. Peach sorbet for dessert.

Deep fried swan, with newly laid robins’ eggs.

My chili turned out Fantastic. It’s too late to eat now. I can’t wait until tommorrow.

Marinated flank steak (soy, honey, vinegar, garlic, ginger, onion, oil), baked potatoes and green beans.

Chicken livers, sauteed in butter, with lots of pepper and thyme. I had just watched Julia Child on Youtube, but didn't feel up to making timbales.

Bone out, skin on chicken teriyaki thighs, quick pickled carrots, steamed broccolini and short grain white rice.

Breaded frozen halibut from Whole Foods, air fryer roasted potatoes, homemade coleslaw and tartar sauce.

Inspired by R68, I decided to make a taco salad. Longer story to follow, It came very good.

tl:dr part

Let's start with that I was 25 when I had my first taco salad. I grew up Italian-American in the Northeast, but I had moved to the midwest for a job. Taco salad, green bean casserole, biscuits and gravy, pork tenderloin sandwiches were all new to me. I had never heard of ranch dressing. My partner is a Texan. I do the cooking and except for a few dishes, Midwestern and Texas food are not in my wheelhouse. That said, when I saw R68;s post, I thought my partner would like it.

I really had a lot of stuff on hand, but as you might have guessed already, I can over complicate everything. Protein: Boneless skinless chicken thighs that I seasoned with Chevy's Fuego Spice mix that I made a while back and was still hanging around. My partner left an ear of corn behind from last night, so we grilled that too and cut the kernels off. Canned black beans that I mixed with some salsa, garlic, oil, cumin, and cilantro. Two avocados that I got for 4/$1.00! Quite good. Red onion that I sliced thin, and did a quick pickle with vinegar, salt, and sugar. Grape tomatoes. Shredded cheese. Romaine Lettuce. Pickled jalapenos, Tortilla chips. I made a ranch dressing that I mixed some salsa into for the salad dressing. Layered it all up. I have to say it was outstanding. My partner finished his and I was only a third of the way through mine. He declared it, "incredible." I included the ranch dressing recipe because it was the only recipe I used.

I know, get a blog.

Carry on.

Pork tenderloin, asparagus, orzo mixed with Boursin.

On a whim I picked up some pounded pork cutlets at the grocery store this week. I don't think I've ever made them. I'd rather not bread, if I can avoid it, but maybe I have no choice? I was thinking just to saute them in a little oil and butter, seasoned with garlic pepper and maybe served with some wedged of lemon.

Stuffed clams with chorizo, lobster, corn on the cob, four bean salad, strawberry shortcake.

Yum, R80!

R79 - pounded? Are they just cut thin or are they like cube steaks? If like cube steaks, definitely bread them. If you're trying to avoid the carbs, use panko or fresh bread crumbs. It seems to use less breading than using bread crumbs out of the can (though I love those). You can add parmesan and seasonings to them for more flavor. If they are just pork cutlets, sauteing them as you describe sounds good, but it needs something green at the end, like parsley or basil.

They're pounded, so I guess cube steaks. Ok. I have lots of panko, which I rarely use, so I'll try those. Thanks, Dustin

Cube steak, which is generally beef but I've also seen pork, look like this. It's been tenderized by running it through a machine that pounds it and punches a bunch of small holes in it. Again, if your pork is a cutlet pounded thin, then there's no need.

Then again, I love meat that's been floured, egged, and bread crumbed, so just go ahead and use up that panko!

What I have looks like your picture.

Then I'd definitely do the FEB (flour, egg, bread crumb) fry. It will be good by either seasoning the panko or not, but make sure you at least salt and pepper the pork before breading. That may seem obvious, but one never knows :).

BBQ chicken (boneless) grilled out, corn-on-the cob, steamed rice, mixed green salad

These all sound so enticing.

I found a recipe online for Parmesan risotto baked in the oven so it doesn’t require stirring. I add sautéed mushrooms at the end. I’ve only had “real” risotto once so I don’t know how the baked version compares but it is really good and rich.

Chicken cutlet, stuffed shells, yellow squash.

I got a chopped steak dinner with mashed potatoes from Piccadilly.

Waygu steak, marinated carrots, sauteed broccoli rabe, sauteed mushrooms.

The too long part: I had a half of an Australian waygu ribeye that I bought a couple of month ago. My partner cooked it on the griddle we have in our grill; he did the flip-every-minute method, and basted it with the fat using a stem of fresh rosemary. I made brown butter with fresh rosemary because the griddle doesn't have the sides to do the whole basting thing like you would do in a cast iron pan. He knocked it out of the park. I made carrots, that I parboiled and marinated them in evoo, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, fresh oregano, and cumin. Linked is where I got the recipe. Sauteed mushrooms in butter with sage. Broccoli rabe parboiled, then sauteed in evoo, with garlic and chopped Fresno peppers. I love all the fresh herb that are now all flourishing.

If I find that Waygu again and it looks like the ones I bought, I'm stocking up. There's nothing like it.

Carry on.

Pork-shrimp-and-rice stuffed nasturtium leaves. Like Greek stuffed grape leaves but with a Vietnamese flavor. Nuoc cham dipping sauce.

I had salad with some poached salmon and a huge piece of garlic bread. It was good but now I feel kind of sick.

Sautéed sand dabs & squid with fresh zucchini. Green salad with oil and vinegar. Key lime pie from the greenmarket.

Dim sum.

I buy the box of Costco beets. They’re turrific

R95, do you roast them?

r96, raw is best.

Hubs made an excellent mushroom and spinach quiche that was heavy on the sauteed shrooms and spinach. Loved it. He used a prepared whole wheat pie crust that we had on hand in the freezer. He used crushed black pepper, garlic powder, and dried basil since we didn't have any fresh. It was perfect. He had a glass of pinot gris. I had this weird, colorless cream root beer sweetened with Stevia on crushed ice that I've become addicted to.

I chopped up a pineapple and chilled it, which we're now gorging on. Making a pot of decaf.

Then we're going for a drive. He doesn't know yet that there's a pack of cigs in the car, lol.

I planned on making tuna pasta salad but got lazy at the last minute, so I ordered a Popeye's chicken sandwich, with a side of their mashed potatoes, a Dr. Pepper. Also had their apple pie. It was a sad and depressing Sunday dinner - the chicken had more crust than meat and the last 2 bites was just greasy breading. It was salty, and they left off the pickle slice and mayo.

Steak, homemade rice pilaf, peas.

I have some of the Costco beets. I’m going to marinate them for beet salad.

Went to Bahama Breeze for some of their Tequila Sunburn Glazed Salmon. Unfortunately, this restaurant is likely set for closure as this location is the only one left in the state. I'll be bummed because I really like that restaurant.

Salmon burgers, coleslaw, dilled green bean salad

Haddock filets, French fries, coleslaw, corn on the cob.

I had a really good ham sandwich, on toasted white bread and plenty of Duke's mayo and Tabasco. And some Cabernet Sauvignon.

R105 = the ghost of Mama Cass!

R106, If only I had her swagger!

Grilled Chilean sea bass, Romano beans in tomato sauce, and an arugula salad with figs.

The WAY too-long part:

Fish day. I didn't intend to buy the sea bass. Grouper was on sale and while I may have said grouper, I pointed to the sea bass. It was a big piece and the fish guy prepped it for two. I get to the register and it's $46! I called my partner and he said just buy it. He grilled it, and we topped it with an Asian sauce (lime zest and juice, fish sauce, Vietnamese chilli garlic sauce, rice wine vinegar, garlic, sugar) and chopped cilantro. I bought some Romano beans last week and felt I had to use them before they went bad. They were still amazingly fresh. I cooked some onions, garlic, fresh tomatoes, and bit of tomato paste, threw in the beans and some water, covered it and let it cook for a while. I also bought a box of figs last weekend. What to do with them? Oh, a salad sounds good. I made a balsamic vinaigrette with some shallots, diced a ripe pear, crumbled goat cheese, and made my partner make some candied pecans. On a Monday night for Christ's sake! I'm fucking obsessed. But dinner was amazing.

Carry on....

R108, that sounds delicious. Paired with a nice Sauvignon Blanc?

You GO, girl, Dustin!

BLT's, cream of tomato soup, and a small mixed green salad....

Alas, no, R109

Crabcakes, corn, salad.

Roast beef sandwich with Swiss cheese, horseradish dijonaise, bacon and a dill pickle on toasted jalapeño cheese bread. Green salad, iced tea. Appropriately chill given the 100 degree weather.

Swiss cheese on an onion hamburger roll with lettuce and mustard, and some bagged salad with French dressing.

Green salad with cold rotisserie chicken, cut up mango, shaved Parmesan, croutons and Bolthouse Farms creamy Caesar dressing. Grape popsicle for dessert.

Grilled porkchops with pineapple salsa and tumeric/cumin rice

Repeat of taco salad at R77, and a homemade horchata and rum.

Frozen potstickers, pan-fried.

The fabled Blue Apron hoisin chickeny meatballs with brown rice and zucchini.

Tried to dupe a Joseph’s salad. Chickpeas, edamame, marinated red peppers, craisins, and a bunch of seasoning stuff. It was…okay. I might make it again using brown rice instead of chickpeas.

I had a plate full of P.F.Chang's Chicken egg rolls. Delicious!

Three cheese chiles rellenos with ranchero sauce, the rest of the Romano beans cooked in the ranchero sauce, and crispy fried yuca.

The rest of the story - The recipe came from the Chevys Fresh Mex Cookbook. The chiles rellenos recipe was pretty standard, using Monterrey Jack, cheddar, and queso fresco. It's the ranchero sauce that was really good, also from that cookbook. Unfortunately, it's not online or I would have linked to it (You know I like to cite where the recipes came from). The yuca fries were good, but I think I like yuca with mojo better. But as long as I was deep-frying, I thought I'd give it a try. That came from ATK.

YUM, Dustin!

Fried chicken, coleslaw

R125: homemade fried chicken?

Just moved into our vintage1966 suburban paradise tract home with original kitchen (!). Unearthed a large and a small saucepan and their covers from the pile of boxes and drove to a Trader Joe's. Cubed chicken breast simmered for maybe an hour in a package of Tikka Masala sauce with potatoes and thin carrot coins. Threw in some frozen mixed veg and half a bag of peas towards the end. Steamed some long-grain rice and served with TJ's Garlic Naan. It wasn't horrible. But I'll make my own sauce next time and reduce the sugar and salt. Hubs had a 40oz can of some trendy local microbrew. Iced tea with half a lemon from our own tree for me. Munching on ice cold cherries now.

Off topic -- our kitchen has an electric range. Have only cooked with gas, so that was... different. Am running a load of unpacked dishes in what looks to be the original analogue KitchenAid dishwasher. It has three big push buttons: On, Off, and Rinse. And a giant lever that locks the door shut. It's as loud as a SF MUNI bus. Also ran the ancient clothes washer, but shut it down when all of the lights started to flicker. It's a genuine "Speed Queen"! Eldergays with know that it's not a meth head from the club. It goes with the genuine formica countertops and original linoleum floor with its yellowed waxy build-up.

Probably saved $30-$40 by not getting take-out. Husband threatens to go to a thrift shop tomorrow to get us pink aprons and fake pearls.

heat dome as well. Salads

Sautéed yellow squash and onion with ziti, cheese.

[quote]Off topic -- our kitchen has an electric range. Have only cooked with gas, so that was... different.

It certainly is different, and not my favorite R127. Unfortunately, I don't have gas available to me in our condo complex. Even when you turn the heat down, the burners are still hot. Learn to use two burners. For example, when I cook rice, I start one burner on high and another at about 1/3rd. I bring the water to a boil on the high burner, add the rice, cover it, move it to the low burner and then turn the it down again. Sometimes if something is cooking too quickly, you have to it the burner and wait a minute until the one your using cools down a bit. Takes a little practice but you get used to it.

I still miss my gas range though.

Your electric bill must be through the fuckin roof.

Chicken tagine and couscous.

A month in the making! Since Morocco is on the Mediterranean, and we went there a few years back, a tagine sounded like a good idea. I salted lemons with spices last month for the preserved lemons. Of course, I couldn't just use one recipe, but I made a spice blend and dry-marinated chicken thighs, used the standard olives, onions, and preserved lemons. I cooked it with carrots, zucchini, and parsnip. Made a little couscous to go with it, and topped it all with cilantro. It was really tasty. Will make again.

Chicken sandwich

Surf and turf: bacon-wrapped filet mignon, coconut shrimp, asparagus, roasted red potatoes.

I made shrimp and chicken summer rolls with spicy peanut sauce last night. Yummy!

Gin and regret.

We went out to dinner last night for our 17th anniversary! Dinner was very, very good. The food was excellent. The service was a bit...disorganized. But our food was hot and drinks cold.

The rest of last night’s filet mignon thinly sliced on a salad of red and green lettuce, marinated red onions, sliced Campari tomatoes, artichoke hearts, bacon and blue cheese crumbles, sliced yellow and orange peppers and a balsamic vinaigrette. Garlic bread.

I made 2 Mexican shrimp burrito wraps.

Black beans and shrimp cooked with lime juice and peppers.

vinegar slaw of shredded carrots, cabbage and radishes.

wrapped in warm burrito wraps with salsa and sour cream, little bit of avocado slices.

A Chef’s Salad (julienned ham, turkey, and Swiss cheese on mixed greens with tomatoes and fresh peppers with Russian dressing) and latkes with sour cream and applesauce.

Lunch: Fruit salad

Dinner: Clams, shrimp, beans, and spinach.

The too-long part: The fruit salad was amazing. I went to the Middle Eastern market, where they often have some ugly, but good cheap produce and fruit. Pineapples were $.99. Yellow, ripe, missing the crown. Needed to be used in a day or two. I bought nectarines, blueberries, strawberries, and pears. All at peak ripeness. I cut them all up, added some grapes, tangelo supremes, and cherries. I added a scoop of sour cream to my bowl. Delicious.

Dinner: I saw a recipe that was essentially beans in clam sauce. Of course, I couldn't leave it that simple. I bought some small clams and some shrimp with the heads on (which I rarely do). I cleaned the shrimp, saving the shells and heads. I cooked a pot of navy beans I sauteed the shrimp heads and shell in olive oil, and deglazed with white wine. Sauteed chopped onions and crushed red pepper, added garlic, parsley, and chopped fresh tomatoes, and some cooked spinach. I added the shrimp/wine liquid, the beans, and the clams, and covered it. When the clams started to open I added the shrimp, and cooked until just done. I finished it with more parsley, evoo, and black pepper. Ate with some pita. It was outstanding. It would have been great with linguine instead of beans, but beans were a great alternative.

Carry on

Chicken broth and perhaps jello, after I finish this watered down apple juice.

I've been cramping, shitting and vomiting for the past 18 hours and I need to build up my fluid level while giving my stomach a rest.

Sorry to hear, R143. See if you can get some Pedialyte or Kinderlyte, to keep your electrolytes up. Hope you're better soon.

Thanks, r143. I will probably get some tomorrow...I'm pretty weak right now and not up to going out.

The worst is over and at least I can drink fluid without experiencing a sharp cramp afterwards.

Tomorrow I'll come on here and let you know what solid food I'll be eating for dinner!

My partner heated 365 squash ravioli in butter sauce with asparagus, sage leaves and walnuts.

I made noodle kugel (again) but this time just putting the raw noodles in the dish with the custard. Easy peasy like the from raw Mac n cheese I bake. I used the egg noodles from Aldi that fall apart in boiling water. It was excellent.

Brats on the grill tonight with a tomato salad

Omelettes of some sort.

A toasted bacon and egg sandwich with lots of mayo and Tabasco.

Corned beef, cabbage, carrots, and turnips, with horseradish sauce. I bought a corned beef back in March, about the time we started the Mediterranean diet. Normally I would have cooked the entire corned beef and scarfed down a lot of it. This Italian boy loves corned beef. But, I decided to cook half and freeze the other half. It made it's reappearance today. Fucking delicious. The best fruit salad ever that I made yesterday was dessert.

Shrimp tacos. Strawberry cream pie.

Half a toasted Asiago cheese bagel with cream cheese, lettuce, sliced tomato, and red onion with Nova lox left over from breakfast Sunday.

I had an iced coffee (light, no sugar) for breakfast and nothing else all day. I had to make the bagel appealing to even want that much, so I went heavy on the salad and the lox is protein.

Ozempic’s a helluva drug.

Chicken thighs. peppers, onions, and potatoes.

tl:dr - No recipe. It was time to use up some some stuff before they went bad, specifically potatoes and peppers. I bought a pound bag of those mini-peppers for $.99 a couple of weeks ago, and the potatoes have been hanging around for a while (we've been trying to cut back). I started roasting the potatoes separately, then browned the chicken on the stove. I chopped and browned some pancetta, then added onions, peppers, garlic, hot pepper, and peperoncini. Deglazed with white wine, sprinkled on some Wondra, added some water and chicken powder, put the chicken and potatoes on top and popped it back in the oven. Delicious.

Carry on..

Dover sole, corn, salad

Orange chicken and vegetables over lo mein noodles.

Fried chicken, Mac and cheese, sliced tomatoes, and a small slice of apple walnut cake, toasted, with homemade vanilla ice cream and a sliced fresh strawberry, perhaps the last for a while.

Food prices will be going up again.

People in this thread sure are eating big complicated dinners. It's summer. It's too hot to cook.

[quote]People in this thread sure are eating big complicated dinners. It's summer. It's too hot to cook.

We have air conditioning.

I had steamed rice with a mix of celery, green onions, cucumbers, and tomatoes. Plus a small plate of sautéed chicken.

Spicy carp soup, the toots have already started.

Tuna salad on crackers, a half sour pickle, a peach. I’m still hungry so going to bed soon.

My partner is on a diet and insists on planning menus and doing the cooking. Hence, the dover sole, which was accompanied by roast potatoes, not corn, and broccoli and salad.

Pureed white bean with shrimp and focaccia, grilled salmon with tarragon aioli, and corn on the cob.

tl;dr

Once again, in the interest of not wasting $.50 of beans, I was off and running. I had overcooked the beans I made last Saturday. I drained them well and pureed them, added a good deal of evoo, garlic, parsley, and smoked paprika. I also had some leftover shrimp from Saturday too, so I sauteed the shrimp in evoo and a good deal of crushed red pepper, added parsley, and put it, oil and all on top of the puree. I had a bit of work downtime today, so I mixed up a rosemary focaccia. We ate them together as a first course.

It doesn't sound like it, but dinner was really quick and simple. While I did carry on about the beans and shrimp, it all was basically leftovers that came together really quickly, was absolutely delicious, and I'm kinda proud I just put it together on the fly. My partner grilled some salmon, I went out and picked some tarragon, and added it to some leftover aioli we had. Simple. Fresh corn on the cob....finally 2 for a dollar, and they were great. Boiled water, set the corn in it, moved it off the heat, and let it sit while the salmon was cooking. I can overcomplicate anything when it comes to cooking, but it was all very simple.

Carry on

Is that a problem for you, R162? Just wondering.

Penne vodka with burrata

Homemade chicken show mein - it is FUCKING delicious. My partner is an AMAZING cook!

Mushroom ravioli with white Vodka sauce, Leftover Italian wedding soup. Italian Rum Cake. The kids had Jello with whipped cream.

Homemade pasta in pomodoro sauce, focaccia, salad, and a glass of Bordeaux.

tl;dr While I tend to go on to long about what I've made, what I make can be a bit complicated, it doesn't take more than an hour and a half to make. Most often, it takes much less time. Today, I had a need for food therapy. A couple of big jobs at work are about done, and I felt like taking on a project. Busiate is a type of macaroni that I never heard of until late last night, when one of the guys I subscribe to made a dish using them. He bought them, but I had to Google them to see what they were. Making the dough took 15 minutes to mix and knead. I used 150 grams of the "semola di grano duro" (hard wheat semolina flour). Didn't even use a bowl, went old school and mixed it on the counter. It was making the little suckers took a pretty long time. I made mine thinner than the woman in the video. I tried to make pasta using skewers before, and mad a hash of it. This went very slowly, but well. Anyway, I sat at my dining room table for a couple of hours rolling and forming, and I enjoyed the Zen of it. The sauce was made from the passata I put up last fall, and the focaccia was the one I made yesterday. My partner fixed the salad. Needless to say, it was amazing.

Carry on.

Salad- Hearts of romaine, sliced medium rare New York strip, hard boiled eggs and a New York Times mustard vinaigrette dressing.

Nothing special for dinner, but I made molasses crinkle cookies and turned them into ice cream sandwiches with homemade vanilla ice cream. I need to get out of the kitchen.

Yum, R170!

More tuna on crackers, rwhatever earlier. Who are you people making three course dinners every night?! Don’t you have jobs and life responsibilities?!

I made Kenji’s slow cooked marinara this week and it is fantastic. I’m going to use some for a chicken parm supper tomorrow and will have quarts left to stick in the deep freeze. Highly recommend if you have enough free time to stir a pot once or twice an hour for six hours.

Also been having a bumper crop of basil, so I made I big batch of pesto tonight. Similarly I’ll use a little this week on some gnocchi and throw a filet of salmon over top. Plenty left over, and it freezes a dream.

I feel just like Giada (if she weighed 200lbs and had a heavy pendulous schlong).

Just fruit and cheese. Fresh, ripe peaches, cherries, and plums were $1.79 per pound. We had a smelly Camembert and a mild goat's milk cheese on sourdough baguette slices. Partner had a frozen mug filled with Chardonnay from La Crema ("the gay winery"). I had green tea on ice. There are still two giant bags of cherries in the fridge waiting me to find the cherry pitter so that I can make a pie but am too bloated now to get out of this chair.

Some of these posts sound like fantasy dinners, as opposed to meals people are actually laboring over.

All of them sound pretty legit to me, R175. Care to elaborate?

We're retired and we both cook and shop. When one cooks, the other cleans up. Dogs, streaming shows and dining keep us together.

No idea what we're cooking tonight. We gave away our grill so tomorrow is order-in fried chicken and cornbread, not from KFC but a good local restaurant.

Chicken enchiladas, Spanish rice, mixed green salad.

I’m going to attempt to make some salmon cakes.

You do have to cook the salmon first then use panko and onions and red pepper and mayo and some other stuff. It looks like a good recipe so I will attempt this.

Tacos and a bomb pop for dessert.

Cheeseburger, potato puffs, coleslaw.

And two Bury-Lu cookies eaten reluctantly because I mistakenly bought milk chocolate instead of dark.

Teriyaki chicken, steamed broccoli with sesame sauce, roasted sweet potatoes with teriyaki sauce, and a bit of jasmine rice. Chicken was an ATK recipe, but I just used boneless/skinless thighs.

Thick ny strips on the charcoal grill with a baked potato and homemade chimichurri sauce

Pasta Olio.

The crab cakes came out pretty good. They needed a touch of salt but I made a quickie tartar sauce and it seemed to mitigate the lack of salt.

Oven-roasted breaded porkchops, rice pilaf, green beans, and a mixed green salad.

And by crab cakes, of course I mean salmon cakes.

🤦🏻‍♀️

To R186-did you use Shake& Bake for the pork chops BTW?

Boneless chicken thighs cooked in a Butter Chicken simmer sauce from Amazon.

Two ears of corn on the cob and some peach iced tea. A couple of Oreos for dessert.

From a local chicken restaurant: fried chicken, fried wings, spring green salad with bleu cheese, coleslaw, baked beans, corn bread muffins with honey butter, mashed potatoes and gravy, key lime and chocolate cream pie. Partner planned the menu and this is diet splurge day.

Boneless, skinless chicken breast marinated in Greek yogurt and shwarma spices, white rice made with chicken broth and canned French onion soup instead of water, roasted asparagus with shallots and pecorino Romano.

Two hot dogs, macaroni salad, corn on the cob. A piece of lemon pound cake with blueberries and half an ice cream sandwich. Carb overload. I need to go to bed.

So I made myself a ribeye and had some lettuce and cucumbers, it didn’t really qualify as a salad, honestly.

Plus some loaded potato salad.

Later I’ll have the peaches and cream cake from Costco.

Oh, I also simmered some brats with beer and onion and browned them up in the same griddle pan I cooked my steak 🥩 in.

Had a picnic for 10 today, bought the most delicious chicken tenders from a mom and pop and made greek orzo salad, Ina’s potato salad, grilled corn, and strawberry pretzel bars. Yum

Lobster salad with avocado and mango, grilled prime Angus strip sirloin, roasted new potatoes, asparagus Hollandaise.

Strawberries with brown sugar and cream.