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.

Went to a friend's for a potluck cookout. I made and took two strawberry-rhubarb galettes (HOW DL!) Food was FABULOUS!

had a burger with cheese, corn, potato salad. cocktail preceded that with wine and mainly breads, mostly home made, with spreads.

We eat red meat less than once a month because it takes that long to forget how much we dislike it. I had a two-hour iron infusion on Tuesday and didn't need it. But it's the 4th... Our BBQ is still sitting in a box in a million pieces, waiting for us to be inspired.

Pan-seared thick ribeye steak (on sale at Safeway) finished in the oven, then rested with garlic butter. It was perfectly medium-rare, but chewy and meh. We swore that if/when we eat beef or lamb, it will be small, tender quality cuts from the local butcher, once a month. This thing was the size of the frying pan and I don't know what to do with the leftover slab. Boiled corn on the cob, steamed broccoli with lemon and olive oil, and sourdough French bread.

Partner and I are feeling a little sick but there's a bowl of excellent cherries staring at us in the face.

Am picturing a protein shake with pitted cherries and a scoop of Miralax for breakfast.

Slice it thinly and use it for Mongolian beef.

We're doing fried chicken leftovers today, maybe as a salad.

Perfect idea, r200. Thanks!

My BFF came for dinner last night. His husband was out of town visiting family. We had a tapas dinner; a board with manchego, Serrano ham, marcona almonds, lemon-stuffed olives, roasted grapes and a flat bread with rosemary and salt. Then, clams and chorizo, pureed navy beans, roasted potatoes, aioli with smoked paprika, and garlic shrimp.

I bought flat bread at the Middle Eastern market called barbari (no sesame like in the picture). It was fresh out of the oven, and like two and a half feet long. I've seen it there before but never bought one because of the size, and I didn't even know what it was called until I looked it up to write this post. We embellished with rosemary, olive oil and salt and popped it in the oven for a few minutes.

I froze the shrimp with penne in Alfredo sauce, ate more lobster salad and will save the other sirloin strip from last night for a salad tomorrow. Can’t decide if I want to bake tonight or wait until Tuesday/Wednesday as the next few days will be in the 90’s. If I don’t do it tonight, I won’t do it for a while. I probably buy something instead.

Inspired by this post, I made the chicken breast with orange and Gaeta olives, pasta salad with shrimp, and fennel gratin.

Homemade meat loaf, mashed potatoes, boiled broccoli and a mixed greens salad with tomatoes. Sounds like a Sunday night dinner, roght?

Mongolian Beef a la r200. I used a random YouTube recipe. Liked that I could control the salt and sugar content in my own kitchen vs. getting takeout. Stir-fried mixed vegetables.

Served over steamed white rice using Dustin's thoughtful instructions for an electric stovetop. Also, this was my first time using my wok on an electric stove. I never even noticed that the bottom of the wok is flat! Used to set it on a metal ring over a gas burner. At one point in life I did have a round wok. I miss the immediate gratification of controlling the temperature quickly on a gas stove.

Epic fruit failure. From now on, I'm going to cut the pineapple and throw it in the fridge when I bring it home. But it looked so pretty sitting on the counter...

R205, yeah, in a nursing home.

Sounds delicious, R205. I don't make meat loaf now because I we only eat meat one day a week. I suppose we could make mini-meat loaves, but I guess I like to splurge on that one day and have a good steak. But sometimes, a good meat loaf is just what you want.

I wonder what R207 is having for dinner....

Meat loaf is comfort food at our house.

Last night: steak, baked potato, corn on the cob. I’m day drinking thru Sunday. It’s been a stressful 2 weeks.

Cooked all day. Got my act together early this time.

Summer Vegetable Stew with all fresh veggies - yes - that term may be triggering for some. It contains veggie broth (2 boxes) and a can each of garbanzos and kidney beans. The rest is fresh. In Winter I use frozen corn. In sequence: sauteed onions, then tomatoes stewed in broth, then tiny new potatoes, followed by green beans, corn cut off the cob, yellow squash and zucchini, the canned beans, finished with two big bunches of chopped basil. The sweet corn and ton of basil are essential. It's easy, but somewhat labor intensive. About 2 hours. Served with sourdough bread and a good, local Pinot Noir ($13!).

Got my Midwestern Amish Frau on and de-stemed, pitted, and halved 4 or 5 pounds of Rainier Cherries while stoned. There's ice cream churning now, but it must be set in the freezer for a few hours. I bought two pie crusts, but then had to make more pie dough after realizing that it needs a lattice on top. The dough is resting in the freezer. The kitchen is a disaster and there's splattered cherry juice everywhere. Dreading rolling out the dough and messing with the lattice. One cherry pie will be with Stevia for me and with cane sugar for husbear, who is 2/3 into his bottle of Pinot and won't get off his ass to help my stoned ass clean the kitchen as my sciatica flares. So far, we're enjoying our second year of retirement together out in the boonies.

R211: my hubby bought some Rainier cherries today - and they are DELICIOUS! Your pies will be FAB...

Sliced roast beef on a baguette with mayo and tomato. Pepsi and some cherries.

Chicken wings with sweet chili sauce and macaroni and cheese. For dessert I had coffee ice cream in a fudge-dipped cone.

Grilled T-bone with an herb compound butter, black bean and corn salad, and Romano beans braised in tomato sauce.

Rainier cherries are very good for fresh eating, but for pies, the best option is sour cherries. However, they are very difficult to find. Never in stores - you almost have to go to an orchard to find them or else used canned. Oregon Speciality fruits has them in cans in a lot of grocery stores.

r216, for ice cream, it's a moot point - the Cuisinart ice cream maker, barely used in 25 years crapped out. The motor got hot and warmed up the freezer bucket. It's soup. Ordered a new one. They now come with their own compressors, so no freezing the bucket overnight. The pies are cooling. The filling recipe did call for lemon juice, so who knows...

Teriyaki grilled out chicken breasts, steamed rice, corn-on-the-cob, broccolini and a mixed green salad/

Strangely, this thread isn't making me hungry.

Sloppy joes, tater tots, fresh pineapple on coconut yogurt.

Sausage & peppers and a green salad

Broiled rib steak, pan sauteed sweet potatoes, cucumber and tomato slices. Pepsi and a Klondike bar.

I'm going to try making my own pizza. I'm getting differing views online whether tomato sauce is OK (instead of pizza sauce or tomato paste), but since that's what I have on hand I'm going to give it a try.

I attempted Trout Meunière, using Steelhead trout, and I'm afraid I'm not happy with the results. The pieces of fish were too thick for that treatment. (I bought them on Amazon, so I didn't realize they'd be so huge). I'll stick to Tilapia Meunière in the future.

Did they arrive frozen, R224? I've never bought food on Amazon.

Soup tonight. Coffee and stinkers in the morning.

R225/Dustin, they arrived fresh with the rest of my order, but I froze them since I wasn't planning to cook them right away. I order things on Amazon that I have trouble finding locally. I live in a food desert, so I read the menus on this thread with a lot of envy. I hate putting money in Bezos' pocket, but I also hate driving halfway across the county for many grocery items. We have an Amazon distribution center not far away, and I've been very pleased with being able to order same day food deliveries.

I had a baked potato topped with leftover taco meat, some grated cheddar, taco sauce and sour cream with some broccoli. It was good.

R227 - so do you pick your order up at the distribution center? Sorry for being such a ditz, but I'm not familiar with the process. I'm lucky enough to live in an area where most food items are available within a ten-mile radius. I'm curious because I also live 1/4 mile from a Whole Foods. Can I order something like steelhead trout and be able to pick it up at Whole Foods?

Leftover ribs from the other day and the last of the German potato salad. Oh, and a pre made Safeway salad with walnuts and spinach.

Today we're having turkey cutlets with a parmesan crust, green beans and cauliflower.

R229, No, they deliver to my doorstep within a 2 hour window. The refrigerated and frozen items are in foil-lined paper bags. Kroger will also deliver, but people on NextDoor are always posting photos of the shabby-looking items they receive from them. I've never shopped at Whole Foods, but their website takes me to the Amazon website for Whole Foods when I click on the link for Pickup and Delivery. From there, I can place an iorder for free pickup or for delivery (with a fee and tip, of course). TBH, I miss shopping at a well-stocked grocery. I'd be thrilled to live that close to a Whole Foods.

Bean tacos, plenty of vegetal support.

Considered a dietary reset a day after a weekend of culinary excesses.

My Amazon Fresh order is free except for $5 service charge when you order $35. worth of goods. I hate Bezos but I don't have a car and the prices are cheap. Sometimes the identical item to one stocked by WF is significantly cheaper.

Crunchy pollock filets and cheesy broccoli rice.

R223: my hubby makes homemade pizza once a week (we like it and the kids do, too) and he uses Mutti Passata Sauce - and it WONDERFUL!

Breaded haddock filets sandwich (4) with leftover potato salad, plus half of a Lemon meringue pie for Shaun and myself. We ate 2 sandwiches each and everything for dinner-Shaun fell asleep.

My Ex FIL gave us 15 crates of wine for our wine cellar, I can't wait to go thru them.

Grilled salmon with herb compound butter, arugula salad with goat cheese, apple, and candied hazelnuts, and stuffed eggplant.

tl;dr I know, it all sounds so frou-frou, but it really wasn't. My partner grilled the salmon, simply with salt, pepper, and oil. I had the compound butter from the steak we made last night. I had arugula and goat cheese in the refrigerator, an apple that needed to be used soon, and hazelnuts in the freezer that my partner candied with sugar in a dry pan. I just dressed it with olive oil and sherry vinegar.

The only thing that needed some effort was the stuffed eggplant. I used this recipe from Lidia Bastianich, but I skipped the meat and the red pepper. I bought the small eggplant like in the video last week because they looked really fresh. I had some Italian bread that was starting to mold, so I fed the the birds the crusts and used the rest in the stuffing. I did boil a couple of eggs per the recipe, but I cracked one of the eggs taking it out of the carton; I beat that and added it to the stuffing as a binder. I also added some minced garlic. I topped it with some leftover toasted panko breadcrumbs that I had from an earlier recipe. It turned out really well. I was able to make it hours before and so it was ready to go when we started dinner.

Carry on.

^^^I love stuffed eggplant& eggplant in general.^^^

I love Lidia's recipes too.

Oops, forgot the link to the eggplant recipe.

I made curry wurst with hot dogs and a baked potato.

Curry makes everything wurst.

Hot night. Everything’s cold.

Sliced cold sirloin left over from Saturday night on a salad with butter lettuce, tomatoes, orange peppers, sliced olives, blue cheese, bacon, artichoke hearts and fried onion rings with potato salad on the side.

Fresh peaches for dessert They’re perfectly ripe two days out of the store and 99 cents a pound. Sliced with brown sugar and heavy cream. Simple. Perfect. I think I’ll make peach ice cream later this week.

All the good fruits are back, even in the supermarket. Valencia oranges, Rainier cherries, great strawberries and blueberries, too.

It's so hot! I bought a rotisserie chicken and made a big salad from the salad bar at the market. I cut the chicken up, took the skin off, and drizzled with chili crisp oil. The salad had fresh dill in it, which I love. I'm not doing alcohol during the week (well, trying not to), so I just had water.

Having teriyaki chicken and rice. Peaches and cherries are perfect right now. The produce guy at Costco told me cherries will be half price next week, they were $2.99 lb this week.

WF 365 4-cheese ravioli and pesto made from our garden basil and walnuts. Grilled asparagus and fruit salad.

Other meals-bialy and cream cheese, cottage cheese with strawberries and blueberries. Not cooking much.

Huge green salad with two grilled chicken breasts marinated in olive oil, champagne vinegar, mustard, garlic, thyme and black pepper. Made dressing with the same. Half of a small watermelon. Stuffed.

So I just took a brisket out of the oven and am letting it rest for a half-hour.

I also made a salsa macha.

It’s spicy as hell and has a puréed texture. I had a hell of a time blending everything together since the ingredients were very grainy: pepitas, sunflower kernels, peanuts, almonds, sesame seeds, garlic and of course the chiles, ancho and árbol. 🥵

My partner prepared Runza Casserole.

Look it up.

With a radish, tomato and green olive salad.

A 16oz T-bone steak - no sides... I did use some A1 Sauce though. Pepsi and a Klondike bar.

I went to Costco this morning and bought a large untrimmed beef tenderloin, brought it home and trimmed it out, 10 meals out of it, we had two fillets, baked potato, and salad. It works out to 12.00 for two servings, per meal...a bargain.

Leftover Vegetable Stew, sourdough garlic toast with melted Gruyere, ice water with lemon. The toast was from a 3-day old loaf and was hard as a rock, so I just dipped it into the stew. Partner is repulsed by certain textures and can't handle "soggy bread". So I watched him crunch on it, expecting him to crack a tooth. That was tonight's entertainment. A bowl of chilled pineapple chunks. A sugar-free popsicle frozen with water, Monkfruit extract, and lemon juice.

Angel hair pasta with Julia Child's Provençale Tomato Sauce. I love te fennel seeds.

R253: "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" - LOVE IT! You go, girl!

Today, a lunch soufflé with a sauce provençale.

Soufflés are much simpler than a lot of people seem to think, and the sauce, which is quick, has the impudence of French Mediterranean cookery with its orange peel, coriander, and fennel. I used Seville because I already was making marmalade this morning. The sourness offers a nice alternative to the usual lemon in the sauce.

I skipped lavender because of the Markle floral-crumb shit. Bad juju until she goes away.

It was funny to see R253's post.

I'm planning a Daube of Pork Cheeks Sunday, another recipe from Provence.

I'm eating today's lunch as I type. I made penne pasta last night to go with some leftover ragout, and I had lots of leftover pasta, so I tossed it with some olive oil and some feta spread that I had. Today I added garbanzos, kalamata olives and some capers, and seasoned with a little garlic pepper. It's very tasty. I can't tolerate raw onion, but I think it would be even better with that addition.

A near perfect BLT. Wegman’s cheese bread, toasted; Hellman’s mayo, four slices of Hormel’s Black Label bacon, two Campari tomatoes, sliced, and lettuce leaves. Potato chips and a dill pickle. Talk of BLTs here gave me the idea.

Fresh peaches, sliced, marinated for an hour in brandy, lemon juice, and brown sugar spooned over homemade vanilla ice cream for dessert.

Runza casserole looks amazing

Zucchini parmesan, arugula salad with smoked, grilled halloumi, and toasted pistachios.

You can skip the long, boring part -

I have a zucchini plant. Yes, I live in a condo, and no, it's not on my patio. For some reason, the building that houses our hot water has 20 in diameter cylinders imbedded in the cinder block that surround the building. No idea of why. People often plant flowers in them, and we have too. But I planted a zucchini in one, and some hot pepper plants in another. The zucchini have started coming in, and I just picked two. I'm Italian. We can't help ourselves.

We are going out of town next week and I didn't want them to go bad. I'm also trying to cook all the perishable stuff before we leave. I've had a good-quality mozzarella that hit it's sell-by date last month. I also had leftover crushed tomato from the romano beans from a few nights ago, and the last vestiges of some tomato paste. The solution was zucchini parm. Gina of Buon-A-Petiti has a lot of great recipes; I used her recipe.

I also had to finish up the arugula. My younger son gave me a Breville Smoking Gun for my birthday, and I hadn't used it yet. I wanted to use it before I see him next week, so I smoked some halloumi cheese and grilled it in the grill pan for the salad. Added toasted pistachios and tangelo segments. The dressing was made with the tangelo zest, some of the juice, white wine vinegar, honey, Allepo pepper, sumac, and evoo.

I was up at 7am this morning; the zucchini parm was done by 8:30, so all I had to do is put it in the oven tonight, and make the salad.

Carry on

I had an omelet with bacon and Cheddar cheese.

Kitchen sink salad: A bag of mixed greens, shredded carrots, an over ripe avocado, cucumber, mushrooms, leftover corn sawed off the cob, cherry tomatoes, half cans of garbanzos and beets. Microwaved and crumbled some bacon for my partner's salad. He had a dollop of Marie's blue cheese. I had olive oil, lemon juice, red wine vinegar, dried tarragon, and black pepper, no salt. His was better.

Another fried chicken salad with grilled corn. Delicious.

Trying out one of those tik tok “recipes” where you cook the thinly sliced protein with the rice and sauce together in a rice cooker.

To R257-my neighbor Phyllis down the road in La Jolla does the same thing with fresh peaches with Brandy or peach Bourbon. Peaches, nectarines, plums, cherries, apples will work great with brandy or bourbon. Pineapples work better with good white rum or vodka.

Shrimp tacos with grilled corn salsa

Made Cherry Vanilla ice cream with toasted almonds and fresh cherries in my new ice cream maker for dessert tonight. The flavor is delicious, but the consistency is a little too soft and grainy and icy, even though I froze it overnight. Have since learned on YouTube to cook it first, then let it chill for 6 hours, then add it to the machine. Also, the manufacturer recommends not adding the fruit until the last 10 minutes. Will probably cook it with the cherries to get some of the juices and flavor out, then remove the cherries and add back later.

I now appreciate that ice cream is just fat and sugar! Duh! And yet I want to venture further and make French-style ice cream which has egg yolks. Going to need to exercise restraint. And experiment with sugar alternatives, at least. Maybe even try frozen yogurts and sorbets. It's a whole new frozen world!

It's 94 degrees right now. Dinner will be grilled vegetable chunks and firm Tofu slabs on skewers followed by grilled nectarines and sub-optimal cherry almond ice cream.

Shrimp with penne pasta in Alfredo sauce and a nice salad.

Fresh pineapple, Rainier cherries, and orange-fleshed honeydew in fresh OJ with Venezuelan pre-Madero rum (tip of the hat for the suggestion) and a coconut yoghurt for dessert.

Grilled Chicken with Adobo and Sazón, Yuca Con Mojo, and Spanish Garlic Green Beans.

The chicken recipe is from ATK. This episode came on yesterday while I was working. I love Lan, and her recipes are almost always keepers. The yuca con mojo was a basic recipe, and the green beans came from Spain on a Fork, starring Alberto, Queen of Valencia.

We had beef bulgogi seasoned stir fry. Yummier than I expected

Seared tuna tataki, green bean gomaae (sesame dressing), marinated cremini mushrooms (Japanese style), and jasmine rice. Some ponzu sauce and wasabi mayonnaise on the side.

The green beans were the long Chinese green beans. We grow them behind the flowers - they're a climbing vine, and my partner put up some very discreet wires for them to grow along. Again, it's in a public space. I'll pick another couple of zucchini tomorrow, pick some of the mint out there, and make zucchine alla scapece with dinner tomorrow. Oh, and I picked the first fig today. It was amazing.

I had a couple of filets of Tilapia Meunière. I love the historic associations for Tilapia, and it's so easy to prepare.

Last night I had 2 pork chops. That’s all. Tonight might be 2 hamburger patties. That’s all.

Popcorn and wine (not necessarily in that order). Had a lousy week.

Another long day of errands and unpacking, so a midnight snack for dinner: Jumbo Smart Dogs (plant based) on a split top buns from Trader Joe's all the way across town, with "raw" (low sodium) sauerkraut, a grainy dark mustard, relish, chopped onions, and diced tomatoes. Heaven. Also from TJ's, jicama mango salad with lime vinaigrette. A fake beer for me, Chardonnay for hubs. Partner is from New England, so no vegetables or kraut. He added sliced cheddar cheese then melted it in the microwave. Gross. We could not watch each other eating our dogs; it's how we save our marriage.

Played a party gig and dinner afterward was included. It was catered by a Korean woman, but featured a mixed menu. (Not all Korean food) Started off with a salad - lots of frisee and other spring greens, followed by kim chi rice, followed by pad thai noodles with chicken, followed by small thin pieces of barbecued beef ribs, asian style, followed by stuffed lobster tails, followed by butter mochi, and finishing up with ice cream and lumpia filled with a purple grated sweet potato filling (I think).

Gazpacho with slices of pear; and almejas (tiny clams) in shell cooked in wine, lots of thin sliced garlic, chopped parsley, and a bit of choice olive oil, served with good bread.

Carne Asada burrito from the sidewalk "stand" a couple blocks from my house. Lovely couple, great food. $11 for a huge carne asada burrito with all the fixins -- so big, I could only eat half. The other half will be breakfast/lunch tomorrow. (Burritos at Poquito Mas & Sharkeys run $14)

Roast beef and Swiss cheese on a Miami onion roll with horseradish mayo, lettuce, and tomatoes. Tater tots, Cole slaw.

^^^That sounds "deliciously awesome" except skip Cole slaw. Craving Potato salad-mac& cheese.^^^

Went to the Kellogg Diner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for chicken fried steak and the best chicken soup I've ever had in a restaurant. Dessert was a Creamsicle pie, similar to key lime, with the most amazing graham cracker crust.

[quote]Dessert was a Creamsicle pie

Oh, that sounds so good!

Split pea soup with Spam.

Freshly made pasta with homemade tomato sauce. There's nothing like eating homemade pasta

Garlic bread with parmesan cheese sprinkled in. (Using freshly made bread from an Italian Bakery)

Too lazy to cook, got a rotisserie chicken and some watermelon for dessert

Turkey sandwich with homemade cherry chutney and grilled corn

Grilled chicken kebabs (lemon, garlic, rosemary, oregano, etc), zucchine alla scapece, and romano beans in sugo.

And figs! Our tree has started to produce. Delicious!

Last night I did a grilled boneless butterflied leg of lamb, and grilled summer squash (pattypan, yellow, and crookneck). Also rice cooked with chicken stock and canned French onion soup.

Tonight, carnitas tacos, guac, black beans & rice.

I made angel hair carbonara.

YUM, R289!

Grilled prime NY strip, sauteed broccoli rabe, potato, green bean, and carrot salad.

More NC lemon pie for dessert. And a fig.

I made a cordon blue chicken meatloaf. Mom says it was delicious.

I got nauseous for a while and didn’t taste it.

I shall have some tomorrow.

Dustin @r292, I just learned from another thread that you have two sons and apparently are from Western MA, is that correct? Would never have guessed either. My guess is that you now live somewhere warmer, where fig trees thrive.

Still think of you when I steam rice on my electric stove - thanks again for the tips.

That’s not me, R293.

I live in far west tejas.

🤷🏻‍♀️

Ooops - meant Dustin @r291.

R293 - Southern CT, not Western MA. Yes, I have two sons; the younger is getting married this weekend! I live in Texas now, but my sister is still growing figs in CT. We had fig trees in our backyard growing up.

I'm glad switching burners works for your rice. It works for a lot of things where you start on a high heat, and then need to reduce it.

Chicken sausage chili served on baked potatoes

Church's 2-piece thigh meal, with mashed potatoes and jalapeno bombers.

I don't cook the day before we travel. I also wanted something kinda junky.

Homemade chili, quesadillas and a HUGE, WHOMPED-UP salad!

Grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup.

After lunch, pulled a pie dough ball out of the freezer, thawed it, rolled it out, pre-baked it, set it out to cool, took a nap while partner went grocery shopping. There's a giant container of organic blueberries in the front of the fridge because they're in season here. That should have been a clue.

Woke up to the sound of a busy wire whisk and the smell of onions and sauteed shrooms. I almost yelled "Noooo!" as he was pouring a green mixture on top of a layer of shredded cheese in the pie shell. With a Satanic grin. We had spinach and mushroom quiche. No blueberry pie. It was awesome, anyway. We also won't be having home made ice cream tomorrow because he also used half of the cream. It's a hassle and a huge carbon footprint for us to drive into town just to get a few things.

Salad Nicoise

Pork Chops and Applesauce a la Peter Brady. Corn on the cob, steamed asparagus.

In the north, people can grow figs if they leave them in pots and bring them into the garage in winter, or if they tip them over and cover them with soil and leaves. Some people with the right kind of house design could also grow them right up against the foundation, where the temperature of the heated house would keep the ground from freezing in winter. In some marginally cold climates, figs will freeze down almost to the ground, but they can produce fruit on new wood, so as long as they have a well-established root system, they can put out a crop of figs in the late summer or early fall.

It’s my birthday! So takeout of my favorite fried shellfish combo with extra lemon!

A nice Cobb salad and jalapeño cheese bread toasted with garlic butter.

And the last of the lovely peaches for dessert.

The realfeel temp was 106f this afternoon. No cooking tonight.

Sous vide chicken breast with mustard bbq sauce, asparagus and grilled corn. Strawberries for dessert.

Lunch was cauliflower bisque: Add steamed cauliflower, chicken broth, milk, grated white cheddar cheese, dried leeks, a handful of garbanzos, and seasoned salt to a blender and puree for two minutes.

Penne with turkey Bolognese sauce, salad and iced coffee with vanilla ice cream

Sausage and pepper calzone, green salad.

15 mgs THC, 45 mgsCBD, 15 mgs CBG

Rough day, can’t eat

Disastrous experiment with our new toy, an Ooni backyard pizza oven. This after hours of watching YouTube videos. And $$$ on the oven, plus more on accessories. Pizza in 70 seconds! First, the pie wouldn't slide of the fancy pizza peel, so I just shoved it in, causing it to partially fold over itself. Then the rear crust caught fire, but the front crust wasn't baked hard enough to pull it out and turn it. Sauce, cheese, and pepperoni grease then caught fire. Finally yanked it out with tongs, half raw, half charcoal. It looked like a sculpture by Salvadore Dali. It was ghastly! Simply Ghastly!

Used the remaining dough balls to make "personal pizzas" for our house guests in our kitchen oven. They ate them while I sat crying and chain smoking in the garage.

[quote]First, the pie wouldn't slide of the fancy pizza peel

You need some semola or semolina on the peel. But you want the coarse stuff, not fine "rimanciata" flour.

@r312, Dustin, oh, S*hit. Lost that argument! Made a special trip to get the semilesbian, the semiphore, the semolian thing. Partner said to get the real stuff, not the (Italian sounding flour), which wouldn't be coarse enough. So I got the Bob's Red Mill. You can't go wrong with Bob's -- it's worker-owned. Or is that King Arthur's? Anyway, it was wrong. Also, I turned the oven to low for too long as I was trying to roll out the dough just so. Thus, the crust didn't bake evenly. Wish I had a few benzodiazepines.

One other suggestion if you have a wooden peel. In addition to getting the right semolina for the peel, it really does help to rub all-purpose flour into the wood every time you use it. And just don't dust it, sprinkle it on and rub it in. I've had my share of pizzas sticking to the peel.

Tonight is "clean out the fridge Leftover night", plus it's PIZZA NIGHT too.

7 for dinner tonight.

Clean out the fridge night here too so I'm going to do a tonnato sauce with pasta.

I had salmon steaks with a simple sauce of Duke's mayonnaise and lemon juice.

Beef on weck. Real Buffalo kummelweck rolls, rare roast beef au jus, and horseradish mayo with latkes and applesauce and a green salad.

"A beef on weck is a sandwich found primarily in Western New York State, particularly in the city of Buffalo.[1][2][3] It is made with roast beef on a kummelweck roll, a roll that is topped with kosher salt and caraway seeds. The meat on the sandwich is traditionally served rare, thin cut, with the top bun getting a dip in jus and spread with horseradish."

Same old same old.... . . . . . dirt.

That sounds like some Rachael Ray slop, r319. In league with “chicken riggies”.

No, I'm trying to cut my calorie intake and boost my vegetable intake. I had cancer last year and am trying to eat healthy and one way to do that is to make "cream" sauces using cauliflower as a base. I have no idea what chicken riggies are. I could say something nasty but why spoil this charming thread.

What kind of cancer?

If Sip And Feast approves of Chicken Riggies, it must be delicious.

R321 - you don't know what you're talking about. Weck is basically what we called a hard roll in the NYC area. Delicious sandwiches.

I made a 4 hour slow roasted pulled BBQ beef sandwich with classic potato chips. It's summer, reminds me of my youth and out door BBQs and picnics. Classic Americana memories before it turned into MAGA Trump land.

[quote] Classic Americana memories before it turned into MAGA Trump land.

I initially read this as "MAGA Trump lard."

Dustin, that's why it was in quotes. It came from AI. Easy.

Chicken kabob. Pilaf

TJ’s flatbread pizza, green salad

R321 both beef on weck and chicken riggies are regional specialties in Western and Central NY and are amazing. Get out of your bubble once in a while.

I apologize for my lack of familiarity with the cuisine of Utica and Buffalo.. Carry on.

Peorein shake

r333, I feel for you, worse than delirium tremens.

[quote]Weck is basically what we called a hard roll in the NYC area.

What we called a hard roll in the NYC area was a hard roll.

I sous vided a picanha steak for four hours and made hasselback zucchini stuffed with parmesan shavings. Also brown rice.

Protein shake. No DTs here.

Classic Sunday night dinner: slow-cooked London broil, gravy, mashed potatoes, canned corn, green beans, sliced lettuce salad with red onions and homemade croutons. YUM

To R338-2 Slow-cooked Roast Beef, gravy, garlic mashed potatoes, cheddar cheese mashed potatoes, corn, green beans, lettuce salad with regular onions, with my classic French onion soup cooked over the outside firepit.

We had fun today, my neighbor Carlton joined us for dinner. Back from Rhode Island visiting family.

R338 are you outside the US? why using canned corn?

I want French onion soup. Now. With melty Gruyere cheese on sourdough baguette slices in little crocks with handles, then finished under the broiler. Served with a dry white. It's easy but takes a few hours to make. Partner hates "soggy bread" and won't eat it the way God intended. It's late. Going to dream about this. I envy Carlton.

[quote]Peorein shake

Well, if it's good enough for Peoria . . .

Dutch baby pancake with smoked salmon, sour cream, chives and capers. Fresh fruit.

[quote]Fresh fruit.

What was his name?

Blueberries and peaches.

R341, you can freeze caramelized onions. Not an immediate solution but one for the future.

I fixed corn pone with lots of butter and agave syrup.

A breakfast hash brown stuffed with scrambled eggs, cheese, and bacon; a green salad, and half an onion roll, toasted, with hummus and pickled red onions.

Rotisserie chicken, roasted broccoli, redskin potato salad and a spoonful of canned cranberry sauce. Iced tea (decaf earl grey/black tea blend).

Atlanta here. Both our humidity and our temps are in the 90's. It is unbearable to be outside. So I made a cold tuna salad and some crackers. It sufficed.

[Quote] What's for dinner, part two?

Are you one of those hobbits?

Like Dildo Baggins?

Leverwurst sandwiches with sweet chili doritos on white bread. I was lazy tonight.

R352 , Isay this with LOVE. It's time to give up the white bread. It has no nutritional value, it tastes gross and you will suffer from it in the long run. MAGAts eat white bread. You'll have Carb Face. For god's sake, at least get a good quality brioche if you must. A whole grain, multi-grain bread is the best option. The only supermarket bread worth buying is Dave's Killer Bread. Otherwise find a bakery. It will amaze you how inexpensive bakery breads are. Even a Supermarket bakery is a good option.

I forgot. It's "Liverwurst."

^^^LOVE LIVERWURST-HOWEVER YOU SPELL IT^^^

Got home late last night from our trip out west. Before we left, I had cooked down a couple of lbs of campari tomatoes that weren't going to make it for another week, so I had fresh sauce ready to go. I've tried to lay off the pasta, but I felt like home cooking. Cooked the sauce with onions, garlic, pancetta, crushed red pepper, basil, and rosemary. Made more bucatini than I should have, and topped with parmesan. It was quite delicious. Now I have to head out and do some grocery shopping.

I'm also a liverwurst fan too, R352

I ate some peanut butter and fig preserves on keto bread last night. And had a cup of mango Greek yogurt for dessert.

R354 sorry, "leverwurst" is in spanish, my native language, I got those 2 mixed up.

Good lord, we haven’t eaten white loaf bread in years.

Multigrain all the way. We like the Orowheat brand.

MMMMMM....white bread. Nothing wrong with it in moderation you uptight twats. It just goes with certain things like a club sandwich or grilled cheese. And don't give me some stupid lecture about not knowing anything about bread because I often bake my own including French Épis de Blé and Italian Ciabatta which is a bitch to make because it's such a wet dough.

According to the NYT, it should be sauteed chickpeas masala with tofu and blistered tomatoes. Their recommendations suck.

I made red beans and rice from scratch. I know it doesn't sound like much, but those dried kidney beans take forever to cook. I'll use up what I have, but will stick to canned beans in the future.

Cheese sandwich on keto bread with Dukes Mayo and Dijon mustard.

Thinly-sliced rare American Kobe roast beef on a toasted croissant with red and green lettuce, Swiss cheese, bacon and horseradish Dijonnaise; dill pickle, and potato chips. My favorite sandwich.

Which is now sitting in the refrigerator, untouched and tightly sealed. I had to brush my teeth before eating because I puked as I was plating it. And right now I don’t have much of an appetite.

I can’t complain. I’ve been on Ozempic for two years and it’s only the second time I’ve vomited. If I don’t eat it tonight, it’ll be breakfast tomorrow.

Roasted chicken thighs with Mediterranean seasoning cooked with pizza sauce I had to improvise due to time. Accompanied by roasted vegetables a combination of red onions, carrots, beets, and brussel sprouts.

ITA, R360. White bread has its place, and you listed two great examples of what it goes well with. It's fine just toasted to have with your eggs, and let's not forget PBJ sandwiches.

Roast chicken, Caesar salad, and Italian potato salad.

Just back from the wedding and had a busy day unpacking and doing the grocery shopping. Of course, I had to make the Caesar dressing from scratch. The potato salad is just boiled Yukon gold potato chunks, evoo, parsley, smashed garlic, salt, and pepper. So simple, so good. While I like potato salad with mayo, eggs, etc, I actually prefer this simpler version.

I made this tonight: Bún Thịt Nướng (Vietnamese Grilled Pork with Rice Noodles). So yummy

I made a new recipe tonight, and it came out great. I pounded out boneless skinless chicken thighs thin, and stuff with seafood stuffing from the market (very good), then wrapped in bacon, then in tin foil and put on the grill. Low heat, flipping them frequently. I also got a cast iron skilled and added potatoes, chicken stock, lemon juice, evoo and lots of S&P and cooked flipping them over frequently until brown and crunchy. Served with Italian pasta salad. It came out really good. excellent flavor and textures. the last few minutes I opened the foil to let the bacon brown a bit - but actually I didn't even have to do that - I will def make this again.

R362, I prefer dried beans. I get a good quality organic dried bean of the highest grade. I soke them overnight. Red beans always take longer. Up to 2 days. I rinse and cook them slowly in chicken broth. They're delicious. I won't go back to canned beans.

*soak

Grilled salmon, marinated cauliflower, grilled asparagus

I posted a thread about a cooking show, and as expected, it didn't get any interest. Which is fine. I knew it when I posted the thread. However, because this is a food thread, I am committing the mortal sin of linking to my own thread.

My niece is over and she’s still young enough to be a picky eater so I decided on fried chicken with mashed potatoes and biscuits.

I got a shrimp poboy from a new place called Off the Hook. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm not expecting much because I ordered at the drive-thru and it took less than 5 minutes to get the food.

r373, she's fabulous!

Pizza.

Chicken noodle soup and peanut butter on half an English muffin. I am sick.

Rotisserie chicken salad with crunchy broccoli salad. I will attack two plums for dessert.

Vegetarian night - samosas, zucchini sabzi, and cauliflower kurma.

I get the spicy samosas from the Muslim market. Frozen from Bangladesh. Deep fry for 6 or 7 minutes. That wlas the easy part. The two vegetable dishes require lots of chopped onions, and garlic-ginger paste. And a bunch of spices. It was all delicious, but a bit time consuming.

Granola cereal, and for dessert some delicious fresh Bing cherries.

4-bean salad with excellent tomatoes from my neighbor's garden; mango jicama cabbage salad with lime dressing from TJ's; a vegan dog with sauerkraut, mustard and relish; sweet and sour plums from an anonymous neighbor's tree that were left in a bag on our porch. The plumbs are really trippy - very sweet, then sour, then with a sour-bitter skin that makes you pucker and look like Renee Zellweger. Have no idea who has a plumb tree around here. We're that new "gentleman couple" on the block.

A salad of roasted beets, blue cheese crumbles, and candied pecans tossed with green-leaf lettuce with a maple vinaigrette dressing, half of a grilled one pound prime strip sirloin steak, potatoes Anna, green beans and coffee ice cream for dessert.

[quote]green beans and coffee ice cream for dessert

I'll take my ice cream without green beans, thank you very much.

Baked breaded chicken breast, rice pilaf, fresh asparagus and a mixed green salad.

BLTs (tomatoes from the garden) and Trader Joe’s Unexpected Broccoli Soup. Hadn’t tried the soup before. It was pretty good.

Roast beef sandwich on keto bread with Dukes mayo, sharp cheddar, Dijon mustard and two sandwich pickles. And a boiled egg.

How is keto working out for you, R387?

Grilled jerk chicken, black bean and corn salad, mango salad.

My recipe called for bone-in, skin-on chicken parts, and that's how I always made it. But I've been using boneless skinless to grill these days, and today I'm using them to make my jerk chicken recipe. Lots of Caribbean/Jamaican flavors in the bean salad. The mango salad will be closer to Thai, but it will go well together.

R388, between low carb, IF and medication, I’ve lost 60 pounds since the pandemic stopped. I love this keto bread - it’s called Schmidt 647 bread and it tastes like the real thing. I also like sourdough bread since it’s a bit lower in carbs than regular bread. I’m trying to get more muscle and I have to cut back but not eliminate carbs. I’m trying to up my protein intake too, hence the boiled eggs.

R387/389 - Best of luck! I lost weight, and didn't find it that hard to stay on once I was on it. It was when I fell off around the holidays, and all the traveling we do that made it hard for me to get back on. I'm eating fewer carbs, but I'm not counting. Most of my carbs are coming from vegetables, legumes, bulgur (great stuff), and maybe some pasta once every couple of weeks.

I have never been to Maggiano's Italian restaurant. It's a chain so I figured it was an upscale Olive Garden. my sister insisted on treating me so I went. I was shocked. The food and the service we re delicious. Their house salad deserves an award. I had four cheese ravioli and of course the portions were too large so I took more than half of it home. Ate that tonight for dinner and it was delicious. Oh. they serve hot Italian bread with olive oil for dipping. In general it was a very good experience.

Cornets and Jelly Bellys.

R390 what does bulgur taste like?

It has a very nice nutty flavor. I get the medium or coarse grind. I like to make Middle Eastern/Mediterranean salads with them. You can make a basic tabbouleh with chopped tomatoes, cucumber, and parsley, and dress with evoo and lemon at a minimum, but you can add olives, red onion, feta, peperoncini, etc. Don't get the fine grind you don't have to cook. I've never tried the whole grain, but you can make a pilaf using that.

Cooked bulgur makes a very nice breakfast cereal. You can start it in cold water, unlike a lot of other grains, which must be added to boiling water for proper texture. Boil it briefly, stirring, until it starts to swell and thicken, then turn off the heat (electric stove) and cover tightly. It will absorb the cooking water and have a nice texture and nutty taste as described above. The whole process takes about 10-15 minutes. Add a little butter, some fruit and sweetener of some sort, and you have a very filling and nutritious meal. But, because it's neutral in flavor, it can also be used in savory dishes.

Bulgur is made by boiling or steaming whole wheat berries and then letting them dry. Then the berries are cracked open or ground into smaller pieces, which are shelf stable and can be stored at room temperature without going rancid, unlike whole wheat flour or cracked wheat. Cooked whole wheat berries are also delicious, but they take forever to cook - I'd say a minimum of one hour. Some people find them too chewy to be used as a side dish or a breakfast cereal.

Korean fried chicken tenders (bought from local restaurant and reheated in air fryer), mac and cheese, coleslaw, kimchi.

Ended work late, so for dinner I'm just enjoying a glass (OK, a couple) of wine, some carrot sticks with hummus. It's vegetables and protein, right?

Fried shrimp, romano beans in tomato sauce, and zucchini fritters. Smoked paprika aioli to go with the shrimp.

I had leftover beans that I cooked yesterday for the black bean/corn salad we had last night. I made some killer black bean soup for lunch.

Can I come over for dinner, Dustin?

Where are you, ProudPapa?

I saw the product Goya Recaito on the shelf and wanted to give it a try. I looked for recipes online and the easiest one I saw was similar to arroz con pollo, but without the rice. I marinated a couple of chicken thighs in cumin, garlic powder, salt, olive oil and lime juice. Today I braised them on the stovetop with onions, peppers, a little water and about 1/4 cup of the recaito.

The finished dish was tasty but underwhelming. I guess I thought recaito was going to be a flavor bomb - I didn't pick up any "Latin flair!" from it.

Papa John's meat pizza. I filled out an email questionnaire after, so I get free cheese sticks with my next order!

Partner is making seared salmon fillets with lemon and butter, corn on the cob, simple salad of mixed greens with cherry tomatoes, basil leaves, mushrooms, cucumber, and shredded carrots. Home made blueberry ice cream.

Salmon is frozen, supposedly wild-caught, from Costco, thawed in the fridge last night. Am skeptical but thrilled he's cooking.

Grilled swordfish served on a sizzling platter with asparagus and new potatoes.

Chili and Mexican cornbread.

I thought we were boycotting Goya because they contributed greatly and are 100% Trumpers thru and thru.

Vegan cornmeal-crust cashew cream base pizza with smoked tomatoes,plus pepperoni and sausage to completely defile the vegan-ness and make it a delicious moral abomination

(From Dove Vivi if you're in Portland) so good!

Yeah, I was gonna chime in about those sub par ingredients.

Fuck Goya and the owner with a rusty nail.

Besides, we Mexas don’t use those products and never will. It’s mostly a Caribbean staple.