So...whats for dinner?

eric95us

Farther north in the state, where there are pine forests, the winds are in the 45-50mph ranges. The wind combined with the severe drought has the wild land fire department folks VERY worried.

carolehalston

Fish tacos with fresh fish. Yum!

Empathizing with all who suffer from the pollen. I will be out on the golf course this morning, nose dripping.

Breaded the two thin slices of chicken breast with Italian bread crumbs and cooked in the air fryer 5 minutes on each side. They were overcooked but we ate them (dh with liberal amount of chutney) with lightly candied carrots. DH made himself a romaine salad.

Probably steak tonight.

Funny that with all the leg exercises I do at the gym, I must have used unexercised leg muscles yesterday with the squatting and crouching to pull weeds. There was a time when I liked gardening and spent some hours every day in the yard. Of course, there was a time when my house was clean!

M0mmyof3

Thinking of making stuffed peppers

Magari

It's Friday, so we're splurging a little. I'm making chipotle mac & cheese with garlic breadcrumbs, and some kind of salad to go with it.

Had an Aperol spritz last night pre-dinner because I was missing Italy, and just might do so again this evening.

MinusTwo

Rainy, yucky day here. I have a rump roast in the crock pot that will hopefully turn into Special K's delicious French Dip. The roast was 1.8lbs and this mini-pot is a bit small - but I cut it in four pieces so onward!!! This afternoon I have tickets for a one hour concert by a wonderful group that uses only period instruments - Mercury Baroque (although they're called just Mercury now) I love their neighborhood series where I can hear really great music without driving downtown at night. Copying the program for Bedo in case she is lurking. Or Susan. Miss them both.

ANTONIO VIVALDI
Concerto for Two Violins and Cello in A minor, Op. 3, No. 8, RV 522
Concerto for Cello in A minor, RV 418

PIETRO ANTONIO LOCATELLI
Concerto Grosso in E-flat major, Op. 7, No. 6 "The Tears of Ariadne"

ARCANGELO CORELLI
Concerto grosso in D major, Op. 6 No. 4

GIUSEPPE SAMMARTINI
Concerto Grosso in A major, Op.2, No. 1

SpecialK

minus - oh yay for the French dip - please let me know how it goes, and enjoy the concert - sounds fun! I miss bedo and susan too, hope both are doing well.

MinusTwo

Special - the French Dip was delicious. I cooked 1/2 of your recipe and still have enough for 2 or 3 more meals. I think the consomme makes a nice difference.

So who else has a favorite Crock Pot recipe that I can try?

SpecialK

Minus - yay! I think the consommé has such concentrated flavor, helps flavor the roast and make a rich au jus. So glad you enjoyed it!

PatsyKB

Over here in my corner of the world, I’m making one of our family favorites: Crispy Parmesan Baked Chicken. A salad for me and zucchini for him and everyone’s happy. (I am mostly plant-based in my eating but I do include fish once a week or so; occasionally have organic chicken breast.) I love this dish - reminds me of when our daughter was little and it was a regular in our dinner routine.

eric95us

Hi Patsy from a fellow Arizonan....

Eric, Peoria.....

illimae

I’d love the French dip recipe, please.

Tonight we had thanksgiving in April, all the usual food except for the pumpkin pie, which we skipped.

SpecialK

illimae - the French dip recipe - if I can call it that - is on page 1189, Apr 7, @ 9.24. Also can’t remember if I said that I mix mayo and some horseradish and spread it on the warm Cuban bread before putting the beef on for the sandwich. I usually use prepared horseradish and pull some out of the jar with a spoon and put the spoonful on a folded paper towel to absorb some moisture - maybe 5 mins. Then mix with the mayo

MinusTwo

Welcome Patsy. Your corner of the world is lovely. If you don't mind sharing, please send your Chicken recipe. There are a fair number of us who eat MANY veggies so we'd love any specials you have with those too.

MinusTwo

Oh my goodness - just noticed we're at 1091 pages. Almost to 1100. Lots of good recipes. Lots of good friends.

Lacey12

Minus, tomorrow I think we will receive your rain....but with cold temps, so it is promised to arrive for the entire day in the form of snow, sleet and freezing rain. A perfect day to hunker down at home for the day....except, in the AM my trafficking prevention group is showing a film on “modern day slavery" early tomorrow morning at our church. Then we get to navigate the weather while driving into Boston for the first Celtics' playoff game early in the afternoon. Then zoom home for dinner and maybe a quick nap for DH, (I never nap), and back to Boston to attend a talk by Ira Glass. The Cs created this overly full schedule since they just announced their playoff schedule and we'd gotten our Ira Glass tickets two months ago. I just hope we don't skid all the way into town and back...twice!

More importantly, the runners in the Boston Marathon on Monday are going to have to face rainy cold weather .....as though running a marathon isn't enough!

Tonight in anticipation of wanting to have some leftovers in the fridge for tomorrow's quick dinner at home, we got mixed grill kebabs from one of our favorite Greek restaurants. They came with Greek salad, rice and butternut squash puree. Also ordered chicken lemon soup, and stuffed grape leaves...so there are plenty of “jump ups". I'll only need to put a salad together tomorrow.

Last night in my quest to have a low calorie meal, we had basically a large shrimp cocktail....boiled and chilled large shrimp over a huge mound of several lettuces. I made a basic horseradish cocktail sauce, but added a red pepper sauce that I had a leftover jar of in the fridge. That made it a bit more interesting. We had an odd accompaniment... boiled brussels sprouts. Our favorite unpopular vegetable.

That French Dip recipe sounds so deliciously decadent. I bet in my next life when I've returned as a thin person, I will sooo enjoy it! (she says, salivating)

Welcome Patsy! And I second Minus's comment that it would be great to learn of some of your favorite plant based meals.

MinusTwo

Lacey - Wow. I think I'd get a hotel room in town for naps between the game & the talk. And treat yourself to a night away after the talk. Although it may be hard to do with the Marathon.

Lacey12

You are correct, Minus! Thecity is full!

Driving into the game was a traffic nightmare...back home not quite as bad, but the game went overtime, so little time to gather ourselves before heading back here. At Symphony Hall now awaiting Ira! The weather is miserable and i feel so badly for tomorrows runners!

ChiSandy

Bob's leftover fettuccine Alfredo with chicken breast for dinner Sat. night as I took a break from packing. Sun. morning in the Delta lounge at O’Hare I made myself a breakfast burrito & cappuccino. Dinner on the JFK-Rome leg was mesclun salad with grilled chicken breast to start; they asked if I wanted pasta or “beef,” and I chose “beef, which turned out to be chicken Marsala with veggies & roast new potatoes. Not awful. OK chocolate mousse for dessert. Breakfast was a chocolate croisssant (hot but limp), a strawberry smoothie, and pretty good coffee. Dodged a bullet, in that they tried to give me a glatt Kosher meal (kaiser roll & Kosher cheese, which is to say rubbery). Half the plane was headed to Tel Aviv for an Orthodox/Hasidic camp—so it was also full of screaming babies & toddlers. Yeah, I’m sleep-deprived. And my room won’t be ready for at least another 2 hrs. Debating about whether to get lunch—there’s a welcome snack reception at the law firm hosting the conference at 1pm, but seeing as how I’ve been in the same clothes for almost 24 hrs. and look as exhausted as I feel—with nowhere to change & freshen up—I think I’ll try to nap in the lobby or grab a coffee & pastry. (My clothes and itinerary are checked with the valet).

eric95us

DD came over today to use our tax preparation software. She was grumbling a bit because a company paid her, said they reported the income to the IRS, but did not give her a 1099MISC or W2. It took her about an hour to do her filing. Had that company provided the form, it probably would have taken her 10-15 minutes to do the whole thing.

Dinner tonight was the chicken-ginger-onion "casserole".

I brought my mom's computer over and am going to pull the information off of it, wipe (not with a cloth) the disk and take it to a recycling place. It's 5 years old, so the computer is probably not worth taking to the thrift store.

Next will be the dish hutch...we figured out a nice place for it. When I was a kid, the hutch held one of every possible thing for a place setting (had to have been at least 100 items per setting) and the other 8 settings were held in crates. I hope the snail forks are still there...those always made me laugh. :-)

ChiSandy

Had casual lunch al fresco at a cafe on the Piazza del Populo with others in my group. Mineral water plus the best bruschetta I’veever had: fresh tomatoes in Rome in spring are amazing. Gelato at Gracchi: actually a dark chocolate sorbetto. Reception had various canapés, none outstanding but all good. Strolled & shopped, then late dinner at Tartufi & Friends around the corner from my hotel—had fresh tagliarini cacio e pepe with shaved summer truffle. Thought I’d died and gone to culinary heaven. Breakfast buffet included all manner of stuff, but I had to try the carpaccio of persimmon. In an hour I’m off to a wine & food tour, followed by a group dinner (ordered the osso bucco, since I make the other choice—branzino—all the time at home). Will report back if I can, because I have an early morning of law panels and then a court tour tomorrow. Ciao!

carolehalston

Have fun and enjoy the wonderful food, Sandy!

Yesterday's weigh in at WW wasn't as bad as I feared. I was up .8 lb. Hope to do better this week. After last night! I cooked breaded pork "steakettes" in the air fryer. They came out crusty and brown on the outside. We each ate the bone-in portion. One would probably have been enough. Dh, of course, got out the apple sauce and it had gone bad in the refrigerator.

We also had a mix of white potato and sweet potato oven fries. The raw potatoes tossed with olive oil and seasoned and cooked in 400 degree oven while the pork was cooking in the fryer. I finished up the fries in the fryer when the pork steaks were finished. I especially liked the sweet potato fries. DH ate his fries with ketchup, which, thank goodness, was good!

Tonight will be fish or scallops or both, yet to be purchased.

MinusTwo

Eric - you beat me. My family never had snail forks but i do have a pickle fork or two.

DodgersGirl

Minus— my family never had snail forks, either. But the did have garden hoes and salt/saucers to deal with snails and slugs!!

MinusTwo

LOL - Dodger's Girl. Beer works quite well too.

ChiSandy

Roman food porn! First. Pasta cacio e pepe with shaved summer truffle, from Monday dinner:

Next, from today's food tour, deep fried artichokes:

Battered fried baccala:

From top: cow (grana Padano), goat, sheep (pecorino Sardo):

Pizza, suppli (rice balls), torta rustica:

From dinner tonight, osso bucco:

Tiramisu, panna cotta (with Luxardo cherry), chocolate mousse:

I apologize for forgetting to shoot the gelato (cassata, dark chocolate) from today's food tour and ravioli in cream sauce from dinner—too busy talking & eating!

Magari

ChiSandy - That Roman food looks great. Especially the artichoke!

Tonight I'm making pan-fried chicken schnitzel and braised red cabbage with bacon, apples and a touch of vinegar.

SpecialK

chisandy - makes me want to dust off my passport....

magari - your dinner sounds pretty Bavarian!

I am making some ramen and topping it with sautéed onion, carrot, cabbage which has had some soy and hot sauce added, then topped with some chicken breast I roasted earlier skin on, bone in. Not super exciting but fast as DH is walking/exercising, it is already 8pm and he is still not home, so...

Magari

Special - The chicken schnitzel has gone into our rotation as a semi-regular item because I can butterfly and pound out a single boneless, skinless chicken breast and make it work as the protein portion of dinner for two. And it actually tastes like something. (I sometimes do picatta, marsala or some other variation, but my husband is fond of breadcrumbs....)

The Bavarian "theme" happened by chance when I was going through the fridge and realized I had half a head of red cabbage that needed to be used up anyway. Used a Jamie Oliver recipe, which turned out quite well.

Pasta and salad tonight. Probably with spicy sage almond pesto. I use this recipe, but substitute fresh serrano chilies for the red pepper flakes and use far less olive oil: http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/pasta-spicy-almond-pesto

SpecialK

magari - I have done a chicken paillard over field greens with a Dijon vinaigrette a number of times - great quick dinner especially when it's warm out and we enjoy main dish salads instead of a completely hot meal. I just picked up some additional coupe plates at Crate & Barrel yesterday - I love them for that kind of thing because you can make the salad shallow and have all the pretty stuff on top. I have 4 and got 4 more, just in case I break any.

carolehalston

Delicious looking food, Sandy.

My husband is fond of bread crumbs, too, and so am I.

I ate lunch out today and had a lovely salad of a mixture of delicate salad lettuces with grilled shrimp. The dressing was a lemon and olive oil vinaigrette. There were six large shrimp. It was delicious. I ate every morsel and I could probably eat a hamburger this minute.

Dinner will be chicken breast fillets and small red potatoes. I'm thinking I will cook the chicken breasts in a small amount of broth with preserved lemon, sort of a piccata flavor, and boil the little potatoes and serve with butter. Maybe a salad.