So...whats for dinner?

illimae

Beat up from another day of house painting and still full from the pizza ordered for us “crew”. No dinner for me, maybe just hot tea and a hot tub.

auntienance

Breakfast for dinner - two "fried" (no added fat) eggs, two slices crispy bacon and a biscuit. We too are full of (homemade) pizza from last night's second birthday dinner with friends. Had leftovers for lunch today so breakfast for dinner was just right..

ChiSandy

Leftover black-sesame-crusted seared ahi over shredded cabbage. Bob also went around the corner to En Lai and brought home hot & sour soup, chicken satay, crab Rangoon, fried shrimp, potstickers and Vietnamese summer rolls. Oolong tea & fortune cookies. Not the old-fashioned Brooklyn Cantonese neighborhood restaurant stuff of my childhood, but comfort food nonetheless. Will have the leftover spaghetti & cavatappi Bolognese tomorrow night.

Because I had to sing today--and hate to do so on a full stomach, not the least because I don't want any "lower digestive upset" while on stage--all I had earlier today was a couple pieces of that seared ahi and a black coffee before I left for the festival. We were given meal tickets, but really no time to use them. Lots of heirloom apples (and pies) for sale.

carolehalston

Tonight we're going to dinner at Crabby Shack, a local seafood place. We are treating our next door neighbors, the Breaux, to dinner.

I had a good weigh in at my WW meeting today. Not sure whether I will "splurge" tonight or try to eat "on program." I may do a combination and eat a salad topped with fried oysters. Or fried shrimp. Or both!

eric95us

It looks like I'm Florida bound.

auntienance

Take care Eric!

Fettuccini Alfredo and garlic bread. Possibly a salad if I can work up the enthusiasm.

KatyK

Getting chilly so it’s soup weather! I’m a bit obsessed with good soup! Please feel free to share your favorite soup recipe. Today I’m making potato/carrot soup and will have a nice sourdough bread and a little green salad too. One of my favorite type of meals. And may have to sit outside and enjoy the soup.

MinusTwo

My favorite is always Hamhock & Beans. I make it the way my Mom did - salt & onion & celery - nothing sauteed first. But Katy, can't remember where you live. Our high today was 90 so I'm not quite in the mood yet.

Eric - so maybe Panama City? I hope you won't be needed - as I'm sure you do.

Leftover Vietnamese chicken & rice noodles. I may heat up leftover yellow squash for dessert if I get hungry again later.

auntienance

Still summer here too, at least until Thursday when the bottom is supposed to drop out. In spite of that, tomorrow is vegetable beef soup. My friend is having cataract surgery tomorrow and I promised her dinner. Vegetable soup was her request. So I'll make a double batch and that's what we will have as well. I'll take her some cheddar biscuits and a couple of custard cups too.

eric95us

The travel orders...Location: Unspecified. So, the "where I'm going is 'up in the air'." Right now I don't know when I'm leaving.

I've been feeling better for the past week, but have been busy catching up from the strep throat and the last deployment..and I'm way behind on the reading. Paraphrasing from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "This thread moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to read it once in awhile, you could miss it."

And now I'm leaving again. Hopefully this time I can avoid getting sick. :-)

carolehalston

Tonight's dinner will feature the leftover half of a roasted pork tenderloin. I mixed up a sweet/spicy sauce (brown sugar, soy sauce, fish sauce, rice vinegar, sambal oeleck, dark sesame oil, corn starch) and will heat up the slices of pork in the sauce and add the mixture to cooked soba noodles. Side will be a romaine salad with the usual additions. I LOVE soba noodles so am looking forward to dinner.

SpecialK

eric - not the way I would want to welcome you to Florida, but glad you will be here to help - I hope you are feeling well enough. Once again, thank you for what you do. I have a lot of friends in the panhandle, and my niece and her family in Tallahassee - worried about them - this one looks nasty.

We had steak on the charcoal side of the grill, loaded baked potatoes and a butter lettuce salad with pepitas and goat cheese - for my birthday. DD brought Sprinkles cupcakes. I turned 62 and yes, filed for Social Security. Headed to California on Friday for a few days visit with my BFF.

carolehalston

Happy Birthday, SpecialK!

SpecialK

carole - thanks!

auntienance

Happy birthday Special, please tell me someone else fixed dinner for you!

carolehalston

For some unknown reason, I'm in the mood for chicken enchiladas. I think I will get out the cast iron press and make some tortillas.

I so-o-o enjoyed the soba noodles and sweet/spicy sauce last night. The leftover pork tenderloin tasted ok. I will start halving the tenderloins to avoid leftover. Lean meat is best eaten when it's first cooked, in my humble opinion.

MinusTwo

Special - Happy B-day. I agree, hope someone else cooked the dinner. Have fun in CA.

SpecialK

Thanks! DH grilled the steaks, but I have to confess I did bake the potatoes and put the loaded parts in bowls so everyone could make their own, and I did make the salad - but used the baby butter lettuce that is packaged, pre-crumbled goat cheese and pepitas that come in a little container, lol! Easy on all fronts. I love that you guys wanted me to have a night off!

eric95us

Happy birthday, Special.

SpecialK

eric - thanks! We are watching video from PCB - its looks pretty crazy there right now.

carolehalston

The tortillas are made and refrigerated. I made an enchilada sauce using a recipe I saved and had not used. Not sure that I like it as well as the canned sauce I usually buy. Recipe called for 4 T. chili powder. Seemed a lot so I cute it to 2 T. May add some chipotle chili powder but have to be careful not to burn dh's mouth! LOL. The next step is poaching a chicken breast in seasoned water. Last step will be assembly and heating the dish while melting cheese.

eric95us

Inbound....

bedo

For dinner salad and bread. I went to a retirement seminar and left before the main course because I had to get my 10,000 steps in

Today I will get the results of my 2 biopsies. I asked the MD to call me at work because I'm working till 430 today and tomorrow and then the weekend.I'll be fine.

Already the dumb comments have begun....

Friend #1 And.. rolling eyes, when did you decide that calling you at work was a good idea? (shut up)

Friend #2 You'll look like Swiss cheese! (shut up)

DD Just get new ones (hummm.)

Hope everyone has a good day

MinusTwo

Bedo - holding you in my thoughts as you wait for your biopsy results.

Hope everyone in the path of Michael is OK.

M0mmyof3

Have friends in Port St. Joe. Last I heard from them was yesterday morning when the winds were starting to kick up and water was coming up in a canal. Praying they are safe.

On the dinner front, it’s soup and sandwich tonight. Still have a bit of the stomach bug I woke up with yesterday.

MinusTwo

Mommy - sorry about your stomach bug. Hope it doesn't linger.

I went to Costco today and their rotisserie chickens are the best - huge & plump & nicely seasoned. So dinner was nibbling chicken from the wings and the leg bones and eating small pieces as I stripped the bird. I'll have chicken again tomorrow and package the rest for the freezer. Also finished off the leftover yellow squash w/onion & garlic.

Yesterday I baked one of the San Francisco Boudin Sourdough rounds that I'd taken from the freezer. They pre-bake the bread so you only have to finish it for 10-15 minutes at 375 degrees. Dinner yesterday was 3 pieces of fresh bread with lots of butter. YUM.

Eric - hope things are OK wherever you are.

ChiSandy

Hoping for mercy on the part of Michael for those in its path.

Last night Bob came home from Cooper's Hawk Winery, where a drug rep took his office staff to dinner. He stuffed himself on the appetizers and brought home two entrees: parmesan-crusted beef tenderloin medaiiions with asparagus, and glazed salmon with Southwest slaw (and scalloped potatoes with both). Had the salmon and half the slaw last night. He also brought home two portions of dark chocolate cake with strawberries. I had half mine last night and the other half an hour ago. Headed out to Target to pick up some last-minute stuff before packing tomorrow for our trip Saturday. Will find out how late Bob will be working tonight, and whether he'll have had dinner, before I decide whether to eat the medallions or save them for him.

carolehalston

Dinner last night was stuffed yellow bell peppers from the freezer and baked sweet potato. Salad was sliced tomatoes and cucumbers with crumbles of blue cheese. The bell pepper stuffing with wild rice was very good.

Tonight's dinner may be a home-made pizza.

Lacey12

Eric, I imagine you are very busy given what we see on the media coverage of the Panhandle area. Thank you, again, and hope you are keeping your strength up. i bet if Special were not headed West, she’d probably cater a meal down to you!

Belated Happy Birthday, Special! And have a wonderful trip! I recall how much you enjoy those trips back to CA.

Since returning home from the lake, I have had zero motivation to food shop or cook...so have been squeaking by with anything in the fridge. Planned to shop yesterday, but torrential rains were a deterrent (not that I needed one). So I had a mini crisis at dinner prep time...ultimately foraged through the freezer and found three meatballs I made last year for just this type of night. Amazingly they had no freezer burn, so I nuke defrosted them, heated them up in a Rao’s tomato basil sauce, mixed with some leftover farfalle noodles I had frozen a few weeks ago and fresh mozzarella, and called it a casserole! DH never even knew what a scofflaw I was. Had he been out, I would have loved to do a peanut butter and fruit dinner! But glad those frozen meatballs surfaced. Minus, I envied your bread dinner! I always think of your son’s thoughtful gift when I read about your freezer treasures.

Tonight we are going to visit my friend (the one we visit at her house on the Vineyard) who just sold her localhouse and moved to an apartment. We’ll either take her out to dinner or have take-out at her place. And tomorrow I’d better get to the food store! Just seem to have lost interest in food prep of late.

Hoping for good news on the biopsy, Bedo.

eric95us

Thank you.