So...whats for dinner?

Siciliana

Thanks for the welcome! Sicily is not my heritage, but I spent some time there about three years ago and fell in love with the place. Before I got this #?$%&!! diagnosis, I was planning a trip back to Italy to study more Italian. and see more of that amazing country. But I really do plan on going back there and spending more time once I get this treatment behind me. I really love the Italian language and their way of life. And the food.....but now you've got me thinking about a cannoli! And a cronut, whatever that is!

M0mmyof3

Going to get some grinder rolls for tonight. Had enough meatballs left from last night for grinders tonight

eric95us

Hi Siciliana. That sounds like a good recipe...Chicken is my favorite meat to work with, and my wife does all sorts of amazing things with spaghetti squash.

M0mmyof3

Thin sliced steaks, mashed potatoes and a sala

Redheaded1

It was -7 with the wind chill this a.m., so I made homemade veggie soup---took the whole day, the kitchen is trashed....but it smells and tastes like moms......who hooo...

Now off the the NH to visit dad and get chilled to the bone.....at least no ice or new snow.

HappyHammer

So, in the end, at the last minute, after days of telling us we were in for it...we got <1 in but temps are COLD and the low tomorrow is around 9....really cold for South Carolina.  Supposed to be the same (32/12) until Tues. Then by Thursday/Fri near 60. Gotta love the new South as we are much warmer than we used to be....just sayin'.  Supper tonight was leftovers- grilled pork loin, collards, red potatoes and some steamed green beans.  Good stuff!  Neighbor birthday party tomorrow night.

Vargadoll

8 inches of snow for us last night and today. Temps in the teens and lower with the wind chill so it was a perfect potato soup with hickory smoke bacon, aged white cheddar and a side salad.

MinusTwo

Vargadoll - where are you living that you have that depth of snow? Your soup sounds good.

ChiSandy

A cronut is a hybrid of a donut and a croissant, using layers of puff pastry instead of regular dough and then fried. Some French chef in NYC claims to have invented it (even trademarked the name), and for awhile it was extremely hard to get, like Furby or Tickle Me Elmo a week before Christmas.

Lunch today at Allium in the Four Seasons was a seared ahi/baby spinach/broccolini/edamame/orange salad. (And a lemon-fennel brioche). For dinner I heated the smoked duck breast I was gonna slice and serve cold for New Year’s Eve—it was sort of like ham, only meatier and less salty. Pan-seared some frozen Dr. Prager's zucchini latkes (they also make a broccoli version). Steamed asparagus and topped it with the Christian Poitier hollandaise I ordered online, which came today.

Still no snow, but hit zero this morning and subzero wind chills all day. Sitting here as I type, wearing a fisherman sweater on top of another sweater and UGGs. Thermostat says 75, but the idiot plumber installed it four feet above a baseboard radiator. (Definitely that hot upstairs, though).

Siciliana

Sandy--I think it's best there are no cronut shops near me because I think it would be something I could not resist. There is, however, the Donut House, open 24/7, about a mile from my house. It takes every bit of willpower for me to sail on by that place!

Today I made a big pot of chili and homemade biscuits. Too bad I couldn't stop with only one.

M0mmyof3

Having meatball grinders tonight while watching the Packers-Giants game

HappyHammer

Oh my- Sandy, am also glad no cronuts anywhere nearby- they sound delicious! The Dr. Prager's items are availablehere and I have wondered about whether they are good- may try them since you mentioned them in your post.

The chili and soups sound perfect for all this frigid weather.

Not sure about supper tonight- I have 1/2 of a pork tenderloin that needs to be cooked but can't figure out what to do with it. Anybody have a favorite preparation?

SpecialK

happy - I do pork tenderloin often - in several ways. I either roast it coated in a mustard/garlic mixture - sometimes roll in panko bread crumbs, or put it in a sweet and sour marinade for a little while and then roast, or cut it into thick slices, pound them thin, season them, and cook them like scallopine - I add some tarragon and a splash of vinegar or white wine after a quick browning, then remove the pork and make a sauce by finishing with a bit of cream or half and half and Dijon. I also do a sweet and sour unbreaded pork by cutting it in large cubes, browning it with onion and cut bell pepper. While the pork/onion/bell pepper is cooking I combine the juice from a can of pineapple chunks, some brown sugar, Worchestershire, some vinegar, S&P to taste, and some ketchup to make a sauce. Add the sauce and the reserved pineapple to the pan, cook a bit and add a slurry of cold water and cornstarch and boil briefly until the sauce is thick and glossy. I like this over rice, and you can do this same method with chicken.

HappyHammer

Special-all of that sounds yummy! Thanks for sharing.  Pork tenderloin is so great and versatile.

auntienance

Happy, well there's pork picatta (which coincidentally, is what we're having) or this

http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10080-mustard-glazed-pork-tenderloin?em_pos=large&emc=edit_ck_20170108&nl=cooking&nlid=73978319

auntienance

Oops! Meant to make that live

http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10080-mustard-glazed-pork-tenderloin?em_pos=large&emc=edit_ck_20170108&nl=cooking&nlid=73978319

Flower68

Hello ladies

I have no taste left but the Broccoli with garlic from Red Bowl has a better taste for me so will have that tonight.

Nice to meet you Happy

HappyHammer

Nancy- that mustard glazed pork tenderloin recipe looks great- thanks for sharing the link! DO you do the pork piccata the same as chicken?

auntienance

HH, I do it exactly the same way. Now that I think about it, dh would be a happy man if I made schnitzel. Hmmm

MinusTwo

oh my the pork ideas are wonderful. I really do think pork is my favorite meat. I usually start out roasting w/some glaze or other. Then using left overs either with mushrooms & a brandy/cream sauce over noodles, or stir fry w/lots of veggies & maybe terryaki over rice. Special - I like the sweet & sour treatment. Nance - pork piccata!!! I'm headed to my freezer right now to take out some pork for tomorrow.

Read an interesting thing from a food bank yesterday. Of course they always need canned foods - but the comment was they would prefer canned fruits other than pineapple since they get too much of that.

bedo

Oh I see you've all been up to no good, but cooking up a storm. Happy Holidays and New Year.

For dinner for DD (5 months pregnant) made a few requests;

Mom, could you make me a big crock pot of cabbage, potatoes and kielbasa? Sure! She ate it all

Now,

Mom, could you make me scalloped potatoes with ham? Sure! will deliver tomorrow.

She used to be "kind of" vegetarian.lol

Outside my window is a tree...

MinusTwo

So Bedo - are you still 'retiring'? Or have you already? Both dishes sound wonderful for cold weather.

bedo

Oh, I don't know. I keep getting Locum offers for three months or so. I always refuse permanent jobs. So not sure, but I haven't worked for three weeks! So good to hear from you and I hope you (and everyone else) is well I'm really kind of enjoying doing my own thing. XO

Redheaded1

Bedo both dishes sound really good to me too--It is so cold here, but not snowy like the weather channel is showing you guys.in New England.

ChiSandy

Leftover salad and perhaps order-out pizza or Chinese food. To make a long story short(er), awoke to find my master bathroom toilet's tank leaking down into the kitchen ceiling right above the fridge. Have a bunch of containers, plastic bags & towels surrounding the rear of the toilet and everything in the kitchen beneath the leak(s). Emergency plumber came to inspect and shut off the toilet fill-valve (which came off in my hand when I tried to do it, with the valve stem hissing and dripping as I tried). Full crew will be out in the morning to repair or replace the tank and the tubing, and a restoration crew to suck the remaining water out of the kitchen ceiling and give me an estimate about replacing it and all the other damaged ceilings. Hope we don't have mold—we would have to move out IMMEDIATELY.

Sigh. I bought some nice new bags at the Coach outlet, and got my new spare glasses from Warby Parker yesterday. Should've known: every time I make a large-ish purchase or take a vacation, it will be followed by a major expense (over the years it's been car repairs, veterinary emergencies, home repairs, dental emergencies—which Medicare doesn't cover). We'll see how much we will have to take out of our retirement savings (old enough now to dip into our IRAs too) to cover whatever expenses the restoration company recommends that State Farm won't cover). And these things always happen on weekends, holidays or late Friday afternoons when banks, creditors, & insurers aren't open.

At least pipes didn’t freeze…..yet.

MinusTwo

Sandy - so sorry to hear about your plumbing issues. Yup, just when we think everything is solved or running smoothly - BOOM. All of us with BC have been there!!!

Linner was frozen P.F. Chang's Fried Rice - easily nuked, accompanied by left over coleslaw. I was going to do something w/chicken breasts, but they were hiding in the over-stocked, messy garage freezer and it was too cold to hold door open & look around. The rice jumped out at me. Not too bad.

Dessert was Victoria Toffee from See's. Bed time snack will probably be popcorn with lots of melted butter.

Lacey12

Soooo annoying that I just lost a whole post! Has not happened in a while...but still annoying!! Consider yourselves spared!!

Sandy, hope the plumbing gets fixed pronto and that mold is no issue.

Trying to recall our "jump ups" table member, Carole.

Recent meals....Michael Symon's veggie chili with orzo, and salad

Tonight was modified make ahead chicken marsala. Very good.

DH is excited as he anticipates making paella for some friends on Sat evening

Keyboard going nuts...signing off

But have to share that we learned on Friday that we are NOT being removed from our fitness center. Yay! For some reason the woman who is COO worked the issue (some legal issue about not allowing non-employees access) out, so we are back. Even more than us, I am happy for the little 80 something ladies who show up religiously to keep their bodies going. So tomorrow, back to stretching and zumba....really need it!

eric95us

Hi Flower.

april485

Pulled pork sandwiches (barbecue sauce) because I made this yesterday and leftovers are the best! I will make sweet potato fries in the oven to go with. It is freezing here too and we got about 5-6 inches of snow on the ground where I live.

Lacey12

I opened this site up and landed on an earlier page which I either never read or never "registered", which had to do with the marital "division of labor" topic, LOL. Nance, it looks like my DH and yours are cut from the same cloth as far as home task involvement. I recall when I first met DH he owned an upright vacuum for his large shag rug, which was always nicely vacuumed. Must have known then that he was a keeper! And now he is the one to buy us a Roomba for Xmas. Obviously still a priority. Haha. He also makes pancakes when the kids are around, but has never ventured on to waffles. He recently suggested that I open and start using the pressure cooker...maybe I should steer him in its direction since he enjoys figuring machines out! Eric, I suspect that if DH cooked too, our main meals too, we would both clean up. We also lived on our own for several years before meeting and marrying, and his one home cooked dish was steak and Ricearoni. That takes me back!

Tonight we will have "jump ups"...probably the Michael Symon veggie chili with lentils over orzo, and maybe cuke salad....which will be eaten quickly after zumba class and before my human trafficking awareness meeting.