So...whats for dinner?

I have caught up with the posts for the past several days and responded to each in my thoughts as I read.  But I don't have the memory or energy to write it all.  

I didn't do any cooking on Fri. or yesterday because we were busy attending festivals in two different directions.  Friday we went to a blue-grass festival in Pine River.  Lunch there was a delicious prime rib sandwich on a hoagie bun with horse-radish sour cream sauce.  The meat was sliced very thin and was oh so tasty.  Supper was a shared large serving of fresh cut french fries with chili and melted cheese over them.  Very low cal.

Yesterday we drove to Barnesville for the Potato Days festival.  We were told to be sure and sample the potato sausage, which was wrapped in a paper-thin tortilla-like potato food whose name escapes me.  Felse?  The name has five letters!  Apparently it's available in supermarkets in Fargo.  The sausage tasted like sausage and was softer in texture than smoked pork sausage.  We also sampled, as instructed, the potato dumpling, which was white and round and served in a little cup with melted butter.  The texture was firm, not hard, and the taste was rather bland.  But, hey, what isn't delicious in melted butter?

I don't know what our home-cooked dinner will be tonight.  Maybe shrimp and pasta.

Tonights dinner will be chopped steaks with mushroom gravy and homemade egg noodles with mustard and green beans (new recipe.) Since it's 90+ degrees out, normally I'd be cooking on the grill, but I happen to have all the required ingredients for this combination so that's what it will be.



I also peeled and sliced 8 pounds of peaches, so that will be dessert. If there's one taste that defines summer for me, it's the taste of a perfectly ripe and juicy peach. This peach requires no other adornment and in my opinion, cooking only detracts from it's taste. These were grown by a friend of mine and they are superb just as they are.

carole - lefse? It is a potato crepe.

thank you bedo i will give them a look!

Turn it into tacos? Why no, that won't happen. The pork is ALL gone. I thought I was being smart and creating enough food so I didn't have to cook tomorrow. So sad, but so delicious.

*susan*

P.S. I too am worried about Michelle. If you're out there lurking, Michelle, I'm thinking about you and sending you healing thoughts.

And all of us.  Hugs Michelle, and hope we hear good news soon.

Lol Carrie! That makes two of us!

Thank you Hauntie for the update on Michelle.

Michelle - glad you are feeling well enough to go out to dinner. Miss you and love you.

Dinner last night was pulled pork loin from the crockpot. Cooked in a mango/ginger viniagrette - bottled - sorry Susan. Put in lots of browned onions and garlic. Reduced cooking liquid for sauce and put on hamburger buns. Made remainder of slaw with red onion, grapes and blueberries.  It was yummy. Pork will become stir fry sort of with lots of vegies and rice later today.

garden, I think you could put that mixture on almost anything and it would be delicious. Agree on commercial pork... it can be unpalatable, but this pasture-raised Berkshire pork we just bought is like the pork-of-old. *susan*

Thank you, Chabba and Special K, for providing the name of the potato crepe, Lefse.  I think I will buy some when we go to Fargo/Moorehead tomorrow to meet up with some SD friends for lunch and a visit.

Last night's shrimp and pasta main dish was delicious.  I sauted the shrimp in butter and olive oil very briefly and added two large cloves of garlic, chopped, for about 30 seconds before I turned off the burner.  I cooked the Dreamfield linguini for 6 min. then added snow peas for about a min.  Before draining the pasta and peas, I reserved a cup of pasta water, following Lidia's practice.  The pasta and peas joined the shrimp and garlic in the skillet over a low heat.  I added some pasta water and a handful of freshly grated parm-reg.  Also a little more EVOO.   A creamy sauce developed.  We sprinkled a little extra cheese on our serving.  Yum, yum! 

Our salad was peeled and sliced cucumber and sliced yellow heirloom tomato with a sprinkling of very good balsamic vinegar.  Vidalia onion on dh's salad.

Tonight's dinner will be fajitas made with some grass-fed beef I bought at the farmer's mkt several weeks ago.  A small ribeye steak, about 8 oz.  This will be my first time to try the grass-fed beef.  I'm expecting it to be tough; that's why I'm cutting it into strips for the fajitas.  I have colored peppers and will slice up an onion, too, and saute the veggies in a skillet with the beef.

I was amused this morning when we saw on a map on the Weather Channel that the temp. in LA would be lower today than the temp. in MN.  Our lovely cool weather has gone away and we're having a heat wave during our last week in Park Rapids.

So happy to hear that Michelle was feeling good enough to go out to dinner.  Thinking of Debbie, Deb, and Susan as they cope with their losses.

Wow it's been forever since I had tuna casserole. Ya know, right now it sounds pretty good. On the other hand, I'm frigging starving!!

Call me crazy - but every now and then I get a craving for tuna noodle cassarole.  I am thinking it is when I am stressed about something and looking backward to comfort food of yore!

Just saw a brief post on Facebook by Michelle and her DH, who indicated that it is still difficult for her to type.....but she did! From another post, it looks like the family wedding is coming up...so hoping they have a beautiful time there.



Skipped dinner last night....had lunch with my social worker friends. The hostess, who doesn't cook much, ordered a ton of Italian food from a local restaurant, so it counted as dinner for me. I brought some fresh corn and bean salsa and chips. She had a large fruit tray, then a spinach salad, tasted ravioli, eggplant parm and chicken parm. Chocolate gelato for dessert.



When I returned home, I was exhausted (maybe cumulative lousy sleep nights, maybe related to realizing it was my cancerversary, maybe processing that I am finally no longer going to be working with those colleagues...who knows). Anyway, while reading mail I fell asleep......for over two hours. Forced myself to get off the couch, happy to see DH took care of his own dinner, and watched Breaking Bad with him since He had to miss it Sun nite.

Amazingly, I was still able to sleep last night.



Fond memories of making tuna casserole, ladies. I used to love and devour that frequently in the seventies. Haven't seen or made it for decades!

Moon, I hope those drains resolve soon and that you can have a scrumptious meal to celebrate!