What's for dinner?

[Tiam]

Looking for inspiration.

Mine was roasted brussel sprouts, potatoes and red onions. You?

[ApatheticNoMore]

Ate with family so salmon, chopped up potato chunks with butter, and a dish I make with cauliflower (and zucchini, tomato puree and paste, onions, garlic, olive oil etc.). But if it had just been me I just would have just had a bigger portion of the cauliflower dish by itself, it's substantial enough and I made it earlier this week.

[SteveinMN]

Ah, such an inspiration. Such a failure...

Earlier this week I prepared a stir-fry with a sweet-and-sour sauce and goat. Most recipes I've seen for goat call for wet-cooking -- braising, pressure-cooking, slow-cooking. But this recipe called for very thin slices of meat to be stir-fried. *shrug* I'll try it. (Of course) the goat did not cook in the time allotted. Or twice the time allotted. Or even three times the time alloted. I finally made eggs and toast for dinner that night. The next day I tossed the goat in the slow cooker for several hours. It did soften. But then the sweet components of the stir-fry sauce started burning. :doh: I salvaged the non-burnt parts for lunch today with some leftover vegetables. But dinner tonight will be a frozen pizza....

[Jilly]

Last night, Brussels sprouts and kale. Tonight Brussels sprouts (cannot get enough of them), salad and popcorn.

[Blackdog Lin]

Half of a leftover (frozen from a couple of weeks ago) rack o' pork ribs w/bbq sauce, and creamed peas-n-'tators.

[Florence]

No inspiration here. We are going to Chipotle for dinner. We have been eating leftovers out of the refrigerator much of the week so my refrigerator and pantry are pretty bare. Time to go grocery shopping!

[CathyA]

Last night wasn't a heart-healthy meal......but it was good. I dipped boneless/skinless chicken thighs in buttermilk, then flour and baked for 30 minutes. Then I added some condensed chicken soup with more buttermilk and cooked 15 more minutes. Had mashed potatoes with the sauce over them. YUM! Along with green beans and a salad.
Tonight is pizza night. I buy 5 cheese Freshetta frozen pizza and add alot of sweet onion, red pepper and spinach. Its really good!

[lac]

Had taco's with homemade seasoning mix on whole wheat tortilla's, with rice. yum!

[JaneV2.0]

Finished off the turkey soup (homemade stock, onions, carrots, celery, garlic, kale, cabbage, turkey meatwads with red pepper flakes, parsley, butter, and more garlic. May have rotisserie chicken for dinner. Meanwhile I'm making jalapeno poppers with bacon and garlic-laced cream cheese.

[Blackdog Lin]

Yesterday: homemade chicken taquitos w/picante sauce. Tonight: DH is cooking a brisket today, so brisket sliders on little buns w/cheese and lettuce; and celery and carrot sticks w/dip. Tomorrow is shopping day, will bring home Wal-Mart fried chicken to go with a big green salad. We are awash in the last huge head of romaine from the garden.

[nswef]

I have a great chicken feta recipe that is pretty easy- bakes for an hour.
Put 2-3 oz. feta under the skin of chicken quarters,
make sauce of 1/2 cup fig preserves ( have used peach, orange marmelade, apricot-all good, but fig is the best- Food Lion has it )
1/4 cup soy sauce, juice of 1 lime ( but I have used reallemon, vinegar -1 TBSp.)

garlic salt and pepper the skin, place in covered dish , pour sauce over, bake at 375 for an hour or so. It is just yummy! Lots of sauce, so rice or mashed potatoes will soak it up or I've frozen it to put in chicken broth.

[jp1]

This was our last week of CSA veggies. :-( Tonight's going to be stirfry with mustard greens, cabbage, rainbow radishes (I think that's what they were called), onions, jalapeno peppers, spicy chili garlic sauce and chicken (have to add the last so that SO will eat it...)

[Simpler at Fifty]

We are having Ham, baked beans and carrots. The house smells so good.

[Jilly]

Vegetable and beef soup. I roasted half of the meat and the rest of the vegetables to freeze for soup or something next week.

[JaneV2.0]

Spicy ground beef stir-fry with leftover vegetable odds and ends. Homemade mango soft-serve.

[Tiam]

Ah, such an inspiration. Such a failure...

Earlier this week I prepared a stir-fry with a sweet-and-sour sauce and goat. Most recipes I've seen for goat call for wet-cooking -- braising, pressure-cooking, slow-cooking. But this recipe called for very thin slices of meat to be stir-fried. *shrug* I'll try it. (Of course) the goat did not cook in the time allotted. Or twice the time allotted. Or even three times the time alloted. I finally made eggs and toast for dinner that night. The next day I tossed the goat in the slow cooker for several hours. It did soften. But then the sweet components of the stir-fry sauce started burning. :doh: I salvaged the non-burnt parts for lunch today with some leftover vegetables. But dinner tonight will be a frozen pizza....

I love lamb, but can't handle goat. Maybe someday someone will present me with some delicious goat, but I'm not heading out to buy any and make it myself.

[AnneM]

Tonight I made pumpkin soup for the first time ever. I am eating it mixed with brown rice. Yum! What took me so long?

[ApatheticNoMore]

Cream of squash soup with an acorn squash. Insanely rich (olive oil, cream and butter - now tell me it's not), and insanely delicious - no sugar beyond the squash but I could eat this for dessert. Seasonings are cinnamon and ground coriander. Second time I've ever made a winter squash soup (last time was using coconut milk and I was not a fan). I have resolved that contrary to the recipe next time I will bake or roast the squash before putting it in the soup because it wanted me to remove the skin from the raw squash and the thing was a rock - I couldn't do it even after "sawing" it into pieces :). I ended up just throwing the pieces skin and all in the soup and latter peeling them, before hand blending - what a pain! I also added the cream to soon, boiled it and nothing bad came of it.

Ate soup with salmon with some herbal salt. I'm ashamed to admit I also ate salmon yesterday as I'm seldom this much in a rut, but I did have a very small piece, with little buttered potato chunks and ratatouille, mom cooked that, I supervised :). The ratatoulle was much less rich than many I have made (I've made those with a lot more olive oil) and though I liked those better, this one did keep growing on me - really pretty good, though it's not the time of year.

I also made but so far have only tasted some rice and tomato thing from the same book as the lentils and rice, but it's no where near as good (that I don't mind recommending as simple but tasty), this meh, maybe it will be ok with cheese ....

[Tiam]

Tonight I made pumpkin soup for the first time ever. I am eating it mixed with brown rice. Yum! What took me so long?

Yes? Do you have a recipe?

[SteveinMN]

I love lamb, but can't handle goat. Maybe someday someone will present me with some delicious goat, but I'm not heading out to buy any and make it myself.
Curiously, DW, who does not care for lamb, was okay with the goat (!). Well, except for the fact that the consistency of it was like a beef stir-fry made with jerky instead of thinly-sliced beef. I need to find a better source, though, I think: what I used were not the most tender cuts. That certainly would have helped here.

[rodeosweetheart]

Salad with red pepper, mushrooms, spinach, and squash soup.

[SteveinMN]

Tonight: Ma Po Tofu -- tofu cubes with a little ground pork and a spicy sauce. Served over shredded steamed cabbage. Not quite the recipe I wanted, but serviceable. I'll look for another one.

[JaneV2.0]

Roast chicken and vegetables: potatoes, onions, and carrots. Fresh cranberries.

[Blackdog Lin]

Today: enchilada casserole surprise, using freezer leftovers of various stripes; and the rest of the big green salad. The casserole was only semi-successful - not one of my best ones. Quite edible, but that's all.

Tomorrow, a new recipe off of Pinterest: chicken yakisoba, to use up the last of the garden broccoli in the fridge, and a couple of leftover chicken breasts in the freezer. And Thursday is oven baked chili dogs, to use up the leftover chili and the leftover grilled weinies in the freezer.

Are you seeing my pattern this week? :) Yep, gotta get the freezer cleaned out of all these bits and pieces before Thanksgiving!

[Jilly]

Sweet potato salad.

[AnneM]

Yes,from allrecipes.com. Here it is http://allrecipes.com/recipe/pumpkin-soup/

[Blackdog Lin]

Chicken yakisoba was easy, different, and killer-good. I can recommend it highly.....

http://www.budgetbytes.com/2012/03/chicken-yakisoba/