So good!!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
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So good!!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
Ended up being McDonald's tonight.
Fresh cooked beets and a homemade chicken burger. I think that ground chicken works well in burgers with some extra spice added. I have always thought of burgers being of beef til now.
Grocery shopped today and half the chicken legs I got are now in the cp with some bbq sauce.
It's Friday which means "take out" so I'm thinking Wendy's for dinner.
Wanted something simple, before I snacked myself full..! Frozen stir fry veggies, white rice and soy sauce. Its all we needed to fill us up. It is HOT outside so it had to be quick and simple.
It is really hot here too, so we had bagels with smoked salmon (and cream cheese, capers, cucumber, tomato). That's one of out hot weather favorites.
OMG, that is my favorite. Thank you for reminding me to put it on the menu for next week! (DH doesn't like smoked salmon, so he can have a burger)Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
As for using up those tomatoes and cucumbers, I made gazpacho yesterday. In the past, I've made a chunky version--this was a pureed version (supposedly "authentic" Spanish gazpacho). It was a smoothie-style recipe--throw into the blender tomatoes, cukes, green pepper, garlic, sherry vinegar, salt and pepper--and the surprise ingredient: a slice of white bread-- and just puree. Couldn't be easier, and you can freeze it, too. Pretty tasty, although I did overdo the garlic slightly.
You can add garnishes, and I think next time I m make it I'll add crumbled hard boiled egg as a garnish to add some protein.
This sounds really tasty. And, is there such a thing as overdoing garlic??? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
White beans would also work for extra protein, although I'd probably thrown them in the blender, and leave out the bread. (I made gazpacho this week too!)Quote:
next time I m make it I'll add crumbled hard boiled egg as a garnish to add some protein.
Great idea on the beans!Quote:
Originally Posted by herbgeek
I forgot one ingredient in my recipe--red onion as well.
Not thrilled with tonight's dinner and it won't be made again. Had received a Jiffy mix type product and tried one of the recipes off the box to use the last of it up. (Not a product I normally ever buy!). It had chicken, broccoli, cheese and this mix pour throughout. Baked up like a... not sure what to call it! LOL. Edible, but not on the repeat list. LOL.
Burgers, fries and veggies.
Beef stew... used up a variety of vegetables hanging around. Very tasty. The weather is very nice here... in the 70s with a nice breeze.
Quesadillas tonight
I think I made that recipe once from the box, too! You are so right--not something to be repeated.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
Right!!! LOL. I have a similar recipe - chicken, broccoli and cheese - but with a white sauce that is poured over it. Bakes up nicely, but the sauce stays a sauce (versus the bread-like consistency of this other recipe). It is great over noodles, rice or whatever - or even just plain.
Burgers, hot dogs, basic bbq food at sil's for mil's birthday. Had my first, and probably last swim of the summer. LOL.
Tacos, with plant based taco "meat", lettuce, sliced cherry tomatoes from nice neighbor. My wife opted out, not a fan of my plant based taco meat! :|(
Went out to eat before we went grocery shopping.
salmon with a sauce with tomatoes, onions, garlic, cilantro, cumin (supposedly Lebanese, definitely tasty). With a repeat of the marinated feta (I marinate it) and cherry tomatoes and red onions salad.
Oh I guess I did a little cooking for the week ahead, not because I do that, but because stuff had to be used up ASAP. So I made better homes and gardens beef and rice casserole (which I modify slightly) and will eat that at some point. Lettuce sometimes wilts in the fridge etc. despite near daily salad consumption, so sad, so sad, but meat I don't waste.
I'm more tired tonight than hungry, so dh can have the leftovers in the fridge.
My NJ son left us the stuff that remained in his rental fridge when they left, and they eat well, so I just had a local kale and smoked salmon salad with walnuts and homemade lemon honey vinaigrette.
You poor thing having to eat those wonderful leftovers!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Last night we had mini Shepherd's Pie but instead of putting the biscuit into the muffin pan and filling it up with the meat, veggies, and taters, I rolled each biscuit out flat. Then in a bowl, I combined the meat, veggies, and taters. I spooned out that mixture onto the flattened biscuits and then pulled the sides up over it to make a little ball. I stuck each ball into the muffin pan and cooked for 15 minutes. They were good and I got no complaints from my family. Next time, I will use bigger biscuits so it's easier to pull up the sides to make a ball.
Tonight is lazy lasagna/ravioli bake. I messed up and accidentally put it on this month's menu twice under different names so it wasn't until I went to make out my grocery list that I realized my mistake. Hopefully no one else notices and makes a comment about why we are having it again so soon.
Sounds like you made pasties, Klunick! Cooking like a Michigander.
Husband grew up just outside of Detroit so maybe it's rubbing off on me. :laff: My mom used to cook something similar 40+ years ago but with meat and cream of mushroom soup. Maybe it's a Mid-West thing because she grew up in Ohio.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Ohhhhhh, pasties! That’s my favorite thing to buy in bakeries when I go to the UK.Quote:
Originally Posted by Klunick
Our last trip there about 12 years ago showed far fewer little traditional bakeries than was there in previous trips. They are being taken over by chains with untraditional foods.
My second favorite thing to buy in traditional bakeries was a sweet, a custard type thing always cut in rectangles.
The last traditional bakery I remember seeing was in Falkland, Scotland, across from the castle. It was the first time I had visited Falkland Palace which was really quite fabulous. It is a Stuart family stronghold. One of the King James was born there, the church is exactly the way it was in the 1600s, and the garden is wonderful although not a Renaissance garden. It’s much it is much fancier.
Bulgogi with rice, kimchi and green beans.
Sautéed leeks from the garden with soba noodles in a soy/peanut butter sauce. It was an experiment, but will definitely make again. I have a lot of leeks and it was simple to make.
Husband noticed. :doh:But luckily he said he really liked it last week and doesn't mind eating it again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Klunick
I'm impressed you do 30 different dinners a month!
I can't get 7 different dinners a week.
DH made homemade haddock cakes, and I made a caprese salad with local tomatoes and our basil.
Oh, I ain't that good. Each week, we have a taco/nacho night so that takes up 4 slots. Usually we will have "breakfast for dinner" once a week so another 4 slots. Then we eat out Friday and Saturday nights which is another 8. So that is pretty much half the month already taken care of. I was the same way as you before I started meal planning and that is pretty much why I started. Could never think of what to have for dinner and sometimes didn't have the right ingredients.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
This is encouraging me to start meal planning once my out of towners are gone next week!
Once my son leaves I will do very little cooking. He appreciates a good meal so he is fun to cook for.
More of last night's Korean food. Tastes just as good, or better, the second time around!
At the farmers market I picked up 4 nice red beets, about 3 inches in diameter. After being peeled, they diced into about 2 cups volume for Harvard Beets.
Last night was waffles, eggs, and bacon. Tonight is tacos.
We went to lunch with our out of town guests and then dinner with them, with dinner being ice cream by my favorite lake spot. She said it was the highlight of their trip.