Crock pot Cajun shrimp. I like the idea of slow cooking the shrimp to see if that makes them super tender and cooked just right. We’ll see how it turns out. I’ve never spent an hour cooking shrimp before…
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Crock pot Cajun shrimp. I like the idea of slow cooking the shrimp to see if that makes them super tender and cooked just right. We’ll see how it turns out. I’ve never spent an hour cooking shrimp before…
JP1: I would think shrimp would be overcooked and tough, so I will be interested to hear how this works out. Hoping I'm wrong!
A friend was thinking the same thing. But actually they turned out great. Since they are cooking so slowly it's easy to see when they are just done. I'm not sure they were any better than if I had cooked them in a pan though.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
Thanks for the update, JP!
Slow cooker whole chicken. We did chicken legs last week and they were so good I wanted to try a whole chicken. I put garlic powder, paprika and oregano under the skin so hopefully it will be just as good. The legs were super juicy, fall off the bone amazing.
My only concern is that I was on the phone for work nonstop all day until 2:45. The recipe says 4 hours so hopefully that’s accurate. Otherwise dinner will be a bit later than usual…
Husband is out grilling chicken thighs now for a week of good eating!! I made the sauce this morning. Yum, yum. Fresh corn still coming into the fruit stand and I made Greek potato salad.
In my time line it's not quite soup season, but cool enough to do a little more kitchen cooking. White bean and corn soup with fresh area sweet corn cut from the cob. The recipe calls for pancetta. I like to have an assortment of frozen soups for hot lunches in cold weather so maybe it's time to start the supply.
chicken & broccoli fettuccini in Alfredo sauce (jarred - don't shoot me).
The NY Times today had an article today about creamy soups they recommended. Several sounded good so I saved them to try out over the next month or two as we get to soup weather here. (It was 80 today so still a bit warm at this point but soon…)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
Last night was "lazy lasagna" which is basically just meat, frozen ravioli, mozzarella, and marinara sauce all thrown together in a pan and baked. Tonight, we are going out to eat. Nothing fancy but not sure where though.
Last night we had one of our go-to's: Turkey burgers (no bun) with cottage cheese and a simple salad of lettuce and tomato, with the whole dish sprinkled with an Italian dressing. I don't know how we came up with it, but we discovered that this combination is a really satisfying and easy meal.
Mulligatawny soup. A clickbait article suggested it so we’ll see. I love curry so who knows. Maybe it’ll be good!
My DH made this many moons ago when he was taking chef's training class and it was excellent, although for some reason we never had it again. On the other end of the spectrum, last night I had Ramen Noodle Soup, one of my guilty pleasures. I hadn't had it in at least of couple of years, and it was pretty yummy, in a high-sodium, ultra-processed kind of way.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
I'm the same way with the ramen, rr. I do like to swap out the seasoning packet with a low sodium bullion of some kind and try to add some veggies. It IS one of my comforts foods. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
Anchovy pizza with onions and black olives. A rare treat.
I made my quick black bean soup - cans of black beans, diced tomatoes, cream style or kernel corn. Yum. I’ll get a couple more meals out of this batch.
I made an apple pie and served with ice cream.
I am having two dinner parties back to back this weekend at our condo. it will be experimental to see how the space works when we have people over.
We’re starting with a party of five on Friday night. We have only five seats in our condo. The public space of the condo building has only five seats in its lounge area, so lesson number one: I need to work on expandable seating. I think we will start with drinks in our condo, have people gather there and talk for a while.
The dining room in our common area of the building seats eight people. We will move down there to the first floor for dinner. The food is going to have to be very simple because the space is… new for entertaining.
So, I’m planning to make a big salad, I have two vegetables which include carrots from our garden, mashed potatoes with butter, and some sort of meat dish. I will buy the dessert. This food will be transported on the little trolley that sits in the elevator. We shall see how this all works!
Wish me luck!
That sounds so cool, Iris. Not that you need luck, but good luck!
Hope all goes as planned, IL!
Made spaghetti, salad and 5 cheese bread.........too much food!
Good luck, IL. Hope both events are fun!
Tacos last night. Waffles, eggs, and bacon tonight. Tamale Pie for dinner on Thursday. Only my husband likes tamale pie so I only make it once every couple of months to end the whining about not getting it more.
I had harvested the last of the Black Krim tomatos and pondering what to do with them. DH decided to try making something new - tomato pie so that is dinner tonight with a salad.
Both dinners went well. We had “harvest” as our dinner theme with stuffed peppers made with beef from family farm. Stuffing included onions and tomato sauces in green pepper, all grown by DH. His green beans and carrots were included. In the salad was tomatoes and lime green peppers he grew. Mashed potatoes were part of the meal.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
I bought cupcakes at a bakery for dessert. $50+ for a dozen, yowza! But I purposely wanted nice quality cupcakes.
The first dinner had the most logistical challenges since…it was the first time. I cooked the food and moved it down to the dining room on the condo provided trolley.I guess it was still reasonably warm but that is a downfall.
By the second dinner, I was better organized.
oddly, no one drank wine at the first one, and for the second one we went through 2 bottles. It was my first taste of a great Cabernet in months, it was splendid.
For the next dinner I will have 2 soups in crockpots plugged in there in the dining room plus salad. Will make toasted garlic French bread which will be the only dish to keep Hot.
That sounds like so much fun, IL! Well done!
We also had an event this past weekend. It was DH's 70th birthday, so the immediate family plus BIL-- (total 10 adults and 5 children ages spanning from 1-71) rented a fabulous Vermont farmhouse in Stratton, where we spent 20 years' worth of family vacations and cultivated our love of Vermont. It was great!
So, that gets to dinner for tonight--we had such a hard time finding prepared/catered meals in Vermont that I wound up having my NJ son go to the same Italian restaurant/deli in our NJ neighborhood that I used for DH's 60th birthday, so that was some nice symmetry there. And they make great food! We had two vegetarian offerings, including eggplant parmigiana, and chicken marsala and chicken francaise. Tonight we're having leftovers.
That sounds like such a nice time.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
I actually considered using a caterer for these dinners and I may do that in the future.
Since DH is the family chef, and I am a very, very reluctant chef, there is no way I was going to permit any cooking on the weekend. Friday night's dinner consisted of meat pies, sausage rolls and forfar birdies we got from a Scottish shop a couple of towns away--and my birthday present for DH was 2 dozen of them to take home. We did beans and fries to go with it. Pies are so handy! You can pull them out any time and heat them up and they're good to go, and so delicious with a little HP!Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Those pies sound wonderful!
I had tuna salad and crackers.
Tonight was Wendy's for dinner. A bit of a drive and hella expensive nowadays but at least I didn't have to cook!!
Today is shrimp Diablo. I had it for dinner our last night in Mexico and LOVED it. Found a recipe that I think is similar so we’ll see how it turns out!
We had that for dinner tonight, or something very similar. Shrimp with onions, garlic, pepper, and in a tomato sauce. No red pepper flakes though.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Lima beans with corn muffins and steamed greens.
Yesterday was supposed to be homemade bacon, egg, and cheese mcmuffins but my husband told me it was National Nacho Day so we had nachos instead. We will have the mcmuffins tonight.
Taco Tuesday today.
The shrimp Diablo was good although I should have cooked down the sauce more. It was a bit too thin. And it was also way too much.
Domingo rojo beans and refried rice in a burrito wrap with a bit of cheese and salsa.
Okay--I have resservay-shuns for a party of none at a classy place called "Nine One One Missery" down by the Big .Muddy. I plan to order the most expensive entree' in the smallest portion, and a 200-year old bottle of wine from a shipwreck. Always leave a generous tip, or the staff will notify some thugs that you showed them. Yup.
Edited to add: shorted them. But yeah--I'll prolly also pick up a pizza on the way home.
Just put an easy black bean soup into the crockpot. Feels good having dinner decided early. LOL.
I had my spicy Moroccan shrimp Sunday and yesterday. So yummy and takes only 5 minutes.
Pizza made with the leftover Diablo sauce from the shrimp a week ago. I’d gotten out standard tomato sauce from the freezer but SO used the wrong sauce noting how ‘thin’ it was. It was so I knew he’d used the wrong sauce. This is going to be a seriously spicy pizza!