What's for dinner?

[ApatheticNoMore]

So far this week: today made cream of salmon dill soup (with all the good stuff: lots of potatoes, carrot, multiple allums - very good this time). Strawberries dipped in melted dark chocolate were dessert. Earlier this week: Made more cucumber salad. Cut up a pineapple (ok I'm sorry that may not be "cooking" but it is work - enough so that it feels like I have made a dish ).

Made the elaborate salad for lunch tomorrow: lettuce, goat cheese, a bit of pear, and dried cranberries (crasins), with a lemon juice, olive oil, dijon mustard dressing. This is the salad that helped make me sick of cooking!!! Making that stupid salad just to take to lunch!! Ok not going to do it everyday, but yes it's quite good. May not cook the rest of the work week beyond salads for lunch and making something with green beans, I do need to use up those green beans, they're dying but probably be ok until tomorrow (either I'll roast them with a vingarette with walnuts or I'll cook them in a tomato based sauce).

[chrissieq]

Last night I took the Easter ham bone, cooked it with some onions and celery, cut the ham of the bone, added chunks of potatoes and fresh green beans. I added a wee bit of ham base to enhance the broth. Quick, easy and plenty left for lunch today.

[iris lilies]

So far this week: today made cream of salmon dill soup (with all the good stuff: lots of potatoes, carrot, multiple allums - very good this time). Strawberries dipped in melted dark chocolate were dessert. Earlier this week: Made more cucumber salad. Cut up a pineapple (ok I'm sorry that may not be "cooking" but it is work - enough so that it feels like I have made a dish ).

Made the elaborate salad for lunch tomorrow: lettuce, goat cheese, a bit of pear, and dried cranberries (crasins), with a lemon juice, olive oil, dijon mustard dressing. This is the salad that helped make me sick of cooking!!! Making that stupid salad just to take to lunch!! Ok not going to do it everyday, but yes it's quite good. May not cook the rest of the work week beyond salads for lunch and making something with green beans, I do need to use up those green beans, they're dying but probably be ok until tomorrow (either I'll roast them with a vingarette with walnuts or I'll cook them in a tomato based sauce).

This sounds very good, you sound like a good cook!

[Blackdog Lin]

This sounds very good, you sound like a good cook!

Yes indeed she does. I wish we had your palate, ANM. Sounds scrumptious. And very adventuresome compared to our normal meals.

We've been having to do entirely too much running around this last few weeks, all of which has involved eating (lunch) out. I'm quite tired of it: eating out twice a month is a treat, eating out twice a week is just a waste of money. And anymore I have a need to know what is going into my meals, and how it's prepared, and I just don't necessarily trust the prepared food "out there". I feel much better about what we're eating when I've cooked it myself at home. Boy!, how I've changed!

Today: toasted ham-n-cheese sandwiches with Brussels sprouts-n-corn on the side. Tomorrow: meatloaf and a wild rice/broccoli/chicken broth thing. That is, if I do as intended and get the meatloaf prepped and in the oven early. Mornings now are cool, but no way I'm gonna have the oven on after 10:00 am - it's been HOT in the afternoons. And we haven't turned the air conditioner on yet. So I have to get the meatloaf done before 10:00.

[JaneV2.0]

I'm uninspired. I just finished a meatloaf (beef, assorted peppers, onions and garlic ground fine, eggs...) and made some Asian-inspired bone broth. I suppose I'll make soup. Maybe I need to revisit my recipe collection.

[Florence]

We've been eating leftover BBQ, potato salad, coleslaw, & beans left from Memorial Day. Today I start cooking again: Pork tenderloin, baked sweet potato, & spinach.

[Blackdog Lin]

This week: (homemade) sausage mcmuffins w/canned peaches; today fried fresh/frozen crappie and rice-n-peppers; and tomorrow a spicy pasta-bratwurst skillet w/a big green salad.

The garden zucchini is looking like it's gonna be ready to start picking before too long - so I've been researching main-dish-type zucchini recipes for next week. With the price of groceries nowadays, I'm determined to fix zucchini dishes till we can stand no more.....

[awakenedsoul]

I'm eating a lot of squash, too. My chicken has been laying an egg every other day, so I've been mixing that with soy milk for a protein mock eggnog. Haven't been cooking that much. It's hot here, too. I've made salami and cheese sandwiches on homemade french bread. Will have a salad tonight. I've been munching on cashews and eating lots of nectarines and plums from the organic co op. I was going to roast a chicken, but I've got an audition in Vegas coming up. I'll wait until I'm home and can finish up the leftovers right away. I guess I could freeze them...
I did make some shortbread cookies for dessert last week. The dinners the rest of you have been making sound delicious!

[Florence]

Today is our 46th wedding anniversary and we are going out to the best seafood place on the Texas Gulf Coast for dinner with DD & DSIL.

[pinkytoe]

the best seafood place on the Texas Gulf Coast

I hope you have a wonderful dinner. Galveston? I am hearing the seagulls now.