What's for Dinner ~ Monday August 27th

[Lucinda]

No clue here!

What's for dinner where you are?

[livetohike]

1. Great Northern Bean Soup, Apple Slaw and

Honey-Cornmeal Biscuits. It was supposed to rain today, but it is as sunny as can be and in the 70's. Oh well, it's what I planned to have, so we will have it .

[Lucinda]

4. The apple slaw sounds interesting...what else is in it?

I have a big bag of apples on hand!

[livetohike]

5. Here's the recipe:

Country Apple Coleslaw (from Cooking Light Dinner Tonight)

1/4 c. red wine vinegar
3 T. brown sugar
1 t. canola oil
1/4 t. salt
10 oz. pgk coleslaw
2 c. chopped apple
1/2 c. raisins

Combine the vinegar, sugar, oil and salt in a bowl and microwave for one minute.

Add all the other ingredients and toss well to coat. Serve chilled or at room temperature.

It's really a unique taste .

[Goblinmonger]

6. Clipped to Evernote

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That sounds great.

[Lucinda]

14. Thanks much!

I've had fruit in slaw before at a local restaurant and it was great. Your recipe sounds yummy!

[KC]

12. I would

love the recipes for the soup and the biscuits too, if not too much trouble !

[livetohike]

15. Sure!

North Woods Bean Soup (from Cooking Light Dinner Tonight)

1 c. baby carrots, halved
1 c. chopped onion
2 garlic cloves, minced
7 oz. turkey kielbassa, halved lengthwise and cut into 1/2" pieces
4 c. fat free chicken broth
1/2 t. dried Italian seasoning
1/2 t. black pepper
2 (15.8 oz. cans) Great Northern beans,drain and rinse
1 (6 oz.) bag fresh baby spinach leaves

Coat a large saucepan with cooking spray and heat over medium high heat. Add carrots, onion, garlic and kielbassa and saute for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to medium and cook 5 minutes. Add the broth, seasoning, pepper and beans. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

Place 2 c. of soup in a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Return pureed mixture to the sauce pan and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove soup from the heat and add the spinach stirring until the spinach wilts.

Yields 5 servings (1 1/2 c. each)

I am a vegetarian, so I don't use the kielbassa and I sub with vegetable broth. It's a quick recipe.

Honey Cornmeal Biscuits

1 3/4 c. Bisquick Baking mix
1/2 c. yellow cornmeal
1/c c. milk
2 T. honey

Heat oven to 450 F.
Mix all ingredients until dough forms and beat for 30 seconds. Turn dough onto a surface dusted with baking mix and gently roll the dough to coat. Shape into a ball and knead 10 times. Roll into 1/2" thick. Cut with a 2" cutter dipped in baking mix.

Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet until golden brown for 8-10 minutes. Can serve with honey or mix up some honey butter.

Makes 12 biscuits. However, I only have a 3" cutter and it made 7 biscuits.

[KC]

17. Oh yum

I can't wait to make both recipes!
I usually make soups in the winter but this looks too good to wait and esp with the biscuits!
Thank you

[livetohike]

18. You're welcome! n/t

[KC]

19. I made the

the soup . The flavor is really good but I was just wondering if when you make it is your soup is very thick? Mine wasn't thick at all. I didn't get to make the biscuits because I forgot to buy the cornmeal!!! Grr But I had some crackers and still enjoyed it.

[livetohike]

20. I never puree it as the recipe calls for

so mine is not thick. Did you puree any of it? I guess since there is no roux called for, there is nothing in there to thicken it. You could make a roux next time and see if that helps . I have been on a low fat diet; hence all of the Cooking Light recipes I have been using.....butter and oil is off limits, so no roux .

[KC]

21. I did

purée a little bit. I love the soup but was just wondering about the thickness. Even my picky son liked it lol. So I will be making it again this winter!

[cbayer]

2. I'm in the mood for a hamburger!

I have a few tomatoes on my dead plant, so those need to be eaten.

And I've got one potato that needs cooking. I'm thinking of a baked potato with the works.

Glad to see you back on track, Lucinda.

[Lucinda]

3. That does sound good!

I am crazy hungry right now, so it sounds especially yummy! lol

[Goblinmonger]

7. Frijoles de Olla in the crock pot

and they smell incredible.

Whip up some fresh corn tortillas and some chipotle coleslaw (though I didn't make as big a batch to save a bag of the cole slaw cabbage for the Country Apple Coleslaw). Probably my favorite meal.

[pinto]

8. Turkey meatball stroganoff, garlicky green beans, toasted rye bread.

Don't have egg noodles, so it's going over rotini. Going to par boil the beans then saute with garlic.

[Lugnut]

9. Red beans and rice with smoked sausage.

I'm shooting for easy stuff this week. We have a big end-of-summer cookout scheduled for Sunday and that means a lot of food prep for me. I also have a big bag of Cubanelles waiting in the fridge for me to clean them to freeze. The tomatoes are almost finished, thank goodness, but we still have plenty of them to eat.

[grasswire]

10. what are cubanelles?

I could google.....

[Lugnut]

16. Sweet peppers.

We put six plants in the planting bed and they are producing like crazy. They're shaped like an Italianelle pepper but they're light green and have a thin skin. They're great for frying with onions for cheese steaks or sausage and pepper hoagies. I like to stuff them with a rice and ground beef mix and cook them in tomato sauce.

[cbayer]

11. This is what I ate every Monday for 20 years.

I miss it so much.

[pinto]

13. French toast w/ peaches, cinnamon. Hickory smoked bacon. Vanilla yogurt.

I had yesterday's dinner leftovers for lunch, figure I'll do breakfast for dinner.

(oops, meant to post this in Tuesday dinner thread)