What's for Dinner ~ Saturday Jan 19th

[Lucinda]

[bif]

1. A friend is supposed to invite us over for a Ukrainian dinner.

[annabanana]

2. comfort food

Making a meatloaf and using my acti-fry for sweet potato fries.. Probably some green beans

[Jazzgirl]

18. I love my Actifry. I use it a lot

Especially sweet potato fries.

[annabanana]

22. I can't find any decent recipes for the damn thing.

I pretty much use it for fried chicken & potatoes.

[yellerpup]

3. I'm going to make chicken tacos

with refried beans and a fresh salsa cruda. We love Mexican!

[cbayer]

4. I've got some pork chops, cauliflower, carrots, arugula and potatoes.

Any ideas for using some of this?

I was thinking of rather simple oven baked pork chops with a maple/ginger sauce and perhaps pan browning the cauliflower with olives and capers, but I'm just not sure.

[pinto]

5. I like mashed cauliflower and potatoes. Baked, glazed chops and carrots might work well

with it. Or pan browned carrots...

[cbayer]

6. I like the idea of mashed cauliflower or maybe even soup.

[pinto]

7. Left over hot 'n sour soup as a spice base with enough veggie broth to simmer a mixed soup.

Rice noodles
Diced bell pepper
Diced scallions
Left over pork filling from pot stickers (sans the wrappers)
Quick egg drop when all else is done

(Wish I knew how to make Chinese buns to dip in the soup. My cousin-in-law's mother made them often. At dinner, lunch with a soup, even breakfast with plum jam.)

[jambo101]

8. Smoked trout Chowder..

From a recipe in Chatelaine magazine.


With crusty bread and a bottle of beer.

http://www.chatelaine.com/recipe/stovetop-cooking-method/smoked-trout-chowder/[link:http://www.chatelaine.com/recipe/stovetop-cooking-method/smoked-trout-chowder/|

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Leftover pork chop with potatoes escalloped in Gruyere and cream.

The rest of the corn.

[cbayer]

12. How did you cook your pork chops?

I have a couple of really good ones in the freezer (thick, bone in).

I was thinking about breading and oven frying to keep them moist, then make a sauce, but am open to suggestions.

Also, you've given me the idea to make a scalloped cauliflower/potato dish to go with.

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. I baked them underneath the potato/cheese/cream concoction. Just put salt and pepper on them.

They weren't particularly thick and have a small bone. They were in the oven about one hour at 325. Of course, the chops didn't brown.

[cbayer]

15. Hmmm, that sounds good and would solve my conundrum about the extremely

limited amount of space I have in my oven.

Will think on that.

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. I hope that it works out for you.

It's really good!

[cbayer]

20. OK, I'm making blue cheese cauliflower au gratin.

I have assembled it and will now bake it.

Will let you know, but the sauce is very, very tasty.

[greatauntoftriplets]

21. Enjoy!

[NJCher]

10. my mouth is watering

I noticed that the more I scrolled down the page, the more I was salivating. Good thing I got here relatively early--I'd be drooling by now.

I think I'm going to go with stir-fry rice tonight which I will make myself since spouse flew to SF or LA, can't remember which, to do the Fancy Food Show.

I may do some vegetable roasting for my vegetarian sammiches, too. I was able to pick up a stunning eggplant, some red peppers, and onions. I like to caramelize the onions and put everything on a big whole wheat ciabatta with a slice of mozzarella. And make chipotle sauce for it. That will be for lunch tomorrow.


Cher

[cbayer]

13. I find it hilarious that you don't know where your husband is exactly.

He's in San Francisco, BTW, lol.

http://www.specialtyfood.com/fancy-food-show/

[NJCher]

24. thanks!

Good to know!


Cher

[Callalily]

11. Navy Bean Soup . . .

It's simmering as I type. Instead of using a ham hock, I picked up a ham bone from Heavenly Ham. Nice bone and lots of meat for around $4.00. Can't wait until the soup is done. I'm HUNGRY NOW!

Oh and have some French bread rising too! It's going to be a nice Saturday evening!

edit = French bread notation

[shanti]

17. a big lasagna!

i'll be eating this for several days though, as it's just me, but i just had a hankering for lasagna tonite i make it maybe twice a year.

[Lisa0825]

19. Chipotle panko fried cod nuggets with guacamole and pico de gallo.

I don't cook fish often because it's one thing I think is better when order it than when I make it, but I saw the cod on sale super cheap, so I decided to go for it.

It turned out really good! After reading several articles lately about cooking with lard, I decided to try that. The nuggets turned out really crispy and not at all greasy feeling.

I cooked an extra filet for the kittehs

[hobbit709]

23. Was out and about so I grabbed some Chinese.

Spicy Thai rice noodles and walnut shrimp.