What's for Dinner? ~Wednesday Nov 13th

[Lucinda]

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[bif]

1. Some kind of pasta with the leftover salmon

[Galileo126]

2. Chicken thighs

I'll probably cook then El Pollo Loco style (pineapple-lime marinade) on the grill.

Rice and beans on the side.

[cbayer]

3. Grilled Chicken Salad with Guacamole and Cheese.

My chicken in yellow mole was very work intensive but worth every second.

Chayote is really good. It's got the texture of pineapple when cooked and the taste of a white potato with a little sweetness.

[pinto]

4. 85 degrees here at 2 PM Pacific, no less. I'm going to go with some salads.

Probably a tuna, mixed greens, bell pepper, onion, garlic and crouton toss.

[maddezmom]

5. Filets, homemade steak fries and various veggies

I am skipping the fries for a large chopped salad, T-man is skipping all veggies and Maddie is having peas, steak fries, with cucumber and carrots as an appetizer.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Went out to lunch today and am not very hungry.

Probably some fruit later.

[maddezmom]

7. Okay....

Where did you go and what did you have? I know I am nosy.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Place called Shanahan's here in town.

It's an Irish bar with a New Orleans Creole restaurant. I had a patty melt -- they also have bar-type food.

[NJCher]

9. sammiches

sounds interesting, cbayer. Do you happen to know if chayote is a starch?

I have to work tonight.
How I wish I could just watch TV and enjoy good food on this cold night here in the northeast. And go to bed early, too.

So it's quick, fast, and delicious for me: BBQ pork on onion roll, french fries. Not even a glass of wine because of work.


Cher

[cbayer]

10. Chayote seems pretty starchy

Just went to do some research on it and found out it is also called mirliton, something I have had many times in New Orleans (but never cooked myself).

Here is what I found out about it's nutritional content:


Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy 80 kJ (19 kcal)
Carbohydrates 4.51 g
- Sugars 1.66 g
- Dietary fiber 1.7 g
Fat 0.13 g
Protein 0.82 g


Would that make it a starch?

[Warpy]

12. Please remember 5 g is a teaspoon, 15g is a tablespoon and 30g is an ounce (roughly speaking)

Chayote and other squashes are vegetables, not classed as carbohydrate. They're mostly water and the carbs are complex carbs.

High sugar vegetables are some of the root veggies: onion, parsnip, carrot, beet.

The amount of simple sugar in squashes is negligible.

[Warpy]

11. Saute mushrooms in butter

Add rice flour and cook for a minute or two, deglaze pan with a little dry sherry, add hot chicken stock until the mushroom sauce is about the consistency of light cream, add chicken breast tenders, cover and cook on very low heat for half an hour.

Finish the sauce and chicken with heavy cream, serve over rice with sides. Tonight it's steamed mixed veg I found languishing when I defrosted the mini freezer last week.

That's 15 minutes to find and prep ingredients and half an hour to cook all of it.

[hobbit709]

13. Cajun salmon patties, potato salad, and a chunk of Belgian chocolate for dessert.

[bif]

14. Pizza with salmon, carmelized onions. mushrooms, and spinach

It was awesome!

[Lugnut]

15. Cauliflower au gratin soup.

I had a huge head of cauliflower and a big bag of shredded cheddar. It was so good I had two bowls.