What's for Dinner? Mon., May 11, 2015

[NJCher]

Cher

[Auggie]

1. I'll make a pizza for myself

Veggie, with homemade dough and sauce.

[Aerows]

2. It's monday!

Red beans and Rice for those of us in cajun country or outlying areas . Put on a crockpot full before going to work.

[livetohike]

3. Kale and Spinach turnovers and a Greek salad n/t

[grasswire]

9. that sounds yummy

Your taste and mine agree when it comes to Greek food.

[Galileo126]

4. "Fish n chips"

In quotes, because (a) I'm pan-searing the fish and (b) baking the potato wedges. I did make a coleslaw yesterday, but I munched on it all day, so it's gone now. Maybe I'll just have a green salad tonight to go with.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Roast turkey breast.

Rice and green beans.

[NJCher]

6. Meatloaf sammiches

On low-carb bread. Dill pickles. Cole slaw with Asian dressing, inauthentically topped with caramel peanuts. Sweet potato chips.

The RG made me up five meals for the week so I can work in my garden. Back to planting peppers, pole beans, and eggplant.



Cher

[Aerows]

7. I'll likely be eating

RB&R for lunch until maybe Friday. I love them, and they are perfect leftovers.

[Aerows]

8. Oooo! I'm growing eggplant too

All I've gotten so far are some purple flowers. Nothing looks in anyway like a vegetable forming.

My tomatoes are coming out like gangbusters, though. Still green, but heavy on the vine.

Strawberries are bursting out, too, if I can keep the damn birds away from them!

Good luck in your garden!

[NJCher]

11. aren't those purple flowers beautiful?

One of the prettiest flowers I've seen on a vegetable. Okra flowers are pretty, too.

You are way ahead of us northerners in the garden! Our tomatoes are just little three-inchers, and the same with the other vegetables. The only thing that is really in full bloom is my lettuce in a raised bed. I also have wild arugula that is we've already harvested. We like to have it plain, as a side.

As far as hybrid strawberries go, we in NJ are going to have a new one, bred specifically for eating right off the vine! Won't be able to get a plant, though, until Aug. 15:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2015/05/heres_the_worlds_newest_strawberry_bred_in_nj_and_coming_this_summer.html#incart_river_mobileshort

A new breed of strawberry is the product of years of cross-breeding by the folks at Rutgers' New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. It was designed to be superior to all those berries that were bred to be grown in California then trucked to New Jersey.

Ooops, I'd better get over to a garden forum thread! But at this time of year, the cooking and gardening threads have similar purposes!

One more indulgence:

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Cher

[grasswire]

10. baby new potatoes from the farmers market

...maybe a kind of hash out of them with ham and cheese and kale.

[pinto]

12. Tabouli, yogurt & cucumber salad, sliced cheese, pita bread.

I have cream cheese pound cake, fresh blueberries and whipped cream if I get that far...

[fizzgig]

13. snacking

i stuck some onion slices and tomato quarters under the broiler, chopped them up, added roasted garlic (and a bit of its oil) and fresh basil and ate it on crackers with some mozz and salami. the tomato mix was damned tasty and i'll definitely be making it again.

dessert later will be raspberries and a fudgesicle.

[demtenjeep]

14. every Monday we do water aerobics ...then we pick up Outback

on the way home