What's for Dinner? ~ Friday ~ February 3rd!

[Lucinda]

Last edited Fri Feb 3, 2012, 04:11 PM - Edit history (1)

Allo!

Hope you are all happy and well.
I think Bill is making his amazing egg rolls for a neighbor tonight, but I'm going to go with soft foods.
Maybe eggs, for myself. Bad tummy lately.


What's for dinner where you are tonight?

[Denninmi]

1. I'm in deep doo doo -- forgot this morning to get anything around.

I'll be stopping for some kind of carry out tonight on the way home.

[Lucinda]

2. Our carryout options are limited around here

but today would be a great day for that around here too.

[Denninmi]

3. Yeah, that didn't happen anyway.

By group consultation, we decided Subway would suffice.

Pulled up in front of the one closest to me, and there was one employee and a line of 8 people.

So, I may do something in a few minutes, or just tell them to fend for themselves.

Leaning towards the "fend for yourselves" option.

[Lucinda]

20. I've been grazing the last day or so since I haven't felt too great.

Sometimes grazing is a winner and I come up with something amazing.
Other times it would be tortillas and an ice cream sandwich.

Recently it has been eggos with pumpkin pie spiced butter with maple syrup and extra cinnamon.
I miss my juice though. I need to buy a new juicer. :/

[blaze]

26. If you could pick any juicer

which would you pick?

[Lucinda]

27. I haven't really researched much yet. My friend loves his Oster

and I am going to try to find a replacement for it, or get it fixed first. (I've been using his juicer)

If I were buying for me, I'd be looking at reviews for power and ease of cleaning. If it's a pita to clean I wont use it, and I do carrots in my base mix, so it has to have some oomph to grind through several carrots a day.

I think I'd want to try the juice from the more expensive models that grind it all and leave no pulp before I thought seriously about buying one of those, but I've heard nothing but praise for Vita-Mix.

[noamnety]

4. fish, soup and avocados

BUT - this time I roasted the avocados, based on the discussion in the previous thread where I was making them. I just sprinkled them with vinegar and stuck them in the oven. I absolutely couldn't taste the vinegar when they came out, but the remarkable thing was that it was just like the other website claimed - they didn't get mushy at all, they were indeed "meaty." Like I could picture telling someone: "roasted avocado? tastes like chicken."

[Lucinda]

19. I've never thought of adding vinegar and roasting them!

How long did you cook them? At what temp?

[noamnety]

22. I had them at 350

Not sure of the time, but they were on the same pan as tilapia fillets, so as long as it takes for those to cook.

[Lucinda]

23. Thankie!

[Whisp]

5. fried egg sandwiches and lentil soup

soft fried eggs on fresh homemade bread, cheese and miracle whip and sweet onion sliced thin. Not the healthiest sandwich but the lentil soup makes up for it.

[Lucinda]

18. Comfort food though!

Which is a good thing.
I need to see if I have lentils on hand. A nice bowl of soup sounds good today. Rainy here!

[Luciferous]

6. We had chicken quesadillas.

[Lucinda]

17. Easy and tasty too!

I eat tortillas in some form or another every day.

[eridani]

7. Enchiladas and some lettuce w vinaigrette

I'm all out of my servings of frozen refried beans, so will have to put this year's batch in the pressure cooker first.

[Lucinda]

16. Enchiladas are a favorite around here. I can't believe it took me soo long

to like them. I think I always just had bad sauces when I tried a bite at restaurants. I do love them homemade though!

[grasswire]

8. a simple chicken-green apple-cauliflower curry

A one bowl meal sprinkled with a few raisins, some coconut and diced scallion.

[Lucinda]

15. Oh that sounds good!

And I love one bowl meals. Less to clean up.
It sounds like a really tasty mix of flavors. I want!

[HeiressofBickworth]

9. it was Fend For Yourself night at our house

so I had a Polish sausage on an onion roll, strawberry yogurt, popcorn and green tea. Yes, yes, I know, where's the vegetable? It's in the refrigerator waiting for me to fix it tomorrow... or Sunday. Or sometime.

[Phentex]

11. We call it raccoon night...

Friday is always raccoon night where we try to use up anything left in the fridge. Sometimes it's slim pickins but then they are free to make a sandwich.

[Lucinda]

13. What a great name for it!

[Lucinda]

14. Well...there was onion on the roll right?

and popCORN. Those are veggies.

[Lugnut]

10. Take out.

We had BBQ ribs, potato salad and cole slaw. It hit the spot and I didn't have to cook!

[Lucinda]

12. Always a plus!

I like cooking, but it's really nice once in a while to let someone else do the cooking and cleanup!

[many a good man]

21. Arroz con pollo

I'm going to make this Chicken with Saffron Rice recipe from Williams Sonoma again. It's fantastic. I love any recipe with Sherry in it! Use a Fino for this one.

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/chicken-with-saffron-rice.html

[Lucinda]

24. That does look good!

I have their recipe section bookmarked, but never think to wander around in it when I want to try something new. Thanks for the reminder!

[many a good man]

25. They have a lot of really good recipes

Their recipe for White Bean Soup is phenomenal. Happy hunting!

[Lucinda]

28. Bill is a big fan of white beans, I'll look for it!

Thankie for the direction!