What's for Dinner, Thurs., Dec. 8, 2016
Pork chops with roasted vegetables: parsnips, carrots, potatoes, and something else that I can’t remember because the RG is cooking.
I’m making a salad: frisee with tangerine slices.
Cher
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Classic potato salad, and an undetermined green veggie.
Made a spinach roll/bread this morning - with shallots, garlic, black olives and pepperoni. I used a little basil and oregano, too. The bread part came out good (for me, I'm a lousy baker). So I'll have something to snack on tonight.
Sounds really good. I like your combo of ingredients.
Instead of the orange/endive salad, I made a bitter greens salad of radicchio and endive with chopped vidalia onion.
The RG roasted the vegetables on a cookie tray. He put a couple pieces of fatty pork in there, along with herbs, and covered the entire pan of carrots, parsnips, and potatoes with foil. This covering infused the herbs and garlic into the vegetables and made them very flavorful. That's a good trick. I'll use it again. Oddly, the vegetables still had a nice brown to them. Almost caramelized.
He also made cannellinis to go with the pork.
For dessert, he bought these peaches from WF which were in syrup. They were just like fresh. He whirled up some shortbread cookies in the blender and sprinkled the crumbs over the peaches and warmed them in the oven. Also topped them with mint.
Cher
Or, rather, a yeast pizza dough. I've gotten off my lazy arse and been hand-kneading lately. I want to make my own rolls (for sandwiches), as I do not like any of the grocery store bakery rolls. There's no "chew" to them, and they are so light that they go stale in 24 hrs. After the holidays, that's my mission (I know, I said that last year.) But I did buy a 5 lb bag of unbleached AP flour and rapid-rise yeast yesterday, so I'm gearing up.
Roasting the veggies with the pork sounds like a good idea, Cher. I use foil packs a lot on the grill - it's a great way to keep flavors in, and - no clean-up!
(Yeah know, I just bought my first can of peaches yesterday for the first time in 2 years. I had a hankering...)
