What's for Dinner, Sun., May 27, 2018

[NJCher]

Sweet and spicy peanut noodles.

Chinese dumplings filled with baby bok choy, napa cabbage, carrot, and Chinese chives.

All of this is going to be easy. I'm using peanut sauce from a jar, but enhancing it with a nice quality of organic peanut butter. I'll also add some cucumber slivers and freshly husked peanuts! Yes, fresh peanuts, which I found at the Korean green grocer the other day. I took them out of their shells 'cuz I knew the time would come to use them and I wouldn't want to take the time to shell them. I know our southern DUers will laugh at me for saying this (the obvious), but if you've never had fresh peanuts, you're in for a treat. They are so different and much tastier than peanuts from a bag or a jar.

Dessert will be blueberries and yogurt with toasted walnuts on top.

[Cairycat]

1. Lamb burgers

with mint pesto or tzatziki sauce, petite peas for a side. We don't really do desserts here much (and there's cheesecake tomorrow!) but there's some leftover rhubarb coffee cake I made for treats at church.

Are you heating the peanuts in any way? Many years ago I lived for a brief spell in South Carolina. The locals just couldn't get enough of boiled peanuts, but they sounded pretty yucky to this Midwesterner!

[NJCher]

3. lamb burgers

Yesterday I was listening to Melissa Clarke on the radio (NY Times food writer) and she was extolling the superiority of lamb burgers over any other kind of burger. I can't recall why, exactly, but I know she said that while it's pricey, it's tastier than beef. Anyway, I just know that if we go to a restaurant and lamb burgers are on the menu, the RG will order them every time.

I'm not going to heat the peanuts, but maybe I should? I don't know much about cooking with peanuts, since we so rarely get fresh ones up here. My plan was to fold them into the heated noodles.



oh an p.s. I was on the look out for rhubarb. I so want to make rhubarb dessert!

[dhol82]

2. Just had an amazing eggplant parm sandwich on a toasted hero roll

It was awesomely cheese stringy and heavy with eggplant.
No way I can do that and have dinner also.
Damn that was good.

[irisblue]

4. Brat on a bun with home made cole slaw

Real lemonade

[onecaliberal]

5. Beer and Gilroy garlic marinated Tri tip with asparagus and baked potato.

Homemade banana ice cream for dessert.

[livetohike]

6. Broccoli/Feta Tyropitas, greek Salad, watermelon. n/t

[Runningdawg]

7. Philly Cheesesteak sandwiches

sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, french fries and pineapple pie.

[Yonnie3]

8. Soup

Bean soup from last week
Salad - TJ made it in the wee hours and I haven't looked at yet.

Dessert will be ice cream with banana and blue berries.

FLFC is asleep, so no input from him. He will have the last of the roast chicken and if that's not enough we will discuss his options.

[Wawannabe]

9. T-bone on the grill.

Grilled asparagus and fiddle head fern (from the yard). Morels in butter. Boiled baby reds - then finished on the grill. Lots of chive. Bibb lettuce with fresh mix ins from the garden and real bacon bits. Avacado, bacon ranch dressing on it was darn good!

Planning peaches over vanilla bean ice icream with a warm honey drizzle for dessert.

Went to Thorp, WA yesterday and scored fresh Yakima fruit. Cherries and a cantaloup. The peach wasn’t but it smells great. I have high hopes. 🙂

[NJCher]

10. I had to look that up

Yakima fruit. Pretty--looks almost like a cross between a cherry and a small nectarine.

Also, I believe Melissa Clarke was also talking about this being the season for baby reds. We often don't think of potatoes as having a season, but I believe she said this was the season.

Like anything else, such as the peanuts, fresh is better. Makes me think I should start some potatoes this year.