What's for Dinner, Wed., Dec. 26, 2018

[NJCher]

I made a steak salad for tonight. It has steak strips, blue cheese, caramelized onion and....yes, greens from my garden. I can hardly believe that after Christmas I am still able to pick enough fresh greens for a salad, but I did.

Here's a pic:



For those of you who are greens experts, you will see that many of the salad greens are mustard spinach. It does incredibly well in the cold. Others are arugula, some mesclun, and radish and turnip greens.

[hedda_foil]

1. You have me droooooling, Cher! That's my all-time favorite salad.

I thought I was the only one who put carmelized onions in with the steak, blue cheese and greens. That's the secret ingredient as far as I'm concerned. Do you plan to use a salad dressing on this beauty?

[irisblue]

3. Caramelized onions are a necessity

Pretty salad greens

[Luciferous]

2. That sounds good! We're having a turkey tenderloin, mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy, and

probably roasted asparagus. We all had the stomach flu over the weekend and are finally starting to feel better- this was what we were planning on having for Christmas dinner.

[irisblue]

4. Roasted cauliflower, sweet potato, broccoli

And a salmon patty.

[PJMcK]

5. Beautiful photo, NJCher!

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You keep kicking it up a notch! That's going to be a delicious dinner.

We're visiting with family in Massachusetts and it's a family tradition that we order Chinese food on Boxing Day. It started one Christmas years ago when we had a fiasco where Mom and Sister got in each other's way in the kitchen. When the turkey was ready to be carved, it turned out that the bird hadn't been fully thawed and although the outside looked great, the inside was frozen! We actually did what the family in "A Christmas Story" did: we went out for Chinese as it was the only restaurant open. The waiters didn't sing for us, however. Accordingly, this is our family's weird tradition.

There's one problem: the local Chinese restaurant has pretty good food but they use American cabbage in their dishes. My Landlady(!), who knows Asian cooking, says that they should use a Chinese cabbage called napa (sp?). It really changes the taste and texture of the food especially compared with what we get in New York City.

Anyway, we'll order something from every column and enjoy a communal feast!

I hope all our cooking friends had a great day yesterday!

[Kali]

6. I bought a whole rib roast and cut a couple lbs for a xmas gift,

yesterday we had beautiful mesquite grilled steaks I cut off of it (I love this "new" tradition, so much less work for me!) but I didn't get the rest frozen in time, so I guess we are having a rib roast tonight - yum, but all of the sudden I am doing work again???

geez it is 3 already, guess I better go get it started...

[Yonnie3]

7. Ham

I've been noshing all day so no real dinner.

I baked some more rolls and slapped some leftover ham on them.

What I've been nibbling on today (in order of remembering, not of eating):
Smoked Alaska Salmon with garlic bagel chips.
Clementines and a banana.
Cinnamon swirl toast.
Kona blend coffee.
Several kinds of cookies.

I foresee an eggnog with a kick in the near future.

FLFC has a buffet of ham, burger and tiny hotdogs. Today, as most days, he seems to prefer the burger. He is on the couch on his back gesturing with his front paws ... rub my belly ... OK ... but he fell asleep.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Moosewood comes through again! Cream of Brussels Sprouts Soup!

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Made with organic, homemade chicken stock.

And Cavatelli with Broccoli.

[Demsrule86]

9. Fresh Greens ...wow! I had chicken (baked) carrots and baked potatoes.

Gluten free chocolate chip cookies for dessert.

[Wawannabe]

10. Prime rib

Leftover slab from Christmas dinner yesterday.

I didn’t cook the brussels sprouts last night so I had the leftover steak with horseradish cream sauce and fried brussels sprouts -with bacon, garlic and dry cranberries. Finished the sprouts with a sauce of honey and apple cider vinegar.