What's for Dinner, Sun., Dec. 30, 2018

[NJCher]

It's going to be catch as catch can here as I am cooking for New Year's Eve tonight. Making dinner plus that is just too much work. I think it will just be a spinach salad with raw veggies plus a sliced turkey cutlet over the salad. Thousand Island dressing.

Orange spice tea and baklava for dessert.

[PennyK]

1. Shrimp Scampi over linguine

And a salad partially made with my brand-new spiralizer! I still don't understand how it can make such long strands from a 4" piece of carrot.

[elleng]

2. Black Russian to start,

friend working on Shakshuka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakshouka

[Kali]

22. aka

huevos rancheros

seriously, I bet there is a historical connection.

[Cairycat]

3. Scalloped sweet potato, ham and pineapple

baked with a little orange and pineapple juice, a couple gratings of nutmeg, and dotted with butter. It smells good baking, we'll see how it tastes!

[Demsrule86]

13. Sounds great...let us know how it turns out.

[Cairycat]

19. It tasted quite good but the darn sweet potatoes

Took forever to cook, even though I had them sliced pretty thin (1/4&quot - really, over an hour. It was a good combination but would have been a lot better had the sweet potatoes been precooked.

[Demsrule86]

24. Yum, going to try this. Thanks so much.

[trixie2]

31. Don't you just hate that?

I made roast chicken over a bed of carrots and shallots and even precooked the carrots but still had to remove the chicken and put the carrots back in the oven.

I used the time to make some of the chicken into chicken salad. I have been on a kick to have chicken salad on freshly baked rye cocktail bread. So good and so tiny.

[irisblue]

4. Left over hot Thai Style Tuna over Rice

Cold peach decafe tea.

[Yonnie3]

5. Thanksgiving leftovers

I made turkey and gravy using frozen broth and turkey from November and served over rice.

We should have something else as well to be healthy, but I am unmotivated. Some fruit later will be good.

FLFC ate earlier with TJ and is snoozing on the couch. I am going to see if he'll make room for me too.

[Demsrule86]

12. Sounds nice. I saw an organic Turkey for 79 cents a pound. I think I will go back and get it.

Turkey sounds good.

[Yonnie3]

16. It was nice

0.79 is good for an organic bird.

I'm thinking of making some sort of pot pie or shepherds pie with the rest of the leftover turkey.

[Demsrule86]

25. Yum, I am a fan of both. We had quite a few for dinner and the kids took the leftover so I had

very few leftovers.

[trixie2]

32. I think Martha Stewart had a good leftover recipe years ago

take any bread, turkey, brie and some kind of jam or jelly - toast both bread in butter mixture, assemble sandwich with, from bottom, bread, jam, turkey, brie, bread and then wrap in foil and warm to gooey in oven. A new family favorite. Works for chicken too.

[Snarkoleptic]

6. Fettuccini Alfredo w/ broccoli and garlic loaf.

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/fettuccine-alfredo-105505
This is my go-to recipe.
For pasta, Mrs. Snark has requested the wider pappardelle pasta.
Nice glass of CabSauv

[Demsrule86]

11. I saved the recipe...looked great. Thanks.

[Snarkoleptic]

15. Welcome!

I've done this one a dozen times, or so.
The key is Parmigiano-Reggiano.
Also, I use Costco organic butter.

Snark Jr. is headed back to college in a week, and requested this dish.

[Demsrule86]

26. Aww. I have one in college too. She loves Alfredo, but mine never seem right...so this look great.

[lordsummerisle]

7. Bloody Marys n/t

[Demsrule86]

10. The dinner of champions! We went to this little restaurant called Le Petite Triangle in Ohio City

and had the best Bloody Mary I have ever tasted...yum.

[Ohiogal]

27. How did you like it?

[MissMillie]

21. LOL

Last night I had whiskey. Straight up. I didn't post it in the thread yesterday, but since you're admitting to a liquid dinner I don't feel all that ashamed.

[PJMcK]

8. Chicken soup

We're both a little under the weather and decided we needed some Jewish penicillin. I picked up a loaf of fresh bread and the Landlady(!) is making a little salad.

Tomorrow is New Years Eve and we have a feast planned. Stay tuned...

[Ohiogal]

28. My hubby is making spaghetti

It’s the only thing he knows how to cook, but his homemade sauce is pretty good.

I am still too ill to stand over an oven and create anything!

Here’s to a healthier New Year, PJ!

[Demsrule86]

9. Tacos tonight ...homemade Paul Newmans pineapple salsa doctored up, topped with pineapple (fresh),

seasoned ground beef, lettuce, tomato, onion, avocado,cilantro and sour cream. They were so good. The lettuce is grown locally in Cleveland and was so good ...like eating fresh greens from the garden. For dessert we had chocolate chip cookies...gluten free from my new favorite recipe and a steaming latte.

[akraven]

14. Sound exceptional!

Ours is salmon, asparagus and baked 'taters - simple as I've got black eyed peas, ham hock (and ham) and scored some collards for Tuesday. New Years Eve is at Vallata - THE best Italian restaurant in the Fairbanks North Star Borough! (How I rated that from a hubby of 30+ years is the question, but heck - I'll take it!)

[Ohiogal]

30. I'd give my right arm

for some fresh Alaskan salmon!

I’ll bet there’s no comparison to the frozen salmon we get here.

[MissMillie]

17. We had hamburgers

It was going to be cheeseburgers, but we didn't take the cheese out of the freezer in time for it to thaw.

[Yonnie3]

18. FLFC sez he has cheeze, lots of cheeze!

He can come right over if you like.

He is also zoomie happy Audry is back.

[MissMillie]

20. We have lots of cheese too

It's just that it was all in the freezer.

Audry is even starting to gain some weight back, thank goodness. We've been putting a drizzle of olive oil in her food at night. It is such a relief to see her run to us in the morning, to see her happy to go outside to piddle, and to watch her eating and drinking. We'd be heart-broken if anything happened to any of our pets.

[Ohiogal]

29. I hear you!

That is such good news, yay for Audrey!

[Kali]

23. oldest son made a plated box dinner

seared (sirloin) steak over roasted rainbow carrots, onion, and green beans with cilantro-sriracha butter. it was tasty! the butter really brought everything together.