What's for Dinner, Fri., Nov. 20, 2024

[NJCher]

Wild mushroom pasta. Has butter, garlic, white wine, shallots, chicken stock, parsley.

Chopped salad. I love these chopped salads. Everything chopped up into little bits: zucchini, carrots, cherry tomatoes, red onion, celery, cucumber. Little squares of Swiss cheese. Three kinds of lettuce, julienned. On top, toasted pumpkin seeds. French dressing with fennel seed.

Kombucha: raspberry ginger.

Now: dessert!!!! I bought the most incredible cheesecake at Trader Joe's. It's lemon ginger. Unbelievably delicious. I'm glad it's frozen so I can only take one piece out at a time and not go back for more unless I wait.

[PJMcK]

1. Hospital food

Yum! Let’s see what gourmet repast I’ll get.

Had a very minor procedure but have to stay overnight.

[Polly Hennessey]

5. Lime jello, maybe. Me, I think I'll have halibut tonight.

[elleng]

6. Have 'fun,' and 'enjoy,' PJ!

[PJMcK]

17. Piece of cake

If you’ll pardon the pun!

[elleng]

18. Certainement!, PJ!!!

Pas de problema!!!

[Squeaky41]

2. Friday Eve Plan

butternut squash raviolis in alfredo sauce, Tajin dusting optional

Unfilered apple juice or ice water

Hawaiian rolls with pistachio or unsalted butter

[AKwannabe]

3. Eating early because going to a happy hour and show tonight

I made polenta with chicken stock and plain coconut milk. Topped it with sautéed enochi mushrooms (the smallest ones got all crisped up) and some green onion white parts thrown in the last couple moments.

Used up the mushrooms from my Thai dish and some green onions that were drying out for a topping on a pantry staple. Pretty easy and delish dish.

[lynintenn]

4. turkey tetrazzini with a green salad , honey lime dressing

[elleng]

7. Friend brought TJ's frozen samosas, chix + veges, so fingers crossed.

Ice cream later.

[Emile]

8. Bowl of leftover chili and a cheeseburger 🍔.

Ice cream sandwich before bedtime.

Good Evening

[Nanuke]

9. Celebrating our wedding anniversary. Planned to dine out fancy but cancelled our reservation.

Too cold and dark here. Going to instead enjoy home-made pizza in front of the cozy fire with our two great cats. I think we are getting old.

[NJCher]

10. Aww, Nanuke

That sounds lovely.

[La Coliniere]

11. Broccoli Pasta

Steam fried in evoo: chopped onions and garlic. When soft add broccoli florets. Just before done add butters beans. Stir in some Miyoko’s butter for richness. Toss with chickpea penne and chopped fresh basil. Sprinkle with TJs vegan Parmesan. Simple but delicious. Also made a cucumber dill salad as a side. Cheers! 🥂

[chowmama]

12. We went out to a deli

I had the day off (working tomorrow) and had a lot planned, so we hit Cecil's. Second only to Lincoln Del, and the Del's been closed for decades. I had blintzes and DH had a huge hot pastrami. We hit the bakery on the way out, had rugelach and hamentaschen on the way home, and there's challah to toast for breakfast. It's huge, so half is already in the freezer. I can afford the calories; I've shoveled the driveway hump twice in 24 hours.

The main project was canning another 7 pints of 'hamburger slop', which is actually pretty good. The pancetta is finished curing, so I rinsed the cure off it, covered it in cracked black pepper, and put it back in the fridge for another week to dry out. Next weekend, I'll cut it into reasonable chunks and freeze them. My hands reek strongly of black pepper and I'm considering making the Christmas coquito early just to have a different taste and smell in my senses. (Coconut and rum; what could be bad?) Ah, well, probably not.

So, I see my grocery store is completely out of eggs and there's a shortage. Anybody have any experience with powdered? I wouldn't even consider eating them straight up, but I wonder if they're acceptable for baking. I use powdered buttermilk for baking all the time, and I wouldn't drink that. But powdered egg reviews seem to be consistently - pretty bad. I can live without eggs if I need to.

[Nanuke]

13. I live in the Twin Cities. How can your store be out of eggs? There is no shortage here at all.

[chowmama]

14. It's Lunds and they're blaming the supply chain.

The shelves are wiped out. They've been short for a while.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out it's just them. But Google did say that a virus was a problem at the moment. I don't know if it's bird flu, something else, or just a rumor.

I'm going to try Cub tomorrow.

[NJCher]

16. Wow, were you ever

Busy today!

I never thought of making my own pancetta.

[Retrograde]

15. Chili

It was our turn to make dinner for the gaming group, and chili is one of the standbys since it can be cooked in advance, is transportable (only needs to be heated up at dinnertime), and - if we leave out the cilantro - everybody in the group can eat it.