Dinner 2024

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

3 hours ago, Smithy said:

Part of last night's dinner. I tried again to get the perfect sear on my steak over a charcoal fire without overdoing the interior. I missed again... took the steak out of the freezer too soon, I think. The flavor was good but there wasn't any pink inside.

 

 

The only time I've gotten the desired doneness and sear over an open flame was cooking a not-quite-thawed steak over a campfire. It was an accident then. When I've tried to plan ahead I've let the steak thaw too much and fluffed the result! Or maybe, as I speculated at the time, it was just dumb luck. 🙂

 

 

Just curious. How thick was that steak? 

 

 

[Smithy]

2 hours ago, Senior Sea Kayaker said:

 

Just curious. How thick was that steak? 

 

 

 

Just a bit shy of an inch thick. My ruler says the leftover bit is about 7/8".

[Miss K]

McCormick bag and season pork, rice, and canned greens.  
 

 

[Honkman]

Pan-asian inspired ground beef and vegetables stir-fry - Using a mortar you make a paste out of ginger, fresno chili, garlic and brown sugar and afterwards add some rice vinegar and fish sauce. Sautéed some broccoli, onion, scallions and tomatoes. In a second pan sautéed ground beef and added the vegetables and paste before adding sake and reduce it first a few minutes. Finished with some mint and served either jasmine rice.

[Ann_T]

Got a great deal on chicken this week.

 

Thrifty's, where I buy most of my meats had big roasting chickens on for buy one get one free.

So I bought four.  All weighing over four pounds, between $22 and $24 each.   So it ended up costing 

less than $48 for about $100 worth of chicken.

 

 

I left one whole and broke the remaining chickens down into legs, left one breast whole with the wings attached

and cut the other two whole breasts in half, with wings

 

 

and vacuum sealed and froze all but the whole chicken.

 

   

 

Last night's dinner was a roast chicken dinner,

 

 

with dressing, mashed potatoes, rutabaga, green beans and lots of gravy.

[Maison Rustique]

@Ann_T, your freezer must be ginormous!

 

Another hot weather/bad pain meal for me. Cottage cheese with a healthy glop of tzatziki (a delicious combo and went perfectly with tomato) and my sister and BIL's home grown tomato. Ate some potato chips with, but I was really wishing I had a nice hot, buttered biscuit.  (Too hot to even think about turning on the oven.

 

[Tropicalsenior]

43 minutes ago, Ann_T said:

So I bought four

So wish that we had a WOW emoji.

[Ann_T]

 

 

On 7/24/2024 at 5:57 AM, Maison Rustique said:

@Ann_T, your freezer must be ginormous!

I love my freezer. 

 

I replaced a small chest style freezer that didn't get used much with a LG freezer with shelves and drawers during Covid when

was buying and freezing more than in the past.

 

I recently bought the matching LG all fridge that Moe calls my bread /baking fridge.  

 

Our favourite way to use leftover roast chicken breast.

Hot chicken sandwiches on homemade bread, twice fried fries, peas and gravy.

[mgaretz]

The heat here continues, so cold dinner of tuna salad with carrots, celery, cucumber, red bell pepper and avocado.

 

 

[Captain]

bachelors dinner.  I found some chicken tenders in the freezer so I spiced and crumbed them, added some potato and realized that I have been craving a caeser salad.

I did what I could with what I had.

Edited July 25 by Captain (log)

[MaryIsobel]

6 hours ago, mgaretz said:

The heat here continues, so cold dinner of tuna salad with carrots, celery, cucumber, red bell pepper and avocado.

 

 

Perfect dinner for a hot day.

[Neely]

Dinners we had were

below baked chicken breast over orzo

 

Below lamb chops, chips and peas

 

Below… I made a tart tartin with caramelised brown sugar. I used a bought all butter puff pastry. 

 

[gfweb]

Pimenton seasoned pork tenderloin with a confit of peaches, bacon and onions

 

[YvetteMT]

Pulled pork, summer squash and corn. The weather has been miserable hot and smokey- zero desire to cook, so quick and easy. 

 

 

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Stir fry of chicken, shrimp, mushrooms, snow peas and shrimp roe noodles with fish sauce, chili crisp oil and finished with green onion tops and cilantro.

Served with a 'lassi' of pineapple juice and whole yogurt.

 

[Maison Rustique]

OK, I will embarrass myself and tell you what I did. In another topic I posted about a friend gifting me a huge quantity of chicken drumsticks which I don't like. I portioned them up and stuck them in the freezer to deal with when weather cools down and I'm not in such pain. In the meanwhile, he brought me THREE MORE drumsticks that he had smoked. I tried to eat one of them night before last and I think I got about 4 bites before I tossed it in the trash. I may try making some sort of smoky broth with the other 2. Or not. They might end up being raccoon food.

 

So last night I really wanted something more than tomato and cottage cheese and definitely did not want a chicken leg. I went online and ordered eggplant parmigiana from Olive Garden (just about 5 minutes away) with a bowl of their zuppa toscana and a second carry-out entree of 4 cheese ziti. So, last night I had half the eggplant and half the spaghetti that came with it. I still have half of that, the bowl of soup and the pasta entree. Enough to last me 3-4 more  days and including tip, I think it was only around $25. I'm not that wild about Olive Garden, but I felt like I have not been eating enough and I need to do better, so there you have it.

 

Didn't bother with photos--nothing spectacular to see, though I do like their eggplant.

 

I still have a homegrown tomato from my sister and my friend is bringing me some local bacon that he just featured on a TV spot he does. Just keep your fingers crossed that he doesn't bring me more chicken legs!

[weinoo]

 

Lamb, roasted carrots and potatoes, corn - yogurt dipping sauce.

 

 

Pan fried striped bass, mashed potatoes, corn.  Cucumber salad and cole slaw alongside.  Giant corn for @Duvel to make up for small striped bass!

[Ann_T]

@Maison Rustique, life is too short to eat something that you don't like. 

 

Last night's dinner.

Penne with a tomato basil sauce and sausage and Kalamata olives.

[NadyaDuke]

3 hours ago, Maison Rustique said:

 

 

So last night I really wanted something more than tomato and cottage cheese and definitely did not want a chicken leg. I went online and ordered eggplant parmigiana from Olive Garden (just about 5 minutes away) with a bowl of their zuppa toscana and a second carry-out entree of 4 cheese ziti. So, last night I had half the eggplant and half the spaghetti that came with it. I still have half of that, the bowl of soup and the pasta entree. Enough to last me 3-4 more  days and including tip, I think it was only around $25. I'm not that wild about Olive Garden, but I felt like I have not been eating enough and I need to do better, so there you have it.

 

 

I think this is so smart! I really like having a treasure trove of leftovers in the fridge when I need a break from cooking. I'll sometimes intentionally throw in extras to a delivery order just to have leftovers

 

My husband was out last night so I tried my hand at cooking mussels for the first time, using the recipe that came with my built-in CSO. They were fine - not great but definitely not the worst I've had. I don't know how much of that was me and how much was the product. What surprised me was that the cooking process watered down the broth - I'm not sure if that was the steam (it was cooked on 100% steam) or juices from the mussels? 

 

[Captain]

A yummy steak sanga. Or should I say a Toasted steak sandwich.

 

[KennethT]

Brought in takeout from my local Hunan place - rice noodles (buried), minced pork, homemade tofu

[MaryIsobel]

15 hours ago, Maison Rustique said:

OK, I will embarrass myself and tell you what I did. In another topic I posted about a friend gifting me a huge quantity of chicken drumsticks which I don't like. I portioned them up and stuck them in the freezer to deal with when weather cools down and I'm not in such pain. In the meanwhile, he brought me THREE MORE drumsticks that he had smoked. I tried to eat one of them night before last and I think I got about 4 bites before I tossed it in the trash. I may try making some sort of smoky broth with the other 2. Or not. They might end up being raccoon food.

 

So last night I really wanted something more than tomato and cottage cheese and definitely did not want a chicken leg. I went online and ordered eggplant parmigiana from Olive Garden (just about 5 minutes away) with a bowl of their zuppa toscana and a second carry-out entree of 4 cheese ziti. So, last night I had half the eggplant and half the spaghetti that came with it. I still have half of that, the bowl of soup and the pasta entree. Enough to last me 3-4 more  days and including tip, I think it was only around $25. I'm not that wild about Olive Garden, but I felt like I have not been eating enough and I need to do better, so there you have it.

 

Didn't bother with photos--nothing spectacular to see, though I do like their eggplant.

 

I still have a homegrown tomato from my sister and my friend is bringing me some local bacon that he just featured on a TV spot he does. Just keep your fingers crossed that he doesn't bring me more chicken legs!

Eat whatever you want! Calories in will likely make you feel better all around. We spend so many years watching our calories and fat and carbs... I'm 64 and while I eat relatively healthily for the most part, I feel no guilt in eating anything I get a craving for. I've worked long and hard for the right to be fat and sassy.

[Tempest63]

I got home exhausted from work after a particularly busy day. Didn’t really want to spend hours cooking so threw a couple of Marks & Spencer rose veal sirloins on the Weber traveller.

 

 

Some oven chips coated in beef dripping, frozen peas, all served up with English mustard and a hefty splodge of home made toum on the chips. 
 

 

Quite a hands off dinner, spin the steaks on the bbq once and turn the oven chips once.

Edited July 27 by Tempest63 (log)

[liuzhou]

Having reluctantly come to the conclusion that, depite this ridiculous heat (40℃ +), I can't really survive on beer and ice cream, I made some fried noodles with chicken, straw mushrooms* and Asian herbs. The usual aromatics were in there too, along with Shaoxing and soy sauce. Exhausting to cook; exhausting to eat!

 

 

* The Chinese is 草菇 (cǎo gū) which means 'grass mushrooms'.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 29 by liuzhou (log)

[Maison Rustique]

Homegrown tomato from my sister and local bacon from my friend. I had myself a delicious BLT despite the abundance of Olive Garden carbs in the fridge and all the chicken legs in the freezer.