What's for Dinner?

[Cricket]

For us, we had stuffed porkchops, snap beans from the garden and turnip greens.

Tonight it will be baked fish, fried okra, and leftover snap beans and turnip greens with a few cherry tomatoes and peppers on the side.

But with the temps falling for us, I feel a good pot of soup is in the near future.

 

[Phineas Lamour]

Last night we had chilli in the slow cooker and homemade corn bread. Everything in our house is cooked from scratch. Tonight we are probably having the rest of the chilli. It has been in the 30s and 40s and rainy lately. Good slow cooker weather.

 

[fortworthgal]

^ I agree! Slow cooker/chili weather is my favorite time of year.

 

[rue]

Is it normal to be craving chili this early in the morning? I know what ingredients I'm getting at the grocery next

Last night we had Ahi tuna (recipe) with baked rice and a salad of baby greens, figs and goat cheese.

I don't know what we're having tonight yet.... steaks or pasta probably, but I'll let you know

 

[sheeplady]

Tonight we're going to have a dish I call Eggplant. It's a mixture of my homemade tomato sauce, eggplant, peppers, okra, onions, zuchinni, and ground beef. I season it with a little basil, thyme, rosemary, and sage. Everything except the beef and the onion came from our garden (we ate all our onions weeks ago and cows wouldn't do good in our neighborhood ). I cook it in the oven. I serve it over sweet potato pasta (from a local company) and add a sprinkling of romano sheep's cheese.

I do batch cooking, so we'll be eating that for the next week or more.

Does anyone else here do batch cooking- where you take a day and cook one huge dish and serve it to your family for the next week or so?

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Last night was Mexican at my home...no...we did not use any real mexicans for the food.....tonight is going to be roasted chicken (we have one of those rotisseries that slowly cooks and turns while the bird is inside), with some home made country chunky potato fries, corn bread, a nice tossed salad, and a veggie plate. Maybe a half hour later, we are going to have coconut custard pie and more coffee.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Tonight we're going to have a dish I call Eggplant. It's a mixture of my homemade tomato sauce, eggplant, peppers, okra, onions, zuchinni, and ground beef. I season it with a little basil, thyme, rosemary, and sage. Everything except the beef and the onion came from our garden (we ate all our onions weeks ago and cows wouldn't do good in our neighborhood ). I cook it in the oven. I serve it over sweet potato pasta (from a local company) and add a sprinkling of romano sheep's cheese.

I do batch cooking, so we'll be eating that for the next week or more.

Does anyone else here do batch cooking- where you take a day and cook one huge dish and serve it to your family for the next week or so?

We do the cookies like that at times, but it is hard on the diet! (yummy)!

 

[LoveMyHats2]

I've been hungry for chili for a week. A 93 year old friend who can barely stand said he was going to spend the day "cooking, resting, cooking, resting... I'm hungry for good chili." And that did it. So now I'd better make some.

Chili is one of my household's favorite foods! For some reason even merely thinking about Chili makes a person hungry!

 

[Miss sofia]

I batch cook all the time, as a working single parent, it's the only way forward.

Today i snaffled a huge crate of cooking apples from my neighbour, so i have made a pie, some crumble, baked apples for supper this evening, then cooked off the rest with sugar and cinammon and cloves and frozen it.

I tend to batch cook pasta sauces, stews, chilli etc, for the kids and freeze it, as it comes in very handy for the feeding of the five thousand. I tend to roast a few joints of meat at the beginning of the week too, so supper is pretty much done and dusted most nights.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Just found out...we are having 'meatloaf'...mashed potatoes...string grean beans....tossed salad...and iced tea. Banana pudding with vanilla wafers for dessert. Typical midwestern 'Hoosier supper'...but a menue that we haven't had in awhile. Probably because we tend to cook out on the grill quite a bit during the summer months.
Tomorrow night..."BBQ ribs"and coldbeer..one of my favorites!!!:clap2:

 

[sheeplady]

I batch cook all the time, as a working single parent, it's the only way forward.

Today i snaffled a huge crate of cooking apples from my neighbour, so i have made a pie, some crumble, baked apples for supper this evening, then cooked off the rest with sugar and cinammon and cloves and frozen it.

I tend to batch cook pasta sauces, stews, chilli etc, for the kids and freeze it, as it comes in very handy for the feeding of the five thousand. I tend to roast a few joints of meat at the beginning of the week too, so supper is pretty much done and dusted most nights.

Oh, you just inspired me to make baked apples stuffed with raisins and cinnamon for desert.

 

[RichardH]

I had pasta with Pesto & parmesan. NAM NAM!

 

[DNO]

I've been hungry for chili for a week. A 93 year old friend who can barely stand said he was going to spend the day "cooking, resting, cooking, resting... I'm hungry for good chili." And that did it. So now I'd better make some.

I made chili two days ago...it's been dinner for two days in a row. I was really craving it! Tonight it'll be a classic three egg cheese omelet with a feta salad.

Great idea for a thread!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I'm not that much of a cook so tonight's fare is going to be something bare bones simple. Since it's just me, I often cook up a couple of cans of sardines (in olive oil) with diced tomatoes and serve it with couscous. It's surprisingly good.

 

[Miss sofia]

V.C - i love sardines! Although i'm lucky if i manage to get 'em out of the can before i polish the lot off.

Sheeplady - Baked apples are the best! So easy and so delish. I have to thank my Mum for reminding me about baked apples as she's visiting at the moment and there is a baking frenzy going on in my house. Eve's pudding is great too, which is what we are having tomorrow. (Cooked, spiced apples or any fruit, in a dish, covered with sponge mix and baked in the oven, yum)!

 

[LoveMyHats2]

I'm not that much of a cook so tonight's fare is going to be something bare bones simple. Since it's just me, I often cook up a couple of cans of sardines (in olive oil) with diced tomatoes and serve it with couscous. It's surprisingly good.

Sardines are good, even more so when they no longer swim! I have had them the same way you are. I also like to toss them into a salad now and again, when I make a Cesare Salad.

 

[1961MJS]

Oh, you just inspired me to make baked apples stuffed with raisins and cinnamon for desert.

Hi

How long at what temperature? I cooked several at a campfire and they were either burnt, or not quite done. I left three or four about 6 inches from the coals for about 45 minutes and they were great, or course we were all full by then.

Later

 

[C-dot]

Tonight I had the best curry chicken in the world that my neighbour was kind enough to share with me.

 

[sheeplady]

1961MJS:

About an hour or less at 350 F. I just stab them with a fork to see if they are done- I start checking around a 45 minutes. I normally put them in the oven while the meal is resting and then take them out at desert time.

I put mine in a baking dish (uncovered) with about an inch of water in the bottom, with the middles cored out and the raisins packed down in the centers, a layer of cinnamon after about half the raisins are in, and then some cinnamon sprinkled on top of the apples when they are full of raisins. Nutmeg, cloves, and ginger are good too, but cinnamon by itself is just dandy.

Just as a note- one of the best parts is to drink the apple water in the bottom of the pan. It's like a light cider. It is soooo good hot- I actually serve it in mugs.

 

[Tomasso]

Lobster salad sandwiches with french fries cooked in duck fat. It was either that or lobster risotto. Actually, I coulda/shoulda made both.