Watcha making for dinner tonight!?

[Sugaree]

Tonight is "tamale-inspired" waffles with black bean hash.  Basically waffles made from masa harina and cornmeal, topped with a mixture of onion, bell pepper, black beans, corn, and taco seasoning. 

[mspym]

Tonight is ajvar gnocchi with zucchini and cannellini beans. It’s the most lurid colour you’ve ever seen but very easy and delicious.

[grantmeaname]

Ajvar has basically taken over my life since I discovered it last year. It's so incredibly good.

[mspym]

Ajvar has basically taken over my life since I discovered it last year. It's so incredibly good.

For real, it's amazing. So glad my Serbian ex-work colleague introduced me to it years ago.

Regulars usages in our household
- as a pasta sauce!
- mix into greek yogurt as a dipping sauce!
- with hummus on pita breads!
- on seedy-bread topped with thinly sliced cheese and a fried egg!
- smeared on boiled eggs
- a very flavourful pizza sauce

[jeninco]

It's late summer farmer's market season 'round here...

Last night: tacos: homemade tomatillo sauce, shredded last bits of leftover beef, a patty pan squash, sautéed with a roasted poblano, a few cut up tomatoes, some shredded red cabbage with a little vinegar, black bean and (fresh! sweet!) corn with chipotle vinaigrette.

Tonight: it finally cooled off, so I'm not sure. I have potatoes, green beans (that I steamed last night) and a bunch of ripe tomatoes and cakes to use up this evening, so probably a greek salad with ... something? (Hmm, or some variation on a Niçoise salad, possibly with canned tuna.)

[Roadrunner53]

Corned beef sandwiches. Cooked a corned beef in the crockpot and will slice it up, put on a grinder roll with some sauerkraut, melted swiss cheese and mustard.

[MaybeBabyMustache]

@jeninco - thanks for the reminder to pick my tomatillos & make a batch of salsa verde. Your dinner sounds delicious.

It's been another really crazy week at my house, so we're doing the high quality option of .... leftovers. Adults will have grilled chicken salads. Kids will have pizza leftover from a giant teen swim party.

[mspym]

Chicken caesar salad with croutons made to use up uneaten breadcrusts.

[Tyson]

Pork sausage and 'live' saurkraut.

[Josiecat22222]

Corn chowder and salad for me, leftover chicken and steak and baked potatoes for the lad and DH

[PDXTabs]

Gluten free fusilli and red sauce from a jar that I doctored up with 12% fat beef mince, onions, mushrooms, and shelf stable cheese. 

[jeninco]

Last night: Mark Bitman's "this ain't really Cassoulet", with beans, some random sausage, and a ton of vegetables. Topped with homemade sauerkraut.
Tonight: Quick beef stew with onions, potatoes, carrots, and green beans. Thank heavens for the pressure cooker: got the beef cubes cooked in record time! Side of a perfectly ripe tomato salad, and some fresh, sweet corn.

I deliberately overbought corn, cut the remainder off the cob, and some time later this week we'll have a salad of black beans, corn, little bits of red pepper, and avocado cubes in a chipotle vinaigrette.

Also later this week: eggplant rollatini, courtesy of the smitten kitchen. I roasted several eggplants cut into slabs yesterday, (along with a shit-ton of yellow and red peppers, which are already residing in the fridge in a yummy vinaigrette.)

[sui generis]

Store bought gnocchi with a sauce of butter, garlic then sauteed tomatoes under the broiler with mozzarella, topped with basil from the garden.  Served with stir-fried bok choy.

[mspym]

Ladera with pita breads and feta.

Now off looking up eggplant rollatini

[jeninco]

Ladera with pita breads and feta.

Now off looking up eggplant rollatini

https://smittenkitchen.com/2022/09/eggplant-involtini/
It's on the menu for tonight (probably) :^).

[Roadrunner53]

I just learned how to cook rice in my slow cooker! It is a no brainer but I have never done it before. I used my smaller slow cooker. It is probably 3 quarts. I used a crockpot liner. It said to rub the sides of crockpot with butter so I did my best to put some butter on the CP liner. Then I added 4 cups of hot water and 2 cups jasmine rice. To that, I threw in a little salt and a couple tablespoons of butter. The recipe said to cook 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours on high. It also said to stir a couple of times. After about 45 minutes I stirred it. At 1 1/2 hours, the rice was cooked perfectly. It was fluffy and not sicky. What is also great is that I could pull the entire batch of rice out in the liner and put in a storage container to put in fridge. The CP was clean so no pot to wash.

[MaybeBabyMustache]

We're having beef kebabs, rice & a cucumber/yogurt sauce.

[Tyson]

Home-made spaghetti using tomatoes my neighbor gave me.

[sui generis]

Home-made spaghetti using tomatoes my neighbor gave me.

That's what we're having, too!  Though it's leftovers from having made it a few nights ago.  First time I've ever made spaghetti pomodoro from scratch.

[mspym]

Tonight I'll be turning leftover spinach & chickpea curry into little open handpies, with a broccoli salad.

[sonofsven]

Spaghetti squash from my garden.

[Trifle]

Fall weather has come here, and we're having chili and cornbread. 

[jeninco]

Today is going rapidly sideways, but I had time this afternoon to pre-trim a bunch of green beans, make some tomato sauce, and make 3/4 lb of beef into meatballs that are currently residing in the (on the stove, but turned off) tomato sauce. When my work call ends around 6:15, I'll turn the pot back on, turn on the pot with the pasta water, and we'll have dinner in the time it takes to boil water + cook pasta (I'll throw the green beans in the boiling water at some point, too).

[couponvan]

I made the baby potato, shallot, bacon, arugula “idiot proof” dinner a forumite gave me. It was just the ticket for a dinner that was easy to prep ahead and looked fancy when served.

425 degrees

1 bag baby potatoes tri variety or red
1 bag shallots
1/2 lb bacon sliced in 1” pieces
1t. Salt
1t. Pepper
Mix together and put on lined baking sheet

Bake 15 minutes-toss hot ingredients to coat.

Mix 5 oz arugula and 1T lemon juice (or vinegar) in a large bowl. Put back in fridge.

Bake additional 30 minutes-check doneness. If not fully cooked, toss again and bake 10 more minutes.

When fully cooked, stir into the arugula bowl and serve immediately.

Yummy!

[mspym]

Last night was a tomato & feta tart with salad, tonight is salad nicoise.

[Josiecat22222]

@mspym that tart sounds delicious. Do you make your own crust? If you have a link to the recipe, I'd love to see it

[mspym]

@mspym that tart sounds delicious. Do you make your own crust? If you have a link to the recipe, I'd love to see it

I 100% use commercial puff pastry for the crust because life is too short. This is the recipe: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/recipe-easy-tomato-feta-tarts/S3GMBMSSMYDVYTQ3WJBRYUSIQQ/

[Josiecat22222]

LOL! couldn't agree more!! I use pillsbury crust in the red box for all pies for the same reason!

[mspym]

Tonight's dinner is going to be really simple but delicious - linguine with sauteed red onion, roast red peppers, mushrooms & peas in an oil/herb sauce, topped with some grana padano.

[Fresh Bread]

@mspym that sounds nice apart from the mushrooms.

I'm going to try this lemony baked rice thingo but will serve it with hot smoked wild salmon or smoked mackerel.
https://www.delicious.com.au/recipes/spanish-style-salmon-lemon-roasted-rice/7mdy7g46?current_section=recipes

I am using a fresh lemon but I'm leaving out the sumac because I don't have any, so hopefully it's not too lemony. And I'm using cashews instead of almonds because that's what's in the pantry, and I'm not chopping them.

[mspym]

@Fresh Bread that fish looks *amazing*. The nice thing about the linguine dish is you can use up anything in your cupboards or leave out things you don't like, such as mushrooms.

[Trifle]

Shepherd's pie

[sui generis]

Curried lentil, tomato and coconut soup. 

[Sugaree]

Having a leftover buffet tonight.  There are several things that need to be eaten before they turn into science projects.

[Roadrunner53]

Making a nice spicy chili, spicy corn bread and a salad. It has turned a little chilly here so chili sounds perfect!

[Fresh Bread]

I wasn't a massive fan of the crunchy baked rice I tried above ^ so tonight I'm reworking it. I'm baking a tray of various veg* with olive oil, smoked paprika, coriander seeds, mint, half a lemon (diced), salt & pepper and a sliced long red chilli.  I'm also roasting a couple of chicken drumsticks on top. When that is done I'll put the drumsticks to one side & stir half a cup of brown rice & fresh parsley through the veg and then serve with a drumstick.

*Parsnip, butternut squash, zucchini, broccoli

[Sugaree]

I'm going to attempt to cook sweet potato and black bean quesadillas.  All the ingredients are prepped and ready to go, but I can't promise that I'm not going to get home and say "Eff it" and cook a frozen pizza.

[couponvan]

It’s Crocktober! On the 1st I made corn chowder. Today is Turkey sloppy Joe’s and a chopped salad. The think I like about crocktober is your dinner is pretty much done in the morning, so take out is less of a temptation. I’m freezing 1/2 the crock meals, so I can eat them again in November without really cooking. (Passionate penny pincher recipes this month.)

[jeninco]

I'm away from home, helping my aunt through surgery (which is tomorrow).
Today: A soft of pasta fazool-ish thing: sauce an italian sausage and some onions, then add tomato sauce and some dried white beans, later toss in some small pasta and some greens.

Tomorrow: fuck if I know, I'll be at the hospital all day helping out/providing company, and I'll be headed back early. Probably leftovers.

Wed: hopefully she comes home! Per her request, chipped beef with gravy on baked potatoes. Per my inclination, roasted Brussels sprouts on the side. You get me, you get one or more vegetables with every meal: it's part of the deal.

Thurs: likely smoked pork with cabbage and potatoes, probably all cooked in one giant cast-iron pan.

Friday: Not sure, but it'll include asparagus. I noted some polenta in the kitchen, so things could go in that direction. We'll have some leftover beef that'll need using, so these things could all be combined nicely...

[MaybeBabyMustache]

@jeninco - you are a hero, for providing surgery/post surgery support, as well as cooking & adding veggies!

We're in a divide & conquer mode, for sports practice & meal prep. I'm doing the driving tonight, my husband is making steak & roasted acorn squash. On a Monday. Which is, random for us, but we have steak left over, because the teens were unexpectedly not home for dinner last night. And, roasted squash, because it's my seasonal favorite, and I can't stop buying them & roasting them. YUM.

[Sugaree]

I'm going to attempt to cook sweet potato and black bean quesadillas.  All the ingredients are prepped and ready to go, but I can't promise that I'm not going to get home and say "Eff it" and cook a frozen pizza.

It's an Eff-It Frozen Pizza night at our house. We have an hour between getting home and going to Scouts. I will microwave a bag of frozen veggies, so it's healthy, right?

I ended up having to deal with some crap that I wasn't expecting so we'll try again on the quesadillas tonight.  It wasn't frozen pizza, but it was french bread pizza. 

[sonofsven]

Deep fried salmon, boiled potatoes, the last of the garden broccoli.
Next it's time to focus on spaghetti squash.

[Josiecat22222]

creamy pesto spinach tortellini.  Trying to use up all of the bits and bobs from the freezer/pantry/etc.  This dish is going to be a real hardship, but I'm a giver.

[sui generis]

Black bean burgers with homemade french fries, and a side salad.

[mspym]

Last night was a sort of meze platter - some cucumber, peppers, avocado, feta, olives, grilled asparagus, veggie fritters, hummus and a toasted pita bread.
Tonight is some sort of vegetarian taco thing - we may make the tortillas.

[couponvan]

Ranch roasted potatoes and a salad of some sort.

[Anette]

Homemade keto (bunless) burgers topped with cheese, avocado and fried egg served with a green salad

[sonofsven]

Salmon, because I'm sick of spaghetti squash.

[jeninco]

Black bean burgers with homemade french fries, and a side salad.

Do you have a recipe you like for the burgers? We need more non-stew-types of bean recipes!

Last night, we had the smitten kitchen stuffed eggplant Parmesan, and a salad. Tonight we're going out for my "office party". (It's neither an office, being a working group of independent consultants, nor really a party, but it's nice to get together with everyone once or twice a year. I'll probably walk, as it's not much more than a mile, and margaritas may be involved :^)

[mspym]

@jeninco here’s the recipe I use for black bean burgers https://www.skinnytaste.com/spicy-black-bean-burgers-with-chipotle/ but if I was wanting something really non-stew like, this is the bomb https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/zucchini-lentil-fritters-with-lemony-yogurt