What's For Dinner? - 2020

[maggiedemi]

Fresno chilis are the fatter red chilis that most people associate with general chili pepper

Are they the same as New Mexico chili peppers?

Stouffer's mac & cheese with hot sauce.

Yum! I love hot sauce on mac & cheese.

The other salad is sort of Irish-inspired

Irish sounds interesting!

For dinner I made a fun casserole-- spaghetti, pasta sauce, garlic, onions, red/yellow bell peppers, peas, lentils, Italian Seasoning, shredded cheese, breadcrumbs made with crushed crackers & TB of butter, baked in toaster oven for 20 minutes. I might have had the rack too close to the heat. I wanted to cook it longer, but it was turning brown at 20 minutes.

 

[furmonster mom]

Are they the same as New Mexico chili peppers?

Not according to Google. The New Mexico chilis are more closely related to the Anaheim chilies... they are a little more "crinkled" than the Fresnos. Fresnos are kinda fat like Jalapenos, but the walls are thinner. To my mind, Fresnos have more of a sweet-hot flavor as opposed to the Anaheims and Jalapenos more green-hot flavor (if that makes any sense... lol).

Today we had baked potatoes with salsa, cheese, and plain yogurt (I don't do sour cream any more).
I also cooked up an odd chicken leg left over from making pet food.

 

[Winchester]

We did our mac and cheese last night....finally. No tomatoes Mia6 , but it was good anyway.

It's corned beef and cabbage day! I can't wait. You know, I've tried corned beef several ways now. Doing a simmer, throwing it into a crock pot, doing it on the grill, and doing it in the oven. I think I like the oven best. Doing it on the grill gave it an excellent flavor, but til it was done, it was a little on the tough side. I wasn't happy with it done in the crock pot at all. The oven gave it the best taste and texture. Instead of doing boiled potatoes, I'll make some colcannon; we really like that.

No Irish soda muffins today. Rick has requested some bread pudding, so we'll have that, even though it's not Irish.

And you know what's really best about corned beef? The Reubens that we'll be having tomorrow!

 

[Mia6]

Ham salad sammie last night.It's made at an Amish store and it's the best other than my mom's

 

[Kat0121]

We did our mac and cheese last night....finally. No tomatoes Mia6 , but it was good anyway.

It's corned beef and cabbage day! I can't wait. You know, I've tried corned beef several ways now. Doing a simmer, throwing it into a crock pot, doing it on the grill, and doing it in the oven. I think I like the oven best. Doing it on the grill gave it an excellent flavor, but til it was done, it was a little on the tough side. I wasn't happy with it done in the crock pot at all. The oven gave it the best taste and texture. Instead of doing boiled potatoes, I'll make some colcannon; we really like that.

No Irish soda muffins today. Rick has requested some bread pudding, so we'll have that, even though it's not Irish.

And you know what's really best about corned beef? The Reubens that we'll be having tomorrow!

I like it in the oven best too. I put a glaze on it at the end made with real maple syrup and spicy mustard. So good. I've made it in the crock pot and I think it comes out tough.

 

[muffy]

Yum. I love the BE steam fresh veggies and that one is a fave for sure.

Stouffer's mac & cheese with hot sauce.

I love Stouffer's mac & cheese. In fact all of their stuff is good.

 

[Kat0121]

I love Stouffer's mac & cheese. In fact all of their stuff is good.

Yes. I love the harvest apples and corn souffle.

Harvest Apples

Corn Souffle

 

[catapault]

Last night it was hamburgers on a roll with sauteed onions and - if you wanted it - ketchup. Home fries, steamer bag whole little green beans. Chocolate chip cookies for dessert.

For tonight I'll cook little red Salvadoran beans (they've been soaking) with ham from a friend's son's smokehouse.

 

[maggiedemi]

Fresnos are kinda fat like Jalapenos, but the walls are thinner. To my mind, Fresnos have more of a sweet-hot flavor

Once I use up all my 50 hot sauces, I want to experiment with all different types of fresh and dried hot peppers.

baked potatoes with salsa, cheese, and plain yogurt (I don't do sour cream any more)

Is it Greek yogurt? I'll have to try that with plain yogurt. We only have vanilla.

Corn Souffle

That looks so good! I'll see if I can find it when the stores restock.

For dinner I had my billion ingredient salad- lettuce, tomato, onion, red bell pepper, cucumber, radishes, avocado, sunflower seeds, cashews, shredded coconut, jalapenos, mango, peas, lentils, dried cranberries, mozzarella cheese, croutons, cilantro. I finished up the blue cheese dressing, so now I can go back to my beloved thousand island dressing.

 

[LTS3]

The Irish-inspired salad has cabbage, carrots, parsnips, red potato, leeks, peas, navy beans, pearl barely and greens. It was pretty good I got lunch and a second dinner out of the box. I still have leftover Thai Basil Beef from the weekend for dinners after that. Normally I would freeze the leftovers but my fridge is completely stuffed.... with cat food



There's a few things for me, namely the 3 prepared meals from this week's kit, two bags of indivudlaly frozen chicken thighs, some frozen veggies, a loaf of bread, and a few small things.

 

[lizzie]

Dinner tonight was grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato-basil soup.So good!

 

[Furballsmom]

grilled cheese sandwiches

Yummy, what kind of cheese do you use?

I fixed a one pan mashup of ground beef, green beans, black beans, diced tomatoes, some garlic etc. It turned out great

 

[muffy]

I am having Pacific creamy tomato and basil soup and half of a corn muffin.

 

[segelkatt]

I totally forgot about Paddy's Day but here is my take on corned beef and cabbage, saw the recipe in the newspaper ages ago, tried it and have been hooked ever since.
Wash the corned beef so there is as little salt on it as possible. Get a big pot and fit a metal colander on it as you are going to steam the meat and cabbage. Put enough water in the pot so that it comes just below the colander. Take the largest leaves of the cabbage, white or savoy, and line the colander with them. Put the meat on top of them. Steam the meat for 2 1/2 hours. Cut the cabbage head into big wedges and put them around and on the meat. Scrape carrots (however many you like), put those on and around the meat. Steam the meat, cabbage and carrots for another 30 minutes or until fork tender. The cabbage in the bottom will be very limp but taste heavenly so don't throw them out. The meat will be juicy and tender. Serve with boiled potatoes and some hearty mustard.
Last year I had some people over and they bragged on it, saying they had never had such tender corned beef, I hope they were not saying that just to be kind, however, I did overhear one of them saying the same thing to one of the people who had begged off the next day.
Since you steam the meat it will have hardly any fat on it and more salt will have run into the pot. I throw that out but you can certainly use it for soup etc.

 

[Furballsmom]

Yummy!

 

[Mamanyt1953]

I have no clue what I'm having tonight. None. I forgot to thaw the hot dogs. SIGH...I may just have red beans and rice.

A neighbor asked what I was cooking for St. Patrick's Day. Informed her, "An Irishman. I'm Scots."

 

[Furballsmom]

I'm Scots."

Gie it laldy.

(Scots for to do something with gusto. )

 

[catapault]

The Salvadoran small red beans and smokehouse ham. Plus I made cornmeal muffins. A little butter for the hot-from-the-oven muffins but their real raison d'etre was to sop up juice.

There's just a little ham, some beans, and lots of broth left. So next up will be soup, adding carrots, onion, and celery. Maybe a little pasta. Or perhaps rice.

I typically cook these sorts of meals. They are also the type of meals I could cook with my preps. What's your preps menu planning?

 

[Furballsmom]

What's your preps menu planning?

Not so different, I have spam on the menu now

 

[Kat0121]

Not so different, I have spam on the menu now

Spam is underrated IMO. Slice it thin and pan fry it until crispy. Dip the slices in some real maple syrup or tuck them into a grilled cheese sandwich. Delish. My late DH found a recipe for a quiche using Spam and asked me to make it for him. He loved it and I made it several times. Here it is. The only difference is when I made it I browned the cubes of Spam with the onions and then added them when they were cooled. They added an extra level of flavor that way. Really good.

Spam Swiss Pie