What's for Dinner? - 2025

[catapault]

rubysmama There's a collection of essays by Vance Bourjaily Title is Country Matters. One of the essays is for mujadara. Three ingredients - rice, lentils, crispy fried onions.

Even better than the green French Du Puy lentils I especially like the small black beluga lentils. No soaking needed, cook just right in about 20 to 30 minutes. Didn't I mention them a few days ago? Think I did. Oh well.

 

[lizzie]

Made some mashed potatoes,buttered peas and we finished up the pork roast and gravy.

 

[Kwik]

Lentils are delicious in so many recipes. They're packed with healthy benefits too, e.g. protein, fiber, iron and calcium just to name a few and gluten free. BTW, the red lentils cook the quickest.

Last night I had a veggie omelette with cinnamon raisin toast on the side.
DH stopped for Loraine Swiss cheese on the way home from the gym today so I'm making grilled cheese sandwiches tonight with tomato basil soup. He also got two raisin bran muffins so that will be dessert.

Yes,the red lentils are very fast but didn't have any ....,so,I just got finished with the Mujadara rice and it is DELISH- I picked so much already I guess it was breakfast-

Quite alright,sooo tastey and much healther than the pancakes,sausage & syrup I was going to have -thats what's for dinner tonight!

 

[Kwik]

Fresh beets are very different from the canned or jarred ones ( I can them pickled but they are waaaay better then commercial ones. My husband grows all the beets. He grows the red, golden which are sweeter, and the Italian heirloom Chioggia beets that are red and white striped and really excellent sliced super thin and used raw for salad.

My grandma grew them- they had beet salad (Italian) often....I just don't like good ones or bad ones .... yukky

 

[Kwik]

I make my own syrups and such for all the pickles I make.The recipe is:1 1/2 c water,3 1/2 c white vinegar,2 c sugar and 1 t salt,so I'd say you may need to quarter that.For a pint jar,or maybe just a touch less,I use 2 teaspoons of the Badia pickling spice.I'd put the syrup and pickling spice in a stainless saucepan and let it simmer for a bit...til you smell and taste the spices,and let it cool...then put it in the jar.What you'll have is just a plain sweet pickling syrup to let your egg marinate in a couple of days.What you could do is save the juice from your next can of beets and add water to that to get the amount of water you'll need,although I have seen jars of pickled eggs with just the plain syrup,no beets involved.Up here they sell them at the bars like that.You might look in the stores you shop at for actual jars or cans of actual pickled beets.We used to have them up here but I haven't seen them in awhile...honestly, I haven't looked as I have my own.Food for thought and a whole lot easier,though.I adore grits...hubby not so much at all.I love them plain,or with butter, salt, and pepper or even sugar.I am not picky!When I was a kid,my Mom used to make them, put in a loaf pan,chill overnight ,slice and fry for breakfast the next morning.We'd eat them with syrup on top.Oh such memories!

Thanks for the recipe'- I will look for plain pickled eggs,I'd probably like those even better

 

[denice]

My grandma grew them- they had beet salad (Italian) often....I just don't like good ones or bad ones .... yukky

I grew up on a farm and we always had a big garden including beets. We did the homemade canned pickled ones as well but I am the same way about beets. I just never developed a taste for them. I forget what there is in them but they are a big help in keeping blood pressure down so I started taking the Super Beets supplement every day. I know it is better to get nutrients from real food rather than supplements but I just do not care for beets.

 

[Kwik]

I grew up on a farm and we always had a big garden including beets. We did the homemade canned pickled ones as well but I am the same way about beets. I just never developed a taste for them. I forget what there is in them but they are a big help in keeping blood pressure down so I started taking the Super Beets supplement every day. I know it is better to get nutrients from real food rather than supplements but I just do not care for beets.

I was watching the ads about SuperBeets and was ready to order..... wonder how I forgot all about it and never did? You reminded me,lol

So how long have you been using it & see any difference?

 

[denice]

I was watching the ads about SuperBeets and was ready to order..... wonder how I forgot all about it and never did? You reminded me,lol

So how long have you been using it & see any difference?

I started taking those along with walking and cleaning up my diet. I had a high blood pressure reading last Spring. I hadn't had that before but my mother did have high blood pressure. Six weeks later my blood pressure had come down and has stayed down. I don't know how big a part the SuperBeets had to do with it but I am going to continue with what is working.

 

[Kwik]

I started taking those along with walking and cleaning up my diet. I had a high blood pressure reading last Spring. I hadn't had that before but my mother did have high blood pressure. Six weeks later my blood pressure had come down and has stayed down. I don't know how big a part the SuperBeets had to do with it but I am going to continue with what is working.

Thank you for sharing- It would seem it has something to do with it and it certainly can't hurt.... I'll have to give it a try,I'm having a lot of things going on and I can definitely use some supplements in my diet

 

[IzzysfureverMom]

My grandma grew them- they had beet salad (Italian) often....I just don't like good ones or bad ones .... yukky

I did not like them as a kid ( only had them boiled) My dad always disliked them and never ate them.

 

[rubysmama]

rubysmama rubysmama There's a collection of essays by Vance Bourjaily Title is Country Matters. One of the essays is for mujadara. Three ingredients - rice, lentils, crispy fried onions.

Similar recipe here: Lentils and Rice with Fried Onions (Mujadarrah)

so,I just got finished with the Mujadara rice and it is DELISH- I picked so much already I guess it was breakfast-

Glad you liked it... as breakfast.

I really must make it myself soon. I just remember it took a while to caramelize the onions. I never soaked my lentils either. Maybe that makes them cook faster.

 

[Kwik]

Similar recipe here: Lentils and Rice with Fried Onions (Mujadarrah)



Glad you liked it... as breakfast.

I really must make it myself soon. I just remember it took a while to caramelize the onions. I never soaked my lentils either. Maybe that makes them cook faster.

Not everyone soaks like that but besides faster cooking time it helps with digestion,breaking down carbs & oligosaccharides( like beans beans ,good for the heart.... lol) Also makes the nutrients easier for your body to absorb....and the lentils themselves absorb more of the flavors you cook them in

 

[Kris107]

Tamales (green chile and jack cheese) and some mexi rice.

 

[Winchester]

Earlier this week, I made oven-fried chicken in cast iron pans. I also made a pan of baked ziti earlier this week. Rick is not fond of chicken, but he suffered through it.

So tonight, I had leftover over-fried chicken (reheated in the NFG) and Rick devoured the last of the ziti.

 

[lizzie]

We finished off the leftover spaghetti and garlic bread for dinner.

 

[IzzysfureverMom]

So you cook and can your own beets? How do you pickle eggs?I've hard boiled eggs and then put them in a jar of pickle juice and they were disgusting- rofl

Down here in the South they used to sell them from a big jar of eggs( like barrel pickles)on the lunch truck that drove through neighborhoods...fresh out of NYC 42 yrs ago I noticed bright fuschia colored eggs and tried one with no clue it was beet juice! I was not daring enough yet to try chitterlings,ox tail or even pulled pork- lol

As you probably know chitterlings are intestines.My husband's father loved them it was a no go for my husband and me. Apparently they are very popular in Sicily.

 

[Kwik]

As you probably know chitterlings are intestines.My husband's father loved them it was a no go for my husband and me. Apparently they are very popular in Sicily.

I don't like " Trippa" ( stomach) or "Soffritto"(calf inners- heart ,lung,spleen combo) but chitterlings I like( pig)--, in Sicily they use lamb veal or goat intestine ( stigghiola) which I don't like either

I like pork belly too( Pancetta)..
I really only eat chicken or pork,don't like other meats really or their innards ..... I'd rather Chinese food than Italian

 

[IzzysfureverMom]

Pork tenderloin with asparagus, tomatoes, red onion and farro

 

[sk8termom]

hard for me to cook with my broken foot- but I made baked some pork chops for a few days, have some frozen kale I will figure out how to use. Nothing too exciting

 

[lizzie]

He had asked a couple of times for bacon and pancakes,so tonight was it.