Whats for Dinner?

[tulip]

a smoothie. I have to go grocery shopping tomorrow for sure.

[bunny_ninja]

Portsmouth and York! Nice! I love cycling in that area.

[Owlie]

Dinner turned out to be a chicken sandwich with a bit of Dijon mustard and cheddar with lots of steamed broccoli on the side, with garlic hummus to dip it in.

[Catrin]

Ok, it is official - I need to come visit everyone's house for dinner because all of you are far better cooks than I am!

I had a sliced turkey sandwich, fat-free cottage cheese and strawberries. Actually the cottage cheese and strawberries came after my ride, the sandwich before my training session but those are just details

[Owlie]

Ok, it is official - I need to come visit everyone's house for dinner because all of you are far better cooks than I am!

I had a sliced turkey sandwich, fat-free cottage cheese and strawberries. Actually the cottage cheese and strawberries came after my ride, the sandwich before my training session but those are just details

You're quite welcome to come over for dinner. It's boring just cooking for me.

As proof of how much time I have on my hands, I made Indian rice pudding for breakfast. Leftovers will likely be dessert tonight and breakfast tomorrow, as I'm going home for a week. Yay!

Anyway, tonight's dinner is going to be the rest of the soup from Tuesday, probably with water crackers and goat cheese. I have some pickled broccoli stems going in the fridge (cinnamon+cardamom and garlic is an...interesting olfactory experience!), so I think they'll be the veggies!

[shootingstar]

I have not prepared any home-cooked meal for almost the past month. And won't be until 3 days later since I've been overseas and now visiting folks in Toronto.

Not even sure what place we will eat at for supper since it's holiday today, Canada Day with a number of closed restaurants.

But plan to have a dinner tonight somewhere at a restaurant with a sister I haven't seen for a year.

[bmccasland]

I need to go to the grocery store. Refrigerator raid produced: hummus with olives, heirloom cherry tomatoes, and watermelon. Had pita chips to go with the hummus.

I have a mad craving for gumbo with shrimp, and alligator andouille sausage. Just can't decide whether to make okra gumbo or file gumbo.

[tulip]

I have a mad craving for gumbo with shrimp, and alligator andouille sausage. Just can't decide whether to make okra gumbo or file gumbo.

Yum! My family is having a big reunion this weekend in Acadia Parish. I'm not going because of cost and other travel...but I'm sure they will eat well and have a big ole' party. My father, stepmother, brother, niece and nephew will all be there. I've asked them to please have a big bowl of crawfish etouffee on my behalf.

I prefer gumbo made with okra, but that's just me.

[XMcShiftersonX]

Thanks! We'll add it to the list. We're going out for lunch and dinner for 4 days so any other vegetarian/vegan suggestions are welcome! Maybe I'll post something in the Northwest section asking for ideas.

My favorites are Bamboo Garden (my fave dishes are the Chicken Chow Mein, Chicken Fried Rice, Corn Chowder, and the Sweet N Sour Chicken Balls), Hillside Quickie (particularly the one in the U district - any sandwiches with Seitan are good, the Peanut Butter Cup Milkshake is the most amazing thing I've ever eaten, and the Mac N Cheese is delicious), Pizza Pi (also in the U district, but the other end, all vegan pizza place, my favorite is the "Hawaiian" Calzone, #4 I think. They also have the most amazing salads with "Chicken" strips, bleau cheese dressing, root bear floats, ice cream sundaes, apple-cinnamon pockets kind of like dessert calzones, etc. etc.), right across the street from them, and from the same owners as Pizza Pi is Wayward Cafe for the most amazing vegan breakfast you could imagine (think pancakes, sausage, tofu scramble, crepes, waffles, etc.), AND right across from them is the vegan grocery store! Cafe Flora is another good vegetarian gourmet place, with a few vegan options on Capitol Hill, I actually prefer it to Carmelita's (My favorite is the French Dip with au jus and sweet potato fries). I'm sure you could look up all these places online, along with their menus. There's a lot more, but those are the best of the best. Have fun!

[Eden]

I have a mad craving for gumbo with shrimp, and alligator andouille sausage. Just can't decide whether to make okra gumbo or file gumbo.

OKRA, OKRA, OKRA (I love okra...) okra gumbo, okra curry yum!!
never had alligator andouille though - I tend to use TJ's chicken andouille, sacrilege I'm sure, but I like it.

[XMcShiftersonX]

OKRA, OKRA, OKRA (I love okra...) okra gumbo, okra curry yum!!
never had alligator andouille though - I tend to use TJ's chicken andouille, sacrilege I'm sure, but I like it.

I never had Okra until I was in Belize in April '09, amazing!!!

Oh and I'm so excited, I don't know where else to post this, so I'll put it here... but my husband and I just joined our local CSA, and our first organic fruit and veggie bin is going to arrive on Tuesday! I can't wait to see what I get and try to figure out how to use it.

[Catrin]

I finally actually cooked something other than baked chicken and steamed veggies For some reason I was hungry for soup - so I made some some of my never-the-same-twice refrigerator soup! This batch happened to have

Rainbow Chard, onion, cannellini beans, fire-roasted tomatoes, chicken, rice, and lots of spices

Yummy For dessert I had fresh Bing cherries

Even better, I made enough that I don't have to cook for awhile!

[Veronica]

We smoked and grilled a pork shoulder. Yesterday I made BBQ sauce for it. The first step is turning 2 liters of root beer into a cup of syrup.

Pretty tasty stuff though.

Veronica

[NbyNW]

DH is making pulled pork, roasted veggies & potatoes, and Caesar salad. I helped a little, but he's in charge tonight!

[Owlie]

I'm at home, so I don't have to cook (much)

Last night, I "volunteered" to make dinner, so we had pasta with vodka sauce and salad.
Tonight's dinner was fish cakes with avocado-tomatillo sauce, steamed broccoli and rice.