The All-New What's For Dinner Thread!!(recipe index in OP)

[Nancyg56]

Good Morning All! I hope everyone had a nice Mother's Day. I enjoyed mine. Buddy and I worked in the yard. He got started early and took out all of the black paper that was under the mulch. I hate that I let the landscaper put in in the areas that I don't plant. I have about 18 inches of mulch framing the outside of the retaining wall in front of the house so in the fall I can plant tulips and daffies to outline it.

I made some CORE salads for dinner and headed out too. We had burgers and salad and Donny brought ribs. YUMMMMMMM> I made a berry crisp that was CORE WW. It was one expensive bust. We are going to stick to fruit salad for dessert from now on I think.

Tonight is leftovers.

 

[paintnolish]

Hi! Disney Ron, thanks for the warm welcome! I guess I'll intro myself. Tracy, 31, full-time student (HS Eng), waitress at family Italian restaurant, mom to two (ds 8 and dd 7), and planning a wedding (frighteningly soon!) to df, 29, teacher. We live in Central, IL. I love to cook and love to bake. My specialty is breakfast! I like to fatten those around me...makes me look skinnier! So, that's me in nutshell!
shovan- Those pics look amazing! Magazine quality shots!
Tigerkat- Cool pic of ds. Neat angle!
hersey- Come on down, too. Our cake will serve 150 and looks like we are only going to have 100!

Last night we went to Flat Top (make your own stir-fry) for Mother's Day. We had big 'ol stir-fries and a "triple chocolate storm" for dessert (aka brownie ala mode). Then the kids got home from xh's and made me a cake! What's a mom to do? I had to eat a piece?!?
Hope all of your Mom's Days were nice, too!

 

[Nancyg56]

Laura- The American Dolls are cute but they cannot beat the real thing
Caili is the real "American Doll" Kady just had to have one for Christmas, she did not realize that the doll she got in Disney was one, so Santa brought her a "just like me" doll and for Holidays she has been getting clothes for them. They dress like twins, but honestly she does not play with them. They get dressed and then they look pretty. That's it.

Sheryl- I would have loved to see your little Cutie all dressed up in her finery for her fancy meal out. I am a sucker for "girly" girls as we never had one in the family before Kady.Of course it is hard to picture her that way when she was perched on top of a mountain of dirt and grass that was in her Pa's dump truck, leaping over the gate into the mulch I thought that Marisa was going to have a heart attack.....there is a reason she cringes when Pa takes Kady away without adult (think Marisa) supervision

Kathy- Don't think we are going to get tires of pictures of our Kyle! Keep sharing them, and I think this one is a fierce signature!

Ann- I'm sorry that the next two days are going to be long ones, but have fun at the game! The girls play from the heart.

 

[Piglet843]

Good Morning - I hope everyone had a great weekend and a truly wonderful mothers day!

My big event went off without any problems. All my food turned out really good. I'd like to thank you guys for that. Your recipes and advice helped me make it a special dinner for my family. So thank you!

As I figured I would - I made way too much food. Everyone took some home and I still have a fridge full. So todays lunch and tonight's dinner is leftovers for me.
DH doesn't do leftovers so its up to me to consume them. And its up to him to make his own non leftover dinner

Between cleaning house and cookin all weekend, I'm absolutely pooped today. I hope its an easy day here at work - I can get out on time - then crash my behind on the sofa with my leftovers tonight.

Ya'll have a good monday. I'll be glad when mine is over!
Toodles

 

[TigerKat]

Wow!! Kudos to the photographer on this one. What a cool shot!! Tell him his Auntie Kitty is proud of him (seriously, just to see the look on his face over the "kitty" business!)

My DD gave me such a wonderful gift! My own recipe book! It's a traditional wire bound book, but it has my recipes & pics in it! I can online & add more too! I also think I can share it online. It was a really good day!


Nancy, Funny you should ask how I'm feeling. I'm only awake now because my neck was hurting. The dr. found bone spurs pinching the spinal column in several spots in my neck. He gave me a cortisone type injection on Thurs, hoping we could control the pain with that. But the injection hurt & my neck still does too. That was the rheumatologist, he said surgery may or may not be neccesary. I think I'm going to go ahead & schedule an appt. with one of the better neuro's in the city & see what they have to say.

What a wonderful gift!!!!

I hope you can get some good info from the neuro, sounds painful.

I guess I'll intro myself. Tracy, 31, full-time student (HS Eng), waitress at family Italian restaurant, mom to two (ds 8 and dd 7), and planning a wedding (frighteningly soon!) to df, 29, teacher. We live in Central, IL. I love to cook and love to bake. My specialty is breakfast! I like to fatten those around me...makes me look skinnier! So, that's me in nutshell!

Welcome Tracy!!! I look forward to sharing recipes with you.

Kathy- Don't think we are going to get tires of pictures of our Kyle! Keep sharing them, and I think this one is a fierce signature!

Thanks Nan, I just might work on my sig...


WFD - Beans & rice with ham steaks.

 

[liamandcaili]

I guess I'll intro myself. Tracy, 31, full-time student (HS Eng), waitress at family Italian restaurant, mom to two (ds 8 and dd 7), and planning a wedding (frighteningly soon!) to df, 29, teacher. We live in Central, IL. I love to cook and love to bake. My specialty is breakfast! I like to fatten those around me...makes me look skinnier! So, that's me in nutshell!

Welcome, Tracy! I hope you'll share recipes and wedding details.

My own recipe book! It's a traditional wire bound book, but it has my recipes & pics in it!

That is a cool present. I can just picture Alexis all dressed up and showing off her finery. Great job on the fish.

My big event went off without any problems.

Glad to hear it.

Kathy -- I love the picture! I never get tired of seeing pictures.

Nancy -- At least Kady keeps her dolls dressed. Caili takes the clothes off the dolls to put on the stuffed animals.

My mom left me with a whole plate of leftover fried chicken, so that's what we are having tonight.

 

[OKWMom]

Hi Everyone!

I just have time for a quick check in this morning, but I wanted to say a quick hello and say I'm really going to try and read through what I've missed. Really I am. But I'm not sure I'm going to be able to catch up on everything.

My life has been nuts the last couple of weeks. Between dealing with my darling 12 year old step son who is being quite a monster and who also will tell you his father and I are the meanest parents on the planet, and helping my parents get all the financials for their business together to list it for sale, there has been almost no time for me. I'm still not caught up on preparing the financial information my parents need, but hope to finish the last items this week. Then it may slow down until it sells and the due diligence period begins.

My roof is still not completed, although it is very, very close. Or so the roof guy keeps telling me. So I hosted Mother's Day with shingles stacked in my yard. Oh well.

Oh. And I'm waiting on Kenny to call me this morning when he gets out of the doctor's office with said step son who may or may not have chicken pox!

I think we are having some kind of chicken tonight, but I'm not sure yet. I am sure, however, that there will be a vodka/tonic in my evening plans.

I'm off to try and catch up now.

 

[bigmerle1966]

Funny you should say Caili looks like a doll. More than one skater at her ice rink has commented on how the new American Girl figure skating doll looks like Caili.

Personally, I think Caili is cuter.

That really does look like her. You should ask for royalties.

My DD gave me such a wonderful gift! My own recipe book! It's a traditional wire bound book, but it has my recipes & pics in it! I can online & add more too! I also think I can share it online. It was a really good day!

That's really cool.

Hi! Disney Ron, thanks for the warm welcome! I guess I'll intro myself. Tracy, 31, full-time student (HS Eng), waitress at family Italian restaurant, mom to two (ds 8 and dd 7), and planning a wedding (frighteningly soon!) to df, 29, teacher. We live in Central, IL. I love to cook and love to bake. My specialty is breakfast! I like to fatten those around me...makes me look skinnier! So, that's me in nutshell!
shovan- Those pics look amazing! Magazine quality shots!
Tigerkat- Cool pic of ds. Neat angle!
hersey- Come on down, too. Our cake will serve 150 and looks like we are only going to have 100!

Welcome!

Weather here is dreary nasty! It's been rainy pretty steadily since yesterday afternoon and there's lot's of flooding in the area. Thankfully tomorrow is going to be nice, I'm going to a baseball game.

Tonight for dinner will be one of two things, chicken or egg rolls. I had planned chicken but my DM wants to make Vietnamese egg rolls. Depends on if she goes through with it. If it's chicken I am going to kind of make a recipe I saw Giada make on FoodTv this weekend. If it's the egg rolls I will wait until tomorrow night.

Giada made this pan seared salmon and put it on a bed of whole wheat spaghetti. She just cooked the spaghetti and put it in a bowl with minced garlic, lemon juice, capers and basil. I am going to make it with chicken and lime juice instead, I have limes I need to use.

 

[shovan]

Gretchen, Sorry things have been crazy! Really praying that your dSS doesn't have chickenpox.

Hi! Disney Ron, thanks for the warm welcome! I guess I'll intro myself. Tracy,
shovan- Those pics look amazing! Magazine quality shots!

Tracy, Welcome! Glad you've joined in! Thanks, but if you want to see magazine quality shots, just hang around until liam'saunt (Becky) returns from her vacation! Not only will she have gorgeous views of St John, but she will have prepared & taken pics of the most amazing food I've ever seen!!!

Good Morning!

I hope everyone had a great day yesterday. We saw my Mom on Friday so yesterday was just me, Tom and Andrew. The only thing I wanted to do was go to the gun range. We have taken up target shooting and I absolutely love it!

Sheryl, Dinner looks good!!! Sorry you are not feeling 100%.

Lauren, Glad you had a good weekend! Thanks for the compliment & well wishes too! Target Shooting uh? Girl, what are you going to come up with next?

Now, that looks great!!! I love the lighting!

Thanks! I ordered the wicks off of ebay. I have to go by some more oil, I have LOTS of wine & liquor bottles to fill! Unfortunately, I'll need more citronella if we are going to continue to try to eat outside in the evenings. We were almost carried off by the mosquitos the other night. And the smell of citronella certainly doesn't enhance the taste of my meals!

Laura- The American Dolls are cute but they cannot beat the real thing
Caili is the real "American Doll" Kady just had to have one for Christmas, she did not realize that the doll she got in Disney was one, so Santa brought her a "just like me" doll and for Holidays she has been getting clothes for them. They dress like twins, but honestly she does not play with them. They get dressed and then they look pretty. That's it.

Sheryl- I would have loved to see your little Cutie all dressed up in her finery for her fancy meal out. I am a sucker for "girly" girls as we never had one in the family before Kady.Of course it is hard to picture her that way when she was perched on top of a mountain of dirt and grass that was in her Pa's dump truck, leaping over the gate into the mulch I thought that Marisa was going to have a heart attack.....there is a reason she cringes when Pa takes Kady away without adult (think Marisa) supervision

Nancy, I'm really mad at myself for forgetting to take pictures yesterday! Alexis & Kady sound very much alike. She begs for the dolls but hardly plays with them. Sometimes she is such a girly thing, but then she loves bugs, fishing & riding the 4-wheeler in the woods with her Daddy! I feel Marissa's pain, I hate even hearing about some of the stuff they get into, the thought of it, just makes me cringe!

My big event went off without any problems. All my food turned out really good.

Gina, I'm happy that your meal turned out so well!

What a wonderful gift!!!!

I hope you can get some good info from the neuro, sounds painful.

The cookbook is so cool, when I figure the techie part of it, I'll share it with y'all!

Kathy, 1st I have to book the appt.

That is a cool present. I can just picture Alexis all dressed up and showing off her finery. Great job on the fish.

Nancy -- At least Kady keeps her dolls dressed. Caili takes the clothes off the dolls to put on the stuffed animals.

My mom left me with a whole plate of leftover fried chicken, so that's what we are having tonight
.

Laura, I wish y'all could have seen her, she was working it!

Alexis also does the same thing with the doll clothes. Whatever fits one doll, she decides has to go on another doll or animal that it really doesn't even fit.

On the fish, I used a stainless pan with holes in it, meant for grill cooking. I oiled & sprayed it a bunch, that really made it easier for me than just cooking it on the cast iron grate. No matter how much I oil that, the fish is going to be stuck.



Dinner will be leftover halibut, although I'm sure it will be eaten very late & not enjoyed nearly as much as the other night. DH has a very difficult meeting at 6 & he could use some prayers today. Some family business, I can't share much about, with a city hearing this evening, about some inherited property.

 

[FormrCastMbr]

Warning: I sliced my finger pretty bad this AM and having a hard time typing so forgive my typos!

Hi! Disney Ron, thanks for the warm welcome! I guess I'll intro myself. Tracy, 31, full-time student (HS Eng), waitress at family Italian restaurant, mom to two (ds 8 and dd 7), and planning a wedding (frighteningly soon!) to df, 29, teacher. We live in Central, IL. I love to cook and love to bake. My specialty is breakfast! I like to fatten those around me...makes me look skinnier! So, that's me in nutshell!

Hi Tracy! I am Lauren (37) and SAHM to Andrew 10. I got married last June to Tom. We are in the middle of a major renovation on the downstairs of our house, doing alot ourselves so I have been a witch lately.

We would love to hear about your wedding...the girls here were my sounding board for alot of the ideas I had. We had more cake than we needed too so had cake boxes for everyone to take some home.

We will be in Disney for out first anniversary!

Good Morning - I hope everyone had a great weekend and a truly wonderful mothers day!

My big event went off without any problems.

Glad it was great!

*************************
Kat, Love that pic in your signature!

Gretchen, good to see you my friend!

Sheryl, What a great gift you received from your DD...that was so thoughtful! As far as shooting...I really love it. I thought I would hate it...Tom and I may try a husband/wife competition in the near future in PA. Its pistol and rifle...I am not too great on the rifle...Andrew is a great shot too so we may look into him competing too.

Funny thing is, Tom is so careful and makes sure we are careful too (of course)...he goes and shoots a 1/2 " staple right into his finger yesterday. My gosh, he wouldn't stop complaining about it yesterday. "Do you think its broke"? "Do you think I chipped a bone"? Blah Blah Blah!

 

[Aimeedyan]

OK, turn away now if you've seen enough Kyle baseball pics. I PROMISE this is the last one of his high school career. This was just sent to me by another parent and I really liked it. This was him pitching in Shreveport:

What a fantastic picture!!

My DD gave me such a wonderful gift! My own recipe book! It's a traditional wire bound book, but it has my recipes & pics in it! I can online & add more too! I also think I can share it online. It was a really good day!

What a great gift!

Here's some food porn for y'all from Saturday evening's dinner. The pics not great because it was getting dark.

I had some super fresh and expensive halibut, so we decided to make it a special evening.

The halibut was marinated with lemon & dill. I grilled it & the garlic bread. ( I'm trying Laura! I used an extra grill pan to keep it from sticking to the grates.)

The salad was really good too! Arugula with tomato, vidalia onion, fresh mozzarella, basil dressed with olive oil. The champagne was extra yummy!

Yummy! Love the candles!

Hi! Disney Ron, thanks for the warm welcome! I guess I'll intro myself. Tracy, 31, full-time student (HS Eng), waitress at family Italian restaurant, mom to two (ds 8 and dd 7), and planning a wedding (frighteningly soon!) to df, 29, teacher. We live in Central, IL. I love to cook and love to bake. My specialty is breakfast! I like to fatten those around me...makes me look skinnier! So, that's me in nutshell!
shovan- Those pics look amazing! Magazine quality shots!
Tigerkat- Cool pic of ds. Neat angle!
hersey- Come on down, too. Our cake will serve 150 and looks like we are only going to have 100!

Last night we went to Flat Top (make your own stir-fry) for Mother's Day. We had big 'ol stir-fries and a "triple chocolate storm" for dessert (aka brownie ala mode). Then the kids got home from xh's and made me a cake! What's a mom to do? I had to eat a piece?!?
Hope all of your Mom's Days were nice, too!

Welcome, Tracy! I'm Aimee, 29, married with no kids yet - have 3 dogs that think they are my children. I work a lot and like really easy, cheap dishes.

Good Morning - I hope everyone had a great weekend and a truly wonderful mothers day!

My big event went off without any problems. All my food turned out really good. I'd like to thank you guys for that. Your recipes and advice helped me make it a special dinner for my family. So thank you!

As I figured I would - I made way too much food. Everyone took some home and I still have a fridge full. So todays lunch and tonight's dinner is leftovers for me.
DH doesn't do leftovers so its up to me to consume them. And its up to him to make his own non leftover dinner

Between cleaning house and cookin all weekend, I'm absolutely pooped today. I hope its an easy day here at work - I can get out on time - then crash my behind on the sofa with my leftovers tonight.

Ya'll have a good monday. I'll be glad when mine is over!
Toodles

Glad it went so well!! Any pics to share?


Tonight I'm making creamy ranch chicken. Someone posted it last week, I think? Sounds tasty.

Question for the experienced cooks: I bought some orange roughy at the store. I've never cooked it at home before that I remember. What is your favorite way to serve it? Any recipes you like? Thanks!

 

[FormrCastMbr]

Aimee,

I very rarely make fish but just came across this thread re: Orange Roughy. maybe it will help.

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1822620

 

[TigerKat]

My life has been nuts the last couple of weeks. Between dealing with my darling 12 year old step son who is being quite a monster and who also will tell you his father and I are the meanest parents on the planet, and helping my parents get all the financials for their business together to list it for sale, there has been almost no time for me.

Praying that it's not chicken pox. Try and make some time for yourself my friend, you certainly deserve it and need it.

DH has a very difficult meeting at 6 & he could use some prayers today. Some family business, I can't share much about, with a city hearing this evening, about some inherited property.

Prayers said.

Warning: I sliced my finger pretty bad this AM and having a hard time typing so forgive my typos!


Funny thing is, Tom is so careful and makes sure we are careful too (of course)...he goes and shoots a 1/2 " staple right into his finger yesterday. My gosh, he wouldn't stop complaining about it yesterday. "Do you think its broke"? "Do you think I chipped a bone"? Blah Blah Blah!

for you and your finger and at Tom behaving like a MAN.

 

[Aimeedyan]

Aimee,

I very rarely make fish but just came across this thread re: Orange Roughy. maybe it will help.

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1822620

Thank you!

 

[shovan]

Warning: I sliced my finger pretty bad this AM and having a hard time typing so forgive my typos!




Sheryl, What a great gift you received from your DD...that was so thoughtful! As far as shooting...I really love it. I thought I would hate it...Tom and I may try a husband/wife competition in the near future in PA. Its pistol and rifle...I am not too great on the rifle...Andrew is a great shot too so we may look into him competing too.

Funny thing is, Tom is so careful and makes sure we are careful too (of course)...he goes and shoots a 1/2 " staple right into his finger yesterday. My gosh, he wouldn't stop complaining about it yesterday. "Do you think its broke"? "Do you think I chipped a bone"? Blah Blah Blah!

Are you & Tom in a contest? Who's finger hurts most? You guys need to be careful! And now you're telling me y'all are out together shooting!!!

What a great gift!

Yummy! Love the candles!

Question for the experienced cooks: I bought some orange roughy at the store. I've never cooked it at home before that I remember. What is your favorite way to serve it? Any recipes you like? Thanks!

Thanks!

On the fish, you can do anything with roughy. That's a firm, mild & flaky fish, so anything would be good. Mmmm, fish tacos!

 

[Aimeedyan]

Are you & Tom in a contest? Who's finger hurts most? You guys need to be careful! And now you're telling me y'all are out together shooting!!!



Thanks!

On the fish, you can do anything with roughy. That's a firm, mild & flaky fish, so anything would be good. Mmmm, fish tacos!

Ooh, I love fish tacos. Maybe I'll do that.

 

[liamandcaili]

Aimee -- I second the fish tacos! Becky and I made that orange roughy with the potato crust before, and we hated it. (Sorry, Lauren...I know it wasn't your recipe though ) For us, it goes in the books as one of the worst meals we've made. Maybe we did something wrong.

That really does look like her. You should ask for royalties.

Now THAT is a brilliant idea!! Your planned chicken meal sounds good.

Sometimes she is such a girly thing, but then she loves bugs, fishing & riding the 4-wheeler in the woods with her Daddy!

I think our three princesses would get along famously. Caili is girly too, but LOVES worms! She lets them wriggle all over her hands, and then she makes them a home out of fresh dirt.

Prayers said that the meeting goes okay.

Funny thing is, Tom is so careful and makes sure we are careful too (of course)...he goes and shoots a 1/2 " staple right into his finger yesterday. My gosh, he wouldn't stop complaining about it yesterday. "Do you think its broke"? "Do you think I chipped a bone"? Blah Blah Blah!

I probably shouldn't laugh. Getting a staple in the finger doesn't sound like fun, but the "Do you think I chipped a bone?" slayed me.

Well, I am procrastinating painting a flower box that Caili wants to decorate for my mom. I guess I better go do it before she gets home from school.

I am rethinking the fried chicken. I just had a huge lunch.

 

[shovan]

Aimee -- I second the fish tacos! Becky and I made that orange roughy with the potato crust before, and we hated it. (Sorry, Lauren...I know it wasn't your recipe though ) For us, it goes in the books as one of the worst meals we've made. Maybe we did something wrong.



Now THAT is a brilliant idea!! Your planned chicken meal sounds good.


I think our three princesses would get along famously. Caili is girly too, but LOVES worms! She lets them wriggle all over her hands, and then she makes them a home out of fresh dirt.

Prayers said that the meeting goes okay.


I probably shouldn't laugh. Getting a staple in the finger doesn't sound like fun, but the "Do you think I chipped a bone?" slayed me.

Well, I am procrastinating painting a flower box that Caili wants to decorate for my mom. I guess I better go do it before she gets home from school.

I am rethinking the fried chicken. I just had a huge lunch.

They sure do sound like three of a kind! It would be something to see the three of them together!
Alexis & her Daddy go fresh-water & saltwater fishing. She likes the fresh water fishing the best. I think it's because she loves to come & tell me all about playing with the worms & seeing the expression on my face!

Aimee, On the tacos, I used a cornmeal batter & it was so good. I think what makes it, is the combo of the salty, sweet & spicy. I made it a mango-avocado salsa & an already prepared chipotle sauce.

And speaking of mango. I finally found the mango chutney at new grocery that just opened near my house. It was in the ethnic food section. It was the Patak's brands that I think Stephanie mentioned. I bought the Major Grey one she recommended for her curried chicken wraps.

Was that the same recipe Becky uses for chicken salad?

 

[TigerKat]

And speaking of mango. I finally found the mango chutney at new grocery that just opened near my house. It was in the ethnic food section. It was the Patak's brands that I think Stephanie mentioned. I bought the Major Grey one she recommended for her curried chicken wraps.

What new store???????

 

[Rogue26]

Last night I was going to make the olive garden soup (I think someone asked for the recipe, I'll post when I find it) but I ended up making manicotti. It came out really good, and the best part- enough leftovers for another meal. After dinner I choked down the cake my husband and daughter made me. Apparently he didn't know you have to grease the pan, or how to wash the dishes. They tried their best but I don't like cake to begin with, let alone a mix.
I don't know what's for dinner tonight, I have some chicken legs in the fridge but I wanted to portion them up and freeze them for in the summer when there is to much traffic to go to the store. I don't know-I'll figure something out.