The Official What's For Dinner thread:Thursday 1-24-08? Recipe finder in OP. Enjoy! Part 2

[LiteBrite]

Happy Saturday, everybody!

I've got chicken in the crockpot for Gylnis's Lime Chicken Nachos, from page 278 of this thread. The recipe sounded great - can't wait to try them.

I hope you guys like it!

Glynis, this was CRAZY good! We really loved it, and will definitely be making this recipe again.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

After eating WAY too much on our week off, I am beginning the week with a nice vegetable soup for dinner tonight. We will have a bread with it, I haven't decided if I will make cornbread or some garlic crescent rolls.

WFD at your house?

ETA: I could have sworn I had seen some huge threads that were closed because they had gotten too long and the mods told them to start a new one. Looks like I was mistaken!!

 

[HERSEY]

Just a quick tour around the "Angels around the world" thread is huge and still going strong. I hope this thread is around I enjoy all your recipes. Now to decide what I'm having for dinner since I'm working today, I need to get it nailed down.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Hmmm, my bad on that. Carry one WFD guys and gals!!

 

[TigerKat]

Good morning everyone!

Glynis - the lemon cake was a huge hit, I too was imagining all the possibilities for this recipe!

Today I'm making Spaghetti with a Bolognese sauce (I've been craving this), caeser salad and garlic bread. YUMMMMM!!

 

[LiteBrite]

I caught a cold from hubby (thanks a lot, dear!) and I'm staying home from church this morning. I think I may be able to rouse myself to put on a pot of split pea soup for lunch, then thank goodness I have leftover Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf available, so we (and by we I mean hubby, who's now on his way up from his cold while I'm on my way down) can just heat that up with some canned veggies for dinner tonight.

 

[Glynis]

Glynis, this was CRAZY good! We really loved it, and will definitely be making this recipe again.

Glad you liked it! We think it's a keeper, too!

 

[Glynis]

Dinner tonight will be Sweet and Savory Ribs. They are cooking away in the crock pot as we speak! We love this recipe! I've tried it with both pork and beef ribs and it's good with both. Dessert will be cream cheese cookie cups. I've had the recipe hanging around for a while, and finally decided to try it. I'll let you know how it goes.

Here's the recipe for the french toast bake:

Overnight Cranberry-Orange French Toast

3/4 C. sweetened, dried cranberried
3 Tbs. finely chopped pegans
16 slices French bread
6 eggs
1 Tbs. grated orange peel
2 C. milk
1 1/2 C. orange juice
3 Tbs. melted butter
1 C. maple syrup

Grease 13 X 9 baking dish. Sprinkle cranberries and pecans evenly into dish; arrange bread slices tightly in a single layer over top. In large bowl, beat eggs. Stir in orange peel, milk, orange juice and butter until smooth. Pour egg mixture over bread. Cover tightly with foil; refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight. When ready to bake, heat oven to 425 degrees. Uncover baking dish; bake 25 minute to 30 minutes or until bread is puffy and edges are golden brown. Serve with syrup. Serves 8.

If you want anymore of the french toast recipes, holler!

 

[liamsaunt]

Making a huge Sunday linner today. Roast turkey, bread stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cauliflower casserole, spinach-gruyere gratin, mashed turnips with fried shallots, and green beans with almonds. There's enough food to feed a small army!

I didn't end up making the fish tacos yesterday. DH really wanted steak as he had not had any red meat all week so I made tacos with flank steak and chicken instead. Also, instead of the coconut shrimp, I made a mexican shrimp seveche with the local Maine shrimp that are in season now. Everything was really good but I have lots of leftovers.

 

[LiteBrite]

Making a huge Sunday linner today. Roast turkey, bread stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cauliflower casserole, spinach-gruyere gratin, mashed turnips with fried shallots, and green beans with almonds. There's enough food to feed a small army!

I didn't end up making the fish tacos yesterday. DH really wanted steak as he had not had any red meat all week so I made tacos with flank steak and chicken instead. Also, instead of the coconut shrimp, I made a mexican shrimp seveche with the local Maine shrimp that are in season now. Everything was really good but I have lots of leftovers.

Just think how many more leftovers you're going to have after linner today!

Sounds great, though - what time should I be over?

 

[Dislifer]

Dinner tonight will be Sweet and Savory Ribs. They are cooking away in the crock pot as we speak! We love this recipe! I've tried it with both pork and beef ribs and it's good with both. Dessert will be cream cheese cookie cups. I've had the recipe hanging around for a while, and finally decided to try it. I'll let you know how it goes.

Here's the recipe for the french toast bake:

Overnight Cranberry-Orange French Toast

3/4 C. sweetened, dried cranberried
3 Tbs. finely chopped pegans
16 slices French bread
6 eggs
1 Tbs. grated orange peel
2 C. milk
1 1/2 C. orange juice
3 Tbs. melted butter
1 C. maple syrup

Grease 13 X 9 baking dish. Sprinkle cranberries and pecans evenly into dish; arrange bread slices tightly in a single layer over top. In large bowl, beat eggs. Stir in orange peel, milk, orange juice and butter until smooth. Pour egg mixture over bread. Cover tightly with foil; refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight. When ready to bake, heat oven to 425 degrees. Uncover baking dish; bake 25 minute to 30 minutes or until bread is puffy and edges are golden brown. Serve with syrup. Serves 8.

If you want anymore of the french toast recipes, holler!

Thanks Glynis..it sounds delicious!!! I think I'm going to make this for next weekend...yum! When you use the French bread...to you use presliced bread or do you buy a loaf of French bread and cut it up yourself...if so, how thick should I cut the pieces???

 

[TigerKat]

Making a huge Sunday linner today. Roast turkey, bread stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cauliflower casserole, spinach-gruyere gratin, mashed turnips with fried shallots, and green beans with almonds. There's enough food to feed a small army!

I sure wish I lived closer!!

 

[sj&k]

I'm back-I think! Surgery Tuesday went OK, but I am still sore and not quite myself. Dinner tonight was supposed to be the Cheesy Crockpot Chicken, but DH forgot to put out the chicken, so that will be tomorrow, and tonight will be sloppy joes and tater tots, which luckily is something that DD will eat-usually she eats just about anything besides what I cook for dinner. My appetite is also not quite back yet but I am tired of takeout, so I'll cook easy things this week. I have been enjoying reading what others are having, as usual, and look forward to getting back to my usual dinners. I will be off work for two more weeks, so maybe by next week things will get back to normal in the kitchen.

 

[FormrCastMbr]

Hi All!

Just popping in quick to say hi and tell you that we are having ravioli with whatever meat is in the sauce I am defrosting! I think there are meatballs and pork chops...I usually use spare ribs but did not have any...

One the side I am making the tomato bread that we had in Spain...it is called Pa Amb Tomquet...you basically do the following:

Ingredients:

1 round loaf of italian bread sliced (or some type of white bread)
garlic cloves, whole but peeled
plum tomatoes, cut in half
olive oil
salt to taste

lightly toast the bread in the oven. take out and immediately rub the garlic into the bread. squeeze and rub the tomato juice in the bread. drizzle with olive oil and salt. Serve right away...

you could also have everyone rub their own bread. Yummy!

 

[THE HAT]

Supper tonight was French Toast, as I was going to make it for breakfast, but have come down with a cold so I slept and dragged A** all morning, lol.

The lemon cake sounds soooo yummy, but Dh hates anything lemon...maybe I will make it for a family party when the next one comes up, as a lot love lemon desserts.

 

[Nancyg56]

Nancy, yellow cake mix is used in the recipe, do you have the lemon pudding mix? If so you're good to go. I just made it, it looks heavenly. We'll have to re-heat it tonight(baseball today).

I do have yellow. I don't know why I thought I needed lemon....guess I zipped through the recipe way too fast . Thanks for checking it, Kathy .

 

[Nancyg56]

I've got several recipes for "Overnight french toast" if anyone is interested. It's what I usually serve my family on Christmas morning. I've got flavors from peach, to strawberry banana to praline, to cranberry orange. Let me know and I'll post them.

Now I am going to go to bed dreaming about French toast casserole.....

 

[Nancyg56]

sj&k- glad to hear that you are back home and on the mend.

Today was a crowded day, we visited my MIL and then had lunch with my SIL at Red Robin, and then shopping at Costco.
Then my DD ran errands while DH and I started discussing the furniture plan. This is huge for us as we are not great decision makers and the floor plan is a nightmare . Then we had those 30 inch grinders from Big Y. We really like them and they make an easy meal after hours and hours of measuring and discussions about TV placement........

 

[HERSEY]

I was lazy tonight. We picked up Burrito's at Chipotle's. There's always tomorrow.

 

[KristinBelle]

I made LindsayDunn's Ritz Parmesan Chicken and it was soooooo good, a huge hit with the whole family. Thanks for sharing Lindsay!