The What's for Dinner Thread - August 2014 (recipe index in OP)

[ericstac]

I'm food porn king..

Here are a few of my recent plates for instagram.

 

[ericstac]

Savory French Toast Rye With Swiss, ham and slaw
Macros 53g protein 38g carb 9g fat

French Toast Galore

Biscoff melted over Blue Bell Vanilla with whipped cream... Oh and some choco chip cookies under it

 

[dgbg100106]

ok is that a baked sweet potato, with Marshmallow, peanut butter, and chocolate chips?

 

[dgbg100106]

Biscoff spread is amazing and vegan just in case someone was wondering, and blue bell ice cream is my all time favorite, but you can get it here in Maryland....

You are located about 4 hours from my home (which I am not at)

 

[ericstac]

ok is that a baked sweet potato, with Marshmallow, peanut butter, and chocolate chips?

stuffing a sweet potato with heaven is one of my favorite things to do

 

[ericstac]

Biscoff spread is amazing and vegan just in case someone was wondering, and blue bell ice cream is my all time favorite, but you can get it here in Maryland....

You are located about 4 hours from my home (which I am not at)

One of the best ice creams around

Have you tried going to an Outback Steakhouse where you are at? I believe Outback has bluebell.

 

[dgbg100106]

One of the best ice creams around

Have you tried going to an Outback Steakhouse where you are at? I believe Outback has bluebell.

yes they do, and I have had it from there, but it is still better in Texas. I miss my home.

 

[EJ4Disney]

Happy November.......can you believe it is November already. Only 52 Days till Christmas.

ericstac ~ Welcome!! Your food porn is amazing. We are so glad you have found us. We are a fun bunch!!

Brandi ~ Girlfriend if that picture that ericstac posted of that cheeseburger doesn't make you want one, you really are a better person than me. OH MY GOODNESS!!
I don't like being cold either, but those feet warmers and hand warmers really do the trick. Kept me nice and toasty warm. But by the 4th quarter I was ready to go - the wind was right in our face and brutal - but we toughed it out and stayed till the end. We won so all was good!!

PIO ~ You just make me chuckle. Around here we have what we call - Trink or Drinking. The adults go house to house for a drink. Can be oh so fun but also oh so dangerous. I love your idea better!!
I hope you are feeling better.

Alison ~ I tried to look for you on the web cam on Friday. I was waving like mad!! I hope you and Fran are having a ball!! I am so ready for a cruise.

The temperature says 56 out, but if I didn't know better it looks like it could bust out and snow any minute. There is a cold front coming through and it will drop to in the 40's by the time I get off of work. I am going to a new Zumba class tonight. The Fitness Center where I have gone for years closed a couple of weeks ago and our brand new YMCA opened. I went and got my membership card and took a tour last week. I am really excited about going - plus this class is at 4:15 instead of 5:30 so I love the time much better.

WFDT ~ Grilled bacon cheeseburgers, sweet potato fries and cottage cheese with pineapple.

Make it a great day!

 

[franandaj]

Welcome ericstac! Nice Food Porn! Where were those pictures taken, did you make the food or was it restaurant cooking?

I need to get round to unpacking my camera. I have easy peasy weekend meals on it.

I still have to post my "Let's make it easy" weekend photos as well. What are we doing for November. Our last weekend is Thanksgiving and I'm not going to be at home. Plus my sister has told us not to worry about the menu, they are taking care of everything, which makes me worry.

Alison ~ I tried to look for you on the web cam on Friday. I was waving like mad!! I hope you and Fran are having a ball!! I am so ready for a cruise.

You would never have seen me! I was in a Jacuzzi tub in the spa watching us sail away before the most amazing treatment that I have ever had! You will need to follow my TR. I'm going to post one more update and then the rest will have to wait until we're back on land. There will be a change of title as well as many surprises!

 

[PrincessInOz]

Ericstat - That's some calorie laden food porn! I have to ask the obvious question. Your avatar.....is that you???? If it is and you're eating the food porn.....I'm officially beyond envious!!!!


Brandi - Did you go to Oktoberfest celebrations? Good for you. I keep thinking I should head to the ones here but I never seem to make time for it.


Ellen - I really don't want to know it's 52 days to Christmas!!! (I'm already working out my plan of attack for tackling everything that needs to get done before Christmas ). How was Zumba?


Alison - Looking forward to reading your TR.






Good Morning! It's the first Tuesday in November and Melbourne Cup Day. Traditionally, its a day of drinking, BBQ and placing a bet. I'm probably going to place a bet shortly after I catch up on the Dis threads.

I have some leftover rotisserie chicken in the fridge and we can make sandwiches for lunch.

As we had a long weekend, I decided to make some beef stew last night for dinner. There's enough left for dinner tonight as well!

 

[ericstac]

Welcome ericstac! Nice Food Porn! Where were those pictures taken, did you make the food or was it restaurant cooking?

Thanks Yes those are some of my creations all done in my kitchen

Ericstat - That's some calorie laden food porn! I have to ask the obvious question. Your avatar.....is that you???? If it is and you're eating the food porn.....I'm officially beyond envious!!!!

Yeah that's me. I track every gram of food put into my body.. its tedious but it allows me to eat awesome food and still get shredded when I need or want to be.

 

[ericstac]

Crepes -ham and provolone -turkey and provolone Mustard sauce topping
Macros P:50g C:37g F:11g

 

[PrincessInOz]

Easy Peasy Dinner: Char Kway Teow


Char kway teow, literally "stir-fried rice noodle strips", is a popular noodle dish in the South-East Asian countries of Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia. It was my go-to dish for Easy Peasy weekend.


My starting ingredients:

• 3 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 tsp Garlic, finely chopped
• 1 tsp Ginger, finely chopped
• 400 g Green prawns or shrimp, cleaned and peeled, tails intact
• 200 g fishcake, sliced
• 3 strips Chinese sausage (lap cheong), thinly sliced
• 250 - 300 g fresh flat rice noodles, separated
• ½ bunch spring onions, cut into 5 cm lengths
• 2 decent handfuls of bean sprouts
• 3 Eggs
• 3 tbs light soy sauce
• 2 tbs dark soy sauce or Kecap Manis

Mix the light soy and kecap manis together.


Heat the oil in a wok over high heat. Once it is hot, add the garlic, ginger and ½ of the spring onions. Toss quickly for about 20 - 30 seconds.






Add the Chinese sausage and the fish cake. Stir fry for a minute.






Add the prawns or shrimp to the wok. Quickly toss until the prawns/shrimp start to curl up and change colour.






Add one handful of the bean shoots, the rice noodles and about 2/3 of the soya sauce mix.






Toss everything together and keep tossing for 2 - 3 minutes. If the dish looks too dry, add more of the soya sauce mix but you don't want this dish to be too liquid-y at the bottom of the wok. Once the soya sauce has evenly coated the noodles, form a few hollows and crack the eggs into the wok.







Add the rest of the bean shoots and the spring onions. Then gently turn everything over a couple of times to incorporate the egg. Once the eggs are cooked and bean shoots/spring onions are mixed in, remove from heat.







Transfer to individual plates or serve this family style.







Enjoy!

 

[franandaj]

Yay! Thanks for posting the recipe! I can see why you made this at my house, if you consider it one of your easy recipes!

Mine are a LOT easier! I will post once back at the hotel since I haven't uploaded the pictures to photobucket and we only have 1000MB total of internet on the cruise. Yesterday we had used half, so today we have to use up the other 500, but I don't want to do it in one swoop uploading pictures.

 

[EJ4Disney]

Morning all!

PIO ~ Thanks so much, that looks amazing.

Alison ~ mine are a lot easier too. So glad you and Fran are enjoying the cruise. I love the trip report.

ericstac ~ Your meals look so good.

I guess with being on vacation I missed that it was easy peasy meal this month. Sorry! What are we planning for November?

Cold and blustery morning. I actually got to try my new car starter from the house. Oh that thing is NICE!! I don't know if I can ever not have a car without this feature. I continued getting ready and when I went out it was all nice and warm. LOVE IT!!

We got a call last night about 7 from Doug's Dad telling us that Kathy (Doug's sister) had emergency gall bladder surgery that afternoon. Poor thing! She is getting home today so we are taking dinner to them tonight. It's just soup but I hope it hits the spot.

WFDT ~ Homemade Chicken Noodle soup (in the crockpot) with pop overs.

Make it a great day.

 

[dgbg100106]

Happy November.......can you believe it is November already. Only 52 Days till Christmas.

ericstac ~ Welcome!! Your food porn is amazing. We are so glad you have found us. We are a fun bunch!!

Brandi ~ Girlfriend if that picture that ericstac posted of that cheeseburger doesn't make you want one, you really are a better person than me. OH MY GOODNESS!!
I don't like being cold either, but those feet warmers and hand warmers really do the trick. Kept me nice and toasty warm. But by the 4th quarter I was ready to go - the wind was right in our face and brutal - but we toughed it out and stayed till the end. We won so all was good!!

PIO ~ You just make me chuckle. Around here we have what we call - Trink or Drinking. The adults go house to house for a drink. Can be oh so fun but also oh so dangerous. I love your idea better!!
I hope you are feeling better.

Alison ~ I tried to look for you on the web cam on Friday. I was waving like mad!! I hope you and Fran are having a ball!! I am so ready for a cruise.

The temperature says 56 out, but if I didn't know better it looks like it could bust out and snow any minute. There is a cold front coming through and it will drop to in the 40's by the time I get off of work. I am going to a new Zumba class tonight. The Fitness Center where I have gone for years closed a couple of weeks ago and our brand new YMCA opened. I went and got my membership card and took a tour last week. I am really excited about going - plus this class is at 4:15 instead of 5:30 so I love the time much better.

WFDT ~ Grilled bacon cheeseburgers, sweet potato fries and cottage cheese with pineapple.

Make it a great day!

It is hard to believe that it is November all ready!

Well you saw that I focused on the potato. I am really over Hamburgers and cheeseburgers. I think because I have the black bean burgers I really don't miss the "burger". But the Oktoberfest brat that David had was really calling my name.

I was looking at picking up some Toe warmers and hand warmers for our trip to Germany. Do they really work? how long do they last? Do they really fit in your boots?

only 30 days until I leave... Whoop!


The Y sounds like it is going to fit your schedule perfectly. Congrats and hope the Zumba class was all that you wanted!

 

[dgbg100106]

Welcome ericstac! Nice Food Porn! Where were those pictures taken, did you make the food or was it restaurant cooking?



I still have to post my "Let's make it easy" weekend photos as well. What are we doing for November. Our last weekend is Thanksgiving and I'm not going to be at home. Plus my sister has told us not to worry about the menu, they are taking care of everything, which makes me worry.



You would never have seen me! I was in a Jacuzzi tub in the spa watching us sail away before the most amazing treatment that I have ever had! You will need to follow my TR. I'm going to post one more update and then the rest will have to wait until we're back on land. There will be a change of title as well as many surprises!

Alison you are such a tease! Can't wait to read all about it!

 

[dgbg100106]

Ericstat - That's some calorie laden food porn! I have to ask the obvious question. Your avatar.....is that you???? If it is and you're eating the food porn.....I'm officially beyond envious!!!!


Brandi - Did you go to Oktoberfest celebrations? Good for you. I keep thinking I should head to the ones here but I never seem to make time for it.


Ellen - I really don't want to know it's 52 days to Christmas!!! (I'm already working out my plan of attack for tackling everything that needs to get done before Christmas ). How was Zumba?


Alison - Looking forward to reading your TR.






Good Morning! It's the first Tuesday in November and Melbourne Cup Day. Traditionally, its a day of drinking, BBQ and placing a bet. I'm probably going to place a bet shortly after I catch up on the Dis threads.

I have some leftover rotisserie chicken in the fridge and we can make sandwiches for lunch.

As we had a long weekend, I decided to make some beef stew last night for dinner. There's enough left for dinner tonight as well!

PIO - The first Tuesday after the first Monday here in the US is Election Day. Hopefully everyone either early voted or is voting today!

We try to go to the Oktoberfest celebrations but they are really held in September to celebrate the coming of October. These were a kind of bratwurst that we picked up at wegman's (Grocery store).

I am surprised you had any chicken left over, I would have thought it was gone by now!

 

[dgbg100106]

Morning all!

PIO ~ Thanks so much, that looks amazing.

Alison ~ mine are a lot easier too. So glad you and Fran are enjoying the cruise. I love the trip report.

ericstac ~ Your meals look so good.

I guess with being on vacation I missed that it was easy peasy meal this month. Sorry! What are we planning for November?

Cold and blustery morning. I actually got to try my new car starter from the house. Oh that thing is NICE!! I don't know if I can ever not have a car without this feature. I continued getting ready and when I went out it was all nice and warm. LOVE IT!!

We got a call last night about 7 from Doug's Dad telling us that Kathy (Doug's sister) had emergency gall bladder surgery that afternoon. Poor thing! She is getting home today so we are taking dinner to them tonight. It's just soup but I hope it hits the spot.

WFDT ~ Homemade Chicken Noodle soup (in the crockpot) with pop overs.

Make it a great day.

I hope Doug's sister is doing well and that recovery will be quick. Do you like the auto car starter? It is a big thing here, but I just David out to do it for me.

 

[dgbg100106]

Last night for dinner, I made a Butternut squash Alfredo, over whole wheat pasta, with roasted squash, and Garlicky Kale.

Meatless Monday!!