What’s for Dinner Tonight?

[LoveDaisy]

I was off today so I ran all errands. DH and I had a late lunch out. We shared the fried rice balls and I had gnocchi with pesto and shrimp.

 

[tinkerbellandpeterpan]

I had l/o chicken teriyaki tacos and DH had l/o chicken fingers with tater tots. Mondays and Thursdays are tough since we go to my parents Tuesday after work -Thursday morning. Lots to pack and get organized since we cook for them both nights and handle the menu planning and grocery shopping (with input from them of course). We try to keep it super simple Mondays and Thursdays so we can keep up as best we can. May not be fancy but no one is starving either LOL.

 

[NYCgrrl]

The next 10 days are filled with doctors appointments so I need to use my remaining time wisely. Toiletries are packed but still need to put my vac wardrobe together.

Today was split pea soup, defrosted with carrot chunks, Japanese turnips (courtesy of the veggie bin) and ham added. Perfect for a cold night.

 

[WorldWacky]

DH made a marinated pork tenderloin and baked potatoes.

 

[RangerPooh]

It's the start of a very busy week, so keeping it easy. Shepards pie from Costco.

 

[Meriweather]

Dinners for all of vacation are not exciting.
We're eating dinners in our room....so microwave stuff.....soups, chili and shelf stable entrees. ( we only have a microwave, toaster and very small refrigerator)

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Dinners for all of vacation are not exciting.
We're eating dinners in our room....so microwave stuff.....soups, chili and shelf stable entrees. ( we only have a microwave, toaster and very small refrigerator)

I'd love to hear about your meals in the room. We travel a lot & get sick of eating out. A microwave & mini-fridge is all we normally have at our disposal for eating in the room. I'd be curious to see what you come up with.

 

[LoveDaisy]

Tonight we are having shrimp tacos and rice. Getting a 1/2 bag of shrimp out of the freezer.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

We had chile rellenos ... poblanos from our garden, stuffed with veggie chorizo, brown rice, sauteed onions and garlic, and cheese.

 

[Giraffe_Zen]

I made meatball subs and fries.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

DH & I went to my sister's house for him to work on her TV & picked up food on the way back. We're sharing Penne a la Vodka w/chicken. DS is having Eggplant Parm. We picked up a couple Chocolate Cannoli for dessert.

 

[WorldWacky]

Cheeseburgers and fries tonight. I’ve been working late so DH has taken over the kitchen on those nights. We had some homemade burgers in the freezer so that made it easy.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Ordered a new pair of pants and jumpsuit for the Fl trip; will do dual duty as physical therapy wear which helps to justify the purchase .
Bought an off white alpaca jacket on sale which I immediately regretted - the dry cleaning bills will be relentless. Going to check into having it professionally dyed.
General cleaned half the fridge and had the sleeping area’s ceiling dusted. Nice to know I won’t go into the New Year staring at a dusty ceiling, lol.

My fridge cleaning yielded a few bits and bobs which produced a creamy chicken noodle soup with kielbasa slices added. Seasoned the veggies and meat predominately with coriander which made for a great surprise. I’m sure I’ll do this again. Interim, I made about 1-3/4 qts so it’ll be a “soup’s on” week or so. Didn’t cook the noodles in the soup so the leftovers won’t get cloudy.

 

[Meriweather]

I'd love to hear about your meals in the room. We travel a lot & get sick of eating out. A microwave & mini-fridge is all we normally have at our disposal for eating in the room. I'd be curious to see what you come up with.

Canned soup, chili, shelf stable meals from the grocery store. There are quite a few varieties. We did order 3-4 frozen meals for the very tiny freezer section.
We have bread and lunch meat.
Breakfast is eggs (microwave them) on toast or oatmeal with sliced banana.

We went yesterday with no microwave in the morning. It broke. It took until 8 pm for them to replace it. Just a protein bar for breakfast and a sandwich for dinner.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

I'd love to hear about your meals in the room. We travel a lot & get sick of eating out. A microwave & mini-fridge is all we normally have at our disposal for eating in the room. I'd be curious to see what you come up with.

Not the original poster, and not usually for dinners in the hotel room, but when we travel by plane, we bring a pop-up cooler, and hit the grocery store after landing, and have many of our lunches out of the cooler. We'll get a pack of Hawaiian rolls to make sandwiches with ... salami and cheese for the meat eaters, hummus and cucumber for the vegetarians. We usually get pre washed, cut fruit and veggies, chips, nuts, and a couple of packs of pepperidge farms cookies. Sometimes we'll get prepared foods like pasta salad or coleslaw. (We usually bring some silverware in a little pouch to make this easier). We'll occasionally make use of these items for hotel room dinner. We've also been known to wrap up leftovers like pizza, and either heat in the room or eat cold on the go.

 

[Giraffe_Zen]

Homemade sweet and sour teriyaki honey chicken and rice.

 

[Minnesota!]

Last night I used the last of the thanksgiving ham and made broccoli and cheese rice with broccoli, onion, ham mixed in. We are all getting over the germs here and it was quick, easy, and used stuff up.

Today I used the last of the turkey meat (has been in freezer since Saturday) and made a giant pot of turkey wild rice soup. Also used up the last of everything else from thanksgiving - the carrots, celery, last little bit of cream of mushroom soup from green bean casserole, the last bits of the ham gravy I made, etc. It got rave reviews, which is great since it is dinner until Saturday!

 

[Tuffcookie]

Homemade beef stew, which I cooked in the pressure cooker, with King’s Hawaiian rolls. It was the perfect dinner for a cold night in NE Ohio.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Washed the interior windows with a lot of help from my home attendant. She’s a bit of a gem although she’s definitely under a misunderstanding about my personality. Had me and my aunt in giggles.

Made some Thai coconut curry soup and into the freezer it went. Everything added but the lime juice and cilantro.

Playing with my food today.
Adding steamed broccoli to the leftover chicken soup and a dollop of sour cream with lemon zest. Found a zest-less orange in the fridge (how did I miss that?) and it’ll be dessert.

 

[LoveDaisy]

Today was a day! I was leaving work late when I noticed a coworkers laptop so I texted her and she forgot it there. She lives an hour away but I’m halfway so I grabbed it for her. By the time I got home she was at my house.

I have been eating out of my freezer for weeks so tonight I went through it, which clearly I had not done since before Covid because I found a bag of peas that expired in 2020 and were rock hard! Filled a trash bag but it was garbage night so a good night to do it.

I’m heating up leftovers now. Random assortment but trying to clean out the fridge too since it’s garbage night.