What’s for Dinner Tonight?

[LoveDaisy]

Tortellini with Alfredo sauce and salad. I had the tortellini in the freezer and needed to use some heavy cream before it went bad.

I only bought veggies and fruit when I grocery shopped today. I’m going to have an eat out of the freezer week. I feel like my freezer is where food goes to never be seen again.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

We're back to staying in a cabin for three nights, so we get to cook for a few more days. Tonight we're having grilled salmon, long grain and wild rice & grilled mixed veggies.

 

[leebee]

Tacos. It's about the only way I can stretch less than a pound of ground beef to feed 5 people. I sauteed up a bunch of peppers and an onion in olive oil with cumin and garlic and threw together a pot of black beans and rice. Cheese, lettuce, black olives, green onions, salsa for "building". The little guy and I had corn hard shell tacos and DH, DD, and SIL had soft flour tortillas. I simmered tomorrow's corned beef this afternoon while I had the time ( I have jury duty tomorrow, no clue as to when I'll get home) and I wanted that more than the tacos!

 

[evilmommie]

Morimoto’s last night for dinner & tonight was an early dinner of venison sliders & a spicy wahine roll.

 

[Meriweather]

Tonight will be some kind of salad. I still have a lot of salads and other salad veggies to try to use. .....not sure about a protein to add. Maybe none. Might just be all the veggies and then throw out the rest.

 

[Minnesota!]

Back from vacation, back into the real world...sigh,.
Tonight will be Asian turkey meatballs, seasoned rice, and either zucchini or broccoli on the side - I have both.

Rest of week:

Tacos (froze a bunch of homemade refrieds before we left town so I had easy meals when I came back)
Fish sandwiches (Aldi had my favorite dill pickle fish patties back!)
Salisbury steak and mashed potatoes
Soup supper for Lent with my kids on Friday. A tradition we started when we were all religious back in the day, ha!

 

[#1hoosierfan]

I put corned beef and potatoes in the crockpot this morning. Will throw the cabbage in when I get home.

 

[dizneegirl]

Corned beef, cabbage and a few carrots.

 

[cabanafrau]

Finally fulfilling a promise to report back if I made this dish. Saturday I wound up unexpectedly cooking for a few friends who had lost power in the wind storm so I decided to try out the "non-recipe recipe" I read about a couple months back and mentioned here. Basically you season a roasting chicken with salt and pepper and generously season about a half cup of lemon curd with more salt and pepper, slather over the bird, drizzle some olive oil over top and roast. I didn't want a sweet flavor to come forward really at all and I try to keep salt at a very moderate level so I decided to keep that rather minimal and added garlic powder, onion powder and cayenne pepper into the lemon curd before mixing and putting on the bird. I also sprinkled the inside of the cavity with seasonings and tossed in several cloves of garlic along with a chopped up smaller leek. I did make sure to try and get as much of the curd mixture under the skin as possible as recommended, and in order to prevent the sugars from burning I roasted the chickens in my stoneware roaster with the lid on. (Definitely recommend covering the chicken if you try this dish). I served it with some au gratin potatoes, garlic sauteed green beans, a large salad and some rolls It was quite a simple lift with good results (music to my ears). I was only left with the carcasses to toss in the freezer for future stock making. Personally I don't think I would have cared for this with only the salt and pepper seasoning as recommended. It seems like the sweetness would have been far more forward along with the lemon. The other seasonings and the cayenne showed up nicely behind the lemon flavor, leaving very little trace of sweetness, if at all. Hope you are doing well @NYCgrrl and will eventually see my long-delayed report back on this.

Since the power outage for our friends was still up in the air plans wound up getting floated for a return for Sunday dinner in hopes of corned beef and cabbage for St. Patty's since I had done dinners a few times over the years in the past for a little get together. A few other friends got wind and hinted they'd like to join so I decided to go ahead since I was already in for the penny and went ahead and did up a couple corned beefs with a couple simple dips as apps and others bringing more apps and a couple pies and a cake for dessert.

Usually don't serve much beef anymore and never back to back, but I am breaking the rules and cheating after a busy weekend in the kitchen and tonight will be corned beef hash with the leftovers.

Apologize for the novel.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I know it's St. Patrick's Day, but my family all wanted comfort food. So hot dogs stuffed into crescent rolls and tater tots it is.

 

[leebee]

Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots. I'm trying to get motivated to make a soda bread but I don't see it happening.

I bought a big bag of meatballs at BJs so sometime this week we'll have meatball subs, and another night we'll have party meatballs, but I don't know what/when yet.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

I'm jealous of those of you having corned beef & cabbage. That's a little too much to try to tackle in a limited kitchen. We were planning to try to find a restaurant serving a traditional meal tonight, but our weekend touring pushed me past my limits. We'll be staying in & grilling instead. DH will be making baby back ribs, mashed potatoes & corn.

 

[dizneegirl]

I'm jealous of those of you having corned beef & cabbage. That's a little too much to try to tackle in a limited kitchen.

If you've got a crockpot or Instant Pot, it's an easy one-pot dish! I haven't had anything grilled or ribs in AGES... that sounds delicious to me!

 

[tarheelmjfan]

If you've got a crockpot or Instant Pot, it's an easy one-pot dish! I haven't had anything grilled or ribs in AGES... that sounds delicious to me!

We're currently staying in a cabin at a campground. There's nothing like that here. Dishes & a few pots are all we have to work with. There isn't even an oven.

Don't get me wrong. We're not complaining. It's nice to be able to throw a meal together & avoid eating out for a couple more days.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I’m grilling chicken tonight and trying a new marinade. I’m making rice pilaf, and asparagus to go with it.

This is the marinade, I got it at Whole Foods.

 

[ddluvsdisney]

Spaghetti and meatballs
We had to postpone our corned beef and cabbage Sunday dinner for next weekend. ( we always celebrate st. Patty’s day the Sunday before with my parents.)

 

[WorldWacky]

Dh is made Shepherd’s Pie.

 

[Suger Mag]

pulled BBQ chicken... mac-n-ch... baked beans.... and sauteed spinach

 

[disneydreamer1980]

I made Shepards pie and I made soda bread for the first time ever. It’s really good! So much better than store bought, and super easy to make.

 

[wabbott]

I made Shepards pie and I made soda bread for the first time ever. It’s really good! So much better than store bought, and super easy to make.
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Very appropriate for St. Paddy's Day!