What’s for Dinner Tonight?

trying some Facebook bait I saw....

French dip beef sandwiches... using steak on sale with some canned soup (beef consommé and French Onion) and the Instant Pot. Seemed simple... mix and cook,... although they used a slow cooker.... then basically strain and shred, put on soft bread rolls and use the juice for a dip.

we shall see how this goes, if it is a One & Done or a repeater....

Update: very tasty, would make again
 
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Roasted the sheet pan chicken today. So easy marinating the meat in a mayo base and I imagine this technique will be a keeper throughout the summer.
Half way thru roasting the chicky I added frozen corn and peas to the pan with shredded cabbage. Took about thirty minutes to cook dinner for a few days.

Finished the last of the strawberry sorbet and hope for another fruit sale so I can make sorbet again.
Sounds intriguing.What are the ingredients for the marinade?
 

Tonight is BLTs, pasta salad (a boxed one from Aldi - the dill pickle one? I added peas and cheese and onion to it..), and then I have raw carrots/dip and strawberries.

Since I was in office yesterday, it was fend for yourself and me and the kid had make your own mini pizzas - I had pesto, mushroom, mozz. He had similar but with pepperoni on it, too.
 
Sounds intriguing.What are the ingredients for the marinade?

Adapted from a Melissa Clark recipe.
For every two pounds of boneless chicken

  • 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
  • ¼cup finely chopped basil, plus more for garnish
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely grated or minced
  • 1fresh jalapeño pepper, cored, seeded + chopped OR 1/2 cup jalapeño pickles

Mix above in a bowl with poultry, cover and marinate for 6 to 24 hours.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place chicken on sheet pan, season with salt, spray or drizzle with oil and cook for twelve minutes.
If you like add frozen corn to the empty pan spaces with scallions and basil added to it at the halfway point and cook for the remaining six minutes. Move pan to broil setting and allow contents to brown for about three minutes.

Cook’s notes: no basil? Substitute an equal amt of any tender green herb you’ve on hand.

HTH!
 
I’m a lazy lima bean today so only serving broiled lamb chops with the soup.
We must be using different dictionaries.
Hotter than the face of the sun here today so expending minimal effort is a must. Lazy here is turkey taco Tuesday. Definite period at the end of that sentence, no fancy fixins, nary a homemade salsa in sight. Heaviest lift will be deciding if we put it in hard or soft shells.
 
We must be using different dictionaries.
Hotter than the face of the sun here today so expending minimal effort is a must. Lazy here is turkey taco Tuesday. Definite period at the end of that sentence, no fancy fixins, nary a homemade salsa in sight. Heaviest lift will be deciding if we put it in hard or soft shells.
Joan Crawford advising Butterfly McQueen on how to cook lamb chops:


😜
 
Adapted from a Melissa Clark recipe.
For every two pounds of boneless chicken

  • 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
  • ¼cup finely chopped basil, plus more for garnish
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely grated or minced
  • 1fresh jalapeño pepper, cored, seeded + chopped OR 1/2 cup jalapeño pickles

Mix above in a bowl with poultry, cover and marinate for 6 to 24 hours.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place chicken on sheet pan, season with salt, spray or drizzle with oil and cook for twelve minutes.
If you like add frozen corn to the empty pan spaces with scallions and basil added to it at the halfway point and cook for the remaining six minutes. Move pan to broil setting and allow contents to brown for about three minutes.

Cook’s notes: no basil? Substitute an equal amt of any tender green herb you’ve on hand.

HTH!
Sounds lush! I'll have to give it a try-thank you so much!
 
Cold foods. I'm thinking potato salad and grapes. Not sure I even want to heat up a hot dog or brat to go with it. LOL!
 
The heat. 🥵 We had sandwiches with leftover pasta salad. I didn’t want to turn on the stove. I need a plan for the next few days.
 
Went to the farmers’ market today and couldn’t resist buying a bag of arugula.
Glad there wasn’t much I wanted there as fridge emptying has become a mantra. I want nothing but pickles and condiments in the fridge when I go on vac.

Made a sliced chicken salad with the arugula, cukes, roasted peppers and mozzarella. Dressed it with a balsamic vinaigrette and served self a cup of the last of the carrot purée first.
Refreshing meal that almost gives me the courage to try on my bathing suits.
Tsktsktsk- will this vanity never end??
Errr..probably not.. oops!
 
The heat. 🥵 We had sandwiches with leftover pasta salad. I didn’t want to turn on the stove. I need a plan for the next few days.
:sunny::umbrella::cold: Ah, the weather, the quintessential DIS "regional thing". :laughing: You guys to the south and east are frying while up here on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, we've got steady rain and +7C, with a frost warning for the overnights. Perfect weather for some heartier food than we are normally eating at this time of year. Tonight it was shrimp tikka (from the meal subscription box) with basmati rice and scrumptious warm garlic butter naan bread.
 
Well it is called Noddleless Lasagna.....but it really sounds more pizza like to me.

We're in a heat wave here......112 in a few days. I use my oven all year or I wouldn't get to bake anything for months.
 
Still quite steamy here, so it's spinach based salad with grilled chicken, strawberries, blueberries, cukes, celery, some sesame sticks and a champagne vinaigrette to dress it out.
 
Believe or not, I’m eating dinner as I type. Had a 9:45 appt to pick up new glasses and on the trip back home my aide asked if she could leave early as her family is doing a Juneteenth cookout today. Fine by me and she insisted she help cook dinner; too funny. It’s just a burger, kimchi on the side, and an arugula, mozzarella and red onion salad. Won’t hurt me to eat early.
 














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