What's for dinner?
 

Another forum I was on had this same thread and it turned out to be kinda fun and informative.... looking for ideas for the weekly menu.

Share recipe if you'd like please!

Tonight I think it will just be homemade hummus on rice cracker.

What's cookin' at YOUR house? :popcorn:

In honor of Saint Patrick's Day, I just finished cooking my first corned beef and cabbage dinner of the week.

Toasted spam and cheese.

Should have had hot dogs in honor of that thread

Baked salmon with coarse black pepper and salt, on lemon slices, steamed broccoli and brown rice. Simple and fast, rice is made in rice cooker - total preparation time is less than 5 minutes. Cooking time; salmon and broccoli 12 minutes at the same time. Brown rice takes 2 hours at gaba setting (reason for slow cooking is to preserve the taste and rice cooker holds it warm all, day so you can start the rice at breakfast) and I order only the best tasting Nishiki rice from Amazon as you don’t have to add any condiments, gravy, or anything to this rice.

Oh, and the wine is Rutherford Sauvignon Blanc 2017 (Napa). Both the rice and the wine are from California.

Catfish poboy on Leidenheimer
Bread...no sides.

Big salad, grilled cheese (on homemade keto bread) and a blueberry & Kale smoothie for dessert.

Health freak! (Actually, that sounds pretty good. Especially the homemade bread).

Tonight we just had subs.

Last night we had creole jambalaya that I'd made the day before. Recipe for around 4 quarts total:
1.5 tbsp veggie oil
1.5 tbsp Cajun seasoning
1 lb skinless boneless chicken breast cut into bite-sized chunks
1 lb peeled, deveined medium shrimp, tails off
1 lb andaouille sausage made with pork (not turkey sausage)
3/4 cup chopped celery (around 2 stalks)
1 cup chopped scallions (aka "green onions"), around a whole 4-oz bunch
1 large yellow onion, chopped
1 medium or large green bell pepper, diced (for color you can make it 1 small green and 1 small purple or orange, red is too sweet)
1 4-cup box chicken stock (not broth)
1 14-oz can diced tomatoes
3 medium cloves garlic, chopped or minced
3.5 cups parboiled long-grain rice, well-rinsed
1 bay leaf
2 tsp corn starch (optional if you want a thicker consistency)

This is a single-pot dish but requires a few bowls. Use a stovetop dutch oven or stew pot.

Heat the oil on medium-high.

Toss chicken and 1 tbsp Cajun spices, then add to the pot, cooking and turning til browned, around 6 minutes. Set chicken aside.
Leaving the "juice" in the pot, add the sausage. Cook around 8 minutes, and set aside in a second bowl.
Leave the drippings in the pot again, and add the shrimp and remaining Cajun spices. Cook around 3 minutes til all shrimp are opaque, and dump them on top of the chicken to set aside.

Toss all the veggies into the pot, cook (and stir) til softened, around 8 minutes.

Add chicken stock, tomatoes, garlic, and corn starch if you want it thickened. Bring to a boil.

Once boiling, add the rice, sausage, and the bay leaf. Reduce heat to simmer and cook, covered, til the rice absorbs most of the liquid. Around 15 minutes. Then stir the chicken and shrimp back into the pot, heating another 3 minutes or so.

Serve with extra chopped scallions on top for decoration if you like.

Sounds amazing. This one I’m going to try on the weekend. Thank you for posting

It is a good recipe, but I would suggest making it without the 3.5 cups of rice. Make it without the rice and serve it with rice on the side as desired. The rice will soak up all of the liquid and overwhelm the dish. Some people do not like that much rice.

Portobello & Chicken sause over fresh pappardelle pasta, with garlic bread sticks. 2018 Sangiovese

We had split pea soup with potatoes, carrots, and ham. Was delicious with my homemade dinner rolls. For dessert we’re going to have brownies with lots and lots of walnuts.

Two Maine lobster rolled enchiladas in green mole sauce, Mexican rice, black beans, corn tortillas, three salsas, watermelon juice.

pizza
 

I just made a pizza tonight. I confess that I did use an prepared ultra thin pie crust but I liked the result anyway. I made the sauce with garlic and oregano, and used a combination of cheese plus pepperoni and olives. It was good.

Chicken Tetrazzini

Rotisserie chicken chopped
1 can mushroom soup
1 can cream of chicken
1 cup sour cream
1/2 pkg spagetti
1/2 cup cheddar cheese, save some for topping
1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
Salt and pepper to taste

I thought 2018 Sangiovese was your address and you were inviting us over...

Well TV is using VLS names for streets, so maybe wine street names are in the mix.

Steak au Poivre, frites, sauteed green beans. Dessert was chocolate creme brulee.

Didn’t know we had a Ruth’s Chris on site! Just kidding. The creme brûlée sounds amazing...never had it with chocolate though

dark chocolate creme brulee-verybestbaking.com I change the recipe often to suit what I have on hand. Sometimes, I use different chocolate chips or substitute cream with all half and half. I had a similar version at a restaurant and wanted to make it at home. Easy peasy!

I make lots of restaurant-style food at home. Most are incredibly easy to mimic. My bucket list: enjoy every day like it is your last. We have some incredible meals at my home. :)

Peanut butter and bologna sammiches with ruffles on the side (when I'm feeling frisky I put a few ruffles on the samich too).

If you don't make it with rice, then it's not jambalaya. Jambalaya is for people who like rice. It's like saying to put the noodles aside for your lasagna recipe and serve them separately.

Jambalaya is a rice dish. It's not soup.

We make it extra soupy (with rice) and put it over cornbread, yum!

Tonight is lasagna bolognese.

Whose Sangiovese, and did you get it around here?

Golf clap! ;)

Last night my husband had steak and I had salmon with extra crispy buttered skin, fried up in a cast iron skillet. For a side we had thick slices of lettuce topped with Gorgonzola cheese, bacon, diced tomato, lots of pepper, and homemade blue cheese dressing. Good keto meals.

I'm going to make a seven-layer salad (from the original Three Rivers Cookbook) but would like to substitute something for the layer of peas. It's lettuce, spinach, bacon, peas, red onion, mayo, Swiss cheese. Any suggestions?

I gotta start walking these neighborhoods to pick up the scent coming out of these kitchens!

Just knock on the door! (If you don't mind dog hairs...)

Broccoli chopped real small, I leave out the onions too

Replace the peas with a second layer of bacon!

Yes, we like soupy dishes too. When we have fish/seafood stew with andouille sausage in it, the rice is served in a separate bowl so each person can have it as wished.

We are tired toward the end of the day so often just eat soup for dinner. We (husband) and I make lots of soup before hand and freeze it in quart containers. Right now we have quarts of Zuppa Toscana, Turkey Chili, Ham & Bean, Tomato Soup ready to go. For a side, with chili, Broccoli Cornbread made with cottage cheese.

A favorite food here is guacamole. We have that usually twice a week and it is just and right that it form the basis of meals with enchiladas, tacos, etc. Husband jokes that when we married decades ago, I told him I was of German/Polish descent, but it turned out that I was really Mexican due to the frequency of Tex-Mex type food served at our abode.

Try sliced beets.

Btw...is the cast iron skillet not the most treasured tool in the kitchen!

We almost never remove our go to skillet from the cook top. In the past 5 or 6 years we've just about given up on everything except the cast iron.

Jambalaya without rice - isn’t that Gumbo?

Thanks to the OP for starting this thread, there are lots of ideas for good food here. Most of my five senses are in decline, but not taste!

Tex-Mex with apple strudel or German Chocolate cake for dessert sounds good to me. :)