What's for Dinner, Wed., July 5, 2023

[NJCher]

Cold vegetable wrap: Avocado and goat cheese on the wrap. The filling is cucumber, red onion, alfalfa sprouts, grated carrots, and radishes. Alfalfa sprouts and toasted sliced almond slivers.

Fruit medley for dessert: watermelon cubes, blueberries, mango.

To drink, citrus Earl Grey (blood orange, bergamot, lemon, black tea) kombucha.

[PJMcK]

1. Burgers

Pan-fried cheeseburgers with lettuce, tomato & onion slices served with macaroni salad. Chocolate chip cookies for dessert.

We have to pan-fry them because there are voracious horseflies in our anchorage in the Cohansey River on the Delaware Bay side of New Jersey!

[Emile]

2. Chef salad tonight.

Watermelon for dessert and an orange 🍊 before bedtime.

[Callalily]

3. Bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin medallions

with sweet potatoes. Testing recipe for Test Kitchen!

[irisblue]

4. I made this for dinner tonight, I ate it with crackers

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1157&pid=130554

[surrealAmerican]

5. fake crab salad

I just add surimi to my (homemade) coleslaw, and serve it on a bun. The leftover potato salad will be a side dish.


... easy hot weather food ...

[Yonnie3]

6. Pork cutlets

They were run through a machine like cubed beef steak. They were dredged lightly in seasoned flour and then pan fried.

Stewed apples with cinnamon, equal, and a tiny pat of butter.

I got distracted and didn't fix the planned side of mixed frozen veggies.

I am having a gin and diet tonic with lime to celebrate that the lawn is mowed. I've finally re-hydrated and cooled down so this libation is possible

[Retrograde]

7. Pasta bolognese

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using Marcella Hazen's recipe for the sauce. It was going to be dinner yesterday, but the recipe wants 3-5 hours of cooking. On the plus side, there will be plenty of sauce leftover that can be frozen for quick meals later.

Haven't decided on sides yet

ETA: Mr. Retrograde has decided he wants fresh pasta. Fine, I told him - go ahead and make it

[NJCher]

9. LOL

fresh pasta

Fine, I told him - go ahead and make it.

++does he know how much work it is to make fresh pasta?

Re Marcella Hazan--she is one of the few chefs that the RG likes. He knows all those people from Jacques Pepin to Emeril to Bobby Flay et al, and very few get a positive comment from him. But Marcella is another story. He adores her and we have a number of her cookbooks. He likes Jacques, too. For some strange reason they often get seated next to each other on airplanes.

I like to watch his face when cooking shows are on. Such scorn (Bobby Flay, Emeril). But when Marcella is on, he looks like he could melt.

[Retrograde]

11. He whipped up the dough

in about 10 minutes, let it rest for half an hour, and ran it through the pasta machine. Now it's drying a bit before cooking. I cut it into not too pretty strips - OK, so it's rustic.

[Luciferous]

8. Had surgery this morning, so we ordered

Noodles & Company

[NJCher]

10. Hope you are OK!

I'll have to check out Noodles & Co. Love noodles.

[Luciferous]

12. Thanks, it went pretty well.