What's for Dinner, Sat., August 24, 2024

[NJCher]

Woo hoo! I got my propane grill going, thanks to being without natural gas in my kitchen! I went to the grocery store and bought a new tank of propane and my lawyer friend hooked it up for me. I'm skeeered of stuff like that.

I just took five Italian chicken sausages off the grill and are they ever delicious! Plus they have those beautiful grill marks on them. I just had one on rye.

Somewhere in my humongous library of ebooks, I have one devoted to vegetables on the grill. It's called The Gardener & the Grill, in case anyone's familiar with it. I'm looking that up and will grill even more tonight and tomorrow.

In a bit, I'm making a salad of cherry tomatoes, chopped cucumber, green pepper, scallions, and celery. Balsamic vinegar dressing (homemade, of course) on it.

Peach kombucha.

Dessert: watermelon.

So excited!

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oh and p.s., the RG is back from Buenos Aires and is calling me about once an hour to make sure I haven't been blown up in a natural gas explosion.

He has all these helplful little tips for me (put a fan in the window) but the gas is OFF so I won't be blown up. He doesn't seem to get that.

[Bayard]

1. Steamed salmon steaks with lemon and basil

Fried yellow squash with onions, and peppers from the garden. Cherry tomatoes, also from the garden. Spicy rice. Watermelon--first one picked from the garden this year. It had to be at least a 30 pounder!

[iamateacher]

2. Wawa hoagies!

Hoagiefest!

[Nanuke]

3. Tacos

The regular crunchy type with filling and all the fixings.
Beans and rice
Blue chips
Peach cobbler (new NYT recipe with buttermilk)

[lkinwi]

4. Bacon wrapped chicken breast with corn on the cob. Merlot

[Drum]

5. Instant Pot butter chicken, jasmine rice, caprese salad with homemade pesto. n/t

[elleng]

6. Good you're back cooking!

Me, spagetti w great red sauce from local place (Ledo,) and broccoli. Ice cream later, maybe an orange.

Do have propane, for hot water and 'other' cooking; and no fear of blowing up; glad RG's home!

(Been unusually dizzy today, so not venturing out anywhere.)

[NJCher]

12. just the grill

I'm leery of hooking it up, but after I hook it up I'm not uneasy about it.

The RG is so happy he went on that trip. He is such a traveler. Always has to be going somewhere.

Re dizzy, I have a suggestion for you: coconut water. As a matter of fact I am drinking some right now. I was dizzy, too, and told my doctor about it and right away she said: dehydration! I raised my eyebrows at that and she responded you're always walking around those gardens and in the summer, you would need to be constantly hydrating. Are you?

I started drinking it twice a week and it helps. Coconut water has electrolytes in it.

[elleng]

13. I/we used to travel 'a lot' too; now 'retired' from all that.

Thanks, will hydrate. Of course, I do nothing like what YOU do, gardening etc. Electrolytes clearly important.

[twodogsbarking]

7. Steak on the grill, green beans w/ mushrooms, salad.

I would eat anything posted. Thanks all.

[TomSlick]

8. It's burger night.

I'll fire up the flat top after the critters are fed.

[Emile]

9. Wife made a beef stroganoff dish and it was delicious.

Cantaloupe and watermelon from the garden later tonight.

Good Evening

[Cairycat]

10. Bhindi Masala (okra with red onion and tomato)

with some naan bought at Aldi. I didn't have kashmiri pepper, some sources say to substitute with paprika and cayenne, so I did that, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne still made it pretty spicy. No yogurt in the house, so I sliced some cucumber and had that, my son just used sour cream. A California Gewürztraminer to drink.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023056-bhindi-masala-okra-with-red-onion-and-tomato

Our son made dessert, a refrigerator cheesecake kind of thing with a layer of raspberry filling, topped with a mascarpone and honey mixture.

[NJCher]

11. did you dry the okra

to prevent the "sliminess," as they refer to it? I read the comments. Interesting remarks from some seemingly knowledgeable people.

Wanted to alert the other posters that maybe you gifted this? I had no trouble getting the recipe, which I thought I would since I let my NYTimes subscription lapse.

[Retrograde]

14. We're also having okra tonight

went to the farmers' market this morning and got some little gem lettuce and some okra, so dinner is leftover ribs, cornbread muffins, salad, and Southern-style fried okra: it's cut into small pieces, tossed with cornmeal, and fried. The cornmeal helps cut down on the sliminess.

A local Japanese restaurant has a dish that contains mountain yam, okra, and natto - the menu instructs diners to mix them all together and enjoy the sliminess.

[NJCher]

15. I prefer to call it

Mucilaginous, lol.

Seriously, those dinner items complement each other beautifully—nice menu. Might copy it. 😋