Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forumWhat's for Dinner, Thurs., Dec. 8, 2022
Calimari, Rhode Island style (has pickled, hot and regular peppers deep fried, yum) with lemon aioli.
Fish tacos for me. From the menu description: "blackened mahi-mahi, huitlacoche, cabbage, cilantro."
The RG had a salad, tuna nicoise. It had seared ahi tuna, marble potatoes, haricots verts, heirloom cherry tomatoes, kalamata olives, and mustard-shallot vinaigrettej.
He loved the tuna, but it was um....relatively uncooked, shall we say?
The RG chose several wines from the wine store next door to the restaurant. I had mine as a spritzer since even restaurants around here don't have kombucha.
We went to a favorite restaurant that we've been going to for years.
We're having dessert at home, though, which will be apple-walnut pie and flan with coconut topping. Decaf for me and probably wine for the RG.
PJMcK
(22,060 posts)Last night we had cheese raviolis. Tonight were having spaghetti Bolognese with a large salad. Pirouette cookies, brandy and a movie for dessert.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)...steamed rice, or maybe noodles, and something green. The Ms can eat stir fried cabbage with every meal, so that's easy option #1. Almond poppy seed cake and chai for desert.
Marthe48
(17,069 posts)A little quicker than soup
hippywife
(22,767 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 8, 2022, 08:46 PM - Edit history (1)
My go-to recipe for a couple years now:
https://iheartrecipes.com/best-oven-baked-bbq-ribs-how-to/
I don't use the liquid smoke and couldn't find the paprika. This recipe is still just great even without those ingredients, can skip onion powder and dry ground mustard if you don't have it and not notice.
These come out so tender, but tooth tender like they should be, rather than fall off the bone tender.
(ETA: rack was only less than 4lbs, rather than the 6 lbs in the recipe.)
Baked beans and coleslaw with homemade dressing.
Still plenty of panettone (I bought 3 loaves) and pizzelles (wish I had bought more of the anise ones, because we could end up dueling over those. Will just have to finally get off my fanny and make more.)
Water and coffee.
NJCher
(35,786 posts)I just won an anise pizzelle, everyone.
That rib recipe looks like a winner so I saved it under "Hippywife's BBQ Ribs."
And can I ever identify with not finding the paprika. I haven't been able to find mine for a while now, so I bought a NEW bottle of SMOKED paprika. That was not easy to find (regular paprika, sure, but not smoked).
I always drool as I stroll by the ribs at the store, but I usually don't buy them because I know I could do a better job. Plus the RG would complain about them sitting under the lights for hours. Might try this for Sunday!
hippywife
(22,767 posts)I really wish I'd have put more thought into the spices when we installed the cabinets in the kitchen. It's so over stuffed, I'm convinced that they conspire together to hide when I need them, then reappear when I'm looking for something else I now cannot find. Something more of an undercounter, tilt-out would have been so very much better.
Your dinner last night sounds so amazing! Well, except for the uncooked tuna.
NJCher
(35,786 posts)So yeah, just one pizzelle.
Re spices and herbs, how do you organize yours? By alphabet?
Yeah, the dinner was terrific and we had just a little of it at the restaurant and more late last evening. Like you, our appetites are not very big anymore, but we still love food!
I have a theory about why the salads are so great at the restaurants around here and I may post about it.
I think the tuna might have been sushi grade, so OK to have raw. But I still didn't want any.
Anyway, I may challenge you to another duel when I need another pizzelle! 'Also 'cuz I just love this emoji!
hippywife
(22,767 posts)There's no such word in my vocabulary. All my spices, flavorings, and seasonings are on a lower shelf. Oils, vinegars, Chinese sauces, etc. are on the shelf above them. That's about as organized as it gets.
I think that, at least sometimes, salads in a restaurant can be so good if they are chilled in their serving vessel (sans dressing, ofc) so everything is nice and cold. I could do that here at home, but I'm never that prepared or organized to make them ahead of time and put them in the fridge.
Touche'.
MissMillie
(38,593 posts)boiled potatoes w/ gravy
corn and carrots
dessert: a bake & serve "Razzleberry" pie.
yellowdogintexas
(22,282 posts)I am just a little tipsy. Just tipsy enough
Retrograde
(10,168 posts)which is fancy talk for pork chops with a paprika sauce - went to Trader Joe's today, which has decent pork chops. Sides: a salad and the last of the Thanksgiving sweet potatoes (finally).