What's for Dinner ~ Wednesday Feb 20th

[Lucinda]

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[Bonobo]

1. Spaghetti Carbonara

And I have researched and researched and cooked it for years and am CONVINCED I now have the best recipe. I searched for years and now have been using this one for the last 5 years or so.

Main thing? NO CREAM!!! Use reserved water from boiling the pasta and it is PLENTY creamy.

Basically like this. BTW, use LOTS of pepper and half the eggs should be JUST yolk.

It is also nice, I find, to combine bacon with slow cooked onions and garlic (just my personal preference but also nice simply and without).

[cbayer]

4. Link or something before I drool all over my keyboard.

[Bonobo]

23. Ooops, sorry! Here you are.

http://www.gourmettraveller.com.au/spaghetti_carbonara_massimo.htm

[bif]

2. Leftover Asian noodle soup

I'm really getting into Asian soups. There are infinite possibilities. And they're pretty healthy!

[cbayer]

3. BLT/Avocado wraps and something with the butternut squash, maybe soup.

[livetohike]

6. I roasted some butternut squash the other day

It was so good, but soup sounds great too!

[cbayer]

8. Can you tell me how you roasted it and how you served it?

I've got a beauty and want to do whatever is best with it.

[livetohike]

9. After peeling (which I managed to do without slicing into myself), I just

cut it into 3/4" or so slices. Heat oven to 375 F. Oil a baking sheet and lay the pieces out on the pan. Brush olive oil over each piece, sprinkle a little salt on too. Cover the pan with foil and bake about 25 min. You can remove the foil after 25 min and bake an additional 5 or 10 min. if you want the squash to be a little crispy.

The main course was a mushroom-barley "risotto" and I also roasted some brussel sprouts on a separate baking sheet.

[cbayer]

10. I saw a recipe for a risotto with butternut squash that looked great.

I am thinking about roast in the peel, then scooping out. The thought of trying to peel this thing makes me nervous.

Thanks!

[NJCher]

12. I went straight for the comfort food

Cold out.

I have Wednesdays off, so I like to browse the ethnic markets around here. Today I went to the Polish area and bought stuffed cabbage rolls, mashed potatoes, cole slaw, and tossed green salad.

Bread pudding for dessert. Tiny piece, barely two square inches,

Bonobo, I'm savin' that post about your experimentation on this dish.

And cbayer, I'm so skeered of peeling butternut squash that I always roast mine like that.


Cher

[cbayer]

15. I have a delimma. Just read that roasting it whole would take up to 90 minutes.

We are running low on propane with no easy option for refills, so.....

I think I am going to take my chances and try peeling it. And I have some leeks and cream, so I think I will make another soup. Soup is so wonderful when the sun dips and the temperature drops.

I, like you, love all kinds of ethnic foods. I heard a great show on the radio last night about different regional taboos and customs - love those kinds of stories.

Unfortunately, in my current location, pretty much every restaurant in town gets their supplies from the same vendor, so the food is amazingly bland and similar. But when I get over to the mainland, I go for every kind of ethnic food I can get my hands on.

Enjoy your polish dinner. It sounds wonderful, cher.

[pinto]

14. If it's going to end up chunky, here's what I do -

Halve, scoop out the seeds, slice the halves to the size you want, then just run a knife between the meat and rind of the slices laid out flat. You don't have to maneuver the whole squash that way.

[cbayer]

16. Bless you! Sounds like the way I would cut up a cantaloupe!

[LancetChick]

5. Shrimp scampi (the olive oily kind, not the buttery kind)

Linguine, sautéed yellow summer squash. Maybe I'll make some oatmeal raisin cookies. (I need to get a grip on my passion for garlic and sweets).

[livetohike]

7. Penne with a triple tomato sauce, pan fried spinach, a tossed salad and

breadsticks .

[NJCher]

22. ok, I have to ask

What makes it triple tomato sauce?

I was thinking maybe regular tomatoes, sundried, and ...? Tomato paste? Or canned tomatoes?

I read your post, went out on some errands, and found myself wondering the whole time.


Cher

[livetohike]

24. It's sun-dried tomatoes, canned tomatoes and diced up plum tomatoes

Saute some diced onions and garlic in olive oil, add all of the tomatoes, salt and pepper and let simmer until most of the liquid is reduced. Mix cooked penne with the sauce, some chopped flat leaf parsley and crumbled goat cheese.

[pinto]

11. Ground turkey meatball soup with lentils, rice, onion, broccoli, celery and garlic.

Save for browning the meatballs in a skillet, it's a one pot meal. Most of the work is prep.

(on edit) I may save the broccoli for another dish. Looks a little out of place / taste here.

[fizzgig]

13. maybe acorn squash and cous cous

larder is getting empty around here and i'll be home too late to cook anything. it all depends on whether my husband actually gets it in the oven when i ask him to.

[cbayer]

17. LOL, be careful about that line being taken out of context.

it all depends on whether my husband actually gets it in the oven when i ask him to.

[fizzgig]

18. haha!

this is a baby-free zone, thank you very much

[yellerpup]

19. Chicken and egg noodles.

Made of leftovers (except the noodles). Ho-hum.

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. The last of my roast chicken.

And a salad with a blush wine vinaigrette dressing that I just got.

[hobbit709]

21. Tired of eating my own cooking so we're going to Man Bites Dog

http://manbitesdogaustin.com/

[guardian]

25. Oscar Meyer hotdogs

and left over veggies.