What's for Dinner? ~ Sunday Oct 20th

[Lucinda]

?

[2theleft]

1. Comfort food day...

Spiral ham is baking, sweet potato casserole, green beans, biscuits...

[Callalily]

2. Quinoa Peanut Soup

http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/quinoa_peanut_soup.html

[NJCher]

3. oh man

I wish I was at your house.


Cher

[Lucinda]

4. I had the same reaction!

[2theleft]

16. :-) We will be eating ham all week!!

yum...have frozen the bone to make black bean soup. It was good...My boyfriend makes the BEST sweet potato casserole!

[Lucinda]

23. I've been on a sweet potato fry kick lately

Love all things sweet potato!
The soup sounds good too!

[2theleft]

17. I have about 10 lbs of ham left over...

The smallest ham they had was 12 pounds... Come on over. There's plenty left. Trying to figure out what to do with it all now. Frozen some, saved the bone for soup. Just ate a ham biscuit for a snack... Ham, ham, ham!!

[pinto]

5. Beef stew.

Seared cubed chuck, russets, yam, onion, carrots, celery, kale & the basic spices simmered in red wine / mushroom broth.

[fizzgig]

6. i've never used yam in my beef stew

i'm going to have to give it a try

[pinto]

10. Me neither.

Realized I was out of carrots so added a good bit for something orange. We'll see, smells good so far.

[fizzgig]

12. i toss beets in my beef stew from time to time

i just ignore the color

[pinto]

15. That's funny. I thought I had some in the fridge, was planning on a few in the stew.

Gastronomic heresy!

So I added some red roasted chipotle pepper sauce in the broth.

[fizzgig]

18. i put roasted red peppers in the stew

everything is better with roasted peppers.

[rdharma]

14. Parsnips and turnips also are good in beef stew.

Yams in beef stew? That sounds very strange to me.

But so did Marmite spaghetti before I tried it. (And still nobody believes me about how good that is.)

[pinto]

19. They worked out really well.

[rdharma]

20. It might take me a while..... but I'll give it a try.

I'm not up to speed on yams.

When I think yams, I always think of the mushy sickly sweet candied yams that Aunt Martha brought for Thanksgiving dinner.

Even years later, I get the involuntary barf reaction when I think of them.

[pinto]

21. LOL. Yeah, they've been candied way too far. And too long.

Actually a nice, sweet root crop simply as is. And they go well in savory dishes.

[fizzgig]

7. chili and cornbread

not sure if it will be beef or just beans yet, depends on my sister. i'll throw some diced jalapeno and creamed corn into the cornbread and bake it in the skillet with bacon fat.

i'm also doing a flourless chocolate cake for dessert.

[livetohike]

8. Nut and seed patties, sweet potato salad and steamed broccoli

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Oven-baked barbecued baby back ribs.

Baked potato and sliced tomato.

[sad-cafe]

11. we did open face BBQ beef on hoagie rolls

pickles and potato chips. Pretty easy and good.

We also had nachos during football

[rdharma]

13. Mini meat loaf with leftover mashed pots.

And mini raw veggie tray with ranch dip.

[bif]

22. After a great weekend in Bloomington...

My father-in-law made an interesting shrimp curry in a vermouth and sour cream sauce over pasta dish. It was actually very good. It was a real 1950s dish, but it turned out great!

[Lugnut]

24. Chicken Caesar Salad

I had three romaine hearts that needed to be used and I picked up fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts at the store this afternoon. I also got a bottle of Marie's Caesar dressing to toss it in. I then added shredded parm and garlic croutons.