what's for dinner - sunday, jan. 25

[fizzgig]

today is going to be a grazing day. last night's leftover glazed pork, tabbouleh, hummus with crackers and veggies and the pasta salad i still have to assemble.

it's going to be near 60 today, so i'm going to drag the husband out on a walk. happy sunday, friends

[catnhatnh]

1. Italian Sausages and Italian Sausages...

...and MORE Italian sausages. I hit a manager's special the other day for them at $2.49 lb.. Left the store with six pounds. Frying sausage is messy and time consuming. I throw mine in the oven at 375-400 degrees for 35-45 minutes.

Now a huge bowl of cooked sausage sits on the stove ready for most anything. I expect I'll pack away most of it in the freezer later. For tonight it's probably a pound of them sliced with rigatoni, mozzarella and parmesan, and sauce baked until browned with stringy cheese and served with garlic biscuits...

I feel SO f'n virtuous-inexpensive meat cooked in a single energy saving batch and frozen ahead for future meals.

Oh yeah-when I bake the sausage I do not pierce the casings as some recommend. I want that juice left in-when I reheat I can pierce to de-fat them OR let the juice enhance the flavor of soups, casseroles, etc....

[littlewolf]

3. that sounds soo good ... enjoy .. :D nt

[fizzgig]

4. good score

sounds like you have some tasty eats lined up.

[Texasgal]

18. Garlic bisquits sound REALLY good!

How do you make them?

[noamnety]

21. I'm so glad you posted this.

I also have manager's special italian sausages in my freezer! This inspired me to take a pack out to thaw. I never thought about oven baking them, and I do hate the mess they make in a fry pan. I'm going to try your method.

[littlewolf]

2. grilled Salmon, oven roasted asparagus, stuffed mushrooms sweet potatoes and

left over red lobster cheddar bay biscuits ....

[fizzgig]

5. when's eating?

that sounds incredible.

[noamnety]

14. Wow, that sounds wonderful.

My mouth is watering.

[littlewolf]

17. it was very good ... simple and good my fav's :D nt

[NJCher]

6. Dinner Party

We're going over to a couple's house who live not far from us, only about 8 blocks. She is quite the cook and at one time owned her own macrobiotic take-out shop. She's fixing wild boar tonight.

Hmm.

Never had that.

He is quite the wine aficionado, so I know there will be many delicious wines to try. And of course the RG, too, will have a selection he'll have chosen.



Cher

[fizzgig]

8. have fun!

i wish i had room for a dinner party.

[Galileo126]

7. Today is my "low and slow" day

Red beans and rice.

The smoked ham hock is simmering now, and the broth will be used for cooking the beans. I don't have any andouille, but I do have Portuguese chourico, so I'm going with that. I'll break down the ham hock and put that in the beans too.

This is gonna be yummy, I can tell.

[fizzgig]

9. mmmmmmm

that's something i need to make

[cbayer]

10. Going out.

Guests visiting. Husband has an indescribably bad cold. No one is sleeping…..ugh.

Something simple and an early night, I hope.

Enjoy all your good, good eats, fizzgig.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. Roast chicken.

A white/wild rice combination. Green beans. Your pork roast sounds great.

[pinto]

12. Have the time zones changed in the replies? Or is it my system? I've been having some variability.

[noamnety]

13. ham and bean soup

with my lone jalapeno pepper, and winter squash and avocado pureed into it. Also, I had the seasoning dust leftover from a jar of cocoa flavored peanuts so I dumped that in.

Grapefruit, apple and more avocado salad. And cheap biscuits (19 cents for a can of refrigerated biscuits on markdown at the store).

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

15. We tried a couple of new things.

First was a sort of appetizer recipe from pinterest - bacon slices on club crackers with brown sugar. People were raving over them, but really, meh. Second was a potato-chive cheese soup that I found bland and uninspiring, but the housemate said 'was burning her mouth' with spiciness. I'm not a super spicy type, but I will do jalapenos occasionally, whereas she tends to think ketchup is spicy. She tried burying it in cheese and bacon crumbles and thinks that made it much better, so she might do that again in future when we're scrounging and I'm doing something else.

I've got my eye on a crock pot chicken teriyaki recipe though, that promises to be more of a success, I think. Might try that this coming week sometime.

[japple]

16. We had beef chuck pot roast with onions, potatoes, carrots, turnips.

Tomato, bell pepper salad, steamed broccoli, garlic bread. For the kids, we had mac & cheese and fruit.

I am so fortunate to have local grass fed beef, butchered daily by a meat processor who also does deer and other game meat for hunters. They make the best pork sausage, and their people really know how to cut meat well, unlike some of the weird cuts I see at our local grocery stores.

[hobbit709]

19. BBQ beef ribs, king crab, grape tomatoes and biscuits.

Along with garlic in butter for the crab and a homemade blackberry soda.

[pinto]

20. I'm having a bean and 3 cheese burrito from the corner market. What ever else looks good.