What's for Dinner, Sat., Apr. 8, 2017

[NJCher]

Roasted chicken with vegetables: leeks, carrots, potatoes, garlic, with herbs.

Heirloom tomato, sliced, sprinkled with basil, salt, garlic, and little cubes of parmesan.

For dessert, ginger-toffee cake with Enlightened "ice cream" on it.

One thing I wanted to mention about Enlightened is that for it to taste like real ice cream, it has to sit out for a while. I cannot believe it has met the taste test of the RG, but it has. Today's flavors were Red Velvet and Snickerdoodle. What a great thing, to be able to have dessert and not have it do any major damage health- or calorie-wise.


Cher

[randr]

1. Dandelion appetizers

Spring ritual. Take dandelion flowers, immerse in tempura batter, saute to a golden brown, try not to eat them all at once.

[irisblue]

2. Ethiopian styled stir fried cabbage, carrots, &yams on naan.

I was outside for a longtime today, this is fast cooking since I had sliced/cubed the veggies. 😀

[WhiteTara]

3. Home made Pizza

with Shitake mushrooms and chicken apple italian sausage and cheese and spring greens. I love the dandelion appetizer up thread and will put that on my list. The dandelion season has just begun.

We're on a restricted carb diet and won't do dessert tonight.

[Hortensis]

4. Oh, wow, you guys. Taking Mineral Man's advice

to check out other forums, and this thread's a nice surprise, more creative than I am usually. Tonight's just leftover BLT pasta salad after cruising all day, but I'm posting anyway because of the dandelion tempura.

Two nights ago I did clean-out-the-crisper vegetable tempura fritters. No dandelions here in my central Florida "lawn" (why? every other "weed" is?), but if they were I could have added them after the odds and ends of veggies, a squash, piece of poblano pepper, carrot, and green onion tossed in the food processor, squeezed in a towel, some spinach and parsley, then into tempura batter and fried up in little patties (kakiage) to go with simple sauteed fish. A standard dipping sauce went nicely with both. But I'm imagining what yellow dandelions would have done for these green things.

[Yonnie3]

5. I'm late to the thread ...

I had two chicken tacos from a truck vendor at a street party we worked in NW DC. They were excellent and everyone's food was paid for by the host. The chicken had a citrus marinade and was topped with a salsa that seemed to have just been made. No cheese or beans to be found!