What's for Dinner, Mon., May 7, 2018

[NJCher]

Slow-cooked Brussels sprouts with garlic. The sauce is made with potatoes and has a very slight vinegary taste. Applewood smoked bacon crumbles over the top.

Kombucha ginger tea for a drink.

Dessert will be cold fruit salad: watermelon, pineapple, blueberries, strawberries, and honeydew melon. Chopped lemon balm (from garden) over the top.

[Marthe48]

1. Chicken in butter sauce and rice

It's like tika masala. I didn't really taste much of a difference. Really yummy.

[iamateacher]

2. Jag from Cape Verde recipe

We are at the campground so I brought a premade dish of jag, which is rice, garlic, onions, kale, and pinto beans cooked together with a lot of sage. We are vegetarians, so I have sauteed Tofu on top. I was in Baltimore yesterday, dessert is Wockenfuss chocolates.

[Little Star]

3. It's grillin' weather around here so...

it's steak, baked potatoes and salad for us.

[Mike Rows His Boat]

4. Firing up the wok for a delicious yakisoba w/thin slices of perfectly cooked NY strip.

Lotsa red peppers, bok choy, napa, scallions (and whatever else might be hiding in the fridge that's appropriate) - hot seared w/ *slight* burned edges here and there. My own umami.
Usually use the wok as hot as my gas stove will get it - but, it can be done in a large & deep steel/cast iron pan too.
Long, soft Asian style Soba noodles. Cooked for 2-3 minutes. Drained, and then tossed in the fiery hot wok with the pre-cooked veggies and rare but well seared NY strip slices, along with my umami. Get it all coated quickly. Let sit in hot wok for 45 seconds. Serve.
Can hardly wait to get home to make it. It makes everyone happy.



Love your slo-cooked brussels idea. Love 'em.