What's for Dinner, Tues., Sept. 11, 2018

[NJCher]

Appetizer will be won ton soup.

Steak salad. Sliced bone-in sirloin steak with red onions, blue cheese, and red cherry tomatoes. Using red and green lettuce with a little arugula sprinkled in.

Mike's lemonade to drink.

Red grapes dipped in tapioca pudding for dessert.

[irisblue]

1. A version of pasta & bean soup

It's very grey & cool. Garlic drop biscuits.

[woodsprite]

2. Chicken and Black Bean Soup w/ Warm Sourdough Bread, and salad.

I gave my son the choice of dinner - onion burgers or black bean soup.

Kind of nervous about a special dinner coming up next Saturday.

Our son wants to have his first serious girlfriend over for our family dinner next week. He picked out a recipe of pork loin w/ Calvados, Onions and Apples, roasted potatoes, and sauted asparagus. Rustic pear galette's for dessert w/ sugar free vanilla ice cream. His girlfriend is very nice, and we love that they get along so well together. She's studying to be a sign language interpretor/special ed teacher. She's diabetic like me (on Metformin 2000mg/day) PLUS she's had gastric bypass surgery so she eats very small amounts, heavy on the protein and veggies (kind of drastic at 19, but she's successfully off insulin and just ran her first 5K). I want to make sure dinner is well received, but I don't want her to feel like we're forcing food on her.

I've never made the pork before. Thinking about trying it for just our family before we actually do it for a guest. Also, I'm never happy with the pork I get from the regular grocer, so I'm getting it from a local family-owned meat market.

[Luciferous]

3. Chili with mini chile cornbread muffins

[PJMcK]

4. No supper tonight

Got to work late. I'll probably get a burger from the deli around the corner.

[Wawannabe]

5. Shrimp -frozen

And couscous. Quick and easy.