What's for Dinner, Wed., Feb. 6, 2019

[NJCher]

Curried rice and chicken.

Heart-shape, strawberry-filled cookies for dessert.

[MissMillie]

1. hot dogs

homemade baked beans

halved grape tomatoes in a homemade red wine vinegar dressing

potato chips


If I have dessert, I'll have it as a snack later--apple slices w/ peanut butter

[Ohiogal]

2. Beef stew

I don't make this very often because grass-fed beef is so expensive! I got some on sale at the store this week.

Beef cubes, carrots, redskin potatoes, green beans and gravy.

Buttermilk biscuits.

Mini Klondikes for dessert.

[happybird]

3. Mexi Chicken Skillet Thing

Still haven't dragged myself out to the grocery store, so it's going to be another pantry-scraper tonight. We had a stomach bug last week and I am still feeling blah, with zero energy.

After a quick inventory, the prognosis is surprisingly good: we had 2 big chicken breasts in the freezer (now defrosting), canned diced tomatoes, a can of black beans, frozen corn, and rice. There's still some bell pepper and onion kicking around the fridge, too, and cheddar, plus about 1/4 cup of leftover sour cream. Hubby swears there is a small can of diced green chiles somewhere, so I will have to dig around for those. Big skillet, sauté then cover.
It'll do (and might even be pretty darn good! Fingers crossed.)

[Wawannabe]

8. Sounds good! nt

[Luciferous]

4. Chicken tacos and nachos

[Kali]

5. "Chinese" take out

shared three ways: Sesame Chicken, Sweet and Sour Pork, Szechuan Beef, vegetable eggrolls and still deciding if I want to spring for soup (and what kind)

[MissMillie]

6. hot & sour is my fav

but only when it's done well

[Kali]

10. that's what we got

had lots of goodies in it, I don't know if it was done well, it tasted about the same as always to me. I don't generally care for soups from "Chinese" restaurants as they are always too full of cornstarch. Real soup doesn't need thickeners, so I usually get wonton soup as it is at least "thin" normal broth. Good Chinese restaurants have soup to die for, but those are hard to come by around here. this place isn't bad for small town "Asian" but the customer base is pretty average American.

the Szechuan beef was quite good tonight, though. (that was my choice, the others were son and the husband - not very imaginative or experimental, I am afraid)

[MissMillie]

13. when I say "done well"

what I means is that there's a balance between the hot and sour. Some places make it too hot, some make it too sour.

I fully admit that I'm not familiar with what is or isn't authentic. I'm an average American when it comes to that.

I just know what tastes good to me.

[oldlibdem]

7. zatraran's jambalaya

with pillsbury biscuits

[Wawannabe]

9. Chicken and rice also

But in a soup.
I have a cold. It will be good for it.

Made the chickn n rice last night and broth from the bones. Refrig overnight and heated up the broth and put just enough chicken n rice for a bowl of soup. The rest will become fried rice to take for lunch tomorrow.

I still have meyer lemon butter cookies from baking this weekend. Will have tea and cookies i am sure.

[Kali]

11. meyer lemon butter cookies

drool!!! sounds delicious!

[Wawannabe]

12. They are very good

And tender!
Got the recipe here. https://lifeloveandgoodfood.com/meyer-lemon-butter-cookies/

Added some whipped cream cheese to my icing. Mmmm!