What's for Dinner, Sat., Feb. 25, 2023

[NJCher]

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Brown sugar-glazed salmon.

Tossed green salad using Caesar dressing, which I make with generous portions of Parmesan and ground freshly black pepper. At the Korean greengrocer I got radishes, yellow and green peppers, snow peas, cuccumber, and a new supply of cherry tomatoes.

Dessert: my dessert friend brought me a package of Tate's oatmeal raisin cookies, so a few of them with decaf.

[Yonnie3]

1. Baked Salmon

Baked salmon with citrus garlic seasonings. It has some heat with cayenne and paprika.
Lima beans
Yellow squash sliced and baked with seasonings and a but of cheese on top.
Maybe some mac and cheese leftovers

[PJMcK]

2. Chili

The First Mate was in a snit this morning because we have to cook some ground beef but she’s tired of burgers and meat sauces for pasta. I suggested chili and it’s perfect since we can use up some stuff that’s getting a bit old.

Ground beef, chopped onions, chili beans, chopped celery, chopped tomatoes, tomato sauce, chili powder, salt, pepper, Habanero hot sauce, Cumin and chopped garlic. When it’s cooked, we’ll put it in large mugs, cover the chili with grated cheddar cheese and quick-broil them to melt the cheese.

Since we’ll have the oven fired up, she’s making fresh biscuits for dipping in the chili. I’m making a small salad of greens and colored stuff like peppers, etc.

We’re anchored near Cape Canaveral and the humongous Vehicle Assembly Building where NASA puts the rockets together is in our “backyard.” Space-X has a crewed launch scheduled for Monday afternoon. It’d be cool to see that!

[hippywife]

3. Meatball subs...

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with tossed green side salad with lettuce, cuke, onion, green olives, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and garlic (you forgot to pick me up some tomatoes!) for husband.

A really easy prep for salmon, and my favorite:

Place salmon filets in a large bowl or gallon bag, with soy sauce, brown sugar, minced garlic, a wee bit of cilantro and sesame seeds (optional). Marinate in the fridge for a couple hours, then place in a skillet, marinade and all, poaching the salmon in it, turning a few times, until done. Great served with a baked sweet potato and some asparagus.

[NJCher]

8. hey, thanks!

I'm saving that in my seafood recipe folder.

Stopped by with the cherry tomatoes but was met by ferocious black dog.

Got skeered.

[Emile]

5. Pork steak, green beans, and salad.

[Callalily]

6. New recipe tonight; pork tenderloin in sweet citrus sauce

I started marinating the pork tenderloin last night, and it is in the oven as I type. I'll let you know how it turns out. Wish me luck! hahahahaha

Opps. Forgot to say that the tenderloin is wrapped in banana leaves.

Also making baked shredded carrots and oven roasted potatoes.

[NJCher]

7. wow, sounds like a really nice dinner!

I'd never have thought of banana leaves.

[Marthe48]

9. Meatloaf, roasted Brussels sprouts

I had fresh strawberries with f-f topping. The strawberries were quite hard, but had a good flavor

[chowmama]

10. Vietnamese Caramel Chicken

Best name I can give it. It was the signature chicken dish from the Saigon restaurant and they called it Saigon chicken, so that wasn't much help tracking it down. They did eventually give a recipe to the paper before they (the restaurant) closed, so that was the main source.

It's a stir-fry with oyster sauce, hot peppers and lemon grass. However, according to the newspaper, sugar is added to a bare spot in the wok and allowed to strongly caramelize before adding the sauce mixture. I'd never heard of this before, but I've since learned that it's a real Vietnamese technique and is called 'caramelized' chicken, pork, whatever.

Anyway, I added green onions and pea pods and increased the sauce amount to allow for the increased volume. Maybe not traditional, but it was tasty. I added a small amount of black pepper, too.

I'll go down and clean the wok in a little while. DH, as always, called out to find out if I was burning something while it cooked; he'll ask the same as I'm heating the clean pan to dry and re-season it a little. I keep telling him that it's not really stir-fry if the smoke detector doesn't go off.

The wok was $1 from an estate sale. The previous owners had put it in the dishwasher and it was a lovely dull orange. It is now a shiny black. Some of my best stuff has come from the 'about to throw away' pile.