What's for Dinner, Mon., Feb. 5, 2024

[NJCher]

Turkey burger with lettuce, avocado slices, turkey bacon, tomato, and red onion. Toasted crusty roll in the air fryer.

Faux-tato salad, which is "potato" salad using cauliflower and hard boiled egg; the rest is your usual potato salad ingredients--celery, onion, etc. Mustard.

Dessert is decaf coffee and tea biscuits with vanilla hummus on top.

[Marthe48]

1. I made a fresh pot of curried chicken vegetable soup with barley

Really good batch. I didn't make this soup last week, so maybe that's why it tastes so good

[Marthe48]

2. The faux-tato salad sounds good

I might try that

[Emile]

3. Just got home from the eye doctor. Eyes

are still dilated 😎. Go back in a couple weeks to see the eye surgeon and schedule cataract surgery for my left eye. I had a cataract removed from my right eye back in 2005. They said then I had a cataract in my left eye, but it wasn't near ready to remove. Took that long for my left eye to get ripe enough for surgery.

Tonight we are going to have spaghetti with garlic toast and a toss salad. Later an orange and two tangerines before bedtime.

Good Evening 🌉

[gibraltar72]

4. Leftover corned beef and Syracuse salt potatoes.

[elleng]

6. Had to check this!

Syracuse salt potatoes are a regional specialty of Syracuse, New York, aka "Salt City." Salt potatoes date to the 1800s, and were invented by local salt mine workers who created a simple and inexpensive lunch by boiling small potatoes in brine. The potatoes are still very popular today with the Central New York crowd, making an incredibly easy and delicious side dish.

Ingredients
4 pounds new potatoes

1 ½ cups fine salt

8 tablespoons butter, melted

Directions
Wash potatoes and set aside.

Fill a large pot with water; stir in salt until fully dissolved and no salt sinks to the bottom of the pot. Place potatoes in the pot and bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are tender but firm, about 15 minutes. Drain; cover to keep hot and let the salt crust develop.

While potatoes are cooking, melt butter in a small pan over medium-high heat, or in the microwave. Drizzle over hot potatoes

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/141785/syracuse-salt-potatoes/

[no_hypocrisy]

5. 15 Bean Soup with Andouille Sausage

YUM!!!

[MissMillie]

7. Pizza

Onion, ham and extra cheese

Slice of pie for dessert

[AKwannabe]

8. Made another batch of Tom Kha

I never get enough of the soup. Had more coconut milk and all other ingredients still.

So satisfying and different than soups I grew up with. Had two bowls over basmati rice.
Will take some for lunch tomorrow since I am working outside and it cold and rainy.

NJ. I got a bunch of lemongrass for this soup and will be starting a new plant from the cuttings. Takes a bit for roots to get started but easy to plant and grows fast after.

Had to leave my original experiment in Alaska last year so I am excited to start again in my new apartment where I only have a couple cactus so far.

[Trueblue Texan]

9. So, will my lemongrass grow back in the spring or do I have to replant?

It seems one year it did come back but there have been times I've had to replant...I think that was when the temps got down to 0 here in Texas and stayed that way for 3 days. Plants died and so did people

[AKwannabe]

10. Sorry can't answer that

I have only grown indoors.
As a tropical I believe it would die in those temps…