What's for Dinner, Wed., Feb. 7, 2024

[NJCher]

Blistered shishitos on naan bread with mozzarella and roasted red pepper. Kinda' light tonight because I had lunch, which I don't usually do.

For lunch, I had more of my broccoli rabe, tubettini, and bratwursts. Pics:


The above white is minced garlic.


This one shows the tubettini.

With lunch, I had an orange for dessert because citrus fruit helps absorption of vitamins when paired with cruciferous vegetables.

Ginger kombucha and dark Chinese tea to drink.

[Drum]

1. Tonight's dinner revolves around baked potatoes

Topping choices:
Sour cream/yogurt/butter
Smoked salmon bits
Bacon crumbles
Chives

Broccoli & mushrooms lightly sautéed in some of the bacon fat, with a tahini sauce

Chopped salad of romaine heart, celery, endive, cukes, radishes

[iamateacher]

2. We are in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Boy, are things expensive! So we are making our own dinner. Jamaican Vegetable Patties (frozen) and Greek salad. Spaghetti tomorrow night. Frozen pizza whenever.

[Callalily]

3. I was thinking about going to St. Croix USVI

Which island are you at?

[iamateacher]

6. St. Thomas

I don't know that I would recommend. We are here for the snorkeling. Should have stayed on St. John's but too expensive.

[Callalily]

4. Kozhi Chettinad (Chicken in Garlic Pepper Sauce)

Serving over rice. Not sure of a side, most likely a salad with lots of fresh veggies.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. Homemade black bean burgers with chipotle mayo

Oven fries.

[Yonnie3]

7. Pizza

from the freezer, pepperoni is the only option.
Presumably there will be libations.

We are having our former neighbor out for a visit. He was FLFC's best buddy. I would often feed him when we had a ham, turkey, ribs or made Jambalaya. He volunteered to help us move and was an incredible asset.

[Emile]

8. Wife is making homemade chicken pot pie.

Several tangerines before bedtime.

Good Evening 🌜

[Lunabell]

9. Fried chicken.

Mashed taters, homemade creamed corn and fresh sourdough bread from my starter, Betty. The bread's been slow proofing in the fridge overnight and now it's rising again in a warm oven.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Ham, Brussel sprouts, and gnocchi browned in sage butter.

[Retrograde]

11. Got a small pork roast at the store today

so that was dinner along with sweet potatoes and home-made apple sauce (I had some apples that were getting elderly. It's just cored apples roughly chopped and simmered until soft, then passed through a food mill, with some butter and cinnamon added)

Which means dinner for the next few days will be based on pork roast leftovers

[NJCher]

12. pork and apples are a great combo

one of my faves.

Speaking of sweet potatoes, I was able to purchase the Japanese blue sweet potato, which I am looking forward to doing ??something?? with.



p.s. I had to laugh at the apples getting "elderly."

[Retrograde]

13. My experience with purple sweet potatoes

is that they were rather dry and needed a lot of butter. These were an Okinawan variety, in Hawaii and they weren’t quite as purple as yours. I’ve had some home-grown ones here (grown from grocery store ones) by a better gardener and cook than I am, and they were sweeter and not as dry

Expect some color changes when you cook them