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NJCher

(37,864 posts)
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 03:54 PM Sep 12

What's for Dinner, Thurs., Sept. 12, 2024

Fennel slices, apple, and lettuce salad. The lettuce is a mixture of a few kinds: red tip, green ruffly, a little watercress and arugula. I have fresh fennel heads to use in the dressing.

Pasta with fresh tomato sauce and the anchovies I received for my birthday. (It cracks me up that anyone would get a half dozen tins of anchovies for their b'day).

I have some charbroiled meatballs but doubt I'll use them. Might, though.

Ginger kombucha.

Cold tea and a small slice of cheese Danish.

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What's for Dinner, Thurs., Sept. 12, 2024 (Original Post) NJCher Sep 12 OP
French PJMcK Sep 12 #1
Making subway sandwiches on French bread with Emile Sep 12 #2
Pepperoni Spanish rice and shrimp Marthe48 Sep 12 #3
Cher, fennel? tsSleepyTimeDwnSout Sep 12 #4
fennel, yes! NJCher Sep 12 #5
Locomoco AKwannabe Sep 12 #6
It's a Hawaiian dish NJCher Sep 12 #7
Indian leftovers Retrograde Sep 13 #8

PJMcK

(22,882 posts)
1. French
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 03:58 PM
Sep 12

The Landlady's nephew and his wife are visiting and I'm taking everyone to a Bistro on NYC's upper east side. It's a terrific restaurant so I know we'll eat well.

Emile

(29,780 posts)
2. Making subway sandwiches on French bread with
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 04:35 PM
Sep 12

Pringles potato chips and French onion dip

Sharing an Aldi's chocolate bar with Loretta before bedtime.

Good Evening

Marthe48

(18,985 posts)
3. Pepperoni Spanish rice and shrimp
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 05:48 PM
Sep 12

I am going back to my friend's tomorrow, so I used leftovers, fresh and frozen to put together a quick meal and use a few things so they aren't here Monday. I will do the rice like this again. Really hits the spot.

NJCher

(37,864 posts)
5. fennel, yes!
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 08:33 PM
Sep 12

What went into the salad was the fennel bulb sliced on the mandoline.

Over the top of the salad and also into the dressing was unripened seeds off a fennel frond. Looked like this (stock photo):

https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-sweet-n-aromatic-fennel-seeds-farmers-hand-bg-image45835958

I crushed the fennel seed first, to bring out the flavor. It was really strong! I only used a few in the dressing and on top of the salad because it was so strong.

For the dressing, I just diluted ranch dressing with milk and added thyme and the crushed fennel buds. Wow, it was so good!





AKwannabe

(6,332 posts)
6. Locomoco
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 09:49 PM
Sep 12

With a perfectly cooked sunny side egg!
I ate out. At my fave taco bar. Thursday night special.

Retrograde

(10,645 posts)
8. Indian leftovers
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 12:47 AM
Sep 13

basmati rice and butter paneer from a dosa place we ordered from earlier this week, some homemade sag gosht I found in the freezer, and a bag of Trader Joe's Indian vegetables.

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