What's for Dinner, Sun., March 23, 2025

[NJCher]

Thai Chicken Crunch Salad.

For greens, it has romaine and shredded cabbage. I'm using a chicken breast I put in the slow cooker.
Veggies are sliced carrots, cucumbers. Torn up cilantro. Crispy wonton strips and fresh lime.

The peanut dressing has rice vinegar, fresh lime juice, soy, honey, a little sugar, garlic, fresh ginger, cilantro leaves, and red pepper flakes, in addition to vegetable oil.

I have to praise cauliflower puree'. It was so good last night with the lamb shanks, but I had cooked up enough that I played around with it today in the blender as a pureed soup by adding 1/2 & 1/2. I only added salt and pepper along with parsley and it was so good and so easy to make. In addition, I added chicken broth.

One thing that makes it so easy is cooking it in the slow cooker, either with broth or water.

I also made up almost two gallons of kombucha. Pomegranate and cranberry flavors.

Dessert: Decaf and stewed apples with Greek yogurt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

[applegrove]

1. Corned beef hash and cabbage salad with honey mustard

dressing.

[SheltieLover]

2. Pacific cod, mac 'n' cheese & peas

Dessert will be choc or tapioca pudding or strawberries with sour cream/sugar mix.

Yours sounds delic, as always, Cher!

[democrank]

3. Easy, breezy....

Leftover homemade cauliflower/carrot/Vermont cheddar soup
Roast pork sandwich w/havarti dill cheese and Maine ginger mustard on Dave’s Killer Bread
A plum for dessert
Lemon water

[Bayard]

4. Going Southern and Mexican tonight

Ham slices, Mexican Rice, blackeyed peas with onions, cornbread fritters with some corn added.

Mexican Rice:
Make a pan of brown rice (or white), and layer it in a glass baking pan with sour cream, canned sweet chili peppers, and Jack cheese, ending with cheese on top. Cover with foil and bake in oven at 350 degrees for about 40 min, or until cheese is melted and everything else is hot. Nummy!

[chowmama]

5. Salisbury steak with mushroom gravy

Mashed potatoes on the side - DH wants me to mash in some leftover cooked cabbage to make colcannon and I'll probably add some cooked green onion, as well.

I just took 2 loaves of bread out of the oven. I find a cup of liquid generally needs enough other ingredients to make one loaf, so my usual batch has 2 cups. I used some milk to soak rolled oats, but the rest of the liquid was water. 2 cups whole wheat flour, plus the oats, and the rest was white flour to texture. Salt, vegetable oil, a small squirt of honey and a small sprinkle of cinnamon which you can't really taste unless you're looking for it. It makes a nice effect.

When you're working with whole grains and whole grain flour, you need the dough to be a little stickier than tacky. The whole grains soak up moisture during the first rise and if the texture at the beginning is what you'd have for a white loaf, the end result is usually too dry. Sticky = you press your fingers lightly into it and they come away with dough on them. Tacky = the dough follows your fingers briefly, but releases pretty cleanly.

The loaves came out nice and moist without being too dense and damp. I cut up the final 2 inches of the last batch (basic Italian white loaf) and am drying it for breadcrumbs, so I don't lose it to mold.

[Cairycat]

6. Marry Me chicken

I wanted to see what the fuss was about. It was okay, but not outstanding. Had it over some odds and ends of pasta, and grapefruit for a palate cleanser.

[slightlv]

9. I finally made that dish a couple of weekends ago...

I'm generally a pretty good cook, but this dish was really disappointing. I always follow the recipe first time out to get a "baseline" of the dish, and then next time change things up as our palates like. But I really wasn't impressed enough with the base dish to even think of doing it again. Glad to know I wasn't the only one who was a bit disappointed!

[AKwannabe]

7. Potstickers

Had late lunch so that will do …and there are Hagen Dass ice cream cones.

[Retrograde]

8. Leftover pork chops and polenta

and a big green salad with greens from the farmers' market

[MissMillie]

10. corned beef & cabbage, again

Last week we went to Sis's house to share hers with her. This week, we cooked the one we had bought for our house.

"strawberry shortcake" ice cream stick for dessert