What's for Dinner?

[Morrigoon]

Garlic shells. And a late-night snack of whole grain toast with melted cheddar on top.

[Betty]

Two nights ago I made:

Spicy sausage and parmesean raviolis (homemade dough and everything) with a browned butter sage sauce. Idea and sauce from Alton Brown. I didn't want to have to make 1/4 of his meatloaf mixture to fill it though so I winged it. I still used his crouton idea though. I made about half of what I could because it was time consuming and I wasn't sure how well they'd turn out.

They turned out great! Really really good actually. So good, I made the rest of them yesterday and froze them for dinner later in the week.

And they were actually pretty damn cheap to make too and could be filled with all sorts of interesting things. I will definitely try them again.

Tonight though? Hrrrmmmm. Maybe taco salad.

[Morrigoon]

Pork roast in gravy (can't take credit for the roast, this was a Tyson frozen entree)
with egg noodles in butter, salt, and a dash of garlic powder

Was surprisingly good for such an easy dinner. Will do again. Next time will remember to make a veggie side dish.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Chicken with bacon, mushrooms, and a cream sauce. With broccoli on the side and stuffing. Kind of a mishmash, but I spent enough energy on the chicken thing that I wanted to keep the rest simple.

[Morrigoon]

Wow, that sounds delicious!

[Snowflake]

Tonight will be a cold noodle salad with peanut sauce.

[alphabassettgrrl]

I heavily modified this:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/bacon-m...en/detail.aspx

I kept the ingredients, but modified the cooking. Used boneless chicken, broiled it with a slice of bacon on top; cooked more bacon in a pan, added the bacon grease from the broiled bacon, cooked the mushrooms, then added cream and cornstarch. Would have added garlic but I don't have any at the moment. Used a bit of dried garlic, but it's not the same.

Would probably be great with some plain noodles or spaghetti maybe.

[Prudence]

Homemade butternut squash risotto, bacon, and homemade red velvet cupcakes.

[Betty]

I made this last night: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/b...ipe/index.html

I think I've decided that I'm just not going to make spaghetti anymore. I'm disappointed every time. The meatballs were really good though.

I also made bruchetta with it and THAT was the best part of it. My husband tells me, as he's devouring it, he shouldn't like this... he doesn't like tomatoes and it looks like it's all tomatoes... and I'm thinking - I KNOW! And then even my 13 year old son is saying he's going to try it and I'm thinking DAMN! I should have bought more basil and cut up more tomatoes.

It's roma tomatoes cut in half and deseeded. I just use my fingers. Dice them up small. Then cut up a bunch of basil. I bought I "bunch" from Winco and stacked up the leaves, cutting them into strips and then once or twice the other way. I added a minced/squished clove of garlic and big splash of olive oil, a small splash of balsamic vinegar and some crunchy sea salt. It didn't look quite right so I put in another splash of olive oil and ta-da. In fact, I'm totally craving it again right now.

I need to skip the spaghetti sauce and use this as a topping for chicken or something instead. It's like italian salsa! (well - it looks sort of like salsa.)

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Turkey & pastrami sandwich from the Meet n' Potatoes truck. It was yummy, but holy fückballs it was salty!

I've consumed almost two liters of water since dinner and I'm still thirsty. Feeling thirsty with a "sloshy" stomach sucks. And with all this water in me, I'm afraid to go to bed.