So what's for dinner?

Local Thai restaurant: Tom Kar soup, Thai Todmun (fishcakes) and baked DURIAN! (which actually wasn't bad)

Durian is supposed to be delicious, even though it smells vile -- people put up with the stink because they love the fruit so much! I've never seen it in a restaurant, though. You clearly have access to much better ones than I do.

Its taste reminded me of caramelized sweet onions. It was baked with coconut milk and sweet sticky rice. I liked it a lot, actually.

The proprietor of the restaurant was grinning when he saw me offering a taste to my husband and in-laws and how tentative my husband was about it. My father-in-law dug right in. My mother-in-law refused.

Pork ribs slow roasted with a spice rub and coated with a roasted red pepper/eggplant salsa

chunky mashed potatoes

baked butternut squash

Chicken with last summer's basil/walnut pesto (frozen in an ice cube tray) with spinach noodles.

Used the congealed liquids from the above ribs in place of water to make rice and had baked chicken to go with it. Very tasty.

Working on learning how to be mostly vegetarian and fat-free. So tonight dinner was mushrooms and diced red bell pepper braised in some chicken broth with italian seasoning, pepper, garlic, and a little tomato paste, served over brown rice and accompanied by diced leftover sweet potatoes tossed in nonfat peach yogurt.

Sounds very healthy MAS. But you don't want to go totally fat free, some healthy fat every day (ie plant based oils like olive oil) is very necessary for your body to function properly.

Marissa D said:

Chicken with last summer's basil/walnut pesto (frozen in an ice cube tray) with spinach noodles.

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I may steal that for dinner tonight. Have to make a grocery run and wasn't sure what to make.

it's another BLUE APRON weekend.
tonite: general tso's chicken
tomorrow: beef bolognese

check out my instagram @ motowncountry for picks of this and my past Blue Apron meals.....

Mom tried a new kind of chicken chili tonight. We agreed we prefer the other one she makes, but I think this one would be quite tasty if there were more beans and some different veggies in it.

zucchini pie (with onions and fresh parsley and mozzarella) and tomato/cucumber gazpacho, all from the garden. Well, the mozzarella wasn't from the garden.

Sweetleaf said:

I'm feeling uninspired.

So uninspired in fact, that I am cooking sausages and home made potato wedges for dinner.

What are you having?

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I love potatoes. Cheers mate.

Tonight it was burgundy beef stew.

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We celebrated our anniversary tonight at a place that specializes in shabu-shabu. Which I did not actually have as they were out of my protein of choice (A5 Satsuma Wagyu Rib Cap from Kagoshima -- it was our anniversary!).

We started the meal with wheat crepes with pork fat buttercream, ginger, sesame & red miso. Oooooh...decadent!

Husband did shabu-shabu w/Ohio Wagyu style round in a ginger chicken broth. Me? I had Rafute. MOAR DECADENCEDANCE~!

I looked up rafute, and now I want some!

benbenberi said:

I looked up rafute, and now I want some!

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This was 16oz, double bone-in pork belly. I was in heaven.

Snow crab legs with lemon wedges and some other, unimportant, stuff.

A trip to our favorite Chinese restaurant: spicy cold cucumbers with garlic, spicy dumplings, cumin dried beef, dried chicken with chilis, and cheng-du spicy sliced chicken. I am in endorphin bliss.

Pizza. We were in a hurry.

But last night I made a chicken stir-fry with veggies from the garden: bell pepper, swiss chard stems, part of a Lebanese summer squash, two small kohlrabis, some broccoli stems, peeled and sliced, snow peas and snap peas, and one nice large Boletus edulis wild mushroom I found.* Over brown rice. Was delishus.

caw

*The King bolete, one of the finest wild mushrooms you can find for the table, and grows almost everywhere. If you do any mushroom hunting, learn this one; it's not difficult to recognize, and is totally wonderful.

Had to throw out everything in the fridge and freezer due to an extended power outage, so thought I'd use up some stuff in the pantry: Canned ham, canned green beans and canned black-eyed peas, mixed together. It tastes pretty good, really.

Having a party tonight, so I'm going to spend all day cooking... my menu is:

Grilled chicken thighs
Grilled zucchini
Chicken enchiladas in chili gravy
Black bean, cheese, and chili enchiladas in roasted poblano sauce
Esquites (Mexican street corn salad...always a hit)
and blackberry margaritas made from the blackberry bushes in our backyard.

That sounds heavenly, Auzerais. What time should I be there?

Come visit, Fruitbat! Party starts at four!

Thank you!