So what's for dinner?

Smashburger

Today it's elk stirfry. I'd be eating it already, but I forgot to thaw the meat out, so I'm having to do that now. Alas.

A plate of too old from the freezer beef ravoli with marinara sauce. Sauce was okay, but the ravoli is starting some serious stomach drama.

So bored with certain meals. Need something new. So...

Pony. said:

Smashburger

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What's a smashburger Pony?

Jack-Full but still hungry.

Oh okay, Smashburger is a restaurant chain. I just Googled the word and found out there's one about fifteen minutes from my house. I need to get out more!

So Pony, how's the food there? And what did you have?

Jack-Love the Google!

I was going to cook a proper dinner, but have abandoned that idea in favour of sausage sangers*.


aka *snag sangers for Peak Australianisms

Crookneck squash and onions on skewers, grilled next to chicken thighs marinated in lemon (zest and juice) and basil, served with rice and a tzaziki style sauce of yogurt-lemon-basil. Was tasty and the chicken was fully cooked, but my tummy is really not happy right now.

I fully sympathize jenn. Feel better.
Jack-Pepto King

Shrimp in scampi sauce over really yummy spinach/basil/garlic pasta. It is locally made and they have fabulous flavor combinations.

MM

Helix said:

I was going to cook a proper dinner, but have abandoned that idea in favour of sausage sangers*.

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Sangers???

BLASTs (Bacon, lettuce, avocado, steak, tomato sandwiches)

Spaghetti sauce and meatballs over "spiralized" zucchini and yellow squash. Also carrots in chicken broth, and fruit salad.

Savoury bread pudding with bacon, pancetta, mushrooms, leeks, asparagus, wine, fresh thyme and mixed cheeses.
Kinda like this:
http://authorskitchen.com/blog/2011/5/24/mayhem-is-almost-over-bread-pudding-part-ii.html

Really? No one had dinner today? Or did everyone do what I did but is too ashamed to admit to pouring granola directly into the yogurt tub and then eating until the granola was gone?

Also, where did my rep points go??

*hangs head in shame* I ate out again. Soup and salad at the Olive Garden. *slinks out*

We each had a frozen single serve entree. Lasagna for him, fettucine with chicken and broccoli for me. So nothing to brag about. Tonight was one of those nights that are the reason I keep such in the freezer: when she got there, the cupboard was bare.

MM

homemade ratatouille with poached eggs.

Leftover chicken (mostly breast) from a couple of days ago roast, which I plan to cut up & cook with rice & onion & lemon slices. Followed probably by some of the tiramisu I brought home from a ginormous restaurant serving last weekend. (Fiorello's near Lincoln Center in NY, if anyone's interested. Good Italian, and most of their portions are not extraordinarily large, but their desserts are both delicious and huge: a dangerous combination!)

Grilled corn, salad & leftover ribs from the Chinese place.

I bought a big bunch of dill the other day without much thought as to how I was going to use it. I'm thinking now it would do nicely with a salmon I have in the freezer along with sides of lemon rice (which I need to make a double batch since my kids will fight over it for an evening snack) a tossed salad with a mustard vinaigrette, perhaps a steamed veggie, and a fruit salad.

Steak, noodles, green beans, & salad. Simple, easy, and loved by all.

Roasted edamame & corn salad.

Cheese and crackers. I feel so dinner-shamed.

Fruitbat said:

Cheese and crackers. I feel so dinner-shamed.

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Sounds fine to me! I add a glass of merlot, even if it's Cheez-wiz on Ritz crackers.

Tonight--fritatta. I have a lot of green peppers that will go bad soon, and a lot of eggs and cheese. (Cook up the chopped green peppers in olive oil in an oven-safe fry pan on the stove, sprinkle cheese over all, carefully add lightly beaten eggs. I use about ten.) Bake in 350 F. oven for about 10 minutes or until set.

Tonight--slow cooker country ribs, sweet potato chips, maybe a salad.

On my own tonight, so I'm going out. Thinkin' Lebanese or Italian. But then I'm always thinkin' Lebanese or Italian. Actually, I've decided while writing this -- Lebanese for Kibbeh Nayeh. That's raw beef or lamb with I believe some kind of wheat (bulgur?). Some people eat it with raw onion, but I just pour a little olive oil on it, squeeze a pinch into a biteful of pita, and it's great. You gotta be sure to go to a good place though, because if it's not fresh, well you can imagine.