So what's for dinner?

[mrsmig]

We had a late lunch, so we're opting for tasty snacks for dinner: cheese, smoked oysters, smoked salmon, a bit of prosciutto, some crackers and bread.

And wine.

 

[RedRajah]

It is wet and miserable right now, so grilled cheese & popcorn is in our collective future.

 

[CMBright]

Learned dinner will be eating out followed by the new Trolls movie.

 

[Brigid Barry]

So the husband's walk in the woods was cancelled, so we did take out last night. He's doing a spaghetti dinner with the scouts. For Kid2 and I, I picked up a couple of pork shoulder ribs and I'm making cabbage hash browns that are supposedly Irish.

 

[lorna_w]

I roasted a big chicken; after an hour added a huge onion quartered, some of my smallish home-grown yellow potatoes, and carrots. I just cut it up when it was cool enough, and created four containers for dinner, to microwave, another plastic container of sliced breast, for salads or wraps, and I have most of the carcass in a slow cooker for overnight, which will become soup (that I'll have to freeze, and find room for in the freezer.) Dinner was eating little scraps of meat standing up and some skin. I know that's not super-classy of me, but it works. If I get hungry later, I have a bunch of little stuff that'd work to fill in the corners of hunger.

I'll be sick of chicken by the time I have turkey, no doubt, eating it twice a day. But it's so nice to have it all packaged like that, ready to grab and go, I won't complain much.

And I made a frittata yesterday, so I do not have to do much at all in kitchen until Saturday.

 

[Woollybear]

Meeting some family at a local joint. Soup or burgers or dogs. And beer.

 

[Unimportant]

It is my understanding (from vague memories of watching a lot of Food Network) that cooking low and slow breaks down the structure that causes toughness. I'd say it's worth a try to see if it helps make the meat more tender. You can always throw the protein to the chickens if that doesn't work.

I tried it. Beef far easier to chew. Noodles went mush. Flavors faded. Edible but not something I would do again.

 

[Doctor Mango]

beetroot, spinach, and grilled chicken

 

[Brigid Barry]

I don't know if Irish hash brows are really Irish, but they're delicious. The husband and offspring both pronounced them "meh, I'll eat it but I'd never ask for it." FINE. more for me.

I have chicken cooking in the oven that will be deboned and cut up for Betty Crocker's chicken enchilada bake.

 

[Unimportant]

It's going to be a leek potato bacon cauliflower soup type thing, that I will just make up as I go along, because I have those things in the fridge. And bread, which I will have to buy, because my last loaf went furry and got tossed to the chooks (no toast for me for breakfast!).

This is going to be one of those weeks when planning meals is a nightmare.

 

[Introversion]

Chili, because it’s chilly outside, and easy.

 

[CMBright]

Chili for lunch with cornbread because that's what goes with chili.

 

[Brigid Barry]

Chili for lunch with cornbread because that's what goes with chili.

Also rice, which surprised me when I first tried it.

 

[Janine R]

Also rice, which surprised me when I first tried it.

But cornbread with chili, it’s even pretty.

 

[mrsmig]

Take-out Chinese. Except we're having it delivered.

 

[CMBright]

Reheated pork chops with apples and onions simmered in a mix of chicken stock and cider with a side of stuffing and a mug of hot cider to drink.

 

[RedRajah]

Kothey chicken momos, lentil soup, and aloo dum from our local Nepali restaurant

 

[Unimportant]

So, it was bacon leek potato cauliflower parmesan paprika soup, which I liked, but dearly beloved did not. Too much bacon, or something.

Sucks to cook for someone who has no interest in cooking, has no appetite, knows they need to eat regularly, and gets shitty if whatever is offered isn't perfectly to their capricious taste, while I'm stuck making a dog euthanasia date with the vet, dealing with both of our medical appointments, and working full-time to keep a roof while also doing the cooking. And dealing with failing students.

Tomorrow can fucking be fucking beans on fucking toast.

 

[Janine R]

Tomorrow can fucking be fucking beans on fucking toast.

And they WILL be delicious.

So sorry about the dog euthanasia. Been through it and nothing makes it easy.

 

[Unimportant]

And they WILL be delicious

Except I have no toast. Will figure out something.

So sorry about the dog euthanasia. Been through it and nothing makes it easy.

Ta. Yeah, sucks.

 

[Unimportant]

Now rummaging wildly through the pantry to see if I can find a tin of beans for tomorrow, oh fuck my life.

 

[Introversion]

Tomorrow can fucking be fucking beans on fucking toast.

Dad? That you? When did you learn to use the toaster?

 

[Introversion]

Who here is celebrating Thanksgiving, or another holiday this month? Anyone want to share their menu?

We’ll host a small group for Thanksgiving, and I’m making some food ahead of time.

• Making this mashed potatoes casserole tonight. Will refrigerate, should reheat fine.
• Making whipped butternut squash tomorrow. Ditto.
• Classic American green bean casserole. Will make Thanksgiving day.
• Apple-spiced pork tenderloin with bread stuffing. Ditto.
• Carrot cake (best c.c. recipe I’ve yet found). Will bake the cake rounds Wednesday, assemble it Thanksgiving day.
• buttermilk dinner rolls

And then on Friday I’ll collapse.

 

[RedRajah]

Yet again, my brother-in-laws have turned down my most awesome pumpkin chiffon pie with gingersnap pecan crust (making it for Xmas though) because they called dibs on making one. The pies I will be making are sweet potato (using ube) and gingered apple cream pie.

 

[CMBright]

Who here is celebrating Thanksgiving, or another holiday this month? Anyone want to share their menu?

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I'll show up with Spouse and Kid at Spouse's family get-together. Until then, I'm trying not to stress out about how stressful it will be.

If it was just Mom and I, it would be turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, green bean casserole, corn pudding, rolls and perhaps mashed rutabega. Pumpkin pie and Cool-whip whipped cream. I miss those Thanksgiving meals. It might be ham or cornish game hens or a turkey breast instead of a whole turkey, given it was just the two of us and our cats.

The Spouse's family potluck is usually turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy with everything tossed in rather than just turkey pan juice, green beans, corn, rolls. At least half a dozen deserts, hopefully pumpkin pie that year. If there is whipped cream, it's the canned stuff. They do usually have traditional deviled eggs. I enjoy traditional deviled eggs very much. With all the assorted family members, there are usually multiple salads and cru-de-te type trays.