So what's for dinner?

[Storm Angel]

I think I'll be having a Black Forest ham sub with some herbs and spices, a sprinkling of Italian dressing, and mustard.

 

[benbenberi]

Baked chicken thigh, corn on the cob, small tomato. It's still summer, dammit!

 

[mrsmig]

I was going to make chicken curry for dinner, but I am so beat from working in the garden all day that we're having Chinese food delivered instead.

 

[Maryn]

We're doing a make-it-fast standby, salmon in a sesame-ginger glaze (from a bottle), roasted asparagus in the same pan, and garlic roasted new potatoes, in the same oven.

And wine, because it's been that kind of day. Nothing wrong, really, but everything is just so damned difficult, you know?

 

[Unimportant]

We're doing a make-it-fast standby, salmon in a sesame-ginger glaze (from a bottle), roasted asparagus in the same pan, and garlic roasted new potatoes, in the same oven.

And wine, because it's been that kind of day. Nothing wrong, really, but everything is just so damned difficult, you know?

Sounds pretty excellent to me!

I'm about to make garlic prawns and a pesto pasta for our lunch guest. Dinner.... I wish I could do a Scarlett O'Hara for that, but I'll need to think about it today and tomorrow, because I've run out of leftovers. I did roast a pumpkin overnight and have a big bowlful of that, so I expect that will feature in some way.

 

[Unimportant]

Partner found two pumpkins in the storage box that had started to go mouldy. So I've cut off the bad bits (about 25%) and cut up the rest ready for roasting. We are going to eat So. Much. Pumpkin this week.

 

[Unimportant]

Tonight: burgers and fries. The fries I'm too lazy -- scrub potatoes, cut up, soak, dry, heat up a pot of oil? Nah. I'm using the shop ones from the freezer. The beef is homekill and the buns are home made, so I'll call it good at that.

Tomorrow is rugby and bring-lunch-for-the-gang, so I'm cleaning out my freezer/garden/fridge. It'll be a little-of-this and a little-of-that. Some long-forgotten spiced meatballs can go into a yoghurt/lemon/mint sauce and be stabbed with toothpicks for ease of serving. Home made buns and sliced BBQ beef brisket: add cheese and mayo, and it'll be sliders. Tomato paste, oregano, basil, capsicum, red onion, garlic, and some geriatric shredded mozz and bacon crumbs will become a baked pizza slice-muffin-scone-thing. I'm hard-boiling some eggs which, with parsley and celery and spring onion and mustard greens and mayo can become egg salad to go into tortilla wraps. My pumpkin-rosemary bread dough is on the rise and, baked into buns and filled with fried crumbed beef schnitzel, cabbage and carrot will make nice filled rolls. Kale with spinach, onion, feta, pickled beetroot, walnuts, sunflower seeds and a balsamic dressing can be salad; I'll add olives if I can unearth any from the back of the fridge. Lemon poppy-seed teacake is in the oven.

And then the week's meal planning can begin again...

 

[Brigid Barry]

Kid2 made a surprisingly delicious stir fry with frozen veggies and leftover pulled pork (also from the freezer). She has a hard time with rice so I made it and the meal came out great.

Tomorrow is breakfast sandwiches. Eggs, toast, ham, and cheddar cheese. I think we have a couple of potatoes that I'll shred and make hash browns.

 

[Clovitide]

Today, donuts, so I'll do yesterday's home cooked meal. I made a spam, rice dish. Now, to make it, first, I needed to grate the spam. I did, for a second, then decided to mash it because I had a plastic grater and it was taking forever. Threw the mashed spam in the air fryer, but the recipe was in Celsius and I use Fahrenheit and the conversion wasn't a pretty number on my air fryer. Chucked it in anyway at 2 degrees higher. Burnt it.

Used a rice cooker for the rice and manage to mess that up. Washed the rice, then coated it in sesame oil and cracked an egg in there. Somehow, it all turned out under cooked, and I had to recook it. Salvaged it with soy sauce. My Asian step mom would be upset.

Next, the sauce. I didn't have gochujang paste, so I replaced it with chili garlic sauce. Shouldn't be a problem, right? Wrong! I misjudged the spice level and had to add honey to temper the heat, which was not in the recipe at all. And my wrist slipped when pouring the sugar and I had to scoop a spoonful of it out before it mixed away.

Anyway, it turned out alright, surprisingly

 

[Unimportant]

Today, donuts, so I'll do yesterday's home cooked meal. I made a spam, rice dish. Now, to make it, first, I needed to grate the spam. I did, for a second, then decided to mash it because I had a plastic grater and it was taking forever. Threw the mashed spam in the air fryer, but the recipe was in Celsius and I use Fahrenheit and the conversion wasn't a pretty number on my air fryer. Chucked it in anyway at 2 degrees higher. Burnt it.

Used a rice cooker for the rice and manage to mess that up. Washed the rice, then coated it in sesame oil and cracked an egg in there. Somehow, it all turned out under cooked, and I had to recook it. Salvaged it with soy sauce. My Asian step mom would be upset.

Next, the sauce. I didn't have gochujang paste, so I replaced it with chili garlic sauce. Shouldn't be a problem, right? Wrong! I misjudged the spice level and had to add honey to temper the heat, which was not in the recipe at all. And my wrist slipped when pouring the sugar and I had to scoop a spoonful of it out before it mixed away.

Anyway, it turned out alright, surprisingly

Dear sweet mother of dogs, after a cooking disaster like that I'd have gone with donuts too!