Post Your Dinner, Redux

[PetersCreek]

Now that we've made the move to CosmoQuest, I thought it was about time to revive the missing Post Your Dinner thread. If you're celebrating a special occasion, trying something new, or having something particularly tasty... whether you're dining out, ordering takeout, or making it from scratch...feel free to post it here.

Tonight's dinner is my homemade, hand-tossed pizza. One will be a Margherita pizza, featuring tomatoes marinated in balsamico, doctored up with a little prosciutto. The other will be the wife's favorite: Canadian bacon and pineapple. The dough has been slow-rising in the refrigerator since last night.

I churned tonight's dessert this morning: a very, very dark Askinosie chocolate ice cream with coffee and amaretto.

[Buttercup]

I'll be over for some of that pizza. :-D Pineapple and cheese and a sprinkle of diced jalapeno please.

Tonight will warm up store-bought pork tamales for husband. I'll make "Spanish" rice to go with, and also pinto beans & jalapenos. Half a cheese quesadilla too. All will be served with sour cream.

[Solfe]

Chicken on the grill, marinaded in cider vinegar (1/2 cup), brown sugar (1/4 cup), pineapple juice (1/2 cup) and Italian seasoning (to taste, for me a lot). Plus corn on the cob and potatoes.

[Trebuchet]

Madame Trebuchet's family reunion/potluck was this afternoon. No room for dinner! Lots of good stuff at the potluck, however. Burgers. Dogs. (Both types.) Baked beans. Assorted salads. Chocolate cake. So full!

[geonuc]

Last night I added mango to my otherwise standard salad of romaine, tomato, red onion, cucumber and radish.

[Solfe]

Last night I added mango to my otherwise standard salad of romaine, tomato, red onion, cucumber and radish.

That sounds awesome. I love salad, so now I think I am going to try that... assuming I can find a mango. What kind of dressing?

[geonuc]

That sounds awesome. I love salad, so now I think I am going to try that... assuming I can find a mango. What kind of dressing?

The addition of mango was really nice. I used a red wine vinegar, olive oil, coarse salt and pepper dressing, although I cheated and added some of my favorite bottled dressing: Girard's Light Champagne.

[geonuc]

This thread is useless without pictures.


Cooking Light pasta with edamame by geonuc, on Flickr

Pasta with roasted grape tomatoes, thin-sliced garlic, grated parrano cheese, thai and sweet basil and edamame. A recipe in the latest Cooking Light inspired me

[Noclevername]

My dinner last night was a bowl of cheerios. I don't have pictures of it.

[Tinaa]

Tonight we're having boiled shrimp, corn on the cob and a fresh chopped salad.

[Noclevername]

Tonight; baked eggplant parmesan & ravioli, with a cucumber salad

[redshifter]

Corn dogs sweating under a heat lamp at the local AM/PM...now that's good eatin'

[PetersCreek]

My dinner last night was a bowl of cheerios. I don't have pictures of it.

Ooooooooocoo, Cheerios!

(Sorry. It was right there.)

[Fazor]

Lunch, not dinner. A few weeks ago we decided to get food at one of the local Mexican joints. Great place (there's three in town that are all stellar.) Tara stumbled onto a new soup, "Sopa Azteca." It was wonderful, so we decided to make our own big batch to take for lunches.

I had a handful of tomatoes from my mother's garden that were about a week off the vine, so a little past their prime. So I tossed them in olive oil and roasted them. Fire roasted a fairly mild pepper on the grill, and sauteed some sweet onions and garlic. Then I pureed it all together and added to some chicken stock. Baked and shredded some chicken to throw in, and added a bunch of dried (since I didn't have fresh) cilantro. That's it.

Served with some freshly sliced avacado and a squeeze of lime juice, with some crumbled tortilla chips on top. It's so fresh and filling!

[Swift]

My older sister and her husband stopped by this weekend and I made some burgers and I must say they came out great. I keep it simple: good quality ground round, salt, pepper, a little Worcestershire, a little garlic powder. Make some nice sized and thick patties and don't mash on them on the grill, it just forces the juices out.

[R.A.F.]

Hamburgers....just got a hamburger press, and I can't wait to try it out.

[DoggerDan]

OJ. I'm on a fruit diet this week.

[Trebuchet]

Hamburgers....just got a hamburger press, and I can't wait to try it out.

My hamburger presses are at the ends of my arms!

[Solfe]

My hamburger presses are at the ends of my arms!

My wife laughs at me when I use a coffee mug to flatten burgers and the turn it over to punch them out.

[Buttercup]

Tonight it'll be Sloppy Joe's and onion rings and vegetable for husband; same for me, minus the meat.

[R.A.F.]

My hamburger presses are at the ends of my arms!

Yeah...that was the "problem"...I can't make a "by hand" patty to save my life.

[geonuc]

Tried a new place that delivers last night but couldn't decide whether I wanted an order of hot wings and a salad or a pizza and a salad. I settled on an order of hot wings, a pizza and a salad.

[PetersCreek]

Last night, it was ribeye steaks and zucchini on the grill, with baked potatoes. I went fishing this morning, so I was hoping to have trout for lunch...but they declined the invitation.

[Swift]

I went fishing this morning, so I was hoping to have trout for lunch...but they declined the invitation.

LoL

"A loaf of bread," the Walrus said,
"Is what we chiefly need:
Pepper and vinegar besides
Are very good indeed--
Now if you're ready, Oysters dear,
We can begin to feed."

"But not on us!" the Oysters cried,
Turning a little blue.
"After such kindness, that would be
A dismal thing to do!"
"The night is fine," the Walrus said.
"Do you admire the view?

[jokergirl]

Last night we had corn on the cob we harvested at an organic farm nearby, and blanched kale with walnuts and honey vinaigrette. Delicious. Stuff just tastes so much better when it's actually picked when it's ripe, as opposed to picked green and freighted all over the world.
We also got potatoes and a pumpkin, and some green beans that we already ate for Sunday breakfast.

[Solfe]

We did "make your own salad night." I had a left over piece of steak and two left over chicken breasts, so I chopped them up to go on top of the salad.

I bought a nice loaf of bread and laid out every possible salad type item from the fridge - Snow snap peas, spinach, arugula, several cheeses, cucumber, pickles, green pepper, pepperoncini, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, carrots, etc. The kids love "make your own dinner night."

[Noclevername]

Last night was spaghetti squash done like actual spaghetti, in a homemade sauce.

[Swift]

My wife made an absolutely lovely Mediterranean style clam soup the other day. It was from a Mediterranean cookbook she has and was sort of like a Manhatten style clam chowder (tomato based broth), but with pasta instead of potatoes.

[PetersCreek]

I'm late posting this but I made omelettes for breakfast last Sunday, ham, mushroom, chives, and applewood smoked cheddar.

[Fazor]

I'd never cooked pork tenderloin until about 3 weeks ago. Tried a "maple brown mustard" recipe and it was okay. Then tried a "honey butter sauce" recipe and it was better. Tuesday, I decided to skip recipes, and instead just seasoned the meat myself (Salt, pepper, rosemary, corriander, and garlic) and cooked with some rough-chopped onion. Used chicken stock and butter to make a sauce from the pan stuffs, and ate with some stuffing and baked asparagus.

It was the best meal we've had in a very long time. Lesson? Don't listen to recipes, listen to instinct!