What's for dinner?

[rivka]

Tonight we're having shrimp quesadillas. Pre-cooked shrimp, sliced lengthwise to make them skinnier; red pepper strips and tomatillo slices sprinkled with cumin and salt and pepper, brushed with oil, and broiled; grated cheddar and jack cheeses; and a little salsa, all layered into flour tortillas and broiled until the cheese melts.

I think that alongside we'll have corn on the cob and a green salad.

What's for dinner at your house?

Comments

[curmudgn]

I don’t know what tonight’s dinner is—‘clean out the refrigerator,’ probably—but last night’s dinner, concocted because ziactrice had come to visit, was pork roast in a soy/hoisin/chilli marinade, wok-sautéed vegetables (Kentucky Wonder beans, julienned red bell peppers, sliced zucchini and summer squash) with a splash of sesame oil and soy sauce, and corn on the cob, with blackberry cobbler for afters.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I don't know what we're having. But yours sure looks tantalizing!

[eeyorerin]

Having just hauled bags and bags of groceries up the stairs with the help of firesign3000, I'm not sure what dinner will be, but I have a great many options. :)

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

hrm, that sounds goooooooood.

i've no idea what i'm having for dinner.

i'm contemplating taking myself out for a burrito though.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

*grin* I do what I can.

I just got back from the farm stand, where they had lovely little red bell peppers on sale, 3 for $1. I think tomorrow night I'll stuff them with wild rice (still trying to get those whole grains in) and vegetable bits, and maybe a bit of cheese, and serve them alongside the pork roast I bought at the supermarket.

And I got more bags of frozen berries, to make more of that berry crisp you liked so much. What would you think of putting rolled oats in the crisp topping, so it's more crunchy than dough-y?

[lcohen]

mmm. your dinner sounds good!

we're having company so we're having more than usual: my special salad (mixed greens, cucumber, carrots, feta cheese, dates, pine nuts in a vinaigrette), zucchini-potato-onion omelets and steamed asparagus.

[leadensky.livejournal.com]

Baked chicken, with rice, gravy with hot peppers, turnip greens and beer.

Maybe ice cream, if I get to the store soon.

- hossgal

[jodawi.livejournal.com]

hopefully something besides bread which was modified to include milk honey anise cocoa basil and jodawi knows what else. (not that it isn't perfectly fine bread, mind you - i have video footage of me doing the happy bread dance to prove it - but sometimes one needs more than peculiar bread.)

shrimp quesadillas....... twice my mind read that as shrimp enchiladas, so that's apparently what i want

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I think the rolled oats would be a nice touch. Moreover, I think you're just a wonderful cook. (And many other things too.)

[kiya]

It looks like Kevin and I are going to do Kitchen Bonding and make pierogies from scratch. I like cooking, it centers me. I'm making the shells and he's making the fillings, and it looks like he's done washing dishes, so we can go do that now.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Chicken dusted with a spice mixture (equal parts of turmeric, ginger and ground coriander), then browned, some lemon zest and lemon juice over the top then baked in the oven. Yay for cast iron! I'll probably serve it with lemon rice, broccoli and carrots.

[jodawi.livejournal.com]

ravioli or like tortellini or like whatever them pillow thingies are, with basil 4 cheese, with instant italian sun dried tomato something on top with too much garlic and or salt and or something and perplexing textures, and fresh raspberries on top of that.

mmm-mmm-sortagoodbutprobablynottoberepeated.

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

Cheapass ramen and fresh fruit. I guess I can't be inspired all the time.

[geminigirl]

The combination of fatigue from overdoing it yesterday and having a cold has caught up with me and so it's cheese ravioli and garlic toast. Cheese, although not good for the cold, is just comforting.

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

BLT's on whole-wheat bread, with tomatos picked from our garden this afternoon. Dessert was blueberry shortcake, with homemade whipped cream.

Now I just need to start thinking of ways to use the rest of the half-dozen tomatos I picked today.... I think tomato-and-mozzarella salad tomorrow night, and maybe stuffed tomatos another night....

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

Wow - that sounds amazing! I'll have to try making it sometime soon.

After the meat-fest that was last night's dinner (4 racks of ribs, cooked 3 different ways, for 6 people, one of whom is mostly vegetarian!), we decided to strictly veggie tonight. J. made an Asian pasta salad with cucumber, lettuce and scallions in a light vinagrette with garlic and ginger and sesame, etc. I went to the Whole Foods and picked up a couple different varieties of baked tofu, some greens, and garlic green beans.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Dinnoer tonight was pot-luck down at the theater after an all-day work party and before the first full run-through of "Wit." (http://www.peak.org/community/act/wit.html) Like most theater pot-lucks, it was a mix of home-made and ordered-in or carried-out. IIRC, the impromptu "menu" included

• Kentucky Fried Chicken


• Some much better home-made baked chicken legs, cold. I love cold chicken.


• Two pizzas (pepperoni, and mushroom and black olive) from one of the local pizza places that's a lot better than the chains.


• An excellent bean salad that went waaaay beyond the standard "three-bean" mix.


• Deli potato salad and macaroni salad


• Thinly sliced meats and cheeses, layered with lettuce and rolled up in flour tortillas which were then sliced into pretty little pinwheel discs


• A big green salad with noiceberg lettuce


• A fresh blueberry and peach pie (I made that, and it got raves)

Amazingly, the pie was the only dessert...

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

Dinner was a turkey melt at the Steak'n'Shake near Dallas/Fort Worth airport, with valkyrwench and twfarland on the way to go meet clairaide. We got there early, which is a good thing, as they apparently had new cooks there who were cooking verrrryyyy sloooowwwlllyy....

This was in addition to being seated along some turf boundary that caused us to be ignored by competing parties of waitstaff. All told, I think we spent a good hour there -- and for dessert, I paid a machine twenty-five cents for two aspirin-sized candy sours.

But the food was tasty, and the company was better -- we could shoot the breeze as easily at the restaurant as the airport. And when the manager came to apologize for the slow service, and ask if there was anything he could do, I didn't say, "Comp the meal?" nor "I need a hug!". Got hugs later at the airport :>

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Wow - that sounds amazing! I'll have to try making it sometime soon.

I actually modified the above recipe slightly. When it came time to broil the vegetables, I mixed a little olive oil, a splash of lime juice, and some cumin, salt, black pepper, and crushed red pepper in a bowl and tossed the vegetables with that. Then, while the vegetables were in the broiler, I swished the halved shrimp through the leftover spiced oil. Everything held the flavors really well.

Your ribs dinner sounded just incredible. Misha has very strict beliefs about barbecue, being from Memphis, but everything you described sounded fantastic to me.

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[tammylc.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Hopefully I'll get to cook for you someday (and vice versa...)

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

This weekend, I made two kinds of fried wontons for cute-poet-chick.

1: Crab rangoon (8 oz. cream cheeze, 1/2 lb. crabmeat, 3 scallions (minced), small can of water chestnuts (minced). Beat in the mixer until it all blends together. Fill wonton skins and deep-fry.)

2: Pork wontons (1 lb. ground pork, 4 T plum sauce, handful each of minced scallions and cilantro. Beat in mixer, fill wontons, deep-fry.)

She liked them *very* much.