What are you having for dinner? (wanna share your recipe?)

[bellbird]

When my Little is more present around dinner time (like tonight) it's allllllllways some kind of fruit-themed pudding for dinner.

There was some leftover amaranth in the fridge that was cooked in homemade almond milk.

Put some in a bowl with frozen blueberries, almond nut pulp (which is what's left over when you make almond milk; it's basically just ground up almonds), cinnamon, sunflower seeds, ground hemp seeds, a diced green apple and some more almond milk.

Heat in microwave till warmed through.

Having it with a cup tea: rooibos with raspberry pieces.

 

[Lucycat]

Tonight is not adventurous at all. Shop- bought chicken and bacon pies, with jacket potato and salad. The lettuce component of the salad was grown by a neighbour, and - bless her- she even washed it before sharing it!

I would normally do hot veg with pie, but thought the fresh lettuce to good to miss.

 

[Friday]

A great hot weather soup.... no cooking required... it uses freezing the veg to lyse them into a beautiful silken texture before hitting them with a blender. Quite brilliant, really. I’m cheating and using jarred red peppers & tinned fire roasted tomatoes. Fortunately I’ve got fresh cucumber for days.

Andalusian Gazpacho Recipe

 

[Mach123]

Cheeseburgers on the barbecue with Doritos and ice cream and fresh strawberries for dessert.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

I fixed this night before last and it was excellent...I substituted quinoa for the rice, avocado oil for the olive oil, and left out the mint, as we were out...definitely a keeper...

Unstuffed Zucchini Casserole

This is the sweet eggplant crisp I made today...I used monk fruit sweetener rather than regular sugar, garbonzo bean flour as the flour option, earth balance soy free buttery spread rather than butter, and it's a huge hit for our taste buds...another keeper...it might even be a little too good...

Make Sweet Eggplant Crisp for Dessert!

 

[The Albatross]

All the experiments are a hit... planted more nasturtiums. Mister can't keep his hands off the blooms. Making a gift recipe pdf file for a couple friends of the doings of this year as I can't go home.

Dinner was lamb chops, potato salad, herbed butter blue lakes (green beans) and Russian cabbage pie.

 

[DharmaGirl]

I'm making stir fry from stuff in my garden and fried rice. Yum!

 

[VioletButterfly]

Rice, black beans, and salsa.

Salsa - 1 lg. can petite diced tomatoes with juice, small bunch of cilantro, 1 tsp onion powder or 1 sm. onion chopped, 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 clove diced, 2 limes (juiced), 1 tsp salt. Put 1/2 can of tomatoes and juice in blender with cilantro and run to chop up cilantro. Pour into a bowl with the remaining tomatoes, onion, garlic, salt, and lime. Stir to combine and let set about 1/2 day in the fridge. Adjust seasoning to your taste. This is very basic, so feel free to add peppers or whatever else you like in your salsa.

Black beans and part of a taco seasoning packet, and heated in the microwave. I used canned beans. Don't rinse, just add seasoning.

Rice was also m-waved. (Hey, it's 500 degrees in the sun here, no real oven will be used until December! lol)

Serve with taco chips and avocado on the side. Maybe some cheese? :)

 

[VioletButterfly]

BJs rotisserie chicken, Uncle Ben's wild rice mix (old school box), steamed baby carrots, and dressed Italian green beans.

 

[The Albatross]

Mega veggie pasta with garlic, tomato, parm sauce and shrimp.

 

[The Albatross]

For tomorrow (starting early): Boudin balls, sweet tater fries and a mixed green salad.
Chorizo Boudin Balls Recipe

 

[Friday]

Cherry Chicken Tarts (variation of duck & cherry pie)

Back when I cooked in bulk once a month I used to have Tamale Parties. (Cooking in bulk is always more fun with a group of guys and music and beer! ... actually I can think of very few things that aren’t more fun that way ;)) Everyone chips in $2o worth of ingredients and walks out with hundreds of dollars worth of completed meals... and in the case of things like tamales? Several hundred tamales! Buy group-ifying the process we also got a lot of different variations. Like 5 or 10 kinds of tamales. One of my faves was Duck & Cherry (and chipotle). I haven’t really had access to good grain fed duck (hellooooo inland duck hunters!) in several years. Coastal duck is gross (unless you like meat that tastes like dead fish? :wtf: ) and store bought duck is stupid expensive ($30 a pound? Pass.). So I was pretty damn thrilled to come across a recipe I can sub dark meat chicken (and tarragon) and call it job done. :D I just happened to have savory tart shells but not have ramekins. Both the tart & pot pie are awesome.

DUCK AND CHERRY PIE, the famous Gatrile’s recipe

My Subs / Alterations
- Dark Meat Chicken + Bacon minced fine = Duck
- Fresh Tarragon = Marjoram
- Pulled out 1/3 of the sauce before simmering meat to spoon over the top for the extra bright color & flavour whilst baking.

The Gatriles recipe doesn’t specify, but I used ruby port & frozen dark red/sweet cherries. I’m curious if tawny port & ranier cherries would work. Prolly.