What's for Dinner, Fri., Jan. 29, 2021

[NJCher]

Hamburgers with red onion, lettuce, tomato, avocado. The RG tried a new thing with cooking the burgers. He was going through old files and found a note to himself to add heavy cream to the ground beef, so he tried that tip today. It holds the burger together better.

In addition, we had thinly sliced potatoes. Also potato chips (barbecue kettle chips).

Tossed green salads with raw veggies like carrots, pepper, tomato, and I added some microgreens on top (wasabi mustard and beet sprouts).

Cherry Pepsi for me, wine for the RG.

Dessert is an apple tart with vanilla ice cream. Hot pomegranate cranberry tea.

[iamateacher]

1. My husband is making homemade whole wheat pizza

A quarantine specialty he has learned to make when Giant stopped stocking most frozen pizza. With tomatoes, spinach, onions, Don Pepino pizza sauce (a New Jersey company). Tomato, basil and Mozzarella salad.

[irisblue]

2. Shrimp fried rice and egg rolls for dinner.

Planning on watching the Mandalorian season 1 DVDs tonight and this weekend, so likely popcorn and decafe tea later

[Ohiogal]

3. I am not a Star Wars fan

But I fell in love with Baby Yoda.

[iamateacher]

5. Me too! Plus it has a plot, characterization, and decent writing

As a librarian I appreciate that. Something missing in most Star Wars....Written and directed by Jon Favreau.

[soothsayer]

4. Leftover snow crab legs with drawn butter

Bit of mac and cheese with Old Bay (and optional hot sauce).

Champagne.

[VA_Jill]

6. It's Friday

So meatless. Brown rice spaghetti (Tinkyada is the ONLY brand!) with cherry tomatoes, bay scallops, and basil. Olive oil base, of course. Seltzer for me with a slice of lemon, tea for SU.

Re burgers--we're both lactose intolerant to a greater or lesser degree, but I learned that chopping a couple-three fresh mushrooms and incorporating them into any kind of ground burger mix makes burgers juicier and hold together well. I first tried it with bison burgers which tend to be dry, but have since done it with beef and lamb. If you chop the mushrooms really fine you don't notice their presence or taste.

[Demsrule86]

11. I am gluten intolerant also. You might try the Jovial egg tagliatelle...It is really good.

I like Tinkyada also. You dinner sound great.

[PJMcK]

7. Cream in the hamburger mix? Fascinating!

I'm going to try that but I'm worried about the added fat. I guess if you don't have any cheese on top it kinda equals out. (Rationalization!)

We're still in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Here's our menu for tonight.

Appetizer
A dozen local raw oysters on the half shell with horseradish, cocktail sauce and lemon.

Entree
Chicken breast cutlets dipped in whipped egg then coated with Panko bread crumbs and pan fried.

Salad
Romaine lettuce, fresh baby spinach, red onion, sliced carrots, quarter rounds of cucumber with the Landlady(!)'s special honey mustard dressing topped with a sprinkle of pine nuts.

Dessert
Slices of fresh fruit with some red wine on the side.

[Wawannabe]

8. Chicken fried rice. nt

[spinbaby]

9. Chinese takeout

We have a ton of leftovers, but didn’t feel like eating them. Now we also have Chinese takeout leftovers.

[LAS14]

10. Prosciutto quesadillas and marinated green beans. nt