What's for Dinner, Mon., Jan. 4, 2022

[NJCher]

Breaded, baked flounder.

I tried a tartar sauce recipe from Ina Garten. Pretty good. Was easy: all in the blender. Had mayo, capers, cornichons.

Arugula salad with cherry tomatoes, grated parmesan, and baby arugula which I picked yesterday before the big freeze.

Pineapple peach kombucha.

Pumpkin pie with whipped cream for dessert. Decaf coffee.

[PJMcK]

1. Fish here, too

We have a beautiful filet of flounder from our trip to OBX and we’ll fry that up. Baby potatoes on the side and the last of our broccoli. Tartar sauce (from a jar, NJCher!).

Apples for dessert.

[elleng]

4. Have you made it home, PJ?

[PJMcK]

5. Yes, thank you

We were grateful to get a hotel in Dover yesterday unlike all those unfortunates on I-95. This morning, the skies were sunny and the roads were clear. Just under 3 hours to get home. Did you get your power back? That’s always worrisome.

[elleng]

6. Glad you made it!

Power returned here SOMEtime today; I ended up spending last night @ daughter's house (with heat in 2 rooms!) and got a ride home late afternoon.

[AbnerBunny]

2. Lamb burgers.

We’ll have them with caramelized onions on 21 grain/seed buns-yum!

[3Hotdogs]

3. Flounder, sauted in olive oil, and mixture of garlic, sherry, lemon and saffron.

potatoes and spinach.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Scalloped potatoes and ham.

I did a ham a few days ago. Hence the scalloped potatoes and ham. The relatively small amount I made will be at least three meals for me. I will also be cutting up the ham into portions for future scalloped potatoes and ham. Maybe a ham and bean soup. Because I live alone and have a very small appetite, I have to plan carefully. This particular ham cost just over $15.00, and I've already gotten four meals from it, plus two more (the rest of the scalloped etc) in the fridge. I will probably get a minimum of another ten meals from that one ham.

I'm not a particularly adventurous or innovative cook, but gosh, I can eat very economically.

Perhaps more to the point, I really love my own cooking. It suits me (well, Duh!) and I'm generally happy with what I fix.

I will say this about my now ex-husband. Several times in the course of our marriage, I cooked something that went seriously wrong and was inedible. He never complained. We just chucked the food into the garbage and went off to a restaurant.