What's for Dinner, Wed., April 20, 2022

[NJCher]

Sliced beef tarragon salad. The greens are baby arugula, red tip lettuce, and chopped watercress. Slices of red pepper, scallion, and tarragon mixed in. The recipe called for peanuts, which I thought a bit weird.

I made a dressing per the recipe but I didn't have the right kind of oil so I don't like it. Not sure if that's the problem or it's just not a good recipe. I have to mix up a new one because I can't see ruining a good salad. I'll use my vegetarian flavor pairings cookbook to do that or call the RG.

Not everything turns out the way you want it in cooking, does it?

For dessert, I'm having tapioca pudding with cherries and toasted almonds. Decaf vanilla nut.

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On another topic, back in March I started all these little items here and there to dress up salads. Here's a picture of one of them, which is peas. All you do is put pea seeds in a little container and keep them watered in a window. Mine are out in my entryway.

Snip off the tendrils and it adds a little something extra to a salad. BTW, you can use dried peas from a plastic bag right out of the kitchen pantry. You don't even have to buy seeds to do this. I soaked mine for a day first, then put them in the little terra cotta containers.

[Walleye]

1. Cool plants!

[Emile]

2. Homemade pizza!

[hippywife]

3. Treat day!

Today was my SS deposit day and grocery pickup/errand run day, which means it's time for our monthly steak dinner treat. I don't order the steaks with the rest of the groceries. On the way home, I make a really quick N95-masked run into a smaller grocery to pick those out myself.

I mentioned the other day that since ribeye is so expensive I usually have to pass on them and get chuck eye, or sirloin if they don't have that. Today, they had a package of 2 really good looking thick ribeyes labeled for quick sale with a really nice mark down price, so I grabbed those for an extra special treat. They've been dry brining in the fridge for a few hours. Will sear them to medium rare here shortly (after I feed the critters) with butter, garlic and capers.

Serving with baked yellow potatoes with fixings and steamed asparagus with butter and fresh squeezed lemon.

[PJMcK]

4. Lovely seedlings

The Landlady(!) doesn't start her garden until Mothers' Day since it's still quite cold in the mountains. But she's got her greenhouse ready to go.

Tonight, I'm making shrimp scampi. Our local store had the fresh shrimp on sale for a bargain price. I'll serve it on white rice with steamed broccoli. Maybe we'll have a small salad. We'll drink the white wine that's left after cooking the shrimp!

[Nanuke]

5. Stir fry and herbs

Making shrimp/asparagus/mushroom stir fry with plenty of garlic and ginger.

In Feb I started 3 small herb pots under a grow light: Chives, basil and cilantro. I snip off what I need as I am cooking. In late May I will transplant them and add more herbs and tomato plants to my little garden. Fun.

[Luciferous]

6. Sheet pan meal- kielbasa, red potatoes, onions with some steamed corn. Chocolate cookie for dessert.