What's for Dinner, Tues., Sept. 20, 2022

[NJCher]

Seafood (shrimp, cod) over pasta with tomato sauce.

I put the cod in the slow cooker with about 10 cloves of garlic, added olive oil, pepper and lemon. It didn't take long and it's very tender and flaky. I have a very rich tomato sauce to go over the pasta and I'll just put the seafood on top because it's so delicate.

Tossed green salad with red tip, ruffly green, and iceberg for crispiness. Caesar dressing. All the usual summer vegetables, like cherry tomatoes, yellow grape, cucumber, celery, and green pepper.

Dessert: tapioca pudding with green grapes and toasted almonds over the top. Spicy Good Earth tea.

[Emile]

1. Taco salad tonight.

[hippywife]

2. Baked buffalo chicken thighs and legs. nt

[lkinwi]

3. Subway Club wrap.

I did my outdoor fall display this afternoon and too hot and tired to cook.

[chowmama]

4. I'm trying to resuscitate a chunk of ham from the freezer

(It's a day off, so I have time.)

It was a lousy ham to begin with. Water-injected, so when I heated it, all the water released to the bottom of the pan, leaving a dry, tasteless, stringy (but still over-salted) mess. But I don't throw out food, so I stuck the chunk we couldn't face into the freezer for later.

I've got a recipe from a Canadian cookbook - Jehane Benoit, My Grandmother's Kitchen. It takes leftover cooked ham, grinds it and makes a meat loaf. I can tweak the seasonings before I bake it, as long as I do it before I add the eggs. It already adds mustard, and I'll make sure it has plenty of onion and a little garlic. Maybe some parsley or thyme or both out of the garden. I'm thinking about adding a tiny bit of powdered gelatin for texture (a trick I've seen in braised meats, to mimic the collagen).

Worst case scenario, I'm making Spam. Wish me luck!

[NJCher]

5. you're a trooper!

Hope it works out.

[chowmama]

8. Didn't work

It wasn't Spam. The taste was actually pretty good. But the ratio of bread crumbs to meat was too high and the loaf was weirdly...soft.

If I had another lousy chunk of ham, I'd take another crack at it. But I'm really hoping not to have to.

[AKwannabe]

6. Ground chicken lettuce wraps

Sweet Thai chili sauce.
Basmati

The ground chicken has lemongrass, fresh ginger and garlic, peppers, squash and zuke mixed in.

[Luciferous]

7. Kung pao chicken.

[Retrograde]

9. Chicken enchiladas

still working on the rotisserie chicken I bought this weekend. Lunch was leftover chicken pot pie, lunch tomorrow will be chicken sandwiches, and then there's the chicken salad and the chicken soup.