What's for Dinner, Wed., Sept. 28, 2022

[NJCher]

Sheet pan dinner with veggies and swordfish, which I fried earlier with a crust of sesame seeds and toasted sesame oil. The veggies are green pepper slices, red cherry tomatoes, and small red onions.

Macaroni and cheese, which I made with shells instead of macaroni; the cheese was VT sharp white cheddar. I used a recipe from a local cookbook author.

Cucumber-tomato-feta cheese salad.

Peach Paradise kombucha.

Dessert: banana milkshake. Decaf coffee.

[iamateacher]

1. Sounds delicious!

Enjoy!

[Emile]

2. Baked ham with sliced pineapple, baked sweet potatoes

with brown sugar and toss salad with creamy poppy seed dressing.

[Tetrachloride]

3. Vanilla pudding (not homemade)

Saffron eggs
figs
Guava juice, not homemade

[PJMcK]

4. Oysters

We scored two dozen fresh-from-the-ocean oysters from a fisherman on the dock this afternoon! We’ll shuck them and have them raw with cocktail sauce, horseradish and lemon. A small green salad and a baguette with butter to accompany the oysters. Dark chocolate and a movie later.

We’ve made it to Atlantic City where we’ll dock for a few days to watch where Ian is going. Our next stop will be Cape May, NJ. There’s awesome seafood in Cape May!

[lkinwi]

5. Chicken Parmesan over spaghetti with Caesar salad. Merlot

[Callalily]

6. Leftovers again today!

Sometimes it's nice to have a break from cooking.

[Luciferous]

7. We're also doing a sheet pan meal with kielbasa, red peppers,

onions, and mushrooms.

[MissMillie]

8. Al wants a burger

So, a cheeseburger and fries.

We're still trying to finish that white chocolate/raspberry ice cream. (It's quite sweet.) So we'll have that for dessert.


Dad had a recipe straight from my America's Test Kitchen cookbook: Tuscan Shrimp and Beans. You actually use the shrimp shells to make a little bit of a stock to boost the shrimp flavor. Other ingredients include canned cannellini beans, onions, garlic, and canned diced tomatoes. Just before serving you add some lemon zest, lemon juice and some fresh basil. The last minute additions really turned this dish which was mostly made from canned goods to something really quite fresh.

It's a a stew, really, but I served it over rice.

[hippywife]

9. Leftover city chicken.

garlic/sour cream/parmesan mashed potatoes and Brussels sprouts.

Even doing it off the top of my head and winging it, I just about nailed my mom's recipe. Just one very small tweek and it's nailed.

ETA: mint choc chip ice cream in a cake cone for me, probably Pepperidge Farm Fudge Cake for husband (it was on sale.)

[NJCher]

11. I knew you were going to get that

Even doing it off the top of my head and winging it, I just about nailed my mom's recipe. Just one very small tweek and it's nailed.

When I read your post about it yesterday, I said, ehhh, she can do that 1, 2, 3.

Glad it turned out.

My mom had a recipe for this dessert called "snowballs." They were vanilla wafers with pineapple and whipped cream in between, like a sandwich. Then she somehow managed to get them perfectly round, then covered in whipped cream with coconut. They were the most incredible thing I ever tasted, but I am a sucker for whipped cream.

So about a month ago I was pining away for that dessert and contemplating doing what you did. The next day the recipe for it popped up on my computer screen! Until then, I'd never seen a recipe for it.

But I didn't make it 'cuz my doc is on my case about blood sugar.

[hippywife]

13. Thanks!

I was so pleased. Can't wait to make it again, but it may be next month some time.

Your story of your mom's dessert reminds me of my gran and I making something similar using light, crisp and airy Stella D'oro Anginetti cookies (which I guess they don't make anymore.) Hadn't thought about those in decades. There wasn't anything on the outside like your mom's snowballs. They were cut in half horizontally and filled with a mix of cream cheese, whipped cream and drained crushed pineapple.

She was diabetic and, because there was so little sugar involved, they were a light sweet she could eat and enjoy.

Thanks for the memory.

[Demsrule86]

10. Sounds good...I had chicken and broccoli spaghetti with lots of garlic...I used Macaroni instead

of spaghetti...brown rice macaroni as I can't eat Gluten. No dessert as I had a bakery macaroon as a snack when I took future DIL to work.

[Retrograde]

12. Last burger of the season

cooked outside, with tomato, lettuce, an onion. Grilled ears of corn on the side.