What's for Dinner, Sat., Mar. 25, 2023

[NJCher]

I went to the Polish deli today, the one I usually go to. The front door was entirely covered with a picture of Zelenskyy and also a Ukrainian flag. This made me smile. I bought quite a number of items, but for tonight's dinner I selected a breaded pork chop.

When I arrived home, I quickly converted my cabbage soup I made two days ago to creamy cabbage and potato soup with prosciutto and fennel seed. It's in the low 40s with rain today, so this will be a warming addition to the meal.

Therefore, the menu for tonight is: crispy golden breaded pork chop and potato-fennel-cabbage soup. Lemon ginger kombucha and for dessert, I'm cutting off a piece of a giant cheese croissant I bought from the Polish bakery.

Here's the cabbage right before I converted it with the marscarpone and potatoes in the food processor:



I have one more picture for you, but it's not food. On the way home I was thinking, "Shouldn't there be a Wawa around here somewhere so I can get both gasoline and dodge in for a chocolate bar?" Well, there wasn't.

So I stopped in at this gas station that I thought only served gas and while waiting, I looked up. No, not a Wawa, but:



A Woe-woes!

My second big amusement of the day.

[MontanaMama]

1. Sambal chicken skewers.

Fingers crossed it stops snowing for me to use the grill. I will make herbed jasmine rice for the skewers and some roasted sesame broccoli.

[irisblue]

2. WoeWoes... 🤣🤣🤣

I have no plans for dinner yet. I'll stare in the fridge later, I am very blessed and grateful I have many choices today

[Emile]

3. Saturday night, Casey's gas station pizza.

[Luciferous]

5. We're also ordering pizza tonight 😀

[Callalily]

4. I'm so jealous that you have a Polish deli close by!

Tonights dinner is crustless ham and cheese quiche, oven roasted potatoes and peas.

[MissMillie]

6. broiled pollock

with dill and buttery bread crumbs on top
Spanish rice
carrots and broccoli

dessert: homemade chocolate cupcakes w/ chocolate/orange frosting and chopped almonds on top. (The food pantry gave us a HUGH(!!!) bag of almonds.)

[hippywife]

7. We had to use the food pantry a couple or so times before my SS kicked in.

One time they gave us a huge bag of dried cherries, and a couple of times huge bags of dried figs. Even a large container of sea salt. Never knew what we were going to get outside of what they asked us about before pickup.

[MissMillie]

9. The one we went to today

carries non-food items like toothpaste, shampoo, laundry soap, dish washing liquid--even dog food. They don't let you walk through and take what you want, so you get limited quantities of things. We go there every other week.


There is another one that we go to that only lets you in once a month, but they really do let you take a lot of things. There's a limit on butter, eggs cheese and frozen proteins, but all of the boxed and canned stuff is first-come-first-serve. Sometimes they have some fresh vegetables, but not often (and they've never offered us frozen vegetables).

Two months ago when we went (to the monthly one), we were the last ones to walk through. Not a lot left to choose from. However, it stunned me to see that everyone ahead of us had walked by three 2 lb. bags of walnuts. I grabbed them. They're in my freezer.

Given what nuts cost, I wasn't going to leave them at the food bank.

[hippywife]

11. Our local place doesn't have you come in and walk thru.

It's in a large old church and they're only open a couple days a week. You call each week, they ask you questions about allergies and what your family will eat. Then they pack it up, you drive up to pick it up. Wasn't anything besides food products, no toiletries, etc. and they just throw in any extras that people have dropped off, like the cherries and figs, or sometimes granola bars, flavored soda water (which we don't like), chocolate candy sometimes.

We've since given them a couple of small monetary donations (since they can make the $ go farther compared to dropping off food donations) to help them keep helping people. I'd like to go volunteer, but with COVID still going around and almost no one in our area masking (they really never did), that shoots that idea.

[hippywife]

8. Offered husband a few options...

but he just wants another Morningstar Farms Chik'n Sandwich with fries. He really likes MF chik'n. Which is good since I definitely don't feel like cooking today, but I have to start making myself eat something. Can't keep not eating. It had some scary results this morning.

[Cairycat]

10. Portobello hoagies

recipe from The Smitten Kitchen Keepers. With roasted asparagus, with garlic, lemon juice and parmesan.

[twodogsbarking]

12. Cheeseburgers on the grill. French fries in the air fyer.

Pickles and bean salad.

[Retrograde]

13. Tostadas

Didn't have much time between getting home and setting up for a Zoom meeting, so went with something quick: fried tortillas, refried beans, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, salsa. And an apple for dessert