What's for Dinner, Thursday, May 28
It's a little early to start this I guess, but I've already had lunch (when you get up at 5 AM, meals are scattered - 10, 3, 6, bedtime).
Lunch was Monterey Jack cheese slices on club crackers, pop-in-the-mouth yellow cherry tomatoes (Sunburst?), olives, feta cheese in Romaine "scoops", watermelon, a glass of Merlot.
So, for dinner - some sort of a dish with a nice bit of left over pork loin chop. Thinking stir fry.
But first, a walk around town. 
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i have a pound of ground beef that needs used, so i'll probably just do a quick meat sauce when i get home and serve it over egg noodles.
I bought a huge assortment of peppers and I hope I can make a sauce similar to the one the RG made for pasta last week. Using ground lamb. I have poblanos (not too hot, tried them), bell, etc.
Stir-fry broccoli.
Cher
done on the grill. With "enhanced" Mexican rice (I like to fold in spicy pico de gallo after the rice is cooked). As for the veggie, I have no clue. I'm "beaned out" for this week (overload), so I'll come up with something eventually.
And... beer. Day off tomorrow.
Yellow beans. Cherries.
downtown Lansing. It was a perfect night--I was with my favorite person, beautiful weather for outside dining (78F with a light breeze), great 1/3 lb olive burger, medium, on a brioche bun & sweet potato fries. Discovered an AWESOME blueberry hard cider from Uncle John's Cider Mill (St. Johns, MI). I will have to find some. Not too sweet, great blueberry flavor & just enough alcohol to make it fun. It was perfection. And after dinner I kicked ass watching "Jeopardy."
I've never heard of that, but it intrigued me, so I Googled it. Lots of recipes. I'm going to be trying this soon. I really love this idea. Yummly has a lot of olive burger recipes, and some are even for vegetarians:
http://www.yummly.com/recipes/green-olive-burger
The blueberry hard cider also sounded good, so I checked out my local wine store. I found some blueberry wheat beer and some blueberry wine. but no blueberry cider. I did learn that my state, NJ, is the second largest blueberry grower in America. There is a cider mill in the next town over, but I think they only do apple cider.
It sounds like you had one of those times where everything just came together. Life can be so good, yes?
Cher
1 part cider, 3 parts Merlot, 1 part soda, over ice. Garnish at will.
Not much to them, just good quality green olives chopped up & mixed with mayonnaise, then slathered on a burger. I'd never heard of the blueberry hard cider either, but I'm so glad I found it. The place that makes it is a famous cider mill & they're branching out with different hard ciders. I used to love hard cider. Before the days of rampant pasteurization, I'd buy a couple of quarts of it & leave in the refrigerator until it got fizzy. Yum. We're going to the Lilac Festival on Mackinac Island in a couple of weeks & will be going right by the cider mill. I will be stocking up on the blueberry hard cider.
You are so right--last night was perfect, and life is good.
