What's for Dinner, Sun., May 22, 2016

[NJCher]

I'm having Asian noodle salad, which I made a day or so ago, and which turned out to be quite delicious. In addition to peanuts, I'm chopping both mint and cilantro for the top. Chicken thighs (cold) to go with.

For dessert, a piece of cheesecake. I bought a large cheesecake assortment on my morning grocery shopping expedition. It is just one pie, but it has four different kinds of cheesecake slices.


Cher

[Cairycat]

1. Cashew chicken

http://www.onceuponachef.com/2010/03/cashew-chicken.html

Flavorful and not very difficult. Stir-frying some veggies with ginger and garlic to round things out. Rice of course. I found some apricots for a reasonable price, think I'll halve them, put a little butter, sugar and nutmeg in the hollow, and bake them.

My evening job on weekdays is cooking for staff and residents in a group home for intellectually disabled young adults. I get asked if I get tired of cooking, but no, I don't. On weekends, I "get" to cook what I want. During the week, my husband cooks on his days off, and if my son's home, he cooks. They're both pretty good. Still I look forward all week to what I will cook.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Baked spareribs.

Broccoli.

[japple]

3. Grilled pork tenderloin, mashers, Dixie Cream peas,

tomato/pepper salad and Kale Citrus salad with dried cherries/pecans. We also had the last of this year's aspargus,

[NJCher]

5. guess what I had for breakfast

Leftover kale salad with cherries and nectarines. Toasted almonds and pine nuts for the4 top. I was so hungry and I didn't want to take the time to make anything.

Couldn't believe how delicious it was. And I think it was you who told me about how to do that kind of salad!

My kale is growing so beautifully this cool spring. No sooner do I clip a bunch than another pops up. Love that.


Cher

[japple]

6. Sounds lovely. Our kale is long gone, but we should be getting summer squashes

in about 7 days!!!!! Oh, the joys of gardening. (Almost) always something to look forward to.

Love that kale salad. It's never the same because I almost never have all the ingredients the recipe uses, but even with substitutions, it's always good.

I, too, would eat this salad for breakfast.

[grasswire]

10. tell me about Dixie cream peas

Please. ?

[hobbit709]

4. ribeye, green beans, carrots and ice cream.

[littlewolf]

7. London Broil baked sweet tater and salad.

did it on our Opti grill … I love this thing
have cooked everything on it .. it even does
frozen meat … have done frozen chicken and frozen fish.

[MerryBlooms]

8. Grilled chicken breast, SW salad/ dressed with spicy hot ranch dressing.

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[Melissa G]

9. Power smoothie with celery, tart cherries, ginger

Nuts, strawberries and power greens. Mashers and sweet pea greens maybe some bacon.

[grasswire]

11. very plain

meatloaf, baked potato, and green beans.

Weather will be getting warm soon -- won't be able to bake then, so we had this now!

[grasswire]

13. I did manage to make it to the farmers market today for strawberries.

I think we will have them with sour cream and brown sugar on the plate. Dip in a bit of sour cream, then in the brown sugar. Nummy.

[locks]

12. Made a pie

with rhubarb from my friend's yard. Used a fresh blueberry/rhubarb recipe. It turned out fine but didn't have the rhubarb flavor I remember from my childhood. Maybe too many blueberries? The rhubarb wasn't very red as I've always had, maybe not ripe enough yet to cut?

[fizzgig]

14. bone-in pork chops

browned them in the skillet, nestled in some quartered baby potatoes and topped with shredded cabbage. splashed with a bit of apple cider vinegar and veggie stock (what i had on hand) and now it's simmering. salt, onion powder and celery seed for seasoning.

there's some chocolate, peanut butter no-bake oatmeal cookies chilling in the fridge for dessert.

i'm assuming is should be tasty enough but i'm regretting a bit not using bacon fat rather than oil.

[Worried senior]

15. Pork chops sound good

I would have used the bacon grease too, use it for some things all the time even tho we're not supposed to.