What's for Dinner, Sun., Aug. 14, 2016

[NJCher]

Shrimp marinated in Thai lemongrass marinade.

Stir fry vegetables, which will consist of bok choy, carrots, broccoli, snow pea pods, cauliflower, and red and yellow peppers.

My brother and I made the marinade this morning. The lemongrass makes it very aromatic!


Cher

[Lunabell]

1. Grilling out cheeseburgers.

With the fixins.

[MerryBlooms]

2. Filet mignon, baked russets, grilled summer squash from the garden, and chocolate lava cake. :)

[japple]

3. Grilled pork tenderloin and portabellas, red potatoes with peppers/onions, cucumbers in

sour cream, field peas, tomato salad, lemon pie.

Edit: My SIL brought a gorgeous watermelon grown by a friend in Alabama. It was sheer perfection--red all the way to the rind, dense sweet flesh and SEEDS!!! A real watermelon IMHO, unlike the sugary, tasteless seedless variety we've been getting all summer. And we actually got a bag of great, juicy peaches from a roadside stand on Friday. The ones we got earlier from local groceries have been dry, hard, never ripening and we threw out several earlier this week. We throw them up in the woods behind the house hoping that something will eat them, but I think I heard the possums and raccoons gagging last night.

[PennyK]

4. Let me talk about dessert!

I can enjoy chocolate again, and I had been planning to make Ina Garten's Mocha Chocolate Icebox Cake (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/mocha-chocolate-icebox-cake-recipe.html), when Deb Perelman (http://smittenkitchen.com/ ) posted her own version, with 7" chocolate cookie layers and peanut-butter cream filling. Well, I made her cookies (OMG so chocolatey), and made Ina's Tirami-su-ish filling (mascarpone, cream, cocoa, instant espresso powder, Kahlua). I made some small cookies from the leftover dough, and topped them with the filling. And I had to try one, since the cake must sit overnight.
WOW!
I'll have lots of company visiting in the next few months (after my surgery), and I'll have to make this for all of them. It's that good. I'm not much of a baker, but this looks very professional.

[japple]

5. You've got me drooling all over the keyboard. So nice to read that you are

able to enjoy chocolate again. Hope you will do it often! The recipes sound divine.

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

6. Hubby and his brother...

made homemade pizzas. The crust was crispy and chewy at the same time and the toppings fantastic! We're still in Kentucky on "granddaughter" watch Speaking of which: we want to leave them with some easy/frozen meals. Any ideas would be appreciated