What's for Dinner, Mon., Dec. 28, 2020

[NJCher]

Meatloaf.

Curried parsnips over spicy lentils.

Italian broad beans.

For dessert, small slice of almond cake. Orange tea.

[lkinwi]

1. Chicken baked with cream cheese, spinach and mozzarella, hasselback sweet potatoes with butter

and garlic, Chardonnay

[irisblue]

2. Meatless Monday, so a self designed Spanish Lentil soup with vegan chorizo

Using this and modifying.
https://www.food.com/recipe/spanish-lentil-soup-with-chorizo-139371.

I added onions, shredded carrots a bit of frozen spinach for color.

Hot soup on a cold snowy night

[happybird]

3. Trying out my new Instant Pot!

Vegetable Beef Soup.
I bought all the ingredients last week and had planned to use the crock pot, as usual.
We’ll see how it turns out!
It just beeped and switched to the 8 min(!) cook time, so has about 30 min. to go.

[IcyPeas]

4. curried parsnips over spicy lentils!!

this sounds right up my alley.

is there a recipe or is it just something you throw together?

[NJCher]

8. kind of throw together but here's how he did it

Blanch the parsnips in salted boiling water. Saute onions, garlic, & butter or you can use olive oil. When cooked, stir in curry powder to taste. Put parsnips in the onion mixture.

Lentils were vacuum sealed, pre-cooked. You have to cook them a little more. Add a few drops of spicy Thai pepper oil. Put in a few Indian spices, and add parsnips to the top of the lentils.

Here's how he came up with the idea. I was perusing Salad Love cookbook and found a recipe for parsnips and lentil salad. When I told him, he said that would be boring but it would be good if curry was added to the parsnips.

He was right! It was so good I had two helpings, which I don't usually do.

[IcyPeas]

9. thank you

I just might play around with this recipe.

[brokephibroke]

5. Last day of leftovers

Mushroom barley soup, ham, kugelis.

[MissMillie]

6. fish dogs

I swear there's a "miracle of fishes" going on in the freezer. No matter how many times I think I've seen the last of the fish sticks, there's still more of them.

Anyway, we put them in toasted hot dog rolls w/ melted cheese, tartar sauce and lettuce.

That's it.

[Luciferous]

7. Breakfast for dinner- scrambled eggs, potatoes, bacon, and pancakes.

[LAS14]

10. Korean pork and rice cakes.

Our son and wife gave us 4 Blue Apron dinners for Christmas. Two came last night. Part of the gift for me was just to try this out. It was VERY tasty, and fun to cook with a lot of the chopping already done. Probably not worth the cost unless it's for a fun present.

[NJCher]

11. sounds delicious but

I see what you mean on the cost. I am occasionally tempted to pick up such meals at Whole Foods, but the cost is daunting.

I think it's easier, if one wants to take shortcuts, to do like what I described in my post back about the lentils, i.e., buy a quality product that is partially prepared.

Still, I sometimes visit the meal delivery sites for ideas. Often enough, they put the recipes right out there and even if they don't, it's easy enough to figure out how to do on your own.