What's for Dinner, Fri., Apr. 29, 2016

[NJCher]

Yay, it's the weekend!

No dinner for me tonight. I'm going to snack evening long. Some of the items I'll choose from:

Chinese noodles and General Tso's, also sesame chicken

Pizza

Nachos

Broccoli in orange sauce.

Talenti (milk chocolate)

Fun! I am so psyched that I don't have to work for two more days and I can hang out with my kitty cats and play in my garden.


Cher

[Galileo126]

1. Sticky wings

Chinese-based sauce for the wings (honey, hoisin, oyster, soy, garlic, ginger, chilis) , with a veggie lo mein (sugar snap peas, Napa cabbage, carrots and green onions).

Searching desperately for a good movie to watch tonight...

[NJCher]

2. Confirmation!

It,s coming up in 20" on HBO!

It's the Anita Hill story.

Cher

P.s. Those sticky wings are my favorite. and lo mein, too...so envious.

Typing is terrible due to being on ipad

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. Trying to recreate what I had many years ago in an Italian

restaurant. One of those meals you will never forget the taste of.

It was their version of shrimp scampi - but had onions (raw but broiled dark on edges), and fresh tomatoes, also charred. All in lemon butter sauce.

I am sure, I will fail again - but it's fun trying.

Never seem to be able to recreate the lemon butter sauce - and I am sure it was broiled in a super hot commercial broiler.

That, and saute of spinach/kale and hash brown potatoes (boil first, then fry).

For you....noodles are the love of my life !!! enjoy !

[NJCher]

4. oh, that sounds so delicious

the charred tomatoes and dark edges on the onion. Now you'll have me trying to recreate your long-ago Italian restaurant experience! Based on what you said about the lemon butter sauce, though, I'll bet the RG could figure it out. Whenever I want to do something like that, he'll ask me questions, I answer them, and then he gives me an educated guess on how they did it and how I might be able to pull it off.

However, I'm wondering if, in this case, it's the super hot commercial broiler. If you have a gas oven, you could prob'ly approximate it by having the broiler heated up for a while before you put the dish under it.

Just a thought.



Cher

[SheilaT]

5. Chicken cacciatore.

First time I'd ever made it, and boy, was it good!

I had a couple of boneless chicken breasts and about 4 boneless thighs. Trimmed off the excess fat, salt & pepper, and browned them in olive oil. Meanwhile, into the crockpot went a 28 oz can of diced tomatoes, one 6 oz can tomato paste. Half an onion sliced, 1/2 each red and green pepper also thinly sliced. 2 bay leaves, oregano, tarragon, celery salt, oregano, and basil. When the chicken was browned, I made a roux with 3 T butter, 3 T flour. When nicely browned I added chicken broth. Probably a cup and a half but I don't measure, so just use your own judgement here. Oh, and I also peeled and chopped up a carrot for flavor. Everything into the crockpot, a good stir, and left it on high for 4 hours. Normally I prefer to do the crockpot thing on low, but I slept late and got a late start today.

When it was just about done, I boiled up some spaghetti. OMG it was wonderful. My whole house smells wonderful also.

Two days ago a neighbor brought over some grilled steak, and today I returned his bowl with the chicken cacciatore. Made me feel like a good neighbor.

I have frozen up the leftovers. I live alone, and the main downside to that is that most things worth fixing make up in larger amounts than I can eat right away. Thank the various deities for freezers.

As an aside, I love my own cooking. I am very fortunate I am merely somewhat overweight, and not 600 pounds.