What's for Dinner, Sun., June 10, 2018

[NJCher]

Gardening day here, cool and rainy, and the RG is on a biz trip so I am going to warm up some cannellinis he made in the slow cooker. Then I will put chopped red onion and cilantro over them. They are already in a tasty sauce of herbs and olive oil. I will add a sausage from the Polish deli on the side.

Oh! I must tell you about dinner at my friend's last night. We had wild-caught Alaskan salmon, which was so tender and delicious. She made red pepper-tomato salsa to go with it, but honestly, it didn't need a thing to enhance it. Nevertheless, it created a very nice plate presentation. In addition, we had parsley potatoes. There was also tomato caprese salad.

The appetizer was foix gras, which she served with homemade bread. I had some, and it was delicious, but I am against foix gras if it involves any mistreatment of the bird. I didn't want to make an issue.

Dessert was homemade olive oil ice cream with pumpkin seeds in it! I know, I'd never heard of it either. The RG said, "Let's put more olive oil on it," so they started drizzling olive oil over this ice cream and raving about it. I had to, then, and they were right: it was even better with drizzled olive oil over it! I never dreamed of olive oil ice cream in the farthest stretches of my imagination. To go with the ice cream, our hostess made homemade shortbread cookies. It was a good combination.

[irisblue]

1. I made a spinach mushroom ham quiche this am.

A slice of that, warmed up, and a butter lettuce red& yellow pepper salad. Iced decafe tea.
Warm & humid here all day. Not much of an appetite.

[Ohiogal]

2. I just love caprese salad

I could eat it for dinner alone. But I have to wait for my garden to start producing tomatoes.

I have never heard of olive oil ice cream! Interesting.

[pscot]

3. smoked trout, asparagus and chopped herbs

tossed with capellini in a light cream sauce. The recipe called for a cup of fresh, mixed herbs, chopped. i should have used more dill and fennel and a tad less rosemary.

[Wawannabe]

9. Smoked trout is awesome!!!

I worked at a trout ranch/resort.
They do a smoked trout salad that is to die for! Haven’t had it for a few yrs. I am going to have to make it now.

[lkinwi]

4. A KFC Go Cup. 😝

[No Vested Interest]

6. I like your style. nt

[Cairycat]

5. Baby back ribs

coleslaw and mac n cheese. The rub is a little spicy, so a Mexican lager was in order.

[Yonnie3]

7. TJ has just headed off to work.

We had massive cheese burgers with sauteed onions and mushrooms midday, so I'm not so hungry

I am having a BLT. FLFC is lobbying unsuccessfully for some bacon and insisting that his traditional pan fried ground beef is in need of bacon.

Next I'm going to have some cottage cheese and fruit which I will share with him.

FLFC is now extending his fourth leg and actually bending his repaired knee. He has five or more weeks until he is supposed to fully use it. His Vet bills have sure put a crimp in the budget, but we are fortunate to have it covered.

I posted a photo of him in the Lounge a while back.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181009909

[Wawannabe]

8. Egg drop soup with leek

I was gifted a rather large leek today. Started looking up recipes to use it all.

My soup was thrown together with a Lipton soup base, to which I added the egg and leek. Was very good actually.

I made two other dishes that I will have this week.
Lemon and leek linguini (meatless Monday)
And
Creamed leeks...but I had celery and spinach too, so I added both to make it creamed spinach, celery and leek. It is going to be a excellent side dish!

[PennyK]

10. Fettuccine with vodka sauce

I added in some small pre-cooked shrimp and it turned Hubby right off.
But vodka sauce is so good. I blew it.