What's for Dinner, Tues., Aug. 6, 2019

[NJCher]

Last edited Tue Aug 6, 2019, 06:12 PM - Edit history (1)

Appetizer: two kinds of new cheeses the RG bought at WF. One is Red Hawk by Cowgirl. The other is French cows milk cheese. We will have them on ciabatta slices or crackers along with piquant pickles.

The RG is formulating a chicken salad right now, but I can't write much about it because I don't know what he's going to use in it--nor does he! On edit: chicken salad has Dijon, a little sour cream, mustard, mayo, and egg salad. Then celery, chicken, salt, pepper, and lemon balm chopped over the top.

I am making a watermelon feta cheese salad. I'll put a few thin slices of tiny hot peppers.

Dessert will be some chocolate lace cookies from WF. Scratch the cookies. The RG made apricot tarts. We'll have those with a little vanilla ice cream on top.

[PJMcK]

1. Pasta

The Landlady(!) is in the mood for puttanesca with linguine. Olives, capers, anchovies and garlic. Yum!

I'll make a classic Caesar salad and garlic bread.

Coincidentally, I bought a bottle of sambuca so we'll have to sample that for dessert.

[Grasswire2]

2. swiss steak with farmers market whole carrots and redskins simmered along in the gravy.

We eat red meat about once a month. Smells pretty good. Lots of cracked black pepper. Horseradish sauce alongside.

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. That sounds really good

I've never made that, and I just realized I haven't seen it on a restaurant menu for a long time.

I'm gonna have to download a recipe so I don't forget about it again.

[Grasswire2]

9. Here's what I did.

Two cubed steaks (tenderized by the butcher). I think they might also be called minute steaks?

I put about half cup of all purpose flour in a plate and seasoned with S &P. Heated a saute pan with a bit of oil. Dipped the steaks into the flour on both sides and then browned them in the hot pan. Dumped in the remainder of the flour mixture. Added a sliced yellow onion, the carrots and quartered redskins, two good teaspoons of beef Better Than Bouillon, a cup of cold coffee and another cup of water. (Coffee makes the gravy richer tasting.) Simmered away covered for more than an hour, turning the meat a couple of times. It makes its own gravy.

An old-fashioned dish.

[FoxNewsSucks]

10. Thanks!

I saved an Alton Brown recipe, but what you made sounds a lot better. I'll definitely make that first. I get those cube steaks at the store for chicken-fry, or breakfast steaks. They're pretty good.

I put some coffee in the turkey gravy I made at Thanksgiving last year, changed nothing else, and got several of good comments about it. No one knew why, but it was "just better".

[Cairycat]

3. Smoked salmon chowder

And green beans from the farmers market. Last time we had green beans my son concocted a sweet-sour sauce with mustard, I hope he makes it again tonight.

[PJMcK]

4. The chowder sounds delicious!

I don't think I've ever had salmon in a chowder. I'll have to try it.

Hope you had a nice dinner with you son!

[Cairycat]

5. Shh - it's a convenience food special

Saute onion, garlic and celery in butter
Use that as a base for preparing Uncle Ben's white and wild rice mix (we use store brand)
Stir in half and half and about 4-6 ounces smoked salmon to chowder consistency

[PJMcK]

6. Thanks for the recipe! (n/t)

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. Italian wedding soup

Progresso, but embellished with some extra vegetables, garlic, scallions and kale.