What should I eat for dinner?
 

What should I eat for dinner? Please reply promptly, as it's almost 6 pm.

If you're looking for a quick meal I find that two or three McChickens does the job. Cheap too.
If not try canned hunts spaghetti sauce with smoked sausage sliced up in it. My pasta preference is thin. Mostly 'cause it cooks faster.

I ended up cooking some rice and draping cheese over it. I added some broccoli and butter and Bragg and called it good.

mixed veggies and College Inn chicken broth. Any left over meat or fish is optional. Nuke for a few minutes. Instant Mm-mm good.

Popcorn.

Oh, you're one of those. I know all about those kinds of meals. Here's one:

Broccoli-cheese potato: Peel and chunk a potato, nuke, and mash. Add butter, salt, pepper. Nuke some chopped broccoli, pile on top of potato. Top with cheese, nuke until melted. Season to taste.

And it's not even dinner time.

Hmmm. I might try that, Bitman.

I should have added some assorted vegetables.

Why not just bake whole and mash since it's so quick? Does it give a different taste or texture?
Why the hell am I asking questions when I can just go do it.
Nevermind.:D

I just made a fantastic casserole, with eggs, turkey bacon, sweet italian sausage, and a blend of four cheeses. It took a while to make, but it was worth the time.

We need to resurrect this thread because it's #2 on g00 gel for the phrase, "What should I eat for dinner?" and so apx three people per day read it to try to figure out what to eat for dinner.

Let's tell em what to eat! For dinner!

Chicken Soup
 

I made this last night...


5 or 6 organic chicken thighs

two stalks of celery

3 potatoes

half an onion

two cans of chicken broth

spices: garlic, sage or poultry seasoning salt and peper


After you have chopped up the vegtables stir fry them until they start to sweat then throw them into the boiling water once your chicken is done.


Throw in a smattering of misc. vegtables...anything you have hanging around thow in the pot when your done.

Season to taste , serve with baked bread. yummy! :yum:


:blush:

UT has gone power-mad, believing that he can control what the whole world will be eating for dinner!

No! Just three people!

It may be the same three people every day! They will need diet diversity!

It always starts with "three people" . . .

He can - haven't you been reading the thread?

Start with a bourbon and coke.

Then have another one.

Then make nachos and eat them.

Then have choclate doughnuts for dessert.

:::taking notes::: slow down! I make the nachos and then what?

I like you, Flint. You're funny.

Thanks! Now, approx. 3 new people per day will know I'm funny!

Fried egg sandwich. All you need is a microwave and a toaster!

We have a 4" square corningware dish that we rub butter on the bottom and sides.
Crack an egg into it and just slightly stir it a bit to swirl the yolk into the white. (or just poke the yolk if you want it in a blob)
Sprinkle with salt/pepper.
Cover with saran wrap and place in microwave for 1:09.

Put toast in the toaster.

Egg will finish before toast. Peel back the saran wrap and lay a slice of cheese over the egg and pull saran wrap back over the top to hold in heat.

Butter the toast, slide the egg with melted cheese onto one piece of toast and cover with the other.

Yummy sandwich! Drink coffee, milk or OJ.

That's brilliant Hoof! We make fried-egg sandwiches all the time, but it never occurred to me to do it in a square dish in the microwave, we always had to get a pan dirty. I'm seriously going to go buy a 4" square dish tomorrow. Where did you get yours?

whenever two or more are gathered together in UT's name...

I don't know. I think my mother gave me these two to put in my hope chest when I became engaged. I would suggest looking at Salvation Army stores and the like...you can usually find treasures there...I know mine are at least 20 years old.
I used to use them for heating veggies in the m'wave or storing small portions of leftovers in the fridge until I saw Hubby use them to make the Fried Egg Sandwich. PERFECT bread-size!
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UT has gone power-mad, believing that he can control what the whole world will be eating for dinner!

If you don't beleve in the power of the celler search for the Whale Penis ,,,,

You Shall SEE , grasshopper !!!

:lol2: I giggled so furiously at that comment. I don't know why, but I did. Bravo! :notworthy

As for what they should have for dinner, I think mac & cheese is a classic pleaser. If I don't know what to eat mac & cheese always satisfies. Or maybe a turkey club sandwich. Toast bread, put mayo (or your preferred condiment) on the bread, add lettuce, crisp bacon, cheese, and deli sliced turkey. Yummy!!

We're having lamb steaks with potato scallopini and some green steamed veges tonight. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it....Mmmmmm....laaaaammmbbb...*drools*

We had fish and chips tonite...beer battered chips [insert homer drooly thingie here]. I made salad as well, it appears those under the age of 4 dont eat salad.

So I had to make *trees*, carrots and corn [trees being broccoli].

When I make mac n cheese, I deface it royally with shaved ham, corn, ricotta cheese and grated carrot.

Or even smoked chicken breast.

I had a taco.


















Supreme.

My sweetie made an awesome veggie soup and a huge basket of fresh homemade rolls. Yummy.

The kids hated it and filled up on rolls.

We had leftover pizza last night. I'm thinking I don't want to cook tonight either because we're about to have far too many leftovers for the weekend anyway.

But next Monday I will be going to the grocery store and stocking up on ingredients for several new recipes I want to try from a book I got for my birthday.

The easy-dinner that gets used the most around here is Cashew Stir-Fry:

One bag of frozen stir-fry vegetables (we prefer the "Edamame Blend" with--duh--edamame, water chestnuts, and red bell pepper), toss in a hot skillet with olive oil until hot, add any sauce you like (we use a different one every time, generally garlic- or sweetnsour-based), simmer until sauce is reduced a bit, throw in a bunch of cashews and serve over rice.

Last night, for dinner, I was IN UR BASE KILLIN UR D00DZ!

What are you trying to say, something like all you bouillabaisse are belong to us?

Okay, now I need the suggestions. It's the day before a major food holiday. I will be at work tonight (and tomorrow, as it happens). Tonight, I need to decide what I want to order out for dinner. The restaurants that deliver to me are of the following types: 1 Italian, 2 Greek run Italian, 2 Chinese (one cheap, one mildly classy, or at least more upscale from the other one).

What should I eat for dinner?

I'd go with the Chinese run Greek place.

I'd choose Greek, but thats because I love Greek food. I eat way too much pasta and Italian foods and Chinese is common for us on take out nights. Would be nice to have something different and as far from typical Thanksgiving foods as possible.

Stormie

Upscale Chinese - your favorite dishes plus something out of the ordinary

wolf, load up on the carbs tonight. pizza, soda, doritos. go to bed early, sleep late, and smoke a :joint: as soon as you wake up. then call me!

Let it be known that this is apparently what will happen if you skip the Saran Wrap step (had to pick it up and put it back into the dish, even):

muahahahaha I've had that happen before

Did you remember to break the yolk? If you don't do that it'll explode.

Yes, I broke it, but it exploded (repeatedly) anyway. If it had had Saran wrap to keep it down in the dish it might have worked though.

One of my late wives told me that when she was working in restaurants, they got new microwaves and was told don't put eggs, so as soon as possible they gave it a go, in shell. Oh boy. I buy kitchen gimmicks, so got an micro egg poacher for 2 eggs. Anyway it's no longer here.

You know...I thought about including the warning about ALWAYS using saran wrap... Please accept my apologies... :redface:

I showed your poor, blown up egg to Hubby and he decided to make a sandwich and offered to let me take pictures of his process. Your pic made him hungry!

Anyhow, he slathers a lot of butter in the dish, I only use a little bit. He only pokes a hole in the egg once and doesn't swirl it, I poke and scramble a bit. He also pokes a hole in the saran wrap, I don't. His never blows up, mine sometimes do...not often, but sometimes the edges will pop up and flip over.
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Here are the other two pics...

Damn IT !!! now I'm Hungery !!!

I ended up going with a Grilled Chicken Cesar Salad and Cheesy Garlic Bread from the restaurant of the highest quality for salad (This place also does very good on the steaks, but not so good on the pizzas). Filled me up quite nicely, and I got to feel rather self-righteously good about myself because there was green stuff involved.

microwaving eggs is reprehensible. it takes 4 minutes to fry it properly. doing it with dirty thumbnails, and covering it with velveeta? well.....i'm a bog slob too, so i won;t break your box, but....ick.

the toast looked good, tho!

Uhh Jim some of us work with our hands , ALWAYS haveing a freash MANaqueir is NOT an option !!!

Dude was just showing the process , I don't rember seeing his Thumb nails dipping into the food .

Glad it was you, UT. Saved me from being banned :D

What's for dinner? Well, when it comes to that point, here's my "pecking" order:

A real dinner. Absent that...
Tacquitos from 7-11
A can of Corned Beef Hash from Giant Grocery Store
Ramen (the good kind - a Vietnamese friend told me what to buy)
A can of Red Bull and some Wheat Germ.

Assuming he didn't swear you to secrecy, actually even if he did ... the Free World is desperately in need of this information.

Apologies extended from me if my Hubby's stained fingernails that earn our living offended anyone. Can't make a square, toast shaped fried egg in a frying pan, can you? Which is what I was showing. ...and that was NOT velveeta. Kraft. Though I'm not sure how much better you'd approve of that particular brand. It's just FOOD.

Sure, but who cleans the pan and the spatula? Like Hoof said, it's all about the shape.

ever had eggs in the nest?

sorry about the fingernail crack. just fuckin around.

microwaves are for reheating chinese food or pasta, and popcorn. only.

I used to think so, too. I have since found that they can be used to cook some things, however I would never cook meat in the m'wave. I remember my mother's first m'wave cooking attempts that were the consistency of rubber. Ugh.
I don't know what Eggs in the Nest is...?

The fingernail crack horribly embarassed me. I have had to make excuses (lie)to Hubby so he would not want to come and look at this thread. He would be mortified. He actually did comment to me about his fingernails as I was posting and it was me who told him to just shine it, it wasn't that important...but I think it was and I wish now I had changed the photos I used.

Still, the m'wave fried egg sandwich is delicious, nutritious and SAFE for children to make without allowing them near the elec/gas stove.
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Buttttt - dont ya have to clean the little dish n fork??

I'm splitting hairs, but I LOVE eggs in the frypan and my mum is always banging on about doing them in the microwave because its less clean up....how?? frypan goes in the dishwasher as would the microwave bowl etc

but I do agree with the shape and safety factor :)

The one cup rock 'n serve tupperware containers work well for this, too. Just put the lid on loosely!

With the frying, I don't like it smelling up the house. In the nuker, it doesn't make as much smell. Although, I think in our case it is just hubby frying more butter than egg . . .

One of my favorite quick fixes is pasta, any kind (already cooked, though), with some chili on top (any kind) and some grated cheese.

Potato, chili and cheese works well, too.

Broccoli is disgusting. I like using the summer squashes (zucchini, yellow neck).

Oooh, I just remembered something I ordered in a restaurant once: one of those little souffle boat dishes with a couple of whole chilis (the green, out of the can, ortega kind), topped with tons of cheese and baked (or nuked) until the cheese has really been cooked a bit (more than just melted). Serve it with bread, crackers, tortillas, tortilla chips, etc. Nice little easy to do meal.

We're having pizza for dinner tonight. I'm making it. I'll probably make some extra dough and do a garlic pizza too.

We'll probably have salad with it.