What's For DINNER Tonight?

[Jill]

Chicken stir fry with lots of veggies and some crab Rangoon that's just from frozen. Sugar free pudding for dessert

 

[Performancemini]

H. had quite the night last night (you can read about it in "the back porch" thread under the griping about the weather section). Anyway, working and plowing two properties; he didn't get in until MIDNIGHT! I ended up cutting up his steak into cubes and cubing a big baker potato and making soup with them in V8 juice with herbs. Then he never ate it, he was too tired. Drank a mug of hot cocoa and went to bed. He might get it reheated when he gets home tonight.

I haven't felt the best today, so I think I will make chicken broth and those little pasta rings for soup and some toast. I think I have been snacking way too much. Good news on the foot/ankle-I am putting about 3/4 of my weight on it now (with crutches and the boot). Making progress that way. Will need work to strengthen it and get flexibility back. I enjoyed crutching and plopping through the wet and mushy dirt and gravel to the garage this afternoon on my own. Didn't need H. to pull the car up to the house today a least!

 

[Performancemini]

Well, that figures! H. pulls in early, no side job tonight. So I skipped the soup and made spaghetti and bread.

 

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

LOL. never mind Performancemini, my husband called me at 6pm to say he'd be home at 6:30 and oh btw he invited a co-worker to come for dinner too. I was scrambling around to pull together something more than the left overs I'd planned to get cleaned up. We ended up with meatloaf, garlic mashed potaotoes and cream corn, not exactly a gourmet meal and it wasn't ready until nearly 7:30 but really, what did he expect after all those nights of coming in at 8:30 or 9 pm. The co-worker has been here before and was fine with anything she didn't have to cook and thrilled to have company for the evening since her husband was out of town (he is gone for 10 days then home for 4 on a steady rotation right now. Sometimes he's away for 21 days and then home for 6) and she gets lonely with only her cat for company.

 

[Performancemini]

Well, that sounded good! I bet she enjoyed it all. Our neighbor's husband is a trucker and is on a week and off a week or a weekend; so I know what you mean. She has two cats and two big dogs for company (a Dobie and a mix that's supposed to be Great Dane and Boxer).

I just put out a couple of the little chicken breast tenders out. Maybe I'll make Chicken Corn Chowder. I'll ask H. when he comes in what he wants me to do (but he'll probable say his standard 'whatevers easy').

 

[Jill]

Red beans and rice with turkey sausage and lots of diced tomatoes, bell peppers and onions

 

[Performancemini]

Yep. H. said 'whatever is easy'. So I told him I was thinking chicken corn chowder and he turned his nose up at it! LOL! Well, that is easy. Anyway, he said just brown it up and make instant potatoes and a vegetable. That's fast and I'm hungry. So, OK.

I am thinking soup and grilled cheese tonight. Just in case we get the wintery mix and the winds. That sounds like a good meal for a night like that.

 

[chandab]

Homemade chicken and dumplings, one of Shayne's favorites, and much easier than I ever thought...

 

[Jill]

Leftovers of last night, but it was good and actually better the next day

 

[Performancemini]

Tonight was hamburgers, shoestring french fries, string beans, cranberry sauce and dill slices. (H. loves the cranberry sauce. He eats it like it's ice cream!).

 

[chandab]

Thawing a couple steaks, thinking of slicing them up and stir frying them and then adding some veggies and rice and calling it supper for something different.

 

[Performancemini]

Drat! I didn't put anything out either. Maybe I will get a round steak out and do the same. Only probably won't do stir fry. Maybe more like a steak with orzo and veggies type of thing. I have to do the online recipe search again.

Well, husband wanted to use our local Lino's Italian restaurant gift certificate. It's a lovely place. Old world atmosphere. Well, there was a 45 to one hour waiting time so we decided we didn't want to wait. We went around back to their carry out section and I waited in the car while H. went in and ordered and waited for the Pizza special (large pizza, Italian salad for 2-3 and 2 liters of pop). Got home and they had got the order backwards. It was supposed to be half pepperoni and all over sausage. They did all over pepperoni and half sausage. I don't like pepperoni, so I had to pick it off. Actually if i have to eat pepperoni, theirs is not too bad. It was nice. Son was in the work shop part of the barn working on a car. He stopped inside to wash up, so he had some pizza. Still enough enough left for H. to reheat for lunch tomorrow.

 

[Jill]

I'm making a crustless quiche this morning with turkey bacon and carmelized onions and will probably have some oven fries and oranges with it. Tonight, oven BBQ chicken thighs (boneless / skinless), mashed potatoes, green beans and corn. H can take left over chicken for lunch tomorrow

 

[dixie_belle]

I picked up a pot roast (on sale) and will put it in my slow cooker with some carrots and a thick brown gravy. I usually put sliced taters in there, but I think I'll make smashed potatoes tonight and put the gravy on top. This way I can watch the nascar race, even if it is rain delayed and not be stuck in the kitchen.

 

[Performancemini]

Don't know again. Nothing out again. I better put a few things in to thaw for the next couple of days. Maybe slow cooker things. I stopped at the grocery after church and got a chicken salad sandwich, cookie and tea for lunch. Now I have a sort of 'tummy ache'. Either ate too fast or I need to watch what I am eating closer, like I said before. H. just warmed up the leftover pizza for his lunch. Smells good, but I don't want any. He's going to a movie that I don't care to see. I think I will cut out my Mother's costume.

 

[chandab]

Left over spaghetti tonight, and tomorrow I'll be in town, so probably bring home chicken from the deli for supper.

 

[Performancemini]

Well, I pulled out some chicken breast tenderloins. Ended up defrosting them slightly in the microwave and cutting them up in small bite size pieces. I made an Amish recipe I had got for Chicken Dumplings. Oh gosh was it good! Pretty easy too. Here's the recipe:

2 cups chopped mix of vegetables (potatoes, carrots, celery and onion)

1 cup chopped chicken

1 cup chicken broth

salt and pepper to taste

Cook the vegetables in enough water to cover until soft, about 15 minutes. Place the chicken in a 3 quart saucepan or stockpot and cover with the broth. Add salt and pepper to taste. Heat to boiling and cook until the chicken is done, about 10-15 minutes. Add the vegetables and liquid and bring back to a boil before adding Dumplings.

Dumplings:

1 1/2 cup flour

1 1/3 cup butter, softened

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons sugar

milk

Combine flour, butter, salt, baking powder and sugar. Add enough milk to make a stiff dough. Drop by spoonfuls (dumplings expand) in boiling chicken mixture. Cover. Reduce heat. Cook for 20 minutes. Do Not Lift Cover til done.

Tomorrow night H. has to go out of town and won't be back until news time. So I will have a light supper.

 

[Jill]

I'm making turkey chili later today that will be in the slow cooker after I make it up until dinner time. Going to load it up with tons of bell peppers, onions and diced tomatoes

Probably bake some sour dough rolls to go with it as well.

 

[Performancemini]

Beef stew tonight.

 

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

I made a kind of chicken pot pie last night. Cubed chicken breast browned in olive oil, onions, celery, mushrooms and sweet red peppers then added some cream cheese until it was melted and blended in a can of mushroom soup with some chicken stock and poultry seasoning and pepper. After it was all mixed well I put it in a casserole dish and topped it with biscuit dough made with a bit extra milk (about the consistency of muffin batter) so it could be dropped from a spoon rather than rolled. It turned out really well and my husband had seconds even tho he didn't make it home until after 8 (poor guy) .

Tonight, I was thinking steaks and ??? but if he is late again that won't work well... maybe I should just do paninis and soup.