What's For DINNER Tonight?

[Riverrose28]

Performancemini, do you also have one of those light ankle braces that is basically just two white spoon looking supports connected by a piece of plastic? They put me in one when my cast and boot came off, it helped with rehab alot, and I still have it just in case I twist it again. It has velcro straps that wrap around your leg and ankle to adjust for swelling.

 

[Performancemini]

Yes, I have one (mine's black), but they don't want me to wear it. They said something about needing to get the ligaments and stuff flexing again. This morning the foot looks back to normal. Ankle is the tiniest puffy under the bone, but it looks that way now anyway. I can feel a few twinges in the areas around the ankle bones, which I know are ligament areas. I think I just did WAY too much yesterday. My husband said to just stay off of it today and let it rest (so I am going to use the boot and crutches today). I have PT tomorrow.

Not sure what's for supper tonight. I might pull a couple of steaks out of the freezer. Made the chocolate chip cookies yesterday. Yummm! Gonna' get fatttttttttttt!!!!

 

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

I hope your foot is just giving you a bit of pain because it is weak from not being used and after a few days you will see it gradually improving until it is good as new.

I made pizza for dinner tonight. Its still in the oven and this is the first time I've made a pizza crust from scratch, I have my doubts about the crust, it seemed coarser than I like in spite of prolonged kneading. Well, we'll see how it is once its done I guess. Maybe I'll try one of the other bazillion recipes for crust next time if I don't like this one. lol

 

[Performancemini]

I am going to make swiss steak tomorrow night with some cube steaks. With tomato gravy and potatoes and carrots.

 

[Jill]

It's going to be a busy day today, so something easy / quick for dinner. Probably fish fillets with either oven fries or boxed Mac & cheese and some veggies

 

[Riverrose28]

Performancemini, hope your ankle and foot feels better soon.

Last night I fixed a ham steak sliced it into four pieces, opened a can of yams, and made creamed corn, since I have so many bags in the freezer that I need to use up.

Tonight is my favorite, meat loaf with roasted potatoes and carrots, yum. It is so bad for me and full of calories that it is a treat as we don't have it often.

Since it is the holy season I have stocked up on some frozen fish but would appreciate any freash fish recipes that you all would kindly share.

 

[Jill]

I'm making this sweet and tangy pork roast in the crock pot (it's so good and so easy -- http://allrecipes.com/recipe/tangy-slow-cooker-pork-roast/ ) with baby carrots, peas, and mashed potatoes.

 

[dixie_belle]

Tonight we had a light dinner....breakfast burritos and home made hash browns. I love breakfast, I just don't eat in the mornings so when I have a need for breakfast food, we have it for dinner. And I love anything wrapped in a flour tortilla. I've been known to sauté onions and mushrooms and roll them in a flour tortilla for dinner.

 

[Performancemini]

I made the chicken and dumplings again, but I cooked up some soup noodles and dumped in the bottom of the bowls for extra.

 

[Jill]

The crock pot pork roast was good and leftovers tonight, plus we froze half of it raw. H brought home a 5# one (urgh).

For the early part of today, a quick quiche that makes it's own crust (easy recipe:http://www.cooks.com/recipe/cu9e47sd/bisquick-quiche.html -- making ours with ham, onion and cheddar), oven fries and fresh pineapple.

 

[Performancemini]

I always get excited about a recipe and then realize it calls for a lot of milk. Can't have it. Some recipes don't do as well with my rice milk I use sometimes. I can't do the soy milk (which is thicker based). Rice milk is basically like using water. I usually try to cut it down by a 1/4 of the recipe.

Jill: do you think if I used the rice milk in you easy Quiche recipe it would work? It would be like adding water basically in place of the milk.

 

[dixie_belle]

Yesterday hubby and some friends went to a car show in Nashville. That's like 2 hours from here. I really didn't expect him home for dinner so I didn't plan on anything. I figured I'd have a bowl of cereal and a bagel. What happens? He turns up around 2:00 pm. What? Everything was frozen. I had no plan. And I was up to my waist in quilt fabric as I had been sewing/cutting all day. I cranked out grilled cheese sandwiches. Yes, that's right folks, I gave my husband a sandwich for dinner. And you know what? It was good. I haven't had one in...well....forever. That'll teach him to come home unexpectedly. LOL

 

[Performancemini]

My husband loves grilled cheese. He asks for one every Sunday for lunch. It's his standard suggestion for anytime I don't feel like making anything!

Tonight it's cheeseburgers. Not sure what I will do with them. A veggie and ???

 

[Riverrose28]

Tonight we are having chicken fried steak and country gravy, served with mashed potatoes and green beans. I would prefer to have broccoli but I'm all out, got plenty of green beans left. Pretty soon we will be putting the plants in the ground, they are just seedlings now in the window. I can't wait for freash veggies.

 

[chandab]

Beef and noodles for supper tonight. Cooked a roast the other day for sandwich meat, and set aside all the little chunks for beef and noodles.

 

[Jill]

For the quiche, I think the rice milk could work, but you may want to add some butter or margarine. from what I have read, some people think it works better with whole milk then reduced fat milk. So maybe you would need to be at some fat to the rice milk? I have made it was 2 percent milk, and my mom has made it was a combination of skim and fat free half and half. my mom's is lower fat but tastes better than mine. I'm thinking of me fat make it work, and not sure that milk has enough fat? If you can work it out, it's yummy, easy and nutritious option for any time of day

Tonight here, it's going to be chicken stuffing casserole with some carb friendly veggie sides

 

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

ohhh, thank you Chandra, beef and noodles sounds good. I had no idea what I was making tonight lol, now I'll thaw some grnd beef and make a gravy with it to serve over noodles. Perfect, it reheats well if my guy is late again. which is more than I can say for the chicken stir fry I made last night, poor husband, the veggies in it are just limp once its reheated.

For quiche I use cream cheese (spreadable) rather than milk and find my texture is better (firmer which I like) but I see no reason you can't make something similar with out dairy. I make fritatas with no milk, just eggs, veggies, potatoes, meat and herbs/spices. they are an excellent way to use up leftovers and extra eggs and mine have no crust so its almost like a baked omelet.

 

[chandab]

I have hamburger thawing, but no idea what we'll have for supper; might skip cooking and just reheat the beef and noodles from last night.

 

[Performancemini]

I will have to play with the quiche recipe and see what I can come up with. It sounds so good and my husband likes eggs.

Last night I felt "icky" again, so I made him the cheeseburger and green beans. That was it, poor guy. I had a small bowl of cereal and a piece of cinnamon toast.

I have stew meat out for tonight that is thawed. I think it will be ok for one more day (put it in to thaw Sunday night). I think I will cook and crumle the other beef patty and make spaghetti tonight. Won't be a lot of meat, but it will do.

 

[Riverrose28]

Tonight I'm fixing what I call box and bag dinner. I putting a box of fish with lemon and pepper in the oven, I'm adding a bag of orida fries and onion rings. Wa La, dinner is ready. Tomorrow we are having rain and storms so I'm making slow cooker chili.