Dinner tonight - or last night.

we have some assorted veggies like taters, onions, corn and celery in ours , then she makes a heavily garlicked chicken breasts and thighs and cubes them into the pie with lots of pepper and less salt because I use a K salt substitute.
Its good enough so no cheese is needed. Anyway, my wife gets all phlegmy with too much dairy.

Tried a sesame chicken sauce from scratch. Poured over angel hair. Chili paste cleared sinus.

Fillets of whiting with tartar sauce with roast potato pieces and salads.

grilled lamb popsicles

they were good but a bit skinny

I need something else

spicy chicken, white rice, and bok choy.

Earlier then usual rise. Rode bike to boardwalk. Dropped a line in. Hello dinner. Definitely Drakes batter, fried. Will bury my hands in potato patch, see what I come up with. Peanut oil on stand by.

,....and by the way,..is the trick to a good salsa canned tomatos?

WHAT???


sacrilege...

Rockhead.
Rockhead.
No matter what I do to all my fresh garden tomatoes,...whether I cook them,...boil them,., peel them deseed them,...or just put them in a blender and mix with other ingredients,....always comes out too tomatoey. I have tried every method of mixing also. I bet most mexican restaurants use canned tomatoes.

not the good ones.

(we are making special house salsa this week)

it won't be for the customers mostly though, as alas, our tomatoes are not as plentiful this year either...

we use pace for the masses (not made in NYC yaknow)

Good Tomatoes.

Blanch and peel. (over a bowl, cuz if you are not already making a mess, you don't have good tomatoes...)

the rest varies to taste and availability, but cilantro has to have a small presence.

Tonight: Msolga's tandoori lamb cutlets, cooked under the griller flame. Plus an Indian-ish rice, cooked with onion & garlic (lightly fried in oil first), cumin & cardamon pods. I got lazy about the greens & cooked up some baby peas at the last minute. Not bad!

Fast fooding it tonight. Jack in the Box is good when you're starving at 1 AM. I'll regret it tomorrow, though.

we're having potato/lentil/mushroom soup tonight
crispy bacon/onions/garlic on the side

tucking this recipe in here for future reference

Nutty Cauliflower
Metric Ingredient Imperial
30 ml vegetable oil 2 tbsp
30 ml mild curry paste 2 tbsp
15 ml currants 1 tbsp
15 ml fresh ginger, grated 1 tbsp
4 spring onions, sliced 4
500 g cauliflower, cut into bite size pieces 1 lb
10 ml sesame oil 2 tsp
375 ml walnuts, toasted 1 1/2 cup
250 ml cashews, toasted 1 cup
15 ml sesame seeds 1 tbsp

Heat wok or skillet until very hot. Add oil and swirl to coat the sides. Add curry paste and stir-fry over medium-high heat for 3 minutes.
Add currants, ginger, onion and cauliflower. Stir-fry for 4 to 5 minutes adding about 1/3 cup (75 ml) water. Cover and steam for 1 minute or until cauliflower is tender. Drizzle with sesame oil.
Add walnuts, cashews and sesame seeds and toss.
Serves 4

I'd like both of those..

I'm working up (thawing dough) for pizza with mozzarella ordinario and marinated sliced vidalia and Kretchmar Hard Salami (??) slivers. By the time I get around to it, there'll be some fresh basil and maybe some sweet red pepper.

making something in the crock pot
I had an idea
then it kind of wandered away from me

I started by sauteeing thinly sliced sweet onion, red onion, fennel, celery and carrots
dumped all that in the crock pot
set it on high
put a half-pound of cut-up hot italian turkey sausage and some chicken drumsticks in the frying pan the veggies had been in
browned everything
dumped it in the crock pot with the veggies
then chicken breasts and thinly sliced red and yellow peppers went into the frying pan to be browned
into the crock pot
(no I didn't have to do it in stages like that. I had that weird, got-away-from-me idea)
tossed in a half-pound of quartered portabellos
mixed up some pre-fab garlic/herb pasta sauce, chicken broth, more herbs and spices (anything that looked/smelled kinda Italian)
poured it over all of the goodies in the crock pot

it smells and looks awesome

it's got a lot of cooking time to go I want some now!

pretty basic meal tonight

cut up a carrot, put in pan with a bit of water, added some frozen peas, cooked both, added a can of healthy choice chicken noodle soup, a dash of low sodium V8 and some basil, heat through and serve

and if I was a smarty-pants like djjd, I could be eating right now!

<sigh>

I like these "as-built" dinners. We often run over the flavors in the mind and then start cooking sans recipes.

I would have fried the turkey sausage a bit, no?
Itried a n idea up in Maine that gave us enough **** to feed us and our neighbor. I got some ITalian hot sawsage (hadda have the fennel in it), then some chicken thighs and pepperoncinis, and gharlic in a chicken stock out of a can. LOTS of thin slice onions and musharooms.

We serev it over linguini. Damn good and its not much different freom yours cept its way hotter.

The Italian turkey sausage is hot. I could REALLY see lots of little red pepper flakes in there. Yeah, it was browned/lightly fried.

I think the double hit of fennel (in the sausage, and the sliced up bulb) should make this tasty. Pepperoncini is a good idea. I'll have to have some on the side. Set doesn't really dig the hot hot peppery stuff.