What's For Dinner 9...

[landofoz]

Last night we had baked potatoes and tonight we're going to have teriyaki sesame chicken.  I haven't a clue what I'm putting on the side though. 

[Triss]

Tonight is salad, chicken patties and fried potatoes.  Simple fare sounded good to me.

[landofoz]

Tonight I think we'll have Deli Wraps - just deli meat and cheese, with some veggies and a homemade cream cheese/honey/dijon mustard sauce.  I think I'll need to cook up some bacon to toss in there.  Mmmm, now I'm getting hungry...

[Penny]

Tonight are homemade hamburgers on the BBQ and a salad.

[landofoz]

For dinner I am fixing a salad.  It'll have cheese, hard boiled eggs, veggies (obviously), and some crab meat in it.  Doused in a ton of Ranch dressing and I have thoroughly american-ized a once-healthy meal.   

[patches]

My neighbor brought over some Blue Gill he caught today!    Geesh, he had them all cleaned and ready to go, so the only I had to do was bread them and fry them.   I whipped up some Mac & Cheese, stewed tomatoes and Cole Slaw to go with them, so it made a wonderful meal without a lot of work or mess to clean up. 

[landofoz]

Tonight we're having Grilled Cilantro Salmon with some sort of rice on the side, I think, and maybe green beans.

[patches]

I was outside all day, so I fixed most of my dinner on the grill.  I made some Chicken Shish Kabobs, baked potato, corn on the cob and had a small salad.  Geesh, I wish I could have had a fresh tomato from the garden, but that's going to be a little while yet.   

[Dianna]

We are in Summerville so we went out to eat breakfast at Denny's and then we had supper at Ye Old Fashioned. YOF sure makes some good burgers and onion rings...

[patches]

Well, it's much too nice a day to be inside cooking, so I started some Beef Stroganoff in the crockpot when I got home from church this morning.     Now, all I have to do for dinner is cook up some egg noodles, then open open a can of pineapple chunks and top that with cream cheese for my salad.   

[landofoz]

Last night we had spaghetti and meatballs.  The meatballs were ones I had a made a month or two ago and froze.  I do enjoy pulling homemade meatballs out of the freezer.  Tastes delicious and makes life so much easier!

Tonight we're going to have... I think it was Rita's recipe???  Parboiling some chicken, shredding it and then adding in the salsa and simmering that?  Burritos made from it, I even have some onions and bell pepper that I'll toss in with it.  I just need to remember to make up the tortillas at a decent time this afternoon.

[Triss]

Tonight is fried chicken, fried potatoes, peas and baked beans.  YUM!

[sunsoaker]

Can I come to your house for dinner Triss?  You are serving some of my favorite foods, and I have yet to figure out how to do fried potatoes "right".

[Triss]

You are more than welcome to stop on by but the fried potatoes got put on hold.  I opted for rice in the rice cooker instead.  I think I cooked myself out today.  I also baked the chicken.

I just recently discovered the BEST way to do fried potatoes.  In my cast iron skillet and with shortening instead of oil.  Oh my goodness... absolutely delightful.  Awww now I want potatoes again. 

[sunsoaker]

Yes, shortening works well, but I don't allow myself to use shortening anymore...(maybe that's my problem). I wonder if they make it now without all the transfat? I haven't even thought about that, what with all the media attention on the "bad" fats... Is that even possible?

[Triss]

No idea on that one but I rarely ever use it so for this one thing, I am ok with it.

[Dianna]

Having to watch all that transfat sucks, doesn't it, Barb? I hate having to figure out what I should and shouldn't be eating. All of my favorite foods seem to be on the  no-no list. I have a hard time cooking healthy...

While I am thinking about it, the type of potato that you fry could have something to do with how they turn out. A plain white potato never seems to get crispy for some reason. If you try a different type with your oil, that might help...

Tonight we had baked flounder. I wanted fried, but was trying to be good. Pork and beans, slaw, and cucumbers in Italian dressing rounded out the meal. I know. The dressing probably wasn't very healthy, but it was good....

[sunsoaker]

What type of potato would you use Dianna? You think a red potato would work better?

[landofoz]

I guess I'm lucky in that I'm not fond of fried foods or even fast foods.  I just have this image of globules of fat choking off my bloodstreams and clogging down my body.  That and I've had to clean a lot of sink drains in my lifetime and I can only imagine what my internal piping looks like!  That's not to say that I eat healthy though.  lol

Tonight it is Tacos, I looooove tacos!!

[Dianna]

Barb, I am thinking that a russet baking potato might fry up crispy, if you like them that way. I haven't tried it, but I do know that the type of potato has something to do with how crispy you can get them...

Sarah Loo, I loooooove tacos, too. I may just fix that for supper, also. Got all the stuff in there, just hope I have the energy to do 'em later...

[Tina]

Tonight is is chicken, shrimp and crab gumbo over rice and garnished with green onions. The gumbo was made by a neighbor, a transplanted Georgian. The rice by me. I am also pigging out on Brussels sprouts as well.

[Tonya]

Last night was boston butt (done in the crockpot), turnip greens and rice. Sure was good!!

Tonight I am doing something with chicken. I would do the salsa chicken, but I just did it a few days ago. I'm thinking baked taters and broccoli to go with.

[Dianna]

Tonight we will be having brats (sausage, not kids) or sandwiches. I have been working out in the yard and don't feel like cooking...

[landofoz]

Today has been busy - driving all over town and down to the Girl Scouts office twice because I left something there GRrrr!  To make up for excessive gas usage, I walked and Lindsay rode her bike to school.  She did the mile in 7 minutes.  Maybe that was not such a good idea! lol - Anyway, I wound up doing 1 flight of stairs over and over and over again at school delivering yearbooks to everyone.  Which reminds me I need to email one of them...  And then walked a mile back home--took 15 minutes this time because Rachael is a slow poke (thank god!).  Anywho, I'm exhausted.  We're having hot dogs.  If I'm feeling ambitious I will make a pasta salad to put with it. 

[patches]

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