Simple Question: What did you have for dinner?
I ALWAYS ask friends and family members what they had for dinner.
So, what did everyone have for dinner?
Mine was quite bad and shameful. I didn't really feel like cooking today so it was super easy, bad-for-you chili cheese fries gone wrong. We're talking Velveeta cheese, Hormel chili and frozen fries baked in the oven.
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44 Comments:
Ham sandwich. After spending the day baking cookies and cakes, it was nice to have something simple and easy and not sweet.
Better yet, this is the first solid food DH has had for a while, so it was nice to see him eating again.
dbcurrie at 3:02AM on 12/23/08
Shells with shredded colby jack and a cheddarwurst.
nightowl at 3:30AM on 12/23/08
BF and i got Chinese to go. We shared potstickers (3 each), and this HUGE bin of this chowmeain that has a zillion veggies in it plus pork, steak, chicken, more bque pork, and shrimp. Then we had soup, I had the hot and sour , Bf had the won ton soup. Then he had his been of steamed rice bque pork, an egg roll and his entree was the Mongolian pork. I had everything the same except my entree was bloneless almond chicken. Yes there are tons and tons of leftovers.
pjracz10 at 3:49AM on 12/23/08
We are eating leftovers. Leftover BBQ ribs, leftover pork, leftover spinach salad and sauerkraut and leftover mac and cheese. Trying to get a fridge cleared out.
JerzeeTomato at 6:19AM on 12/23/08
I made about 80 tons of butternut squash soup, forgetting I'm going away for a week today. Luckily, it freezes nicely!
embolini9 at 6:40AM on 12/23/08
Sauteed Pork Chops, stove top stuffing, leftover mashed sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and biscuits. I was so tired from Christmas shopping, I just kept pulling stuff out of the pantry and fridge.
hammondcheese at 7:25AM on 12/23/08
Pho, grilled marinated pork summer rolls, and shrimp and pork summer rolls.
Cassaendra at 7:28AM on 12/23/08
Beef stroganoff, because that's what the weather called for.
thepirateking at 7:57AM on 12/23/08
ummm a bannana and 3 saltine crackers but SO had meatloaf mashed potatoes with roasted red peppers and sauteed green beans with pancetta.
huneybumper at 8:01AM on 12/23/08
Beef Stroganoff and a side of steamed broccoli. Had the same thing for breakfast this morning too. Brought it to work for lunch then realized the department is going out for lunch so I ate it at 6:30 in the morning instead of running to the cafeteria for a disgusting egg sandwich. I made my lunch last night but for some reason forgot to pack a breakfast even though I knew I would be working three hours earlier than normal. It all turned out well in the end.
CooksForOne at 8:50AM on 12/23/08
Homemade pizza and buffalo wings. Yeah, we just had the same thing Friday, but it was a snow day yesterday (14 inches of lake effect), and my husband is on vacation and there was an S.U. game on last night (we won), so...
dhorst at 8:50AM on 12/23/08
@huney and all you had were a few crackers?! Why didn't you partake?
nightowl at 9:07AM on 12/23/08
Lamb shanks seasoned with lemon, garlic, and herbs de Provence and braised in beaujolais; baked ziti w/gruyere and prosciutto; steamed broccoli.
1stmakearoux at 9:22AM on 12/23/08
Oven baked pork chops and red cabbage and a few Christmas cookies for desert.
bubbamom at 9:30AM on 12/23/08
Take out penne puttanesca. The sauce was good but the pasta was over cooked.
VerasTastyFreeze at 9:32AM on 12/23/08
I bought dinner at a gas station convenience store on my way home from work. A box of thick spaghetti and a jar of Ragu. I make no apologies.
Kerosena at 9:42AM on 12/23/08
Went to my MIL's and had chicken salad sandwiches and overcooked broccolli. Sigh.
juliebugsmama at 9:47AM on 12/23/08
Butternut squash and sweet potato soup, baked ziti, and rugelach for dessert.
poke87 at 9:53AM on 12/23/08
Roast beef, egg noodles, gravy made with the drippings, and steamed broccoli. Cookies from the umpteen batches I'm making for gifts for dessert (you gotta try 'em!)
jenilowrance at 10:01AM on 12/23/08
Bacon, spinach and honey mustard pizza. Heaven on crust!
izatryt at 10:03AM on 12/23/08
Grilled marinated trout fillets with a greek yougurt sauce accompanied by fresh green salad and a leftover lentil stew (made with red wine, leeks, carrots, black lentils and lots of onion and garlic). Quick, simple and yet delicious.
HappyMuncher at 10:03AM on 12/23/08
Mr. Meatloaf knows from childhood that this is the season of latkes, but has been very polite about not hinting. But this year I decided to give it a go. All of the ones I've eaten, good ones and not-so-good ones, have missed one thing: Not enough onion. So I did a little less than 2 lbs of Yukon Golds, 2 small-to-medium onions, 1/4 c. flour, an egg and some salt. (Food processor shredding.) Potatoes were old, so not much liquid to be wrung out of them. I baked them, using the directions from the King Arthur Flour site, and they were fabulous. Now that we can get Fage, why bother with sour cream?
To go with, he'd murmured about brisket. I had a nice piece of chuck in the freezer, so I chunked it up, browned it, and did a long, slow braise with Moroccan spices and a few prunes, in an accidental nod to the Sephardic tradition. Beautiful brown gravy, and delightful.
But not as good as the latkes, which FINALLY had enough onion, even for me.
lemons at 10:04AM on 12/23/08
Spaghetti. Homemade sauce, of course.
I spent the day baking cookies, and got started on tamales, which will be Xmas gifts. I'll finish them today, along with more cookies.
We're having a snowstorm, which makes me even more in the mood to cook and bake. YAY!
soozm32 at 10:08AM on 12/23/08
I had the last bit of a leftover rotisserie chicken, lima beans and what was probably my first ever taste of stove top something that doesn't even resemble stuffing.
Seriously. What is that supposed to taste like...is there a flavour? It seems to be well...flavourless mush. It was so disgusting. I kept eating it in the name of science so I could identify what the flavour was supposed to be....
No wonder it's like 98 cents a box.
feriorrenna at 10:19AM on 12/23/08
I thought the main spice in stove top is marjoram. Don't really know, but yuk!
soozm32 at 10:24AM on 12/23/08
Butternut squash, sausage & sage soup with a homemade "everything" roll. Them my grateful OH made me a beautiful fruit & cheese plate (grateful because even though I've been baking and basket-assembling like mad for the last week, I still found time - and energy yesterday to bake his favourite rolls and a batch of granola bars just for him:-)).
brooke29 at 10:41AM on 12/23/08
We ordered chinese last night for dinner. BBQ spareribs, combo rice and a cup of egg drop soup for me.
caramel at 12:08PM on 12/23/08
We had pizza. Husband made the crust in the bread machine. This was the second half of the batch. Jar spaghetti sauce, cooked hot sausage, hamburger, red and green peppers, sliced onion and cheese.
Maryland Crab
Maryland Crab at 12:12PM on 12/23/08
Chicken and broccoli stirfry over brown rice.
Amandarama at 12:44PM on 12/23/08
@nightowl that was all i could keep down hun. believe me there was plenty, I always cook to much :-(
huneybumper at 12:46PM on 12/23/08
I made chili. Still Working to perfect my recipe. It is good, but there is still room for a little tinkering.
kyle25 at 12:52PM on 12/23/08
Last night, I was too tired to cook and my cousin was visiting from the east coast so we had stuffed pizza (a Chicago thing).
saraann at 1:10PM on 12/23/08
Burritos from Qdoba! So bad and soooo good
annabanannas at 2:10PM on 12/23/08
Honestly? I've been living on 500 calories a day or so for the past week (lack of appetite due to mild heartbreak), and so I had a grapefruit and a carrot and cherry garcia ice cream for dinner last night.
I had coffee this morning.
Aynsl156 at 3:44PM on 12/23/08
PumpkinBear, I enjoy your questions and commentary, but...that dinner was gross. I hope you are okay.
I made my tacos: warm corn tortillas, sour cream, avocado, chicken pieces sauteed in evoo/onions/garlic, topped with chopped tomatoes, lettuce, red onions, cucumbers, radishes, and a squirt of lime.
savecara at 3:57PM on 12/23/08
Grief. Sturm und drang. Aggravation. Despair for dessert. Nah... not really, I'm actually feeling calmly fatalistic.
mongoose at 4:16PM on 12/23/08
Made chili verde in my crock pot yesterday. Pretty good, really. the recipe called for blending the sauce and I have no blender in sight, so I'm sure it would be better blended and with less liquid, and maybe shredded meat instead of cubed. Served with wamr corn tortillas and some Spanish rice I made that turned out predictable well. I like the chili verde - fantastic flavor and the bf kept eating it and eating it ... and then had more later with tortilla chips. Not bad for adapting a recipe I've never made before and without most of my kitchen!
joyyy at 4:52PM on 12/23/08
@joyyy I LOVE chili verde, (turning green as the verde sauce) ooooo bad one lol.
pjracz10 at 5:41PM on 12/23/08
White rice, ma po dofu, string beans with beef and a single solitary snow crab leg.
We were at Costco getting the goods for the Christmas party and my dad couldn't resist getting a few crab legs.
fuuchan at 7:16PM on 12/23/08
@Savecara, you're totally right. My dinner sucked.
PumpkinBear at 7:23PM on 12/23/08
Take-out sushi from the Japanese restaurant that just opened up in our little town (Yay!!!). Along with my home-made stir-fried chicken and vegetables in garlic sauce. Soooooo good.
buffy at 7:42PM on 12/23/08
Leftover meatloaf sandwich with some bread and butter pickles. I'm saving my appetite for the food extravaganza of the next few days - or, at least that is what I told myself!
bareneed at 8:04PM on 12/23/08
We had rosemary chicken breasts and lemon dill rice. I'm eating frozen leftovers tomorrow though.
yankeesgal at 8:57PM on 12/23/08
I was REALLY bad!! I had a Wendy's Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger, Value fries and a 'value' soft drink!! I had no energy for fixing anything myself, not even fresh fruit. Though I will probably have some fruit before bed, just to try and 'even things out' a bit(?)
Carolina de Witte at 9:01PM on 12/23/08