what's for dinner tomorrow night?
i love the "what's for dinner tonite" thread ... but does anyone know what they're cooking tomorrow night?
i'm having company, so i know what i'm making.... usually i wing my meals everynight and don't think too far ahead. but because there's company coming.... well, i've got a menu planned.
how about you? got it figured out or are you winging it?
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As always on Thursday - Survivor pizza and fries
homegrown basil, tomatoes and spuds
BiereBeer at 9:57PM on 09/23/09
We have some eggplant that we purchased at the farmer's market. I've never cooked eggplant... any suggestions besides eggplant parm?
riotmute at 10:00PM on 09/23/09
chicken sauteed with red peppers, garlic, and mushrooms in white wine
possibly with rice
gingercookiewithlime at 10:03PM on 09/23/09
Tomorrow night is our last night in our house so, in an effort to get rid of as much food as possible, I'm making pea & parm ravioli and a giant salad, and all the leftovers we can eat!
KateRuby at 10:11PM on 09/23/09
I don't know yet, but Thursdays are always good! I live by the sea and we are members of a CSF (community supported fishery - like a CSA but with fish). They'll send an email tomorrow announcing this week's catch.
Last week it was 4lb whole cod caught only hours before. We wrapped it in foil with butter and white wine and baked it whole. It was the best I've ever tasted. Then we boned it and made cod cakes from the rest of the meat. There were four left over to freeze for the winter.
Depending on what this week's catch is, I'd like to bone the fish, take off the head and tail and freeze them to make a nice fish stock in the winter.
yayfood at 10:29PM on 09/23/09
@yayfood I'm so jealous!!!
hmw0029 at 10:36PM on 09/23/09
Hey, pooch, I like threads likes this. I always get some great ideas, like KateRuby's pea and parm pasta above.
Last week my daughter-in-law asked for Chicago beef sandwiches on my next day off, which is tomorrow. I'll do roasted red sweet and hot peppers in olive oil while the rump roast is in the oven in the morning. I make okay French bread, but I buy French rolls from the grocery store for beef sandwiches. (I wish I could get Chicago Gonnella rolls here in Seattle.)
Method: Roll a nice hunk of beef in Montreal steak seasoning and roast it in a shallow casserole dish at 425 degrees until there's lots of very dark caramelization in the dish but the roast is not quite medium rare. Wrap it in foil and refrigerate until it's cold. When the baking dish is cool, deglaze it with a little beef stock from a 1-qt. container. Throw the rest of the beef stock in a pot with four cloves of garlic that have been smacked with the side of a knife, up to a teaspoon of dried oregano and a couple of shakes of red pepper flakes and the deglazed pan drippings. A slicer is nice, but if you don't have one, slice the roast against the grain in very thin slices, throw them in the stock and simmer until the beef is very tender but not yet falling apart into shreds. Taste the stock and adjust to your taste by adding water, salt, and pepper. Spoon some jus onto the split rolls and pile sliced beef on top. If desired, top with roasted red pepper strips, bottled giardiniera or sport peppers. If you want cheesy beefs, top with some shredded mozzarella or cheddar and throw the sandwiches in the broiler until the cheese melts and is just starting to brown.
Tonight's dinner was boring, but it was my dad's favorite--pan-fried pork chops with sauteed apples, mashed potatoes and canned cream corn and butter "gravy." It was my dad's favorite dinner, but the monotone colors are boring.
@riotmute--a couple weeks ago I made ratatouille pizzas. Us women liked the vegetarian one better, but the guys liked the one topped with Italian sausage chunks, which I pre-cooked beforehand.
betteirene at 11:49PM on 09/23/09
I am so jealous of all of you!! I live off of a college meal plan and I don't have easy access to a kitchen, so I am at the mercy of our campus dining services. At least I am lucky that it is ranked 10th best in the nation, but it still doesn't beat home cooking.
Does anyone in the St. Louis area want to adopt me and feed me your wonderful sounding dinners? ;)
So to answer the question, maybe some soup or a wrap. I feel like I am always eating either lunch or dinner. Not like a real dinner. At least I get to get off campus this week to go out for Chinese :)
jo_wang at 12:16AM on 09/24/09
My husband's beef stew over rice for me...
Cassaendra at 12:27AM on 09/24/09
We'll be off island, as we say, so dinner will be something I can do quickly even though I'll be tired when we finally get home. I was thinking roasted kielbasa and left over green beans with chunked tomatoes in a vinaigrette.
I think I'll end the meal with a fruit sauce I made with Gravensteins, Bartlett pears, a few plums, lemon juice, vanilla bean & cinnamon sticks - it is fabulous.
islandexile at 1:53AM on 09/24/09
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes. And peas, of course!
moibec at 6:02AM on 09/24/09
Roasted onions, red and green peppers and linguine. A little garlic and as much oo as necessary. I think I've got a kielbasa in the freezer, and if so it's going in too (thanks to yesterday's kielbasa thread).
lemonfair at 6:15AM on 09/24/09
@betterirene - that sounds good, i never had a sandwich like that.... i love hearing about regional cooking and the method you use to cook the beef. pretty smart. did you learn this one at the truck stop?
@jo_wang - my heart goes out to the college crowd, when my step daughter went away to college, she missed our food-driven household....
love your analogy of always eating lunch (wraps, etc).... well, study hard and time goes fast, before you know it you'll be cooking your own dinners!
tonite i'm making my own special recipe: grilled chix breast, grilled eggplant - layered with ricotta and fresh mozzarella - baked in the oven. kind of like a lasagna but without the noodles. lots of fresh basil - or whatever is left in the garden. sauteed escarole on the side with lots of garlic. not sure if i'm going to make pasta on the side to sop of the juices or maybe just a nice hunk of bread. don't want to overstuff the company.
haven't figured out dessert yet. maybe some baked apples.
pooch at 7:16AM on 09/24/09
I'm stuck here at school tonight for the parents' open house. The junior class is having a buffet as a fund raiser, so I'll probably go to that. It's usually catered by a local Italian restaurant, so the food will be not too bad. I'm not sure what dinner will be tomorrow (Friday), because BF and I have been invited to a private party at a local rock club. I know there will be beverages, but I don't know if there'll be food. Dinner might be sausage, peppers and onions on a roll from a street vendor near Fenway!
Amandarama at 7:18AM on 09/24/09
@jo_wang
Does your university starts with a W?
We'd invite you for dinner if we ever get home early enough :-)
hmw0029 at 9:41AM on 09/24/09
We're doing a clean out the refrige smorgasbord- Fresh kielbasa and kraut that simmered with onions and chopped apple and grillades (short ribs with gravy). I'll roast some sweet potatoes and saute' some zucchini with mushrooms to complete the meal. Kind of an odd combo but that's what we have and it needs to be eaten.
That Italian beef sounds really, REALLY good.......
I like these kinds of threads too pooch. Thanks.
CJ McD at 11:09AM on 09/24/09
I did a thread like this yesterday, Banana Monkey the day before and now you, Pooch-so let's keep it going...I got alot of ideas from all these great meals...
Tonight is a hodge podge--baked clams and spaghetti & 'shcarole with olive oil and garlic..and a friend brought me a slice of red velvet cake from Cakeman Raven..so I guess that would be dessert...
@Pooch--going to Doughnut Plant w/ friends on Saturday..... I remember your quest for a jelly donut awhile back......I'll think of you fondly as I bite into that jelly donut!
Between the cake and doughnuts, I'm also gonna need an angioplasty by next week....:o)
Italiancupcake at 5:15PM on 09/24/09
Yeah! I'm cooking tonight (soccer game last night) so that I can share. At the request of the 6 year old granddaughter who has started eating "real food" recently (No more heat ups and cheese sticks all day long), we are having spaghetti with the meatballs that I make with my strange, secret ingredient-evaporated milk- and broccoli-also her request! I worried that she would eat peanut butter and yogurt and nothing else forever!
janaatwg at 6:16PM on 09/24/09
@hmw0029 Yes, it does start with a W. Washington University, to be exact ;)
We do have a program called Home Plate that matches students up with families in the area so we can have a home-style meal every so often. I didn't sign up for it this semester, though.
jo_wang at 8:28PM on 09/24/09
The catch from my CSF this week turned out to be flounder and whiting. The flounder is still in the fridge and will be consumed tomorrow night.
For the whiting, I cleaned, beheaded and gutted them - all 9. I froze 4 and cooked the other 5 for dinner tonight as whiting meuniere. It was delicious! So much flavor, the meat came right off of the bones with no problem and he skin was crisp and buttery.
I now understand why I used to hate whitefish. Growing up, we only ever had it pre-cleaned, gutted and filleted and usually frozen. It was like styrofoam - all of the flavor is gone by the time it hits the plate. It's like the difference between frozen boneless, skinless chicken breast and a farm-fresh, never frozen roasted chicken. Cooked bone-in and skin on, whitefish has ten times the flavor!
yayfood at 9:15PM on 09/24/09
Tater tots and pizza rolls, then its off to the cock fights with junior and thelma-lou.
Just kidding, probably something amazing like scrapple sandwiches and chicken wings...
Pavlov at 9:54PM on 09/24/09
@jo_wang- haha, I work on the same campus. that's nice for them to have such a program! :-)
hmw0029 at 10:05PM on 09/24/09
@italiancupcake! thanks for thinking of me.... let me know what donut(S) you got. i swear someday i'm going to make the best jelly donut..... it's on my list of things to do when i'm not going insane. have fun.......
pooch at 9:41AM on 09/25/09
I made two large meatloaves with pork and lean ground beef left over from making 7 dozen cabbage rolls for a family gathering - Mom, brother and myself had a "line" going and we finished in no time - now I have to freeze them until October - takes up a lot of room in the freezer!! Anyway, I digress - tonight I have my daughter in law and grandkids, so I will have meatloaf with a basil-tomato sauce, baked sweet potatoes and broccali and homemade brownies for dessert - sure to make me a popular Nana!
bareneed at 10:16AM on 09/25/09
Tonight- grilled sirloin with fresh tomato salsa, grilled sweet potato slices, corn on the cob and....not sure what else.
Tomorrow- who knows? I'm working at the Dragon Boat Festival all day. What we have for dinner is dependent on how much energy I will have at the end of the day. Have some short ribs in a crock pot and some turkey thighs in stock in the refrig. so there's lots of possibilities. (frozen pizza? lol)
CJ McD at 1:31PM on 09/25/09
Ooooo...tomorrow night is date night with the boyfriend. I am making:
Butter Lettuce Salad with Homemade Bleu Cheese Dressing
Porterhouse Steaks with an Herb marinade - seared to perfection
Pioneer Woman's Mac and Cheese
Vanilla Ice Cream with Sake Oranges and sesame seed brittle
I'm lighting the candles, putting Billy on the radio and opening a nice bottle of wine. Ahhhhhhh.... I can't wait.
Martini Me at 4:41PM on 09/25/09