What's for Dinner Tonight? (Jan. 28)

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Discussion Overview

This thread features participants sharing their dinner plans for the evening, with a variety of meal ideas and personal anecdotes about cooking experiences. Participants discuss their choices, ingredients, and the influence of family preferences on their dinner decisions.

Discussion Character

  • Anecdotal
  • Opinion-based

Main Points Raised

  • One participant mentions considering breakfast for dinner, specifically pancakes, if no other ideas come to mind.
  • Another participant shares they are making homemade split pea soup, while their family will have leftovers due to bad weather.
  • One participant describes preparing chicken and gravy in a crock pot, accompanied by rice and vegetables.
  • Another participant discusses using a frozen chicken to make a 30-minute meal with potatoes and carrots.
  • One participant expresses satisfaction with using "steamables" vegetables in their meal.
  • Another participant shares their plan for chicken cutlets, sweet potato fries, and green beans, with brownies for dessert.
  • One participant notes they are making swiss steak with mashed potatoes due to everyone being home from work and school.
  • Another participant mentions their daughter will be cooking ground pork with onions and potatoes for dinner.
  • One participant is trying grilled chicken al fresco for dinner.
  • Another participant shares they are making a quick red sauce for tortellini.
  • One participant describes a pork loin recipe they adapted, including agave nectar and applesauce, and mentions it smells good while cooking.
  • Another participant shares they are making stuffed green peppers, while another expresses a personal aversion to the smell of them during pregnancy.
  • One participant mentions making roasted lamb shanks, despite not being a fan of lamb.
  • Another participant considers ordering pizza, while another recounts making mac and cheese with tuna and broccoli when chicken was not defrosted.
  • One participant shares their experience of needing to find an alternative dinner after forgetting chicken for enchiladas.
  • Another participant mentions making burgers and sautéed zucchini and mushrooms, but was not impressed with a new dessert they tried.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Views differ significantly among participants regarding dinner choices, with no clear consensus on a preferred meal type or cooking method.

Contextual Notes

Participants are sharing personal experiences and meal ideas in the context of varying family preferences and circumstances, including weather-related impacts on dinner plans.

Who May Find This Useful

Consultants looking for meal inspiration or those interested in how others navigate dinner planning may find this discussion relevant.

rennea
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Well I really haven't decided today what's for dinner. I'm thinking maybe breakfast for dinner. I think DH would like pancakes. If I don't come up with anything that's what we will be having.
 
homemade split pea soup for me,
leftovers for my picky family. its an ice day here :)
 
I actually got my act together...Wednesday is my crazy day, and we usually end up eating out, but not today! Chicken and gravy (in the crock pot), with rice & vegis, biscuits.
 
I've been trying to eat through the stuff in the pantry and freezer, so today I dug a frozen chicken out. We'll be having 30-min chicken with potatoes and carrots.
 
P.S. Last night I used one of those "steamables" type vegis. They were AWESOME.
 
We are having chicken cutlets on the bar pan, seasoned sweet potatoe fries on another bar pan, and fresh green beans sauteed w/garlic and oil. Probably brownies for dessert.
 
Everyone's home today due to the bad weather (hubby included) so I put some swiss steak in the crock and I'm gonna make mashed potatoes to go with.
 
My 18 year old DD will be fixing our dinner tonight. I think she is going to saute ground pork with onions, and potatoes, and have corn as a side.
 
I'm trying the grilled chicken al fresco tonight.
 
Lisa, I saw the picture you posted of your family. You have some nice looking kids- They look very close.
 
They are close Levi 24, Ashley 22, Tanner 20 (Carly his wife is 20), and is Lendzy 18.

The picture was at Thanksgiving, and now Levi has moved to Kansas City, MO just 2 1/2 weeks ago. He also proposed to Char on New Years Eve.I personally think they are great and beautiful kids, but I might be a little partial.
 
janezapchef said:
I'm trying the grilled chicken al fresco tonight.
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Hey Jane, I'm coming over, be there in about 10 minutes! :D
 
Making a quick red sauce to top the tortellini I picked up the other day.
 
I found a 2 lb pork loin in the freezer (We are eating from our pantry this week - so using what I have!) and then found a recipe online that I tweaked quite a bit to come up with my own recipe!:D

1/2 Cup Agave Nectar (called for brown sugar....)
1/2 Cup Applesauce
2 tsp Cinn + spice blend
2 cloves garlic
salt & pepper.


Mixed these together, and poured it over the roast, along with some apple wedges and sweet potato chunks. It's in the oven right now (In my DCB, of course!) and it's beginning to smell verrrry good!

Also having make-ahead mashed potatoes, and steamed green and yellow beans. (frozen from my garden this summer.:chef:)



Oh - here is the original recipe for the pork:

EASY ROAST PORK

2/3 cup packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup cinnamon applesauce
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
2 pounds boneless pork loin roast


DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly flour an oven bag.
In a small bowl, blend brown sugar, applesauce, and ginger.
Place pork roast in the prepared oven bag. Pour the brown sugar mixture over the roast. Seal bag, and cut several small slits in the top.
Cook the roast 1 hour in the preheated oven, or until the internal temperature has reached 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).
 
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I am making stuffed green peppers tonight.
 
Bren706 said:
I am making stuffed green peppers tonight.
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Are you feeling up to that Brenda? :D

I say that, because when I was pregnant - that was one of the smells that would just put me over the edge, and I'd be running for the toilet!:yuck:
 
DH has been whining lately, wants something new....:rolleyes:
soooooooooo I'm making him roasted Lamb Shanks :yuck: (I'm not a Lamb person) Maybe it will shut him up for awhile....;)
 
I think I am ordering pizza tonight.
 
Well, my chicken wasn't completely defrosted and DH said that if we ordered pizza, I'd have to go pick it up. And I don't want to leave the house. So I made a box of mac n cheese, then added a can of tuna and some broccoli.
 
Ginger428 said:
DH has been whining lately, wants something new....:rolleyes:
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Rae's Rule: Whiners make dinner.
 
The poor kid has been asking every night for the last month if we can order pizza for dinner. We kept telling him we have no money for it. Since I got a really nice check today at work, I just might do that. Besides, the guys are at wrestling practice and I'm still sick and don't feel like cooking, plus They have eaten up all of the leftovers.
 
chefann said:
I've been trying to eat through the stuff in the pantry and freezer, so today I dug a frozen chicken out. We'll be having 30-min chicken with potatoes and carrots.
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If you have leftover chicken, it goes great in a cheesy broccoli and rice casserole. We did this last night. I'll send the recipe, if you would like it:chef:
 
Get_Pampered said:
If you have leftover chicken, it goes great in a cheesy broccoli and rice casserole. We did this last night. I'll send the recipe, if you would like it:chef:
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Thanks. But the chicken got pushed to tomorrow. Leftovers will end up in the Mexican lasagna for my meeting on Friday.
 
Filet mignon, salad and fake mashed potatoes
 
ChefBeckyD said:
I found a 2 lb pork loin in the freezer (We are eating from our pantry this week - so using what I have!) and then found a recipe online that I tweaked quite a bit to come up with my own recipe!:D

1/2 Cup Agave Nectar (called for brown sugar....)
1/2 Cup Applesauce
2 tsp Cinn + spice blend
2 cloves garlic
salt & pepper.


Mixed these together, and poured it over the roast, along with some apple wedges and sweet potato chunks. It's in the oven right now (In my DCB, of course!) and it's beginning to smell verrrry good!

Also having make-ahead mashed potatoes, and steamed green and yellow beans. (frozen from my garden this summer.:chef:)



Oh - here is the original recipe for the pork:

EASY ROAST PORK

2/3 cup packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup cinnamon applesauce
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
2 pounds boneless pork loin roast


DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly flour an oven bag.
In a small bowl, blend brown sugar, applesauce, and ginger.
Place pork roast in the prepared oven bag. Pour the brown sugar mixture over the roast. Seal bag, and cut several small slits in the top.
Cook the roast 1 hour in the preheated oven, or until the internal temperature has reached 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).
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Okay - this turned out really well!

DH made a little piggy of himself. He doesn't usually say much one way or another, but tonight he told me to mark this recipe so that I can make it again! I thickened the liquid to make a gravy, and he loved it over the potatoes!
 
raebates said:
Rae's Rule: Whiners make dinner.
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LOL...I'll have to remember that for next time....Thanks!! ;)
 
I was going to do honey lime chicken enchiladas but I forgot the chicken on the stove. Luckily it was off (didnt turn burner on) so threw the chicken out since I wasnt sure it was good. Now I need to figure something else out. Dominos sure sounds good to me.
 
DH made burgers and sauted zucchini and mushrooms.

I made the new chocolate caramel pecan cakes... Not that impressed, I'm afraid.

I'll see if I have time to do a review.
 
ChefBeckyD said:
Are you feeling up to that Brenda? :D

I say that, because when I was pregnant - that was one of the smells that would just put me over the edge, and I'd be running for the toilet!:yuck:
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I have no aversions (sp?) to smells yet. There was one day when I made DH grill some chicken breasts with BBQ sauce on the grill (while I lay in bed) and I could not stand the smell. I had to leave the room.
 
chefsteph07 said:
Hey Jane, I'm coming over, be there in about 10 minutes! :D
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Darn! We had plenty! Are you stuck in the snow? :D

This was really good, by the way! I cooked it about 4 minutes longer than called for because the noodles didn't seem done. It was perfect!
 

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