What's for dinner?
 

So what is everyone cooking today? I love new ideas so let's hear what's on your menu for either lunch or dinner. I've discovered Stouffer's frozen meals in a bag for two. I'm having the chicken and dumplings for lunch. We typically don't eat big at night so plenty of time to work this off. Shoepeg corn as an extra side. I added more carrots to the chicken also.

That's mine, what's yours?

We are having those hot ham and cheese sandwiches - you make them out of those Hawaiian Sweet Rolls and wrap them in foil and heat in the oven. Also having cottage cheese and potato chips with fresh sliced strawberries for dessert.

Soft chicken tacos, with homemade salsa and guacamole, refried beans, rice and chips.

I cook a dinner meal most nights. Tonight it is fried cube steak with peppers and onions, homemade biscuits with red eye gravy, baked squash, sliced tomatoes, and applesauce.

My grands and DH love the Impossible Hamburger pie recipe from Bisquick. It's easy and tastes good. I always add more cheese then called for though. LOL. I make that when we need something quick to eat instead of getting pizza. DH eats it with sour cream, the kids and I eat cranberries with it.

Tonight is tacos. Tomorrow is a homemade Runza. Friday is undecided. I'd better start thinking. I like the sound of those hot ham and cheese sandwiches mentioned above.

Crock pot roast beef. This is a recipe born out of desperation - I wanted roast beef, but I wanted to cook it in a crock pot and have it be flavorful instead of bland and boiled-tasting. When I scrabbled around my cupboard, I found a packet of brown gravy mix and a packet of garlic peppercorn marinade, I think it's made by Weber. Dumped those in the crock pot, along with sliced onions, some water, and the roast. It came out so yummy and spicy, and the family loves it! If I'm lucky, I get 2 meals out of it. I make a gravy with the drippings, and sometimes I'll mix in cream or sour cream.

Probably Ham and beans with cornbread, I cooked it last Saturday. I might make coleslaw to go with it.

Heck, it's only 11:30....I don't think about what's for dinner til around.....dinner time.

Yum, these all sound so good! We're having Arby's tonight. I have coupons!

Tomorrow, though, it's back to regular food. Probably steak from our Christmas box of "Omaha steaks", baked sweet potatoes and fresh green beans (I make them an italian way with olive oil and vinegar).

Dinner tonight will be meat loaf, mashed potatoes, baked beans and corn bread.

Chili and rice leftover from last night's dinner., green salad and I'll make some cornbread to go with it, cornbread will also be good for tomorrow's breakfast

sliced London broil in gravy over rice or egg noodles and peas

Spaghetti sauce is simmering on the stove, water in the pot for the noodles, mushrooms are ready to fry.... and salad is in the bag (ha ha - I will throw in some cucumber and sprinkle with craisins) and the dressing will be balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

Tomorrow will be popcorn or something like that :D

Christmas Omaha steaks here tonight as well. Potatoes are on the grill and some carrots I think.

Wednesday night is usually chicken night. DH picks it up after work. Sometimes sides sometimes not. Either way I make sure I have sides to go with. Last night for dessert though I cut up some strawberries and bananas and pineapple and drizzled some lime juice and chili powder over the top. Refreshing!

Nothing appeals to me, might have to go out for take out.

Nutrisystem, veggies.

sandy

I just discovered Collard Greens and so I made them with sauted garlic, and white beans with a little sweet red pepper over tiny penne'.

So easy, one pan supper.

I use a soup pot and cook the pasta first and dump into colander.

In the same pot add some olive oil and toss in some chopped garlic and sweet red pepper and any amount of rough chopped collard greens you want and a little salt and let it sweat down a little. Cut out the big veins in the leaves before you chop them.

When the greens are almost cooked to your liking add the (canned) rinsed white beans.

Cook until beans are hot. Taste and add salt & pepper and some ground nutmeg, just a little and taste again and again until you like the flavor.

Dump the pasta back into the pot and stir. Re-season to your liking.

Enjoy

Pan seared flounder with a side of steamed pea pods. Boring I know, but DH and I are back on Atkins. :( For my desert, 1/2 cup of sugar free red jello and for DH a few cubes of cheddar cheese. Decaf ice tea to drink. Blach....

i fight over what to make every night I never have any ideas and lets say no one around here is tossing out any ideas either.. .. However, Darling is a MEAT and potatoes guy.. We usually get 1/2 hog and 1/2 beef... IM so not complaining- grateful for a full freezer of meat, but, theres days when i wish i he was a vegetarian..

tonight is pork, side of fresh green beans, baked potatoes and a Chocolate Mousse Cake for dessert..

Chocolate Mousse Cake....I'll be there! Have a bite or two for me, please!

Any day of the week is some type of potato, veggie can only be peas (yuck), corn (boring) or beets (gag) with either chicken, pork, hamburger dish or the occasional steak. I love every other type of veggie and he doesn't. He is the poorest excuse for a farm boy I have ever met.

One pot wonder. It's a pasta dish all made in one pot.

Cake was yummy.. dinner was not...maybe we should of gone out to eat.. lol.

Now thats funny !!! My farm boy will eat ANY veggie... Turnips, beets, and he makes this onion cucumber in salt and vinegar water.. GROSS ... Mine has no problem grabbing something from the garden wipe off and eat it.. specs of dirt and all.. GROSS !! Now give him a plate of BEANS.. he'd run for the hills.. lol.. Ham and beans will NEVER be on the menu here.. lol..

Asian chicken salad.. chicken sautéed in peanut sauce, spinach, romaine, mandarin oranges, celery almonds and angel hair pasta (with same peanut sauce) with a homemade sesame vinegarette dressing. Absolutely delish!!

Cornish pastie with salad.

I am fixing me a humongous salad with everything but the kitchen sink in it and am trying Newman's Sesame Ginger low fat dressing and then some buttered peas and Potato Gnocchi in Alfredo sauce. Very simple very easy. Lotsa work today. Edie Oh, almost forgot a glass of wine.

had this 2 nights ago. I cook extra spaghetti noodles and add a doz more shrimp, and use one package of Bertollis shrimp scampi frozen dinner. I sometimes cook more noodles than needed and freeze them for a later meal. I have tried other brands, but Bertolli is the best tasting. IMO.

I'm embarrassed to say I don't cook anymore, maybe twice in 2 weeks. Hubby does it all. And he shops.
I work part time, do all the house work( whenever) and all the gardening...and sew. I love being free of deciding everyday what to cook. (ps he's a more imaginative cook than I).
MaryKatherine

Lightly seasoned Hoki (kind of Hake from NZealand) fillets pan fried in butter and olive oil, served over Spanokopita (Greek dish basically spinach and rice cooked up with some onion). It's pretty healthy and quick to do, so a good workday meal.

chicken cacciatore over campanelle.

Homemade turkey vegetable noodle soup and homemade bread. For dessert homemade pineapple banana nut bread with a dollop of Cool Whip.

Mmmmm everybody's dinners look delicious.

MaryKatherine, don't be embarrassed I love cooking I've been cooking for a family since I was 10 some days I'm just done with it. Mr. Bills idea of cooking is warm up leftovers, nuke a frozen Marie calandars pot pie, or call for a pizza. As far as grocery shopping, he would probably wind up in the fetal position by the frozen stuff wondering why there are so many choices.

I don't mind cooking. I've basically been cooking 2 meals all my married life, 33 yrs, cuz one doesn't eat something. Usually that one is my husband. I just want ideas sometimes. Yesterday we had no water all afternoon and evening. So I thawed some haddock fillets and baked them with butter, garlic salt and chives, instant mashed potatoes, used bottled water and frozen corn. Then I didn't have to clean up the dishes for a while until we got the water running again so I was able to sew for a while. I had chicken breasts for yesterday but without water I couldn't clean them or me too well. Don't realize how much you miss something until you don't have it. Tonight? I think we are eating out, no time. Running, running.....

So many good ideas. Thanks for all the input. I get in a rut sometimes and can't think of anything new or different. Now I have some great things to plan.

Tonight is Marie Callender's frozen meals, they were on sale for $2 each, can't beat that for a good meal. I like hers better than any of the others. Some Pillsbury Rustic bread and fruit salad and two vanilla sandwich cookies will round it out.

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Yup, thats me!

We are having Green chili stew made with fresh green chili's and cornbread...

dinner tonight for my dh is chicken with the mayo topping with breadcrumbs and parm cheese, and a baked potato.