What's for Dinner, Fri., April 11, 2025

[NJCher]

I'm excited about my Mediterranean menu tonight!

Baba Ganoush. I put an eggplant in the slow cooker. Now I just have to mix it up with the garlic, tahini, olive oil, cumin, parsley, etc.

In addition, beef kofte. I wish it could be lamb kofte but I can't go to the store now so I decided to roll the meatballs in a mixture of onion and garlic, plus coriander, cumin, and paprika.

Cucumber tomato salad using fresh parsley from my garden.

Warm pita breads.

Tangerine kombucha.

Dessert: Klondike ice cream bar. I was craving chocolate so I bought a lot of them!

[bamagal62]

1. Yum

[PJMcK]

2. Airplane food

We’re flying to Panama tonight to close on our new apartment in Coronado. We’re buying it for snow-birding, asset diversification and as a potential escape pod.

Amazing seafood in Panama!

[elleng]

5. BUENO!!!!

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. I made chickpea curry the other night

so we will be having leftovers of that, with rice. I'd love to have a cucumber raita with it, but the mint on my deck isn't up yet.

Like most Orthodox, I'm doggone ready for Lent to be over. Even with the dispensations of illness (last week, and I mostly didn't feel like eating anyway) and traveling (the two weeks before that) I tried to stick to the fast. But I am heartily sick of being vegetarian when I'm not normally, even with occasional fish! If you want a good description of how some of us feel about now, read the chapter in Frederica Mathewes-Greene's book Facing East rhat describes a grocery shopping trip with her teenagers just before Pascha (Easter). The first time I read it I laughed so hard I woke my late ex up.

[lynintenn]

4. making passover food for tomorrow.

May sneak in a bowl of matzo ball soup tonight and a piece of baklava .

[Marthe48]

6. Spare ribs

At lunch, I finished the tofu tika masala with some rice. So I just had the ribs.

I made some cheese cake dip to have with some graham crackers.

[Yonnie3]

7. Baked Salmon

Ready made hush puppies and zucchini cheese tots from the freezer

A Food Lion personal blueberry pie - no sugar added. Only four grams of sugar from the berries. Lots of fat in the crust. A treat for me.

The pup likes salmon very much.

[chowmama]

8. Pepperoni pasta

I'm trying to find uses for the pepperoni I'm storing, so I adapted a recipe for spaghetti with salami from the internet. Only I used penne with pepperoni.

It's a keeper. I cut the proportions in half, to start with, then doubled the pepper flakes and Parmesan. Minor changes to the technique. Halfway through, I realized that it's related to Cacio e Pepe, a thing I enjoy in restaurants and have never yet made successfully. But this time it worked.

Cheap, fast, easy and good.

[Retrograde]

10. Some uses for pepperoni

chop up fine and put in a sauce, cut into ribbons and add to a salad, make a hoagie-type sandwich by putting a layer of pepperoni on a small loaf of bread, then adding tomatoes, lettuce, giardiniara (which I never can spell), some cheese, and putting under a broiler for a few minutes, or eat on crackers either with or without cheese. It's also good in cold pasta salads.

Pasta cacio e pepe is good: I'm currently 1 for 1 on getting it right.

[Retrograde]

9. Baked chicken thighs

sauteed to get the skins crispy, then cooked on a bed of sprouting broccoli, with rice. I had a reason to stop by my favorite produce place today and stocked up on vegetables: tomorrow's dinner or lunch is leftover chicken with a celeriac salad.