Since we are still taking it easy with soft food due to John’s oral surgery, I made a simple dinner of penne, chopped up Rosina meatballs, and Rao’s tomato and basil sauce. Not much work eating this and not much work making it either!
Well, boo, here it is Halloween and nobody came to our door. Sarah and John will have to eat the candy I bought. Clam chowder is our spooky dinner for Halloween night.
Sarah’s friend Mark has been here for a few days. One of the mandatory events for his visit is a lunch at Zeni, an Ethiopian restaurant that we all adore. We ordered their veggie platter served on and with injera. We also got some lamb, chicken, and a salad. It was soooo good. I cannot make this at home since I have no source for injera, the spongy bread that is used as a utensil.
We had a great time and eliminated the need for dinner. As you can see from the picture below, we really enjoyed our Ethiopian lunch.
Since John is healing from oral surgery we will be eating soft things this week. The broccoli was the only potentially hard food so I cooked it thoroughly and chopped it up with butter and sour cream in my mini prep. John pan cooked the fish until it as just done and I made a mustard sauce and reheated rice. It all came together well and we enjoyed our mushy meal.
John had oral surgery today so I was on my own while he just ate an omelet. Casting about for something to eat I saw a piece of turkey sausage. But no bun! So I cut up both sausage (hot dog) and a piece of bread (bun) and heated them in the microwave. I added a garnish of yellow mustard and relish. It tasted pretty good!
We are back home after our wonderful trip to Utah with our son. Sarah’s friend Mark is staying with us for a few days and she was so gracious to make dinner for all four of us. Our pasta dinner consisted of medium shells, pork sausage, and broccolini. It was like we were transported back to Puglia! We always look forward to Sarah’s pasta meals.
We have had a lot of great dinners during our trip. We are celebrating our last night with a delicious ribeye steak that John cooked on the grill. I took care of the tater tots and salad. We are already planning our next year’s adventure. We are so fortunate that both our adult children love to spend time with us and create memories.
Well, this worked out much better than our previous try! We found some sliced chicken breast that John floured and pan-fried. We kept the chicken pieces warm in the oven while I rustled up the rest of the dinner. First I rehydrated the noodles in some chicken stock and added broccoli florets. In the pan that the chicken had cooked in I added some butter and chopped onions, capers, and garlic. Then I added white wine, a half lemon’s worth of juice, and some of the noodles chicken stock. I was hoping that the chicken stock had picked up some of the starch from the noodles. I reduced the sauce briefly and then plated the noodles and broccoli combo, followed by the chicken, and then the sauce. Some parsley garnish finished the dish.
Wow, it was astonishingly good! I think I will make it again when I get back home.
In exciting lunch news we found a restaurant in St. George that makes banh mi. The service was really slow but the banh mi were acceptable but not quite as good as Lee’s.
My contribution to fancy dishes for dinner was shrimp in a Pernod cream sauce with rice. I made extra sauce, as you can see in the swimming pool of sauce above, because it is so delicious. Although there was a lot of chopping to get the vegetables (onion, garlic, celery, fennel, and red bell pepper) ready for cooking, I was really glad that I had gotten the prep out of the way before cooking. So tasty!
We are in Southern Utah enjoying our vacation with our son. In between all the golfing we spent a day sightseeing in some of the less visited part of Zion National Park.
After exiting the east side of the park we traveled down to Kanab, Utah for lunch at Escobar’s where we tried some lunch specials.
We tried something new for dinner. We had found some very thinly sliced beef. The pieces were top round but looked well-marbled. Jon did a quick pan-fry and we served the meat piccata style with noodles and broccoli. Unfortunately the meat was very chewy and basically tasteless. We have lots of leftover noodles that we will try serving with chicken piccata on Friday. Hopefully that will work better.
Omnivore 