This is the eleventh dinner in a row that we have cooked and ideas are running a little thin. I think tomorrow I shall take the day off.
Spaghetti and meatballs
Sauce from a jar and frozen meatballs are on the menu tonight. The pasta was interesting though. It is spaghetti rigate. If you look closely you can see the striations on the strands. This makes the sauce adhere to the pasta better.
Chicken curry
I do so love this dinner!!! John cooks his curry combination and then adds onions, carrots, cut-up chicken thighs, rice, and raisins.
Halibut and parsley sauce with broccoli and screamed new potatoes
We cooked the halibut with our Anova sous vide but it came out not quite right. We are having trouble getting fish right. We set it at 130F after reading various suggestions. It was a little over done and at the same time not quite hot enough. We need to work on this more. Parsley sauce was leftover and frozen from some other fish dinner. I updated it with additional garlic and olives. Broccoli and potatoes were simply steamed.
Making yourself a nice breakfast for dinner is an easy, fast, comforting choice. There is something about breakfast that makes it seem snugly. I am not talking about the grab and dash breakfast bar but a nice English muffin, a couple of scrambled eggs, a bit of sausage, and a tomato. It is kind of like a British breakfast!
Breakfast for dinner
Fresh vegetables with leftover chicken and pasta
I love the look and texture of these corkscrew pasta pieces! There is a lot of healthy stuff in this bowlful – mushrooms, onions, garlic, carrots, celery, and a whole bag of a dark greens salad mix. The couple of ounces of chicken are leftover from last night and the sauce is some chicken stock and leftover packet gravy.
2017 healthy dinner number three!
Can a person resolve to try to do something? I think that if you are resolving then you cannot be halfway about it. So I think I will have New Year’s tries.
I will try to make healthier choices.
I will try to work on my blogs every day. (I have a couple.)
I will try to be cheerful, uncomplaining, and generous.
So, here is my second healthy meal of 2017, Chicken breast with salad and root vegetable mash.
Chicken breast with salad and root vegetable mash
The root vegetable mash is a combination of leftover rutabagas and fresh sweet potato and acorn squash. I added a little parsley for color and pine nuts for texture. The chicken is sous vide.
Happy? 2017!
I have always thought that the traditional food for New Year’s Day was red beans and rice but apparently it is call Hoppin’ John and is served in the southern U.S. It is a porky, ricey, beany dish which is supposed to bring peace and prosperity. I guess that remains to be seen.
Here’s our take on this iconic dish. First cut up a bunch of vegetables and sauté them. Then substitute ditalini for the rice and chickpeas for the beans. It is sort of all in the same family, right? Okay, there’s no meat but it is a good clean way to start out the New Year.
Chickpeas and ditalinilini
Well so long to shitty 2016. I have bronchitis which seems like a fitting way to ring out this year when we elected a terrible person for President and realized for sure that there are a lot of racists and women haters out there. But, hey, might as well drink some wine and eat some steak and bury our heads in the sand.
Italian salad
We start with a tasty shredded Italian salad. I make some croutons and slice some cherry tomatoes on top.
Next John sous vide and sears a rib cap steak and I make a vast tray of roasted root vegetables – potatoes, sweet potatoes, acorn squash, onions, and carrots. It seems we will never be able to eat it all but we do.
Happy New Year!
Rib cap steak with roasted root vegetables
Since we are a multicultural household we celebrate both Christian and Jewish holidays. Plus since we were busy on the first day of Hanukkah celebrating Christmas Eve we missed having our usual Hanukkah treat, potato latkes. Tonight’s dinner was an opportunity to make amends with a not exactly traditional dinner. Our fried entree was takeout hot and sour soup with crispy noodles on top and potstickers! Yum!
Hot and sour soup with crispy noodles
Potstickers
Rigatoni with chicken, corn, and broccoli
A big bowl of pasta – who doesn’t love it?! While we made ours with some leftover chicken and chicken stock, you could scramble an egg and toss it with the pasta and vegetable stock, or add some tofu and just pasta water. While the rigatoni cooked, I sautéed some onions and garlic, then in went some frozen corn kernels and the chicken stock and thyme sprigs. When the pasta was just about done I added the broccoli and chicken. Dump the pasta into the sauce and cook it a little more adding pasta water if it needs more liquid. A drizzle of olive oil and some green onions and dinner is done in well under 1/2 hour.
Omnivore 