Quick Vietnamese Beef Pho. 5/21/24

Posted on May 22, 2024 by Beebamom
Quick Vietnamese Beef Pho

I have been willing to make pho just with beef broth and its usual accompaniments. But the we saw Jet Tila make a quick pho broth on his show, Ready, Jet, Cook and decided to give it a try. Here’s his recipe.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/quick-beef-pho-7112948

We took a few shortcuts like using deli roast beef torn into bite size pieces. I also made the rice noodles separately in cases we had leftovers. I have had rice noodles disintegrate overnight in the broth. LOL, as if we would have leftovers.

Our accompaniments along with the noodles and roast beef were basil, cilantro, green onions, bean sprouts, and jalapeños. It turned out very tasty and we ate the whole pot of soup.

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Weekly Menu. May 20 – 26, 2024

Posted on May 22, 2024 by Beebamom

I am a little late getting our menu posted this week. I am doing better than last week though when I never figured out what we were preparing for dinner until the day of.

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Stir-fried vegetables and egg over rice. 5/19/24

Posted on May 21, 2024 by Beebamom
Stir-fried vegetables and egg over rice

Sunday is Breakfast For Dinner day. I had some broccoli left over from Friday’s dinner so I combined that with some sliced carrot, onion, shredded cabbage, and scrambled egg. I seasoned the whole thing with tamari plus ground ginger and garlic and served it over microwaveable rice for a quick, satisfying dinner.

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Buffalo chicken wings and salad. 5/20/24

Posted on May 21, 2024 by Beebamom
Buffalo chicken wings and salad

I cannot take much credit for tonight’s dinner. The chicken wings were from a frozen bag and the salad was from Taylor Farms pre-prepared line of salads.

We had a late appointment to see how my pneumonia was doing (much better!) What with hitting the commute traffic we got home close to 6:30. It was great knowing we had a quick, easy dinner when we got home.

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Grilled leg of lamb, potatoes, and broccoli. 5/18/24

Posted on May 19, 2024 by Beebamom
Grilled leg of lamb, potatoes, broccoli

Several weeks ago we bought a boneless leg of lamb. It was too much for the three of us to eat so John made up a packet of bits and pieces and also a piece that was one large muscle and froze them. On Saturday he grilled the large piece which was slightly over one pound. He did a beautiful job cooking the lamb to a perfect medium rare.

I baked some potatoes in the oven and he finished them on the grill while he was cooking the lamb. In order to dress up the broccoli I took the leftover hummus sauce from Wednesday and spiced it up with additional harissa and sriracha.

What a delicious dinner! Worthy of a special occasion. Plus I used a leftover piece of lamb and leftover sauce. Economical too!

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Penne arrabbiata 5/17/24

Posted on May 18, 2024 by Beebamom
Penne arrabbiata

This is a recipe that I found on Serious Eats and adapted to our tastes. Here’s the original website https://www.seriouseats.com/penne-pasta-arrabbiata-sauce-recipe. We changed it up a bit because we like our spiciness coming from various sources—the red pepper flakes for overall heat, Tabasco for front of the mouth spiciness, and Sriracha for zingy sweetness.

The original recipe says it serves six but that is less than 3 ounces a person. That’s definitely not enough for us! We made all the sauce for 8 ounces of pasta. There was some sauce left over but that is always okay in our house. Someone will always find a use for it.

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Spicy Roasted Cauliflower and Onions, Hummus Sauce, and Salsa with Roasted Tilapia and Potato and Squash Mash. 5/16/24

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Beebamom
Spicy Roasted Cauliflower and Onions, Hummus Sauce and Salsa with Roasted Tilapia and Potato and Squash Mash

The real star of this dinner was the roasted cauliflower and onions with the hummus sauce and salsa. Not only were the sauce and salsa good on the vegetables but they were also really good on the fish! I had a purple cauliflower so I used that but the original recipe used white cauliflower. Since I did not have the tahini that was called for I used hummus. I am including my adapted recipe.

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Chickpeas, ditalini, and greens. 5/15/24

Posted on May 16, 2024 by Beebamom
Chickpeas, ditalini, and greens

You can make this weeknight dinner vegan, vegetarian, or not depending on whether you garnish it with dairy cheese or use chicken stock instead of vegetable stock. Our dinner used what we had on hand, Parmesan cheese and chicken stock.

This is quite easy to make although there is quite a bit of chopping up of vegetables. The vegetables get par-cooked first and then finish cooking during the time it takes the ditalini (or any other small soup pasta) to cook. It needs quite a bit of salt so keep tasting and seasoning as you go along. We make ours to a stew-like consistency but just add more stock if you want it soupy.

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Grilled hamburger and salad. 5/14/24

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Beebamom
Grilled hamburger and salad

Although here in California we can pretty much grill stuff all year long there is something about sitting outside while it’s warm and still light out watching John flip burgers that screams summer. John is an expert at medium rare burgers which we serve on seeded buns with mayo smeared on the bottom bun and, on top, ketchup and red onion.

The salad was a Taylor Farms Buffalo chopped salad. Happily the salad dressing was not sweet which so many of the Taylor Farms salad offerings are. I always check the list of ingredients for the salad dressing to make sure that sugar (or some sugar-like substance) is not one of the first few ingredients.

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Classic chicken dinner. 5/13/34

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Beebamom
Chicken, gravy, butternut squash, and broccoli

We have tended to make a chicken dinner on Mondays for years now. In fact our son often makes chicken dinner on Mondays for his family, a holdover from his youth.

Monday’s chicken dinner was rotisserie chicken breast reheated in chicken gravy, mashed butternut squash, and broccoli topped with fried onions. It was like having Thanksgiving dinner on a regular weekday night.

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