What's for Dinner?

[Macabre]

Last night (got sufficient protein earlier in the day). I loooooooove yellow beets!  DH usually cooks the beet greens, too, but they weren't in good shape.

[GoingNuts]

Monday - Baked Chicken, zucchini, kasha (something you gluten free people might like to try - very light and yummy).

Yesterday was mushroom ravioli pomodoro, with some kale and cannelini bean soup that I made on Sunday.  Very delicious.

Today:  Perch with a bruschetta topping, basmati rice, broccoli.

The dudes are on their own tomorow - it's my late night at work.

[Janelle205]

Tonight is Italian beef sandwiches, corn on the cob, fresh kiwi.

[Janelle205]

Clam chowder, already going in the slow cooker.

[MaryM]

Pizza and wine.  Not on my diet but it's been a long week.

[Janelle205]

Pork roast, probably with side salads.

I did not put the cheesy potatoes in the slow cooker early enough, and they are crunchy.  Which is unfortunate, because they smell really quite good.

[Macabre]

Veggie baked chile rellenos. Yum. They were delicioso!

[SilverLining]

Clam chowder, already going in the slow cooker.

I plan to try that in my slow cooker.  I decided I'll start with a potato soup recipe I like, then add clams and make any other changes I deem necessary.

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Tonight is beef stew in the slow cooker.  I'm going to make some French stick bread as well.  Kind of debating adding garlic butter during the last few minutes of baking the bread.

[Janelle205]

SL, that is pretty much how I did mine.  I used canned clams (because getting fresh here is pretty unrealistic).  If you want to add cream or milk, do it at the end of cooking - long cooking with that in the crock pot doesn't make it inedible, but there are texture issues.

If you want more clam flavor, I have used bottled clam juice - here you can get it from the grocery next to the other canned fish.  I'm not sure if you can get it where you are or if it is safe for you, but my Mom has used Clam Better than Bouillon when she makes my stove top recipe for my brother.  It does have soy protein though, so I haven't tasted it.

This is the recipe that I use for stove top, if you wanted a starting point: http://www.chow.com/recipes/30303-easy-new-england-clam-chowder

[Janelle205]

BBQ pork ribs and corn on the cob.  Because dsd has been begging for me to make it again since the first time a few weeks ago.

[Janelle205]

Chicken, mashed potatoes, mixed veggies, chicken gravy.

I love the kitchen in this house - it makes it so much easier to make big meals without getting too tired when I don't feel well.  I can cook the chicken in one slow cooker, and still have a place to plug in another slow cooker to keep the gravy warm.  And this way I can make the gravy in the afternoon so I don't get too tired pulling everything together in the last minute.

[SilverLining]

Tonight we are having home made poutine and probably wings.

[becca]

Does poutine include the french fries?  Or is it just the gravy?  Curious.    Do you cut and fry your own fries?  Can I come over, and is it ok to use ketchup?   

[SilverLining]

French fries with cheese curds covered in dark gravy.

Ketchup on gravy is gross. 

And this is the first time we are making it, so you might want to wait until we've done a bit of experimenting.  . And we start with potatoes, cut the and deep dry them.  Usually we do wedges, but this time, we are doing traditional fry shape.

[Macabre]

I canNOT do cheese curds. Tried them once. I didn't die, but the name grosses me out.  Such a thing here. 

I see cheese curds in the store.  You know there are a LOT of things I am used to seeing in the store in TExas that I don't see here, but only one thing to my recollection that I see here that I didn't there, and that is cheese curds.