Tonight, it was pasta and jar sauce for children and this easy baked eggplant parmesan for adults. Plus, microwave steamed green beans and strawberries. Sorry if my link is trash, I am rusty.
ETA: I bought like 5 eggplants, so we are going to have eggplant one more time in the next couple of days. Be prepared.
Last night, for friends' dinner, I made chicken groundnut stew/curry/whatever (chicken in a spicy peanut butter curry), with rice, sauteed collards, and mashed pumpkin with garlic, butter, and S&P. And our friend brought rolls, which we served with my homemade cultured butter. No kidding--everything turned out really good, especially considering that it was the first time I made the mashed pumpkin or butter, and I made the chicken groundnut a completely different way than usual.
Tonight, we heat up that, plus I'll fry some plantains to go with it.
I don't know what today's dinner will be but I do know that sweet potato pies are involved.
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Roast potatoes, carrots and parsnips. Yorkshire pudding and stuffing balls.
Bacon wrapped turkey joint for the meat eaters.
Quorn roast coated with stuffing mix and wrapped in pastry for the veggies (and some of us sneaky meat eaters that like it too ).
Sou has it all timed out from previous years and we need to get it started in 30 mins to be ready for 6pm.
We don't have a specific thrad for this, and I just can't bring myself to make an brand new one for such a purpse. But y'all guys have to see this abuela cooking channel on the tubes. She's truly incredible to watch given the apparent rudimentary kitchen she uses.
But why I'm really showing this specific one? They do a cut away, but guys. GUYS. The way she dices that onion is really blowing my mind right now.
Cook the pasta according to packet directions. Make the sauce to go with it.
1. Tomato sugo- Olive oil, garlic, oregano, pureed tomatoes, basil.
2. Quick ragu- Add in de-skinned crumbled italian sausage to tomato sugo
3. Pesto- Blitz basil/any other fresh herb of choice, pine nuts, garlic, olive oil and parmesan.
4. Cheese sauce- Basic roux with butter, flour, milk, pepper. Add in cheeses of choice and garlic paste if you like.
5. Ratatouille- Diced zucchini, eggplant, squash, peppers cooked in tomato puree, garlic, oregano base.
6. Aglio olio- Olive oil, garlic, red chilli flakes. Top with toasted herby breadcrumbs.
Other add ins to these sauces would be sauteed mushrooms, chicken, spinach, shrimp or broccoli.
We have sooo many leftovers. Vegetable soup, green chili mac and cheese, breakfast burritos, and assorted Chinese takeout. Plus half a loaf of sourdough, salad fixins, and a larger than usual assortment of cheeses. Rice, kimchi, two dozen eggs we need to get finished soon.
So naturally, we'll probably order pizza.
Not really. Nobody gets anything else until the leftovers are at least mostly gone.
You need to start a picky eater thread, because that is crazy. The only thing I'd even consider putting on my list is ranch dressing, because I really don't like that stuff, but I would and have eaten it to be polite.
We have sooo many leftovers. Vegetable soup, green chili mac and cheese, breakfast burritos, and assorted Chinese takeout. Plus half a loaf of sourdough, salad fixins, and a larger than usual assortment of cheeses. Rice, kimchi, two dozen eggs we need to get finished soon.
So naturally, we'll probably order pizza.
Not really. Nobody gets anything else until the leftovers are at least mostly gone.
Hash browns, really yummy. There were these small russets. Peel, grate, mix in table salt, wring out in cheese cloth, fry in olive oil on medium high, brown well on one side, flip, salt while cooking until browned, and salt again when removed from pan.
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