Food What's For Dinner Tonight?

Cut open a steaming baked sweet potato, pour in half a cup of black beans, top with a shredded rotisserie chicken breast. Sprinkle on paprika and garlic powder.

Om nom nom.

 

We do a chicken & veggie noodle soup where we cook the noodles separately using liquid from the soup. What makes it really good is most of the chicken stock comes from the actual chicken. The extra stock we add (it's necessary, you can only render so much stock out of one chicken) is usually low sodium, sometimes even organic. In a pinch, we'll use bullion.

 

For tomorrow dinner, we have visitors from NY,
I have this as my "Go To" dinner
Honey Mustard Curry Chicken....
4 chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces (do this when the chicken is still slightly frozen)
1/3 cup melted butter
2/3 cup Honey
1/3 cup Dijon mustard
1 tsp salt
1 tbs curry powder
Mix this all together, with the chicken, then I usually refrigerate this overnight.
Heat the oven to 350, bake for 45 to 60 minutes...(chicken should be done)
Serve with or over rice...preferably wild....(you will have "sauce" to pour over the rice)
I usually make an Italian parsley/onion/tomato/cuke/ salad with lemon and olive oil...
So easy and so little prep....and you are not in the kitchen cooking when guests arrive.!!!

 

A pound of cobia rubbed with evoo, pink sea salt, cracked pepper, and a pinch of cayenne and broiled for about 14 minutes. Sautéed spinach, leeks, shrooms, carrots, and spices. And steamed rice. Just a little.

 

Sandy made chicken and dumplins last night. it's a flour mix spooned into the boiling soup. it was wonderful, especially with the frigid outside temps

 

I love humus, love all kinds of Indian dishes, but never developed a taste for chick peas .

Mentioning cold weather food.....

Since we have plenty of ham (see earlier post), we're going to cook a corn chowder using all of the heavy & unhealthy ingredients, and I want to cook another pot of Vagabond Baked Beans (the last pot went fast at the family Christmas dinner).

 

Hubs invited friends over. Roasted Hannahs with cast iron seared and oven roasted bone-in porkchops. He likes them with apples, so when they get transferred to the oven, I cover them with thinly sliced fujis and then pull them back out and Jack up the heat to sear off the fat strip and finish off the apples.
Oh, and a salad.

 

Vagabond Baked Beans: Baked beans, onion, ham, apple, raisins, craisins, dill relish, chili sauce, and dry mustard.

Fresh home-made dinner rolls.

 

Orange chicken and sticky rice.

 

I ran out of rice. Dang it. So I put leftover sweet potato starch noodles in the pan with some local pork breakfast sausage. And cooked em up with ghee, salt, and pepper. Topped it with a fried egg. Breakfast. It's what's for dinner.

 

GCDC - Not your regular grilled cheese sandwich. The Short Rib (gruyere blend and blue cheese spread with short rib and caramelized onions on buttered sourdough) and shared lobster mac&cheese and loaded tots.

 

I left out the Cony Island Egg Cream with Fox's U-bet chocolate syrup!

 

Skirt steak, ala Mrs. Lance. Amazing stuff.

 

I had a cupcake. I didn't like it really. But my tummy hurt from breakfast. I'm supposed to have another 1076 calories. I think that's about the equivalent of a bottle of wine or two. Sounds like a plan.

 

Chicken wings and beer and a movie