Late night at work so quick dinner
Store bought mushroom ravioli with a side salad
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Do you think about what you’re going to cook throughout the day, or is it just spur of the moment?
I try to plan for the week and generally try to get through my perishables before non-perishables and pantry/freezer stuff. I use a phone app called OurGroceries to keep running lists of dinner ideas and grocery lists. This one was a riff on an idea from a Serious Eats series on 2-ingredient slow-cooker meals.
Sides (esp the veg) are often spur-of-the-moment add-ons 
How about you? What works for you guys?
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I tend to look in the fridge and freezer after getting home from work and think what can I make with what I have. Only occasional planning. For the most part an off the cuff cook…mmmm? Maybe we can make a food show around this?
dinner tonight wa
s simple
marinaded 2 chicken breasts , added a small amount of sweet potato starch, with Pixian broad beans sauce and Lao Gan Ma’s chili with black beans, shaoshing wine, reserved the small amount of marinade, dry fried the chicken with garlic ginger in EVOO.
Took chicken breast out, stir fried briefly asparagus and green peppers, took them out of the wok, added a small amount of reserved broth from last night’s shrimp shell ( had same dinner last night but used shrimp and squid asparagus and celeryinstead) into the marinade and then into the wok to deglaze until the mixture became thick then everything goes back into the wok.
This was served with rice
Process took 10 minutes or so ( picture shows the asparagus not mixed well as it was taken in a rush hoping I will not forget as I do often)
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Would there be sufficient interest for a meal-planning thread on HO? Where we post our rough sketch for the week, recipe links, etc.? There is a very active weekly meal-planning thread on Chowhound…
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That chickpea dinner sounds delicious! And i could totally manage that with limited groceries on an nyc night!
Nice wine cooler 
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Wound up putting together defrosted slabs of mac an cheese for melty mac and cheese burgers on toasted buns with root beer floats and peach pie my sister made in August. Total freezer dive comfort food. Tomorrow IF begins.
Rooster
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Pie and floats? Lol you go down with a fight! Good luck fasting.
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Absolutely.
Tonight’s dinner was chicken and beef momos sourced from a momo truck in queens (they sell them frozen in bulk in addition to cooked to eat on the spot), and homemade chicken and vegetable soup, all eaten together with friends & their kids.
I’m so often disappointed by momos I don’t know why I keep trying them… Either that or they were overcooked past death.
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Wowza!
If we have enough interest for an active thread, I’d move over.
I will have to check out OurGroceries - thanks! Right now I have my lists on Evernote.
Go for it!
We ended up at Peter Lugar’s in Great Neck…I have been consuming there since 1970…
Started with a Bombay Sapphire Gin Martini, Thick bacon, Tomatoes, Onions…
Red wine with the main course.
Typical, Rib Steak, whole broiled lobster, creamed spinach.
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YUM! I love that slow cooker idea with the chickpeas and I feel greatly relieved that you obtained some wine! How much snow did you end up with? My husband has an office in Cary, NC and he said they closed for a couple days.
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Made a baked chicken thing? San Marzano tomatoes, artichoke hearts, olives and black olive paste smothered chicken breasts, topped with some cheese. I just kept adding things until it tasted right! Lemon, spices, wine… Served over noodles with roasted sprouts.
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Around 8"!
I also got a box of Bota Box dry rosé to prevent recurrence of running out.
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You found a use for your olive paste! Yum.
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