What's For Dinner #114 - the 1st Quarter Century Edition - January 2025

[linguafood (Natascha)]

Happy Hump Day, hungry HOs!

Nothing like having a perfect night of sleep interrupted by Mr. Assclown-I-mean-our-birthday-boy, who decided to march into our bedroom at some ungodly hour requiring attention — not food or drink, mind you, just attention . Spoiled little pussycat! It was still pitch-black outside, too WTH! We managed to ignore him and fell back asleep for a few more hours.

Today was so cold I refused to leave the house, like, at all. Made more progress on my new song & caught up on NYers. Life’s just too exciting sometimes

A good friend of mine teaches an amazing meditative breath workshop (online and IRL), and tonight just happened to be one. It is like nothing I have ever experienced, and I always feel like I got a 2-hour massage, or spent a day at the spa afterwards. Truly healing for mind, body & soul, and I’m so glad I joined, as I evidently needed it after a long hiatus

This also meant an easy-peasy dinner we could throw together quickly after 8pm. My sweets made up the bok choy one of my gal pals gifted me, plus a few broccoli crowns lingering in the crisper,

which turned out to be way too much — the bok choy would’ve sufficed, but hey: leftovers!

and I threw some dumplings in the steamer*.

BOOM. Dinnah. Now back to the cuddle couch, all meditated out & at peace with the world.

*MEGA-thanks to whoever (@BierMonk?) suggested to use parchment paper in the steamer, bc it worked like a mf’ing charm! Muchas, muchas gracias

[MunchkinRedux]

Washington Post’s Persian lentil soup (leftovers from the freezer). Pan-roasted chicken thighs. A quick yogurt-based naan.

[ChristinaM (Hungry in Asheville, NC (still plenty to offer tourists post Hurricane))]

Playdate at a friend’s – I brought crescent roll dough and Nathan’s hot dogs for the kids to get crafty with. My friend made TJ’s mushroom ravioli in cream sauce, a green salad with dried apricots, blue cheese, and sunflower seeds, and we had some Speck I brought and artichoke dip beforehand. No pics.

[MsBean]

I hope the Spring Onion is feeling better soon

[BeefeaterRocks]

An old standby of many, many years, chicken tarragon over egg noodles. Mixes greens salad, green onion, celery, tomatoes, avocado, blue cheese dressing. Woda.

[small_h]

Spaghetti squash with that tomato butter onion sauce everyone likes, and Trader Joe’s soy spheres.

Furikake celery, for health!

[ernie_in_berkeley]

Tacos, with the last of the leftover trout from Saturday, shrimp, avocado, and feta. Sprinkled with adobo seasoning.

[Mr_Happy]

Hoppin’ John with New Year’s black eyed peas out of the freezer.

[BierMonk]

Cheer on that!
It will actually work better if you make some small Holes(or Slits) in the Parchment. It allows steam to get through and condensed Water Vapor to drain.

[linguafood (Natascha)]

I did I believe you mentioned that, so I stabbed the parchment paper with a knife. It worked like magic. MAGIC, I say!

Thx again. Game changer

[BierMonk]

Gerne geschehen!

[Sasha]

My absolute fave grapefruit from back in my LA farmer’s market days, was oro blanco. Yellow peel and flesh. Like a small pomelo. I’ve not seen one since moving away many years back.

[ChristinaM (Hungry in Asheville, NC (still plenty to offer tourists post Hurricane))]

Sounds good; I will have to keep my eyes peeled for that.

[Wtg2Retire]

Thank you so very much.

[Wtg2Retire]

Being elderly myself, I know she truly appreciates all of your kindnesses to her. You and your PIC are good people.

[Wtg2Retire]

Thank you so very much.

[Amandarama (Amanda)]

Spaghetti, green beans, and pistachios with pesto (jar of Rao’s BF picked up). Keeping it simple tonight.

[PedroPero (PETER)]

My first ever homemade patty melt(aka grilled cheese burger), ripple chips and garlic dills on the side. A bit rare-ish and it needed some catsup for dipping, but it was greezy good.

[linguafood (Natascha)]

Dang, dude. That’s a good-looking melt!

[PedroPero (PETER)]

Thanks Not bad for a first try.