What's For Dinner #120 - the Grilling Edition - July 2025

Quick random bowls after a brewery: blend of wild rice, quinoa, and brown rice topped with seasoned black beans, sauteed foraged chicken of the woods mushrooms, leftover roasted eggplant, and a small salad of FM tomatoes, arugula, and avocado with chili-lime vinaigrette. Crispy onions for texture.

Fulfilled its purpose! Lots more mushrooms to get through.

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Not the same, but similar - found a NYT recipe for chicken in a turmeric/ginger rice soup with zucchini that took care of some of our leftovers nicely. Added lemon juice and some of the leftover ginger/scallion oil I had, and leftover shredded chicken. Really homey, especially as I let the rice cook in the broth long enough to become a bit porridge-y, so it turned out like a soupy congee. Very good and warming on a chilly day.

Spent the rest of the afternoon in the kitchen (my favorite Sunday activity), and made Ottolenghi’s hummus (super creamy), lunch salads for the week, roasted cauli with spices and medium-boiled eggs in the Instant Pot, also for meals this week.

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Tres tacos. Ground beef with poblano and onion, pico de gallo, cilantro lime crema, sharp cheddar and Ortega taco sauce. Avocado and radish.

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beautiful! razor clams are a favorite, and we also rarely find them here! Bravo!

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We enjoyed some excellent takeout from one of our favorite Thai restaurants. There were plenty of leftovers for another dinner tomorrow night. We enjoyed crispy vermicelli topped with Tamarind, fried shallot, jumbo lump crab meat, compressed apple, shallot, scallion, calamansi lime, coconut milk; Fried chicken thigh, shallot, corn, tomato, scallion, cilantro, tamarind lime fish sauce; Fried brussels sprout, whipped coconut milk, sesame, fried shallot, chili seasoning, caramelized honey, lemon; tempura battered red snapper with roasted coconut, shallot, cashew nut, cilantro, scallion, fried shallot, garlic chip, chili jam, lime, coconut cream; stir fried shrimp with Egg, sweet shrimp paste, roasted chili, curry powder, oyster sauce, scallion; chicken Sautéed with garlic, sweet peppers, corn, oyster sauce, fish sauce, onion, spice, dark soy sauce, Holy Thai basil, garlic chip. It tasted a lot better than it looked. It all went great with an excellent red blend.




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Leftover bavette steak with brown rice and English pea pilaf.

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Seems like Thai Sunday isn’t just a thing at casa lingua :upside_down_face:

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Steamed fish is one of my top 5 meals. It’s on a regular rotation at our house. I’ve found that halibut, cooked sous vide at 130 is a great substitute for stove top steaming, and the fish always comes out perfect. Slather it with a ton of cilantro and green onions, some shoyu and then pour hot oil on it…what a great dish.

Tonite is tempura night because my wife asked for it. Shrimp, veggies from the garden, a tensuyu dipping sauce and some rice…a nice meal.

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Tonight’s dinner was Spinach Fettuccine Alfredo with sliced brats.

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Not that you wouldn’t want to eat all those lovely mushrooms fresh, but if for any reason they dry out faster than you hope just use them as you would a commercially dried mushroom. I figured this out when I accidentally dried a small paper bag of shiitakes that I forgot in the fridge. Me: Yeah, I meant to dry those mushrooms.

Also I save any tough mushroom stems in the freezer to use in stock. Can you tell I love mushrooms?

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Thanks! Sometimes chanterelles get bitter as they age.

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I approve of this.

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Taking the thread title seriously, grilled bok choy with teriaki sauce, shrimp, corn, and mushrooms that I painstakingly threaded onto rosemary sprigs and was subsequently told were “too rosemary-y.” Lettuce from the garden, tomato, cucumber/feta/mint salad. And foraged berries - helluva good year for these.

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Craving sketti and sawce.
Wasn’t waiting until Wednesday.
Plenty for leftovers.
No salad or greens.

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:heart_eyes:


Fried chicken craving was strong tonight.
Grabbed a Popeyes 4 piece combo, dark and white mix, fries , biscuit and a orange soda pop to wash it down.

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Purchased rotisserie chicken, homemade zucchini carpaccio, chickpea-flour pasta salad with tomato vinaigrette, and crispy roasted Brussel sprouts. We went out for ice cream.


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Those raspberries and blackberries are heavenly!

Zucchini carpaccio is always a fave around here! Yours looks great!

Perfect! Especially the orange soda!

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