Chunky potato leek soup, grilled ham and cheese.
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NYT’s garlic butter steak bites (gift link), with steamed rice and cucumber salad.
This was a fast and easy dish, very tasty, and quite reminiscent of Tadashi Ono’s garlic-soy marinade for beef. I’m not sure it surpasses the traditional Japanese grilled version, but definitely is a handy alternative for cooking on the stove top. I’m thinking tonight of everyone on the east coast - this could easily be made on a camp stove should the power go out.
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I defrosted lamb chunks to make youvetsi. But in Trader Joe’s I saw their polenta loaves. Hmm.
So, lamb simmered in a light tomato sauce with mushrooms and spinach, and pan fried polenta chunks, shredded kaseri. The polenta could have gone a little longer, maybe air-fry next time?
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Normally we plan our meals quite in advance to be most efficient with our time but sometimes life intervenes and we have to rely on “Notessen” (emergency meals) which means dishes which need only a few ingredients and can be made quite easily. One of those dinners is oven roasted cauliflower and eggplant with sausages and some potato salad (WF is actually quite decent).
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Thanks for the review…I had printed that out for a potential dinner, so good to hear easy and tasty.
Sunday night dinner was “Pepperoni Pizza Pie-Rogi” from a local pierogi maker, a marinara sauce I threw together, and broccolini. A tasty reward for the pre-blizzard prepping we had done all afternoon.
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I was referring more to the “winging it” part of your post, but happy to learn of another ssssssspicy ssssssister 
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Yes, she rarely fully follows recipes. They are mere suggestions 
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That looks pretty good!
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Same. I honestly don’t know why I keep collecting them if I almost never use any. I’ll have a general idea of what I want to make on any given day & just pick up the ingredients I envision I’ll need. But it’s also not like I cook particularly extravagant or complicated dishes.
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I called my doctor this morning and he informed me I will need antibiotics to cure what ails me. I’m not sure if I have bronchitis or pneumonia and didn’t think to ask however his admin assistant faxed a prescription to the pharmacy right away so now I have drugs! On the downside it will take a couple of days for the antibiotics to kick in 
I haven’t lost my appetite though 
Tonight I had a soba noodle salad with a soy sauce, evoo, ginger, wasabi dressing and topped with nori, bonito flakes and radishes.
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Feel better! I’m having a crap day as well: scratchy, gunked-up throat and a pathetic little cough.
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I (and the kiddo) made kimchi chicken meatloaf loosely based on this recipe from Closet Cooking. Topped it with gochujang ketchup and served up with roasted Brussels, baked yellow potato, and shaved fennel slaw. I’m enjoying some bubbly and a bubble bath for dessert.
I thought this meatloaf serving by my DH was too much, but I was wrong 
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Hope you and @ottawaoperadiva feel 100% very soon.
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UGH! Hope you both feel better quickly!
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It’s days like these that my condo fee is worth it. Starting before 5 a.m. and ending around 5 p.m., the snow removal company our association contracted with did a great job after 3x plowing the roads, 2x snowblowing the walkways and shoveling our front porches and stairs, and 2x scraping and shoveling out our driveways. I would NOT have been able to do even my small driveway with as heavy as this snow is.
I worked from home, but also did a load of laundry, ran the dishwasher, and made a big pot of chicken stock that is cooling in the downstairs fridge.
Dinner was a Wegmans chuck & brisket burger with bacon and cheese on a brioche bun, Lamb-Weston fries done in the convection oven with ketchup for dipping, and a Roma tomato and the rest of an English cuke in a dressing of Penzeys Buttermilk and Creamy Peppercorn dressing mix with mayo and 1% milk.
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I’m glad you got meds! Hopefully, the antibiotics will kick your crud’s ass to the curb pronto!!!
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