What's for Dinner #55: The March Forward Into Spring Edition - March 2020

I marinated several chicken thighs in a combo of olive oil, lemon juice, s/p, minced garlic and fresh rosemary, dried oregano, dried parsley, salt, pepper, ground sumac, and paprika. They were roasted at 425° and 350° until done.

Rice pilaf and steamed green beans alongside.

Wine.

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@Barca, those are gorgeous!

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Stay safe! I’ve been (mostly lurking) following you for years now on your posts, hope you’re doing well.

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Glad to hear…it’s getting a bit nuts here in the city. I’m honestly not sure if I or my cat has more food to wait this out.

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I will- thank you!

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Our final and best takeout of the weekend was at Fernandes Steakhouse in Newark. Below is a link to the details and pictures.

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Zucchini parm over rigatoni. Air-fried the zucc to make for a “healthier” plate. But that’s a loose term given all the cheese.

No pics. There was seltzer.

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Oof. Multi-culti dinner of take-out leftovers tonight, after our usual fries brunch. Leftover rice and roasted veggies from the Guam place, with a fried egg, leftover ribs seester and I had from a sushi place last night, and a Yucatecan joint’s pickled onion for color/crunch. BF made a salad, thank god. Because, fries brunch.

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Nice egg

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Freezer dive again: wild caught white gulf shrimp: made asparagus in black bean sauce w/white rice…

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Scrumptious.

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Thanks! Craving good Chinese food, this will have to do for now…

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Hah, yeah, totally get it - craving a lot of things right now. As weird as it sounds, I’m just trying to be creative as possible while prioritizing the fresh stuff that’ll go bad first…

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Sunday night comfort food dinner involved roasting everything in the oven. Small yellow potatoes got the duckfat treatment. There’s a side of rainbow carrots with a drizzle of pomegranate molasses, and steak tips in a maple bourbon marinade.

I list the potatoes first because roasted potatoes sure do a lot to improve one’s mood.

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Also this helps with our provisioning situation, because the generous package of marinated steak tips from our butcher will yield another dinner this week. The rest (uncooked) I popped into the freezer.

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I would like to learn more about the fries brunch, please. :grin:

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Asparagus


Beef chuck pot roasted with onions, steamed potatoes

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I haven’t had sushi in a month, so as part of a large run at the local Japanese market, picked up a bunch of fish to offer some respite from today’s happenings and ever-so-scrappy meals. This chirashi includes bluefin tuna, chutoro, hokkaido scallop, kanpachi, scottish salmon and tamago.

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A couple recent dinners; the H is still doing most of the cooking. You may notice a pattern in our meals. I need to be careful, lest I pick up the Covid-19 (lbs that is) :scream_cat:

In the bowl is Greek Stifado, one of the great comfort foods of all time, IMO.

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those shrimp! luscious!

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It’s fries. at brunch. :grin:

literally, we go to the resto/bar around the corner from our house and order bloody marys and an order (or two) of fries. sometimes I add oysters, sometimes I get a cocktail. But it’s always fries! :slightly_smiling_face:

but since the lock down, we’ve been recreating this at home for the last 2 weeks. it’s been nice!

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