Eataly items via Instacart - heirloom tomato, burrata, semolina loaf. Salami, hot cherry peppers, and parsley from our fridge. Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing IPA for him and Whispering Angel rosé for me!
Would like to make a friendly suggestion!
I understand, from the title, this thread is on its 82nd iteration. However, it still gives me the impression that the title suggests its for ’ Dining Out Meals ’ as well…which I do not believe it was the original intention?!
May I suggest that for the upcoming #83 edition and beyond, one should insert " ( Home Cooking ) " behind ’ What’s for dinner '. Otherwise, there are people like me who spend time posting their ’ Dining experiences and meal ’ here rather than a separate stand-alone post…or is this ‘dual posting’ also acceptable?!
Haircut and errand day included my local Penzeys and Wegmans (but of course!)
So dry sea scallops were on the menu, with leftover Basmati rice and a freshly made mango salsa (diced mango with minced red onion, red bell pepper, jalapeño, parsley, and fresh lime juice). Steamed and buttered green beans alongside with a glass of wine.
@THECHARLES , I believe what a lot of people do who are dining out is post on their specific board for their locals, and then post a permalink of that post here on WFD or copy and paste the text and pics if they want to do so.
The WFD thread has always been very loose in its origin of where dinner was eaten (we’re less strict on HO than CH used to be), but since it’s on a “Home Cooking” board, it makes sense to post local and link it or copy it here, if you’re of a mind to do so. Eli @paryzer is very generous with his dual posts of eating out, as he takes lots of pictures and shares in both places. It’s mostly up to you, IMO.
“post a permalink of that post here on WFD”…?? How does one do that? Sorry to ask, but I’m not that computer savvy!
Dinner was ridiculously delicious tonight.
Vietnamese grilled pork chop (t-bone as it turned out) with broccoli and herb slaw and nuoc cham, plus some rice to soak up the juices.
Used lemongrass growing on my kitchen counter and mint I brought back from my friend’s garden and revived from almost dead, which made me happy.
Reverse-seared the pork because it was thick as opposed to the thin ones preferred for this prep. 250F for 30 mins, then into a hot pan and flipped till it took on some color.
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The community here has debated this exhaustively twice. I think at this point we are at peace with leaving the restaurant posts in to encourage conversation and inspiration. But I totally understand what you are saying and have in fact suggested it myself in the past.
I was craving fresh vegetables. So dinner was rice with squash stir-fried with scallions and garlic, chard with garlic deglazed with Chinese rice wine, lightly dressed baby greens and sprouts, and miso-butter braised radishes. Everything but the homegrown chard was from our CSA.
See the little double chain link icon at the bottom left of each post? Click that, then choose copy link to copy it to your clipboard. Go to the thread you want to post it in and paste it there. It’ll look like this:
Dinner redux. As long as our asparagus patch keeps producing, we’ll continue to indulge in grilled beef with said vegetable.
Tonight there was dessert: a simple cake made with garden strawberries.
BF made shrimp and avocado rolls tonight. He coated the shrimp in Panko and air-fried them. These were delicious-- couldn’t tell the difference between this and a sushi restaurant.
Congratulations Eli! Enjoy your new direction in life
Commercial product - we get big bags of this Orchard valley harvest salad toppers mixture at Costco. I’ve made my own at home (in COVID times…) from components on-hand, but really like the convenience of the pre-mixed.
Congratulations!!
Grilled porcini dressed with bagna cauda . Grilled prawns with garlic , olive oil, herbs de provence. Agostino recca anchovy juice drizzled . On a bed of cole slaw . Side of potato salad. Cheers. ,
Got back from Lisboa Friday late afternoon & were craving pizza from our favorite place in Berlin run by Italian punks. Hit the spot.
Last night I made Molisana rigatoni with white asparagus (season officially ended on the 24th), Italian rosemary ham, fresh parsley and a ‘sauce’ of butter, sautéed shallots, white wine, a lil pasta wooder, crème fraîche, parm & chili flakes. Came out nicely despite my continuous struggle with the induction system.
Fresh local strawberries with smashed up pistachio Magnum for dessert.
Congrats! I hope you’ll have more fun time to do things you love.
Personally, I don’t think I’m one that can support the idea of retirement, maybe when the time comes, I will adapt… 
Continuing my retirement celebration, we enjoyed another excellent dinner at James on Main in Hackettstown, NJ. We enjoyed roasted duck breast; pan fried tilefish; foie gras; calamaretti; mushroom panzanella salad; duck leg confit; and truffled hand cut fries. It all went great with our favorite Caymus cabernet and bourbon barrel aged red blend.
