What's for Dinner, Wed., Oct. 5, 2022

[NJCher]

BBQ chicken breast.

Macaroni and cheese made with gruyere and cheddar.

Roasted cauliflower, yellow peppers, and garlic with turmeric.

Dessert: Hot chocolate (no sugar) and an oatmeal cookie.

[Yonnie3]

1. Spaghetti

Spaghetti with tomato meat sauce [Edit: and meatballs!]
Garden salad
Garlic & cheese toast made with sourdough bread

TJ did all the work

[Runningdawg]

2. Smoked turkey legs, potato salad and baked beans.

[irisblue]

3. Vegan burger on a pretzel bun w/stir fried veggies, decafe tea.

[Marthe48]

4. Sausage and a baked potato

and ice cream with blueberries for dessert.

Easy. Tasty. Need to clean the kitchen, even if I didn't cook since Sunday. Where do those dishes come from?

[hippywife]

5. Meatloaf

with golden mushroom gravy, baked sour cream/garlic/parm mashed potatoes, and green beans.

Water, water, water!

[FoxNewsSucks]

6. Broiled tilapia, lightly seasoned

steamed rice, topped with sauteed eggplant tomato onion and garlic

[Nanuke]

7. Breakfast for dinner

Bell pepper and cheese omelet
Home fries
Toast
Grapes for desert

[Luciferous]

8. Using leftover taco meat to make a Mexican Pizza

[MissMillie]

9. leftovers

leftover shepherd's pie


dessert is 1/2 apple and an oatmeal cookie


Took me forever to get into here. My star expired, and the ads completely froze up my computer.

Al is still feeling icky. I think the exhaustion is what is bothering him the most.

I am still testing negative. (I even went over to Dad's to make him a pizza--masked of course, and I made him wait in the living room until it was done.) But I have cold symptoms. Maybe allergies. Sis thinks that the bivalent booster I got has afforded me the protection I needed so that I haven't caught this from Al.

[hippywife]

11. The vaccines don't keep you from becoming infected.

They reduce the need for hospitalization or worse. Still can catch it, still can spread it to others. That's always been the case.

Hope you both feel better soon.

[MissMillie]

14. I did realize that w/ the other shots and boosters

Sis told me that she was under the impression (she's not completely uninformed) that because this shot was specific to Omicron, that there may be SOME protection against catching it. Maybe not 100% protection, but some.

Honestly, I can't think of any other reason why I haven't caught it. Hell, I sleep in the same bed as Al... We're together 24/7. And since my identical twin has had it, I seriously doubt that I'm naturally immune.

[hippywife]

15. The original vaccines were specific to those strains, as well.

I spend a lot of time reading articles, and I could be wrong, but have never once seen anyone say that it protected 100% against infection. (The only people I've ever seen who believed that they protect one from infection completely are the anti-vaxxers who enjoy laughing at people who still get it after being vaxxed and boosted.)

I mean, they all add protection to some extent, in coordination with other layered mitigations (masks, distancing, etc.), but there have always been break-through infections, especially as date from immunization becomes more distant.

Just be careful.

[Emile]

10. Brats and chips.

[elleng]

12. Shrimp Pad Thai,

at a favorite nearby restaurant.

Chicken galangal soup first.

Coffee ice cream later.

[hippywife]

20. So jealous!

Shrimp Pad Thai! Yum!

[PJMcK]

13. Flank steak

The First Mate marinated a beautiful flank steak in soy sauce, garlic, salt and pepper. She is searing broccoli spears in olive oil and about to put the beef in the pan. We also have my favorite potato chips, Cape Cod Russets. Spiced apple slices for dessert.

The weather has finally mellowed out after a week of storms. We’re leaving Atlantic City early tomorrow morning to catch a favorable tide and sailing to Cape May, NJ. Back out into the Atlantic Ocean!

[elleng]

17. Glad you're doing better, and yes, weather's improved here too, PJ. SEE?!

[AKwannabe]

16. Okonomiyaki

Homemade from yesterday’s Savoy cabbage.

[NJCher]

18. even though Japanese is my fave cuisine

I had to look that up. For others who don't know:

Okonomiyaki is a Japanese savory pancake dish consisting of wheat flour batter and other ingredients cooked on a teppan. Common additions include cabbage, meat, and seafood, and toppings include okonomiyaki sauce, aonori, katsuobushi, Japanese mayonnaise, and pickled ginger.

Wikipedia

I've had this before in restaurants. Just forgot what it was.

[Retrograde]

19. Leftover lasagna

we'll see how well it freezes!