What's for Dinner, Sat., Jan 7, 2023

[NJCher]

Pork chops (bone-in) with coffee rub. What is going to make them so delicious is using the cooking liquid that the coffee rub seasoned as an au jus dip. I've already tasted it and it is out of this world. I also had put caramelized onions over the pork chops when I cooked them, so that flavoring is also in the dip.

Roasted cubed yuca in the oven with smoked paprika on top.

Dessert: Decaf French roast and quinoa chocolate cranberry bites.

[mobeau69]

1. Sounds delicious!

[PJMcK]

2. Japanese

Sushi/sashimi combination platter with miso soup, green salad with ginger dressing and white rice. Saki and green tea.

[Callalily]

3. Grilled t-bone, grilled potatoes/onions in foil

and some sort of veggie.

Not too inspiring, but tasty all the same.

[mike_c]

4. spaghetti with meatballs, Caesar salad, fresh banana-nut bread for dessert

Good 'ole reliable dinner.

Your pork sounds amazing!

[littlewolf]

5. BBQ chicken in the crockpot and stuffed baked sweet potato

butter and brown sugar .. sooooo good

[Cairycat]

6. Brie, apple and onion tart

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/brie-apple-onion-tart

With a tossed salad, maybe grapefruit halves as appetizer. We have a cherry-mascarpone strudel from Aldi, but that may be much of a muchness.

Our son who lives a couple hours away loves brie baked in phyllo cups, which we have as an appetizer at Christmas. But with the Midwest having a blizzard over Christmas, we didn't get to have them, and the above recipe sounded like a good way to use the brie.

[japple]

12. Cherry-mascarpone strudel???? I love the apple and the berry strudels from Aldi, also the

spinach-artichoke, but I've never seen cherry-mascarpone. Will have to search at the stores in the neighboring towns to see if the larger stores carry it. It sounds divine.

[Emile]

7. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy.

[Yonnie3]

8. Yogurt and blueberries

Flavored (cinnamon roll) low carb yogurt with blueberries that needed eating.

Not very hungry tonight.

I'll have a sandwich later if I get peckish.

[hippywife]

9. I had a big ol...

nap while husband helped himself to leftover turkey dinner.

Spent 2 1/2 hours in the car today, driving farther up into town to pick up one of my meds because asshole doctors are writing off-label scripts for their asshole patients for weight loss. It's in such short supply because of this, I have to call around to try to locate it every single month 🤬

That's a lot of driving for me, anymore, made me so sore and pooped me right out. ☹️

Your dinner sounds delish as usual. I'm constantly amazed how much cooking you do for just yourself when RG 's abroad.

[NJCher]

13. grr, prescriptions plus cooking veggies

Prescriptions without this headache of calling around are a PITA but to have to spend 2.5 hours in the car over something like this is unbearable. I'm sorry to hear you have to go through this.

I really detest this system we have for prescriptions. It takes me a lot of time every month, too, coordinating calls with the doctor, the pharmacy, etc.

I'm sure this has occurred to you but I'll bring it up on the off chance it hasn't, but what about mail order prescriptions?

I have a comment on this:

I'm constantly amazed how much cooking you do for just yourself when RG 's abroad.

Yep, he's in Italy now and I'm chopping vegetables while I watch Alex Witt. I love to work with vegetables. He does most of the cooking when he's here because, quite frankly, he's better at it than I am and he's fast, too. He can whip up a 4-star meal in 20". I watch him in the kitchen and it's just a whirl. You can't even see what's going on because it's a blur!

I enjoy doing this while I watch tv. Sometimes I watch youtube or listen to podcasts or media like that new book you recommended. In a few minutes I'm taking off for the gardens and I'm looking forward to hearing more of Sweet Braids.

I like the aromas, the colors, etc.

When I was a kid, i was always giving my mother input on what we should have. She had giant recipe books and the home and garden magazines. She worked, so as soon as I was able, I started doing some of the meal preparation.

Now we have so much more! Just enter a term in a search engine and you'll get all kinds of fun ideas for what to make. I hate to tell you how many e-cookbooks I have. It's in the hundreds, I'll just say that.

So I think this is fun, which is why I do it. I cook small portions because I like to always be trying new dishes.

I really feel lucky to have found the RG, from whom I have learned so much . We are the cook and the gardener! But sometimes I'm both the cook and the gardener, and so is he. He loves to garden, too, and does most of the hardscaping.

[Retrograde]

10. Pork chops here as well!

Sauteed with mushrooms and finished with sour cream and paprika. Boiled young potatoes with parsley and roasted cauliflower as sides.

[pansypoo53219]

11. made more of my new sauce-orange marmalade, raspberry jam, but ketchup + a dash of cayenne on

baked chicken. thinking of adding soy sauce veg + rice.