AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 08/02

Dinner here tonight will be the ostrich steak we should have had last night. There will also be salad - meals get pretty repetitive around here during the summer!

After such a hot day yesterday, we had storms overnight and today was much cooler, though it has rained on and off all day, making it hard to get out and exercise. Still much better than the heat though and I hope it means I sleep better tonight.

We ended up having the chicken divan last night so I'll grill a flank steak tonight.

I have the perfect meme today. We all know what a fan I am of grocery shopping. Haha!

I am getting a lot of experience with yeast baking, so today I am going to make a childhood favourite -- meat buns.

You use finely cooked ground beef with some gravy, finely chopped sauted mushrooms and a bit of sour cream or mashed potatoes.

Make the yeast dough as for bread, when finished raising, take a small piece of the dough and straighten it up and put in the middle of the dough and seal up underneath the filling.  Let rise on the baking sheets & bake.  I do add taco seasoning to the ground beef for added flavour.

Bake as usual.  I find these to be very yummy.  I freeze them and they are easy to defrost in the microwave on low.  My dgc love the buffalo chicken flavour as well.  Much easier to put frozen in the lunch box and are thawed by lunch time.  

Off to bake . . .

We are going out for a drive and lunch so I don't plan to be hungry for dinner. 

I will grill the chicken that was bumped from yesterday's dinner and put out a veggie plate for those that need two meals today.

I've had ostrich eggs before, sueg, but never eaten the meat. Looking forward to hearing what it tastes like.

I'm making chicken tortilla soup. Dh will have a salad, as well. In fact, I'm going to run outside and pick my pepper, Peter Piper. I love this time of year, because I can just go to my garden and enjoy dh's wonderful produce.

The rest of the day is devoted to my puzzle and a bit of Animal Crossings.

leannec, have fun storming the mall. I am not a mall person. All malls in my area are closed anyway.

Enjoy your day and please make sure to do at least one thing that you love to do.

Happy Weekend ladies! Thank you all so much for the prayers for my nephew that is involved in the Marine accident off the CA coast. He was able to call yesterday and say he is fine. It was a long day and night for us all. Especially my niece, her husband and two daughters. She said it was a bad connection and he was only on the line long enough to say "Mom, I'm ok". We know no other details, but she heard his voice, so we can relax now, but continue to pray fo rthe families that are still wondering and waiting.

jeremysgirl- I just finished my grocery run, put it all away and fridge clean out. I am going to find a way to get to the store during the week. It was horrible busy this morning. ugh.

Yesterday I spent some time on my sons' in-laws boat, What a relaxing day and it felt so amazing to disconnect from the new job for a day.

DH is still at the ranch and I don't know hat dinner will be , probably a salad and a glass of wine. :-)

I hope everyone has a great Sunday!

austnscrapaddict, I'm so happy to hear about your young Marine. It's a tragic story for 8 young men.

I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I don't like garlic or rather it does not like me. It upsets my stomach. I do cook with it for DH, but I keep away.

I tried to persuade DH to walk with me early this morning, but he wanted to stay in bed. I came home after 3 miles and found him up and dressed for a walk, so I headed out and did another 2 miles with him!

I'm being LAZY today and trying not to think about heading back to school in the morning!

I have some chicken breasts in a brine mixture right now and those will go on the grill this evening. I've also made a cabbage ramen salad that came out pretty tasty.

I hope we are all mellow this Sunday.

Not sure what’s for dinner. I might make a quick stirfry with some leftover beef tips that I have from last nights dinner. Hot and humid here again in western New York supposedly we’re going to get down into the 70s in the next couple of days which will be nice. Especially since the pool guy came and put the new liner in the other day. And now it’s being filled via the hose from my mothers house. Milk farmers here used to haul water in their empty tanks but they don’t do that anymore so have to use the hose

I am doing a ham in the instant pot, roasted carrots, and spicy garlic sautéed green beans. I'll probably do a box of mac and cheese for DH and DD but I am trying to do only whole grains right now so none for me. I hope I can resist. 😩

Does anyone have any veggie side dishes they love? I'm trying have my plate at least 1/2 veggies but I know I am going to run out quickly of things. I hate mushy veggies and too often that's what I end up with.

I defrosted some chile and cheese tamales, so we’ll have those with frijoles and zucchini tonight. 

Last night’s fried catfish was DA BOMB. (Yes, I know I’m dating myself.)

Like teddyw, I like a little garlic in most things but not excess garlic.


austnscrapaddict, I’m so glad to read the good news about your nephew. Thank goodness he phoned home!

Tonight is SHI aka my son’s word for fish. My dad wants scallops and I will have shrimp. That is easy.

My dinner was a big hit.