AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 06/18

We will take DH out

I had to scrap Plans A & B, so Plan C is Italian beef in buns and an Italian potato salad. Hopefully that will work because I don't want to have to come up with a Plan D.

We will have sausages with cauliflower and corn on the cob.

I made spaghetti sauce a few days ago so we might have spaghetti since that wouldn't entail a trip to Raley's in this heat. DS will leave around 11:00 this morning to go back to the Bay Area. We're going to miss him. It was so nice having him here.

Super lazy day around here. Dd came over late and we had French toast from a nice loaf of artisan bread that she got free from a restaurant she went to last night. I fixed sausage for Dh, too. Dd had to leave to meet her college roommate who is in town for a couple of days. So, dh and I can eat anything we want tonight without the picky, but lovable child.

He requested cheese enchiladas with homemade sauce. I am about to go make the sauce so we can smell it all through the house - a "free" candle, so to speak.

Thanks for the thread. Your dd's could be cousins to my dd hahaha!

DH's choice is grilled pork tenderloin and assorted vegetables.

I picked up The Obesity Code from the library a few weeks ago and DH has snagged it, even taking it with him on his fishing trip. He has been fasting since Friday night and doesn't plan to break the fast until dinner. I think the only way I will get my hands on this book is to buy my own copy.

DH requested tacos. I made the meat this morning so he can eat whenever he wants. Dd can't eat real food yet and I don't really eat beef tacos. I'll have heartburn all night. I'll find something in the fridge. Eggs maybe.

Since DH's birthday is next Saturday (when we will be trapped inside a plane somewhere over the Atlantic) we celebrated today. We ordered pizza, and had cake (lots of cake) for dessert (bløtkake (with fresh blueberries, raspberries and strawberries), verdens beste and an apple/pear/vanilla cake I made for the first time). I think I'll skip breakfast tomorrow, and possibly lunch as well. And DH got his best present ever: a massage chair! My sister and her SO had just bought themselves a new one, and gifted the old chair (a top of the line one, and only a couple of years old) to DH. Every time we visit them, DH can't wait for dinner to be over, so he can "enjoy" that thing, so it really was a perfect gift. For him. I don't want that monstrosity in my living room

Grilled pork tenderloin, sweet potato, roasted cauliflower and green beans, wine for me margarita for DH

I was going to make sausage mushroom rigatoni but forgot to thaw the sausage, so I'm making a couple of those pre-made stuffed breaded chicken cordon bleu things and some parmesan rice.

My dad cherishes Father's Day not because it's the day that celebrates him, but it's the US Open and he watches golf all day Friday, records Saturday and watches after he golfs and then all day, UNDISTURBED on Sunday. I tried to make a special meal and he was more about the golf than anything.

There is dessert tonight as I wanted chocolate cake and the other two don't want to eat it so it's mine. DS is hungry now and is eating Japanese food (onigiri, ebi furai aka panko shrimp and karaage aka battered deep-fried chicken). That means we will all eat later.

The vegetable tonight is broccoli. Asparagus is on sale this week, but we might go to Costco and we get it there so I held off. I am kinda itching for some soup again. It is cold here now and making some soup might make sense. Maybe I will do that this week. (If I suggest soup, the powers that be will want beef stew, but it's all good. Something warm and hearty as it's only 12C outside now!)

Does your house smell like banana bread, too? I love that smell. I have no self-control when it comes to eating it. I really, really like it!

I had planned to make a Slow Cooked Pizza Pie that is on the cover of the latest issue of my favorite cooking magazine.



I prepared it yesterday and the plan was to finish off with the pastry and final oven cooking when I get home from work tonight. As I was cooking the filling in the slow cooker yesterday I realised that it really wasn’t a good idea. DSO hates stews and casseroles, and he doesn’t even really like curries with beef or lamb because he thinks the meat always tastes “stewy”. Then when the filling was done I tasted it, and it even tasted “stewy” to me! I am not going to finish it and I will end up giving the meat to the dogs (once I rinse all the onion from the filling off it). I’m really annoyed, the meat alone cost me over $20. What a bloody waste!

So now I don’t know what we’re going to have instead.

Last month's Cook's Country had a banana chocolate cake recipe. I have made it twice and everyone really enjoyed it. Banana anything baking in the oven always makes the house smell delicious. @jeremysmom, I'm so coming over to your house.