aKathy's What's for Dinner? 11/14

I am going to make a jalapeno popper meatloaf recipe I found on FB. I'll serve with green beans and baked potatoes.

ETA:  PolarGreen12, I'm sorry to read about the accident to the chair lift.  I hope things work out okay.  Maybe the wife has money?  Not likely, but she has a conscience.

I never made spaghetti yesterday, so I think I’ll toss that stuff in the (overloaded) freezer. Today I’m thinking chicken breasts in the new cast-iron skillet. And asparagus because there’s still a TON of it here. Oh, I overbought?

Wishing those of you having a hard time, better times. In particular, hoping insurance covers the chair lift, PolarGreen12.

Leftover roast in barbacoa sauce.

I am going to make blackened salmon and serve on salads. Yum!!! And easy- the best kind of dinner.

Feeling pretty proud of myself for cooking every night this week. Not tonight! I have several errands to run after school and then we have to take DH's truck to the repair shop. On one of the trips, I'll pick up something for dinner.

I read and commented on the stress thread jeremysgirl. Hoping dinner from KFC will limit some stress for you this evening.

I'm still waiting for the (mythical) day when the entire dinner tribe has a stress free day. HA! Until then, I'm glad we are here for each other and able to vent and cry around this virtual table.

We are having garlic and herb pork chops roasted potatoes and broccoli.

PolarGreen12 keep bugging your insurance company I hope they come through for you.

scrappintoee hope your visit to the surgeons office is better than expected.

For our dining pleasure this evening we will be enjoying take away pizza..........I have decided I am not cooking tonight........

Happy Thursday Everybody!

Oh man PolarGreen12 that's awful!!! I hope you can get the insurance to cover it.

Today has been a typical Thursday - housework, laundry, and making out a grocery list and menu.

Dh took tomorrow off and we're headed out shopping for the day to hopefully get the majority of Christmas shopping done. So tomorrow I won't be cooking at all and the kids are completely on their own.

I ended up tossing all the leftovers that were in the refrigerator and I made dinner instead. I am NOT a leftovers person at all. So I made slow roasted pork tenderloin, rice, and corn.

Roast vegetables (carrots, onions, asparagus, zucchini, beets) with a zhoug quinoa pilaf is going to be on the table here. DS is heading to jeremysgirl 's house for KFC. For many, many years his birthday dinner restaurant choice was KFC. He tried to convince me to pick up dinner there last weekend with DH away but I declined because their vegan options are nonexistent. 

AussieMeg , I meant to post on the burger topping discussion the other day, there is a local hole-in-the-wall burger place that serves pickled beets with their burgers. One of the owners spent a lot of time surfing in Australia and fell in love with beets on his burgers. 

Last week DH asked me if I'd ever seen beetroot in the store. Say what? I was sauteing the beet greens for him when he asked. The beets were roasting in the oven. No, beetroot, he said.

He listens to a lot of nutrition youtube videos while commuting (the reason we are currently vegans  ), and they were going on about the superfood "beetroot". When I couldn't get through to him that there were two parts to the plant - the above ground greens and the below ground root - I made him sit down and watch the video with me. Good gravy, he really is a smart guy but had never heard what we call beets referred to as beetroot so thought he'd discovered a new superfood to add to his diet. 

PolarGreen12 , any chance your chair lift might be covered under your household insurance? Crossing my fingers for you that something gets worked out.

I'm rolling on the floor laughing about beetroot... bc2ca that struck my funny bone just the right way

DSO cooked some burgers on the BBQ for himself and DS. And for me, he cooked 4 lamb cutlets. OMG, my favourite food! They were sensational. If they weren't so darned expensive I would eat lamb cutlets at least twice a week. And BTW, lamb cutlets are very small, so me eating 4 isn't as bad as it probably sounds. I really need to cook some vegetable sometime soon. Since DD has been away, I've barely touched a vegetable. I need her back home pronto to start cooking me some healthy food.

Of course he did, it's delicious!    I had a good laugh over your comments about your DH thinking he'd discovered a new super food!    I can understand how people have never heard other names for foods. If I wasn't on this board, I probably wouldn't know that we have different names for things like beetroot/beets, capsicum/peppers, coriander/cilantro, eggplant/aubergine etc etc (Wait, do you call it aubergine, or is that a UK thing?)

It is eggplant in North America. Another funny story (cause I'm old enough to have a story about everything  ), when we were first married we bought an "aubergine" leather sofa/loveseat set. DH used to love telling people it was aubergine, not purple, after I clued him in to the fact that aubergine is the French word for eggplant. 

Pizza for us tonight.