What's for Dinner, Mon., Jan. 27, 2025

[NJCher]

Turkey meatloaf, stuffed with Poblanos and mozzarella cheese.

Broccoli with sesame ginger sauce.

Tossed green salad with tomatoes, red, yellow, and green peppers, scallions, and cucumber. Citrus vinaigrette dressing.

Pomegranate kombucha.

[Squeaky41]

1. Tonight

Home made shrimp wantons


Bok choy steamed


Rice

[Emile]

2. Cheeseburger with Sour Cream and Onion potato chips.

Good Evening

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Turkey Salad (a riff on chicken salad)

with a Green Salad.

[La Coliniere]

4. Farro Wheat Primavera

Steam-fried in evoo and veggie broth: chopped onions, green bell pepper, sliced cabbage, sliced zucchini and minced garlic. When almost done add sliced cremini mushrooms, butter beans and marinara sauce. Cook for a few more minutes then add cooked farro wheat and toss. Sprinkle with vegan parmesan (see recipe below). Iced black tea with lemon. Cheers! 🥂
Vegan “Parmesan”
1c raw cashews
1tsp salt
1tsp garlic powder
4Tbs nutritional yeast
Put all ingredients in a food processor and process until fine. Store in a glass container. Doesn’t need to be refrigerated. Great on tomato sauces and salads. You can add dry herbs like oregano and basil to make it more savory.

[QED]

5. "Pantry Raid" Chicken Enchilada Casserole

It looks like a good way to use up some stuff. I like that it has cornbread topping and is on the small side, a 9 x 9 pan instead of a larger one. I hope it turns out!

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/222014/pantry-raid-chicken-enchilada-casserole/

[chowmama]

6. New England clam chowder and warmed French bread

The chowder is a recipe I've been working on, using my pantry and home preservation as much as possible. Home canned potatoes, home cured salt pork, canned clams from the store, milk and some onion. It only takes about half an hour to make and is pretty cheap.

Stocking up, I've been trying new ideas for canning, freezing, etc. Well, they're new to me. I do a small batch, use some of it, and decide if I'll keep it up. Canned potatoes are surprisingly useful. I hope we never get to the point where potatoes are unaffordable, but having firm cooked potatoes ready to go at any minute is pretty neat. They don't taste tinny and they last a long time, whereas I usually go to the pantry to find out that my fresh potatoes have one or two that are soft/slimy/stinky and the rest have all sprouted like a 1950's SF monster movie.

I've been curing a little salt pork once a year for a while, usually just because I love it in baked beans. As a kid, I'd put dibs on the chunk from the B&M jar. Oddly enough, nobody ever fought me for it. I was a strange child.