What's for Dinner, Sun., Feb. 2, 2025

[NJCher]

I've been doing odds and ends in my kitchen and having fun doing it, too. I got out my zoodler and zoodled some vegetables for stock, which is now going in the slow cooker.

I also made fennel-rye croutons.

Cut up veggies like carrots, celery, and broccoli florets to use with spicy hummus.

I plan to make miniature meatballs, too, as something to add to various soups I can conjure up with my veggie stock.

I made a salad with a Mollie Katzen recipe called "Moroccan Orange-Walnut Salad." It has oranges, greens, red onion, radishes, and toasted walnut halves. Vinaigrette dressing.

I zoodled a zucchini and cooked it on low and sprinkled parmesan and chopped herbs over it. Delicious! Who would ever guess anything so simple would be so good.

Later I'll put some type of soup together with my stock, veggies and miniature meatballs.

I also bottled up kombucha, so I have lots of bottled tea which I can flavor with pomegranate or cherry.

[Emile]

1. I had vegetable beef barley soup.

Good Evening

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Stew

Good old fashioned stew and buttermilk biscuits from scratch.

[Cairycat]

3. Veal chops

Veal chops Beau Sejour, an older recipe, not too complicated and quite good. Baked potatoes and steamed asparagus to go with. My guys had gotten a "Managers Special" and they were half price.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1013292-veal-chops-beau-sejour?unlocked_article_code=1.uE4.CTO5.MFKWI6GK6loV&smid=share-url (gift recipe, no paywall)

[La Coliniere]

4. Veggie Pizza

Made a whole wheat dough for a nice toothy crust, and a tomato paste based sauce that was tangy and slightly sweet. Used VioLife shredded “mozzarella” for the first time and it melted nicely. Vegan sausage crumbles. sliced mushrooms, red onion, black olives and sweet corn were the toppings. Dotted the pie with torn basil leaves and gave it a good sprinkle of oregano before baking. Cheers! 🥂

[Retrograde]

5. Simple baked chicken thighs

and vegetables: put a layer of assorted diced root vegetables in a pan, put salted and peppered chicken breasts on top, bake until done. With a salad on the side.

[MissMillie]

6. turkey dinner

We had a big mid-day Sunday dinner: turkey w/ most of the usual fixings.

turkey
mashed potatoes
stuffing
gravy
steamed green beans

apple crumble with vanilla ice cream for dessert

I can't remember a time when I made a more wonderful turkey. I brined it for about 24 hours and then simply followed the Butterball instructions that came with it (but also basted it every 1/2 hour). Moist as hell.

My sis, son and granddaughter joined us.

Marvelous day, but exhausting.