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NJCher

(35,675 posts)
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 03:33 PM Mar 17

What's for Dinner, Sunday, March 17, 2024

Noodles in peanut sauce with julienned cucumber and peanuts. Sesame seeds.

I didn't make the peanut sauce--now Trader Joe's is making it and you can buy it in a jar. Usually I don't buy my sauces, but peanut butter is such PITA to work with that I was happy to find this. It's not a very large jar. I was surprised that it is very good.

Roasted cabbage slice with toasted sesame oil over it.

A few of the leftover coconut shrimp I made a couple days ago. I have hoisin sauce and raspberry sauce to go on them.

Dessert: strawberries in balsamic with dark Chinese tea.

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Lunabell

(6,082 posts)
1. We're kind of going Irish.
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 03:39 PM
Mar 17

Cabbage and potatoes. My wife doesn't like corned beef, so we're having pork chops.

mike_c

(36,281 posts)
2. I feel like making soup tonight
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 03:51 PM
Mar 17

We still have some ham and I can clean out the quarter full bags of frozen veggies; there are some partial freshies too, like onions, a carrot, tomatoes, celery, and mini-potatoes. We've got thyme in the garden. Dinner rolls and homemade stock in the freezer.

Marthe48

(16,963 posts)
5. Chinese students we mentored made a fresh cabbage salad with a peanut butter dressing
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 05:45 PM
Mar 17

It was really good. Been years since I had it.

Today, I reverse-engineered leftovers. I had 1 serving of homemade chunky potato soup and lots of a deli chicken. I made a cream sauce with the soup, thickened it up a bit, added frozen mixed vegetables and chunked up chicken thighs, topped it with homemade biscuit dough. It made a delicious casserole. I can still make soup if I want

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)
9. Brisket, of course, but a little different
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 07:52 PM
Mar 17

An older fellow at the gym suggested this method for corned beef. It was fantastic.

Take the corned beef and carefully cut the slab of fat off the top and set it aside. Coat the meat with brown sugar and a mustard of your choice; I used a mild brown mustard. Replace the fat on top and tightly wrap the filet in aluminum foil. Place on a baking pan and slow cook at 250-degrees for at least four hours. Then take the meat out of the oven, open the foil, set aside the remaining fat cap and discard the foil and melted fat. Put the meat and the fat cap on the baking pan and put under the broiler for a couple of minutes until the top of the corned beef is charred.

It’ll almost be like lean pastrami! The fat cap is the richest “bacon” I’ve ever tasted!

We had sauerkraut and baked potatoes as sides. Irish whiskey, of course.

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