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NJCher

(35,748 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:40 PM Jan 2015

What's for Dinner, Fri., Jan. 30, 2015

A big tossed salad with roasted tomatoes and avocado, plus green pepper, cucumbers, etc.

Later on, beef-vegetable soup with tortellini. This soup turned out to be very good but it was so late when I finished it last night, I had only a small cup. Tonight, with temperatures plunging, it's time for a big bowl of soup!


Cher

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What's for Dinner, Fri., Jan. 30, 2015 (Original Post) NJCher Jan 2015 OP
So you're having unlimited soup and salad? noamnety Jan 2015 #1
I have a bigger secret than that to confess! NJCher Jan 2015 #4
Spiced lentils over couscous, roasted eggplant-red pepper livetohike Jan 2015 #2
Mongolian beef. greatauntoftriplets Jan 2015 #3
Way to go pscot Jan 2015 #6
It was so good! greatauntoftriplets Jan 2015 #7
Heating up Melissa G Jan 2015 #5
 

noamnety

(20,234 posts)
1. So you're having unlimited soup and salad?
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:50 PM
Jan 2015

Are you sure you having just wandered into an olive garden and you're afraid to confess?

We've got semi-homemade pizza (italian-herb flavored crust from a mix) topped with artichoke salad and hot italian turkey sausage. I cooked the sausage in the oven, based on the suggestion I saw here a few days ago. It worked great!

NJCher

(35,748 posts)
4. I have a bigger secret than that to confess!
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 08:22 PM
Jan 2015

I feel like I should write this in subscript: I was on the corporate team that reviewed Olive Garden as a concept to expand as a chain.

To my credit, however, when they (owned by General Mills at the time) brought it up, I said, "I think this is a terrible idea." After all, they had just introduced frozen Florida seafood to Boston. To that, the residents of Saugus phoned in bomb threats, preventing the restaurant from being open much.

I asked, in disbelief, you're going to introduce an Italian pasta restaurant chain to New Jersey, which is (or was at the time) something like 65 per cent Italian?

Yeah, that's going to go over well.

Actually, it didn't do too bad in NJ.

So, yep, that's my confession.




Cher

livetohike

(22,165 posts)
2. Spiced lentils over couscous, roasted eggplant-red pepper
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:52 PM
Jan 2015

salad and tsatsiki . It's cold up here in northern PA at 10f now. The soup sounds good .

Melissa G

(10,170 posts)
5. Heating up
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 09:42 PM
Jan 2015

some tasty take out of vegetarian potato leek soup.

Having a hankering for something chocolate for dessert!

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