What's for Dinner, Tues., Nov. 10, 2015

[NJCher]

Two chicken sausages in tortilla shells.

I hope to make a big salad around 11, when I get home.

Rainy here in the northeast.


Cher

[Laurian]

1. Grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup.

An easy meal after a busy day.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. spaghetti night.

we needed something simple and fairly bland, we're both feeling sorta run down.

Didn't get much done around the house today, been diddling around with changing over an old setup with html embedded in c cgi scripts over to use separate templating files to split presentation out from data processing in the web service app the (past, and at least temporarily current) boss wants to turn our old code into.

[Auggie]

3. Take-out burrito ...

from a decent place ...

not Taco Bell.

[NJCher]

4. made up my own recipe

Arrived home late, and it was raining slowly but steadily. In the rain, a salad, like I had planned, wasn't so appealing.

I recalled walking down a supermarket aisle the other day and seeing a Campbell's Tomato Bean with Bacon. I thought, "that sounds good!" I wouldn't ever use canned soup, though, as the sodium content is through the roof.

So I made my own tonight, using the following ingredients:

Peppered turkey bacon (no nitrates) from TJs
2 lg chopped tomatoes from the garden (yes, I'm still getting tomatoes on Nov. 11)
8 oz. homemade chicken broth plus 1 tsp. Better Than Bouillon
speckled butter beans from the freezer (recommended by japple)
2 T thyme from my garden
1 chopped onion, sauteed in red pepper flavored olive oil

I topped it with grated parmesan.

Glass of red wine. Ummm!


Cher

[Galileo126]

5. Shrimp and sausage gumbo

which came out really well. Using the peels and the heads certainly makes for a very rick stock. I didn't have andouille, so I used Portuguese linguiça (my last pound from the freezer, until I get back to RI for Christmas vacation - yikes!).

Anyway, I was really happy with the result.