What's for dinner? Did you have to shop for it today? How long did it take to prepare?

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Anonymous wrote:Roast eggplant with yogurt sauce.
Gelato for dessert.
Finished grocery shopping yesterday, so we're OK for the week.

Yum! Please explain!

This is the cover recipe from Ottolenghi's 'Plenty'.
I halve medium, longish eggplants lengthwise. Then score each half with cuts, piercing through. Thoroughly rub eggplants with olive oil (the recipe calls for 1/3 cup for 2 eggplants), sprinkle thyme, salt and pepper on top. The recipe calls for roasting at 200F for 30-40 mins, but I do 300, maybe its my oven. Cool the eggplant a bit.
Sauce: mix buttermilk and yogurt to a consistency of your choice. Add crushed garlic and salt to taste. Drizzle a tiny bit of olive oil.
To serve: spoon the yogurt sauce generously over the eggplant. Sprinkle with more thyme. Garnish with pomegranate seeds if desired (I often leave this out).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roast eggplant with yogurt sauce.
Gelato for dessert.
Finished grocery shopping yesterday, so we're OK for the week.

Yum! Please explain!

This is the cover recipe from Ottolenghi's 'Plenty'.
I halve medium, longish eggplants lengthwise. Then score each half with cuts, piercing through. Thoroughly rub eggplants with olive oil (the recipe calls for 1/3 cup for 2 eggplants), sprinkle thyme, salt and pepper on top. The recipe calls for roasting at 200F for 30-40 mins, but I do 300, maybe its my oven. Cool the eggplant a bit.
Sauce: mix buttermilk and yogurt to a consistency of your choice. Add crushed garlic and salt to taste. Drizzle a tiny bit of olive oil.
To serve: spoon the yogurt sauce generously over the eggplant. Sprinkle with more thyme. Garnish with pomegranate seeds if desired (I often leave this out).

Oops, I forgot. The recipe also called for a generous sprinkle of zatar (available at Middle Eastern grocery stores or Penzeys) as a final garnish.

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My parents are visiting for the weekend. We had NY strip steaks (DH and dad), bone-in chicken breasts (me and mom) and mushrooms on the grill, plus brussel spouts and potatoes roasted in the oven. And wine. Picked up the meats today, but had the veg in the house already from my shopping trip on Thurs. Toddler ate earlier than we did, and had potatoes, peas, cheese and fish sticks.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents are visiting for the weekend. We had NY strip steaks (DH and dad), bone-in chicken breasts (me and mom) and mushrooms on the grill, plus brussel spouts and potatoes roasted in the oven. And wine. Picked up the meats today, but had the veg in the house already from my shopping trip on Thurs. Toddler ate earlier than we did, and had potatoes, peas, cheese and fish sticks.

Oops,forgot to add: took about 30 min to prepare everything for the grill and oven, and probably 30 min to cook (bone-in chix takes a while).

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We had boneless skinless chicken breasts cooked on the grill with a little barbecue sauce rubbed on them, instant mashed potatoes and some frozen broccoli/cauliflower mix. Took 20 minutes to prep. Ate outside on the deck and it was lovely.

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Can of baked beans and some scrambled eggs.
No shopping, already in the house.
10 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:Leftover pizza for me and the kids, chicken apple sausages for husband. Corn on the cob and fruit salad for all.

I don't get the guilt.

I had a whole day so I felt like I should have planned it out better. I only had the pork chops because I had never seen cube steak pork before I bought it on a whim two days earlier.

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Anonymous wrote:Four Sisters Vietnamese.

Did it open in Clarendon yet?!

Dunno. We went to the one in merrifield. .

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I was too lazy to thaw anything out. I'm doing a one pot meal with smoked turkey sausage, canned tomatoes, some sort of frozen veggie (broccoli or asparagus) and egg noodles.

Similar to this. I always improvise with whatever I have on hand. http://www.yellowblissroad.com/one-pot-cheesy-smoked-sausage-pasta-skillet/

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Anonymous wrote:I was too lazy to thaw anything out. I'm doing a one pot meal with smoked turkey sausage, canned tomatoes, some sort of frozen veggie (broccoli or asparagus) and egg noodles.

Similar to this. I always improvise with whatever I have on hand. http://www.yellowblissroad.com/one-pot-cheesy-smoked-sausage-pasta-skillet/

Sounds good. We make a one pan meal with bratwurst, spatzel, and sauerkraut midwinter. It's especially good if you have leftover homefries to crisp up and top the pile with it.

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Pan seared halibut with mushy peas ( added bacon!). Buffalo mozzarella with basil and tomatoes salad for an appetizer. Shopped yesterday, cooked for half hour today.

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Shopped yesterday. We had chicken breasts on the grill with sea salt, pepper, and cumin. Corn salad with avocado, red onion, green onion, jalapeno, and lime. Baked potato with a yogurt sauce

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Dinner tonight--potatoes au gratin with ham and spring onions, side salad.

Shopped on the weekend, cooked the casserole on Saturday. Just need to put it in the oven tonight.

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Shopped yesterday and grilled a whole chicken for a couple of hours. Will serve it today with garlic mashed potatoes and peas.

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Leftover beef stew. I made it yesterday, cooked on low all day, took about 30 min to prepare - package of stew beef & chopped up potatoes, onions, celery, carrots, tomatoes. Delicious.