what are you making for dinner tonight?

[Anonymous]

op here: just to tell you all that i failed and ordered out thai food. sigh. deadline at midnight tonight. should probably get off dcum now...

[Anonymous]

Lemon pepper tilapia and salad.

[Anonymous]

I started Weight Watchers this week. We made this chicken parm (6 points per piece) along with brown rice and broccoli.

http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/04/baked-chicken-parmesan.html

[Anonymous]

Drumsticks with a penzy's bbq seasoning. Garlic-y spinach and sweet potato fries. A bit of leftover plain pasta for the kids' side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quinoa-Black Bean Casserole. It was my first time making it and it was good!

I googled and found this which also sounds yummy. Is this similar to your casserole?
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/quinoa-and-black-beans/

[Anonymous]

Homemade pizza made from stale bagels.

[Anonymous]

Brown rice with shrimp and pineapple marinated in an orange sauce and sautéed. Totally made up recipe that everyone devoured.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:black bean, rice, onion, sweet potato, garlic. all mixed up in a thick soup.

with avocado on top for me, and cheese for DH. garnished with tortilla chips.

Yum! Can you post the recipe?

It was so good. No recipe.

Put presoaked black beans and onion and garlic in the crockpot with more water than normal, cooked for 8 hours. Added leftover rice, 2 already baked sweet potatoes, cooked for a few more hours. Little immersion blender action. Done.

I'm newly vegan and didn't miss meat or cheese for a moment with this one.

[Anonymous]

pork schnitzel, pan fried cinnamon apples, peas, biscuits with honey and butter

[Anonymous]

baked salmon with ginger, rice, sweet potato and string beans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:last night: pork chops in a garlic white wine sauce, steamed green beans and wild rice

While dinner was cooking I peeled and boiled potatos to make mashed potatos for tomorrow night's dinner

So we will have tonight-- baked chicken, mashed potatos and a salad.

I WOH and so I try to get a jump start on the next day. My boys LOVE mashed so I try to save that for a Sunday night dinner, BC it is time consuming-- it will be a nice surprize to have them mid-week.

I love the stir fry idea, but I always feel that it never turns out to be a "quick" meal for me...all that chopping and frying, am I alone? Perhaps I'm doing it wrong or not prepping properly. Can anyone share their easy and quick stir fry recipes/tricks?

For stir-fry, I put the rice in the rice cooker and cut up some chicken breasts/beef cubes/tofu and throw it into the wok with a bag of frozen broccoli or other veg and then once its cooked, i pour stir-fry sauce (LOVE the TJs soyaki sauce) on top.

Done.

I use fresh veggies but often buy chicken in bulk and precut and freeze. Just pull out bag the night before and put in fridge ane the dump in pan
Frozen veggies work great, but I find the leftovers are not good.

[Anonymous]

Agree that stir fry can take a while. I will either chop the night before or cheat and buy the pre cut packages of stir fry veg at whole foods. They're a little expensive - probably $6 or $7 for enough for us(2 adults, 2 kids under 4), but overall the meal is still pretty cheap and i like the variety - it would cost more and i'd have more rotten veggies if i bought all of the veggies individually.

As for sauces, i do make them myself, no recipe. After you follow recipes a few times its easy and quick enough. Some combination of soy sauce, rice wine, vinegar, sesame oil, ginger, garlic, and a corn starch/chicken stock slurry to thicken.

[Anonymous]

Tilapia and sweet potatoes.

[Anonymous]

Made chicken enchiladas with a spinach salad. Yum!

[Anonymous]

Spaghetti with roasted red pepper pesto, salad, homemade bread