What are you cooking for dinner tonight?

[Anonymous]

Need ideas. My usual rotation is boring me.

[Anonymous]

DH's birthday, so he picked the menu:
Seared scallops
Spaghetti in olive oil, garlic, red pepper flake, and lemon
Sauteed spinach with garlic and olive oil
Dessert is homemade ice cream cake with strawberry ice cream, graham crackers, and chunks of cheesecake.

[Anonymous]

chicken enchiladas
corn/tomato/avocado salad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH's birthday, so he picked the menu:
Seared scallops
Spaghetti in olive oil, garlic, red pepper flake, and lemon
Sauteed spinach with garlic and olive oil
Dessert is homemade ice cream cake with strawberry ice cream, graham crackers, and chunks of cheesecake.

Do you work outside the home? If not, how can you do all that after work?

[Anonymous]

Yesterday's penne and meat sauce recast as a cheesy pasta bake, with salad and (also leftover) garlic bread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH's birthday, so he picked the menu:
Seared scallops
Spaghetti in olive oil, garlic, red pepper flake, and lemon
Sauteed spinach with garlic and olive oil
Dessert is homemade ice cream cake with strawberry ice cream, graham crackers, and chunks of cheesecake.

Do you work outside the home? If not, how can you do all that after work?

Not that PP, but scallops, pasta and spinach cook very quickly. Can't explain the dessert, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH's birthday, so he picked the menu:
Seared scallops
Spaghetti in olive oil, garlic, red pepper flake, and lemon
Sauteed spinach with garlic and olive oil
Dessert is homemade ice cream cake with strawberry ice cream, graham crackers, and chunks of cheesecake.

Do you work outside the home? If not, how can you do all that after work?

Not the PP but this is pretty straightforward if you do the prep beforehand.

Scallops: prep with salt, pepper oil, dredge in flour. Cook on grill or pan for only a few minutes.
Spaghetti: Boil water, then toss with olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes and lemon (chop garlic and squeeze lemon juice while water boiling and scallops searing)
Spinach: Buy pre-washed spinach. Saute garlic and then add spinach with kosher salt and pepper. Cooks in 5 minutes.

Dessert-- ok, that you can make in advance.

[Anonymous]

Roast chicken
sweet potatoes
broccoli

OK, not a great meal for a super hot day, but it's what I've got in the fridge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH's birthday, so he picked the menu:
Seared scallops
Spaghetti in olive oil, garlic, red pepper flake, and lemon
Sauteed spinach with garlic and olive oil
Dessert is homemade ice cream cake with strawberry ice cream, graham crackers, and chunks of cheesecake.

Do you work outside the home? If not, how can you do all that after work?

Not the PP but this is pretty straightforward if you do the prep beforehand.

Scallops: prep with salt, pepper oil, dredge in flour. Cook on grill or pan for only a few minutes.
Spaghetti: Boil water, then toss with olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes and lemon (chop garlic and squeeze lemon juice while water boiling and scallops searing)
Spinach: Buy pre-washed spinach. Saute garlic and then add spinach with kosher salt and pepper. Cooks in 5 minutes.

Dessert-- ok, that you can make in advance.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

You dredge scallops in flour? Never knew that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH's birthday, so he picked the menu:
Seared scallops
Spaghetti in olive oil, garlic, red pepper flake, and lemon
Sauteed spinach with garlic and olive oil
Dessert is homemade ice cream cake with strawberry ice cream, graham crackers, and chunks of cheesecake.

We do this dinner a lot but with fresh shrimp ( which I have much more success with than scallops). But dessert may just be ice cream with brownies (dessert is always simple).

[Anonymous]

Breakfst for dinner tonigh - Pancakes!

[Anonymous]

Homemade sloppy joes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH's birthday, so he picked the menu:
Seared scallops
Spaghetti in olive oil, garlic, red pepper flake, and lemon
Sauteed spinach with garlic and olive oil
Dessert is homemade ice cream cake with strawberry ice cream, graham crackers, and chunks of cheesecake.

Do you work outside the home? If not, how can you do all that after work?

If she's proficient cook, it's not too hard, PP.

It takes about 15 minutes to sear fresh scallops (purchased earlier in the week).
It takes 10 minutes to boil pasta and toss w/common ingredients.
You can sautee spinach while the pasta is cooking and the scallops are searing, on two front burners you'd just switch to attending to the scallops and spinach.
She'd make the ice cream ahead of time so that's a done deal.

[Anonymous]

We're making a pizza with TJ's dough and having a salad.