What’s for Dinner Tonight?

[TAX GUY]

Mississippi pot roast (with pork butt), mashed potatoes & sauteed green beans.

Ohhhh, how is it with pork? We love it with a chuck roast and never thought about a pork butt/shoulder. Does it call for the same ingredients and process?

 

[TAX GUY]

Last night we had a 3 cheese chicken and broccoli alfredo with penne. Because my sons uber eats took almost three hours, he had his already late lunch, just before dinner was ready. What that means is there's so much left over that we're having the 3 cheese chicken/broccoli penne tonight too!

 

[mickey916]

Continuing the birthday celebration tonight and going out with a friend for dinner at the Yardhouse. Then, finalizing the celebrating tomorrow night by meeting our sons at Fogo de Chao for dinner. Gotta love a three-day birthday celebration, and it's not even a "significant" one yet...

 

[LilyWDW]

Made Trader Joe's Teriyaki Chicken with stir fried veggies and rice last night. Will have leftovers tonight as well. Not bad for 240 calories and 31 g of protein per serving for the chicken. I am for sure going to keep it in the freezer for after I start my weight loss meds.

 

[dizneegirl]

It's not delivery... it's DiGiorno. Three meat DiGiorno - had a good coupon for it at Kroger this weekend.

 

[ddluvsdisney]

Picking up DH from airport tonight. I just had a meatball sub.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Ohhhh, how is it with pork? We love it with a chuck roast and never thought about a pork butt/shoulder. Does it call for the same ingredients and process?

Beef doesn't really agree with me these days, so I rarely eat it. The pork butt was delicious, albeit fatty. DH loves the fat, so it works for us. I made it in the slow cooker using the original recipe.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

We're having Cuban sandwiches to use up some of the leftover pork. Hopefully, we'll have room for the lentil soup that we didn't eat Friday. If not, it will have to go in the freezer.

 

[evilmommie]

Not sure what’s for dinner. My husband packed up all of the leftovers and sent them home with SIL and daughter. What??!!

 

[LoveDaisy]

Today was Big E day! The weather was fantastic we roped dropped and it was just starting to get crowded when we left at 2:30.

Today was budget bite day, they had 90 items for $3. I was super excited about this because in the past I have been known to get a baked potato from the Maine building and then I’m full. I was hoping to sample a bunch of things. We met some friends so I stole bites of food from my friends and had a few samples too.

Rope drop



Giant slide, this is the first time I’ve seen it empty!



We immediately stopped for 2 large donut holes for $3. We got cinnamon and glazed. I liked the glazed better but both were good.



We wondered around waiting for the State buildings to open at 10. We were meeting friends at the beer garden behind the Massachusetts’s building at 10. I must have been excited to see everyone because I didn’t take a picture of my blueberry beer. I also stole a bite of a toasted marshmallow, and s’mores from a friends. I’m not a big marshmallow person but these were really good.

DH was feeling hangry so he went to I think the Vermont building and came back with a cheese steak egg roll



We all decided to motivate and I got a slushie apple cider (this was fantastic) in the Vermont building



We made it to the Rhode Island building and C kept giving me samples. I had jerk chicken (DH bought a bottle of the marinade) and then some toffee. I meant to go back for toffee to take home but forgot. I was worried the chocolate would melt.

When in Rhode Island



To be continued in the next post.

 

[bigpinkdaisy]

A little behind - last night was meatball subs and parmesan crusted potato wedges. Tonight we are having pretzel melts (shaved beef in au jus with provolone cheese and baby bella mushrooms on a pretzel roll) and fries.

 

[LoveDaisy]

Big E part 2.

We decided to walk over to see the butter sculpture. I love going early in the fair (it runs 17 days) because you can watch them carve it.




I was feeling a little hungry so we decided to get some actual food. First we tried the honey pineapple teriyaki bowl ($3) this was good a decent serving for the price.



Then Granville Cheese Mac and cheese ($3) This had a fantastic cheese sauce (their cheese is fantastic) but the noodles were over cooked.



At this point we were starting to think about heading out so we gathered our food to go.

We stopped in Maine and got whoopie pies, then headed to Vermont to get a maple candy ($3)



We circled through to Connecticut and grabbed a potato chip, caramel, chocolate ($3)



No trip to the Big E is complete without this final stop. We then picked up the iconic giant cream puffs and eclairs. If you haven’t been to the Big E this is what they are known for. They built a compound to make them and they have been featured on Carnival Eats on Food Network.

 

[kanne323]

I don't normally look at this thread, but did tonight and saw the Big E posts immediately- thanks for sharing those! I haven't been in probably ten years or so but it's always a good time, and the best way to stand in each New England state in less than an hour! Is the CT potato chip creation from Munson's?

Dinner here was homemade turkey apple sausages with a side of sauteed summer squash and spinach.

 

[NannyBeBe]

Tonight is Tyson chicken bites and mac and cheese.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I don't normally look at this thread, but did tonight and saw the Big E posts immediately- thanks for sharing those! I haven't been in probably ten years or so but it's always a good time, and the best way to stand in each New England state in less than an hour! Is the CT potato chip creation from Munson's?

It was not munson’s (but now I want yo go there ) I didn’t notice who they were and there is name on the package.

I normally go to the Big E once every couple of years. As I was leaving C offered me a free pass if I wanted to meet him on another day so I may make an unprecedented second visit if we can find a day that works for both of us.