What’s for Dinner Tonight?

[LoveDaisy]

Tonight we are having shrimp tacos and rice. Getting a 1/2 bag of shrimp out of the freezer.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

We had chile rellenos ... poblanos from our garden, stuffed with veggie chorizo, brown rice, sauteed onions and garlic, and cheese.

 

[Giraffe_Zen]

I made meatball subs and fries.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

DH & I went to my sister's house for him to work on her TV & picked up food on the way back. We're sharing Penne a la Vodka w/chicken. DS is having Eggplant Parm. We picked up a couple Chocolate Cannoli for dessert.

 

[WorldWacky]

Cheeseburgers and fries tonight. I’ve been working late so DH has taken over the kitchen on those nights. We had some homemade burgers in the freezer so that made it easy.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Ordered a new pair of pants and jumpsuit for the Fl trip; will do dual duty as physical therapy wear which helps to justify the purchase .
Bought an off white alpaca jacket on sale which I immediately regretted - the dry cleaning bills will be relentless. Going to check into having it professionally dyed.
General cleaned half the fridge and had the sleeping area’s ceiling dusted. Nice to know I won’t go into the New Year staring at a dusty ceiling, lol.

My fridge cleaning yielded a few bits and bobs which produced a creamy chicken noodle soup with kielbasa slices added. Seasoned the veggies and meat predominately with coriander which made for a great surprise. I’m sure I’ll do this again. Interim, I made about 1-3/4 qts so it’ll be a “soup’s on” week or so. Didn’t cook the noodles in the soup so the leftovers won’t get cloudy.

 

[Meriweather]

I'd love to hear about your meals in the room. We travel a lot & get sick of eating out. A microwave & mini-fridge is all we normally have at our disposal for eating in the room. I'd be curious to see what you come up with.

Canned soup, chili, shelf stable meals from the grocery store. There are quite a few varieties. We did order 3-4 frozen meals for the very tiny freezer section.
We have bread and lunch meat.
Breakfast is eggs (microwave them) on toast or oatmeal with sliced banana.

We went yesterday with no microwave in the morning. It broke. It took until 8 pm for them to replace it. Just a protein bar for breakfast and a sandwich for dinner.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

I'd love to hear about your meals in the room. We travel a lot & get sick of eating out. A microwave & mini-fridge is all we normally have at our disposal for eating in the room. I'd be curious to see what you come up with.

Not the original poster, and not usually for dinners in the hotel room, but when we travel by plane, we bring a pop-up cooler, and hit the grocery store after landing, and have many of our lunches out of the cooler. We'll get a pack of Hawaiian rolls to make sandwiches with ... salami and cheese for the meat eaters, hummus and cucumber for the vegetarians. We usually get pre washed, cut fruit and veggies, chips, nuts, and a couple of packs of pepperidge farms cookies. Sometimes we'll get prepared foods like pasta salad or coleslaw. (We usually bring some silverware in a little pouch to make this easier). We'll occasionally make use of these items for hotel room dinner. We've also been known to wrap up leftovers like pizza, and either heat in the room or eat cold on the go.

 

[Giraffe_Zen]

Homemade sweet and sour teriyaki honey chicken and rice.

 

[Minnesota!]

Last night I used the last of the thanksgiving ham and made broccoli and cheese rice with broccoli, onion, ham mixed in. We are all getting over the germs here and it was quick, easy, and used stuff up.

Today I used the last of the turkey meat (has been in freezer since Saturday) and made a giant pot of turkey wild rice soup. Also used up the last of everything else from thanksgiving - the carrots, celery, last little bit of cream of mushroom soup from green bean casserole, the last bits of the ham gravy I made, etc. It got rave reviews, which is great since it is dinner until Saturday!

 

[Tuffcookie]

Homemade beef stew, which I cooked in the pressure cooker, with King’s Hawaiian rolls. It was the perfect dinner for a cold night in NE Ohio.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Washed the interior windows with a lot of help from my home attendant. She’s a bit of a gem although she’s definitely under a misunderstanding about my personality. Had me and my aunt in giggles.

Made some Thai coconut curry soup and into the freezer it went. Everything added but the lime juice and cilantro.

Playing with my food today.
Adding steamed broccoli to the leftover chicken soup and a dollop of sour cream with lemon zest. Found a zest-less orange in the fridge (how did I miss that?) and it’ll be dessert.

 

[LoveDaisy]

Today was a day! I was leaving work late when I noticed a coworkers laptop so I texted her and she forgot it there. She lives an hour away but I’m halfway so I grabbed it for her. By the time I got home she was at my house.

I have been eating out of my freezer for weeks so tonight I went through it, which clearly I had not done since before Covid because I found a bag of peas that expired in 2020 and were rock hard! Filled a trash bag but it was garbage night so a good night to do it.

I’m heating up leftovers now. Random assortment but trying to clean out the fridge too since it’s garbage night.

 

[FlyingDonut]

pre made caesar sald from the grocery store with chicken breast we'll sous vide (easy out the freezer)

 

[fla4fun]

Tonight was a turkey, onion, and broccoli stir fry.

 

[Giraffe_Zen]

butter chicken and rice

 

[NYCgrrl]

Got outta Dodge today and visited MoMa with a former nabe.
Wonderful Matisse exhibit that concentrated on his later works.

Ate an ahmazing prix fixe lunch at The Modern, a restaurant on the premises.
Now that was a meal worth stepping out the house fo
r! I had a scallop and octopus appetizer, followed by striped bass with vichyssoise agnolotti and black olive oil (just no way to abbreviate that beauty’s description, oh be still my beating and worth every potato eaten, lol). Couldn’t eat my dessert so they boxed it for me.

 

[LoveDaisy]

Boneless chicken breasts rolled and stuffed with broccoli and cheddar, rice pilaf, and peas. Chicken and peas both came from the freezer.

After my freezer clean out yesterday today I organized it. It looks so much better and I can tell what’s left (a lot of bacon ) Maybe I’ll tackle cleaning and organizing the one on the fridge next.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

My aunt is taking over the cooking duties tonight (we usually don't eat until after 8 p.m. when she cooks) and making chicken and dumplings. Sounds delicious, in reality balls of heavy dough in weak chicken broth. It's terrible. But we love her so nobody wants to tell her so we eat big heaping bowls of it.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

It was use up leftovers & miscellaneous night. I had a protein wrap with refried beans, cheddar-jack cheese, minced onion, and chipotle tabasco sauce.