Thank you for the recipes! I need to go through this thread and make a “try this” dinner list!
Tried a recipe from the recent Costco magazine. Skipped the steak (had other protein to serve) so just made the peppers.
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp smoked paprika powder
1/2 dry oregano (did not have it so skipped)
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
3 bell peppers cut in thick slices
1 white onion, cut in slices
Several cloves of garlic (to taste) minced
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons sherry vinegar (I used raspberry vinegar)
1/4 cup capers
Mix the spices and salt, sprinkle over pepper, onion, and garlic to coat. Heat the oil in a skillet and sauté the pepper mix until tender-crisp (7-10 min). Add vinegar and cook for about 2 min. Stir in capers. Serve as a side dish. Yumm.
Dinner tonight–Carne Asada from Milk StreetKitchen. It was time-consuming. I thought it was worth the effort; H did not.
https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/carne-adovada
We just found out that our favorite Korean restaurant is doing take-out and will bring the order to your car. We’ll order from there tomorrow. This will be the first time since early March that we haven’t cooked dinner for ourselves. I think it’s a record for us because we eat out fairly often.
We had pizza from our neighborhood restaurant tonight. Noticed that quite a few folks ate their pizzas out in the park picnic-style on the grass. 
The restaurant offers to open the wine bottles people buy… so it looked like those folks who accepted the offer were washing their pizzas (and other takeout) down with vino. I do not think drinking is allowed in a public park… but the police are busy elsewhere. 
We hauled the pizzas home and ate on the deck. With beer from the local craft brewery. Awesome…
Making this really great recipe tonight. My daughter and I used to make this a lot from a blog that we enjoyed. I don’t know why we forgot about it. http://www.eatliverun.com/beef-tenderloin-with-apricot-and-olives/
Really happy to try this again. Need some new ideas.
^^^ Looks amazing - and easy!
I’m typing quietly from the living room while youngest son (15) leads on online group session on cooking for Mother’s Day. It’s a regularly scheduled Zoom meeting of his Chinese language class, but he’s gotten close with the wonderful Chinese teacher (she even loaned him her family’s antique wooden mold for making moon cakes which he used to make moon cakes for the class for Chinese New Year) and she asked if he wanted to lead a couple of classes this week where they’d all cook from home.
No idea what they’re making (most of this is in Chinese which I don’t speak), but I’m sure it will be good. They just had a discussion in English on kosher vs regular salt and then moved into whether a bread machine was needed or something could be done by hand.
Can’t wait to see what he makes. It sounds like they’re having fun.
@ams5796 That sounds delicious. Do you think it would work with chicken thighs?
@DeeCee36 Yes, the blogger says that her mom has made it with chicken. I bet that would be great too.
They made scallion pancakes with a dipping sauce. Very good - we ate them all.
I love scallion pancakes!
I’m using up the rest of the tandoori paste tonight that we used to make tandoorI chicken on Sunday. Had some pork in the freezer to use it with this time.
Went the simple route tonight. Defrosted some marinara and meatballs my H made a few weekends ago, boiled a box of penne and voila! Dinner served.
I cleaned out the refrigerator and made stir fried chicken and veggies with peanuts (had roasted a chicken a couple of days ago and through in the extra shrimp from last night too) and veggie fried rice. Everything was delicious, I used up some veggies that were going bad, and I will now have use of some of my tupperware for the next go round!
We had pasta with pumpkin and sausage sauce. Normally this family favorite is an autumn/winter meal for us. However, it was an unseasonably cold, as well as rainy, day here today. I had leftover pumpkin in the fridge after making pumpkin chocolate chip bread last week, and managed to score some Italian sausage at the grocery store yesterday, so I decided it would be a good way to use up the pumpkin. Delicious as always!
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/pasta-with-pumpkin-and-sausage-recipe-1939614
^that sounds delicious @4kids4us ! My H would love this.
Still eating the turkey. I did add a salad to dinner menu last night.
That pumpkin sausage dish sounds so interesting!
Did stuffed peppers last night with some spicy ground chicken sausage I had left over and ground beef. Sauteed onions, garlic, zucchini, Mexican corn, tomatoes, a little rice and cumin and red pepper flakes. Served it with an arugula side salad with a lemon dressing.
Last night, I had D make lemon zest, rosemary rock salt that we used to season the leg of lamb (while I tried my best to cut off as much fat from the leg as possible). We rubbed it all over the the seasoned salt and baked it in our unglazed clay pot with potatoes. It was DELICIOUS! D also made rice and spinach to go with it. Now we have lots of leftovers in the fridge!
I just had chips with salsa and guacamole, so I decided I won’t be making dinner tonight. I did have a very healthy fruit salad for lunch so I’m trying not to feel guilty about eating junk food for dinner.
If I get hungry later I’ll have some turkey and the salad from last night.
H can fend for himself.