Tostadas tonight. I made my 2nd batch of beans in the instant pot, they turned out great. Toppings were mango salsa, Mexican style red cabbage, cheese, radishes, tomato and avocado. My H added Serrano chili’s and habanero sauce on his. This is probably my H’s favorite dinner.
Ingredients I’m using a lot of during this Covid time are red cabbage, radishes and cilantro. Plus a lot of mango made into salsa. The cabbage just seems to brighten up the plate.
Plus made brownies from an old box of mix I found back in my pantry. A Best Buy date of 2018 but they tasted fine. Packed up 1/4 pan for my D. Froze some for later and left out two pieces for dessert.
Tomorrow I need to come up with something to make with ground turkey. Considering Turkey curry bites from Nom Nom Paleo.
^^^ I have always enjoyed tostadas over corn taco shells. I think that’s why I like the new Ortega Fiesta Flats - the flavor is better than taco shells too (which I have stopped using because I think the flavor is off in many of them). The Flats make it much easier to load and handle the taco!
Last night was this: https://damndelicious.net/2014/10/11/one-pot-garlic-parmesan-pasta/ with a side of roasted brussel sprouts and butternut squash. The pasta is such a crowd pleaser, there are never any leftovers.
For tonight, I’ve got a pizza dough rising, some italian sausage thawing and a bunch of lacinto kale to use up. Sausage and kale pizza it will be!
That recipes sounds great and just the easy kind I like! Bookmarked immediately.
I got a large cabbage from a produce box that a local grocery has been offering and have to use it before it goes bad. I’m going to try this dish tonight.https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/stir-fried-udon-with-pork
I found soba noodles (Udon) in my pantry when I was cleaning it out the other day.
Stuffed peppers in the Instant Pot is the plan for tonight! Weather is decent so I’d rather be out playing in the yard that cooking in the kitchen after work.
@abasket look for Guerrero tostada shells in your market. I think they are the tastiest of the premade. I grew up on premade taco shells but once I met my H I switched to frying my own. Crispy home fried tacos are the special occasion meal in our house.
My husband and I had a whole conversation this morning about what to have for dinner tonight as well as thinking ahead for the next couple of days based on weather (grilling) and what we have in freezer. We agreed we’d have pork chops tonight. An hour ago I came in from outside and my husband is looking at me with a funny face. Apparently neither of us remembered to take the pork out of the freezer. Grr. So looks like tonight is bag of Trader Joe’s Orange chicken for the kids and a bag of their potstickers for me and my husband. I’ll stir fry some fresh veggies to go with it.
And I immediately went out to the garage and got the pork chops out and put in the fridge for tomorrow.
Arepas topped with avocado chicken salad, fresh pico de gallo, and red beans,
Amy’s French country veg soup, part of a bagel, and Brie cheese.
@4kids4us we did remember so it’s grilled pork chops tonight for us with market boxes peas and sweet potatoes. And the ever present salad -we get aLOT of greens, tomatoes and cucumber in our boxes.
I defrost everything in my micro. If I didn’t we wouldn’t ever eat anything from the freezer.
Turkey soup was fab. Served it with crusty bread and salad,
Breakfast burritos.
I know it’s not mainstream, but I love cooking in my cast iron pans. They’re just so practical and timeless. Had four of them going tonight between the bacon, eggs, hashbrowns and tortilla heating. One of my kids thinks I’m crazy but the other gets it, so I guess the one who gets it will inherit all of 'em. I’m hoping to cook with grandkids one day and give them their own cast iron pans. No idea why it tickles me so much, but every time I use one of the pans it makes me think about who’s cooked with it for the last 130 years, what their life was like and what they cooked.
Tonight was Salmon, roasted potatoes and roasted zucchini, à la @runnersmom. I feel like I I have a whole new playground to play in, now that I know how to cook a meal that requires different temps in the oven.
@FlyMeToTheMoon! Tonight I had to navigate between the grill (cheeseburgers), the stove (double-fried french fries), and the oven (roasted broccoli and cauliflower). And I made a cake that looked (sort of) like a VW Beetle for my car-obsessed GS’s 18-month 1/2 birthday celebration. Fun day here.
@runnersmom - Impressive! ?
D2 and I have love the lobster tacos at our Eddie V’s here in town. Yesterday she asked if we could recreate the recipe and have them for dinner this weekend. H will grill a steak since he is our non fish eater.
Today I was able to get bread flour. The grocery store bakery has been able to order increased amounts of all purpose and of bread flour and repackaging it in 5# bags.
Bread making tomorrow!
I was supposed to go see Samin Nosrat and Ottolengli speak in early May. It was of course canceled but last night they did an online video with Samin. It was just an hour but it was great! Her enthusiasm and warmth shined through. They have rescheduled for next March. I’m already looking forward to it.
I think tonight I might get takeout from a new taqueria that had the misfortune of opening just as restaurants in-house dining closed down. I’m feeding my sourdough starter in the hope of starting some bread tonight.
@mom60 I just got a copy of Samin’s book, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat! I’m hooked. Is there a link to the video?