Monday, Sept 18. Did you eat something special?

[Silversage]

First night in Italy. Pizza, pasta, and wine, of course, at some little outdoor cafe near our hotel.

Now to bed, after spending 24 hours getting here.

 

[Meryl]

Couldn't have chosen better!

Looking at the ingredients, I was about to ask: "Are you in Umbria?" Then I got a close-up of the writing, and realised I didn't guess exactly, but I was close! It's not too distant.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Onion Soup Gratinée. ​

While the oven is on I’ll bake a sweet potato and a couple of Irish potatoes for sweet potato bread and a quick veggie hash.

 

[cjmmytunes]

Think it will be a hot dog and potato chip kind of night for tonight.

 

[blissful]

I'm having the last of the veggie hash w/the last of the zucchini/onion/pepper mix w/the last of the vegetable soup. I wiped out a shelf in the fridge! Mr bliss is having a full meal salad with caesar dressing or tomato dressing. Snacks: dehydrated pineapple or banana or apples.

 

[medtran49]

Pot roast, with potatoes, mushrooms, carrots and onions. I think Craig snagged most of the carrots and all the onions. Ah well, I like mushrooms the best anyway.

 

[msmofet]

Oven-baked chicken wings, and Bob Evans mashed potatoes. Blue cheese dressing, and hot sauce on the side for dipping. I didn't want a veggie.

 

[GinnyPNW]

I'm going to re-purpose some of the l/o rot chicken for Taco Salads...Flour Tortillas baked to a shell (in forms), then I'll layer (freezer) refried beans, Mexican Rice, Chicken (seasoned & reheated with salsa and spices), greens, more salsa as dressing, cheese, sour cream, guac...and it will be dinner! Fun stuff, actually.

 

[Andy M.]

We had a combination of l/o pork with rosemary cream sauce and cucumber salad with Dragon Lady's sesame noodles I made fresh.

 

[taxlady]

I was all set to make something with spinach, but I hadn't decided on what. So, I went downstairs to the kitchen to check on ingredients to make sure I had enough of whatever to make one of several dishes. I found the beet greens. I had forgotten them and they needed a lot of sorting. I decided on a dish that usually uses spinach, but beet greens would likely work. It's a pasta dish with blue cheese, pears, pancetta, and walnuts (I didn't like the walnuts with this so I used pecans. They were inoffensive, but I could hardly taste them. They were good for texture.). I'm sure I have some pancetta in the freezer, but a quick look didn't locate it and I wasn't up for a big hunt. I was going to use some bacon lardons, but I found that I had three packages of lonza, just past their best by date. So, I used one of those. I used organic spelt fusilli as the pasta.

It turned out really good, like last time. Next time, I'll try pumpkin seeds instead of the walnuts or pecans. We both ate too much.

 

[dragnlaw]

I had a Wild Boar Sausage for lunch with broccoli 'n cheese and a couple of potato galettes.

So for supper I boiled some water in a measuring cup, added the noodles, cooked those then added the flavour pack which I carefully cut open with scissors. After successfully mixing with my chop sticks and recklessly adding a handful of freshly dehydrated parsley, I took the measuring cup with me to the table. Using a fork and spoon, ate my soup and noodles right out of the measuring cup.

 

[Xocolatl]

Dutch mashed escarole with spicy barbecue chicken bits and spicy onion gravy

 

[msmofet]

Dutch mashed escarole with spicy barbecue chicken bits and spicy onion gravy
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That sounds very good. Recipes?

 

[GinnyPNW]

I'm going to re-purpose some of the l/o rot chicken for Taco Salads...Flour Tortillas baked to a shell (in forms), then I'll layer (freezer) refried beans, Mexican Rice, Chicken (seasoned & reheated with salsa and spices), greens, more salsa as dressing, cheese, sour cream, guac...and it will be dinner! Fun stuff, actually.

 

[Jade Emperor]

@taxlady @Xocolatl - both your dishes sound really delicious . Lots of my absolute favourite ingredients in there.
We had pizza because MrJade was unwell and I really don’t like cooking a nice meal knowing that his portion will just end up being cold and needing to be nuked at some ungodly hour of the morning when he gets hungry