Dinner--or Dessert--Tonight

[Puget]

E_P_W, do you make the egg rolls? If so, please share what works for you! I love them and can't really get any good ones here, and now we won't be ordering food for a while.   Also, we are exploring if ramen would work for us all to eat, because youngster has a bunch of things to celebrate this month and loves ramen.  Hopefully in a couple weeks we can give it a try from the local restaurant, but if you have a recipe you use, please share if you can.  A couple years ago, youngest found a ramen recipe on tiktok or some such that also required homemade noodles (which was the worst part and led to us eating really late).  It didn't taste bad, but I wouldn't necessarily go back to that again.  Finding a recipe we can make, which we know the ingredients for, would be great.

We are doing a crustless cheddar quiche from one of the American Heart Assn cookbooks.  Everyone can eat it and likes to eat it, so that is all I ask of a meal these days.  This is a dish we have previously had youngest make and had planned on that, but strep throat recovery is in progress.  I think we are having previously air-fried brussels with it.

We cheated and used frozen egg rolls. I've read a few blogs about making egg roll 'bowls' without the fried outer coating- just the innards. Though, I suppose if you use an air fryer that will drop the calorie count. I've thought about getting one. Maybe I should?

You can also make spring rolls with the rice wrappers-- not the same crunchy fried-ness, but very good and very easy. You just briefly soak the wrappers in water to soften (not too long or they dissolve to mush!) and wrap anything you please. I make these a lot in the summer with whatever combo of veggies and herbs is currently in season (raw or stir-fried, e.g., greens, snow peas, cucumber, cilantro, Thai basil, mint, fresh hot pepper slivers), and pan fried tofu (non-veg folks could of course use chicken or whatever). I make a spicy peanut sauce to dip them in.

[ab_grp]

I found find a recipe for air fryer egg rolls that I wanted to try but am thinking it might be difficult to get the wrappers here.  We don't have an air fryer per se.  I bought an air fryer lid (Mealthy brand) that fits on my instant pot.  We love it and use it all the time--- a lot more often than we use the actual instant pot!  Here's the recipe I came across that we haven't tried yet: https://www.sustainablecooks.com/lazy-ladys-guide-to-homemade-egg-rolls/ I like that spring rolls are healthier, and those sound really good and fairly easy, Puget!

[darkstarrynight]

I air fried artichokes last night (from a can) and they were amazingly delicious to add to a salad!

[OneMoreYear]

I'm not motivated enough to find the drinking thread, and I guess technically, this was my "dessert." I took a needed break away from grading to try a new brewery with my SO. Had an excellent Belgian Dubbel and some darn good Korean fried cauliflower "wings." Now, back to the grading binge. 

[ergative]

Strawberry peach pie. Chilling in the fridge now.

[AmLitHist]

Strawberry peach pie. Chilling in the fridge now.

Ooh, that sounds good!  I just bought some of both today.

Here, it's store-made pizzas, cheesy garlic bread, and fresh blackberries with cream for dessert.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

We're going off the dairy deep end...

Beverage(s): Iced ginger mint sweet tea (not 'Southern' sweet) and probably water.

Main: Homemade from scratch- mac & cheese.

Sides: Some kind of green vegetable.

Dessert: Chocolate pudding.

[Stockmann]

Yesterday lunch was salmorejo - peeled tomatoes, olive oil, old bread, garlic blended together, garnished with serrano ham.

[sinenomine]

My farm share provided eggplant this week, so I just enjoyed eggplant parmigiana and a glass of wine on the back porch. Chocolate chip and salted caramel cookies are in the near future.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

Yesterday lunch was salmorejo - peeled tomatoes, olive oil, old bread, garlic blended together, garnished with serrano ham.

Damn. That sounds good!

[Stockmann]

Yesterday lunch was salmorejo - peeled tomatoes, olive oil, old bread, garlic blended together, garnished with serrano ham.

Damn. That sounds good!

Thanks, yes, it's a very nice dish.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

Tonight, we had:

Beverage: Gatorade (me), water (SO)

Main: Veggie burgers (faux chicken patties) with lettuce, mayo and buffalo sauce.

Sides: leftover mac & cheese (me), chips (SO), watermelon (me), pineapple (me).

Dessert: chocolate pudding

[secundem_artem]

Beer Can Chicken. 

For the last 10 minutes, I brushed it with a sauce made from Gochujang, Soy Sauce, Dehydrated Onions, Minced Garlic, Salt, Pepper, Honey, and Toasted Sesame Oil.

Some squash, peppers and mushrooms on a skewer on the side.

And a can of Budweiser (I enjoy a fine macro-brew) to wash it all down with.

[ab_grp]

That sounds wonderful, secundem_artem! I haven't had beer can chicken in years and never with such a yummy sauce.

[mamselle]

?? Please enlighten the rest of us (or maybe just me....)

Since I don't drink beer I wouldn't have any cans lying around to stuff chicken parts into--which is what it sounds like

Reminds me of the kinds of cooking one does with kids on a camping trip...you know, potatoes in jackets and that kind of thing....

But I'm guessing it's not.

So...??

M.

P.S. Me, I'm having spinach salads these days: cool, lots of different toppings, a honey-mustard drizzle dressing I make myself, and maybe one Lindt dark chocolate truffle for dessert (can you tell I'm trying to regulate my diet??) or I made some cornbread + apriocot jam filling journeycake (1/2 slice allowed at dinner) last week...that was also good: cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, and honey added to the usual cornbread recipe, plus a middle layer of fruit jam, or sometimes real fruits).