• Cyburbia is a friendly big tent, where we share our experiences and thoughts about urban planning practice, the built environment, planning adjacent topics, and anything else that comes to mind. No ads, no spam, and it's free. It's easy to join!

Food / drink 🍗 The 'help me figure out what to have for dinner tonight' thread

Maister said:
Tonight has been decreed to be 'breakfast for dinner night.' That usually means making pancakes or waffles. I will still likely make those, but what else should I make to go with them?
Click to expand...
Biscuits and gravy is my favorite breakfast for dinner option. But if you're dead set on pancakes/waffles, some sort of omelet would be good to get some protein and veggies in.
 
Buckwheat pancakes would be good. You could fill buckwheat crepes with him and cheese or some other savory filling.
 
Bacon hamburgers and fries tonight.

I am going to season mine with chaolite pepper while it is on the grill to give it a bit of a kick, but all for them will get a combination of dried Italian herbs before they get cooked. When finished, I will top if with bacon that I air-fry in the oven and blue cheese.

For the fries, I also air-fry those, I drizzle olive oil on them and then toss them in a combination of onion and garlic powder, the same Italian herbs blend.

For the wife, I make her sweet potato fries because she likes those more.
 
Half buckwheat half wheat bran and buttermilk make standard Sunday pancake brkfst, honey, maple, or sorghum syrup.
 
I’ll take a small package of frozen salmon fillet and smear the top with Dijon maple syrup sauce and throw it in the oven covered for 20 min remove the foil and let it finish another 5-10 min. Super easy super tasty.
 
Jen said:
I’ll take a small package of frozen salmon fillet and smear the top with Dijon maple syrup sauce and throw it in the oven covered for 20 min remove the foil and let it finish another 5-10 min. Super easy super tasty.
Click to expand...
I had salmon today too. I call it "Norwegian sushi": I get about a dozen Triscuit crackers, smear with cream cheese, then put the sliced smoke salmon from Costco on the crackers and top them off with the mustard dill sauce that comes with the salmon. It's kind of hors d'oeuvre-y but I think it makes a nice dinner.
 
Tomorrow my wife's birthday day will start with frittata brunch blessed by bacon and grits along with scones made by an East German physicist turned baker who uses high end equipment to make an array of baked product, all sourdough, that we have become addicts of...more later.
 
fringe said:
...scones made by an East German physicist turned baker who uses high end equipment to make an array of baked product, all sourdough, that we have become addicts of...more later.
Click to expand...

wel.gif
 
Got some 15 bean soup in the slow cooker that I intend to have for dinner tonight. It's a bean soup kinda day I guess.

Pbs Food Cooking GIF by PBS
 
Maister said:
Got some 15 bean soup in the slow cooker that I intend to have for dinner tonight. It's a bean soup kinda day I guess.

Pbs Food Cooking GIF by PBS
Click to expand...
I suppose that forgoes the need for an exterminator for a while. (somebody needs to post the gif from Blazing Saddles where the cowboys are sitting around the campfire farting while eating beans.)
 
Maister said:
Tonight has been decreed to be 'breakfast for dinner night.' That usually means making pancakes or waffles. I will still likely make those, but what else should I make to go with them?
Click to expand...
Oooh, this may be dinner at my house tonight as well. I can't decide between just a bagel sandwich with eggs (super easy and fast) or hash browns with a runny yolk or two on top...
 
So I thawed a package of pork chops for dinner tonight. How should I prepare them and what should I serve with them?
 
Maister said:
So I thawed a package of pork chops for dinner tonight. How should I prepare them and what should I serve with them?
Click to expand...

Get some small, yukon gold potatoes. Cut them into quarters, roughly. Boil them for maybe 10 minutes, with some sea salt or even just plain salt in the water so they soak it up a bit, dig? Strain and then fry those mostly-softened quarters in a little oil (olive or vegetable or whatever) and sprinkle them with some black pepper and garlic salt or whatever (I like to use that giant bottle of "Johnny's" you get at Costco, personally.)

Then, I would get some of those green beans you gotta cut the ends off yourself, you know? And I fry those up just really quickly enough till they're bright green. Nothing but salt and pepper on those.

Those would be my go-to sides for pork chops. You get them mixed in with that Heinz 57 or whatever else.....yeah. I'm ready for dinner now. Pork chops. Yeah.
 
ursus said:
Get some small, yukon gold potatoes. Cut them into quarters, roughly. Boil them for maybe 10 minutes, with some sea salt or even just plain salt in the water so they soak it up a bit, dig? Strain and then fry those mostly-softened quarters in a little oil (olive or vegetable or whatever) and sprinkle them with some black pepper and garlic salt or whatever (I like to use that giant bottle of "Johnny's" you get at Costco, personally.)

Then, I would get some of those green beans you gotta cut the ends off yourself, you know? And I fry those up just really quickly enough till they're bright green. Nothing but salt and pepper on those.

Those would be my go-to sides for pork chops. You get them mixed in with that Heinz 57 or whatever else.....yeah. I'm ready for dinner now. Pork chops. Yeah.
Click to expand...
And all this time I figured you to be a Stovetop Stuffing kind of guy.
 
Friday night is pizza night. I left a dough to rise in a literal bath of olive oil in my 16" cast iron pan this morning. I will gently (so as not to collapse it's Marshmallow Fluff-like texture) sprinkle it with both normal and fresh mozzarella and sauce when I get home tonight and bake it at 450 for 25 minutes.

This will result in a bottom crust much like the one on Pan pizzas you remember from Pizza Hut in the 80's, but made with better oil.

I really need to get myself some of those plastic red cups for cola and a table-version Ms. Pac Man arcade game to complete the evening.
 
mendelman said:
Schnitzel is a style of preparation not a form of ingredients.

I made schnitzel yesterday with pork chops and they were glorious.

:cool: :scotch:
Click to expand...
No no no. Schnitzel is meat you pound/tenderize into a thin patty, then bread and fry. You can't tenderize meat with bones in it like chops usually have.
 
I vote stir fry.

Stop at the market, get red and green peppers, some cherry tomatoes, an onion, canned pineapple chunks, and some chicken. Fire up the grill even though it's cold. Cut all into strips (except tomatoes and pineapples, dedoy!) and then grill that shiz with a lot of Worchestershire sauce. If you don't want to bbq it, do it in a big sauce pan on the stove. No big. Add teriayaki as you finish, and heave in those tomatoes and pineapple right at the end as well.

Junior drives now, right? Send his butt to the local strip mall Asian food place for a big box of rice. I freaking hate cooking rice. :)
 
Okay guys, it's Wednesday night and the only idea I've got so far is breakfast for dinner....suggestions?
 
kms said:
I have no idea what's in your larder, so I'll suggest French Dip sandwiches and onion rings.
Click to expand...
I couldn't like that suggestion enough. French Dip is always the right choice. Boom.
 
Last night I made a steak labelled "boneless top / loin / boneless / loin steak" with some spices and lime/olive oil rub and it turned out good. The spices were turmeric, cumin, coriander, black pepper, sea salt, sweet paprika, sumac, and cinnamon. I think you could probably do a shoe low and slow with that mix and get something edible. The steak was cut like an acute angle and part was very rare and part was well done. I chopped it after resting (I don't know what the steak did during this period) and we ate it off the cutting board with some sliced cucumber.
 
joscoffee said:
Do you have a secret for making the quesadilla stay together with additional fillings? Mine become too floppy when the cheese becomes less than 95% of the filling typically.
Click to expand...
The answer is more cheese! 😉 Put cheese on the bottom and top of the additional filling to act as mortar for the quesadilla.

[tortilla-cheese-burrito stuff-cheese-tortilla]

And make sure you have a good ring of cheese along the edge of the tortilla to adhere to both sides.
 
Thursday night has been our designated leftovers night since 2013.

Why Thursday night, you ask? Well, there is a logical reason. Trash gets picked up Friday morning, so it's a good time to clean out the fridge and eat/toss stuff.
 
So no takeout until Christmas owing to the paycheck timing and the need to purchase last minute gifts. I made knackwurst spaetzle and sauerkraut bake last night and have enough leftover for tonight.
1766061656756.png
 
Back
Top