What’s Cooking this Week? [NOT 17/11/20]

17/11/20 brightersideoflife 45
overhead view of someone prepping food - cuttting board, some chopped veggies, and a stock pot with ingredients in it

What’s on your menu this week? I found out someone on my floor tested positive for covid so I’m working from home all week. So naturally I’m going to make something tomorrow since it can simmer on the stove all day. I think it’s going to be a robust veggie soup.

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  1. I was away from home for a few days & since I’m the only one that seems to cook, came home to no food.  That put me on a binge of cooking since I had a few days off.  So far this week, enchiladas, jambalaya, garlic ahi, & tonight palehu steak & grilled mahi for my pescatarian daughter & twice baked potatoes.  Everything I make not seafood, I have to make another version for her with seafood or vegetarian.  Exhausting but makes me be creative. 

  2. Tried making fried raviolis last nite and failed miserably. Well, it was more trial and error, with plenty of the latter.  Hello Fresh meals the rest of the week. 

  4. I made jambalaya for dinner. I bought an assortment of mushrooms to do Cousin Matthew’s Stroganoff without the beef. This weekend will be grilled salmon. 

    • You have to tell me how that turns out. And are you going to sub in vegetable stock for the beef broth/stock? If Warden Cuomo ever allows us to have people into our homes again the first guests at the top of my list will have vegetarians among them. This is normally no big deal for me, I just make something Italian, a lot of Italian recipes have no meat in them, and this would be something slightly different. It’s also freezing here today so finally it’s time to start thinking about hearty, wintery dinners.

      • I’m not a vegetarian but I like mushrooms more than beef. I think I’ll still use beef broth for depth of flavor. If they are pexcatarians I’d add some fish sauce to punch up the flacor. But I’m sure vegetable broth would work too. I bought baby bellas, button, and cremini mushrooms. 

  5. The driveway at work was being paved after the water pipe for the fire hydrant was replaced so I couldn’t get out for lunch. I ordered pizza with the vegan cheese. I’m not a fan of the vegan cheese but the place I order from is liberal enough with the olives that if I ask nicely the pizza basically tastes like olives. In other words, I’ve been eating delicious pizza.

    Tomorrow I am going to chop up and boil the potatoes before it’s too late and mash them (who has time to bake the fucking things…let alone TWICE?!) to go with my secret vegan gravy recipe I intend to prepare.

    Toss in some Carolina Reaper peppers and “where do you get your protein?” (I have never been asked that before…thanks for asking!) still undecided on the main.

        • It really is very good. I make it multiple times a year and serve it to friends and family. They always comment on how much they like it and they can’t believe it’s vegan. 

      • Even off the top of my head I can make that recipe better…

        …and you might think I sound crazy at first but try it and tell me I am wrong.

        • replace the nutritional yeast with rice flour
        • replace the dijon mustard with (don’t hate me ’til you try it) actual mustard you’d put on a hot veggie dog
        • add 1/2 tsp garlic powder

        Gratuitous vegan gravy pro-tip: Always “toast” the dry ingredients before adding the wet ingredients rather than adding the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.

  6. I made sweet potato and black bean burritos yesterday and today I’m going to make some sort of tofu dish. I didn’t realize my tofu was already past the best by date, so I need to make it ASAP. 

    Later in the week I’m probably going to make black bean and veggie enchiladas and some sort of vegetarian pozole.

  7. Hmmm, I made herbed shrimp over jasmine rice; scallops with a caper, lemon zest, and white wine sauce; whole wheat pasta with a mushroom and leek sauce, homemade vegetable soup, and some other stuff I forget. I cook ahead for  the week on the weekend, because in most cases I am too tired to spend a hour + at it after work. I am very interested in the vegan and vegetarian suggestions above.

  8. Yay I like seeing what’s for dinner posts here! That said, I literally had cereal for dinner last night, and frozen pizza tonight. (I did at least doctor up the pizza with some broccoli and onions, so that’s something.) I’m hoping to get myself motivated again tomorrow and make a stir fry with tempeh or chilli garlic noodles. And I want to make corned bean hash sometime this week (it’s a corned beef hash mimic but with kidney beans). That’s a fun and easy recipe I really like making but I rarely do for some reason. 
     
    Lildamnhero has been in a very picky eating phase so he rarely eats what we’re eating, but we’re starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel. He’s been eating some of my husband’s breakfast burritos, he’s eating pasta again, and sometimes beans (which used to be one of his favorite foods)… He even asked for a piece of broccoli off my pizza tonight. 

  9. Planning on making Taragon Chicken for the first time.  Just need the booze components (cognac and white wine).  However, I am not good with sauces (no patience or too little/much heat and turn it into a mess) so I am leery, but it looks good.

  10. im living on canned soups this week
    *farscy is on strike*
    apparently at mo im sposed to work to pay all the bills then come home to do the dishes no one did yet so i can cook for everyone then probably do the dishes again and put on laundry and also save money so i can move out…wich i cant do coz the other 2 lazy assholes wont get jobs to help with the bills… decided i had enough of that
    im fine with a can of soup after work..you two sort yerselfs out…i have books to read

  11. I saw this and meant to post earlier… oops.

    Anyway, dinner was nothing exciting, just the last of some previously-frozen homemade soup (veggie and… pork? I think? I forgot to label it when I froze it!) There was only half a bowl of whatever it was, so I added a scoop of the rice that I made the night of the Kinjapocalypse.

    Husband ate at work, Other-Husband had leftover pasta casserole from last night, and the kids had rice with leftover beans and meat from the same night. Husband also brought home a 6 pack of giant cinnamon rolls from work, which the pack of Vultures teenagers descended on and destroyed in moments.

    After dinner snacks included extra salty Splitz pretzels and a handful of mini M&Ms.

    I have no idea what I’m cooking this week. Tomorrow is food pantry day, so… we’ll see what we get and go from there!

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