What's Cookin for Supper?

Roasted salmon with a dry spice rub, roasted brussels sprouts, brown rice, sliced tomatoes.

Super healthy to make up for the massive wedges of chocolate birthday cake we all ate earlier!

Just me and the kids tonight so we're having buttermilk pancakes with strawberry-blueberry-mango sauce, bacon, and scrambled eggs.

Must be a pasta night!

I'm making a linguini with pesto (Kiddo is a great pesto helper, esp. with removing basil leaves and operating the cuisinart.) We'll fold in black olives, artichoke hearts and veggie "pretend" chick'n strips. Yum! I love one-dish meals.

And hopefully a side dish of kindness......

Bahn mi. :)

There's a pho shop down the street from my kiddos aikido class. $3 12" sammies that would cost me $10 to make= pure heaven. Happy taste buds, happy wallet, happy me!

We are cleaning out the fridge which has apple crisp, home made marinara, hot Italian sausages, pasta and I made one of our favorite fresh salads to go with it...

Light, Fresh ad Yummy...

Grape Tomato, Cucumber, red onion and feta cheese in vinegarette (sp.. that looks weird). Oh well.

Not sure yet ~ I'll know when I get home and my husband has it ready :) It's his night to cook!

Funny you should ask.
I just told Husband "Um, I think we ought to go over to the Willow Steakhouse for some grilled salmon with lemon dill sauce.." Man, I LOVE that stuff.
So, I know that I WILL be having Salmon, rice pilaf, and steamed veggies for dinner and NO DISHES!!
If I was young and raising kids, the usual could have been Pork chops, mac and cheese and green beans with a side of cottage cheese and peaches.
I love the empty nest... it's so nice to be able to go out whenever you want to.

Stuffed red and green peppers, because peppers are on sale this week.

Well, I am cooking whatever is in the house so we are having chicken alfredo with asparagus. What pasta is a mystery because I am not sure if I have enough linguini for all. Might be spaghetti pasta with the sauce. Not a stickler.

I thought I made a great meal--

Shell pasta with spaghetti and pesto sauce, with baked chicken tenderloin with the same sauce. 2 kids loved it, and I told my oldest the others thought it was delicious. He looks down at his bowl and says, "No, it's ba-badish!" LOL. Can't please them all.

Sunday night is leftover night.

Monday night is usually pasta. We are having American Chop Suey. It is something my Mother In Law used to make...it should be something like "simple spaghetti"

Elbow Macaroni (cooked)
Cooked hamburger
chopped onion
sliced black olives
tomato paste
tomato sauce
diced tomatoes

mix together, serve with garlic bread or corn bread...it's really easy to make and VERY filling...I do NOT know how it got the name "American Chop Suey" but that's what he's called it...oh well...

Thit Bo Luc Loc

I love it when we have leftovers from the restaurant!

I'm trying this:
http://weekofmenus.blogspot.com/2011/06/spaghettini-with-...

I made a potatoes/peas soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. It's meat free Monday, and we needed a quick dinner because we are headed out the door for a wake.

crock pot chicken with mashed potatoes and green beans

hamburgers luckily we had buns in the freezer, a little side custrard cup of peas, and nothing else because i always for get side dishes so i never thought to put the fries in to bake until the burgers were almost done. I offered the kids to get applesauce or cottage cheese out for them but they declined, so ,,, so be it.
\ and of course hubs say s he will be home a half hour after we have eaten but most of them time if i wait for him it ends up being an hour and then he says oh he really isn't hungry anyways. soo again so be it.

I have no idea. I'm sick and don't care, lol. Probably take out.

Spice-rubbed beer-can chicken roasted in the oven, brown rice pilaf and broccoli. Nice and simple tonight as we had hockey and lacrosse and needed stuff that more or less cooks itself. Will use the chicken later in the week for fajitas or Thai lettuce wraps.

Unstuffed Cabbage Casserole!

I'll be making baked potatoes and steak for dinner tonight.

I made this recipe up yesterday after our neighbor brought us several daikon. It was very good. We ate it with rice, a salad, and some strawberries for a light dinner. My 5 year old son, who has always hated daikon, loved this. We will eat the left overs tonight for dinner. It looks like I can get about three meals for the three of us out of this easy to make recipe. I might use a bit more chicken next time, but I used what I had in the fridge.

Daikon Chicken Soup

1 onion, chopped
1 large carrot, rolling wedges
1 daikon radish, 1/2inch quarter rounds (about 4 cups)
100grams shimeji mushroom (or shiitake mushroom)
200grams chicken thighs, chopped in small pieces
2 cups dashi broth (you could use chicken broth)
3 TBSP light soy sauce
1.5 TBSP sugar
2 TBSP grated ginger
1 tsp garlic powder
1 TBSP Canola oil

In a large sauce pan, sauté onion and carrot for 3 minutes. Add soy sauce, sugar, ginger, and garlic powder. Sauté for 2 more minutes. Add mushroom and daikon. Add dashi broth. Add chicken. Bring to a boil. Then lower heat. Simmer covered for about 30 minutes, or until daikon and carrot are cooked through.

Fish tacos with the super yummiest red pepper aioli! I have a great recipe and it is so quick and easy to make. I might even have a pomegranate margarita with it too. I'm do hungry now....

Chicken Piccata .... Just finished making it..

Marinated flat iron steak grilled for beef fajitas. With sautéed onions and red peppers, yum, yum.