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chewyspaghetti

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I keep forgetting to get something ready for dinner soon enough for it to actually be ready (what does that say about my brain lately!?!), and if I don't get started soon I will do it again. I have some drumsticks in the fridge. I think that I am going to mix up some sauce and pop them in the oven, make some white rice (which we almost never have- I always use long grain brown), and peas. It's like a TV dinner, but a lot more work LOL
What's for dinner at your house today?

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Queen Mum

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since 3 of my kids are gone, and hopefully the 4th will take off for the evening...
I'm grilling steak, baking potatoes, making a spinach salad, and opening a bottle of wine

Louise

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It's 10.30pm here in th UK so we've already eaten. Friday night is Chinese takeaway night for me and BF. We had cantonese sweet and sour chicken, special chow mein, chips and prawn crackers yum yum x

Vani

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Since it's just me and my dog, it is going to be brinner for me - scrambled eggs and wheat toast

Angie

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Yummy, Khris! Enjoy that bottle of child-free wine, Kim and you are making me hungry Louise.

We're having ikan boemboe bali, nasi phuti, atchar and steamed broccoli. That's Indonesian for hot spicy fish, sticky rice, sweet cold cucumber salad and broccoli. I made the food yesterday and we'll finish it off tonight. Selamat Makan!

Maya

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Angie, I hope you will make me Indonesian food if it can be made veg friendly!

I think we are having leftover homemade spiced veggie burgers. Not sure what's on the side. Probably a salad of sorts.

Dawn

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I just came home from a barbecue where I had two beef burgers- I'm way too full now. I also made lemon meringue pie this evening for another barbecue which I'm going to tomorrow afternoon.

marianna

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No idea what's for dinner yet. I like Vani's idea of brinner. Easy! BF and I just had a late lunch of sushi and miso soup.

Rosie

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All you ladies are making me hungry! Angie, yum.

I have some leeks I have to make and a new CSA box I have to explore when I get home. I will probably get some chicken to have with my leeks. Also, it's Friday so a piece of carrot cake might be in order!

On the topic of food, I just got a rice cooker for the first time. The one I got is by Lotus Foods and comes with a steamer, too. (Big discount if you order 4 instead of 1.) It is all stainless steel, so no weird chemicals to leech into food. My mom got one, too, and between the two of us we have made a variety of things apart from white, brown and wild rice, including farro, lentils, even beans. Throw your veggies in the steamer towards the end, even cook seafood in it! I sound like an infomercial, but talk about something that can create a really easy meal or sides with sooo little work! I highly recommend it.

Michelle

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I'm debating between:
Chicken burgers with guacamole and an arugula-based side salad
or
Salmon done in a lovely healthy way (drizzled with white wine, capers, lemon juice, pepper and fresh dill, then wrapped in parchment paper and popped in the oven for 10 mins. If I go that route I'll steam some asparagus to go with it.

Hmmm, Corey just voted for guac burgers.

Theresa

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Oh My Goodness!

Its almost 9.30am Saturday morning here and I've just had breakfast (sleep in today!)

But you guys are STILL making my mouth water and I'm feeling hungry again LOL

I guess at least now I have all day to fantasise about what I'm going to be doing for dinner tonight and you guys have given me some great inspiration!

(FWIW last night I had peanut butter on toast - definitely a lazy night for me!)

Rosie

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Toast and peanut butter is one of my favorites. Maybe I will just have that!

Theresa

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LOL Rosie glad to be of inspiration!!

hanna

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i try to prepare malaysian food as much as possible here, so tonight it's:

masak lemak cili api (or cili padi) -- a spicy coconut gravy spiced with turmeric and bird's eye chillis, with chicken and potatoes. the closest approximation i can find online is at http://everydaywife.islam4pare.....cili-padi/

ikan bakar -- grilled fish wrapped in banana leaves - http://rasamalaysia.com/grille.....nana-leaf/

...with a healthy helping of warm white rice of course!

agrace

It's probably a disgrace to call what I make curry but nonetheless, chicken with vegetables in a red curry sauce that will have lite coconut milk (for my husband and I) with steamed rice. For my children, that chicken with veggies and rice. I'm something of a short order cook often times b/c we have numerous food allergies in the house!

Angie, did you use a cookbook to make those dishes?

Theresa

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Agrace I know that feeling - the girls both have loads of allergies and so do I, but I'm now tolerating a lot more, so I cook myself very different meals to them - and of course there are days when they just simply want to eat different things so I often end up cooking 3 meals just to get everyone fed!

cciele

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I don't know what we're having. I just know that I don't want to cook tonight (my knee doesn't like me standing for long periods of time)! Probably leftovers, or whatever my husband brings home.

Kristine

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Wow, it all sounds good! We're lazy, frozen pizza with black olives and fresh garlic.

Sandra

Our fridge is overflowing with veggies from the CSA box and eggs from our chickens, so I think it's going to be a chard and green garlic souffle tonight. With wine, of course, as always. I'm also going to make a salad of red cabbage, red onion, red pepper, cherry tomatoes and feta cheese in a thyme vinaigrette. We're not vegetarians, but we eat that way several times a week.

Angie

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Marianna, I want sushi tomorrow night!

Michelle and hanna, when are you inviting me over for supper?

Sure Maya, Indonesian translates well into vegetarian cuisine. We often eat veggie Indo.

Rosie, don't forget to have your carrot cake :0)

Theresa, your supper is often our brekkie. Very yum.

Agrace, no cook books. It's all in my head - which is why I am the WORST person to ask for a recipe.

anne

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Sat morning here too.

We arrived home from our holidays to discover our freezer had gone on the blink (while my inlaws were here) Consequently our fridge's freezer was jam packed so I tried to relieve the pressure.

We had spaghetti bolognaise (sauce from the freezer) and peas. The sauce was made with kangaroo, which I am trying to use more, as it is more environmentally friendly and healthier than beef. And we had a blackberry and apple tart and icecream from the freezer, which is untypical of me, as I don't usually buy this type of desert.

Debora

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My son had frozen Eggo waffles while my husband and I had heavy hors d'ouevres at a fancy event tonight. Does that make me a bad mother?

marianna

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We ended up going out for Korean BBQ. Delicious and really healthy (no carbs!) but expensive. I need to learn how to cook.

elpgal

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I cooked up a storm today - chickpeas with kale, roasted cauliflower, potatoes and broccoli, lentil soup, rice. Hopefully, I won't have to see the inside of a kitchen till Mon

Tansie

Sat. morning here, but last night we had what my husband calls "prison food". There is no recipe for this delicacy but it involves onions and garlic, various spices, capsicum, tomatoes and sometimes corn. I serve it with rice and chopped avocado on top. I really like it! My poor, long-suffering husband doesn't but still gets to eat it about once a week!

bigi

Smoked mackerel with steamed potatoes, cucumber salad and sour cream (no dairy for me unfortunately, so - a soy alternative).

rute

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I made grilled salmon with broccoli (wich my daughter loves) and strawberries for the desert.

We love fish!

April

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S.O. is here for the weekend so we went to one of Philadelphia's vegetarian Chinese restaurants. It was fabulous: we had vegetable dumplings, General Tso's "chicken" with steamed broccoli, and Tofu Home Style. Yum.

Debora -- there goes that Mother of the Year award! Damn, and you were so close.

Queen Mum

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Debora- I'm calling the authorities

Anne- kangaroo? does it taste just like chicken? I guess I'm really uninformed but I had no idea you guys ate kangaroo down there. facinating! Do people hunt them in the wild, or are they raised on ranches for food like cattle? Hmm....the longer I think about it the more disturbed I am getting of the idea of you all eating kanga and little roo ;-(

londonkiwi (now back in NZ)

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Kim - Kangaroo is a very lean red meat.

We met friends very briefly at a wine bar last night (at a favourite place of mine called Terriors) for a quick drink and some shared plates of food. The star was a plate of grilled squid with a aioli.

Tonight we had falafel and I made a potato salad with little new potatoes and a tomato salad drizzled with lemon olive oil. Kind of bits and pieces put together.

Hanna - Malayasian food is my favourite. There are some fantastic Malyasian restaurants in Wellington, NZ and if I get home this week I will definitely be indulging!

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