What did you have for dinner?

Glimmervoid

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#27
Steak Pie, mashed sweet potatoes and peas. The peas came in a can and the pastry for the crust came ready made but I made everything else by hand.


The pie contained steak, carrots, a chicken stock cube, mushrooms, red wine, onions and some water. The sweet potatoes had butter, milk and a pinch of cinnamon.

Here's the large version for people who want it. And here's a closer look at the steak pie before I cut it.
 

Meinos Kaen

Well-Known Member
#28
Pasta all'insalata. Penne rigate with small tomatoes, tuna, mais and parmisan.
 

Lord Raa

Exporter of Juice Tins
#29
Slow roasted braised pork belly, Yorkshire pudding, beans, carrots, parsnips and potatoes.

Followed by Eaton mess.
 
#30
Teriyaki steak & rice.
 

Glimmervoid

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#31
Today I had some really nice salmon and it was easy to make too.

Take some salmon.
Place on tinfoil.
Add a tiny bit of oil, a splash of soy sauce, some salt and pepper, and thin line of sweet chilly sauce.
Fold the tinfoil to cover the fish, meeting at a peak over the centre so the juices drop back down.
Cook in an oven for 15min at 175 degrees.

Lovely (large version)
 
#32
Fried Chicken, Mashed Potatoes w/ Gravy, Crescent Rolls and Green Beans.
 

Glimmervoid

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#33
Last night I made mince and mashed potatoes.

It turned out really well. The mince had spring onions, mixed beef and pork mince, carrots, mushrooms, soy source, balsamic vinegar and a fairly random assortment of herbs from the herb draw. I also put in a few sliced cherry tomatoes and a dash of tomato puree, not enough to make it a bolognese source but just enough to give it a nice taste.

Here's the end result (Large version)
 
#34
I just came back from a McD's... normally I would not touch a fast-food burger apart from Five Guys, with a ten-foot pole, but I wanted a couple burgers and have no ground beef in the fridge. Decided to take a risk.

Total input:
(2) Quarter-Pound Deluxes with lettuce, tomato, onion, on a bakery-style bun; hold the mayo, no cheese, add ketchup
(1) medium fries

The burgers were actually shockingly tasty, and the fries were very fresh and had the perfect amount of salt. I can make a better burger myself but these were not bad at all. Granted, a sample size of one meal could always be a fluke, but perhaps the old Golden Arches is taking ingredients quality more seriously...
 

crazyfoxdemon

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#35
Applesauce.. Lots of applesauce.. Got my wisdom teeth pulled... So I'm kinda limited on what I can eat.
 
#36
crazyfoxdemon said:
Applesauce.. Lots of applesauce.. Got my wisdom teeth pulled... So I'm kinda limited on what I can eat.
Oh gods I remember having my wisdom teeth yanked. Had chipmunk cheeks and drooled blood for days, and couldn't eat anything solid at all. There could be no better summary of that week than "It sucked."

Hope yours isn't as bad.
 

Ninsaneja

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#37
"teriyaki" steak.
It's really something else but I call it that so my picky younger siblings will eat it.

Ingredients:
Sauce:
1/2 bottle (about 175 ml) of Woodchuck "Amber" hard cider
A small splash of wine, cooking wine, sake, or sherry
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons sugar

Meat:
1.25-1.5 lbs of steak. I don't know what the cut is... market basket labels it "Beef for Teriyaki, thin."

Seasoning:
3-6 tablespoons fresh/non-dried minced garlic
1/4 onion, diced, or else two tablespoons onion powder
Chopped Scallions
Cinnamon
Hot chili powder, best if its the real stuff from a chinese or indian specialty grocer. Add to your preferred level of spicy.
Sesame seeds (mostly as decoration)
a pinch of ginger powder. Careful. It will overwhelm everything if you add too much.
Optionally, crushed peanuts, cashews, or almonds

Mix the sauce in a large pan with a decent lip (to avoid spilling.)
I put in the alcohol first, then soy sauce, then the sugar and stir to dissolve it.
Put the burner on medium for now.
Add the meat, and make sure it's in a single layer. No meat should be resting on top of other meat.
Add in the seasoning, except the cinnamon, and stir a bit to make sure it gets in the sauce instead of resting on top of the steak.
Increase burner to medium-high.
Add cinnamon, a light amount on top of each steak slice. Do not stir further. Cover and let heat for about 5 minutes.
After those aforementioned 5 minutes, flip each steak and stir slightly, really just push them around a bit.
Cover again and wait 5 minutes.
Cut the largest pieces in half to check if it's done. You should be able to cut it in half with the spatula.
If it isn't done, cover and wait 1-2 minutes, repeat as necessary.
I prefer it to be totally gray with no pink insides, because my brother will not eat pink meat at all.

You can add thawed vegetables or rice to the sauce after removing the steak.
The flavor is sweet and spicy, with a hint of sour from the cider.
Optionally, marinate in the sauce with the garlic, onion and ginger before cooking 1-2 days. It's a lot of work to marinate stuff.
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
#38
nuclear death frog said:
crazyfoxdemon said:
Applesauce.. Lots of applesauce.. Got my wisdom teeth pulled... So I'm kinda limited on what I can eat.
Oh gods I remember having my wisdom teeth yanked. Had chipmunk cheeks and drooled blood for days, and couldn't eat anything solid at all. There could be no better summary of that week than "It sucked."

Hope yours isn't as bad.
I had four wisdom teeth out at once, two impacted, a few months ago.

No chipmunk cheeks, no bruises, I stopped bleeding within the hour, never took any of the medicine they gave me 'cause there was no pain.

This has happened to someone else, SOMEWHERE, right?

Cause it's starting to freak me out that literally everyone but me has wisdom tooth horror stories and mine didn't even rate a 1 on a scale to ten...
 

Ninsaneja

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#39
Shiro, I was almost like that except that the surgeon nicked a nerve or something, causing me years of intermittent pain.

However, I did claim to be in greater pain than I was (at first) because vicodin.

EDIT: Not that I'm a junkie or anything, it's just great for migraines and can only get it when you have surgery.
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
#40
nah, no nerves nicked, they were worried about that. They kept brushing my lower lip and asking "Now are you SURE you can feel that? You can't lie, you're definitely sure you can feel that?"
 
#41
You must have the luck of the gods.
 

Glimmervoid

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#42
Made a beef stew a few days ago. It uses the same recipe as the Crock Pot Venison Stew from the first post in this thread, save beef was used in place of venison and red peppers in place of carrots, of which I'd run out. It didn't turn out as good as I'd hoped but was still nice.

 

seitora

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#43
Ketchup potato chips. These are a thing in Canada.
 
#47
Porcupine meatballs, au gratin potatoes, and fried green beans with bacon.
 

akun50

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#48
Oven-roasted chicken breast sub from Subway with lettuce, tomato, pickles and ranch dressing.
 

Meinos Kaen

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#49
So, since I had a McDonalds coupon out of going to the movies to see Into Darkness, I was planning on that... Until, I don't know why, I had this instinct and refusal. "FUCK IT! TONIGHT WE DINE HEALTHY!"

So, I whipped out a vegetable soup with some small pasta alias Minestrone...


With some Parmigiano too on top...


And a medium-rare steak with just a bit of balsamic vinegar.
 

decibels

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#50
Meinos Kaen said:
So, since I had a McDonalds coupon out of going to the movies to see Into Darkness, I was planning on that... Until, I don't know why, I had this instinct and refusal. "FUCK IT! TONIGHT WE DINE HEALTHY!"

I am now imagining Leonidas arriving in hell and Hades serving him a meal of bread crusts and water and Leonidas just staring at it going "what".


On topic, currently eating some spaghetti with sauce parmesan and a bit of sliced turkey sausage that I cook in the skillet a bit.
 
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