Show Us Your Great Meals This Week And Your Recipes

[OzEclipse]

Had a visit from the "Blackpool Sicilian" today. A friend and former work colleague of some 37 years who was born in Blackpool but with a swarthy Sicilian complexion, hence the nickname.

I knocked out a pot of my mum’s minestrone for lunch and soon, the leftovers will take care of my dinner as well. Like a big warm hug for the tummy on a cool winters day. Minestrone is normally made with pasta. If you make it without, it's still very filling and nutritious and it can be refrigerated or frozen and reheated and still taste as good. Reheated frozen pasta is a bit like wet cardboard.

Joe

[Makuser]

Hi all. My wife Sheri usually makes stuffed peppers with the green bell peppers. But, we have a bumper crop of the sweet yellow banana peppers this year.

So she figured out how to do this with the long banana peppers. A bottom layer of banana pepper, the ground beef stuffing (with worcestershire sauce, kosher salt, egg, minced onion, ground black pepper and bread crumbs), another layer of banana pepper, with the tomato, cheese, a couple of sliced black olive rings on top, and some Italian seasoning. I wished that I had taken this when they came out of the oven but we were hungry, so here is a picture of what is left today. And for a side dish I made my long grain white rice, wild rice, and some chopped Hapanero peppers.

I hope that you enjoy this recipe and bon appetite.

[helicon]

Last night nothing special. But tonight I have some guests and am grilling 2 top quality ribeyes and 2 filet mignons - all served with baked russet potatoes. Should be good.

[Makuser]

Hi Michael. A few nights ago I made bone-in ribeye steaks on the air fryer grill and fresh cut green beans for dinner. But again, we ate it all up before I could get a photo of the meal. So, show us the photos of your delicious sounding meal tonight before it is all gone.

[pakarinen]

No pics, but cooked egg noodles in chicken stock instead of salted water. Drained, added lemon juice and lemon zest, a boatload of garlic and oil, and a bit of butter. Stirred in some black pepper. Done.

Could add some sliced carrots or zucchini, onions, and/or grilled marinated chicken breasts for protein.

[helicon]

Hi Michael. A few nights ago I made bone-in ribeye steaks on the air fryer grill and fresh cut green beans for dinner. But again, we ate it all up before I could get a photo of the meal. So, show us the photos of your delicious sounding meal tonight before it is all gone.

Well those steaks were good. Awesome actually. But I forgot to take a picture...

[SkyHiker]

I just had homemade soda bread with an also homemade vegan cheese substitute: 2 cups of potatoes, 1 cup of carrots, 1/2 cup minced garlic, chicken broth powder (1/4 cup or so, to your liking), 1/2 cup of nutritional yeast, a spoonful of peanut butter, some liquid smoke, juice of half a lemon. Cook the potatoes and carrots in the microwave with some water, mix it all up with a hand blender. It's quite tasty and easy to make.

Yesterday I bought a 12 batches of Field Roast vegetarian sausages at Albertson's. They are tasty, full of protein, zero cholesterol and about 220 calories each. A single sausage easily lasts me the whole afternoon so I'm going to try this to keep my weight in check.

I am no vegan or vegetarian, just try to limit my cholesterol intake with food that I enjoy.

[Ylem]

Homemade pizza, with tomatoes, basil and oregano from the garden.

[pakarinen]

Marinated some thin chicken breasts in teriyaki sauce for about 6 hours, tossed 'em on the grill for a few minutes. Grilled zucchini on the side and rice. Simple and relatively cheap.

[GCoyote]

Wife is out of town so I'm trying a new potato salad recipe.

2 lb. baby Yukon Gold potatoes (I used red skins)
1 cup kosher salt (for the cooking water)
¾ cup sour cream
¼ cup mayonnaise
1 Tbsp. onion powder
2 tsp. Dijon mustard
1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
1 garlic clove, finely grated (I substituted garlic chives from the garden)
1 bunch chives, thinly sliced, divided
¼ small red onion, very thinly sliced through root end (I used 1/4 of a large Vidalia)

I had some an hour ago and I'm still alive so ...
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[Makuser]

Although a reheat from last night's dinner, it still looks and tastes great. Sheri's stuffed sweet banana peppers (she calls them banana boats because of their shape) and a side dish of fettuccine alfredo:

[GCoyote]

As usual this time of year, I ended up with too many tomatoes and my wife was not home to help me use them.
And it was too hot to cook.

Solution: gazpacho!

I got the attached recipe from Taste of Home.
It was pretty decent. If I try it again I would substitute cilantro for the oregano.

[Makuser]

Our Easter Sunday dinner. Sheri made a baked spiral cut boneless ham and I wanted try something new for a side dish. About a month ago we had a hash brown potato and cheese casserole at a restaurant and it was so good I went looking for a recipe. So tonight was the time to make the casserole and it turned out really great.

Here is the recipe:

Notes:
1. Be sure to get the frozen "hashed" potatoes and not the cubed potatoes.
2. We used the cream of chicken with herbs soup variety.
3. After removing from the oven garnish the top with a little parsley.
4. The prep time is longer then only 5 minutes, however it is well worth it.

I hope that all of you had a wonderful Easter Sunday with family and show us your dinner with recipe.

[GCoyote]

In addition to tomatoes peppers and herbs, we had good luck with out zucchini this year.

Dicing up peppers to freeze for later.

Zucchini Onion pie. Not bad as a one dish meal but I think the seasonings need to be completely redone.

Zucchini Onion Pie Recipe.pdf

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Zucchini Parmesan turned out better, and our variation Asiago Zucchini much better

Zucchini Parmesan Recipe_ How to Make It.pdf

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