Monday dinner, August 14, 2023, what's on your plate?

[medtran49]

Beef tataki, a mushroom and edemame salad, and a shrimp salad with sliced cucumbers, grated carrots, and a kimchee base/honey dressing.

 

[cjmmytunes]

Leftover baked chicken, Italian pasta salad, and Watergate salad. Dark chocolate for later.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I cobbled together a chicken quesadilla and had a dish of cantaloupe chunks.

This cantaloupe is unusual in that half of it is soft and half of it is hard. I’m still searching for a perfect cantaloupe!

 

[dragnlaw]

good luck with that one Aunt Bear!


Edit:
THAT WAS A TYPO !! but a funny one!

 

[blissful]

@Aunt Bea we've had more good cantaloupe this year than in past years. We don't grow them and I don't know anyone in WI that does. I'm not saying no one does, but I haven't seen it or met them. We've been eating them about 2ce a week.
Dinner tonight will be meal sized salads with caesar dressing (ground sesame seeds for the oil portion).

 

[msmofet]

Rotisserie chicken and fried rice.

 

[GinnyPNW]

For dinner....I'm working on some meatballs, I've got an onion roasting in the oven...I'll marry those in some gravy of some kind...and we'll have mashed taters too. Not sure what else...yet.

@Aunt Bea, the Hermiston (Oregon) Cantaloupes are at the top of their season, here in the Pacific Northwest. Nothing quite like them. The actually taste like cantaloupe! We're crossing our fingers that the local produce place will get one more delivery of them...they said they are trying!!

 

[Marlingardener]

Hot, hot, hot here, so we had a green salad with our cherry tomatoes and an Italian dressing and some chilled grilled salmon (leftover), with crackers.

 

[taxlady]

I wanted to use the hibachi to cook some burgers, but the grates are grotty and I didn't have the spoons for one more job before cooking supper. DH mixed up the burgers and I cooked them in the cast iron skillet. I served them with sliced onion, lettuce, two kinds of mustard, mayo, and sliced dill pickles. That really hit the spot. I was too tired to bother taking pictures.

 

[Jade Emperor]

Another Katsu

MrJade loves my Katsu, so he has been helpful in identifying what he really likes and how I can improve.
This one goes back to traditional style with crumbed and fried chicken and a much thicker sauce. Kewpie mayo not optional.

 

[Aunt Bea]

For dinner....I'm working on some meatballs, I've got an onion roasting in the oven...I'll marry those in some gravy of some kind...and we'll have mashed taters too. Not sure what else...yet.

@Aunt Bea, the Hermiston (Oregon) Cantaloupes are at the top of their season, here in the Pacific Northwest. Nothing quite like them. The actually taste like cantaloupe! We're crossing our fingers that the local produce place will get one more delivery of them...they said they are trying!!

Once a year we seem to get a great shipment of huge ripe cantaloupes with heavy netting on the rind from Maryland.

You can smell them before you see them in the market!

In the fall we get some good, not great, local melons direct from farmers at the state sponsored regional farmers market.

I never have much luck buying melons and ripening them on the counter for a few days, similar to bananas or tomatoes.

 

[Kathleen]

I had a PB&J.

 

[Andy M.]

I made chicken saté with peanut sauce and a pasta salad.