What's for Dinner, Sun., Sept. 29, 2025

[NJCher]

Overcast and still raining here. Slow, steady rain.

I turned the cabbage I grew and cooked into a soup, along with pureed acorn squash. Added more "souply" items like Better Than Bouillon vegetarian and chopped, caramelized onions. Herbs like thyme. I put in a whole block of queso cheese, chopped up.

It is really good and I think the reason for it is that when I cooked the cabbage, I did it in slices, per the recipe. This charred it a bit and also caramelized it.

Also made up a big tossed salad, which has both baby romaine arugula. Radishes, peppers, onions, carrots, cherry tomatoes.

I have a fresh pineapple, so I'm grilling slices of it for dessert. Vanilla no-sugar cookie to go with it.

Kombucha: cherry.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Baked chicken breast, which I brined first.

Spinach mashed potatoes, whole green beans, Rhodes rolls.
Mini baked pumpkin donuts for dessert.

[Drum]

2. (Posted earlier, before your thread appeared)

Game-day cooking...

My wife is traveling, so it’s just me here anticipating seeing some football games on my iPad.

I’m hoping to make a simple-sounding baked dish I saw on the NYTimes Cooking site: Sausage, cabbage, black pepper and butter, baked for 2-1/2 hours. Adding in some onion and thin potato slices. Serving as recommended with some bread and coarse mustard. Fingers crossed!

Gift link to the recipe:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1881-sausage-and-cabbage?unlocked_article_code=1.OU4.BJWL.UWzPTvhrkfLy&smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share

Update: this was easy to assemble and just trundle into the oven. I upped the temp to 325 for 2 hours, and it smells amazing. I just uncovered it and reduced heat to 300 to reduce the liquid, so in a half hour I will be dining. Accompanied by a fresh sourdough loaf and coarse mustard, and the wonderful Rare Vos beer from Ommegang here in New York.

Yummmmm!

[Emile]

3. Doctored up frozen pizza.

Finely chopped red and yellow peppers, onion, mushrooms, sausage, pepperoni and mozzarella cheese.

Slice of blueberry pie and vanilla ice cream before bedtime.

Good Evening

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Roast Beef * Salad with Beets, Apples, and Horseradish

* Spiced Roast Eye of Round

[Cairycat]

5. Salmon hash

The guys got cans of salmon at Trader Joe's when they were in the Twin Cities last weekend, so I was trying something new. The hash had roast potatoes, onion and bell pepper. At the end, I put the chunked up salmon over the potatoes to warm through, while on another sheet pan I cooked eggs, a la Eric Kim's instructions for the eggs with Sheet Pan Bibimbap to have over the hash.

( https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022131-sheet-pan-bibimbap?unlocked_article_code=1.OU4.eqvc.H8UGp64lDeEW&smid=share-url ). (gift article)

We had some stir-fried lacinato kale to go with, also a dry German Riesling.

If any of us want dessert, we could have some of the applesauce I canned today, from the pint that didn't seal, sigh.

[Retrograde]

6. Beef stew and Yorkshire pudding

day #4 of roast leftovers (it was a big roast. We did Chinese takeout yesterday just for a change). Half of it will be frozen for future use, and there are still leftovers for sandwiches, cheesestakes and beef satay if I can figure out how to do it.

[AKwannabe]

7. Worked late but still fed myself dinner. Yay!

Fresh green beans and potato boil.
Onion, S&P and some bacon fat rendered in the nuker. Boiled for about an hour.
I had three helpings!!

Will be even better tomorrow
Might turn it into a hash …idea from another reply here tonight.

[MissMillie]

8. Baked cod

Seasoned w/ butter, lemon and dill

A "loaded," buttered cous cous on the side (w/ diced carrots, onions, peppers, celery and garlic)

Buttered beets

I had a slice of the NC Lemon Pie for dessert.