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NJCher

(40,729 posts)
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 04:01 PM Jul 1

What's for Dinner, Mon., July 1, 2025

Thinly sliced eggplant, breaded, and layered with cheese, chicken, and TJ's eggplant garlic spread. Basil leaves.

Cucumber salad with red onion; sour cream and creme fraiche dressing.

Kombucha; unflavored.

Dessert: A few Danish puff paste cookies with strawberry filling.

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What's for Dinner, Mon., July 1, 2025 (Original Post) NJCher Jul 1 OP
a big salad and some plantains I must fry soon mike_c Jul 1 #1
cuke salad justaprogressive Jul 1 #2
Air fried butterfly shrimp, french fries and coleslaw. Emile Jul 1 #3
yum woon sen surrealAmerican Jul 1 #4
Cobb salads PJMcK Jul 1 #5
Lazy dinner buzzycrumbhunger Jul 1 #6
Grazing Cairycat Jul 1 #7
Love eggplant. I cooked one-pot Chicken Marsala with bowtie pasta, broccoli amd mushrooms. txwhitedove Jul 1 #8

mike_c

(36,627 posts)
1. a big salad and some plantains I must fry soon
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 04:24 PM
Jul 1

If not for the plantains at the end of their shelf life, I wouldn't cook today at all. It's 110 F and neither of us have much appetite in this heat. So tomato slices, English cucumbers, red onion, oregano, salt, pepper, dressed with olive oil and vinegar. K adds torn romaine to hers, and I add chick peas and artichoke hearts to mine. With a side of fried plantains.

Emile

(36,006 posts)
3. Air fried butterfly shrimp, french fries and coleslaw.
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 05:50 PM
Jul 1

Butter pecan ice cream before bedtime.

Good Evening

PJMcK

(23,944 posts)
5. Cobb salads
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 06:22 PM
Jul 1

Start with wedges of ice berg lettuce. Add thinly sliced red onion and scatter black olive slices on the wedge. Put slices of hard boiled egg around and top with crumbled bacon. Small wedges of tomatoes around the sides. Pour a dressing of well mixed Balsamic vinegar and olive oil over the salad then top it with crumbled blue or Gorgonzola cheese. Finally, add thin slivers of grilled chicken breast and enjoy!

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,225 posts)
6. Lazy dinner
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 06:29 PM
Jul 1

Chickenless mandarin orange nuggets from TJ’s with a good pile of Japanese fried rice (brown rice w/carrots, edamame, and hijiki) and penty of Szechuan sauce to spice it up. Will finish off the red grapes I’ve been working on and call them dessert.

Cairycat

(1,819 posts)
7. Grazing
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 07:59 PM
Jul 1

for supper, since we had a big meal midday, to celebrate my husband's birthday (which is not til Friday, but he has to work). Barbecued ribs and pulled pork from the best place in the area, augmented with homemade potato salad, coleslaw, and cheesecake with raspberries. But the best part of the meal was spending time with both our sons

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