What's for Dinner, Thurs., July 17, 2014

[NJCher]

Eggplant rollatini. It's a Mollie Katzen recipe that calls for stuffing with pot cheese (I'm going to use ricotta instead). It has mushroom-tahini sauce to go over it.

I note that I've made this recipe twice in the past and rated it as only a six before, so I think I will halve it and do some experimenting. I am a lot more adventurous as a cook now than I was in '86 and '06, the dates I last made it.


Cher

p.s. if anyone's in the mood for a good cold soup recipe, I made one up using the guide in elleng's "Summer Cooking Toolkit" thread. It uses the zucchini juice that is a side product of making zucchini pizza crust.

[cbayer]

1. Upon arriving in Rome, our host served us lunch.

We had a pasta with garlic, red pepper and olive oil, then a salad with tuna. We had a few cookies and some watermelon for dessert.

All of this washed down with wine, then a coffee with grappa.

I am just now waking up from my nap, which took place during a huge thunderstorm.

Does life get any better?

[fizzgig]

2. all of the jealous!

i hope you're having a wonderful time.

[cbayer]

3. Wonderful doesn't even begin to describe it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Sounds wonderful!

Grappa is so good! The lunch sounds good as well.

[elleng]

7. Not much better than THAT, cbayer!

[fizzgig]

4. i actually remembered to pull the chicken from freezer

so something involving that. we have a bunch of salad stuff that needs eating, too.

[elleng]

6. WHO KNOWS!!!

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. I'm in a hamburger mood again.

Salad.

[pinto]

9. Blackened and limed steak, seared asparagus w/ garlic, salad.

[Galileo126]

10. Crunchy beef tacos

Lettuce, tomato, hot sauce and sour cream. I like adding serranos to the seasoned ground beef while it is cooking.

I anticipate yummy sauce dripping down my forearms.

[noamnety]

11. Wow, everyone else's dinner sounds so good!

We're just having big salad night here. Maybe with a whole wheat English muffin on the side.

So basically it's the home version of all you can eat salad and bread sticks from that place that shall not be named.

[Galileo126]

12. and for that...Cooking & Baking thanks you

It "shall not be named".

I do agree, I like 'big salad night' for dinner. It usually is when I'm in the mood for chick peas. So you have a protein, after that, pile on the veggies, and some dressing. (Note: I do like toasted bread cubes on my big salad.)

Sounds great, noamnety!

[madfloridian]

13. Publix Mojo rotisserie chicken.

Lots of garlic taste. It is really delicious. I have not tried the other types they offer, only the Mojo. Absolutely delicious. Hot the first day, love it sliced cold the 2nd day. Then maybe sandwiches.