What’s for dinner?

 CombustibleFireKitty:

I really hate cooking so I'm probably not the best person to be posting on here. To top it off, I like to pair very random foods together.  For example, today I had one of my favorite food pairings for dinner:

• Ramen noodles with baked beans and weenies (aka hotdogs)

The hotdogs are chopped up and mixed in the beans. The chicken ramen broth is almost drained out and then the noodles and remaining broth are placed on the same exact plate as the beans and weenies. 

Anybody adventurous enough to try this combo? If you like it, I have plenty more suggestions! Haha! :P

We had the worst cafeteria in college.  A quick filling meal when what the cooks offered was inedible was ramen with ranch style beans.  Close to what you had.  Not fancy cooking but it could be done in a hotpot. :)

It's Saturday so for me that means what's left that needs to be used up. We had our first snow today, just a skiff, but it's cold and that means I want soup.  : )

SATURDAY SOUP

1 Butternut Squash

Several Yukon Gold potatoes

1 large sweet onion

3 stalks of celery

Fresh Sage 

Fresh Parsley

1 Can of Chickpeas

2 cans of chicken broth 

I pulled out the old slow cooker and turned it on. I poured some light olive in a skillet and sautéed the chopped onion and celery then dumped them in the pot.  After butchering the squash without losing a hand I chopped the squash into spoon size pieces, did the same to the potatoes and then sautéed them all in the same skillet that I had used for the onion and celery, adding some salt, pepper, paprika, and ground coriander seeds to add flavor and then threw it all into the pot.   

I always heat my liquids in the skillet so that everything that goes into the slow cooker is at least warm. I scraped up the skillet fond with a spatula as the broth heated and left all that in the liquid for flavor.   After adding the hot broth I heated some water in the skillet and added a little cornstarch to thicken the broth a bit.  I drained the chickpeas and added them to the cooker.  I tossed in some fresh sage leaves, dried thyme, a bay leaf,  red pepper flakes and whatever else looked good.  

Several hours later I chopped some fresh parsley and put that into the soup and saved some for garnish. We ate it with crusty bread and oh my goodness it hit the spot.  Simple and yummy. :)

It's the weekend so, time to experiment with soup----

Amarilla Soup

Amarilla (yellow) beans, carrots, yellow bell pepper, yellow summer squash, celery, onion, canned tomatoes with green chiles, a few chopped stalks of frozen asparagus, a few kernels of corn to keep the yellow theme, wild rice, saffron, various herbs and spices. Served topped with sliced green onions and parsley.  Would have been better with cilantro and maybe a wedge of lime, but I worked with what I had.  

 As always, it's a brand new soup day.  There are times I wish I made soup the way my mom did-the same way every time.  My soups are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.  :)

Cooked apples with cinnamon for dessert.  Nothing wrong with that. 

Have a great week beautiful people!  Let us know---What's for dinner?

@rooj75 only am familiar with by frozen entree . who would think caramelized onions, yogurt and dark chicken would taste right together? spicy but not the runny nose/breathe fire sort more like your lips feel tingly. someday i should try to find at a restaurant

@eightocci I've definitely had the frozen entree version for a quick meal. I think they're still very tasty but unfortunately don't do the dish it's full justice. 

Today I had some baked fish and clams in a lemon, garlic and white wine sauce. :)

Spinach rice with feta cheese & almond milk cream, and plain omelette with just a spoonful of grated cheese & spices, served with the rice, along with some sprinkled rocket leaves. 

For salad - rocket leaves, lettuce, et all, along with filleted mandarins, walnuts, and acorn cherry tomatoes, with citrus vinaigrette. 

Great & healthy dinner for me!! :) (But I just realized, I should have added grated fresh ginger to the salad since I have it...)

 Estelll:

Spinach rice with feta cheese & almond milk cream, and plain omelette with just a spoonful of grated cheese & spices, served with the rice, along with some sprinkled rocket leaves. 

For salad - rocket leaves, lettuce, et all, along with filleted mandarins, walnuts, and acorn cherry tomatoes, with citrus vinaigrette. 

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Great & healthy dinner for me!! :) (But I just realized, I should have added grated fresh ginger to the salad since I have it...)

if u make your own citrus vinaigrette, can you share your ingredients/recipe for that?