M (Michelle?), that looks wonderful.

Welcome to the Cooking Forum, nice to see your post here.
Other peoples dinners offer us all inspiration. The WFD thread has been running for many years, I love it.

Nancy

Nancy,

Thanks for the welcome to the group. So many good dishes and inspiration in all of the posts. I love seeing food pics....love it, love it, love it!

Cheers,

M

Some great looking meals Nancy. Especially the Roast Chicken dinner.

Sue that salad looks and sounds wonderful.

Michelle, the perfect dinner on a snowy day.

We had roasted pork tenderloin on a bed of spinach with a light mustard sauce and parisienne potatoes.

Sooz, that fresh shrimp spring rolls is a big "WOW!!!"

Alexa, Roasted Butternut Squash Risotto, very nice food pairing.

lyndaluu2, everything is so nicely platted

ruthanna, I love the way your langostino scampi looks.

Sue, the Zesty Lime Shrimp and Avocado Salad is a winner.

Nancy, good meatloaf is challenging. Yours looks great. Thanks for posting delicious Filet Mignon with morel mushrooms. That reminds me to look for my bag of morel mushrooms.

Michelle, you are very good in food photography. That Beef Bourguignon looks appetizing.

Ann_t, perfect roasted pork tenderloin. That gives me an idea what to do with my Berkshire pork loin.
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A couple of dishes

Dcarch Sous Vided Brisket , Potatoes, Beet Green And Pepper

Sous Vide Drumstick And Steamed Cauliflower

A recipe in the most recent issue of Bon Appetit magazine caught my eye... this is the Bacon Infused carolia Fish Muddle from the Feb 2012 issue. I did make some a substitution since the Bass didn't look very good at the market and the Bay Scallops looked great, well there you go!

Shoot - I have got to find my camera, taking pics with my phone looks really bad. Sorry it is so blurry!

Alexa

Alexa, I think Moe would like your substitution. He loves scallops. And what is not to like about the addition of bacon.

On my way home from work Sunday I picked up three live Dungeness Crabs and made Roasted Garlic and Black Pepper Crab. We "pigged out" on crab. No sides to interfere with our feast.

Monday night we had Pot Roast and last night take out Halibut Fish and Chips.

Thinking of roasting a chicken for tonight's dinner.

One more for the herbies!

Pasta with Roasted Asparagus Pesto

Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Caramelized Shallot, Mushroom, and Sage Rolls

Jenny, great photos. Especially the Pasta. I like the sound of the Shallot, Mushroom and sage rolls too.

Ann

Thanks, Ann! That means a lot to me, coming from a pro like you!

Hi allWe've been down visiting my Dad (91)will be (92) next month. not doing well bed ridden, and feeding tube. Has cancer in the throat (non operable.)
Anyway
Ruthanna I love langostinio Yummy.
AnnT Ham & fried eggs right up my alley, you always have such lovely food and pictures.
wizardnm Filet one of my favorites succulent looking meat loaf too
Goldgirl love shrimp and avocado salad
MichelleDT love the pictures and food
dcarh very creative platting love all the food
Ynnej beautiful pictures
Here's what we have had lately
spaghetti squash with chicken, zuccini and tomatoes

london broil with onion relish, tomatoes and creamed spinach

Lunch today
Mushroom and cauliflower soup and broccoli, steak and red pepper salad. Trying to stay on South Beach Diet.

Jenny - your brussel sprouts and sage rolls look fantastic!

Linda, I'm sorry that your father isn't doing well. Not easy for him or for you.

All of your dinners look delicious. I like the idea of the spaghetti squash. Your beef is perfectly cooked.

~Ann

Short ribs over garlic mashed potatoes...

Sue:

Would you kindly post that Zesty Lime Shrimp and Avacado recipe. It looks delicious!

Thanks!

Lyndalu, I'm sorry to hear about your father. I wish you strength, and for him to be made as comfortable as is possible in his situation. I am sure that those meals brought much needed comfort to your family.

Ynnej my mouth is watering for your dishes, some of my favorite things!

Lyandalu2 hugs and more hugs to you during this difficult time! That squash dish looks very yum! I think I may try to make it one of these nights for dinner. I have a zuchinni and I just can't think of anything to do with it. I suggested pasta and BF said he had been eating too much bread this week. He loves squash and I'll bet he would love something like this!

Thank you for the support, thankfully my younger sister is taking care of Dad and Mom daily.
Here's the recipe for the spagetti squash dish
Italian-Sy]tyle Spaghetti Squash
2 lbs spaghetti squash, halved lengthwise and seeded
2 Tbps olive oil
1 medium red onion, thinly sliced
1 zucchini (8 oz) cut into 1/2 " dice
4 medium tomatoes diced
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp coarsely ground pepper
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 small lemon, sliced
Place the squash halves, cut sides down, in a glass baking dish. Add 1/4 cup water and cover with plastic wrap. Microwave on high for 8-10 minutes until tender;cool slightly
In a large skillet, heat 1 tbsp of oil. Add the onion and cook over med-high heat for 3 mins. until the onion is translucent. Add the zucchini and cook for 4-5 mins until the zucchini begins to brown. Add the tomotoes, salt and pepper. Reduct the heat; simmer gently for 10 mins.
Using a fork, scrape the squash strands into a bowl. Toss with the remaining tbls of oil. Mound the squash in the center of 4 plates or bowls and spoon the vegetable mixture over the squash. Drizzle with more oil, if desired, and garnish with the Parmesan cheese. Add the lemon slices.
From the South Beach Diet Book Phase two.

We love this recipe.

Linda

I forgot the chicken on top. LOL
Same South Beach Cook Book
Easy Chicken in Wine Sauce
4 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 clove garlic, crushed
3 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, cut in to strips
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 tsp coarsely ground black pepper
1/2 cup dry white wine
3 medium tomatoes, sliced
In a medium skillet, heat the oil and garlic over med heat. Sprinkly the chicken with salt and pepper, then add to the skillet and cook for 7-10 mins. Add the white wine and cook for an additional 2 mins. Remove the chicken to a platter. Saute' the tomatoes in the skillet until tender. Place the tomatoes over the chicken and cover with the pan drippings.

Linda, I'm sorry about your Dad's health, but glad to hear that your sister is able to check on your parents daily. I hope he can at least be kept comfortable, and I'll be sending strong thoughts to your family.

Everyone's meals look delicious. I had roast chicken, broccoli and mashed potatoes, but I didn't take a picture.

Annie

We also had roast chicken, broccoli, mashed potatoes and gravy last night, Annie. I have been looking at Katie C's Sticky Chicken recipe for years and years and years, wish I had the date saved on the recipe, would be interesting! Well it finally happened yesterday. It was just delicious and the gravy was awesome. I could drink it. Never cooked a chicken at 250 for 5 hours before but boy, it sure worked out great and its a keeper.

Thank you Katie!

Thanks for the spaghetti squash and chicken recipes Linda! I was going to try and wing something but it sure wouldn't have been as good. I love the idea of adding the wine too, so timely to our Cookalong!

woodie, great minds think alike, don't they? (grin)

OK, I actually have a few pictures. Last week Elery made some pasta with vodka sauce and our homemade Italian sausage. It was OK, but I had heartburn until the next day!

In retaliation, I made some pasties. Just beef, potatoes, rutabaga, onions, salt and pepper, in crust. No catsup, no chili sauce, no gravy, I just like to eat mine out of hand, like a sandwich:

I've also been working on getting my chocolate chip cookie recipe to "work" again, I finally got it right with these, barely crisp on the edges and chewy in the middle. I used all butter and a brown sugar ratio of 1 3/4 cup dark brown to 1/4 cup of white. Upped the flour and chilled the dough overnight. Finally, they were right again. Of course, they are all gone...

Annie

Annie, those pasties look yummy!

Annie, sorry about the heartburn...no fun. I've been having a few go rounds with it myself. Nothing ever used to bother me. I could eat a few of those cookies though.

We had a great dinner on Saturday.Started with the Bacon Cream Cheese Rollup's. AnnT posted the recipe recently.

Then we had a nice salad...forgot to take a picture of that.

The main course was Whitefish Roulade's, I posted that recipe on the Wine Cookalong thread.

Ready for the oven...

My plate green beans and smashed potato's for the sides

Buttermilk Pie for dessert

Nancy

Oh those bacon roll-ups look wonderful and if I liked fresh water fish I would definitely enjoy the roll-ups. I wonder, would it be good with flounder or cod?

Since it is valentines, I decided to make a little effort and this was such an easy meal to pull together after work...

Steak Au Poivre and Baked Scampi with Cajun String Beans and Garlic Mashed. I decided to use fat free Greek Yogurt instead of sour cream in the potatoes, and thogh it was tasty, it lacked the luxurious nouthfeel of real fatty creamy potatoes. That's okay, we made up for it with Flourless Chocolate Torte, Raspberry Sauce, Raspberry Whipped Cream and freah raspberries for dessert! LOL!

Alexa

Alexa, the fish roll up would be wonderful with flounder. I mentioned that when I posted the recipe on the Wine Cookalong thread...near bottom of the thread..

NOW I get it! I never understood how Southerners could wax poetically about "greens and grits and fried chicken" but since I made collard greens for the first time tonight and finally in all these increasing decades of life on this planet, FINALLY made fried chicken that was good!

Well all the food is yummy as always. Everyone takes such lovely pics.
Lunch to day was a spin of Salad Nicoise, I used chicken instead of tuna and didn't have any kalamata olives so used black one. Just a olive oil/lemon juice and dijon mustard as a dressing

Linda

On Valentines Day I made Lobster Thermidor for dinner. Guess I'm on a seafood kick...

Nancy

I love sea food!!!!
Making a shrimp/dill soup tonight for dinner will post later.

Linda

Today is DH birthday, so he chose the menu.... Haddock Puttanesca with Roasted Potatoes (red, yukon and purple) that he saw in this months Bon Appetit magazine. Ceasar salad on the side and pecan pie for dessert. Happy guy!

I hit enter too quickly... Nancy that Lobster looks amazing! I don't think I've ever had thermidor. Is that something you just use tails for?

Alexa

omg...by the time I read to the bottom of the thread all the pictures were loaded. High speed...whoo hoo! Don't care if they did move my TGIF...being able to load food porn is noteworthy, lol.

Spatchcocked chicken rubbed with herbs and roasted over a bed of last year's garden vegies that we need to use up...fingerling potatoes, leeks (I am amazed at how well they kept while lost in the back of the fridge), carrots, garlic, and a fennel bulb I picked up at Trader Joe's (never cooked fennel...it's goooood. I bought seeds. MAYbe I can grow it). Made a pan sauce out of the drippings and served with a green salad and dressing made w/ dcarch's black garlic butter.

NOT food porn, but hey...at least I can upload pictures, hehe....

I tried a new recipe today......cabbage and leeks cooked in the slow cooker, then a white sauce stirred into it. It was good!
Made a well-done roast beef (hubby's favourite way to eat beef), carrots and onions around the roast, mashed potatoes and gravy.

Sooooo many great looking meals. I would be happy with Alexa's Valentine's Dinner, Nancy's Lobster and Jasdip's Beef and cabbage.

I made a salad for dinner last night. Not my favourite type of meal, but Moe loved it.

Based on a salad served at the Soho South Cafe.

Here is a link that might be useful: Dinner Salad

Hahahaa Ann. Now we know you wouldn't like my beef and cabbage, because the Beef didn't Mooo when I cut it!

Your salad looks good....everything from artichoke hearts to apples in it.

You are so wrong Jasdip. I love prime rib and other good cuts of beef rare, but I also love pot roast. Fall apart tender. I just don't like anything "in-between".

Rack of Pork stuffed with prunes and apricots. Wonderful rich pork gravy over mashed potatoes with squash and rapini.

Made my all-time, hands-down favourite meal tonite. Chicken Marabella. It's so good! Roasted asparagus and steamed rice alongside.

I couldn't wait to dig in, so I didn't even wait to throw it on a plate before taking the pic. That's not grease, in the chicken!
It's the marinade.

Jasdip your chicken looks delicious.

Wednesday night's dinner.

Roast Chicken Dinner

Thursday's dinner.

Shepherds Pie

Woodie, thanks...that sticky chicken recipe has been around a long time. I've tried it with different herb/spice mixtures, and it's never as good as the original. We just had sticky chicken and green chili chowder with leftover meat and broth I had in the freezer.

I've been POOFing and POOPing this week, things are trying to sprout in the pantry. I went to work "for a couple of hours" and wound up missing lunch, so hefty dinner was in order. POOFed some kabocha squash and pork chops, which were braised in some wine. Sauteed some Fuji apples and onions in butter with a bit of white balsamic and white pepper, and quinoa "risotto" with garlic and dried kale, topped with a bit of dcarch's black garlic (yum). Salad on the side.

Me and my winky little Lumix hate to follow Ann_T, lol.

Katie, my favourite side with pork is squash. And Kabocha squash is the best. My camera is also a Lumix.

Grilled T-Bone steaks Friday night.

With Roasted Potato Wedges, Fried Mushrooms and Sauteed Spinach.

We missed lunch yesterday so I picked up Sushi for an early dinner.

Tuna, California Rolls, Dynamite Roll, Tuna Roll

Ann, the Sushi looks perfect on your board. Are there more boards like that on your blog?

I wish I could get good Sushi around here.

Nancy

Yum, Ann T, I love sushi and it's been a while since I had any or made some. Gotta get busy...

KatieC, welcome to What's For Dinner!

Everything looks so good, it's hard to believe I had to find this on page two, the forum is moving right along lately.

I had fish too, not sushi, but cod. Once with sauteed greens and brussels sprouts:

Once with brown rice and roasted vegetables, a mixture of cauliflower, carrot and parsnips.

Elery brined a chicken and put it in the Cuisinart rotisserie:

We had company for supper, isn't Madison growing big? Cooper likes her:

Because Ashley was there too, we had asparagus, chipotle mashed sweet potatoes and the rotisserie chicken:

We even got out the new wine glasses I got as a retirement gift:

One night we had breakfast for supper, I made asiago cheese popovers, Elery had never had popovers. We also had bacon, eggs and fresh Texas grapefruit. The grapefruit is so good right now, it doesn't even need sugar, it's so sweet.

I was sure glad the popovers popped up and didn't deflate, even though when I read the recipe it said I could NOT use butter to grease the pans, that butter didn't work. Sure enough, I used butter before I read that part and remembered, but they turned out fine anyway.

So, you see, I have been eating, although tonight's supper was hot tea because I got bronchitis. Ugh.

Annie

Those are some great pics, Annie! My dinner was sauteed veggies. I like to have a big meal early on and end the day with something light. My kids had a failed meal of mine- well, not a total failure, but certainly not blogworthy. I am lucky to have kids that will eat just about anything.

Bought some awesome, plump bone-in, skin on breasts today. Rubbed some oil and my seasoning blend on the skin and baked in the oven.
I roasted some carrots, onions, green pepper and asparagus. Chopped and mixed with cooked orzo.

Apple cobbler in the oven now, for dessert

Wow, I've been so behind on the wfd. Even had to drag the post from the middle of 4th page! I could comment on about every post but, better not since it's one thirty and bed is calling me early since I'm not feeling well.

Nancy, Lobster Thermidor is one of my all time favorite dishes. Christy doesn't like lobster or crab so I rarely make it. I do have a tail in the freezer that I was going to make for myself for Valentines, but we both had filet instead. Yours looks wonderful.

Jasdip, your Marabella really is calling to me. I've been working with Christy on olives, so, maybe if I try that..heh. Your roasted chicken breast looks good too. We both like orzo.

Ann, you have so many good dishes on here. I'm with Moe in loving a salad for dinner and that one had so many great things on it. Your t-bone however would have my carnivore licking the screen and must admit I'd enjoy it too. Especially with your potatoes and those mushrooms. I could eat spinach most every day.

Katie, we've been doing a lot of poofing lately. I had 50# of meat for the dog to fit in. LOL. I can almost smell that black garlic in the rice. Yum. Your spatchcocked chicken looks great too.

Annie, of course Cooper loves Madison. Who could resist that young beauty? You'd think we'd have more good fish stores around here, being only 40 miles from the ocean but I have a hard time finding good cod. Omg, Annie, those wine glasses are too funny. Love it! Ya got me at the popovers though. Love the red grapefruit. Realllly want a popover with that dippy egg!

Ok, here are the things I've taken pics of most recently. I never got around to posting Christy's Birthday dinner request. Shrimp PoBoy. She had the PoBoy and I had my shrimp as a remoulade[salad].

This pork roast was done with the low heat method. It was done perfectly inside. I didn't bother to brown the outside since neither of us would eat it and I was hurting from too much cooking already and wanted to eat!! LOL

Here's what else I made that day. Lemon Meringue Pie. Christy's family recipe.

Another weekend I made scalloped potato and ham in the big vision ware casserole. I love it with lots of white sauce, as is evident. I put most of the ham down on one end for Christy and stuck a little piece on top to show which end. Smiles.

Done baking, with some colby melted on top at the end.

Of course you know I've been making soup too. Made about 3 gallons of veggie soup for the freezer. Then I had somehow stockpiled the navy beans so I used one of my giant pots and cooked 8 lbs of navy bean soup. I have so been enjoying that soup. All the soup making is why we've had to do some poofing to make room for Jessie's food. LOL. Nice napkin it's sitting on, eh?

I'm starting to get the hang of this low fat, low sodium diet. I actually make some pretty good dinners now and then. Tonight was chicken, mashed purple potatoes with roasted garlic and kale (from my neighbor).

There was an article recently about purple potatoes lowering blood pressure without weight gain.

I have had them as part of a fingerling mixture, but Wegman's started carrying bigger ones this month, so I buy them every week now. They taste just about the same, just takes some getting used to.

Sure makes dinner more colorful.

(great food!)