Everyone's meals look so good. I wish you could all come to my place and cook for us. You fix the most interesting stuff. I'm way too boring.

Tonight was pizza. I made a couple of 8 x 8 lasagna casseroles over the weekend. We ate one and I froze the other. So I ended up with some leftover homemade (and salt free) Italian sausage, along with some leftover homemade marinara sauce (made with no salt added canned tomatoes). I didn't want to do another pasta dish, so I figured I should make pizza. I made a dough recipe from Beth Hensperger that includes some semolina flour. I subbed some white whole wheat for AP too. And, of course, I halved both the salt and yeast. It was pretty good, and I still have enough dough for 2 more pizzas. Maybe tomorrow I'll make a white sauce for a change of pace.

I'm sorted with my new (for me ) iPhone 6 Plus. Apparently it's got a better camera than my old iPhone 5. anyway we'll see.

So we had lemon and garlic chicken, plus lots of vegetables. That's potato and carrot mash.

I made a pizza but alas only a store bought base. I've been reading you can make several balls of dough for pizza and freeze them . I shall try to do this. Your pizza looks terrific shambo.

Tried out my roaster again with an easy summertime favorite: zucchini and yellow squash "pizzas". Also tried a new recipe for garbanzo bean salad that I really liked! I'm happily raiding my gardens and used my homegrown garlic, green onions, parsley, basil, cilantro, zucchini, yellow straightneck squash, and Hungarian Wax and Portugal Long Hot peppers. yum!!!

PartyMusic, is that The Shed's Garbanzo Bean Salad? It looks delicious, whatever it is!

yes, CindyMac! it was posted on another forum and sounded good.... it was! :)

I had to try my roaster again -- this time baking. My tradition is to make blueberry muffins for the final round of the British Open. They came out great! much better than my photos. lol!

Your muffins look delicious party music and the photos are good as well.

We had chicken soup followed by another pizza. I had bought 2 bases but never again.

A lot of fantastic-looking pizzas! I must try making my own dough, but never think of it.

Party, your muffins are perfect. GREAT golf game too, wasn't it???

I made Arroz Con Pollo, I found a couple of recipes so I muddled around between the 2 of them. It was mostly David Labovitz's recipe that I used.

One called for skinned chicken. I didn't start out that way, but I can't brown chicken worth a darn. The skin always sticks to the skillet, pot no matter how long I let it sit there. So my chicken always looks blah.

Looks yummy to me Jasdip.

We had a DH dinner of green curry chicken. Very nice ... he cooked the chicken breast slices for 4 mins only. so they stayed tender and juicy.

Temperatures are soaring again, after a few days of beautiful weather.

Tonite was a chicken breast seasoned with garam masala, and side salads. Corn, tomato and avocado salad and a quinoa tabbouleh. Note the white globs? That's my kefir cheese!

Kefir cheese

My grains are growing like mad. I can actually share some with anyone who wants any!

It must be chicken season! Jasdip, that arroz con pollo looks good to me, I haven't made it in a long time, I should do that again.

Neely, I like mild curry. It's something I wouldn't eat before, but I used the "7 year rule". If I don't like it, I have to try it at least once every 7 years. I learned to like mild/sweet curry, but still don't care for the really spicy stuff, I'm a wuss. (sigh)

Any, being chicken season, I had chicken, of course:

I roasted one of our homegrown chickens in the small Nesco and served it with mashed potatoes and broccoli with cheese sauce.

I still have beer in the fridge, left over from San and Ted's visit last summer. Since I want the refrigerator room for my overflow of eggs, I made beer bread. It was a recipe that took 3 tablespoons of sugar and so was slightly sweet. The beer was a light one, and so the bread did not taste of beer. I actually liked it pretty well and it's especially good toasted.

Elery's grandsons were here visiting from California, so I baked a lemon bundt cake using the "Lady Bird Johnson" recipe, mostly because it took 9 eggs. I thought it was a bit dry, so we served it with a drizzle of home canned blueberry syrup.

With my large number of eggs, I made some breakfast enchiladas using eggs, cheese, sweet peppers and onions, wrapped in corn tortillas. I added the green tomatillo sauce from Ann T's stacked enchilada recipe and baked them. They were very good, I'll definitely do that again since I have a lot of tomatillos in the freezer from last year's garden.

I'm not a fan of mush, but Elery likes it, although he calls it polenta, LOL. So, I made him some oven polenta, courtesy of Alton Brown, and a mildly spicy vegetarian chili to go over it.

I had some masa and decided to make empanadas. They were a dismal failure, the dough started soft but got dry and cracked. The guacamole I made to go along with my salsa was good though.....

Now I'm working on doing something with these, I'm sure there will be more tomorrow.

Elery bought a "spiralizer", so tonight we had spiraled zucchini "noodles" sauteed with onions and mushrooms. Elery can spiral cut potatoes and harder vegetables, but my hands are small and my carpal tunnel issues have worsened, so I managed to use the thing for zucchini, but anything harder than that is impossible, so I don't see myself using it very much. I did make a cold "salad" of zucchini noodles, grated carrot and onion, a dressing that included lime juice and fish sauce, and chopped peanuts. That went into the chicken bucket and we had sandwiches that evening. I guess it was one of those thins that sounded really good on paper....

Stay tuned, I'm sure there will be more zucchini tomorrow, LOL.

Annie

annie, I love spiralling zucchini to use instead of pasta !! I also spiralize a big apple, chop up 10 almonds, a half teaspoon of cinnamon, a teaspoon of maple syrup, heat it all up a little to tenderize the apples, and put in a mason jar, it's a portable apple pie snack.

Mitch, that apple snack sounds delicious, I'm definitely going to do that. The problem is that my hands are small and this machine wants me to turn a crank with one hand and push a lever with the other to push the food forward into the blade. If you push the lever, the machine slides forward on the counter and my hands aren't big enough stretch from the front of the machine to the lever to push the food forward. I've tried smaller pieces of food, but that doesn't work either, only softer things like zucchini really work very well.

Annie

Never posted to the What's for Dinner thread before, but these enchiladas came out so incredible, I had to brag. I grilled a turkey, for the first time, on Sunday. Turkey, spinach, and cheese enchiladas last night. Hubby was a happy camper, and I don't have to cook tonight (leftovers)!

Everyone's food looks great but Annie's enchiladas followed by Angelaid's are really calling to me. I love enchiladas and have some jalapeno flavored corn tortillas that need to be used up. I'm not very good at rolling enchiladas, but I'm sure I can make a stacked version.

Love your spicy chicken and salad Jasdip we eat similar a lot. All good looking food Annie and angelaid. I must confess I've never had enchiladas (hangs head)

Anyway good old fish and chips for us. Those globby bits on the fish are preserved lemon which I love.

We have a thing about carrot cake at the moment. Only minimal sugar so sort of healthy.

Neely, your battered fish pictures always leave me drooling. I'd love some carrot cake too. My husband really likes it, but I'm not much of a dessert maker. Would you mind sharing your recipe?

Not something to eat, but I'm very happy to report that I finally found someone to sharpen my knives. The vendor is offering his services at all our local farmers markets. So far he's done several knives, a couple of pizza cutters, and some garden tools. And I'm not done. I've got some kitchen shears and other garden tools for this week's market. I can't believe what a difference a professional sharpening job has made. He's runs a mobile business too, so I can call him during the winter, our off-market time.

Angela, your enchiladas look perfect. And I'm loving your baking dish!!! Now that you know how easy it is to contribute to the WFD thread, we'll look forward to more of your meals. :-)

Neely, I like your fish dinners. Fish and chips are a favourite, but never do it at home.

Tonite was a quickie with little pizzas made out of whole wheat tortilla shells. Yeah, I know, I'm posting fake pizzas among the wonderful doughs from scratch. Kefir cheese on top.

jasdip, it's ok to have a quickie. :)

Dinner tonight was bean burritos w/ spanish rice and pico de gallo made from my garden.

Hi Shambo here follows the carrot cake recipe I use

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

Ingredients

1 cup self raising flour

Half cup plain flour

1 teaspoon bi carb soda

Half teaspoon cinnamon

3 carrots grated approx 300 g

150 g chopped walnuts

Half cup brown sugar

Three quarters cup of olive oil

3 eggs lightly beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

250g cream cheese

Half cup of icing sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method

Pre heat oven to 160C

Grease a 24cm springform cake tin and line with baking paper

In a large bowl combine the flours, bi carb and cinnamon, mix well. Stir through the carrots and walnuts. In a separate bowl combine the oil eggs vanilla and sugar. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix well.

Note ... I just add the wet ingredients on top of the dry and mix well as it saves an extra bowl.

Pour into tin and bake for an hour or until golden and set. Remove from oven and let cool in tin before removing onto a wire rack.

Combine cream cheese icing mixture and another teaspoon of vanilla extract. Beat with electric beaters or food processor until light and fluffy. Spread onto cake when it is completely cold.

I am sorry about the different words for some ingredients, temperatures, and weights. I thought if I attempted to change things that I might make a mistake and we'd be in worse trouble. Good luck.

I did Deep Dish Chicago Style pizza on the Traeger smoker last night, and you've seen those photos previously. Since it's 112 degrees outside, I'm doing all cooking in the smoker or grill! Don't want to heat the house up!

Night before, we had 2" thick salmon steaks topped with herbs, butter, lemon, salt & pepper on a soaked cedar plank! Delicious! Served those with grilled artichoke, cubed potatoes and tossed green salad.

Party-Music I'd love your Spanish rice recipe :-)

jasdip, it's my BF's recipe -- I remember posting it on one of the WFD threads before. I'll try searching for it.

Oh, in that case, I'll do a search for it here.

party_music, I have searched and searched for your Spanish Rice recipe but it has not turned up in any of my searches. I would love to have the recipe, too. Hopefully, you find it. It looks so good.

I couldn't find it by searching either. I just spoke to him and he says this is what he basically does:

Jim's Spanish Rice

1 cup Basmati rice

1 15-ounce can diced tomatoes

1 can water
1 clove garlic, minced

2 tbsp finely diced onion

1/2 - 3/4 green bell pepper, diced

2 beef bouillon cubes or beef flavor base (enough to make two cups)

1 pat butter

1 tbsp olive oil (maybe a little more)

1 tbsp dark chili powder

1-2 tbsp hot salsa or picante

Brown
rice over medium heat in the oil and butter. Once slightly brown, add
onion, garlic, and green pepper and continue sauteing
for 5 minutes or so, then mix in half the chili powder. Add the
tomatoes, then fill the can with water and add that plus the bouillon
cube(s), the salsa and rest of the chili powder. Bring back to a boil,
stirring until the bouillon cube(s) dissolved. Reduce heat and
simmer covered, stirring once or twice, until rice is done.

Thanks Party!!

Suzi, you must have a blog, do you? Your pictures are gorgeous!

No blog Jasdip. I use an android phone and Photoshop. I use my photos for various purposes and after I found someone using MY photo to sell something on Ebay, I quickly started ruining the photo with my signature across the whole thing. Sad!!

On topic, last night's dinner was quick and easy. I wish I knew how to easily bone a chicken breast... So anyway I tore one off the bone, cut it into bite size squares and made a broth with the bone, onion, carrot and celery pieces. I strained it, reduced it down, simmered the chicken in it for a minute, and then made some rice. I cooked mushrooms, broccoli and made some chicken gravy (packaged). Tossed the whole thing together, and it was delicious!

No photos of the above LOL! Not photo worthy, but it hit the spot!

Now there's something I hadn't thought of........making a fresh broth right then and there. Great idea, and meal, Suzi.

Yes, in this day and age, water-marking/identifying fabulous photos are pretty much a necessity in case of theft.

That's one thing I never have to worry about!!! LOL

Except for maybe one of my favourite subjects, our handsome senior, Smudge.

Just catching up. For one of our dinners we had spaghetti Bol with broccoli.

I made chilli cheese muffins for part of a picnic. The cookies weren't home made.

It seems I'm bonded with my Traeger Smoker during this hot summer. It's like my oven outside, only it makes everything taste so much better!

So last night I rubbed mustard and spices with a little apple cider vinegar on a half rack of ribs and smoked that for 3 hours. I never peeked. Just kept loading pellets. Then I took them out, put them on a foil lined pan on a bed of sliced onions. Gave them the apple cider/spices treatment again, sealed them up, and back on the traeger they went at 225. When we unsealed them, they were falling off the bone tender and oh so delicious!

Neely, thanks for the cake recipe. And Party Music, thanks for the rice recipe too. I made a chicken pot pie yesterday, using the Nathan's Never Fail Pie Crust recipe. I used half unsalted butter & half organic palm oil shortening. Because I didn't add salt to the crust, I included a half teaspoon each of NSA poultry seasoning, lemon pepper, and thyme. So the crust still tasted good. I purposely made the filling without a lot of sauce and served it with chicken gravy and cranberry sauce. Came out pretty good even with omitting salt and using low sodium/NSA products. The weird part was the purple carrots. The centers were typical orange colored, but the outsides were purple and stained a few of the potato cubes.

Oh Yum Suzi AKA Desert Dance those ribs look amazing as does your pastry and filling Shambo salt or no.

Dinners here were

Lamb Shank cooked for 2 and half hours with spinach and mashed potato

Another dinner was a small piece of steak with scalloped potatoes and a sort of ratatouille to use up vegetables.

Beautiful day here! and it was my birthday... so it started with blueberry picking:

Followed by some gardening and some golf... and then I got serious. :)

And dinner was my favorite meal at my favorite restaurant. Appetizers:

They must have run out of orzo because they sub'd spaghetti w/ the rice. lol!

Happy Birthday, Party_Music!! It sounds like you had a wonderful day.

Happy Birthday Party_Music from me too! Always nice to go to your favorite restaurant. Those blueberries look delish! Can't grow them here.

I keep cooked meatballs in the freezer for quick meals. Tonite was a new recipe using a sauce of apple juice, soy sauce, brown sugar, cornstarch and cayenne. I sauteed some garlic and fresh ginger as well. It's definitely a keeper. Since I was steaming the cauliflower, I threw in stalk of kale for myself. No matter how I cook Kale, he doesn't like it. He says it tastes like an old Christmas tree!

Thank you, jasdip and Suzi. :)

jasdip, if you want to try something different with kale, try this recipe... I love it! I use the bags of pre-cut/pre-washed curly kale:

Kale Apple Slaw w/ poppy seed dressing

Party, that salad looks and sounds delicious! I get kale and tomatoes regularly, from my landlord out of their garden. :-)

Well, both hubby and I are on the " No kale for us" page! We just don't like it. Period. However on topic, last night we had grilled lamb shoulder bone chops.

First the marinade. Found the recipe online. I won't use it again. Too much lemon and a half hour would have been plenty!

After they rested for 5 minutes, we ate dinner!

Very envious of your blue berry harvest party-music. I have some growing but so far no berries.

That sauce sounds good and the meal looks yummy Jasdip.

We have those round bone shoulder lamb chops often Suzie aka DD and we like them as they are quite meaty. Yours look tender and cooked how we like them.

We had a mixed up dinner of left over ratatouille with cous cous, hummus and falafels

A dessert was sticky date puddings with Bird's English custard. My DH loves this custard... reminds him of boarding school many years ago.

All of your recipes sound so good! I'm stuck with cooking outside for now. Too hot here through September. So this is last night's adventure. Saw it online, and realized I NEVER use that old bundt pan, so why not wreck it on the grill?

I didn't follow the recipe for their baste (olive oil and herbs). I used my tried and true
which is basically melted butter, salt, pepper and smoked paprika. You
don't see them in this photo but that chicken is surrounded by chunks of
potato and zucchini. I par cooked the potato in the micro for a head
start. This is half way through the grilling. We just turned the pan
and stirred the veggies.

Neely, your dessert looks delicious! We rarely have dessert here cuz hubby is diabetic and I've been on so many diets in my life I lost my love for sweets.

That said, our salad was very much like a dessert!

Very late dinner tonight so I wanted to throw together something quick -- it came out fantastic! I sauteed split crooknecks in one pan, sauteed frozen haddock w/ blackening seasoning in another, nuked some regular and sweet potatoes, heated up leftover green beans & garlic, and had a side salad of mixed tomatoes... everything but the potatoes and fish came from my gardens. :)

Party music your meal looks great. I had never heard of crooknecks but looked them up and I am presuming they taste a little like zucchini or could be wrong.

DH cooked pork chops with vegetables. Actually mashed turnip and parsnip not potatoes. He made a sour cherry sauce to go with.

party_music. Don't you love when most of dinner comes from your garden? Last night we had Pasta al Pomodoro made from garlic, basil and tomatoes all from our garden.

Crooknecks are one of our favorites here.

neely, that chop looks good. We'll have that tonight, but paired with leftover eggplant parmesan. I tried to thaw it from the freezer yesterday, but it never finished, so it's on tonight's menu.

Suzi, I absolutely LOVE harvesting dinner and this is my best gardening year ever -- but I put in the hard work and *time* this year and my back knows it! BTW: I wish we could trade blueberries for fresh figs!!!

My gardens are small so I grow 'Black Beauty' zucchini (bush, not vining) and either crookneck or yellow straightneck... this year I'm growing all 3.

neely, the consensus is that the crookneck is slightly sweeter than the zucchini which is probably why I can brown it so beautifully. I love eating the seeds in it. lol! :) How was that sour cherry sauce?! It sounds interesting!!!

party_music, I've "downsized" to only growing zucchini, I had such an overflow of squash when I grew the yellow crooknecks, no way could we use it all!

Dinner? I'll have the date pudding of neely's, party_music's squash, Suzi's salad.....aw heck, I'll have one of each, please!

Here we also picked blueberries. The patch we usually pick at has become overgrown and needs pruning and mowing. The elderly couple who had it kept it pristine, but the kids who inherited it aren't so careful. Anyway, it took us about an hour and a half to pick 10 pounds, with Elery and I both picking, then we gave up. They are mostly washed and in the freezer now.

Tonight we had baked cod, baked sweet potatoes and cole slaw, it was good but not very pretty. Elery cooked, and did a good job, it was delicious. Over the weekend, he smoked chicken, and we had that one night with baked beans and potato salad. Leftovers were made into chicken salad and served with cucumber salad.

Before that we had beets, colcannon and roast chicken.

I had an exceptional flounder sandwich while in Myrtle Beach watching The Princess cheer. This was the best seafood I had while I was there and it was from the little cafe at the KOA campground!

I didn't think to take pictures of other meals, but they included pancakes and bacon, coke chicken with red potatoes and baby carrots, cheeseburgers, tacos, all cooked in a camper kitchen.

Tonight Bud and I are canning pickles...

Annie

Annie, I only have one plant of each crammed in... crammed in so much that I can't get to my cuke plants. lol! Despite our lack of rain and my lackluster watering, we've been eating squashes with great abandon and still have plenty to give away, and I like that! :) Just saw a zucchini-blueberry cake recipe I want to try... don't know if anyone here has talked about this yet:

Blueberry-Zucchini Cake w/ Lemon Buttercream Frosting

Thank you for Jim's Spanish Rice recipe, party_music50. Can hardly wait to try it.

party music, everything is crammed in here this year. I planted just like always, but the plants are loving the heat and we're getting regular rain. So I have a tomato jungle, a pumpkin jungle, a bean jungle, LOL. The zucchini are up to my shoulders and the cucumbers have overtaken the cabbage. Tomatoes are encroaching on their neighboring peppers and eggplant, it's crazy wild out there!

Annie (who was foolish enough to plant SIX zucchini plants!)

Annie, I see those zucchini candy worms in your future. lol!