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What's for dinner tonight?

It's been a wet gloomy day here in the Houston area. Just a perfect day for me to make a pot of gumbo. I made chicken, tasso and okra gumbo. It really hit the spot!
What did you have?

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    We had burgers with cheese and those wonderful sweet Vadalia onions, along with some chips. Quick, easy, and delicious supper and easy cleanup too.

    ravencajun Zone 8b TX thanked lindaohnowga
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  • 7 years ago

    I had a turkey sandwich with lett/tom/mayo and two leftover cheese and potato perogi. A fruit cup and some chocolate pudding. Weird supper but it filled me up.

    ravencajun Zone 8b TX thanked schoolhouse_gw
  • 7 years ago

    Egg roll in a bowl for me!

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  • 7 years ago

    Something new for us tonight. We had a hearty vegetarian dried fava bean stew with 3 kinds of mushrooms and sun dried tomatoes. For the meat lovers an assortment of sausages and kielbasa was grilled and served as a side along with homemade rolls. The stew is a keeper. For dessert a peach crumble.

    ravencajun Zone 8b TX thanked Bobbi
  • 7 years ago

    Raven, your gumbo looks delicious. That is something my family would enjoy. Did you serve it with rice, or is there rice in it?

    I love these threads for meal inspiration.

    ravencajun Zone 8b TX thanked Bobbi
  • 7 years ago

    Meat loaf, cheese and potato casserole and sauteed green beans. And I made an applesauce spice cake.

    It's fall in my world :-))

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    Patty Melts, if he ever gets off the phone, potato salad, tuna macaroni salad, and a green bean and fresh tomato salad, are the choice of sides.

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    Baked Tilapia seasoned with garlic, parsley, oregano and fresh lemon juice along with a Quinoa salad I made yesterday. I meal prepped a taco soup for my lunches this week.



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  • 7 years ago

    Country style pork ribs in the oven, broccoli and rice casserole on the side.

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    Cool rainy day. Fall is descending on us. Furnace was put on this morning. Had coleslaw, stuffed peppers, green beans, mashed potatoes, bread maker bread, and sugar cookies the grand-girls decorated.

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    Put baked beans in the oven to warm up the house a little, pan fried some salmon patties, and steamed broccoli and cauliflower to add to the plate. For dessert later, I had a chocolate tootsie pop.

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  • 7 years ago

    Bobbi, if you look at the picture Raven posted of her delicious gumbo, you'll see that it's loaded with rice. Looks sooo good.

    I made a quick stir fry with shrimp and lots of vegetables. Very flavorful with garlic and ginger.

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  • 7 years ago

    A home made chicken and noodle soup. It was very gray day here also. A good day for soup.

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  • 7 years ago

    Raven....that does look good.

    Sunny, beautiful day here in Colorado!

    Made tostadas for dinner.

    ravencajun Zone 8b TX thanked User
  • 7 years ago

    rhizo, it does look like Raven's gumbo has some sort of large rice, but I wasn't certain. It does look really good.

    ravencajun Zone 8b TX thanked Bobbi
  • 7 years ago

    You guys are always making me feel hungry!

    We're going out for prime rib tonight. I think we're going to split a plate because neither of us needs to eat 30 ounces of marbled beef. Sides are probably going to be salad and a baked potato which we will also split.

    ravencajun Zone 8b TX thanked Rosie
  • 7 years ago
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    I cooked a pot of rice too. Always cook separately and add rice in the individual bowls then add the gumbo. Some people like a lot of rice and some just a little bit. I only cook medium grain rice. Daddy always said we keep the good medium grain for us and sell the long grain. He grew both.

    In the gumbo is tomatoes, okra onions, bell pepper, garlic, green onions, parsley, chicken and pork tasso. Which is smoked and cured pork steak highly seasoned. And of course Roux!

  • 7 years ago

    Thanks, Raven. Cooking rice separate makes more sense to me. I didn't realize the pic was an individual serving.

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    Blustery and damp here today so I made a small 1/2 turkey breast, gravy, mashed potatoes and butternut squash. All that was missing was the cranberry sauce and stuffing.








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  • 7 years ago

    Chopped steak ( ground round) grilled outdoors, grilled onions and sweet red peppers, baked potato, corn on the cob, and sliced tomatoes with s&p. I had two peaches that were about dead so I peeled cut off the bad and added chunks to the boys ice water..of course they enjoyed it. No dessert but there's cookies in the jar which no one wanted.

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    Lamb chops, fresh green beans with bacon and onions, baked potato with lamb gravy.

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  • 7 years ago

    Had steak last night.....I ate mine early....and when Jody came home, he brought some stone crab claws for me. One of his friends owns a seafood market and he gave them to him. I haven't had any in about 25 years. I will probably have them for breakfast and lunch today.

    Your gumbo looks good, Raven. I may fix gumbo today...except I don't have any okra. Will call Jody and tell him to bring me some. (He has my truck, so I am home with no transportation, which I don't mind, but it is very inconvenient having to rely on him to bring me everything I need.

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  • 7 years ago

    Stone crab was horrible. Back to only eating seafood from our boats. Threw them in the bayou.

    ravencajun Zone 8b TX thanked marilyn_c
  • 7 years ago

    Chicken marsala is in my slow cooker.

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  • 7 years ago

    Oh no Marilyn I love stone crab too bad they weren't good.

    I made enough gumbo for tonight too and it sure is gumbo weather today.

  • 7 years ago

    I was going to make shrimp gumbo but busy with horses all day. Maybe tomorrow.

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    Pattie melt. With cheddar and pepper jack on german black bread! Yum

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    Last night on the coast. We're going to a little hole in the wall bar we found in the middle of some seafood processing plants. They make everything from scratch and everything is so good. We decided to have our last meal here there. We will split an order of handmade jalepeno poppers and I am going to have handmade onion rings and grilled halibut. I think hubby is planning on fish and chips.

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  • 7 years ago

    I made this yesterday and it makes lots, so leftovers tonite.

    It's called "Sausage egg roll in a bowl". We just call it chow mein. I use hamburger and shred my own cabbage, onions and carrots instead of buying the bagged mix. I also add bean sprouts and water chestnuts. Anything goes, really and it's so easy to put together.

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  • 7 years ago

    Jasdip....yum! Is there a sauce over it? or just salt n' pepper?

  • 7 years ago
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    Nicole, just soy sauce and sesame oil. Saute the meat, add the cabbage slaw, garlic, without draining the fat. Cook until slightly softened, and add the water chestnuts and bean sprouts if you're using them. Soy sauce and sesame oil and red pepper flakes if you want.

  • 7 years ago

    I made unstuffed cabbage in the crock-pot this morning. We'll have cottage cheese with fruit with it.

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