What you have for dinner is one of the most intimate details you have in your life, yet also one of the most forgettable. What meal did you have, say, three weeks ago?
I do the cooking here around the ranch, and one of the hardest questions to answer -- I mean in life -- is what's for dinner. It is relentless. And I don't do the microwave or food-in-a-box -- lets just say that growing up I had countless bad experiences with cream of mushroom soup.
I fully believe that religious prohibitions on certain foods stems from a desire to have the dinner choices narrowed. Same with the US infatuation for diets.
But I'm hardly kosher, and my contrarian nature (isn't that a nice way to put it) causes me to avoid buying into any diet. So what are the rules? I think it's part of each season to eat the food that is ripe and available -- aparagus in the spring, tomatoes in summer, hard squash in the fall, and roasted potatoes in the winter. The cholestorol's a bit elevated, so I try to avoid the ever-so-edible cow. And we have carry-out every Friday. Other than that, it's whatever pops into my head.
So here's what was for dinner over the last two weeks:
M - Tomato & Pesto Linguine, Olive Foccacio, Spring Mix Salad
T - Pizza Redux (warmed over leftover pizza)
W - Bratwurst on a Bun, Herbed Potato Salad, Baked Beans w/ Onions & Green Peppers
H - Grilled Swordfish Steaks, Steamed Brocolli, Orzo with Pesto Sauce
F - Dehli Dhaba, Arlington (carryout)
S - Cheeseburgers, Baked Beans, Herbed Potato Salad
S - Roast Chicken, Steamed Brocolli, Sliced Summer Tomatoes
M - Roasted Eggplant and Red Pepper Linguine, Spring Mix Salad, Sliced Summer Tomatoes
T - Brie de Meaux and Leerdammer Cheese, Spring Mix Salad, Baguette
W - Cafe Deluxe, Tysons (dine out)
H - Garden Salad topped with Grilled Wild Salmon and Croutons
F - Hunan #1, Arlington (delivery)
S - Bratwurst on a Bun, Herbed Potato Salad, Sliced Summer Tomatoes
S - Grilled Boneless Chicked Thighs, Sliced Summer Tomatoes
