What's for dinner at your place?? Topic

K8sMom2002 12/28/15
Tonight was a homemade Italian sausage slider with marinara sauce and a dusting of mozzarella sauce. Tiny, but full of flavor!

Justjennie 12/29/15
Last night I made singapore noodles with shrimp.

Tonight will be: hamburg patty on a portobella mushroom cap (grilled on my foreman grill) and millet salad with corn and queso fresco.

K8sMom2002 12/29/15
Wow, those noodles sound great! And I love portobello mushrooms grilled.

My DD is allergic to corn, so we've recently discovered millet grits -- yum! I like to cook them long and slow.

We have company tonight, so our menu is not particularly light: scalloped potatoes and ham, with green beans and stir fried okra. I'm planning on loading up on the veggies and having just a very small portion of the cheese loaded, carb heavy potatoes.

Justjennie 12/29/15 replied to K8sMom2002
This will be my first time making millet.

K8sMom2002 12/29/15
The millet grits are like corn grits or polenta... I'm not sure about regular millet.

If you try millet grits, DON'T follow the package directions. It's a 5 to 1 ratio of water to grits, and you need to cook them on low to medium heat, stirring constantly, for 20 minutes.

Let me know how it turns out!

K8sMom2002 12/30/15
Tonight we'll have chicken quesadillas heavy on the veggies and salsa and light on the chicken and cheese. I'll fix kale chips to round out some crunch AND some leafy greens.

Dietitian 12/30/15 replied to K8sMom2002
What type of tortillas do you use for your quesadillas? Any brand pref?

Tonight, I'm using leftover super lean pork tenderloin with maple chipotle sauce (Cooking Light recipe) in a Cooking Light Tofu Fried Rice recipe. It's delicious - I sub brown rice for white, add a bit more veggies. Original CL recipe here: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/tofu-fried-rice

I'll add a salad to the meal and call it good.

K8sMom2002 12/30/15
We have to use Tortillaland flour tortillas, as that's the only corn free brand I can find. Mostly of the rest use modified food starch or corn starch or corn oil. I'm on the lookout for a corn free whole wheat tortilla...Tortillaland's are good, but heavy on the calories and light on the fiber, and they use white flour. That being the case, I've taken quesadillas and fajitas out of my menu rotation except for every once in a while.

Justjennie 12/31/15
Last night had some tamale's that a friend made and a side of my millet salad. YUM!

Dietitian 12/31/15 replied to K8sMom2002
New Year's Eve - tonight I'm making a tasty lamb stew with figs and raisins from Cooking Light: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/middle-eastern-slow-cooked-stew-with-lamb-chickpeas-figs We'll likely have Riesling with it. Dessert will be a sorbet of some sort with fresh berries.

Happy New Year!

What's for dinner at your place??