What’s for dinner?

[etoiles]

Sweet and savory crepes

 

[tasha99]

Last night-- Sichuan dry fried beans, Yu-shiang eggplant, and rice. So good. Having a bowl of leftover eggplant on rice for breakfast. Used up half of yesterday's garden produce. Today's goal is the other half (more eggplant, but Italian instead of Japanese, and zucchini).

 

[Buzz Rules]

 

[Figment of Speech]

Sesame orange tofu with roasted green beans and sticky rice!

 

[Beach Bunny]

Stuffed shells with garlic bread and salad

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Chicken salad, sliced ham & sliced turkey w/romaine lettuce sandwich. DH had this at a coffee shop, when we were in Oklahoma last week. He wants me to try to replicate it. He's going to have seasoned fries with his. I won't need a side.

@tasha99, do you have any easy recipes for Asian meals? Your meals always sound so good. Unfortunately, I'm no longer able to spend a lot of time preparing a recipe. After eating sushi rolls recently, I've been craving sushi ginger, but any easy, Asian recipe will be very much appreciated. We'll eat anything.

 

[tasha99]

Awww, tarheelmjfan, you made my day. I love sushi and my birthday is coming up--looking so forward to having some myself!

Most of what I cook lately has come from these websites:

Korean:
https://www.maangchi.com/https://www.koreanbapsang.com/
Chinese:
https://omnivorescookbook.com/https://thewoksoflife.com/
Thai:
https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/
Japanese:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/
If you have access to gochujang (I like haechandle brand), this recipe is really easy, and it's the one my oldest son requests most often when he comes home for a visit:

https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/dwaejigogi-bokkeum
I make it with either thinly sliced pork (something with some fat--not loin, which is too lean) or thinly sliced chicken thighs. I don't use pork belly because it's too rich for me for an everyday meal. Unless I'm cooking for my son, I leave out the gochugaru (Korean pepper flakes), because my husband has a lower tolerance for spicy food.

If that's too spicy, my go-to fast food is Japanese katsu curry made with a store bought brick of roux. I buy Kokumaro brand, but any kind will do (Vermont, Golden Curry, Java, etc). They're blocks of curry seasoning in fat--you just add water per package instructions and boil to make a curry gravy.

Basically, what you do is:

1. Make rice (Japanese rice in a rice cooker if you have one)
2. Make the curry per box instructions. Just make it plain, without a bunch of additions--just the roux and water.
3. Take either chicken thighs, breasts, or thin pork cutlets. If they aren't even, pound flat to 1/2 inch or so. Salt them. Dip in breading: first flour, then egg, then Japanese breadcrumbs (panko). Then shallow fry in oil, flipping once so it's all golden brown and done. Then slice the cutlet. To plate, but a big scoop of rice on the plate, the cutlet on the side kind of on the rice, and then ladle the curry over it all.

We had it a couple nights ago when I didn't feel like cooking much, and I call it Japanese hamburger helper. There are recipes online for real homemade curry rouxs, and at justonecookbook.com there are many options for addtions to the roux, but by just buying the bricks, it makes it a super easy dinner.

Here's a video on making a cutlet. I've never followed this recipe, but it looks like what I do and just shows the work flow if you don't fry much (though I use parchment paper to pound instead of saran wrap). https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/chicken-katsu

Here's a pic/example of what it looks like. The red pickle on the side is traditional, but we rarely have it.

 

[Buzz Rules]

 

[Kitty 34]

enchiladas

 

[Dead2009]

grilled chicken and a garden salad

 

[NannyBeBe]

Potsticker soup

 

[ronandannette]

Grilled cheese and tomato soup - popsicles for dessert. I'm tired, it's hot and I'm too busy watching the Olympics to fuss.

 

[neverlandsky]

Homemade broccoli cheese soup & salad.

 

[evilmommie]

Taco Thursday

 

[fla4fun]

Sichuan beef and vegetables with rice

 

[figment52]

BLT's with the first garden tomatoes of the season - yum!!

 

[marthachick]

Homemade peach cobbler and ice cream. We had a late lunch. Lol

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Awww, tarheelmjfan, you made my day. I love sushi and my birthday is coming up--looking so forward to having some myself!

Most of what I cook lately has come from these websites:

Korean:
https://www.maangchi.com/https://www.koreanbapsang.com/
Chinese:
https://omnivorescookbook.com/https://thewoksoflife.com/
Thai:
https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/
Japanese:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/
If you have access to gochujang (I like haechandle brand), this recipe is really easy, and it's the one my oldest son requests most often when he comes home for a visit:

https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/dwaejigogi-bokkeum
I make it with either thinly sliced pork (something with some fat--not loin, which is too lean) or thinly sliced chicken thighs. I don't use pork belly because it's too rich for me for an everyday meal. Unless I'm cooking for my son, I leave out the gochugaru (Korean pepper flakes), because my husband has a lower tolerance for spicy food.

If that's too spicy, my go-to fast food is Japanese katsu curry made with a store bought brick of roux. I buy Kokumaro brand, but any kind will do (Vermont, Golden Curry, Java, etc). They're blocks of curry seasoning in fat--you just add water per package instructions and boil to make a curry gravy.

Basically, what you do is:

1. Make rice (Japanese rice in a rice cooker if you have one)
2. Make the curry per box instructions. Just make it plain, without a bunch of additions--just the roux and water.
3. Take either chicken thighs, breasts, or thin pork cutlets. If they aren't even, pound flat to 1/2 inch or so. Salt them. Dip in breading: first flour, then egg, then Japanese breadcrumbs (panko). Then shallow fry in oil, flipping once so it's all golden brown and done. Then slice the cutlet. To plate, but a big scoop of rice on the plate, the cutlet on the side kind of on the rice, and then ladle the curry over it all.

We had it a couple nights ago when I didn't feel like cooking much, and I call it Japanese hamburger helper. There are recipes online for real homemade curry rouxs, and at justonecookbook.com there are many options for addtions to the roux, but by just buying the bricks, it makes it a super easy dinner.

Here's a video on making a cutlet. I've never followed this recipe, but it looks like what I do and just shows the work flow if you don't fry much (though I use parchment paper to pound instead of saran wrap). https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/chicken-katsu

Here's a pic/example of what it looks like. The red pickle on the side is traditional, but we rarely have it.

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Thanks so much for the suggestions. Your recommended recipes look great. I'm not sure where I can find the paste & roux here, so I'm going to order them from Amazon. I'll check out the other links, when I have more time to browse the sites.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

We're packing up to move tomorrow, so it's pizza for us tonight.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Potsticker soup

How did you make it?