What's For Dinner #122 - the Autumn Leaves of Red and Gold Edition - October 2025

I will just have to wait then. Glad to hear you have new kitties though.

That will never happen.

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A proper shepherd’s pie (not cottage pie) tonight to chase away the cold. Beet salad on the side.

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You may be surprised. Not everyone is a pet person, and some posters may find my contributions not exclusively related to food here distracting from the topic at hand.

We got the critters thread specifically to talk about our furry friends :wink:

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The last zucchini pizza of the season. Served with a chopped garden tomato and scallion salad on the side.

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Mrs. P made roasted whole red snapper with an herb sauce containing fresh herbs from the deck (rosemary, sage, thyme) plus crunchy garlic in chili oil. It was accompanied by TJ’s sweet potato fries. We started off with an espresso martini and homemade guacamole. It all went great with an excellent red blend.




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Nice looking . Coming to the end of outdoor pizza season for me . Ill be out of town next week. The end of season will be trying to copy a pizza I had while visiting Los Angeles in the mid 80’s .

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Mmmmm…I love whole fish.

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That looks fabulous! Way to go, Mrs. P!

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Thank you :blush:

In case anyone s interested below is link to the recipe she used (which has 3 different versions). She used the Mediterranean ingredients.

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Yum! Curry + ranch or separate dips?

Two separate

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Old pic…one of my first ‘meals’ from June. A few shrimp in a partial pack of Ramen and 1/2 cup,of 20g. protein strawberry yogurt. I made it myself and no one ‘cooked’ it for me. It more than hit the spot, more like a thud. Too much volume. There was low sugar ginger ale involved, too.

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Nice image. Without context, this is hard to interpret.

Another late-ish dinner after dropping several food things off at my sister’s while they were at their Maine cabin, and then doing some shopping. Stopped at Wegmans on the way home and picked up a roasting chicken.

So it was decided to have a Sunday dinner on a Saturday.

Simple salt/pepper on the outside, fresh rosemary and thyme sprigs on the inside; roasted at 425° for 1.5 hours for the 6 lb bird.

Sour creamy mashed potatoes with several slices of chive butter melted in. and steamed green beans with butter and dried marjoram. The gravy was reheated from frozen and doctored with a bit more s/p.

There was wine. And it was all good.

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Fabulous looking roast chicken.

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A stunning, late fall day with temps in the high 70s couldn’t have been more perfect for taking a nice long walk downtown with similar-minded folks.

Blue skies, sunshine, and community followed by a lovely lunch with friends, although that turned out to be more leisurely than expected. The newish, family-run Iraqi place makes a killer falafel, but boy does it take them forever to get an order ready :flushed_face: We shared a quick pint at a pub that was having a benefit for a local non-profit helping people with health care costs, then went home to check on the kittehs.

We were able to treat one of them with an eye ointment & trimmed both their razor-sharp claws without our hands & arms being shredded to pieces, and introduced them to more rooms in our house. I’d say that’s not too shabby for their first full day at casa lingua :blush:

Dinner was leftover hand-cut noodz with fatty beef from Wednesday & red wine braised short rib from Thursday that I mixed up with stir-fried veg (onion, celery, a 5th of green & sweet pepper) from the crisper that needed to go, plus the last of a bag of frozen green peas.

The noodles were expectedly on the mushier side, and everything was very brown.

We are sated, and low-key effort means MOAR time spent with the boys :hugs:

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There’s a reason she’s known as the bok bok qween :chicken:

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Dinner from the freezer (Grilled Beef Tenderloin) and a quick stop by Sprouts (Baked Potato). Even a very-busy-weekend meal can be yummy!

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Caesar salad with allium-roasted BC king salmon. Homemade dressing and croutons. Avocado (because use it or lose it).

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We enjoyed another excellent dinner at Fiorentini, in Rutherford, NJ, including poached pear salad with Chef made ricotta, candied walnuts, cranberries, truffle jus; handmade orecchiette with Broccoli rabe pesto, sausage, provolone, chili flakes; black sea bass filet with Italian butter beans, seasonal herbs salad; honey nut squash cappelletti with Butter, sage, spicy soppressata, gouda; Fall squash flan with Smoked cheese fondue, sunflower seeds. We took home a pistachio tartlet for dessert. It all went great with an excellent Malbec and cabernet.








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