WFD Wednesday

ball.and.chain

What's for dinner tonight?

QOTW: What's your favorite "hometown" food -- something you can only get in your hometown?  Could be the area you grew up in or the area you live in now -- or both!

ATXmommas

Tonight we'll either have leftover black bean burgers or a vegan BLT - something easy. Homemade oven roasted fries or grilled corn (or both) as sides.

For lunch, I'm eating the carrot and white bean sald with fresh dill that @ball.and.chain posted last week. Used cannellini beans. Grocery was out of shallots on Sunday, so left those out. I also cut back on the oil and steeped some crushed garlic in the lemon-oil dressing before mixing it in. I also used brown sugar and mixed the entire mixture with farro to make it a bit heartier. Only took a taste last night, and it was very good! Looking forward to lunch today!

wishiwaspreggo

Dinner... Hmmmm... Something with chicken, probably.  That or maybe I'll make grilled cheese and soup.  That sounds pretty good, actually.  I'll try to talk C into that

GTKY: Oh, gosh, this is really hard... we have a lot of amazing restaurants in my home town.  I think I'll have to go with a blue flame burger with fries from Upland Brewing Company, washed down with a wheat beer, of course.  C and I had considered moving a few years ago (SO glad we didn't) and we both were lamenting how difficult it would be to leave Upland behind.

JGY

RobertJane33 said:

Stir fry with leftover Chinese food. Easy and simply, which is what we need these days.

Also, wife woke me up at 2 a.m. b/c she was hungry, so I feel like having lots of leftovers is good these days.

QOTW:  Everything bagel with lox spread, definitely.  You can get them elsewhere, but they just aren't as good.  Other option - bacon, egg and cheese sandwich from a cart on the corner.  Sadly, the guy who runs the cart on my corner keeps Halal, which means that he uses beef bacon instead of pork.  Its just not as tasty.

Love.

Oh how I miss NYC and the food (you're from NYC, right?).

For me the hardest to do without is NY chinese food.  You just can't find it out here in MN.

 

Tonight I have softball, so Gabe is getting leftover chicken and spinach out of a tupperware at the field, and I will get whatever I can scrounge up once I get home.  It will absolutely include a beer.  Sorry, I know this isn't at all helpful for others ... no recipes, etc.

 

healz413

I'm planning to make black bean burgers from @ATXmommas recipe, a salad if the lettuce is still good, and curly fries.

QOTW: Chicago style pizza, for sure.

2brides

No idea what is for dinner. Plans just went up in the air (I was supposed to go to dinner with friends and L was picking up the kids/feeding them, but my dinner plans fell through and I made a last minute eye appt since my contact is driving me nuts and I am out of back ups.) Maybe a Lean Cuisine or similar.

There is a BBQ sauce from my hometown that I grew up eating. I found it up here 1x and bought it and never saw it again. When I cooked with it, my house smelled like my childhood. mmmm.

ATXmommas

I forgot the question of the day!

Well, I don't eat any hometown food from my home state of Missisippi anymore as absolutely nothing is vegan friendly. But, I'll still recommend fried catfish as a MS specialty. I used to love it! Along with any variety of soul food - fried okra, collards, macaroni, and banana pudding.

ATX must-have is breakfast tacos. And Mexican martinis are another (liquid) treat not for the faint of heart.

ball.and.chain

Grilled chicken sandwiches with lettuce, tomato and cheese.  We had stuff to get rid of and they were delicious!  Roasted broccoli on the side.

QOTW: Boston food and New England food are sort of interchangeable.  So: lobster rolls, clam chowder, and fried whole-belly clams.

CageyMack

We are eating yellow curry with chicken.  It'll be tasty.  I'm really, really excited about a salad I made for tomorrow: lentils with fried tofu cubes and a peanut Thai sauce.  It has cherry tomatoes and basil, too.  So tasty and marinating right now!

QOTD: I'm in Hawaii right now, so I'll say that I really, really love poke bowls.  It is seasoned ahi over rice.  So good.  When I get back to Oregon, I'm going to miss it.    

ATXmommas

@CageyMack‌ - would love the lentil and tofu recipe. Sounds wonderful!

ball.and.chain

@ATXMommas, forgot to say I hope you enjoyed the salad!  Farro is a great idea.  And I reduced the oil too -- I'm no fat-phobe but it seemed like waaaay too much.

ATXmommas

ball.and.chain said:

@ATXMommas, forgot to say I hope you enjoyed the salad!  Farro is a great idea.  And I reduced the oil too -- I'm no fat-phobe but it seemed like waaaay too much.

I did! Agree about the oil - even after reducing the amount and mixing in the farro, it was plenty of dressing. Will definitely make this one again. I love how easy it was.