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NJCher

(41,728 posts)
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 03:54 PM Oct 7

What's for Dinner, Tues., Oct. 7, 2025

Stir-fry vegetables with chicken breast strips. Has broccoli, zucchini, scallions, carrots, cauliflower, snow peas, and peppers, mostly red.

Kombucha: apple cider and cherry mixed.

Dessert: Just tea tonight because I lost it in the sweets department in the middle of the night.

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What's for Dinner, Tues., Oct. 7, 2025 (Original Post) NJCher Oct 7 OP
I am having bean & sausage soup with texas toast and hot decafe tea irisblue Oct 7 #1
an inch of rain is gold! NJCher Oct 7 #5
Crab cakes PJMcK Oct 7 #2
Whatever looks good on the menu Jilly_in_VA Oct 7 #3
Spaghetti using Spaghetti Squash from the garden for noodles. Emile Oct 7 #4
I love spaghetti squash that way NJCher Oct 7 #6
We still have 4 watermelons. Good news is Emile Oct 7 #7
First 'meal' arrived, from Cook/Unity, and it's warming in the oven. elleng Oct 7 #8
yum NJCher Oct 7 #9
May have left in oven couple minutes too long. elleng Oct 7 #10
I want to know how good the Emile Oct 7 #11
Me too! elleng Oct 7 #12
Asian Style Soup La Coliniere Oct 7 #13

irisblue

(36,244 posts)
1. I am having bean & sausage soup with texas toast and hot decafe tea
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 04:02 PM
Oct 7

We have gotten just over an inch of gentle rain per my garden rain guage, which is really good because it has been so very dry.

Eating a cup of soup at lunch listening to the rain today is now a nice memory

NJCher

(41,728 posts)
5. an inch of rain is gold!
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 05:31 PM
Oct 7

That's the way the plants love it. I think it's coming our way in the next 2 days.

PJMcK

(24,299 posts)
2. Crab cakes
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 04:06 PM
Oct 7

This past weekend saw the end of the Bethel Woods Harvest Festival where merchants from all around NY, NJ, PA and elsewhere hawk their goodies. We bought sour pickles, sun-dried tomatoes, marinated artichoke hearts, several types of olives, French baguettes (two-for-one as it was closing time!) and freshly made crab cakes from MD.

I’ll sautée the cakes in olive oil and serve them on a bed of iceberg lettuce with lemon, hot sauce and tartar sauce. Fried corn and steamed asparagus as sides.

Vanilla ice cream for dessert.

Jilly_in_VA

(13,284 posts)
3. Whatever looks good on the menu
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 04:17 PM
Oct 7

My friend and I are having our usual Tuesday dinner date at one of the local Mexican restaurants. We've been doing this for the last 3 years.

Emile

(38,283 posts)
4. Spaghetti using Spaghetti Squash from the garden for noodles.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 05:20 PM
Oct 7

Salad later tonight.

Good Evening

NJCher

(41,728 posts)
6. I love spaghetti squash that way
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 05:33 PM
Oct 7

and it's a good, low cal meal. You can use tomato sauce and I sometimes add basil pesto if I have it.

BTW how many watermelons are left out of the 12 you saved from the deer/raccoons/groundhogs?

Emile

(38,283 posts)
7. We still have 4 watermelons. Good news is
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 05:40 PM
Oct 7

they are small ones. I love spaghetti squash and we normally grow it every year. Still getting tomatoes and peppers out of the garden, but I look for a killing frost here within the next few weeks.

elleng

(141,105 posts)
8. First 'meal' arrived, from Cook/Unity, and it's warming in the oven.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 05:59 PM
Oct 7

Dinner: Rigatoni with chicken-ricotta meatballs (Thyme-laced chicken and ricotta meatballs melt into a herby tomato sauce) Will inform about quality later.

(Ice cream later)

elleng

(141,105 posts)
12. Me too!
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 06:43 PM
Oct 7

Won't be available until the 21st!!! HARD to wait so long!

At least I have coffee, and ice cream.

La Coliniere

(1,599 posts)
13. Asian Style Soup
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 08:07 PM
Oct 7

Rained here all day so I made a vegetable soup with chopped garlic, ginger, onions, celery, carrots, red bell pepper, sliced cabbage and mushrooms that was sweated before I added veggie broth, tamari, cooked green peas, tofu cubes, sliced canned water chestnuts, hot pepper flakes, and a splash of sesame oil. Last minute I added cooked brown rice noodles. House smelled nice. Cheers!🥂

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