What to Have for Dinner?

I always send people to my freinds' blog, veryculinary.com. It's full of great recipes and funny stories. She created it for busy families who want to throw together a healthy meal in 30 minutes of less.

I also have been looking through the recipes at safeway. I belong to the safeway just4you program and they have a bunch of great recipes on there.

good luck!!

We are having leftover enchiladas from yesterday. It will be 109 here at 5pm so we don't go outside let alone stand over a hot grill all summer. We have an inside grill, maybe you can invest in one. Good luck.

We've got some leftovers from last night.
Some pasta salad will round that out nicely.
Boiling water for a little while won't heat up the house (Ii's 91 over here right now).

When in doubt, spaghetti and meatballs. :)

we are having taco salad tonight :)

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(Sorry, I'm on a theme right now after answering summer bucket list question.)

We are having BLT's, fries and chips/salsa!!!

Ahh...to not have to turn the air on!!

I think I'm going to make a cold pasta salad with veggies. I'm overheated and eating something hot just sounds horrid.

I am in the middle of a campaign to sell my son on "scrambled eggs super" (aka an omelet with real, actual, veggies in it). He's not the world's most adventurous eater, so it's an uphill battle. If your kids are less impossible than mine, this might be something everyone could eat.

On other nights, when I'd rather cook multiple meals than argue about who's supposed to eat what, I do rainbow chard and polenta for the grownups (sautee rainbow chard with olive oil and a little garlic in one skillet; sautee polenta with olive oil and a little garlic on another skillet; make a "sauce" with fresh lemon juice and spicy mustard, and call it a dinner) and just do organic chicken nuggets and frozen peas for the kid. This is not optimal parenting in terms of expanding the kid's taste, but it's quick, healthy, and makes everyone happy. Sometimes that's all I can pull off.

What about Omelettes
Sandwiches
Just something simple.

boiling spaghetti noodles jarred sauce and frozen meatballs thawed in the microwave might work for you.

We are having mac and cheese and a veggie, i'm just not up for real cooking today.

You could do a ceviche or something like that that's cool and doesn't require a TON of cooking.

As to what WE'RE having... it depends on whether the chicken is thawed by the time I need it... :) Either cheese stuffed chicken, or something quick and easy that doesn't dirty up a lot of dishes.

Have the meat ready to go and if the rain holds up, grill 'em....if storms roll through, good old spaghetti and meatballs works in a pinch!

Us: peppercorn pork loin, peas, roasted potatoes.

why not do hoagies or something like that for dinner? Easy and no heat required for cooking

I really don't cook much during the summer, we'll eat a lot of salads, wraps, sandwiches, quesadillas, or frozen things from trader joe's. We'll eat a lot of fruit. tonight we had salad with a frozen pizza from TJ and watermelon for dessert. I'll grill chicken and use that for days to put on salads or wraps, or mix with rice maybe, we'll have burgers once a week with fruit and chips cause I am too lazy(and too hot for oven) to cook frozen fries. I make spaghetti once a week with frozen meatballs. We also eat bean and cheese quesadillas with chips and salsa about once a week. Very easy dinners during the summer but everyone is happy.

We're in the same boat today and I think I'll be doing scrambled eggs and steamed veggies for us and toaster-waffles for the kids. I have zero energy or initiative today.

Haha, Portillos!! We'll be running around tonight so we won't even be home for dinner. Nothing beats Portillo's Italian beef!

Actually when it's hot but we can't grill we like to have cold chicken salad. I make up a big veggie salad and we put cold chicken on top. We'll also just do sandwiches and veggies and dip.

My husband's favorite is a piece of lunch meat wrapped around a cucumber spear. He likes corned beef or ham.

I put frozen ground turkey in the fridge last night and we are having turkey burgers tonight--cooked on my stovetop griddle. It is too humid to cook anything taking a lot of time.

Do you have any baking potatoes? cheese, onions, etc.
Do you have a microwave?
For some reason whenever they made these kinds of meals at schools kids LOVE it. I myself am heating up the house with a turkey breast.
If you live near a Dominicks they have good heated meats and you could pick up one of those and have tacos or burritos.

I made the best chicken last night. Served it with rice and broccoli.

Just use thin cut chicken. pound it or make smaller pieces out of thick breasts. So yummy and easy. And I had everything at home!

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves (about 4 ounces each), tenderloins removed and pounded to an even thickness (see Recipe Notes below)
1 tablespoon olive oil
2/3 cup chicken broth
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons drained capers
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley, plus mor for garnish
1 lemon, thinly sliced

Preparation:
1. On a sheet of wax paper or in a shallow dish, mix the flour, salt, and pepper. Coat each breast with the mixture, shaking off the excess.

2. In a large skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook for about 3 minutes on each side, or until lightly browned and no longer pink in the center. Remove to a serving platter.

3. Add the chicken broth and lemon juice to the skillet. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring to scrape up any browned bits in the pan, for 2 to 3 minutes, or until the sauce is reduced slightly. Stir in the capers and parsley. Pour the sauce over the chicken and serve right away with lemon slices and a sprinkling of fresh parsley.

We had curried sausages with vegetables and brown rice. We had a thunderstorm too.

I bought a roasted chicken yesterday. I sliced the breast, made a aoli with mayo, jalapeños, lime juice and basil. I had frozen sub rolls from SAMs and thawed them. Cooked a bit of bacon and made a chicken sub.

Tonight I will chop up the rest of the meat, heat, combine it with salsa and use that, along with shredded cheese and tortillas to make a quesadilla.

I saw 99 on my thermometer. I had the fan blasting on me while I cleaned the shower so I would not have to turn up the AC. Not much cooking here the rest of the summer.

My kids love fresh vegies, as opposed to cooked, so I sometimes like to cook some chicken in the skillet, whenever it's convenient, then serve it cold, chopped up and tossed into a salad.

We are actually planning on burgers on the grill, and it does look like rain, but we grill in the rain if we have to.

you can pan fry your burgers or steak????