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NJCher

(41,809 posts)
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 03:28 PM Oct 13

What's for Dinner, Mon., Oct. 13, 2025

I am experimenting with baking corn bread or corn muffins in my new air fryer today!


This is only a temporary location while I get used to it. Once I understand how to use it, I'm having my handyman Stan build a cabinet for me in my utility room, next to my kitchen.

Hopefully I will be back later with a pic of some delicious muffins!

If they turn out, I'm having vegetable soup with corn muffins. Cucumber salad with dill.

Kombucha: cherry-ginger.

Dessert: chocolate tapioca pudding, vanilla shortbread cookie.

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What's for Dinner, Mon., Oct. 13, 2025 (Original Post) NJCher Oct 13 OP
New toy!!!! Nittersing Oct 13 #1
I've a Ninja & love it! SheltieLover Oct 13 #4
Nioise Salad Nanuke Oct 13 #2
Sounds yummy! SheltieLover Oct 13 #5
NICE! elleng Oct 13 #9
Congrats on your new ait fryer! I love mine! SheltieLover Oct 13 #3
Burritos with chips and salsa. Emile Oct 13 #6
Leftover Pizza La Coliniere Oct 13 #7
NJ, right? elleng Oct 13 #8
Pasta e fagioli Retrograde Oct 13 #10
Say anything in Italian, and I melt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! elleng Oct 14 #11

SheltieLover

(74,599 posts)
4. I've a Ninja & love it!
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 05:17 PM
Oct 13

I can only begin to imagine what delicacies Cher will cook up in her new toy!

Nanuke

(865 posts)
2. Nioise Salad
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 04:44 PM
Oct 13

Tuna steak, Romaine, boiled egg, new potatoes, green beans, olives, tomato and pickled beets.
Dijon vinaigrette from Ina Garten recipe.

elleng

(141,182 posts)
9. NICE!
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 09:59 PM
Oct 13

Been longing for one for a long time, but haven't found any here. (I'm not in Jose Andres' neighborhood any longer. )

SheltieLover

(74,599 posts)
3. Congrats on your new ait fryer! I love mine!
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 05:15 PM
Oct 13

Just returned from fav Mex restaurant. Mon is buy 1 margarita botato, get one half off day! My fav. Potatoes are enormous, almost the length of my forearn!

Enjoy!

Emile

(38,436 posts)
6. Burritos with chips and salsa.
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 06:17 PM
Oct 13

Salad later tonight.

What make of air fryer is that? Looks like a nice one.

La Coliniere

(1,613 posts)
7. Leftover Pizza
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 08:06 PM
Oct 13

We still had half a large pizza from yesterday so my wife made a tossed salad to go along with the air fried slices. BTW we think using an air fryer to heat up left over pizza is the best method out there. So much better than microwaving it and super fast for a hot crisp slice in just a few minutes.
Cher, good luck on the new air fryer. Looks like a deluxe model. Cheers! 🥂

Retrograde

(11,321 posts)
10. Pasta e fagioli
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 11:01 PM
Oct 13

or pasta fazool. It's a cool, rainy day so something stew-like is called for. I use a recipe from "The Harvest Bean Book" that uses roasted red peppers instead of tomatoes, and I've broken open a bag of the Rancho Gordo beans. Leftover brownies for dessert

(How do you have leftover brownies? We made some for a going-away party for some friends leaving the area. Everybody else at the party also brought cakes, cookies, assorted pastries, or dried fruit, so there was a sugar overload and the brownies never got touched)

elleng

(141,182 posts)
11. Say anything in Italian, and I melt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 03:57 AM
Oct 14

Luciano Pavarotti : Una furtiva lacrima

'Im a 30 yr old man oilfield worker who is a metal head, out in the middle of a field in texas crying tears of joy. Beauty has no boundaries.'

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