Good evening and welcome to What’s for Dinner (WFD) where tonight we celebrate the start of our eighteenth year of Saturday evening diaries (posts)!
What’s for Dinner? is a Saturday evening get-together where friends share recipes, talk about good food and help others answer culinary questions. We welcome you to our virtual table every Saturday evening 4:30 PT/7:30 ET. If you would like to write a post for an upcoming date just send a message to ninkasi23!
First a little bit of history:
The first diary to use the tag "what's for dinner" (note that in previous versions of DKos the tags allowed spaces) posted on Tue. July 4th, 2006:
Fourth of July - What's For Dinner Tonight?
In another diary this afternoon, nhwriter mentioned that she loved food diaries. Well, so do I! And today being a particularly delicious day for food and cooking, I thought I'd open a virtual dining room for us this evening.
This was followed by the first use of the tag in the diary title:
What's for Dinner? Episode 1.1
Good evening, fellow repasters and thanks for opening what three hungry kossarians hope to make a regular Saturday this time diary---recipes and cooking without the trolls. There are always so many good recipes posted here day and night that I have personally made and each of us hope you have tried some of ours so the idea became to draw them out some and get you to share more by sharing what we make for our families and ourselves.
And from that point on we saw somewhat-regular Saturday postings of WFD by various dedicated posters. When I came along around 2006 WFD was being organized by Cordelia Lear and later she asked me to co-admin the group when the site upgraded and gave us the Group functions. Over time this has been a regular gathering of food-minded folks where we love to share recipes, tips, and photos.
You can browse through a lot of our history starting with the Master Index put together by devoted contributor esquimaux at this link: What's for Dinner? Master Index. There have been so many various topics covered thanks to so many of you who have volunteered to write and make this weekly series continue!
Tonight’s recipe comes to you courtesy of my avid love of browsing Pinterest;) I think I was looking at recipes for meatball sandwiches when this caught my eye. It is a definite keeper!
Chicken Parmesan Meatballs
from The Girl Who Ate Everything
INGREDIENTS
- 1 lb ground chicken
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup Panko breadcrumbs
- 3/4 cup more breadcrumbs (for rolling later)
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasonings
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1/4 cup olive oil, divided
- 1 (26 ounce) jar marinara sauce
- 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella
- 2 tablespoons basil, torn, (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS
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In a large bowl, mix together the chicken, egg, Parmesan cheese, breadcrumbs, garlic powder, Italian seasonings, salt, pepper, and red pepper. Roll into 1 1/2 inch balls.
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Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large oven-safe skillet over medium heat. Roll half of the meatballs in Panko breadcrumbs and brown them on each side in the oil. Add more oil if needed as you go. Remove from the pan and set aside. Wipe out any Panko breadcrumbs and heat the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat. Roll the remaining meatballs in Panko breadcrumbs and brown on each side. Remove from pan.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pour marinara sauce in the oven-safe skillet (or any baking dish will do) and place the meatballs on top of the sauce. Bake meatballs for 20 minutes sprinkling the mozzarella on top for the last 5 minutes of baking. Garnish with basil and serve over pasta.
Here at Chez Ninkasi we will most likely be finishing up some leftovers for dinner tonight. We have turkey burgers with smoked gouda, sour cream & onion potato salad, Mexican rice, and taco meatloaf to choose from! Need to make some room in the fridge!
So please join us in the comments to talk about what you’re cooking, eating, craving tonight!
Oh, and be sure to check out this week’s Saturday Morning Garden Blog where CWalter shares a recipe for Eggplant Parmesan!