I just had spaghetti for breakfast. 😄
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I just had spaghetti for breakfast. 😄
I'm thinking tomorrow's will be fried eggs, sausage links, potato hash, and possibly garlic focaccia*.
*Spellcheck wants me to change that to "Iacocca." :~)
Would that be a CARbohydrate?Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
:~)Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Good one!
Our cheap stove blew up for the second time, so DH got the appliance store to credit us for a new stove--we plan to upgrade a little bit to reduce the chances we'll get another lemon. Bad thing is, we'll be without a stove until AFTER my daughter's wedding. :(. So I see a lot of crockpot meals in my future. Tonight we're nuking burritos.
Alfred G Packer would approve. That’s probably a meal they serve at the dining hall named after him at the Colorado University campus.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
Nothing so exciting for dinner here. Just turkey burgers and fries. I had intended for zucchini but SO saw the potatoes I bought and vetoed the zucchini. I'll be cooking on the stove today though instead of out on the grill because it's cold here.
Hahaha!Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
This is where I put in a plug for an Instant Pot. As one cookbook puts it "slow food fast."Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
If ithe mango continues to ripen today, mango avocado shrimp salad with cilantro lime dressing. Garden lettuce is coming along nicely so plenty of that to use up in main dish salads. Tomorrow is pear and blue cheese salad with maple pecans.
Tonight Mongolian beef with green onions.
I wanted to share a recipe I tried for the first time the other night because I'd looked for something to use some of my abundant garden tomatoes. THis.IS.SO good!!! And not too hard to make, either. The crust is divine! Soft and corn-y!
https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/tom...zzarella-dijon
I didn't have "smoked" mozzarella, but my DH has a smoker, so grabbed some mozz and smoked it himself! Voila!
Yum! Wish I could drop in around dinnertime!Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
Our stove is on the fritz, so I made an Italian Wedding soup with fresh veggies and frozen Italian meatballs.
In the microwave or what?Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Crockpot! I think the crockpot will be my best friend for the next few weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
I had a couple veggie burgers with cheese late afternoon and now I am snacking on sunflower seeds and blackberries.
Went out for dinner and had a French dip with onion rings. I have lost 9lbs in 3 weeks so treated myself.
How have you managed to lose 9 pounds in 3 weeks, Terry?
Gave up all alcohol. Usually once a week we would do beer tasting events before the virus and wine with dinner, etc. Plus when we get together with friends it was margaritas. We do a lot of social stuff. Now if out I order a alcohol free beer which is 70 calories. Drinking would make me hungry and I would snack at night. Now no snacking and my carbonated sparkling water is filling. So I think it’s a combination of those 2 things. I bring my A/F beer to friend’s’ homes. I keep alcohol here to serve to friends so they don’t kill me:)). Interestingly my best friend and her husband quit a week after I did when they saw how much weight I was losing. They are both losing weight too.
Darn, I don't really drink, so that's not going to work for me!
Congrats, TT! Not sure I'm ready to totally stop drinking - although lots of reasons I should. :|(
Just spent the weekend away, so haven't been cooking. It's a cool day here, so maybe I'll go ahead and do chicken and dumplings!
I have really cut down on drinking red wine because I’m doing weight watchers program and it’s a choice between alcohol and food. So yeah I’ll take food. So I probably have a glass of red wine every 2 1/2 weeks
Thanks happy! Today we have a free large pizza coupon for my husband’s birthday so doing that. The newer alcohol free beers taste good and I haven’t yet tried the A/F wine or hard stuff. All the flavors without the calories or tiredness.
Tonight: Cambodian takeout from one of our favorite restaurants. We're going to do a socially-distanced dinner outside with a good friend of ours. if this goes well, we'll do some more before the snow flies.
You are the second person to far this morning to mention "pizza" for dinner. Maybe the universe is telling me something - lol. I may rethink the chicken 'n dumplings for some homemade pizza.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
We had pizza Saturday. I admit I've had pizza more often since coronavirus since you can't really go to restaurants anyway. We only get it from a local place of good quality (maybe not as good as homemade but for restaurants it's good - and the whole point of pizza is too tired to cook!).
So, here's a good Food Network challenge, Simple Living-style.
Today I bought 3 grassfed lamb chops on sale, half price ($5 for the three of them). I also bought an organic whole young chicken, 30% off. Here's the challenge: I have no stovetop, range, or broiler.
I DO have a one burner electric hotplate (which I bought at the dollar store yesterday to get me through until my new replacement stove arrives). I also have a very, very small, basic microwave, a crockpot and a brick outdoor grill (not propane).
How would you cook the a) lamb chops and b) the whole chicken?
Cut up the chicken, make a Thai curry with coconut milk, Thai curry paste, onions, garlic. Cook that up for several hours. Then add vegetables like carrots peppers.p and cook for a while.
It is a little better when you can brown the chicken on the stove top before putting it in the crockpot, but that is not essential. Serve over rice. Rice cooked on one burner.
edited to add:
or if you dont have Thai curry ingredients, Cook the chicken with onions and garlic in the crock pot until done. Add chicken stock and noodles.
or—after cooking chicken with onions and garlic, add tomatoes, zucchini, peppers.serve over rice.
I'm reminded of a friend in college who was a proponent of what he called the "Coors Light Diet". Instead of eating dinner he would drink a six pack of Coors Light since it supposedly had less calories than a normal meal and he figured he'd be drunk enough to not care that he wasn't eating. Not surprisingly I don't remember him actually losing any weight...Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Tomorrow, I'm thinking cottage cheese and tomatoes, an artichoke...
Beef and veggie soup with salad.
A tossed salad, this time with cottage instead of regular cheese.
Baked potato and salad.
I'm working up to a hearty soup with ground beef, kale, carrots, onions, cabbage, green beans. Or maybe turkey and cabbage. Time will tell.
Had leftover caprese salad and an Asian noodle salad I picked up from the market.
We just had hamburgers last night. We bought a month’s worth of groceries and some other stuff so we were tired.
I think we are going out for ice cream since the ice cream season will be ending soon enough.
I got 30% off on a whole organic young chicken and after researching learned how to "bake" it in the crockpot!
Italia Peppers and cheese omelettes. It's dump day. I do very little cooking for dinner on dump day.
Leftovers - everyone fends for themselves. :)
a co-worker gave me okra a few days ago. I sliced it up, soaked it in egg, then dredged through cornmeal, salt, pepper and cayenne and fried it up. So, so good.