Last night I mixed up kidney beans, olives, tomatoes, marinated artichokes, raisins, nutritional yeast flakes, and olive oil in a lettuceless salad.
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Last night I mixed up kidney beans, olives, tomatoes, marinated artichokes, raisins, nutritional yeast flakes, and olive oil in a lettuceless salad.
Shredded pork with mushrooms. Frugal meal because I had everything on hand. Not frugal because I used up the soy sauce, the garlic, the balsamic vinegar, the sugar substitute, the mushrooms, and the cilantro I had on hand.
The last 2 days hamburger and Mac and cheese. Today I am getting Beef nachos and cheese from a restaurant. Will eat in my car so it’s not soggy by the time I get it home.
We had chicken fried rice last night. Tonight [No, tomorrow] we'll have hoppin' john, with ham steak bits and LO rice. Tonight because I didn't get the black eyed peas soaked in time and don't want to wait 2 hours for dinner, we'll have the LO chicken fried rice from last night. We'll have the hoppin' john tomorrow!
pan-grilled salmon and root vegetable fries (frozen from Aldi).
Sloppy joes with chips.
Fried mushrooms and spinach.
Almond-seed crackers, hummus with red peppers, truffle cheese, a romaine salad.
Chicken and cheese quesadilla with coleslaw and grapes.
I bought a frozen bag of Chicken Chow Mein at Trader Joe this morning when I stopped in to buy my coffee. It is really good!!!!!
I had told DH I would buy him dinner from wherever he chose, and he chose the local gourmet Italian pizzeria. He got a small pepperoni and tiramisu for dessert. I got a small prosciutto with burrata cheese and arugula. Very good.
I made a pot of beans on Monday, so that has been the mainstay so far this week. The OT at work is kicking my butt, so I haven't really cooked anything else so far.
Sour cream lettuce salad.
stuffed/bacon-wrapped chicken breast with fresh green beans.
I bought a smoked duck for $17 at the meat market in Herman. Boy is it fatty. So much fat! I’m throwing tons of that fatty skin away. We sliced off some of that meat and then I’m putting the rest of the bones into a slow cooker or I’ll cook off any usable meat. I anticipate that the fat will float to the top when it cools. And I can pull off all that fat.
I can’t emphasize enough how fatty this is.
Hmm, duck fat is supposed to be tasty though. So if you wanted it could be saved to cook potatoes or something in (though not sure it's still good after hours in a slow cooker). Yea I haven't liked duck the few times I have had it, but I've only made it myself a couple times and was like "meh". Someday I'll have to try it at a French (or Chinese) restaurant and see if it's any better.
Today for lunch I tried a new recipe and it was DELICIOUS and EASY! Sausage and peppers in one pan. Put on (scooped out) pretzel buns. Leftovers will be added to spaghetti sauce to put over over pasta (or spaghetti squash?). The seasonings were great. I modified using 2 huge peppers, added mushrooms and decreased olive oil to 2T.
https://www.delish.com/cooking/recip...eppers-recipe/
Oh Iris, this makes me cry! And not in the good way. Duck fat is THE BEST. I use it for all things roasted, particularly potatoes and root vegetables.Quote:
I’m throwing tons of that fatty skin away.
It’s not too late, I can dig much of it out of the garbage. I guess keep it in the freezer? I’m open to keeping it around I’m just not sure what to do with it. I can’t feel it to the dogs is way too fatty for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by herbgeek
I make something very similar to this quite often. Just don't usually have pretzel buns, but yum, that sounds great!Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
I think we're having turkey chili tonight.
I keep it in the freezer after the duck is cooked, and I've let it cool and skimmed off the fat on the top. You can certainly freeze the skin to cook later, but you really kind of need to do something (the skin as is isn't useful imo).Quote:
I guess keep it in the freezer?
Mushroom burgers tonight. We had a modified hoppin' John last night.
Chicken massaman (Thai) curry.
Mushrooms provencal.
All done with the cheese? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
No, this is sauteed in butter with chives (which had spoiled - one of the drawbacks of only shopping every other week - so I substituted onion powder), garlic, salt, and lemon juice.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
Lima beans aka butter beans with beet salad. Corn bread with honey butter.
Back to the brown rice and lentil bake.
Meatloaf and rice, veggies. I eat my big meal at noon and have a snack at night.
I want to get in that habit. I think that's a healthier way to eat--and works better with my body clock (who wants to do a bunch of cooking and cleaning at 8pm??)Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
Sauteed celery. This is the last recipe I am trying from the 5 ingredient keto book. Today I checked out Keto-Green 16. It is based on 16 days of recipes (not 16 ingredients in each recipe, thankfully).
Meatballs, baked potato and carrots with raisin English muffin for dessert.
Yesterday I asked DH if he could maybe make something with lobster meat (we had in freezer), pasta, spinach, basil and grape tomatoes. He could and he did and it was wonderful! Ate the leftovers tonight.
The brown rice is staying quite warm in the Instant Pot, while Canal House lentils are simmering on the stove top. Will have a side dish of baked butternut squash (leftover from last night, microwaved for the encore).
I am hungry about noon and not very hungry at night. This works great for me and I don’t go to bed full. At 5 I feed the dog, get my snack and watch the news.
I think it will be turkey, kale, onions, garlic, leeks soup.
Frozen burrito w/sour cream and salsa. I got home from a fab weekend with DD and had to jump right into a full afternoon/evening of interviews, so I made it light and easy.
Yesterday made spaghetti from leftover sausage and peppers (mentioned earlier), added marinara sauce and put over spaghetti noodles. EXCELLENT! Bet leftovers would be good in lasagna too??? Nice to have a recipe that can be morphed into different things and taste wonderful each time!!