Grocery shopping today so may just cheat and pick up a frozen pizza.
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Grocery shopping today so may just cheat and pick up a frozen pizza.
Last night was a quick chicken enchilada casserole bake. Only 4 ingredients and with our canned chicken it only took a few minutes to put together and put in the oven. That's my kind of cooking.
Today I'm putting a batch of split pea with ham soup in the crockpot. I'm the only one who eats it in my family, but I love it. I'm not sure if I'm going to make something else for everyone else, I doubt it, they can fend for themselves. One meal a day is enough for me.
Last night marks the first time in maybe ten years that DW cooked original meals two nights in a row. Not, as they say, that there's anything wrong with that. A beef roast done up like a stew minus something to thicken the gravy (and i ate around the carrots). The night before was a Mexican shrimp dish that proved too spicy for her; I enjoyed the leftovers for lunch. Tonight? Maybe takeout night; maybe I'll get ambitious and make something; maybe leftovers.
Bacon and eggs on WW toast with tomato and an orange
Takeout drunken noodles. We split one order. I made Asian style slaw to go with it. Sliced oranges.
Chicken Marsala on a bed of linguine.
Ground beef, done "Eye-talian style" on black soybean (low-carb) pasta. Tonight we have grandchild #2 with us, so probably chicken wings -- unless this week we don't like chicken. ;)
Baked leek and potato.
Tilapia, roasted asparagus and some leftover new potatoes and Red Lobster biscuits.
I treated myself a dinner from a Vegan take out, YUM a Thai inspired sweet potato with a green apple ginger and cucumber juice. WOW it all I can say.
Sauteed cabbage, onions and sausage with a banana and a slice of bread
Leftover grilled chicken from Sat night and squash from the freezer.
homemade chicken noodle soup
Cheese, crackers and raspberries.
Fresh coho salmon (thank you Trader Joe’s), green beans, fried potatoes, green salad.
Leftovers soup: chicken broth starter and leftover roasted chicken, leftover kale, leftover shredded leeks, leftover string beans. Lots more room in the fridge now.
DW just left to see her AZ sister, along with DD/DSiL/grandkids and DGodD/husband/kid so I'm cooking my own food for a week. Or am I??
Home cooked lima beans over rice. Trying to come up with one more non-meat ingredient to add a little more flavor and complexity.
Stuffed green pepper soup
DH thought today was St. Patrick's Day so we're having corned beef and cabbage.
Been a number of years since I had corned beef. It used to be a low-priced cut of meat but now is one of the most expensive.
Dinner is pork, brown rice with asparagus and red peppers
Spaghetti tonight.
I actually have about nine pounds of brisket "corning" in the refrigerator. Making it from scratch. Buying that at the meat market left a mark...Quote:
Originally Posted by razz
I'll probably cook it tomorrow, eat some with cabbage, give away a few pounds to my family and our meat-eating neighbors, and freeze the rest. What I have to pull out of the freezer to make room for it probably will be what i make for dinners over the coming week.
Baked potatoes with chived cottage cheese.
Steve cabbage is spot on for St Patrick's Day.
Take out corned beef and cabbage..... enough for 2 meals. DH had Philly steak sandwich and onion rings... enough for 2 meals. Happy St Pat's Day!
Spaghetti squash with cheese.
Scrambled eggs with mushrooms.
Nine pounds of brisket is almost gone. Four pounds to friends and neighbors, maybe 2-3 more to shrink and fat (the point was really fatty; next time I pick out the piece), a pound for me over several meals, and some to save. But it turned out very nicely.
My mission now is to try a good store-bought already-corned brisket and cook that to see if my effort is rewarded. I've made other dishes over the decades which didn't turn out enough better than what you could buy commercially to justify the effort. Tomorrow is errands day. Tonight is a wild-caught Norwegian salmon filet and whatever frozen vegetable strikes my fancy.
I went to Costco today (day 21 since I last bought food). Stocked up on fresh veggies, organic chicken. And I buckled and bought a roast chicken. I haven't bought one in eons.....
Baked russet potato with home made chili.
Egg salad by itself, no bread, to minimize the carbs.
Chicken noodle soup. I stripped the remaining meat off yesterday's roast chicken and made a big pan of chicken stock. 1/2 is in the freezer in 2c portions and the remaining became 2 big bowls of soup with chopped celery, carrots, chicken and some spaghetti noodles broken in 4s. YUMMERS!
Roasted cauliflower soup.
Thai green chicken curry with green beans, if I get around to it.
15 bean cajun soup with sausage and ham .... very good!
Grilled burger with lots of melty cheese and broccoli salad!
Have the oven on for sourdough rolls, so will throw in a spaghetti squash after they come out. Maybe add some roasted red peppers as a topper.
I made the storebought corned beef for dinner tonight, using the same technique as my homemade version. There is no comparison. It's worth the work. Now I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveinMN
White beans with ham simmered all afternoon in chicken broth, fried potatoes with onions, cornbread. Comfort food for a country boy.
I just looked at the recipe for curing the homemade version. I put it on my to-do list to try when I feel adventurous in cooking. I have to get over the price of the brisket first though;)Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveinMN
Trout and colcannon (the colcannon was really planned for st patricks day, but I got too lazy so didn't make it then, so I made it now, it's really just mashed potatoes with cabbage and scallions, which adds a lot to mashed potatoes, it's superior mashed potatoes IMO).