Teriyaki shredded chicken over rice with brussel sprouts and pie for my birthday dessert... Happy Pi Day, everyone! :)
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Teriyaki shredded chicken over rice with brussel sprouts and pie for my birthday dessert... Happy Pi Day, everyone! :)
That sounds delicious, Happy, and Happy Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, Happy!
Happy Birthday! What flavor of pie!
Thanks, everyone. Apple!!!
I’m glad someone had pie on pi day today.
Roasted vegetable assorted for me tonight.
Couscous & Broccoli with sweet & sour chicken.
Meatloaf, acorn squash stuffed with apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, apples and butter and green salad.
Kielbasa and cabbage - going low-carb tonight, so no noodles.
Edited to add: I've never cooked kielbasa before but this ended up being very easy and the family loved it!
Pork tasso and rice for dh; tilapia and leftover couscous & broccoli for me.
Edited to add: I did brave a taste of the tasso and it is WAYYYYY too spicy for me! Glad I made the tilapia. Dh on the other hand, loves it!
Beef stroganoff with salad
Japanese curry, maybe.
Homemade cabbage soup and cheese with fresh fruit.
Since temps have gone down a bit again and since I have all the ingredients, it will be meat & cabbage soup. Plus razz's post about cabbage soup just stuck in my mind. lol
shrimp with pesto rotini, asparagus and pesto sauce.
Wednesday nights = early salad dinner followed by yoga a bit later.
ETA: Beckyliz's dinner sounds much yummier!
Caprese salad. SO and I both had sizable lunches so we decided to have a light, healthy, low carb dinner.
teriyaki chicken over rice with mixed veggies.
Leftovers - because it's going into week 3 and I still feel like crap. Sigh...
But, this too shall pass - eventually.
Hot dogs rolled up and baked in crescent rolls with homemade french fries and salad.
Comfort food for an overcast day - tuna casserole.
I do not have to work tomorrow so it feels like Friday! Dinner is pizza on homemade sourdough crust - plain cheese, turkey-roni, and mushrooms & peppers.
Enjoy your long weekend, Happy!Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
A friend had posted about a meal she enjoyed from one of those meal kit services, I think it was Gobble. It was a quinoa-arugula-mint salad. That sounded so good to me, so I assembled my own version, adding olives and cukes and feta and tomatoes. I made a honey, olive oil and fresh lime juice dressing, using the recipe from the harvest grain bowl I had discovered a few months ago. DH is deeply suspicious of quinoa (Are you sure this is edible? Couldn't we have Little Debbie snack cakes instead?), but he thought it was OK and I really liked it and would make it again. I made extra quinoa and froze it.
rr, that sounds like a wonderfully refreshing spring meal!
DH and I did a meal kit service for a while (Blue Apron): it was great in that in introduced us to things we had never heard of, never mind tasted (Quinoa is. mainstream to us vs farro). And somehow, even though we can't work together int he kitchen most of the time, we collaborated beautifully on making the meals. It was really a fun joint activity.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
We stopped because while they claim it will reduce your overall food budget, it actually almost doubled it. We only got 3 meals out of the 3-day/week boxes, so those, plus all the other stuff we bought to cover the rest of the week, pushed us into almost $1k a month for food.
They are defiintely really delicious, and nutritious, so in principle, I like them. I saved some of the recipe cards so I could do them myself.
I think I mentioned a little while back that one of my kids briefly did Hello Fresh. While expensive, they did finally learn to cook and follow a recipe!
We were on a waiting list for a local CSA and they contacted us that we were IN! We got our first drop Thursday. Spinach, mixed salad greens, microgreens, pea shoots, bok choy, carrots. The quality is wonderful!
So we've had several nights of green bowls with beans and farro. Last night was spinach quiche. Tonight I'm braising the bok choy to accompany some pork chops. Maybe roast the carrots.
I'm thinking with all the veggies we now have to use "forcibly" maybe this will help me shed some of this Covid weight.
Sounds exactly like the age, quinoa distress and a freezer box or two of Little Debbie snack cakes.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
A delicious vegan feast. Ok really it was pasta with pesto (no cheese). And roasted asparagus on the side (with olive oil, lemon and orange juice, salt and pepper).
Simple and easy ravioli in red sauce for the other household members. (I am headed out to dinner with a friend. :D)
I thought I had already posted about this, but I don't see it, so perhaps not. Anyway, I got my hair cut the other day, and my hairdresser was telling me about her family's plans for Easter dinner. There were going to be four people, and they were having pasta, meatballs, sausages, bracciole, a small ham, stuffed mushrooms, Brussels sprouts, and I forget what else. Wow!
Now Easter isn't really a thing for us and DH and I would happily ignore it, but it is a thing for Mom, and we couldn't quite bear the idea of her sitting home alone eating a sandwich from Market Basket. In years past, she would have spent it at her best friend's house, who did a big Easter spread, but her friend died last fall, and that's another reason why we didn't want Mom sitting home alone. Sis was scheduled to work, so DH and I went over and DH cooked a marinara sauce with ravioli, and I had made a salad and we had rolls and wine, with a blueberry pie and ice cream for dessert. It was very good and we enjoyed it and there was more than enough food for us, but ... I did have the nagging thought in the back of my head that we were Bad Italians, and my hairdresser and her family were Good Italians, because there is supposed to be a ridiculous amount of food, right? I mean, what if a whole bunch of people dropped in on us unexpectedly or something?
So anyway, it was really all about Mom, and she said it was the BEST EASTER she ever had! When I talked to her today, she said again how it was the BEST EASTER, and everything was so wonderful and she didn't know how she could ever thank us enough.
So the moral of this story is simple dinner for the win! It's mostly about spending time with the people you love and getting some nutrition while you're at it. I KNOW this; it isn't exactly news to me, but I guess sometimes it's easy to get sidetracked in my thinking.
What a wonderful story, rosa! I'm not Italian, but you seem like Very Good Italians to me. You made your mother very happy. It sounds wonderful.
I know that you are atheist, but I think that many people grew up with Easter as a spring tradition. We raised our kids as Christian and took them to church and did Easter egg hunts and Easter baskets and the whole deal. This year we went to my Son #2's house and had a wonderful dinner, but none of us did anything religious, except DH led us all in a prayer that was very much like the prayer Ben Stiller did in Meet the Parents.
But my Son #1--the one in NJ--called us that night and was very nostalgic about Easter. He is not raising his kids to be religious, and they did not make a big deal out of egg hunts or ham dinners yesterday.. and he was very rueful in terms of how he was reconciling all that with his memories of growing up when Easter was a big deal.
So from the tradition aspect--forget the religious aspect--giving that to your mother was so very wonderful.
Catherine: You make a very good point about the traditional, non-religious aspects, and I will try to focus on that for the future. Mom always did a lot of cool decorations for Easter. She had a great collection of ornamental eggs, and the Easter Bunny was very good to us. I got a FB message from a friend who says that Easter always reminds her of going to my mom's house for candy and treats when we were kids, and she has good memories from those times.
That was so nice, rosa! Building good memories are always worth the effort in my opinion.
Last night I made Mongolian barbecue for the first time. We were both disappointed that the Japanese bbq sauce wasn’t spicier. Will have to add a little zing to it next time.
If you're looking for inspiration--especially spicy sauces--I recommend Marion Grasby (Marion's Kitchen) on YouTube. I've never made her recipes, but I find her Australian accent exceedingly soothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Turkey steaks with roasted red potatoes. Haven't decided on a veggie yet.
Collard greens ham, and pinto beans. Got the greens in our CSA portion this week. Ham was frozen from Easter.
There are left over turkey steaks from last night, so I am thinking I will dice one or two up and make stir fried rice. Probably take another couple and do some homemade mac-n-cheese for tomorrow night.