So...whats for dinner?
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Last night was a corned beef brisket cooked in the Power Quick Pot, same category as Instant Pot. Sliced and served with cabbage, carrots, and potatoes. DH enjoyed a bit of New Year's Day food that we missed because of his illness.
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I lied about dinner yesterday. :-) We weren't hungry, so we went to the gym, and when we got back, we still weren't hungry, so dinner was nothing. MIL ended up eating some (as someone called it here) planned overs.
The snow is melting and the vacuum and mop are kept busy cleaning up. We wear "muck boots" outside and take them off by the door. It helps because we don't spread the mud throughout the house, but where the boots sit, the snow part of the mud/snow mix in the boot tread melts and it all runs onto the floor.
The first time I saw it, I was worried about Frankie (our dog).......
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Eric - Hope you are all in better shape.
Dinner was leftover quiche & leftover lime jello salad with pineapple & avocado. I did make guacamole for tomorrow and meatloaf is mixed & in the fridge & ready to roast.
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Hi all
Carole corned beef is my favourite. It's been hot here and will be all week, 40C tomorrow.
I've been feeling a bit better and been eating a bit more. Roast vegies and chicken tonight. Also had a few salads and lots more chicken. I haven't had any meat for months. Also have been eating lots of icecreams.
I'm going to make some vegetable soup tomorrow although the weather is hot. I just need something to fill me up.
I've never been to the snow. It snows over east and here we get a tiny bit of snow every winter on one of the high mountains. Heaps of people race up there to look at it.
Aussie12
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Last night's dinner was an attempt to enhance a frozen pepperoni pizza. I added kalamata olives and shredded Asiago. Also a dribble of olive oil--big mistake. The new stove won't be delivered until Tuesday so I used the toaster oven heated to 450. The thin crust tasted like cardboard. It was a small pizza and we ate about 2/3 of it. Fortunately I made a romaine salad that was as good as always.
Typical of my food shopping habits, I bought two frozen pizzas so there's another one in the freezer, different brand and different toppings.
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Carol, your Asian sauce sounds delicious!
specialk,how did the roll-ups turn out? I’m thinking the egg might have been enough to keep them together, but I also love the combination of dairy and meat. If you like the taste of kale and/or pork, those flavors might be diminished if you used goat cheese, but I love goat cheese so I wouldn’t mind that. 😉
I made the “Marry Me Chicken” (sort of) and it was a hit with DH. I didn’t have the heavy cream or sun dried tomatoes on hand, so I substituted a can of “full fat” evaporated milk that I always have on hand in the pantry and a can of diced tomatoes. I’m sure the “real” recipe would be even better.
Last night was Norwegian salmon from Aldi that DH picked up on sale last month. Easy prep: I put the thawed fish on a sheet pan with some carrots with just a little EVOO, salt and pepper. I made some Israeli couscous as a side and finished the salmon on the plate with a Mayo-based sauce with lemon zest and juice, Worcestershire sauce, oyster sauce and a handful of thyme. This is the first time I’ve used oyster sauce. My sauce concoction was inspired by Milk Street’s use of this in various recipes. The sauce was so yummy that DH had a second serving of couscous and put the sauce on top.
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We had the leftover turkey barley last night. There's enough to make small helpings for tonight. I'll add arugula and poached egg to flesh it out.
Tomorrow, DH wants something Indian so I'll use a cauliflower and figure something out.
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cyathea - totally forgot to post about the lasagna roll up results. I googled "lasagna roll ups without ricotta" and the consensus seemed to be cream cheese as the best option. I elected to omit the egg because I decided to layer the kale and meat sauce separately. I cooked the noodles, spread the entire length with softened cream cheese. I put a thin layer of the chopped cooked kale with garlic/onion on top of the cream cheese. Then spooned the ground pork and onion, with just enough Rao's arrabiata sauce to keep it cohesive, over the kale. I stopped with the pork/sauce about four inches from the end of the noodle so it had a cream cheesed end to use to stick it to the roll. Carefully rolled and placed in a shallow baking dish with about 1/2 c. of the sauce on the bottom, and that held 8 rolls perfectly. Spooned the remaining plain sauce over, and topped with shredded cheese and parm. Baked for about 1/2 hour at 350 F. and they were so good! Ground pork is a bit bland so the spicy sauce was the perfect balance. The cream cheese didn't really melt away so you definitely got that layer with the thin layer of kale kind of stuck to it. The rolls lifted out of the pan intact, no problem. I would totally repeat this recipe again, and wouldn't change anything!
This morning I made an entire box of Simple Mills almond flour waffles. I had not tried this brand of mix yet, and DH pronounced them delish. I froze the remaining ones for breakfasts for him on work days, after he ate two whole waffles (seriously, the size of a plate...), there was enough left for 6 non-weekend size breakfasts. I had been making the whole bag of pancakes using the Purely Elizabeth mix but my local grocery store stopped carrying the mix. The PE mix doesn't make as much quantity so the Simple Mills is a more efficient choice and the texture is lighter.
Dinner tonight will be Mongolian beef over brown rice, maybe with some roasted carrots.
eric - you need one of those Weathertech boot trays, the momentary thought about the dog made me laugh...
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specialk, those lasagna roll-ups sound soooo good! I haven’t made roll-ups in years. I should try them again. Thanks for the inspiration!
Tonight was a farro salad on a bed of chopped romaine. DH says…you gave me so much. I don’t think I can eat all this…and then proceeds to have a second and third helping.
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Aussie - always fun to see your posts with the "reverse" weather. I expect there are lots of people in the Continental US who have never seen snow.
Special - I can never eat more than 1/2 of ONE waffle - even though I love them. But wonderful to have them ready in the freezer.
Tonight I finally cooked the meatloaf. Used pumpernickel bread crumbs, which gave it a good taste, and raw chopped onion. Plenty left for two days of sandwiches - my favorite way to eat meatloaf. Also put together for later this week - guacamole w/chopped Campari tomatoes & Mrs.Renfro's green chili salsa; cucumbers & onions marinated with Tarragon vinegar then drained & mixed with sour cream; Godiva dark chocolate pudding w/part heavy cream and some Tia Maria. And I bought individual Naan bread again to make pizzas.
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Last night was small catfish fillets cut in halves, lightly breaded in Louisiana fish fry and cooked in a skillet with a small amount of grapeseed oil until browned and crispy. Side was mashed potato salad.
I ate the leftover pizza for lunch. Weighed this morning and was up 5 lbs from yesterday morning!! Boo Hoo. I know from experience what salty food does to my body.
We're meeting a couple for lunch at Mandina's restaurant in Mandeville today. Mandina's in New Orleans is one of our favorites. This local Mandina's does not serve the artichoke and oyster soup that we like so much at the original restaurant. The couple now live in Wisconsin. We knew them when they lived nearby some years ago. Can't understand why they vacationed on the north shore in January, when we have some of our worst weather. They should have known better.
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Ate the leftover Ivar's Clam Chowder for breakfast. After I did the dishes, I chopped & prepped onions, celery, spinach, mushrooms for shrimp fried rice later tonight. I was going to defrost the last piece of pork for the fried rice, but I also have some cold boiled shrimp in the freezer that sound better. Because there are still sooooo many choices in the fridge, I went ahead and froze the meatloaf.
Carole - I totally agree about the salt content & weight - not to mention dry mouth. It's a constant battle for me because I LOVE salt.
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Cauliflower and pea curry (cauliflower Pattani) from 660 curries cookbook. I had to tweak it a bit (ran out of urad dal) but it was outstanding. Surprised there was no garlic, no onion and no tomato. I was convinced it would be yucky. A repeater!
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Crackers and sharp cheddar cheese. DH had canned tomato soup. He didn't feel well yesterday and started running fever. Plus frequent trips to the bathroom. Maybe a third UTI in less than two months.
New stove being delivered during the am. DH says he will be able to hook it up.
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carole - oh no! I sympathize with your DH as someone who has battled UTIs off and on throughout my life. Is he being seen by a urologist? If not, I highly recommend that - they have technology to determine cause of chronic issues. In my case I had a stricture that I was born with, that was finally corrected when I was in college after spending a year on antibiotics. I struggled with chronic UTIs again when I was on letrozole, and finally went to a urologist and the stricture had recurred after 40 years - had it fixed again and have been fine ever since.
Dinner was late last night - DH did not get home from work until about 8:30pm! Roasted carrots, sour cream mashed potatoes, and brats. There was enough extra for a lunch for him, but he will be home tomorrow to deal with the AC inspection - we have two units because the house is L-shaped. The one that cools (and occasionally heats) our bedroom side does not appear to be working... IT hasn't been an issue because it has been cool enough not to need it, but this is FL - it will be hot before we know it! Meanwhile I will be at the dentist for a cleaning. Our long-time hygienist is leaving that practice - her last day is tomorrow, which is sad - she's a gem. This is my first experience with retiring medical/dental professionals and having to find new ones when it has not been caused by us moving. The dentist in the practice has reduced his hours and brought on a new husband and wife dental team, I like the wife, but my first impression of the husband was not great, so I don't know if I will stay when the original dentist retires.
Not sure what dinner will be tonight. I had a $50 off gift card for Omaha steaks so I went to the local store and stocked up and took advantage of some of their specials - I left with a giant bag of steak (tenderloin and ribeye), boneless pork chops, and meatballs. I might make slow cooker Swedish meatballs - I have a smidge of sour cream to use up, and all of the other ingredients. I do need to make a grocery store and CVS run today though, and a stop at the jeweler - I just had my wedding rings re-pronged and one keeps catching little fuzzy things so I need him to look at it.
minus - wow! You were busy prepping and cooking! After reading your post maybe I will make meatloaf - I have all the ingredients for that too... I am indeed happy to have all the waffles made and in the freezer - these are gluten free, which is what DH needs to be eating, so it will be nice not to have to buy them (I usually get Van's blueberry or apple cinnamon) and remember to have a supply. He really liked them so I will be sure to have the mix on hand.
cyathea - what I like about the roll-ups too is that you can cook a make and cook a whole pan, but they portion easily for freezing and later consumption!
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Carole, I hope DH gets over this recurring nightmare of UTI's.
When we find a medical provider that we like...we stick. Same dentist for 34 years, same optometrist for 32 years, same physician for 30 years...and now we have moved...
I'm not sure about tonight's dinner. We still have some leftovers. Sharon is out on the ski slopes again and I'm slowly working away on the garage wiring.
In college, I wired homes at housing developments and "the economy of scale" does make a *HUGE* difference in how long it takes to complete the job and back then I didn't have "20 million other things competing for my attention". Fortunately I don't have a tight schedule to keep. :-)
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Oh Carole, I'm so sorry to hear about your DH. I hope they can figure out the whole situation.
I'm making refried bean nachos tonight.
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Carole - second the good wishes for your DH.
Special - wow, an Omaha gift card!!!
I agree with all of you. Ugh - you have someone who understand you & your medical issues, and BAM. I HATE it when a medical provider leaves (retires/moves/quits), I had the same derm doc for 25 years. She retired early during covid because she had severe asthma. And several other providers have retired early. I've been attempting to find doctors in their late 40s, early 50s in hopes that they will still be practicing when I get to 90. Seem to be doing OK with all but the derm doc (age 40) who just doesn't seem to understand old age skin cancer issues.
Finally got to make my shrimp fried rice tonight. The last two nights I've been so tided up with HOA issues that it was 8pm before I could think about dinner. Black rice, fresh mushrooms, spinach, and etc. It was good & I have one portion leftover. Tomorrow I hope to make Naan pizzas with the remaining mushrooms, black olives, onions & tomatoes.
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Carole- so sorry and hope your DH is feeling better soon and maybe they can get to the bottom of it quickly. I was so happy when you said he was back to the gym.
Special it must have been carrot night. I had lots of them in the fridge so made honey and thyme carrots to go with ham steak and potato pancakes.
Hoping Sandy and others in the severe weather are doing ok.
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Reader, were the potato pancakes homemade? I've been wanting to make them for years! I've even read recipes but somehow never got around to making them. I suspect my "problem" is the onion ingredient. Some of the recipes call for grating the onion. That would be a tearful situation for sure.
DH was feeling somewhat better yesterday, which means he was eating. We had warmed up mustard greens and leftover potato salad for dinner. I asked him if a pork roast for tonight appealed to him and he said yes. So the pork roast is thawed. It remains to be seen whether he will have an appetite for dinner. I may end up with a lot of cooked pork roast in the freezer.
I will stuff the Boston butt roast with green onions and garlic mixed with some cayenne and salt. Pork roast always calls for baked sweet potatoes.
I was gungho about making Einhorn bread after Wally introduced us to the flour made from an ancient wheat but I had to wait for the new stove to be delivered. Now the gungho has dissipated with my concern for dh's health situation.
Minus, the pizza toppings on Naan sounds really good. I plan to try Wally's socca base for pizza at some point.
Wally, your menus are always interesting to me. You seem to have a talent for using a few basic ingredients and making a meal that pleases and satisfies you and your dh.
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Carole, you are too kind. I am basically a lazy cook (person?) and if I can take short cuts, make quick meals, that is how I roll. I'm simply lucky that DH isn't fussy. I'm happy to hear your DH is on the mend again. May it stay.
We are heading to Sequim to stock up on stuff so it will be the leftover cauliflower Indian thingie with the peas. (I find that there are a lot of ethnic recipes that use few ingredients but make things delicious. I suspect poverty in a lot of places forced people to figure it out). Christopher Kimball (created america's test kitchen, cook's illustrated, cook's country, etc.) started Milk Street and it is pretty much ethnic cuisine for home cooks. Some of it is putzy work (which, as a lazy cook, I skip or if I make it, tweak it) but much of it is humble, simple ingredients that make great food. The last episode had red lentil and potato soup (Turkish) that looks incredibly easy and tasty. The PBS shows that air offer the recipes for free (on pbs or his website).
I hope all those in the path of bad weather are holding their own and have minimal impact.
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Yum. Potato pancakes. One of my all-time favorite foods. I think I could eat them every day. They are time consuming to make so I only have them occasionally. Carole, the onion is a must. It adds a sweetness and lightness to the starchy potatoes. Along with the crunch, it all combines to create the perfect texture and taste. One time dh forgot to add the onion and the potato pancakes were terrible. He doesn’t like to grate the onion so when he remembers to add it, he will use a small food chopper to cut it up. But I think the flavor is better when the onion is grated. He’s terrible at making potato pancakes anyway. He fries them until they’re over browned and taste like shoe leather. I’m definitely the one with the knack so I’m now the official potato pancake maker in the house.
I once ordered potato pancakes from a hotel restaurant menu when we visited Frankenmuth Michigan, known for its German heritage. They were fabulous! One of my most memorable restaurant meals. I raved about them to waiter. They served them with homemade chunky applesauce which I asked for on the side and it was an excellent compliment to the potato pancakes. At home, I like them best plain. Dh sometimes uses ketchup but he didn’t grow up eating them like I did (my father was Polish).
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Carol, I too am sorry to hear about your DH, I totally understand about these recurring infections, as I'm dealing with the same with my kidney. Hopefully he can get the help he needs to resolve the issue.
Eric, I sent you a PM re dentists.
My meals are not worth posting here! But I do have a stove now and it was nice to have 3 burners to cook on at once, my first meal was some chicken picatta, had enough to take some leftovers for my chemo. Some here know I have to travel over 4 hours to my cancer center every 3 weeks, so in the winter months, I stay the night. I also had to go for kidney US, as I mentioned, having issues with that, hyponechrosis (sp)?
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Goldie, I'm sorry to hear about your kidneys...seems it is always something with our bodies. Your schlep for treatment sounds awful. I was complaining about DH's scan and our ferry issues but yours seems just as icky.
All meals are worth posting; creativity lives amongst us. A simple dish to someone can be new and exciting to someone else. I've never had picatta and now I will seek out a recipe.
Our Sequim trip was uneventful,but we spotted the biggest owl on a branch and behind it (same tree), 3 bald eagles. It was an amazing sight! Too bad there was bumper to bumper traffic or I'd have turned around and gone back to look at them.
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Wow, goldie, you have quite a trek every three weeks to the cancer center! What's that like? Glad you are finally “with stove"!
Wallycat, the sighting of three bald eagles is quite a memorable experience! Such majestic birds.
I made chicken quesadillas for the first time today. A moderate success. I put a couple chicken breasts in the slow cooker, then shredded them (with a hand mixer) and added taco seasoning. I sauteed diced peppers and onions and added petite diced tomatoes and then sprinkled a small amount of the mixture over the chicken on each tortilla which I fried in a pan. Cheese was a combo of monteray jack and sharp cheddar. Tasty, but will tweak the recipe next time. I won't add the tomatoes (what was i thinking), and will try fajita seasoning instead as the taco seasoning overpowered the other flavors. Still, not bad for a first try. I was looking at other quesadilla recipes and one with pizza ingredients sounds good so I hope to make those sometime. It was nice to have something different for a change.
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Carole, I know how and have made potato pancakes from scratch. I'm embarrassed ( not really 😕) to say these were frozen, ready to heat to crispy on a pizza stone in the oven. I thought I got them at Trader Joe's, manufacturer was Golden's. A dollop of sour cream on top is how we like it.
Tonight was a mixed greens/cucumber/baby tomato 🍅 salad with oil and white wine vinegar and crockpot sloppy Joe's.
Goldie my husband loves chicken picata and marsala, both of which he eats out since I haven't ever made them and also lack ambition to try sometimes. Hence I like our nice group of dinner (idea) makers.😋
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Wallycat, "all always something" was something my DH always said! I love seeing wild life, but it's always so short lived. I watch a nest of bald Eagles online. 2 eggs laid but one will not hatch. The first one just hatched about a week or 2 ago.
Yes Divine, I am "with stove". Thanks for the chuckle!
My drive is long, but I don't mind it, it's a pretty drive and broken up with different terrain, as Eric can atest to. It's the miles it puts on my vehicle and gas that get me! I too cheated with the chicken picatta, my brother had given me a picatta sauce mix that he bought on Amazon. It was simple but not lemony enough for me, so I added more lemon juice. It's called Zpasta Picatta, but I can not find it online. It's fairly easy to make from scratch tho. I imagine I will have surgery in my future for the kidney, I'm assuming a stent.
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Reader, I’ve never seen frozen potato pancakes in the store but would definitely buy and try them if I did.
Goldie, it sounds like you make the best of your long drive every three weeks situation. It takes a certain mindset and some determination to do so, and I admire you for that.
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I love piccata. One of my favorites is pork piccata made with pork tenderloin medallions.
The new oven emitted billows of smoke when I turned it on yesterday to cook the pork roast. DH and I figure it was the "newness" burning off. The pork roast and brown gravy and roasted sweet potatoes were delicious. We're both eating smaller portions, he because of decreased appetite and me because he's eating less. Lots of leftover pork since it was a 3 1/2 lb roast.
I will make another beef vegetable soup today since it's a food with some appeal to dh when he has little interest in food. Normally he's not a person to skip a meal. He is taking his 4th antibiotic. I'm thankful that he is not nearly as ill as the second bout of UTI. The procedure that was supposed to remedy some of his underlying problem has been delayed.
Wally, I looked up 660 Curries on Amazon and the hardback was $179. The Kindle version was under $20 so I bought it and am now reading it. I would love to be the author's guest for the appetizers he makes. I have read every cookbook I own and all those I have eliminated from the collection.
I think most of us are rather apologetic about posting our meals but I get lots of ideas from reading about what others are cooking.
I'm missing Sandy. And I wish Lacey would come back.
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Carole, my book is old so I suspect I ordered it when it was dirt cheap. I tend on the frugal side from years of needing to; now it is hard to change. You were talking about rice cookers, which sent me down a rabbit hole and now I want a mid-range zojirushi rice cooker. OY! Their newest is induction/pressure but people complain about the pan and the cost
,Goldie, I also think it is a mindset and I admire you. Can you submit any of the expenses to insurance? or claim it on taxes? We lucked out that the Sequim place that cancelled DHs appointment and sent us to Edmonds felt so badly, they paid for the ferries and gave us $60 in gas cards.
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