So...whats for dinner?
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Tonight, is a cast iron grilled/fried steak, steamed broccoli, baked potato and some shrimp cocktail. Lots of butter and sour cream!
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The veggie side with the meatloaf last night was cauliflower mash. It tasted really good. Half the meatloaf left over for another meal and for sandwiches.
We like butter, too.
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I quartered some purple potatoes and microwaved them yesterday; cooled overnight to develop some resistant starch. I will pan fry them tonight and we'll have either grilled or roasted sockeye fillet (leftovers!) and some fashion of cabbage, TBD.
I can take or leave butter; didn't grow up with it. Funny story...coming from Poland (and parents, during the war), my mom's favorite snack was a lard smeared piece of bread. You can't make this up. I was totally grossed out.
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Minus - unstuffed cabbage rolls are simply cabbage roll filling with the cabbage chopped up in it instead of the filling in the leaf. Good stuff.
Special - the chicken story will be one worth telling but I’m sorry it ended with injury to your DH. Hope you both are healing.
Butter lover here. My favorite guilty pleasure snack would be a sleeve of saltines and a dish of softened real butter to drag the crackers through.
Tonight is a grilled ham steak, grilled pineapple slices and haricots vert.
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Aussie, glad the surgery went well. Bob had a stent placed in 2015 during his hemicolectomy; it was removed a month later during his hernia repair. He said he didn't feel it either way.
Last night Bob stopped off en route home from work at the reopened "Just Turkey Grill" BBQ joint on the S. Side. It used to be an areawide chain for people who wanted to avoid pork & beef, but closed down during the pandemic. (We even got a deep-fried turkey from them one T'giving). He brought home two huge smoked turkey legs (mine sans sauce), greens and fries. The fries were cold & soggy so I air-fried them in the toaster oven--so good I sneaked a couple. I ate only half my drumstick (it was THAT large) and half the greens; Bob polished off his entire one (he's loved them ever since they were a feature at Taste of Chicago). He's working late tonight, so I will finish mine and instead of the fries make some arugula & cherry-tomato salad with a bit of feta. After I did my kitty-care today I made some fresh guac and had avocado toast topped with an olive-oil-fried egg.
Having a love-hate relationship with my nonstick skillets. I've found that the inexpensive ceramic ones lose their nonstick fairly quickly, and I can't use EVOO in them because it gets gooey. and medium heat is the max. (The silica-gel surface does degrade faster than conventional modern nonstick). I love to make my fish (especially salmon) fillets the ATK way: in a cold pan sprinkled with kosher salt & pepper (no oil), brought to med-high for 1 minute before lowering to med. and then flipping. In my conventional (OXO) skillet, it works like a charm; but in my Blue Diamond & cheaper Green Pan, the fish sticks like crazy and the skin (the best part) stays in the pan. I suspect the kosher salt degrades the surface. (Contrary to popular belief, a ceramic nonstick surface is not inert--it's a silica-oil gel that does degrade even if not visibly at first). I did get a new Green Pan Valencia (induction-compatible & recommended by ATK, CR, and NYT's Wirecutter) and will baby the heck out of it--maybe use a bit of grapeseed oil. The instruction booklet for the Valencia specified preheating it empty on "moderate" (I assume medium or even med-low) heat for 90 seconds--heating an empty conventional nonstick pan is a major no-no because it might release fumes (even the newer pans without PFOA). And it also specified using a melamine sponge (aka Magic Eraser) without soap, and only on the stubborn spots. We shall see. The Magic Eraser did not remove the sticky residue on the side inner wall of the Blue Diamond, so I might have to relegate it to the "dustbin."
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As for butter, there's nothing like soft salt butter on a fresh baguette (or whole-wheat coarse country sourdough like Poilane or Whole Foods Seeduction). Only time I have that is in a French restaurant, alas--and not often. I grew up with a mom who considered salted butter a sign that the butter was less than fresh, so we had only sweet butter; but my sister says unsalted butter makes her queasy. When my dad had his heart attacks, we had margarine in the house but only he ate it. (Nobody knew about trans-fats back in the mid-'60s). I won't buy margarine in any way, shape or form, not even (and especially not) the supposedly heart-healthy stuff in a tub. With just the two of us in the house, the expense of real butter is not an issue, especially if I cut the stick or bar in half to freeze. I prefer Challenge, Plugra, Kerrygold and the imported French brands like Issy-Sur-Mer (IIRC) from Normandy.
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The butter got a workout yesterday. I baked a second loaf of bread with the Einkorn flour and this one was/is much better than the first, thanks to addition of honey and mixture of all purpose and whole wheat flour. This bread is so easy to make. Just mix the ingredients by hand to produce a sticky dough. Short resting periods between the two stages.
Dinner last night was a navy bean soup cooked with ham and finely diced carrot and celery and canned tomatoes. The only side was a slice of the fresh-baked bread with soft butter.
Wally, we had home-made lard when I was growing up. My mother rendered pork from butchered hogs. We loved the "cracklings," crispy fatty pork pieces. So very healthy, LOL. She also saved the bacon fat to use for cooking. There was always a container beside the stove. Recently an ATK recipe called for lard.
My father had heart disease later in life but my mother, who lived to age 96, did not. With all the fat in her diet, she did not have high cholesterol or triglycerides. Or diabetes. Their health profiles say a lot about heredity and diet. She did suffer from arthritis.
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Wallycat, lard on bread, I would be grossed out too!
AuntieN, I make a similar dish with the cabbage, but I call it cabbage roll casserole. I like it better like that cuz you can have so much more cabbage! I too enjoy saltines with butter on them.
No margarine in this house. I also grew up on that, Imperial in fact! Fit for king!
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I wouldn't want lard of bread - but I loved the cracklins' when we used to be able to buy a pork roast with lots of fat on it. Sigh.
So instead of shrimp fried rice this afternoon, I walked around the neighborhood with my 7 years old niece as she learned to sell Girl Scout cookies for the first time. Quite successful since there are no young girls living here. For dinner I ended up adding the last of the left over meatloaf to the last of the Rao's sauce with the last of the San Marzano tomatoes and serving over spaghetti.
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Leftovers for dinner last night, meatloaf and Mexican rice.
Tonight will probably be chicken.
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Had leftover sockeye last night. Tonight, Shanghai "style" noodles with baby scallops (canned) and cabbage and 'shrooms (which is why it is "style" because it is waaay too much ingredients not normally used in the amounts I did).
Tomorrow will probably be frozen pizza.
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Super Bowl food yesterday: teriyaki wings, chips & fresh guac (my chips were Quest keto), shrimp with cocktail & remoulade sauce, and a veg tray with ranch dip.
Not sure about tonight--depends on when Bob will get home and whether he got fed at the office. Tapas tasting menu at Mercat a la Planxa for V-Day.
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Tonight was the Pizza Hut big New York, it was good but I’m my mind nothings compares to a real New York white pizza.
Tomorrow I’m doing surf & turf. Been having SE issues and recent scans were good, so continuing my current chemo at a reduced dose. Hopefully I’ll feel more like cooking and eating.
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Mae - so great to hear from you. I've been concerned about you. Good to hear reduced chemo. Yes, hopefully the cooking & eating activities will improve.
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Mae, real Brooklyn pizza bianco and Neapolitan margherita are my faves--and I've been a Chicagoan since 1978! I agree with Jon Stewart: deep-dish is a casserole in a bread bowl. And party-cut tavern style is a beer-accompaniment device.
Broke my intermittent fast at 18 hrs with a panino on hi-fiber whole-grain: capicolla (or do you say "gabagool?"), green & red peppers, & provolone. Dinner was leftover shrimp remoulade and crudites.
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Crockpot chili to watch the superbowl with last night (disappointed due to rooting for the "iggles" as we said growing up); tonight, leftover Italian from a recent night out - added a little ravioli to supplement a little chicken parm, lasagna and focaccia. Would have added a salad had I gotten out to the store. For valentine's day 💕 I think baked pork chops are on the menu. I hinted that maybe DH could pick up a favorite wine 🍷 of mine.
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Glad to hear of your good scans, illimae.
We had a bunch of food for the Superbowl. I made regular salad, hard boiled eggs and Waldorf salad. We ordered a pizza and some boneless chicken wings. And I made a specialty sandwich that holds legendary status among my family, not sure if I ever mentioned it here before. My dad (who’s passed away) used to always make it and bring it to family gatherings. It consists of different meats and cheese layered onto a bakery fresh loaf of Italian bread. The pièce de résistance is a homemade secret recipe muffuletta spread slathered inside. It’s cut into 1 1/2” thick slices and served as an appetizer. Whenever a family get together is planned, someone is always tasked with making it in Dad’s honor. Out of all of us, my brother who happens to be a chef (which doesn’t necessarily make him the best cook) makes this sandwich best. Dh and I weren’t watching the SB with family but I made the sandwich because it’s so party-worthy.
I also made a pan of fudge brownies from a mix adding nuts and topping it with chocolate icing. A lot of times I combine two packages of brownie mix but I only used one this time because omg, eating brownies is so addicting, I almost cannot stop! Haha, so my idea of cutting back is not making a thicker brownie!
I love all the left overs and not having to cook for a few days.
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I am in the same boat as you divine - making a lot of SB food and then no cooking for a couple of days! I tend to have a problem with excessive party cooking - this was no exception. I sent the more keto of the leftovers home with DD.
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The Super Bowl foods sound good. Especially the sandwich.
Last night was a skillet dish of boneless chicken thighs with a lemony sauce. A side dish of package dressing with artichoke hearts and a romaine salad.
We're having dinner at an Italian restaurant tonight with another couple. I may have an individual pizza.
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Mae, glad to learn of the good scans.
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Illimae, good news on your scans and hoping the reduced chemo will help but continue to do what it needs to. QOL is important!
Carol, was the package dressing used on just artichoke hearts? Interested.
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Goldie, I had half a bag of Pepperidge Farm herb bread dressing. I added a cup of chicken broth made with chicken granules, 2 T of butter and a can of quartered artichoke hearts. I buy the dressing mix when it's on sale at Thanksgiving. I use the Herb Ox sodium free chicken granules. I heated the dressing mixture in a 300 degree toaster oven.
A friend in MN among our summer community makes a good boxed dressing by adding extra bread and boiling onions and celery in chicken broth to use as the liquid. It tastes "home-made." She probably adds butter, too.
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LOL Carol, when you said dressing, I was thinking "salad" dressing, that's why I was so curious! Dressing/stuffing make more sense! I have put artichoke hearts in dressing! Thanks for clarifying!
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Illimae, that is fabulous news on the scans.
I also thought "salad dressing" when I read dressing.
Divine, are you allowed to post your "secret sauce" recipe?
The Shanghai-ish noodles turned out great last night. DH tapes the superbowl so he can watch the game, then we sit down together, restart and I whip through the game to watch the ads.
I am sad to say, they are getting dumber and less entertaining. I only liked one (and actually cried)--the amazon one.Tonight will be frozen pizza. We have an errand to run tomorrow towards dinner so we'll have leftovers that way.
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Illimae, add my voice to the chorus about the excellent news. :-)
I don't pay much attention to the Superbowl unless I'm paid to be there. This year, I wasn't there, so.... : :-)
We had guests at our house over the weekend and they were going to stay longer, but when they heard all the winter storm travel warning news, they decided to leave early.
I'm sure, Goldie, that you're also noticing this as well.
I did go into town and bought a 2 pound can of coffee so that I wouldn't run out of "the elixir of life". :-)
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Eric, bummer you weren't "paid" to attend the Superbowl. Not a football fan, so I didn't watch. As for the weather yes, waiting to see what we get! I'm just not liking our night time temps, in the single digits and hitting close to 0. Nice you were able to "run" to town for some coffee. I can't do that, as it takes me an hour plus, to "run" to town! Smart of your company to head out of town, especially if they're from the valley, not worth it to risk travel across the rim.
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When I was working at the cellular telephone company, I would ask if I was needed for the local Superbowl games and, if not, I'd take time off from my regular job, and work the day for the NFL to help make sure all the wireless stuff worked as it should. A true football fan would find the job "Hell"...being on the field and too busy to watch. :-)
We're only about 12 miles/20 minutes from town, so we could just run in for one thing, but we've only done that once since we've been here. For the coffee trip, we did the usual stuff, gas station, grocery store, Post Office, gym, hardware store and such. The coffee was the only thing I bought "because of the storm".
It's only been a couple of times the temps have been into the single digits. Most of the time the morning lows have been around 15F degrees and at night, when we take the dog out for a walk/potty break, it's in the mid 20F degree range.
We took our friends up to Greer to eat at the Molly Butler Lodge and on the way home.......
I mentioned that this reminded me of driving on "the rim" (Mogollon Rim) during a storm except the roads on the rim usually had more snow accumulation. Not 10 minutes later the winter storm warning and winter travel warnings were posted for the areas they would have to drive through to get home...so they left "kind of quick".
edited to fix misspelled Mogollon (pronounced Mugeeon)
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wallycat, I’m afraid the contents of the sandwich recipe must remain a secret!
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Eric, all this talk of a real winter is making me very envious. That looks so beautiful. Here I thought arizona would only equate with "swelter."
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Arizona has a varied climate. One July 4, we had to turn back on a hike because our dog couldn't climb the four foot snowbanks. We walked an hour back to the car, then drove around three hours to get home to 115F degree temps.
Dinner tonight is marinated chicken on rice and a salad.
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