So...whats for dinner?
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Debbie - yum!! Thanks for posting.
Luv - I've never tried the Kodiak pancakes. I see the web site says Central Market so maybe I can find it there.
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Minus Two - I bought mine there I think or maybe a Krogers or Tom Thumb. My local Brookshires has it now lol and I think at a much better price. A water only mix - my kind of stuff.
I drool over Central Market. Have to hold tight to my pocketbook in there.
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Lacey, glad you're having a wonderful time at your son's home. The grandkids sound really cute.
Debbie, just what you need, for your dh to have diabetes. That sugar level sounds dangerously high.
Nance, you manage very well without recipe organization.
Monica, my GE gas stove is 20 years old and I think I've used the self-clean twice. I use the oven quite a bit but it stays fairly clean when you don't look TOO close!
Dinner tonight was a chicken breast and two thighs. A version of chicken parm without parm cheese. The cheese on the tomato sauce topping was ricotta salata (firm) and some grated pecarino romano. The lone side was some microwaved mixed veggies with a little butter melted on it. Tasted really good since I was very hungry. I worked all afternoon doing our federal tax return and, yes, we have to pay more taxes.
I lost 4 tenths of a lb this past week, thanks to the birthday eating. Hoping to do better this week.
Very sorry to hear about Joyce's mother.
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According to www.pickityplace.com
if your herbs smell like tea...it is time to replace them.
Planning my DD baby shower, she will be here April 11th the shower is the 12th and the 13th we are going to .....guess...to have dinner.
Monthly Menu for April
French OnionSesame Wonton with Chile OilRoasted Vegetables over Spring Greens and Boursin ButtermilkTomato FoccaciaChicken Francaise with Lemon Caper Beurre Blanc— or —Spaghetti Squash with Vegetable Aglio OlioStewed Broccoli RabeVanilla Orange Flan0 -
oh. Deb. That's a cool menu! I am sorry hour DH has Diabeties. I hate that. Just count carbs aim for 45 to 60 each meal. That's the easiest.depending on his health that could change but that's the basic to aim for. One serving of carbs is 15 mg. And I would rather have a spoon of real jelly or jam on 1 piece of bread than more on 2 slices! Just me. I don't really like the fake sugar stuff.
Joyce Mom is in my prayers too.
Carole and LMG, I've used the self clean 2x. The stove is 3 years old! LOL. No use cleaning it in November or Dec. Or Jan. After that, I clean it one day when I am going to be home and when it's not hot. So some time soon would be Good. Somehow it always spill something so I am glad for it!
To all Much love.
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Deb, very appealing menu. I would love to go there and eat. When is your DD's baby due? Having this little one in your life will be a great blessing.
Monica, I feel the same way about some "real" foods versus "fake" foods. Cheese, for example. And bread. I don't buy the so-called diet breads, which don't have as much substance and taste as a good bread.
Tonight's dinner will be beef fajitas with grilled flank steak as the beef. I have colored peppers and onion to sauté and nicely ripe avocados for the quacamole component. I may also include black beans by taking a small package from the freezer.
I need to make another soup since the tomato soup has almost been consumed. I have a package of lentils, the French green, and will check out some recipes. Glad to hear from anyone about their favorite lentil soup.
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My son and I have a date for a baseball game, but I think we're going to eat before we go. I'm planning on grilled chicken, grilled vegetables, and brown rice. (Plan B is baseball food and is dependent on how lazy I feel by the time I get home.
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Aunt_paula...
DD and Sharon (wife) went to a Dodgers game yesterday. DD bleeds the blue even though they're not the home team....:-)
I'm hoping to find an Indians game so I can take my mom. The last time I took her to a game, I asked the folks at the gate if they had a wheel chair so she wouldn't have so far to walk and mentioned that she had been a fan for 88 years. During the 7th inning stretch a bunch of players and management came into the stands to say hi to her and it was put on the jumbo-tron and TV.
It was pretty neat seeing such a fuss being made over my mom.
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luv- sorry about the leaky plumbing what a pain that must be! Input most of my recipes in my hotmail that way even if I lose stuff on my computer I still have my email address. Are the pancakes all wheat? Sounds yummy!
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Deb-wonderful looking menu it's gotta be pickity place? How are you doing?
Carole- havnt had flank steak in a while but it is one of my fav cuts if meat
Monica- thanks for letting me know I am still learning and had no idea about how many carbs per day!
Eric - oh that is so sweet about your mom bet it made her feel so good.
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minus- just saw that I had your name above and wrote nothing lol! So I guess I will just say hi! Ha!
Carole also forgo to ask about the ricotta (firm) does it come in a block or in container only firmer? I didn't know there were differences in texture.
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Carole, here's one I haven't tried, but sounds good:
http://www.mybakingaddiction.com/sausage-and-lentil-soup/
I made your tomato soup the other day and it was quite good. I used some of our garden tomatoes that I had frozen.
Tonight was oriechette with broccoli in a tomato cream sauce. Rich, but it didn't take much to satisfy.
Tomorrow is a Costco trip so dinner will probably be a rotisserie chicken.
Deb, that menu is amazing!
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Tonight was fajitas using a skirt steak I got a bargain on. Marinated it in some powdered lime juice, olive oil, cilantro in a tube, garlic salt plus a red pepper, some dying green onions and about 1/4 big sweet onion. Dinner was so easy since I did this early in the afternoon. Cutoff valve replaced early this morning and dripping stopped but my oh my no water pressure. DH had plumber turn it up just a bit still within limits; DH was pleased with the work done. Huge winds tonight; big grassfire north Ft. Worth suburb. Terrifies me. I locked bucky boy in his little enclosure. He has a big elm tree on backside of his yard that is shedding limbs. At least I will know about it b4 he does.
So sorry to hear about Joyce's mother. Prayers that she is recovering.
Debbie - With all you have had on your plate and now with your DH's diabetes challenge. (((Hugs))).
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My DD called and we chatted. I asked what she was eating and she had chicken chili. I'd forgotten that recipe! Its so easy and in a crock pot.
Take leftover chicken or you can add chicken thighs. Toss in a jar of red salsa. Whatever kind you like. Add a jar of green salsa. Add in a big can of what ever beans you like. Northern work. So does a small can of black and a jar of white kidney beans. Your choice, mix and match! LOL Add chicken stock til crock pot is 1/2 full. Cover and cook till chicken is done usually 6-8 hrs on low. If using leftover or rotisserie chicken Just till it heats up will work. It's a version of a weight watchers recipe. You can top with a bit of shredded cheese and cilantro if you like. It really is good.
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Nance, the lentil soup recipe looks good. I think I will give it a try. I bought rotisserie chickens at Sam's on Sun. for family meal at my mother's house. I considered roasting some chickens and saw that the raw chickens cost more than the cooked chickens, which are only $4.98. Can't possibly be a profit item for the store.
Luv, hope your fajitas were as good as mine were! I haven't eaten skirt steak but it's a tender cut, isn't it? I love flank steak, which used to be an inexpensive cut. But I love steak, carnivore that I am.
Monica, I really like white chili. In my recipes you always use white beans--cannellini, northern, etc. WW has some good recipes. I use quite a few of them even when not following the WW program faithfully.
Debbie, the firm ricotta is ricotta salata. It's actually a block of cheese. I bought it at a market run by Italians. The problem is that on WW I can allow myself a limited amt. of cheese because of the point cost.
Tonight's dinner will be pork cutlets with an orange glaze and baked sweet potatoes. The pork recipe is one I haven't made before. I'm always on the lookout for recipes to add some flavor to tasteless lean pork. IMHO, the fatty pork like the cheap pork chops or pork steaks and the butt roasts are the tasty pork but it has all that animal fat. When I'm on my deathbed, the news will probably come out that animal fat is healthy to eat! Will I ever be p*ssed!
Will venture out today and do some grocery shopping with a short list.
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carole - I catered a party for a friend at Christmas and served thinly sliced pork tenderloin on Hawaiian rolls with a sauce. The sauce was the most requested recipe from her co-workers, here it is:
2 T. butter
1 large shallot, very thinly sliced
1/2 c. peach preserves
1/3 c. bourbon
2 T. country style Dijon mustard
1/4 t. red pepper flakesI cooked the shallot in the butter until almost caramelized. Then added the preserves and cooked until fully melted and incorporated. I added the bourbon, mustard and pepper flakes and continued cooking for at least another 15 minutes because I wanted the sauce pretty thick since it would be spooned on the tenderloin on the roll. This was a heavy hors d'oeuvre cocktail party and I knew people would be walking around with the food. You could use a butter substitute, or olive oil, and peach fruit spread to cut the calories. This sauce was that great combo of sweet and spicy!
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Monica, that sounds like a tasty easy chili recipe....good for us low cal gals!
Arrived home last night (already miss the grands!) after a stop to see my stepmother in CT. We were thrilled to see her looking good after bladder cancer treatment. She is 86 and obviously has a strong constitution! We went out for lunch at her favorite Italian restaurant. I had a frisee salad with walnuts and gorgonzola, and veal marsala. I usually don't eat veal, but have to say, it was totally delicious!
So.....back to being the chief chef here at home. At DDIL's house both she and her mother and her father cook....
I must go on a hunt for ricotta salata. Last year I made my own ricotta for a while....yum. Really good for dessert use.
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Special...we posted simultaneously......yummy pork recipe!
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lacey - it was yummy! I had not used it before, but my friend really wanted to have something with pork that was handheld - no forks. I did modify it from the original recipe to make it thicker, basically by cooking it longer than instructed. Other than the peach preserves it is made from stuff I usually have on hand too. I think you could also do it with apricot or raspberry preserves too, or even orange marmalade.
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Carole - lol about your comment about history finding out animal fat is good for us. That's a line from Sleeper a Woody Allen movie. Love his movies, not sure about his morals.
Debbie - I forgot to answer your question about the Kodiak mix. It says on the front whole wheat, whole oats and honey. Not sure "whole wheat" because ingred. list says "whole grain". I thought that did not nec. mean "whole wheat". Maybe that's why my DH liked them - not completely whole wheat.
I think we will have some of those indiv. frozen chicken breasts. Not sure how I will make them. Prob. some kind of sauce. That and some frozen vegies. I worked on one shelf of refrig. freezer - looks respectable. Need to continue with remainder. I think the bottom bin basically needs discarding. I baked some old yeast rolls well out of date but baked up OK. The goaties thought they were yummy.
Special - your sauce sounds good. I have a 3 fruit marmalade in refrig. I think I will try something similar.
Lacey - I vaguely remember your homemade ricotta. Would you share the recipe again. I sure don't think I've seen ricotta in a block. I might have trouble using it all up. I think you can freeze it at least the soft ricotta - says it may separate some but just stir liq. back in.
Special - I see your update now. I think I know what dinner will be now. Thanks.
I'm trying to stay out of the grocery store until at least Friday. No worries about running out of food but BooHoo I will run out of onions. I have the 3/4 left from yest and some of that froz. chopped onion stuff.
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Major blizzard here! Everything outside of my window and the world around me has been closed or cancelled. No work today, so simmering a pot of spaghetti sauce and meatballs for dinner. Hope DH has enough sense to get home before he is stuck there for the night.
Special, I am now searching my cabinets for the bourbon...hmmm that is something I don't think we have in our liquor cabinet. I did just find some rum and flavored vodkas, though, that I have immediately packed for our next trip south. This place looks like a bomb hit, with all my cleaning out and packing. I NEED your organizational skills!
I cooked a rotisserie chicken on Monday (would have been so much better on the grill) and last night was chicken salad sand. with macaroni salad....wishful summer thinking!
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The sauce sounds delicious. I saved it in my documents. There's always lots of bourbon in this house! I'll make it when I'm not trying to drop lbs.
I made the lentil soup using the basic ingredients in the recipe that Nance referenced. It smells really good and tastes good, although I just sampled it for seasoning. I didn't add the two cans of tomatoes but rather used a container of oven roasted romas from the freezer. The nice thing about these lentils is that they retain some shape even after they become tender. I used about four different containers, different shapes and sizes, of chicken broth out of the freezer.
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Carole, let us know how it turns out so I'll know if I want to make it or not lol!
Half of the Costco chicken has turned into chicken enchiladas along wIth some previously cooked and frozen pinto beans. I may have to indulge in some chicken noodle soup instead because my stomach is a little jumpy tonight, but dh will enjoy the enchiladas.
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Please keep my dad in your prayers...he was walking into work (UW Hospital) this morning and had a mini stroke. Luckily, someone was walking behind him and was able to catch him as he went down. He is 6'4 230 lbs so the catcher had to be strong! He had another mini stroke after they let him leave the ED and go back up to his office. He has passed all his neuro exams and they think they can manage it with Plavix. He seemed to be himself when I left the hospital at 7pm. He was joking about the guy who caught him who is a colorectal surgeon. My dad was saying he was lucky that he only caught him and that he didn't try to give him a rectal exam! He should be able to go home tomorrow. Thank God I didn't poison him with my buffalo lasagna! I had talked to him last night and was eating that for dinner.
Keeping everyone who has loved ones with health concerns in my thoughts and prayers, too. Gina
Only able to eat cereal for dinner tonight.
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Please keep my dad in your prayers...he was walking into work (UW Hospital) this morning and had a mini stroke. Luckily, someone was walking behind him and was able to catch him as he went down. He is 6'4 230 lbs so the catcher had to be strong! He had another mini stroke after they let him leave the ED and go back up to his office. He has passed all his neuro exams and they think they can manage it with Plavix. He seemed to be himself when I left the hospital at 7pm. He was joking about the guy who caught him who is a colorectal surgeon. My dad was saying he was lucky that he only caught him and that he didn't try to give him a rectal exam! He should be able to go home tomorrow. Thank God I didn't poison him with my buffalo lasagna! I had talked to him last night and was eating that for dinner.
Keeping everyone who has loved ones with health concerns in my thoughts and prayers, too. Gina
Only able to eat cereal for dinner tonight.
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Gina - my thoughts & prayers for your Dad.
Stouffers creamed spinach with leftover chicken roasted w/herbs de Provence. Girl Scout Lemonade cookies from the freezer.
Bedo???
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gina, joyce and carberry - thoughts with you as you deal with parent illness. So hard.
debbie - sorry your DH is dealing with more.
I'm laying around not doing much of anything. Saw PS yesterday and have some skin splits on the left side - must continue with abx, hibiclens. Silvadene. And must remain quiet until healed. Did make slow cooker steel cuts oats with apple, vanilla, cinnamon today, eight servings.
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Special....your mention of oatmeal makes me hungry!
Ditto with caring thoughts being sent to Gina, Carrie and Joyce....and of course to Debbie who has been shouldering so many health concerns individually and throughout her family.
Luv, here is one recipe for homemade ricotta which I used. There are many to see if you google "home made ricotta".....
http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/homemade_rico...
Tonight I made a small marinated boneless turkey breast, roasted asparagus with olive oil and lemon, and a spinach salad. DH is not home for dinner for the next three nights, and I totally forgot about that, (thank you, tamoxifen!) so bought lots of groceries today. Guess I'll eat like a solo queen!
Friday a friend is stopping over for lunch and I want to make a salad I saw on Pinterest quite a while ago......baby kale, pomegranite seeds crumbled feta, walnuts and I forget the dressing. I may even make a loaf of Irish Soda Bread.
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Lacey - a raspberry vinaigrette would be yummy on your salad - or poppy seed. I went to a BS appt with my friend who is TN this afternoon so when I got home the kitchen smelled like apple pie!
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Special K - the sauce was delicious on chicken breasts. My house does smell of bourbon right now though.
Lacey - thanks for the ricotta recipe. I like it only makes 2 cups - just enough to use up. I wonder if Carole's ricotta salata just has more of the liquid pressed out of it.
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gina, carberry, Joyce Debbie. Prayers for you snd your family members.
Just plain cooked chicken breasts in olive oil. Squash soup and a bit of stuffing. Then off to jewelery class.
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