What's for dinner?

Tonight we had pulled beef (crock pot), American fries, creamed corn with jalepenos, cherry tomato/asparagus salad. Very good.

The potatoes started life as parsley buttered last night, with a roast turkey, were American fries with red sweet peppers tonight, and will probably be hash tomorrow. :) Sometimes making too much is a good thing!

My grandson gave me a awesome cookbook for my birthday. I've been enjoying recipes out of it. One good one was Boundary Waters Wild Rice Soup, with leeks and chicken and mushrooms (and wild rice, of course). Definitely will be making that again!

I made macaroni and stewed tomatoes.. my favorite meal when they serve it a work. This was my first time making stewed tomatoes.. I used a Mr Food recipe.. it was awesome!! Mom even ate a whole small plate full, and a strawberry shortcake! Win win for me!

Don't know if this is the right thread for this but does involve food. It was a report on an article from Scientific American regarding loss of tast in dementia patients who eat too little. the study was conducte in japan and involved paople with various types of dementia and older adult volunteers. The particiapants were shown relicas of three common Japanese dishes and asked to name the main ingredients and the expected taste ie sweet, sour etc. Replicas were used so that paricipants would not be cued by smell.
SURPRISE the non dementia people scored higher so it was assumed that diminished taste contribute to dementia patients reluctance to eat. Didn't anyone tell the researchers about memory loss in dementia. Where do they find these expert researchers?
Time for my breakfast nutritional drink at least I won't choke on that and I do remember what chocolate tastes like.

Dinner was taco salad, with lots of fixin's. Also a new Bundt cake recipe with buttermilk and sour cream and coconut. Calls for almonds on the top but I was out so I substituted macadamias. Great combination -- I'll never use almonds in this recipe. Sometimes accidents or mistakes turn out for the best!

Last night was chicken with a honey garlic sauce, baked potatoes, and asparagus coated with olive oil and garlic, wrapped in bacon that had been pressed in brown sugar and cayenne pepper, and roasted.

I really want to start an asparagus bed in my front yard this spring!

Hope your talk with your brothers was as good as your menu, Boni!

Boni, hope it went well. I'm doing chicken soup and meatloaf ( lamb and beef) to which I added smoke paprika and herbes de Provence.

Cheers Boni!!! Syrian Xannex is a perfect idea.

Mom comes home tomorrow morning so I am having my 2 brothers over for dinner. It will be the first talk we have had without SIL, Nephew, or Mom around because I really need to let them know my "demands" , or maybe better put,,,,,,the only circumstances, I will be able to handle this job now.

I'm making baby lamb chops, their favorite Syrian rice side dish and asparagus. We will each be having a xannex and a glass of wine with the hummus appetizer. We are all pretty much on the same page, but I want a real conversation about things before Mom gets here tomorrow. I've missed Y'all but staying away was best for my stress level and depression for a while. I am VERY thankful for all the notes and messages and caring since my H.A. Love you guys!

The soup was AWESOME. Unfortunately, I knew from the first bite that mom wouldn't eat it - too spicy for her. I froze the rest of the batch into serving-size portions for myself for future meals.

Yesterday I made bbq ribs with baked potato. Today might be left overs cuz today is another visit with the doctor which takes up most of my day. Good Lord here I go again.

be glad you have someone to cook for jeanne . im in a cycle of no appetite = too lethargic to rattle around in the kitchen . happens every winter with me . maybe its a human form of hibernation . it gives the muscles time to heal but makes ones brain a little anxious . im not self medicating ( much ) this winter so thats a big adjustment in itself .
i have some chicken thawed out to fry later today . doesnt sound appealing but rotten chicken on the counter wont end well either .

Jeannie we would never have guessed this about you!

I am a devout Foodie. I honor any holiday associated with food. I hosted a family Chinese New Year party on Sunday. I read the recipe for Shrimp Toast wrong, and got twice as much shrimp as I needed. Tomorrow the excess will be Shrimp Etoufee (with rice) and we'll have King Cake for dessert.

Tonight we had Triple Citrus Chicken and Fried Rice, both leftover from the party, and stir-fried veggies (broccoli, snap peas, mushrooms, red sweet peppers) with just a hint of sesame oil.

I'm not Catholic, but love to cook Cajun style food on Fat Tuesday, which is tomorrow. But I can't tomorrow because I'm working late, so I'm making a lower fat, quick cooking version of Jambalaya tonight. Fat Monday, yay :)

I'm going to be making low-carb taco soup tonight. Looks yummy, and hoping Mom will eat/enjoy it. Hard to say - she's never been much on that kind of thing, but I'm determined to give it a shot.

(go to Pinterest and search on "low carb taco soup" for the recipe)

I won't report you, Captain.

during the construction season i sometimes eat fast food if i have coupons for something worth the money . ive had my fill of pinto beans for a while so i need to get into something different . got a lot of beef canned up so maybe ill get some soft taco shells and cheese .
jeanne, i cant think of waffles without thinking of ice cream on them . heck of a combination ..
dinner has got to be quick and easy during my working season cause if you were to check my vitals when i get home im pretty sure im legally dead .

Went to Wendy's and had their fish sandwich. Was good.

Nothing for dinner as we usually eat our main meal in the middle of the day. Today I made a Quiche with Swiss cheese and spinache

Tonight was waffles with mini chocolate chips, real maple syrup or berry syrup, applesauce, dried plums, and Canadian bacon. Quick to put together, because we are celebrating the Year of the Goat here tomorrow (with Asian foods) and I still have shopping and food prep to do for that.

I am now cooking for 4 adults every night, and enjoying it!

Still eating food at the hospital and getting real sick of it. No wonder they have soo many admissions. Sometimes I go out an get fast food, like that is so much better for me!

im having eggpone and corn nog .
jeez . im laying stone again after 14 months of cutting firewood . firewood was a long nap on a rainy afternoon compared to this s* it . its more like self violence than self abuse . my true love is solid indiana granite and a hammer has to be moving 350 mph to trim on the stuff . one of these days my back's gonna blow and take out 30 innocent bystanders .

Nope its not blood pudding.. it kind of looks like sloppy joe

Ah, my oven died a week ago and it is now fixed so I am having roasted chicken with baked potatoes and zuchinni squash. The oven , refrigerator and water heater all died within 24 hours, the freezer had gone on the blink just before Christmas. It has been a VERY expensive week.

The rest of the rice with the rest of the plantains (frozen from Goya, wicked good!) and the rest of the chicken. I may splurge and have a glass of wine.

About pudding meat? Is that blood pudding? My MIL used to eat that. It's gross.

Going to pop a turkey breast in the crock pot today and let it cook all day. Makes the BEST, most tender and juicy turkey breast you'll ever taste. As a bonus, I take the cooked skin off the bird and put it in the oven on a cookie sheet so I still get the crispy skin. :-)

Pamzimmrrt - I have a list of things I *have* to get when I go south to visit my son - scrapple and pon hoss (like scrapple but not as spicy) are both on the list. My daughter insists I bring some back for her. LOL Duke's Mayo is another - can't get it this far north, and it's the best.

I'm in Maryland, from Pa! I'm not sure what pudding meat is either...LOL But my folks and In laws love it! I am pretty sure it's made from the scraps left from butchering.. kind of like scrapple without the cornmeal. I skip that part of the meal.... They serve it at all the firehall breakfasts and small diners around this part of the country... I do love scrapple and sausage however :)

Where do you live, Pam? I don't know what pudding meat is, or where it would be eaten for breakfast. Sounds interesting.

we have had "breakfast for dinner" the last 2 nights.. pancakes, scrapple, pudding meat and sausage

i just added a quart of canned potatoes to last nights bean soup and theres no question the beans and potatoes are going to flavor each other . the meat is a hunk of wild boar ham someone gave me . boar taint means a little strong testosterone flavor , not a part of a pigs anatomy that dont see much sunlight .