Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
Breakfast was---gluten free waffles with butter and blueberries (from Chile) a bit of a splurge but it is Christmas Eve
Tonight I'm treating myself to a small sirloin strip steak, baked potato, and some kind of green veggie. It was marked down 30% and I've had a beef craving.
What's kind of funny is that it's really hard for me to splurge on food after a lifetime of being careful with expenditures, even though I can well afford it.
That is it....going out into traffic to get some BBQ meat.
I only made a small 8X8 cake this time . 1/2 the recipe so only 2 cups of apples. It was still a lot of peeling and chopping .
way - swedish meatballs!!! Aaaah. I used to make them regularly. Must have been a wonderful dinner. The apple cake with 4 cups of chopped apples sounds similar to the one my friend made. It wasn't a spice cake but a spicy, as in cinnamon and nutmeg, apple cake with raisins in it.
cw - so easy to overdo it at a buffet. Years since I have been to a Chinese buffet. Hmm., Thoughts for the new year.
brandee - always a great supper
Pam - asian food again giving me ideas. I got one grocery order in this evening and will get another one in a few days, then that's me done for a while.
I resuscitated some pork chops that I had brined too long and cooked and were salty. They went in the oven in a baking dish covered with foil, with some water on low heat for nearly an hour and came out as tender as can be and less salty. It was a win!!
Actually it’s all leftovers from dinner I made and brought to my nephew and sister yesterday.
You end up with just tender falling-off-the-bone pieces with no viable or darkened skin. It comes out of the pressure cooker in pieces. Fine with me.
I made fresh turkey soup for two, added some dressing on top which was made separately yesterday.
We ate well, and stored the rest in the refrigerator, until I decide if I will freeze the turkey pieces. We don't want turkey every day for a week.
Clean-up is ongoing, lots of work. I will remember this if ever I cook a turkey again.
I think this is the last one.
Thanks for tonight's dinner. It's going to be the chicken, gnocchi, and sun-dried tomato soup.
Alva - your Wok adventures sound great! Cheaper is a real advantage.
send - the pizza sounds good, your plan too.
1/2 creamy garlic chicken; 1/2 vegetarian combo.
Someone broke their promise to go shopping today, and I waited too long.
My plan is to be much less angry at everything, and more self-sufficient.
It is working.
This recipe is so very easy.
Oil in a heavy soup pot. Fry up two chicken breasts that you seasoned SO WELL you cannot see chicken (powdered sage, tyme, smoked paprika, Italian herbs, whatever you want). Remove from pot and die or shred, set aside.
Add a bit more oil and fry up a few diced scallions and some garlic and cook to soft and sweet. Loosen and keep all that stuck stuff from the chicken.
Add in two big tablespoons of tomato paste.
Add in half a jar of sun dried tomatoes (whole food again). I use more.
Mix to a paste and add in one of the big boxes of chicken broth. Book for about 20" on low, and then add in cream (heavy) to taste. Cook another 10 to 15" on low.
Put shredded chicken back in pot.
Add gnocchi and cook until they float to the top and are done to your tooth.
Throw in some hands-ful of chicken.
I saw this recipe on FB thrown together without amounts; to taste, and it's pretty much how I do it.
The sun dried tomatoes are the secret to the sauce! Such a great tomato-tang.
I love gnocchi in soup. I make them homemade and they're the easiest thing in the world.
I also have found a recipe for the BEST BEST soup I ever had which amounts to sun dried tomatoes, broth, heavy cream, gnocchi and spinich.
cw - the cheese sounds heavenly and so does quiche Lorraine. But I would opt for cheese and crackers and savor the cheese flavour.
I think the food I most miss (due to allergies) is cheese. There are so many different varieties and I like most of the ones I have tried. I especially miss the Norwegian gjetost (brown goat cheese - the cheese is brown. I don't know the colour of the goats lol).
Supper was left over pot roast. I carved off a thick slice and sopped up gravy with bread. Mmmm good!!!
It's possible I'll just eat the cheese on crackers.
Not a calorie-safe meal, but filled me up. (Tortillas are higher in calories).
Absent was the good stuff like onions, fresh parsley and cilantro, and the time to do it better.
Easy was priority one.
Getting some beef was the second priority.
I would love a ham sandwich, on any bread. How about ham, egg, and cheese grilled?
Supper for me was 1/2 a ham sandwich (gluten free low carb bread) with mustard and lettuce, a few grape tomatoes, and a few berries. Finished up with a cup of decaf.
Anyone else?