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cdnreader...Your salad sounds SO good!
We are having breakfast for dinner tonight.Fried baby red potatoes with English muffin breakfast sandwiches for a change.
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Book
I'm sure you can find even a good food truck in El Paso with short rib tacos 🌮
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Seafood chowder, cheddar biscuits, plain biscuits, cherry pie.
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Thank you Luckylu! I didn't know there was a Red Lobster biscuit mix at the store. I will have to look for it. Great idea about adding more cheese. I love a good biscuit.

Hard to believe its Monday again. I had the most delicious salad with citrus dressing. Mixed greens with almonds, feta cheese and dried cranberries.
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Dinner tonight. Sis only cooked rice. Nothing in the freezer/fridge was calling my name. I opened the pantry and looked at sis' stash of food. Nothing. I eventually 'cooked' half a can of corned beef hash with chopped small onions and a small fresh hot red pepper and black pepper (bought round black pepper and use the grinder over the food.) Then I checked if sis' carton of eggs had eggs. Yes! So, I quickly fried 2 eggs (sloppy over-easy because I was in a hurry to eat). That was our dinner....
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Just need to go to those busy Mexican restaurants for early dinners before the dinner crowd, Book.

The best Mexican restaurant here is a hole in the wall, very cheap by local standards, and only open for weekday lunch! Don't think you would find them on Trip Advisor. Nope, not on TA, just checked.
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Fave niece in Texas is thinking of places to take me when/if I go this year in October. I'm unable to go with fave sis and her family in Nov since it conflicts with my bosses scheduled trip. So, niece is naming all these steak places. She suddenly stops and asks me if I like steak. I don't like steak. Then I heard her friend's hubby say ribs. I quickly said, "I like ribs!" {whew! terrible when you're a picky eater who has acid reflux and food sensitivity and jaws that cannot chew, chew, chew until the d*rn steak is small enough to swallow without choking on it!}

As a finale, my niece said, "We have Taco Bell here, too!" {groaning. I don't like Taco Bell...} Because some of you have been mentioning Mexican food, I am sooooo curious on how it tastes! So, I tentatively asked her, "Do they have REAL Mexican food there?" Oh, yes,... but it's very crowded, long line and expensive.... sigh.... I'm going to have to Google on best places to eat in El Paso....
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Between my husband and I we managed to make spaghetti and meat sauce. Hubby began by dicing carrots, onions, peppers and minced garlic. He browned grass fed beef.
Then he deserted the kitchen, said he couldn’t think what to do next. That’s because we had no canned tomatoes or premade spaghetti sauce. I found a can of tomato paste. That with vegetable broth made the sauce part.

We’ve lost our ability to cook! So today’s meal turning out well was nice. We used to be great cooks.
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OMG, I'm craving one (or 2 or 3) of those Red Lobster biscuits now. My store has the mix but I try to walk by because of the calories. Mmmmm, the melted butter with the cheese!
Those and a loaded green salad or a bowl of clam chowder would be all you'd need.

Will put it on the grocery list now. Thanks Lu. ;)
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Hi cdnreader....At the grocery store,they have the Red Lobster Biscuit mix.Maybe your store carries it.Iv'e made them and they are really good and easy.The best part about making your own too is that you can add more cheese than is called for.....yum~
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Hi Pam,

I love Red Lobster but haven't been in a very long time. I am having a craving for their cheddar biscuits.

Family was over last night and I'm still having leftovers. It was pizza, chicken and mushroom penne with marsala sauce and a garden salad. I hope the garden salad makes up for the pizza and pasta.:-)
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Home alone - a rare event. All of the guys went to PJ's sons' bar and restaurant to watch sports. I'm having peanut butter and crackers. No cooking and no dishes. Yea!!!!'
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We went to red lobster yesterday, and mom ad I got the fish and chips. Brought home enough for 3 more meals.. no lie! Leftover fish and pot roast tonight,, mix and match!
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MountainMoose,
Believe it or not, there ARE refried beans on Mexican pizza in Mexico. I live in Tijuana and you can order them on it, also jalapeños and chorizo. (Ugh! Mexico has the world's worst pizza, IMO.)
My Mexican husband would have no trouble with any of that (he calls himself a frijolero (bean lover) but I draw the line putting refried beans on a pizza. Some things are just sacred.

I finally made the green Thai curry with veggies and rice. It was more than spicy, but, hubs abided by the mandatory "one bite taste test" before dumping 1/3 of a bottle of (Mexican) hot sauce all over it! Sigh, so much for cultural cuisine diversity.
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I went to check on Jay at dinner time. He was loading his car to come to our house to use the grill. I said okay. When he unloaded , he had steaks, already seasoned ready to grill, a big green salad with homemade ranch dressing and twice baked potatoes. He cooked everything and it was so good. Now he and the boys are in the kitchen dipping stuff in chocolate. Bananas, frozen green grapes, mandarin orange slices, ritz crackers with peanut butter, pretzels. I never knew grapes dipped in chocolate would be good. He's a good brother and a good cook.
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I made like a "Mexican" pizza: a Boboli(TM) pizza crust, smeared with refried beans and a peach salsa (yeah it's awesome on this), sprinkled with onions and green onions and cheddar cheese. Baked for about 10 minutes at 450. Sprinkle on fresh salsa and a mound of thin strips of lettuce. Should be its own food group. Yummy!
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Ahh, Book I am just waking up, and now craving sushi. At least one of our Chinese restaurants now serves it, but not for breakfast. Maybe dinner.
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8 pieces. I caved in. I was able to eat 4 pieces 20 minutes ago. It's best to finish it since it was freshly made today. That was my reasoning to eat it at 10:30pm. I can't believe I was down to the last 2 pieces and I'm full!
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Finish it, Book. It won't improve on keeping.

Though hang on. How many pieces in a "small" container?!
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Dinner tonight is leftover salmon from lastnight. Yum! I had thought oldest sis would have finished it. So, I stopped by the grocery store and bought a small container of sushi made of cucumber, crab meat and avocado for my dinner....  We still had the salmon - so I had that for dinner. And 3 pieces of the cut sushi for snack. I'm saving the rest for tomorrow - if I have the will power. It keeps calling me to finish it all.
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Aldi is definitely limited with choices, and you won't see the common brands that are in other grocery stores. It was an adjustment to learning what they had and what I liked, but now I find I go to them for things only they have, and I save $100 per month on my groceries-for-one. Can't imagine if I had a family to buy for, it'd be quite a cost difference. But there is an adjustment to their brands and products, to be sure.
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I tried Aldi in San Diego but they didn't carry ANY type of non flavored, liquid coffee creamer at all. I'd use any brand, it didn't have to be CoffeeMate.
There was a limited supply of brands, often just one brand. I couldn't complete all my grocery shopping there. It also wasn't in the best part of town.
I had to go back to Von's for the stuff they didn't have. Too bad, they were cheap.

As for dinner, hubs said he was SO full at lunch, (huge hamburger on a french roll with all the trimmings. I had half of an English muffin with a slice of avocado), he didn't want dinner. Ha, yeah right!
I was 'going to' make Thai green chicken curry with veggies and white rice BUT, his highness declared that he was "starving" (really?) right this minute and he threw a frozen pizza in the oven. He's out there right now, grumbling about not knowing how to "cut it".  hahahaha
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I had Aldi in Ohio and there are some good prices. We don't have one here. Our grocery selections are a little limited. But we always have cheap lobsters, roasting chickens, broccoli and potatoes. Tonight is chili, salad, vanilla pudding and butter cookies. Made the pudding and cookies for Pam if she's wanting something to eat.
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Book
You probably won't like salmon cooked the Norwegian way

Poached in a little vinegar water and served with homemade tartar sauce and boiled red potatoes
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Sis prepared salmon for dinner. I love salmon. She just use lemon powder and fresh red peppers. I stared at it trying to see if put some onions in it. Nope. So, the portion I put on my plate, I sprinkled some finely chopped onions and put some black peppers. Crushed one of the red peppers more finely and spread it on top of the salmon. There! Now it's more to my liking. (Sis likes to eat her food as simple as possible.)
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Ali your salads sounds amazing.

It was tacos tonight. I had spicy chicken and pork as fillings.
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I can't sing Aldi's praises enough. Their biggest strength is their prices are amazing. Avocados were on sale for $0.69 or $0.79 today and this is common for them to have specials that are far and away much cheaper than larger groceries. It's a store I always thought of as a "discount store" before I started shopping there about 2 years ago, and it is discount, sort of. You bag your own groceries and there is no deli or butcher, but their quality is very good. I go there for all of my basic groceries now -- canned soups, veggies, freezer meats, eggs, produce, all the basics. And they have some great cheap wines and beer if you like to try new things in that area. The sweet potato chips are sold in big bags in the snack aisle when you first walk in the door. If you're anything like me, don't buy those because you'll eat them all the time.

You can't get better groceries for less money in the U.S. You can get more options if you go to a larger grocery chain. You can get more types of cheese, for example, at a Trader Joe's or other larger grocery, but Aldi's has very good offerings for very cheap.
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Ali,
An aldi market opened where fresh n easy used to be
I'm not familiar with them - what's their niche?
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I like al pastor anything - burritos, tacos, enchiladas, tortas.

I made a fancy salad tonight. I always make salads because they are easy and they agree with me. They had artisan lettuce (that makes me laugh just typing that... it's baby lettuce heads) on sale at Aldi so I bought a couple. Chopped up some artisan lettuce and added sliced button mushrooms (ok, I could've used fancier mushrooms for my fancy salad), green onion, prosciutto pieces and feta. It was good with an Italian style dressing.

I try to get creative with my salads since I eat them so often. It's nice to try different combos, but always have to have protein in them these days. Anyway, it was tasty. I like all the cooking comments, tbh. Who cooked tonight, what did you make??? :-)
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Ahh, Sue that sounds Muy Bueno

I'm sitting bedside with the Viking for a bit and have only had a small piece of candy

I might need to hit the gringo taco stand on my way home but they don't have the radishes jalapeño carrots and green salsa like my other place

I've been reading about a New Orleans deli in downtown that I want to try - they serve gumbo but only on Saturdays
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