What's for dinner?

Hey captain we have several cords of firewood that need staking if you have the energy.
my easy pasta skillet supper tonight except I bought spicy italian sausage instead of mild. Everyone survived even dad who told me twice he liked it!

jeanne.... cheerios/banana's it was! I do add a touch of "honey" :)
watermelon or ambrosia salad for desert. It's hot... too hot to have a heavy meal.

JeanetteB, I vote for cereal. Cheerios with sliced bananas would be my choice.

Rice is high-carb, no matter its color. Doesn't mean you should never eat it, just realize that it does count as a carb!

My father always like rice with his chili. (White rice, and on the side, not mixed in.) There was a restaurant near where he worked that automatically added rice when he ordered chili for lunch. That is what my mother did, too, of course. The rice and bean combination is apparently a good source of protein, but when your chili has a lot of meat in it that isn't as important.

I took a stew out of the freezer and we are having that with watermelon, jicama salad, and rhubarb bread tonight.

susan,
im with kaz on the rice . i make chili with lots of beef , red beans , and just a little rice , bell pepper and a metric f*ck- ton of onion .
macaroni belongs in the oven with ham bits imo .

Took the day off from most everything. So choices for dinner is either;

Cereal/toast
hot dogs/baked beans/veggie

Kazzaa - I LOVE my chili with all the "fixins" - including sour cream and cheese! Didn't have any in the house tonight, so my chili was actually relatively low carb this time. LOL

Susan chilli is fine with brown basmati rice very low carb!! of course i cant eat chilli without sour cream and cheese on top!!

I made southern fried chicken for the first time today and all i can say is "move over kentucky". It was scrummy!!!! left it all night in fridge with buttermilk am chuffed it turned out perfect! had creamy mash and corn of course i made too much and am off now to stuff my face with more and watch a horror movie the original "amityville" always scares me!
Dont laugh but next week my dinners will be sardines and that green stuff as im eating far too much and getting fat "chubby" is ok "fat" is not ok!

Veronica poor you i am lactose intolerant too but havnt been behaving myself yeh i bought some vegan cheese all i can say is YUK! worst things ive ever tasted since sheeps balls in a lebanese resto!!

Whats the point in any cheese when its not milk? nah tried to go vegan but couldnt good luck with that!

Capt them jicomas the only thing in season at the moment?
I could use about six face cords of that wood for the winter if you can drop it off sometime before the snow flies.

Homemade chili tonight. That's normally a cold-weather dish for us, and it's been in the high 70's today, but I had a pound of hamburger out and it was either that or spaghetti - and I'm really trying to watch the carbs. So even though chili is not exactly low-carb, it was a better option than the pasta. (I didn't have any spaghetti squash or miracle noodles on hand to sub for the pasta.)

Went out for late lunch with my Mom and daughter. I tucked her in a corner booth table so she couldn't see any other patrons. It went all right, sher couldn't see anyone to embarrass me.

So no supper. Probably just a snack later...

i sawed and split 2 ton of wood today and im having a quart of cold beer -- hope i die tonight -- of course after ive finished my beer .
wacked my last 3 cold chicken livers . now im out of chicken livers and i WILL be getting some more .
i can live frugally and enjoy a state of early retirement at 55 , or i can let money get away here and there and have to work myself to death . its an easy decision for me ..
i ' bout knocked a jicoma in the head today but with 6 legs them s**ts are quick .
ill go back to stalking the mule ..

if you are starting with raw bacon well any bacon I cook i lay flat on a baking sheet and bake in oven-less messy! make sure its about 2/3 cooked. After I roll spears on olive oil I wrap one bacon slice around each spear. I roast in oven at 350 for about 20 minutes. I live in Wisconsin and I will continue to harvest asparagus through July fourth weekend. We are usually pretty tired of asparagus by that time.

Veronica, so sorry you are having swallowing difficulties, that seems like it would be a nuisance, to say the least. Hope the docs figure it out soon. Doesn't hurt to do elimination diet, get rid of foods like dairy that commonly do cause allergies and see how you feel.

I'm eating pretty poorly for past week, lots of take out and delivery of pizza and asian dishes... lots of fried, oily, heavy foods. By now I'm so sick of eating like that and I went to grocery finally because that was the real problem, I was out of most things at the house so just ordered in a few nights in a row. So back to lots of veggies. I'm trying to get nutritional consult for my father, either through VA or through his new PCP because I think it would help him to learn what foods are better for him... and he doesn't listen to me, he needs to hear from another "professional" source.

I am putting Turmeric on just about everything I eat these days. It has such a mild flavor and supposed to be so beneficial for you. It does stain things a yellow-orange color so have to be a little bit careful with it. But... yeah, it goes on everything now. :-)

bookluvr, all I knew is that I like it, so I looked it up with you. Turns out it is a very healthy veggie! Lots of potassium, vitamin C, antioxidants, etc. Low calorie and low carb. Not many things I discover and like turn out to be that good for me!

Strips of jicama (hee-cama) are good on a crudites plate for scooping up dips. I like it in stir-fries, too -- it has a texture like water chestnuts but a fresher flavor.

And Captain, I wouldn't consider a salad of jicama and cucumber to be a fruit salad. :) Like your song lyrics, though.

57twin, when you start from raw bacon, how do you do the asparagus? You said that you pre-cook the bacon, right? Then do you just roast the asparagus (with olive oil?) and toss the bacon on at the end?

There are probably only a few more days to the asparagus season here (Zero asparagus at farmers' market Sunday -- stores have it from Michigan) and I'd like to try that.

(We are planting asparagus this fall.)

one big mac 'll give you a heart attack ..

burger king , tastes like kerosene .
cantaloupe , is soylent green .

aerosmith should have hired me as a lyricist . the poor sob ' s sing about sleeping bags and love in elevators for cris'sakes ..

a jicama is a freakin 6 legged tree lizard . im old and dont care about facts -- you cant change my mind on that ..

i can explain the negativity -- a ten week ongoing dull headache . two weeks of hepc treatment left . maybe ill celebrate with one of those flame broiled whoppers from burger king that taste like kerosene .. he he

I like simple recipes. Now all I have to do is Google what a jicama is... Don't mind me, there's a lot of food names and ingredients I've never heard of when you all discuss what's for dinner.

Lastnight, I missed out on a free takeout dinner. Baby bro's girlfriend offered to drop by for a visit with dinner. I didn't see her text until 1am this morning...

i like a good fruit salad jeanne but it seems so many fruits are preserved by irradiation or something nowdays that they come to maturity and rot , having never ripened . unripened cantaloupe comes to mind . hard , sour , apples . pears thatll take your eye out if you try to stick a fork in it .
ive ruined big macs and fruit salad , whats next ?

Last night I took a cooking class by a chef from Mexico. I learned a simple and refreshing salad, which I had tonight.
1 jicama, peeled and cut into bite-size chunks
1 cucumber, peeled and cut into bite-size chunks
juice of 1 lime (or 2 if they are small)
coarsely ground salt, to taste.

That's it -- just place is a bowl and mix.

When I got home I found a very similar recipe in a Mexican cookbook, but it used lemon instead of lime juice and included orange segments. I'll try that sometime, too.

With the simple salad we had stir-fry chicken in cilantro sauce, over linguine. Good stuff.

I seem to have missed all thes delicious posts. I don't seem to get notified most of the time. Right now I am being investigated for swallowing difficulties probably due to a food allergy so have lost lots of weight and don't have the slightest interest in food. I know I am lactose intoerent so have ordered a book to teach myself how to make vegan cheese. I do miss the dairy. I still have to do the allergy testing but it takes as long round here to get a specialist appointment as the VA. I wonder if they have secret wait lists for Medicare patients.

im having a nap for dinner . got up and off to ednas and the va at 4 ; 30 am .
ive learned something useful from
" lillium " up there . shes an asian american gal and rather young . the son of a gun has a beaming , terminal smile . im thinking the rest of us should try it too ..
were all going to die .. yay .. take today and run with it ..

ASSA please tell me you put loads of melting cheese on your Shepherds Pie gosh i can almost smell it!! peas and carrots too and a dash of Yorkshire relish im bloody starving now ooh ooh just remembered some prawn cocktail in the fridge needs to be eaten soon Yahoo sometimes life dosnt seem so bad afterall! I need help maybe i have worms!!!

Susan cut down on salt and drink more water and walk more i had this "water retention" its awful but i found water tabs help? I dont actually drink enough water sometimes none? i have to remind myself to do this. but i know salt is a nono

Shepherds pie. And I remembered to turn the oven on this time!!

bahahahaaaaa Kazzaa!! That's too funny!

I have a hereditary condition (thanks a lot, Dad) that causes me to retain water and have edema - BIG TIME. My legs are the worst. I take medication for it, which sends me scurriying to the bathroom 5 times an hour for about 4 hours, but if I take it as prescribed, I start experiencing side effects, so I take it when the swelling gets *really* bad, like it did today. I felt like the Goodyear Blimp floating around the house, bumping into things and feeling squeezed into my clothes.