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.
I never get tired of cooking, I get tired of cleaning up the mess I make cooking.
Pan fried salmon here with lots of lemon and pepper and a simple green salad. This afternoon I made a huge pot of chicken veg pasta soup. R can take some to the farm. It's a meal in a bowl type of soup and great for someone working outside in this cold winter weather.
I knew when that expensive spray came out it was a money making marketing fraud. Because Dawn is such a great product they have to find ways to make more money, shame.
But, thanx for the recipe.
We are talking about getting some, i just paid 7.49 a dozen and was happy they had them.
nacy - feels like everything is going up in price.
psue - glad to hear from you and that you are eating - protein shakes are good. Hope dh is doing better.
itrr - sounds tasty! I like breakfast for dinner any time,
I miss the farm eggs since R moved from the old place to Mike's farm. But he is thinking of keeping some chickens there. Yay!!!
Breakfast for dinner always works.
Psue, it is good to see you posting, nothing wrong with your sandwich, good protein and grains.
Example: yesterday I ate 2 broken waffle cones with a protein shake for lunch. Hah!
Send, I've tried the vegan meats and don't think I will go there much.
Out to dinner?
We are having Pizza, avoiding the Soy in the Chicken-less what-cha-call-it.
OOPS.
Orange Chickenless it says. No chicken. Thinking about it. First, I will need to find out what is in it if it's not chicken.
Did you know you can spend $100 in under 20 minutes at the store now?
If I add the peppers and rice, it could be good.
I actually looked up how to freeze the peppers. Remove the seeds? There have been times that chopping the peppers, removing the seeds resulted in eating less peppers that night because there was no time to be chopping all that much.
Give me a good steak and salad for a 10 minute meal any day.
I used to make a big pot of chili one night, then serve the leftovers as sloppy Joes the next night and if anything was left over from that I added more tomato and served spaghetti the following night. No one ever complained.
Today we had left over turkey and gravy (frozen). I am not a fan of left over frozen turkey so I made the rest into turkey veg tomato soup. It was much better.
When the numbers of people in the house declined I used to get the butcher to saw a 12 lb turkey in half lengthwise and only roast 1/2 at a time and keep the other half in the freezer. It worked much better, Must do that again.
We are feeling well-fed.
The small amount of leftover was just enough when adding some pinto beans and frozen spinach. More of a stew today.
You are right about the Pasta-balance the amount with the beans or you will have more of a pasta dish (still very good!) than a Minestrone.
I prefer a stew or casserole to a soup usually, but this Minestrone effort was so good! Yum!
The beans count as fiber.
With what was left over, we cooked some pasta and fried up some hot sausages and added them along with tomato juice, red pepper flakes and cayenne. More of a pasta dish than minestrone.
Online I read that if boiling with baking soda doesn't work, throw them out. They are too old.
Oh - another tip - cook them with the lid on the pot. Without the lid they stay harder.
Wishing I had known that beans soaking overnight could be softened by boiling in baking soda if they never softened.
I had given up cooking beans after that happened!
A minestrone sounds good right now, but will need to use canned beans.
Glad you mentioned the beans.
Psue - I think cooking gets hard wired by a certain age. It will come back. You won't have to relearn, I am sure of that. Popcorn and salad are great for many reasons. Pizza too!
13 bean soup and was it good!!! I baked R some Pillsbury Croissants to go with it.
I soaked the beans overnight and they didn't soften, so I added some baking soda and boiled them and that did the trick.
Today I will ramp it up by adding some pasta and more tomatoes to make a type of Minestrone which will give him several meals to take to the farm. Good cold weather food. The basement there flooded so he has his challenges even to figure out where the water is coming from.
(Mmmm, spaghetti bolognaise - I remember spaghetti bolognaise!)
Next day always tastes so much better than the first day as the flavours sink in.
I added some red wine as well. (such a waste huh!!) :-)
Eggplant Lasagna - my sister would love that - I'll pass that on. How unique is that receipe and healthy. Nice one. Maybe as you care in any spare time write a cookbook. You could call it - erm... The Carers Cookbook :-) tee hee
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and in fact, i really do have a fireplace.
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it’s like a winter wonderland outside. BEAUTIFUL white snow.