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What are you cooking?

Tonight it was simple. A baked potato and a spinach salad.
 
Tonight was broiled rockfish, a huge salad, mash potatoes with leftover beef gravy. Weird combination but we have way too much produce (see instacart thread) and I did not want to waste the very good beef gravy. No picture because honestly broiled rockfish is not a very photogenic dish.
 
Stir fry. Hunks of salmon and teriyaki sauce. I don't usually put in noodles but I added some ramen noodles to stretch it to about 3 servings so I'd be sure to have lunch for tomorrow made.
 
bluehende said:
Tonight was broiled rockfish, a huge salad, mash potatoes with leftover beef gravy. Weird combination but we have way too much produce (see instacart thread) and I did not want to waste the very good beef gravy. No picture because honestly broiled rockfish is not a very photogenic dish.
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Honestly, I would have home-mashed potatoes with beef gravy with Anything.
 
Some recent meals. Comfort foods is a theme.

Lasagna with Italian sausage. That was good for three dinners.

Meatballs with brown gravy and mashed potatoes. About 12 oz. ounces of frozen meatballs. Put them in the crock pot with brown gravy, carrots, celery, and onions, and let them simmer and cook for about five hours.

Penne pasta with shrimp, alfredo sauce, sun-dried tomatoes, and TJ's artichoke antipasto. Good for two meals and two more lunches.

Jambalaya with shrimp, chicken-apple sausage. Another crock-pot recipe. At least two dinners and lunches.

Cheese fondue

On the agenda for this week:

Barbecued spare ribs with mango and pineapple. Should be good for two meals.

More cheese fondue

Another lasagna

TJs Mandarin Orange chicken
 
Tomorrow for lunch, this is the plan.
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Cannellini-Bean Pasta With Beurre Blanc Recipe

This recipe, like so many great straightforward, inexpensive go-tos, starts with little more than a can of beans — then transforms it into a luxurious meal Jack Monroe, the British food writer, uses a classic beurre blanc to do that work, simmering a splash of wine, vinegar and butter together...
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VacationForever said:
I got to admit that my daily diet looks something close to this. This afternoon I ate an entire bar of chocolate - 700 calories. That was after a healthy breakfast, good amount of lunch and tonight I had a full dinner too. I don't want to stand on the scale anymore. :(
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I try to weigh on the first of the month -- been debating on whether I really want to do that tomorrow!
 
T_R_Oglodyte said:
Some recent meals. Comfort foods is a theme.

Lasagna with Italian sausage. That was good for three dinners.

Meatballs with brown gravy and mashed potatoes. About 12 oz. ounces of frozen meatballs. Put them in the crock pot with brown gravy, carrots, celery, and onions, and let them simmer and cook for about five hours.

Penne pasta with shrimp, alfredo sauce, sun-dried tomatoes, and TJ's artichoke antipasto. Good for two meals and two more lunches.

Jambalaya with shrimp, chicken-apple sausage. Another crock-pot recipe. At least two dinners and lunches.

Cheese fondue

On the agenda for this week:

Barbecued spare ribs with mango and pineapple. Should be good for two meals.

More cheese fondue

Another lasagna

TJs Mandarin Orange chicken
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

every single one, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I could definitely go for Mom's lasagna.

yes, comfort food. one of mine is baked spaghetti, which I was planning on for the weekend. now, I don't think I can wait.
 
clifffaith said:
I try to weigh on the first of the month -- been debating on whether I really want to do that tomorrow!
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Just do it. We often think it is worse then it is and even if it is, it is ok. It will take time for some, including me, to figure out how to balance our food urges during this time that is stressful, as food is comfort.
 
VacationForever said:
I got to admit that my daily diet looks something close to this. This afternoon I ate an entire bar of chocolate - 700 calories. That was after a healthy breakfast, good amount of lunch and tonight I had a full dinner too. I don't want to stand on the scale anymore. :(
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Don’t beat yourself up. It is stressful times and I know I eat food for comfort, my drug of choice. I find just taking a day at a time with food helps. If I had a bad day, that was yesterday. Be compassionate to yourself.
 
Pollo Rosa Maria from Carrabba's.
Nachos with Margaritas.
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Wednesday we will have wood pellet smoked tri tip with mashed potatoes and green peas - we are running low/out on fresh veges, delivery for fresh veges on Fri.
Thursday we will have stir fry beef with celery, onion and bell peppers, using smoked tri tip leftover.
Friday split pea soup with smoked ham hock in Instant Pot.
 
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Vegetable soup w/ fresh chicken stock, mixed salad, and farfalle w/lamb ragu.
 
Today I made ginger snaps. Only three from the two dozen I didn't freeze are left, and they won't make it to the end of the evening. We ordered a shrimp tray, using GrubHub for the first time -- I think our leftovers will last until lunch on Saturday. Cliff thinned his strawberry patch again, and I put on Nextdoor that we'd left plants on the front wall. Someone who came for plants braved our front steps to drop off a dozen jam cookies from a local bakery. We will definitely be waddling by the time Safe At Home is over!

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This morning, I made Strawberry Pancakes to last all day.

This evening... I discovered our local Ruby Tuesday closed.
So we settled on Arby's Beef & Cheddar and Chocolate Shakes.
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We ordered in Chinese from a local restaurant last night. Unfortunately, there was plenty left over for a second meal. Mainly unfortunately, due to it being so high in sodium that I gained 3 lbs of water on it and was up much of the night, 'Dry as the SAHAIRY Desert!' Tonight we're haveing baked Idaho potatoes with beanless chili, cheese, and a marinated, grilled chicken sate' & fruit salad.

We're trying to eat 'smartly', but with lots of food in the pantry, freezers and fridge, it's easy to prepare TOO MUCH FOOD! And being children of children of the depression, we hate to waste, so it ends up above or below the ol' belt.

Jm
 
clifffaith said:
Today I made ginger snaps. Only three from the two dozen I didn't freeze are left, and they won't make it to the end of the evening. We ordered a shrimp tray, using GrubHub for the first time -- I think our leftovers will last until lunch on Saturday. Cliff thinned his strawberry patch again, and I put on Nextdoor that we'd left plants on the front wall. Someone who came for plants braved our front steps to drop off a dozen jam cookies from a local bakery. We will definitely be waddling by the time Safe At Home is over!

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All looks yummy
 
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Banana bread with almonds, almond flour and Lakanto monkfruit golden instead of brown sugar. Yum!


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We enjoy cooking when we have the time to do it, so guess what we have lots of time to do now? It is one of the reasons we enjoy staying in timeshares and condos when we are on vacation. The other night we did a favourite recipe: pork chops creole, served over rice, with an Asian salad on the side.

But in these difficult times for small businesses, we are trying to do takeout or delivery at least a couple of times a week from our favourite local restaurants to help them survive and keep their staff employed. If everyone does the same, hopefully it will be enough that they will still be there when this pandemic is eventually over. Last night we ordered pizza and wings from our local pizzeria. We made a side salad to go with it. It was delicious.

Unfortunately some of the best of our local, finer-dining favourites are not really set-up to do takeout. So under the current orders they are now just closed. We hope they will survive so we can continue to patronize them in future. They will be sorely missed if they go under!
 
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