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.
Golden - the bread turned out okay, I got two loaves out of it so I froze one for later. Unfortunately I got distracted and over baked it so it's a little dry.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024492-italian-wedding-soup
cw - agreed breakfast for supper is great. That was a ton of very tasty calories. How did the bread turn out? At one point I got pretty comfortable messing around with bread recipes. It was fun.
Hothouse, the Italian wedding soup sounds awesome. Very generous of you to share it with family. I have done that when we were closer together.
I brought in the last of the turkey soup from the outside freezer (balcony) and will probably throw a few extra veggies into it. I've got some spinach that needs to be used.
Tacos last night. An easy meal when you have have the cooked spiced beef in the freezer.
Featuring sausages, bacon, home fries with onions and peppers. And of course PANCAKES, smothered in maple syrup and blueberries.
Fresh salmon and salad for us today. R had fritters with sour cream too. One of our favourite meals.
I've also got a loaf of sourdough going, which always takes overnight to rise. Purists would be horrified at my methodology as I make my bread in a loaf pan and don't follow the recipe or all the fussy prep that is so commonly posted on line. I don't care about amazing oven spring and hard crusts, I just want a nice loaf for toast and sandwiches 😜
My husband and I both love to cook but we have a one person kitchen so we have a strict rule that if one of us is cooking the other is banned from the kitchen or else. It simply doesn't work and can be dangerous.
He makes all the Italian dishes. I cook mostly vegetarian, I'm not much of a meat eater these days.
I'm in charge of doing laundry. He actually likes to clean and I happily let him.
We've each found our niche.
It doesn’t matter what you each do, as long are you are both happy, and both feel it’s fair and you are cared about.
Working together in the kitchen, then eating together has improved our daily lives.
He tolerates when I rinse and drain everything; I try to tolerate that he puts things away before I am finished with it.
It doesn't matter that salad is not my favorite, but add chicken to that and I'm okay with it.
If he's in a mood or intolerable, I don't return from my break. We've had some really late night salads.
But the salads are a work of art, not even needing dressing.
(on another note - adding salad to my list...)
Curly Lettuce
Iceberg Lettuce
Radishes
Purple Onion
Mushrooms
Avocado
Yesterday I did a sweet and sour pineapple chicken with rice, and since I am alone of course there are leftovers.
Tonight I can't decide, but I have some garlic and herb Boursin cheese I'm thinking of turning into some kind of an Alfredo sauce so maybe that with sheet pan roasted frozen broccoli and cauliflower 🤔
I guess it turned out ok,it was edible~
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!!