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Came home at 7:00pm. Sis - dinner is hot dog. {shudder}. I cooked 2 over-medium eggs, warmed up 1 hot dog sausage and rice. Drowned the taste of the sausage by liberally dipping it into my catsup/tabasco mix. Sis must be craving hot dog... hmmm.. I think I will go and get a fudgsicle...
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Sauce is drizzled or on the side. My recipe calls for a bourbon sauce, but none of us really care for the bourbon sauce. So a substitution.
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Bread pudding with caramel sauce on the side, or with it baked right in?

Mmmm, cheesy broccoli and new potatoes sound good too :)
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grilled sirloin tips with onions and peppers, twice baked potatoes, fresh (first of the season) broccoli with cheese sauce, bread pudding with caramel.
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I have to be at the office by 8:30am to open for business. My scheduled lunch is 11:30am. Sometimes, I leave work 6-6:30pm. Today, I attended an airline's product update at a hotel at 5:30pm. I was hoping they would have some food. It was just small cuts of fruits (pineapple, melons, watermelon - all would affect my acid reflux due to an empty stomach) … and cookies. Drink is ice water, hot coffee or hot tea (teabag). I nibbled on the cookies. I don't like sweets (mom was the baker of the family parties - cakes, pies, cookies, coconut candy, papaya candy, etc...) I couldn't finish the 2nd cookie because my stomach started heaving and my whole body shivered.

I came home at 7:00pm. Sis offered me her microwavable spicy chicken wings. There was only 4 pieces left. I took 2. She cooked so little rice and ate her half of the rice pot section. Tonight, I practically took most of my half of the rice pot. I knew that I would still be hungry with just 2 small pieces of chicken wings and rice. So, I opened a can of corn to help fill up my stomach. Then snacked on a small bag of Doritos. And then a fudgsicle... I'm still hungry...
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I'm sure glad there was more See's in the fridge - I nearly had a panic attack tonight

my car didn't want to start when I left work (late again and alone in the dungeon parking lot) - I hate technology sometimes - don't know if it's the battery or the remote key fob for the push button starter or what but alone at 10 pm in downtown with no one to call was bothering me - grateful that after several tries it turned on
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Mac and cheese with broiled sliced tomatoes on top. Baked chicken, salad. Cut up watermelon, cantaloupe with blueberries. I forgot I planted radishes at the far end of the garden. One of the boys came in with them. They had been in the ground too long, very hot. But they tasted good chopped up fine in salad. I had them all pulled, washed and cleaned.
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We have had stuffed peppers with peppers from the garden, and tonight after her second eye surgery mom ate 1 and 1/2 of tomatoe and bacon sandwich!! Guess after no food since last night she got hungry ( she asked for a 1/2 sandwich,, I went over board and she ate it all!) Tomorrow will be fresh green beans, ham hock and potatoes.. hubs is snapping beans while watching TV. I worked 6 out of the last 8 days ( up at 4AM, home by 830pm), and an hour long phone meeting tonight.. I am beat and he is a good and happy cook,, thank heavens! I am exhausted! Could not even sneak in a nap during her procedure.. the other lady in the waiting room just kept nattering on and on...
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Yesterday, oldest bro invited me to eat out for dinner at a Korean restaurant with his family. Yum! I had steam rice, kalbi, kim chee and spicy thinly sliced potato (??). It sure cleared up my sinus last night!

Tonight, I came home. Sis - dinner was .. hot dog. Hot dog is not dinner. It's a snack. I opened a can of chili. Might as well make it chili dog. Still didn't fill me up. I don't like hot dog. Can't force myself to eat a 2nd one. I think I will go have a fudgesicle.
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Adalbertos burritos (carne asada for hubs-shredded beef and onion/tomato/green pepper for me.) Tortilla chips with hubs' home made salsa, We split a Negro Modelo beer. YUM!
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Leftovers from Sunday dinner, pumpkin bread.
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Love swedish meatballs. I never used ginger, just nutmeg. I will have to try them with ginger too.
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My mom made porcupine meatballs back in the 60's. The rice is what makes them prickly. Swedish meatballs are made smaller about 1" and with 1/2 ground pork loin and 1/2 ground beef(low fat content). Seasoning is ginger and nutmeg, no tomato sauce. They are only good on Xmas eve or at IKEA. Must be served with rice porridge. Risengrot.
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sounds almost like swedish meat balls
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Oh Sue.....Mom or I would never hurt a porcupine...That was just what Mom called ''em and we never used a recipe,my Mom just dumped in this and that and I watched her and copied her.Really,I don't know why they were called Porcupine balls,they just were
But your recipe looks good anyway :)
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Here's a recipe;
Ingredients
1/2 cup uncooked long grain rice
1/2 cup water
1/3 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon celery salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1 pound ground beef
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 can (15 ounces) tomato sauce
1 cup water
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce


Directions
In a bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. Add beef and mix well. Shape into 1-1/2-in. balls. In a large skillet, brown meatballs in oil; drain. Combine tomato sauce, water, brown sugar and Worcestershire sauce; pour over meatballs. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1 hour.
Nutrition Facts
1 serving: 421 calories, 21g fat (6g saturated fat), 70mg cholesterol, 1317mg sodium, 34g carbohydrate (9g sugars, 2g fiber), 24g protein. 
Originally published as Porcupine Meatballs in Taste of Home October/November 1995

No porcupines are harmed in the making of the meatballs of the same name! ;)
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Lu-porcupine balls? can you explain for me who is clueless. :)
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Indian Tacos, and I finally got me some watermelon (sigh):)
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Long story short-cereal with almond milk. I'm whipped by the heat.
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Yummy chicken salad, no mayo, green onions, avocado, roasted chicken breast, olive oil and lemon juice dressing with salt and pepper. Oh and corn from the cob in the salad as well. Yum, yum!
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Roast, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, homemade bread, German chocolate cake, sugar-free jello salad.
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I made a vegetable soup, it had a package of mixed vegetables and a package of Morningstar Farm’s soy crumbles in vegetable broth. It sounds blah but with seasoning it’s rather tasty.

My family has sensitive tummies and we often have very simple diets, when our tummy is hurting. Everyone loved the soup! Cornbread is good with it.
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Well, I had all the fresh ingredients, but now I am too tired.
Goodnight everyone!
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Lu,
poor little porcupines
😹😹😹😹😹
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So very hungry here, I could not find a vending machine to save my life!

Today was deeper and deeper into the f.o.g.; there is hot heat; smokey bad air quality, I forgot that I just had a cinnamon applesauce snack, where is my mind
gone off to? Later, this will all change in my kitchen with dH home, my sous chef.

Getting my big frying pan out, zucchini, yellow squash, fresh Kale, lentil or pea soup for flavor, purple onion, brown rice, oh, and start with sauteeing turkey tenderloins? Cannot start it yet, must leave soon to go get him.

Yeah but, that is so much the same as all this week......thinking on it.
Cans of chili?
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I only know how to cook one thing in my pressure cooker and only because I watched Mom do it through the years and they are Porcupine Balls and we just Love 'em on a bed of rice,served with a salad,it's a perfect,tasty,easy meal.
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Good Enough, I have a T-Fal air fryer. I use it a good bit. I couldn’t cook without my pressure cookers.
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I have learned to do simpler meals, Tonight it was store-bought crab cakes and fresh green beans...fresh cherries for desert or snack.
I also use some frozen products...but watch the salt content- just because I am irritated with too much sodium and husband will salt AND pepper everything anyhow.
Our local IGA does great deep friend (battered just enough so the fish is the product) on Fridays and I often time it so I can bring that home.
And, with fresh vegetables I often do just those...summer squash steamed (with onion) in some chicken broth and then toss in cut up previously grilled brat...a custard cup of pickled beets and dinner is ready.
I make my own "bowls" and can use all sorts of things as base: golden grits with fresh corn off the cob on top and then a few sweet peppers for color. The other night it was golden grits and broiled shrimp...too hot to go out to grill.
Taco salad...build your own is summer staple and now that tomatoes are finally ripening BLT makes a meal. So I do not have to fix bacon each time, I bake 5 pounds of bacon and freeze it in portions sizes then nuke it for 30 seconds and it is crisp and hot.
Being a constant caregiver means making some thing easier for me too.
You are right, it is refreshing to talk about something else!
We are all handling so many things and doing it so well...meals might as well be on that side of the ledger too.
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Sounds good!
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Golden, I’ve got one of new air fryers. They’re nice and crisp on the outside, but no excess oil. Use regular white potatoes.
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