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.
We had chinese food.
So is it breakfast, lunch, dinner
or breakfast, dinner, supper?
Good eats to you all
I do find it amazing to see a lot of survivalist food end up on high-price-tag menus. Not sure how I feel about handing someone $70 for something I could get from my butcher for almost nothing and make on my BBQ! The cost must be the 11 secret marrow herbs and spices! ;)
I'd thought it was a cute mini heart-shaped coeur à la crème garnishing my filet mignon and tucked in happily. I was not expecting a forkful of what I can only describe as greasy snot.
(It might be much nicer properly toasted. Not aiming to find out, though).
So, I'm making dinner right now. A big pot of beef soup in the pressure cooker, with all the different vegetables I have in the fridge.
The beef came with the bones and bone marrow. I remove the marrow because it is too much fat. The new food trend at restaurants around here is to cut the bones in half exposing the marrow and roast the bone marrow with seasoning then serve with bread. Anyone tried it? What do you usually do with bone marrow?
I had a salad, beans, cottage cheese with banana, DH had pork chops, rice/gravy. beans and cornbread. Mom had veggie sandwich, cheetos, and pumpkin muffin
baked potato with carrots and squash - it was heavenly
As for me 1st dinner [for dad] was leftover baked rainbow trout, rice, asparagus, and sliced tomato.
2nd dinner when mom gets home is...well who knows but it'll be tasty!
Dinner is roasted turkey breast, mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli and rice casserole. Strawberry pretzel salad.
It is very good.
Try wrapping your tamales in banana leaves. Oh gosh, much better flavor than dried corn husks. Central and Southern Mexico is where they are popular.
Up here I've bought the banana leaves frozen. If your local supermarket doesn't carry them, try a Mexican or Asian store.
I've made tamales but my masa always breaks. I'll have to check to see if I got masa for tamales. It makes a difference they tell me.
Even better the next day.
We just visited Mom and are stopping for Japanese food. 😋
I overindulged in dark chocolate truffle cashew ice cream earlier. I won't do that again in a hurry - a little too rich. The aged gut can't handle it. But it was good!!!!
I have a copy of White Trash Cooking. But, don't really need the cookbook. I grew up in WV and all of my family cooked southern country style.
We're having big dinner this evening. All of the April birthdays. I've been baking all morning.
Clarissa Dickson-Wright (blonde) is still very much with us and hilarious*!!!; but Jennifer Patterson (dark, looks like the wicked witch of the West and whom I absolutely adored for reasons I'll explain) sadly died some years ago.
JP used to be on the radio for years before she teamed up with the other "fat lady". At first I thought "good heavens, is this woman drunk?" but she wasn't, she just had that strained, deliberate Received Pronunciation voice. I fell in love with her when she deftly and gently - almost accidentally - assassinated Delia Smith, just in passing. It was a cookery-themed panel game, the teams had to assemble imaginary dishes from an imaginary (and highly improbable) box of groceries, and on her turn she concluded...
"... and then you can Doo A Deeeelia, and pop the little currants on the top."
* Oh sh*t! I was just checking the spelling and no! - C D-W died in 2014!!! Oh woe!
In my defence, that was peak caregiving stress and quite honestly I'm not sure I'd have noticed if I'd died myself.