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.
Bruschetta with goat cheese and asparagus
Mixed greens salad
Steak that melted like butter with bourbon glazed carrots, English peas and mashed potatoes
We're having Chinese takeouts, BBQ pork and orange chicken are our favorites. Too hot to cook. Plus I've got work to do.
I've been on a theater jag lately...I'm able to get relatively inexpensive tickets through an organization called the Theater Development Fund and saw The Iceman Cometh last night. And took my son and DIL out to dinner beforehand at a little French bistro place on Times Square. I had a lovely Salade Nicoise, DH had a frenchified chicken club sandwich.
I still have 2 bags of corned beef. After I finish using those, I won't be buying anymore. Not good at cooking this type of meat.
Found out bit o' honeys have a chocolate. I stopped eating them when read they are genetically engineered. But the chocolate ones are not. So yay! tried them tonight, quite good, kinda tootsie roll flavor.
I was just glad to have a healthy, tasty meal made for me. (Of course I had to "oogle" over the carrots.)
Tonight chicken flautas with lettuce, sour cream, queso fresco (a soft white cheese) and guacamole.
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Smeshque, I live in Tijuana, Mexico but work in San Diego, California. I commute (with another 70,000 people
So it's kinda' weird that I bring home Taco Bell. You just can't think of it as Mexican food. Maybe AmeriMex food but we like it. It will never take the place of a real taco, however. 🇺🇸🇲🇽
I suspect it's a sporadic thing at best, though. Easier if you work reasonably regular patterns, almost impossible with variable shifts.
Does he like cooking in theory, when he does have time?
Milk. Just mentally running through what's available at our local mini-stores, and my list seems to stop there - don't think they'd even have almonds, though they would have peanuts as long as you don't mind them deep-fried and heavily salted.
Banana. While stocks last, once they're actually ripe.
Raymond Blanc pleaded with his prime time tv audience not to resort to junk food and demonstrated a perfect omelette, three minutes (in fact, he said "sreeee minootes, ah promeese yeu") start to finish. And as long as you're Raymond Blanc you can indeed create a perfect omelette aux fines herbes start to finish in three minutes. Mine takes ten, allowing for fishing tiny shell splinters out of the bowl and burning the butter in the pan at least once. Also mine tends to be au naturel on account of my herbes being not fines but either dormant or smothered in greenfly according to season.
I actually like Starbucks, I'm not one of the boo-hiss corporate bashing brigade.
But I had to look up their "protein packs" and I am genuinely shocked.
Why the *heck* have all of these got so much bloody sugar in them? Honey peanut butter? What do you need the dam' honey for? PB&J - lose the J!
If there is one thing that the typical Westerner is NEVER going to run short of it's simple carbohydrates.
And string cheese is an abomination.
You don't happen to have Prêt à Manger, do you? Not that they don't shove a whole load of gunk into their sandwich fillings too, but at least you just buy the sandwich, and an apple -
I mean, what's the added convenience of giving you apple slices? To save you the time and trouble of biting an apple???
- and you can always pick up a packet of peanuts while you're there.
Holy sodium! Don't even look at the amount of salt they've got in them.
The trouble is, I suspect, that these things are designed in truth for people who are not hungry but bored. And then, when you actually need a meal, what you get is foodstuffs designed to tickle your palate without providing solid nourishment.
The way we live now...
No wonder I'm still hungry - half of pb&j sandwich, string cheese, two apple slices, 4 baby carrots and two cucumber slices
Are you in Mexico, if so were you disappointed?
Lu-I am sure you will make Mom proud.
We had Taco Bell tonight!
Had to bring it from southern San Diego because Taco Bell is the only fast food restaurant from the U. S. that we don't have.