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Fixing breakfast for dinner when we get home.
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Burger season? Anyone in North Carolina? If you get out and try that tarantula burger make sure you let us know. Or not. 🍔
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I had a fabulous meal out at a new restaurant

Bruschetta with goat cheese and asparagus
Mixed greens salad
Steak that melted like butter with bourbon glazed carrots, English peas and mashed potatoes
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Made combo wild/Persian rice; sauteed chicken with curry, cumin, lemon juice arugala and peas.
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I had a Cajun chicken pasta dish for dinner. It was very good. Too many loud guys at dinner. I put on headphones and played on my IPad. Little girls played on their DSs'. I'm afraid the females at dinner were rather rude. On our way to hotel. I his should be interesting.
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Barb- how about CHICKEN AND MUSHROOM FETTUCCINE ALFREDO? You can google to find a recipe. There are many to choose from. Personally, I like the creamy sauce.

We're having Chinese takeouts, BBQ pork and orange chicken are our favorites. Too hot to cook.  Plus I've got work to do.
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I have defrosting chicken breasts and defrosting mushrooms. Any suggestions are appreciated.

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.
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Not cooking - on the road. Having early dinner with kids at 99 Pub. Very noisy. A junior high age boy's hockey team, plus our crowd. We stopped and picked up a grandson at Bowdoin College and another at University of Southern Maine. Three others drove up from Boston to join us.
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Burgers! Grilling season is ON.
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I baked cookies this afternoon and made a pot of chicken and noodles with veggies. Kids can easily pick out the veggies they don't like. PJ and I are going out to dinner. Not too focused on healthy eating this evening.
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Polar-at least your not giving up. You have 2 more, maybe by the time you use them you will be a pro at it.
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Tried cooking corned beef again for dinner. This time, i dumped the liquid, washed then soaked the meat twice. Then put it in my new pressure cooker with a lot of water. when meat was done, I added a LOT of different vegetables to absorb the salt and a can of sweet corn to mellow out the taste. Not too bad according to daughter. 

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.
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Corn soup, salad and fry bread for DH and Mom. I had beans and a salad.
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.
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Sue- that's what I was wondering. I love taco bell, but it definitely, doesn't compare to authentic.
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I just put a big pan of root veggies in the toaster oven, I'll pair them with pulled pork I pulled out of the freezer. Although looking at my waistline maybe I should skip dinner and fast instead............................ yeah, who am I kidding 🙄
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Hubs made sautéed chicken breast strips in onions, tomatoes and bell pepper, basmati rice and fresh beets and baby carrots. He was so jazzed that the carrots turned a burgundy color 'cause he cooked them in with the beets!
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. 🇺🇸🇲🇽
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I did kind of a hodge-podge dish tonight. I had some shredded rotisserie chicken in the freezer, some steamed broccoli and some frozen spaghetti squash, as well as some alfredo sauce. I tossed it all into a pan and cooked it up. Pretty darn tasty!
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Crockpot ribs, green salad, grilled corn, green beans, tomato and cucumber salad. A co-worker brought me back a big bag of fresh veggies from Florida.
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I've suggested the slow cooker but he says he doesn't trust them? Honestly it would be perfect for him because he seems to live almost exclusively on meat and salad, so having a big pot of meat ready to eat no matter when he gets in would be perfect. Unfortunately this kid has issues and there's no point trying to push him where he doesn't want to go. (Well he's not a kid any more he's turned 30, but you know how it is).
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I've had some success spreading the word about slow cookers to Young People Today of both sexes; but it would depend to some extent on his thinking in advance, which is not what this generation - sigh, smh, like I would never have been like this! (Much!) - is exactly famed for. It really is very nice indeed to get home and have to do nothing more than pick up a fork, take the lid off and tuck in (plate optional).

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?
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If nephew would just carry a lunch it would be easy, but he's a stubborn two meal a day man and only runs into problems when his work day stretches into 10 or 12 hours, he says he doesn't have the energy to do heavy work by the end of the day. Gee, you think? 🙄
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No disrespect intended, but I maintain that string cheese, while no doubt having many delightful qualities, is Not Food.

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.
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Don't dis my string cheese, but I agree that the selection of healthy fast foods is pretty slim. I was brainstorming recently for youngest nephew to try and find things he can get at a gas station or convenience store when he is working late, almonds seemed to be the best option.
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Good grief.

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...
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I've been working so late lately that I've been picking up a Starbucks protein pack to eat at the office

No wonder I'm still hungry - half of pb&j sandwich, string cheese, two apple slices, 4 baby carrots and two cucumber slices
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SUE- Taco bell is my FAVORITE! So glad you got to have some.
Are you in Mexico, if so were you disappointed?


Lu-I am sure you will make Mom proud.
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If you can believe this...
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.
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Thanks smeshque...I'll keep on trying. I was doing better with my cooking until the kittens came and then cooking was put on the back burner,but now that they are older I'll try to make some of Mom's recipes again.
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Lu-if you started odering take out or buying already prepared meals. I imagine after he saw the difference that would make in budget, he would say a lot nicer things about the food you prepare. I am sure your cake and sauce were fine.Don't let him discourage you, Keep on cooking.
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Apparently I'm out of practice with my cooking and my dH would be the first to say so like he did the other day when I had baked a cake.He said it was the worst cake I ever made.And last night he told me the spaghetti sauce had no flavor.If he keeps it up,he'll be having cereal .I can't mess that up surely.
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