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.
And yet, when I feed my furkids, I know there is meat in there, the cheese that I love so much cannot be without the dairy industry...it's just one of those things that I struggle with..I guess it's getting harder and harder to justify my love of hamburgers and such when I literally can hear the screams from those cattle I have witnessed....
Making no judgements against anyone who is NOT vegan, because I'm still struggling myself..just a lot of things I've seen and heard that I can unsee....that's really all it is....but I do love veggies and fruits...a lot...
I used to go out of town at least once a month back when I was working before Mom came to live with us. Every time I came back he really appreciated me. I think I need to go out of town, but would never leave Mom with him by herself.
Anyway his big response when pressed more was fried pork chops with onions (which I made last week) and crockpot. I told him what do you want in the crockpot.. He answered pot roast. We had that three weeks ago!
Yesterday, I went shopping and made the fried pork chops, with fried onions, fried potatoes, and corn on the cob. Today I mad cheese tortolini with meat sauce topped with melted mozzarella. I would have made garlic bread but no oven. He just was a bit reluctant to try this but he did and was very happy. He wants stuff that is different but not really. Tomorrow is Pot roast.so maybe he will be happy.
My mom's neurologist still insists that eggs should be eliminated from the food chain, but then he has spent his career trying to prove a link between diet and arterial plaques and would like us all to be vegan.
My parents kept chickens and I remember the eggs were so much better then.
Today will be leftovers - take out soup that sis brought yesterday for lunch. There's enough meat on it that I can just add more water to make it last for both lunch and dinner today. My favorite soup.
Sis gave me 2 cans of Poppycock Orville almond,pecan popcorn clusters. That thing is addictive! Lastnight, I ate half of the 10.5 oz can....
Cook the rice, about 1 1/2 cup of rice for two nights meals. (Dinner for two X two-three meals, or lots of food).
Saute onions, garlic, in large frying pan withvolive oil, then continue in same frying pan: carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, yellow squash, mushrooms, about 6 minutes. Add the burned rice but do not scrape off any burned, leave it in the pan, keep the good part. Let it sit over the vegetables as they finish, then add some butter, stir rice turning it into the vegetables, add a very little soy sauce, seasonings, top with cheese, turn off stove, cover 3 minutes. Total time under 15 minutes. A one pan recipe. If you need measurements, this is not your recipe. We liked it, could have fed 4 people tonight. Froze about 4 cups of paella casserole. (In cooking paella, the idea is to slightly brown the rice).
Tonight was leftovers. I had stir-fried pork with hoisan sauce. This weekend I'm making again one of the hot dishes from my sister's book -- the one with crushed Fritos as the base. Loved it!
I love cooking!
Take out and let cool til you can handle it. Scrape into a bowl. dump a jar of Brushetta from Trader Joe's (or your own tomato sauce), add fresh basil or frozen fresh basil, scallions or onions, fresh garlic clove, grated parmasean, and toss together.
Grease a pie plate with coconut oil, butter, or olive oil. Pour in squash mixture.
Grate some block cheese on top. Put back in over til hot and cheese starts to get golden. Cut in sections like a pizza. Delicious!