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.
This is really fun!
From one of her books I've made in the last week a wonderful Eclair Dessert, a Chili Relleno Casserole, something called Pasta Genovese, and a hot dish called Chili Strata that I LOVED (with a base of Fritos soaked in egg). I'm also going to make Fainting Priest (eggplant dish), potato soup, and a pumpkin dessert from that cookbook before I move on to the other book she loaned me.
One of the books I loaned her is of Mexican cuisine and she is planning to use three recipes this weekend.
The new recipe is simple but a nice variation:
Shred the cabbage. I used 1/2 a medium head. Put it in a kettle with milk and simmer until the cabbage is done as you like it. (1/2 cup of milk worked for that amount of cabbage.) When the cabbage is almost done, add golden raisins and caraway seeds. Add salt and pepper as desired.
I had some leftover cabbage tonight. Just as good reheated.
Another way I love fresh cabbage is in fish tacos!
Glad is so hungry, she stuck her avatar in the sand.
Jeanette can't eat because the spiders have been poisoned and all she has left are scorpio spider friends.
Gershun, don't remember what she's having for dinner, but an elephant never forgets.
But, there is always HOPE! What's for dinner Hope?
Does anyone know how to make cabbage appetising?
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Munching on chocolate - comfort food!
Rosmarin..so you are a vegetarian? I have been trying to change my diet more towards that direction but there are a lot of things I don't know how to do without...like cheese...I think I could live on cheese .....but for the most part I love veggies so much, I should be able to do it ....I have a few good recipes for making veggie burgers with black beans and onions and peppers....reading this thread is making me want to cook...especially with this coolish weather..Fall always seems to make me gain weight...not eating..but Fall......yeah, that's it...
My future experiment is stuffed cabbage rolls. A recipe found on AllRecipes
I agree we now need some positive comments. I am going to make a lot more soup now the weather is cooler. I can do this while husband naps in the afternoon and its healthy and easy to eat with some lovely cheese and good bread. Yesterday made tomato and red pepper spicy soup from recipe on net.
Great with Ciabatta bread and feta cheese! Husband has very poor appetite but it went down well. He usually says my soup is tasteless but this was approved!
We had shredded cabbage cooked in milk, with golden raisins and caraway seeds. I don't know why I don't do cabbage more often. It is super healthy, inexpensive, available year-round, and we all like it.
Also pork tenderloin medallions with lots of garlic, diced sweet potatoes, green onions, and a glaze of honey and soy sauce. Definitely a keeper recipe!
We were too full for dessert, so I'll finish making that tomorrow. It is choux pastry (cream puff) baked in a sheet (done that part) and then spread with a pudding/cream cheese mixture and drizzled with chocolate. Doesn't that sound good? I'll let you know tomorrow. :) I didn't want the filling to soak into the crust overnight.
I wouldn't make a company meal with more than one new recipe, but for family -- live dangerously, right? Besides, all the ingredients are wonderful. How could the outcome be totally inedible?
I made two extra mini loaves and gave one to the instructors at my exercise and sent one with my son to give to his dad (my ex) and that whole gang.
It's so nice to bake yummy stuff in the oven when the weather cools down.
I baked a spagetti squash today, and hubs cousin is here making homemade pizza... there goes the diet!
Meals are becoming spartan affairs here. I'm trying to avoid eating a bunch of junk when I get too busy to cook, so I haven't been buying much in the way of groceries. Looked in the fridge tonight and realized there wasn't much to work with. So it was homemade egg drop soup with some spinach tossed in. Pretty darn good, even if it was just simple.