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Having read all of Your menus, I'm very impressed, as You are All very accomplished Chef's. Well I've got corned beef and cabbage planned for this evening, with potatoes + a nice slice of Kerry Gold Irish Creamery butter.
Sorry Captain for Your loss. I enjoy all of Your letters. Keep em coming. Peace to All Carer's.
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That sounds like a habit worth cultivating, marymember!
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Those all sound good. But when I cook, my husband tends not to eat much. He loves breakfast though, if it is bacon and eggs and toast. But I don't like making that every morning. He likes to eat early..(about 7)..We get up very early..(about 6 and sometimes earlier)..I get very little sleep as I have so much to do and like the wee hours of the night. Last night he came into my computer room right before midnight. He woke up and got dressed. thinking it was morning. I told him to go back to bed, and he did. We get up before daylight. At noon I fixed pork chops, steamed fresh vegetables, including corn on the cob. He ate most of it, but sneaks a lot to the dog. If we go out, he eats everything on his plate. At noontime we sometimes go out, for the prices are much lower. I found a place three miles from us that makes homemade meals for around $7.00. They have a big sign on the door saying that they now have Bluebell Ice-Cream. It is a good place to go and country workers go there..very informal and the waitresses and cooks are wonderful. So I may just make that a habit. marymember
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juddabuddhaboo, that dumpling dish sounds good, and I have suitable ingredients on hand. Thanks.

Dinner tonight was one of our favorites -- chorizo skillet, essentially a hash topped with cheese and tomatoes and served with home-made salsa verde.

I've always like taking cooking classes. It is nice entertainment and you get to sample interesting foods. If I happen to use one of recipes afterwards, that is a bonus. Chorizo Skillet by local chef Carlos Olivar is one of those bonuses!
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Melissafran, new here, welcome to the best group of people you'd ever want to meet!
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Me too, wondering why beets? Maybe iron?
Judda, can the beets be cooked, from a can? Or better nutrients as fresh?
I especially like them julienne cut.
Thanks for the recipe, steamed veges /w tj's dumplings. Yum.
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I've been craving beets lately. I must be missing some kind of nutrients.
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Sliced the left over steak. Reheated that and asparagus in the micro and reheated Mac and cheese. That is it.
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Beets can decrease high blood pressure. Grate a raw one on a salad: tastes like candy. I love cutting up one and juicing it with carrots, ginger, lemon. Or add kale plus a small apple.
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my favorite "fast food": put on about a cup of water bottom of pan. put in steamer basket. Line with kale, spinach, or cabbage leaves, layer in Trader Joe's dumplings (shrimp, chicken, pork, or vegetable) put in 4 per person. start it on med high, put lid on. Find a few other things to steam: examples: baby carrots, a few pieces of fresh broccoli, strips of red pepper, pieces of fresh cauliflower, slices of yellow squash or zucchini,green beans, snap peas, etc. After about 5 minutes of dumplings getting unfrozen and softer, put in other veggies. replace lid.
Sauce: sweet chili sauce, a little vinegar, a little sesame oil, a little tamarin sauce. Beat with a fork to stir it up. Give each person a little dish of sauce. cook until everything is firm and soft enough to eat: not mushy. Voila a fun dinner in less than 15 minutes.
Have some dessert in about an hour or so: fruit, piece of dark chocolate, maybe a handful of walnuts and raisins.
Healthy eating today means a happier day tomorrow. Now that wasn't hard was it?
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Melissafran, high blood pressure comes with symptoms such as irritability. I use parsley, fresh to decrease my b/p. a little bit.
If your Dad does have b/p issues, check the salt content of any t.v. dinners.

We are trying some smoothies, and have been to 'juice it up' for a little break.
Not one to go for juices, vegetables, these smoothies are very satisfying, start by taking a break and go get yourself one. This had helped to decrease my appetite after going out for french fries and burgers so much when kitchen was closed due to my favorite ants. Rained, plus 80°, 91% humidity in L.A. County.
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Since lunch was a gallon of coffee and half a bag of cookies I suppose I should plan something healthy for dinner, or maybe I should skip it altogether. Or maybe I'll just finish the cookies.
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I NEVER know what to fix for dinner because I don't like the same food my dad does, and I was so used to just cooking for one (usually a bagel and some popcorn or something similarly non-nutritious). It has been a 'new' thing for me the past few years to have to actually try to think of something every night (and my dad usually hates everything). Recently, I have decided to start doing smartones or lean cuisines. He also hates those but they are easy and relatively healthy. Always a side of cottage cheese and/or fruit, acitivia yogurt maybe, a veggie, and a donut... the man has to have his dessert. :D
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I was planning on making soup for dinner but not totally committed to the idea when I got an email from my friend Betty Crocker and decided to make a Chicken Ring.

Betty uses a small package of frozen mixed vegetables but I used diced potatoes, rutabagas, carrots, fresh peas, and mushrooms sauteed with the chicken. I did follow Betty's suggestion for Crescent Dough for the crust and condensed chicken soup for the sauce. You might say we collaborated on dinner!

With it I served thin pear slices on heart-of-romaine leaves drizzled with Neuman's ranch dressing and sprinkled with blue cheese. Very nice combination!
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Tonight was leftovers that I had in the freezer. My mother always called it glop, lol. I took spaghetti sauce and diced tomatoes, garlic, onions, red pepper flakes and oregano then add cooked ground beef and uncooked macaroni. Boil and stir as sauce is absorbed by pasta. Once pasta is tender top with mozzarella cheese, cover until melted and serve with parmesan cheese.
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Sharadale, thanks, that works. I needed that reminder because, really, why would anyone ruin a perfectly good steak! At least in your house, it was two rare to one well-done.
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To be honest, sometimes I cut the steak up and cook it separately, putting his on first. And if the steak has thinner ends, then he just takes the ends.
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Lol, if I am the cook, he gets it my way!
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Sharadale, You deserve applause for that awesome meal! Hubby, ask and receive in an instant, was he sooooo very happy?
Need to know, mine is med. rare, hubby is well done but how do you finish hubby's steak without ruining your own, and still eat together?
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Okay dinner tonight was awesome! My pain level was tolerable and Mom was feeling better, so we had a grilled sirloin, baked or sweet potatoes, asparagus, and biscuits. When my hubby came out he said, oh honey I have been wondering, could you make biscuits someday? I answered ,I just made them, they are on the table! The steak was done to perfection. We bought a new gas grill in the beginning of May and I still am just dialing in on it. My husband always cooks everything well done. Mom and I like rare or medium rare and I won't let him ruin a good cut of meat.
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Sunnygirl, Yes, eating healthy, a good plan, but I agree about Sunday meals, they were traditional in my family growing up, and when my son was growing up, then too, we always sat down together for dinners. Yesterday, I made healthy smoothies.
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Falcon, Plucking, drawing, cleaning the game birds. People I know avoid the use of the word 'innards', and would just say cleaning the bird, but I don't have a problem with the real terminlogy, having once attended an 'autopsy'.
Can't believe I am explaining this to a bird of prey, Falcon. No, but really, I am enjoying the language differences from across the ocean, or pond.

What I really want to know, JEANNE, are you actually cooking, preparing, serving those excellent menus, or are you just 'pulling my leg?' You could make a fortune just writing for a food magazine!

I give up now, will go off into my CLEAN kitchen, and make some mac n' cheese comfort food. Even that turns out different each time, as I am not a fan of following recipes exactly. Mostly because my shopping skills have declined.
Can hardly wait for Costco to start selling their pumpkin pies for the season ahead.
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I've been trying to eat healthy lately, including lean meats and lots of veggies and some fruit. I decided to splurge today though and made a nice beef roast with onions celery and carrots, creamed potatoes, green beans and pineapple salad. I think something about childhood brings me back to this meal and Sundays.
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Jeanne, is it possible to 'hoard' tea? Because my DH has a huge supply I found when cleaning out our cupboards, more than he or I could ever drink. We have a small space, very small. Maybe tea lasts forever?

Falcon, Orange and Plum sauce, that sounds soooo very good! Looking up terminology for road-prep critters. Growing up, we were 'aware' that someone cut the heads off the ranch chickens, then plucked it, but knew nothing about what happened with the 'innards', as my sister and I were limited to setting the table at that time. I have, however, shucked corn cobs, caught and cleaned fish, etc. The usual.

Cwilie, my SIL (who was not Italian) taught me how to make batches of spaghetti sauce, simmered two days. It is a great way to plan meals, and I especially liked the homemade lasagne. Cooking the meatball, carefully simmering them because of the parmesan cheese , then pulling them apart to make the meat in the lasagne, layering all the ingredients. Wish I could remember all that now. But I never understood how no one who was italian in that family knew how to cook italian.
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For supper I toasted the last two slices of sourdough bread in the house, spread them with left-over green goddess dressing, added romaine lettuce, and chicken breast. Great! (Borders out tonight.)

Now I want a hot beverage while I'm cleaning the kitchen, but it is after my caffeine cutoff. Sigh. Think I'll make a pot of decaff English Breakfast tea. (My tea shop has that and decaff Earl Grey that each taste like the real deal.)
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Today I am making a big pot of spaghetti sauce. Its a good way to make sure I get my veggies as I usually throw in some of everything I have on hand and just a very little ground beef for flavour. It's so versatile too, it can be used over pasta as is or with meatballs or as the base of a minestrone soup. When I'm tired of it it can become chili with the addition of beans and spices. Freezes well too.
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That sounds good Jeanne
Send do we eat what warm cranberry and brie croissants - yes roadkill - well normally no but I have been known to eat a pheasant that the car in front of me hit. It's actually illegal in the UK to hit a pheasant and then pick it up and take it home - classed as poaching but you can pick up one the car in front hit. It was jolly good too - wasn't quite so keen on plucking and drawing it (do you use that term drawing for removing innards?) but it was lovely with a tangy orange and plum sauce
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Sendme2help, I believe it! More than once I've had to find my own recipe by tracking down who I'd sent it to or where I posted it!

What do you serve when the best cook you know is coming for dinner? That would be my sister, who came for dinner with her husband tonight. We live in the same metro area, about an hour and a half apart, but usually when we see each other there are 16 to 25 other people around. It was nice to just have a small dinner party.

I made green goddess dressing to go over romaine and spinach with cucumbers and shallots. Pistachios and pepitas garnished the top. I served a very small portion of the wild rice dish I made yesterday, just so they could sample the recipe. Main course was a beans-tomato-corn-cheese mixture layers with tortillas, baked, and sliced into wedges. Homemade salsa verde. Dessert was very simple: sliced fresh pears with caramel sauce drizzle, and a homemade sandwich cookie with caramelized condensed milk as the filling, and coconut flakes around the edges.

They liked it. We are not in the least competitive and I had no compulsion to "out do" her meals. I just went for things we might all enjoy.

I think I have enough leftovers on hand to coast tomorrow! :D
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Unbelievable!! Had to come back here to review the recipe ingredients for Mrs. Cubbison's dressing with warm cranberry. The sad part? I wrote it. Meh.
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Mmm, we are having Salmon, which my Nephew caught up in Alaska and had flash frozen and shipped home. All in all, he caught 55#'s, and thoughtfully gave us 3 nice big fillet's, so we are BBQing those, and having pease w/white sauce, and red potatoes. I cheat and buy Aunt Penny's white sauce in a can, but it is a nice and rich white gravy that I really like with salmon, yummy, can't wait! I hope you all enjoy your meals tonight, oh, and Butterfinger Ice Cream! Umm that is the highlighy in my book, I Love Ice cream, and have the backside to prove it!
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