Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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I have a great weakness for little itty bitty dishes and small plates.5
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OMG Amazon merchants are gleefully rubbing their hands together 🤣2
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Jalapeño turkey pattie, green salad with beets, half roasted sweet potato 🍠. Oh - and 1 small piece of Belgian chocolate. Friend brought me a box from Belgium which hubby has been eating regularly. I felt I should at least try 1 piece before it disappeared.3
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Tonight we dined upon pork tenderloin chops seasoned with Penzey's Krackow Nights seasoning, mashed cauliflower or wild rice pilaf, broccoli in cheese sauce, applesauce, and cornbread muffins with butter.
I wound up cooking it but it honestly came together very fast and so it wasn't a problem to do it after I got hom from picking him up. It's also not as awful a drive as it was from our former house, probably because I don't have to get on the interstate. (People are going to do dumb stuff in cars, I just would rather they were going 35 instead of 85.)
He made it through the day, though he ate dinner, had two pieces of fudge* and went and laid down. I'll wake him up at nine for his night meds if he's not up by then, and otherwise I'll just put the kitchen back in order, make myself some banana muffins, and call it a night.
(The fudge is not to be consumed at random. It is medicinal.)6 -
Seabass and roasted veggies for tea tonight.3
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Nice 🐹 wrangling Alexandra. And I want some of that tea @ Janatki! My lunch did not rise to that occasion even though it was more calories!!!!!🙀🙀🙀3
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Tonight is spaghetti with meat sauce for two of us, pan-seared zucchini with meat sauce for one of us, and cheeseburger pasta for one of us who doesn't eat tomato sauce. Also garlic toast.
I've had a high pain day and that's caused a lot of brain fog. Got the muffins made, a shopping list done, made a phone call (I HATE making phone calls) did the meds for the week, and changed everyone's sheets and am now working through washing them all.
Huh. I guess I did get some stuff done. Just not as much as I wanted.6 -
Tea is salmon, chill and lime saucey thingy, peas, tenderstem and carrots.2
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Janatki, you sent me off investigating this "tenderstem" - never heard of it before!! It looks lovely.3
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lauriekallis wrote: »Janatki, you sent me off investigating this "tenderstem" - never heard of it before!! It looks lovely.
ha! It's what I call broccolini! I mostly get them at Costco! I think I've also seen them in "Mann's" branded bags at Safeway/IGA???? They work great "fried/steamed" in the pan with garlic!!! Loads of garlic
They AWESOME bunnies! Never knew it had a name! 3 -
Alas, another veggie I cannot have.
Had a good evening with Boyfriend (surprisingly good, given how tired he's been) but suddenly after I got the dishes done and halfway through a mug of tea. I realized I am just DONE.
I'm going to drive him to work tomorrow, so it won't hurt me to go up an hour sooner than I normally do. I may read in bed but I doubt that I'll do much of it. I am going to have some fudge for my ankle and a hot bath and go to bed.5 -
good night!2
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Remember I mentioned I had a friend who owns an award-winning artisan bakery? Well today she popped round again, bearing gifts. SIX of her to-die-for flaky cinnamon buns, and THREE loaves of crunchy, chewy sourdough.
Just kill me now and have done with it.
I've put 2.5 of the loaves in the freezer...don't ask me what I've done with the cinnamon buns, as fibbing is undignified for a 56 year-old.
I guess it's lettuce for dinner....5 -
What an angel/devil friend! But life is for living and when treasures appear it would be such a shame to look the other way. The measure of your continued success is how well you balance pleasure with keeping your eye on the prize. I have complete faith in your ability to pull this off without breaking stride.4
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Don't over-do **kitten** Garfield. There is no "prize" in "suffering" just as there is no "prize" in over-eating. We didn't get to our top weight because we ate cinnamon buns WHEN we were hungry. Or a bit of reasonable food WHEN we were hungry. I'm willing to bet that there was a LOT of eating when we were OTHER than hungry to get there!
Have reasonable food tonight... not just lettuce.
The rest I'll let you figure out and share back since it is always "interesting" when things show up... and I haven't figure out THE answer yet!
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Tried to take a pic of tea, but MFP not playing or else I have broken it …..😬 🤫 Too late now, scoffed it!2
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Ending the day on 1781 calories (so within maintenance calories). Could’ve been so much worse!5
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Good job, Bella! I knew you would pull this off.
SO, ATKI - YOU ARE THE ONE WHO HAS BROKEN MFP!!!!! 2 -
I think my mood is explained by my day.
Wake up and take Boyfriend to work. Discover it is that time of the month. Go visit his parents, go back home. Go back to bed for four hours. Get up. Eat leftover pasta in fridge. Go back to bed for two hours. Remind self you have to go pick him up, and have more hot tea to wake up. Put dinner in the oven. Go get him. Feed them a good dinner. Have more leftover pasta and two chocolate bars. Get ready to say "Eff it all" and get in a hot bath and go to bed two hours early.
There will be fudge before the bath. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.4 -
Protein powder fudge? 🤷🏻♂️ 🙀😘2
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Supper tonight (I get to eat supper tonight because I didn't use up all my calories on an impulsive overindulgence today) is a ??? southwest egg foo yung? Not really an omelette but some leftover potatoes, lots of broccolli (185 g) orange pepper and red onion sprinkled with chipotle seasoning - lightly sauteed and then I added 2 beaten eggs to the pan and stirred it all up until the eggs were done, with lots of sriracha sprinkled on top. Filling and pretty good tasting
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The fudge contains an active ingredient. Like certain celebrated brownies, only easier to measure and smaller doses.
Tonight is General Tso's Pork. We like it better on pork than on chicken, so we have it that way instead.6 -
AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »
Tonight is General Tso's Pork. We like it better on pork than on chicken, so we have it that way instead.
How do you make your sauce for this? I have not found one I like yet.4 -
Very good, Alexandra. Hope if brought relief.
Here again - no idea for tonight's supper. But let's make a plan
Those last few veggie dogs and the rest of the broccoli in the fridge, maybe a carrot for colour?, some little baby potato gems.
Woohoo! Exciting or what????
I bought lots of veggies to make a batch of "pasta" sauce. Maybe I'll get that going today. I think the crazy work overload is slowing down for a few days
Bought ten pounds of beets too...hmmm? Maybe roast them? Boil them? Soup them? something??? ... and then single serving them into the freezer too. 3 -
Why not use the dogs in the pasta sauce? And then have them over spiralized beets if you can swing that???? 3
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That could be an idea - but I have to get rid of that broccoli and the handful of potato gems that are starting to shrivel slightly and with sauce it would all be too much my pasta sauce includes beans and is relatively calorie heavy (for pasta sauce ) but not really because usually it serves as the protein part of the meal too ... and I don't have a spiralizer - so these beets are just getting processed for future use as a side rather than an under - I couldnt resist them though because they were on sale for an un-pass-up-able price. 3
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Could do dog in pasta sauce! Mutt is mental & slowly driving me mad! Next door’s adopted (traumatised) cat had a right mouthful today as well as a poor delivery guy - delivering her dog food… she has been nattering at me all day!
Tonight is leftovers, but my copy of Southern - baked chicken, an overdose of salad & a potato salad thingywith yoghurt, chives & cornichons.
Trying a bit of an experiment… trying to maximise my evening meal calories and trying to maximise fibre & protein to stem hunger! Will see how this pans out!2 -
Here's a trixy for you Atki: you can always have a bunny (my ambrosias are close to 200 gr and well over two bunnies but braeburns are smaller, aren't they?) Anyway: you can have an apple bunny as you're prepping the food... when I was at a deficit having that relatively carb heavy boost about 20-30 minutes ahead of the rest of the meal, I think, helped me feel "content" with fewer calories as opposed to going straight into the main meal without that little something ahead of time to trick me a bit
Love potato salad with greek yogurt... you can also try adding mustard powder to your potato salad, or curry, of course, for variation!
R U saying your mutt dined on cat?!?!4 -
AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »
Tonight is General Tso's Pork. We like it better on pork than on chicken, so we have it that way instead.
How do you make your sauce for this? I have not found one I like yet.
Here's the sauce that we use.
2 tsp. grapeseed oil
1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes
1 1/2 Tablespoons white vinegar
3 Tablespoons soy sauce
2 Tablespoons white wine
3 Tablespoons Splenda
2 Tablespoons cornstarch.
Water to make two cups liquid.
In a skillet, warm the oil with the red pepper flakes. Mix the other ingredients together and add once the oil is warm. Bring to a boil, and toss the breaded chicken pieces in the warm sauce before plating. Garnish with chopped green onion tops. I serve it with rice (2 oz for me) and either steamed broccoli or the "Asian vegetable mix" I get in a bag at Kroger.
Am happy to give out recipes for anything else I do. I don't know how authentic they are but they are very tasty!
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PAV you are allowed to mix peas and mashed potatoes but not green beans!2
