Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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No snow here - was supposed to be 22! But didn't quite make it. Grey and rainy though (except in the refrigerator where things were frost
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All my "walking" today so far has been brooming snow off the driveway!
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Yuck2
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I don't just pan roast zucchini/courgettes. Asparagus likes it too. A little butter rubbed over, coarse sea salt, and fresh ground black pepper.
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And the meal itself: Crab cakes, wild rice pilaf, pan-seared asparagus, and a homemade roll with butter. Two people are having asparagus and two people are not. The rice is a weighed out two ounces, and the crab cakes are between 4-5 ounces each. Two people are indulging in an ounce of chipotle mayo as dipping sauce, and one is having the same mount of ketchup. I don't like dips, so I'm not having any.
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Pan fry is obviously the way to go! I’ve been disappointed with sheet pan roasted veggies in the oven.
Sorry about the snow up there in the great white north! Here in Texas it’s 93F (34C) and sunny. Way above normal temperatures for the season. 🌞 The AC is pumping away. Hoping for a bit of cool down although Easter is predicted to be 100F (35C). The chocolate bunnies will be melting 🥵3 -
If it's not frying as fast as you like, you can add a couple ounces of water, and let that steam the recalcitrant ones. You don't even need a timer if you listen; the water boiling off sounds different than the vegetables on the iron skillet.
I do think you need a cast iron skillet or griddle for this because you need high heat and to get the pan hot enough and I'd be worried about warping a regular skillet. But I do like cast iron.3 -
It’s 90 here today….air is blasting away!4
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We're not spending electricity on air-conditioning... we have windows
With snow coming in if you were to open them... gas on heating... that's a different story! 
Alexandra I used a large t-fal deep oven/stove top casserole pot... but I might try the "grill" which is cast iron anyway...2 -
Alexandra I used a large t-fal deep oven/stove top casserole pot... but I might try the "grill" which is cast iron anyway...
If it works, go with it! I don't have any T-Fal myself. All the skillets are cast iron, the Dutch oven is cast iron, and the small egg pan is heavy aluminum. The pots are all copper-bottomed heavy bright steel. I think the only non-stick things I have and have to baby are the electric griddle and the electric rice cooker.
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On the left, dad's plate with some oil drizzled, on the right PAVster noshing! Would have worked way way way way better if the grilling pan were big enough for me to have added the beets into the "fry". Without a sauce to tie them in they were a bit... out of context. Whereas they would have blended in perfectly in the pan.
Zucchini 552g, previously boiled potatoes 239g, Schneider's regular smokies 150g, butterball turkey kielbasa 121g, canola spray 2g, lemon pepper 1g --> total yield: 786g
I am blaming
Alexandra for the zucchini weenie, of course! 
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Nice meal you have cooked up for you and your pop.
Bought a big bag of beets yesterday - big sale at the local no frills. Yours too?2 -
lauriekallis wrote: »Bought a big bag of beets yesterday - big sale at the local no frills. Yours too?
Nah, I cheat (probably myself) They were $2.50 (Canadian guys...that's under US$2) per 500g bag, frozen. Didn't even shed (any visible) water in the nuker! and no cleaning, or slicing, or boiling... ready in 3 to 6 minutes depending on quantity! In Dad's "city" there's only StupidStore and Shoppers. At home I would be able to check out all the rest of the "family's" options! I think there's no Fortino's out west! 2 -
That looks really good. I miss potatoes with sausages. That was so good.3
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Tonight was sweet and sour pork with rice and mixed Asian vegetables, but I ate it before it occured to me to take a picture. Oops. I was ravenous.
So far I cut the steaks into portions (NY strip, about eight ounces is 4 oz a portion) and vaccuum sealed them, made a quichecake with the seared peppers and onions that looks really good, and made dinner. Also made white rice and got that into vacuum sealed packets of 4 ounces and 2 ounces. Girlfriend and Son eat 4 oz portions, and Boyfriend and I eat 2 ounce portions, and this way there's no way I get extra. I need to make some saffron rice to go with the shish tawook next week, but that's a small job.
I'm kicking handling the big chicken breasts over to tomorrow. That's the shish tawook, the cashew chicken base, and the fried chicken pieces for Son's sweet and sour chicken. He's not into the General Tso's or the Orange Pork and such, but he's perfectly happy to have sweet and sour chicken show up once a week for dinner. And the sauce freezes nicely so it's not a big deal. Need to make that too, but I'll need to thaw out the ingredients.
And I need to do another quichecake for the freezer (I like to have one in reserve) and for that I need to get the cream cheese out and let it get to room temperature. And another block to room temp for the filling for the crab rangoons. I've decided that I don't like them well enough for their calorie count, but Girlfriend and Boyfriend LOVE them, so once every five weeks we have them. And I love them enough to make them for them (grin).
Plus we're out of garlic bread altogether, and I am pretty sure I am out of yeast rolls.
So I think we know what my weekend looks like, right?5 -
I mean... ya know... de-boning the costco chicken and stir frying the veggies was, I thought, some pretty involved cooking!!!! 3
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I boned a veggie dog tonight for The Boy - he wanted his veggie wiener on a stick so he could dip it. Six-year-olds are so easy to please
Veggie fried rice from the freezer - veggie wieners on a stick + grape tomatoes for dinner - with yogurt and banana for dessert - kinda weird - but The Boy chose.4 -
Oh Laurie!🙀😹2
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Got the garlic bread done, sliced, portioned and in the freezer, and I made apple muffins for breakfasts. They're about 200 calories each at this size and that's good because in the morning I don't much like to eat, but I need to, or I'll be sick. That's enough to get me going and be okay until lunch.5
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I slept a little later this morning and missed breakfast, first time I skipped it all week!….I got out of the house for a while because Amanda was here for John in case he needed anything…I wandered around in Walmart and bought some summer P.j.s and some stuff that was low sodium…stopped at Applebees on the way home and got John an Orange Chicken Bowl for his dinner….I got home and fixed myself a grilled burger on light bread…it was SO good…..4
