Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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1c split pea soup as prepared and rewarmed
For lunch, stuffed 1c saute mix veggies, 4 oz shred smoked turkey
Stirred in and warmed. Will also eat chilled on a super hot day or for cold fast leftover breakfast.
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Looks yummy! Must admit it’s not soup weather here now. Won’t be til November. So definitely cold or room temp for me.0
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hmmm.... if frozen peas are allowed i am getting a hankering for plan b (but less creamy) of making something with a bag of peas and carrots!
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Frozen veggies, of course. Good for more than black eyes, lol
Saved up our bones from holidays to now for stock making. Yield 3 gallons defatted broth stored in 3 cup per ziplocks to use for soups, stews and sauces.
Paid nearly $5 USD for a quart carton the other day, so do appreciate the savings. The reason I explored making broths was for ingredient control/sodium reduction. If not for that, never bothered and puchased during holiday sales.3 -
Hey! Are you on mountain or Pacific time ms adventure?
I started making soup and halfway there decided to split the potatoes, peas, carrots, sausage and onions in two and make half with broth and half with a jar of red wine and herb spaghetti sauce in the fridge
I am shocked at how good the sauce one has turned out. Have done tomato sauce with veggies and sauces often. But I don't think with potatoes!!!🤷♂️ Does it even exist as a concept????
Off to calculate calories while spooning the tomato one! 😎
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I'll give the baking soda a try and see if I can convince him to give the soup another try? We've been eating it everyday for almost two years, but suddenly it started giving him gas????
I've been eating enough beans for enough years that my body seems fine digesting them now. But hey - maybe that will change too
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The main dish awesome
The sneaky candy bar (hazelnut kit Kat) 🚫 not an approved conducive to goals add on!🤯0 -
Spaghetti flavored (rustic) bourginon stew? I can imagine the yum! Kit kat, lol, that too. House we bought had kit kats stashed everywhere, inside and out in nooks and crannies. Never heard why, but would have preferred to find old gold, any form, lol. Pacific time.2
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Sounds like you are really expanding your Chefness, PAV!
I've added potatoes to tomato sauce after oversalting a BIG pot (with all of my seasons tomatoes in it!!!!)
The potatoes were amazing when I fished them out of the sauce and made them their own dish after they soaked up some of the salt.2 -
Lunch, but close enough. 3oz ham, 1 egg fried with the lightest spritz of non-stick spray and an air fried hashbrown patty1
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Well... no where near as intricate! Nuked riced California mix (517g 152Cal). Nuked one of the Crave sausage chicken pasta thingies I got on sale a while back (450 nominal, 488 by weight). Added about half the cali mix to the crave din and reserved the rest.... and off we go for a sweltering! (27C/79F 55% humidity) doggie pitter patter! 1
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Phtttt - sweltering! How about 95 with about 50% humidity? And that’s considered low humidity. Heat index is 104 degrees.1
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Hi all … sorry for not posting ….
Hope everyone is ok and doing well!
Lots of gorgeous looking foods ^^^^^ love the homemade broth @PAV8888 …..still upset’ish colon ‘ere …..Up to mashed spuds & some chicken gravy here & there, but mainly white toast! .. and water - has become nature’s champagne!
Stepped on scales today & is a bit scary ….Over last 3 weeks have lost alarming amount of weight & feeling yuck, but not so yuk this past few days thankfully!
Pretty much house bound - hardly doing anything, but have won 1st prize for sleeping! Washed out!
Can feel my leg muscles are weak - finding it harder to climb stairs at mo 😯 Amazing what a month of illness does eh?
Will have to start a bit of gentle resistance training here 🏋️♀️
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So sorry you’re not feeling well Ms. Tea😥. Hope you’re going to have some better days ahead. This is no way to lose weight …..3
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Hey ma tea maybe some nice protein rich milk based products when you can tolerate them? Of course if you've been very low in calorie intake you're going to be feeling unsteady but a couple of days of gentle standing on your feet and meandering and you're going to be as good as almost new!!!! 👍3
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Oh why oh why did I think that somebody would recognize my first world problems for what they are sweltering! (27C/79F 55% humidity. We kicked up one degree up from that and don't forget the burning sun so we run into the forest that feels 5- down😜😘
Very energetic in spite of beaver pond dunking!
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Supper tonight was the usual hot weather salad with a few ounces of protein thrown in. Looks like that will be in regular rotation for the next three months. So looking forward to going to Alaska in September.
Mr. PAV your “sweltering” daytime temp is close to our lowest temp of the day…..
Nic can commiserate with me cause she’s in Alabama.1 -
Using your strange notations:
and using frenchie measurements:
Which, let's be honest, is pretty mild stuff!
Now... I know why CCCGG is CGC... look at the brain frying that is taking place there--in JUNE (mid August is usually peak temps!)
Her poor car almost gave up the other day with all four paws in the air and definitely butt burning!
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Poor CCCGG! I feel her pain. We expect hot summers but ease into it usually. I can’t imagine what to expect as the summer goes on. Actually the first day of summer is June 21 so the heat is way ahead of schedule.
I’ll be experimenting with cold food recipes. Salad nicoise, cold chicken, cereal with yogurt, tuna salad, ceviches. However I find warm/hot meals much more satisfying. But heating up the kitchen and me is not worth the effort.1 -
That's why there is the BBQ my friend! And the microwave! BBQ BTW can get all the veggies directly too... I've certainly cooked baby potatoes, corn, even LETTUCE I believe once in the BBQ! (well if it wasn't lettuce it was something else green and crunchy that came out with char marks and was edible-ish ;-))1
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I’ll give you the microwave for some things but it’s a poor substitute - that goes for the air fryer and instapot. I like to roast, bake and do old school stuff. Because I’m old!
With BBQ is you gotta go outside to do it. Even hubby has given up on that in summer. Fun to do in winter though.0 -
That's where the reverse reality strikes!
See... our problem is that the house overheats in the late afternoon... at which point it is cooler outside than inside unless you have air con inside. Which is where the BBQ comes in. because if it has cooled a bit outside it is nicer to be there than turning on the air con!
Of course if you have air con on all the time INSIDE is cooler... so I see where the BBQ doesn't work for you.
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AC is on 24-7 from beginning of May (this year April) until mid November at least. We keep the thermostat at 78 during the day, 76 at night. Otherwise the utility bill would be even higher. It’s never really as cool as I’d like especially at night. So less cooking makes for a cooler house.1
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What I find interesting is that this is supposed to be good retirement weather! doesn't the extra heat like... exhaust you? What's wrong with moderation!!!!!
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Poor pup, PAV - I've discovered with my girl and goddog how little tolerance black dogs have for heat/sun. They demand regular rests in the shade. I understand your venture into the woods!
You wouldn't catch me out walking in your temps, Yooly - do you go out much when the day is going full tilt? I'd be seeking/hiding in air conditioned spaces. Mid eighties I'll walk, not happily though - I'm crawling out of bed early on those days, trying to beat the heat. Can't believe I spent decades working in the full sun.1 -
Some of your soaring temperatures & high humidity levels would be too hard for me…here in UK it is an unseasonably mild 13 degrees C
About 32 Farenheit……
Soup & hot chocolate weather - Pouch, Jess & I are liking it, son (back from Taiwan) isn’t ☺️
Chicken soup (Shop bought, Covent Garden) with some bread & butter for supper here - was tasty & easy…..3 -
Well then... 55.4F would be closer to 13C... 32F would yer mix of ice cubes in water!
But I agree that too high or too low is a LOAD on the system and doesn't make for a happy PAV2 -
It is 88° here with a heat index of 97 °. We are having grilled barbecue chicken thighs for dinner with cheese and bacon and sauteed onions. Some of us not me, are eating those on rolls as a sandwich. Then I am also making a Smokey Ranch chopped salad kit because it was marked down to $1.45.3
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Cooking up a storm!1
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