Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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Tonight is another spinach salad but with roasted chicken, honeycrisp apple, dried cranberry, walnuts, and feta with balsamic vinaigrette3
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It's the one time in the year in Canada when cans of unsweetened pumpkin puree are on sale in preparation for Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday!
Random amount of boiling water and eyeballed amount of vegetable based Knorr, goodly amount of most of a can of pumpkin, chop in the tops of some onions, crack on lots of pepper (or if adventuresome other spices... I've even heard of some weird people even using some yellow curry powder not that I would know any of them). ... And eat!
I hear that some people would even wait till it's off the stove!!!!🤔😇
Something like 200 Cal!!!👍3 -
Sounds like pumpkin soup to me! Lots of recipes online but most insist on adding cream. A dollop of low-fat Greek yogurt or sour cream would do.
Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadians out there.4 -
Last night I made a shrimp stir fry with zucchini, bell pepper, broccoli, and green onion. Served it over udon (I was craving some noodles). Topped it with more green onion and some cashews.
Super simple. Super good.4 -
Overnight I made Mexican-inspired pulled beef with a chuck roast, spices, and a stray jar of salsa. Got that drained, pulled, and in bags this morning. It's to go into a quichecake with peppers and onions and more Mexican spices.4
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I can't wait until I have a big screen and a keyboard back again. I love reading everyone's posts respond is just too nitpicky for my fat *kitten* fingers. So I'm just sending everybody hugs.
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Supper tonight is a date pizza from a fancy Tiki bar pizza parlour... Or something like that...not eating inside yet - so it's just take out dinner at his ridiculously well decorated home. But I get to bring Laine... And having the furry one with me makes it a little less scary. 🙂
CPU fan didn't get
delivered to the shop today... So no computer yet.2 -
Home made CPU fan = make sure thermal paste is correctly applied between CPU and heatsink. Bring out big **kitten** summer room fan. Point to little desktop computer at a slight angle aimed to at the very least skim over top of heat sink. Blast on high setting! Enjoy cool computer insides and blown papers from any nearby desk!
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Pumpkin soup can #2: As above. No curry. Add grated nutmeg. Considering whether to add some carrots or not... hmmm.... Also.... roast on parchment paper 460g mushrooms. Also... roast on parchment paper 485g grey zucchini... I think I've got PART of the rainbow covered here... <checking pants... are they orange yet, are they orange yet, are they.... >
Considering blue menu goat cheese dollop vs greek yogurt dollop vs nothing for pumpkin soup tonight!2 -
Have you considered adding roasted mashed/ chunked sweet potato? Or making the soup entirely from roasted or baked sweet potatoes? Similar texture and taste.2
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https://www.cookincanuck.com/curried-sweet-potato-soup-vegan/
The Cookin Canuck!2 -
But.. but... I would have to go get sweet potatoes! And CALORIES! (though I guess it would play on how much potato would be required).... my whole can of pumpkin is under 270 Cal (variably 200 Cal under the old label and 270 under the new... I'm going with the new even though the can is of the old variety)!
However... it's a good idea!!!!1 -
Plain sweet potato isn’t too calorific and comes canned/frozen/raw. Sweet potato fries, mashed, purées, noodles ..... Here in the south sweet potatoes are cheap and always available.
But you’re right, canned pumpkin is certainly the way to go for easy meals. No pre-cooking, measuring or mashing. Stock the pantry while it’s still available!1 -
Steak, mushroom, and grilled onion quichecake. About 350 calories a slice, one dish is 8 slices.
This one goes in the freezer; I just pulled out the next one in line, which is sausage with cheddar cheese, and I'll cut that and start serving it tomorrow morning. This way no matter what happens I know they have a safe breakfast for a week.3 -
are these "crust-less" versions?1
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That is one beautiful quiche!5
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remember the beautiful grilled mushrooms from earlier today? The "last ones standing" were chopped up into a microwavable bowl, some fresh onion was also trimmed over them... and a couple of eggs were broken for some quick microwave scrambled eggs made a bit creamier by 20g of the 12% goat cheese, while 40g landed in the "future pumpkin soup" to make them both more creamy for a total of about 120Cal extra! Soup is now waiting for my return from some walkies! Yeah: walkies!1
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Home made CPU fan = make sure thermal paste is correctly applied between CPU and heatsink. Bring out big **kitten** summer room fan. Point to little desktop computer at a slight angle aimed to at the very least skim over top of heat sink. Blast on high setting! Enjoy cool computer insides and blown papers from any nearby desk!
Lol... I hadn't seen this when I wrote my response on the other thread. I believe we are from the same weird planet.2 -
But Laurie your post implies a closed desktop case... mine suggests an open box! Note: place blocking material to avoid dog caught in computer insides or sticking tail inside. Ask me how I know about tail inside open computer boxes... 🙀1
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Walkies were cancelled due to falling asleep in chair! Pumpkin soup still available for eating (and already logged to yesterday 😻). Pants still not yellow 🙀 as of now, so probably safe to eat more soup!!!😹😹😹0
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I... almost want the recipe--except the cream cheese part is a bit scary!
Back in the "single guy" world.... I nuked a lean cuisine Ravioli Florentine (300 Cal)... and popped the contents in a bowl of yesterday made and logged pumpkin soup (after licking most of the sauce off the ravioli first darn it!)
YUMMIES!
<no, no: there is no SOS flag being raised here... all is well!>3 -
I daresay you can do it without the cream cheese, or use the lower fat version.
The base is five eggs beaten with one block of cream cheese. (That makes a pie plate. Double it for a 9 x 13 pan.) Then herbs and spices to taste, and about 3 cups of fillings, usually evenly split in mine between cooked meat, vegetables, and shredded cheese. (Again, double for a 9 x 13 pan.)
I have done everything from a straightforward bacon, spinach, mushroom blend to one that is chicken bacon ranch swiss. (Ranch flavor is achieved with a blend of herbs from Penzeys for making buttermilk dressing, and powdered buttermilk mixed in.) We have a rotation of nine variations, which I can post if desired.2 -
Well I have the 12% goat cheese which is 60Cal per 30g... and it's pretty creamy... so I wonder. hmmmm..... Do you think it is worth the calories? If yes... why not make it a LL recipe post?!?!?
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Oo @PAV8888 I think I’d make a veg sauce with onions garlic, courgettes, aubergines and tinned tomatoes and add the goat’s cheese with basil and oregano!
Have some old smelly blue stilton here and going to crumble it over and roast some butternut squash! Simples here today!2 -
I'm not sure how it's all going to play out today but I have maybe 20 people coming to the backyard for a Thanksgiving feast... It's Thanksgiving weekend in Canada... It's half potluck - half me providing dinner - I think it'll be a couple of rainbows worth of food.
I am blessed with friends that are willing to respect my vegetarian tendencies - so they'll be bringing vegetarian dishes...which for many meat eaters leaves them with nothing they could possibly bring other than dessert.
Today is not going to be a calorie counting kind of day.
I can give thanks that there is some time during this week to compensate 🙂4 -
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my Canadian friends!
Laurie, I hope you have a wonderful day with your friends!…eat, drink and be merry!2 -
Today has been, so far, making small packets of Mexican rice and (currently cooking) wild rice pilaf. I also made Eldest Son four breakfast sandwiches of toasted English Muffins, sausage patties, and scrambled eggs. (I found a muffin top pan that makes perfect thin rounds of scrambled egg to go on the sandwiches.) I also need to make my girlfriend some triple meat personal pizzas on flatbread.
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My husband loves quiche but me not so much….it tastes so “ eggy “
Tonight is turkey kielbasa loaded with too much sodium, baked potatoes with light sour cream and chives, and green beans….nothing will be touching, thank goodness….I don’t want anything complicated tonight or messy looking!2 -
Ha Laurie: I wonder what's taking place over there!
In the "I've told everyone that I'm in another city so I can avoid everyone" post CCCGG world--I went with Alexandra's eggs and cream cheese idea!
Crust-less quiche? Frittata? Unknown egg thingy? TOTALLY skipped the whole pre-cooking part too for a small "veggies are a bit crispy" penalty!
Used a 5.5" at the bottom, 6.5" at the fill line and 7.5" at the top pie form: not sure if this is 6" or 7" or 8"???
Used it because when I finished adding the veggies and salmon to my measly stock of three eggs I was convinced there wasn't enough liquid to even lightly coat everything--so I tried to use something small!
--154g (3) large eggs
--61g of 12% "blue menu" un-ripe goat cheese
--62g green onion tops
--42g bagged kale-slaw salad
--60g smoked sockeye lox (it was use it or lose it time for this sucker!)
--1g canola spray
Everything lands in a big bowl. Using a metal whisk-like thingy (one with some strength to it) apply force and desperately try to get some whisking action going on the whole un-moving mess!
Counts as some form of strength training?--probably! Smarter cooks might just whisk the eggs first or something, might even pre-cook the veggies, I'm sure there's mysterious time consuming ways to improve!
Dump the whole *kitten* mess in a lightly oiled form thingy! Shove in 400F oven. Loosely cover with foil. Turn on the convection fan... and hope for the best! Sprinkler-blowing guy knocking on your door when things start smelling nice and you're about to check progress MAY result in unwanted edge browning!
About 465 Cal for the whole thing. 500 Cal with some lots of cherry tomatoes. Thank you Alexandra!
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