Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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@psychod787 is all fancy with his whole food goodness and tall, strong, and handsome too!
Plus he has lost and kept lost way more lbs than many, including myself for sure!
But, mitts 🧤 of his hamsters 🐹: he's just too young for you (Florida) ladies❣️
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"Dijon and dill" woke up my tastebuds - but I told them to go back to sleep, we are still in the dregs of winter here.
Opening this thread - I had no idea what was on the menu today. Good thing I came here and felt obliged to come up with something. This group will keep me honest.
Brunch - scrambled eggs with cottage cheese and a good dousing of sriracha, paired up with cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, green beans and a side of roasted sweet potato wedges (bought a 10 pound bag yesterday for 2.99...going to see a few of those babies on my plate for the next while
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Supper - The Boy is here so I'll cater to him. Fried rice (from my dwindling supply of frozen dinners), chicken-less fingers, grape tomatoes and baby cucumber with a dollop of hummus. For dessert or maybe a dinner preview? we'll share a bag of Reese Mix - they are fun, and my share will only be 100 calories - unless I arm wrestle the boy for his share too.3 -
Hey, leave the boy's share alone you meanie! 🙀
What's the scoop with the wedges? Something I would be interested in?
Probably doing some "easy bake" cod. Though I piece is not much and two pieces are 440 Cal because of butter/dressing, so probably with cauli rice and either carrots or sprouts?
Don't really want the dinner to go above 700 which it looks like it might because we are considering bubbly and panettone since I've only now finally managed to make it to the parental ...1 -
Sweet potato wedges a la Laurie are simply a sweet potato - scrubbed (any nasty bits cut off), cut into maybe 8 wedges and roasted in the oven - no oil or anything. They cook in about the same amount of time as it takes to do the other veggies and eggs - and they are delicious. I usually get about 100-125 grams from a 5 or 6 inch potato - the furry one gets the rest. Lots of good things in them - filling - not too bad calorie wise - and they taste like a treat.2
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Oven temp?!?!? (I've got a non-Laurie brisket in the oven at just 250F--I don't think I can make wedges in that, can I?!?!?!
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Get an air fryer! You can do potato wedges in there without oil. Air fryers are great for roasting or crispy foods. I picked a medium Gourmania one at Costco for about $40.2
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Give it a whirl, PAV - sweet potatoes seem very forgiving. I don't really have a "temperature" - I use a small convection oven (with a broken fan) so cook everthing at "high" - 500 or so until it seems done. Amazing what I get away with!
Yooly-I've never used oil on these - just bare potatoes and they come out pretty good.2 -
Supper tonight is more of that wonderful egg curry - with cauliflower and broccoli and sweet potato wedges. THIS is a new go to meal. Thanks, PAV!2
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I see the Gourmia 7 qt. air fryer is now $60 at Costco. Must have been a Christmas special when I bought it. Still worth the money. Not sure if it’s available/price in Canada. I’m not usually a fan of big kitchen gadgets but looking forward to using it here as the weather heats up when I don’t want to crank up the oven. Of course, cranking up the oven can be a bonus in cold weather areas! 🥶 🇨🇦3
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I am not sure we have the same appliances @ our Costco here @Yoolypr ; but, you do remember that I'm visiting dad, right?
Guess what un-opened, un-used, I would think 5+ year old appliance I pulled out of the brand new box last trip? You GUESSED IT, it is a T-Fal Actifry Serie O01 Made in France 1400W... thingy that has no temperature settings (plug-in and turn-on vs NO-turn-on, I guess!) and a big sweep thing that I am sure will crush whatever it tries to scoop around in there!
Anyway... it didn't manage to make my (normally oven baked) "veggie" fries as well as the full oven last time... but might be worth trying with something that is not starting out frozen!3 -
Today was corned beef brisket, cooked in the oven with lots of water and for a long time (250F and 3 hours for just under 2lbs). With baby baked potatoes also cooked in the oven for an extremely long time, brussels sprouts nuked in the microwave, and some sweet potato boiled and then finished in the oven for a bit. With grainy mustard. And some pickles.
Was really good. Was really really salty. I am still tallying the calories!
Tomorrow will probably involve the rest of the brisket and some eggs.0 -
Hope it came with instructions PAV. There are lots of online air fryer recipes too. I’m sure there are online instructions on cooking frozen foods.
We got our son an air fryer for Christmas. He’s single, cooks for himself after work. His Instant pot and the air fryer substantially cut down his cooking time and use of prepackaged foods.1 -
Amanda and I split the cost of a really big air fryer….the grands love it for things I can’t eat : onion rings, fries,cheese sticks, etc….I use it for chicken legs, Zuchinni sticks and baked potatoes….the new novelty of it has worn off but I still like it!2
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No low cal lunch today! A local bbq restaurant is having a 2 for 1 special takeout on a feast. Hubby and son (who will come over for lunch) will do most of the eating. I’ll work my way around the edges trying not to do too much damage and having no calories left for the rest of the day.2
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Well that sounds pretty fancy, PAV!
I don't think we stand a chance of tracking your movements, PAV. I only know when you are on the move or when you are kind of in place. You are too quick for me!2 -
I had bought a large toaster oven with rotisserie function for my best friend last year as her stove in her apartment likely pre-dated the Carter administration and definitely didn't work. She never used it, sadly, but when she passed away in October and I was cleaning out her apartment, my mother commented that she would like to have it, so I passed it to her. My mom loves it! She's cooking mainly for her and my dad most nights, and she says its wonderful to not have to heat up the big oven just to bake a few biscuits or warm up a small casserole. I've got a toaster oven myself, but am eyeing getting one of the bigger ones with the rotisserie for myself!
I've got an air fryer but I'm actually not all that big a fan of it - I'm finding I prefer oven roasted stuff more than fried anyway.
My husband came into the household with an instapot, but I'm not a huge fan of it, either. It has its uses, I fully agree (especially when hard boiling eggs), but they are limited for me.
And I like his ninja food processor/blender EXCEPT I hate cleaning the darn thing - I've sliced my fingers open twice trying to wash the blades!3 -
That's the problem with all these kitchen things... Some of them are so much work to maintain and clean.
My convection oven is about the size of a medium microwave and it's perfect for me. I don't eat meat so roasting a huge turkey is not something in my future and it's perfect for everything else, takes up very little space, and uses much less energy.3 -
What has me stumped maybe enough to Google a bit is whether the original actifry had no temperature setting but the new ones do?
Basically I put in there the frozen veggie fries which normally cook in the oven at 400-425F and come out nice and crispy.
They weren't terrible by any stretch; but basically my take was that the temperature didn't quite reach high enough to crisp them better.
Thinking of doing an omelette with the leftover brisket and some baby potatoes.
Maybe I can try doing the potatoes and brisket in there and adding them over the omelette???
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Laurie I go back and forth like a pendulum between two places!
My tweet to WestJet sums up my most recent experience
Monopoly power is awesome, right @westjet? U give LEMMSI the 🖕 four times on a single YXX-YYC-YXH flight (plus cause an extra $3-400 in expenses) & he gets to thank you & come back for more!3 -
Sounds so frustrating, PAV. Baby potatoes make sense to me in an "stirring" ? do I have that right??? airfryer. All this kitchen technology - even old technology - has me feeling like such a luddite
Supper tonight - lentil soup with a nice mound of cottage cheese and sriracha1 -
Making a chicken mushroom soup tonight, though I'm adding riced cauliflower and spinach to it. The recipe will be low carb, but I'm going to be stuck with only a single serving because I couldn't' stop snacking today, so to stay under my calorie limit, I'll have 1 bowl only.3
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We had salad, burgers,green beans and baked sweet potatoes….filling and good!2
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cut up into tiny pieces 276g baby potatoes, 81g chopped fresh onions, and the rest of the previously oven braised beef brisket (171g cooked), 300g eggs, and 28g parmesan petals and 2g oil... in a fairly fluffy and substantial omelet split 53.85% vs 46.15%, with a side tomato (214g), cucumber (176g), fresh onion (15g), dried basil (3g), red wine vinegar (11g) salad
Not a bad meal. No air-fryer was touched! It was contemplated. And then I realized that these guys are talking FORTY MINUTES to air-fry potatoes?!?!?!?!?! WHAT THE **kitten**???? They took like 5 on the stovetop. OK. Maybe 10.3 -
Instant pot = speed. Air fryer = crispy, crunchy without oil. Depends on what you want. Sometimes the good old stove is just fine.3
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Supper tonight is Keto fried rice and Mongolian beef! Though I'm using a hamburger/turkey burger mixture instead of flank steak 2
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That sounds like a fine omelette, PAV.
What is "Keto" fried rice, Bmeadows?
For me, supper tonight will be another type of veggie sausage (those things I'm trying to avoid but enjoy so much), and a freezer meal of spicey cabbage with beans and peas. I love this combo so am looking forward to it.
Haven't had lunch yet. It is really grey and damp but above freezing here today so I will mask up and drag my covid butt out for a walk with the little girl. When I return, the reward for walking will be a serving of egg curry with cauliflower and broccoli and carrot. My new go to meal of 2022.4 -
Aversions aren't so bad when you can cook because you can just work around them and accept that limitation on your food, but it's harder when you go out to eat.
It's not that I have an aversion to the nightshades, but if I eat chili for lunch and then have Pepper Steak for dinner and the following day eat Himmel und Erde (fried potatoes, onions, peppers, apples, and kielbasa) and have spaghetti bolognese for dinner, I will wake up the morning of the third day and feel like the Tin Man after being left out in the rain. I've tested it several times, and it's always the same; too many nightshades seriously increase the fibro pain and stiffness. So I'm very moderate about them.
I haven't felt well for about a week, and I'm honestly not sure if it's a little bit of depression or it's a low-grade fibro flare due to the weather or if I'm fighting off a cold or something, but it's left me pretty much unwilling to engage with the world, even to talk about food, which normally I adore doing. I'm just gaming and reading cozy mysteries and sleeping a lot.5 -
John treated us to brunch this morning and we took grandson and his girlfriend along, too…she is from Ky. and on vacation….studying to be a chef!…..I had a BLT minus lettuce and Mayo and only 1 1/2 slices of wheat bread with some grits….Amanda is making lasagna for dinner but you won’t ever gain weight on her lasagna lol…no meat, whole wheat pasta , and low fat mozzerella and ricotta…..I am making salad and some bread for the kids to have with it….3
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Hope you feel better soon Alexandra. Err. Sure Connie! Glad you guys had a nice outing. Don't see how ANY lasagna would be below 1.3 Cal per gram; but I guess the more tomato sauce the lower the caloric density!😹3
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lauriekallis wrote: »That sounds like a fine omelette, PAV.
What is "Keto" fried rice, Bmeadows?
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Made with riced cauliflower instead of regular rice
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