What do your meals look like (show me pictures)....

Dr_Axe

I made bok choy for the first time. With roast beef and mushrooms. It was delicious.

acpgee

A focaccia. This recipe is easiest to do in the evening to make a weekend morning treat as the dough needs a quick stretch every 30 minutes for two hours before going into the fridge overnight for a slow prove.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O1WQTKuWWfM

Adventurista

Yum @acpgee - looks wonderful



2 egg scramble in a mug with cauliflower rice, grilled onion & bell peppers, salsa & shred cheese. Clementine. Chocolate protein powder in coffee.

Adventurista

1/2 smoked turkey & pepperjack cheese sandwich, small turkey garden salad. Mixed sour cream and salsa for spread and dressing. Coffee black.

acpgee

Thai style whole fried fish, roast asparagus, tataki/tiradito on a watercress salad dressed with aji verde. Used up some leftover hollandaise on the asparagus from when we had artichokes a couple of nights ago. Stickly rice.

Adventurista

@acpgee - is there a flour you prefer with the focaccia? She mentioned 3 different types.



Smoked turkey with defatted pan drippings, sausage stuffing, green beans with smoked ham.

acpgee

@Adventurista
I just use plain all purpose flour and get good results with that. I don’t know the protein content because I decant to resealable storage containers and discard the packaging after bringing home the groceries. I should probably try with bread flour to see if that gives a better texture but I am happy with results using regular flour up to now.

acpgee

At this rate I won’t get to the flower market any time soon. My batch cooking buddy brought a bunch of supermarket peonies when she came over Saturday.

acpgee

Adventurista

beautiful acpgee!


lunch - lentil boats. I tend to use pre-cooked soup/lentils from the store for super quick & easy, and instead of matchstics will dollop a saute blend that I batch cooked ahead.



i use saute mixed veggies as topper on a lot of things. A fav snack is on chips (50 cal taco sized tortilla quartered, spiced & baked, lots of recipes on net.)

acpgee

Food from the freezer. Potato gnocchi I made last month month as a mourning ritual for the terminal cancer diagnosis of a buddy I used to cook Italian with, while we were grad students in Amsterdam. Bolognaise from the early April batch made with a current cooking buddy. Green salad and griddled aubergine made today.

acpgee

Chilli con carne batch cooked last Saturday with Peruvian aji verde and green salad.

100_Rabbits

Mapo tofu with ground chicken and broccoli.

mjbnj0001

I've been MIA from this group/website since before mid-May, preparing for and going to Montana. Just back this weekend. It's been my long-term primary "bucket list" item to return to Glacier National Park, where I was last in 1962. We went now because we were able to combine my interest with my wife's continuing ed needs - there was a conference she attended in the first week.

Part of my 2024 dietary/physical prep for the trip was dropping 10-15 lbs so that I could then carry a 10+ lb pack on hikes, plus get into associated better shape. I succeeded. Well, sort of. Got 11 lbs off before leaving, and into better shape, but could have/ should have lost more and gotten into better shape. But I survived and thrived anyway.

Part of my dietary strategy was in reducing meat consumption, more plant-based, much less processed food, much lower sugar and the like, as you've generally seen from my postings.

Well, as I experienced it this trip, and no disparagement meant to any Montanans here, I saw the diet out there consists mostly of 4 "primary food groups:" huckleberries, craft beer, craft coffee and meat. So, my gut wasn't entirely happy with me, but did adjust over the course of 16 days. And somehow, I lost 5 lbs - must have been the exercise. Huckleberries, unlike their blueberry cousins, cannot be raised agriculturally, so they're all wild harvested - and everything from beer, coffee, bbq sauce, candy, pastries, etc. is made with "hucks."

Anyway, back now and re-evaluating what's next for the summer program.

Pictures:
1. View of iconic St. Mary Lake in East Glacier (the eastern and western areas of the Park are very different in character - western is PNW-style rain forest, eastern is drier. We saw both sides).
2. 3-Bean Elk Chili. Quite good. Elk and Bison were frequent menu items alongside beef, pork, chicken.
3. Huckleberry Oatmeal breakfast dish.
4. Huckleberry Cobbler with Huckleberry ice cream dinner dessert.

Adventurista

Fav meal out grilled plank salmon, seasonal veggies, grilled toast, cup clam chowder

acpgee

I made another focaccia using my usual recipe. It is most convenient to do this in the evening as the dough needs stretching (a 2 minute job) every 30 minutes for 2 hours followed by a slow prove in the fridge overnight. This time I skipped the overnight prove because I started it in the afternoon, and didn't notice any detrimental effect.
https://www.emmafontanella.com/no-knead-focaccia

Adventurista

Saute mixed veggies, shredded smoke turkey stuffed split pea soup.

acpgee

Burger night.

100_Rabbits

Sweet chili chicken meatballs and random veg. Trying to clear the fridge and freezer out lol

Adventurista

Yum @100_Rabbits - looks like you took the corn off the cob. Can't wait until it comes in season in a few weeks!