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cmsienk

Friday brunch: old fashioned oats with chopped pecans, cinnamon and a drizzle of maple syrup

cmsienk

Friday dinner: potato gnocchi with brown butter sage sauce, one meatball (leftover) and sweet baby peas

janicemlove

Quick breakfast before PT session.

janicemlove

Dinner was pasta w/ Rao sauce, leftover veggies, and some grapes.

cmsienk

Saturday - Breakfast (not shown) - coconut yogurt. Lunch - spare ribs, roasted butternut squash and baby peas

janicemlove

Chicken, broccoli, and rice w a bit of butter (I like to cook my rice a little dry).

100_Rabbits

I call them chicken enchiladas, but they're really wet burritos with cheese melted on them. Chicken, corn and kidney beans today, with cheese and green enchilada sauce.

acpgee

I cooked with a girlfriend at her place. The intention was to have a dinner party at mine, but given that the other couple have three children under age 5, it was easier just to cook at hers than transport the children. Chinese main of fish/prawn stuffed peppers, aubergine salad, and air fryer tofu with rice. I had been bragging that I discovered that cheese souffle was actually pretty easy in the air fryer so she demanded I demonstrate that as a starter with some salad. Forgot to take a photo of the low fat air fryer cheesecake we did for dessert.

BarbaraHelen2013

Looks really messy I know! I’ve hurt my back so my husband made himself Nachos last night with all the stuff I cannot fit into calories. 🙄 I was so tempted!

So tonight, I made my version for myself - Sweet Potato and Cauliflower Nachos. All the flavours but a fraction of the calories! Whole messy plate came in at under 500 calories and really hit the Nacho spot! Now I just need to get him to see how it *could* be done since he’s always ‘trying’ to lose weight…but gets nowhere since he won’t acknowledge that I’ve done what he can’t…😂

acpgee

@BarbaraHelen2013
Still full of carbs, but you can make oil free nachos from corn or wheat tortillas.
https://www.food.com/recipe/microwave-tortilla-chips-476541

BarbaraHelen2013

@acpgee - yes, I make chips out of left over tortillas of all kinds, to prevent them from being wasted. Latterly I’ve used the airfryer rather than the microwave or a dry cast iron pan.

Still doesn’t change the fact that I can’t do the calories from the chips if I want any meaningful amount of cheese on my nachos! 😂

It’s an ‘either/or’ situation, and I can’t imagine the nacho vibe without cheese, but I’m perfectly happy with the nacho flavour vibe on other bases, just as I enjoy ‘pizza’ toppings on slices of Butternut Squash rather than dough base. 😊

BarbaraHelen2013

Made a big 9+ portion batch of Black Bean & Lentil Chilli this morning. Fortunately, it’s amazing otherwise I’d have 8 more portions to get through! 😂

Here with 50g rice bulked up with sweetcorn. I’ll come up with 8 different ways to serve it though…variety is key, for me.

acpgee

We decided to do a last minute vacation in Valencia before I start a new job in a few weeks. Our flight landed late so we ate at the upmarket tapas place next to the hotel. We ordered Esgarraet salad which was roasted red pepper, salt cod and mojama, prawns with garlic, fried eggs with mushrooms and truffle, grilled veg.

100_Rabbits

Made beef and broccoli today. I almost never eat red meat, so this was a treat.

cmsienk

Sunday dinner: potato crusted white fish, baked potato and corn

tigrig

Dry rubbed and grilled chicken breast
Sautéed spinach
Air fried baked tater

LazyBlondeChef

Green curry with chicken and Thai green eggplant over jasmine rice.

cmsienk

Monday breakfast: old fashioned oats with 3 banana slices, 1 Tbs chopped pecans, cinnamon and a drizzle of pure maple syrup.... with coffee

acpgee

We are on vacation in Valencia, and the cheap way to eat in Spain is menu del dia at lunch which is a discounted 3 course meal traditionally for workers who can't make it home at lunchtime, followed by a light tapas (bar snacks) meal in the evening. I ordered a menu del dia for one person (hubby ordered an la carte starter) which was a ludicrous amount of (somewhat mediocre) food for EUR 13.90. A selection of three starters (bread with tomato with homemade mayo, salad with goat cheese, fried calamari with anchovies. The main was a pork chop in cream sauce with sauteed tomato and aubergine served on mash. Dessert was cheesecake.

acpgee

Our second evening of tapas in Valencia was at a more casual place with waiters in T-shirts instead of waistcoats. Food was just as good as the more expensive place we went to last night. We ordered tomato salad with goat cheese and mojama (=tuna prosciutto), grilled veg, rabbit with garlic, calamari a la plancha (=grilled).

cmsienk

Monday dinner: penne pasta with meat sauce, butternut squash, green beans and garlic toast

cmsienk

Tuesday brunch:
Chaffles! (One large egg, 1/2 cup shredded cheese and cinnamon). I haven't made them in forever. I was out of mozzarella so I used a "Mexican Style Blend" (Asadero, Oaxaca, Quesadilla). I was afraid it would be too savory, but with a drizzle of pure maple syrup it turned out to be a decent substitute.

Also, the size perspective seems off. That's a salad plate and each one is about the size of the palm of my hand.

acpgee

Day 3 in Valencia and we ate at a mom and pop style restaurant. Paella is a must have meal, seeing as it was invented in this town. The traditional Valenciana version is with rabbit and chicken and beans. We started with grilled veg, which we order every evening. I pointed to something unfamiliar in the dessert case, that turned out to be a very springy cake with a gelatinous caramel topping.

cmsienk

Tuesday dinner: leftover penne pasta with one mozzarella stuffed meatball, sweet baby peas and a small dinner roll

janicemlove

I’ve never really been a breakfast eater but trying to make the effort bc I feel better throughout the day when I do.

Hard boiled egg w za’atar. Cat has just figured out how to get on the table (20 years later LOL) and now I have no peace.

acpgee

A tapas tasting menu for two was a light lunch. Today is a grazing day. We are planning to do Basque style pintxos for dinner later.

cmsienk

Wednesday lunch out with a friend: Caesar salad with rosemary chicken

acpgee

@janicemlove
Cats understand territoriality so you can teach your cat not to jump on the table at least while you are around. But you might not like to have to do things like hiss at your cat when he gets on the table.
I had a friend who was proud that he had taught his cats that they weren't allowed on the table. One night, he was visiting a neighbour who lived across the street and noticed that he could see down into his own dining room from the neighbour's flat. He couldn't figure out why the cats were so near the height of the window ledge when he suddenly realized they were both on the table. He realized when he was not around to defend his territory that the cats would be playing on the table.

acpgee

We were intending to eat pintxos tonight but ended up ordering a bunch of tapas instead. Roast artichoke+parmesan, bread+tomato, prawn+scallop skewers, broiled stack of brie+artichoke+parma ham, albondigas.

cmsienk

Wednesday dinner: last day for penne pasta. I had it as a side twice. Tonight it was more like a pasta bowl... with venison meat sauce, peas and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese