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

acpgee

Spag bol with zucchini salad. Bolognese sauce batch cooked in early April with a buddy and pulled out of the freezer.

SafariGalNYC

A buffet of meals while traveling the Aegean Islands..

Adventurista

Smoked ham on bbq, finished in oven. Used defatted pan drippings with sour cream for spread on brown bread and to dress (store bought bag) salad.

100_Rabbits

Not my prettiest effort lol. Salmon with home madd bacon jam, bagged salad and corn. It got a "damn babe" from the boyfriend so I'm happy lol.

acpgee

If you are looking for an incredibly light dinner google Alvin's Drunken Chicken. Alvin was a contestant on Australian Masterchef and when the episode first aired the judges cooed so much about the dish that Xiaoxing rice wine (main ingredient of the chicken poaching liquid) was sold out for a week in Australia. His recipe was served with a chunky version of a SE Asian salad using a nuoc cham style oil free dressing.
I did a take with a chicken breast and made my salad with chunks of cucumber, cherry tomato and granny smith apple combined with toppings of store bought fried onion, a few peanuts and coriander and mint. I added sticky rice and some sauteed spinach to round out the meal. If you freeze the poaching liquid for re-use for subsequent times you make this dish it is incredibly quick to throw together. Serve a little of the poaching liquid with the chicken which makes a fat free but umami sauce for rice.

acpgee

Air fried lamb cutlets and roast potatoes. Sauce was some leftover chimichurri found in the freezer stretched with yoghurt. Turkish watermelon/feta/mint salad dressed with pomegranate molasses.

Adventurista

@acpgee ~appreciate your shares - inspires me to keep on cookin! and particularly to dig out a recipe I tucked away for drunken noodles. I was too timid to attempt at the time... here's the pic i snagged from the recipe - just thought it looked awesome!


I would also like to try a chicken skewers with pb dip - do you have a recipe you prefer for that? Thought this looked really good too.


i am not sure why, but have always had a 'fear?' of trying new things/recipes and would explore, buy then not try - but have gradually tried squashes, broth/soup/stew making, grilled veggies and a few of the exotics like cactus and dragonfruits. There's a world of delish foods out there... Most, I would love to try - just not wild about slimy things - didn't care much for okra or cactus.

acpgee

@Adventurista
Below is the recipe I use as a starting point for chicken satay.

Nowadays I change up the marinade. Instead of dicking around with honey in the marinade, I just use a half and half mixture of normal light soy sauce (salty such as Japanese Kikoman brand) and a sweet Indonesian ketjap (dark sweet soy such as ABC brand).

Nowadays for more heat and funk in the satay sauce I add a little sambal that contains shrimp. I use Dollee brand Crispy Prawn Chilli from Malaysia for this purpose but any brand of an Indonesian sambal trassi (chilli sauce with shrimp paste) would do. Satay sauce is an application where I don't object to replacing most of the peanut butter with reconstituted PB2 to save on calories.

https://www.thelondoner.me/2015/05/the-greatest-chicken-satay.html

If you have the time, you might want to search online for a more authentic peanut satay sauce. An authentic recipe uses peanuts, instead of peanut butter.

Adventurista

Ooh, ty @acpgee

I have a jar of pb2 i use in yogurt. I'll browse recipes, but it is difficult to imagine taste... as dh said of my sandwhich, it's good but not a Philly Cheesesteak... i had no idea having not personally tasted. and I appreciate that you adapt as desired, and find them good.

Melanika2

My usual breakfast is around 300 calories and consists of nondairy oatmeal with dried cranberries, hemp hearts, flaxseed meal, blueberries, strawberries and blackberries. Sometimes I add an apple afterwards and it adds some calories but not much.

Oatmeal Recipe for 5 servings:

1.5 cups of oats
0.3 cup of dried cranberries
1.5 tbsp of flaxseed meal
1.5 tbsp of hemp hearts
3 cups of nondairy milk

Then I add in my serving 0.25 cups of blueberries, 6 blackberries, 4 strawberries.

SafariGalNYC

Melanika2 wrote: »

My usual breakfast is around 300 calories and consists of nondairy oatmeal with dried cranberries, hemp hearts, flaxseed meal, blueberries, strawberries and blackberries. Sometimes I add an apple afterwards and it adds some calories but not much.

Oatmeal Recipe for 5 servings:

1.5 cups of oats
0.3 cup of dried cranberries
1.5 tbsp of flaxseed meal
1.5 tbsp of hemp hearts
3 cups of nondairy milk

Then I add in my serving 0.25 cups of blueberries, 6 blackberries, 4 strawberries.

Hemp hearts are so nutritious! Looks lovely. @Melanika2

acpgee

Artichoke with hollandaise followed by daube with anchovy, olives, carrot, celery and mushroom with mash.

Adventurista

Takeout last night, carne asada street tacos. 1/2 for dinner, leftovers cold next breakfast.

Have grilled meats, onion & bell peppers to use with small street taco size tortillas we picked up at grocery today.

SafariGalNYC

🍽️ Baked eggplant with mozz, pomegranate and microgreens

🍴 Veggie risotto

🥘 Eggplant schnitzel

acpgee

The hubby made meatballs. We had them roast potatoes, sauerkraut, microwaved carrots glazed with a little cola, leftover herb/yoghurt sauce from the lamb cutlets we had a few nights ago.

100_Rabbits

Date night. Went and saw Furiosa and got sushi. Not pictured are veg goyoza, calamari and seaweed salad.

widgit808

SafariGalNYC wrote: »

🍽️ Baked eggplant with mozz, pomegranate and microgreens

🍴 Veggie risotto

🥘 Eggplant schnitzel

@SafariGalNYC wow, all looks beautiful and sounds delicious!

Adventurista

I agree, beautiful droolworthy shares here!

Mine are just my regular every day eatings for the most part, often quick & easy from batchcooked, fridge and pantry items on hand.

Like today, warm lentil turkey salad, unplated, mixed together for eatin
-- used 1/2 can Amy's lentil vegetable soup
-- 1/2c griiled, smoked sweet onion & bell peppers
-- 2 oz white and 3 oz dark smoked/roast turkey with 1/3c defatted pan drippings
-- 3c 'veggie lovers' salad bag mix
-- tbsp minced garlic, dashes of onion powder & blackening seasoning

acpgee

The buddy I do batch cooking with came over today and we filled both our freezers with chilli con carne and aji verde. We had some for dinner with low fat burnt Basque cheesecake with cherries for dessert.

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.