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

SafariGalNYC

Breakfast:

🍴 garlic scape and onion frittata, sautéed liver in tomato sauce.

🍹 red kale - açaí juice



Lunch:

🍴 salmon, beets, avocado, over mixed green salad. Cannonau 🍷

acpgee

Dinner party at my place. Starters of dim sum where the turnip cake looked a mess because the texture was too soft to slice into neat squares. Main of gai yang and sides of Thai cabbage with garlic and fish sauce plus a vaguely SE Asian salad made with cucumber, aubergine, cherry tomato and granny smith apple. Dessert was a lot food. I made a low fat cheesecake topped with cherry sauce. Guests brought an eclair bomb and a custard tart.

SafariGalNYC

🍴 smoked salmon, avocado, red leaf on almond wrap. Grapefruit.

1948CWB

SafariGal ~ Your meals look so healthy and delicious.

SafariGalNYC

1948CWB wrote: »

SafariGal ~ Your meals look so healthy and delicious.

Thanks so much @1948CWB !! 🤗

acpgee

The hubby hated salmon mi cuit.

Adventurista

Yum!


Batch grilled and smoked foods for the week. Made blackened ranch. Burgers on Brioche bun, variety onion/peppers, chicken, and packet diced potatoes/veggies. Hard to choose particulars for dinner and stop at enough

acpgee

Beef with black bean sauce, sauteed bok choi and rice.

SafariGalNYC

Breakfast: sautéed liver, tomato chutney, omelette w scallions.

Dinner: roast chicken ( never enough rosemary!) baked purple carrots.

acpgee

Quick mid week meal using batch cooked chilli con carne pulled out of the freezer. The rice was also from a batch cooked on the weekend warmed up in the microwave. Aji verde has been in the fridge for two weeks. Air fryer roast courgette was made fresh tonight.

acpgee

An easy weeknight meal that didn't involve stuff in the freezer, but some sauces we had in the fridge. Air fried wings tossed in some tomato/tamarind sauce, air fryer roast potatoes, crudites dipped in ranch or blue cheese sauce.

Adventurista

Taco sized corn wraps - Eggs, grilled & smoked chicken breast, grilled sweet onion strips, blend shred cheese with salsa & blackened ranch.

SafariGalNYC

🍽️ 🐙🦐 seafood stew: octopus, calamari, shrimp, mussels simmered with tomato, scallions, garlic & bone broth and lots of herbs. 🌿

SafariGalNYC

🍽️ purple carrots, curry & sage chicken breast, broccoli.

Dessert - some misfit wild 🍓 🫐



Breakfast:
🥬 Kale, spinach shake with acai and collagen.

acpgee

Friday night we usually eat out as hubby thinks it makes the weekend feel longer. We went to a Sri Lankan soft launch.

Adventurista

It is interesting to see the shares here... what seems exotic/gourmet in imagination seems in reality to be regular eatings for people... if not learned in the home, discussions like this help introduce other options worth exploring. Ty for the shares (and time.)


Quick & easy on busy day - frozen meatballs, beans, jar sauce, grated parm... open, heat & eat. Except the nodles, those took a moment of futzing.

SafariGalNYC

Leftovers quiche!

Eggs- smoked salmon- spinach - carrots/ broccoli - asparagus
Chia-flax- cassava crust

acpgee

We went to our favourite Nikkei restaurant offering 50% off food. Nikkei is the food of the Japanese diaspora in South America, predominantly Peru and Brazil. Think Japanese food that incorporates new world ingredients such as chillis, coriander and passion fruit. It can be worth subscribing to the newsletter of favourite restaurants. In London some offer discounts to regulars during slow months, typically January and mid summer.

acpgee

Cooking at home on the weekend after eating out on Friday and Saturday. I did make use of a pork tenderloin roast that was cooked sous vide last month in an asian marinade and tossed into the freezer. I normally air fry the defrosted joint for 10 minutes to brown before carving and serving. Usually a strategy reserved for weeknights but I took the joint out of the freezer for Thursday but didn't get around to eating it because we were full from our starter. Sides of cucumber salad with store bought Japanese sesame dressing, a quick Chinese cabbage stir fry with garlic and fish sauce, and brown rice. There was a little of my misshapen Lo Bak Gao (Chinese turnip cake) which was too soft to slice into neat squares before pan frying. Looking forward to buying the right type of rice flour for making this which will hopefully lead to firmer, neater slices.

mjbnj0001

It's been a very hectic week this week, likely to be also this coming week. Lots of simple stuff, some diner and restaurant meals too. Haven't been online much this week.

Tonight (Sunday) did a simple meal, following a similar path to @Adventurista 's posting above: my own pasta melange with veg and protein. Tried a new-to-us organic fusilli, new-to-us organic tomato-basil sauce (with chopped zucchini, chopped yellow summer squash, red onion and green bell pepper), new-to-us organic hot Italian-style sausage. Pretty good flavor combo. MFP estimates this plate at about 814 calories, 51g protein, 10g fat, 126g carb (14g fiber, 27g sugar); since I didn't get lunch, I'm still fully in my daily macro goals. Leftovers for tomorrow as we climb back on the hectic train.

acpgee

Hamburger night. Mini buns cut from a focaccia.

acpgee

Starter of cullen skink followed by cheese souffle and green salad with ranch. I made the soup on Sunday and plonked it in the fridge to make these meal manageable on a weeknight.

100_Rabbits

Tofu and chicken fried rice with mushrooms, edamae and napa, with sweet and sour fried tofu, and soup dumplings. The tofu is air fried so it's not as bad as it could be lol

acpgee

We ate out at a Malaysian street food place that recently opened a branch near the flat. Hubby had the nasi lemak.

Adventurista

Yum! Everything looking good. Almost tempted to try making souffles now, lol

Rare dinner takeout - woodfire 10" veggie pizza (for 2.)

mjbnj0001

More busy days this week. Tonight (Wednesday) another thawed tranche of chicken marsala from a party a couple of weeks ago, with sides of fresh roasted savory cauliflower, yellow summer squash and zucchini. Another side (not shown), for a little color variety, is our typical chopped salad. I haven't had MFP compute the numbers on this meal yet by logging it, but it should be pretty moderate.

acpgee

My new job is kind of high pressure and I get home a little late in the evenings. Struggling with doing the cooking on weeknights. Tonight's dinner was manageable despite getting home at 19:45. Air fryer roast potato (hubby peeled the potatoes) and air fryer wings doused in some tomato and tamarind sauce lying around the fridge. Crudites with ranch dressing from the batch hubby made last night. Some blue cheese sauce we had lying around.

mjbnj0001

acpgee wrote: »

My new job is kind of high pressure and I get home a little late in the evenings. Struggling with doing the cooking on weeknights. ]

Time constraints are a major impediment to eating well. I can empathize. I went off the good path when I was working and traveling for the job. I have paid a price, but am finding that it is never too late to do a course correction. The surprising thing is that so far, retirement has had frequent time challenges. It hastn't been all idling about and recreating, lol.

With our recent busy demands, we'd fallen back onto commercial bread, for instance - but we ensure to buy "good" commercial bread - and it is not preferable by taste, ingredients or diet impact relative to any of the breads I make for us. Tonight, I have made a 3-loaf batch, which includes a gift loaf for a party tomorrow, accounting for the "artisan whitebread" appearance ... and made using only unbleached bread flour, filtered water, sea salt and yeast as ingredients.

So, one loaf as gift, one for now, one for the freezer.

mjbnj0001

Adventurista wrote: »

Yum! Everything looking good. Almost tempted to try making souffles now, lol

Rare dinner takeout - woodfire 10" veggie pizza (for 2.)

next adventure ... making your own pizza ...

janicemlove

Work trip eats: chicken Caesar salad and a big bowl of curly fries after 12 hours of travel and only 4 hours of sleep.