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Conch salad - lots of lime and diced scotch bonnets. 🔥 🐚
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Tuna Zanzibar style - I love it.
Tuna mashed with prunes, a lil tomato, herbs, EVOO and mixed lettuce.
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1 cup almond milk
1 cup plain kefir
140 grams frozen blueberries
1 frozen banana
1/2 cup oats
2 scoops collagen
1/4 cup sunflower seeds4 -
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SafariGalNYC wrote: »
Thanks! Yes it hits the spot.
I'll rotate other frozen berries as well as different flavored kefir...1 -
Dinner out on Friday. We went to an okay but not great French brasserie.
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Went to a Caribbean fish fry. 😋
Red Snapper, rice and peas, plantains, corn.
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I have been craving traditional French salads recently. Salade aux gesiers from southwestern Feance used to be on every brasserie menu when I lived in Paris a few decades ago. Nowadays I cannot find any French restaurant in London serving it. It's also getting hard to find in Paris, probably due internationalization where Caesar salads have replaced the French regional classics. I finally opened the tin of confit gizzards that has been in the store cupboard for two years.
I am planning to make classic Lyonnaise frissee aux lardons as a starter tonight. I will probably replace the frissee with baby gem and iceberg. We can get frissee but it is a 20 minute trek to the nearest greengrocer who stocks it.
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Staying with the French lunch theme I took out the leftover creme brulee from last weekend's dinner party. Sprinkled with sugar and blow torched.
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The plan was to have a starter of salade aux lardons but we were pretty full afterwards, so we skipped having a main course.
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Pan seared sea bass with roast potatoes and sauteed frozen edamame/peas. A dollop of kind of sort of tartar made with yoghurt, mayo, relish and leftover guacamole. We had some iceberg and vinaigrette dressed up with parma ham and candied pepitas.
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Preparing for the week to come, and for grilling tonight (Labor Day in the USA): homemade bread (plain) and rosemary-onion rolls.
1. Doughs ready for 1st rise (last evening, Sunday). I added some extra H2O in the left-hand batch for the rolls, to hydrate the dried onions and herbs. As it turns out, I added a wee bit much. I used a "no knead" approach today, which is why the doughs aren't neat balls as you might see in some videos.
2. Doughs after 1st rise (16 hrs, overnight room-temp countertop). Bread on left, rolls on right. Nice development. Since "no knead," the breads dough got a few folds after degassing; the rolls dough got shaped into a cylinder to set up for partitioning into 10 pieces (being extra moist this was an "interesting" exercise, lol).
3. Finished products. 1 loaf for now, 1 for the freezer. Some rolls for today, some for the freezer. Rolls were hard to shape, as they were a little sloppy from excess H2O, and then needed a bit extra time to brown in their bake than initially scheduled. Aroma is incredible. Debating traditional beef burgers or lentil burgers this afternoon (weather is good for outdoor grilling); I've been essentially meatless for a couple of weeks. We'll see later ...
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My new job is disconcertingly high pressure but I can’t fault lunch at the staff canteen.
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I got home tonight at 19:50 and managed to get dinner on the table in 20 minutes. Drumsticks were frozen in ziplocks containing gai yang marinade that defrosted overnight the fridge and then air fried 20 minutes. Broccoli went into the air fryer with 10 minutes to go. Mash was made by microwaving potatoes that were then cut in 2 and placed in the ricer cut side down, removing spent peels with a fork after pressing each half. We still had gai yang dipping sauce in the fridge from a dinner party the weekend before last.
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My new job is disconcertingly high pressure but I can’t fault lunch at the staff canteen.
My last two F/T positions were high-pressure (one, a Big4 Consultancy, the other, a now-legacy computer manufacturer). The rewards were high, but I later learned the costs were, too. Be careful. We should aim to make our one trip through life both rewarding and sustainable, to us, our loved ones and others. IMHO. In retirement, I'm having a pretty good time ... but not everyone I knew has made it this far.
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Well, in reference to my previous post above, the traditional beef burgers won the day. I guess I'm a traditionalist at heart. At least I have the lentil "fixins" on hand for that attempt, LOL.
So, the meal looks simple, but there's a fair amount of craft in it ... the last (thawed) custom-grind beef from a party in July and seasoned for today, near-the-end of my homemade pickled red onions from the same July event, the buns I made overnight/today. Plus, of course, the throw-together veg mix "Boy Scout Packs" (zucchini, bell peppers [G/R/O/Y], red onion, grape tomatoes, garlic, seasonings). The only things that came out of a package are the cheese slices. "Labor on Labor Day" - can be a good thing.
The foil packs (or "Boy Scout Packs" as I grew up calling them) contain the veg. They got some pre-time directly on the grill before the burgers, and then again a couple minutes as I brought the burgers into the house. Note that the burgers are cooking on a grill-specific silicon mat for super easy grill cleanup. And they're thin enough to generate char marks on the food. Great for fish/seafood and other things which might slip into the grill gaps.
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Looks wonderful @mjbnj0001 - was thinking of your pickled onion in a conversation just yesterday. Extra ahead sure pays off!
@acpgee - yours too! Lifesaver! Glad they have decent enough edibles at work.
Haven't tried our own dough yet, but did try and enjoy naan bread for the 1st time (made personal pizzas, torn rotisserie chicken, canadian bacon, slivers onion and bell pepper, pepperoncini.)5 -
I got home from work at 19:50. This dinner takes 15 minutes to put together (add 10 minutes if you don't have leftover cooked rice). Avgolemono soup using leftover rice and chicken stock we had in the freezer. Boil chicken stock and some lemon juice, then temper in some eggs to thicken just prior to serving. Turkish salad where we stretched the last of the watermelon in the fridge with some cucumber.
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We went to a soft launch at a taco joint. Nice to have a night off from cooking in a hurry now that I get home so late from the new job.
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I got home from work at 20:15 and salmon tartare took way too long to put together. As cooking was minimal I thought I could do this quickly but there is a ton of dicing.
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Enchiladas from a local neighborhood joint.3 -
Yum!
Bagged up 1 oz mixed nuts for snackage. A blended variety from a few different kinds, salted, unsalted, bakers walnuts, mixed... i want to pick up a few more before I bag more; brazil and pistachios.
Takes time to find and buy or make/batch prep food that helps us.... worth it!
And, i use, frequently change gloves to save my hands from excess washing. Inexpensive (and can find even cheaper online in larger amounts).
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Since starting my new job where there is a culture of staying late in the office I have been struggling to cook during the week. Pre-pandemic the hubby was the weeknight cook and I just cooked weekends and for company. We might need to revert to that, but the disadvantage is that he is not very good cook.
Once a month I batch cook with a girlfriend and we make a huge quantity chilli con carne, bolognese sauce, stew or braised chicken parts to portion and freeze for weeknights. I am on my own this weekend and batch cooking a lot meat sous vide to stick in the freezer. I have a bucket on the counter full of duck confit, eye of round roast beef, and lamb shanks cooking sous vide in their individual ziplock bags.
Dinner last night was simple. Pappardelle puttanesca with a little samphire mixed in. We were meant to have a secondi of saltimbocca, but decided we were full enough.
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This weekend’s focaccia has a nice grain. I’m trying to give my rosemary plant a rest so the topping is sun dried tomatoes and truffle salt.
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Dinner! Splurged and bought fresh salmon.4 -
@janicemlove ~ lovely, looks delish. What is the dark greenish food to the left lower side?0
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Leftovers from last night's salade Nicoise for breakfast. I did need to supplement leftovers with lettuce, tomato and potatoes.
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Adventurista wrote: »@janicemlove ~ lovely, looks delish. What is the dark greenish food to the left lower side?
Seaweed snack from Costco! It’s so good! I eat it w so many things now.1 -
My take on mushroom pot pie. So good!5 -
janicemlove wrote: »Adventurista wrote: »@janicemlove ~ lovely, looks delish. What is the dark greenish food to the left lower side?
Seaweed snack from Costco! It’s so good! I eat it w so many things now.
@janicemlove ~ Thought it might be. I started eating for the nutrition of it, and regularly crumble it into soups, stews, salads and stirfries.2
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