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1948CWB

acpgee ~ What kind of work is your job? Sounds like you hate it!


Carol in GA who only cooks plain food but still loves looking at all the good stuff that is shown here!

acpgee

@1948CWB

I actually like my job. But since changing organisations in July I feel inundated by more pressure and longer hours compared to my last couple of workplaces. My last employer was unusually sleepy and relaxed for my industry.

I work as a quant. That’s a mathematician in investment banking.

1948CWB

Acpgee ~ Thank you! I had to look up quant and it sounds like very important work! I'm sorry that the pressure is making your after work life time difficult. This is from a 5th grade teacher who retired after 31 yrs.

Carol in GA

acpgee

Friday nights we usually eat out because Hubby thinks it makes the weekend feel longer. Went to a posh Italian using loyalty points from a restaurant reservation app I use. Food was okay but not great. Decor on the other hand was rather spectacular. I had calamari followed by spaghetti vongole.

Adventurista

Hubby had same idea, picked up on his way home - meatless almond veggies over white rice, ckicken & shrimp. Bbq pork, egg flower soup, eggrolls kept with rest for leftovers.

SafariGalNYC

Ahh wherever you guys are.. happy weekend and I’m sure all the food pics look awesome. I have 80000 blank pages and can’t find ya.

acpgee

@Safari_Gal
We are on page 1206

SafariGalNYC

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@Safari_Gal
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There you guys are!!! @acpgee 🤗

acpgee

Build your own tacos is a meal designed to use up leftovers, but I start to wonder if I only create more leftovers. Lefotvers were two types of leftover chicken from our night at the Sri Lankan cafe, aji verde and pickled onion we had in the fridge. Corn tortillas are something I keep in the freezer. The bits I made fresh tonight were the copycat Chipotle sauteed onion and red pepper, and a tin of corn toasted in the air fryer and mixed with crumbled feta and a scant amount of mayo, salad.

acpgee

Another build your own taco dinner using up last night's leftovers. This time I dded a tomato salsa and some sliced roast beef leftover from Tuesday night's dinner. We still have a tiny bit of chicken curry we took home in a doggy bag on Wednesday from the Sri Lankan cafe, a tiny bit of roast beef from Tuesday and a smidgen of salsa from tonight. That stuff can be used as sandwich fillings.

acpgee

@1948CWB
Nothing is as important as developing the minds of young people. My job might be difficult, but it is not nearly as important as educating children.

acpgee

New job pressures. I got home at 20:00. It only took me 20 minutes to get miso soup and handrolls on the table because I made sushi rice and Japanese rolled omelette on Sunday afternoon. Hubby took stuff out of the fridge this afternoon to warm to room temperature, removed packaging from the crabsticks and toasted the nori sheets, which is a job I hate. The twenty minutes is mostly dicing stuff neatly.

acpgee

I got home relatively early at 19:45 and it took me 25 minutes to get dinner on the table. Having leftovers from Califorenia hand rolls helped. There wasn't quite enough for dinner for 2, so I airfried a couple of chicken wings and pulled out some Thai dipping sauce from the fridge for them. The wings took 20 minutes.

acpgee

I am getting more proficient at producing quick meals on weeknights. My new job is a little too demanding and I got home at 19:50. This meal of duck confit, roast potatoes, roast courgette and roast tomato took 25 minutes tonight. I did cook the duck sous vide 2 weekends ago for about 20 hours. So getting dinner on the table involved taking the duck confit out of the freezer last night to defrost, parboiling potatoes the hubby peeled while I was at work for for 3 minutes, shaking them in the sous vide bag to coat in duck fat. I tossed cherry tomatoes in olive oil and oregano in a small dish, and courgette in olive oil. Piled everything onto stackable mesh trays that fit in the air fryer to roast for 20 minutes.

acpgee

I was planning to make tacos with leftover duck confit and Chipotle copycat fajita vegetables but I got sick. We ordered a delivery from the local Szechuan.

Adventurista

Hope you are better soonest @acpgee



First soup of fall from fresh 2 gal batch of bone broth. Rest of rotisserie chicken, potatoes and carrots. Flavor palette ~ mild red & black peppers, ginger & curry.

acpgee

I tested negative for Covid, worked from home, and was feeling a bit better this evening so we carried out our Friday night ritual of eating out. We went to a classic French brasserie where I had the offal salad, and moules marinieres. Hubby had sardines and cheese souffle. Apologies for photos, it was a dimly lit restaurant.

acpgee

I spent the evening batch cooking with my cooking buddy. We made a triple quantity of Thomasina Miers' chilli con carne recipe published in the Guardian newspaper. One pot was the kid friendly version containing no chilli peppers. We had some for dinner (the adult version is sprinkled with coriander) with Turkish watermelon salad, brown rice and aji verde followed by creme brulee cooked in the microwave. Katy took home four boxes of chilli con carne and we have three nights worth in the freezer. This will help on school nights.

Adventurista

Hey @kylemarakovits239 - welcome. What's for dinner?

@acpgee - chili and all looks great. Will try with coriander next batch.

Takeout enchiladas and carne asada street tacos tonight, with leftovers for tomorrow.

SusanW7844

Garlic parmesan chicken, salad and mashed potatoes.

mjbnj0001

Hello, all usual commenters. I'm just back from a weeklong trip, and I've been able to advance to page 1207 with visible responses, have seen some comments about a possible pending fix. Looking forward to rejoining the discussions.

Adventurista

@SusanW7844 - looks delish!

Glad you're back @mjbnj0001

Bagged up more 1oz mixed nuts for snackage. Left out the bakers walnuts this time. Thinking craisins & chopped walnuts in fall scones.. on hunt for easy peasy good scone recipe.

acpgee

The dinner I was planning for Thursday when I came down with a cold. Build your own tacos to use up leftover duck confit and aji verde. Added copy cat Chipotle fajitas vegetables, chopped coriander and a little tomato salsa. We had pickled watermelon and nam jim jaew sauce in the fridge. Served with green sriracha not on the shot.

acpgee

I feel over my cold but am still coughing so worked from home. Had time to cook, but made a dinner that took 20 minutes to get on the table.

Adventurista

Tossed salad (from a bag) with torn cilantro, shred cheese & ranch. Stuffed soup - freshened up rest of the chicken peppered ginger & curry soup with broccoli florets, cilantro, quinoa and egg stirred in at end.

acpgee

I got home from the new demanding job at 19:50 and got dinner on the table in 30 minutes. I did need to have the copycat KFC coating mixture from the Chicago Tribune recipe ready made in the pantry and some ranch dressing in the fridge for the copycat KFC coleslaw in order to make this meal in so little time. The chicken needs 20-25 minutes in the air fryer after coating with buttermilk and then the KFC spice mix. The frozen chips need about 12 minutes and can go on top of the chicken after starting that in the air fryer. In the meantime you can make the salads.

acpgee

I don't feel sick anymore but am still coughing occasionally in a hysterical fashion due to a lingering sinus infection causing post nasal drip. It felt a little anti social when I was in the office yesterday so I worked from home today, meaning I had time to cook a proper dinner.
Linguine aglio olio can be put together in the 10 minutes it takes to boil pasta. We had a medium rare roast beef defrosted from the freezer, so it only took a few minutes to put together tagliata di manzo. Hubby did all the cheese grating and shaving. Salad dressing was just olive oil and balsamic and a twist of the salt grinder. I needed to brown the sous vide beef in a cast iron pan before slicing thin.
Incidentally, Silverside (=bottom round in the US) is one of my least favourite cuts that the hubby bought accidentally in large quantity. Cooking for a 2 hours sous vide really rescues this usually leathery roast.

acpgee

I went into the office and got home late. It was hubby's dinner as he had batch cooked the meatballs and tomato sauce that were in the freezer. For veg we had leftover coleslaw and some frozen peas and edamame sauteed with butter and garlic.

acpgee

Our ritua is eating out on Friday. We went to a soft launch of new branch of a famous Peruvian.

acpgee

It's Saturday so there was more time to make dinner. I made Dongbei Guo Bao Ruo, a NE Chinese sweet and sour dish that is lighter than Cantonese sweet and sour pork. The classic recipe requires double deep frying the pork, but I dried off the wet potato starch batter on a dry non stick pan and then air fried for the second cook. We had that with stir fried blanched greens and cucumber salad with store bought asian sesake salad dressing.