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acpgee

Attempt at cooking while recovering at home from knee surgery. Chinese bolognese sauce Zha Jiang Miang out of a packet.

yakkystuff

Looks good @acpgee - speedy recovery!

Mixed meat pasta bowl with fresh diced tomatoes and wilted spinach.

acpgee

I am a bit immobile and recovering from knee surgery at home. A girlfriend came over and cooked a Chinese dinner.

acpgee

I will be hobbling around on two crutches for a while. Hubby cooked tonight using stuff we had in the freezer: Frozen potato gnocchi, frozen pesto, frozen veg. Even he could convert the ingredients to a decent meal of cheat's soup au pistou (frozen veg, a stock cube, a dollop of pesto), gnocchi with pesto, and salad.

Rainbow2300

@acpgee A speedy recovery to you! 😊Take it easy~
Vegan Nachos for supper today

mjbnj0001

@acpgee

Nothing like some good meals to speed you along the path to recovery. Good luck!

mjbnj0001

"Sometimes ya win, sometimes ya lose." Called to do some quickie impromptu goodies for a small get-together, I decided to do one another of those bread rings I did a while back, supplemented by a salad. Others went the deli route for more standard fare. Everyone liked my stuff, and I didn't get the Best Picture Oscar, but the Best Original Screenplay. That'll do.

I chose my path by things I had on hand for quick turnaround. I chose my traditional "turbo style" no-knead bread dough (90 min 1st rise, 3 hrs start to finish-up cool-down) in a rolled, stuffed ring using an on-hand dried Italian-style sausage (had been intended for charcuterie on Easter, but was redundant), somewhat like salami or sopressata, and a block of sharp cheese. I brushed some garlic-infused EVOO on the pressed-out dough before applying the diced meat and cheese. The dices were about small raisin size and were well-distributed over the dough. The rolling-up went well, but I had a failure in making a twisted ring out of it, and opted to salvage by shaping a Valentine's heart for the party. The bake made the house aromatic like a pizzeria. I really need to improve my shaping and presentation skills, but the loaf got eaten anyway.

The complementing salad was a classic tomato salad in a homemade dijon vinaigrette. I had a number of nice tomatoes, both red and yellow, that I had just gotten from a local farm market. I used a basil-infused EVOO for the dressing base. Minced garlic, red onions and herbs/seasoning completed the ingredients list. This was a quick assembly and had several hours to marinate.

My thought was an Italian-ish theme, fitting the guests, and my theory was that the solid, savory, "dry" loaf would be complemented by the moist, sweetish tomatoes. And maybe that theory worked.

acpgee

Coached the hubby through a 25 minute dinner. Mash was ready made store bought from the supermarket and just needed warming up in the microwave. Chopped carrots and chicken thighs were roasted together in the air fryer for 20 minutes. In the meantime he could make some salad. We had some leftover aji verde in the fridge.

acpgee

Still immobile after knee surgery so coached the hubby through another very simple dinner starting with cheat’s Soupe au Pistou. Thats a handful of frozen veg, a tin of white beans, some oddments at the bottom of the produce drawer boiled with a stock cube and served with a good dollop of store bought pesto in each bowl. Main was spaghetti with Pesto Trapanese (blitz together toasted almonds, raw garlic and tomatoes with a sprig of basil and season with lemon, salt and pepper).

mjbnj0001

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48620464#Comment_48620464

That's a pretty good improv (the "cheat's Soupe au Pistou"). I'm going to have to steal it for myself, thanks! The Pesto Trapanese sounds good too.

acpgee

@mjbnj0001

If you google traditional "Soupe au Pistou" recipes you will see a chopped tomato is a classic addition. I skipped it because our next course with Pesto alla Trapanese was tomato based. A dollop of pesto is a great way to make a tasty veggie soup when you don't have good stock on hand.

mjbnj0001

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48620618#Comment_48620618

I do have a jar of it (I always buy two of everything, under the "2 is 1, 1 is none" theory of contingency logistics, lol), leftover from a pesto-stuffed bread ring I made earlier this year. I don't always stock it.

acpgee

My girlfriend batch cooked some Chinese chicken last weekend. Hubby microwaved some of that, braised some pak choi and put rice in the rice

Rainbow2300

Last nights birthday dinner! So good! Oyster Mushrooms, walnut fritters, Sourdough bread and eggplant and feta spreads, with spit fired leg of lamb!

acpgee

Day 12 after knee surgery and I am still hobbling around on two crutches. I coached the hubby through another easy dinner, but tonight's dinner might have been a little too advanced as he is now totally stressed out. Roast cherry tomatoes can be done in advance in the air fryer or toaster oven. Prick every tomato with a fork in a container where they fit in one layer. Pricking prevent bursts causing tomatoes to stew instead of roast. Drizzle on some olive oil and season with salt and any sympathetic dried herb (we used a mix called Herbs de Provence which tasted mostly of oregano). Air fry 20 or 30 minutes at 150C. Can be served warm or room temperature. Spaghetti carbonara has a sauce I normally make while the pasta is cooking. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/may/10/how-to-cook-perfect-spaghetti-carbonara . Hubby also made some green salad.

acpgee

My girlfriend who came over and cooked on day 7 after my knee surgery came back last night. This time I ordered in from the local Sichuan.

acpgee

Since I’ve been recovering at home from knee surgery I have been directing the hubby through simple dinners. He rebelled over last weeks bucatini carbonara which stressed him out because of too many concurrent last minute tasks. Hoping we don’t need to survive on take out for too much longer.

mjbnj0001

It's been a little while since posting for me. Tonight's simplistic dinner: baked lemon-pepper chicken breast, steamed asparagus tips, roasted potato wedges, typical chopped salad. My wife doesn't like the "hard stems" on the asparagus, and I don't like waste, so you'll see stem pieces in the salad. I haven't computed the numbers yet, but this will be a decent macros and calories meal. On top of a day where I did an "Aquafit" class (a "water aerobics" thing, 2-3x/week), that'll be 500 exercise cals in today's bank, so it's a net good day (other days, I'm on the bike when the weather is suitable).

acpgee

The physio gave me the green light to start using only one crutch when at home, so I could make dinner tonight now that I have one hand free while hobbling around. Lamb sate (following a goat sate recipe), nasi impit, pickled carrot and cucumber salad. Dessert was Thai tea creme brulee.

acpgee

Failed dinner on my second night of cooking. Bucatini cacio e pepe broke and the pasta was too hard.

kitchengardenplanet

I’ve been adding photos of my meals to my blog (I don’t use social media so I’m still old school) as a recordkeeping way for the foods I make: https://kitchengardenplanet.com/category/kitchen/dishes/.

I’ve been on MFP for a couple years and have lost 75 lbs thus far, primarily from going about 90% vegetarian. We consider meat a delicacy/treat now (and only buy pastured meat to ensure sustainability as most of the ‘organic’ meat at the grocery store is still factory farmed) so most of my recipes are focused on the veg side (https://kitchengardenplanet.com/tag/vegetarian/), with more and more going full vegan as I become better at making my own non-dairy substitutes that taste better than the processed stuff at the store (and cheaper) like vegan ricotta and homemade cashew milk).

This photo is of my Rainbow Buddha Bowl we have on heavy rotation at home as it’s super healthy, super filling, and super easy to swap out ingredients - the base is always roasted sweet potatoes on a bed of greens, the toppings are just categories and substitute-able based on what I’ve got in the pantry - i.e., one bean or grain, one fruit, one crunchy (nut/seed), one cheese, one pickle-y, and unlimited veg :)

acpgee

I got the green light from the physio to use only one crutch 17 days after knee surgery, so I can do the cooking now that I have one hand free while hobbling around. Simple dinner of chicken thighs and potatoes roasted in the air fryer (potatoes were par boiled for 3 minutes and tossed in goose fat before being arranged around the chicken), and sauteed spinach. We had some leftover pickled carrots and aji verde sauce in the fridge.

mjbnj0001

@kitchengardenplanet

checked your blogsite. very interesting. keep on posting!