What was the last meal you cooked?

I had a real craving for my mom's macaroni salad, of course the version with tons of mayo. I realized that if I ban foods or don't allow myself to have what I want in some version, I crash and burn so terribly. So I made a version that came in at about 199calories per portion with the recipe here:
2 cups of cooked elbow macaroni
1 can of solid white tuna (the smaller cans, 3 servings at 70 calories per serving)
a few tablespoons of chopped onions
5 tablespoons of Hellman's light mayo
Salt, pepper, garlic/onion powder to taste
I weighed that and split it into 4 equal portions. One of the tricks to not overusing mayo for this type of application is to soak your noodles in water after cooking and never mixing in mayo when it is warm. It will just suck it up and dry out and you will want to add more and more. Replacing mayo with light mayo here is pretty big, as one tablespoon has 35 calories vs the 90 in regular mayo. You really don't taste much of a difference in it.
Happy Eating

I threw together a mock-up of a shrimp boil on Thursday. Cooked Beyond Sausage and VeriSoy's meatless "shrimp" with yukon gold potatoes and put it on a bed of garlic rice.

Home made scalloped potatoes and thought I had set the kitchen on fire. Some butter from the top splashed onto the top element of the oven and produced a huge amount of smoke . It looks good but I really don't feel like eating it.

Ribeye Steak and asparagus..

Grilled pork steak and Broccoli, Cauliflower, & Carrots in light cheese sauce

Shrimp, spinach, feta, and tomato bake over parmesan couscous. One of my favorite meals!

Baked salmon and fried rice

Sauteed Chicken breast with BBQ seasoning, fresh green beans & a base salad of romaine, bell pepper, roma tomato, onion, bacon & Greek dressing. ( I had to put the bacon on it to meet the minimum daily calories)

made rice, ground beef and beans. cooked it and mixed it all together!

my husband grilled hamburgers and brats, I made roasted baby potatoes, green beans, and some macaroni salad. The macaroni salad was pre-made and not very good I didn't feel like making my own because I'm super lazy.

Sardines from a can.

I have a non-vegan version of this cassoulet (if you could call it that) in the oven right now. Instead of making sausages out of some of the beans, I bought some ground chicken and gradually mixed in salt, pepper, fennel seed which I ground (which breaks down really quickly with salt in a mortar and pestle), and powdered garlic. I browned patties of that in two batches and added it to the cooked beans.

The beans also ended up needing an extra 10 min in the instant pot, but once they came out the second time were amazing. And then to add even more deviations, I didn't add breadcrumbs because turns out we didn't have any.

I smoked some chicken and the wife completed the meal with baked broccoli and garlic knots. Delish

A meal I made last night for company: Homemade minestrone soup, salad, 2 homemade pizzas (one meat, and one vegetarian) and orange sherbet. Of course I did not cook the salad or the sherbet.