What was the last meal you cooked?

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  • anniecowgirlup
    anniecowgirlup Posts: 11 Member
    edited May 2019
    Really easy to make and one of my favorite low cal meals. I made an exchange because I couldn't find frozen artichokes.... I used 2 cans of artichokes in water, drained and cut up. Also I added more mozzarella cheese with putting about a cup in between two layers of the sauce mix, then another cup on top. A great meal, that freezes into individual containers and reheats well for work day lunches. Under 300 calories too! Just enough pasta and meat to feel like you're having a rich pasta meal for hardly any calories and packed with protien from the spinach and artichokes. Enjoy!
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  • gallicinvasion
    gallicinvasion Posts: 1,015 Member
    aokoye wrote: »
    I just took a galette in the oven. Per usual, I didn't make the recipe as called for. I didn't add the feta and eggs because I don't like either of those. I also didn't freeze the galette prior to putting it in the oven.

    We'll see how it works out. I've had to keep a very close eye on it and ended up tenting it with foil half an hour into the 50 minutes of baking. It's resting right now and it looks like the bottom isn't burnt which is a good sign.

    Interesting! Looks like Greek spinach pie, but in a pizza crust instead of filo dough. I don’t quite understand how you can make it without eggs though; doesn’t that hold the filling together?
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,916 Member
    A simple turkey, celery and carrot stir fry to try out the new carbon wok the hubby tempered yesterday. Not sure if I prefer it to my non stick stone wok that I don't dare take to the highest temperature.
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  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    aokoye wrote: »
    I just took a galette in the oven. Per usual, I didn't make the recipe as called for. I didn't add the feta and eggs because I don't like either of those. I also didn't freeze the galette prior to putting it in the oven.

    We'll see how it works out. I've had to keep a very close eye on it and ended up tenting it with foil half an hour into the 50 minutes of baking. It's resting right now and it looks like the bottom isn't burnt which is a good sign.

    Interesting! Looks like Greek spinach pie, but in a pizza crust instead of filo dough. I don’t quite understand how you can make it without eggs though; doesn’t that hold the filling together?

    Kind of, but also with chickpeas. It definitely held together without the egg, though I'm wishing I had only used spinach instead of chard and spinach. The filling itself isn't especially loose. Think of something like a butternut squash galette. I've made that recipe a number of times without the cheese (though I can deal with fontina) and the filling has no issues.

    I think where you would have trouble with a similar filling out is if you used the filling without the eggs to make something like maultaschen without crimping the edges all the way around (the way I make it/have had it involves the two cut ends not being crimped). In that case the dumplings are boiled and frankly I was a bit sceptical at first about the filling not falling out in the process of boiling but was pleasantly surprised.
  • mjbnj0001
    mjbnj0001 Posts: 1,232 Member
    Been traveling - last week was up in Ottawa, with yesterday driving home to NJ. So today seemed right for a south-of-the-border meal, "6th of May." Turkey enchiladas, yellow rice, black bean salad.

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  • JennJ323
    JennJ323 Posts: 646 Member
    Last night I made fish tacos (soft corn shells, 3 fish sticks per shell, broccoli slaw and a homemade "bang bang" sauce) with roasted sweet potato fries.
  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    Polenta With Wild Mushrooms and Marinara Sauce (yes - I love the NYTimes' cooking recipe content). In this case the wild mushrooms were mostly not wild cremini mushrooms, but that was only to round out the half a pound of morels that I bought at farmers market on Saturday. The thyme and rosemary came from the garden. Because of my general hatred of cheese, I just made plain polenta in the rice cooker. Yes parmesan is one of the few cheeses I do like, but I really don't like it or any other cheese in polenta.

    I also made chimichurri with green garlic which ended up topping some roasted asparagus. The green garlic was also from farmers market and I should have picked up some asparagus there as well, but I forgot to and got it at the grocery store with the creminis.

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  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    I made a copy version of Olive Garden's zuppa toscana soup. (Italian sausage, sliced potatoes, kale) + sandwiches.
  • Jelaan
    Jelaan Posts: 815 Member
    Baked salmon with Oh She Glows lemon tahini dressing on the side with stir fried coleslaw veggies and cauli rice.
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,916 Member
    Miso roast carrots, mongolian beef with snow peas, rice. Part of the program of testing out the new carbon steel wok that hubby tempered on the weekend. Still not sure if I prefer my stone coated non stick wok that I don't dare take to extremely high temperatures on the biggest gas hob for fear of damaging the non stick coating.
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  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,916 Member
    Tonight I did my standard gift for new parents--friends who recently had a second child. An afternoonn of batch cooking a bunch of freezer meals. Their freezer is now full of Umbrian chicken cacciatore. Also some frozen bitterballen for finishing in the air fryer. These are dutch croquettes made from cold congealed stew, which are liquid when you bite into a warm one. They are a typical bar snack in Holland. Normally they would be cooked in the deep fat fryer but the air fryer makes easy work of cooking them.
  • pjwrt
    pjwrt Posts: 166 Member
    Hot links with hot mustard and sauerkraut, veggie baked beans, and purified water. Can't be vegan all the time.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    I roasted a pork loin the other night and made mashed potatoes, green beans and macaroni salad to go with.
  • gallicinvasion
    gallicinvasion Posts: 1,015 Member
    Marinated chicken in balsamic/olive oil/garlic/Italian seasonings and grilled it, cooked up some white rice, made pesto to top the chicken and added goat cheese. Had an arugula salad with avocado on the side!
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,916 Member
    Baby corn got the Cambodian Pot Ang treatment (dipped in a marinade of coconut milk, fish sauce, sugar and green onion) as a starter. Then a Thai Lon adapting a David Thompson recipe calling for lightly home cured salmon with Spanish lomo de bonito (a wet cured tuna loin). I like those Thai meals consisting of a warm dipping sauce for raw veg. I make rice for the hubby but don't miss it when I skip that for myself.
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  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    Khao man gai. The chicken was great and I managed to figure out a sauce I like for the first time. For better or worse I used table salt instead of sea salt so the broth was too salty which meant I subbed a cup of water for some of the broth. That said, the rice didn't turn out very well (too much liquid) but it's eatable. Also the chicken definitely did not suffer from the overly salty broth - it's shockingly good.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,301 Member
    Crock-pot spicy honey-soy chicken over a bed of rice.
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,916 Member
    Faloodeh. Not exactly a meal. It is not the usual color because I added a little unsweetened cranberry juice seeing as I didn't have enough lemons and limes in the house.
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  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    Baked apples for breakfast. Stuffed with an oatmeal, brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon mixture. And by, "mixture" I mean layers of those ingredients.
  • _faedreamer
    _faedreamer Posts: 56 Member
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    Instant pot soft boiled eggs (two minutes pressure cook then quick release, into an ice bath, shelled and eat! Perfect gooey yolks with fully set whites every time) and some lovely fresh strawberries. It was a really nice start to the day.
  • sweetbe44
    sweetbe44 Posts: 195 Member
    Baked salmon with dill, roasted sweet potatoes and green beans. I always make extra for lunch so kills 2 birds with one stone.
  • lkpducky
    lkpducky Posts: 17,548 Member
    Ground lamb patties with an assortment of curry spices, ginger and garlic, and malt vinegar-mint sauce on the side; steamed mixed veggies.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    steak tacos!
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,916 Member
    Feloodeh with raspberries and candied lemon peel.
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  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,916 Member
    Isaan nam prik ong for dipping in crudites and with some sticky rice for the hubby. Mini corn given the Cambodian pot ang treatment of coconut, fish sauce, sugar and green onion prior to roasting.
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  • AverageKev2019
    AverageKev2019 Posts: 3 Member
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    Blackened Salmon / Nigerian Jollof Rice / Sautéed Zucchini & Yellow Squash
  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    Apple crisp for breakfast.