What was the last meal you cooked?
Replies
-
Gumbo paleo in instapot1
-
Smoked/grilled buffalo wings..1
-
I've got a mate coming over for dinner tonight. He's a little complicated to feed because of FODMAPs intolerance to onions and garlic. Planning to do California roll your own hand rolls, miso soup with tofu and seaweed, pavlova for dessert.1
-
Not a meal, but I have beef stock cooking in the Instant Pot. I essentially only really use the thing for beans and stock but it's very good at both of those. Beef bones were on sale for $1.29/pound at the HMart (a national Korean chain) I went to and they had some flank steak that needed to be sold today that was $2/pound.
It probably has another hour and a half or so in the IP and then will take forever to natural release. I'll likely let it cool in a large container before portining it into smaller jars for freezing as there is going to likely be a lot of fat that needs to be removed (and saved for some other purpose).
And this, friends, is why buying "bone broth" is a waste of money when you can just make it yourself.3 -
Roll your own California hand rolls and miso soup. I forgot to take a picture of the raspberry pavlova until after we dug in.
4 -
you like cooking?
Welcome to the thread jc4meandu!
If it's solely for myself, I do quite enjoy cooking (soups, stews, one pan roasts, on the grill and salads).
For family and friends, even catering, I prefer to take directions, as an assistant to the lead in the kitchen, not at all opposed to maintaining a clear and clean kitchen as we work through the preparations from start to table.0 -
A quick soup with beef broth that I made earlier today, vermicelli noodles, korean style dumplings, and a chopped scallion. Could easily be improved by adding fish sauce, some sort of green, etc. That said, it was fast and good.3
-
Moroccan-style chicken with prunes, almonds, couscous. Pressure cook version. Served with side cucumber-tomato salad. Tastes great, even if the presentation isn't spectacular. Fast/easy in the cooker. Still have to figure the MFP macros. Tri-color couscous, by the way, accounting for the colored speckles.
1 -
These have been the last couple of days.. let me know if you need recipes.1
-
5 -
Baked Caesar Chicken with Sauteed Yellow Squash1
-
Another simple-ish, pre-Thanksgiving meal: slowcooker Italian-style chicken served over spaghetti squash and sauce, mixed veg on the side.
2 -
Rib eye steak and Asparagus4
-
Turkey smoked sausage with a sweet potato, pepper and onion hash.2
-
Very tasty (but a complete fail in terms of form!) sweet potato and harissa cakes.
I’m experimenting with sweet potato because it’s something that I’ve always thought I didn’t really like but I’m discovering how good it is late in the day!
I’ll take a tip from the post above me and use the rest of the mixture as hash! 😂1 -
I had my usual breakfast of 12oz of instant coffee, oatmeal with Smart Balance, brown sugar, and raisins. For lunch I'll have roasted turkey with cornbread dressing and green beans with homemade cranberry sauce. I've never been much on gravy, so no temptation there!2
-
Last night's dinner: Salmon, Brussel sprouts cooked in bacon oil and mushrooms!2
-
Homemade French onion soup.2
-
bacon, potato and cheese quiche served w/ sausage patties2
-
I get to cook tomorrow as I have an old school friend coming for dinner. I am the designated weekend and company cook in my household. Starter of chicken satay, compressed Malaysia rice with cucumber and red onion salad maybe with lalab dressing. Main of Vietnamese roll your own summer rolls with satay sauce. Dessert of Cambodian pumpkin custard.
https://www.thelondoner.me/2015/05/the-greatest-chicken-satay.html
https://www.nyonyacooking.com/recipes/compressed-rice-for-chicken-satay~r1TedPiwzcZ7
https://pisangsusu.com/442-lalab-with-tomato/
http://www.shinahchang.com/blog/2014/06/09/yum-vietnamese-summer-roll-party
https://www.cambodiarecipe.com/recipe/cambodian-pumpkin-coconut-custard/2 -
I already messed up my first attempt at dessert. I tried cooking the Cambodian pumpkin custard in the microwave which used to work in my old machine but the new one is more powerful even on the lowest setting. It overheated and curdled. Also the butternut squash hubby bought was not big enough to serve four. I had the failed custard for lunch. Now have a second one steaming the conventional way.
1 -
Dinner party tonight started with chicken satay served Malaysian style with cold skewers of compressed rice, cucumber, red onion for dipping in warmed up commercial satay sauces. Hubby likes a mellow one with lots of peanut and coconut. I like a funky one that contains dried shrimp paste. Main was roll your own Vietnamese hand rolls. Produce was a soft lettuce, mint, thai basil and coriander. Protein was grilled turkey breast, grilled steak, and poached prawns. Main filler for the summer rolls was a mix of grated carrot and bean vermicelli. We used th leftover satay sauces for dipping and added classic nuoc cham. Dessert was my second attempt of Cambodian pumpkin custard, this time cooked the conventional way steamed instead of the microwave.
4 -
I brought Stella Parks' impossible pecan pie for Thanksgiving. Poor choice in terms of things not to do when baking for a bunch of people that you don't know (I was at my friend's aunt's house) but it worked out well.
The other pie is a bruleed pumpkin pie a chocolate crust (coco powder was added to the crust - it wasn't any sweeter than any other crust would be).
This afternoon I made baked salmon with fennel and a pistachio pan sauce. The recipe is from the NYTimes. Essentially you preheat a pan in a very hot oven, add a tbsp of butter and thinly sliced fennel and let it bake for 10 min. After said 10 min you put the salmon skin down on top of the fennel, turn the oven down to 255, and let it cook for 15 min.3 -
Thick sliced bacon. Potato pancakes (made from leftover garlic mashers) cooked in the bacon fat. A couple of eggs sunny side up. Happy belly now.2
-
A very simple protein meal that’s still healthy. I never like those strange complicated recipes that websites do. Eating healthy should be foods you already enjoy
Peri peri prawns with sweet corn + plum tomato, baby gem lettuce, and avocado with lemon and garlic powder
3 -
My suspected UTI and the lack of energy that is coming with it means that tonight I'm roasting chicken thighs seasoned with adobo powder. I was going to make a simple ramen but I'll leave that for tomorrow.1
-
Last evening with leftovers tonight - slowcooker beef stew. Overloaded with carrots, light on the potatoes. No pic - y'all know a beef stew when you see one, LOL. Perfect for the stormy ushering-in-winter-season storm coming through the USA Northeast yesterday/today.2
-
Sweet potato apple waffles drizzled with pure maple syrup.2
-
@juniper148 I just saw a recipe for sweet potato waffles and was thinking of making them this weekend. The one I saw didn't have an apple. I'm curious did you shred it?1
-
I made turkey and dumpling soup out of my leftover turkey carcass and I was not a fan lol. I'm making a roast tonight. Tonight I'm planning to serve it with mashed potatoes, and then tomorrow I'm planning to make sandwiches out of it on ciabatta rolls and provolone cheese
1
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 393.3K Introduce Yourself
- 43.8K Getting Started
- 260.2K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.9K Food and Nutrition
- 47.4K Recipes
- 232.5K Fitness and Exercise
- 424 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.5K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.5K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 153K Motivation and Support
- 8K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.3K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.7K MyFitnessPal Information
- 24 News and Announcements
- 1.1K Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.6K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions