Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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Last night I didn't see the 2nd link in your post, PAV. (maybe I should have been sleeping - not reading?)
Quite the feast! Stuff there for us veggies to salivate over too - and who wouldn't admire that vibe???3 -
Moving on to hot weather foods now cause it’s HOT 🥵. Today it’s tuna salad nicoise with low cal dressing. Lots of 🐰 too.3
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Alexandra: is your wedding BBQ plan the Southern Variety or the "hibachi" variety?1
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The southern, though for only 8-10 people one of the big spreads with sides included from the BBQ place will do. About half the people are elderly and not big eaters, so I can allow a little smaller portions. And for dessert/wedding cake I will do a sugarfree New York Style cheesecake, because Boyfriend can have that without peril.
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Glad you asked that, PAV. Somehow I missed Alexandra's "when we get hitched" menu. This is a pretty significant what's for supper - and it almost slipped by!
Sounds like a beautiful plan, Alexandra.
If I ever get married again, I would love to have a full-out community barbecue in the park. Free food for everyone (I think I'll stop at the drinks though
- well maybe a glass of bubbly for everyone old enough?). Local bands. Bouncy castle! At this stage in my life I want to celebrate with as many people as possible. 3 -
Back in the dating game...shudder! If I ever find myself single again I’ll get a pen pal. No more romancing for me...2
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I can't escape! Apparently someone who shall not be named (but who is hanging out with me and would qualify as my progenitor) mentioned that he "likes falafel".
At 17:30, this arrived... https://icedrive.net/s/5QYzND1RC5D6tuvR285QStBR8T1Z
Do you guys have a clue how much of a ding falafel hits you with?!?!?!?! I had a total of six. they were exactly 150g in total, cooked. That's a good 550 Cal. Didn't eat any of the tahini enhanced humus (though I should log the spoon lick!)
But, yeah... and falafel doesn't even register for me in terms of satiating for the calories. Tasty? Yes. Filling... no.
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Bella_Figura wrote: »Back in the dating game...shudder! If I ever find myself single again I’ll get a pen pal. No more romancing for me...
Oh, Bella! This time around I tried the opposite. I am blessed with many dear friends - so when a difficult "lover" from long ago appeared in my life it seemed like it would be easier to not "engage" intellectually - no "intimacy" just fooling around occasionally. But the brain keeps interfering. Personalities still clash. He's still a crazy **kitten** nutbar who for some inexplicable reason tickles my fancy enormously. But we rarely get to the "occasionally fooling around" because things blow up too quickly.
So - I think I should skip relationships from here on in - just go for a fun wedding
Maybe with lots and lots of falafel!!!!!
(and file it all under "what's for supper" ) 3 -
Falafel / donut crosses!!!! That spread is to die for, PAV. Freakin' calories
But if you think of it as a powerful amount of nutrition - and that spread as dinner for 10 active people - it is truly amazing!2 -
Yeah, delivered for one and me! 🙀2
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That is dangerous. Hope you found a way to minimize the potential damage for you both.2
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That is a LOT of hummus. O_O2
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We got take-out today, pasta.
I got the ragu bolognese papardele
I weighed the thing and it was about 690gr. So...I ate just the half of it (with my standard huge salad), and gave the other half to my Aunt lol.
Incredibly tasty, especially with the tsalafouti cheese on top.
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Good work Dante! Let Auntie go home with a little extra baggage. I think you’re going to get through this eating challenge just fine. 👍4
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Well..considering aunt Seane has 7 inches on me...I think she will manage just fine lol..
At least, that's the excuse I used this time..
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Let Auntie enjoy all she wants! Oh to be tall rather than shrinking in height. I’m only 5’2” and old so my calorie allotment is pretty low.
People keep pushing food at me imagining that I am surely not eating enough. And I still need to lose 25 lbs! An average restaurant meal in the USA is often well above my entire daily allowance.3 -
I've thawed/microwaved (in today's world I'm avoiding the term "nuked") 750g of veggies in a vague plan to arrange for lighter fare later on today.
According to my coffee pot I've downed 8 cups of coffee during the past 3.5 hours. I'm slowly recovering from falafel overload. I had six.
Forensic picture analysis indicates that with three left over someone in the house had 13🤯🙀3 -
Dad is full of falafel! Perhaps kind lady downstairs has a maiden aunt or widowed relative that cooks equally well? Could be a match made in heaven for Dad.1
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I am here Sorry folks - still out of all sorts! Am weighing, measuring and logging…bunnies are limping along… lupus is bl**min’ galloping weight is on downward trend though … can’t walk on these joints, but doing bits of gentle staionary cycling 😌🙄🤗🚲3
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Thanks mfp for deleting my previous attempt at a post!
Glad the cat dragged in something that still alive Atki 😘 especially since you're heading in the correct trajectory. And hopefully you'll soon kick some lupine *kitten* and feel better.
Yooly? I thought you were a nice person and my friend! 🙀
Over here in these parts, independently living officially ends when you can't get your ***kitten*** off the toilet seat by yourself. It's not as if my parental needs extra encouragement to overeat! What he needs encouragement is to get up on the sidewalk while waiting for the light to change!🤯
Apparently, however, I must comparatively increase my accomplishments approximately 1,000 fold to approach his before I am allowed to point out that traditionally people don't occupy one of three lanes of traffic while waiting for The pedestrian light to change...1 -
Yes, I did try to point out that I was scared and lonely and needed some personal hand holding hence my invitation to join me on the sidewalk and no it had nothing to do with him not getting run over. It still didn't fly! 🤷🏻♂️2
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Dad isn’t that much older than me. So he needs to get his **kitten** together. Or he just enjoys aggravating you. There are no winners either way.
Had an interesting food for lunch today. Goetta. It’s a thing in Cincinnati and probably other German/Dutch areas. It’s a loaf made of cooked ground meat and oats. Plenty of seasonings. It sets in loaf pan overnight, then sliced and browned. No oil in browning as that causes it to break up. It’s related to scrapple and the same idea as boudin and kishka. Hubby decided to make it after hearing about it on vacation in Ohio.
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That's a lot of meaty oatmeal! I seem to recall that I made some dog food for my previous dog 😹 which was one part lean beef, I believe it was a 5 lb package, one part oatmeal for a total of 10 lb, 1l (1kg) of egg whites, 300 g of eggs.... This is going from memory. I did try some in meatloaf format but due to lack of seasoning I can't say I was impressed
However as far as I recall the dog was happy 😹😎
I'll have to check the recipes to see if there's any similarity!3 -
Veggie poutine tonight! Thawed some leftover over Thanksgiving gravy...baked some potato wedges...picked up some surprisingly good cheese curds at No Frills ... extremely satisfying, pretty tasty, and not horrific on the calorie front (the sodium though is another story completely). The east coast bound kids are busy clearing out their house, getting it ready to sell. So The Boy was here for the weekend, and we all got together for dinner. They are both trained chefs - she a red seal - so their nod of approval and everything being completely finished was a nice moment
13 Falafel!!!! 6 even...lol But they are sooooo good!
Atki - sounds pretty nasty - but somehow you are pulling it off.
Yooly - I'm happy for my extra inches. It does open up the calorie allotment nicely!
Your dinner sounds just like what I'm going to have tomorrow, PAV.
Dante - that looks delicious. The tsalafouti looks amazing on top! Does it taste somewhere in the realm of ricotta?4 -
However as far as I recall the dog was happy 😹😎
I'll have to check the recipes to see if there's any similarity!
Don’t doubt dog would love it! There are no eggs in goetta however. Spices tend to the middle eastern. Lots of German and Lebanese cross over recipes in Cincinnati. Like scrapple, the purpose was to make meat go further in hard times. It’s actually more of a breakfast food to be served with eggs.
Or served to an adventurous dog? Anyway it was quite tasty.2 -
We had a rather boring meal of chicken cutlets, steamed cauliflower with cheese sauce, and green beans cooked with onions in ham broth. I of course had mine with wild rice pilaf cause I can't do cauliflower and don't like green beans.
Then I watched Prehistoric Planet with Boyfriend and am still a little high, cause I've been a dinosaur fangirl from early days and seeing them like this is just.....(sigh of happiness).5 -
Doesn't sound boring at all, Alexandra - and you still being a little high, honest, brought tears to my eyes. You work so hard to take care of everyone. Makes me happy to that your dinosaur fangirl self had such a great moment!4
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They are doing five nights in a row of this. FIVE NIGHTS. OMG. And it's all based on good science and sensible scientific imagination, which is just blissful to me. Tonight, a swimming T. rex. A mosasaur fight! I remember reading the paper the mosasaur fight was based on. (Yes, this is what I'm doing while things are cooking; reading papers on paleontology and history and geology and biology and medicine. And a heap of Golden Age mysteries.)
And on that note, I'm headed off to bath and bed. It's a little early, but I'm coming down from the high and am getting sleepy, and sleepy is not solved with food, it's solved with going the heck to bed.4 -
Smart cookie, Alexandra. I know that rule of thumb - but here I am eating pizza because I'm tired.
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