What do your meals look like (show me pictures)....
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Tapas dinner. A Spanish tortilla, some leftover taktouka from last weekend with toast, a salad with roast grapes and feta. I took out a small portion of salt beef from the freezer but forgot to serve it.
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Quick lunch: heated up some sliced turkey fro Costco, 2 eggs, and some celery (also from Costco, way too much celery).5 -
Last chance to experiment with kakiage before next weekend's dinner party. I liked the batter version with 2 parts potato starch to 1 part wheat flour. Hubby preferred rice flour. We had the kakiage experiment with some dashi broth. Starter of albacore tuna tataki salad and tuna salad (=tinned tuna + mayo) and cucumber maki roles.
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@mjbnj0001
A couple of tips about checking if your freezer is cold enough to kill parasites in order to serve fish raw:
1. I found it useful to use a thermometer with a dial reading so that you can see the temperature continuously as opposed to an instant read digital where you need to wait a few seconds after pressing a button by which time the thermometer warms up outside of the freezer. The thermometer we use in the freezer was originally bought for the oven, where I did not trust the accuracy of the thermostat.
2. My freezer is colder around the perimeter than in the centre. Even if the centre does not reach the -20C recommended by the FDA, you might find spots around the perimeter near the cooling elements that do.2 -
For breakfast I had...
One cup oats
Three eggs
Two pieces of toast with peanut butter
Banana
Protein shake3 -
Celeriac soup with chorizo oil as a starter. Main of cheese souffle and salad with roasted grapes and corned beef, which I forgot to serve yesterday. The cheese souffle was a cosmetic fail because I didn't beat the egg whites enough, so the volume of the batter didn't fill the ramekins. It was still a nice airy texture.
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Spaghetti carbonara and crudites to dip into leftover taktouka.
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I keep forgetting to come back to this thread, and also I've been eating a lot of straight trash the last few weeks.
Pot of navy bean, chard, and chicken soup. Goosed it with fresh rosemary and the new thyme from the garden pot.
Sweet Potato Chicken Curry. This was an instant pot recipe that looks so much better than it tasted. Partner looked at me across the table and said "How on earth did you make curry...bland? I blame a combination f the IP and a very elderly sweet potato.
Korean Pot Roast bowl with quick-pickled carrot, radish, and cucumber over coleslaw. Chuck roasts were on sale, and found a recipe for "slow cooker Korean soft tacos" for a change. But I didn't have the calories for even keto tortillas today, so I got a bowl. A keeper recipe, but needed more heat.
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The hubby took me out in return for setting up the printer on his new laptop. Good deal! We went to a fine dining place offering a 40% discount on weeknights.
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That's a shame, because that is some seriously good-looking food you posted there! Thanks for sharing! In case you didn't know, you can subscribe to a conversation thread by clicking that little white flag thingie just to the right of the thread title. The flag will turn blue to tell you you're subscribed, and then you get notifications whenever someone comments on the thread (which will make it much harder to forget in the future, haha). You can unsubscribe anytime by turning the flag white again.I keep forgetting to come back to this thread, and also I've been eating a lot of straight trash the last few weeks.1 -
@acpgee Your tech support reward looks delicious
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not too computer savvy - how do you open and view these recipes0
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Labour intensive breakfast.
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This is not a recipe collection, it’s mostly just people showing what they ate. Although if you browse the thread you will see that some of the comments do have basic info on how the dish was made, or even a link to a recipe.not too computer savvy - how do you open and view these recipes1 -
Lunch- baby mixed lettuce, smoked turkey, apple, dried cranberry, smoked almonds, onion, light honey mustard dressing. <400 cal
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A starter of toast and a dip of roasted feta and grapes. Main of miso marinated sea bream and stir fried choi sum.
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Whoops. Here is the main.
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My husband and sons gave me an ooni wood fired pizza oven for Valentine’s Day. I finally found some time to set it up and try it out tonight! Chicken, broccoli, red pepper and garlic pizzas for me. Pepperoni for my family. These were sooo good!5 -
Breakfast:
Almond wraps with smoked salmon and avocado. (Some onion and cilantro) and a side of shitake-caulisotto.
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Lunch = all the leftover veggies in my fridge warmed in a skillet with a little garlic oil and red chili flakes, and a roasted chicken thigh. I took the skin off and shared it with my dog. <400 calories
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Some of my recent meals:
🧄 Roast Chicken Legs with Lots of Garlic ready to go in the oven.
I ate them first with spinach sautéed in garlic & olive oil...
🧄 ... and then with Charred Aubergines with Pine Nuts and Tahini, from the book The Real Meal Revolution. One of my favorite ways to make eggplant... so yummy. I have a copy of the book and I wasn't able to find the recipe online, but if anyone's interested it looks like you can enroll in the recipe collection for free here. I replaced the butter with olive oil, and increased the amount of lemon juice to 1/4 cup.
🥕 A quick "salad" of romaine lettuce, carrots, and canned smoked trout.
🍲 Golden Chicken Vegetable Soup with Chickpeas (leftovers that I had put in the freezer a few months ago). Just a simple, brothy soup that warms the belly and heart. I needed a bit more protein & fat, so I also had a snack of Red Dragon English Cheddar with Wholegrain Mustard & Ale which is pretty good, though not my favorite cheese ever.
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Buttery Scallops with Lemon and Herbs by Melissa Clark -- go ahead and click, it's a gift link so you can see it even if you don't subscribe to the NYT. I love this even though the flavors are quite strong for scallops. I'm usually a big fan of fresh herbs (one reason why I love Melissa Clark's recipes) but I don't think the herbs did this dish any favors, so I will make it without next time.
Cucumbers with Ajo Blanco Sauce -- I made this as a side for the scallops, but the two don't go well together, so I ate them separately. I was also NOT impressed with this dish. First of all, there was WAY too much sauce, which was a waste of almonds; secondly, well, it was wrong in all kinds of ways: far too salty; a little too watery / not creamy enough; and I realized once again that I just don't care for the taste of raw garlic. My bad for not reading the recipe more closely before getting started.
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Soup of Lentils and Mushrooms -- another dish I pulled from the freezer. I made this last fall and did NOT care for it at all. I ended up adding some bright crunchy romaine, roasted & salted pumpkin seeds, and olive oil to the hot soup... this made it ok because it covered up all that uniformly brown flavor, but I would not make this soup again. Fortunately it's all gone now
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Friday night is when we normally eat out becaue the hubby thinks it makes the weekend feel longer.
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@takinitalloff
Sorry you didn't like the ajo blanco sauce, but try making a real ajo blanco soup in the summer if you haven't had it before. I tried it first in Andalusia. The first time I made it was from a Claudia Roden cookbook that called for 500g of peeled grapes. My husband loved it and used to beg me to make it. I think he even peeled all the grapes once.
An example of a recipe below. It is actually very easy if you don't need to peel a ton of grapes. I now know that halving the grapes gives the same mouth feel as peeled grapes.
https://spanishsabores.com/ajo-blanco-recipe-chilled-almond-soup/2 -
@acpgee Wow that is a delicious-looking soup and thank you for sharing the recipe, but I'm going to pass on that at least for the foreseeable future. I'm eating low-carb/high-fat, and all that bread + apple and grapes would probably put me over my limit for the entire day Maybe in the future, if my dietary habits change. I still have a lot of weight to lose so I'm sticking to what works By the way I always get a smile out of the things you share about your husband (like the peeling of 500g of grapes, and his conviction that eating out on Fridays makes the weekends feel longer). I love your enthusiasm for good food. Your Friday night meal looks scrumptious as always. 1
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A simple, quick-assemble meal tonight, home from errands: veg salad w oil&vinegar dressing, whole wheat spaghetti with a homemade tomato-cannelleni sauce. "Homemade" for the sauce is a little overstating the case, LOL: can of beans, plus cans of tomato sauce, add some herbs and spices, heat, let simmer to bring flavors together, and mix onto cooked pasta. MFP estimates approx. 804 cals, 36g protein, 14g fat, 138g carb (w 37g fiber) in this meal. I stayed within my daily goals.
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A simple, quick-assemble meal tonight, home from errands: veg salad w oil&vinegar dressing, whole wheat spaghetti with a homemade tomato-cannelleni sauce. "Homemade" for the sauce is a little overstating the case, LOL: can of beans, plus cans of tomato sauce, add some herbs and spices, heat, let simmer to bring flavors together, and mix onto cooked pasta. MFP estimates approx. 804 cals, 36g protein, 14g fat, 138g carb (w 37g fiber) in this meal. I stayed within my daily goals.
I’m loving that colorful crispy looking salad!!0 -
Coniglio alla cacciatora (Rabbit Caccitore.)
Interesting to note - Caccitore in Italian means hunter.
I thought the best place I’ve ever eaten Rabbit was a small town in Italy, but I bought these at a local butcher shop (NY) and slow simmered.. tasted great.
Did ya know- 3oz rabbit meat has over 90% daily rda of vitamin b12. One of the highest levels in any meat.1 -
Reworked leftovers from last night's dinner party.
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