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Day 12 after knee surgery and I am still hobbling around on two crutches. I coached the hubby through another easy dinner, but tonight's dinner might have been a little too advanced as he is now totally stressed out. Roast cherry tomatoes can be done in advance in the air fryer or toaster oven. Prick every tomato with a…

My girlfriend batch cooked some Chinese chicken last weekend. Hubby microwaved some of that, braised some pak choi and put rice in the rice

Google “beef lok lak” for a low carb dinner. I skip the optional rice and include the optional fried egg. Pictured here with Cambodian street corn roasted in the air fryer. On this occasion I didn’t have limes in the house for the traditional lime and pepper sauce so used some leftover tamarind sauce that was in the fridge.

You can make these on a dry non stick pan too on top of the stove too. I sometimes make them with grated Parmesan to use as a garnish when cooking pasta or risotto for company to add a brittle accent to soft dishes.

@mjbnj0001 If you google traditional "Soupe au Pistou" recipes you will see a chopped tomato is a classic addition. I skipped it because our next course with Pesto alla Trapanese was tomato based. A dollop of pesto is a great way to make a tasty veggie soup when you don't have good stock on hand.

Still immobile after knee surgery so coached the hubby through another very simple dinner starting with cheat’s Soupe au Pistou. Thats a handful of frozen veg, a tin of white beans, some oddments at the bottom of the produce drawer boiled with a stock cube and served with a good dollop of store bought pesto in each bowl.…

Coached the hubby through a 25 minute dinner. Mash was ready made store bought from the supermarket and just needed warming up in the microwave. Chopped carrots and chicken thighs were roasted together in the air fryer for 20 minutes. In the meantime he could make some salad. We had some leftover aji verde in the fridge.

I will be hobbling around on two crutches for a while. Hubby cooked tonight using stuff we had in the freezer: Frozen potato gnocchi, frozen pesto, frozen veg. Even he could convert the ingredients to a decent meal of cheat's soup au pistou (frozen veg, a stock cube, a dollop of pesto), gnocchi with pesto, and salad.

I am a bit immobile and recovering from knee surgery at home. A girlfriend came over and cooked a Chinese dinner.

Attempt at cooking while recovering at home from knee surgery. Chinese bolognese sauce Zha Jiang Miang out of a packet.

Here's a Chinese version of shrimp stuffed peppers. I normally pan fry shrimp side down briefly while assembling in advance and then finish cooking in the air fryer when we are ready to eat. https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-stuffed-peppers-2/

Hospital food of salmon and Hollandaise. I had knee surgery.

Hospital food. I am having knee surgery.

What’s your favourite way to cook fenugreek leaves (aka methi). I stir fried a bunch with garlic, onion, chilli peppers, grated carrot, cumin and turmeric. I found it too bitter and the hubby found the taste too strong. What should I do with the other bunch?

Pan fried sea bass fillets. One was perfect and the other a fail. Timing of 2 minutes skin side down, and 1 minute skin side up on a medium skillet is perfect for thin fillets. Fail was due to my non stick pan dying. Instead of a lemon wedge, we had some leftover tamarind sauce and aji verde in the fridge.

I had a walking frame after an ankle injury. Hopping on the good leg behind the walking frame around the block was a pretty strenuous cardio workout. Incidentally the “walking on crutches” entry in the exercise database was pretty accurate when I compared it to my heart rate monitor. The entry was made by a MFP friend who…

@Frk_M I meant beets, not radishes.

@Frk_M I forgot to mention I simplify that salmon tartare recipe quite a lot. I buy ready cooked radishes to dice up. In the UK ready cooked radishes are easy to find in the supermarket. If the only ready made radishes you can find are pickled, that would probably work well too, especially if mixed with a little balsamic…

@Frk_M I loosely follow this recipe for salmon or tuna tartare. I follow these FDA guidelines for freezing fish to rid them of parasites. This saves money on not having to buy sashimi grade fish. However, be warned that most domestic freezers only reach -18C so do not get cold enough to satisfy condition 1A. Happily, mine…

Cambodian beef lok lak and coconut milk marinated air fried street corn. We didn't have any lime in the house for the classic khmer pepper sauce so added a lot of pepper to some tamarind sauce we had in the fridge.

Tonight's tapas dinner was designed for using up leftovers. It included meatballs we had in the freezer so only took 25 minutes to put together on a weeknight. Cogollos ajillo using up the baby gem lettuce hearts leftover from last night's salad. Portuguese marinated carrots boiled up last night. Some wrinkly old cherry…

Any vegetable that you roast in the oven can be done more quickly using less energy in the airfryer. Toss in olive oil, season and air fry. If you are not sure about timing, try 5 minute increments, shaking each time until tender. I did mushrooms and courgettes last night for 10 minutes at 200C.

If you need to feed a large crowd for a party or club gathering, chile con carne with some (or all) of the mince replaced with vegetarian quorn. Also replace some beef mince with pork mince.

We lived on Chinese takeaway while I visited mom last week because she was tired of the food at her care home. Now that we are home we had some home cooking. Potato gnocchi and tomato vodka sauce pulled out of the freezer. Air fryer roast mushrooms and courgette. Salad with some pea shoots I grew on the balcony. Dessert of…

Use an instant read meat thermometer. It’s a piece of equipment that costs maybe $10 on Amazon (don’t bother with the very expensive models), and takes about the same room to store as a fork in a kitchen drawer. When the probe says the internal temperature is 72C the chicken is done. My price estimate might be on the low…

Mom is tired of the food at her retirement home so we got Chinese delivered.

Lunch on Air Canada’s london Heathrow to Ottawa International in economy class.

My salmon tiradito was not as pretty as the restaurant’s.

Peruvian dinner. Salmon tiradito, microwaved sweet potato. Nobu’s signature spinach salad with truffle oil, miso powder and fried shallot.

Hubby cooked. Zuurkool stampot with meatballs and salad with ranch.