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We finally managed to think of dinner early enough to order an alternative meal of shrimp stir fry.
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@Lietchi I forgot to add that if you eat a freshly made lasagna right away you need to let it sit for several hours so that the raw pasta softens before baking. I would normally assemble after lunchtime to bake in the evening, but you can leave one in the fridge overnight or use a recipe incorporating cooked lasagna sheets…
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@Lietchi If you get tired of caprese, layering the mozzarella with cooked slices of beetroot, sliced orange and smoked fish is a good combination I ate once on vacation in Bologna.
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Lasagna freezes well. I use a recipe that layers uncooked pasta sheets, bolognese sauce and mozzarella, ricotta or cottage cheese and topped with grated hard cheese. Put bolognese sauce down as the bottom layer. Freeze the raw lasagnas, thaw overnight and bake for an hour as normal for a quick and easy weeknight dinner…
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Baked apple with lots of nutmeg and caramel sauce with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. MFP posts photos in a random order when I click multiple photos.
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Dinner at mom’s retirement home. On previous visits we would go to restaurants occasionally but she has gotten too lethargic for that.
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Nursing home dinner. I forgot to photograph dessert of lemon meringue tart.
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I top quinoa with Thai stir fry cabbage for breakfast. Thai pork omelette is another favourite topping for quinoa. https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/cabbage-fish-sauce/ https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/thai-pork-omelette/
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Dinner at mom’s nursing home.
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Another dinner with mom at her nursing home.
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I do a low fat Basque burnt cheesecake. Google the recipe for the dairy to egg ratio but ignore admonishments that you need to use full fat double cream and cream cheese. I line a spring form pan that fits in the air fryer with silicon baking paper. Hand whisk a half and half mixture of low fat Philadelphia cream cheese,…
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Another care home dinner with my mom. Chicken breast surprisingly moist.
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If you struggle with peeling vegetables, I pop hard to peel items such as squash for a minute in the microwave where softening makes them easier to peel.
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Dinner with mom at her care home. It wasn’t too bad for mass catering. It’s sweet that the hubby already says he misses my cooking.
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Dinner at my mom’s care home was not bad, though mom complains about the general quality of the food.
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Visiting my mom. If is hard to find a restaurant meal in suburban Ottawa after 20:00. Dinner at Swiss Cottage.
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Whenever I make a recipe that freezes well I cook a quadruple batch because quadrupling a recipe is not much more work than a single batch especially if you use the food processor for tasks like chopping onions. Braised dishes such as coq au vin, chicken cacciatore, dak dori tang, beef daube, beef rendang, bolognese sauce…
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@mjbnj0001 Classic snert is garnished with celery leaves instead of parsley. I’ve never had it served with cheese which the Dutch hubby snorted as being ludicrous. Recipe looks pretty good otherwise. A test of good snert is that a wooden spoon should stand up in it. Vegetarian bacon bits might be a more traditional tasting…
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Lunch on the London/Toronto service in Economy with Air Canada.
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@mjbnj0001 In Holland at this time of year celeriac would be an indispensable ingredient in snert (=split pea soup). My Dutch hubby always complains if I skip it.
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Attempted to recreate something I once ate at a restaurant. Oatmeal risotto made with dashi and cream cheese served with fried sea bream and skin crisped up separately in the air fryer. Side of sea bream tiradito which was seared tataki style. I forgot to photograph the salsa verde which gave a fresh acidic accent to the…
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Air fryer imitation KFC from the Chicago Tribune recipe. Green salad, air fryer roast Belgian endive and oven chips.
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Celeriac soup pulled of the freezer and garnished with chorizo oil and pan fried chorizo. Air fryer cheese souffle with a green salad.
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My husband has only met the man of the house in passing on the street, so we don't know them. They were distributing food among all their neighbours as that is apparently the Eid tradition. Despite surely having Muslim neighbours and colleagues in the past, I never knew about this part of the post Ramadan celebration. I…
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My Bengali neighbours came distributing boxes of food in celebration of Eid. I added carrot rapee for something raw and fresh as well some potato pave that needed using up.
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Fridays are the evening we eat out as the hubby is convinced it makes the weekend feel longer. We went to a new discount sushi place in the hood.
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Whenever I make marinades, salad dressings and favourite stir fry sauces I make extra and store in the fridge in squeeze bottles. It’s easy having them on hand. I will use jars for sauces that contain lumpy ingredients such as chopped onions or chillies. Most are made with non perishable ingredients and even the ones…
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Gai yang drumsticks where I froze the chicken in the marinade. Defrosting overnight in the marinade is much quicker than first defrosting and then marinating overnight and gives similar results. Pomelo salad from the batch made earlier in the week, stir fried cabbage, Portuguese carrots, air fryer oven chips.
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I have been experimenting freezing meat in marinade, and I can report defrosting in marinade overnight has a similar effect to marinating overnight. Following a tip from the Serious Eats cookbook whenever I make marinades, stir fry sauces, and salad dressings I will make a batch to keep in the fridge in squeeze bottles so…
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If you have access to an Asian supermarket try furikake. That is a seasoning mix Japanese parents sprinkle on white rice to get kids to eat plain rice. Typically contains seaweed flakes, sesame seeds, salt.