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Post by Mari on Jan 31, 2024 3:00:20 GMT
This evening we had shrimp with parsley sauce, sautéed mustard greens/garlic, and focaccia (with rehydrated dried tomatoes, fresh rosemary, pesto, garlic, sea salt) that my husband made for the first time. I'd never had mustard greens until a few days ago go figure. These things are awesome - I am amazed at the flavor they have when eaten fresh. My husband wanted to buy more stuff for Sterling (rabbit) to munch on hence the mustard greens. I hadn't ever had turnip greens either.
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Post by FeralFerret on Jan 31, 2024 3:06:58 GMT
My wife mixes the mustard greens and turnip greens.
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Post by Mari on Jan 31, 2024 3:43:18 GMT
My wife mixes the mustard greens and turnip greens. I'll have to try that! Never thought of mixing them.
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Post by FeralFerret on Jan 31, 2024 4:46:53 GMT
My wife mixes the mustard greens and turnip greens. I'll have to try that! Never thought of mixing them. We mix them when we plant them in the garden at the end of the summer. We do about 2/3 turnip greens and 1/3 mustard greens. When we harvest them, we just take them as they come. Some years we get two or three cuttings. The are actually milder and taste better after a frost.
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Post by Txsteader on Jan 31, 2024 14:07:42 GMT
Mari, that shrimp dish sounds so good. Alas, my DH won't touch anything but fried shrimp. I've tried shrimp cocktail, BBQ shrimp, etc and he won't eat them. Claims they taste different when they're boiled or sauted. And there's no point in making a fine sauce when I'm the only one that would be eating. Every now & then the craving will get too strong and I will make shrimp cocktail just for myself.
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Post by UseLess on Feb 1, 2024 16:49:20 GMT
For no good reason I have the McD app on my phone. Yesterday they sent me free medium fries, no additional purchase, so used the drive-through. The fries were hot, too. Nothing I ever order. Munched them on the ride home. I also had an apple, some cheese & Westphalian ham, a glass of pear wine.
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Post by UseLess on Feb 1, 2024 23:00:14 GMT
After my massage this morning, I had the soup & sandwich at a restaurant that works to use as much of locally-sourced ingredients as possible. I have half the tasty & interesting grilled cheese left. They label it "the adult grilled cheese & soup lunch." 3 cheeses, decent tomatoes, caramelized onions, bacon chips, thick homemade sourdough bread, not heavy. Tomato soup, but chunky, with greens, herbs, croutons.
I'm running the oven, anyway, with a baking potato & small two winter squashes. I almost never used the oven before I had that kitchen rehab. Didn't feel safe. Now that I have a new stove, I just need to get back in practice.
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Post by FeralFerret on Feb 2, 2024 3:51:33 GMT
My wife loves the Pad Thai at a Thai restaurant near here. It is their Thursday special for $9.00.
The past month she has wanted to go Thursday afternoon, but until today she kept deciding to stay in bed instead. We keep evening shift hours. We finally made it today. She had the Pad Thai with chicken. I had the mixed vegetables with beef. Both came with a vegetable egg roll and chicken rice noodle soup since it was before 3 PM. We both enjoyed the meal.
Afterward, we went a couple of blocks to Culvers and each got two scoops of the flavor of the day which was Espresso Toffee Bar. Rich espresso flavored Fresh Frozen Custard swirled with old fashioned salted caramel, crunchy bits of Heath Bar and gooey butter cake pieces.
Eating light for supper after that meal. Can't say I didn't eat my veggies today.
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Feb 2, 2024 4:25:18 GMT
That sounds so yummy, FeralFerret . I eat out very rarely in winter when it’s cold/flu/Covid season, except for a couple of places we feel comfortable with. I’m always hungry for Chinese food by summer!
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Post by FeralFerret on Feb 2, 2024 4:36:04 GMT
That sounds so yummy, FeralFerret . I eat out very rarely in winter when it’s cold/flu/Covid season, except for a couple of places we feel comfortable with. I’m always hungry for Chinese food by summer! I prefer Chinese food to Thai, but my wife is the opposite. The Chinese restaurant we liked went downhill when the mother retired. She was the main cook. They finally went out of business about four years ago. We haven't found another that we like real well, but haven't tried very many. Back when we lived in Texas, there was a restaurant that had both Chinese and Thai foods. It was our favorite.
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Post by Mari on Feb 4, 2024 3:56:31 GMT
Swiss Steak here tonight. I pretty much double all the veg ingredients.
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Post by Txsteader on Feb 4, 2024 12:41:12 GMT
We had Mongolian beef yesterday, one of the freezer meals DD and I made/put up a few months ago. We'd made 2 dinners for each of us, I cooked the first one awhile back but apparently simmering in a skillet wasn't the right cooking method; it was tough (strip steak) and DH said the sauce was kinda strong (ginger). This time I put it in the slow cooker and it turned out perfect. Served over jasmine rice with a side of steamed broccoli.
Plan to have good ol' BLTs today.
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Post by FeralFerret on Feb 5, 2024 4:34:56 GMT
Tried some frozen chicken fried steak and gravy tonight. The box holds five steaks and five gravy packets. I put the steak in the air fryer and followed package directions. Individual gravy packet for each steak goes into a pan of boiling water for five minutes. Steak cooks on air fry for 10 minutes at 385 degrees. Turned out real well. Better than some I have gotten in restaurants. The are a little small. I could handle two at a time. Each steak only 220 calories and the gravy packet is 30 calories. I had a frozen cheeseburger mac entree as a side dish. I'll have to bake a potato to go with it next time. Wife got an Apple Pecan Salad from Wendy's and a chocolate Frosty.
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Post by fixitguy on Feb 11, 2024 4:18:54 GMT
Tonight was crock pot beef stew. I sliced up a round steak and browned the meat, then added about 3/4 cup of red wine to the ingredients. It turned out very well, better than I expected, Sunday will be homemade chicken noodle soup. We were gifted a frozen pack of chicken thighs a few weeks back. What better to make with them? I think the rest will turn into chicken broth.
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Post by ohiodreamer on Feb 11, 2024 13:42:31 GMT
Super Bowl night (bigger deal for me than hubby, lol) Going easy on myself. Cheesesteak sandwiches from home canned beef. I'll add sauteed mushrooms, peppers, and onions to give a hint of healthy, lol.
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