What Are You Having For Dinner

[gumpy]

My cousin brought me over a fresh cantaloupe. She always starts a few plants early in a little make-shift greenhouse she has. It’ll be another month before my cantaloupe is ready.

I had a handful of steamed shrimp, fried squash and a yummy slice of cantaloupe for dinner.

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Cantaloupe eaten like a true southerner, black pepper on it!

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Tonight we had porridge for dinner .

 

[NannyPatty]

AH, that sounds good! I think I’m either having thyroid issues or my estrogen levels have bottomed out. I see the thyroid dr tomorrow and my ob-gyn in a month. It’s amzing how lousy one can feel on that tiny of dose off!

 

[Amish Heart]

Not fun Nanny Patty with low estrogen. I usually stay away from soy products, but I'd think they'd help "low e". Feel better!
Am making hamburgers tonight, and some cod and chips for the vegetarian daughters who will be by. Maybe some fruit salad, too. I bought a swiss roll cake and we have some icecream in the freezer. Hoping not to spend all day in the kitchen today.

 

[Meerkat]

I had a nice BBQ'ed rib eye, with BBQ'ed brussel sprouts, fresh pot of chicken broth rice, a tomato and soft mozzarella cheese and basil coated with balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Of course garlic bread. And to top it off, a nice bottle of Stag's leap Petite Syrah, 2013 vintage. The absolute best bottle of wine I have ever had!

Is that a sweet or dry wine? I'm looking for a good wine thats not real expensive, is it expensive I guess should be first question,lol.

I don't like wine that makes me pucker, I like sweet wine which of course is lower in alcohol content.

 

[Meerkat]

AH, that sounds good! I think I’m either having thyroid issues or my estrogen levels have bottomed out. I see the thyroid dr tomorrow and my ob-gyn in a month. It’s amzing how lousy one can feel on that tiny of dose off!

Hope you feel better soon NannyP.

 

[Meerkat]

Not fun Nanny Patty with low estrogen. I usually stay away from soy products, but I'd think they'd help "low e". Feel better!
Am making hamburgers tonight, and some cod and chips for the vegetarian daughters who will be by. Maybe some fruit salad, too. I bought a swiss roll cake and we have some icecream in the freezer. Hoping not to spend all day in the kitchen today.

Sweet potatoes are good for estrogen too. My daughter is having big problems with change of life hot flashes jitters,etc,etc,etc,. She is against too much like to do it natural if possible medicine but low does birth control is helping her. She started on it 3 weeks ago.

 

[NannyPatty]

I knew about soy, but not sweet potatoes! I love them, too. I switched from what I had been using for many years because my ins no longer paid for it. I’m using estradiol, but I think my dr. is going to have to increase the dose. I doubled it last night and feel a bit better today.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Well been cooking up a storm getting ready for this surgery.
Yesterday started cooking to fill the freezer with my version of TV dinners:
5 miniature meatloafs made with hamburger mix 85% lean and 95% lean and a bit of deer sausage thrown into the mix), jalepino peppers,yellow onion diced,
green onions,Russian sage, Italian Organego fresh out of the garden.
4 Home made chicken and noodles casseroles(8x8) pans.
4 miniature loaf pans of lasgna (enough for 1)
4 chili,rice casseroles
4(8x8) foil pans of home made goulash.
1 8x8 foil pan of smothered steaks with rice
4 quarts of Beef and vegetable soup( made from roast)
4 miniature chicken pot pies
4 miniature beef pot pies
6(8x8 foil pans ) of home made mac and cheese.
Processed 5 pounds of chicken thighs today.
Baked 4 in the oven with herbs from the garden.
5 pounds of twice baked potatoes now in miniature loaf pans 4 to a pan for 15 meals.
Hope to start on desserts, breads,pies next.
1 more day of watching Estelle this week and it too will be a long day.
Have had 8- 16 hour days with Estelle.
She's teething 3 at a time this time on bottom, walking.

 

[Amish Heart]

It's great you have all those meals prepared!

 

[MoBookworm1957]

It's great you have all those meals prepared!

Thank you.
I like to cook, bake etc.
Just get tired of eating by myself.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@MoBookworm1957 well done on getting prepared early so all you have to do is heat up meals when you come home from hospital. It sounds like you will have a good variety to choose from for meals. It is really hard to just cook for 1 though I have to agree and can be challenging even cooking for 2 unless you do bulk batch cooking as we do.

 

[snappy1]

Baked chicken, baked sweet potato, (dh had regular baked potato), creamed squash and chicken gravy.

 

[tiffanysgallery]

Ran into Meijer, bought a steak, grilled it on the George Foreman, when I got home.

It happened so quick, I did't notice what cut of steak it was. Oh well...it was really good.

 

[Meerkat]

Ran into Meijer, bought a steak, grilled it on the George Foreman, when I got home.

It happened so quick, I did't notice what cut of steak it was. Oh well...it was really good.

Hubby is grilling steaks and potatoes on grill soon as they thaw out. Still have carrot salad left over too.

 

[Tank-Girl]

Spicy pulled pork soup.

I had a small bag of spicy pulled pork with brown rice and beans in the freezer and it was a cold miserable day and I really wanted soup.
I made soup out of it by adding chicken stock, a tin of diced tomatoes, tomato paste, more chili, garlic and cumin.
It stretched one small serving into 3 litres of rib sticking soup.

Enough for the next few days esp. if the weather stays miserable.

 

[Peanut]

1st ear of sweetcorn and tomatoes from the garden. Along with fried squash and cantaloupe. I think I'll make a tomato sandwich.

 

[gumpy]

Thank you.
I like to cook, bake etc.
Just get tired of eating by myself.

I'm finding it hard to get used to myself.
Yesterday I made a Salmon casserole with green beans and garlic bread. Fried peach pie for desert.
Tonight I'll have the same,lol. Then I'll freeze the leftover casserole and eat it later.

 

[Meerkat]

I'm finding it hard to get used to myself.
Yesterday I made a Salmon casserole with green beans and garlic bread. Fried peach pie for desert.
Tonight I'll have the same,lol. Then I'll freeze the leftover casserole and eat it later.

We almost always have the same thing a couple days in a row, sometimes it is even better the second time around aka leftovers.
Anyway what your having sounds good too Gump.


Oh, we are having homemade chili and cornbread with steamed cinnamon apples.

 

[Amish Heart]

You are being very plant based healthy, Peanut. That's what I'm supposed to be eating.
But we're having tacos.

 

[Peanut]

You are being very plant based healthy, Peanut. That's what I'm supposed to be eating. But we're having tacos.

I eat a lot of meat in the cold months. In summer I might have bacon 2 or 3 times a week with breakfast/lunch. The rest of the time it's fresh veggies for me. I usually lose about 10lbs every summer and feel 10x better.

p.s. that corn was sooooo good! I think I'll roast the next one over charcoal.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Having bacon and egg burgers for dinner tonight as it was rather a busy day of running around and getting things done in the house and out in town.

@gumpy being alone after such a long time being married gets some being used to so thinking of you. We often the 2 of us have the same meal a couple of times in a row as it saves with the budget and cooking for 1 or even 2 is more challenging anyway in my view.

 

[Amish Heart]

We had a very short time in our lives cooking for two and I found it challenging. All five kids were out of the house. That lasted 2 months. Then one moved back in, then two, then the twin grandkids. I'm used to cooking for hoards and we're used to eating leftovers for lunches. So I cook for at least 4 most nights, 5 people if youngest is home (vegetarian), 7 if son and girlfriend come in (they're in a trailer in the front yard. Sunday is 12 plus. The twins will be going to Christian camp for a week next month, and I'll bet husband will want to eat out a lot. Problem is, I gain weight doing that.

 

[Terri9630]

I've always found it easier to cook for more people.

 

[Meerkat]

We had a very short time in our lives cooking for two and I found it challenging. All five kids were out of the house. That lasted 2 months. Then one moved back in, then two, then the twin grandkids. I'm used to cooking for hoards and we're used to eating leftovers for lunches. So I cook for at least 4 most nights, 5 people if youngest is home (vegetarian), 7 if son and girlfriend come in (they're in a trailer in the front yard. Sunday is 12 plus. The twins will be going to Christian camp for a week next month, and I'll bet husband will want to eat out a lot. Problem is, I gain weight doing that.

I've always found it easier to cook for more people.

It is harder to cook for just 2 people. We try to make it easier by snacking on healthy foods and freeing 2 to 4 meal portions like chili, pasta, vegetables for pizzas and stir fries. Eat lots of walnuts, brazil,peanuts, olives,apples,pears etc .
But it is hard to keep weight on when eating several times daily so try big meal later in day.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Supper tonight is lasgne about 10 portions will go to freezer for future meals.
Garlic toast, salad out of garden, fresh herbs out of garden.
Have no clue about rest of week.
Almost to hot to eat.
Thinking sandwiches,dill pickles,home made veggie chips.
Using up dibs and dabs of stuff.

 

[Amish Heart]

I don't have a problem keeping weight on. It's the off part.
Tonight's dinner is chicken, cauliflower with cheese sauce, yellow squash, and strawberries.

 

[snappy1]

I've always found it easier to cook for more people.

Me too! So we are having frozen and heated jambalaya tonight along with rice crispy treats I made this morning.

 

[Peanut]

Lunch was a Mater sandwich, lots of mayo and fresh cracked pepper, along side a ear of sweetcorn, lots of clarified butter and pepper. I think I'll have the same for supper.

 

[Amish Heart]

Leftover chili from the freezer. Also trying a new recipe Cheesy Tomato Tart. Phyllo pastry sheets for the base, shredded cheese, mayo, scallions, dill, pepper, olive oil. Sliced tomatoes go on top, then it's baked. The two vegetarian daughters will be eating with us tonight, and the chili has meat. Also cooking any other fresh veggies that are in the fridge since we're leaving tomorrow.