Mr B's Iowan grandparents (retired farmers) eat their big meal at midday as well. Historically, they had an early, early start to the day, came back to the house for breakfast around 8:00, had 'dinner' at noon and sandwiches later in the afternoon/early evening.
I had some berries and yogurt. I had a late lunch of pb&j. Tonight I will cook. We'll have salmon with veggies and rice. Dessert will be oatmeal chocolate chip and dried cherry cookies.
Left-over soft taco pie that Setanta made earlier in the weekend.
Layers of sun-dried tomato wraps with ground meat/mushrooms/onions and a coupla types of cheese. Fat free sour cream and salsa on the side. The avocadoes weren't ripe yet.
Hmmm, I had only one ham sandwich...
Oh, so now the post only shows one. My new computer, bless its vile little heart, has a way of jumbling up the screen and I have to resize the window. That time the rest of the window looked okay so I believed the two ham sandwiches. Sheeesh.
Pork chops with onions and mushrooms, soy sauce, rice wine and sesame oil. Brown rice and fresh asparagus. LF ice cream sandwich for dessert.
Tonight: Last night's pumpkin & spinach lasagne, reheated & livened up with a sprinkling of parmesan & chopped chives on top. Nice!
I ate a micro-wave frozen Lasagane (sp?) It was pretty good, I then had 2 or maybe 3 spoonfulls of vanila icecream and a handful of Ruffles potato chips. Am I a gourmand or what?
Yep, definitely a gourmand, dys.
I also finished off a full jar of dill pickles.
Tomorrow night (Good Friday holiday) I plan to do something (
?) with what I assume is some sort of bitter green I bought at the greengrocer's today. A mystery plant with spikey leaves. All the Greek women were buying it with great enthusiasm, which I found very persuasive! I asked one what she was going to do with it & she said boil (or steam) it. Said it was delicious! OK. We'll see. I think some garlic, perhaps & some olive oil?
Nope, not artichokes, Walter. Long, thin stalks (most of which are cut off before cooking) & sort of spikey shaped, dark green leaves.
I've also been checking out endives, which I've never cooked before.
I don't know why, but I'm absolutely craving greens these days!
I like endives only as salad - actually, I don't like them at all: got them as "green food" during winter time when I was a child every second day (we stored the plants in the cellar).
Well, Walter, the Greek & Italian women here seem to just love them! Buying 3 or 4 at a time! So (being very impressionable) I figured they must be good!
curried potato wedges washed with V8 juice
<sigh>
I really need to do something about the way I eat.
