dinner tonight
Tonight will be a veritable feast of ... Weetabix, accompanied by semi-skimmed milk and a sprinkling of sugar. (Yes dinner, cos last night's take away was breakfast)
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Are you taking those vitamins I sent you, Dorothy? :wink:
Not that I can report fabulous dinners, myself, this week. Five nights of soup! The best I could manage in the circumstances. Life's a bugger sometimes .....
Leftovers. Not my fave, but not bad.
dinner tonight
msolga wrote
Quote:Are you taking those vitamins I sent you, Dorothy?
Not that I can report fabulous dinners, myself, this week. Five nights of soup! The best I could manage in the circumstances. Life's a bugger sometimes .....
Soup for five nights?? You must be sloshing!
Gues what i had last night? Chinese Take Away!!! but not even my own, just bits stolen from other peoples plates. Brilliant!. Yeah must get some vitamins.
x
Dr. Oetker's Pizza Generosa after I got back from belly dance class.
Re: dinner tonight
Dorothy Parker wrote:msolga wrote
Quote:Are you taking those vitamins I sent you, Dorothy?
Not that I can report fabulous dinners, myself, this week. Five nights of soup! The best I could manage in the circumstances. Life's a bugger sometimes .....
Soup for five nights?? You must be sloshing!
Gues what i had last night? Chinese Take Away!!! but not even my own, just bits stolen from other peoples plates. Brilliant!. Yeah must get some vitamins.
x
I should point out, Dorothy, that it wasn't the
same soup 5 nights running. But yes, I am sloshing, rather.
Why couldn't you have your
own Chinese take-away? Everyone else had them & you missed out! Doesn't seem right, somehow ...
Well msolga, I was rushing on my way out so it isnt as pathetic as it sounds. So what's with all the soups? Have you recently purchased a new soup recipe book?
Tonight on the menu was Persian food (mmmmmmm) but still a take away I'm afraid. Slightly healthier than Chinese though.
x
Well, it all started a few days ago when I asked Osso if she wanted to come over for Dys Tacos and she having no fear, accepted, so I used an old recipe for the taco filling where I boil the meat with Cumin and Paprika, fresh chilies from the garden, diced onion, diced garlic etc and a pound of ground sirloin. I boil it down for several hours and then stain it all through a sieve resulting in about 2 cups of liquid base which yesterday the lady Diane then added more fresh chilies and a package of frozen corn and we had the most bestest soup I have ever eaten. We have 2 cartons left in the freezer which the lady is saving for when her youngest son arrives next week.
Perhaps next week I will respond to the Lady Diane's soup with my beef/barley.
3/4 lb. beef, cubed
2 clove garlic, minced
1/2 diced sweet onion
8 c. water
2 fresh tomatoes diced with juice
1 c. barley
1/2 c. celery, chopped
1 carrot, sliced
2 beef bouillon cubes
1/2 tsp. basil, crushed
1 bay leaf
Salt and pepper to taste
In soup pot, brown meat. Add onion and garlic and cook until onion is tender. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 2 hour stirring occasionally. I usually serve with heated corn tortillas
Dorothy Parker wrote:... So what's with all the soups? Have you recently purchased a new soup recipe book?.
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No, not a new recipe book, Dorothy. I often cook soup (many different varieties) & really like it. Very good for you, too! But I had so much (too much!) of the stuff last week because I was rushed off my feet & feeling quite tired .... plus there was a variety of (previously cooked) frozen soups in the freezer. Just insufficient energy & enthusiasm to go through the trouble of cooking a proper meal each night. <sigh>
And, of course, it's winter here now: soup time! But frankly, I'm a bit souped-out for the time being!
Had a company golf outting today. Afterwards I gorged on chicken wings and strawberry shortcake washed down with iced diluted vitamin V.
British Airways Asian veggie Meal
Washed down with single malt scotch
Not bad actually
the prince wrote:British Airways Asian veggie Meal
Washed down with single malt scotch
Not bad actually
Flying to where this time, G?
(My goodness you
do get about!)
Oh & could you describe the British Airways Asian veggie meal, please? I had some
frightful airline vegie meals during my vego days! Uck! But then, perhaps
you weren't travelling tourist class? :wink:
I am in Hong Kong right now - not too far from you gorgeous one
Starters - Chick pea and potato salad with lemon and tomato dressing
Main - Pulao rice with sag paneer and tadka daal
Dessert - Tiramasu
So near, yet so far! <sigh>
Hey, that's not bad for an airline meal, G! That's better than my dinner tonight!
hamburger got a bit carried away when he ordered dinner yesterday from a (very good) local Greek restaurant here where the St. Lawrence meets Lake Ontario.
So - late this afternoon there were leftovers - bbq ribs, spit-roasted chicken, rice, salad with goooooood feta (but all the olives had already been picked out
) - there was some extra slaw and sauteed mushrooms on the side.
The leftover roasted potatoes were part of breakfast as were the padda buns.
Mid-afternoon, we had leftover dessert from yesterday's dinner order - a very interesting dessert - imagine showing a portuguese baker a photo of cherry cheesecake, and telling them to bake it without any other information - the result was a nice light portuguese custard on top of graham cracker crust, and under some very nice sour cherries.
Soup time, starting a little late in the day - sliced garlic, sliced brown onion; chopped celery, chopped carrots, sliced chard (stored some away). Will saute all those in olive oil and then add water and some Better than Beef Bouillion , or some veggie broth. Toss in some sliced mushrooms. Probably not add some rapini, which I have. Simmer a bit. Add two fresh hot italian sausages broken up. Some spices. At the end, I'll add the leftover pasta salad, which had chopped green onion, some carrot, some garlic, some parsley, and a lot of fresh basil, and some shredded cheese, oil, and red wine vinegar. Hmmm, it had pine nuts and some olives too. Oh, well.
We'll see.
OK, started the soup simmering. Nixed the pasta salad, will add some new dried pasta toward the end of the simmer, which means I'll add parsley and basil then too. (Didn't want olives and pine nuts in mah soup).
Threw out the celery, did add the chard, did add the mushrooms, added some diced tomatoes, some sliced scallions, and a bit of sliced green cabbage, and I had this teeny can of sliced jalapeno peppers I'd opened by mistake yesterday, so I add some of them. That'll spark it up... Wish I had a red potato, but they were drecky in the market.
Thought of adding some beans, but only have a can of black beans, saving them for something else, mmmm, maybe black beans, pancetta, and rice...
Well, this'll be enough vitamins for one day, eh? Hot italian sausages thawing now...
I think Dorothy Parker is waltzing towards vitamin deficiency, but it's not my business.
OK, ok, I can make simple soups. But these kitchen soups are my staple food. My mother, bless her heart/grrrr, wouldn't recognize me.
Plus, I'm exhilarated to have my own refrigerator newly installed here in South and West - I love filling it with possibles.
