Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
Rosmarin..so you are a vegetarian? I have been trying to change my diet more towards that direction but there are a lot of things I don't know how to do without...like cheese...I think I could live on cheese .....but for the most part I love veggies so much, I should be able to do it ....I have a few good recipes for making veggie burgers with black beans and onions and peppers....reading this thread is making me want to cook...especially with this coolish weather..Fall always seems to make me gain weight...not eating..but Fall......yeah, that's it...
My future experiment is stuffed cabbage rolls. A recipe found on AllRecipes
I agree we now need some positive comments. I am going to make a lot more soup now the weather is cooler. I can do this while husband naps in the afternoon and its healthy and easy to eat with some lovely cheese and good bread. Yesterday made tomato and red pepper spicy soup from recipe on net.
Great with Ciabatta bread and feta cheese! Husband has very poor appetite but it went down well. He usually says my soup is tasteless but this was approved!
We had shredded cabbage cooked in milk, with golden raisins and caraway seeds. I don't know why I don't do cabbage more often. It is super healthy, inexpensive, available year-round, and we all like it.
Also pork tenderloin medallions with lots of garlic, diced sweet potatoes, green onions, and a glaze of honey and soy sauce. Definitely a keeper recipe!
We were too full for dessert, so I'll finish making that tomorrow. It is choux pastry (cream puff) baked in a sheet (done that part) and then spread with a pudding/cream cheese mixture and drizzled with chocolate. Doesn't that sound good? I'll let you know tomorrow. :) I didn't want the filling to soak into the crust overnight.
I wouldn't make a company meal with more than one new recipe, but for family -- live dangerously, right? Besides, all the ingredients are wonderful. How could the outcome be totally inedible?
I made two extra mini loaves and gave one to the instructors at my exercise and sent one with my son to give to his dad (my ex) and that whole gang.
It's so nice to bake yummy stuff in the oven when the weather cools down.
I baked a spagetti squash today, and hubs cousin is here making homemade pizza... there goes the diet!
Meals are becoming spartan affairs here. I'm trying to avoid eating a bunch of junk when I get too busy to cook, so I haven't been buying much in the way of groceries. Looked in the fridge tonight and realized there wasn't much to work with. So it was homemade egg drop soup with some spinach tossed in. Pretty darn good, even if it was just simple.
I had baked beans and a grilled cheese.
Yesterday I had gone grocery shopping so I had lots to make, but I just did not feel like cooking again! So I had potato salad, corn on the cob and already fried chicken, all I had to cook was the corn on the cob in the microwave because it only takes two minutes per ear.today I went for another drive to the same town where we used to live and passed a really awesome Italian market and bakery.I bought one piece of cheese lasagna, one piece of meat lasagna, one piece of bracciole which you can't easily get in Florida. I also got a cannoli, a Napoleon,and a chocolate eclair. Well when I got home my hubby reminded me that he had a bit of lasagna from Olive Garden still left and he would finish that. Mom and I had a third of the cheese lasagna piece and a third of the bracciole. Hubby wanted his eclair right away but Mom and I will wait till later for dessert. So tomorrow I think we will have steak and bake potato with steam asparagus. I may give mom the lasagna and bracciole for lunch and use the fried chicken for chicken salad. Leaving the other piece of lasagna for the freezer.
It's getting dark now.