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Thank you for asking this question!! I love all of the answers! We're going to have braised chicken with autumn vegetables and mashed potatoes for supper. And I just made an apple cake for dessert! (Let's skip right to dessert....!)
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Yall have gotten me craving cabbage now. I love it...why don't I cook it more!!! I even love it just shredded and stir fried in a little butter with lots of onion..I can make a meal off of that anytime...

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...
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I have on my menu for this week gumbo and chili.

My future experiment is stuffed cabbage rolls. A recipe found on AllRecipes
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The tomato and red pepper soup is something my husband will love, cooking while he takes his Sunday nap 2:00 p.m. to as late as 5:00 p.m., I will love cooking it, looking it up now, thanks Rosmarin.
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Rosmarin, here, a meat lover married to a husband who claims to be a vegetarian, but wants that steak whenever we have one. Confusing to be the cook.
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Sounds terrific! Would suit my husband a meat lover married to a vegetarian( poor man) I now give him meat whenever he wants it even though the dietician said go easy on the carnivore stuff. What the hell now.
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OMG - love it when I hit one out of the park. it was truly came from - what can I do with this... was cleaning out the deep freeze and accidently left out a tube of italian sausage, pork chorizzo, and liverwurst pate; end result, the most delicious meatballs and penne ever! I would have never thought of using that combination but man did it ever score.
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Yes it IS very depressing because we are all going through hell!
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!
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jeanne I love cabbage - I cook it then when its drained toss in chestnuts and crispy bacon chips and a knob of butter not slimming but very scrummy
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In-n-Out burgers, no fries, no coke, because I am following Timbuktu's example, as best I can. Made it to traderjoes, power greens, greek plain yogurt, rice milk, and stuff. We ate early, about 4:30 p.m.
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Had leftover steak and a slice of lasagna that I bought at the Italian market last week. We all had some steak and some lasagna. My hubby said my lasagna is better, which I took as high praise. I have been complimented many times for my lasagna, but it takes a lot of time and prep,and my oven is out of order right now. That really is a problem when planning dinner because I use it quite a lot and I bake for my hubby as well.tonight since I had gone grocery shopping and had to put away groceries, I didn't feel like cooking, so I ordered pizza and a sub for hubby. I just realized that I will have to heat my leftover pizza on the gas grill since the oven is out. Sent a text earlier to try to find out when the part and repair will be done. No answer yet.
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I had an amazingly good dinner tonight with 3 new recipes out of 3 different cookbooks.

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?
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pamzi, that sounds delicious! I will add chocolate chips next time.
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.
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Yoga, I make banana bread alot, and take the extra loaf to work. I throw a handful of chocolate chips in. I have Dr;s who would pay me for this! Try it, it's sinfull... :)
I baked a spagetti squash today, and hubs cousin is here making homemade pizza... there goes the diet!
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He loved the banana bread this morning with my good coffee.
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Jude, thanks for coming back and answering about placebo candies! Hoping you are also looking out for your own health.
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My son is coming to visit for the weekend, and I had a fruit bowl full of overripe bananas so I made banana bread! I just took it out of the oven and the whole house smells good.
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Glad to see you back, Jude. :-)

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.
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Im sorry I haven't been around - Mums been in and out of hospital with a whole host of things that aren't actually wrong with her, the purchaser dropped out from our sale, mother had a fit and life was unbearable for a few weeks. Fortuitously meds have now kicked in and we are back on track. I feel like I live on a ship currently - on the poop deck!!!!! But apart from that all is well with the world
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I lied. By the time we got to dinner time, Hubby wasn't hungry so I gave Mom her choice of Steak or burgers. She chose burgers. We had cheeseburgers and potato salad, lettuce and tomato. Not as fancy but the nice thing about Fl is we can barbecue every day of the year.
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Tbone not at one! I wish we could edit these posts!
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Tonight will be at one steak on the grill. Twice baked potatoes salad, and steamed green beans.
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CWillie, my husband laughs because I always make way more than we can eat, so you are welcome! I was so happy to find a real Italian market. We have nothing like that in this area. We have Cuban, Mexican, Jamaican but not real Italian. It brought me back to my days with the ex. He had a very large Italian family and I loved that part. Even though there was some dysfunction, it was very fun and I loved cooking for everyone! Thanksgiving was always about 25 people with lasagna, meatballs, turkey, stuffed mushrooms, cheese cake, and three kinds of pie , cookies and cannoli. It was a lot of work but I miss having that many in the family.
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Angel hair primavera. Made with whole wheat pasta, green beans, spinach, and marinara sauce. So delicious!
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Lasagna, eclairs, cannoli, dang!, I think I had better turn my car south and head down to Sharadale's house for dinner, I can be there by the weekend!
I had baked beans and a grilled cheese.
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Okay if has been a weird week for food. Friday I fried pork chops in olive oil with sautéed onions, macaroni and cheese and steamed green beans. We love steamed veggies here. I tried the frozen Steamfresh by Birdseye, but hubby didn't like it. Saturday, I had to go two towns away to pick up some cool yard sale stuff I bought on Facebook, so I called a fried and we went to Olive Garden for lunch. I know for my ex in laws, this is not Italian food, but it will do in a pinch. I had taken care of Mom and hubby's lunch before I left and really hadn't planned this so it was a pleasant surprise. I ordered the Tour of Italy Combo which includes lasagna, fettuccine Alfredo, and chicken Parmesan, as well as all the salad and bread sticks you can eat. So as I ordered it, I asked for a to go box. When I got the food, I immediately put the lasagna, half the chicken and half the fettuccine in it. That was Mom and hubby's dinner. Hubby had lasagna and mom had the chicken and fettuccini. I was not hungry so I had a night off from cooking! Yeah!
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.
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Send me, I don't want to pry, but who is this Aspergers you speak of?
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He came home after dark, still no dinner.
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I also look at the "todays date" meat.. love to stock up on boneless skinless chicken that way! Of course you have to get there early and elbow the oldsters out of the way...LOL Then I freeze it! It;s great for the crock pot
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There is no dinner tonight since the asperger's who 'eloped' after church just called from the train from L.A. union station. Is he running away? I sincerely hope so. I knew better than to ask him to work around here or get a part-time job. That must have stressed him out. Please, just ignore my disappointment and trials.
It's getting dark now.
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