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Our dinner was leftover take out lunch. This restaurant makes local dishes along with mainland dishes. I save up enough so that I have extra money to splurge for a large bowl of beef shank soup with cabbage and 2 scoops of rice on the side for $12.99. They are not stingy with the meat. I come home, cook 2 cups of rice (so sis and I can have 1 scoop per meal.). I put the soup in a pot, pour water in it, add soy sauce. When I ate it for lunch, it tasted odd. Someone Added a spice into the recipe. I don't like that.

So for dinner, to cover that spice taste, I made a side dish of vinegar, soy sauce and water. Mix to fit my taste (a bit sour with a slight saltiness. I squashed and cut up a long red hot pepper in it. Cut up several cherry tomatoes so that my vinegar soy mix will soak into it. Yum!! It definitely covered that odd spicy taste in the soup.

Can you believe despite having that soup for lunch and dinner, we still have leftovers?
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I had my cheeseburger at about 2 am, at a near-by Perkins. Then I did my grocery shopping. All the posts here about salmon must have been rattling around my brain. That is what I'm fixing tonight.
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Chili is always good...even in the summer...nice and tasty...

I was hostess for my aunt's 99th birthday in June. we had barbecue, beans, etc. etc...There was a lot of barbecue left, so I ground it up, added the left over beans and jalapeno peppers and onions and it made for a really spicy chili, and a lot of it. So I have frozen small containers for whenever it is desired. marymember
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Tonight is chili. We have some left over ground sirloin and everything we need including sour cream and cheese, biscuits and lots to out in a salad. Dinners are so much easier when hubby isn't around. Mom is not picky at all.
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Jeanne, in n out closes at 11:30 p.m.
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Last night, many people were having Salmon. We did, then this morning, the ants made a new path and ended up looking for the minute ( If possible) tiny, smallest amount of salmon oil in the garbage disposal! Passing by the recommended baby powder barrier , they went around, the clean kitchen and counters, really was clean, and I am keeping it that way, and down into that disposal, which was run and rinsed last night.
Tonight, the ants may create a longer path, into the bedroom, into the bed, and up to my mouth where they might get a whiff of the cheesburger! Buying or borrowing an anteater from the zoo next.
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Our household dinner is over. But ... I usually have my next meal after midnight. Hmmm ... I just have to think of a late-night or all-night diner and go have me a cheeseburger! (Too full from dinner for that to sound good now, but maybe by midnight ...)
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Ah, living in the west as the sun goes down soon. It's only 5:30 p.m., and dinner happens more towards 7:30p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Not too late to celebrate National Cheesburger Day at the nearby IN N OUT BURGERS! Yay!!
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I missed National Cheeseburger day!? I'm crushed.
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Oh how I would love a big cheeseburger right now!
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Today is National Cheeseburger day in the U.S. Unwittingly, I grilled cheeseburgers and buns, sliced tomatoes and lettuce, dill pickles and Mac and cheese.
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Marinated baked salmon, took a baked potato that wasn't eaten the other night and chopped it up, fried in bacon fat with onions, also had steamed broccoli
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Salmon tonight with sweet chilli and ginger space laced with brandy (I have to use it up and mum isn't allowed to have it neat so I burn off the alcohol) and served with buttered noodles with chopped fresh herbs.

Then we are having a treat bananas strawberries, raspberries and meringue topped with cornish clotted cream ice cream and finished with grated chocolate over a peach sauce - Mum loves it but we only ever have it once a year or so because it sure as hell aint healthy although I could argue it was if you wanted me to!!!!
Fruit fine
Meringues is egg white - that fine and sugar....well Sugar is vegetable based so that must be good
clotted cream comes from cows who feed on grass which is vegetables so must be good (if not it d*mned well tastes good)
peach sauce fruit and sugar see above
and chocolate well milk sugar and cocoa all vegetarian using my reckoning above!!!!!!!!!
Now I really must take my tongue out of my cheek
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It is 2:45 am here. I need to take melatonin at 3 am, so I'll hang around till then. Then I'm off to the all-night grocer to pick up a couple of ingredients for tomorrow's dinner. I should be back in plenty of time to get all the ingredients ready and make my 5 am bedtime.

I'm not quite used to this yet, but I'm working on it!
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Hi 1amCristina, where are you from? As you probably know, Malungay does not grow in any US back yards. What kind of store might it be sold in here? Do you have favorite ways to prepare it? Or are you talking about herbal supplements?

This thread is mostly about making dinner. What's your favorite use of mulungay for dinner?
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Having read all of Your menus, I'm very impressed, as You are All very accomplished Chef's. Well I've got corned beef and cabbage planned for this evening, with potatoes + a nice slice of Kerry Gold Irish Creamery butter.
Sorry Captain for Your loss. I enjoy all of Your letters. Keep em coming. Peace to All Carer's.
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That sounds like a habit worth cultivating, marymember!
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Those all sound good. But when I cook, my husband tends not to eat much. He loves breakfast though, if it is bacon and eggs and toast. But I don't like making that every morning. He likes to eat early..(about 7)..We get up very early..(about 6 and sometimes earlier)..I get very little sleep as I have so much to do and like the wee hours of the night. Last night he came into my computer room right before midnight. He woke up and got dressed. thinking it was morning. I told him to go back to bed, and he did. We get up before daylight. At noon I fixed pork chops, steamed fresh vegetables, including corn on the cob. He ate most of it, but sneaks a lot to the dog. If we go out, he eats everything on his plate. At noontime we sometimes go out, for the prices are much lower. I found a place three miles from us that makes homemade meals for around $7.00. They have a big sign on the door saying that they now have Bluebell Ice-Cream. It is a good place to go and country workers go there..very informal and the waitresses and cooks are wonderful. So I may just make that a habit. marymember
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juddabuddhaboo, that dumpling dish sounds good, and I have suitable ingredients on hand. Thanks.

Dinner tonight was one of our favorites -- chorizo skillet, essentially a hash topped with cheese and tomatoes and served with home-made salsa verde.

I've always like taking cooking classes. It is nice entertainment and you get to sample interesting foods. If I happen to use one of recipes afterwards, that is a bonus. Chorizo Skillet by local chef Carlos Olivar is one of those bonuses!
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Melissafran, new here, welcome to the best group of people you'd ever want to meet!
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Me too, wondering why beets? Maybe iron?
Judda, can the beets be cooked, from a can? Or better nutrients as fresh?
I especially like them julienne cut.
Thanks for the recipe, steamed veges /w tj's dumplings. Yum.
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I've been craving beets lately. I must be missing some kind of nutrients.
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Sliced the left over steak. Reheated that and asparagus in the micro and reheated Mac and cheese. That is it.
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Beets can decrease high blood pressure. Grate a raw one on a salad: tastes like candy. I love cutting up one and juicing it with carrots, ginger, lemon. Or add kale plus a small apple.
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my favorite "fast food": put on about a cup of water bottom of pan. put in steamer basket. Line with kale, spinach, or cabbage leaves, layer in Trader Joe's dumplings (shrimp, chicken, pork, or vegetable) put in 4 per person. start it on med high, put lid on. Find a few other things to steam: examples: baby carrots, a few pieces of fresh broccoli, strips of red pepper, pieces of fresh cauliflower, slices of yellow squash or zucchini,green beans, snap peas, etc. After about 5 minutes of dumplings getting unfrozen and softer, put in other veggies. replace lid.
Sauce: sweet chili sauce, a little vinegar, a little sesame oil, a little tamarin sauce. Beat with a fork to stir it up. Give each person a little dish of sauce. cook until everything is firm and soft enough to eat: not mushy. Voila a fun dinner in less than 15 minutes.
Have some dessert in about an hour or so: fruit, piece of dark chocolate, maybe a handful of walnuts and raisins.
Healthy eating today means a happier day tomorrow. Now that wasn't hard was it?
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Melissafran, high blood pressure comes with symptoms such as irritability. I use parsley, fresh to decrease my b/p. a little bit.
If your Dad does have b/p issues, check the salt content of any t.v. dinners.

We are trying some smoothies, and have been to 'juice it up' for a little break.
Not one to go for juices, vegetables, these smoothies are very satisfying, start by taking a break and go get yourself one. This had helped to decrease my appetite after going out for french fries and burgers so much when kitchen was closed due to my favorite ants. Rained, plus 80°, 91% humidity in L.A. County.
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Since lunch was a gallon of coffee and half a bag of cookies I suppose I should plan something healthy for dinner, or maybe I should skip it altogether. Or maybe I'll just finish the cookies.
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I NEVER know what to fix for dinner because I don't like the same food my dad does, and I was so used to just cooking for one (usually a bagel and some popcorn or something similarly non-nutritious). It has been a 'new' thing for me the past few years to have to actually try to think of something every night (and my dad usually hates everything). Recently, I have decided to start doing smartones or lean cuisines. He also hates those but they are easy and relatively healthy. Always a side of cottage cheese and/or fruit, acitivia yogurt maybe, a veggie, and a donut... the man has to have his dessert. :D
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I was planning on making soup for dinner but not totally committed to the idea when I got an email from my friend Betty Crocker and decided to make a Chicken Ring.

Betty uses a small package of frozen mixed vegetables but I used diced potatoes, rutabagas, carrots, fresh peas, and mushrooms sauteed with the chicken. I did follow Betty's suggestion for Crescent Dough for the crust and condensed chicken soup for the sauce. You might say we collaborated on dinner!

With it I served thin pear slices on heart-of-romaine leaves drizzled with Neuman's ranch dressing and sprinkled with blue cheese. Very nice combination!
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Tonight was leftovers that I had in the freezer. My mother always called it glop, lol. I took spaghetti sauce and diced tomatoes, garlic, onions, red pepper flakes and oregano then add cooked ground beef and uncooked macaroni. Boil and stir as sauce is absorbed by pasta. Once pasta is tender top with mozzarella cheese, cover until melted and serve with parmesan cheese.
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