What's for Dinner?
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SolarMother
Dagobah Resident
My goodness, what an inspiring thread! :P
We try to eat light at night and have a big breakfast and lunch--all is organic. Fried ham slices with blinis, steamed kale with ghee and baked yams with ghee. We like desserts at 'high tea' time--such as today's, gluten free brownies.
We try to eat light at night and have a big breakfast and lunch--all is organic. Fried ham slices with blinis, steamed kale with ghee and baked yams with ghee. We like desserts at 'high tea' time--such as today's, gluten free brownies.
Salmon patties made with caramelized onion, and I use dried instant potato for the binder with the eggs; and a big spinach salad with tomato, carrot and avocado. After we had applesauce cake made with quinoa and amaranth flour and raisins. We had kale chips as a snack while dinner was cooking.
thevenusian
Dagobah Resident
Last night pork chops, quinoa and steamed green beans and kale.
Tonight ground organic chicken w/ quinoa seasoned with garlic & basil. Very simple & quick.
Tonight ground organic chicken w/ quinoa seasoned with garlic & basil. Very simple & quick.
Last night I made a Leek soup by sauteing 4 minced garlic cloves, chopped - 1 medium leek and 2 celery sticks, with leaves tossed in 4 baby carrots, all lightly sauteed in 1/2 stick of organic butter, then simmered in 6 cups organic chicken stock. salt and pepper. Accompanied by 2 very tiny loin chops pay fried in olive oil... turned out very tasty
But when I woke this morning I was starving. So I had 2 eggs over easy, fried in organic butter and 1/2 lb of bacon... then 40 minutes later I find myself cooking the other 1/2 lb of bacon and 2 more eggs.... must have needed the protein :P
Tonight I reheated the soup and had 1/2 lb of chicken livers fried in this morn's bacon grease
But when I woke this morning I was starving. So I had 2 eggs over easy, fried in organic butter and 1/2 lb of bacon... then 40 minutes later I find myself cooking the other 1/2 lb of bacon and 2 more eggs.... must have needed the protein :P
Tonight I reheated the soup and had 1/2 lb of chicken livers fried in this morn's bacon grease
D Rusak
Jedi Council Member
This is what's for dinner...tomorrow. And the day after, and the day after. Doing a rideshare across the US, and it will be tricky in terms of eating well. I shopped at trader joe's and came up with the following menu (also good for camping):
Bags of pre-spiced, pre-cooked beans- $1 each, figure about one a day. not a huge amount in each though.
Cans of refried black beans (would have liked to get ones cooked with LARD from ethnic grocery market but they actually are more expensive there)- $1 each
Plantain chips - they didn't look too salty or greasy- buck or two
Leftover almond butter from home
Mixed nuts- couple bucks a bag. Also have partial bags of trail mix and brazil nuts (high in selenium!)
Refill of reverse osmosis water from machine outside (they have these everywhere here)- 25 cents a gallon, bring your own container.
Some leftover bags of herbal teas, hoping to get hot water at a rest stop for free.
Going to hit the regular grocery store to see if they have some reasonably priced jerky that's not evil. TJ's had some ok stuff but it was a little expensive for me at $5 for 4 oz. Or anything else that makes sense and is high in protein. There's an ethnic grocery store that has an assortment of sausages (ie, summer sausage- preserved) I will check out too for cost and evil or non-evil-ness.
PS- Trader joe's now carries pre-cooked wild rice! It is sort of expensive though, 1 lb cooked for $4.
Bags of pre-spiced, pre-cooked beans- $1 each, figure about one a day. not a huge amount in each though.
Cans of refried black beans (would have liked to get ones cooked with LARD from ethnic grocery market but they actually are more expensive there)- $1 each
Plantain chips - they didn't look too salty or greasy- buck or two
Leftover almond butter from home
Mixed nuts- couple bucks a bag. Also have partial bags of trail mix and brazil nuts (high in selenium!)
Refill of reverse osmosis water from machine outside (they have these everywhere here)- 25 cents a gallon, bring your own container.
Some leftover bags of herbal teas, hoping to get hot water at a rest stop for free.
Going to hit the regular grocery store to see if they have some reasonably priced jerky that's not evil. TJ's had some ok stuff but it was a little expensive for me at $5 for 4 oz. Or anything else that makes sense and is high in protein. There's an ethnic grocery store that has an assortment of sausages (ie, summer sausage- preserved) I will check out too for cost and evil or non-evil-ness.
PS- Trader joe's now carries pre-cooked wild rice! It is sort of expensive though, 1 lb cooked for $4.
Mrs.Tigersoap
The Living Force
Last night we had entrecôte steak (which was very tender and tasty) cooked in beef fat with herbes de Provence and French beans cooked with shallots, butter and garlic. Tigersoap cannot stand a meal without garlic 
We never have dessert at night. Like Solar Mother, we have what we call "un goûter" (afternoon snack? High tea?), usually tea and something sweet (gluten-free brownie, or fruit dried in the dehydrator - we love pineapple, apples and fruit leathers made from smoothie leftovers). Tomorrow, a friend comes over and we'll have a Passover sponge cake made with potato starch, sugar (don't know if xylitol would work, I should try), eggs, oil and orange juice. It's light, fluffy and heavenly. But enough with goûter, this is about dinner!
I don't know what we'll have tonight but I've been wanting to make one of my favourites for a while: two racks of ribs (we call them 'piano' where I come from) cooked slowly in the oven for almost 4 hours (so that the meat falls right off the bone!) in grape juice, onions, garlic and herbs. We usually serve it with apple compote and a veggie.
We never have dessert at night. Like Solar Mother, we have what we call "un goûter" (afternoon snack? High tea?), usually tea and something sweet (gluten-free brownie, or fruit dried in the dehydrator - we love pineapple, apples and fruit leathers made from smoothie leftovers). Tomorrow, a friend comes over and we'll have a Passover sponge cake made with potato starch, sugar (don't know if xylitol would work, I should try), eggs, oil and orange juice. It's light, fluffy and heavenly. But enough with goûter, this is about dinner!
I don't know what we'll have tonight but I've been wanting to make one of my favourites for a while: two racks of ribs (we call them 'piano' where I come from) cooked slowly in the oven for almost 4 hours (so that the meat falls right off the bone!) in grape juice, onions, garlic and herbs. We usually serve it with apple compote and a veggie.
