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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited August 2018

    Leftover Ethiopian food tonight.

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited August 2018

    BT on a toasted English muffin with a garden tomato and mayo. Just awesome. I love summer.

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited August 2018

    minus - love crepes! I have a good and easy recipe for them, very versatile as can be apps, entree or dessert - as you experienced!

    auntie - one of my fave childhood dinners was toasted English muffins with a big tomato slice, cooked bacon slices on top, then a slice of cheese - broiled until the cheese was melted.

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  • illimae
    illimae Member Posts: 5,710
    edited August 2018

    Dinner was a turkey burger with Swiss, sautéed red onions and avocado and a side salad, however, now I really want crepes.

    I think I’ll make my own this week, Hungarian style with Apricot and walnuts.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited August 2018

    I used to make individual pizzas with English Muffins when my son was little. I still keep them on hand for a quick snack toasted with peanut butter.


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  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Member Posts: 2,951
    edited August 2018

    Oh those fun English muffin meals growing up. My brother and I thought we were hot stuff making Eng muffin pizzas when we were young. Since my mother was a real proprietary Italian kitchen mama, we rarely got to cook, but those somehow slipped by her watch!

    Today our beach was practically empty, nary a family in sight...just a few of us old folk. So DH and I had a nice boat ride before heading back to get ready to dine out with a gift card DS2’s friends left for us after using the house with DS2 earlier in summer. We ate at a popular (but really pricey) steak house that sits way up on a hill overlooking Newfound to the west, so sunsets are lovely. Tonight’s was really unusual with a layer of clouds that could be residual atmosphere from the West Coast fires. Oddly beautiful.

    We went full steakhouse mode ordering caesar salads, steaks (DH had a surf and turf, I had a petite filet) sauteed mushrooms and broccoli. AND...the desserts sounded so tasty (and we both recalled swooning over a chocolate cake we had there for our birthday celebration a couple of years ago)that we got two to take home, forgetting that each piece of cake could feed three people! So we had a bit of the delicious chocolate layer cake, and DH wants to head to the boat in the AM with our coffee and the lemon raspberry cake. So lemon raspberry cake it will be for breakfast! ;) Did I mention I will be needing WW verysoon!

    Better get to sleep so I can be awake for the morning dessert ride!

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited August 2018

    Thinking since I have blueberries in the fridge, I might make some blueberry pancakes and bacon for dinner. It's day two of a heat wave and don't feel like having to stand over a hot stove for very long.

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited August 2018

    Cake for breakfast - my fave!

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  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited August 2018

    If I ate cake for breakfast, I would be ravenous in 45 minutes. I would need to take a jar of peanut butter along for a spoonful of protein and fat.

    Our high today is supposed to be 58 degrees! I'm signed up for a charity golf event at 2:30 with a meal afterward. So I'll be eating taco salad bar. DH will be eating by himself, either leftover beans and brats or eggplant lasagna out of the freezer. His decision.

    The charity that will benefit is a local one that supports cancer patients and family with expenses. DH donated a beautiful turned bowl, MN walnut, for the silent auction.

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited August 2018

    My DH is a cake for breakfast fan - coffee cake, chocolate cake with frosting, doesn’t matter. I can’t handle the sweetness, but must confess that on vacation last year the chef’s breakfast at Half Mile Farm in Highlands, NC included an apple cobbler that I would have killed to get more of. It was a small ramekin but I could have eaten a large bucket of it, lol

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited August 2018

    Two tomato plants blew over in the wind yesterday and got tangled with each other. It was a chore to set them upright and retrieve the fruit (green) that blew off them. But ALL my tomato plants got blown over during the night--and we've lost all the small green tomatoes, whether cherry or immature regular-size. Hoping they'll eventually ripen on the sill. (Could take till Oct. if prior years are any indication). Reinforced the pots with bungees and weights; the three full-size green ones about to ripen are (we hope) hidden from squirrels by window screening and plastic wine-bottle mesh.

    Just had an herb-Gruyere omelette after my root canal novocain wore off. Dinner tonight is likely more salad and Ethiopian leftovers. (Bob came downstairs in the middle of the night and ate most of the injera--the sourdough crepe-like bread used to scoop up the food).

    UPDATE: Just as I was leaving to get my guitar fixed, one of the plants blew over again (same as yesterday) and got tangled with its neighbor (ditto). We have a massive storm blowing through, so I quickly harvested all the ripe and ripening heirloom cherry tomatoes. The garden store giveth and the squirrels & weather taketh away.

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  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited August 2018

    Dinner last night, in the Dixie National Forest, Utah, was BBQ chicken, rice and beans. The elevation here is about 8600 feet (2700 meters) above sea level so it's quite cool and there are spruce trees. We are the only ones here in a developed campground and there is a stream about 10 seconds walk from us, so picture one of the RV advertisements and you'll have a good idea what it's like at this campground.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited August 2018

    I spent some time clicking through pictures at Dixie National Forest. I see it's sort of between Bryce & Zion, but I'd never heard of it. Amazing rocks.

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  • eric95us
    eric95us Member Posts: 2,845
    edited August 2018

    The nearby Capitol Reef National Park is the "rock place". :-)

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  • 7of9
    7of9 Member Posts: 833
    edited August 2018

    Adding it to my to do list along with taking son and husband to Vegas/Utah loop I'd planned. Thank you.

    Dinner tonight - handful of this and that. :( Came home from work, had to go pick up my pick up from the dealer (bad starter - thankfully still under warranty), run to the drug store, mass and first PSR class for my son, then...HANDLE'S ICE CREAM! Yum!

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited August 2018

    7of9 - welcome. We'll look forward to sharing meals & food with you.

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  • illimae
    illimae Member Posts: 5,710
    edited August 2018

    Tonight was seasoned and broiled Haddock, Brussels sprouts and zoodles using yellow squash with Alfredo. It was good, not great but for dessert I made a crepes! I used a couple peaches that needed to be eaten, a little cinnamon and walnuts. It was inspired by a traditional Hungarian treat with apricots and walnuts and boy, it was tasty 😋

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited August 2018

    illimae - looks yummy!

    Tonight DH had dinner and I did not, taking an antibiotic that seems to be killing my appetite - not necessarily a bad thing... I made some pulled BBQ chicken on flat bread, a green salad with julienned red pepper and Gorgonzola with vinaigrette and some deviled eggs.

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited August 2018

    Taco Tuesday plus a tamale and a fruit salad.

    As much as I love cake (or muffins, or danish, etc.) for breakfast, I can't eat it because of the blood sugar spike. (It would help to have bacon with it lol). I can hardly even eat a small amount of cereal for breakfast without extra insulin, much to my disappointment. Breakfast is often a chore because I get quite tired of eggs. Sometimes I wish I didn't have to eat at all and I could just take a pill.

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited August 2018

    Thinking boneless pork chops, rice dish and salad

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  • KatyK
    KatyK Member Posts: 248
    edited August 2018


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    These oven baked fries are great! Got the recipe from a sister. Made them the other night when grandkids were over and they love them! Was in the kitchen for hours yesterday making meals for the upcoming camping trip. And then thought maybe I will do some extra cooking on a monthly basis to have meals in the freezer. Sounds goo, we’ll see if it happens......

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited August 2018

    Dunch was a cheese omelette. This was served with asparagus sauteed in Red Hook Lemon Herb Asparagus skillet sauce w/roasted garlic & olive oil. This is in a 4 oz liquid sauce 'envelope'. I saute 10 minutes with the lid on since I'm not a fan of al dente vegetables. Really quite good. I used a full bunch of asparagus and there's enough sauce leftover for a different meal. Not to mention enough asparagus for two more meals - but I'll love to snack on that cold from the fridge & add to salads. The skillet sauce is also recommended for thinly sliced zucchini, yellow summer squash or blanched green beans. I think it would make a credible meat marinade too.

    Katy - thanks for the oven fries recipe. I'll try that in the winter when I turn my oven back on. It's times like this that I really envy Eric his outdoor oven.

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited August 2018

    The lemon sauce and asparagus sound delightful Minus - yum!

    I'm off my feed today, but making chicken and dumplings (slicks). My stomach will tolerate the broth and vegetables if not the dumplings.

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited August 2018

    Hubby brought home subs for dinner seeing it was over 90 here.

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  • Redheaded1
    Redheaded1 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited August 2018

    I have not posted in ages, but I have been super busy. On April 24th, I received a new cornea in my right eye at the University of Iowa Hospitals. I am happy to say that I am seeing 20/20 in this eye but have no reading vision in it. My wonderful dr. (Kenneth Goins) has now relocated to Kansas City, so on Friday, Dr. Mark Greiner will be doing a cataract extraction in the left eye and then Oct 4th he will be doing a cornea transplant in that eye. I have been functioning with mono-vision since april and once the cataract is done, I probably won't have reading vision in either eye till October. I have readers but they only work with one side and because I have some vision in the left eye, it is not comf0rtable......

    Food wise---I have been dipping my toes into the food of India and the middle east. I made a killer "Butter chicken" using a jarred sauce by Pasco. Found it in Champaign Urbana, cannot find it anywhere in Bloomington Normal. Next time I make it, I will leave out the chicken and just do veggies. I added green pepper, onion, and cauliflower to it and served it with a pre-made Tandoori Rice and I could have eaten the whole pan in one sitting. And I purchased some Naan Bread at Aldi's that I popped in the toaster and brushed with olive oil...…

    Also the new Lean Cuisine International dinners are pretty good. Helps me watch my calories and my nutrition. Been having some blood pressure issues, but I think it is all stress. related. Doc wants me to watch the sodium and weight and try to find something that will relax me. Meantime, a Xanax every day is doing wonders.....Glad to see the familiar names here along with the ones that are new to me.

    Also I remember you all talking about preserved lemons---well I bought a jar but I don't know now what to do with them>>>>>. Nance/????

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited August 2018

    Red! So good to hear from you!

    I think Carole and I both make a version of this dish:

    https://www.closetcooking.com/moroccan-chicken-tagine-with-olives-and/?

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  • Redheaded1
    Redheaded1 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited August 2018

    Thanks--I will try it...when I can lift a pot...LOL>

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited August 2018

    Breakfast (I actually got home from hand therapy at 9:30 am) was an egg Benedict: challah, tomato slices, basil, jamon Serrano, a poached egg and half a packet of Christian Poitier hollandaise, nuked and dusted with cayenne pepper.

    No lunch--too busy (catching up on e-mail, bills, mani-pedi with long bus ride home, changing my guitar strings). Dinner was a shelf-stable package of palak paneer (Tasty Bite, nuked; the frozen Tandoor Chef is too big a portion, higher-calorie and not as fast to prepare). Had it over leftover basmati rice & scraps of Ethiopian injera.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited August 2018

    Red - welcome back. Sorry to hear about your eyes but that you're getting everything taken care of. I looked up the Butter Chicken. Sounds good. We'll be thinking about you as you get ready for your next surgery.

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited August 2018

    Since hubby brought home subs last night, tonight's dinner is what I planned to make last night

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