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I just eat a treat, then run my ass off to work it off. ;)
I was impressed with a Weight Watchers' cookbook.
I have several. My favorite recipes of theirs is Greek pastitsio and there's a sweet and sour cabbage soup.
My famous cold spicy noodles started out as a WW recipe. I just replaced the cayenne and garlic salt with Lanchee Chili Paste with Garlic and a couple other minor flavorings. I may have increased the calorie count by 10 per batch. I like a lot of their recipes, but often alter them a bit especially in the spicing area.
Likewise, a few of my all-time favorite recipes are from WW. Mostly healthier versions of comfort foods like turkey goulash, Mexican meatloaf, and chicken enchiladas verde. Brooke, regarding that pastitsio recipe, does it look anything like this: http://www.weightwatchers.com/food/rcp/index.aspx?recipeid=107241
Mine is a bit different, in that they replace some of the beef with spinach, and it's lighter (I think 4 or 5 points) - but this looks BETTER. I'm changing recipes! But I'll probably still continue to put the spinach in, as I'm always looking for ways to eat veggies that I like.
that last two nights, I have made the same thing, because it is SO good, and for some reason I'm on a spinach kick. Sautee spinach with a tiny bit of olive oil & garlic. then I added Eqq whites and parm. cheese and made an omlette. YUM. It's gotta be pretty low on points.
I would assume so. I use a lot of egg beaters at my house (Costco rocks!). Last night I had Taco Bell. I can hear your collective gasps, but I did have the points for it.
I seem to remember from my WW guide to fast food that there are many lowish choices at Taco Bell including one of my favorites (Chicken Soft Taco).
For me it's a taco and pintos and cheese. I'm pretty minimalist at Taco Bell.
I got lots of spinach seed last year so I planted two rows of it this week. I may plant even more today.
Considering that this is the "what's for dinner" item and not the gardening item (although I presume that keesan is planning on eventually eating the spinach for dinner), resp:122 really reminds me of that one Carl Sagan quote: "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
For dinner we have some fresh garlic tops from down the street. The friends of the neighbor who moved to the nursing home planted it on the easement. I will add it to the pumpkin and fresh jerusalem artichoke stir-fry. We don't distinguish a lot between growing and eating food.
Dinner tonight was at Applebee's with my CASA kid - a couple of boneless wings, 3/4 of a chicken/veggie quesadilla off their Weight Watchers menu, and a couple of bites of Angelo's dessert. And because I was parsimonious during the day, I still stayed within points.
keesan, is spinach easy to grow? (Yes, I'm going to eat it for dinner, so I can ask!) ;)
Spinach has to be planted very early, thinned, and kept weeded, and given enough sun and rich soil, or you don't get much before it bolts. Last year is the first year I got a few meals' worth. This year I planted it on time but it is not up yet. Lettuce is more productive. Mustard greens far more productive and longer season. Ditto for even molokhia. Kale. Normally the various Chinese greens (ta tsoi, bok choy) would be more productive too but the bugs eat them to the ground. Spinach is probably a better crop in Europe where the summers are cooler and the winters warmer.
Ok, this isn't a "What's For Dinner Tonight" item, but more a "what I want to make for dinner when I come home to MI to serve my family. I'm doing a whole Indian meal, and I wondered if anyone knew where I could get paneer in A2? I'm going to make Saag Paneer and don't want to have to make my own cheese.
There is an Indian food store just north of Broadway Bridge, with a small restaurant in it.
Do you know its name?
No, it is not listed under Indian in the pink pages. Near Kana. These stores moved across Broadway when Kroger disappeared.
Our Whole Foods stocks paneer. I think the package is like 8 ounces and runs about $9 a pound. By the way, your family dinner sounds cool. Will you really be doing all the cooking? I'm slowly chipping away at Indian cuisine, one dish at a time. I think I'm up to two at this point. ;-)
Well, I'll buy my own paneer and get the frozen naan at Trader Joe's (it's so good!), but other than that, yes. Chicken tikka masala, saag paneer and channa masala.
Hmm, what's paneer? And how did the Indian dinner that you cooked up go?
It's cheese and I haven't made the dinner yet - I'm making it when I go home to MI in June.
We had the spicy peanut noodles again tonight.
Yep, they are excellent. I found this recipe a few days ago for noodles with a spicy sweet sauce - not peanut butter based. I know I've had these before and liked the flavor so one of these days I'll give it a try. http://tinyurl.com/2fwznn
Tonight's dinner was a mish-mash of cuisines. A crab/corn/tomato salad with basil citrus dressing, a recipe I got from Cooking Light. VERY tasty. I tried my hand at Manchurian Cauliflower, which is a roasted cauliflower with a sweet/spicy/curried dish. Again, a Cooking Light recipe, but incredibly tasty. And then I made bangan bharta (I think I spelled it wrong) but it's the curried eggplant dish that you get at Indian recipes. It was pretty good, but you can definitely tell that I'm ramping back the fat when I cook Indian food. It's a dish that is worth me working on. Oh, and I made a homemade blueberry crisp for dessert.
I am thinking of cooking a little bit today. I saw a recipe online for mashed cauliflower and it sounded both really easy and very yummy. Basically, you boil up some cauliflower and then mash it in a bowl with a fork or a potato masher along with a little butter and garlic. I'll probably salt it too. Cauliflower is one of my favorite vegetables but I've never heard of mashing them before.
I was never a big cauliflower fan until I realized you could do more than just boil it and put cheese on it or eat it raw. Now I love to roast it - that's my favorite way to eat it.
I've been keeping this bookmark for a creamy cauliflower salad as I plan to give it a try for a 4th of July party. This recipe mixes cauliflower with romaine, apples and caraway. Different, for sure. http://eatingwell.com/recipes/chopped_cauliflower_salad.html
Wow...I haven't been talking about what I've been doing in the kitchen... For some reason, even in the middle of the heat of summer, I was craving beef stew yesterday - so I made some. I like to make big pots of stuff on Sunday so I don't have to cook too much during the week. I also made homemade southern biscuits to go with it (recipe from my baking class) that turned out amazing. I'm always surprised at how I can make something from those classes and it has such an emotional pull back to the class, as it tastes just like what I made. I've also been doing some baking - I made scones last week, as well as a modified blueberry muffin/coffeecake. I took a muffin recipe and baked it in a well greased bundt pan for about 2.5 times the amount of time - it turned out really well - my office loved it. I think the only thing I'll changes it to toss the blueberries in a bit of the flour first so that they don't all sink to the bottom. This week I have a couple of pies to make to ship out, as well as some cookies.
Leftovers from last nite,
Now about last nite.
I made pasties. You know those meat and potato things they eat in the UP?
I made mine with potatos, onions and instead of stew meat, I used hamburger.
I guess I should've took more time and actually made meatballs, instead of
putting the hamburger in clumps. Traditonally, you also need plum pudding and
rutabaga. I don't do rutabaga, and I'm fresh out of plum pudding.;)
I baked them at 350 for 30 minutes, and they were Ok, but nothing to write
home about.
usually these things work.
Tonight's dinner was semi-home made... I cooked up a package of black beans and rice and added a can of diced tomato and about 1 1/2 chopped up chicken breasts that was baked up while the rice was cooking. Some of the leftover rice will be eaten over the next couple days and some at a future time, yet to be determined [a container is now in the freezer]. I also have some leftover chicken; perhaps I'll use some of it to make some chicken salad tomorrow for lunch or dinner.
Rice and split peas cooked with carrots and kale from the garden, served with microwaved garden mustard greens and chard. It will be frozen-only starting in a week or so. The time consuming part was sorting out the yellowed leaves from the good ones.
Tonight it's turkey meatloaf, mashed sweet potatoes and steamed green beans. Comfort food.
Swiss steak, mashed potatoes and peas. It's cold here, so fall food it is.
Last night it was my mom's recipe meatloaf (very simple, but we think it's quite yummy), hubby's mashed potatoes (OMG!) and Italian cut green beans. No sweet potatoes for us- hubby doesn't like them. I will occasionally do a baked sweet potato when he's working though.
I like turkey meatloaf. One time, at ASH, I accidentally made the turkey meatloaf with two lbs of ground turkey and two lbs of ground turkey sausage (which was the accident, the packages look very similar). It was GREAT! The spices in the turkey sausage made the meatloaf much less bland than meatloaf usually is. I've made it that way a couple of times since with the same good results.
Aaaah....cooking at ASH. THAT brings back memories.
I have to admit, ASH was the only time in my life when I cooked regularly. I remember joking about making an ASH cookbook. It would be called 1001 different ways to cook chicken, turkey, and fish.
Hahahahahahah!! For me it was 1001 different ways to cook chicken, turkey, and fish and not kill a borderline in the process.
I'm likin' the idea of mixing two turkey meats.
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