What are you cooking or baking today?

StarSong said:
It's time to ditch the three pounds I gained from holiday cookies, pizza, and other rich foods so yesterday's meals were a sharp right turn back to my non-holiday healthy WFPB eating plan.

Full disclosure: yes, I enjoyed a biscotti with my evening herbal tea. A gal's gotta live, you know!
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Exactly, @StarSong , I have enjoyed the holidays and the fruit cake and other treats, too; so I am back on a healthier eating plan again, too.
Low carb, mostly WFPB, but leaving out grains after reading about the GMO dangers.
And I am having a little fiber cake with my morning coffee, but at least that has some healthy fiber in it.
Onward we go, into the happy, healthy New Year !
 

Happyflowerlady said:
Exactly, @StarSong , I have enjoyed the holidays and the fruit cake and other treats, too; so I am back on a healthier eating plan again, too.
Low carb, mostly WFPB, but leaving out grains after reading about the GMO dangers.
And I am having a little fiber cake with my morning coffee, but at least that has some healthy fiber in it.
Onward we go, into the happy, healthy New Year !
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My normal dietary starches are primarily oatmeal, potatoes, sweet potatoes, quinoa and brown rice. Not much wheat or corn.
 
It is a cold and rainy day here so oddly enough breakfast for dinner sounded good. Cooked bacon and fried eggs. It has been a long time since I have had a fried egg. It was so good!!

The dogs got an egg on top of their dog food. They are still licking their lips LOL!

I made an apple pie yesterday so will have a slice warmed with vanilla ice cream later.
 
Blessed said:
It is a cold and rainy day here so oddly enough breakfast for dinner sounded good. Cooked bacon and fried eggs. It has been a long time since I have had a fried egg. It was so good!!

The dogs got an egg on top of their dog food. They are still licking their lips LOL!

I made an apple pie yesterday so will have a slice warmed with vanilla ice cream later.
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My favorite meal is eggs and toast! It's simple to make and quick. My dog loves to have some and waits to lick the plate.
 
BS (aka Breakfast Sandwiches) for lunch. Toasts buttered, mayo/mustard spread, plastic cheese (? What ?😋), 2 eggs over easy, 2-3 bacon rashers. Version of a portable breakfast from my last loved place of work cafeteria.

Then planning meals until Friday. So far, we've got another lot of Turkey sandwiches with soups, Thai Green Chicken Curry with rice and a chilli con carne on rice. The last twos are for dinner!
 
YUM YUM to all here!
I am making a nice vegetable soup, mainly from fresh veggies, but, added some canned pinto beans and green beans and barley and I threw in 2 cans of chicken broth and 1/2 of a small rib steak and maybe the other half will be my snack later.

I might make vanilla cup cakes with milk chocolate icing later or maybe tomorrow. I usually freeze most of them before I ice them all. I use a can of the white whipped frosting from TOPs and add some real good Cocoa to it, that I bought from amazon., to make a really good icing.
 
Black beans today.
1. Put beans in covered pot with twice the volume of water and bring to boil.
2. 1 hour later, drain, rinse, and fill back with water just covering beans. Put back on stove and simmer.
3. Add onions, cumin, garlic, salt, and pepper and cook for a few hours.

You may mash these beans and add olive oil, cilantro and more garlic and well browned onions or eat as is or over rice. I also use these beans to add to chile.
 
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Tonight it was borscht. It was a family recipe and my husband had written out the instructions while he followed what his mother did. Good grief, it was a convoluted mess to follow. It was a hodgepodge that I improvised and will add more simplicity if I ever make it again. He loved it and was totally surprised because I didn’t tell him I was doing it.
 
I tried a new recipe today for Cream Cheese and Sausage Stuffed Biscuits. It was yummy. The only problem was not having shredded pepper jack cheese. My grocery store didn't have it and I wasn't up for going somewhere else or manually shredding a block of it. I used colby jack instead. It was good - but I think it will be better with pepper jack.
 
What I’ve now discovered is the pre-soaked dried beans are not only far tastier than canned beans ; they also are far easier to digest.

I really like beans but don’t like all the gas it produces. Whole dried beans didn’t give me all the gas canned do. It’s a great realization for me. I’m wanting to eat less meat and need more protein. Since I’m celiac I eat plenty of rice products from pancakes that I make at home . Beans & rice are a complete protein which I shall keep in mind.
 
Jules said:
Are these special beans that come marked as ‘pre-soaked’ or are you just talking about the regular dry beans that you soak yourself?
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They are dry navy beans soaked overnight.
This recipe is easy.

✓ Onion - 2 medium onions chopped
✓ Bacon - 1/2 pack ( optional )
✓ Ketchup - 1/2 cup
✓ Onion Powder - 1 tsp
✓ Black pepper - 1 tsp
✓ Sea salt - 1/2 tsp
✓ Mustard - 2 tsp
✓ Apple cider vinegar-2 tsp
✓ Worcestershire sauce - 1 tbspp
✓ Brown sugar - 3 tbsp
✓ Molasses- 1/2 cup
✓ Water - 4 cups
✓ Navy Beans (or White pea beans) - 450 gr (1 small bag)

Directions

✓ Put the lid on, then slow cook on low for 4 to 6 hours, check half way through the cooking time, add more water if needed stir, then cover and continue cooking.
✓ Stir all ingredients
✓ Then pour pork or bacon and oil over beans and other ingredients
✓ Fry the bacon for a few minutes to release the oil
✓ Add all the seasonings and ingredients, except bacon
✓ Add 4 cups cold water
✓ Drain all water off beans and add to slow cooker
✓ Start with chopping your onions and add to the bottom of slow cooker
✓ In large bowl, add uncooked bag of white pea beans, then top with cold water cover add ½ tsp sea salt, leave soaking overnight on counter top.

Makes 2 litres of soup or 4 - 500 ml Mason jars
 
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Browned 2 pork steaks in a frying pan & sat them aside until I made some bread dressing in the pan which included a can of creamed corn in it. I sat the steaks on top & pushed them down a little & finished it in a slow oven. Steaks came out tender.
 
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