What's for Dinner?

Decided to do a few days of a partial "fast", just drank water and juices, ate a peach, and had some non fat greek yogurt with lemon juice and honey for breakfast. Dinner was a can of spinach with butter, salt, pepper and turmeric. Had some unsweetened organic dried apples I bought from Costco as a snack. Hubby had some pork in red chili sauce that he made previously and froze, he ate that wrapped in flour tortillas.

Steve, chicken burgers are more healthy for sure, especially homemade. We buy those Morning Star "Griller's Prime" veggie burgers, and have them on hand for a quick easy meal...the 'griller's prime' actually taste really good!
 

I don't buy anything frozen as far as prepared meals goes.. Especially burgers..
It is really very simple to make my own burgers and at least I can have them "man size" and flavoured the way we like..
I use primarily minced chicken or minced turkey as my minced for everything.. I very very rarely buy minced beef.. Minced veal, but there again, not very often..
When the minced (chicken - turkey) goes on special ($1.99), I buy a ton of it and freeze the packages which are 454g or one pound.. That makes 4 nice sized burgers.. It also makes a lovely meat loaf..

As far as those tortillas goes, I use them all the time.. That is what I call a wrap..

Where we live, there isn't a Cosco.. We don't even have a grocery store in our village.. The closest Cosco is in Sudbury which is about 90 minutes east from us.. When we go to Sudbury, we hit the Wallmart store which is a real treat for us.........
 
Our meal tonight was very simple. Fish rissoles made with canned tuna, mashed potato and diced onion, crumbed and cooked in a little oil and served with a side salad. These days I prefer something simple but I do like stir frys and curries for some exciting flavours.
 

Tonight for supper I made something very special.. Labour intensive but it was worth it..

A dish of sausages, veggies, wine on a bed of Fettuccini..
Fry onions, garlic till soft.. Add the inside of one pound of sausages (I used veal) and cook till no longer pink.. Add red wine, chicken stock, herbs and spices, veggies, and cook till the sauce reduces and the veggies are cooked..
Serve over a bed of fettuccini...

Breakfast was my version of an egg McMuffin on a bun..
Lunch.... XXXXXXXXX
 
Tonight I made something simple and fast..
Chicken drumsticks on the BBQ..
A sweet potato (yam) zapped in the microwave and mashed with butter..
Coleslaw (oil & vinegar)

Breakfast; omelette
Lunch.. Don't ask because it is nothing .......
 
Actually it was a yam and NOT a sweet potato..
I often refer to a yam as a sweet potato but they are different..

Thanks for the notice.. I will try hard to be a good boy from now on regarding them..
 
Okay Steve. Since you promised to be good, I won't turn you in to the authorities. :lofl:

I don't think I've ever seen a yam. I grow sweet potatoes so am probably more aware of the word usage than most.
 
rkunsaw said:
Steve said:
A sweet potato (yam) zapped in the microwave and mashed with butter..


Which was it? sweet potato or yam. I am constantly surprised at the number of people who think they are the same thing.

I've even seen cans at the store with both names. Sweet potatoes are not even remotely related to yams
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"NOT EVEN REMOTELY RELATED TO YAMS?????!!! Well, that was my new thing to learn for the day. All my life I've thought they were one & the same. What is the difference, RK? Now, I don't know what I'm eating. LOL
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rkunsaw said:
Here you go Katybug and Anne. Yams are very rare in the U.S. Sweet potatoes are in the same family as morning glories. The flowers look alike.

http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sweetpotatodiff.htm
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Thanks, RK. Good info. They've always been sweet potatoes to me. I've never called them yams, nor does anyone else I know -- because they aren't! But I have assumed all these yrs hearing the term "candied yams," they meant sweet potatoes. Glad you set me straight on that!
 
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Rump steak topped with mushrooms and shallots braised in butter and a dob of cream, a grilled tomato, a tiny avocado, and a cob of corn.


The avocados are local. Someone dumped 2 boxes of them at the P.O. The little ones, 3 for a buck, the bigger ones 2 for a buck and they don't come cheaper than that. There was a sign opposite the main door for those who have mailboxes and don't always go into the counter.
"The AVOs are Back!" Wow, I thought, Apprehended Violence Orders at the post office, things are getting out of hand. Will mustn't have thought of that when he put the sign up.

It's one of the benefits of living in a small community. Will and Anne who run the PO allow locals to use it as a shop and there's all manner of local crafts and produce turn up. They do the marketing, selling, and money sorting and charge zero for their efforts. They get local hero awards every year, and a local Australian of Year. And well deserved. It's worth not getting mail deliveries to have go to the PO and keep up with what's happening, they are the CPU of the village.
 
That was a meal fot for a Queen Di, that sounds delicious, myself i had a frozen McCain Pizza sub The small PO's are the best they had one where Ian & I lived and it was great, but they didn't sell things there the local store did that
 
Tonight for supper I am planning an Italian meal..
I have some lovely sausages that I will take out of their skin and cook with some red wine and some veggies, herbs and spices..
I will create some sort of a sauce and serve that over some penne pasta..

An antipasto salad will go well with all that...

Breakfast will be eggs of some sort..
Lunch will be as always...... Nothing at all !!!!!
 
Diwundrin said:
Rump steak topped with mushrooms and shallots braised in butter and a dob of cream, a grilled tomato, a tiny avocado, and a cob of corn.


The avocados are local. Someone dumped 2 boxes of them at the P.O. The little ones, 3 for a buck, the bigger ones 2 for a buck and they don't come cheaper than that. There was a sign opposite the main door for those who have mailboxes and don't always go into the counter.
"The AVOs are Back!" Wow, I thought, Apprehended Violence Orders at the post office, things are getting out of hand. Will mustn't have thought of that when he put the sign up.

It's one of the benefits of living in a small community. Will and Anne who run the PO allow locals to use it as a shop and there's all manner of local crafts and produce turn up. They do the marketing, selling, and money sorting and charge zero for their efforts. They get local hero awards every year, and a local Australian of Year. And well deserved. It's worth not getting mail deliveries to have go to the PO and keep up with what's happening, they are the CPU of the village.
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LOL at your AVO's being back and I love your description of your friendly community -- with deep envy. But I'm p.o'd because I just paid $1.79 for 1 avocado today. It's one of my favorite things, so I'll pay the price. I had a veggie lunch so guac is going to be dinner tonight. (And how lucky you are to have Will and Anne! A true bonus of a small town.)
 
We had Prosciutto and Danish Cream Havarti cheese on croissant rolls with onion, mayo and brown mustard sandwiches.
 
Katy that's cheap for Avocados, they grow them around here yet still charge $2.50 each in the supermarket. They can hardly be charging for extra transport costs. The ones from N.Qld yes, but from just up the road? Kidding.

There's a lot of local stuff sold around here and in the next town. The Indians there all grow stuff in their yards and sell them in their shops. It's nothing unusual to buy bananas, beans spinach or tomatoes from a box in a dress shop. Or local preserves, and whatever Indians call chutneys etc from the end of the counter in a hardware store, or junk jewellery in a take-away.

There is an Indian fruit shop which is much cheaper than the supermarket but a bit out of the way to get to.
They sell home made soaps and potions with Sanskrit or whatever labels, and shelves of Indian flours herbs and spices in little home packed plastic bags as their sideline. (What health inspectors?)

There's a growers market down near the beach there 3 Saty's a month but it's all sold out before I get out of bed so that's not on for me.
No one does roadside stalls though, the council probably charge for them, and the highway is too damned dangerous to have dozy tourists pulling over to buy a banana, so why not just sell the wife's and neighbours' handiwork and garden crop in your own shop, whatever it is? Works just fine.
Problem is you never know who's got what, when and where so it's a lucky dip.

I'm going to miss that hunting and gathering excitement when I move back to civilization.
 
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