Too soon to think about dinner! The garlic from my breakfast bagel is still wafting, perfuming the place, and making me want to get another one for lunch.
Bach is not noise, Madam. (Robert, in Two's Company)
I am defrosting some homemade roasted chicken to have with mashed potato and fresh broccoli. (I could eat fresh, steamed broccoli every day; and, some weeks I do so !)
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Dinner plans changed. I was taking steaks over to my stepdaughter's house to eat, but she thinks she is getting a cold and isn't hungry (and I don't want her germs). Hubby and I will eat the steaks tomorrow night and are having pasta marinara tonight instead. I will make a caprese salad with the basil and tomatoes from my garden to go with it.
Well, last night's room service morphed into a nice,medium rare steak, which was huge. I brought half of it home to have cold sliced steak with tater tots and a green veg. Maybe also some sliced tomato. Newbies, take note: always take a cooler and zip-lock bags to hotel shops.
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Baked chicken with cauliflower rice and peas, small dinner salad of mixed greens, avocado, tomato's and sliced oranges....dessert is lactose free Ben and Jerry's.
I like fennel seed in sausage but hate fennel as a vegetable. Do you like licorice? Anise? I don't, but for some reason I do like fennel seed in Italian sausage, as long as it's not overwhelming.
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My boyfriend brought me 5 lbs of hot Italian sausage from the butcher that's made without fennel (which I hate in the spice form) so I'm making a big batch of "gravy" to have tonight.
Autumn began yesterday. Even though we are about to begin a week of hazy, hot, humid and hellish temps, I celebrated by baking some russet potatoes and making my world famous, never the same twice, twice baked potatoes.
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Already many lifetimes ago. Yesterday, we went south of the border (long, silly, punny thing) and did not do any spectacular food-wise. Today, we had the real, local Mex [not a shop] for brunch. Servings are generous, so I got two meals for the price of one.
Bach is not noise, Madam. (Robert, in Two's Company)
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I don't like italian sausage. Maybe it's the fennel? Anyway, my wife had dental surgery and needs soft foods. So I am feeding her meat loaf and mashed potatoes. I am making myself a salad. I am also trying a recipe for banana oat energy bars, replacing the sugar with honey and cinnamon and adding some dried cranberries.
OMG Coffee Queen my sympathies to your wife! I know all too well about the dental crap. I recommend high protein yogurts and blueberries since there are no seeds. They have this fairly new YQ yogurt from General Mills that has high protein and low sugar and it's all natural with lower sugars. I really like it. That way she can get the calcium and probiotics (especially if she is on antibiotics) she needs and it's cool, soothing, and also easy on the guts. That and soups. Anyway, when I cook the Italian sausage, it's always cut up into bite sized pieces and cooked for many hours in a rich marinara sauce for use on pasta. If I ate it on it's own, I probably wouldn't like it.
Thanks Jas. She will only eat yoplait. Unfortunately. I did grab a bottle of probiotics so she can get them that way. She's a very picky eater. (not in the good way.) If she didn't eat it when she was 13 she won't eat it now. Her mac and cheese has to be Kraft. Her American cheese (yuck) has to be Kraft. Her cheerios have to be the plain ones. Basically she's a 1960's midwestern nightmare when it comes to food. Luckily I don't care what she eats.
I'm going to try the yogurt though. Lower sugar is always fine with me.