Last night had ribs, chicken, garlic bread, potato wedges, onion rings and peas.
I wanted corn on the cob, but Dad wasn't keen and Stevo doesn't eat either peas or corn.

Ribs were over-cooked, wedges were too large so we only ate the small crispy ones and there is a shedload of chocken left. But it was £4.00 for a whole one or £4.00 for a couple of thighs so the choice was obvious... Dad says he is happy to have leftovers. And the cats are too.

The 'larky bread was teh yum. Tiny little rolls stuffed with garlic butter.
Will recommend them to Mum for 2 October when the girls come round.

Ahhh, British chips.... I remember shopping at the Tesco in Pembroke Dock when we were in Wales and noticing that one entire aisle in the freezer section was devoted to frozen chips of every type. And in the fresh produce section there were 20 or so different ones.

But the ones you buy in stores are nothing like real chips from the chippy.

Chilli con carne.

I've just come here to bitch about the fact that I haven't really eaten dinner in so long I can't remember. I'd probably have to look through this thread to see what was last of note.

Lately, if I eat or drink anything but water after about 4pm the indigestion just kills me. As it is I can barely sleep an hour without having to take a pill.

Anyway, that's my bitch. I like dinner. I'm sick of not having it. :(

Let's start posting placenta recipes so we'll be ready. Or baby recipes. What?

Gross. Obviously it's been way too long since you saw your last placenta. lol

3 c-sections, no viewing, thank goodness.

Are you drinking raspberry leaf tea and olive oil tonight?

I think it's castor oil, and no, I don't have any. Wouldn't have it if I did to be honest.

The purpose of the raspberry leaf tea is to 'ripen' the cervix. They did an internal yesterday and it's ready to go in that regard, so all those wives tale type remedies are superfluous anyway (unfortunately).

I have a picture of Max's placenta if you'd like to see it. lol It's pretty gross. They collect the bits as they come out and put them back together like a puzzle to make sure it's all there and nothing is left inside to go septic.

Castor oil's for the (lack of) shits isn't it? Maybe works the same. The Greeks are all into Olive oil for inducing birth (was working in a greek chippy when awaiting Hector impatiently). Mind you, they're all into olive oil for everything.....

I'm running out of old wives tales, though. Maybe go and read a little current American politics -that's enough to shock anyone into labor -even Ibby.

Haha...yeah, Mitt's doing well for himself isn't he? Mind you, an Australian polly had to resign yesterday because he suggested that if we allow gay marriage, next thing people will be having sex with animals. lol What a fuckhead. lol

Dinner is roast chicken with bacon rolls, saudages, stuffing a(and various combinations thereof), roast spuds, kale, carrots and mushrooms. And gravy.

Yeah we get that here too. "Oh! Where will it end?!"

Yesterday I had some disgusting fish pie from school. The potato topped kind. The dinner ladies told me it was grim. They only offered me a portion as it was minutes away from being binned. But the two ladies serving hated fish, so I was willing to give it a try.

No. It really was nasty. Stodgy, dense and even the potato was bad - like Smash if you haven't mixed it properly - powdery and claggy.

Still, it was free. And I nibbled round the edges and took the crispy bits off the top :)

I had baked beans with cheese. My goto meal when I can't be bothered cooking anything else. Dazza is cooking ravioli for him and the kids later, but I prefer to eat much earlier and go to bed on a close to empty stomach.

Chicken noodle/rice/barley soup.

yummy if i do say so myself. Beest just walked in frozen to the marrow from a day paintballing in the rain as I turned of the heat and dished up. Wife skillz, I haz em

Nice!

Eating meat for the first time in months, trying to raise my Hb before chemo starts. It tastes weird to me now. I'd go the veggie route but suspect this is faster, plus there are other considerations. So dinner was lamb chops and steamed veggies. At least it was quick to cook. Can't spend time in the kitchen right now; too much studying to do, aagghh! :eek:

Lamb chops? but you yanks don't eat the baby bahbahs!

When does chemo start?

(for extra wife skillz points, i have washed and put in the dryer his nasty clothes so he can do it all agian tomorrow. usually i just do it in my own time after the weekend is done, but they were so wet and muddy they were lighter when they came out of the washer.)

pizza
I ate too much of it.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Maybe my Brit heritage is showing :p:

Chemo is scheduled to start the first or second week of October, depending on how fast my skin graft heals (I get that done this Wed).

Tonight: Beef Kabobs.

The beef cubes have been marinating in scallions, ginger, garlic, pepper, balsamic vinegar, Worcestershire sauce and soy sauce since yesterday after work. Kabobs were supposed to be last night's dinner, but I laid down to take a tiny little nap and didn't wake up until 1:30AM.

I have never marinated anything for this long, so hoping they still kinda taste like meat...

Dinner Wings , Sausage , Taters and salad , MMMMMMMMM !!!!!

Cool , i do a slight variation on this , i leave the Big bone in ( Oh shut UP !!!!)

chicken noodle soup and a grilled cheese - yummy

Meatloaf, baked beans, mashed potatoes, and deviled eggs.

:yum:

Moms rock!

ha! that they do.

I am having banananananananas on toast.

Moms totally rock!

This is the first dinnertime I've spent alone, since my mother moved in with us several months ago. The restaurant manager where MB works liked her so much, he created a position for her. So, that's where she is tonight.

For my rare solo dinner, I just enjoyed a little leftover lasagna and meatballs from the same restaurant.

Hambuger patty, salad and beer.

Slow cooked haunch of venison ...

God that sounds awesome.

I'll be having a hot pot with dumplings ready meal. Highly processed and with enough salt to transform your bloodstream into the Dead Sea, but 10 second prep time and 7 minutes in the microwave.

You should try a slow cooker. Dump a bag of prepared veg, two glugs of wine and a lump of meat in it in the morning. Eat a yummy dinner in the evening. Freeze another dinner or two for another time. Prep time 3 mins, cook time 7 hours. You can get fancier if you want, but you don't really have to.
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I wandered into Morrisons today. It's the only one of the Big Four supermarkets I rarely visit. Well, of of the three we have in town - I hardly ever get to Asda.

Only to find that the wonderful packet mix vegetarian meals I've been buying from Sainsburys are actually 20p cheaper in Morrisons! Hmmmm. Having stocked up on five recently I feel cheated out of a pound. Still - I know where to go in future.

Also got some chapattis for 65p - haven't seen them on sale in the other two places. Of course I should make my own but... well, I just can't be arsed. Much healthier for me than naan bread - much as I love it.

AND, best of all, I found Gits ready meals! And yes, we've pretty much exhausted all the jokes about the names in the last month I've been searching for them...
They are half the price of the packet meals I've been buying and only require reheating. Trouble is they are twice as high in fat. Still, given they are my main meal of the day, 18g of fat or lower is a lot better than I was consuming previously.

So I have Punjabi Chhole, Pau Bhaji and Methi Matar to try. And again, I know where to go to get more. Shame they don't carry the whole range - some are healthier than others. But most Indian vegetarian food carries benefits - not least the fibre and flavour. Better to consume fat this way than in a Big Mac.

Packet mix-wise I've been eating Simon Rimmer's meal range Si - Meat Free Cuisine. My restocked cupboard has the Mixed Bean Chilli which is GORGEOUS, Chickpea Tikka Masala which even Mum liked, even though she generally dislikes chickpeas and in the fridge is half a portion of Tomato Biryani leftover from tonight (that one's a two serving pack).

These all have to be cooked/ simmered in a pan. 15-20 minutes, so hardly "cooking". Just a little more washing up.

I will report back on my Gits meals for you.

Are going veggie?

All your talk of Indian food made me crave paprika. :)

I have some salmon in the freezer, so I searched for paprika and salmon recipes. Think I will try this tonight:

Smoked Paprika Roasted Salmon with Wilted Spinach

• Low Calorie • Low Carbohydrates • Low Fat • Low Sodium

1/4 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon olive oil, divided
2 teaspoons thyme, divided
2 pounds salmon fillets
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon paprika, smoked
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon grated orange peel
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 bag (10 ounces) fresh spinach leaves

I'm out of smoked paprika but regular should be OK.

Are going low fat. I have veggie intervals anyway.
The recipe sounds teh yummy, but that's a LOT of salmon!

It is! I have less than half that, so will make do.

I'm just jeal because it costs so much here - 2lb is nearly 1kg and the average price for that would be £12.50. Not putting it in the realm of Kobe beef, just making it something you keep for special occasions.

Yeah, if I buy salmon, I buy one or two fillet portions. And that's a treat.

If that equals about $20, then it's the same price here. I paid 7 bucks for 0.7 lbs. of sockeye salmon. Blegh.

Ah there you go then.
I suppose the difference is that Dani and I generally cook for ourselves.
If I had £12.50 to spend on one ingredient I'd probably go out for a meal :)

I'm a bit ashamed to say it but I LIKE my bloodstream that way.

with freshly cracked coarse black pepper, too.

give me a choice between salt and sugar and I'll take salt.

I even wrote a poim about salt, I love it so.

Of course I'm bloated like a blowfish, but I loves me some salt.

I like it's magical properties, too. And the fact that you can foil your enemies with it. It's handy stuff to have.

eta: interesting note got from bill bryson --- the world salary is derived from the word salt---which is what roman soldiers were sometimes paid in.

Made a very salty/peppery home-made chicken and rice (with hausenpfeffer! [carrotts]) soup today. And triple choco chip cookies; may make hamber/cheese/salsa mix-up for later. Nothing to do today but cook and laundry.

ugh. clouds and rain coming. could use a good book.

I've always suspected that the whole British Empire thing wasn't so much about world domination as a country desperate for take-out.

I actually love Indian food myself. Right now my freezer is stocked with three different flavors of frozen samosas. Never heard of Gits. For ready made Indian I buy MTR, Tasty Bite, Kitchens of India, and one other I can't remember.

The pouches are OK, but really more of a sauce with some chunks of veggies or cheese than a stew. I usually pour over chicken strips or turkey meatballs and microwave.

Can't move for tripping over an Indian takeaway round here :p

We're quite limited here.
I mean there are a number of restaurants and they do take-away, but the menus are all the same.
Having lived in Leicester I've experienced a far wider range of Indian cuisine and eaten with Indians/ Pakistanis or people of that heritage, so I know I've been eating authentic food.
The take-aways I can get in Aylesbury aren't completely tailored to English tastes, but they are tweaked, and it's pretty much all Punjabi.

Still, it's more authentic than Chinese take-away, which is nothing like what you get in China. Not here anyway - possibly different in other cities or other countries. I'm sure I've told the story of when my Hong Kong born colleague took me out for my birthday and we ordered from the Chinese menu. Now that was a culture shock. Taught me that "authentic" was over-valued, despite my use of the word here :)

I prefer Dave Lister's meal range, myself.;)

Not so sure I'd want him to cook for me, though.

I'll admit I smirked at the idea of eating Rimmer's meals.
I had a major crush on him when I was at school though... something about men and nostrils.

I must be on a paprika kick, because I'm putting it on everything now.

A couple of nights ago, I made cod filets (cheaper than salmon, whew!) topped with butter, salt & pepper, and paprika. Baked them in a glass dish for 10 minutes, basted them, then baked for 5-10 minutes more. They were still frozen in the center while I was prepping them, so the melted butter would harden as I drizzled it on...it was weird. Used the leftover butter to steam some bok choy and julienned red bell pepper as a side.

The meal was a hit, but total butter overkill. Next time I'm using a mixture of butter and olive oil, instead of pure butter.

Last night was tuna casserole time. I used a basic recipe--mixed up cooked pasta (penne) with a large package of tuna, cream of chicken soup (can of condensed whisked with can of water), cup of shredded Cheddar, green beans and half a chopped onion. Sauteed the green beans and onion first in some olive oil and salt & pepper to soften them up. Topped the mixture with moar Cheddar, panko breadcrumbs, and PAPRIKA. Baked for 20 minutes, then broiled a few extra minutes for that browned crust.

I always forget about tuna casserole. Yours sounds fabuloso!, Blue!


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Naked juice. I'm trying a different route around treatment day this time, hoping to have fewer side effects. Keeping it very light with little in my system the day before, of, and after. We'll see. Things can only improve!

Chicken gumbo

Cuisine Chinoise.

frittata with corn and spinach and cheese.

Attempting chicken noodle soup for the first time in my life. It went in the slow cooker at 11 this morning and should be done around 5 pm. It's supposed to get down in to the 40s tonight (WHAT THE HECK, FLORIDA?!) so I wanted something to help keep warm!

You're in Florida! There must be hundreds of Jewish grandmothers who would love to give you tutorials on cooking chicken soup. AND they'd be happy to march right into that doc in a box and give that turd a dressing down.

Saw an advert in the paper today. Tesco are doing whole salmon half price.
Must remember to ask Mum to get some in. I'd love to make your recipe.

Nothing to eat again tonight.
I really should try :headshake
Haven't eaten since Monday which I know is very unhealthy.

Still - will be offered a breakfast pack on the coach, and have dinner at Bibis with the girls on Saturday night.
Even if I can only manage a starter.
OOH! Must take a take-away box just in case!!

ETA - snickering at the idea of an adopted Jewish Granny laying into a Dr on Choc's behalf.
I have no grandparents left now (not unusual at 40). Can I adopt one too? I'd like an American one.

Can we start a Granny Exchange program? I'd like a British gran for a while.

A two-fer! I'd go for it, Choco. A British gran would be cuddly and make great scones but she wouldn't be as good at dressing down the docturd.

Alternatively you could try an Italian or Ukrainian baba - equally good at dressing down stupid people but the soup would be different.

:lol2: