Maple Longjohn with 2 strips of bacon on top and a coffee.
I thought long johns were thermal underwear?
That's a very odd lunch.
Kinda like this this.
Looks like a kolache with bacon on it.
And some kind of horrid-looking syrupy coating.
Lunch was a cheapo salisbury steak & mashed 'tatos microwave entrée. Not sure about dinner yet, probably leftover chicken enchiladas.
From my kitchen:
Chicken sandwich-
cucumbers
tomatoes
1/4 lbs. grilled chicken marinated in Italian dressing
spinach
light olive oil/mayonnaise
green peppers
onions
Plus-
an apple
a chocolate chip cookie
raw almonds
It was delicious. Mmm, mmm, good.
Some soup, followed with tea, baguette and some kabanos. I am gorged.
Lunch was a cheapo salisbury steak & mashed 'tatos microwave entrée. Not sure about dinner yet, probably leftover chicken enchiladas.
Dinner was actually a lemon-pepper baked salmon fillet and Mediterranean pasta salad. Dessert was a banana.
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Made from real cajuns!
Lunch was a cheapo salisbury steak & mashed 'tatos microwave entrée. Not sure about dinner yet, probably leftover chicken enchiladas.Dinner was actually a lemon-pepper baked salmon fillet and Mediterranean pasta salad. Dessert was a banana.
dammit woman, stop eating healthy. Youre making me more health conscious dammit!
Look what you're doing to me!
A piece of sausage and overwhelming thermal radiation from the air itself. Also tea.
Southwest chicken wrap with chipotle ranch dressing. It was pretty good and <$4... BARGAIN!
I drank water with it.
STOP MAKING ME HUNGRY.
I had nothing, had to pay the electric company, the kids ate Strawberries, milk and homemade rolls with peanut butter and nutella.
dammit woman, stop eating healthy. Youre making me more health conscious dammit!
Look what you're doing to me!
Your lunch sounds really good. :)
Whatever healthiness points I accrued from that single dinner (and really, pasta is just empty carbs), I wiped out with today's budget-busting lunch: a Wendy's 1/2-lb. double cheeseburger and 8 oz of Dr. Pepper. Left me feeling uncomfortably full, but totally sated.
For a late dinner, I made a couple breakfast burritos (scrambled eggs, shredded cheddar, picante, and crumbled bacon).
Edit: Also unhealthy, I also have 5 browser tabs open to fried chicken articles/recipes right now. They all look soooooooo good.
Leftover za'atar chicken, snap peas, and raspberries.
Yogurt with scallions, some diced cheese, and a diced cold meat added in.
Leftover za'atar chicken, snap peas, and raspberries.
that sounds magical. Is it magical?
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Leftover za'atar chicken, snap peas, and raspberries.that sounds magical. Is it magical?
Well, it's not exactly magical, but it's really great to make on nights you don't really want to cook. Za'atar is a spice blend. You can usually find it in middle eastern groceries. Or Whole Foods. Za'atar chicken is a staple at my house. Put a bunch of chicken legs in a baking pan. Drizzle olive oil over them. Sprinkle generously with sea salt. Then I add the za'atar by the handful, thickly coating the chicken with a spice crust. Bake at 350 for an hour while you go do other things that aren't cooking, I generally serve with salad or some other vegetable that doesn't take prep since the whole point for me is to spend as little time cooking as possible. :)
Well, it's not exactly magical, but it's really great to make on nights you don't really want to cook. Za'atar is a spice blend. You can usually find it in middle eastern groceries. Or Whole Foods. Za'atar chicken is a staple at my house. Put a bunch of chicken legs in a baking pan. Drizzle olive oil over them. Sprinkle generously with sea salt. Then I add the za'atar by the handful, thickly coating the chicken with a spice crust. Bake at 350 for an hour while you go do other things that aren't cooking, I generally serve with salad or some other vegetable that doesn't take prep since the whole point for me is to spend as little time cooking as possible. :)Leftover za'atar chicken, snap peas, and raspberries.that sounds magical. Is it magical?
Do you buy your za'atar as a blend or make it yourself?
I'm thinking of getting skin-on chicken pieces (or a whole butterflied chicken), mixing za'atar with cold butter, and stuffing the spice mixture under the skin. Then dust outside of skin and roast. Maybe make some roasted chickpea salad to serve with it.
Well, it's not exactly magical, but it's really great to make on nights you don't really want to cook. Za'atar is a spice blend. You can usually find it in middle eastern groceries. Or Whole Foods. Za'atar chicken is a staple at my house. Put a bunch of chicken legs in a baking pan. Drizzle olive oil over them. Sprinkle generously with sea salt. Then I add the za'atar by the handful, thickly coating the chicken with a spice crust. Bake at 350 for an hour while you go do other things that aren't cooking, I generally serve with salad or some other vegetable that doesn't take prep since the whole point for me is to spend as little time cooking as possible. :)Leftover za'atar chicken, snap peas, and raspberries.that sounds magical. Is it magical?Do you buy your za'atar as a blend or make it yourself?
I'm thinking of getting skin-on chicken pieces (or a whole butterflied chicken), mixing za'atar with cold butter, and stuffing the spice mixture under the skin. Then dust outside of skin and roast. Maybe make some roasted chickpea salad to serve with it.
I buy it as a blend. Normally I'm all about mixing things myself, but sometimes you just gotta go with the premixed. Za'atar and garam masala are two things that I always just buy the mix. :)
It helps that unlike more regionally conventional mixes those aren't stretched out with ingredients that can make me very sick. I've had to learn to make taco seasoning, jerk seasoning, and so on for myself because they often have wheat flour in them.Anyways, your idea should taste good. It's more work than what I do, but I am a notoriously lazy cook. :)
I should go check what is available at nearby shop.
Today I will use leftover taco meat in a salad for lunch. This is kind of a theme here. Leftovers are for lunches. :)
I should go check what is available at nearby shop.
Yogurt, scallions, and the rest of cheese. A short baguette and apple juice.
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Do you buy your za'atar as a blend or make it yourself?
I'm thinking of getting skin-on chicken pieces (or a whole butterflied chicken), mixing za'atar with cold butter, and stuffing the spice mixture under the skin. Then dust outside of skin and roast. Maybe make some roasted chickpea salad to serve with it.
I buy it as a blend. Normally I'm all about mixing things myself, but sometimes you just gotta go with the premixed. Za'atar and garam masala are two things that I always just buy the mix. :)
It helps that unlike more regionally conventional mixes those aren't stretched out with ingredients that can make me very sick. I've had to learn to make taco seasoning, jerk seasoning, and so on for myself because they often have wheat flour in them.Anyways, your idea should taste good. It's more work than what I do, but I am a notoriously lazy cook. :)
Ah. I compared several za'atar recipes and it seems pretty simple. The most complicated thing is a spice grinder to whiz it up, and I can just use my old coffee grinder that I used twice before deciding freshly ground beans before every pot was too much work. I'm not sure my supermarket carries the za'atar mix, so if they don't, I have the list of spices to make it.
I'm not sure who I got the idea for the butter + spices + herbs under-the-chicken-skin-trick, but it works well for seasoning the chicken meat and helping keep it moist.
Haven't ate lunch yet, but today's dinner is an alpha test of Chaotic Chicken & Rice in the slow cooker. (It started off as a downsized recipe for chicken & 40 cloves of garlic, but then I started added Mediterranean spices to it.) Roasted chickpea salad will have to wait until another day.
Do you buy your za'atar as a blend or make it yourself?
I'm thinking of getting skin-on chicken pieces (or a whole butterflied chicken), mixing za'atar with cold butter, and stuffing the spice mixture under the skin. Then dust outside of skin and roast. Maybe make some roasted chickpea salad to serve with it.
I buy it as a blend. Normally I'm all about mixing things myself, but sometimes you just gotta go with the premixed. Za'atar and garam masala are two things that I always just buy the mix. :)
It helps that unlike more regionally conventional mixes those aren't stretched out with ingredients that can make me very sick. I've had to learn to make taco seasoning, jerk seasoning, and so on for myself because they often have wheat flour in them.Anyways, your idea should taste good. It's more work than what I do, but I am a notoriously lazy cook. :)
Ah. I compared several za'atar recipes and it seems pretty simple. The most complicated thing is a spice grinder to whiz it up, and I can just use my old coffee grinder that I used twice before deciding freshly ground beans before every pot was too much work. I'm not sure my supermarket carries the za'atar mix, so if they don't, I have the list of spices to make it.
I'm not sure who I got the idea for the butter + spices + herbs under-the-chicken-skin-trick, but it works well for seasoning the chicken meat and helping keep it moist.
Haven't ate lunch yet, but today's dinner is an alpha test of Chaotic Chicken & Rice in the slow cooker. (It started off as a downsized recipe for chicken & 40 cloves of garlic, but then I started added Mediterranean spices to it.) Roasted chickpea salad will have to wait until...
mmmm...
Do you buy your za'atar as a blend or make it yourself?
I'm thinking of getting skin-on chicken pieces (or a whole butterflied chicken), mixing za'atar with cold butter, and stuffing the spice mixture under the skin. Then dust outside of skin and roast. Maybe make some roasted chickpea salad to serve with it.
I buy it as a blend. Normally I'm all about mixing things myself, but sometimes you just gotta go with the premixed. Za'atar and garam masala are two things that I always just buy the mix. :)
It helps that unlike more regionally conventional mixes those aren't stretched out with ingredients that can make me very sick. I've had to learn to make taco seasoning, jerk seasoning, and so on for myself because they often have wheat flour in them.Anyways, your idea should taste good. It's more work than what I do, but I am a notoriously lazy cook. :)
Ah. I compared several za'atar recipes and it seems pretty simple. The most complicated thing is a spice grinder to whiz it up, and I can just use my old coffee grinder that I used twice before deciding freshly ground beans before every pot was too much work. I'm not sure my supermarket carries the za'atar mix, so if they don't, I have the list of spices to make it.
I'm not sure who I got the idea for the butter + spices + herbs under-the-chicken-skin-trick, but it works well for seasoning the chicken meat and helping keep it moist.
Haven't ate lunch yet, but today's dinner is an alpha test of Chaotic Chicken & Rice in the slow cooker. (It started off as a downsized recipe for chicken & 40 cloves of garlic, but then I started added Mediterranean spices to it.) Roasted chickpea salad will have to wait until...
It's the sumac I can't get. None of the groceries around here carry it. *shrug*
That chickpea salad sounds delicious though. Will have to make that soon. :)
Pho ga with Sriracha, from the nearby soup joint.
Quick, cheap, and hard to beat.
Curry curry curry!
With plenty of veg & pulses, which means that Friday Night is Heavenly Music Night.
Today was supermarket day! Lunch was an on-sale frozen entrée: linguine with red pepper alfredo and grilled chicken (pretty bland). Dessert was a banana.
Ground beef was holy crap expensive, so dinner will be ground turkey (on sale) burger seasoned with za'atar. Or possibly BLTs, not sure yet.
Shrimp in red curry sauce with onion, carrot, and string beans,all over white rice.
I am trying to change my relationship with food.
Shrimp in red curry sauce with onion, carrot, and string beans,all over white rice.
I am trying to change my relationship with food.
That's sounds good. Eating healthy(-ier) takes more planning and time (and usually more money too).
Za'atar turkey (sharp cheddar) cheeseburger was pretty good, but I think it was missing something seasoning-wise. I used the za'atar spice blend, plus garlic powder, chili flakes, salt, & pepper.
Maize.
Brunch was an everything bagel with jalapeño cheddar cream cheese, and two cups of coffee.
Lunch: BLT with amazing vine-ripe tomato
Dinner: Chicken club ranch pasta salad. Banana for dessert.
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Black beam sauce with onion, carrot, celery and peppers over shrimp and white rice.
Thick yogurt with dice cheese, cold meat, scallions, and radish sprouts.
A sandwich from Wawa.
Our three local Wawas just opened earlier this year. Months later, they are always very busy inside with long lines for their subs and sandwiches.
Pb and j(peach preserves) on a sweet roll, tomatoes and hummus, canteloupe, and funky ices Chai tea with milk.
They are not the best sandwiches, but they're good, fast, and reasonably priced. Especially for a gas station or convenience store.
You can also expect them to make things pretty much the same way every time. Consistency is a big part of why my nephew gets sandwiches form there regularly.