What's for lunch?

[Aberzombie]

I'm thinking Popeye's today.

[Jiggy]

Jiggy wrote:

The beef-tater train continues to chug along; morning, noon and night.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

They were BOGOF at the store, so I just had a new Boomerang "Aussie" steak & potato pie. It was like a premium pot pie. Pretty good for frozen food.

[Limeylongears]

Meat pies are ace.

I ate lamb curry, which has successfully slain my cold - for a while, at least.

[Jiggy]

I learned a thing!

Apparently, potatoes contain a toxin (especially concentrated in the skin) which is normally no big deal, but if you eat lots and lots of potatoes you can accumulate enough poison to start hurting your gut.

-_-'

[Drejk]

:(

Yes. Though you need to eat a lot of them, or them to be of type that has a higher concentration of them, or they were undercooked (cooking reduces the amount of toxin), or very young (the younger have a higher concentration than old ones, until the old ones start growing sprouts, which increase the concentration around them), the toxin concentration is higher in skin, particularly if it is still green*. Wilder (i.e. less domesticated) variations will also have more of it.

*There might be some differences between potatoes grown in Poland and USA.

[Jiggy]

Yup, it was actually a batch of greenish potatoes that prompted my research. Apparently, a potato exposed to enough light will think it needs to start up a fresh plant, so it starts producing chlorophyll (which is where the green comes from). But this same process also produces more of this toxin.

But even in non-green potatoes, the toxin apparently exists (especially in the skin). And I was eating, like, a pound or more of potatoes for every single meal for almost two weeks straight, the latter half of that time with the skins on them.

My digestion had been calm enough for a while that I thought I finally found a "baseline" for some experimentation and was just about to add something else to my diet, when I started to be a little sick again. I had eaten one green-skinned potato (but peeled it first), so I thought I'd do some research.

And now I'm eating rice instead. :/

[Eben TheQuiet]

Reheated leftover homemade gluten-free pepperoni pizza.

Don't be so jealous.

[Jiggy]

Eben TheQuiet wrote:

Don't be so jealous.

YOU CAN'T STOP ME

[Tacticslion]

I forgot to eat lunch today.

But Subway for dinner!

[Jiggy]

Yesterday began a vacation in which my wife and I are suspending our diets. Had Subway for lunch and frozen pizza for dinner. Planning to go out for breakfast. For lunch today... who knows?

[Aberzombie]

I have some left over bacon-wrapped beef medallion, but I may save that for tomorrow and have Popeye's instead.

[Limeylongears]

Discounted cold roast beef, in a pitta bread, with Ahmed's Mango Pickle.

Ahmed's Mango Pickle is serious pickle business, let me tell you.

[Drejk]

Turkey and potatoes.

[Tacticslion]

Breakfast.

[captain yesterday]

Worry, anxiety, a bit of coffee and a couple Pierogies.

[Haladir]

Leftover hommeade baked mac-and-cheese casserole; salad with mixed field greens, grape tomatoes, and shredded carrots; two apples; a large glass of water.

[Drejk]

captain yesterday wrote:

Worry, anxiety, a bit of coffee and a couple Pierogies.

Civilization!

Obligatory question: which filling?

[captain yesterday]

Potatoes and cheese, cliche for the Midwest.

[Drejk]

captain yesterday wrote:

Potatoes and cheese, cliche for the Midwest.

*chokes*

Cliche?

Midwest?

This is THE FILLING for a proper pierogi!

The others (minced meat, cabbage and mushrooms, fruits) are poor substitutes. Ok, mushrooms (without cabbage) are quite good but still inferior to "ruskie".

[captain yesterday]

Excellent! Good to here, I love them. :-)

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Bourbon chicken & pasta entree*
Second-to-last bottle of cream ale

Entree info:

The local Publix supermarkets only seems to carry three of Zatarain's frozen entrees: the blackened chicken alfredo, bourbon chicken pasta, and shrimp alfredo. They're all pretty tasty and well-seasoned for frozen entrees, although they could use a pinch of salt & pepper. The blackened chicken is the tastiest of the three, makes me wish they made a blacked shrimp alfredo. If I'm patient, I can catch them on sale BOGOF, which makes them only $1.49 each.

[Limeylongears]

Two slices of "pizza" and two Eccles cakes, all for £2, bought from the Pound Bakery.

I have already lost.

[Aberzombie]

I'm debating whether to have Popeye's today, or wait until tomorrow. Friday would be better, as I'm trying to spend as much time as possible away from the house. However, that would leave me with trying to figure out what to eat today.

[Jiggy]

My food-related indulgences on my recent vacation have caught up with me this morning, rather fiercely. I hope I can still handle the leftover pasta I packed for lunch today. O_o

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Because of zombie mind control, I had to stop at Popeye's on the way home today. They were out of the Wicked Good chicken special, so I got a spicy chicken po'boy and red beans & rice. Mmmmm!

[Jiggy]

Beef, rice, salt.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Forgot about lunch until 3PM, then worried eating would ruin my appetite for dinner. It's now almost 5:30PM and I'm starving, but in a half-hour I will be gorging myself on homemade lasagna.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Yesterday's lunch was microwave burrito and some Fritos chips.

Today's lunch was a fried chicken patty sandwich and some Fritos. Which Limey ruined.

[Jiggy]

My breakfast came out of the microwave smelling like smoke (a smell which still lingers at my workstation some 7 hours later), so I ate my original lunch (ham and rice) for breakfast and got Subway for lunch.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

If you burn something in the work microwave, you should have to wear a cone of shame for a full workday.

If you burn popcorn or reheat fish in a work microwave, you should lose your microwave privileges for at least a month. And wear the cone of shame.

[Aberzombie]

There's a debate currently occurring in my brain, between delicious leftovers or Popeye's.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Ritz crackers & cheddar cheese

[Drejk]

Beans with sausage in tomato sauce, buns bread rolls?

[Gisher]

Sharp cheddar cheese with French bread, two bananas, and a lot of dates.

[Limeylongears]

Yesterday, along with some other stuff, I ate a mixture of cheese, tomato sauce and what were supposed to be meatballs in filo pastry, which cost three pounds

Three pounds

[Drejk]

Cottage cheese with shredded lettuce and kabanos sausage. Some whole-grain bread.

[Drejk]

Limeylongears wrote:

Yesterday, along with some other stuff, I ate a mixture of cheese, tomato sauce and what were supposed to be meatballs in filo pastry, which cost three pounds

Three pounds

I could go to restaurant for that much...

[Aberzombie]

Hmmmm....What IS for lunch today? I'm almost in the mood for Wacky Mongolian.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Last week, jars of sun-dried tomatoes were on sale, so I figured I'd finally try them. In today's episode of Improvisational Cooking with the Slaadish Chef, I learned that sun-dried tomatoes are super-powerfully flavored, and I had used way too much... like, you can't taste anything else except a little of the parm. Delicious, but overpowering.

Lazy Slaad's Shrimp Scampi Pasta w/Sun-Dried Tomatoes:

I've adjusted my original experiment to the revised recipe below for how I'll make it next time:

• 1 7.75 oz box of Mediterranean/Italian pasta slaad
• 1 12 oz pkg frozen shrimp scampi
• 2-1/4 oz (1/2 small 5 oz wedge) domestic parmesan cheese, finely grated
• 1/2 large red bell pepper, cored, chopped
• 3 oz (1/2 can) black olives packed in water, drained, chopped
• 1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes julienned & packed in oil, drained, diced*
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp dried basil
• 3/4 tsp smoked paprika
• 1/8 tsp black pepper
• With the salt already found in the rest of the ingredients, I didn't need to add any more

Boil pasta in large (3 qt) lidded pot on stove as directed on package. While pasta is boiling, combine pasta's dry seasoning package, basil, paprika, and black pepper in large mixing bowl; do not add water or oil from box directions. Drain pasta in colander when done, leave to cool. Use now empty pot to cook frozen shrimp scampi per box directions. When shrimp is done, remove from heat. Add 4 tbsp buttery shrimp sauce and 1 tbsp olive oil to mixing boil of pasta seasoning, stir well. Add drained pasta, red bell pepper, olives, and sun-dried tomatoes to bowl, stir well. Drain remaining buttery sauce* from cooked shrimp, add shrimp to seasoned pasta mixture, stir to combine. Sprinkle pasta mixture with parmesan, serve immediately.

* I've saved the remaining shrimp sauce and the olive oil from the tomatoes. Tonight for dinner, I will brush the tomato-infused oil & some of shrimp- & garlic-flavored buttery sauce on my grilled cheese sandwich before I toast it in the skillet.

[Solnes]

I had a lovely spinach and walnut salad topped with tuna for today! Quite excited

[Limeylongears]

I don't know quite what it was,

But:

I fried some garlic, shallots, a leek and some spring onions until soft, then added some chopped Polish sausage (Picoki?) and browned it, then added a tin of chopped tomatoes, diced mushrooms, chickpeas, tomato paste and smoked paprika and simmered the whole thing for 10 minutes or so.

Anyway, I ate it, and it was alright.

[Gisher]

Thin crust pizza with marinara, mozzarella, ricotta, gorgonzola, and pineapple. Yes, I said pineapple. I love it on pizza.

[Tacticslion]

Ambrosia Slaad! Any any other FaWtLians that haven't been there in a few pages! Get thee hence to FaWtL, and, from there, over to taig's thing! I've linked it there, like, almost every page! GET HYPE~! >:D

Oh, and, uh... I ate a handful of cereal and some crackers and soup!

NOW GET HERE AND GO THRERE*!

* "THERE" being "where the links say to go!"

[Drejk]

Limeylongears wrote:

I don't know quite what it was,

** spoiler omitted **

Anyway, I ate it, and it was alright.

Pikok? It's a Lidl's brand for cold meats of all sorts of decent quality.

I had a 1 kg lasagna bought at Lidl. Ate half. Went to sleep, woke up few hours later and ate the other half...

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Arby's beef & cheddar and a small jamocha shake

[Rysky]

Chive and onion cream cheese on triscuit.

[Limeylongears]

My latest and greatest discovery, namely low-fat brie and red pesto on pitta bread, grilled.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

A stick of string cheese and a half-dozen townhouse crackers