What Are You Eating Today?

[thebeave]

I make my beans with a can opener. I like beans but it seems like making them yourself is a lot of trouble considering the end result is, well, beans. Dare I say, just beans?

I just had a crab cake. Yesterday I had a crab cake too. I sprinkled Tabasco on yesterday's. Today I tried tartar sauce. Glad I had it on the side. Tatar sauce is a no go.

Toni's fast food post got me thinking about my mom's hamburgers, reminding me of the chunks of green pepper and onion she'd put in the mix. Way to ruin an otherwise good hamburger. They were nearly hamburger balls. Hamburger ellipsoids, that's what they were. We usually didn't have hamburger buns. Just hurry up and eat it before the white bread disintegrates. Good times.
Now I'm thinking about my mom making city chicken. Poor Polack/Ukie food.

Eddie Murphy? Is that you?

 

[Toni]

Rosemary Potatoes (nice side dish for 2)

All spices are the dry kind -- recalibrate my directions if you cook with the fresh kind.
Simmer one and a half t. of rosemary in one and a half T. of olive oil. (This will be your marinade base.)
While it simmers, boil 7 or 8 small redskin potatoes for 20 minutes.
Remove marinade from heat and spoon the potatoes onto a plate. When everything is cool enough to touch, slice each redskin in half. Pour marinade into shallow bowl and add additional spices (I like fresh ground pepper, oregano, basil, and garlic -- a good dash of each.)
Roll each redskin half in marinade and put on baking sheet. If you run low on marinade, add a little olive oil.
Into 350 degree oven. After 15 minutes, remove and flip each redskin over. Back in oven for 15 minutes.
Et voila.

I do something similar except I don’t do any boiling. I grow rosemary in my garden because I like having fresh rosemary around for a variety of dishes, especially rosemary potatoes. I slice in half or quarters, depending on size small potatoes and roll them in olive oil, snipped up rosemary and a mushed up clove of garlic. Put in baking pan, sprinkle very lightly with salt and more heavy on ground pepper. Bake @400 for about 30 minutes, depending on how your oven runs and size of potatoes—and how brown you like them. Hubby likes them with crispy skins. Inside is very soft, fragrant and delicious.

 

[crazyfingers]

In Maine I had clam chowder 3 nights in a row. It's a take-out place about 6 minutes down the road.

Home now. No chowder.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Why did I read Rosemary’s baby?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Breakfast -- 1 banana; egg sandwich on low-cal multi-grain english muffin with only 1 normal egg and several egg whites; 1 no sugar, no fat yogurt with 15g of protein plus some trail mix with nuts and berries (some healthy fats and carbs), coffee with equal and no fat half and half

Pre-workout meal
1 banana or other fruit
protein shake with 30g protein, low-cal, low-fat, low-sugar, 30 vitamins and minerals (160 calories)

The "template" I have for post-workout lunch in this order:
1. a banana (or other fruit)
2. protein shake with 30g protein, low-cal, low-fat, low-sugar, 30 vitamins and minerals (160 calories)
3. yogurt, no fat, no sugar, 15g protein
4. an entree, sometimes a salad with other things in it--today the entree was a Smart One with beef, potatoes, carrots, string beans and I added 1 can of tuna in spring water
5. a second protein shake

Later for dinner I will make chili with lean ground turkey.

Before I go to bed -- another yogurt.

 

[crazyfingers]

I can say that I invented this recipe but I'm sure that I'm not the first. But I love it. Sadly the boys don't like pork chops. Fortunately there were leftover meatballs and pasta

Pork-chops, with tomato sauce and cheese on top. Baked. Sometimes I put onions or mushrooms on top.

 

[gmbteach]

I have just made a hot salsa of onion, tomato, carrots, zucchini, celery, tinned tomatoes and mushrooms, tomato purée, red wine, herbs etc. it’s slow cooked in Mama and will made a nice ‘gravy/salsa’ to go on chicken schnitzel, with snags and mash etc. something to pop in the freezer and reheat as required.

 

[steve_bank]

Brekfast

Scrambled eggs with peppers, garlic, and potatoes.

Topped with canned baked beans.

 

[crazyfingers]

My daughter made home made chicken noodle soup for herself and my wife and granddaughter over at my parent's old house. She gave me some of it to take home.

There is no broth! It's like a chunky paste.

So I put it on toast like we put lots of stuff on toast when I was a kid. Very good.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

I've been reading about the microbiome. It was interesting.

Because milk does nasty things to me yoghurt has been off the menu for a while, but turns out they make a soy, an oat and a coconut yoghurt.

The soy variety I can live without. The oat one was acceptable.

The coconut one didn't appeal until I had the idea to use it up by mixing it with breakfast.

A GF Weet-bix, (I know, contradiction in terms. Suck it up.) a small handful of walnuts, a smaller handful of preserved ginger, some almonds, some chia seeds. Leave it so the coconut has time to soak the Weet-bix. Gorgeous!

I will never eat this stuff by the spoon again, but I have just described my breakfast for the next 30 years.

 

[bilby]

A GF Weet-bix, (I know, contradiction in terms. Suck it up.)

So, a "bix" then.

Though I guess "Weet", like "Froot" need not respect its homophone.

https://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/10/another-consumer-claims-he-was-duped-by-capn-crunch.html

https://www.loweringthebar.net/2010/04/yet-another-lawsuit-claims-no-fruit-in-froot-loops.html

http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/22/fr...uits-opinions-columnists-kevin-underhill.html

Kevin Underhill has made something of a thing of lawsuits in which Americans (ineffectively) claim damages for "Froot Loops" lacking any fruit content.

 

[gmbteach]

I've been reading about the microbiome. It was interesting.

Because milk does nasty things to me yoghurt has been off the menu for a while, but turns out they make a soy, an oat and a coconut yoghurt.

The soy variety I can live without. The oat one was acceptable.

The coconut one didn't appeal until I had the idea to use it up by mixing it with breakfast.

A GF Weet-bix, (I know, contradiction in terms. Suck it up.) a small handful of walnuts, a smaller handful of preserved ginger, some almonds, some chia seeds. Leave it so the coconut has time to soak the Weet-bix. Gorgeous!

I will never eat this stuff by the spoon again, but I have just described my breakfast for the next 30 years.

I saw how they were made on a field trip to the Sanitarium Factory in Brisbane when I was a youngster and never ate them again… the smell…..

 

[spikepipsqueak]

: D I'm fine with sausages, too.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

Change of subject.

I've been curious for years. Does anyone know by what leap of logic Mr Kellog thought Corn Flakes would prevent masturbation?

 

[Politesse]

Change of subject.

I've been curious for years. Does anyone know by what leap of logic Mr Kellog thought Corn Flakes would prevent masturbation?

It's a holdover from the days of humoural medicine; they believed foods had inherent properties that affected the psyche in specific ways, and pretty much all foods with strong flavors were suspected of inflaming the appetites generally. Bland, grainy foods were thus preferred.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

Thanks.

I suspect you may have explained this to me before.

It's such a lunatic proposition that I think my brain was holding out for something that had a chance of being true.

 

[Politesse]

In fairness, there really are such things as neurological impacts from eating certain foods! Alas, aphrodisiacs specifically are and have always been a myth.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

In my head, he was claiming that Corn Flakes, specifically, would have this effect. Not just "blandify your diet to calm yourself down."

About aphrodisiacs, I can't remember all of them, but increase lecithin and B5 in your diet and get back to me. : )

 

[crazyfingers]

I'm eating a lot of Progresso or Cambells's Chunky soups these days with added broccoli at the bottom. If I make dinner for me and the boys it's a struggle to get them to help clean up. So I don't do that much unless I make a big batch of chicken which I might do this week.

But those soups have a lot of added salt so I might look for better alternatives. I know Progresso makes a lower salt soup but not much lower. I almost never add salt to things. I add pepper.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Change of subject.

I've been curious for years. Does anyone know by what leap of logic Mr Kellog thought Corn Flakes would prevent masturbation?

For some people, it's harder to masturbate when you're constipated.