What's for dinner tonight?

More leftover chicken. My wife makes a bunch of meals for me before she goes back to work that are easy to reheat. She also leaves notes reminding me to eat my vegetables. So I diced up some jalapenos and fried them with potatoes.

I’m thawing out some meatballs in a brown gravy right now. I’m craving spaghetti and may throw them in some spaghetti sauce or may just go for rice or mashed potatoes with some more gravy. I really love the food saver vacuum bags as they make for easy meals on nights you don’t want to cook. I probably have enough frozen meals to last three weeks at least, and loads of different meats that were bought in large quantities and divided up into usable portions before freezing. Reminds me that my freezer is starting to get older. I want to proactively replace it soon as the thought of having a whole load of meats go bad if it quit working on me is jus sad.

Brent S said:

Reminds me that my freezer is starting to get older. I want to proactively replace it soon as the thought of having a whole load of meats go bad if it quit working on me is jus sad.

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I keep waiting for my 35 year old Kenmore upright non-frost free freezer to die. But it's like the Energizer Bunny, it just keeps going and going and going... I'll probably get a moderately large chest freezer to replace it. We have a smaller chest freezer which replaced a very large chest freezer, and when it died we found food that had been forgotten decades ago waaaaaay down in the bottom, LOL. Not going to get one that big again.

Fried liver smothered in mushrooms and onions, mashed potatoes with white gravy, cottage cheese, asparagus/artichokes, with peach cobbler topped with Swiss cheese and Vanilla ice cream.

VenomJockey said:

Fried liver smothered in mushrooms and onions, mashed potatoes with white gravy, cottage cheese, asparagus/artichokes, with peach cobbler topped with Swiss cheese and Vanilla ice cream.

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YUM!

DrHenley said:

I keep waiting for my 35 year old Kenmore upright non-frost free freezer to die. But it's like the Energizer Bunny, it just keeps going and going and going... I'll probably get a moderately large chest freezer to replace it. We have a smaller chest freezer which replaced a very large chest freezer, and when it died we found food that had been forgotten decades ago waaaaaay down in the bottom, LOL. Not going to get one that big again.

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Wish they made quality appliances like that now. Nothing made today will last 35 yrs.... I’m Leary of getting a huge freezer to for the reason you listed. Not only forgotten food but if power is lost for a length of time loosing hundreds of lbs of food would suck. I have a mid size chest freezer and for two people it’s allready more than we need.

DrHenley said:

YUM!

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Yup! Was excellent!!

I used the instapot today to cook two pork tenderloins. I was slow to accept this new gadget and it collected dust for months, but now I’m really sold on this thing. The pork was the most tender and juicy I’ve ever made before and it was done in about 30 mins. It’s really easy to clean up afterwards too. I Made egg noodles and gravy with it too.

Brent S said:

I used the instapot today to cook two pork tenderloins. I was slow to accept this new gadget and it collected dust for months, but now I’m really sold on this thing. The pork was the most tender and juicy I’ve ever made before and it was done in about 30 mins. It’s really easy to clean up afterwards too. I Made egg noodles and gravy with it too.

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Also made a loaf of wheat bread with yogurt in it. Sad to say it was gross but the dogs seem to like it....

Brent S said:

I used the instapot today to cook two pork tenderloins.

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This afternoon I steamed some fresh picked collards in mine. I mostly use it as a steamer, but also use the pressure cooker, air fryer and slow cooker.

I went over to a friend's place today and we spent the afternoon playing board games. She's an older lady and retired and doesn't get out much anymore. We made salad with chicken in it for supper. Should be healthy, but she makes good sweet tea so I'm not sure my overall calorie intake was healthy today

Well I may soon make a lot of money. We are all on this Keto diet here and I miss my favorite foods. Since we cant have rice, I have been creating some new recipes. Today I made a culliflowe rice Jambalaya. It came out excellent, it taste and even looks like Jambalaya. Im going to tweek it a bit more, then make my millions off this Keto craze!

I put together a pot of my soon to be world famous chilli this morning and have it simmering on the wood stove. I start with ground pork, lean steak and bacon. Add a couple hand full of roasted jalapeno, habararo, chipotle and other peppers. Tomato sauce, another can of chili's, Worcestershire sauce, liqued smoke, tequila and other seasonings. Oh yeah, don't forget the beer. And never a bean will touch my chilli.
For some reason the wife won't let me make this inside when she's home. Something about the pepper fumes.

Breakfast for supper at my friend's house - pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs. I never have time in the morning to make a real breakfast so it was nice.

I got in late last night from vacation. Let’s just say I wasn’t counting calories while in Fla., unfortunately I’m back in the real world.

Fish cakes and crispy sliced potatoes and either sweetcorn or peas.

We are going to make pizza's at home . Sausage , pepperoni , Canadian bacon , lots of cheese and sauce .

We ordered a pig out at a barbecue place. It’s a bit of everything for two people on a huge platter. So tonight was leftovers of that. Still have at least a couple more meals of it. I didn’t like the restaurants bbq sauce (the most important ingredient to me), so used some sweet baby rays origional on it. Good stuff.

Psalm7 said:

We are going to make pizza's at home . Sausage , pepperoni , Canadian bacon , lots of cheese and sauce .

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You ever notice that it costs about double to make your own pizza than to just buy it pre made? It’s good and is a fun night though, especially for the kids.

bigpaul said:

Fish cakes and crispy sliced potatoes and either sweetcorn or peas.

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I guess the brits perfected the fish and chips thing....