chicken asparagus risotto - making it with the duck/goose stock that i made last week, or possibly the bunny stock i finished simmering off last night.

cheers!

-mistress k

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That's funny because I was going to make risotto as well...great minds think alike I guess.

Whatever they are serving at work. Let's see...YUM!

ChickenSSB 650-281-1333Beer Can ChickenCheddar Mashed PotatoesSteamed Veggie MedleyCrisp Iceberg SaladZucchini Cakes

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Not sure which part of your "Pho" was "Faux" - are you vegetarian or vegan (or something else)?
My sister got me an incredible cookbook for Christmas - Appetite for Reduction. All vegan recipes (I am also gluten free, easy to sub in this cookbook) and everything I've made has been delicious.


Zucchini/black bean tacos: zucchini, onion, black beans, salsa verde - in corn tortillas
Caulipots: Combo of mashed cauliflower and potatoes
Pineapple rice: Jasmine rice spiced up with red curry paste/tamari sauce mixture, onion/garlic, cilantro, pineapple


Other stuff I like:
Homemade pesto on brown rice pasta
Tofu & veggie stir fry
Sweet potato/black bean tacos

Not vegetarian, although I try to have meat free dinner a few times a week. The faux was that I used mushroom stock so essentially it was a vegan pho. Quite tasty too.

The black bean tacos sound yum and I LOVE cauliflower/potato smash up.

Cream of spinach/broccoli soup; sm. bowl of beets; 2 string cheese sticks; 3 servings of peanuts; oatmeal raisin cookie.

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We've gone paleo for 7 weeks (should be interesting!) so tonight is salad with chicken, apple, avocado, and home-made bacon bits. Last night was chicken enchiladas where we cut out the cheese and substituted cauliflower for the rice.

I'm almost at the point where I'd kill someone for chocolate...the sad thing is that this is just Day 4 of 7 weeks.

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I have a pork tenderloin in the fridge and I will be searing it with olive oil, fresh garlic and fennel seeds before finishing it in the oven with new potatoes to keep it company.

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Y'all make my reheated spaghetti sound incredibly sad. Last night's "nothing" sounds even more pathetic.

I need to go to the grocery store & start eating food I cook again.

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I have a really yummy recipe I got off the "Eating Well" website for a steak and blueberry salad. It's totally awesome. Spinach, a home made blueberry vinagrette, walnuts and feta.
It's even good without the steak as a side item.

I don't usually eat red meat that often but had a real bad craving for a hamburger last night. So I marinated a hamburger in olive oil and garlic. I didn't have any buns so I put it on a Wolferman's maple and walnut english muffin.The maple flavor really came through- It was awesome! Also had Rosemary new potatoes on the side. I'm going to do it again tonight

I had veggie soup from a can.

Yeah, pathetic. But it was better than the pizza in my freezer. Since I started living alone I think I've had maybe 2 salads and they have been in restaurants. Gotta get myself together.

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Eggs, brown rice, peas tonight.

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Tonight at work:
Jerk Chicken
Pineapple Salsa
Curried Chick Pea Cakes
Veggie Salad
Cilantro Rice
Mango and Red Pepper Salad

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Yum. Spinach salad tonight after reading your post. I put a bit of left over chicken on top with carrot and some avocado.

MacDonalds!

Go to the drive thru and when they ask for your order reply as follows:

Ill have a number one, Coke Large. Then I want a Large M&M McFlurry.

That will fill you right up...

Quick, inexpensive and tasty as can be!

Ahhhhhhhh! Mmm Mmm good!

Potato and broccoli latkes and lemon garlic fish. Mmmm, latkes.

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Tonight was strip mall Thai- I had the Pad Kee Maw- chicken, Thai medium spice, no cabbage. The spousal unit had salad.

Last night was Malaysian ginger-pineapple chicken over rice.

I like Thai food.

Last night here was pasta i fagioli soup (I think I spelled the Italian name wrong. Pasta and bean.)

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A super easy one I like is white chili, especially in the winter.

1 pound ground chicken/turkey
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 or 2 cans of whatever white beans (cannelini)
1 little can of green chilis
1 32oz box of chicken broth

season as you like (cumin, chili powder, red pepper, etc)

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Last night - pita with green goddess dressing; swiss; tomato; mushroom; bowl of ripple chips. Yum yum. An entire Green & Black's cherry dark chocolate bar for dessert. I didn't intend to eat the whole thing but it was good...

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ha, i made latkes for breakfast yesterday!



dinner last night was herbed baked rainbow trout over red chard with sauteed asparagus and salt & pepper kasha.



cheers!

-mistress k

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I love that you take pictures of all your food. Your FB makes me really really hungry sometimes! :)

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You might like this recipe, we've made it twice now and its pretty "lish-us" as Liam calls it.

http://www.joanne-eatswellwithothers.com/...ne-with-roasted.html

Some comfort food: http://www.foodnetwork.com/...ze-recipe/index.html
with garlic mashed potatoes

Stuffed spaghetti squash (stuffed w/ mushrooms, jalapenos, spinach & a little parmesan cheese) topped w/ homemade pasta sauce. Yummy!

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Spanikopita!

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last night's dinner (fridays are "fend for yourself night - tanker usually grills himself a couple of burgers):



clockwise from top left:

- ginger garlic sesame stir fried chicken breast with scallions, shitake mushrooms & bok choy
- sauteed beet greens
- roasted beet
- roasted butternut squash

i like to roast off some veggies on friday night (which is my day off from training) so i have stuff ready to go when i need something quick in between errands/training sessions on the weekend. of course, this leads to sampling on friday nights as above :)

cheers!

-mistress k

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I'm doing a shepherd's pie for tonight using 1/2 the normal amount of lamb and bulking it up with red kidney beans and mushrooms. We'll see how it goes.

Omelete for me last night.
I made spanikopita for lunches this week.

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I want to come to dinner at your house! Yum!!

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Canned soup - Amy's bean and pasta something
Chocolate covered salted caramels
Cadbury's mini eggs
Egg sandwich from Starbucks for breakfast

Oh wow, I need help.

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"In order to keep a true perspective on one's importance, everyone should have a dog that worships him and a cat that will ignore him." - Dereke Bruce

Tis mini egg season, huh?

12 oz carrot-ginger soup (from the school union, so homemade by someone), 3 hard boiled eggs, and a sandwich later while I was studying.

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haha, thanks :)

last night was a roasting night:


roasted brussels sprouts with a sort of casserole of roasted potato, turnip, onion, leek, portobello mushrooms and pieces of spinach feta chicken sausage. a little olive oil, sea salt, fresh pepper and crushed rosemary just to keep things lively.

cheers!

-mistress k

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You should do a Page-A-Day calendar thing with all your dinner ideas! I'd buy one! :) I have a default dinner rut I always fall into. Your pics have inspired me --- and they are EASY to make too.

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as the world's laziest food blogger, i post dinner daily and brunch on weekends on facebook. no time or inclination to do anything more ambitious, but it does let me look back through (i'm onto the 3rd album - over 400 photos) and come up with ideas if i'm feeling uncreative. many of the early ones are off limits now since i have discovered numerous pain-in-the-ass food allergies in the past couple of years, but i'm pretty good at substitutions and alterations these days. i figure if i can make gluten free pastry from scratch (my christmas 2011 project) and have it come out buttery and flaky, there's very little left by which to be intimidated :)

cheers!

-mistress k

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Would you please share the pastry recipe? My brother's girlfriend is gluten-free and she might like it.

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it's based on the ruhlman 3:2:1 ratio for pastry, but it MUST be done by weight. after many attempts with various flour combinations, this one worked the best:

(makes 2 x 9" crusts)

- 170g white rice flour
- 65g potato starch
- 65g tapioca flour
- 90g unsalted butter, ice cold, in pieces
- 90g lard, ice cold, in pieces (if making a meat pie, i use all lard)
- 60-80g of ice water
- pinch salt
- if making a sweet pie, add optional 1-2tbsp of brown sugar (this is amazing for apple or pumpkin pie)

place all dry ingredients in a large bowl and whisk to homogenize & aerate. cut in fat with pastry blender until coarse crumbs form. drizzle in just enough water to bring it together while mixing with pastry blender. dump in two batches onto plastic wrap, pat into discs approx. 1-1.5" thick and refrigerate minimum 2hrs (better if left overnight).

remove from fridge and allow to come to cool room temperature (20mins on counter, more or less). lay out a silicone mat or parchment paper and sprinkle generously with tapioca starch. place one disc in the middle, generously sprinkle with starch, then lay plastic wrap overtop of disc and roll out. always roll away from yourself, from the centre, and turn the pin or the mat 15 degrees or so after each stroke until you have a circle approx. 1/8" thick. if it tears you can ball it up and re-roll without fear of it toughening, as there's no gluten to form bonds.

you can cut pieces and fill them for turnovers, cut circles to make tarts, or (for a full pie) you can hold the rolling pin over the middle of the dough and use the silicone mat to bring it up and over the pin, then carefully lay it in your pie dish. if you have cracks or tears they can be repaired by adding small scraps glued in with a wet fingertip. you can blind bake with pie weights (i use dried kidney beans on a piece of tinfoil) at 425 for 15mins, or fill, crimp edges, cut vents and bake:

tarts/turnovers/hand pies - 15mins @ 425f, then reduce to 350f and bake another 15-20mins
full pie - 20mins @425f, reduce to 350f and bake 40-50mins.


blueberry hand pies and roly poly (leftover dough spread with brown sugar, cinnamon and raisins, then rolled up)


mincemeat & raspberry tartlets, apple tart


blueberry tart (i use removable-bottom tart/quiche tins as pictured above)


full size apple and cherry pies for my husband's company potluck


slices from the above


christmas eve tourtiere (all-lard crust)


tourtiere


pumpkin pie


pumpkin pie at christmas dinner


care package i put together for a neighbour - tourtiere, pumpkin pie, GF shortbread bells, GF gingerbread bears, a slice of david liebovitz' "chocolate idiot cake" and a piece of chocolate walnut fudge.

cheers!

-mistress k

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Those look incredible. Thanks for the recipes!

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you're welcome, and thanks! next project is GF puff pastry (i have some recipes to test and some ideas), but that'll have to wait until after the A race of the season :)

cheers!

-mistress k

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So last night I baked a spaghetti squash and sauteed garlic and shallots with cumin, coriander, corainder and mustard seeds a pinch of cinnamon and a little cayanne and a can of garbonzo beans. I then tossed the squash with the saute mix and also threw in some chopped toasted pecans. It was the ugliest heap of nasty looking grey blah... but it tasted great! I think I over cooked the squash a bit. I'll attempt it again but just use the spice/bean/nut combo as a topping to fluffed up squash.

Is there any sub for the lard? The thought of it gives me the willies, although your pies look beautiful and I'm sure they're absolutely delish.

Hammer Nutrition has a free cookbook you can download from their site. I did so and tonight made Zucchini Soup. I added a few things, like black pepper and garlic, but it was quite yummy!

you can use shortening (which gives me the willies) or all butter instead, but the crust will change in character. this is an excellent article that illustrates the differences between various fats:

http://query.nytimes.com/...3&pagewanted=all

stir fry last night, over black rice:



cheers!

-mistress k

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Last night I had a sandwich, 3 scrambled eggs with cheese, and two snickers bars while I was up late studying. The good thing is it is the only time this week I've had candy :-)

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I made this the other day: great winter meal for leftovers!
http://www.101cookbooks.com/...til-soup-recipe.html

Four course meal for the game tonight:
1) nachos
2) chicken wings and celery sticks with blue cheese dip
3) ribs and broccoli slaw
4) apple berry pie with whipped cream.

The gluttony stops now. Tomorrow I start the calorie reduction!

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this was the only "superbowl" at our house this weekend:


seafood chowder made with fresh littleneck clams, mussels, shrimp, wild bay scallops and haddock, plus yukon gold potato, onion & garlic in a vegetable stock, clam juice & white wine broth. the GF bread pictured is from our farmers' market (made with rice flour) and was perfect torn into pieces and dumped into the broth once you'd eaten the shellfish.

had some amazing brunches as well, like potato, onion & red chard breakfast hash:


and crepes stuffed with scrambled eggs & cottage cheese:


mushrooms, scallions & red chard (my husband said this was his favourite):


apples & cinnamon:


nutella & banana (yesterday being world nutella day):


and blueberries and cream (actually greek yogurt):


all served with peameal bacon from our farmers' market:


then we cycled out to a local farm that mostly grows asparagus, but also keeps pastured pigs that they let run around and eat up the asparagus stalks after the harvest. picked up some lovely pork butt chops and tanker grilled them over charcoal while i made some pesto-tossed rotini and sauteed zucchini with portobello mushrooms & garlic:


cheers!

-mistress k

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that all looks amazing!!

thanks :) really enjoyed last night's dinner: local pastured lamb shanks braised in red wine, dijon mustard and rosemary with mirepoix and mushrooms accompanied by red wine & broccoli risotto. used the same wine in both so the flavours came together nicely.



was technically cooked backwards, though: did a stove-top braise and baked the risotto!

cheers!

-mistress k

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spanikopita and three hard-boiled eggs.

buttery phyllo dough YUM

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I know we have both gone through some similar things this last bit...I ate a lot like that too at first! Also lots of 'finger foods' - edemame, popcorn, brie, crackers, wine!

Hang in - it sucks less each day!

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sliced baked potato. I used a sweet potato. It was really good.

thought I'd revive this thread again!!!


I came up with a great recipe last night for chicken salad.
1lb cooked chopped skinless boneless chicken breast
~1c dried cherries
~3/4c slivered almonds
~1-1.5c Trader Joe's 0% greek yogurt (depending on how "saucy" you like it)
1-2 tsp Trader Joe's sweet hot mustard
ground black pepper to taste

SO GOOD. I love cherry almond chicken salad but don't like mayo really, and was looking for a healthier substitute.
It even passed the hubby taste test!!! (that was the best part, he's super picky!)

I've been in the process of moving for over a week, slowly packing up the house and got moved into the new place yesterday. Everything is in boxes so my food has consisted of candy and Taco Time veggie burrito and Mexi Fries. I imagine it will continue for a couple more days until the kitchen gets unpacked.

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"In order to keep a true perspective on one's importance, everyone should have a dog that worships him and a cat that will ignore him." - Dereke Bruce

salad, 3 eggs, 2 string cheese sticks, and a couple ounces of Lindt milk chocolate

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2 veggie burgers w/ 2 slices of provolone (but no rolls - just the burgers/cheese)
broccoli, mushroom, and tofu in a black pepper sauce


I want shortbread cookies...

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Where are you in beach pose? nice

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charcoal grilled tandoori chicken with saffron basmati and asparagus. one of the best meals i've ever eaten, and i have leftovers for lunch today!

yeah, the post-race beer was good too ;)

cheers!

-mistress k

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beach pose: Sand Beach in Acadia National Park (Maine)

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3 scrambled eggs w/ salsa and cheese ; 2 cups brown rice with butter and soy sauce.

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homemade pizza without sauce... mushroom, green pepper, olives, red onion, a little bit of cheese with a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper on a tortilla wrap!