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November............ what's for dinner?
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251 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:59 pm
Barbara101
I have not bought or made a white potato in a very long time..Sweet P will have to do for me lol...But I do know what you mean..252 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Tue Nov 17, 2015 8:12 pm
bethk
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Yeah, they really hit the spot tonight. But Dane is still trying to cut his carbs (says he still wants to drop 7 or 8 more pounds). So, I got my fill tonight with my one serving and I won't have them again on my table for probably 3 - 4 weeks. Of course, Thanksgiving comes BEFORE that so I know they will be on Lyn's table when we cook & eat at HER house. LOL
253 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Tue Nov 17, 2015 8:59 pm
Barbara101
I had a bowl of the butternut soup I made..So good..
254 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Tue Nov 17, 2015 10:11 pm
Bugster2
I admire you Barb for cooking for just one. If I was alone I think I would go out and buy one good dinner. It would last all week for me. I think it would be cheaper for me in the long run.
255 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Tue Nov 17, 2015 10:40 pm
UNCLE JIMMY
Barbara101 wrote:Yeah! ... I could cook, and I have made stuffed cabbages before, but I didn't add enough water to the meat filling, and they were not soft, and were too tight.
I do not add water.What ? lol
Yeah! that's what I said!!!.... Water????
The trick to stuffed cabbage so they don't get tough and hard, is to add enough water to the meat filling, but not so it floats, but just enough so the inside of the rolled cabbages will steam the meat as they cook. It does make a difference!
When they are done, they are not mush, and not heavy and tough.
Tip handed down from Tina's GG gram, and G and gram. to mother and then to Tina.
I could explain it this way. Add enough water to the filling, till a ball of meat filling about 2 inches round, immediately starts to flatten as it is held in the open hand, and loses the round shape!! LOL
256 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:00 am
Barbara101
Bugster2 wrote:I admire you Barb for cooking for just one. If I was alone I think I would go out and buy one good dinner. It would last all week for me. I think it would be cheaper for me in the long run.
Thanks Bugs...
I enjoy cooking always have so I would rather spend the money on food and then cook it to suit me lol..I have in the past had great meals in a GOOD restaurants but when I leave with 'gosh I paid for that food' I could made it at home for less money and it would have been great..I just do not go..
I absolutely hate chains and fast food.Crap high carb. high calorie ..high salt.high sugar and chemicals..
I will not go down that road again that goes against my health.diabetes is not something to mess with.Eat the right food and you will be safe.Eat the wrong foods you will regret it..I figure I want my last years to be issue free as it can be..
257 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:39 am
cookingirl
Yeah! that's what I said!!!.... Water????
The trick to stuffed cabbage so they don't get tough and hard, is to add enough water to the meat filling, but not so it floats, but just enough so the inside of the rolled cabbages will steam the meat as they cook. It does make a difference!
When they are done, they are not mush, and not heavy and tough.
Tip handed down from Tina's GG gram, and G and gram. to mother and then to Tina.
I could explain it this way. Add enough water to the filling, till a ball of meat filling about 2 inches round, immediately starts to flatten as it is held in the open hand, and loses the round shape!! LOL[/quote]
Jimmy, I have never heard of adding water to the meat mixture....My mom used to par cook the rice before she added it to the meat/onion mixture. She also slightly carmelized the onions and added some dehydrated onions which where reconstituted in water. I think that all added moisture to the stuffed cabbage. It is a family recipe.
My mom also had a 'certain' way to mix all of it in with the beef, so that it would not clump....
lots of tips in her recipe..
258 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 11:47 am
Bugster2
I have never eaten nor made cabbage rolls. OOPS! I lied. I had a sample of cabbage rolls at Costco. 1 1/2 hours later I was dealing with cramps and 'rhea. They poisoned me at Costco. LOL. I was so surprised. With about 1 teaspoon of roll. Doesn't take much does it? Anyway, I had no idea there was a "technique" to making them. One of these days I will give them a try.
259 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 11:56 am
Barbara101
The hardest thing about making them is dealing with the whole head of cabbage.Bugster2 wrote:I have never eaten nor made cabbage rolls. OOPS! I lied. I had a sample of cabbage rolls at Costco. 1 1/2 hours later I was dealing with cramps and 'rhea. They poisoned me at Costco. LOL. I was so surprised. With about 1 teaspoon of roll. Doesn't take much does it? Anyway, I had no idea there was a "technique" to making them. One of these days I will give them a try.
The meat is just gd beef salt/pepper and cooked rice..
lay out the leaf of cabbage and put small amount of filling and roll up. Then a tomato sauce over them and bake..
260 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:01 pm
UNCLE JIMMY
Barbara101 wrote:Bugster2 wrote:I admire you Barb for cooking for just one. If I was alone I think I would go out and buy one good dinner. It would last all week for me. I think it would be cheaper for me in the long run.
Thanks Bugs...
I enjoy cooking always have so I would rather spend the money on food and then cook it to suit me lol..I have in the past had great meals in a GOOD restaurants but when I leave with 'gosh I paid for that food' I could made it at home for less money and it would have been great..I just do not go..
I absolutely hate chains and fast food.Crap high carb. high calorie ..high salt.high sugar and chemicals..
I will not go down that road again that goes against my health.diabetes is not something to mess with.Eat the right food and you will be safe.Eat the wrong foods you will regret it..I figure I want my last years to be issue free as it can be..
I have a cousin Barb, that her husband is a severe diabetic and is only 52. She is 65. .....
Anyway, he denied he became a type 2 ...ok? ... He was 287 lbs at 5'-8".
That's all he ate was fast food. A typical time, he would eat 3 whoppers, a tall milk shake, and then two or three doughnuts from Dunkin D.
He said he felt better when his bg was 350 / 380. He would eat a whole loaf of bread in a day. He was hospitalized 4 or 5 times when he passed out.
Now, he weighs 210. But it is from being in ill health. He had cysts on his Pancreas, and had drains put in. Finally they shrunk the cyst the size of a grapefruit, and they had to remove the drains because he got sepsis. Then he got cellulitis.
Right now, he feels horrible. If I'm right, I believe the Pancreas controls the sugar?
262 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:03 pm
Bugster2
Barbara101 wrote:The hardest thing about making them is dealing with the whole head of cabbage.Bugster2 wrote:I have never eaten nor made cabbage rolls. OOPS! I lied. I had a sample of cabbage rolls at Costco. 1 1/2 hours later I was dealing with cramps and 'rhea. They poisoned me at Costco. LOL. I was so surprised. With about 1 teaspoon of roll. Doesn't take much does it? Anyway, I had no idea there was a "technique" to making them. One of these days I will give them a try.
The meat is just gd beef salt/pepper and cooked rice..
lay out the leaf of cabbage and put small amount of filling and roll up. Then a tomato sauce over them and bake..
Is it a seasoned tomato sauce? Any seasonings in the meat mix?
263 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:08 pm
Bugster2
UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Barbara101 wrote:Bugster2 wrote:I admire you Barb for cooking for just one. If I was alone I think I would go out and buy one good dinner. It would last all week for me. I think it would be cheaper for me in the long run.
Thanks Bugs...
I enjoy cooking always have so I would rather spend the money on food and then cook it to suit me lol..I have in the past had great meals in a GOOD restaurants but when I leave with 'gosh I paid for that food' I could made it at home for less money and it would have been great..I just do not go..
I absolutely hate chains and fast food.Crap high carb. high calorie ..high salt.high sugar and chemicals..
I will not go down that road again that goes against my health.diabetes is not something to mess with.Eat the right food and you will be safe.Eat the wrong foods you will regret it..I figure I want my last years to be issue free as it can be..
I have a cousin Barb, that her husband is a severe diabetic and is only 52. She is 65. .....
Anyway, he denied he became a type 2 ...ok? ... He was 287 lbs at 5'-8".
That's all he ate was fast food. A typical time, he would eat 3 whoppers, a tall milk shake, and then two or three doughnuts from Dunkin D.
He said he felt better when his bg was 350 / 380. He would eat a whole loaf of bread in a day. He was hospitalized 4 or 5 times when he passed out.
Now, he weighs 210. But it is from being in ill health. He had cysts on his Pancreas, and had drains put in. Finally they shrunk the cyst the size of a grapefruit, and they had to remove the drains because he got sepsis. Then he got cellulitis.
Right now, he feels horrible. If I'm right, I believe the Pancreas controls the sugar?
My BIL's mother was the same way. She refused to take care of her diabetes and ate donuts all of the time. It finally got to the point where the nerve damage was so bad she couldn't walk and she ended up in the hospital and died.
It is funny because her husband was the same way: a round butterball that ate crap. I thought his diabetes would kill him too but he lived into his 80's and finally got kidney cancer from chemical exposure from his tool business.
265 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:14 pm
Bugster2
All I eat is crap too. I do eat the meals I prepare for DH and Roomie but I eat a lot of peanut butter and chocolate. What is funny is that it really is a very small amount compared to what most people consume. I eat it when I can't eat anything else. A large meal for me would be a little less than 1/4 of an egg mcmuffin and I will feel sick and bloated for the next 8 hours. I don't know what would happen If I got diabetes. It would probably kill me. There is no history of it in the family so maybe I will avoid the disease.
266 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:39 pm
Barbara101
There is no history of it in the family so maybe I will avoid the disease.
I had no idea it runs rampant on my dads side.He did not have it but almost every one did. His mother and sisters,family of 7 kids,and their kids..
So I guess it was passed right to me..Lord only knows how long I even had it. I had no symptoms.
had to have urine test and then was DX..
I had no idea it runs rampant on my dads side.He did not have it but almost every one did. His mother and sisters,family of 7 kids,and their kids..
So I guess it was passed right to me..Lord only knows how long I even had it. I had no symptoms.
had to have urine test and then was DX..
267 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:25 pm
UNCLE JIMMY
Tina uses all ground pork / minced onions, salt & pepper for her filling.
No egg..... a little rice to hold as a binder. Like a scant hand full. Precooks that rice.
Steams the cabbage, fills with the pork / rice filling, folds, and in a pot with cabbage on bottom.
Pours over with plain Tomato sauce, or canned tomatoes, or crushed, a little salt, and either on the stovetop on low for several hours, or in the oven.
I love the dark green leaves cabbage. They are mine! LOL
She's at her Dr's now, and soon as she gets home, she will make some for tonight, and freeze a lot uncooked for future meals.
No egg..... a little rice to hold as a binder. Like a scant hand full. Precooks that rice.
Steams the cabbage, fills with the pork / rice filling, folds, and in a pot with cabbage on bottom.
Pours over with plain Tomato sauce, or canned tomatoes, or crushed, a little salt, and either on the stovetop on low for several hours, or in the oven.
I love the dark green leaves cabbage. They are mine! LOL
She's at her Dr's now, and soon as she gets home, she will make some for tonight, and freeze a lot uncooked for future meals.
268 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:40 pm
UNCLE JIMMY
Bugster2 wrote:All I eat is crap too. I do eat the meals I prepare for DH and Roomie but I eat a lot of peanut butter and chocolate. What is funny is that it really is a very small amount compared to what most people consume. I eat it when I can't eat anything else. A large meal for me would be a little less than 1/4 of an egg mcmuffin and I will feel sick and bloated for the next 8 hours. I don't know what would happen If I got diabetes. It would probably kill me. There is no history of it in the family so maybe I will avoid the disease.
Tina is the same way bugster. She will take two bites, and she is full. If she eats any more, it causes pain, and she gets sick and throws it up. She can't eat beef; only pork or ham, and a little fish.
She is not one to take out to eat, and a smorgasbord ....forget it!
All above due to Bariatric bypass surgery in 2000. Yet, sweets.....no problem keeping that down; as long as not too much.
269 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:46 pm
bethk
Admin
Bugs - I use a recipe based on Tyler Florence's Galumpis....(sp?)
The tomato sauce I use (traditional to the area I grew up) is a sweet/sour tomato sauce with vinegar & brown sugar.
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No supper tonight. First 'patio party' of the season is scheduled for this evening. I'm going to make a dish of Little Smokeys wrapped in Bacon & then Glazed w/Brown Sugar......Always a hit! LOL
The tomato sauce I use (traditional to the area I grew up) is a sweet/sour tomato sauce with vinegar & brown sugar.
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No supper tonight. First 'patio party' of the season is scheduled for this evening. I'm going to make a dish of Little Smokeys wrapped in Bacon & then Glazed w/Brown Sugar......Always a hit! LOL
270 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:01 pm
Bugster2
Thanks Beth. I am looking forward to making them.
271 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:07 pm
Barbara101
82` today......fans and air on........ 
272 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 4:24 pm
UNCLE JIMMY
Here they are....
In the freezer on a cookie sheet ( about 13 )
and 11 / 12 in the pot, and baking in the oven covered at 375 degrees for tonight. The sauce was on top after I took the pics. Couldn't see the piggy's with the sauce on anyway.
In the freezer on a cookie sheet ( about 13 )
and 11 / 12 in the pot, and baking in the oven covered at 375 degrees for tonight. The sauce was on top after I took the pics. Couldn't see the piggy's with the sauce on anyway.
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273 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 4:29 pm
Barbara101
brand of red dutch oven??
274 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 4:32 pm
bethk
Admin
YUM! Makes me want to do the same.....
One of these times I'm gonna use Napa Cabbage for ease in rolling. It's so much thinner and easier to deal with.
One of these times I'm gonna use Napa Cabbage for ease in rolling. It's so much thinner and easier to deal with.
275 Re: November............ what's for dinner? Wed Nov 18, 2015 4:34 pm
Barbara101
bethk wrote:YUM! Makes me want to do the same.....
One of these times I'm gonna use Napa Cabbage for ease in rolling. It's so much thinner and easier to deal with.
I made them with napa..Really good.
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