December 2016 / Dinner / Supper for the Day

Bugster2 wrote:I am going to try a new recipe called a Mexican Pizza. Pizza crust, refried beans, salsa, cheese, black olives, green onions and guacamole and sour cream to glom on top.

bethk wrote:My check-up at my Doc went well on Tuesday and so tonight I'm celebrating with a big pot of PASTA!

I have been extra hungry for pasta and have tried to refrain from having it because my blood sugar was elevated 3 months ago when I last had testing done.  So, since I was fairly certain it was diet induced, I tried really hard to stay away from white carbs ~ pasta, white rice, white potatoes....BREAD.  

I did try to make it a bit on the healthy side with chicken instead of beef and adding mushrooms to try to 'fake out' my tongue and make it think I was eating more than I really was.....The pasta sauce was a doctored up jar of RAO Marinara, really quite tasty.  I added some spices, red pepper flakes and a 16 oz. container of my homemade tomato juice.

The corkscrew noodles had good bite to them so that really satisfied me.

Bugster2 wrote:I'll tell you what I won't be making: pear and rutabaga hand pies. This recipe was shown in a group of holiday pies on Food & Wine's website. Who comes up with these things? Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. BLECH!
Food & Wine has got to be the worst site to try and navigate. All those ads and this huge drop-down you can't get rid of. It takes forever. Another pie was a fig tart. Double yuck! I can't stand the texture of figs nor the appearance. They look like testicles from some alien.

Bugster2 wrote:The only way I like figs is in a Fig Newton. I can still remember the fig trees we had when I was a child. Full of rotting smelly fruit and full of ants.

bethk wrote:When Mr. Amazing went to the grocery store with me last week I mentioned if he didn't come up with some suggestions for meals I might have to resort to finding something in the frozen foods aisle.....so that's when he came up with a Mexican meal (unfortunately, the one I chose was NOT the one he was hungry for so we'll have tacos some evening this week ~ LOL) and he said we hadn't had a Boiled Dinner in a long while.  So, a New England Boiled Dinner was on the table tonight......



Johnsonville Beef Smoked Brats, cabbage, green beans, onions, carrots and WHITE potatoes ~ Woo Hoo!!!  White potatoes twice in one week!

bethk wrote:That supper has been a standard for me since I was a child.  We use to get Dinner Bell smoked ring sausage but when Dinner Bell brand went out of business the closest I can find to the smoke and texture of the sausage is the Johnsonville brand.  

We're both stuffed and quite happy with our meal.....and, when I look at it now I think, other than the fact that I mashed up a whole potato and covered it in butter, that it's really a fairly low calorie meal.  There is enough leftover to have a lunch later in the week.  I'm wondering which one of us reheats it???