Dinner 8/20, Tortellini
Easy dinner, tortellini and salad. I made an quick white sauce for the pasta, thickened a cup of milk with roux and seasoned it with salt, white pepper, parmesan cheese and a bit of garlic.
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Dinner 8/19, Salmon
Got some nice looking wild salmon at Costco. Made a tossed salad, oven roasted some baby potatoes. Seasoned the salmon with Essence of Bargabus and lemon, baked it until just barely done.
Dinner 8/18, Gluten Free and Collard Greens
One of my son’s friends joined us for dinner. She tries to eat a gluten-free diet, so I decided to keep it simple and serve oven-baked chicken breasts, rice and steamed veggies. Seasoned the boneless, skinless chicken with my spice mix (Essence of Bargabus, recipe…
Meals 8/17, Stir Fry
B: breakfast tostada (fried egg on toasted corn tortilla, cheese and salsa L: leftovers D: Pork Stir Fry (pork tenderloin, veggies, pasta) We had a bunch of miscellaneous fresh veggies, so a stir fry sounded good to me. Younger son complain about having had this…
Meals 8/16, Back to School
B: toast L: sandwiches D: we ate separate from the boys, pizza for them, take out for me and Lisa from El Cotixan
Meals 8/15, Chicken Fried Rice
B: Toast, fruit L: Tuna sandwiches D: Chicken “Fried” Rice Had an emergency computer service call come up and we didn’t have time to shop yesterday. We had a bunch of miscellaneous veggies, so I thawed a couple of chicken breasts and made a cooker…
Meals 8/12, Pork Tacos
B: Clif bar (white chocolate/macadamia nut) L: leftover chicken and veggies D: Pork tacos and “Mexican” coleslaw I cooked off a pork shoulder this afternoon and shredded it for the tacos, with tomatoes, avocado, and onion. My version of “Mexican” coleslaw is similar to Fidel’s…
Meals 8/11, Pizza from scratch
B: Shredded Spoonfuls L: steak salad D: homemade pizza (margarita, chicken sausage and veggies, cheese) I’ve been meaning to do a whole post on homemade pizza. I’ve been using this dough recipe. It’s super easy and requires no kneading; mix it up, let it rise…
Charlie Barley Soup
When our kids were watching the Peanuts holiday shows, my 4 year old got Charlie Brown’s name a little wrong and said he wanted to watch that “Charlie Barley Show”. It sort of stuck and that’s now one of my son’s sometimes-nicknames. I saw the…
Eggs and Spaghetti
The boys get a huge kick out of breakfast for dinner. Our #1 son buys lunch at school once a week and they even have a breakfast for lunch option sometimes. Tonight, it was scrambled eggs, chicken sausage, and toaster waffles for them. Lisa and…