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NJCher

(37,981 posts)
Fri May 24, 2024, 01:55 PM May 2024

What's for Dinner, Fri., May 24, 2024

Little Gems with Lemon Cream, Spring Onion, Radishes and Mint.

Salad recipe is from the Joshua McFadden cookbook I've been using. Instead of using heavy cream, though, I'm using burrata. The salad has toasted sunflower seeds over the top.

Cherry kombucha.

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What's for Dinner, Fri., May 24, 2024 (Original Post) NJCher May 2024 OP
I have a huge (for me) ziti casserole in the oven. QED May 2024 #1
I am waiting on inspiration irisblue May 2024 #2
Grilled Sockeye Salmon, baked sweet potato, & whatever fresh veggie my spouse picks up @ the market. Native May 2024 #3
Pasta with LaChoy Chow Mein topping (1), Salmon progree May 2024 #4
Leftovers Emile May 2024 #5

QED

(2,964 posts)
1. I have a huge (for me) ziti casserole in the oven.
Fri May 24, 2024, 02:37 PM
May 2024

I'll freeze most of it and then I can cook less often.

Native

(6,658 posts)
3. Grilled Sockeye Salmon, baked sweet potato, & whatever fresh veggie my spouse picks up @ the market.
Fri May 24, 2024, 02:57 PM
May 2024

progree

(11,463 posts)
4. Pasta with LaChoy Chow Mein topping (1), Salmon
Fri May 24, 2024, 04:20 PM
May 2024

(1) La Choy Chicken Chow Mein White Meat Chicken & Sauce With Asian-Style Vegetables

Usually I wait until an evening when rice is the starch, but yesterday I couldn't resist the LaChoy and used half of it to top off the remaining potatoes I had. I know that's unconventional, but it was delicious.

Tonight the starch is pasta and I think it will work out great with the remaining LaChoy.

The pasta (spaghetti broken into quarter-lengths) is being cooked in the Instant Pot - 1 pound spaghetti and 5 cups water and 4 minutes of high pressure cook timer.

I rotate starch between potatoes, rice, potatoes, pasta, potatoes, rice etc. Perhaps with beans thrown into the rotation occasionally.

I have a quota on salmon that I try to fill in the last 10 days of the month, so that's why the salmon. (Similarly I have a quota of a large can of tuna to consume in the first part of the month).

Also I have to get going on it soon because I'm 3 days behind on my flossing and brushing quotas -- an accumulated deficit that accumulated over about 3 months. My health condition makes regular hours impossible, so I just keep track of where I'm at and try to reduce the deficit, by e.g. targeting 8 hours in-between instead of the quota 12 hours in-between. And to do my brush/floss soon after a major meal.

I'm doing great on the meat quota (4.0 oz/day no more and no less on average), and veggie quota (2.5 cups/day minimum).

Emile

(30,076 posts)
5. Leftovers
Fri May 24, 2024, 04:25 PM
May 2024

Crockpot pork chops, in cream of mushroom gravy, served over mashed potatoes, green beans and a salad.

Good Evening,



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