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Since I failed the rice pudding test, I bought a tub of rice pudding instead of cooking it. We are having roast beef on a miniature bun, that helps with portion control. And a spring salad, adding romaine.
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Mum decided at 2am that she was going to have beans on toast with cheese on top so like an idiot I made it and brought it in and what did she say? Where's the poached egg!!!!!!!!!!

I did say she was lucky I even heard her at stupid o'clock let alone making her a meal in the middle of the night ....her reply...yes but you like cooking don't you and this is nice. SCREEEEEEAM
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Falcon, only another caregiver would even get this..... sorry I laughed,,, it's just that I relate so well.... enough is never enough.....God bless caregivers and send us some help..... hugs to you and I bet you make a great poached egg, after all, you DO love to cook....
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Ladee luckily I do make a very mean poach egg in a cheat sort of way too. I have a teeny frying pan that is perfect for poached eggs so i rub oil on it then and gents place my metal shape cutter (also oiled) and then add boiling water from the kettle. I plop in the broken egg and 2.5 mins later on simmer a beautiful heart shaped poached egg - mum likes the heart shaped one but won't eat the square one or the triangular one (no idea before you all ask why). I like the triangle ones because I can fit them on toast easily but she won't touch em unless they are heart shaped.
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Not sure what to say, but regular conversation sounds good. Sometimes run out of ideas for appetizing, different, convenient things to cook. Kinda makes ya feel down when the loved one you care for does not seem to care or even make an effort to eat. Not very motivating, but have tried or done everything could think of to help. It would be nice if when you are in half way decent mood and cook to sit down and have a good dinner. You guys have some great ideas for mealtime solutions though.
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Tonight I made an easy and delicious chicken noodle hot dish. I knew I'd be eating alone, but decided to go ahead with the full meal dish anyway, to have most of it in the fridge.

Last night was beef stroganoff loaf from the Rhodes web site. It is a great hamburger mixture baked inside bread dough. And a lovely green salad with cucumbers, avocados, pistachios, and a home-made dressing with parsley and avocado. Hmm ... wonder if there is any left. Gotta go check. Thinking of it makes me hungry. :D
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There was a leftover salad in the fridge. Yay!
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Still hungry, now that the bavarian chocolate pudding is gone. My husband will only eat a salad, so I can ask him, but it is late.
Wishing I had some cornbread, pancakes, or what, I don't know.
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Salad, just right, feel healthy. Salad is also easy to prepare when you live alone.
Have it your way.
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Brownies.
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Leftovers tonight. Don't you love when there are good leftovers?
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Ok, must have gotten the dose right on my husband's vitamins this week. The DH (that is dear husband) made yams in the microwave, with butter, cinnamon, nutmeg as he does sometimes. It is my favorite late night meal, especially because he cooks it. Tonight, he was very creative and cut the potato open face, lying on the plate one just could not tell it wasn't salmon! It was the exact pink color of salmon, he even had crosswise cuts that looked like the sections of the fish. We're calling the yammy meal faux salmon.
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jeanne have you ever had bubble n squeak? It is called by a variety of names around the world but in the uk we melt some fat in a pan and heat till fairly hot hot, then add some bacon. As it begins to brown, add some onion and garlic (if you like garlic - it is optional). Then add chopped up sprouts and/or cabbage and let it colour - do watch it it burns easily so no more than 5-6 mins.
Add mashed potato. Mix it all together in the pan and press it down so that the base of the pan is covered – Now you fry it a bit like a pancake it shouldcatch slightly on the base of the pan before you flip it. It’s the bits of potato that catch in the pan that define the term ‘bubble and squeak’, Cut into wedges and serve.
I have brown sauce on it so a bit like your A1 sauce - scrumptious
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Roasted an eggplant, sliced, dusted with vumin and curry. Sauted shallots and garlic, stirred in garbanzos. Added some escarole on top. Added eggplant and some quarter tomatos.
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I haven't had bubble and squeak, but it sounds good. And the eggplant dish sounds good, too. (That would be cumin with the curry poweder?)

Tonight I had grilled pork chop on a stick. Cold chocolate rum raisin bread pudding with whipped cream. Lightly battered deep fried veggies, and warm chocolate chip cookies. All eaten while walking around at the State Fair. And the woman I was walking around with was also walking around the fair grounds with me more than a half century ago!

We lamented that now that we have cash to eat anything we want, and we are old enough and wise enough to call a moratorium on healthy eating for one day, we just don't WANT to eat everything we see! Sort of like youth is wasted on the young -- money in the pocket is wasted on old ladies at the fair!
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Spinach salad with cranberries toasted pecans blue cheese crumbled dressing topped with nice portion of smoked salmon topped with a bit of warm cranberry with Port topping! Yum
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Babalou, did you say vermin and curry? What's that?
In-N-Out is starting to depend on us for support! Again, late lunch, 3 p.m.
We, (my husband and I), love it.
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Warm cranberry, yum. Think I will put that in some stove-top recipe of Mrs. Cubbison's dressing, celery, onion, butter, chicken bouillon, then bake in toaster oven with french's dried onions on top.
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2 pups sounds scrummy Mums having brie and cranberry sauce croissants for breakfast this morning
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Sending its roadkill!!!!!!!
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Twopupsmom, that sounds similar to costco's spinach salad, which I buy.
Very good choice!
Jeanne, you could make liver and onions sound good the way you serve it with great things and write it up like a foody magazine.
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Do people eat that in the UK, Falcon?
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Green beans, baby potatoes and carrots, all harvested from my little container gardens, and a nice striploin steak I found reduced in the 'last day of sale' bin. If only I had a barbeque!
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Oh my goodness, dinner was good! And easy. And quick. But definitely good!

It started with a salad kit Costco sells ... Taylor's Farm Asian Cashew Chopped salad. That includes 2 kinds of cabbage, carrots, celery, cilantro, cashews, sesame seeds, almonds, and wanton strips. I added tomato, cucumber, chicken breast strips, and bacon. The dressing that comes in the kit is sesame ginger. Almost worth getting a Costco membership for on its own!

Later I'm going to whip some cream and have it over fresh raspberries and blueberries.
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Cwillie, we have a little hibachi that cooked great turkey breast tenderloins, and then swordfish. Someone left hibachi out in the rain, and I don't think that I can take it, cause it would take so long to clean it, and even longer to restore it...... again, oh no!
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Mmm, we are having Salmon, which my Nephew caught up in Alaska and had flash frozen and shipped home. All in all, he caught 55#'s, and thoughtfully gave us 3 nice big fillet's, so we are BBQing those, and having pease w/white sauce, and red potatoes. I cheat and buy Aunt Penny's white sauce in a can, but it is a nice and rich white gravy that I really like with salmon, yummy, can't wait! I hope you all enjoy your meals tonight, oh, and Butterfinger Ice Cream! Umm that is the highlighy in my book, I Love Ice cream, and have the backside to prove it!
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Unbelievable!! Had to come back here to review the recipe ingredients for Mrs. Cubbison's dressing with warm cranberry. The sad part? I wrote it. Meh.
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Sendme2help, I believe it! More than once I've had to find my own recipe by tracking down who I'd sent it to or where I posted it!

What do you serve when the best cook you know is coming for dinner? That would be my sister, who came for dinner with her husband tonight. We live in the same metro area, about an hour and a half apart, but usually when we see each other there are 16 to 25 other people around. It was nice to just have a small dinner party.

I made green goddess dressing to go over romaine and spinach with cucumbers and shallots. Pistachios and pepitas garnished the top. I served a very small portion of the wild rice dish I made yesterday, just so they could sample the recipe. Main course was a beans-tomato-corn-cheese mixture layers with tortillas, baked, and sliced into wedges. Homemade salsa verde. Dessert was very simple: sliced fresh pears with caramel sauce drizzle, and a homemade sandwich cookie with caramelized condensed milk as the filling, and coconut flakes around the edges.

They liked it. We are not in the least competitive and I had no compulsion to "out do" her meals. I just went for things we might all enjoy.

I think I have enough leftovers on hand to coast tomorrow! :D
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That sounds good Jeanne
Send do we eat what warm cranberry and brie croissants - yes roadkill - well normally no but I have been known to eat a pheasant that the car in front of me hit. It's actually illegal in the UK to hit a pheasant and then pick it up and take it home - classed as poaching but you can pick up one the car in front hit. It was jolly good too - wasn't quite so keen on plucking and drawing it (do you use that term drawing for removing innards?) but it was lovely with a tangy orange and plum sauce
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Today I am making a big pot of spaghetti sauce. Its a good way to make sure I get my veggies as I usually throw in some of everything I have on hand and just a very little ground beef for flavour. It's so versatile too, it can be used over pasta as is or with meatballs or as the base of a minestrone soup. When I'm tired of it it can become chili with the addition of beans and spices. Freezes well too.
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