Every time I turn around it's time to eat again. Sometimes I wish we had just beans and bread and occasionally some meat broth. Let's share what sounds good to us lately. I just came back from the grocery with meat that needs to be cooked, no veggies since this little store's veggies looked like they were ready to donate to a hog farm. Fortunately I found Oscar Meyer baloney (I know it's "balogna" but it looks too stuffy to write it that way) and also a big thing of small crescent rolls so came home and made a teeny baloney sandwich and shoved the meat in the fridge. I feel like if we don't have meat the guys think there's no food in the house, but I'm sick of trying to figure out what to do with it that doesn't take more than 10 minutes to cook.
So this is our chance to give each other meal ideas. I just gave you "baloney sandwich on crescent roll with leftover KFC cole slaw" Your turns!
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My sentiments exactly! We just ate a bologna sandwich also; but on Italian bread with cheese, chips and pickles on the side.
My next meal will be steamed veggies-potatoes, cabbage, carrots and onions-no meat!!! So who's next?
Soup. Always soup. You can take a tiny bit of meat and stretch it for days and days. Or just beans and vegetables. The garbanzos, the black, the tiny red ones, the black-eyed peas, the lentils, the pintos, the white.
Soups and chilis and stews and just big pots of beans to eat with bread or tortillas and a salad.
I do love the beans.
Have you ever cooked a bunch of cut-up vegetables in foil in the oven? You can mix them all up- some carrots and broccoli and tomato and potato and corn and cabbage and squash and onions. Or whatever. Sprinkle with a little soy sauce and lime juice or some ginger/soy dressing and wrap them up tightly and bake in the oven. They are lovely.
AND (I must be hungry) have you ever made the oat bran muffins from the recipe on the Quaker oat bran box? It's delicious and I add grated apples and sometimes bananas and ground flax, too.
Ms. Moon, These are all marvelous suggestions -- for the rest of Ajax Rockers. I just have one small problem I forgot to mention: it's 100ºF here today and although we have a/c and a pool, we don't have a/c in our kitchen which is open to the (HOT!) outdoors. So soups and anything in the oven are pretty much out for a few months. :(
Yeah, I had a feeling.
Well, salads with grilled anything- fish, chicken, pork. Always good. I do love a salad with nuts and cheese and meat and a sweet vinaigrette. Maybe some fruit, too. Mangoes? Berries? Apples? Citrus?
Uh-huh. That's good stuff there. I don't know about in Merida, but in Cozumel they sell these great rotisseire chickens. Those on a bed of salad greens would be excellent.
And beans on a green salad with some cheese- yes.
I will share my fabulous chicken salad recipe. It's easy, refreshing and can be tailored to any taste. Grab yourself a can of chicken breast meat (in the tuna aisle). Drain. Mix in some mayo, toss in some grapes or dried apricots. Chop a bit o' green onion if you have it. Maybe a dallop of mango chutney. Then, I like to add a big old pile of curry and mix that it. Shove into a pita (or a crescent roll or bread). The eat.
And let Lou Boo lick the chicken can! :) We go for that!
Ms. Moon, The rotisserie chickens are great, especially the ones from WalMart! (Yipes!) I wish I could find "normal" cheese down here. I miss cheddar royally! I know I'm supposed to develop new tastes, but after Wisconsin cheeses, the Oaxacan ones just don't cut it. I do find bleu cheese, though, and yesterday I made a salad with it and crumbled hamburger, ala Alex's Circle Bar in Sebring! :) Between the heat and all my dental work, I'm grateful to find anything I can manage to get into my mouth and chew. I'm gonna have TMP pain for awhile, unfortunately.
I can't say enough nice things about my ramen only diet lately.
Oooh. Don't tempt me. I wonder if WalMart here has them! ;) I hope you'll graduate to barbeque ribs by the time you get to GA.
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