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Normally I would say fooey on pre-made sauces, But Trader Joe's is a horse of a different color. Their stuff is really good.
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This must be my week for purchased sauces. The meat dish tonight was chicken breast browned in a cast iron skillet, topped with one jar of Trader Joe's garlic sauce, covered with foil and popped into the oven. We all like the sauce. Along with it we had planned-over mashed potatoes, asparagus tossed in lemon juice and olive oil, topped with sesame seeds and roasted, and two new recipes. I tried a very spicy seasoning for roasted cauliflower and I did a practice run on a savory scone (cheddar and chives) I'll be serving at a little tea party Sunday.

Those prepared sauces are good on a day when you want to focus your culinary energy on some other part of the meal!

Cap, good luck with your treatment.
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Baked whole chicken seasoned to our liking at 420 degrees, while it rests, roast chopped onion, broccoli,and zucchini drizzled with olive oil, salt and pepper..Yummy!!
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Sauté a couple of mushrooms in olive oil, place two salmon fillets skin down and cook on a high flame for three minutes. Add a bag of frozen asian veggies, or broccoli, or string beans. Cover and cook on a low flame for 5 minutes. Add a bit of soy ssuce, sesame oil and rice wine vinegar. Cook till fish is done.
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when i was fresh out of the army at the age of 20 we used to hang out and drink beer at an elder german americans shack out in the hills. a friend of his had stored two complete butchered pigs in pop georges freezer with the instructions for pop to help himself to the pork on occasion. i used to drop frozen pork roasts into a skillet on the coleman stove and chip it up as it thawed. when all these chips were cooked i would melt pepper jack cheese down into the pile of chips and wed eat them as finger food. needless to say in three months there was nothing left in the freezer but a layer of frost. the moral of this story " moose " is ; dont say it if you dont mean it.. lol..
got the call today. next wednesday i have an appointment with va to start my hcv tx. according to wiki this tx has a 100 % success rate. oh those are so much better odds than 47 % minus the 24 % who dropped out for mental issues. if wiki is wrong, well , we'LL change that . lol
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Mom's at sisters for dinner (yay) so I made a pepperoni roll and a sausage (hot) and pepper stromboli. I'll have a small piece of EACH with a salad, and will have leftovers for lunch and/or snacks, for a few days. Best part is eating alone in front of a NON blaring TV!
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flour the ebelskivers and run over em with the truck one time. makes a great breaded fritter sandwich.
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Avon this week: "Pancake Puff Pan" on sale, so I ordered it. Now I have to trap those little Ebelskivers and skin 'em for baking.
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Today I'm making one of my favorite vegetable dishes. This can be a soup, or a side dish.

Steam, 1 small frozen bag each, broccoli, cauliflower and carrots in a pan with a little water until defrosted. Drain. Mix in casserole dish. Top with slices of american cheese. (I like Kraft, it's got the best flavor, imo) Mix a can of cream of mushroom and a can of cream of onion soup together with 2 cans of milk. Pour on top of vegetables and cheese. Cover dish with tinfoil and bake at 350 for about 20 minutes. Take the casserole out and take the tin foil off. Top casserole with french fried onions. Bake another 5-6 minutes. Enjoy! :D It's good with a little sour cream, too.
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A lovely package of 3 heads of organic butter lettuce (Boston bib) inspired tonight's choice: Chicken lettuce wraps. I found a copy-cat recipe for PFChangs on the internet. Awesome.

I remembered that last time I needed it I was out of sesame oil, so I bought a bottle. Does anyone else feel odd about getting a full bottle of something in order to use 1/8th of teaspoon?! In this case I know I use this stuff periodically, or that bottle would be a lifetime supply -- my great-grandson's lifetime! :)

We had canned peaches and blueberries as a side dish. I love the very-light syrup jars of peaches from Costco.
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tonights dinner will be whatever hubby is will to go out and get, LOL!! Maybe chinese, maybe a taquiera,,,or worse case will be jack n the crack!! A busy day so no time to cook.
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yea stegman. better keep it on the backroads. i think your s**t would fly apart on the interstate.
i have to turn down lunch foods all the time when working for private homeowners. if id get my belly full id end up laying under a shade tree licking my n*ts..
im boiling chicken gizards again tonight. im of the belief that our body craves what it needs. my body says " get em more tender tonight a**hole " ..
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roflmao @ Pstegman and Cap .. such great analogies!

I'm so very aware of the risks of eating poorly. I just ignore the rules sometimes and accept the consequences. Eating habits: people keep yammering at me that I must have breakfast, and the earlier the better. That oh, so, doesn't work for me. If I have anything to eat within the first 8 hours of waking, all I want to do is eat ALL day, and never feel satisfied. At that point, I typically have a small 'lunch' (like half a sandwich), and supper is about 4 hours before I go to bed, again. And my portion size is probably half of a typical meal served in a restaurant.

I think I mentioned it somewhere .. one of my fave meals is a baked potato with a veggie bin salad (made of whatever's in there) with my favorite dressing (I dip rather than pour it on, that way it's the first flavor I taste and uses less than a 1/3 of a normal dressing helping). Yum. Know what I'm having for supper tonight!
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I've been running too rich for a long time and needed a new connecting rod (knee) so I could at least get out of Park. I've been married 42 years, so that puts my odometer at about 840,000 miles. My husband threatened to trade me in, but my blue book value is zilch, I can't pass an emissions test and my transmission has no bottom end at all. Not to mention my bumpers are sagging and the headlights are all fogged up.
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if you run too rich your going to foul plugs, build carbon deposits atop your pistons and valve stems. a valve will eventually stick in the open position and strike a piston. the broken piston will lock up and youll stick a connecting rod thru the side of your block.. happens all the time. i think humans will be direct fuel injection in the distant future. too many stuck needle valves.. ( overeating )
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if you ever wonder what our food consists of just look around your immediate location. you see corn , soy beens, trees and water. underfoot is petroleum. the terminology has changed but in the past if something contained cellulose you were eating young saplings from clear cut forests. the food is grown on dead soil with the petroleum based fertilizer installed as needed. were eating freaking oil..
i drove past 4 teen girls yesterday who looked like sacks of potatos with limbs attached. wth? if were to become less physically active, perhaps our diets should change to compensate. i eat one meal a day and have for years -- dinner. my theory is, if exess fat in the bloodstream is causing us health problems i want to lean it out every day. in only a little while the body adjusts and there is no such thing as a hunger pang. most nights i only eat because i know that i should.. not trying to be judgemental or sound superior. im sharing this for the people who would like to trim up a bit but arent having much luck.
we are used to eating a big dinner then sleeping, not much fuel burned during sleeping. then we eat a hearty breakfast. WHY ? is what im asking..
energy for working? nah. not buying it. i work like a borrowed mule..
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omg .. I'm caving. Headed for MickyD's.
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yea jeanne. spoiled on the whole wheat bread.
im reaching for the stars tonight. boiling some chicken gizzards to get em tender , then ill fry em..
s-a, i used to make " potato " donuts into a braided form. had apple bits in them. not much different from a big cinnamon roll but the braided form has more surface areas for glaze.
no one to cook for anymore so chicken organs are fine with me. they should serve me well with hepc tx and anemia looming..
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Cap you would no doubt make your own yeast crust, but we like the convenience of starting with a deli pizza. We sure do it well!

Tonight was another semi-homemade main course. Have you used the fairly new pouches of sauce? It is sort of like pouring cream of mushroom soup over something, but more sophisticated (and expensive). Tonight we had Cambell's Marsala sauce over chicken. Very fast and pretty tasty. We also had a what's-in-the-fridge salad consisting of shredded lettuce, dates, almonds, celery, a few cauliflower and broccoli pieces, and avocado slices with a lemon caper dressing leftover earlier in the week.

I like making my own sauces, but sometimes a shortcut is welcome.

SA, this is the first year in a long time I didn't do at least one corned beef brisket in March. Glad you enjoyed yours!
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that pizza sounds like serious business jeanne. the best store bought dont come close imo..
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Last night I did a slow cooked corned beef, some mac and cheese and yeast rolls. YUM! After almost 6 hours of slow cooking, that roast fell apart and was so juicy! I ate a little, but my boys devoured it.

Since I've gotten older, the less and less l like eating red meat. I do like it, have no problems with it, but for some weird reason I'm just turning off of it more and more, especially these last 3-4 years.

No idea what I'm doing tonight. Probably nothing. My boys can have leftovers.
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Last night was pizza. Son requested it and he's the one who prepares it. Start with the huge 5-cheese fresh pizza from Costco. Brush off most of the cheese. Slather on pesto (homemade this time), Canadian bacon (or cooked chicken), lots of fresh mushrooms, sweet pepper slices, chopped tomato, olives if you have some on hand, pineapple if you like it, pile the cheese back on, and add a little more cheese if you are in the mood. Oh my goodness! This is awesome pizza!

Son is away tonight so I made pork tenderloin which Daughter and I like, and Son does not. Used onion powder, garlic powder, white pepper, and smoked paprika as a dry rub, sliced, and cooked in cast iron skillet on top of the stove, while brussel sprouts and butternut squash cubes roasted in the oven. Daughter asked if I used honey on the squash. Nope, just olive oil with a little allspice and cinnamon. They were nice and sweet!
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Cap'n add some yeast to that crock and wait a month. You'll have wine. Oh and add more sugar once a week for a higher proof. Bottle it and save it for after your last treatment. That should be around Flag Day.
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im not creepy. everyone else is just wild eyed and idealistic.
lets leave people who think within the box in there. society will be safer..
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Cap .. your comments always lead to very odd visuals...... 0.o .... Picture it: alley, a match hovering over ........... oh, well .. you get the idea.
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emjo,
" cranberry orange relish" . it looks delightful , toss it in the crock. raisins, in the crock. ditto apples, grapes, melons, strawberries, honey, peaches, shelled corn, plums, pears, etc.
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* sigh *
i cant be drinking booze -- hepc -- gotta behave.. ive taken up peeing in alleys and playing with matches -- not a happy camper.
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I just had the oddest image of ligonberries chasing a waddling ebelskiver ..

Who's got the tequila?
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ligonberries.
ebelskivers like ligonberries..
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Tonight was leftovers, not very interesting or tasty but it filled the gut!
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