Whats for Supper...

[Saved41199]

Tonight: Baked chicken with an orange chicken sauce, rice a roni fried rice with added peas, corn and green beans. 

Last night: beef stir fry with rice

night before last: I don't remember. 

Groceries are on the thin side right now, so I'm making do with what's in the freezer (I stock up when we have money for the times we don't). I'll get paid for a tutoring session next week so we'll pick up enough to see us through until my first teaching paycheck of the session comes in. 

If anyone wants recipes for filling and cheap food, let me know, I have literally thousands of them. 

[Invicta]

10 hours ago, Saved41199 said:

night before last: I don't remember. 

My memory is like that.  Someone once said, "My memory is what I forget with."

[Invicta]

Had a large lunch again today so we had just spring rolls (French call them Nems)  Kay had vegetable and I had chicken with Thai chili dressing.

[Invicta]

Baked potato (We call the Jacket Potatoes, French call them "Potatoes in their robes of the field".)  With butter, Roquefort  (Blue Sheep's cheese)  and Chedar, with a small salad, Tomato, lettuce and grated celeriac in dressing.

[Invicta]

Had veggie ready meals today.  Mushroom leek and cheese filo pie, with root vegetable gratin.  Green beans.   

[Invicta]

Roast chicken in sage gravy, with veggies.

[weary warrior]

Momma made homemade chicken-n-dumplings tonight. Mmmmmm Mmmmmm. Added a big glass of sweet tea, and now I'm a very gastricly satisfied man.

(If "gastricly" aint a word, it oughta be)

[Invicta]

When I was a child my mum used to make dumplings and I never did like them.  I still don't.  Strange but somethings I used to hate as a child, I now love. 1st is parsnips, 2nd is the taste and smell of coffee.  We used to sometimes pass a shop that had a coffee roasting machine in the window and the aroma used to waft outside.  I used to hate it and had to cross to the other side of the road, as it made me feel sick.  Now I like the aroma.  But I still don't like dumplings.

 

Edited January 19, 2017 by Invicta

[weary warrior]

12 hours ago, Invicta said:

When I was a child my mum used to make dumplings and I never did like them.  I still don't.  Strange but somethings I used to hate as a child, I now love. 1st is parsnips, 2nd is the taste and smell of coffee.  We used to sometimes pass a shop that had a coffee roasting machine in the window and the aroma used to waft outside.  I used to hate it and had to cross to the other side of the road, as it made me feel sick.  Now I like the aroma.  But I still don't like dumplings.

 

There is also a chance that what you are familiar with in England labeled as dumplings would bear little resemblance to southern, American chicken and dumplings. I've only been through England briefly on my way to Africa, but I've been in Australia several times, and had good friends from there. We had a hoot comparing each other's definitions of "biscuits", "gravy" "chips" "sauce" and such. 

It's about the end of this particular grocery period for us, so the cupboards are getting a little thinner. My wife put on a pot of pinto beans this morning, I'm going to brown some breakfast sausage (we're currently out of burger), find some tomato sauce, maybe some pasta noodles and then any other left-overs in the fridge that are not tied down and see what kind of cowboy / hobo / hillbilly concoction I can come up with. It usually turns out surprisingly good. Not counting Momma and I, I currently have 5 other mouths to feed in this house from ages 15 to 23. The boy is 15 and eats twice what I do, and the other 4 of them are girls.And if you think a bunch of skinny girls can't put away the grub, you've never been to my house!

[Invicta]

This evening we could.t agree what we wanted, so in the end I did cherry plum tomatoes in the oven with parsley and garlic and olive oil.  Eggs in the oven, eggs beaten with cream in a ramekin with grated cheese on top.  Baked for about 30 mins at 200C.  Tomatoes go in for about 10 mins or so first as they take longer.  Served with French bread.  Cheap, easy and nice,

Edited January 20, 2017 by Invicta

[Invicta]

Tonight we had stir fry.

 

[Jim_Alaska]

14 hours ago, Invicta said:

Tonight we had stir fry.

 

That's kind of "general" Invicta, what kind of stir fry? I love stir fry made at home, that is about the only way I can say I really like vegetables. But my stir fry has lots of meat or seafood, depending on what kind I make.

[Invicta]

54 minutes ago, Jim_Alaska said:

That's kind of "general" Invicta, what kind of stir fry? I love stir fry made at home, that is about the only way I can say I really like vegetables. But my stir fry has lots of meat or seafood, depending on what kind I make.

We bought 2 packs of stir fry vegetables.  One was labelled Chinese vegetables,  The other just said stir fry vegetables with noodles.  I fry them in a little oil and add some toasted sesame oil to give it a bit of chinese flavour. I usually add some chopped ginger but I forgot.  At the end I added some soy sauce and mirin,  I like to add some rice vinegar, but Kay doesn't like it so I don't add  it if she is looking.  I did some mushrooms in the oven for Kay and I also had a small ready meal of sweet and sour chicken, also done in the oven.  I only added that as I inteded to freeze it but when I got home I found some small writing on the back that said "Not suitable for home freezing"  

[Invicta]

Had veggie meal today.  Starter salad. Left over cauliflower cheese, left over baked potato cut up into small squares sprinkled with olive oil,  garlic and parsley and browned in the oven, roast parsnips, steamed carrot leek, celery, celeriac, mixed greens (Cabbage greens, sweetheart cabbage, and red cabbage)

Edited February 3, 2017 by Invicta

[Invicta]

Tuna salad with fries.