What are you cooking?

[jaylach]

LOL! two or three weeks late but I have a delivery from my local grocery arriving in a couple of hours. While there were things I wanted from the local grocery there was no hurry.

So what is the plan?

• I will now have everything I need for a beef stew using sirloin tips. Will probably do this in a 5 quart crock pot.
• I also have a pound and quarter of pretty good meatballs from Omaha Steaks. These will go in sketty sauce but done slow cook stove top in a 12X4 inch pan. Yield on the sketti sauce is probably in the area of 5 quarts. Add the meatballs and just let it do it's thing.
• So I have beef stew going along with sketti sauce and balls... can't be a bad thing.

Some of the sketti sauce will go for topping thin sketti but many of the balls will got for meatball subs on potato based hoagie buns.

 

[fishorama]

@Rustyshackleford do you use cider vinegar in your navy bean soup? That was a "thing" growing up, also in New England boiled dinner. I haven't made either in many years. Both seem like autumn foods but yours looks tasty.

We're having leftover chicken w/cheese on egg noodles, spanikopita & salad. I finished off the leftover pot roast for lunch

 

[jaylach]

Just got done emptying a large sized grocery cart that carried my latest order from the local grocery. My total bill was about $235.00 USD but, if I had bought in the store it would have been closer to $270.00 USD.

I find that I REALLY like this on-line grocery ordering. Almost all my meat comes from Omaha Steaks but most other things come delivered from my local grocery. The $235.00 USD I spent for the local grocery today will last a month. With the about $220.00 USD I spent for an Omaha Steak's order I got a couple of days ago I spent about $455.00 USD for enough food to easily last a month and, more likely, 6 weeks. Could have been cheaper but there were a couple of 12 ounce top sirloin steaks and other higher side meat cuts involved such as 3/4 inch smoked pork chops, chicken cordon blue and other stuff. LOL! I often eat not simple.

 

[fishorama]

I have no idea how much we spend in a month. My husband buys at different stores than I do. Neither of us goes shopping for much each week or 2. Veggies in season, meat & cheese on sale; milk, sour cream, crushed tomatoes, pasta, etc. as needed. I cook & freeze a few days/week. We never starve for choices but sometimes on the repeat cycle.

 

[jaylach]

I have no idea how much we spend in a month. My husband buys at different stores than I do. Neither of us goes shopping for much each week or 2. Veggies in season, meat & cheese on sale; milk, sour cream, crushed tomatoes, pasta, etc. as needed. I cook & freeze a few days/week. We never starve for choices but sometimes on the repeat cycle.

I've kept track a bit but not exact as to my grocery spending since I went pretty much totally delivery as to food. I have not been in a grocery store since October/November 2024 and have actually saved money.

I also 'cook large' and freeze; chest freezers are awesome things. Right now I have a couple of somewhat large cooks coming up that a lot will end up frozen. One is beef stew using sirloin tips and the other some sketti sauce with meatballs, chicken and, possibly, some kielbasa. I'll end up with in the area of a gallon and a half of sketti sauce and in the area of a gallon of beef stew.

I REALLY like doing larger batches of sauce based stuff as I cook once and eat often but also love the smell in my place of stuff cooking low and slow.

Tonight is just a simple cheese burger and taters.

 

[Back in the fold]

Domino’s Pizza today . What the hey , a guy has to go totally bourgeois once in a while .

 

[Fishmanic]

Had a fourth meal from the batch of stuffed cabbage I made several days ago. I also froze 2 more meals worth as well. May do a bbq of filet mignon this weekend.

 

[fishorama]

Au gratin potatoes w/ham & maybe broccoli, some veggie.

Why, oh why does my husband decide to "help" right when I need start cooking? He doesn't ask what would be helpful (like getting out of the kitchen!)

 

[jaylach]

Au gratin potatoes w/ham & maybe broccoli, some veggie.

Why, oh why does my husband decide to "help" right when I need start cooking? He doesn't ask what would be helpful (like getting out of the kitchen!)

LOL! I can fully understand. My ex could burn a pan of water before it even got to a boil. I did almost all the cooking which my kids were happy about. Since I like cooking I never minded and even did all the cooking for 'holiday meals'. With big meals she would always ask how she could help. I'd give her a task and, of course, she would ignore what I told her and do her way which was seldom a good thing.

This evening is another simple thing. Having a couple of hotdogs that aren't exactly hotdogs. Will be topped with baked beans and diced onion. I said not exactly hotdogs... They are Kielbasa in hotdog form made from Filet Mignon, good stuff. Not cheap at $19.99 USD for 4 but I find them worth the price.

 

[MaloK]

100% home made sea food fettuccine "Alfredo" with giant shrimps, scallops and lobster, cooked at "la perfection" with strong garlic butter (also home made), very dry white wine and thick fresh cream. Secrets is in the sauce, based on a thickened lobster bisque (also home made), sprinkled with a layer of fresh cracked pink dried pepper corn.

With a fresh french bread baguette, that I carried from bakery to my home under my arm, to be sure it's french enough and it starts to fold in a little in the middle.

 

[fishorama]

MaloK, that sounds delish!! Of course, my husband wouldn't eat it. All the more for me!!

My husband can be helpful, peeling onions, coring peppers, emptying the dishwasher, shopping & now making an entire deluxe green salad! Old dog, new tricks, lol. Retirement adjustments for us both.

 

[Beastije]

We were supposed to go to a food festival today, but the weather is not something that inspires sitting outside and eating food, with brutally cold winds, occasional bouts of sun/rain and 13°C (what a weird spring) so I made a 'food festival at home'. I tried my own wakame salad, since the store brought is full of weird ingredients. So a rice noodle bowl, some bell peppers made on garlic/spring onion/ ginger, cucumbers, sesame seeds and edemame.
Was quite nice with a soy/mirin sauce plus a little sesame oil and Sriracha.
I will be looking to replace Sriracha once this bottle is done, cause the ingredients list is simply dreadful (6 additives and how much sugar??).
I am sitting here post lunch coma and toping off my tanks after today's water change with a hose straight from the tap. I just have to watch it a bit better than two weeks ago when I was in the kitchen and let the tank overflow. Three minnows on the floor, water was just a puddle in the middle of the room since I heard it starting to overflow, but still. A mess I didn't appreciate.

 

[MaloK]

Mini, mini marinated steaks on the grill... With veggies rice and green peas.

Steaks are so small, I think I should've made skewer instead... But it's going to be really tender...

Marinade: ( from most to least )
Olive oil
Smoked BBQ sauce
Soy sauce
Worcesters sauce
Dijon mustard
Citrus juice
Brown sugar
Steak spice mix
Black pepper

Proportions to your taste, don't go too hard on Worcester, Dijon and Citrus juice.
No more is needed then to be able to coat the meat generously all over.

Put in a stainless bowl, seal hermetically with plastic wrap pressed on the meat to avoid at maximum contact with oxygen.

Marinate min 5-6 hours per inch of thickness at room temperature.

Grill on hot charcoal immediately.

 

[Beastije]

I was about to complain about the unfairness of vegetarian cooking it being time consuming, but then I remember marinating meat and I am no longer complaining )
I don't enjoy chopping and baking two full sheet pans of vegetables for them to be gone in one dinner ah well.
I had baked beets, potatoes, mushrooms and corn on the cob. With cottage cheese + pesto dip

 

[MaloK]

I was about to complain about the unfairness of vegetarian cooking it being time consuming, but then I remember marinating meat and I am no longer complaining )
I don't enjoy chopping and baking two full sheet pans of vegetables for them to be gone in one dinner ah well.
I had baked beets, potatoes, mushrooms and corn on the cob. With cottage cheese + pesto dip

It looks really good, but... If I spend more energy the meal contains eating it... I starve 15 minutes later.

I need Carbohydrates and Proteeeeeeein... I try to reach at least 1500-2000 calories per day to have the juice required to go trough.,