CN: Food

[serene]

Today's food has been very nice, if very pre-fab.

Breakfast was just toast with butter, a small glass of tomato juice, and a cup of light/sweet tea, but that's a kind of simplicity that I am totally on board with.

Lunch was a big batch of soup made with the World Market tom kha kit, which is about 80% as tasty to me as homemade and about 5% of the work. Sometimes I add veggies (today, zucchini and cabbage; yesterday, mushrooms and zucchini) or fish/shrimp, but I like it plain, too.

Snack was some pastrami and mustard I got in a box of yummy stuff from Katz's. I have sent the box as a gift to a couple family members, but hadn't ever gotten myself one, so this week I did. With their mustard. Excellent combo.

While we've been up here, it's been a nice balance of home cooking and packaged/take-out foods, made easier by the fact that we have convenient shopping a three-minute walk from the house. James can literally leave the house, go to the co-op, get food, and come home in 15 minutes. Super nice.

For dinner, I'm thinking of just throwing butter on some pasta and calling it a night.

Would love to hear what you're eating these days.

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[otter]

I made stir fry for supper tonight. Tofu, cauliflower, broccoli, mushrooms, radishes and a carrot, with some korean noodles. Seasoned with garlic, ginger, tamari, honey and a touch of rice vinegar. Aside from the honey, today was accidentally vegan. Breakfast was oats, sunflower and flax seed, and papaya. Coffee with almond milk. Lunch was mung bean noodles and broccoli with furikake sprinkled on top. I eat a wide variety of foods, and also have a lot of food allergies/sensitivities. My breakfast fruit varies. I could happily eat noodles every day.

Yum!

[serene]

That all sounds excellent, especially the tofu. I actually miss tofu. (James can't digest soy very well, though neither of us is allergic, so besides soy sauce, we tend to avoid it, but I have considered keeping some on hand for meals I eat by myself.)

[pameladean]

In the fridge at the moment we have leftover lentil potato soup (made by Cameron), and leftover fried rice made with the extra brown basmati from the fish masala and aloo gobi (all made by me). Before that, macaroni and goat cheese with roasted broccoli, and chickpea, corn, and tomato curry with couscous. Also takeout Chengdu Shrimp and Family Tofu Without Pork. And some tasty-enough but non-standard takeout Cashew Shrimp from a different restaurant.

Not sure what I'm making next, but need to put together a menu plan and a grocery order.

It is very nice to see you posting here!

P.

[serene]

Two of my mom's ick foods were curry and lentils, so whenever I made curried lentils, I made sure to offer her some. :-) (Also, if we were going somewhere and she wanted to know where but we didn't want to tell her, we would say we were gonna buy lentils.)

[pameladean]

My mom also loathes lentils -- or any bean at all other than fresh green or yellow ones. We could say "chickpeas" in the same situation. But it is so serious a loathing that it is no joking matter! 8-)

P.

[serene]

Must remember not to offer hummus to Pamela's mom.

[freyjaw]

Risotto is staying down well lately. I've nearly finished my last Sakuraco box of Japanese snacks, so I'm eagerly awaiting the next box. Often, breakfast is scrambled eggs with lime pepper blend.

[serene]

Lime pepper blend. Tell me more!

[freyjaw]

I get it from the same place I get "Klingon In The Alley" jerk seasoning. Auntie Arwen's ships spices, tisanes, and more to us. https://www.auntiearwenspices.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html

[serene]

Thank you!

[j00j]

Currently: Sautéed white beans (canned) and frozen spinach with garlic powder and a little preserved lemon paste. And a couple of little crisp bread crackers with cream cheese and black currant jam.

[serene]

That sounds like my kind of meal. ♥

[hobbitbabe]

This winter I have discovered that I love beets enough that it's worth going to the trouble of cleaning up afterwards. I steam them, peel them afterwards with the back of the knife, and slice them with good margarine and pepper. They are so good that the next day I usually eat them cold with my fingers, sometimes for breakfast.

Also, Cheerios has a Valentine's-theme edition, no flavouring but half of the pieces being heart-shaped.