Food – Page 29 – no counterspace

food list of joy

[redacted] – you should tell me whether any of these meals pleases you, or whether there should also be random (KFC-type) food planned for Sunday!

food I have
Produce
parsley
thyme
green papaya (1/2)
carrots
roasted red pepper
cucumber and onion salad
lots of potatoes
1 perfect feeling avocado

meat
1/2 chicken (dark meat only left)
leftover beef roast
eel!
salmon
duck stock
and I am going to buy a bottom round roast because they’re on sale

dairy
plain yogurt
half & half
cream cheese
sliced cheese nicked from reception at work

bread
2 1/2 onion rolls
tortillas
1-2 cups of leftover saffron basmati rice

meals
Thursday, November 15
salmon will probably go off first, so I’ll have that tonight!
Maybe with mashed potatoes

Friday
breakfast – eel over rice
dinner – D&D munchies
(buy an apple and make more chicken/papaya curry (based vaguely on this recipe) to freeze with the basmati rice)

Saturday
stuffing my face on free food?
quesadillas with avocado, red pepper, and any leftover seafood
(Make chili)
(boil stock and put in fresh container)

Sunday
Chili?
(buy sour cream)
(Make some kind of other soup to use up the stock?)

That leaves me with an unused roast of beef – the kind you need to make in thin slices… maybe stroganoff

Weight Watchers is coming to campus. They are having meetings every Tuesday – at a time (11:30am – 12:30pm) I can actually attend, even with my crazy work schedule. Starting November 13th. The initial sign up is less than half price, if you start either of the first two meetings, and then each week is $14 after that.

Can I afford it? Yes, but I could be putting that money toward credit card debt
I’ve done Weight Watchers before… and I thought it was one of the more sensible diets out there but
- I wasn’t invested in being thin (beyond a certain weight, I started feeling cold and getting sick a little more frequently)
- I got tired of obsessing over food quite that much
My household isn’t set up for it
- I often pick up leftovers from my mother that aren’t going to be measured or made in a particular way
- I guess I could still make large meals and save portions, but it’d call for a lot of tracking and calculating
- there are, less with Weight Watchers than other programs, a lot of cheats to coming to the right amounts that require buying pre-packaged stuff (especially WW’s mysteriously light bread product), and I’ve been moving farther and farther away from artificial food products. It used to be that I couldn’t tell much difference between regular sour cream and diet sour cream – but now I can spot the carageenan and other texturizing agents right away, so I’d be doing more cutting things out than substituting 🙁

Roman cooking

I’ll be teaching a Roman cooking class at my place this Sunday. Ancient Roman.

The plan is to start noonish with stuffed dates and then prep a pork roast and get that in the oven.

While the big hunk o’meat is cooking, we’ll make sauces for it and I’ll let people look through my cookbooks and we’ll make anything that looks intriguing.

I’m thinking there should be lentils and chestnuts… or maybe just lentils (those chestnuts are a pain to skin).

And there’ll be nibbling all the way through.

Green papaya

I made an impulse purchase of a huge, beautiful green papaya, and now I am figuring out what to do with it.

Seriously, the thing is big enough for more than one meal.

I’m thinking 1/4 of it can go into soup.
This recipe is simple, but it’s the most promising one I’ve found so far.

Here is a Filipino recipe for Green Papaya Chicken (Tinolang Manok)

Here is an indian side dish. It says that I can make it without the dal and it’ll just end up looser, but if I make the rice drier, it should all balance out.

OOoooo… or I could make spring rolls! That’ll only happen if it lasts until the weekend and is vaguely ripe when I cut it open, but aside from the herbs and a cucumber, I have all the other ingredients.

I think I do not want to make a chutney or a cold salad-type dish.

But I am certainly open to other suggestions and links.

food lists – whee!

What I have
Produce
2 apples
several small potatoes
kale
1 red bell pepper
jalepeno peppers (fairly spicy, since it’s the end of the season)
2 limes
1 zucchini
possibly some basil still

Meat
1 pork roast, taken out to thaw this morning – should be ready by the weekend
ground turkey, taken out to thaw yesterday
capon leftovers – probably too old to eat
chicken stock
3 eggs that need to be used soonish

Bread
1/2 loaf of white bread
tortillas
pie crust

plans for that food
So I’ve been craving dumplings. The ground turkey will be stuffed full of minced garlic and ginger and maybe drizzled with some oyster sauce and left to sit a bit. I should do that tonight.

I’ve for turkey sausage in the freezer. I’ll pop two out and make: sausage, potato, and kale with maybe also bell pepper, onion, and jalepeno. I think that’ll go with pasta, but maybe that’ll be too much starch. On the other hand, I could scramble eggs into it at the last minute, instead.

And then the pork roast to use up my rosemary that has started to bolt.

That leaves in the urgent-ish category:
chicken stock
zucchini
bread

I could make a bread soup…