What did you cook/eat today (June 2017)

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MypinchofItaly said:
Salty muffins with ricotta and chives
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@MypinchofItaly

Top notch creativity .. Like the flavor profile chives and Ricotta !!!

Have a lovely evening. Thank you for posting.
 
I have 2kg of chicken drumsticks.

I'll marinate the chicken in a mix of yogurt & Tabasco then toss in seasoned flour then bake in a hot oven after spraying with cooking oil.

There will be mash, gravy, peas & corn.

The family are not coleslaw fans, however my teen daughter learned Waldorf Salad in her commercial cookery class last week so she will make that when she gets home to go with dinner.
 
TooSweetForMe said:
If I ate that many french fries (or chips, as you call them) my BS would be going through the roof.
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I didn't manage to eat them all. He ate the ones I didn't... And then informed me the next day that he had thrown away over 1/2 of what he had purchased! I wasn't very happy about that. I hate waste and ironically had had nothing for lunch that day. I could easily have reheated them and eaten some more. Next time he will be told very clearly what size of chips to purchase or at least talk to the person serving him before he buys and ask some questions like 'can I see what size the boxes are please?' He just won't ask and I don't understand why not. It's not like the place is amazingly busy and that there is a huge queue behind him (its a tiny 'town'. in Australia its a town, in the UK it would be a small village, but because it has more than 100 people in it, its not a township, its a town here.) and its not exactly a high crime rate area or somewhere to get out of as fast as possible like his home town (part of Manchester, UK). Here you can leave your doors open without issue and we haven't actually locked the house up at all in the year that we have lived here. We do actually (now) have a set of keys that work for all outside doors for the 2 main supported buildings but initially we didn't! It took something like 3 months just to get all the locks changed to something that had keys! So why he doesn't ask questions like what size is 'small' or 'medium' is passed me.
 
The crime rate in a town of 100 people is pretty easy to calculate.
 
We tried some samples that a food representative offered us. Rectangular flat breads. They come in frozen and you simply dress them and pop in the oven. Very trendy in the restaurant scene at this time. I made up a few. They cooked up nicely, and were very convenient. But, they just weren't good. They had a Bisquick texture.
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Maybe you should brush them with garlic/herb oil, then blind bake them a bit. Sorta like making a Grandma pie?
 
That would be the way to go. They stay firm, and crisp up nicely, so they would make a good base for ingredients...
 
TooSweetForMe said:
I love my carbs, too - but I have to be selective as to which one's I eat. I'm T2 diabetic on insulin and Janumet.
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That's tough for you. I'm lucky not to have that. My carb need isn't a sweet craving at all. I crave potatoes, bread, rice. I don't know how those things fit into a diabetic diet...
 
buckytom said:
...Sorta like making a Grandma pie?
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I did not know what a "Grandma pie" was, so I asked Google. Ha, a sheet pizza! There was a little pizza and sandwich shop by a friend of mine when we were in high school. It was a real treat to stop there on our walk from school to her house and each get a slice.
 
Those are the best.

Grandma Pies (pizza, for the unitiated) are usually thin to medium thin crust that is brushed with a garlic herb oil, blind baked, then topped with a specialty sauce (Nonna's sugo), maybe freh tomato slices, fresh mozz and/or low moisture mozz, grated parm or romano (Locatelli :okay:) and fresh torn basil.

Sort of a Margherita pie with attitude.
 
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