Lobster Risotto grilled asparagus and a chilled Sweet white wine

I’m making dinner for a date

Tonight it is Pizza and breadsticks ... because the local joint has it on sale. AND the Bears are playing a Thursday night game


GO BEARS!! :praying:

Dinner
 

Day off yesterday so.

Macaroni and cheese with chopped tomatoes and fried hamburger (like mom use to make) and topped with grated cheddar and baked till cheese is well melted.

Tonight’s plan

Big green salad with lots of goodies in it, I am thinking avocado, beets, pinenuts, radicchio, radishes and whatever’s fun that I find at the grocery store today
sesame ginger dressing
Lentil soup
Pear

:eating:

Last night was a burger on one low-carb tortilla with mustard, mayo, pickles, onion, tomato, couple spinach leaves. Popsicle for dessert.

Tonight I’ll make the other half of the sheet-pan sausage, peppers, shallots, and tomatoes.

Dinner
 

I am grilling a porterhouse steak, baked potato, and squash.

:bbq:

Dinner
 

Chicken fingers and potato puffs from the oven. Mustard/honey dip. Ice tea.

straccotto d’asino

Chunks of donkey meat, braised on a very low heat for at least four hours, mixed with onions, bay leaves, juniper berries, tomato sauce, garlic, red wine, olive oil, salt and pepper.

Served with polenta and a glass of Alto Mincio IGT CarmenÁ¨re.

Preps all done, oven heating up.

Can't wait.

might have a few small burritos first.

This is what I made, not what I ate

Crab bisque with sourdough crouton
Lime sorbet
Endive salad
Braised beef short ribs
A medley of roasted vegetables
Lime tarts

What a day!

You’re funny!

Today was exhausting. So it was Mac n cheese. Tomorrow may be a bit of the same. We shall see

Yesterday:
Big green salad, sesame ginger dressing
Homemade mushroom sage soup from a new recipe*
Wild Blueberries

:eating:

* The new recipe was supposed to make six generous servings. It made 5 quarts of the stuff so it will be making quite a few appearances. Good thing it tastes great and has all the nutritional goodness that I wanted, lol.

Today:
It ‘s Sunday so that must mean I’m firing up the grill
Grilled chicken
Romanesco (alien) broccoli
Pomegranate seeds

:bbq:

I'm having Indiana Fly Soup.
( a favourite in the Pence household )

In addition to the protein, the flies have a “phenomenal nutritional value” ​as they are packed with iron, calcium and magnesium – nutrients that often are lacking in diets based on only one or two staple crops.

One small serving should be enough.

Plans yesterday fell through, so my son and grandson took me an Asian fusion place for lunch today. The food was so good! My son had some sort of eel log thing. I didn't get that adventurous but my grandson did! This kid eats sauerkraut and lemons and eggplant and refried beans and oysters you name it, and now eel. So far he hasn't turned his nose up at anything anyone has thought to feed him, not once ever and he's tolerated it all very well. His pediatrician says keep at it. I'm glad they're making an effort to go beyond Gerber in a jar, expose him to different foods. His dad was like that when he was young a good not finicky eater, adventurous and willing to try new things.

Anyhow I had crab puffs, tempura shrimp, BBQ pork same as usual but each with a bit of twist, just enough to give a kick without moving so far away from the dish as you know it that you no longer recognized it. The shrimp was so good I ordered a side as my main course. Seeing how much I was enjoying it my son gave me his share too. The BBQ pork was in such an amazing sauce I craved more and more but I couldn't just sit there eating appetizers all day – how rude. My son also ordered BBQ pork fried rice and cashew chicken for us because he knows I really enjoy both. Again different than I've had before but in a way that elevated the dish yet didn't take it so far away you couldn't recognize it.

It was all so good even the tea was the best I've ever had. However best part - my grandson was so well behaved in the restaurant more than just one person commented on it. My son beamed with pride. I worked hard when my children were young to teach them good manners and people would comment on what a delight it was to have dined with us. When they got older, knowing what work it is, how much effort it takes to teach a child manners I made sure when a child was a pleasure to dine around I let those looking after them know. And now people are telling my son just what a pleasure it was to have dined with his son and that's just such a good feeling.

Tonight will be wings. Will put them in the air fryer or on the grill. Buttered turnips on the side.

I'm out of popsicles! Maybe a Duncan Hines keto brownie in the cup.

Dinner
 

Poached salmon and steamed asparagus. Coffee.

veal cutlets ~ I'll either make piccata or roll them up for cordon bleu ~ or just cutlets w/ tom. sauce. all I know is soon I have to go prepare the veal.