I made what I’ll call Sidedish Toscana tonight. Leeks, celery, Savoy cabbage with Romano beans, bacon and bacon, with a some light cream added at the end.
Also, Yiouvarlakia
https://miakouppa.com/yiouvarlakia-with-avgolemono
and Breton Beans (with some drained bacon, no sausage)
Have you ever prepared the yiouvarlakia using ground chicken? I’m wondering if a package of ground chicken I have in the freezer would work well in these meatballs.
I made it with ground chicken once. It didn’t work for me. But I googled “chicken yorvarlakia” and there are lots of recipes, so a lot of people like it.
I haven’t tried it with chicken. No reason it wouldn’t work. But, it would be more work than making chicken avgolemono soup with rice (or orzo, or noodles ) and chunks of chicken.
I make avgolemono the day after I roast a whole chicken, using the bones, and I add a fair amount of chopped chicken to the soup after the rice or orzo has cooked.
A maindish salad inspired by Paticia Wells avocado, apple green beans, lobster salad. Half recipe with quarter of the dressing. Omitted avocado - I’ve given up trying to choose, ripen and slice them. 8 oz. Surimi / Crab Delights instead of lobster, Haralson apple peeled and diced instead of Granny Smith, 7 oz package of microwave frozen green beans instead of fresh, no salt added anywhere, dressing, and layered in a dish rather than stirred together. Served on a bed of shredded iceberg lettuce with warmed naan bread on the side.
I roasted char rubbed with the spices from the Sonoran Arctic char taco recipe. I also made the sauce, with lemon juice instead of lime.
Canned beans cooked with a fresh salsa, cumin and oregano.
That sounds great
It is a great combo. We had it years ago and liked enough to repeat several times in 18 months. I stumbled upon the recipe again as I looked for something to use up a freezer overstock of “Crab Delights”.
There was a restaurant in Toronto that used to have a main course salad with lettuce, bacon, lobster, corn, and a buttermilk dressing.
Trying trying trying. February is my January.
@ChristinaM’s recent thread reminded me of a lot of recipes and techniques.
Fish en papillote:
Lentils cooked with a (disappearing) vegetable:
Poached chicken:
Starting meals with a salad:
It’s real. Hang in there.
I’ve been drinking a lot of hot water (not even tea) of late. Seems to quell various things.
My dietician suggests using mouthwash after dinner, or sucking on a strong rather unpleasant mint like Fisherman’s Friend after dinner, to prevent snacking.
Apparently the Extra Peppermints that I bought are too tasty to do the trick. LOL.
I have a tall glass of water on my coffee table.
Sometimes, I do hot lemon water while watching tv.
Floss and brush your teeth after dinner, it helps quell any late night snacking urges. And go to bed at a reasonable time.
