Homemade cabbage potato onion soup with a little dill sprinkled on top.
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I totally get what you are saying. When I was about 300 lbs from 2008 to 2009 and even when I was just plain obese and not morbidly obese, I could get my money’s worth out of any buffet, no matter what meal.
But there’s no way I can now and don’t find buffets fun or interesting and have no desire to go to one. However, my sister insisted on dragging me to a casino (actually TWO of them) and since the meal was free (except for the tip) and she didn’t mind me not even attempting to recover the actual price of the meal ($32.99 p.p.), I agreed to go.
There was a LOT of crab and many people loaded their plates with it, but I’m not a fan of shelling my own seafood and didn’t put any on my plate.
I’ve been told we will go again in the near future and now that I know what’s good and how much I can eat without feeling “stuffed”, so I’ll somewhat begrudgingly tag along with her.
BTW, as of this morning, I’m 169 lbs and at 5 feet 11 inches, I think that’s perfectly acceptable.
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Twinning on the weight… but not the height 
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A panino with leftover pork tenderloin, Gruyere cheese, apples, and bacon with a spread of German sweet mustard mixed with mayo on slices of buttered La Brea sourdough, and pressed in a fry pan (instead of getting out the ridged cast iron grill pan).
Should have left off the second layer of apples and should have gone with a spicy brown mustard, but still good.
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I wish! 
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My reward for dragging my sorry ass out of bed early enough to get to the Union Square Greenmarket by 10am is this beautiful pair of shad roe lobes. And since who knows when I’ll see it again, I made myself a very fancy lunch: La Caravelle’s Les Quatre Oeufs au Beurre Blanc (I didn’t have any black caviar, so mine’s missing an oeuf).
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Wow! 
Love shad roe, never heard of this enticing prep!
I was casting about the web and hit on this one, which I just so happened to have all the ingredients for! So it was fate, obviously. Is here:
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Fascinating that Craig Claiborne wants you to prick the membrane while I was taught to avoid rupturing it at all costs. My very prim and proper late mother delighted each spring in telling how the fishmonger had told her the first time she bought shad roe to be careful “not to break the little f**kers”. Ah, simple pleasures…
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My sister and I went shopping at WinCo and on the way back, she wanted to eat lunch. She had given me advance notice that she was going to eat something after shopping, but not when we’d go shopping or when we’d be eating.
I only eat breakfast and dinner and wanted to avoid both eating a heavy meal after yesterday’s brunch, so I ate my standard breakfast of an egg and cheese sandwich on toast (sourdough rye for today).
For lunch she chose the Bagel Cafe, a real NY style deli.
I wasn’t in the mood for (more like didn’t have the appetite for) a full-sized meal, but to be a good customer, I figured I should order something and because I’ve never had good potato salad outside of a deli, I chose a side order of potato salad. It was VERY good and just the right thing to have.
My sister ordered eggs benedict and a homemade potato knish. I’m not an eggs benedict fan, but tried the knish. I hadn’t had a knish in 25 years or so. IMHO, this knish was just OK (it was bland) and not as good as ones I’ve had in NYC’s Lower East Side.
I told my sister I want to come back with advance notice so that I can have a proper meal here.
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I skipped that step.
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Breakfast / brunch / lunch - let’s call it… food.
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Congratulations on the weight loss! You seem to be working very hard at reducing your portion sizes and walking so all your hard work is paying off.
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Thank you! Taking it off was MUCH easier than keeping it off…especially since the portions in the US are much bigger than in Japan and food in general seems to me to be higher in calories, too. I wish I could walk longer, but my sister worries too much about me and won’t let me because of a variety of reasons.
I agree keeping it off is the hardest part. I gained 80 lbs since I turned 40 and I am 59 now. I think my metabolism slowed down during my midlife years hence the weight gain. I make most of my own meals and I am pretty committed to walking regularly but I tend to make portions that are way too big. (Anyone who has seen the pictures of the pasta dinners I make and post here - yes I really do eat all of it 
) I promised myself in January I would lose 12 lbs this year - 1 lb a month seemed like a realistic goal at the time - but the stress eating I’ve been doing hasn’t helped. (I’m working in a toxic workplace and the job search continues.)
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Lamb stew. Aldi had butterflied flatpack lamb leg last week (alas, none this week) at $7/lb, about $1.5 cheaper than the regular grocer.
I roasted chunks with potatoes and curry on the grill with half of it, and the rest became stew today.
Very tasty, but I overcooked the veggies because I switched cooking methods part way through. I’d planned a couple of hours on stovetop, so I started the meat and veggies together. But then I decided to add an hour in the oven uncovered at 325°F to get some caramelization and thicken a bit.
Sorry for the ugly pic - I didn’t think to snap one as-plated and when I did think of taking a photo, I didn’t want to dirty another plate…
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Wha’? Looks delish to me.
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