Lentil soup is a favorite at this Sunshine’s house, too.
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Sounds tasty and I’m always looking for b/s chicken recipes. Do you by chance have a recipe link?
For similar reasons we’ve mostly swapped vegetable margarine for butter. I can highly recommend Miyokos cultured oat milk butter - my DH prefers it over butter, in fact. I’m not quite there but it is very, very good. Oat-based cereals are another dietary change that’s pretty easy.
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We had friends over for an impromptu dinner after a playdate (kids - mine, anyway - were completely melting down). I made eggplant Parmesan sammies with fresh mozz and basil on ciabatta. They were delicious with a side salad. Unfortunately mine fell off the cantilevered baking sheet 
Kids had sauced chicken-cheese ravioli and veggies with dip.
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That’s a great idea! He doesn’t use sauces like that on his food but I could incorporate it into the dish before serving and see if he likes it more next time. I thought it was lovely and would definitely recommend it.
Thank you @LindaWhit ! I think it’s great for all mushroom lovers 
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I’ve made them several times, and they always come out juicy. I got the idea here. I use my own spice mix, and take them to about 155 degrees before resting:
1 T. chili powder
1/4 t. garlic powder
1/4 t. onion powder
1/4 t. cayenne pepper
1/4 t. dried oregano
1/2 t. smokey paprika
1 1/2 t. ground cumin
1 t. kosher salt
1/2 t. freshly ground black pepper
It’s a lot easier to make the rub in big batches, and keep it around in a jar. That way you can just scoop out what you need when you need it. Two frankenbreasts, split, take about 2 T. of rub.
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Wait, you had another child?
No, the other was the playdate friend.
I will be making, thank you!
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There is actually surprisingly little clinical evidence that such changes have a meaningful effect
My bad.
Here you go, from left to right (trio of shrimp)
Fried shrimp with habanero sauce, broiled shrimp with chimichurri, grilled shrimp with teriyaki sauce, all over a bed of cabbage, and a side of chips and guac.
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What seems to be proven, time and again, is the less processed your fats, the healthier they are for you.
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That is my goal… to lower Sunshine’s cholesterol through diet along with the medication the doctor prescribed to her.
I am going to make a “low” cholesterol Orange chicken dish on Sunday.
Next week, I want to experiment with making “lentil burgers”. I’m already picturing an “epic fail”, but I have to try.
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Applaud your efforts as always.
Re lentil burgers, I doubt you’ll have a fail. And an aside, I really enjoy black bean and quinoa burgers if you want to give those a shot.
Lentils are delicious to me in all forms (check out mujadara / mejadara if you haven’t come across it yet – one pot lentils and rice or bulgur flavored with caramelized onions and whole spices: so tasty!)
Pretty sure we have a couple of threads around here on beans, lentils, and so on. I’ll link them if I can, otherwise a search for the term in the thread title should work.
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Great Idea!! I’ll add some black beans to the lentil mixture. Sunshine and I are doing our “BIG” grocery shopping tomorrow, so I added them to the list.
Thank you so much!!
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Dinner tonight was homemade pizza. Purchased base, homemade sauce.
Toppings:
- (beyond) sausage, mushroom, and onion with cheddar
- mushroom with truffle robiola and mozzarella
- white pizza with truffle robiola, with mushrooms and mozzarella
Semi-successful in that the pizzas turned out great, but mom ate a less than ideal amount of dinner even though she picked pizza over several other choices. Tomorrow’s a new day.
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This is probably not the place to get into it, but I will grant that of all the studies I read, none of them agree fully with each other.
The one conclusion that does seem to stick across the research is reducing saturated fats is helpful. Everything else seems very debated.
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