My sweetie is out of town, so I can get anything I want tonight. It’s probably going to be a taco plate or a torta from Tacos de la Gloria.
I wish to report that the Szechuan Beef was excellent, definitely the best of the wonderful rice bowls from the local supermarket deli. Yesterday was a very tasty chicken Caesar pasta salad, much like a Caesar salad but made with rotini pasta instead of lettuce, and half of an assorted Italian sub.
Tonight will be another one of those great turkey subs (probably just half) with khao soi, a Thai egg noodle soup in a semi-sweet curry broth. That one isn’t from the deli, it’s from a line of frozen Asian soups. For some reason the deli doesn’t see fit to include tomatoes with the turkey sub, so I add sliced vine tomatoes and lots of mayo. No red onions though – that’s fine for the Italian assorted, but the turkey just needs lettuce, tomato, and mayo.
Inna is going to her first baseball game tonight*, so we will be dining on hot dogs, cracker jacks, and other assorted ball park fare. Will have some of the awesome lasagna she made on Thursday to tide me over, but that’s tonight’s dinner report.
*Technically, she went to one early in her time in the US, but nobody bothered to explain the game to her, so she’s considering this her first.
Semi-Asian noodle stir fry tonight. Trader Joe’s Udon noodles, 8 oz of a ground pork/beef blend cooked in a skillet and crumbled, rendered fat being used to cook broccoli florets, sliced jalapenos, rehydrated shitake mushrooms, then everything mixed and seasoned with yuzu ponzu sauce, and just a touch of dark sesame oil to top.
Once again I have one of those fine roast chicken breast dinners, stuffed with garlic sausage, with lots of Fettuccine Alfredo. For me, each is a meal in itself, so tonight I’ll just have the chicken, with fries, and one of the little cups of lovely turkey gravy that I keep in the freezer. Tomorrow will be the Fettuccine Alfredo.
I grilled salmon a couple of nights ago and had it with a leftover rice medley I made, along with green beans.
Yesterday I took the leftover salmon and repurposed it into a creamy Parmesan pasta sauce with oregano, spinach and sun dried tomatoes. Had it with a lettuce and tomato salad alongside.
The pasta dish needed garlic, I think. I’ll remedy that oversight when I have the leftovers tonight.
I kind of have my heart set on a homemade patty melt tomorrow night. Maybe with some oven fries and coleslaw.
Last night’s dinner was takeout Pad See Ew. It was also today’s breakfast.
Have a pair of lean pork chops marinating in a mix of hard cider, black pepper, chopped green onions, and dried rosemary with a good bit of salt. Later, I’ll dry them, and sear them hot and fast in a skillet before finishing on low to get to an even medium. A medium small roasted red garnet sweet potato, and a side salad of mixed greens are going to be lovely!
My way back from an early-morning medical appointment today took me past my favourite little deli, so of course I had to stop by. Sadly, they didn’t have any of their wonderful onion buns at that moment, but I did emerge with some fine loot. A chicken Caesar wrap for lunch, their amazing tuna salad for sandwiches, and cabbage rolls in tomato sauce for a future dinner. Dinner tonight was the aforementioned Fettuccine Alfredo, but cabbage rolls and chicken souvlaki await! Modern refrigeration is a wonderful thing!
I hope you enjoyed your dinner last night as much as you expected to!
That all sounds nice. I hope they please you over the next few days!
I managed the patty melt tonight, but it was too hot to use the oven for the fries and I didn’t get the coleslaw made in time. So I changed my mind and got potato salad started for tomorrow night with Patty Melt II. I’ll finish making the potato salad in the morning and dinner tomorrow night will be a snap. Plus I’ll have leftover potato salad for whatever protein I throw on the grill for Wednesday or Thursday. Maybe a London broil.
I picked up some kimbap and have been chowing on it for dinner. If I weren’t so lazy, I’d make myself it at home.
I did - I ended up playing with the red garnet a bit, slicing it into disks and roasting it in the same skillet I used for the chops a bit later, in just a touch of butter, and once browned, I poured the rest of the canned cider (about 6 oz) leftover from making the marinade and reduced it into a glaze on the sweet potatoes. It turned out really nice!
Tonight was a green chile cheeseburger, because sometimes, it’s what you need! And I love me some GCC, based on most of my youth in southern NM.
Tomorrow I am doing some of my clear spring wrapper rolls with rice noodles and shrimp, and I’ve prepped a bunch of pork sirloin cubes in soy sauce and yuzu miso for Wednesday, because I have to get up stupid early to take the wife’s car in for service.
Food pre-prep means rarely being too tired to eat good food!
This is very much the secret I learned long ago. 
But then, I have a lot of free time to do it. Not everyone does. In the years when I worked 3 jobs, I learned to let the rough end drag. 
My ongoing weight loss goals means I want my limited food intake to taste great darn it! So, today’s indulgent cheeseburger was balanced by my earlier meal of salad greens with some Season boneless, skinless sardine fillets and hot sauce.
Yes, it would be better to have more balanced meals, but mentally, I want one substantial meal (dinner) and I’ll limit/eliminate all the other meals to make it happen.
And yes, the PCP says if I want to do it, it shouldn’t be the last meal of the day, but that’s what it is.
Some days, you just gotta do what you gotta do!
Dinner tonight will be the aforementioned cabbage rolls (stuffed with beef and rice) in tomato sauce. I like more tomato sauce than they typically come with, and my solution, which sounds weird but works very well, is a few splorts out of a squeeze bottle of garlic & basil pizza sauce before nuking. The taste is in perfect harmony with the cabbage rolls and original sauce – cooking is an art, not a science!
Fresh prepared meals with limited shelf life are always a challenge. Over the next couple of days I’m going to have to balance chicken souvlaki, leftover cabbage rolls, and tuna salad, all of which are at the back in the coldest part of the fridge. It must be hell trying to run a deli or a supermarket.
Supermarket sushi for me. The wife ordered in-house dinner delivered and pronounced it good.
My Brazilian childhood comfort food: avocado pudding (with sugar & lemon juice, instead of salt/lime like most people know it) plus black bean soup … and a coupla-three chicken potstickers, cuz why not.
ETA dessert v 2.0 (the avocado pudding is definitely a dessert!) is a popsicle, cuz it is HOT AMD HYUUUMID out there!
Your diet always fascinates me. 
My boringly conventional fare tonight: Grilled London broil with leftover potato salad I made 2 days ago and steamed green beans.
Fried cod fillets and blueberry vinegar. I thought I had some leftover vegetables around here but I guess I already ate them…