What did you cook today?

i slow cook them in a fry pan ..i like my veggies soft..i use lots of water and cook until reduced

mostly i just like celery and brocolli...and i love the trunks of brocolli so i cook them long (after skinning)

 

toast

 

Well what was on the toast? :-D

Thanks to everyone for the replies on frying veggies. I've never done them that way. I prefer crunchy veggies, I barely steam mine. And I don't have a deepfryer. So guess I'll leave this one out.

Couple of breakfasts. Yesterday's was scrambled eggs with bacon and bananas and Damson plums, today I made a cheese (gouda), tomato and basil omelette with cherry tomatoes and pears.

 

clam chowder

 

Toast, I'm such an under achiever!

 

I boiled some eggs this morning

 

You welcome! I know north americans are usually not used to fry their veggies (except maybe potatoes), this is a typically armenian way to prepare them. We love fried veggies in general, potatoes of course but also cauliflower, eggplant and zucchini for the most popular ones. And you don't need a deep fryer, for a long time I didn't have any. A pan filled with oil does the job just as good (just pay attention for the oil not to splash all over the place!).

Today I made a chicken pot pie!

 

My exact fear. lol Well maybe I'll try a small pot of the oil with a bit of cauliflower.

OMG, I had a wonderful breakfast today. A new recipe I tried, Ricotta, Fig and Honey Tartine. My battery died so I couldn't take a pic so I'm borrowing the recipe pic. It looked almost identical. What a perfect combo this is. The creamy ricotta (have to use the whole milk ricotta) the sweet figs and honey and crunchy hazelnuts. I didn't even mind (much) having to crack the hazelnuts because I only had shell on. And it's so fast to make. Just slather the ricotta on, slice the figs, chop the hazelnuts and drizzle a bit of honey over it all.

 

This is indeed good! I sometimes make stuffed pancakes with a similar topping mix: feta, haloumi or cream cheese, sliced figs and honey drizzles. I never had it with hazelnuts (or any nuts really), but I'll try that next time, sounds good!

 

Cold tuna fish salad on warm wheat toast.

Tonight I'm thinking about making a couple of tuna salad cheese melt sandwiches... yum.

I've got some extra bacon so I might try to add that in there too (never tried it with bacon before).

 

Hello,

baking waffles right now .

Regards
Gyro

 

Baked waffles...thats a new one on me. We generally use a waffle iron.

 

Many foods would need to be eliminated from the diet to completely avoid phytates, including grains, beans, rice, nuts, seeds, roots, tubers, vegetables, coconut, cocoa, chocolate, coffee, and tea.

The anti-phytate web groups have become a cult following and don't mention the benefits of foods with phytates and benefits of phytates themselves. Particular groups are against grains in part because of phytates, yet many of them embrace coconut, nuts, seeds, chocolate, and coffee, some of which have more phyates than grains. Cocoa powder, certain nuts (Brazil, almonds), and seeds (especially sesame) have a high amount of phytates, much more than many grains.

Beans contain large amounts of iron, calcium, potassium, magnesium, manganese, and zinc which more than offsets the effects of phytates. Beans turn the stool dark, as if consuming iron supplements.

http://www.precisionnutrition.com/all-about-phytates-phytic-acid

 

Hello,

I'll bake a (marble) cake this afternoon. With lots of chocolate stuff .

Regards
Gyro

 

I feel like making a maple sugar cobbler!

 

Egg custard tart but I used coconut cream instead of milk and topped up with a bit of dairy cream to make up to 500ml.

 

chunks of boneless skinless chicken breast wrapped in bacon

 

Boiled peanuts

 

hashbrowns

 

I have some mint muffins in the oven. Not sure how they'll turn out though.