Talk foodie to me.

[thekatezombie]

You know you wanna.

I figured this can be sort of like the what's for dinner threads we had once upon a time, but you can talk about whatever food thingie you want. Dinner, breakfast, healthy food, junk food, whatever. 

[thekatezombie]

I made chicken chipotle pasta with a parmesan cream sauce base and lime and cilantro last night. Tonight I'm trying out beef massaman curry, which I haven't made since culinary school. Also, I'm obsessed with nutella right now.

[seyah]

Not exactly a foodie thing, but sort of.. I'm replacing all my spices and reorganizing my spice drawer so all the little bottles match. I'm so irrationally excited about this!!

[seyah]

Jan 27, 2015 9:56:06 GMT -5 thekatezombie said:

I made chicken chipotle pasta with a parmesan cream sauce base and lime and cilantro last night. Tonight I'm trying out beef massaman curry, which I haven't made since culinary school. Also, I'm obsessed with nutella right now.

Mmmm, wish you could invite me over for dinner, both of those things sound amazing! Specially the parmesan cream sauce, but I think it is because anything creamy sounds good to me now. I had mac n cheese last night and I was in 7th heaven, and today I'm dreaming about custard.  Or just a Boston Cream donut.  Mmmm.  I may have to drop by a donut shop when I drop my LO at day care. 

[thekatezombie]

Isn't that great? I'm also slowly replacing spices, and I love it. I'm hoping one day I'll have bought enough of the same brand to have matching glass jars of everything too, because awesome.

I also share your love of the creamy goodness, despite my dairy issues. My biggest pregnancy craving was mac n cheese with sriracha. Usually kraft thick and creamy, or Noodles and Company. I'm a classy broad.

[boxerluv]

We're having KFC for dinner. #fail

[BellaOso]

I have become a "precooking"/freezer meal/crockpot whore. I cook or prep 1-2 days a month and the rest of the month I just yank bags out of the freezer for dinner. I love it. We eat better now and it is much cheaper. I did 25 meals for right around $200. Some recipes I modify a little because of toddler appetites, (like swapping green bell pepper for red bell pepper.) It works awesome. I am going to start collecting the recipes I like and put together my own meal plan to pass along to friends.

Up tomorrow porkchops and gravy with brown rice in the crockpot with steamed green beans.

[boxerluv]

That sounds heavenly, BellaOso. Can I be one of thr friends you share with?

[ericalee2013]

I would love that meal plan BellaOso!

[thekatezombie]

Yeah, share! I'm bad at keeping up with meal planning. I was hoping that selling Wildtree and doing freezer meal workshops would help me stay on top of things, but I don't have enough interest in my circle. Sad.

[haunted]

thekatezombie I have a bunch of Wildtree meals in my freezer (the crock pot ones). We made the chicken tomato cream sauce one last week that was pretty good.

I'm not a rep, just went to a couple parties.

[BellaOso]

I definitely will share as soon as I get them assembled in one place. The one I am making tonight is so easy it makes me feel like I am cheating:

2 pounds of pork meat (you can cut up chops but my butcher has pork for stews)
2 cups of organic, non gmo, brown rice (I buy the big bag from costco because it is chhhheeeaappp and great in crock-pot recipes)
2 cups of chicken stock
2 cups of water
2 of the cream of mushroom soup (the 23 oz size)
1 whole sliced onion (we LOVE onions, so this may be unnecessary but we do it... we add onions to everything)

Throw everything in a crock pot at 10:00 on low. Wonder what that awesome smell is around 3 and remember you made an awesome dinner. At 6:00 eat. Weeee!

We will have green beans with a pat of garlic butter and apple sauce as a side.

This will actually make at least 2 meals for us. I will put half in freezer containers after dinner tonight so we can enjoy sometime later in the month.

I will post others as I pull them out. I do a lot of my cooking "by feel" so for some recipes I need to actually pay attention to what I am doing and write them down.

[thekatezombie]

Sounds pretty tasty, Bellaoso! Ha, I used the same Costco rice with my curry yesterday. I freaking love Costco.

We had Pizza Hut tonight because I can't even right now.

[ericalee2013]

I've been making a few recipes from a cookbook that a friend gave me for Christmas. It's 100 Days of Real Food by Lisa Leake. The recipes are very simple and taste good so far. I like to get a little fancier with spices than she does but it's all tasting pretty good.

seyah I'm dreaming of redoing my spices too. I buy the little baggies from the bulk section and they are a real pain in the ass to organize but cheap as hell.

[boxerluv]

Jan 28, 2015 19:44:27 GMT -5 BellaOso said:

I definitely will share as soon as I get them assembled in one place. The one I am making tonight is so easy it makes me feel like I am cheating:

2 pounds of pork meat (you can cut up chops but my butcher has pork for stews)
2 cups of organic, non gmo, brown rice (I buy the big bag from costco because it is chhhheeeaappp and great in crock-pot recipes)
2 cups of chicken stock
2 cups of water
2 of the cream of mushroom soup (the 23 oz size)
1 whole sliced onion (we LOVE onions, so this may be unnecessary but we do it... we add onions to everything)

Throw everything in a crock pot at 10:00 on low. Wonder what that awesome smell is around 3 and remember you made an awesome dinner. At 6:00 eat. Weeee!

We will have green beans with a pat of garlic butter and apple sauce as a side.

This will actually make at least 2 meals for us. I will put half in freezer containers after dinner tonight so we can enjoy sometime later in the month.

I will post others as I pull them out. I do a lot of my cooking "by feel" so for some recipes I need to actually pay attention to what I am doing and write them down.

I just added this to my grocery list. Thank you!!

[seyah]

ericalee2013 I usually get the bagged spices too, but before I would either put them into these super cheap plastic spice bottles or just refill my non-matching store bought spice jars. Now they all match, almost!! I just rearranged my drawer yesterday and it looks so much better!