great day in the kitchen

[Guest guest]

I've spent a lot of time in the kitchen today. I think it goes back to the days

when I worked full time and also had a family to feed. Sunday was the only day

I had to prepare meals for the week. Even though it's just the 2 of us, I get

inspired to cook on Sunday morning.

 

I made the famous Chickpea Cutlets. DH is leaning toward being a vegetarian and

said he could eat them with horseradish piled on them. that's almost a waste of

a great tasting cutlet to me but I'll give him one of them. The rest will be

hoarded for me. I could just pick one up in my hand and eat it. It's my all

time favourite.

 

I made the famous Lentil Loaf for the first time. I'm not a ketchup fan but DH

is so I thought this might appeal to him. He thought it tasted great until I

put a slice on his plate for lunch and he says now that maybe he'll stick to the

chickpea cutlets. Not a chance!!! He's going to find lentil loaf on his plate

now and then and he can have horseradish with it if he needs it.

 

I made a batch of Cranberry sauce for the freezer. We eat a lot of it with faux

chicken products.

 

this afternoon, I decided that my mouth was watering for the Hearty Barley Bake

- is that a Donna recipe? I love it. It's in the oven cooking and I have

carrots and parsnips ready to go in to roast when the casserole is almost done.

 

What a great day!!! I was going to do some seitan too but have decided that I

need to sit and relax with a glass of wine before supper.

 

I hope everyone else had a great day too

 

Audrey

 

 

[Guest guest]

Wow, you did have a great day in the kitchen!

Good for you.

 

Now is your dh an omnivore like mine?

I sometimes have to chase him away from eating

my favorite veg foods, too! *lol* Not that I wouldn't

be delighted if he went vegetarian and joined me

eating this way all the time. I just think he is lazy

and if my veg stuff is more handy he will grab it

to eat and then when I think I have something to

pack in my lunchbox in the morning, I have nothing!

 

~ PT ~

 

Christmas is a time when you get homesick -

even when you're home.

~Carol Nelson

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, " Audrey Z Burrows " <quiltbug

wrote:

>

> I've spent a lot of time in the kitchen today. I think it goes back to the

days when I

worked full time and also had a family to feed. Sunday was the only day I had

to prepare

meals for the week. Even though it's just the 2 of us, I get inspired to cook

on Sunday

morning.

>

> I made the famous Chickpea Cutlets. DH is leaning toward being a vegetarian

and said

he could eat them with horseradish piled on them. that's almost a waste of a

great tasting

cutlet to me but I'll give him one of them. The rest will be hoarded for me. I

could just

pick one up in my hand and eat it. It's my all time favourite.

>

> I made the famous Lentil Loaf for the first time. I'm not a ketchup fan but

DH is so I

thought this might appeal to him. He thought it tasted great until I put a

slice on his plate

for lunch and he says now that maybe he'll stick to the chickpea cutlets. Not a

chance!!!

He's going to find lentil loaf on his plate now and then and he can have

horseradish with it

if he needs it.

>

> I made a batch of Cranberry sauce for the freezer. We eat a lot of it with

faux chicken

products.

>

> this afternoon, I decided that my mouth was watering for the Hearty Barley

Bake - is

that a Donna recipe? I love it. It's in the oven cooking and I have carrots

and parsnips

ready to go in to roast when the casserole is almost done.

>

> What a great day!!! I was going to do some seitan too but have decided that I

need to sit

and relax with a glass of wine before supper.

>

> I hope everyone else had a great day too

>

> Audrey

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi PT

 

My husband has given up most meat but he still eats fish. I try to lure him

with new dishes but he's a bit of a stick in the mud and doesn't like new things

often. He says that he was a vegetarian for years when he was younger but what

he means is that he ate a diet of only fruit and vegetables and was on what he

called a mono diet. He ate only carrots for a day and then only oranges for a

day. In fact he ate so many carrots and oranges that his skin turned yellow.

He went back to meat at that time. He just can't seem to grasp the idea of a

wide range of veggie options that mean you are having a balanced diet.

 

I love my veggie food!!! It all tastes great to me .

 

He would never ever grab anything of mine. I have to prepare it and put it on a

plate for him to cover in horseradish, gravy, ketchup or cranberry sauce. To me

the sauces defeat the purpose of preparing a delicious dish. Of course I never

ate gravy, ketchup or horseradish when I was a non-vegetarian. I like my food

simple and I like to taste what I'm eating. When I eat potatoes, I like

nothing but salt and pepper on them. I love a good potato.

 

I guess I'm as fussy as he is in my own way. I just hate to waste a good

chickpea cutlet under a layer of horseradish after the trouble of making it. I

need to let go of the cutlets and not try to control how he eats them but it's

hard. Maybe someday he'll let up on the sauces. right now he's just as happy

with a piece of fish so that may be what he gets while I eat the 2 cutlets that

are left. The lentil loaf is another story. I think he has decided that

nothing will save it.

 

Audrey