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Under the favorite Meals thread Peter A suggested that it'd be more
interesting to see what people cooked most frequently, so here's a start: 1. Eggs: I have an egg over easy as part of my breakfast every day and I often have scrambled eggs or an omelet in the evening. 2. Beef: We have red meat, usually beef, for our main (mid-day) meal about every third day.Because steak is so expensive I most often make either a stew, for which I use chuck and I make a large quantity so that I can freeze several meals, or I make hamburgers. I'll put a green vegetable with the stew, usually spinach or Brussel sprouts and with the hamburgers perhaps caramelized onions and Provencal tomatoes. Of course now and then we have a steak, usually filet which is Madame's preference and which I generally pan fry and serve with a salad or perhaps some leafy veg. 3. Pork, specifically tenderloin. Very often I pan-fry it using a dry non-stick pan. Takes about twenty minutes and is good to eat! Or I'll braise it in a quantity large enough to freeze some down. Or I'll make a Chinese dish, using the usual suspects to provide the flavor. 4. Fish, which we have about every third day. I go to Whole Foods and pick out whatever looks best, which very often turns out to be Alaskan salmon which I generally cook seasoned with S&P and wrapped in foil. If it's cod or halibut or flounder I pan-fry it. Most often have green beans with fish. 5. Chicken. Skinless breasts only, and not too often as I don't like the feel of it raw. Usually braise it with veg which I serve with it. So far as possible I use organic materials and don't buy anything much that is already prepared. As you can see our diet is quite plain probably because we're no longer young and plain food best suits our aging digestive systems! |
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On 24 Apr 2006 08:22:17 -0700, "Anthony" > wrote:
>Under the favorite Meals thread Peter A suggested that it'd be more >interesting to see what people cooked most frequently, so here's a >start: Chicken chicken chicken and chicken... I hate beef except ground beef occasionally, and lamb is way too expensive. We have chicken three or four times a week because a) a whole roasted chicken from the supermarket does us for two or three meals, and b)chicken breast tenders are very economical. You can do a million and one things with a chicken breast and it's not expensive. For a change sometimes we have drumsticks but they're not as economical because of all that bone. We use a lot of ground turkey and sometimes ground beef in hamburgers or chilli or meatloaf. We have skinless boneless pork 'chops' in some form once a week, and we have tilapia every few weeks for a change. We like eggs, and we use quite a bit of bacon. |
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Karen AKA Kajikit wrote: > On 24 Apr 2006 08:22:17 -0700, "Anthony" > wrote: > > chicken breast tenders are very economical. Are you talking chicken tenderloins? Not economical where I live! Sometimes I can get boneless chicken breast halves on sale for around $2/lb., but the tenderloins are more expensive and don't go on sale. >You can do a million and one things with > a chicken breast and it's not expensive. For a change sometimes we > have drumsticks but they're not as economical because of all that > bone. Maybe, but boneless poultry has nothing going for it flavorwise. I never use it unless I'm specifically making something *requiring* skinless boneless breast (to be stuffed or pounded into scallopini). Poultry on the bone always tastes better, and tends to go on sale at a much greater discount...59 cents a pound vs. $3.99 a pound...that's easy to figure out. Save the bones for stock. > We have skinless boneless pork 'chops' in some form once a week, Again, meat on the bone for me, please! Sandy |
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Anthony wrote:
> Under the favorite Meals thread Peter A suggested that it'd be more > interesting to see what people cooked most frequently, so here's a > start: 'Most frequently' is a very different animal from 'favorite.' For us, it depends on what is growing in the garden, what is in season at the farmers market, and what meat, fish or poultry is on sale and looks good. One way to approach the question is in terms of cooking method: Stirfry. We eat some kind of stirfry of meat and vegetables 3 or 4 times a week. Nearly always with rice. Beef and chicken about 1/3 of the time each, the remaining third split among shrimp, pork, tofu, or just veggies. A little bit of ground pork often goes into a 'sauce' for veggies. Grill. I grill something about twice a week. Could be almost anything. Braise or stew. Once a week. Roast, bake, pasta, simple sauté, or hearty soup the rest of the time. Very seldom freeze leftovers, to respond to another thread. Most leftovers get some kind of modest transformation for a lunch, such as ad hoc fried rice or chow mein. Stews and braises get refrigerated and reheated for a second dinner, usually with different sides. -aem |
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Karen AKA Kajikit wrote: >> We have skinless boneless pork 'chops' in some form once a week, What do you mean by "skinless" pork chops... I've never seen a pork chop with skin... are you talking tube steak? Sheldon |
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I eat healthy, which means lots of casseroles, salads and
stews/curries. Casseroles are generally layered things, like a great Rick Bayless recipe I found mixing sliced onions, potatoes, tomatoes, cilantro and chicken. It's amazing and I'm guessing totally fat-free. For salads, I like almost anything with pasta (udon or orzo are favorites) or potatoes. These *always* have a green veg and a yellow veg (grated carrots, usually) and usually diced red pepper mixed in. Curries are *real* easy, and really delicious. Chicken, light coconut milk, curry paste, potatoes, and the usual green veg, yellow veg, red pepper. Ten minutes to prep but an hour to simmer. For emergencies, I'll make a pasta with a natural pasta sauce and either fresh or frozen vegetables. |
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Anthony wrote: > Under the favorite Meals thread Peter A suggested that it'd be more > interesting to see what people cooked most frequently, so here's a > start: Oh hell, I answered this in the other thread. My brain is on fart mode lately - I evidently can't read worth a dang. So here are my favorites: Tomato and cuke sandwiches with garlic/sour cream sauce vegetarian chili Mexican anything - no beef Mixed green salad with cauliflower, celery, carrots kidney beans, peas and grilled chicken tuna pasta salad gooey cheese popcorn cottage cheese with bananas and cinnamon toast pasta with mixed sauteed veggies in garlic butter fruit smoothies fruit salad -L. (just call me Assbackwards) |
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Anthony wrote:
> Under the favorite Meals thread Peter A suggested that it'd be more > interesting to see what people cooked most frequently, so here's a > start: > > hmmm most frequently... stir fries and curries with veggies and either beans (chick peas), tofu or seitan for the protein. It's quick and easy. -- ..:Heather:. www.velvet-c.com Step off, beyotches, I'm the roflpimp! |
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.... > Under the favorite Meals thread Peter A suggested that it'd be more > interesting to see what people cooked most frequently, so here's a > start: > > 1. Eggs: I have an egg over easy as part of my breakfast every day > and I often have scrambled eggs or an omelet in the evening. > > 2. Beef: We have red meat, usually beef, for our main (mid-day) meal > about every third day.Because steak is so expensive I most often make > either a stew, for which I use chuck and I make a large quantity so > that I can freeze several meals, or I make hamburgers. I'll put a > green vegetable with the stew, usually spinach or Brussel sprouts and > with the hamburgers perhaps caramelized onions and Provencal tomatoes. > Of course now and then we have a steak, usually filet which is Madame's > preference and which I generally pan fry and serve with a salad or > perhaps some leafy veg. > > 3. Pork, specifically tenderloin. Very often I pan-fry it using a dry > non-stick pan. Takes about twenty minutes and is good to eat! Or I'll > braise it in a quantity large enough to freeze some down. Or I'll make > a Chinese dish, using the usual suspects to provide the flavor. > > 4. Fish, which we have about every third day. I go to Whole Foods and > pick out whatever looks best, which very often turns out to be Alaskan > salmon which I generally cook seasoned with S&P and wrapped in foil. > If it's cod or halibut or flounder I pan-fry it. Most often have green > beans with fish. > > 5. Chicken. Skinless breasts only, and not too often as I don't like > the feel of it raw. Usually braise it with veg which I serve with it. > > So far as possible I use organic materials and don't buy anything much > that is already prepared. As you can see our diet is quite plain > probably because we're no longer young and plain food best suits our > aging digestive systems! There's not many things I don't like, and our "rotation" is pretty broad. Beef, pork and lots of sea food are consumed at our house. A lot grilled outside, recipe permitting. Some like quality some like quantity... I need both. For simple food, it's hard to beat a great big sandwich on rye bread with some chips on the side and a cold beer... (I'm getting hungry) And Pizza... man I love a good home made pizza, and even though it's a bit of work, we make that several times a month...(I wish more often) But pasta... I have a hard time making a meal of that, though it's nice for a side dish with a big hunk of steak. But, invite me for dinner, and you need not worry... just about anything that's prepared with care I'll eat and enjoy. Larry T Larry T |
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One thing I fall back on time and again - shrimp chow mein. I always
have the ingredients in the house (frozen raw shrimp), it's quick and easy clean up too. |
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aem wrote:
> 'Most frequently' is a very different animal from 'favorite.' For us, it > depends on what is growing in the garden, what is in season at the farmers > market, and what meat, fish or poultry is on sale and looks good. That's exactly the approach I take as well. Well, except for the garden, because I have the proverbial black thumb. > One way to approach the question is in terms of cooking method: > > Stirfry. We eat some kind of stirfry of meat and vegetables 3 or 4 > times a week. Nearly always with rice. Beef and chicken about 1/3 of the > time each, the remaining third split among shrimp, pork, tofu, or just > veggies. A little bit of ground pork often goes into a 'sauce' for > veggies. > > Grill. I grill something about twice a week. Could be almost anything. > > Braise or stew. Once a week. > > Roast, bake, pasta, simple sauté, or hearty soup the rest of the time. > > Very seldom freeze leftovers, to respond to another thread. Most > leftovers get some kind of modest transformation for a lunch, such as ad > hoc fried rice or chow mein. Stews and braises get refrigerated and > reheated for a second dinner, usually with different sides. I'm a big fan of one-dish meals like chicken baked with broccoli. Chicken and rice can be made in many different ways, and is one of my staples at home. (I have the Cooks Illustrated article on chicken and rice saved on my computer at home. It gives a "master" recipe and half-a-dozen variations -- and that's not NEARLY an exhaustive treatment of the subject.) I like steamed vegetables, and I've got one of those multi-tiered electric steamers. It gets a lot of use. At the moment, my refrigerator contains broccolini, asparagus, haricots verts, chard, rhubarb, scallions, broccoli, carrots, and bok choy. It's also got a whole chicken, bacon, eggs, beer, and a bunch of miscellaneous stuff. I've got potatoes, onions, and garlic in my pantry, as well as lots of rice, beans, pastas, and canned stuff. My only PLANNED cooking this week is to make that yummy Rhubarb Custard Cake on Thursday. (My girlfriend is trying to suck up to her boss because she wants a job that just opened.) I might roast the chicken when I get home from work tomorrow morning, but there's also the Broadway Deli recipe for "Chicken In A Pot" that I've been meaning to try. Leftover chicken will get stir-fried with bok choy, garlic, carrots, hot chiles, and Szechuan peppercorns. I expect to have the asparagus, broccolini, and scallions in a frittata (or strata or lasagna; I haven't decided) sometime this week, either for breakfast or lunch. I tend to like a lot of variety in what I eat; I don't have anything like a "rotation." Unless there's something REALLY good in the market, I'm not likely to eat the same thing for dinner twice in a month, or even twice in SIX months. (In tomato season, though, I'll happily eat a BLT several times a week. And I'll have corn on the cob at least once a week in season, but I'll still vary what I do with it.) There are so many great recipes available that I don't HAVE to repeat my meals. I've got lots and lots of old cooking magazines; I'll sometimes look through them for seasonal dishes I could make. Or I'll just read the posts here for inspiration! Bob |
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Anthony wrote:
>Under the favorite Meals thread Peter A suggested that it'd be more >interesting to see what people cooked most frequently, so here's a >start: > >1. Eggs: I have an egg over easy as part of my breakfast every day >and I often have scrambled eggs or an omelet in the evening. > >2. Beef: We have red meat, usually beef, for our main (mid-day) meal >about every third day.Because steak is so expensive I most often make >either a stew, for which I use chuck and I make a large quantity so >that I can freeze several meals, or I make hamburgers. I'll put a >green vegetable with the stew, usually spinach or Brussel sprouts and >with the hamburgers perhaps caramelized onions and Provencal tomatoes. >Of course now and then we have a steak, usually filet which is Madame's >preference and which I generally pan fry and serve with a salad or >perhaps some leafy veg. > >3. Pork, specifically tenderloin. Very often I pan-fry it using a dry >non-stick pan. Takes about twenty minutes and is good to eat! Or I'll >braise it in a quantity large enough to freeze some down. Or I'll make >a Chinese dish, using the usual suspects to provide the flavor. > >4. Fish, which we have about every third day. I go to Whole Foods and >pick out whatever looks best, which very often turns out to be Alaskan >salmon which I generally cook seasoned with S&P and wrapped in foil. >If it's cod or halibut or flounder I pan-fry it. Most often have green >beans with fish. > >5. Chicken. Skinless breasts only, and not too often as I don't like >the feel of it raw. Usually braise it with veg which I serve with it. > >So far as possible I use organic materials and don't buy anything much >that is already prepared. As you can see our diet is quite plain >probably because we're no longer young and plain food best suits our >aging digestive systems! > > > I agree that there's a difference between favourite and most frequently cooked, though the two categories inevitably overlap. I have a roast almost every week, partly so as to have cold meat for sandwiches at lunchtime. I cycle beef, lamb, meat loaf and chicken, with pork less often. Corned beef is also a reguler on the menu, for the same reason. In the winter we'll have a casserole or braise of some sort once a week (which often means twice if there is enough left over); this includes curry of lamb or chicken and various forms of lamb or beef stew. We have sausages of various varieties most weeks, frequently with my pet lentil, onion and tomato stew. I very rarely buy chicken breasts, they dry out too quickly - I much prefer thighs, boned and skinned or not as the recipe requires. I find frittatta is a handy way of disposing of odd veggies, and risotto is ridiculously easy and infinitely variable. In the winter I also make a lot of soup, which does for lunch. I have a repertoire which cycles depending on what we fancy and what else I have in mind for the next few days - no good making tomato soup if I'm going to do goulash, for example. In the summer there's rather more grilling. The butcher smokes boned lamb loins which we have often. And of course there's salads - I do a tarted up version of tabbouli with avocado, and chicken caesar salad using smoked chicken breast. Nobody seems to have mentioned veal. I am rather fond of veal rib chops, and scallopini when it's available. I really think I prefer veal chops to beef rib eye. We don't have dessert much, though in winter I tend to stew fruit a bit and have periodic cravings for rice pudding - well, if the oven's already on for a casserole I may as well... I try to keep things simple, partly because things unavoidably take me longer. Either it's something you can cook quickly at the last minute, or something that may take a bit of time in the prep but then gets bunged in the oven to look after itself for a couple of hours and needs no more work. I adore my pressure cooker. And we always have Latina Pasta in the fridge for when I can't be bothered or I've left it too late and Derrick takes over the cooking! Christine |
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Most frequent main courses? In descending order:
Pasta with tomato sauce. May include pork sausage, meatless "meatballs", or a legume ingredient either in the pasta or in a salad or side dish. Salmon, during salmon season -- either braised, or Weber'ed. Something Mexican, if that can be combined into a single category for the purposes of "most frequent": tacos, enchiladas, burritos, chili. Either vegetarian, or pork or sometimes beef. Frozen vegetarian burgers or tofu sandwiches. Stir-fry including tofu over rice. Entree-sized salad, which might include cheese, smoked or leftover salmon, beans, or sometimes ham to make it main-course worthy. Chicken, either roast or in a stew or pie. Steve |
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Food Snob wrote: > Well, I come off as really negative most often on r.f.cooking, but I > give your post high praise. I'll look for your posts in the future. > Polite of you to say so, thanks. Actually your responses were so polite I kept looking for the hidden zinger: too much reading of rfc creates paranoia! - |
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>> Casseroles are generally layered things,
> Casseroles generally layered -- is that your definition or someone > else's? *I'm curious - I don't ever think of a casserole as being layers > of anything. Well, rightly or wrongly, I differentiate between types of casseroles based on how you put them together. The "mix crap together and bung into a baking dish" kind of casseroles are usually unhealthy. They have canned soup or cheese or meat in them. The "layered" kind of casserole is usually layers of (healthy) ingredients with something liquidy dumped on top to help them cook. I think this just proves that when you put men in the kitchen, weird theories arise. |
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On 24 Apr 2006 13:29:37 -0700, "Sheldon" > wrote:
> >Karen AKA Kajikit wrote: >>> We have skinless boneless pork 'chops' in some form once a week, > >What do you mean by "skinless" pork chops... I've never seen a pork >chop with skin... are you talking tube steak? I meant with the fat trimmed off actually... I don't know what cut of the pig they actually are - I'd call them 'medallions' myself but the bulk supermarket where we buy them just calls them boneless pork chops. Sometimes they have a bit of fat in them or on them, but most of the time they're a little oval of lean meat... I fry the lean ones up - tonight I sliced them into strips and stirfryed them - and I slow-cook the fattier ones in the oven to make bbq pork. |
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