Food and Recipes while under Coronavirus quarantine #7

[Knox]

I’m sitting here eating dry cereal…. Fruit Loops to be precise. I’m exhausted.

About 15 minutes after we arrived back in Sarasota, the power came on!!!

Both refrigerators & the chest freezer have to be emptied tomorrow.

I will sleep good tonight!

I'm sorry to hear you lost all your food, will you have some help to do that?

 

[killarney rose]

Shadow, that is why I got rid of my chest freezer. Same thing happened here. I had to cook tonight. I’ve hardly cooked this week and we’ve been scrounging.

 

[PayrollNerd]

I'm sorry to hear you lost all your food, will you have some help to do that?

Yes my daughter is here with me. I will be inside doing house stuff. Her friends are coming tomorrow to clean the yard. It looks like my trees exploded. Such a mess.

 

[Knox]

Yes my daughter is here with me. I will be inside doing house stuff. Her friends are coming tomorrow to clean the yard. It looks like my trees exploded. Such a mess.

Happy to hear you'll have your daughter and friends to help. I know it's alot to deal with, but hopefully back in order quickly.

 

[anneg]

I’m sitting here eating dry cereal…. Fruit Loops to be precise. I’m exhausted.

About 15 minutes after we arrived back in Sarasota, the power came on!!!

Both refrigerators & the chest freezer have to be emptied tomorrow.

I will sleep good tonight!

Yay! Glad the power is back on.

 

[IceIce9]

We have been enjoying absolutely beautiful fall weather this week, so some of my friends hosted a dinner on their patio. We had enchiladas, build-your-own tacos, beans, rice, and chopped salad. And margaritas.

My contribution was dessert. One of my friends said her favorite cake is called a Pig Pickin’ cake, which I had never made before but easily found several recipes.

Pig Pickin Cake (Sunshine Cake) from The Food Charlatan

Pig Pickin Cake: yellow cake with mandarin oranges baked right into it, then layered with pineapple whipped cream. Light & bright for summer!

thefoodcharlatan.com

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

We have been enjoying absolutely beautiful fall weather this week, so some of my friends hosted a dinner on their patio. We had enchiladas, build-your-own tacos, beans, rice, and chopped salad. And margaritas.

My contribution was dessert. One of my friends said her favorite cake is called a Pig Pickin’ cake, which I had never made before but easily found several recipes.

Pig Pickin Cake (Sunshine Cake) from The Food Charlatan

Pig Pickin Cake: yellow cake with mandarin oranges baked right into it, then layered with pineapple whipped cream. Light & bright for summer!

thefoodcharlatan.com

Our favorite Italian restaurant serves a version of "Mandarin Cake". I don't know how it relates to Italian cuisine, but when the Mandarin cake is featured on the dessert menu, they often run out of it because it is so popular. I tried it once and wasn't impressed. The creamy frosting was good, but the cake seemed a little dry. I'd much rather have a cannoli or tiramisu.

 

[PayrollNerd]

My daughter & 3 of her friends are cleaning up my yard. So I’m being a good patient and making food for them.

I doubled the recipe and sprinkled diced apples on top. I can’t eat ginger so no pumpkin pie spice. I used the spices I can have plus gluten free flour. My daughter and another lady are GF.

Cinnamon Applesauce Bread - The Cookin Chicks

Cinnamon Applesauce Bread is easy to make from scratch and makes your house smell amazing! A flavorful cinnamon-spiced quick bread!

thecookinchicks.com

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

PN, I'm glad that you are back home safely and that your power has been restored. Sorry to hear that you lost all your food. Nice that your daughter is there to help with the recovery.

I missed everyone's cooking yesterday. We had apple and cherry-stuffed pork roast from Nino's with rosemary roasted potatoes and homemade gravy. We don't eat much pork but do enjoy the little stuffed pork roasts that Nino's features at this time of year. Closer to the holidays, the 2-3# roasts will have sage and onion stuffing instead of the dried fruit. The roasts are trimmed, stuffed, and tied and only require a little seasoning. In a 350* oven, they are usually done in about an hour. There's plenty left over for tonight and tomorrow.

On Friday, DH made Parm chicken breasts a la Ina Garten that we had on a bed of fresh baby spinach with fresh-squeezed lemon and corn on the cob. Over the past year since I got him a cast iron skillet for his birthday, DH has truly mastered Ina's recipe. Parmesan Chicken | Recipes

We enjoyed some lovely warm fall days last week, but it has gotten chilly since the rain overnight. I'm going to bake pumpkin bread this afternoon. The recipe that I use makes two loaves, so I'll freeze one.

I've made excellent progress with physical therapy for my right rotator cuff. I have two more scheduled sessions this week, but I am entitled to two more if I think additional treatment will be helpful. PT will do evaluation on Tuesday and let me know if he will discharge me on Thursday or schedule two more sessions. Enjoy your Sunday.

 

[snooptroop88]

Today was my first stuffed bell pepper. Ground beef and rice (both raw) s&p. Put that aside. Cut top off the peppers. Diced up the tops added to the ground beef mixture. Diced some onion into the ground beef mixture. Stuffed the ground beef mixture into the peppers. Put the peppers into a casserole dish and had them so they were largely submersed in tomato sauce. Added some extra diced onion and peppers into the tomato sauce. Salt and pep & onion powder into sauce. Put in oven 400, tented with foil. Left that in hours, at some point, added some Better than Bouillon onion and Better than Bouillon beef into the sauce. Took so, so long, but well worth it cuz the tomato sauce reduced down by itself, really good. Next time would add some honey or brown sugar into the sauce to kind of balance it out more, lil bit on the tangy side.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Today was my first stuffed bell pepper. Ground beef and rice (both raw) s&p. Put that aside. Cut top off the peppers. Diced up the tops added to the ground beef mixture. Diced some onion into the ground beef mixture. Stuffed the ground beef mixture into the peppers. Put the peppers into a casserole dish and had them so they were largely submersed in tomato sauce. Added some extra diced onion and peppers into the tomato sauce. Salt and pep & onion powder into sauce. Put in oven 400, tented with foil. Left that in hours, at some point, added some Better than Bouillon onion and Better than Bouillon beef into the sauce. Took so, so long, but well worth it cuz the tomato sauce reduced down by itself, really good. Next time would add some honey or brown sugar into the sauce to kind of balance it out more, lil bit on the tangy side.

I love stuffed peppers but don't make them often. I always par-boil or pre-bake the peppers for a while before adding the ground meat mixture. This softens the peppers so they don't take as long to roast when they are stuffed. I'll bet yours were delicious

 

[IceIce9]

Today was my first stuffed bell pepper. Ground beef and rice (both raw) s&p. Put that aside. Cut top off the peppers. Diced up the tops added to the ground beef mixture. Diced some onion into the ground beef mixture. Stuffed the ground beef mixture into the peppers. Put the peppers into a casserole dish and had them so they were largely submersed in tomato sauce. Added some extra diced onion and peppers into the tomato sauce. Salt and pep & onion powder into sauce. Put in oven 400, tented with foil. Left that in hours, at some point, added some Better than Bouillon onion and Better than Bouillon beef into the sauce. Took so, so long, but well worth it cuz the tomato sauce reduced down by itself, really good. Next time would add some honey or brown sugar into the sauce to kind of balance it out more, lil bit on the tangy side.

Sounds delicious!

I love stuffed peppers, and I like to make them with the large red, yellow, and green peppers I get at Costco.

Now I’m craving stuffed peppers, will have to make them soon.

 

[snooptroop88]

I love stuffed peppers but don't make them often. I always par-boil or pre-bake the peppers for a while before adding the ground meat mixture. This softens the peppers so they don't take as long to roast when they are stuffed. I'll bet yours were delicious

LOL, yep, but hours later! I mean, I'm not doing that again, lol. I'm parcooking.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

LOL, yep, but hours later! I mean, I'm not doing that again, lol. I'm parcooking.

You've got me wanting to make stuffed peppers sometime soon. I've already put the ingredients on this week's grocery list. I like using red, orange, and yellow peppers - perfect for fall. I mix ingredients up and sometimes use ground lamb instead of beef, couscous or quinoa instead of rice, and I also like to add diced mushrooms along with onion and the diced tops of the peppers. I top the stuffed peppers with shredded Parm. Sometimes I serve them plain, and sometimes I make a sauce with beef stock and tomato sauce. Thanks for the suggestion, and I will definitely make stuffed peppers next weekend.

 

[Knox]

You've got me wanting to make stuffed peppers sometime soon. I've already put the ingredients on this week's grocery list. I like using red, orange, and yellow peppers - perfect for fall. I mix ingredients up and sometimes use ground lamb instead of beef, couscous or quinoa instead of rice, and I also like to add diced mushrooms along with onion and the diced tops of the peppers. I top the stuffed peppers with shredded Parm. Sometimes I serve them plain, and sometimes I make a sauce with beef stock and tomato sauce. Thanks for the suggestion, and I will definitely make stuffed peppers next weekend.

Think I’ll try making them with couscous, never tried that and would be a new twist to my normal recipe. Thanks!

 

[whiterhino]

Think I’ll try making them with couscous, never tried that and would be a new twist to my normal recipe. Thanks!

I never know what to make with couscous so I end up making it plain with butter and garlic

I don't think I've ever had a stuffed pepper? They always seem like a lot of work, maybe I'm just lazy.

 

[PayrollNerd]

We are up here in Tampa for my treatment for the next 5 weeks. We have a hotel room with a kitchen, thankfully.

So last night my daughter went shopping at Aldi's. Their entire freezer and refrigerator sections were out of order. I bet they lost a lot of stock.

Tonight, she is at Publix and they don't have much either. It is hard to decide what to buy when your personal menu is so limited and the stores have low stock.

Today after my appointments, we went to the cafeteria to get me food. Biscuits & gravy, scrambled eggs, potatoes and chocolate milk. It was 2 meals for me, brunch & dinner.

Afternoon snack was a handful of Harvest Corn (fall themed candy corn) and a little bag of chips. I'm going to have Lipton Vanilla Carmel hot tea and a piece of the apple bread for my bedtime snack. I know there's a trace of nutrition in there somewhere.

Cancer bites. So I'm fulfilling my junk quota for a few days! LOL!

 

[whiterhino]

We are up here in Tampa for my treatment for the next 5 weeks. We have a hotel room with a kitchen, thankfully.

So last night my daughter went shopping at Aldi's. Their entire freezer and refrigerator sections were out of order. I bet they lost a lot of stock.

Tonight, she is at Publix and they don't have much either. It is hard to decide what to buy when your personal menu is so limited and the stores have low stock.

Today after my appointments, we went to the cafeteria to get me food. Biscuits & gravy, scrambled eggs, potatoes and chocolate milk. It was 2 meals for me, brunch & dinner.

Afternoon snack was a handful of Harvest Corn (fall themed candy corn) and a little bag of chips. I'm going to have Lipton Vanilla Carmel hot tea and a piece of the apple bread for my bedtime snack. I know there's a trace of nutrition in there somewhere.

Cancer bites. So I'm fulfilling my junk quota for a few days! LOL!

Sorry to know you're really going thru it these days! Thoughts with you, I literally just said "wonder where payrollnerd is?".

I'm sure you already know this and maybe are even sick of it but honestly, Ensure and V8 have saved me several times. My iron has been so low that the Dr. called me in to pick up specific iron supplements but in the meantime, I ordered Ensure from Amazon over the weekend and drank them all. It's not for everyone. Even before bed with a cracker and cheese, just to help replace some nutrients.

Eat all the snacks! As many as you can tolerate

 

[PayrollNerd]

Sorry to know you're really going thru it these days! Thoughts with you, I literally just said "wonder where payrollnerd is?".

I'm sure you already know this and maybe are even sick of it but honestly, Ensure and V8 have saved me several times. My iron has been so low that the Dr. called me in to pick up specific iron supplements but in the meantime, I ordered Ensure from Amazon over the weekend and drank them all. It's not for everyone. Even before bed with a cracker and cheese, just to help replace some nutrients.

Eat all the snacks! As many as you can tolerate

I couldn’t stomach the Ensure or regular V8. But the little cans of the Strawberry Banana V8 are so good my family snags them if I don’t drink them fast enough! If we can find them here, we’re going to stock up. Sometimes all I can keep down is a little bottle or can of juice.

I had to start iron tablets a few months ago. My ferritin was really really low.

Here’s my bedtime snack: water, hot tea, apple bread & meds!

 

[ilovewings]

PN, I'm glad that you are back home safely and that your power has been restored. Sorry to hear that you lost all your food. Nice that your daughter is there to help with the recovery.

I missed everyone's cooking yesterday. We had apple and cherry-stuffed pork roast from Nino's with rosemary roasted potatoes and homemade gravy. We don't eat much pork but do enjoy the little stuffed pork roasts that Nino's features at this time of year. Closer to the holidays, the 2-3# roasts will have sage and onion stuffing instead of the dried fruit. The roasts are trimmed, stuffed, and tied and only require a little seasoning. In a 350* oven, they are usually done in about an hour. There's plenty left over for tonight and tomorrow.

On Friday, DH made Parm chicken breasts a la Ina Garten that we had on a bed of fresh baby spinach with fresh-squeezed lemon and corn on the cob. Over the past year since I got him a cast iron skillet for his birthday, DH has truly mastered Ina's recipe. Parmesan Chicken | Recipes

We enjoyed some lovely warm fall days last week, but it has gotten chilly since the rain overnight. I'm going to bake pumpkin bread this afternoon. The recipe that I use makes two loaves, so I'll freeze one.

I've made excellent progress with physical therapy for my right rotator cuff. I have two more scheduled sessions this week, but I am entitled to two more if I think additional treatment will be helpful. PT will do evaluation on Tuesday and let me know if he will discharge me on Thursday or schedule two more sessions. Enjoy your Sunday.

Hi: I haven't followed this thread in a few days--- what are you getting PT for?
good to hear that you are making progress! My husband has a rotator cuff problem and may need surgery: He had PT last year and it helped-- right now he is trying to get by without surgery. Take care.