What did you have for dinner tonight?

Jan1 wrote:
Being a low carber I wouldn't serve mine with rice or bread

Indeed not - a green salad would seem to be the order of the day.

Eggs are little fairies in a shell :-)
Love 'em ! So versatile ! I love making scrambled eggs and I think they're a very rare food that actually tastes better from a microwave !

mo1905 wrote:Eggs are little fairies in a shell :-)
Love 'em ! So versatile ! I love making scrambled eggs and I think they're a very rare food that actually tastes better from a microwave !

Eggs are what???????? Hand over that wacky baccy now!

Eggs are evil

zand wrote:

mo1905 wrote:Eggs are little fairies in a shell :-)
Love 'em ! So versatile ! I love making scrambled eggs and I think they're a very rare food that actually tastes better from a microwave !

Eggs are what???????? Hand over that wacky baccy now!

Eggs are evil

Embrace the little fairies lol :-)

mo1905 wrote:

zand wrote:

mo1905 wrote:Eggs are little fairies in a shell :-)
Love 'em ! So versatile ! I love making scrambled eggs and I think they're a very rare food that actually tastes better from a microwave !

Eggs are what???????? Hand over that wacky baccy now!

Eggs are evil

Embrace the little fairies lol :-)

Last time I embraced those 'little fairies' 178 of them died.

.........not an egg in sight at dinner tonight

We enjoyed some chicken, cooked with leeks, mushrooms, a little onion and lovely buttery mashed swede. Delicious.

All the best Jan

Bit off piste here tonight. Bit of meaty 97 % sausage, gammon , mushrooms and 6 fried chunky chips in skins. Did 20 minutes on bike afterwards and was at 6.2 at 1 1/2 hrs which I can live with as an occasional treat.

ham of the bone, boiled eggs salad, i had radish in it tonight, i thought i hated it nd havent hd since a kid but i didnt, i didnt love it either but didnt hate it lol they had quish and it smelled nice so i also had the brocolli quish but left the crust, afters was natural yogurt and berries same as brekkie lol but i love it too much

cold ethyl wrote:Bit off piste here tonight. Bit of meaty 97 % sausage, gammon , mushrooms and 6 fried chunky chips in skins. Did 20 minutes on bike afterwards and was at 6.2 at 1 1/2 hrs which I can live with as an occasional treat.

Well worth the bike ride :-)

Whether it's breakfast, lunch or dinner our menu plan - do I have one - I sometimes wonder   is definitely low carb, high fat, moderate protein. We've lived this lifestyle for over six years now.

Tonights dinner features chicken, mixed with a little ham, some leeks ... a shake of mixed herbs and seasoning served with cabbage and buttery mashed swede. Never fails to taste great and keeps Edde's blood sugar numbers non diabetic. Which is just brilliant

What's cooking in your oven tonight ?

All the best Jan

Tonight was griddled halloumi, teeny sandwich steak slice , mushrooms and big salad with hot pepper sauce and jalpenos.

cold ethyl wrote:Tonight was griddled halloumi, teeny sandwich steak slice , mushrooms and big salad with hot pepper sauce and jalpenos.

Sounds lovely .....in fact Eddie has put in a request for Jalpenos to accompany one of our meals

I'll have to see what I can do

All the best Jan

I love spicy food but jalapeños are just a bit extreme for me ! And what is halloumi ? Is that greek sort of rice ? The rest sounds lovely !

halloumi is a Cypriot cheese. Comes in a block that you slice and then fry till is goes gooey in middle and crispy on outside. It is quite salty tasting so can take strong flavours like the pepper sauce and jalapeños.

cold ethyl wrote:halloumi is a Cypriot cheese. Comes in a block that you slice and then fry till is goes gooey in middle and crispy on outside. It is quite salty tasting so can take strong flavours like the pepper sauce and jalapeños.

Thanks, sounds nice. I will try it soon !

i have become very fond of a kind of bubble, cauliflower and cabbage mashed up fried in olive oil, 200g of cream cheese, 200g of butter 2oz grated cheese added then fry until it starts to brown, i had it tonight with a lamb steak and mushrooms, it seems to go with anything though, well maybe not yogurt but most things


edit: although kinda similar to cauliflower mash it has a very different flavour

Andy12345 wrote:i have become very fond of a kind of bubble, cauliflower and cabbage mashed up fried in olive oil, 200g of cream cheese, 200g of butter 2oz grated cheese added then fry until it starts to brown, i had it tonight with a lamb steak and mushrooms, it seems to go with anything though, well maybe not yogurt but most things


edit: although kinda similar to cauliflower mash it has a very different flavour

That sounds good to me Andy - I'll have to give it a try.

I know you love your yoghurt it's Fage isn't it?

I keep meaning to try it......must remember to put it on the shopping list.

All the best Jan

yes fage is awesome hehe, sometimes when theyve sold out of full fat fage i try others but ive never found i like as much i have recently dropped the milled flax seed sprinkled, mainly because ive been too busy at work and havent been to holland and barret, well i got some the other day i was in town buying some new trainers (blood stained the old ones lol) and bought some, its amazing how some flax seed sprinkled (maximun tablespoon) over yogurt stops you being hungry, ive been starving at 10am recently, i eat my yogurt at 6am but since getting the flax i dont even think about food till midday, its shocking the difference it makes, it was an accidental experiment

Steak, mushrooms a few peas and swede chips.

Tonight's gourmet meal was .......

Chicken Breast with Skin on + a handful of mushrooms, cabbage, and mashed swede.

It was quite interesting because while buying the chicken the man standing next to me in the check out said " I don't like my chicken with skin on" ............ I tried to put him right (very politely) saying you couldn't beat it cooked with a little butter when you brown and crisp the skin.

I just love it served that way.  

I should just add - whilst out shopping it was so busy the check out queue was so friendly, we were all talking with each other. When I eventually made it to the till the operator apologised stating it was always like this at the end of the month 'people had been paid and they were stocking up' ......could be true, many families do this.

Now what did you eat for dinner tonight?

All the best Jan

Last night was a bowl of homemade ham broth with the diced ham in bottom of bowl. Worked it out to be under20g carbs for a big bowl and it is very filling with red lentils, turnip, leeks and carrots. Doesn't seem to spike me much which is great as it is a firm winter favourite as our house very cold.
Dinner tonight is roast chicken, roast turnip ( and souds for them what can have them) , cauli with creme Fraiche cheese sauce, peas and carrots and bit of gravy. Also made a low carb almond topped crumble with scavenged blackberries so may have a small portion of that with some Greek yogurt as well.

cold ethyl wrote:Last night was a bowl of homemade ham broth with the diced ham in bottom of bowl. Worked it out to be under20g carbs for a big bowl and it is very filling with red lentils, turnip, leeks and carrots. Doesn't seem to spike me much which is great as it is a firm winter favourite as our house very cold.
Dinner tonight is roast chicken, roast turnip ( and souds for them what can have them) , cauli with creme Fraiche cheese sauce, peas and carrots and bit of gravy. Also made a low carb almond topped crumble with scavenged blackberries so may have a small portion of that with some Greek yogurt as well.

That pudding sounds awesome :-)

Thanks- it is lovely- sort of like a summer fruit pudding without all the bread - quite sharp as I don;t sweeten the fruit I use, but squeeze lemon juice on it instead- just use a pinch of sweetener with the almond flour and butter and then I sprinkle 1tsp brown sugar over whole thing just to get that caramelised thing going on. Today I added some desiccated coconut to the topping but don't tell Mr E as he isn't keen on coconut.

cold ethyl wrote:Thanks- it is lovely- sort of like a summer fruit pudding without all the bread - quite sharp as I don;t sweeten the fruit I use, but squeeze lemon juice on it instead- just use a pinch of sweetener with the almond flour and butter and then I sprinkle 1tsp brown sugar over whole thing just to get that caramelised thing going on. Today I added some desiccated coconut to the topping but don't tell Mr E as he  isn't keen on coconut.

That sounds like my sort of pudding

I think it's been a good year for blackberries, and you can't beat freshly picked ones .....from your garden or the lanes and bushes around the UK.

All the best Jan

I made a sort of corned beef hash, with a few fried onions, pepper, mushrooms, 1/2 tin corned beef cubed, and riced cauliflower, all fried up with a little tomato sauce, and a bit of worcester sauce. Yummy!