Last nights menu, 4 dishes, desert and beverage.
1)I sautéd 1 large onion, 6 small bell peppers, 1 small yellow squash and 1/2 lb mushrooms with olive oil, salt, black pepper, dill weed.
2) Salad of black beans, yellow corn, cucumber, red onion, lime juice, incredible, can't stop eating it.
3) Brown rice with yellow split peas, onion, carrot, white wine, salt, coriander, saffron threads, this thing tastes fantastic.
4) Vegi Ruben: rye bread, but no meat, instead use 1/2 avocado sliced, replace thousand island with coarse mustard or Dijon and ketchup. One of my favorite vegi sandwichs, but you have to get the bottled refriged sauerkraut, the canned is no good for this, the bottled keeps for at least a month, you will be happy with this investment.
5) fresh Strawberries with yogurt and cookies
6) My own margarita, equal part lime, triple sec, and tequila, kosher salted rim.
We had a little left over of the sauté thing, finished it at lunch with an acorn squash baked full of apples, walnuts, cranberries, molasses, cinnamon and clove, also had baked beans in tomato sauce, cumin, garlic and jalapeño, and a serving of shredded red cabbage with oil and vinegar.
If you don't know, I started this over a month ago with the wife, she had a stint, and some intestinal trouble. So after 2 weeks on this her blood pressure went from sometimes a concern to really excellent, very low numbers and stayed there. Her blood work from a few days ago, col. 152, trig. 74, HDL 62, LDL 84, thats real good. For me, I have a family history of old men with shakey tremble hands and arms, vegetarians rarely get this problem, eating meat increases the chance of this like 14 times, cigarettes do not increase your chance of cancer even close to that, enough for me to swear off meat. Plus now I read about penile angina, thats why little andy can't stand and wave at the girls without a crutch, also a meat eaters disease, the little blood tubes in andy are small and clog up before your heart does, the canary in the coal mine if you listen. But the interesting thing is this, eat a gigantic variety of vegis fruit grains and nuts, it is amazing what is out there, most of us eat a few things over and over, variety is the spice of life, everything else is like being married, the same old stuff every night.
Darrel,
ReplyDeleteFish is okay. I introduced Mom and Dad to Swai -
the Asian catfish. I won't touch that Mexican thing - Tilipia...
The like cod.
Bests,
Ron
That all sounds great, Darrell, but do you spend all day shopping and cooking? I would love to try some of that.
ReplyDeleteKev;
ReplyDeleteAfter the Air Force I went to KU (Kansas) then back to Germany where I worked in a nice hotel as a cook. (German & French dishes mostly) Since then I have always cooked a lot. Almost every day I spend time in the kitchen. The switch from meat dishes to vegi dishes has not changed the time at all for me. For those who live on prepared foods, or fast foods, this method would require more time, but I always made everything from scratch as I was taught by the Germans. There is a savings in clean up, things wash up pretty fast, meat and cheese makes for more scrubbing on the pots.
That menu above didn't take much time, slice the avocado and make a sandwich, 5 minutes to cook frozen corn, then pop it in the fridg to cool, rinse canned black beans, chop a cucumber and onion, 5 minutes. OK you have to plan ahead for the brown rice, 50 minutes to cook 10 minutes to rest, so start that one first. The secret to cooking is making it interesting, good music, a ball game in the background, someone in the kitchen to talk with and get them to help on a few things, and sha-zam, you have done one of the only 2 or 3 things in life that matter, prepare food that is pleasing and healthy.
Ron,
ReplyDeleteFish generally speaking is better for you than the other meats. Never tried that Asian fish you write about.
Kev,
ReplyDeleteIf your wondering, the cost is about the same as far as we can figure out. We spend lots more on vegi, fruit, nuts, whole grain breads and a wide variety of beans, cereal. Some of the fruits and nuts are rather expensive. But we spend nothing on meat, or cheese, so it appears to be about the same.
Thanks for posting this. Good to have some ideas for new meals.
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