Kitchen

[Pooky1]

Good morning and happy April. It poured all night and now just showers. Looks like a day when you don't feel like doing anything. Yesterday morning I made bacon,scrambled eggs with potatoes and raisin bread toast and last night we had leftover mac and cheese. Hope we all have a great April.

[Winifred]

Thanks Pooky1 - appreciate you getting us going.

Summertime was here yesterday - 89 degrees. Nope, that will not stay although we have had a few years where it hit hot weather in March and stayed that way. Miserable to say the least. Winds come and go and the Santa Ana winds out here can be very dangerous.

My eating is still off track but I manage. Couple days ago I managed to fix some chicken breasts in barbecue sauce and had that with slaw and fruits. My heart MD does not want me drinking coffee, eating ANY  foods anywhere other than what I prepare - that ain't gonna happen - and no salt, well I hardly use that anyway and never had except on my watermelon. LOL. I am about 14 pounds under my normal weight and it is getting irritating over the what I am no longer suppose to eat and how to fix it. I weigh 104,  give me a break but she says I must go on a heart menu now. Already had my 87th BD so some things I will eat like I want to, too old to start all over.

Not going to be as warm today as yesterday - glad for that as the heat bothers me more now than ever before. 

Hope all had a safe April 1st - and nothing but great things will be in store for you the rest of the month.

Happy Easter everyone!

[RedTop]

Just left the kitchen after making dressing to eat with roast chicken.   I think trucker daughter will get home late Sunday, so am not sure I will be cooking an Easter meal that day.  

When I asked for Easter suggestions, no one had an immediate response, and the deadline for answers was Thursday.   On Thursday I went to the grocery store and bought a ham, a whole beef tenderloin, and 2 roasting chickens.   Husband wants ham, trucker daughter wants chicken and dressing, and teacher daughter wants beef! Of course!   

Can't say what we'll eat on what day, but it will be tasty!  

[MOMMAVik]

Happy April all! Colder here, wind chill 33 degrees. Good weather for lasagna, garlic bread & salad.

@Winifred, I hope you will be feeling stronger. It is hard to eat within specific food plans when you may have an appetite for some tastier fare.

@RedTop Sounds like you will be doing a lot of delicious cooking for your lucky family!

@Pooky1 Thanks for starting us off this month. You sure cooked up a "mean" breakfast! My favorite meal of the day.

Wishing all a wonderful Easter weekend. Enjoy delicious eating with your loved ones!

[Pooky1]

Good afternoon everyone. Red top. I'm sure food will be great in your house . it all sounds really good and I'm also sure you will have lots of leftovers. Bright and sunny around 50 today. We grocery shopped in 2 stores. I bought 3 family packs of chicken on Sale for 1.69 a pound. While shopping I said to my mil what are you cooking for lunch. She said I don't know. I said we can pick up food order food out. So 67 bucks later we got Chinese food. We ordered extra so we have plenty of leftovers. For easter I made 2 ricotta pies and a chocolate cream pie. Hope you all have a great Easter.

[Winifred]

Our Easter dinner was mashed potatoes, carrots cooked and I put utter over them, salad, rolls collards and of course a yummy baked ham.. Very good and everyone ate well.

It was a hot day yesterday which surprised me.]

Hope all had a great Easter.

[wagirl]

I cooked my tiny lamb chops in the airfryer---OMG----so incredible--

then I cooked portabella risotto in my instant pot---so amazing--

mixed and baked in baking pan,  my banana wacky cake, in my Breville counter top oven---big huge happy sigh!!!

that was my Easter dinner is less than an hour-----giant toothy grin!!!!

[Pooky1]

Good afternoon everyone. Bright and sunny and right now its 65 out.yesterday we had leftover Chinese food. This morning I had to go for blood work so on our way home we got breakfast from McDonald's. For dinner Maria made Angel hair pasta with cut up pork salsa and shipping cream taco seasoning. So its Mexican. Its very good.. I get my 2nd pfizer shot this Thursday and Maria gets her 2nd maderma shot next Tuesday and Anna has already gotten both of her maderma shots. Hope everyone has a great week and everyone eats well.

[RedTop]

Definitely leftover day here; find what you like and eat it!

Even after sending trucker daughters boyfriend home with plates the last 2 nights, our refrigerator is full of ham, baked beans, mac and cheese from Sunday, and roast chicken, mashed potatoes, dressing, gravy and corn from yesterday.   

The beef tenderloin will be cooked tomorrow.   

[JeanLouiseFinch]

We had an exceptional keto meal Sunday:

Baked ham 

Deviled eggs

Bacon wrapped asparagus 

Brussels sprouts casseole

Cauliflower “mac & cheese”

Green beans

Blueberry muffins

Pickles & olives

The only exception was traditional mac & cheese for those who aren’t keto. 

Our keto dessert options were:

Chocolate Chip sheet pan cookies

Turtle cheesecake

Coconut cream pie

Homemade mini peanut butter cups

Everyone took leftovers home. DH and I enjoyed leftovers yesterday.