Dear Clodfobble,

Please don't beat yourself up about this. It's not your fault. Retromingents are born, not made.

Yours,

Ginger Rogers apparently claimed to do everything that Fred Astaire did, but in heels and backwards.

Retromingents of the world unite!

Today is homemade coleslaw, frozen corn and pork BBQ from a place in Lillington NC. Oh so good! Oh so happy my friends forgot to take it :P

Well, first, there was about 1/2 cup of leftover black bean/tomato/avocado slurry, which was itself originally an amalgamation of leftovers.

Then there was vanilla ice cream.

Then there was a pear.

Now I'm hunting for more.


EDIT TO ADD: Leftover barbecue chicken thigh in the back of the fridge. Score!

Pasta with butter and (appropriately named) Pasta Sprinkle with a Spinach and Garlic Griddlecake

Whay are you having lunch at 8:30am?

Sundae and Clod - you two are so funny.


I"m having immodium due to all the corn/bean/rice/salsa situation.

Had the leftover half of the flatbread Mum made herself for lunch yesterday.
It was quite nice actually.

I was not - I had just packed it. It was really good.

Good GAWD. I don't know what it is, but I won't be having any:

Chipotle Brick Chicken With Grownup Macaroni And Cheese

Nutritional Information
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Serving Size 1 serving

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Calories 1472.41
Fat 107.64 g
Saturated Fat 47.31 g
Protein 75.80 g
Carbohydrate 50.30 g
Cholesterol 376.99 mg
Sodium 1283.30 mg
Fiber 3.28 g

Zalty!

I had a roast beef and horseradish sandwich today.
I prefer it on granary bread (spread thinly with low fat mayo) but I bought this one and it was on white bread with, I suspect, marge.

Worked well for me though.

I often take in leftovers these days. or bagels.
But I am covering lunchbreak from 12.30 for a member of staff who is ill (long-term, hospital etc) so I only get 30 minutes. Sounds like ages, but once you have got the childer all washed up and said grace and sent down to the hall to eat it's often 12.10. And by the time you have queued for the toaster/ microwave/ panini press it's 12.20.

My sanger was all I had to eat today.
Til I filched some fishfingers during after school club.

No lunch for me, but I'm going to have some hot dogs and beans tonight.

I had scrambled eggs with black beans and rice. It was surprisingly good. (Or I was just super hungry.)

Lunch was a bite of this (lentil chili) and that (spelt salad with corn and peppers). Had to get some salad in while possible ... I will say, I finished the apple crisp. My all-time favorite! :)

Lunch was this toothsome semolina bread that a playgroup mom dropped off and some of our apple wood smoked thanksgiving turkey soup with root vegetables. and more semolina bread. That stuff is so delicious.

For dinner I made some venison tournedos, described in big fat butchering.

I can't believe you finished the apple crisp. I was saving that.

You have to be quicker than that when it's apple crisp ...

Seriously - applewood smoked thanksgiving turkey soup with root vegetables? You raise the bar too far! And venison tournedos. Not fair. Microwaved veggies and a Boca Burger aren't even in it - and no apple crisp left for a chaser ... :sniff:

Boca Burger? That's from the food group of remorse.

No kidding. I feel remorse that I put it in my freezer, and even more that I took it out again.

Hahaha....I eat those stuff. :D Well, I prefer Morning Star products. Doesn't taste too bad if you cook it the "right" way -- fry it on medium heat so the outside would be nice and crunchy. Of course gotta sprinkle lots of crushed pepper flakes while it's being cooked so it'd be spicy. If you like the bean flavor, then you should microwave it. :p:

Yellow rice and homemade chicken fingers that were coated in crushed plantain chips. Not bad!

Breakfast? Nothing.
Lunch? Nothing.
Tea? Nothing.

Sigh.

Someone has sandpapered my throat.
Breathing hurts, let alone scoffing.

Owww honey. That sucks.

I seem to have done nothing but eat the last few weeks. I think it's because of the cold weather...maybe I'm preparing to hibernate...

What is even more sucky is I am sneezing bloody froth.
That's not swearing. I sneeze a lot anyway and always try to catch it in a tissue but 98% of the time it's dry.

Now it's always wet. And red.

Normal cold/ flu symptoms don't play fair with existing conditions.
On my third top today.

Meh. Not the best post for a food thread, right?

Take care, Sundae, keep the fluids up.

The good fluids! I'm talking chicken soup, or at least flat lemonade.

Pounded pork chops, green peas, and salad. So Sorry that's supper

Left over fried chicken sandwich and leftover black-eyed peas.

Fairly spicy chicken fried rice from a local Thai restaurant. :yum:

Spinach salad without dressing and nonfat Greek yogurt - yesterday, today, and tomorrow :p:

On my third day of going veggie, I have had my fourth meal of Taco Dip Platter :yum:

I had a sleep fpr lunch today.
I think I might have one for afternoon tea, too.

The cafeteria at the steel mill I'm assigned to got flooded in the storms this morning. So the Med Director and I checked out his emergency rations - Reese's miniatures and peanut butter crackers. Then the nurse came by and shared HER emergency rations - brown rice and salmon. Men? Reese's. Women? Whole grains and salmon. That tells me something, but I don't know what.

It tells you in an emergency, women are boring. :haha:

And men are wildly impractical, even if sweet and tasty?

Oops ... I meant they go for what's tasty ... hmm. Never mind.

Impractical? For making a annoying situation fun? We're not talking about stocking a fall out shelter, and it's not like there isn't a Burger King within you'll-only-be-mildly-hungry distance.

Taco Dip again :D

Tomorrow, White Vegetable Lasagna Cupcakes

Venison burger steak w/chili, and penne pasta w/jalapeño cheese sauce.

:yum:

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When it comes to what's good, trust the fatman.

Gosh that looks good!

I had a SlimFast because I had no appetite.
It's not slimming me down at all, but I am being a healthy Cherry.

That's the kind we like most!

:D

Last week I made a roasted duck, using this recipe, which calls for boiling the duck first, then roasting it for the second half. (Duck came out amazing, by the way--I boiled it in salted water rather than chicken broth as called for in the recipe.)

After pulling the duck out of the pot and moving it into the roasting phase, I added the gizzards and organs and a couple stalks of celery to the pot and continued boiling that for the rest of the evening. I think I seasoned it with a little more salt, I can't remember.

Now, today for lunch I am having this duck broth with the last shreds of the meat I picked off the carcass after we were done eating it that night at dinner. Added a tiny bit of rosemary for fun.

OMFG it is so good. And I still have another two servings left (no more meat, though. :()

Thuffering thuccotash, you're dethpicable.

Wholewheat spaghetti with some stir in sauce and little cubes of feta cheese.

Which is also what I had last night, and two nights before that...

God bless pasta. Cheap quick and easy.

How do you make a duck into a great soul singer?

Put it in the microwave, and eventually its Bill Withers.

:lol:

oh god

:lol: Will it sing 'Lean on Me'?

So I was sitting in the dentist chair yesterday (my new caps are the fab!) and Ain't No Sunshine came on their radio. I laughed in that mumbly laugh in the dentist chair kind of way, having already laughed in relation to the joke earlier that morning.

Tanks for the laughs, Monsieur SousCrapaud!

Wonton Pizza Cupcakes - both turkey pepperoni and turkey sausage :)

Tell me more.

Yes, please tell us more about it. Pictures would be great too. I'm interested to know what is a wonton pizza cupcake. Sounds oddly appealing. :-D

What's For Lunch?
 

Porn.

Whoops - no pics of the Wonton Pizza Cupcakes. This is basically what I did, but mine looked better. I also had a different order. I went wonton, topping, sauce, cheese, wonton laid with the corners opposite of the original wonton, topping, sauce, cheese.

I left mine in too long. I didn't get up right at 20min when the timer went off. I suppose if I had gotten up, they wouldn't have slightly burnt. I would actually try 15min first.

Very interesting.

Today is home made sweet and sour chicken :)

Glatt - it's kind of like a mini pizza lasagna.

apparently, it's not just for breakfast anymore. huh.

Christmas dinner at work today!
I've opted for leek & potato soup to start, no main* and sherry trifle for dessert.
First sitting at 11.45. Hence no brekkers and the need to jump in the shower and start getting ready for work instead of mucking around on here...

* Just didn't fancy a whole turkey dinner, and it turns out I was the only one to tick the veggie option, so I was scared about what might appear... A sprout on a plate?

Free lunch again.
Sandwich platters. Ordered in as samples for customers to promote our "Entertaining" range.
I didn't find them very entertaining, "sandwich on a plate" being perhaps too avant garde a performance for my liking. But they were jolly tasty.

Free dinner too. Or more properly High Tea.
More scoffage from the Entertaining range, served to us because we had a Customer Services training meeting after work.
Californian style sushi, tortilla wraps, various filled and topped pastry Hors d'oeuvres.

Well if we don't get to try them we can't recommend them.

For me the most entertaining part of the evening was when I tried to remove a chair from a stack in the training room. Very small space, difficult to manouevre in. For the first time in ages I felt my balance shift. Luckily my fall was halted by some Forest Friends. At least by a stack of boxes containing Forest Friends hollow chocolate figures (probably in there to make way for Festive Friends hollow chocolate figures rather than to train on stock management or branch ordering).

I was able to right myself before any frogs were damaged and luckily only one colleague witnessed. But I suspect she was also entertained.

Venison burgers and french fries.:yum:

Yup, beats my cuppa-soup into a canteen mug.

Funny (for me) to read my comments about the Entertaining food from last year. We have our AGM on Sunday and it's being catered in the same way.
Except we'll also be having rotisserie chickens cooked by my counter.
By my reckoning there will be approx 2/3 of a chicken for each person attending. I might have to take in some takeaway cartons...

Seriously, as far as I can tell they've calculated a 1/4 chicken for everyone who has signed up. Not everyone will make it as it starts an hour after the shop closes, not everyone works Sundays, if it's a nice day they might "forget"' some must be vegetarian and not even every meat eater wants chicken.

Still, it's their loss, and hopefully the 'rents gain.

Chicken Fried Steak, mashed potatoes (from a box) and veggies. I am FULL! And happy :)