Food

[Henry Krinkle]

I love duck. Yum.
I have no photos from most of our dinners. Tonight it was a big salad with red leaf lettuce, some leftover grilled chicken, home-pickled jicama, fresh avocado, Romano cheese, garbanzo beans and a homemade honey mustard dressing. It wasn't beautiful but it tasted lovely.

Sounds yummy.

I'll be making duck and sausage gumbo out of the carcass. It's my favourite gumbo.

[skywatch]

Sounds yummy.

I'll be making duck and sausage gumbo out of the carcass. It's my favourite gumbo.

I love to make gumbo. Actually I probably have all the ingredients right now except okra. The only problem is that my gumbo is enough to feed 10 people. Sheltering at home just Dixie and me there would be way too much food. It is so hard to cook efficiently for only two people, and the freezer gets full really quick with ingredients stored up for future dishes. Trying to keep it fresh and light these days. Sigh...

[Dan R]

I love to make gumbo. Actually I probably have all the ingredients right now except okra. The only problem is that my gumbo is enough to feed 10 people. Sheltering at home just Dixie and me there would be way too much food. It is so hard to cook efficiently for only two people, and the freezer gets full really quick with ingredients stored up for future dishes. Trying to keep it fresh and light these days. Sigh...

I can understand. The grocery stores can be a challenge. One week they are out of this. The next week they are out of that. It challenges my wife who requires that the menu be planned/thought out. I am forgiving. For example, I really don’t care for chicken. But if that is the only meat there, I’ll make it for six or seven nights, each different. Fried chicken. Chicken and dumplings, Chicken gumbo and so on. To me, each is a different meal. To my wife that is eating chicken however many nights in a row.

[Henry Krinkle]

I can understand. The grocery stores can be a challenge. One week they are out of this. The next week they are out of that. It challenges my wife who requires that the menu be planned/thought out. I am forgiving. For example, I really don’t care for chicken. But if that is the only meat there, I’ll make it for six or seven nights, each different. Fried chicken. Chicken and dumplings, Chicken gumbo and so on. To me, each is a different meal. To my wife that is eating chicken however many nights in a row.

I am with you about different meals.Chicken and dumplings is a completely different meak than chicken gumbo, for instance.

[Henry Krinkle]

Here's one you can eat Geoff: Caribbean roasted pumpkin soup.Amongst other things, Scotch bonnets, ginger, thyme, coconut milk and green onions.

[gnuyork]

I can understand. The grocery stores can be a challenge. One week they are out of this. The next week they are out of that. It challenges my wife who requires that the menu be planned/thought out. I am forgiving. For example, I really don’t care for chicken. But if that is the only meat there, I’ll make it for six or seven nights, each different. Fried chicken. Chicken and dumplings, Chicken gumbo and so on. To me, each is a different meal. To my wife that is eating chicken however many nights in a row.

Ha well I only eat chicken (or turkey), so can you imagine my issue? Been eating a lot of meatless lately. Soups and beans, butternut squash soup, etc. I think I could be a vegan, almost. But I LOVE butter (and cheese).

I should mention I do eat fish and seafood too, so not I guess only chicken...

[Henry Krinkle]

Ha well I only eat chicken (or turkey), so can you imagine my issue? Been eating a lot of meatless lately. Soups and beans, butternut squash soup, etc. I think I could be a vegan, almost. But I LOVE butter (and cheese).

I should mention I do eat fish and seafood too, so not I guess only chicken...

I might be able to be a vegetarian, but vegan is unlikely. I think the lifestyle that is currently being promoted by science as healthiest for the planet seems to be the way I am heading anyway. Low meat flexitarian where the meat/fish are lower impact and avoidance of high impact food, be it factory hogs or soy products. Also, I live in the centre of the earth for pulses and lentils, which I love.

[Henry Krinkle]

And cheese.

[Dan R]

Ha well I only eat chicken (or turkey), so can you imagine my issue? Been eating a lot of meatless lately. Soups and beans, butternut squash soup, etc. I think I could be a vegan, almost. But I LOVE butter (and cheese).

I should mention I do eat fish and seafood too, so not I guess only chicken...

Sadly, I find fish nowhere as exciting and I ate too much chicken while I was young. I tried to like turkey, but find it less exciting than chicken. Turkey is a truly lifeless meat IMHO. Gravy being the saving grace. We tend to favor carb light meals, so meatless nights are rare. I am Argentine, and if I had married a like wife, I imagine I would be eating far more organ meat then I do now. But I am not so I don't.

Such is life!

Dan

[Dan R]

Here's one you can eat Geoff: Caribbean roasted pumpkin soup.Amongst other things, Scotch bonnets, ginger, thyme, coconut milk and green onions.

That looks really good. As we are now exiting soup eating times (spring/summer and all that), I will have to ask for the recipe next winter!

Dan