With a package of ground beef, my dinner plan morphed from pasta with a red sauce -> pesto gnocchi -> five spice ground beef with roasted kabocha squash.


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I had the kielbasa with mashed, rotkohl, and red onions. I had a poke bowl for my luncheon so I craved the sausage. I also wanted to finish off the leftover mashed. I’m super knackered from packing up my office!


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Did you run out of Rao's?
And you made chili besides all that other stuff?

Yeah, that’s a good price for sirloin steaks. 4-5 steaks in a 3+ pound package for $9.

Your favorite, Safeway, has a boneless beef roast for $1.99 a pound this week.


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Not here ....
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and avocados are 3 for $5.

And the aforementioned Safeway ad for meats.

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Upcoming dessert...
Girl Scout cookies
minneola citrus
blood orange

The chili was also leftover...

I’ve still not yet bought beef in roasting sizes - I want to make roast beef and just haven’t yet done so...

The roasts are great for sous vide. Easy to slice up afterwards.

Went to a small neighbourhood French - Thai ( Issan ) restaurant .. had mango salad , pork skewers , braised beef cheeks with creamy mash , asparagus , broccolini and colourful cauliflower . Also shared some wagyu beef with fine Thai noodles in broth . Others had one of the specials for the day - Thai river prawns in Tom Yum served with rice .

Enjoyed our desserts too - chocolate profiteroles & mango sticky rice


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With Thai milk tea - diluted with lots of ice cubes
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Chocolate profiteroles with chocolate ice cream and mango sticky rice

Am waiting , not quite patiently , to return to France & Thailand , hopeful this year .. 🤞🏻
Thankful that we can at least enjoy some meals from various regions in these 2 countries ..

Please tell me that chili wasn't leftover from the super bowl. :eek:

Thank you for sharing! :)

We do have a thread dedicated to such deals: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/s-p-...s-rewards.html

I picked up a pack of circular Vietnamese rice paper recently with the aim of being able to make family snacks and simple lunch meals for my homeschooling daughter.

Using the recipe starting at 2:37 for “Vietnamese Street ‘pizza’” in this video I made versions according to everyone’s tastes (daughter is still on the undulating low hills of her life ascent into the chilli peaks). I used a Korean chilli sauce I had to hand as I’d run out of Sriracha, but it was really difficult to mess up. Shredded chicken and lots of fresh chilli pepper slices - even a little scatter of my home made ginger sauerkraut - everything melded together into a tasty mess yet the rice paper kept it all neat and tidy and easy to eat.

Haven’t looked at what the carb content is for rice paper, but it can’t be that much; they weigh less than 13g each and assuming it’s 100% carb, that still fits nicely into a low-carb diet allowance. I just made sure to load mine up big and thick so I wouldn’t want more than one. My husband asked for a second; he’s not carb counting.
I’ll be teaching this to my kid in the next year or so so she has another option when she’s feeding herself after school. Perfect for camping trips too!

I'm off to Fry's for petite sirloin! :)

ooh. I looked.
I looked at the sticky and couldn’t find what SPAM (with Periods) actually means. Argh.

Just had one of my favorite local sandwiches, the Roman Salad with grilled chicken as a sandwich from Monte's, a local Italian grocery/pizzeria/sandwich shop. It's a great chopped salad with grilled chicken wrapped in essentially one of their pizza crusts. And a creamy garlicky dressing.