tonight will be sous vide salmon

These are all good ideas. I think the Greek-style salad is pretty much what I'd been thinking. Alas, I have no feta or bacon but I do have other cheeses. And I might add some chickpeas.

Perhaps some grilled bread too.

Tofu Shirataki Spaghetti Noodles
Lean Ground Turkey
Kraft Parmesan Cheese
Lucini Sugar Free Tomato Sauce

Mexican Meatball Salad. We were going to do an Italian meatball salad, but of course its Cinco de Mayo so...
Las abondigas will have onion, serrano, a little cheese, and some kind of spice mix in them, probably chili powder, cumin, and garlic. Chili lime ranch dressing. The rest of the salad will depend on what I find in the fridge besides the lettuce.

Sounds great.
I will be getting takeout for my Cinco de Mayo meal. I can't decide between enchiladas, carnitas or a burrito.

So here’s what I did. I broiled some asparagus with olive oil, lemon juice, salt, a pepper, and herbes de Provence. Sliced cherry tomatoes, sliced avocado, sliced the asparagus. Added some chunks of fresh mozzarella. Then I made croutons by toasting some sourdough bread, adding some garlic butter I happened to have, and chopping into crouton-size pieces. Tossed it all together with a little olive oil and lemon juice. It was great! Mr. Gfunk called it a triumph.

Keto / low carb?

Day before payday?

I mentioned this in the Costco thread as someone else posted about it, but I made some meatballs today and used Rao's marinara for a spaghetti and meatball dinner. It was my first time, and I have to admit, the Rao's was just delicious!

post-baseball practice semi-casual supper:
quesadilla
pumpernickel bagel with chive cream cheese & Trader Joe’s ahi tuna
soup of Bibigo chicken / cilantro dumplings, tofu, frozen broccoli, Hakka noodles and seasonings

Costco lactase
birite ricanelas ice cream
Biscoff ice cream
Haagen Dasz mango ice cream


omg omg im so happy for you. Will you eat Rao’s again???? Which spaghetti brand did you cook? Fresh dried GF? Just curious.

You really can't go wrong with those choices. What did you decide?

Rao's is such a dilemma for me. It's good. It costs twice as much as other good jarred sauces. But twice the cost is still a cheap meal. The common sense half of me fights with the frugal upbringing side of me every time I stand in the Italian aisle of the grocery store starting at the sauces.

Yet, I've paid for restaurant meals for two that could have bought me a lifetime supply of Rao's. I don't like to think about it.

Yep! Along with Alternate Day Fasting. Down 30 lbs so far!

For sure. I make a good Bolognese, but haven't mastered marinara, so it will be my go to from now on! I used Dreamfield's pasta.

Unfortunately I waited until about 6 to order food. My 2 favorite places had waits that were way over an hour. Finally I decided on a place that I hadnt tried in years because they were showing 40 minute wait but of course once i actually placed the order the time jumped to 60 minutes. I got to the restaurant and had to wait an additional 20 minutes beyond the hour. I get that they are small and it was a holiday but bring in a couple more people. I ordered carnitas and they were dry. Rice and beans were good but all in all a disappointment. :(

Rao’s marinara at Safeway is like $6.99-8.99 a jar of 24-oz
the Costco price is like $10.89 for a 2-pack of 28-Oz jars
the other Italian marinara sauce jars don’t have such a big discrepancy on cost. I think Rao’s has a higher retail to offset the warehouse chain discount AND promotions as well as the grocery chain promos. It’s definitely best to only buy on sale as opposed to any full price retail.

Ugh sorry. Why don’t you order tonight from your preferred place? My treat. I’ll ship the $18.75 to you by PayPal because I’ve not yet set up my Venmo and $15 is still there from my last poker winnings (75 big blinds although we do a lot of straddles)

Lol
That is very sweet of you to offer but I am ok...really. We all have food disappointments sometimes! My fault for not ordering earlier.
Thank you so much for the offer, gaobest. You can buy me lunch the next time I am in SF!
Venmo is easy---get your $$$ out of there!

I've only ever bought Rao's since it started coming out in NY metro area in the 1990s.

You probably should try some others then! There are certainly some bad ones, and really bad ones out there, but some of the smaller label brands are pretty good, and they tend to be about half the price. But I agree Rao's is a good sauce. I tried the Rao's pizza sauce once and liked it as well. The only other one I've found that I really love is a local Chicago brand. Gaobest's comment about buying Rao's when it's on sale makes sense to me, and kind of gives me a concrete rule - buy it if it's on sale, otherwise go with another good brand. Honestly, we don't buy a lot of jarred sauce, as I like to do homemade. But we probably have it once a month, so I'll stock up next time it's on sale.

Tonight - Shrimp risotto with leeks, parmesan, etc. Never know the full ingredient list until I get going. I don't like making risotto but my wife does. So I'll just suggest ingredients until she gets annoyed and orders me out of the kitchen :).

Tomorrow night we are trying a newer brewpub nearby - Hangar Two - owned by Tangled Roots brewery which is about 100 miles southwest of us. Haven't seen their beer in a store yet, so get to try that too!

BTW, the Stanley Tucci recipe for shrimp risotto, allegedly from the movie Big Night (which I found many years ago) is heavenly, though very labor intensive (peeling and deveining shrimp, making broth from the shells, etc.).

Also can't say I've mastered marinara however with the abundance of fresh tomatoes from the garden towards the end of the season (in RSW) I've been attempting it regularly, slowly getting the hang of it :)

fish tacos supper tonight

Have you eaten at Rao’s? I only heard about it in the past decade.

just googled this broth. Genius. I definitely get shrimp shells :-)

I didn't know about Tucci's recipe but I have done that with the shells and didn't think it was worth it. But I now only buy peeled and deveined shrimp. I actually think risotto is pretty easy. I usually do add shrimp or scallops. After that, it is like garbage can risotto with whatever i have...artichoke hearts, asparagus, roasted jarred peppers, sun dried tomato, frozen peas, etc.

Keto Pressure Cooker Dae Ji Bulgogi Korean Spicy Pork with Lettuce. I'm obsessed with Korean Spicy Pork.

yum. I love all Korean and especially Korean spicy pork and spicy pork belly. Swoon.

Well, I can't say that home made broth was the difference between delicious and yours. ;)

Rao’s also goes on sale a couple of times a year at Costco. $2-3 off the two pack. Easy to stock up on it, unless you eat it nightly!

I have not. It is (or was) among the hardest reservations to get in NYC - you pretty much had to know the right people to get in. The sauce started appearing in small batches in the NY area in the late 90s, but did not go into large scale production / nationwide distribution until about a decade ago.

I have eaten at the one in Vegas...no problem getting in. I didn't have anything with marinara sauce I don't think. It's just not something I usually order at an Italian restaurant.

I know that Rao’s jars are owned by the group that has Stonyfeld yogurt. My food industry friend works for that company; their boss handles the Costco account for Rao’s.

I keep hoping that Costco will sell a 4-pack of the pizza sauce, which is $5.99 retail at Safeway. I try to only buy it on sale.
definitely Costco sales for Rao’s when possible. It’s one of the few food products where my inventory level is higher in quantity compared to a retailer, all due to the promotion.
Was it good enough for returning or do you prefer to return to other Italian restaurants when you’re in Vegas? Which years do you go?

Tonight will be my bi-weekly cheat meal from the keto diet:

Pizza at a local Italian place.

Maybe 3 years ago....Caesar's Palace . It was ok but probably wouldn't go back.
I like their lemon chicken but just make it at home .

Dinner tonight was a coq au vin. Delish.

When it's good, it's soooo good.

Last night's dinner
broccoli slaw w/bottled ranch slaw dressing.
steamed spinach
mashed red potatoes w/ parmesan
grilled baby lamb chops sprinkled with lemon thyme.

I picked up In Bibi's Kitchen and excited to dive into East African cuisine this month. Any tips or skips with the cookbook?

Linguine with white clam sauce. Picked up some littlenecks today. EVO, garlic and onion. A few red pepper flakes and white wine. Simple and good

Caprese-ish pasta

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youth baseball post-match supper:
grilled Teton polish sausage
rotkohl
grilled corn on the cob (bicolor and regular yellow)

ice cream:
birite Creme Brûlée
Robbins mint chocolate chip
biscoff ice cream

From scratch sweet and sour chicken.

Its a faff to make so I only do it on weekends.

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Sunday night pizza party for two