Poached salmon & roasted cauliflower for my spouse and me
cheeseburger sliders in roll-ppang and oven fries for our baby. Well, there were plenty of oven fries for all of us!

final leftover Susiecakes chocolate cake for dessert.

Grilled local sirloin steak, roasted red peppers, garlic and tomatoes and mache salad, followed by the first local strawberries of the season, with local cream. Can't be beat and, apart from the cream, all quite healthy.

Cheese pizza (multigrain crust)
spaghetti or penne with sautéed cherry tomatoes

leftover Susiecakes cookies / Haagen daaz

Back to beef chili made with American wagyu ground beef. Then it's on to Japanese-style stir fry with American wagyu stew beef cuts.

Taco tuesday
Grilled short rib tacos on homemade flour tortillas with pickled red onions, grilled yellow onions, cilantro and lime.
Grilled pineapple

Tuesday is shopping day and usually seafood night.

Peel ‘n eat shrimp with cocktail sauce (extra horseradish)
Bourbon-brown sugar glazed salmon filets
Asian chopped salad with sesame dressing
Sweet corn
Fruit salad

I think I'm going to have BBQ Meatloaf with veggies tonight.

I could probably figure out the salmon glaze but then how are you preparing them? Oven? grill?

Grill. I’m not allowed to cook fish indoors. Fortunately the grill is under cover so I can grill in any weather with no inconvenience. And the salmon comes that way from Publix, although I’m pretty sure I could duplicate it.

ditto
I love leftovers

The food trucks are back. They park by the clubhouse which is a 1 minute ride from the house in the golf cart. I will pick up the scallop dinner and the fried clam dinner, both come with fries and slaw, and have them still hot when I get home. Then we split them and wash it all down with Abita Purple Haze.

Green Chef has taught me how to do glazes. Maple salmon glaze is as easy as pouring a little maple syrup on the filets before they go on the grill/in oven.

Are you in the Villages? Mr Gfunk is set on renting a house there next winter if we are still working from home. I told him we are much too young to be living there even for a month, but he just wants to play shuffleboard and go everywhere in a golf cart.

I am in Leesburg. We are 10 miles south of The Villages but they get closer every day. If Mr GFunk prevails, give me a shout, and we can get together. I don’t know if I could handle a whole month in The Villages but have spent a week there and had fun. It takes some getting used to.

i still have carnitas leftovers but sadly not for luncheon today. Maybe supper??

how about poaching salmon over stovetop? That’s what I do... well, since last week. I never poached before last week.

last night’s supper - cheeseburger sliders on roll-ppang, leftover poached salmon, Yukon gold oven-baked fries, and grilled corn on the cob.

Maybe tonight - crab cakes (spouse), oven-baked russet fries, raw carrots, roasted cauliflower, leftover carnitas (me), cheeseburger sliders (our child). I’m out of plain roll-ppang so the sliders would have to be served on bays English muffins, White pita, or sourdough baguette (extremely unlikely - it’s so brutally hard). Or French toast for our child.

I’ve done that and was quite happy with the result. It’s certainly a healthy way to prepare fish. But Mrs.BV doesn’t like me to smell the house up with strong cooking odors. I catch hell over cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, fish, fried foods, anything where the smell lingers past the meal.

Well he was doing a maple glazed salmon so unless he made a separate sauce, poaching isn't going to work.
I am guessing that your son won't eat anything except cheeseburgers but why do you and your wife always eat different things? Do the 3 of you ever all eat the same dinner?

I am trying that Girl and Goat cauliflower recipe tonight except I don't have any pine nuts...mostly everything else I am doing though.

I just want to know why a child is dictating their menu. I believe as a child, I was told more than once, "This is what is for dinner. Eat it or starve."

oh i starved many times.

That was the rule at my house growing up. Nobody EVER asked the kids what they wanted for dinner, except sometimes on their birthday.
I was pretty open minded. Very few times I couldn't find something on the table to eat.

we usually eat pizza or turkey tacos together - sometimes cheeseburger sliders. I got the crab cakes for my spouse - I wasn’t interested in them myself. I’m more interested in some cookies for dessert. Just bakery cookies.

my child isn’t dictating their supper but rather has expressed their interest. French toast tonight. We’re in a pandemic and I have time to cook. We all get to enjoy nice lives.

thankfully we get to express ourselves. Our child’s school already dictates the luncheon. I’m happy to allow choices. Obviously I had more limited choices as a child so it’s nice that we all get to enjoy more nice things now. Big trade offs because my childhood home was larger than where I now live. Total slumming here...

lol...slumming .
gaobest...i know that you are doing more cooking these days...do you ever try to teach your son to do some cooking along with you?

we have a Saturday cooking class - my child already has a very busy schedule with distance learning and video play dates during the week. During the summer I’ll teach the art of quesadillas and toasting Bays. Maybe even the art of making French toast, which might be Friday brekky :-)

Tonight it will be smoked haddock and spinach risotto, with a bottle of R de Rieussec Bordeaux blanc sec.

My parents' line was always "This is not a restaurant. You don't have to eat it if you don't want it but I'm not making anything else." But I was never a picky eater and I don't think I ever turned up my nose at things in the end. The above line was mostly directed at my sister, who only ever wanted mac and cheese.

Not sure what we'll do tonight. Mr Gfunk will probably want take out.

Ooh, or I could get salad and potatoes and grill some burgers with the ground beef or bison in the freezer.

Some of us had enlightened parents even in the 50s, 60s and 70s. ;) That was pretty much what I heard. My mother went one step further, however, and made me a hamburger when they had liver and onions. The only thing that was expected was that I, at least, try everything. I didn't have to eat it if I didn't like it. I think it probably helped that my mother was a great cook and I pretty much liked everything else she made (except for some vegetables, all of which I now like) and I was always complimentary of her cooking, even as a kid.

how long do you need to thaw the frozen meat before grilling? I thought it was one full day (24 hours) by putting the frozen meat into the fridge.

your guidance is appreciated - I learn so much!

depends on the size of the package....it will often thaw in about 12. But you are correct...no matter what anyone says, the safest way to defrost is in the fridge . Never on the counter.

I either leave it out on the counter for a couple hours or just microwave it at half power until thawed (though the microwave seems to always cook the edges no matter how careful I think I'm being).

thanks you two. Fun contrasts but it’s ok :-)

my child requested cheeseburgers on roll-ppang and I will probably do oven fries again although I need to add parchment paper because it’s hard to fully get food remnants off the baking pan! I had that problem with the quiche and parchment paper would have been logical. I had already used parchment paper with baking banana bread so very sad that I didn’t use that knowledge for other baking. Sad!!!!

This is dangerous. I am sure you will say you have been doing it for years but you should know there is a risk. And I would not do it especially if serving anyone with any type of compromised immune system.

Surely your kid knows how to toast an English muffin.

it’s hard because the toaster plug is far for reaching.

Takeout:

Mushroom, bacon & goat cheese soup

Pan roasted & porcini dusted chicken breast with spinach, mushroom & cauliflower risotto

Very late dinner .
I made pizza on the grill...it was too big! And absolutely delicious .
roasted tomatoes with garlic,bacon , Italian sausage , pineapple, basil , goat cheese, pepperoncini. Super crispy crust.
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As it's a special day, today we'll have grilled lobster tails, lamb roast with potato gratin and steamed veggies + tomato/garlic/red onion/ginger salad, mango parfait with flans

I was brought up that I had to eat everything that was served, even if I didn't like it. The worst for me was Brussel Sprouts and Cauliflower. I loved Liver as it was a different taste for meat. I wouldn't be able to leave the table until I finished my dinner. I was the same with my son until he became a teenager and was taught to cook, then my wife and I would come home from work on certain days and dinner was ready for us. Of course, since he cooked, it was always something he liked.

BTW, I find the Ore-Ida French Fries and the Kraft Macaroni & Cheese commercials so appalling. You should not have to give in or bribe your kids to eat what's healthy. If they don't want to eat the food you cooked for them than they should be sent to their room with all forms of entertainment taken from them.

I have been doing it for years and I'm aware there is a theoretical risk but it's never been an issue for me. I wouldn't do it in a commercial kitchen for that reason, but neither do I work in a restaurant. Saying it's dangerous implies a high level of concern. That may be the case for some; I am minimally concerned for my own sake in this regard. As Mr. Gfunk says, you do you.

I do ensure that I don't leave it out after it's mostly thawed, unless I'm cooking it right away. Like one of my NOLS instructors once said after eating something he'd dropped on the ground, "if it were that easy, we'd all be dead by now". :)

Also, when I do put something frozen in the fridge to thaw, it takes 2-3 days. I can't plan that far ahead.

My 7 year old has been fully qualified on the use of the toaster for 2+ years. She can also run her own loads of laundry, too.

very impressive! Proud parents unite :-)

last night’s supper was simpler -
cheeseburger sliders (roll-ppang) and oven fries
roasted cauliflower, with a future request for Stephanie Izard’s cauliflower
tortilla chips & avocado salsa
organic cherries
haagen daaz (chocolate) for our child’s dessert.

white popcorn - the bob’s red mill white popcorn that one of the Jens suggested. The kernels are definitely larger than the Safeway Organic model and the popcorn color is super white. I’m sure it tasted good and I didn’t have any.

So you all three had the same thing for dinner? Yay!
Just curious..does your kid eat anything beyond cheeseburgers or is this just a phase?