I agree about Sunday dinner and I also really like Cooking Light. I love the recipes. Tonight I am making manicotti with spinach and fresh basil and sundried tomato wheat rolls I got at the farmer's market.
I think we should all take the time to actually cook at least once a week.
I totally agree about Sunday dinners. When I lived home, my Mom fixed them every Sunday. Even when my sis and I moved out, we still came over for them. Now that both my sis and I don't live near it's difficult. But I live with my bestfriend, who's a male and like my brother and I always make sure we have a good Sunday dinner. Full on out, no matter what and now it's become a tradition in my house...all my girlfriends always come by for Sunday dinner. (I also cook full dinners during the week to tho, gosh my roomate/bestfriend has it good!)
I don't think I could ever go a Sunday without one. It's a great way to wind down the weekend and relax!
I LOOOVE Cooking Light ! For Sunday dinner (and I've been Little Miss Productive today) I am baking a chicken, red potatoes, a sweet potato, baby carrots and onions seasoned with Bay leaves, Rosemary, salt and pepper (you can smell it from the driveway) and I made apple crisp my way (Mac apples chopped and mixed with oatmeal, OJ, apple pie spice and vanilla extract)AND a mango salsa/chutney thing (mango, vidalia onion, cilantro, cucmber, OJ, salt & pepper).....Not sure what got into me, but every once in a while I have these 'domestic fits' as Kyle calls them, and I also washed the bathroom rugs, weeded the stone garden and did a few other things....ALL WITHOUT COFFEE!
For lunch, I had steak tips that I sauteed with hot cherry peppers and onions, and some of the pepper juice got under my fingenail... ">$#@!#$@?>#!$ OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!
I do cook dinner most every night but Sunday dinner is always nicer. Tonight I made steak on the BBQ, New Yorks. Double baked potatoes, corn on the cob and sauteed shrooms with red onion in butter. I only ate the steak and mushrooms because I am desperatly trying to get back on Atkins. I should have had a salad also but just didn't feel like making one. :-)Stephanie 280/225/170
You're right about Sunday dinner. In fact, dinner at a table EVERY NIGHT is something that needs to be revived. I saw something on "obesity in America" recently which pointed out that most American homes are "snatch and dash" on a nightly basis, and how much that contributes to the problem. In fact, it contributes to all sorts of problems.
And you're right, too...even if a person is eating alone, it's important to take good care of yourself, set a pretty table, and sit down to a nice well-planned meal. Sunday dinners are a treasured memory from my childhood, and wouldn't it be nice if the kids growing up today could say the same thing in 20-30 years!
Our dinner last night: grilled cedar plank salmon, grilled veggies incl. asparagus, corn, onions and garlic, tomatoes halved and brushed with olive oil and fresh basil, and then (much later on) for dessert that homemade french roast triple chocolate ice cream w/ warm banana which I mentioned in another post.
Have to agree with you here on this one - when i am alone for the evening/dinner, if I sit in front of the tube and eat, I don't feel satisfied, because I'm distracted and just putting food in my mouth, which I swear I don't taste. BUT, if I sit at the table and look out at the river and the yard with all the flowers and take my time, I feel fuller and am less likely to overeat and snack again later.
Yes, and it sounds like you have a very nice setting to gaze upon for dinner too. Sometimes I set the formal dining room table for myself alone, but sometimes, I confess, I eat in front of the tube. But even on those occasions, I *set* the coffee table with a nice tray and a *planned* meal. That doesn't mean, of course, that I have some elaborate meal plan all the time. (I know *experts* say menu planning is important, but I just don't take time out before grocery shopping to do elaborate weekly menus or anything--it's just not ME). But I do ask myself ahead of time, what I *most* want for that particular meal, and then make it deliberately. Also, I don't make leftovers generally. I make enough for that meal, dish my plate (if I'm eating alone) and then go where it is I'm going to eat it...whether dining room, out on the deck, the picnic table in our yard, or my living room coffee table. What I don't do....I don't eat in the kitchen, or in some other room. And, for me personally, when the kitchen is closed....it's closed. After mealtime, the dishwasher is started and I don't plan on finding dirty dishes in the sink in the morning! So yes, for us ....we have planned meals, and try to stay away from snacking generally.
Amy, I read something interesting recently. An article stating that most women consume the majority of their calories after 4pm. The old me might skip breakfast and lunch, then eat dinner on the go (or pick up something on the way home...take out too often) and then, probably later same evening....maybe go out for ice cream, or knosh on something while tv watching. I wonder how much of the obesity *epidemic* could be cured if people would take care of themselves enough to eat *consciously*...planning what they REALLY want for meals and then eating it....and not just snatch and run. I know that's how I got into trouble in the first place.
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I think we should all take the time to actually cook at least once a week.
Sounds, yummy, LadyIrish!
Erin
Mom
I don't think I could ever go a Sunday without one. It's a great way to wind down the weekend and relax!
Kerry
For lunch, I had steak tips that I sauteed with hot cherry peppers and onions, and some of the pepper juice got under my fingenail... ">$#@!#$@?>#!$ OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!
Amy
You're right about Sunday dinner. In fact, dinner at a table EVERY NIGHT is something that needs to be revived. I saw something on "obesity in America" recently which pointed out that most American homes are "snatch and dash" on a nightly basis, and how much that contributes to the problem. In fact, it contributes to all sorts of problems.
And you're right, too...even if a person is eating alone, it's important to take good care of yourself, set a pretty table, and sit down to a nice well-planned meal. Sunday dinners are a treasured memory from my childhood, and wouldn't it be nice if the kids growing up today could say the same thing in 20-30 years!
Our dinner last night: grilled cedar plank salmon, grilled veggies incl. asparagus, corn, onions and garlic, tomatoes halved and brushed with olive oil and fresh basil, and then (much later on) for dessert that homemade french roast triple chocolate ice cream w/ warm banana which I mentioned in another post.
Nice meeting you,
Forte
Amazing, isn't it?
Amy
Yes, and it sounds like you have a very nice setting to gaze upon for dinner too. Sometimes I set the formal dining room table for myself alone, but sometimes, I confess, I eat in front of the tube. But even on those occasions, I *set* the coffee table with a nice tray and a *planned* meal. That doesn't mean, of course, that I have some elaborate meal plan all the time. (I know *experts* say menu planning is important, but I just don't take time out before grocery shopping to do elaborate weekly menus or anything--it's just not ME). But I do ask myself ahead of time, what I *most* want for that particular meal, and then make it deliberately. Also, I don't make leftovers generally. I make enough for that meal, dish my plate (if I'm eating alone) and then go where it is I'm going to eat it...whether dining room, out on the deck, the picnic table in our yard, or my living room coffee table. What I don't do....I don't eat in the kitchen, or in some other room. And, for me personally, when the kitchen is closed....it's closed. After mealtime, the dishwasher is started and I don't plan on finding dirty dishes in the sink in the morning! So yes, for us ....we have planned meals, and try to stay away from snacking generally.
Amy, I read something interesting recently. An article stating that most women consume the majority of their calories after 4pm. The old me might skip breakfast and lunch, then eat dinner on the go (or pick up something on the way home...take out too often) and then, probably later same evening....maybe go out for ice cream, or knosh on something while tv watching. I wonder how much of the obesity *epidemic* could be cured if people would take care of themselves enough to eat *consciously*...planning what they REALLY want for meals and then eating it....and not just snatch and run. I know that's how I got into trouble in the first place.
Forte
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