What's on the menu this month?

Hmmm... *looks in fridge*
We have leftovers and....leftovers. I'm thinking a frozen pizza sounds good for tonight.

Red beans & rice and cornbread. Warm, simple comfort food for a cold wintry night!

granola bar for breakfast, probably cereal for lunch

Every morning I have oatmeal with raisins or dried apple pieces, cinnamon, and brown sugar. When it gets warmer I'll make my own granola. I drip brew French Roast coffee to drink.

Last night I was so tired I couldn't fix dinner and left everyone to their own devices. I'll do better tonight, I promise.

Peanut butter chicken from the Chinese take out place. Boy, that was a lot of chicken--another meal is in the fridge from it.

That was hours ago, though--there might be a Kaiser roll with my name on it out there. And tea, even though I worry about it keeping me awake.

Goat's cheese and pesto tortellini.

Mmmmmmmm....

My better half is making mushroom leek soup with salad and bread on the side for dinner. The smells wafting from the kitchen are wonderful!

My fish pie is in the oven, I'm looking forward to eating it soon!

Stuffed peppers last night; leftover stuffed peppers tonight.

I had pretend chicken. With real rice and carrots.

Don't mind me, I'm mucking about...

I had Chinese. It was yummy, but not conducive to weight-loss.

That's because you end up feeling hungry again an hour later!

True, true.

2010 EATING OFF THE SHELF CHALLENGE:

Well, I see I have quite a backlog of instant rice, instant coucous, and also some instant pastas. Then there are my jars of spaghetti sauce and boxes of spaghetti, penne, and ziti. I've also got about twenty bars of cheese in my fridge (as you can see, I'm a member of the EatingThing Vegetarian group but but haven't yet joined the ET Vegans, as the half-gallons of peach, egg nog, and bing cherry ice cream in the freezer can also testify).

See, I have this compulsive thing about buying foodstuffs on sale ... never more than $2 a bar for cheese, though I'll go to $2.50 if it's Swiss ... and then refrigerating or freezing as necessary. (I have a lot of other compulsions too, and I'm really going to have to get the paper ones properly cataloged in my LT library.)

But for my 2010 EATING OFF THE SHELF CHALLENGE, I think I'll try to work my way through the instant rice and couscous during this snowstorm we're having on the East Coast.

Hello CurrerBell!
I have that compulsion to stockpile as well. Sale items are my kryptonite. :o) This is why I suddenly find myself with a freezer full of veggie nuggets...

Omelet made with salsa and cheese, topped with sour cream. Toast. Feel the need for tea coming on.

Oh dear, and now I'm feeling the need for tea. Or hot chocolate, I haven't decided which yet. Hm, hot chocolate or tea, hot chocolate or tea, hot chocolate tea, chocolatetea, chocolaty...

Chocolaty tea!

. . .

I had a strangely (in the way of caution) spicey caesar salad with the most wonderful strawberry lemonade today!

Hmmm . . . I just bought some chocolaty tea (chocolate hazlenut, I think) . . . maybe that would be just the thing!

Seriously, though, I'm now having the same mental debate as Cat -- do I want tea or hot chocolate? Reading her post has made me want one or the other!

*evil laugh*
My plan to cause everyone to have debilitating mental debates is working! I'd try it out on Congress, but they're so good at causing their own mental debates that I don't have to lift a finger!

I do have to choose soon though...

I've yet to try tea. Tonight I had a six inch turkey sandwich from Subway with a peppermint hot chocolate from Starbucks. They were next door to each other. The Starbucks has a drive thru which I find to be a little strange. Someday I'd like to go through it just for the laugh.

Hamburger goulash, one of those comfort food meals that probably should be embarrassed to be called goulash, as it shares almost nothing with the real thing.

K!! You've never had tea?? Everyone who made sure you ate things like cheesecake and bagels neglected to give you tea? I don't know what I'd do without tea. It's one of my favorite beverages hot or cold.

Tonight I had blueberry yogurt followed by popcorn. I felt guilty eating just popcorn for dinner so I had the yogurt first to make myself feel better. :)

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Duck jungle.

In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at Zeppelins: Zepppelins Irish Ale (Happy hour, buy one and get two), Salmon on a cedar plank with maple sauce, mixed vegetables and red potatoes. Key lime cheesecake for dessert.

Tea and some Irish soda bread I made last night.

Mixed greens with curry chicken salad, raisins, carrots, grape tomatoes, and rice noodles for added crunch. Very tasty!

*pout* it's snowing again. I'm going to make hot chocolate.

I feel your pain, lefty. After a glorious weekend, we're forecast to get snow again tomorrow. Thankfully we aren't supposed to get more than a couple of inches max, and the roads are warm enough that it will only stick in grassy areas.

ETA: I was completely sidetracked by snow and forgot to mention my delicious black bean soup from lunch! It was nothing special, just from a can, but surprisingly good. :o)

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Delicious pepperoni pizza through the kindness of my neighbors.

Coffee. Yep, thats about it.

I made a stew a couple days ago. I was disappointed to find that the onion I'd been planning to use had gone bad, but it had carrots, parsnips, mushrooms, and lentils. I stewed them in stout and infused it with rosemary. It was darn good.

I might be a little late to the tea vs. hot chocolate debate but once I brewed a cup of peppermint tea* and since it was too strong I dumped in a packet of instant hot chocolate - it was fabulous!

* and in case there are any purists out there, I do realize that my peppermint tea was not actually tea but was in fact a peppermint herbal infusion, it's just a heck of a lot easier to call it all "tea"

And K, you really should try tea sometime! Perhaps start with iced tea if you're not sure if you'll like it, or since you like smoothies some places make green tea fruit smoothies and those can be really good too - it might give you a little taste of the tea without having a full cup!

Also try a bunch of different teas. I don't like black or white tea, but I love green and red teas. I've also discovered I like it strong, two bags at least, otherwise it just tastes like hot water to me.

I'm eating a new item from my favorite cafe, not yet on the menu but the owner recommended it to me. They're calling it the fajita burrito. They make their own tortillas and they don't use lard, and they use whole black beans, homemade pico de gallo, homemade guacamole, cheese and lettuce. Delicious.

Inspired by Cuisines of the Axis of Evil, I plan on making Khoresh Fesenjan this weekend.

Persian food is one of my absolute favorites!

stolen chocolates.

Is MsD going to be hunting you and those chocolates down?

I had pancakes this morning.

We went out for breakfast and had bacon, eggs and pancakes. Skipped lunch, and feasted at my parents' tonight: pot roast, mashed potatoes & gravy, maple carrots, green bean casserole, Watergate salad, yeast rolls, and apple turnovers. I am happily full!