I do more of the cooking these days. for supper we had hamburger steaks, zipper cream peas, fried okra and corn on the cob.
Fried okra, eh? You must have a deep fryer. What oil do you use? I see you are in Arkansas, and I miss Houston. Country fried steak is wonderful down there! I took over the cooking about 15 years ago due to a change in circumstances, but I've cooked off and on since I was a teen. It helps to have some decent cooking devices and some cookware. I finally bought a swiss bread knife from Victorinox.
Tonight my dinner was quick and simple...some fresh egg spaghetti to which I added just a tablespoon of passata sauce ( not much because I have a problem with anything tomato based ) so just enough to coat the spaghetti... and then added some chopped dry fried streaky bacon, and some grated medium cheddar.. . Dinner cooked and on the plate in less than 10 minutes
I got ambitious today , and started off by fixing a cherry and peach cobbler. Then I decided to make some fresh yeast rolls. By then I was on a roll, so I put on a pot of ham hocks and butter beans, seasoned with onion, celery, garlic, salt and fresh ground pepper. I thought all was fine and dandy, until Bobert told me that he didn't like beans. So now I have to think of someone I can give them to.
We do have a deep fryer which we use quite a bit but okra is fried in a skillet. Much different than the okra you find in restaurants. Usually use peanut oil in the deep fryer. Speaking of cooking devices we've been using our Aroma electric pressure cooker for several years now. It's so easy to use.
I returned to using a pressure cooker in the last year or two. The one I had years ago wasn't very safe. The new one has a locking lid and 2 pressure relief valves. I need to find other recipes, my pressure cooker repertoire is limited. (Let's hear it for spell-checker!!!)
A rare treat. A pepperoni lovers pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese from Pizza Hut. Gotta do this more often.
I haven't had any fried food in so long. I'd like to have a whole fried chicken all to my self. A guy could get hungry just reading whats for supper. While I'm at it, I'll have some of Sheldon's fried Okra, some of Ina's beans and yeast rolls and if any one calls, tell them I'm out.
I made low-carb flatbread roll-up, and it is SO delicious ! I chopped up cucumber, tomato and onion (about a half cup altogether), shredded lettuce, and used one of the low-carb/high-fiber flatbreads from ALDI . They are 17 grams of carb; but 8 grams of that is fiber; so net carbs of 9.... much less than even one slice of bread, let alone two. I mixed the tomato mixture in with about 2-3 spoonfuls of yogurt; but sour cream would also work just fine. I heated up some coconut oil and sizzled the flatbread, then I added a few slices of that thin-sliced turkey, put some of the yogurt mixture on top, then lettuce, and the rest of the yogurt mixture on the top. I rolled the whole thing up while the flatbread was still hot, sliced it in two, and that is what I had for supper. It was so simple to make, and really low-carb for any kind of a sandwich. Since the veggies and yogurt have almost no carbs, the whole thing was probably under 12 carbs. I am going to put the recipe into my CarbManager app, and then I will know exactly how much of everything is in it. Interesting sidenote: the ALDI flatbread was about $1.88, and I checked to see if they had this high-fiber kind at Kroger . They have it , but the price at kroger was $3.59; so you know i will be buying my flatbread from ALDI. I haven't checked at Walmart, so next trip there, I will see how their's compare.
I made my world famous beet cake for dessert. We put half of it in the freezer first so we wouldn't stuff ourselves eating too much.