Tonite is left over pork ribs and salad...and leftover potatoes for him. We eat out maybe 2 times a year. We use to order pizza in several times a year but now I make my own. Hubby is a meat cutter and can be a tad picky in meats snd fish. I reaaly get tired of constantly trying to come up with a weeks worth of dinners.
My grandkids love to dip their raw veggies like carrot sticks, broccoli, etc. into ranch dressing and eat them. They don't care for the veggies cooked that much...but they do like a little veggie with their ranch dressing.
I can totally relate to your post, @Gloria Mitchell ! When I had kids growing up, and a husband who had to have help to make ramen noodles, I had to cook all the meals, all of the time. I hate cooking ! Anyway, now the kids are grown up, and Bobby is a retired chef; so he is perfectly capable (and happy) to prepare at least part of the food. Sometimes, we eat together, and sometimes not. If he wants a turkey sandwich, and I want Caesar salad, then we just each make our own meals. Other times, we share the responsibilities, like yesterday. I made the Mac salad and the fresh ginger-lemonade and Bobby BBQed the chicken, and then we both enjoyed it and gave the scraps to Chipper and Tootsie.
My grandson's are the same...love veggies dipped in Ranch...even the the youngest, Liam who is the quirkiest eater will eat carrots and red and green pepper and celery sticks dipped in Ranch. Actually his brothers will eat some cooked veggies though. Since they've been able to eat people food, they always get cooked green beans or some other veggie as a side and they eat it...except Liam.
I've been craving some grits. Of course I'll start it off with my concentrated chicken broth, and once the grits are done I'll add a bit of butter, garlic chives, (from my tower garden), topping all off with broiled shrimp.
Lisa is always keen to try local specialities, and roast guinea pig is the Peruvian speciality, it's supposed to have a smiling face when cooked no doubt we will try it at some stage I guess because they are regarded as pets it makes us feel uncomfortable eating them, all the restaurants here have it on their menu... Look away if you are squeamish This painting of the "Last Supper" in one of the cathedrals we visited, shows roast guinea in the centre of the table, there was no light here and photography is forbidden so it's not a very clear photo.
@Terry Page , I admit the look of it is the main dissuader for me. Although ir's not much different than squirrel I'm sure, and I've hunted and cooked squirrel many times. But, I've always cooked them in a stew, so there was never a visual problem. I'm sure if my kids had seen one roasted, it wouldn't have been on our menu for long.
Tonight's dinner...a roast with potatoes and baby carrots...um and some other veggie.....to balance out the meat
One of my first pets (maybe the very first one) was a little Guinea pig, and I really loved that little guy ! He was a great pet, friendly and talked to me a lot, and was quite smart. I would no more want to eat one than I would want to eat a dog or cat, although I know that people in some parts of the world eat those, too. (I guess that I am glad that you are not in China, @Terry Page , or you might be showing us pictures of you and Lisa having THAT for dinner; but the rest of the adventures, I love the pictures.
Well tonight Bobert wants to cook, and who am I to tell him no? No really I'm trying to teach him to cook, so his volunteering is a good thing. I'll just be glad when he gets a tad better at mentally combining the different flavors. Tonight he will be browning a pound of hamburger, adding a can of Sloppy Joe, and putting that over a package of flavored rice and pasta. At least he's learning.
We had our last dinner in a restaurant in Cusco this afternoon, we leave at 6am tomorrow morning for Puno.... Here are our dishes... Lisa had a trout with quinoa and corn dish.... I had slow cooked pork with a rice, pumpkin, mushrooms and bean mash, and various sauces... We even managed a dessert.... A variation on creme caramel .... ....and churros with ice cream honey and a chocolate sauce......
@Terry Page , all the food looks delicious. It's a good thing you and Lisa like to walk so much, or the both of you would be round enough to be able to roll wherever you go. I can see that the tableware is from a local potter. It looks very much like the tableware I made the first year or so of studying pottery,