I'm trying to last as long as I can without going to the grocery store, and doing a pretty damn good job. I stayed home with Doris while she was sick today. So I asked her if she wanted hot dogs, spaghetti, or curry, all favorites of hers. Without skipping a beat, she said curry. That is truly her very favorite.
I sauteed paneer with frozen petite peas and 3/4's of a jar of Calcutta Masala sauce. I warmed up a bag of Trader Joe's vegetable biryani. I fried 3 poppudums. And I microwaved one package of frozen paneer with chili's.
Doris just ate the paneer, which is typical. Karen ate everything, but went back to finish off the paneer chili. We have some biryani leftover and a lot of mutar paneer leftovers.
Paneer: $4
Peas: $3
Sauce: $2
Biryani: $3
Poppudums: 94 cents
Paneer Chili: $3
Total: $15.94 ($5.31 per person)
That's a lot. I better make sure to use the leftovers to make it worth it. This is looking like an expensive week.
I did a calorie count on this meal. It wasn't a bad meal. I just ate way too much of it. Estimated at about 996 calories. No wonder I can't lose weight eating meals like that.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Saturday, 1/21/12: Addis Ababa
We had a date night planned. Catherine and Dale were going to babysit and Karen and I were going to use our Groupon to Addis Ababa. Doris doesn't really appreciate Ethiopian food, so we were going to enjoy it ourselves. But Catherine and Dale canceled, and our groupon was going to expire, so we took Doris with us.
We ordered the vegetarian sampler platter for two with yellow peas, tomato salad, red lentils, cabbage, and green beans, potatoes, and carrots. Doris took a bite of the potato but said it was spicy. I think it was a bit hard. She touched the injera and said it was yucky. Then she ate all of the green beans. She kept saying "I really like the green beans." Unfortunately there were only a few green beans, so she had quite a small meal.
Karen and I enjoyed the rest of it.
Total: $20 ($6.67 per person)
We ordered the vegetarian sampler platter for two with yellow peas, tomato salad, red lentils, cabbage, and green beans, potatoes, and carrots. Doris took a bite of the potato but said it was spicy. I think it was a bit hard. She touched the injera and said it was yucky. Then she ate all of the green beans. She kept saying "I really like the green beans." Unfortunately there were only a few green beans, so she had quite a small meal.
Karen and I enjoyed the rest of it.
Total: $20 ($6.67 per person)
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Sunday, 1/1/12: New Years Dinner
We spent New Years with the Khan's. I felt the need to have our traditional holiday celebrations just to have something special to do. They don't really appreciate my efforts and they fight me no matter what I do. I don't care.
Our traditional menu is based on Granny's meal that she required us to eat each year. But we make some modifications to bring in some Indian influence, and to make it vegetarian. The menu is listed below.
Black Eyed Pea Curry
Indian Spiced Spinach
Basmati Rice
Corn Bread
Facon
Typically I served either Pineapple Upside Down Cake or Banana Pudding, but since both of the Khan's are diabetic, I picked up a sugar free chocolate cream cake and sugar free fudge tracks ice cream for dessert.
Everyone has to eat one bite of everything as it will all bring good luck for the new year, according to southern tradition. Black Eyed Peas for peace, greens (spinach) for money, rice for riches, corn bread for prosperity, hog jaw (facon) for joy.
Black Eyed Pea Curry is based on this recipe. I leave out the ginger, salt, sugar, and cayenne. It's very tasty. Even Robert really liked it and got seconds and made sure I left the remainder for them to eat when we left.
For the spinach, I used our basic spinach recipe - I put garlic and mustard seeds in a pan to cook a bit, then added spinach and tomatoes and ground coriander and ground cumin and tumeric. then topped with lemon juice and cilantro. I usually add onion but was all out.
I used the cheap Jiffy corn bread mix which is always tasty and easy.
The facon was by SmartLife, the one found in the produce section. This is always better than the Morningstar Farms one found in the freezer section.
Peas: $2.30
Tomatoes: $2
Cilantro: $1
Spinach: $2.50
Corn bread: 52 cents
Facon: $9
Cake: $5
Ice Cream: $3
Total: $25.32 ($5.06 per person, $15.19 for our family)
Not too bad for a holiday meal that included dessert and leftovers to leave with the family
Our traditional menu is based on Granny's meal that she required us to eat each year. But we make some modifications to bring in some Indian influence, and to make it vegetarian. The menu is listed below.
Black Eyed Pea Curry
Indian Spiced Spinach
Basmati Rice
Corn Bread
Facon
Typically I served either Pineapple Upside Down Cake or Banana Pudding, but since both of the Khan's are diabetic, I picked up a sugar free chocolate cream cake and sugar free fudge tracks ice cream for dessert.
Everyone has to eat one bite of everything as it will all bring good luck for the new year, according to southern tradition. Black Eyed Peas for peace, greens (spinach) for money, rice for riches, corn bread for prosperity, hog jaw (facon) for joy.
Black Eyed Pea Curry is based on this recipe. I leave out the ginger, salt, sugar, and cayenne. It's very tasty. Even Robert really liked it and got seconds and made sure I left the remainder for them to eat when we left.
For the spinach, I used our basic spinach recipe - I put garlic and mustard seeds in a pan to cook a bit, then added spinach and tomatoes and ground coriander and ground cumin and tumeric. then topped with lemon juice and cilantro. I usually add onion but was all out.
I used the cheap Jiffy corn bread mix which is always tasty and easy.
The facon was by SmartLife, the one found in the produce section. This is always better than the Morningstar Farms one found in the freezer section.
Peas: $2.30
Tomatoes: $2
Cilantro: $1
Spinach: $2.50
Corn bread: 52 cents
Facon: $9
Cake: $5
Ice Cream: $3
Total: $25.32 ($5.06 per person, $15.19 for our family)
Not too bad for a holiday meal that included dessert and leftovers to leave with the family
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