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going to try to cook meatloaf tonight but need to defrost the meat first. gonna have honey take it out of freezer. have some left over sausage so I may chop it and add to meatloaf-with eggs, bread crumbs and onion/peppers..I have been craving a meatloaf sandwich with mayo on pumpernickel bread.
 
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Rick (and The Beast) should be home for dinner. I'm planning on around 6:00 or so.

Grilled pork chops (with the wind gusts up to 60 mph around here, definitely the indoor grill) with smashed salt and vinegar potatoes, and some roasted butternut squash.....yeah, we still have a few butternuts left. They're actually still in pretty good shape. And an apple pie for dessert, in honor of Dear Richard's homecoming. Apple pie is from the freezer; it's one that I froze last October and I need to get them used.
 

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going to try to cook meatloaf tonight but need to defrost the meat first. gonna have honey take it out of freezer. have some left over sausage so I may chop it and add to meatloaf-with eggs, bread crumbs and onion/peppers..I have been craving a meatloaf sandwich with mayo on pumpernickel bread.
In the days when I used to cook, the olden days, I used to make a meat loaf and I'd hard boiled 3 eggs and stick them in the middle of the loaf so when it was sliced it has slices of the egg in the middle of the slices.
 

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First course was eggplant stuffed with cheeses and then fettuccine with sweet potatoes and washed down with fresh lemonade. Very nice.
 
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I'm not sure about tonight, probably some split pea soup. I put 3 quarts of soup in the freezer yesterday, but kept a quart in the fridge for some night this week. Dear Richard just loves his split pea soup. And we still have a few Irish soda bread muffins in the freezer that we can warm up to enjoy.
 

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We are making homemade hawaiian pizza tonight. I made the dough yesterday and it has been resting in the fridge.
 
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We are making homemade hawaiian pizza tonight. I made the dough yesterday and it has been resting in the fridge.
How was your hawaiian pizza? I love that.

Tonight will be chicken with a bit of gravy and garlic-herbed green beans.  Best of all, the meal isn't 500 calories total. That's for 4 ounces of chicken, 3 tablespoons of gravy, and 3/4 cup of green beans.

(I went back to my Light & Tasty cookbooks over the weekend and figured out menus for this week. Enough of not knowing what to cook and then taking the easy way out. I figured out my menus and then did the calorie calculations for everything. So I know exactly what we're eating every night this week and how many calories I'm taking in. Digging my head out of my butt.....yet again)
 

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I am thinking right now that I want breakfast for supper tonight. I want bacon or ham, fried eggs, toast and grits. Probably with some hot chocolate,
 
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Did you ever grill your pizza? It's just delicious that way and we do it a lot during the summer. Just make sure your grill is very well-oiled, so the dough doesn't stick. The dough bubbles up beautifully and the pizza is yummy. We grill pizza a lot when my sister and BIL come for dinner. I'll make about 10 fairly nice-sized personal pizza shells, oil them, then stack them between waxed paper. Throw about two on the grill at a time. Let them go for a while, then flip them over. 

I usually have a huge tray of toppings: chopped ham, turkey pepperoni, mushrooms, pineapple, peppers, onions, chopped broccoli, chopped tomatoes, chopped lettuce, chopped cooked chicken, etc. A couple kinds of cheeses. And pizza sauce, for anybody who wants. BBQ sauce. Once we have the pizza shells flipped, then people top their pizza with whatever toppings they want. Throw some cheese on, put the grill top down and let the cheese melt into the toppings. It's wonderful stuff!

But I digress.....sorry. Tonight's dinner will be pork tenderloin medallions with glazed apples and roasted herb sweet potatoes with Parmesan. (I have one large sweet potato leftover from Easter and I want to get it used up. That potato is large enough that it will easily feed both Rick and me.)
 

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That sounds very good. I will have to try that if winter ever decides to go away.

My plan was sloppy joe squares for tonight but I didn't realise I had no beef left. I think I will make tomorrow's black beam burgers tonight instead.
 

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Did you ever grill your pizza? It's just delicious that way and we do it a lot during the summer. Just make sure your grill is very well-oiled, so the dough doesn't stick. The dough bubbles up beautifully and the pizza is yummy. We grill pizza a lot when my sister and BIL come for dinner. I'll make about 10 fairly nice-sized personal pizza shells, oil them, then stack them between waxed paper. Throw about two on the grill at a time. Let them go for a while, then flip them over. 

I usually have a huge tray of toppings: chopped ham, turkey pepperoni, mushrooms, pineapple, peppers, onions, chopped broccoli, chopped tomatoes, chopped lettuce, chopped cooked chicken, etc. A couple kinds of cheeses. And pizza sauce, for anybody who wants. BBQ sauce. Once we have the pizza shells flipped, then people top their pizza with whatever toppings they want. Throw some cheese on, put the grill top down and let the cheese melt into the toppings. It's wonderful stuff!

But I digress.....sorry. Tonight's dinner will be pork tenderloin medallions with glazed apples and roasted herb sweet potatoes with Parmesan. (I have one large sweet potato leftover from Easter and I want to get it used up. That potato is large enough that it will easily feed both Rick and me.)
When my daughter roasts sweet potatoes, she doesn't peel them and you wouldn't even know.
 

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Cauliflower with Tehina baked in the oven. Very nice. Beef stew with mashed potatoes. Later strawberries and cream yum.
 
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