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Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 2/22/2026
I thought today I would post everything I eat. Maybe it will give me some insight as to why I have such problems with maintaining a healthy weight.
Breakfast ingredients and finished dish
Lunch ingredients and finished dish
I also ate an apple with lunch.
Dinner
So far everything is going well. However as dinner approached we run into a problem. In my mind I am going to make a couple of hard boiled eggs and serve them on a salad that includes hummus, tomatoes, and a mix of greens. We receive a phone call from our daughter who has been in San Francisco visiting friends. She has taken BART in and plans to come home on the train as well. She gets to Embarcdero station and the train stops and the passengers are told to get off as there is no service due to communications being down in the Trans-bay Tube. Everyone has to find another way home. She decides to take the ferry from SF to Oakland but we will need to pick her up at the ferry terminal there. So dinner goes out the window and we scurry to get to Oakland. An hour and a half later we are all home.
John is rummaging around in the refrigerator and pulls out three left over hot dogs and buns from last week. So he is going to have 2 hot dogs on 2 buns, sauerkraut, and leftover mashed potatoes. I feel like one hotdog on a bun is not enough so I also make a piece of turkey sausage which I put on a hamburger bun. I also make a salad.
We also have some popcorn and a I have a diet soda.
Oh well, there’s always tomorrow.
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Grilled hamburger and salad. 2/20/26
John did a superlative cook on the burgers and I made the salad. Great all-American dinner! 👍
Posted in American, Beef, Easy, Grilling, Salad, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged hamburgers
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Kitchen ceiling being repaired. 2/18 and 2/19/2026
Our roof started leaking in November. Unfortunately the workers who fix such leaks were booked up until January. Luckily January was a dry month and the roofers were able to take care of the side of the roof that had cracked tiles. Unluckily the rain had penetrated through the ceiling in a couple of rooms leaving unsightly cracks and bubbles. This week we were able to get workers who could repair our ceilings. Since one of those ceilings was in the kitchen we did not do much cooking on Wednesday and Thursday. With our limited ability to use the kitchen, here is what we ate,
We went out for pho. Since our favorite place was closed for Lunar New Year we tried a different restaurant. It was fine but not as good as our fav pictured below.
On Thursday the ceiling was finished by 6PM but since we thought it was going to take longer we were not prepared for making anything elaborate. We settled on our second tray of Rao’s eggplant Parmesan. Our first tray had been plagued with soggy breading so we made the second without its plastic film, took it out of its plastic tray to a glass dish, and cooked it in the oven. For the first 45 minutes it was covered with aluminum foil and then we took it off for the last 15 minutes. Since it was not done we raised the temperature to 400F and cooked it for another 15 minutes. Ultimately we added more sauce and stuck it in microwave. Bottom line? We are not buying it again.
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Salmon with mustard sauce, rice, and asparagus 2/17/26
This is another dinner I could serve to company. John cooked the salmon at 400F for fourteen minutes and I made the rest. The asparagus were especially good and I got them on sale for $1.98/lb!
We really enjoy the mustard sauce, especially with salmon.
Posted in Fish, Vegetables, rice, American, Weeknight dinners
Tagged asparagus, rice, salmon, mustard sauce
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Melted fennel pasta. 2/16/26
We had fennel left over from last week’s Kenwood shrimp so Sarah decided to find a recipe that she would like to use for her contribution this week. When she told me she was making fennel with pasta I was skeptical. Oddly when it was done cooking the licorice flavor of the fennel was gone. The anchovies that she put in were also not apparent. It was more like pasta with lemon and some sort of stringy vegetable. It was tasty enough but we all agreed that she probably should not make it again. The pasta shape which was Barilla’s heart shaped pieces pretty much just folded into pasta squares so that did not help either.
Here’s a link to the recipe from Epicurious where it got 4.8 stars somehow.
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/ba-syn-melted-fennel-pasta
Swordfish with agghiotta condiment. 2/15/26
This was supposed to be our Valentine’s Day dinner but I made a lot of guacamole that we had with tortilla chips as a treat before dinner and then we were too full to eat dinner. Agghiotta is a Sicilian preparation for serving with swordfish. You can find the recipe here: https://www.seriouseats.com/agghiotta-di-pesce-spada-sicilian-braised-swordfish-with-tomatoes-and-olives-5212333
Rather than braise the fish John cooks it separately in a pan and I make the tomatoes and olives and then we combine them when we plate up. Also I used slivered almonds rather than pine nuts. Almonds are much less expensive and go well in the dish.
This would have been a great Valentines Day dinner but it was just as good on the 15th!
Posted in Fish, Italian, pescatarian, Special occasion, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged broccoli, swordfish
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Hot dogs, sauerkraut, and salad. 2/13/26
At least the salad and the sauerkraut are healthy! 😁
Posted in American, Beef, Easy, Salad, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged hot dogs, Salad, sauerkraut
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Kenwood shrimp. 2/11/26
We usually make this dinner for a holiday, birthday, or special occasions. It was great to have it just to treat ourselves!
Posted in American, rice, Shellfish, Special occasion, Vegetables
Tagged rice, shrimp, Vegetables
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Stuffed peppers 2/10 and 2/12/26
I bought a bag of four good-sized peppers and stuffed them with a cooked mixture of onions, ground beef, rice, spices, and tomato sauce. They were good on Tuesday but even better as a leftovers on Thursday.
Posted in American, Beef, Leftovers For Dinner, rice, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged bell peppers, ground beef, rice
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