Category Archives: Kitchen tips

Fettuccine and tomato sauce with mushrooms and kale 3/22/22

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Beebamom

We moved up our pasta night due to avocados not being ripe yet for our salmon sesame bowl. I have been keeping the avocados in a paper bag with an apple and I think they should be ready by Thursday. … Continue reading →

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Chicken and gravy with mixed mash, broccoli and leek. 3/21/22

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Beebamom

This was an easy, tasty dinner with the vegetables stealing the show. I had a little left over rutabaga mash from last Monday so I decided to extend it with a potato. Rather than peel the potato, cut it up … Continue reading →

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Fusilli with mushrooms and baby cauliflower. 3/18/22

Posted on March 19, 2022 by Beebamom

I saw this package of baby cauliflower at Trader Joe’s while I was looking for broccolini. It sort of had the same form factor as broccolini so I decided to try it in this week’s pasta. I did all the … Continue reading →

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Tilapia with sheet pan veg. 3/15/22

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Beebamom

We tend to buy frozen fish and shellfish. Costco has some good seafood products at reasonable prices so we always keep salmon, Chilean sea bass, shrimp, scallops, and some sort of white fish in the freezer. For our mild white … Continue reading →

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Chicken dinner. 3/14/22

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Beebamom

This homey chicken dinner reminds me of Thanksgiving, but easier. The rotisserie chicken I buy from Costco is not the whole bird but their vacuum packed offering of cooked breast meat. I divide the package in half (about 1 lb. … Continue reading →

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Marinated tofu and vegetable stir-fry 3/13/22

Posted on March 13, 2022 by Beebamom

I marinated the tofu in a nuoc cham sauce for about two hours. Nuoc cham is a Vietnamese sauce and is basically fish sauce, sugar, and lime juice. With John manning our large fry pan, I cut the vegetables up … Continue reading →

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Rotisserie chicken with gravy and sheet pan sprouts and squash. 3/7/22

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Beebamom

I am actually a little embarrassed to post this dinner since I took every shortcut imaginable to prepare it! The chicken comes from a pre-pulled pack of Costco rotisserie chicken. The gravy was made from a packet of McCormack’s powdered … Continue reading →

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Null soup with chickpeas. 2/26/22

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Beebamom

As I have written before null soup is a concoction I make which counts for nothing on my food plan. It is myriad vegetables in either chicken or vegetable stock. I usually add some sort of low calorie protein like … Continue reading →

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Fettuccine with mushrooms and greens 2/16/22

Posted on February 17, 2022 by Beebamom

Tonight was supposed to be fettuccine arrabiata but after Tuesday’s harissa failure I needed a non-spicy dish, thus pasta and greens. With the exception of some salt, olive oil, and an optional sprinkle of parmesan cheese the caption under the … Continue reading →

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Harissa white bean stew with turmeric yogurt. 2/15/22

Posted on February 16, 2022 by Beebamom

Although this looks super interesting on my plate, we miscalculated proportions and ended up with an overly spiced bitter dinner. How did this happen? We decided that two cans of beans would be equal to one pound of dried beans … Continue reading →

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