What's for Dinner, Thurs., Dec. 1, 2022

[NJCher]

Tacos, using both hard shell corn and the soft shell flour type.

Pomegranate kombucha.

Dessert: maybe an almond flour cranberry tart. It required coconut sugar, which I was just able to find at WF yesterday. I hope to bake that tonight and enjoy a piece with a mug of hot tea. Supposed to be low in carbs.

[Yonnie3]

1. Jambalaya

Proteins are chicken, sausage and shrimp.
Long grain brown rice plus chicken stock, canned tomatoes (with chilies and plain), onion, bell pepper, celery, and garlic.

I've been to the dentist and my taste buds seem to be numb, so I am waiting to add the hot stuff.

[XanaDUer2]

4. Did you have covid?

I did and my taste buds seem numb, too

[Yonnie3]

5. No covid

The numbing shot has worn off and I can taste OK now. Sorry that you have issues.

[hippywife]

2. Italian Wedding Soup

Just pulled chicken thighs out of the slow cooker to cool so I can pull the meat off, and dropped my little meatballs into the broth to cook.

The usual coffee and water. There's still cherry pie hanging around for later.

[AKwannabe]

3. Chicken and pasta

With broccoli, fire roasted tomatoes, garlic and parm

[Marthe48]

6. Curried chicken vegetable soup

It is good soup weather.

[littlewolf]

7. salami and provolone on deli rolls

under the broiler and broccoli salad.

[mike_c]

8. stir fry chicken and veggies, jasmine rice, and fresh pineapple.

Making a cup of chai right now.

[Sky Jewels]

9. I'm curious if you make/eat dessert every night, or just every once in a while.

It seems like when I was a kid, dessert was the expected last course of a more formal eating process. Now, I get the idea that a lot of people just sort of snack on sweets throughout the evening after dinner (and, let's face it, throughout the day).

[NJCher]

10. I'm knocking off desserts

for tea.

My doc is after me to lower my GI, so that's why. Type II runs in the family and my brother has it.

However, I love sweets but I do realize that substitution works well for me. For example, I used to drink wine with meals but I decided there was a cancer risk, so I switched to kombucha.

If I do have a substitute dessert, it's more like something later, way after the meal.

When I was a kid we never had desserts or snacks. If you asked for a dessert you could get an apple. If you asked for a snack, you could get a celery stick. That's my mom!

[Sky Jewels]

11. I'm working on cutting out wine too.

I don't crave alcohol in general, but I do crave white wine specifically. I just love the taste. My husband is a wine fan, so we always have it in the house. I'm concerned about cancer too, as well as the effect on my kidneys and liver and brain. I recently designated a smooth, oval rock as my "no wine" stone and keep it on me, and whenever I start to go to the frig to pour a nice chilled glass of white wine I reach for that rock and roll it around in my hand. It sounds silly, but there's something about having a physical replacement for the ritual of pouring wine that helps me avoid it.

It sounds like your mom did you a big favor! Mine always had mountains of junk food on hand, and that helped me to me getting chubby in high school, which was a nightmare. I learned how to eat better in college and beyond, but I wish I'd just been raised on better food.