What's cooking at your house?

[Joe S.]

Eggs and Hash browns.

[ohbeth7]

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Hi Folks--
This is my 1st time posting, and 1st time in Sjogren's World.  We had homemade Linguine and meatballs, Hot French bread and a green salad with vinaigrette.  Soooo yummy.  The best part is that everyone actually ate it!

[Joe S.]

Sounds good.

[Bucky]

Hi ohBeth7 - welcome!   

Nothing brings people together like food - so we're glad you jumped in as a newbie on our food thread. 

I've found I shouldn't read this thread late at night as it makes me hungry!  LOL

ohBeth7 - if you could start a separate thread and introduce yourself and tell us about your Sjogren's journey more people would see it and could welcome you.   

I hope you find this site helpful to you - it has lots of information here in both our Discussion Board, Helpful Links and our Social Board.  If there is a specific topic you are interested in, if you put that word(s) in the search box to the top right of this page it will take you to previous threads about that topic.  If you can't find what you're looking for, by all means, start a thread of your own.

Again welcome . . . and thanks for sharing your yummy meal with us.  Any leftovers??   

Bucky

[hootyhu1]

I have been busy!

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup for dinner

I will be making granola bars tonight (maybe tomorrow)

and I blanched 5 pounds of green beans to freeze (some I just steamed and pureed for baby food) and I am just starting to make pureed carrots for my son. Homemade baby food is so easy to do!

[Iwantmylifeback]

We have been playing with GF foods and having great results.  It is more expensive but we are both feeling better for it.  There are so many good receipes out there.  Also got some mixes online with free shipping from King Arthur that have been out of this world.  Made brownies last nite, mmmmmm added pecans and they were awesome!  Since they are pricey I immediately put some up in the freezer so that we would not eat them all this weekend and will have some later.

Thanks for the posts on peach cobbler posts.  There is GF bisquick thats not too bad, may have to try this one. 

[Bucky]

The other day, our 16-3/4 yr. old son and I were talking about food.  He mentioned that it seems rather crazy that when you go to the grocery store that you have to pay LESS money for items that have sugar and extra fattening ingredients in them, but you have to pay MORE money for the sugar-free, low sodium, healthy food!     Somehow, that just doesn't sound right!  (I know my boy is a chip off the 'ole block as I've thought this exact same thing on many occasions!)

You hear it on the news all the time and see shows on TV, you read it in magazines, etc. that there is an epidemic of overweight people here in the U.S.  Perhaps this could be a way for people to eat more healthy, charge LESS for the good stuff, and MORE for the fattening stuff!!   

Maybe we need to bombard the manufacturers with emails to this effect.   

Bucky

[irish]

Bucky, This is such a pain when we go shopping. The interesting thing is that many times the low fat, low carb, etc will have high calories or higher something or other than the plain ordinary product.

Example is the sugar free product that may not have sugar, but they have different types of ingredients that still make high caloric intake and occasionally quite high carb intake. The Light ice cream that I use is 30 calories less per 1/2 cup, but it is only 1 gram of carb lower. Just doesn't add up does it.

So the food manufacturers can't be blamed for it all as we, the consumers, tend to buy these things without always reading the labels. Also, should we talk the price of protein lately!!! Peanut butter and meat are getting so high. I watch all the women (including myself) wander around the meat department looking at all the meat and many times just walking off. I think they sell more chicken than they used to cause they are also going up in price.

Sooo, what did we have for supper tonight. Apple crisp and ice cream!! How is that for nutritious!! Irish

[Cdbhappy]

I've been craving spaghetti, so tonight I had to make it. Yum yum!

[Bucky]

Mmmmm, I love apple crisp, Irish!!  The only thing I remember about school lunches growing up is how good the schools apple crisp was!!   

Irish, I know what you mean about the calories and sugar-free stuff.  My hubby is diabetic, so I buy him sugar-free wafer cookies and I have to remind him that yes, it is sugar-free but they DO have calories and he can't eat the entire package in one sitting!!

Tonight, leftover Arby's Roast Beef sandwich and I added tomato and lettuce.  Yum-o!!

Bucky

[jpd54]

 Pork chops!!! Yum.   I have been so hungry for them.  Someone gave us some fresh black eyed peas.  Cook them with a little onion and bacon.  Think we'll have some fresh corn on the cob.

   Can't wait for supper time.
 

         jpd

[Joe S.]

pot roast for us and the grand kids tonight.

[engy]

Chicken stew! mmmmm, think I'm going to make some Pamela's GF biscuits too.

Oh my, Now I want apple crisp! YUM!

[irish]

I made the gluten free apple crisp--2- 9 x 13 pans. Hubby and I ate much of one---I know I shouldn't cause I am off the metformin for a while. Can't wait to see what my AIC shows in a month!!!

I took the other pan of GF apple crisp up to son and family as son and grandson are GF also. They loved it. I took a load of GF banana bread also. I seldom bake or cook much of anything "normal" anymore. I buy all the GF flours and just sort of mix my flours as I go. I have been doing this for so many years that I don't use a recipe much anymore either unless it is some fancy thing.

It is fun to play around with GF cakes, bars, cobblers, etc. and the good thing is that when I have a major flop I can just dry the product out and grind into crumbs to use for crusts. It is spendy to cook with the GF mixes so it is nice to be able to make things home made.

The first trick I came up with for baking cakes with GF flour was to add a snack pudding to the cake batter. This adds a little extra flavor and sometimes changes the texture. I also add a little applesauce or a mashed banana.

My DIL has recently made one of the Betty Crocker GF cake mixes and added a snack pudding and she was able to bake the cake in the 9 x 13 pan and it had a much better texture and was less crummy. Tasted much better than just the directions on the box. Irish

[engy]

Thank you for the GF tips Irish !