Shelter At Home Cooking: Show Us Yours!

Automatic Washer - The world's coolest Washing Machines, Dryers and Dishwashers

Help Support :

We made

two versions of "Romano's Macaroni Grill's" Penne Rustica last month. One regular with the heavy cream, and another skinny version using only whole milk. It was just as good. It also has Proschutto, dry marsala, garlic, rosemary, chicken, and shrimp.
We miss that restaurant. Locally, it has closed since 3 years ago. Our kids had their wedding reception there, and they did a great job. We used to go for Mothers day, etc. They also did a great Thanksgiving dinner from what I heard.
 
Penne Rustica

Mike-

I found several versions (Epicurious, Food.com, etc.). Is there a particular one you use and did you do any tweaking (not twerking! LOL!) to it?

Chuck
 
That is the most revolting looking aspic I’ve ever laid eyes on! And that mess took a lot of work to put together too!  It looks like there are oysters in the top layer between the symmetrical rows of green pimento stuffed olives, YUK!

 

And the piping of yellow gunk around the perimeter and in the center looks like deviled egg yolks.

 

Finally, WHY would anyone also include slices of Kiwi with all these other savory ingredients.  This has got to be someones idea of a joke!

 

Eddie 
 
Yum Yum!

Eddie, loved your comments!!!

 

I tried to figure out what all was included - peas, kiwi, ham (spam?) olives, carrots - but wasn't sure about the brown/gray items around the top.  Mushrooms?  Black eye peas?  Oysters?  And the orange ring appears to be Cheese Whiz.  And in the middle.....  is that a dip?  Or just more Cheese Whiz?

 

Are you salivating yet????

 

lawrence
 
Staying At Home Cooking For Your Household

There was a great article in The Washington Post  food section about two weeks ago, where the writer talked about what a great time it is to finally lose the extra weight that over 1/2 half of Americans have wanted to loose for years but just don't succeed at.

 

Because you are now almost completely controlling every thing you buy and eat this has gotten a lot simpler, no more stuffing down huge expensive restaurant meals loaded with fat and salt [ but taste so good ]

 

Apparently this is happening around the Washington area, in the past two weeks I have been in at least 1/2 dozen homes where the owners that I have working for have me that they have lost from 15-30 pounds since this lock-down started, at least three of the customers looked so much better that I commented how good they looked, the others just told me about the weight loss as one of the benefits of staying home and cooking.

 

My self I was worried that I might gain weight doing all this cooking at home, The result so far I am still 150 pounds and 6 feet high, apparently I have shrunk 1/2", LOL

 

I guess there is a silver lining in any situation.

 

John L.
 
Eugene

the Chicken Taco Hotdish recipe looks great!  

 

I make a casserole very similar to this, but I use either tortilla chips or cut up tortillas, either corn or flour.   It’s something I make quite often, I’ll need to try it with the Fritos for a change.  I also like to use the Green Enchilada sauce sometimes instead of the red, and usually throw in some sliced black olives too.

 

Eddie
 
Weight-wise I'm yo-yoing a bit.  At 6'4" I've been down to 168lb (where I'd like to be...) and now at 178.  Been too inactive plus a bit too much baking bread and deserts.  Feeling a bit uncomfortable with the extra weight so it's gotta go.
 
Just an observation

I enjoy looking at all the pictures in this thread, a good stimulation for others to cook more at home I'm sure.

Over and over again I noticed though that in general there is more meat than vegetables on a lot of plates. I guess for most people here meat is still the main part of the meal. Is that what you plan your meals around? I'm used to having more vegetables than meat on a plate. The Dutch food advisory organisation used to set the norm for two pieces of fruit and 200 grams (7 oz) of vegetables per day. Meat should be limited to 500 grams (1lb and 1.6 oz) per week with a limit of 300 grams of red meat per week for a healthy diet. When I started eating according the rules I was amazed how big the amount of vegetables is you need for a healthy diet. And recently they raised the norm to 250 grams (8.8 oz) of vegetables per day.

And then I watched a video on Youtube from a German doctor who advised people with diabetes to eat 500 grams of vegetables per day. That is more than a whole American pound of vegetables every day!

So if you are thinking of changing your diet, a bit less meat and some more veggies would be a good start.
 
Ha.

<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sixteen servings??  Really?  Man, not in this house. Joe and I would tear that up!!  Having said that I will say we don't eat like that every day but something like that would be a treat for us.  Luckily he's not a big fan of casserole type dishes as I am so that would be a once in awhile thing.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Also, I would make a healthy version with Low Fat Chicken Broth and Fat Free cream soup.  <span style="font-size: 8pt;">Ralph ducks and runs!!</span></span>
 

Latest posts

Back
Top