Food and Recipes while under Coronavirus quarantine #3

[anneg]

This post is probably off topic for this thread but I wanted to share some good news. I will say that I have much more time to cook now.

After 20 years of working in healthcare I have left my job. It is a terribly stressful time to be working in clinics and I had just had enough of it. I took a job as an instructor for healthcare classes, and I work mostly from home, teaching remote classes.

My concern about switching jobs was that I have to go 90 days before my new health insurance kicks in, and I am on only one prescription medication but it is quite expensive.

When I went to the CVS to refill and without insurance it was crazy expensive. So I tried the pharmacy at our Kroger store, and the pharmacy tech helpfully informed me that if I didn’t have insurance I was eligible to use GoodRX for a discount. When she ran it through GoodRX the price for a 90 day supply was only $19.96, which was less than the insurance copay I had previously paid. Unbelievable. And for transferring a prescription they gave me a $50 credit for groceries.

So for anyone who is without insurance please check out GoodRX for a discount. I am very grateful to the Kroger pharmacy tech for mentioning it to me, as CVS did not.

Congratulations on leaving your stressful job! And you won't have to travel for work during the pandemic. It's great that using GoodRX saved you so much money. Shame on CVS for not offering the info about it that Kroger did.

 

[anneg]

Nino's didn't have dried black-eyed peas yesterday, so I got a can. I will try to make a dish with the peas and kale over the next few days. We're not crazy about collard greens, but we do like kale. IIRC, you shared the New Year's tradition on this thread last year

What do you think, could I make a sort of New Year's side dish using frozen spinach and cannellini beans? Sounds reasonable to me!

 

[155etta]

Dinner tonight wil be flat iron steaks (dry rubbed and cooked on a cast iron griddle pan), baked potatoes, green salad, deviled eggs, and our own put together flight of beer.

 

[anneg]

Dinner tonight wil be flat iron steaks (dry rubbed and cooked on a cast iron griddle pan), baked potatoes, green salad, deviled eggs, and our own put together flight of beer.

Sounds like an excellent dinner! We are having takeout tonight. Sharing a combo platter of fried oysters and scallops, spinach salad, and a slice of key lime pie.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

What do you think, could I make a sort of New Year's side dish using frozen spinach and cannellini beans? Sounds reasonable to me!

Well, spinach qualifies as a "green", so I'm sure it would work just fine. I love baby spinach and eat it right out of the Earthbound Farms carton

 

[MimosaMornings]

Sounds like an excellent dinner! We are having takeout tonight. Sharing a combo platter of fried oysters and scallops, spinach salad, and a slice of key lime pie.

Yum!!! Mmmm! Lol
Whatever is in the vending machine!

 

[mickey2942]

I am making truffle ravioli, with brown butter, garlic mushroom sauce, and Parmigiano cheese. (I bought the ravioli at Costco), salad, and sparkling wine.

 

[angelainwi]

Feeling the need for comfort food so it is grilled cheese and tomato soup here

 

[IceIce9]

One of my first cookbooks was from the scholastic book list when I was in elementary school, the Peanuts Cookbook. My favorite recipe in the book was Lucy’s Lemon Squares.

I still make these lemon squares frequently, they are really tasty and super easy to make. And I always have the ingredients available so I don’t have to make a trip to the store.


Lucy’s Lemon Squares

• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar

Blend with fingertips until well mixed. Pat evenly into the bottom of an 8-x-8-inch baking pan. Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

• 2 eggs
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2-1/2 tbspns fresh lemon juice
• Dash of salt

Pour over baked crust and return to oven for 20 to 25 minutes at same temperature.
Cool on rack. Cut in squares. Sprinkle with sifted powdered sugar.

 

[IceIce9]

Speaking of old recipes, I remember when my younger brother made his first recipe, it was called “Spam Loaf Hawaiian “ and he was very proud of it.

IIRC he was about 7 at the time, and the recipe involved opening a couple of cans of Spam and placing the Spam whole in a baking dish. Then he arranged canned pineapple slices on top, and put maraschino cherries in the holes in the pineapple slices. Then he poured a sauce (maybe he combined the pineapple juice with brown sugar?) on top and into the baking dish so the Spam was practically swimming in brown sugar juice.

He baked it until the Spam was hot and the brown sugar juice was thickened.

He sliced it up and served it to us, and my mom and dad acted like it was the best thing they had ever tasted. Actually it tasted greasy and sweet and not very good. It looked pretty though

 

[Knitty]

I am making truffle ravioli, with brown butter, garlic mushroom sauce, and Parmigiano cheese. (I bought the ravioli at Costco), salad, and sparkling wine.

I'd really love dinner at your house sometime!

Hi y'all. Here at the end of almost two years of COVID, I'd like to thank you all for your contributions to these threads. I can't tell you how many times I've been on this thread and seen something mentioned that has made me excited for dinner. Before the pandemic, I'd gotten bored with cooking for two and my husband and I were going out to dinner more than staying in. Then I didn't feel safe to do that, and while we got takeout about once a week, we both started cooking all the time. My grown kids and tiny grandchildren stayed safe and started joining us weekly. The vegetarian ideas have been invaluable as one son is vegetarian and we've learned how to accommodate his with delicious food that nobody could find a thing to complain about.

THANK YOU! And HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

[IceIce9]

Everyone stay safe tonight if you plan to go out.

I am more than happy to enjoy the evening from home, with my pup and my comfort food leftovers.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

One of my first cookbooks was from the scholastic book list when I was in elementary school, the Peanuts Cookbook. My favorite recipe in the book was Lucy’s Lemon Squares...

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Was that around 1970? My college roommate sophomore year got me that little cookbook for my birthday in January, 1970. I kept the book for years and passed it along to DD

 

[IceIce9]

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Was that around 1970? My college roommate sophomore year got me that little cookbook for my birthday in January, 1970. I kept the book for years and passed it along to DD

The copyright date is 1969. I had misplaced my well-worn copy so I paid like $30 for another one at a used bookstore. By then it was a collector’s item.

Then my mom found my original copy so now I have two.

 

[Catmommy]

What’s on the menu?

My traditional New Year's Day menu = Hoppin' John, collard greens and cornbread (no sugar )

 

[MimosaMornings]

My traditional New Year's Day menu = Hoppin' John, collard greens and cornbread (no sugar )

Yum.

 

[PayrollNerd]

It is so darn cold here. I am making chicken and dumplings for dinner tonight. -10 below.

That sounds so good. This head cold bronchitis nonsense makes me crave soups. I got home from Utah at noon, took a shower put on pjs and was waiting for the soup fairy to appear. Still waiting. I had a 1/2 a stale bagel.

My flight from Atlanta to Sarasota was cancelled. Delta put me in a hotel at 11:30pm on NYE. No lunch. No dinner. I was sitting on the bed waiting for the soup fairy to appear there too. No luck then either.

 

[MimosaMornings]

That sounds so good. This head cold bronchitis nonsense makes me crave soups. I got home from Utah at noon, took a shower put on pjs and was waiting for the soup fairy to appear. Still waiting. I had a 1/2 a stale bagel.

My flight from Atlanta to Sarasota was cancelled. Delta put me in a hotel at 11:30pm on NYE. No lunch. No dinner. I was sitting on the bed waiting for the soup fairy to appear there too. No luck then either.

I’m glad Delta got you a room!
I’ve got two coworkers that got stuck in Chicago NYE and they each had to fork out $250 for a room!
That head cold bronchitis doesn’t sound good, do you have someone that can bring you something to eat?

 

[HongKongPhooey]

My traditional New Year's Day menu = Hoppin' John, collard greens and cornbread (no sugar )

*googles "hoppin' john"*...

 

[mickey2942]

That sounds so good. This head cold bronchitis nonsense makes me crave soups. I got home from Utah at noon, took a shower put on pjs and was waiting for the soup fairy to appear. Still waiting. I had a 1/2 a stale bagel.

My flight from Atlanta to Sarasota was cancelled. Delta put me in a hotel at 11:30pm on NYE. No lunch. No dinner. I was sitting on the bed waiting for the soup fairy to appear there too. No luck then either.

Oh dear. Poor you.

I have to say, that the last time we traveled, we were stuck in Union Station in Chicago. Our train, Empire Builder, on Amtrak was late, so we missed our connection. They put everyone up in sleeper cars, right at the station. Definitely an adventure.

I love travel by Amtrak. Plane, not so much. This time of year...you never know where you will end up. I hope you feel better at home.