Month: September 2016

Lunch

The foodies spend lunch apart. Foodie Philip was participating in an IBC Forum event with typical luncheon sandwich-type offerings, while foodie Greg noshed on a baguette, brie, salami and liverwurst.

One lunch was free, the other about $5.00, so $2.50 on average.

Dinner

The early part of the evening was spent as a mixer event, with finger food. The bitterballen (a Netherland speciality) which were among the best we’ve tasted, and a cheese stick that actually tasted of cheese, and not ‘deep fried’.

On the way home we stopped for some tapas: Spanish Tortilla, Scallops and sausage. All were very excellent.

The mixer was free but the tapas cost $23.65 per serve.

Lunch

We decided to head down off the hill to greater Chatsworth and pick ups a burrito. This time we tried the Asada, which was pretty good.

The burrito costs $5.50 with tax.

Dinner

With so much meat over the last couple of days, including lunch, we opted for a (mostly) meat free dinner. Well, there was some bacon.

The recipe makes a good six serves.

• Two packs of fresh, sliced mushrooms cost $3.99 a pack, or $1.33 a serve
• The pearl barley is $4.89 for a 28 oz bag, or 61c per serve
• Two cups of broth is half a $1.99 carton or 17c per serve
• The packet of parmesan cost $6.99 but we used about 1/8 for three servings, or 29c per serve
• Add another 20c for onion, oil and herbs.

Dinner today cost $2.60 per serve.

Lunch

A weekend lunch it time to spoil ourselves, and today smoked salmon scrambled eggs on an onion bagel certainly fit the bill.

With scrambled eggs it’s important to anticipate when the eggs will be cooked, because they continue cooking on during service and on the plate. If you leave them in the pan until they appear cooked, they will be over-done on the plate.

• Five pastured eggs went into the scramble, or $1.25 per serve
• An onion bagel is 50c
• The wild caught smoked salmon was $5.99 or $3.00 per serve.

Lunch today cost $4.75 and was exceptionally good. Today’s featured image is from lunch.

Dinner

With so much of the Italian pot roast left, it was time for a low effort do-over. For variety, tonight’s pot roast was served with grits.

• The pot roast is $5.63 per serve
• The 10 grain ‘hot cereal’ is $5.99 for a 25oz pack, but we used about 1/4 or 75c per serve.

Tonight’s dinner was, again, excellent and $6.38 per serve.

Lunch

A return to the gyro meat wrap, and again with cucumber because it adds a nice, wet crunch to the wrap.

• The fully cooked sliced gyro/yeros meat is $3.99 per 10oz pack. There are really four serves, so each serve is very slightly cheaper than the chicken, at $1.00 per serve.
• The flatbread is 50c per serve
• Hummus is $3.99 per container and we used about 1/6 or 33c per serve
• A box of Persian cucumbers was $2.49 for five, and we used half, or 13c per serve
• We served 1/4 of the tabouli salad or 67c per serve.

Lunch today cost $2.43.

Dinner

Our Prather Ranch meat delivery included a family size brisket, something we’ve never cooked before. Foodie Greg found Pioneer Woman’s Italian Pot Roast recipe, which is really, really good. The brisket was cooked to perfection so we only needed a fork for dinner.

The recipe made six serves of the pot roast, which is half the recipe.

• Our 2.6 lb brisket cost $21.80 or $3.63 per serve
• Marinated artichoke hears cost $2.69 or 45c per serve
• The sun dried tomatoes cost $1.99 or 33c per serve
• The beef broth cost $2.49 or 42c per serve
• The fire roasted red peppers cost $1.99 or 33c per serve
• One cup or red wine costs 14c per serve
• The onion cost 79c or 13c per serve
• Add 20c for garlic, flour, and arugula
• Egg noodles are $1.99 for the pack, but we only used half, or 33c per serve.

Dinner tonight cost $5.96 per serve.

Lunch

A need to head down the hill to Chatsworth led us to The Country Deli for lunch. Foodie Philip had his regular marinated skirt steak, eggs and home fries, which was excellent as always. Foodie Greg had a brisket, ortega chili and cheese sandwich, which was also excellent, although we felt there was too much of the brisket, making the balance of the sandwich slightly ‘out’.

Lunch at The Country Deli runs around $20.00 with tax and tip.

Dinner

A new pasta combination: pasta with mushrooms and peas. Not exactly vegetarian, but with only a few slices of bacon, definitely meat light. Without the bacon and peas, this could have been a little boring, but overall there is enough flavor and texture variation between them and the pasta and mushrooms to satisfy.

We used Brown Rice and Quinoa pasta. It’s a good tasting pasta without gluten – although neither of us are allergic – but it does not reheat well, nor is it good cold. We made a half batch, and even that was more than we could eat. None of the bacon went to waste!

In the absence of port we used two tablespoons of Bulliet Rye. We probably shouldn’t have wasted the rye!

• We bought a $6.49 pack of bacon (from Canada, but not Canadian Bacon) with seven thick cut slices, of which we used four, or $1.86c per serve
• The mushrooms were $2.79 or $1.40 per serve
• The rye adds 62c per serve
• Peas were $1.39 or 35c per serve
• The parmesan cost $6.30, but we used around 1/4 or 79c per serve
• The brown rice & quinoa pasta was $2.99 for the pack. We used half or 75c per serve
• Add 20c for garlic, oil and a splash of milk.

Dinner tonight was better than expected and cost $5.97 per serve.