Month: April 2017

Apr 29: Popeye’s Fried Chicken; Beef and Pork Meatloaf with Chipotle Sweet Potato Mash and Bok Choy

Lunch

An unexpected trip to Burbank was planned to co-incide with lunch, so we could pick up some Popeye’s Fried Chicken.

  • 8 pieces of dark and spicy chicken is $9.99 or $2.70 a serve with tax per serve
  • Half the Large Red Beans and Rice is $2.15 with tax, per serve.

Lunch today cost $4.85 per serve.

Dinner

The meatloaf meal from last night was a double batch, so we repeated the meal tonight, but fried off the meatloaf which gave it a really nice maillard reaction on the surfaces. Served with the remaining chipotle mashed sweet potato and fresh steamed bok choy.

  • The ground pork was $8.23 or $2.06 per serve
  • The grass fed ground beef was $6.48 or $1.62 per serve
  • A can of chipotle is $1.50 and we used half, or 38c per serve
  • Two sweet potatoes (yams) were $2.11 or 53c per serve
  • The bok choy was $1.99 for the pack, and we  used half, or 50c per serve.

Tonight’s dinner was both tasty and nutritious for $5.09 per serve.

Apr 28: Quiche Lorraine; Beef and Pork Meatloaf with Chipotle Sweet Potato Mash and Bok Choy

Lunch

With little in the house, we needed a restock trip to Trader Joes, which lead to the quiche lorraine.

  • The quiche is $5.49 or $2.75 per serve.

Dinner

Among the remains of our Prather Ranch meat deliveries after skipping a month was a pound of ground pork. Add a pound of ground beef and it’s meatloaf time. Served with chipotle mashed sweet potato and steamed bok choy for some green.

The recipe makes four generous serves.

  • The ground pork was $8.23 or $2.06 per serve
  • The grass fed ground beef was $6.48 or $1.62 per serve
  • A can of chipotle is $1.50 and we used half, or 38c per serve
  • Two sweet potatoes (yams) were $2.11 or 53c per serve
  • The bok choy was $1.99 for the pack, and we  used half, or 50c per serve.

Tonight’s dinner was both tasty and nutritious for $5.09 per serve.

Apr 27: Mad Greek

Lunch

We shared some small bites at a cafe/bar in the Encore hotel – steak tartar, duck rolls, crab cakes – which was paid for by a business associate.

We then started the journey from Las Vegas home, stopping at the Mad Greek Cafe in Baker for a late lunch, that ended up doubling as dinner.

With tax and tip, the roast lamb yeros was $14.42 per serve.

Apr 24: Buffet Breakfast; Taco Buffet

Breakfast

The NAB schedule makes it more practical to have a big breakfast and skip lunch, which is what we did by sampling the Wynn buffet. We find it hard to get good value from a buffet as we don’t eat huge amounts of food, but what we ate was good.

Breakfast was $44.60 per serve with tax and tip.

Dinner

The evening was spent at a sponsored event. It could be considered our most expensive meal, as our two companies were two of the seven sponsors of the event at the Hard Rock Cafe!

Apr 23: Smoked Salmon on Onion Bagel; Steakhouse Dinner

Lunch

On the road to Las Vegas and the NAB show, we stopped at Zzyzx and had a wild caught smoked salmon, with labné, tomato, capers and thinly sliced red onion on a toasted onion bagel.

  • Smoked salmon $5.99 for the 4oz pack or $3.00 a serve
  • The pack of six onion bagels is $1.99 or 33c per serve
  • Labne is about 40c a serve
  • We used one kumato per serve or 58c
  • Add 15c for capers and shallot.

Lunch today cost $4.46 a serve.

Dinner

Before heading for our traditional Sunday night steakhouse dinner with a friend, we were fortunate to experience the food of two MasterChef Junior contestants: Robbie Coblentz and Adam Wadhwani. Naturally the finger food was delicious.

We then dined at New York, New York’s Gallagher Steakhouse where our friend treated us to an amazing meal.

Apr 22: Chicken Caesar Salad; ‘Quesadilla’ with Fried Egg

Lunch

Foodie Greg picked up a Chicken Caesar Salad kit at Trader Joes, which we augmented with the remaining supermarket chicken breast.

  • Chicken Caesar Salad was $3.99 or $2.00 per serve
  • Remaining half chicken breast is 63c per serve.

Lunch today cost $2.63 per serve.

Dinner

We’re heading off for the NAB trade show so we in ‘using up’ mode. We finished the refried beans, flatbread and eggs we had on hand and made our version of a quesadilla.

  • One flatbread (half of two) costs 50c a serve
  • Half a can of refried beans, shared across two halves: 26c
  • A generous splash of spicy sauce is 15c per serve
  • 2 oz of cheddar split between two is 50c per serve
  • Two eggs (average) each adds $1.00 per serve.

Dinner tonight was elevated by fresh-from-the-hen eggs via a friend and cost $3.41 per serve.

 

Apr 21: The Country Deli; Chicken Leg with Brown Rice Pilaf

Lunch

A few errands found us in the general vicinity of The Country Deli, so we stopped in for lunch.

Lunch – good as always and with a take home snack for later – cost $21.50 per serve, on average.

Dinner

Tonight we had the legs from our supermarket chicken with a brown rice pilaf. A simple, easy to prepare meal.

  • The chicken leg is $2.50 per serve
  • Brown rice is 50c per serve
  • Butter and soy add 50c per serve
  • The peas are 99c per pack, but we used half or 25c per serve
  • We shared one kumato or 29c our serve.

Dinner tonight cost $4.04 per serve.

Apr 20: Chicken Wrap; Sous Vide Thick Cut Pork Chop with Waldorf Salad

Lunch

We have chicken, we have wraps, but we don’t have any salad!

  • The flatbread is 50c per serve
  • The roast chicken is $9.99 for the bird, but we used 1/3 one breast, or 32c per serve
  • We shared one kumato or 29c per serve
  • Some spinach leaves add another 5c per serve
  • Hummus is $3.99 per container and we used about 1/6 or 92c per serve.

Lunch today cost $2.08 per serve.

Dinner

Two thick cut, bone in pork chops remain from our Prather Ranch meat delivery, so why not prepare them and serve with a Waldorf salad.

The pork chops were sous vide and then quickly fried off in some butter to give them a good finish.

  • The pork chops were $10.02 per serve
  • Walnuts $1.52 or 76c per serve
  • An Envy apple was 79c or 4oc per serve
  • Celery and dressing adds 15c per serve.

Tonight’s dinner was excellent. The pork chops were perfectly prepared and the salad a tasty side for $11.33 per serve.