Weekend Menus 24/25 June

[Mitra]

It's usually quieter around here at the weekend, so I'm putting up a combined Saturday and Sunday thread (if I've got the right dates, that is :rolleyes: ).

What's on your menu this weekend?

I had an apricot-almond kefir smoothie for breakfast, and the inevitable cappuccino.

For lunch I had tuna with salad (watercress, apple, celery, walnuts, beetroot & curry-flavoured vinaigrette - recipe from Deborah Madison's Greens) then another coffee.

I've noticed the punnet of strawberries on the kitchen counter is looking a bit depleted now, too. Maybe that counts as a snack ;) .

Dinner will be lamb leg steaks with spring greens (they're cabbagey green leaves rather than spinachy ones)

[cmcole]

Saturday:

Breakfast - 2 slices bacon, 2 eggs with a bit of cream, coffee

2 - 3 litres water throughout day

Lunch - Scone with butter and two lamb sausages (think I'm going to have to stop making those scones for a while and see how that works regarding the bread cravings - as I said in another post - am I replacing one for the other?)

Supper - 2 burger patties with fried mushrooms, couple slices raw onions, bit of mayo and broccoli mixture (broccoli, cabbage, carrots shredded like coleslaw) that I steamed and served with butter.

[Gaelen]

Saturday
Started the day with a chocolate and greek yogurt protein smoothie.
Followed with lunch of calamari, shrimp, avocado and fresh greens salad in a red wine viniagrette.
Mid-afternoon snack was a handful of pecans, a small peach (they smelled so wonderful I decided one would be worth the 9g ECC) and a fresh roasted cafe-au-lait on ice.
Dinner I am still not sure about, but I'm thinking seafood. More later.
Later--after walking around indecisively bouncing between sushi and Mexican, I decided to eat at a Mediterranean/Turkish restaurant that had a great sidewalk seating area and an interesting menu (Beyoglu on 3rd Ave in NYC--wonderful!) Then I came home and did web searches to find the recipes for what I ate...Sigara Borek: feta, cream cheese, lemon and parsley stuffed 'cigarettes' of fried phyllo each about as big around as a Sharpie marker (the meze) and Karides Guvec: a casserole of jumbo shrimp baked with mushrooms, sweet red peppers, fresh plum tomatoes and kashkaval cheese (one of the seafood specials.) Oh my my my...the casserole was flavored with thyme, bay, garlic and lemon, and it came with about a half-cup of parsley-buttered rice. I treated myself to a couple of tablespoons of the rice when I got to the bottom of the gratin dish, because I didn't want to leave any of the wonderful broth behind. The Sigara Borek (sometimes spelled boregi) can be filled with many other things, and each is only 1/16th of a piece of phyllo dough, cut into a triangle, stuffed and rolled up (so the serving of six 'sigara' was about half of a small sheet of phyllo dough, or about 6g ECC for the phyllo and maybe another gram of carbs for the cheese stuffing.)

I am definitely going to have to learn how to make these things...they were so simple, but so tasty, and completely on plan.

6/25...I found an online recipe for Karides Guvec (shrimp casserole) here (http://ingilizceyemektarifleri.ulkeler.net/recipe.php?recipeid=221) in a collection of Turkish cookery. I know what I ate last night also had thyme and lemon, and used fresh brown mushrooms...but this recipe is where I'll start recreating. Here (http://www.bigglook.com/biggmenueng/recipies/pastry/cigaretteshapedpastries.asp) is a recipe for sigara borek....according to the Cook's Thesaurus, yufkas are sheets of the Turkish equivalent to phyllo dough, which can be subbed in. They also suggest using spring roll wrappers. Now as soon as I'm back in my own kitchen...

[LisaS]

11AM - late breakfast: protein shake (2ECC) + 1/4 sourdough bagel w/butter
3PM - late something-else: leftover turkey burger patty w/guacamole and 1/4 sourdough bagel
dinner - who knows what or when? Maybe grilled carne asada w/veggies if the market hasn't run out (they premarinate the skirt steak and it's pretty darn good)

[Gaelen]

Sunday
A simpler day today--and like yesterday, got in a moderate amount of walking. It's not as much as I'd usually do, but I can't push myself much yet, either.

Breakfast was a chocolate & Greek yogurt protein smoothie, early.
Lunch was two scrambled eggs, about two oz. of Canadian bacon, and a piece of blueberry toast.
mid-afternoon snack was a handlful of pecans and an iced cafe au lait
Dinner was a flip salad...one cup of mixed dark greens. about 3 oz. of grilled chicken breast, two tablespoons of chickpeas, an ounce of shredded Romano cheese, and a low carb spicy shrimp hand roll from Dean and Deluca (no rice, just nori filled with spicy shrimp, string-sliced cucumber and a little carrot that was 5g ECC and 14g protein for the whole roll.)

All in all, a very good day on plan. ;)

[AliB]

My weekend was moderately acceptable. I have cooked today and am ready for the week. That always helps!

[cmcole]

Sunday was up and down

Breakfast - bacon & eggs, with a portabello mushroom fried with the eggs (mixed in)

Lunch - same thing. my hubby sliced a slab of bacon, and as we had just returned from church and he was cooking, I had that too

Supper - baked tofu wrapped in lettuce with a slice of onion

somewhere between I had a piece of chocolate bark (almond & coconut) I made previously, and some macademia nuts

Lots of water

Coffee with lunch

Not great - but no bread - not even my flax concoction that sits in the fridge taunting me (that I can remember)

Saturday evening, however, I had a tiny sliver of my hubby's birthday cake they gave him at the dinner he attended Friday evening. It wasn't very satisfying. I don't even know why I bother, anymore. One part of me thinks it would be good, but my mouth tells me otherwise once I've decided to try it.