<p>Chocchipcookie, my go to meal when I have a large crowd coming is Lasagna, big green salad, garlic bread and finger deserts like brownies and cookies.</p>
<p>Or there’s the ol’ pan of tuna noodle casserole.</p>
<p>Had an excellent nine layer lasagna with mushrooms and spinach a while back, no meat. Delicious.</p>
<p>If you’re looking for good, quick and easy chili, try Carroll Shelby’s chili mix–all the spices you need to add to your browned ground meat. Believe it’s readily available at Walmart and grocery stores everywhere. </p>
<p>notrichenough, omitting the beans is the Texas tradition!</p>
<p>^ So is using armadillo. 
:)</p>
<p>j/k</p>
<p>Tonight: Chicken Cacciatore and roasted root vegetables (turnips, carrots) with a vinaigrette made with lemon, capers, and a little maple syrup and dijon mustard. Salad was tomatoes, dandelion greens and mustard greens.</p>
<p>Seriously yummy chicken tonight. Liberally apply kosher salt and pepper…place in zip lock bag, add marinade of juice of 1/2 lemon and 1/3 c olive oil, 2 chopped cloves garlic and 3T chopped fresh rosemary.
Marinate for 4 hours or more. Roast on a rack in a pan surrounded by red potatoes tossed in olive oil/salt pepper. 400 degrees for 1 hours.
This was just soooo good. I should have made more. Next time…</p>
<p>These recipes sound awesome. Does anyone have good ideas for low sodium/low cholesterol/low fat recipes for one? DH gets home too late (9-10 pm) for me to eat with him and I need to find interesting things to eat within my very tight daily parameters of under 1500 mg sodium, <12g saturated fat, and 1400 calories. I do ok with keeping the fat and cholesterol down – it’s the sodium that’s in everything that makes life complicated.</p>
<p>DH is a very picky eater, so a lot of things I would make for myself won’t fly with him, and I get tired of eating the same thing four days in a row. He doesn’t want to eat his salt- and butter-laden meals in front of me, so dinner together has kind of gone the way of the dodo.</p>
<p>DH made pizza this weekend and had frozen leftover pizza crust so we had pizza again! But today, I will roast the whole chicken from yesterday using ilovedcollege’s recipe! I love rosemary and lemon.</p>
<p>Lean meats/ fish/ and vegetables … that’s about what we have for dinner these days. that avoids the sodium - if you just eliminate the processed foods.</p>
<p>Am getting darned tired of broiling fish/chicken and eating salad. No red meat allowed. Shellfish allowed only rarely. Something interesting to put on the fish or chicken that isn’t sodium-laden would be good. The monotony is really getting to me. I have to be on this the rest of my life. </p>
<p>It really, really sucks.</p>
<p>Love how my husband baked up the chicken drumsticks – olive oil, honey, lemon, garlic, basil flakes, and red onion slivers.</p>
<p>Put stuffed peppers in the crockpot this morning- just whipped up some fresh hummus too so dinner is set when I return from a meeting!</p>
<p>Greek salad, sour dough, and pork chop chasseur with noodles, carrots, tomatoes.</p>
<p>Counting, maybe this recipe? While you may need to skip the rub (at least the garlic salt part) and just use grilled chicken, but I LOVE the sauce! It’s low cal, low fat …and simple.</p>
<p>Chili-Citrus Chicken</p>
<p>1 1/2 tsp. chili powder
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
1/4 tsp. cayenne</p>
<p>4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts halves
1 Tbls. veg. oil</p>
<p>1/4 C fresh lemon juice
1/4 C fresh lime juice
3 Tbls. red (or hot) pepper jelly</p>
<ol>
<li> In small dish, combine chili powder, cumin, garlic & cayenne. Rub mixture on each
chicken breast half. In skillet, heat oil to medium, add chicken and cook until is
brown and fork can be inserted with ease (~12 mins.) Remove to warm platter.</li>
<li> In skillet, combine juices and jelly. Bring to a boil. Cook, stirring constantly, for
about 1 minute, or until mixture thickens. Spoon sauce over chicken. Garnish with
cilantro springs, red chili peppers, lemon slices…</li>
</ol>
<p>All the talk about baked potatoes with toppings inspired me. I have leftover ground beef from hamburgers last night, and some leftover tomato sauce from eggplant Parm a few nights ago. I’m cooking those together for topping potatoes. With shredded mozzarella. Salad on the side.</p>
<p>We’ve been good for a long time now, so tonight we are having grilled ham and cheese sandwiches. Sharp Chedder, smoked ham, sauteed apples all on raisin cinnamon bread. Yum!! A good way to greet fall</p>
<p>Gosmom - that chicken recipe sounds awesome. Copying and emailing it to myself.</p>
<p>Has anyone ever heard of chicken paprikash? I had never heard of it until moving to a city with a large Hungarian population. It’s not particularly healthy, but it’s very tasty.
I made this tonight:</p>
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<p>So, I bought what I thought were trout fillets, but they turned out to be smoked trout. The package suggests that they can be served cold (ugh!) or lightly sauteed with eggs for breakfast. </p>
<p>What should I do for tomorrow’s dinner? ;)</p>
<p>We have eggs for dinner regularly. Not ever with smoked trout, though.</p>