Category: Daily recipe

May 2: Yeros Wrap; Smoked Baked Ham with Apple, Ginger and Lentil Salad

Lunch

For lunch we went back to our gyro/yeros meat in a 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
  • We served 1/4 of the tabouli salad or 67c per serve.

Lunch today cost $2.50.

Dinner

With so much ham on hand, and leftover salad, it was time to revisit dinner from two nights ago. Instead of just slicing the ham, we reheated it in the stove top smoker, which added a nice extra touch.

The lentil salad was really six serves!

  • The $10.72 ham will create at least 10 serves, or $1.07 per serve
  • The lentils were $3.99 but the salad made six serves, or 67c per serve
  • The organic Granny Smith apple was $1.52 our  25c per serve
  • Limes were $1.56 or 26c per serve
  • Add another 30c for ginger and oil.

Dinner tonight was excellent: the ham was juicy and flavorsome, the lentil salad surprisingly tasty and not mushy thanks to using French lentils. All for just $2.55 per serve.

Apr 30: Supermarket Sushi; Baked Ham with Apple, Ginger Lentil Salad

Lunch

Since a trip to Whole Foods was in order, supermarket sushi became the preferred lunch option.

Sushi was $8.34 per serve.

Dinner

We had ‘banked’ another discounted ham while they were in stock, and enough time has elapsed to cook it! Fortunately not spiral cut this time! We served with a mustard, sour cream sauce of Greg’s invention.

As a side, there was the Apple, Ginger, Lentil salad.

The whole baked ham.
  • The $10.72 ham will create at least 10 serves, or $1.07 per serve
  • The lentils were $3.99 but the salad made six serves, or 67c per serve
  • The organic Granny Smith apple was $1.52 our  25c per serve
  • Limes were $1.56 or 26c per serve
  • Add another 30c for ginger and oil.

Dinner tonight was excellent: the ham was juicy and flavorsome, the lentil salad surprisingly tasty and not mushy thanks to using French lentils. All for just $2.55 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.