Category: Daily recipe

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

Once again we had Emeril Lagasse’s Stir Fried Beef and Broccoli using our Prather Ranch ‘fajita’ beef. This is a very simple dish, but very tasty. We upped the garlic and ginger in the sauce and replaced the honey with sweet chili sauce. We don’t mind a bit of spicy heat!

• The broccoli florets where $2.99 or $1.50 a serve.
• The beef came from our farm-direct meat delivery as ‘fajita steak’  for a fast cook at $9.93 or $4.97 a seve.
• The ginger and garlic was 28c or 14c per serve
• Pressure cooked red rice 92c per serve.

Dinner tonight cost $7.53 per serve.

Lunch

For lunch today we had supermarket sushi from Whole Foods, which was pretty good.

Lunch today cost $9.34 per serve.

Dinner

We had Beef Short Ribs remaining from an earlier Prather Ranch delivery. We’d been postponing cooking them because a braise usually means an oven, and an oven means heat. Finally it was cool enough to give them a try.

We paired them with a goat’s cheese polenta mix and broccolini for some green.

• Two pounds of Short Ribs cost $17.12 with bones, or $8.56 per serve
• The broccolini cost $2.50 or $1.25 per serve
• The 10 grain ‘hot cereal’ is $5.99 for a 25oz pack, but we used about 1/8 or 38c per serve.
• Two carrots cost 61c or 31c per serve
• 4oz of goat’s cheese cost $3.99 or $2.00 a serve
• A cup of red wine costs 80c or 40c per serve
• Bacon ends cost $4.99 for the container, but this recipe used about 1/2 of that, or 50c per serve.

Dinner tonight cost $13.40 for a very generous serve.

Lunch

We decided to eat out and The Country Deli was our choice, particularly because Foodie Philip wanted the skirt steak. Again. Foodie Greg had a Reuben.

With tax and tip The Country Deli works out at around $22 a serve.

Dinner

The remaining roast chicken from our supermarket chicken formed the protein component of the meal. We accompanied the meat with a quinoa pilaf, which was okay. The recipe made at least three serves.

• The BBQ chicken was $6.99 or $1.75 per serve
• We purchased about half a pound of quinoa for $3.01, but we only used around half or 50c per serve
• The bell pepper was 99c or 30c per serve.
• White wine adds 40c per serve
• The stock adds another 24c per serve
• The mint came from the garden
• Of the pack of eight cucumbers costing $2.48, we used one for this meal or 16c per serve
• The almonds are $6.99 a pack but we used 1/10th or 23c per serve.

Dinner tonight was $3.58 per serve. It had a variety of textures and flavor but the quinoa does not make as good a pilaf as does the classic of white rice.

Lunch

Wild caught smoked salmon, with cream cheese, cucumber, capers and thinly sliced red onion on an onion bagel. What’s not to like.

• 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
• Cream cheese is about 60c a serve
• 1 lb of Persian cucumbers was $1.99, of which one went into this meal, or 12c per serve
• Add 5c for capers.

Lunch today cost $4.10 a serve.

Dinner

Another variation on our flatbread-based Quesadilla, tonight with the addition of shredded chicken. A little chili lime added a nice enhancement to the eggs.

• The shredded chicken is $7.59 for the pack, or 95c per serve
• One flatbread (half of two) costs 50c a serve
• Half a can of refried beans, shared across two halves: 26c
• A very generous serve of salsa is 20c per serve
• 2 oz of cheddar split between two is 50c per serve
• Each egg is 50c or $1.00 per serve.

Dinner tonight cost $3.41 per serve.

Lunch

We still had chicken and baguette so we repeated yesterday’s lunch.

• The BBQ chicken was $6.99 but we shared one breast, or 88c per serve
• The baguette was $2.69 and we shared half, or 68c per serve
• The jar of sun dried tomato is $3.70 but we used only 1/4 or 46c per serve
• Add 10c for the arugula.

Lunch today cost $2.12 per serve.

Dinner

It was time to revisit the Peruvian Meat Sauce, a.k.a. Red Curry and Pink Peppercorn Meat Sauce, we had on June 18th. This time with rice noodles.

Again we found that the recipe makes for three generous serves, particularly with the side salad.

• 1lb of Prather Ranch ground pork is $9.30 or $3.10 per serve
• Limes were $1.56 and about half went into the dish, or 26c per serve
• The can of coconut milk was $1.99 or 66c per serve
• Red curry paste is $3.69 a jar and we used 1/4 or 31c per serve
• The soy adds 42c per serve
• Add 35c for the toasted coriander, pink peppercorns, rice wine and cornstarch
• Rice noodles are $3.56 per 14oz box, we used about 1/2 of the box, or 60c per serve.

Dinner tonight was, again, amazing. Definitely the best “spaghetti with meat sauce” ever, and it cost $5.70 per serve.

Lunch

Time for a return to our typical lunch, although today we used shredded chicken breast, avocado, mango and arugula in our wraps. They would have been great if the mango had flavor!

• The flatbread is 50c per serve
• The avocado was $1.50 or 75c per serve
• The shredded chicken is $7.59 for the pack, or $1.90 per serve
• The mango was $1.49 but we halved it or 38c per serve
• The arugula is $2.59 for the pack but we used a tiny amount, or 15c per serve.

Lunch today cost $3.68 per serve.

Dinner

We had pork spare ribs from our Prather Ranch delivery, and paired them with home made red beans and rice. As we had the smoker and the time, we smoked the pork spare ribs.

The smoked pork ribs weren’t the most tender, but they had a great smokey flavor.

• The pork spare ribs were $9.64 or $4.82 per serve
• Onion, oil and garlic and seasonings about 15c per serve
• Each can of organic beans was 99c and we used three, or 50c per serve
• Instead of andouille sausage, we used diced ham for $2.79 or 47c a serve
• Chicken broth $2.29 or 38c a serve
• And the rice: 33c a serve.

Dinner tonight cost $6.65 per serve. It’s nice to be home and cooking again.