I have to say, based on my recent experience in a nursing home, that these places have upgraded their food. Manor Care had wonderful, delicious food with a lot of variety. I gained 3 pounds in 5 days.
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What's For Dinner? - 2018
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Our bigger retirement home here has a professional chef leading the kitchen. Apparently that chef is paid well the food is delicious and the chef has been there for years!!
We've ate there before, the dining room is amazing and very spacious, service was excellent and it was so good seeing retirement home folks dressing up and "going to dinner" with others. Beats plastic trays of plastic food in your room any day.
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I liked your post so much I stole it.
Chicken, green onions, snow peas, and carrot shreds is on our menu with optional rice =D
Not a great photo...just discovered that if you put white rice in a white bowl, the bowl just looks half empty when photographed. 
Beef stew with steamed sticky rice and the "blob" at the top is a tarragon-garlic herbed dumpling.
Beef stew with steamed sticky rice and the "blob" at the top is a tarragon-garlic herbed dumpling.
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Tarragon-garlic herbed dumpling sounds so fancy. I hope it tasted as good as it sounds. 
Sounds fancy, but I just added a couple pinches of tarragon and some granulated garlic to this dumpling recipe, then dropped spoonfuls on top of the stew to simmer 30 minutes. They came out nice and fluffy in the center.Tarragon-garlic herbed dumpling sounds so fancy. I hope it tasted as good as it sounds.
Basic dumplings for stews (you can adds herbs you like and garlic powder to the batter, or they're good just plain too):
1 cup of flour
2 tsp of baking powder
1 tsp of sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp butter/margarine
1/2 cup of milk
Combine dry ingredients and cut the butter in, then stir in milk, and drop spoonfuls onto simmering stew. Cover and steam for 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
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You're going to love your spiralizer,
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It's wonderful for zucchini noodles, but there are tons of other vegetables you can use for "pasta". Have fun with it!
Tonight is a leftover buffet. We'll take all the leftovers out of the fridge and choose what we want.
Tonight is a leftover buffet. We'll take all the leftovers out of the fridge and choose what we want.
I have to go the supermarket today anyways. I may just pick up a store rotisserie chicken or a frozen dinner.
I don't know. I'm thinking about just doing a grilled cheese sammich. I know, but I like "sammich." I use Alton Brown's double cast iron skillet method, and it works like a charm!
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Tonight is Scratch 'n' Dent Food Court, open for business!!!
....this means you go to the fridge, and put together your own creation from leftovers, like 1/4 of a rice dish paired with 3 raw carrots, a plum, and a slice of cheese.
Be creative, they said...it'll be fun, they said...
....this means you go to the fridge, and put together your own creation from leftovers, like 1/4 of a rice dish paired with 3 raw carrots, a plum, and a slice of cheese.
Be creative, they said...it'll be fun, they said...
I ended up making another one pot cheesey taco pasta dinner. I used a different recipe this time. It came out a little blah 
Next time I'll add some hot pepper flakes to it or use hot salsa instead.
Next time I'll add some hot pepper flakes to it or use hot salsa instead.
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Taco Bell 
Chinese.
Zucchini 'spaghetti' cooked in olive oil, then added marinara sauce and romano cheese. I made the "spaghetti' myself with zucchini from the local farmstand hothouse and my new spiralizer for vegetables. I have enough to take to work tomorrow. It took a total of fifteen minutes to prepare!
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We're not sure about tonight. On one hand, Rick wants to go out for dinner (if it rains tonight). On the other hand, we're thinking about having a campfire in the back yard in our new fire pit, just Rick and me. It's supposed to rain tonight with a t-storm. If the weather holds out (and it's a gorgeous morning here), we'll do the campfire. We'll either make pizza mountain pies or ham and cheese mountain pies with apple mountain pies for dessert. (I'm going to have to go to the store for square-shaped bread to fill into the pie makers.)
Guess what I found, buried in the pantry? A JAR OF PESTO! So...pasta e pesto! I really must find the funds for a decent food processor. I miss making my own pesto. At one point, I had over 150 pesto recipes, each one a bit different than the other.
i'll microwave a serving of ham and scalloped potatoes -- i added some peas this time , and have a lettuce and tomato salad with some crumbled bacon on it and blue cheese salad dressing. i'll have my dessert later in the evening, a cinnamon chip blondie! 
, and have a lettuce and tomato salad with some crumbled bacon on it and blue cheese salad dressing. i'll have my dessert later in the evening, a cinnamon chip blondie!
Leftover beef stew and rice.
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I had a very late lunch so who knows if I'll want dinner? I might have something like soup. I've got some we preserved and also a really good commercial southwest style soup I love. So many soupy choices.
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