Boy, I haven't chocolate milk in years!

Just had a cheese pizza ^-^.

Hardee’s (aka Carls Jr) 1/3 lb Bacon cheese burger. Khajiit feels gross now, but it was very tasty!

Jambalaya

That looks so goooooood!!!!

I'm drooling! This reminds me an infinitesimal smidgen of my rice/veggies/tuna/cheese/Prego combo, except with yummy ingredients.

It was delicious! My son's girlfriend made it (she is the chef for Cheesecake Factory). It had chicken, shrimp, and Andouille sausage = spicy!

Khajiit’s next jambalaya will have shrimp in it! Usually this one makes it with just chicken and sausage.

By the way, that isn't the actual picture of the one I ate; but I used it since it had the shrimp and sausage in there = looked exactly like the one she made for us.



I really think you actually would have liked it (because you seem to love hot spicy food, and it had a lot of heat).

Speaking of spicy, Khajiit discovered a while back that reducing the amount of bell pepper by half of what you would normally do, and adding two Serrano peppers gives Cajun dishes a real kick!

Sweet Tea and Pizza Rolls.

We had these little snowman chocolates at Christmas that disappointingly turned out to be hollow. One has been hanging around in the snack bowl ever since. Today I bit its head off and filled it with peanut butter.

Lol, nice! +3 for creative thinking!

He was built by chocolate milk;

Thanks for the link; I have not seen this ad!

I had chips, tomato soup and pizza today.

Khajiit just had his traditional St. Paddy’s day dinner of corned beef pot roast with cabbage, carrots, and potatoes! Yum!

Due to tooth extraction last Tuesday I was forced to alter my diet somewhat, to avoid crunchy foods. No fresh veggie salads. No apple desserts. Bought grapes to get me by until I can chew apples again. Bought V-8 as a far from ideal sub for fresh veggies. For the first some days I lunched on "cream of..." soups, then reverted to my normal soup choices. Am back to veggie salads now, but must be very careful to eat on one side of my mouth. No apples yet. Boy have I been guzzling milk more so than normal! Don't like water with grapes, and for me milk is the only allowable alternative. Am hoping I'll be more or less back to normal by week's end.?.?

It likely goes without saying that one of my rare restaurant lunches has been out of the question. In fact I've worn my upper partial only once since the extraction, during Thurday's brief post-extraction dental checkup. (Gum swelling around the extraction makes wearing it less than pleasant. That said, I'll wear it during today's grocery run.)

COFFEE.

BBQ flavor Hot Pockets and Coffee.

I'm back eating pretty much everything I did pre tooth extraction. Still need to be careful with apples. No salad croutons yet, but those are such an extreme rarity for me they hardly count.

My next hurtle is figuring out how effectively I'll now be able to tear food without my upper partial in place. (I almost never wear it during meals at home.) I've an overbite just pronounced enough to make tearing food via my front teeth with the partial in place somewhat inefficient. Being as I do the bulk of my tearing with side teeth, why bother leaving all that metal and plastic in place during meals? But I now have one less side tooth to tear with...unless I wear my partial. I've been doing okay without it so far, confining myself to tearing on the right side. But I wanna know how well I'll be able to tear on the left. That remains to be seen. Need to heal up more before attempting it.

Popcorn and soda.

Arby’s “Traditional Greek Gyro”, ‘cause Khajiit can’t get a real deal Gyro anywhere in this hellhole town he calls home

Fruit Punch and Mac and Cheese.

-Ladies and GentleTemmies, WE HAVE A WINNER!!

I am the win .

Made some Spicy BBQ Chicken Wings. I give them my official The Beautiful Award.

Some successes:

Mary's Chili Verde (Hormel brand). Very good canned chili. It's now my favorite canned chili. If you dine on canned chili I recommend giving it a try.

Wishbone Avocado Oil dressing. Tried this with some apprehension. First few bites tasted decidedly odd. I then acclimated myself to the taste. Like it reasonably well. Well enough to add it to my roster of salad dressings.

Wishbone French Dressing. Haven't had French is ages. Never much cared for it. First salad I used it on tasted meh. Second salad was much better. It too makes the roster.

Am now adding chopped Jalapeno to my salad suppers. It improves their flavor ever so much. Don't know why I didn't think to add them before. They're certainly cheap enough, and yummy.

Pizza and soda for tonight.

Is this tomatillo based, like chili verde you would get from a Mexican restaurant?

It's definitely a "green" chili. As to the rest, here's a link to its official Hormel page, with clickable list of ingredients.

Yep, it’s looking very similar. Khajiit will have to try that if he sees it.

Keep forgetting to mention, prolly because I'd rather not dwell on it, that for the last month or so I've been having an eight ounce serving of V8 and a half apple for lunch twice a week. Thing is, I'm no fan of V8. Those lunches are made tolerable only by the apple.

Otherwise, I still lunch mostly on soups/chili and an occasional WowButter sammich.

(I'm drinking today's V8 lunch as I type. Boy is it a struggle!)

Khajiit actually likes V8. This one doesn’t like to drink a lot of it though because it has really high sodium.

Yeah, I'm no fan of its sodium content either. Seems to me there is or was a low-sodium variant for name brand product. I buy the Walmart equivalent due to cost. Not sure it has a low-sodium version. If I remember I'll check next grocery run. (Not sure why I didn't think to do so sooner, unless I already did so.)

Yeah, V8 does (or did) have a lower sodium version, but it was not tasty iirc.

Had one of my rare restaurant meals today, not because I especially craved decadent food, but to test my upper partial which needed to be altered following tooth loss. Chose the only restaurant I ever dine at any more, one of two all-you-can-eat Chinese buffets. (Americanized Chinese of course. So far as I know, there are no true oriental eateries in my neck of the woods natives to that part of the world would recognize as such.) The good news, despite the partial now coming loose when I bite down on my finger, during today's meal it remained solidly in place without a hint of loosening. It also remained in place during the one meal I tested it with at home...a Wowbutter sammich and half apple. I do not normal eat with my partial in at home. Why bother? I have enough of my own teeth to chew effectively, and there's one less thing to clean after meals.

The Buffet recently remodeled its interior. This was my first meal there since work finished. I couldn't care less about the redesign one way or other. But...the offerings all looked especially yummy in their trays, and tasted better than they have for quite some time. Was more pleased today's meal than I have been since the restaurant changed hands years ago. A good sign, I hope.

Have I mentioned I now add half a Jalapeno, finely diced, to each supper salad? They improve those meals ever so much. I recall buying Jalapenos years ago but stopped for some reason. No idea why.

Khajiit is glad you enjoyed it D! Wish we had a decent “Chinese” Restaurant here where Khajiit lives.

All you folks talking about chili prompted me to whip up a batch of my own homemade chili. I forgot to buy kielbasa, but it still turned out good!

Ooh! Do you make yours hot n’ spicy? Khajiit loves a nice hot n’ spicy homemade chili over a Hebrew National hotdog with shredded cheddar cheese on top. Umm, good stuff!

The problem here is that you are drinking the V8 while eating an apple. The tastes don't combine. Try drinking the V8 juice with Wow-Butter spread on a celery stalk. THAT goes with the V8 very well, and improves the flavor of the whole meal. Meanwhile, the apple can be eaten with some other meal to enhance it.

And the Jalapeno in your salad, You are either burning your taste buds away; or trying hard to taste anything because they are already burned out, lol. Try mincing Jalapeno up into baked beans and cornbread = mmm.

So glad you are able to eat again after that tooth extraction, that had to be a suffering period for you! Really glad you treated yourself to dinner, I always enjoy hearing about your meals at that restaurant! Also = glad to hear they are shaking things up at that restaurant you like to go to and that it has improved the food!

I put a little bit of cayenne powder in it, but not too much. Just enough to give it some zest. But not enough to burn. I use Carroll Shelby's chili kit. It has a little thing of cayenne, and I use half of it.

The beef it was really makes it though. I don't use hamburger. I buy stir fry beef or failing that stewing beef. Fry it up, then dice it fine and throw it in the crock pot. I add in a big link of Kielbasa (I am a polack after all!), plus mushrooms, diced tomatoes, and red beans (not chili beans).


Glad to hear that your gibs are holding up! Maybe you could ask this guy where he got his!

We've been using andouille sausage in our chili; and using better cuts of meat (but having the butcher at the grocery store grind it up like ground beef) = hugely delicious chili!


That Kielbasa sausage with the cheddar cheese in it makes an AWESOME addition to a 15 bean soup, have you tried that? (some good cornbread on the side... MMMMMMMM !!! )

Mmmmm cornbread....

(always love someone you can recognize on their X-Ray!)

and milk! Best snack ever!

Alright, check it. Take your cornmeal, and whatever seasonings you like to make cornbread with, and throw a can of creamed corn in it. Cut you up some jalapeño and toss that into it. Add whatever liquid you like to use to make your regular cornbread (we usually use buttermilk) and mix until it’s the right consistency. Then just bake like you normally would. Mmmhmmm that’s good stuff!

I've actually made it like this! (and used the buttermilk, too!) And yes, it is fantastic!!!!

‘Tis especially good with chili!

Absolutely! I love cornbread with chili!

Geez, this is making Khajiit want some jalapeño cornbread