Worn Out From Cooking Ahead!

malibu03 · 03-18-2007, 08:24 PM

Hi everyone. I am just beat from cooking a couple of dishes ahead for the week. I leave for work around 5:30am and I don't get up much earlier than that, so I usually take the easiest possible things to work.

Tonight I made broccoli quiche, tuna muffins with tartar sauce, cauliflower bisque, cheese crackers and jello fluff, and got stuff ready for the taco salad for tomorrow's dinner. (All from Linda's Menu Site)

If I want something more exciting than just grilled meat and a salad, I think I better keep cooking ahead. Not to mention that I don't get home from work until about 6:30-usually starving and tired from a full days work. Thankfully DH starts dinner before I get home.

Anyone else cook ahead? What are your favorites?

BuckeyeLori · 03-18-2007, 08:26 PM

I did a lot of cooking ahead, too, as I am GOING to get back on track this week! I made a breakfast casserole of eggs, sausage, cream and cheddar cheese, a pan of lasagna, grilled steaks and burgers, and made a cheesecake. Also stocked up on salad and grilled chicken. I made a pound of bacon this morning, too . . . . but . . . um . . . it's gone already!

LovesDivine · 03-18-2007, 08:42 PM

Made a slow cooker of pulled pork today and just got done grilling some london broil. Yesterday I got 2 rotissierie chickens. I am set for the week for all of us! I need to go find my tuna muffin recipe!! I still have some raspberry cream cheese muffins that I froze from a couple weeks ago. Gave mom and dad a taste and I have a feeling mom will be making these for dad sooner than later! LC rocks.

malibu03 · 03-18-2007, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by BuckeyeLori

I did a lot of cooking ahead, too, as I am GOING to get back on track this week! I made a breakfast casserole of eggs, sausage, cream and cheddar cheese, a pan of lasagna, grilled steaks and burgers, and made a cheesecake. Also stocked up on salad and grilled chicken. I made a pound of bacon this morning, too . . . . but . . . um . . . it's gone already!

that sounds really good. What recipe for lasagne did you use? Bacon doesn't keep around here, either. I no longer buy the pre-cooked bacon. It's too expensive for as little a time as it lasts around here.

malibu03 · 03-18-2007, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by LovesDivine

Made a slow cooker of pulled pork today and just got done grilling some london broil. Yesterday I got 2 rotissierie chickens. I am set for the week for all of us! I need to go find my tuna muffin recipe!! I still have some raspberry cream cheese muffins that I froze from a couple weeks ago. Gave mom and dad a taste and I have a feeling mom will be making these for dad sooner than later! LC rocks.

HMMMM....Raspberry cream cheese muffins??? Recipe, please!?

LovesDivine · 03-18-2007, 09:16 PM

Here is the cream cheese muffin recipe:

2 8oz. pks. philadelphia cream cheese
1/2 cup sweetener (I use spenda)
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Soften cream cheese about 40 seconds in microwave. Add other ingredients. Beat with mixer till smooth. Pour into 12 muffin pans lined with the papers. Bake at 350 for 20 min.

For raspberry, I use 1/2 cup SF Davinci raspberry syrup as the 1/2 cup of sweetner. I think you can sub any flavor if you want!!

malibu03 · 03-18-2007, 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LovesDivine

Here is the cream cheese muffin recipe:

2 8oz. pks. philadelphia cream cheese
1/2 cup sweetener (I use spenda)
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Soften cream cheese about 40 seconds in microwave. Add other ingredients. Beat with mixer till smooth. Pour into 12 muffin pans lined with the papers. Bake at 350 for 20 min.

For raspberry, I use 1/2 cup SF Davinci raspberry syrup as the 1/2 cup of sweetner. I think you can sub any flavor if you want!!

Thanks! I thought I replied earlier but didn't see my post. If it's a duplicate, then double thanks!

Amazin'Grace · 03-18-2007, 10:19 PM

I wish I could do that!

If I cooked ahead, I'd end up with a refrigerator full of stuff I wasn't in the mood to eat!

Dissie · 03-19-2007, 07:15 AM

I have to get up at 5:00 every morning too, on the road by 5:45, so I too have to cook ahead.

Everynight I fry up sausage, or bacon, some times both and am also scrambling eggs for me and hubby's breakfast for the next day. Its very handy just grabbing our little bowls and off we go. I tried the baked egg casseroles this weekend but prefer just scrambled with sides of breakfast meats. Its also been a struggle thinking about lunch for the next day at work too, but as with anything that is getting easier. Thank heavens for our grill. Been grilling out most of our meats and it is sooooo good. Both of our appetites have decreased also. Don't feel like I am being deprived anymore. We are having a hard time just getting the 20 carbs per day. We eat 2- 1 cup salads per day with homemade vinaigrette and some other 1/2 cup of other veggie for dinner. Did anyone else have the problem with consuming the 20 carbs per day? We dont eat much of the cheese, thinking it may stall us.

lori121 · 03-19-2007, 07:18 AM

I wish I hadnt forgotten the cream cheese when I went to the store. Guess it's a good thing I did. Or I would be making raspberry cream cheese muffins.

BuckeyeLori · 03-20-2007, 04:42 AM

The lasagna was just my own simple creation.

1lb ground beef
1lb italian sausage (hot)
1 qt. ricotta cheese
2 cans spaghetti sauce (the lowest in carbs I could find)
1 box dreamfields lasagna noodles
8 oz shredded italian cheeses
sprinkling of parm. cheese

Cook noodles according to directions and brown meat. I mix the sauce and meat together, and then just layer away! I got a large 11x13 pan, and then a small 8x8 pan of the "leftovers" that aren't layered very "professionally." Bake at 350 for an hour. YUM!

03-18-2007, 08:24 PM	#1
malibu03 Senior LCF Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: KC Posts: 265 Gallery: malibu03 Stats: 180/165/140 WOE: Atkins Start Date: March 2007	Worn Out From Cooking Ahead! Hi everyone. I am just beat from cooking a couple of dishes ahead for the week. I leave for work around 5:30am and I don't get up much earlier than that, so I usually take the easiest possible things to work. Tonight I made broccoli quiche, tuna muffins with tartar sauce, cauliflower bisque, cheese crackers and jello fluff, and got stuff ready for the taco salad for tomorrow's dinner. (All from Linda's Menu Site) If I want something more exciting than just grilled meat and a salad, I think I better keep cooking ahead. Not to mention that I don't get home from work until about 6:30-usually starving and tired from a full days work. Thankfully DH starts dinner before I get home. Anyone else cook ahead? What are your favorites?

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03-18-2007, 08:26 PM	#2
BuckeyeLori Senior LCF Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Central Ohio Posts: 596 Gallery: BuckeyeLori Stats: 225/211/170 WOE: Low Carb Start Date: July 28, 2008	I did a lot of cooking ahead, too, as I am GOING to get back on track this week! I made a breakfast casserole of eggs, sausage, cream and cheddar cheese, a pan of lasagna, grilled steaks and burgers, and made a cheesecake. Also stocked up on salad and grilled chicken. I made a pound of bacon this morning, too . . . . but . . . um . . . it's gone already!

03-18-2007, 08:42 PM	#3
LovesDivine MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tampa Posts: 2,491 Gallery: LovesDivine Stats: 162/somewhere in between/130 WOE: Whatever	Made a slow cooker of pulled pork today and just got done grilling some london broil. Yesterday I got 2 rotissierie chickens. I am set for the week for all of us! I need to go find my tuna muffin recipe!! I still have some raspberry cream cheese muffins that I froze from a couple weeks ago. Gave mom and dad a taste and I have a feeling mom will be making these for dad sooner than later! LC rocks.

03-18-2007, 09:16 PM	#6
LovesDivine MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tampa Posts: 2,491 Gallery: LovesDivine Stats: 162/somewhere in between/130 WOE: Whatever	Here is the cream cheese muffin recipe: 2 8oz. pks. philadelphia cream cheese 1/2 cup sweetener (I use spenda) 2 eggs 1/2 tsp. vanilla Soften cream cheese about 40 seconds in microwave. Add other ingredients. Beat with mixer till smooth. Pour into 12 muffin pans lined with the papers. Bake at 350 for 20 min. For raspberry, I use 1/2 cup SF Davinci raspberry syrup as the 1/2 cup of sweetner. I think you can sub any flavor if you want!!

03-18-2007, 10:19 PM	#8
Amazin'Grace Senior LCF Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NYC Posts: 259 Gallery: Amazin'Grace	I wish I could do that! If I cooked ahead, I'd end up with a refrigerator full of stuff I wasn't in the mood to eat!

03-19-2007, 07:15 AM	#9
Dissie Senior LCF Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Marietta, GA Posts: 63 Gallery: Dissie Stats: 210/?/110 WOE: Atkins-started again 2/22/08 Start Date: January 2008	I have to get up at 5:00 every morning too, on the road by 5:45, so I too have to cook ahead. Everynight I fry up sausage, or bacon, some times both and am also scrambling eggs for me and hubby's breakfast for the next day. Its very handy just grabbing our little bowls and off we go. I tried the baked egg casseroles this weekend but prefer just scrambled with sides of breakfast meats. Its also been a struggle thinking about lunch for the next day at work too, but as with anything that is getting easier. Thank heavens for our grill. Been grilling out most of our meats and it is sooooo good. Both of our appetites have decreased also. Don't feel like I am being deprived anymore. We are having a hard time just getting the 20 carbs per day. We eat 2- 1 cup salads per day with homemade vinaigrette and some other 1/2 cup of other veggie for dinner. Did anyone else have the problem with consuming the 20 carbs per day? We dont eat much of the cheese, thinking it may stall us.

03-19-2007, 07:18 AM	#10
lori121 MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,669 Gallery: lori121 Stats: 189.5/-/145 WOE: Atkins Start Date: Restart Aug 11, 2008	I wish I hadnt forgotten the cream cheese when I went to the store. Guess it's a good thing I did. Or I would be making raspberry cream cheese muffins.

03-20-2007, 04:42 AM	#11
BuckeyeLori Senior LCF Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Central Ohio Posts: 596 Gallery: BuckeyeLori Stats: 225/211/170 WOE: Low Carb Start Date: July 28, 2008	The lasagna was just my own simple creation. 1lb ground beef 1lb italian sausage (hot) 1 qt. ricotta cheese 2 cans spaghetti sauce (the lowest in carbs I could find) 1 box dreamfields lasagna noodles 8 oz shredded italian cheeses sprinkling of parm. cheese Cook noodles according to directions and brown meat. I mix the sauce and meat together, and then just layer away! I got a large 11x13 pan, and then a small 8x8 pan of the "leftovers" that aren't layered very "professionally." Bake at 350 for an hour. YUM!