Mindful that the man would have significant skeletal muscle loss, I've urged him (and he knows it) to do two walks a day and I'll watch his diet and consider his intake of complex carbohydrates and protein. His body should have stabilized from the muscle catabolism that arose from the stress response to surgery.
Steak and salad for dinner tonight it was. Found a decent 280-gram flank steak at Ryan's, and sorted out the rest of the items at the adjacent CS Fresh. The steak was small enough for us. We couldn't eat that much meat nowadays. The man's appetite is still diminished. Marinated the steak for an hour and left it to sous vide for two hours. Then I finished it in the pan. #ImpieCooks2022
The man felt like a tangy tomato soup too. I bought that. I was a tad tired to rustle up a soup from scratch. For instant soups, those packs from Soup Spoon and Saybons are always pretty decent. Opted for a pack 'Fresh Tomato Soup' from Saybons. Heated it up and it tasted fine to us.
My favorite salad is probably a hearty one with spinach and lettuce with roasted pumpkin and mushrooms. Decided to do without mushrooms tonight. Twenty minutes in the oven was sufficient to soften the pumpkin. It was a kabocha, so the skin was intact. Even if I couldn't stomach that much meat, this salad made me very happy. Well, you could call it a side too. 'Roasted pumpkin on greens', perhaps.
It was a happy tray of roasted pumpkin with baby spinach and homegrown bok choi and cherry tomatoes. There was no salad dressing beyond the standard seasoning of olive oil, balsamic, salt and pepper, basil and paprika. A nice bob of burrata in this salad would really up the game, but he shouldn't be having cheese for dinner. His Ciprofloxacin doesn't allow for dairy or calcium intake two hours before and after the dose.
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