Our July 4th Menu - What's Yours?
For those of you just tuning in: We have our family reunion on the 4th. The family descends on our house or campsite and the menu is always pork in theme. This year we added an extra twist. Pork dish...
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I agree with your relative.
My menus are:
1 protein dish
3 varied vegetable dishes. of which one is a strong carbohydrate, such as potatoes, 1 is a strong green veg, and one betwixt and between, or peas, parsnips, beets, carrots all have a certain carb content. I've seen some do potatoes, turnips and peas for their veggies and that makes me cringe. There are also such things as tomatoes, which are served as a veg, when they are really fruit.*
I'm sure the dieticians would have definite comments about too high a percentage of protein, or too high salt content.
* I invented a great stew of late,
--stewed tomatoes could be 2.5 c. tomatoes to 1/2 c. of each of other ingredients, except meat or 1 c. or more beef cubes
---diced beef
--sliced parsnip
--sliced onion (i.e,. 1/4" x 1")
--diced celery
The parsnip is the taste maker. Brown beef cubes before other adds.
:C
My menus are:
1 protein dish
3 varied vegetable dishes. of which one is a strong carbohydrate, such as potatoes, 1 is a strong green veg, and one betwixt and between, or peas, parsnips, beets, carrots all have a certain carb content. I've seen some do potatoes, turnips and peas for their veggies and that makes me cringe. There are also such things as tomatoes, which are served as a veg, when they are really fruit.*
I'm sure the dieticians would have definite comments about too high a percentage of protein, or too high salt content.
* I invented a great stew of late,
--stewed tomatoes could be 2.5 c. tomatoes to 1/2 c. of each of other ingredients, except meat or 1 c. or more beef cubes
---diced beef
--sliced parsnip
--sliced onion (i.e,. 1/4" x 1")
--diced celery
The parsnip is the taste maker. Brown beef cubes before other adds.
:C
