My husband bought a new smoker and spent yesterday putting it together. Smoked baby back ribs tonight!!
Nice, @Bromfield2 !! 
I’d love to get a smoker. Which one did he get?
@BunsenBurner H has decided (after owning several) that he really likes the Traeger. His new one is from the Timberline series. Traeger has lots of options.
I like gluten free crackers and cheese, specifically Mary’s Gone Crackers original flavor with some kind of spreadable cheese. It’s crunchy enough to satisfy like a chip, and the cheese helps you to just eat a few and not over do it.
Speaking of overdoing it-we are having a tropical storm and it has been dark and rainy all day so I am making Martha Stewart’s Macaroni and Cheese which is AWESOME and I only make it a few times per year because it’s a lot of cheese and butter but soooo good. Not gluten free. Broccoli on the side, though, for health.
Speaking of snacks, I just had some of these. Very tasty, very filling. Healthier than chips or sweets.
https://royalhawaiianorchards.com/products/hawaiian-bbq-macadamias
Oh wow! Thank you @doschicos! Awesome looking stuff.
Thanks, @Bromfield2! Will look into those. If I get a smoker, I will be the one to man it… My husband is “allergic” to cooking. 
Those macadamia nuts are several dollars cheaper in my local store than online, FYI.
Friday night downpour in NJ, ordered out from Cuban Eddies. Picadillo, Ropa Vieja, White Rice, Black Beans, Muduros, Platanos and Yucca Frita
I’m always so jealous reading about the Cuban food you eat, @BmacNJ!
Sorry @doschicos Can’t say I’m not spoiled with Cuban food. Grew up with lots of hispanic friends. Mi esposa is buena cocinera.?
Was given some cherry tomatoes today from a neighbor’s garden. Sauteed them with some olive oil, butter, garlic ,salt, pepper, and thyme we have growing. Very fresh and tasty, with sea bass and salad to go along with the tomatoes.
Foil pouch grilled Alaskan halibut… Costco had just the right piece for the two of us. green salad on the side… guess where that came from! Mr. says he dreads the day we have to buy lettuce at the store. ? Finally got my wine. Farm Girl rose from a local winery. Very yummy.
Inspired by all the “lunchbox” salads here I made a good one today for lunches this week.
Started with a 7-grain mixture (quinoa, lentils - 5 other things smile: - it came in a 90 second packet.
Chopped up what I had: red onion, carrot, cucumber, sun dried tomatoes, kale, jalapeno. Added olives, feta, almonds, snipped parsley and garlic chives. Made a red wine vinaigrette that I added some tahini too - just creams it up a little bit.
Tastes great.
Have some thawed chicken breast tenderloins that I need to figure out what to do with for dinner.
Did our taxes. What a PITA this process was even with TurboTax. Ugh. To celebrate the deed done, grilled the steaks I planned on grilling for dinner and threw some zucchini on the grill as well. Simplicity is the mother of eating well. ? We (at the insistence of baby kid that she wanted to buy us dinner for my birthday) are going to an outdoor place later tonight.
Pretty much took last week off. We did 2 meals of honey baked ham with pasta and tomato salads. Also 2 delivery dinners of pizza and Popeyes chicken and one restaurant carry out because it was too hot to eat there outside. Only really cooked one dinner - a steak dinner with veggie sides. New resolve to do better this week.
@Singersmom07 - sometimes, the family chef needs a vacation from cooking. Plus, you supported your local businesses with that takeout!
I just made a spanakopita; I hope it takes ok - the phyllo was in the freezer a long time
I also had some peaches that were on their way out; I made a peach crumble
A heavy carb dinner!
Last week I took advantage of 10 performance nutrition meals for $10 each. This was a special offer from the gym. I liked trying someone else’s cooking and only disliked one option.
Because it was from the gym it was a bit of a hard sell (“you really need to buy 21 meals a week from us”).
I wish I’d written down each meal. They were light on carbs, very “clean” and spare on lettuce. Fish, shrimp, chicken, steak, frittata, etc. were among the meals. Vegetables and salads were based on green beans, yellow squash, asparagus, quinoa.
I’d like to do it again in a couple of weeks. I’m trying to get a few pounds under control.
I took a garlicky cuban pork Instant Pot recipe (Melissa Clark’s first Instant Pot cookbook) and used chicken instead. Really, really good.
Shredded it and made some rice and elote corn from Aldi’s. H had his in a tortilla w/ cheese. I made a bowl instead of tortilla and added lots of raw kale, salsa, cheese, a little sour cream, cilantro and sriracha. So very good!
That sounds yummy @abasket !
My spanakopita was more delicious than I anticipated! A real hit