How can I be sad when I have breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
How can I be sad when I have
delicious food to eat?
delicious food to eat?
I made a terrible mistake at Aldi the other day. I needed some half and half to make mashed potatoes and ice cream (not at the same time) and I got a whole quart, but when I got home I noticed that I accidentally grabbed fat-free half and half! I didn't even know fat-free half and half existed! How is that even possible? Isn't the whole point of having half and half to have a little extra fat in my milk?
Anyway, I still made the mashed potatoes with it, and I guess it turned out fine. I'm sure it would have been even better if I had regular half and half, but I'm not going to make it again to find out. I put a whole quarter cup of horseradish in this! (following this recipe) Because I have an open jar and I have no idea how I'm going to use it all.
But mashed potatoes was neither my dessert nor my breakfast, and I could have named this blog post "Fat-free half and half" but I didn't like that. So let me get to my actual breakfast.
Yooo, doesn't that look so good?! People in the Aldi Aisle of Shame facebook group have been raving about this croissant loaf so I picked some up and made some french toast with it. I followed a recipe on Budget Bytes but of course I used my sad half and half instead of milk. And I had way too many egg whites left over from making my ice cream so it was just whites instead of a whole egg. I also topped it with some powdered sugar and some spiced apple dessert drizzle, which I also bought from Aldi! This could practically be a sponsored post!
But it's not, because I think I have maybe 3.5 followers total.
And you might think, that's not dessert, that's just a regular breakfast item. I know it is, and it's definitely dessert. French toast actually was my favorite breakfast item growing up. Crazy, right?! I think I prefer waffles now.
But okay, I'll show you my ice cream that I made which is most definitely a dessert, and I also ate some of it for breakfast.
I finally made ice cream in my favorite flavor: coffee! I used this recipe and it turned out pretty well, but it's still not nearly as good as Trader Joe's. I definitely would want to make it again with some real half and half. And a little less sugar.
Some time last year I cooked salmon for my boyfriend, and even though I've prepared salmon so many times, and it's one of the easiest things to cook, I ended up totally overcooking it, and it was terrible. ): I bought that salmon from Aldi, and since then he's been convinced that Aldi salmon is bad. I wish he had just concluded that I did a bad job cooking the salmon.
I think Aldi has great salmon, and now I'm determined to make some delicious salmon from Aldi.
Today I went with something really simple: Salmon with Dill. I used to use a recipe for this, but at this point, I know that it's just a bunch of seasonings sprinkled onto salmon. Here's what I put in this one:
These were pretty thin pieces of salmon, so I only cooked it for about 12 minutes at 350°F. This was about the right amount of time. I thought the thinner part of the salmon was a little overcooked, and the thicker part was a little under, but I like my salmon a little under.
I also decided to make green bean casserole because my aunt gave me two cans of cream of mushroom, and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with that except make green brean casserole. I also happened to have a container of fried onions that I kept snacking on (and later regretting), and I really needed to use it in a dish before I ate the whole thing by itself.
Green bean casserole is one of the first foods I ever tried to make on my own, and I can't believe I haven't really featured it in any blog posts yet! I actually have my own recipe for it, but I didn't follow that for today's meal. Today I made the most basic green bean casserole. Green beans + cream of mushroom + fried onions. That's it.
It's exactly how my aunt makes it, and it's always delicious. Overall, I'm really happy with my dinner.
