If it wasn't real hot then it probably wasn't Cayenne, I have a ground red pepper too that is not as hot.

Mine (McCormick's) isn't that hot either.

MarilynneS said:
We eat at 1:30 -2pm .. read an article saying it's healthier to eat your main meal at lunch .. been working well
~M~

I have heard that also. That it is most beneficial to eat your main meal of the day at noon or so. But it would never work for me. I get really hungry late in the day and only want a snack around noon time. I guess everyone is different.

Of course! My preference - as a morning person - is also to have my main meal in the middle of the day but DH is an evening person so it doesn't always work out that way. We try to compromise.
What I really do not like, though, is to eat anytime after 7 pm. But - again - I don't always have a choice.

I find a big lunch puts me to sleep, I like my main meal around 6: pm, then I'm good until breakfast.

We usually have our main meal around 4:30. I cook for my granddaughters and they are hungry when they get off the bus Weekends are a bit later and sometimes not at all if we have a big lunch, just a snack later in the evening.
That's what we did tonight, big lunch so no dinner, maybe just some oatmeal later.

The winter chill is finally settling in here, so it'll be soup. I recently made some chicken gravy, so maybe hot open face sandwiches, too, and likely a little salad to get in the greens. Sometimes it sure is nice to go easy.

Cornflake topped cheesy ham casserole for tomorrow ..
MAY put it together tonight .. easy peasy and, DELISH

~M~

Just added the ingredients for turkey tetrazzini and that luscious beef crockpot recipe to my grocery list!

Medallions of pork with a sauce made with my own chicken stock and vermouth. Very crispy potato wedges on the side, and vegetables.

Friends cooked us a delicious dinner last night (Beef bourguignon) when we went over there to watch the premiere of the final season of Downton Abbey!

We watched Downton Abbey too. I'm sad that this is the last season.

Dinner choices are getting slim here. I'd better get to the grocery today. That's my least favorite job.

Karen

Last year at the premiere of the DA season we all dressed up and made a real English dinner and set the table with Wedgwood and real silver..... with real Downton Abbey wine.... This year it was too close to New Year and nobody was in the mood for another party!

luvsgrtdanes said:
That's what we did tonight, big lunch so no dinner, maybe just some oatmeal later.

It is so ironic that you posted this because I was up until the early hours of the morning last night fighting an unusual case of insomnia and my mother (who is a night owl herself) recommended oatmeal as a meal to help me get to sleep. (I was far too full to eat, though, so I didn't have a bowl.)

Newyorkrita said:


I have heard that also. That it is most beneficial to eat your main meal of the day at noon or so. But it would never work for me. I get really hungry late in the day and only want a snack around noon time. I guess everyone is different.

That's my sentiment, too. I know that eating big meals later in the day isn't as good, but that's when I am hungriest. It's probably just a stubborn habit of the stomach that needs broken, but it's hard to do.

That's funny Hetty. I never knew there was such a thing as Downton Abbey wine!

Karen

They sure got their merchandising in order, Karen

pirl said:Medallions of pork with a sauce made with my own chicken stock and vermouth. Very crispy potato wedges on the side, and vegetables.

Oh, sounds very yummy.

It was. There's no waste in those packages of two pork loins!

DogsNDaylilies said:

That's my sentiment, too. I know that eating big meals later in the day isn't as good, but that's when I am hungriest. It's probably just a stubborn habit of the stomach that needs broken, but it's hard to do.

I am too set in my ways to even try to change that. I try to eat my dinner earlier so as not to be eating really late but nope, I can't change it to anywhere near around noon.