Stonefire Naan Bread

We love bread. We have it for breakfast and always with dinner. French bread is our favorite, but we also have bagels, croissants, and English muffins. When we have Persian food we get a lot of flat round bread. We discovered Stonefire naan bread a couple of years ago. And we really liked that it can be placed in the toaster to heat it up and it has a great texture. When we don’t feel like cooking for dinner we might have sandwiches with leftover chicken, or in this last instance turkey. But rather than use a regular sub roll or sandwich roll I thought we might try using the naan bread instead. We get whole grain and plain naan so we tried the whole grain. My husband had his doubts that it would be any good and didn’t think I would be able to make a pocket out of it. Well, I proved home wrong. After stuffing the naan with turkey, lettuce and hot yellow ring peppers were added too along with sub oil. Add to that a few pierogi, broccoli and a side salad and it was really good. I can’t foresee using a regular sub roll or bun again. Since we rarely go to restaurants any more it gets difficult to be creative about what to make for dinner. This is certainly an easy way to fix that. And we aren’t very picky anyway. 

Our Tuesday Dinner

It’s far from glamorous. Every Tuesday we go grocery shopping. And every Tuesday we have developed a habit of getting the same meal for dinner - something simple that requires little effort. We usually cook at home and once a week we order pick up from one of our favorite places. For whatever reason we developed the habit of having a sandwich, soup - usually tomato, salad, and of course potato chips. I absolute love tuna, but my husband doesn’t. So I usually get a tuna sandwich and he usually gets an Italian sub. Yesterday it was disappointing that tuna wasn’t available so we decided to split a large sub. I could have gotten tuna at the deli but the idea is to get something that is always made because I’m just too lazy - on Tuesday. It’s certainly not the healthiest meal, but once a week we go off the rails. Having had high blood pressure most of my life I never add salt to my diet. So on these rare occasions it just tastes so good. I’m not sure how long we will keep this fad going. We have a habit of starting something and then stopping all of a sudden. For the interim we need to cut up the sandwich because of dental implant issues. I wonder what the next trend will be? 

Tuna Sub

Tuna has always been my friend. I always liked it. Tuna was always a staple in our family. Then I learned to add more ingredients to it besides mayonnaise. Relish, onions, and hard boiled eggs were added to enhance a great sandwich. But tuna casserole was always the best. It didn’t matter who made it or what was in it. Whenever it was available at work, it was my choice for lunch. My husband also makes a great tuna casserole, but we haven’t had it in quite some time. Last weekend I had a hankering for a tuna sub from Listrani’s. There was going to be an ice storm later in the day, so we thought getting cold subs would be a good idea for dinner - especially if the power went out. The last snowstorm knocked out power not only once when the circuit went out, but twice - when a tree fell on the line. So we picked up an Italian and tuna sub early in the afternoon. The only problem when I had it for dinner was that the “special sauce” was missing. It just didn’t taste good. I tried adding a sub oil and hot peppers to it, but it just wasn’t good. So after all that planning I was pretty disappointed. Sometimes we get tuna from the grocery store. I may have to rely on that instead. Or, I could actually make my own. Isn’t that a clever idea?