Topic: So...whats for dinner?

May 26, 2012 08:13 AM Lacey12 wrote:

Deb, I hope your BS can she some light on what is going on, and help you resolve this fast!

May 26, 2012 08:40 AM apple wrote:

i dreamed about turkey last nite.  I remember the mountain of glistening flesh before me... I remember Blondie our dog stealing a whole small turkey off of the table where it was resting and secretly cheering inside.

Actually.. Thanksgiving dinner is so good with all the sides and such..  Turkey nestled in beside the mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing and veggie dishes is perfect,

and I think to myself.. what a wonderful world.  My brain is an ipod this morning.

May 26, 2012 09:00 AM carolehalston wrote:

Deborye, healing thoughts sent your way.

My family has never liked turkey.  We started buying it at Thanksgiving because it became so cheap and there was so much media pressure and cultural pressure to have turkey at Thanksgiving.  We prefer other large meats especially pork roast which we stuff with a mixture of green onions, garlic and cayenne pepper.  When we have turkey, the dark meat goes first and the breast sits there until all the dark meat is gone.

Turkey is actually a difficult large meat to cook because it's almost impossible to cook the dark meat and not dry out the breast.  I have a small turkey in the freezer that I need to cook before we begin our summer rv travels.  I plan to thaw it and cut off the legs.  Cook them (braise) using a recipe with apples.  Then I'll cook the breast and use it to make turkey salad for sandwiches or whatever.  I fall into the buy-the-turkeys-on-sale-at-Thanksgiving trap!

For me the only time roasted turkey is good is the first meal.  The leftover meat has so little taste, but I'm from Cajun country and we like spice and flavor.

Speaking of which, we had baked Italian oysters for dinner last night (Oysters Mosca), steamed and buttered small fresh green beans, and slices of home-made bread.  Yum, Yum.  Not good for the weight loss diet.

That flower festival sounds so beautiful!  But I don't like the thought of all those thousands of people.  We avoid big crowds.  Several summers ago we spent a month wandering down the Oregon coast and loved the little towns and the wonderful state park campgrounds, which were so popular we couldn't get into some of them. 

Happy Saturday to all!

May 26, 2012 04:47 PM debbie6122 wrote:

Deb- Hope you have seen your bs by now and she has some answers for you. I agree too that you should have a biopsy done just to be sure. When will you be released?

Apple- You crack me up with the turkey stories! I need to go buy some pepper turkey again so i can have my sandwich with avacados and pepper jack cheese on wheat berry bread. So good. 

Im on my cell right now, taking a break from the culinary cook off while friend is over having a smoke. The food is fabulous. cost was $50 but you get to taste a lot of good foods. Crab cakes, lobster thermador. shrimp. salmon, oyster. clam chowder, uggh my tummy hurts and we are not even done, they are doing fabulous desserts in a bit. Even have a pizza station but will wait til my stomach ache goes away lol! They are serving wine but decided not to have any today.

Everyone sounds like they are having a great time! 

May 26, 2012 06:43 PM, edited May 26, 2012 09:56 PM by bedo

Deb, glad tata is getting better

Apple you crack me up.  I used to have The World's Worst Dog, 80 pounds and 1/2 great dane 1/2 "hound".  I would see him resting his elbows on the counter top after I left for work, checking out the sink drainer for food.  He used to "paw" the refrigerator and howl to look inside the Big White Box.  Constantly stole food. I was a bad dog trainer.

Sorry, can't post Bad Dog stealing food or get rid of the 'x' picture,

2 funny things off topic, one about dogs. I was in the parking lot yesterday and not in a good mood.  A bulldog started barking at me from inside his car.  I was annoyed I said, "Sit Down!!" and pointed to his butt. He did and looked meek. I added , "And knock it off!"  After coming out of the Drug store he started again until he recognized me and I pointed to his butt so he sat down and was quiet. I wish that my Bad Dog would have done that.

I just put a window air conditioner outside that was too big from my last place.  This cabin has 17" wide windows.  Labeled "works, doesn't fit, free"  Was gone in 3 minutes!  I was shocked.  It's 88 here in RI and muggy.

May 26, 2012 07:49 PM debbie6122 wrote:

Bedo- Your dog story cracked me up too funny! Anytime i see a dog in a car i wont park next to it, scares the crap outta me when it barks when i walk by, need you as my savior haha!

Finally back home had a fun time there watching all these experts make great food. Makes me want to go to culinary school. I dont think i can eat for a week!

May 26, 2012 10:34 PM Kaara wrote:

Carole:  That is one of my pet peeves as well...my BF does not take stuff out of his pockets and all kinds of things go through the wash...score cards, money, but the worst is kleenex when it gets all over the rest of the clothes.  I'm of the same mind as you...I don't check pockets!

May 26, 2012 11:03 PM eric95us wrote:

Aircard? As in cellular data aircard? I'm an engineer for Verizon Wireless.

Kleenix is nearly the worst in a pocket. Our daughter had a candle in one of her pockets. After going throught the dryer...that might be worse than. Kleenix....

Eric

May 27, 2012 12:06 AM, edited Feb 15, 2013 07:32 PM by Cottontail

May 27, 2012 01:02 AM Mzmerz wrote:

Since I have been off on disability, I have actually had time to make things.  Before it would be quick spaghetti with sauce out of the can, or hamburgers, anything that didn't have many steps to it.

Today, for the first time ever (I am 43) I made meatballs.  I bought a membership to Allrecipes.com.  I have made my own alfredo sauce, which was much less complicated than i thought.  

I still use spaghetti sauce out of a can, but I add to it - onions, garlic, Italian seasoning and let it simmer for a while.  We also had bread and salad (yeah, it was out of a bag, but baby steps!)

I am looking forward to cooking more.  

If you haven't tried it, making the Stroganoff off of the back of a campbell's soup can is a good meal!  

Amy 

May 27, 2012 03:51 AM Momine wrote:

Deb, my real weight loss started with the 5 days I was in the hospital after my BMX. I could not eat the food. I had brought my own muesli, so I ate that for breakfast, but otherwise I did not eat much.

Eric, that sounds like a good meal.

Amy, so glad you are getting into cooking. It really doesn't have to be super difficult or even time-consuming and it is both healthier and cheaper to cook proper food. 

May 27, 2012 07:39 AM, edited May 27, 2012 08:08 AM by apple

Preamble:

we live on what was an old farm and the property is covered with gorgeous weeds.  I like to see how they bloom.  I have a friend who is going to come over and show me what is edible.  I have quite a few unusual things growing in my garden including kale and swiss chard.. which are not so unusual.. i wish they would grow.  my herbs are doing wonderfully including sorrel which is a sour leaf used for soup, healing and in salads in the middle Europe.  If you find sorrell snap it up.. it's really good. 

I have put young dandelion shoots in my early salads.. they taste like dandylions.  I put some of these weeds in the oriental dishes i try.  What is really interesting to me, is to visit my Korean friends' store.  They have all sorts of dried veggies (dried sweet potatoe stems.  dried snake eye grass (i kid you not, dried fish skin, dried).  They know i have cancer and the grandmother always encourages me to try these foods. dried seaweed shreds, dried oak leaves...  I am still alive.  They don't want me to pay for them either... they ordered them for me they said and other people will provide the profit so i have to like to gracefully accept them which i am happy to do.. i take them home and try them.

I do buy plenty of produce there.. every sort of mushroom (except morels) that one could want, as well as sauces, teas and this wonderful food which is a tube of rice product...

they cook the rice, mash it, let it dry and then extrude it thru a machine in hose like shapes.  you slice the tubes very thin and stir fry with veggies.  They absorb all the burntish crisp sauce and make ABSOLUTELY the most delicious dishes.  They gave me a sample and it took me a little experimentation. - a great way to go gluten free.  they are seriously chewy and very unusual i would think to the western palate.  They are almost indescribably good.. super chewy.. is an unusual way and flavors change as they are absorbed.  Seriously good with snow peas.

here is a nice picture of them...www.seriouseats.com/2010/11/se...

After trying many recipes, i  simply like to slice them on the diagonal thinly and start wokking with garlic, olive oil, sesame oil and throw these in.  they readily absorb flavor.. i add a bit of hoisin sauce or anything like that.. maybe anchovy paste, bean paste, and soy sauce.

i let them get kind of burnt around the edges.. and then sautee some oriental veggies in the same pan... peas, beans, broccoli, mushrooms, green onions.. whatever. 

I also made coconut pudding last nite, out of outofdate coconut, milk and some pretty lame tapioca pudding that I bought.. omgosh it was delicious.  Thank goodness this little family came over just in time to help me eat it.  I would have eaten the whole pot.

May 27, 2012 10:21 AM deborye wrote:

Waiting for my doctor to come in then my last tx of antibiotics then checking out.  Probably about 4 this afternoon.

I had a delishish oatmeal pancake breakfast ate it all.  All day yesterday i just nibbled cux the percocet made me so sick.

((((Everyone))))

May 27, 2012 01:08 PM carolehalston wrote:

Lacey, Eric can tell you all about the air card.  I don't understand techy things.  I just use them!  You have to plug the air card into an electric outlet.  We use it in our rv.  I don't have a smart phone or I Pad.  The only time I'm connected to the internet is when I'm using my lap top, which I love.  It's new and so fast.  My old one was outdated and slow.  It's in the closet along with a collection of desk top towers!  Need to find some place to get rid of them.

This afternoon I'm going to bake bread.  Got the Biga (starter) out of the freezer along with the flour.  Also the dough for tonight's pizza. 

I kinda want to get a smart phone eventually but I don't like the way people who have them seem to be using them all the time.  I seldom chat on my cell phone.  I like to have it with me in case of an emergency or if I need to call my mother and ask her if she needs anything from Walmart while I'm there.  We use very few of our minutes.

DH is watching the 500.  The cars sound like angry bees.

May 27, 2012 02:22 PM eric95us wrote:

I've got my sourdough starter warming up so I make some more bread and Sharon is going to a play with some others from the area that are here on BC.org. 

DD and I are going to a baseball game.

Remember the advertisement showing the guy walking around and asking "Can you hear me now?"  The best way to describe my job is..."I'm the one he's talking to." :-)