So...whats for dinner?
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Eric, It's good that you survived the drive home. Were you caught in the stormy weather? You deserve some delicious home cooked meals after surviving the fast food desert. I find fresh jalepenos too much so use the canned ones which seem to be a bit milder.
Carole, Mexican restaurants seem to be very variable. There was a good one in Cambridge which burned down. CA and TX are the only places I've been where the majority of those restaurants serve authentic food.
Wally, Glad you can finally celebrate your birthday with your DH. It's so hard to balance all the pros and cons of a difficult treatment.
Minus, DH won’t eat mashed potatoes unless they come from peeled tubers. I can do a great job if I get out the mixer (which I do for holiday meals) but he prefers the slightly lumpy masher version to store bought. You can’t argue about potatoes with an Irishman.
Illimae, The extra work was definitely worth it. I love Red Lobster cheddar bay biscuits and using them as a crust for seafood pot pies is even better.
Dinner tonight was hot chicken salad and baked potatoes.
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Tonight will be fried seafood at Pontchartrain Poboy. We're meeting my younger sister and her dh. It's one of their favorite restaurants and a good place to visit with them.
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There was a lot of rain, a lot of wind and a little bit of hail. However, at no time did it rain so hard that we lost view of our windshield wipers. :-)
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Carole, Enjoy the fried seafood and visit with your sister.
Eric, Once in Erie PA I did lose sight of the wipers when heavy rain with hail leaked through the edges of an improperly installed replacement windshield. I had to use duct tape to continue to OH and return home. Today I drove into a nor’easter but at this time of year the precipitation is liquid and my windshield is fine.
Dinner tonight was very good takeout Pad Thai.
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I made lentils in a mirepoix base/chicken stock with slaw for the last duck burgers. Tonight, I'll add hot dogs to the lentils and call it done.
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Had a delicious bowl of Legal Seafood clam chowder for lunch.
Dinner tonight was another batch of beef and butternut squash in chipotle pumpkin tomato sauce on penne. The squash is out of season now so the sauce had to be used up.
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Oh Maggie - envy again about Legal Seafood Clam chowder. Be still my heart!!!
Dinner tonight was leftover fried rice with chicken & mushrooms & water chestnuts. Dessert was Hagen Das Chocolate ice crem.
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Dinner was tuna Subway salads. Extra onions on dh's salad.
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Minus, Hagen Das is my favorite, I especially love coffee and strawberry.
Dinner tonight was crunchy onion chicken with mashed potatoes and corn followed by popcorn and a movie (beetleguise, beetleguise).
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Carole, No extra onions for you, lol.
Illimae, Popcorn with a movie makes it more of an occasion.
This afternoon we drove to a really good ice cream stand 15 miles out of town in the middle of nowhere. The ice cream comes from two different farms, there are about 60 flavors (some are repeats) and one scoop is huge. It's at the top of a hill and the view over the fields and river into the woods is great even while sitting in the truck in the rain.
Dinner tonight was stuffed peppers but, not surprisingly, I could eat only half of mine.
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We provided the steaks for dinner at our travel friends' house. The sides were baked potatoes, salad, and warm bread. They are headed to their NC lake house this weekend.
Tonight and tomorrow night we'll have to answer the What's for dinner? question for ourselves. We have one cooked leftover steak and one baked potato.
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Nachos!
Hagaan Daz is also my favorite…coffee and strawberry.
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Interesting that Mae & Wally both have the same favorite flavors of ice cream. I haven't had strawberry in many years - since my last "real" banana split (NOT soft serve). I'll have to try it again. Even though chocolate is my favorite, I also like the Haagen Daz Green Tea and the Tres Leches flavors.
I had some whole, salted cashew nuts this afternoon. Mushroom Omelette this evening. Or maybe not since I'm really not hungry. Perhaps I'll just eat the rest of the leftover green peas.
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Carole, How did you use your leftovers? Steak salad and potato salad?
Wally, Nachos make a great meal even though they were designed as a snack.
Minus, I’m with you on the chocolate ice cream or some flavor that includes chocolate like chocolate chip cookie dough. Yesterday I had Black Bear which is raspberry with chocolate chips and chocolate covered raspberry truffles.
Dinner tonight was chicken and asparagus lasagna.
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I sliced the cold steak and baked potato in thin slices. We topped a plate of lettuce and cucumber with the steak and potato slices and dressed with a sprinkle of white balsamic and our choice of bottled dressings. DH chose mayo as his dressing.
One more day and dinner to go. I dealt with clothes yesterday. Odds and ends today and some cleaning.
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Safe travels tomorrow Carole. If you're going up interstates 64 or 70 wave as you pass the Lake Saint Louis exits.
Last night was quiche and a simple green salad. Tonight is a pork stir fry. My grill is too dirty to grill anything.
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Nance, I still wave when we pass your former location. LOL.
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Carole - lol you were so close! 👋
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Safe travels, Carole.
I'm debating between peanut noodles or frittata for tonight.
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Carole, Have a good trip north.
Dinner tonight was leftover lasagna.
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Enjoy the ride, and safe travels Carole.
DH had leftover chicken parm with linguini and green beans. I needed something light, and easy. So for me, Tonight was butter lettuce and arugula greens, with avocado, artichoke hearts, sliced pears, tomatoes and hard boiled egg. A touch of red wine vinegar, and matzo (lol I can eat it all year round) . Simple eating with a mug of turmeric ginger tea.
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Carole - yup, my memory was correct about your departure. Adding my wishes for a safe trip tomorrow.
I had good intentions of cooking today. But after several hours in the heat registering residents for neighborhood pool keys, I was too hot & sweaty to consider the stove. Dinner was leftover Lipton Noodle Soup. The mushroom omelette is still pending. A neighbor who helped out today brought me a batch of homemade biscotti. Yum.
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Rhonda, Pear with hard boiled egg in a salad sounds like a delicious combination. I stock up on matzo after Passover as a change from the Scandinavian crisp bread I eat the rest of the year.
Minus, Homemade biscotti are a treat!
Dinner tonight was meatballs in Rao’s on bucatini.
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Tofu peanut noodles with broccoli for tonight.
A hot day…hit 69 or 70 and another cool down tonight. Power outage so DH's dental appointment was marginal; at least glad he was seen. Lovely dentist. So kind and sweet.
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Wally, A dental appointment during a power outage is a new one for me. I suppose the dentist was able to ask your DH about any symptoms or questions he might have. I’m glad the trip wasn’t a waste of time.
Dinner tonight was sour cream and onion skillet chicken with mashed potatoes. I couldn’t eat much since the roof of my mouth is sore; I’m hoping it just clears up.
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Wally - glad you liked the dentist.
Maggie - hope your mouth clears up quickly.
I'll still be doing registering for our neighborhood pool again tomorrow evening & Saturday morning. We were open for Memorial Day but unfortunately several people brought beer. Our rule is no alcohol so I had to send out another memo. We don't have lifeguards and It's the honor system, but someone always has to push the envelope.
I finally got around to the mushroom omelette last night. Served with one English Muffin. Only two eggs, but I was way too full to even move. Then this afternoon I ran errands for several hours - Costco, Post Office, Ollies, Krogers, Gas station, Bank, etc. Since it was 94 today, I'm pretty much beat. Tonight's meal was the left over half of my Patty Melt from Angies Country Kitchen on Tuesday.
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Minus, It seems that your busy season has started. I hope people appreciate all you do for your community. Mushrooms are quite filling so I make a one egg omelette if using them.
I found some chlorhexidine from a previous gum inflammation issue so I'm using the small amount left. I hope I don't have to return to the dentist before my insurance resets on July 1 since I've used up all my insurance benefits (and then some.)
Dinner tonight was spinach ravioli in Alfredo sauce.
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Surprises today…
Went for my annual onco visit (DH's onco, since my just new onco has already left) and first, I was surprised that it ended up being a virtual visit. Like really….I could have sat in my pajamas this morning. Then, DH never followed up about his anitbiotic…seems the power outage never transmitted the order, so that was a waste and we may have to go back to the pharmacy tomorrow…and the onco was not happy that my M-spike went up so he wants labs redone in 6 months and possibly do a bone marrow biopsy. I'm quite unhappy.
We went out for lunch…had bison burgers. Dinner was leftover peanut noodles.
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Last night Sharon "cooked" a whole chicken in a pressure cooker, and then completed the cooking under a broiler. BBQ sauce was then brushed on at the end.
it was about an hour from "what's for dinner" to eating.
My contribution was cooking corn on the grill.
It was quite tasty and the meat was falling off of the bone.
Basically, it was 1/2 an onion and half a dozen cloves of garlic stuffed into the cavity of the chicken, cook about 6-7 minutes per pound of chicken at 15psi, let the pressure cooker cool naturally, then finish off with about 5 minutes under the oven broiler. Brush on the BBQ sauce, let rest for a few minutes and…eat…
Dental appointment during a power failure…a new one for me too. :-) Fortunately I've not had that experience. Hopefully it wasn't during a procedure that needed power to complete.
Maggie, I hope the 'hexaiine works. Sore teeth-gums are no fun.
Minus. Hopefully you can jump into the pool now and again to cool off during the signup process.
And, Carole, hopefully you can avoid becoming a storm chaser on your trip north. How close are you to your "north home"?
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Wally, Sorry you have to have your labs redone sooner. I’ve run into problems with virtual visits being scheduled when they aren’t allowed by insurance rules. I’d love to stay home but don’t want to be stuck with the bill.
Eric, That chicken sounds delicious. My childhood memory of my mother’s pressure cooker exploding has made me reluctant to use one.
Carole, I join Eric in hoping your trip north has been uneventful.
My local appointment to schedule cataract surgery turned into a referral to MEEI since the ophthalmologist thinks my vision problems have some other unknown cause. I’ve had ultrasounds there since it’s adjacent to MGH. I guess it’s another opportunity to eat clam chowder.
Dinner tonight was salmon, summer squash and fries for DH.
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