So...whats for dinner?
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My dinner was a riff on Laurie's famous Mexican chicken. Can of black beans drained. 1/2 cup of hot green salsa. One left over rotisserie chicken breast cut in chunks. Stir & microwave on low. Top w/shredded cheese & heat just to melt. Served topped with sour cream. Maybe I'll get to the store today for tortillas for the left overs.
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We made it to Watertown, NY last night.
We were going to camp last night.. but flash flood warnings were posted where we were going to camp. So we just drove on in.
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Tonight is leftover BBQ'd chicken, mac'n cheese and a veggie
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eric - my DH spent much time at Fort Drum in Watertown, NY opening a bombing range for B-52's to drop live munitions. We were stationed at Griffiss AFB in Rome, NY at the time - 1986-1990.
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Baked chicken, mashed cauliflower and red & green cabbage tonight.
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I see some people like curry as does my wife. She just had her first round of chemo. Cytoxan / Taxotere Monday 7/10/2017 so still feeling the effects of the bone pain from the Neulasta given the day after chemo. However, my concern is eating curry. I read that curry can inhibit some types of chemotherapy for breast cancer, anyone else aware of this? Just like to know because she just enjoyed a little curry and rice before I read about the effect it can have on treatment.
Bob
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TKD, Curry can mean most anything. What is in your curry that concerns you? Ginger, garlic, onions, and tumeric should not be an issue. If you are making a Thai curry, coconut milk [not too much cream] is wonderful for the stomach. I make all my curries from scratch so I always knew what was in them. Love to know more.... perhaps post a recipe?
Tonight two young women came to visit me. They were part of my sixth guest group, over a year ago! One has finished her first year of med school, while the other is still in high school in Texas and was just here to visit. I made them their mother's Persian tea and we snacked on orange-almond cakes. It was a fascinating visit. The older one is doing some medical research that is quite astonishing! How sweet that they wanted to see us again.
Since I knew they wouldn't arrive until about 6, I pulled the lasted to-be-baked pasta out of the freezer. It is in the oven now, so a late dinner. They brought us four mini pies, so I think we will have the French fruit tart as dessert. I will also make a salad.
*susan*
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I think the concern is the potential interference between turmeric and some chemotherapy drugs - MSK says Adriamycin and Cytoxan, specifically. It can also interfere with platelet production, which is already potentially already impacted by chemo. TKDBOB - best to check with your oncologist.
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Bob - I think for the most part anything that your wife can consider eating or get down would be good news. Many of us had problems eating at all, period. Check with her MO, but it's not something I've ever heard of. But to Susan's question, yes do post a recipe if its something you are cooking. Since we're a foodie thread, everyone would enjoy seeing it.
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I tasted this at Central Market last week & it was delicious. Thought I'd share.
RASPBERRY SAUCE WITH SWEET RED WINE
12 oz fresh raspberries, washed
12 fl oz sweet red wine
1/2 cup granulated sugar
Put all ingredients in a saucepan over medium heat. Simmer until raspberries cook down - approx 15-20 minutes.
After the raspberries break down, run sauce through a fine mesh strainer to catch all the seeds & discard those.
Return strained sauce to a clean saucepan & continue to simmer to reduce
to a semi-thick sauce that coats the back of a spoon - approx 10-15 minutes.
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Sorry I was posting at the same time as Special K and she knew more than I did. Great Special.
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Thinking about the curry– I just can't imagine that a teaspoon of numeric in a dish that serves four is an issue. Taking those power packed pills would be.
The young women brought FOUR pies; small pies. Tonight we enjoyed a fruit tart unlike any tart I have had before. They didn't even try to do a French tart. Instead the crust was a shortbread, the filling was orange flavored whipped cream, and the fruit on top was strawberries, blueberries, mandarin oranges, and kiwi. It was actually pretty good! We put the other three in the fridge. This is worth eating.
*susan*
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susan - I agree that the occasional small amount of turmeric ingested as food is probably not an issue, supplementing daily during chemo could be.
Made a main dish salad for dinner - when DH walks/runs in the evening by the water after feeding DD's bird on the way home, he usually doesn't want hot food. Combined romaine and some kale, added blackberries and strawberries, roasted chicken breast, slivered almonds and scallions. Dressed it with vinaigrette that I added some mashed strawberries to. DH had a piece of the key lime pie from the freezer
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Too tired and sore from yesterday’s training to handle the long drive through traffic to see my friend’s band perform out in Downer’s Grove. Not going to the Woodstock (IL) Folk Festival Sunday either—flooding detours galore. So I will tune in to WFMT tomorrow night to hear them on “Folkstage.”
Bob is working late tonight, so I got my own dinner. (Had brunch about 1 pm: low-carb toast, bacon and a French gruyere-and-herb rolled omelette. I keep forgetting how labor-intensive it is, especially freezing & dicing the butter & stripping thyme leaves—not to mention culling the blackened ones--and then picking out the little bits of stem & twig that slip in.Tricky making sure it cooks enough without the butter browning the omelet. But it sure is good). I spiralized half a small zucchini and cooked an equal volume (the half-portion remaining in the bag) of whole wheat spaghetti (Bionature, the only brand that cooks up al dente instead of going from crunch directly to mush). Topped it with sauteed tomato, banana pepper, onion, mushrooms, garlic, olive oil, fresh basil and grated Parm-Reg. and pecorino Romano. Might have some more of that tomato & basil, or saute some snap peas, later.
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SpecialK. Glad you agree. I ate tumeric during chemo, but again in small amounts. In fact, that was my high sodium meal the Tuesday nights before chemo. Really salty Thai food including some tumeric in the chicken satay. I think that supplements, in general, are not a good thing. A balanced diet should provide all needed nutrients. And during chemo, if you can tolerate it, eat it. Chemo, for early stage folks, is a time to eat whatever appeals. I hope that TKD returns to talk more about curries.
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For those that wanted my seafood pie recipe:
I cook and sautee spinach, chop and drain. I add it right after the seafood.
SEAFOOD QUICHE 1 unbaked pastry shell, regular size baking shell
1/2 lb. sliced Swiss cheese (shredded is best)
1/2 c. sm. shrimp
4 oz. frozen claw crabmeatLine pastry shell with shredded cheese. Cover cheese with a layer of shrimp and a layer of crabmeat.
Beat together:
2 beaten eggs
1 c. whipping cream
1/2 tbsp. flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/4 tsp. cayenneCombine the above with:
1 tbsp. sherry wine
1 tbsp. melted butterPour mixture over seafood. This may now be refrigerated or frozen. To serve: Bake for 40 minutes at 375 degrees until light brown. Quiche should stand for at least 20 minutes before serving.
Tips I've learned: I now shred the guyere or swiss.
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Oh that sounds so delicious. Thanks Val.
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Enjoy !
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Breakfast was an hour of water aerobics. Lunch was 1/2 a rye bagel with cream cheese & smoked salmon spread. Dinner was 1/3 an English cuke, 1 piece leftover pizza - pepperoni & mushroom, 1 Comice Pear which was really disappointing for $1.65 (eeek) - very little taste. (glad I only bought one).
Going to one of our local theaters tomorrow afternoon to see "Always Patsy Cline". I know it's been around for awhile, but I've never seen it. The neighbor I'm going with has been on a serious diet and wants to eat at Sweet Tomatoes after the play so I'll get my salad for the week.
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Dinner was a NY strip, cooked in a cast iron skillet preheated on the grill; pan-seared Brussels sprouts with olive oil, balsamic and truffle salt; and tomato-basil salad. Waiting for the skillet to cool before I clean it. I like to cook steak in cast iron, but I don’t like having to preheat the pan in the oven to 500F in warm weather. The downside to the skillet-on-the-grill method is you don’t get the grill marks, but you also don’t dirty the grill, or get flare-ups.
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Minus, how was the show?
The ribs that we smoked two weeks ago and were not eaten were stashed into what I fondly call the "Magic Freezer." Tonight, one bag of those ribs, six ribs to be exact, were thawed. I also grabbed a bag of corn that we processed at the end of last summer. Add some green beans and cucumbers from today's Farmer's market, and we have dinner!
I baked the corn. Normally, I add some butter and chives, but today, we had culled the basil, so I added that instead.
*susan*
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My stomach hasn't been happy for the past few days. I am forcing myself to eat bigger meals, and it appears that the results are the BigD. Net result? I am eating more food and loosing even more weight. Ugh. No pancakes for "brunch" today. Stomach had no interest, so I had some yogurt with my strawberry-rhubarb compote and a bit of granola and a scrambled egg. Dinner ended up being at the Greek Corner. Ordered the sample plate to share with Mr. SMT and a bowl of their lemon-chicken soup. This restaurant used to be a study in lemon and garlic. Been a while since we have been, and the garlic and lemon were not to be found. The hummus? None. The eggplant dip? Bland. The spanakopita? if there was any feta cheese in there, I sure didn't find it. However, my stomach isn't in pain so maybe the blandness is a good thing.. The soup was fresher and lighter than I remember. Of course, my potassium numbers would have enjoyed some potatoes, but the rice was delicious.
Going forward, I am going to give up on eating a "full" meal, and go back to forcing a small breakfast with a snack in the afternoon. Team on Tuesday will NOT be happy with my weight, but the flip side is, I can wear those dresses I bought back before my thyroid disease was found! And they are nice dresses indeed. Heck, they are a bit too big even. [Is it bad that I am happy not to be carrying that extra 15-20 lbs?]
*susan*
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Susan - woohoo for the dresses. Now you just need the energy to go out & show them off. Dancing??? But sorry your tummy has been revolting. I have better luck with small meals more frequently. Hope it will work for you.
Always Patsy Cline was just great. Funny & sad. Bold & saucy. Neither my friend nor I listened to Country music at the time, but even I knew many of the songs. The show premiered in 1988 & has been produced around the country ever since. Apparently just started a second tour of Australia.
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Dinner last night was a big green salad with lettuce, baby arugula, grape tomatoes, English cukes and vinaigrette, followed by the last 1/4 c. of tuna salad on a half piece of bran matzo. That’s because I had a donut for breakfast (no time to cook), before we left for the White Sox game (they lost). Had my first real beer in a year and first one with both alcohol & full carbs in >2 yrs. Bob said all week he wanted a Cuban sandwich, so I was going to buy two until I saw the calorie count (city law requires it be posted): 875! So we split one. I had CrackerJack (hadn’t had that in years either). Then Bob decided he needed a “Taco Helmet” (taco salad with guac, cheese & sour cream on chips served in a plastic batting helmet, which he had earlier this year when he & Gordy went to a game. (“Sundae Helmets” were half-price because it was National Ice Cream Day. Uhhhh, no thanks). On our way out of the stadium we noticed the calorie count: 3200. Whereupon Bob vowed to fast (except for wine) for the next 24 hrs., but he gave in at about 3 am by killing off half a box of graham crackers.
Tonight I will pick up a rotisserie chicken after working out. And I will have the Asian cuke salad I made last night to “pickle” itself in the fridge: dressing was a little ponzu, rice vinegar, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, and a tiny dollop of Korean gojuchong paste. Maybe it’ll make up for the fact that what I really want are crispy, crunchy, sticky, sweet-hot floured-and-deep-fried Korean wings.
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Mr. SMT brought home a lovely head of cauliflower from the farmer's market this weekend. This was paired with some potatoes [always thinking about potassium] for a simple Indian dish. The rest of the meal came from our Indian spot... tandoor chicken wings and some chana masala. Sometimes I just need an assist. Today was one of those days. Though I had planned to make my own chana masala, but even though I had them soaking, it felt like too much. Today was so hot and sticky.
We had a great day with Olivia. Most of this day was spent outside. She learned how to pick bright red raspberries and pop them into her mouth. She learned that the green tomatoes are not to be picked since they aren't yet ready. Here she is sitting on the newly rebuilt stairs from the porch in a romper that I made.
*susan*
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DH cooked a mix of things he wanted and whatever was easy. Small portion of grilled sirloin steak, 3 sautéed gulf shrimp, corn on the cob and leftover homemade Mac n cheese. And about 2/3 cup of no sugar added ice cream for dessert
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Susan - if I lived closer I'd have to borrow her. What a doll.
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Minus, she is an amazing child! She would love to be borrowed.
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susan - can't tell you how much I enjoy seeing pics of Olivia - makes me smile every time! She is a gem!
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What a cute picture! I'm in love with Olivia!
I will be buying lunch for my mother at Olive Garden. Shrimp and pasta alfredo. I will eat a little pasta to please her and will eat the large salad, which is just so-so. I will take my computer and do some shopping with her for one or two new house dresses, categorized as "patio dresses." Her aides have influenced her to wear dresses rather than slacks and blouses because tending to bathroom needs is easier.
Last night's dinner was a Smart something frozen dinner, Mexican rice and beans. It was edible and easy. And the evil scale is kind this morning! I am sending a couple of pounds to Susan.
It was raining when I arrived last Tuesday and has rained every day. But what is happening outside is irrelevant (as long as the weather doesn't feature a hurricane or tornado) because life takes place indoors in a/c cooled environment. The heat has reached northern MN, my husband tells me. He cleaned the carpet in the rv yesterday and had the a/c going out of necessity for comfort as well as drying the carpet. At least there is hope of the weather changing in MN. Not in LA until late October or early November.
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