So...whats for dinner?
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Chinese Buffet. The upside is that I got some extra Fitbit steps in while packing my plate.
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Fitbit is good! Does your tracker also count calories burned? That too is a consolation, Ilona.
Gonna give Gordy the ribs & corn tonight. I defrosted a roasted duck half, and will have it (or a quarter) with sauteed veggies (probably snap peas or whatever in the crisper needs cooking). Maybe grill some eggplant for variety (and to keep me away from the starches—having enough trouble being tempted by sugar…but that pint of Jeni's Splendid “Deepest Darkest Chocolate" keeps calling me from the freezer).
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Cycle 5 is done. Today was week 3 and the taxol is in me, ready to take out the rest of my feet bottoms and, we hope, tumors. Had a new nurse, well, actually she drew my blood last week, and I really like her. She appears to be my tertiary nurse and that is good. She received Nurse K's almond-orange cake. She did well! Now I get two weeks to recover.
Did I post last night;s meal? I am too tired to look back. Sous vide pork tenderloin, seared in a cast iron pan with sweet potato latkes and steamed local green beans. Of course, tonight, we should have had leftover pork, but we didn't. I really needed someone else to cook for me, so we went to our favorite Chinese restaurant. These random restaurant nights really have to go away now that I am not working, but I think for our $35.00 we will get two full meals. Meanwhile, our current guests used the kitchen to make a fried rice. They hadn't warned me that they wanted to cook, so this worked out well. Funny that my Chinese guests are the ones who scratched up my wok. Guess I have to make popcorn to get my patina back properly. I like these guests, but they have taken over my home in a way that is unusual. Next up? A thyroid surgeon from Columbia.
*susan*
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Soooo sorry about the reaction Special...enough to make you just say, DAMMIT!
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We stopped for about 3 hours at Teddy Roosevelt National Park and now we are in Hardin, MT. Tomorrow we are going to spend some time at the Little Big Horn National Monument. We have been tent camping each night since we left New York last Thursday.
The Dutch oven, cast iron skillet and Coleman stove have been well used...cheese burgers, spaghetti, beef tacos (hamburger meat, Bell pepper and onion, along with some seasoning and corn tortillas) and a shrimp/rice dish......nothing that required a large cleanup effort
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Kitchen in full blown re-no mode....the damn stove is in the foyer and I cannot describe the rest of the main floor except to say....nothing is in it's place. Sooooo.....leaving for a long girls weekend to Montreal next Wed-Sun.....anyone want to make sugestions for anything?
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Yeah—take me with you!!! (Only half kidding—I have medical appointments and a block party for which to volunteer).
Tonight I told Gordy to have at the remaining ribs (8 bones, St. Louis dry rubbed, from Todd's BBQ inside Mariano’s). Actually slow wood-smoked--not baby backs boiled, baked, grilled, drowned in cheap sauce and proudly touted as “fall off the bone:" the North Side (read “white neighborhood") standard for Chicago-style ribs. Real BBQ ribs should fight back—if the meat does “fall" off the bone, it's because it "was pushed;" what “falls off" should be firm and require teeth to chew. Also, there was 2/3 of a grilled ear of corn.
As for me, I ransacked the crisper and found some baby rainbow carrots and (unintentionally) partially frozen broccolini. Because it was partially frozen, it held up well (the “brassicas," except for cabbage, tend to freeze nicely). The roasted half duckling I bought yesterday thawed overnight in the fridge. So I tossed the carrots in olive oil, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, pepper and a little honey and roasted them in the toaster-oven with the duck. I blanched the broccolini in the microwave and then tossed it with chopped roasted garlic, truffle salt, olive oil, lemon juice and red pepper flakes.
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Has anyone used a spiralizer attachment with their KithchenAid?
Do you find it useful?
I bought this attachment tonight along with a cookbook. I like the idea of using vegetables in a different way.
I am starting to get vegetables from my garden, I think with all the rains my
Veggies and flowers are into overproduction mode and incidentally so are the weeds.
There's an interesting Pad Thai done with spiralized daikon I will try but I'll need to get some Asian ingredients.
Susan, hello, we once pm about my travel. we have done more trips, recently to Israel and Jordan, great food, very vegetable oriented.
Kathy
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Kathy, I spiralize zukes the old fashioned way, cranking the contraption by hand. I haven’t used my KitchenAid in years, since I stopped baking. One of Bob’s patients has a bumper crop, so we’ll be getting some tomorrow. (BTW, his cardiology practice is on the SW Side—Advocate Christ, Little Company of Mary & Holy Cross, with offices near Midway & Hickory Hills. But we live north, in Edgewater).
Walked home from my workout (BMI is down by 1, weight down by 7lbs) deciding I really didn't want to heat up the kitchen or defrost anything to grill. So I raided the crisper & the deli drawer and made a panino: ciabatta roll with peppers (poblano, green banana and red), red onion, salumi (1 thin slice ea. coppa, jamon Serrano, & bresaola), my first homegrown tomato of the season, a single thin slice of provolone and herbs (basil, holy basil, and rosemary) from my garden, with a little drizzle of olive oil on the inside surfaces of the roll. 10 minutes in the panini press was all it took. Yum.
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I have an Oxo spiralizer and hand crank veggies all the time. Can't speak to the Kitchen Aid.
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Mine’s the Paderno World Cuisine 3-blade model with a spindle and crank. I tried the OXO cone model and scraped my knuckles on it.
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Since my hubby had me freeze what was left of the BBQ'd pulled pork that we were given by friends last week, he wants me to nuke it tonight and make sandwiches with it. Thinking of pairing it with a salad and some tater tots. He wants me to have a filling dinner since I can't have anything to eat or drink until after my PET Scan tomorrow morning.
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I just got the Paderno 3 blade but I think Susan has the kitchen aid attachment.
Good luck with your test Mommy.
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Nance - how's your Dad?
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Minus - he's so so. Fighting a UTI and pneumonia, so not feeling great. Hates his room situation so he's depressed as well. Not much to be done about the room at present. I did get him on a list to be moved as soon as an opening comes up. Sadly, he's probably as good as he's going to get. I will be seeing him Sunday. Thank you for asking Minus. I hope Carole's mom is faring better.
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Thanks Nance.
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Sous vide has gone mainstream. A man here in Pine Hollow has a machine in his camper. I was offered a slice of pork tenderloin over at a neighbor's deck a few weekends ago. Imagine my surprise when Brad (we call him Brad the Fisherman) said that he'd cooked it in his sous vide. The pork was tender and tasty except for being too salty.
DH and I went to the gym this morning. I was up 3 lbs when I weighed on the scale that is like the scales in doctors' offices. DH is also up quite a bit.
Dinner will feature a boneless chicken breast. Also some fresh green and yellow "snap" beans I picked off the neighbor's bean bushes. I will slice the chicken and saute it. Cook some pasta. Combine the chicken and beans with the pasta in a sauce of chicken broth thickened with corn starch. Then for the addition of deliciousness, some fresh-grated romano. A fairly healthy hot dish. Side will be salad.
FINALLY, there should be home grown tomatoes available this month. For a price, of course, but I will pay.
Nance, my mother seems to be content with her life. She is very critical of the food but keeps her weight up by consuming snacks full of sugar and calories. She has been overweight much of her life, and the extra bulk makes it harder on her caregivers. I hope your father's health and state of mind improve.
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Help, I'm trying to spiralize zucchini and it's a mess. It's coreing while turning and little pieces come off that are an inch long. Hubby is peddling his fanny thu Iowa (ragbri) so I thought I would try this attachment out. Good thing he's not here , dinner would not be impressive.
Carole, I have a SousVide courtesy of a son and who thought I needed more cooking stuff; Usually I use it more in winter.
Kathy
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Kathy, as far as I know, Susan is the only one here that has that attachment and could give you advice. My manual one worked perfectly the only time I've used it - sorry.
I had a chance to get a sous vide unit with Amazon gift cards given to me for my birthday and seriously considered it. Instead I opted for a single serve coffee maker (not a Keurig) that uses k cups so I can enjoy single cups of decaf and my stomach doesn't complain so much. I got a nice assortment of decafs to go with it and I'm pleasantly surprised with how well the coffee turned out.
Tonight was a mixed grill with ribeye, smoked sausage and an assortment of veggies mostly from my garden - tomatoes, zukes, peppers, onion and some sweet corn. We've gotten 4 ½ inches of rain this week. Woohoo! I must pick beans tomorrow, they will be cranking on again.
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Max - I use a manual spriralizer, but yes there is a core about the diameter of a #2 pencil. I usually break mine off when it gets to be a couple of inches long. I slice the core piece quite thin and either mix with the spirals when I cook or toss them in a green salad.
Nance - sorry to hear that your Dad is not content. Of course it's hard to be happy with either a UTI or pneumonia and he has both!!! If I remember, he does like the food at his place.
Carole - so glad your Mother seems content. The last two years of my Dad's life he ate mostly cokes ad candy bars & I just didn't worry about it. Sounds like you had a good trip. How long will you stay up North this summer?
Dinner was the last of the pork fried rice w/peas added. I ran errands in the 100 degree afternoon heat (yeah I know, dumb) so I was too hot to even consider eating for at least an hour. Then I needed something that didn't produce more heat. Tomorrow is FINALLY the Olathe corn from Colorado - 5 for $1.00 at Kroger. I may eat all five ears just with butter & salt.
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I've found that sometimes my Paderno makes little crescents, sometimes one long continuous strand. Seems to depend on the shape and circumference of the zucchini—small ones sit up high on the studded anchor and not enough of the surface engages with the blade plate. Put it on the anchor too low and the center corer doesn’t engage and the veggie falls off. (The mixed-length thing happened tonight—I mixed half zoodles and half Dreamfields spaghetti with some tomatoes, basil, olive oil & Parm-Reg/pecorino I grated together). If it's any consolation, if I'm lazy and buy the pre-spiralized bowls at Whole Foods (impossible to open neatly, impossible to close completely), half the time there are mostly just short crescents. Their butternut squash and sweet potato spirals tend to be more noodle-like.
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2 hours to home. Dinner last night at Bryce Canyon National Park: Tacos
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Eric - thanks for the picture. Bryce & Zion are on my list. Love the levis & sweat shirt. No way once you get home!!!
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Dinner tonight was at the Carbon Arc grill in the multiplex where we saw "Dunkirk." Shared app was a crab and avocado salad, and entree (so big we should have shared, so we took half home) was "Chicken & Wiscuits:" fried chicken thigh & breast, slaw, with waffles covered with chicken-sausage countrygravy. Chicken & waffles usually comes with syrup or honey for the waffles, so this was a nice change of pace--I find sweet waffles with chicken kinda gross, even if it is all the rage.
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Made homemade meatballs yesterday. Had spaghetti and meatballs last night. Enough meatballs left for meatball grinders
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Hi everyone! Long time no "see" I changed jobs recently and we are getting ready to put our house on the market so have been really busy. Last night had some friends over for dinner who have been really helpful lately and (by harassment...um, request), I made my homemade lasagna. I even made the noodles with my new pasta machine. Usually I would make the dough the old fashioned way and then hand crank the sheets of noodles. This was soooo easy. Hope you are all well. Have not been here in a month so no way to catch up so just hoping everyone is doing great. Here is some food porn for your Sunday pleasure. Enjoy your day everyone!
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Looks yummy, April!
This afternoon, we went downtown to 900 N. Michigan for Bob's haircut from his favorite barber. I wasn't all that hungry, having eaten a leftover waffle for breakfast, but Bob insisted on lunch so we went to Hugo's Frog Bar, which is part of Gibson's steakhouse. Bob had a big bowl of Bookbinder's soup and a crab salad; I took a little of the salad and had half a dozen raw oysters (MA, two WA, PEI, L.I. Bluepoint, and BC). He had passionfruit sorbet for dessert, and I ordered a slice of “chocolate mousse pie" and a take-home box for dessert, intending to eat half and take the rest home. Yeah, right: I'd forgotten that Gibsons' portions of cakes & pies are gargantuan. The waiter brought out 1/4 of a 7" tall chocolate mousse cake—almost all dark chocolate mousse with a little bit of chocolate crumb crust on the top & bottom. The whole cake had to have been at least 10" in diameter. The waiter sliced about half an inch off the side—and it took two of us to eat even that little bit. Hope Gordy likes chocolate mousse…
Bob wants some of the chianti tonight we bought last July in Tuscany, so I’m defrosting some grass-fed ribeye to grill. Will have it with the Brussels sprouts & rainbow carrots remaining in the crisper, and the guys will have some brown rice on the side. Will probably eat at about 9:30 or 10. We finished lunch about 5:15, it’s 7:30 already, and I still can’t even look at food. Might even cook only the one smaller steak and let Bob & Gordy divide it, and I will eat veggies…if I can.
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April - great to hear from you. Glad you've got a new job. The lasagna looks delicious. That's the one thing my son always wanted when he came home but I never made homemade pasta. Now he & DIL specialize in vegetarian lasagna.
Eric - looking forward to hearing more about your trip once you get back in the groove,.
Lunch was 1/2 a baked potato and 1/2 a copy of steamed BokChoy. Dinner was the last 3 ears of Olathe corn on the cob. Who needs anything else!!! I'll go buy more tomorrow while it's still in the stores.
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I'm still kind of tired...and I have to go back to work tomorrow. I have a performance review tomorrow and I'm fighting the excitement at letting my boss know I'm going to put in my retirement paperwork. I'll let them know Tuesday or Wednesday. :-) :-) :-)
Since I'm only 56, I know I'll get some "must be nice" comments from the folks at work...and I'll agree with them. We 'saved hard' all of our lives so this could happen...so why not? :-)
The three week vacation, not counting vehicle depreciation...costing less than $1,000...is an example of not going crazy with spending.
We were much too superficial in our visits to various places. Next time we will do fewer things, but with much more detail. Even the smallest of state and national parks deserve a few days time to take it all in. But since DD needed help moving the big stuff from her apartment by July 31 and Sharon and I both needing to be back July 31, we had to "hurry".
The trip changed from a get there pretty quickly, spend time with Sharon's family and quickly drive home--with only a couple of days camping to camping just about every night and seeing a lot of things.
Let's see. We drove into Canada and followed Highway 17 from Ottawa, Ontario to Thunder Bay, Ontario. This road follows along the north shore of Lake Superior and is both absolutely beautiful and wonderfully rural. The highway is 2 lanes with lots of passing lanes and a 55mph/90kph speed limit. For what it's worth, once you get an hour west of Ottawa, the traffic drops to "see a car or two every few minutes" so the engineer in me thinks there is no need to add lanes. It took us 3-1/2 days to make the 1.000 or so miles around Lake Superior and we tent camped each night in the provincial parks.
We came back to the USA at the "twin cities" of Thunder Bay, ON and Grand Portage, MN and we camped west of Duluth at a deserted (It was Sunday evening and we were the only ones there) county park along side the Mississippi River. At this point the river was about 75 feet wide and 3-4 feet deep, which was smaller than the mosquitoes. :-) As a joke, someone posted along the highway one of those yellow diamond shaped warning signs (just like the ones warning of a curve on the road) except on the sign had an image of a mosquito flying off with a human...at least I think the sign was a joke. The only place I remember having more/bigger mosquitoes was outside of Eielson AFB.
We stopped at the beginning of the Mississippi River (Lake Itasca) and waded across the river. It was about a foot deep and probably 25 feet wide--a humble beginning to a big river.
From there we drove to Bismark and camped in a KOA campground.
We then stopped at the "Teddy" Roosevelt National Park and took that in. There were lots of prairie dogs and we had to wait about 20 minutes for a herd of bison to move across the road. A big bull (?) bison kept watch on us and a couple of other cars while *his* herd passed by us. We thought it was great, while another guy kept complaining about how long this was taking! I guess he thought the park service should install walk/don't walk signs, or something. :-) The prairie dogs were interesting in how the lookouts were stationed and at the sign of a predator, a loud chirp/bark and they all scurried into their burrows.
We then drove on to Hardin, MT and camped again. In the morning we went over to the Little Big Horn National Park (Custer). The first President Bush signed the bill that renamed the park from General Custer National Park and authorized the installation of a monument to the Native Americans that fought/died at this place. One of the interpretive rangers is a recently retired high school history teacher and he gave a wonderful talk about the battle to about 20 people.
We hadn't planned on going through Yellowstone because that is something that can not be done in one day (none of the other parks should be done in one day either...just saying) and planned on going back there another time, but we discovered that US Hwy 89 (we had decided to take the US Hwy 89 as it actually saves time compared to the Interstate 15 and is much more scenic) goes right through Yellowstone and Grand Tetons. Since we are going back there, we just drove through, stopping a few times to look at the steam vents. There were severe thunderstorms in the area, so we drove a bit longer and (the only time) "moteled" it in Idaho Falls.
We then drove on to Bryce Canyon and got the last camping spot within the park. The park is much smaller than the Grand Canyon, but just as interesting.
We talked with the rangers a bit and then moved on. We got to Page, AZ and spent a couple of hours wandering around Glen Canyon Dam. The Bureau of Reclamation (as a lifelong desert dweller, I still can't see why the area needs "reclaiming", but that's me) now does tours of the interior of the dam and with both of us being engineers, we couldn't resist.
We got home around 8pm to an excited DD, an excited cat and two excited dogs.
Sharon and I took a huge number of pictures, but we really haven't gone through them yet.
Meals...we only ate one meal in a restaurant..a 5 Guys somewhere in northern Utah. Since we didn't want to heat up the stove/pans in the morning, it was bagels and fruit for breakfast. Lunch was various sandwiches made at rest stops. Dinner was kept simple (hamburgers, beef tacos, spaghetti, etc.) so we could minimize the number of dirty dishes and empty food containers.
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Meatball grinders tonight
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