So...whats for dinner?
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Eric, safe travels and work effort. I think you will be seeing the worst of the worst after Maria strikes these already devastated areas. My friend's son and family have chosen to stay on St.John to support the efforts to regain a bit of normalcy for their community. Their house was not terribly damaged, so they have been sheltering others, and working very hard with the Erics of the world. My friend would love to have them return to her home but so far they have been steadfast about being a part of the recovery process. I'm afraid that may be changing with Maria on the way. So sad....
Special, your daughter went through a lot. I can just imagine how relieved you felt seeing her walk in the door! Does she have a debriefing protocol after making a trip like that? I bet your family is totally up on such things.
Dinner tonight was grilled chicken breast, ratatouille, and a garden salad of an oak leaf lettuce that is delicious, but was chock full of pink aphids that I painstakingly removed. Wow! Next time if I see a few aphids crawling around a lettuce head from the farm that uses no spray, I'll pass!
Tomorrow evening, we plan to go to see The Moth in Hvd Sq., (in the forecasted pouring rain). We will probably go in early and have dinner at a restaurant near there.
Bedo, good to see your post. I have a lot of catching up to do and have no idea where you are, but I'm guessing you are a Nana by now. Congrats!
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Yesterday was a grueling hour long set up in the table for radiation boost mapping, so I picked up some BBQ.
Tonight will be a pork loin chop with leftover pot roast veggies.
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If I can get someone to come with me to see Suzzy Roche at City Winery tonight, dinner will be wine & tapas. Otherwise, I think I'll defrost a piece of salmon and take it from there (probably w/steamed corn on the cob and broccolini). For brunch (I tend to sleep in, and after I've done all my e-mail and other stuff, don't eat for 1-1/2 hrs. after) I made a sort of Eggs Benedict: low-carb toast, tomato slices, coppa, 2 sunny-side up eggs (dry-fried in a well-seasoned cast iron skillet), topped with nuked Hollandaise (Christian Bernard--down to my last 3 packets) and a dusting of cayenne. Ate it before I could photograph it. Priorities, y'know.
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I'm still in the continental USA, parked in a hotel and taking care of last minute paperwork. They've asked us to be "non-specific" about things, so.....that's the "status report"
If you look at the http://nhc.noaa.gov website, it looks bad for the Caribbean.
And then the Mexico City Earthquake, plus the fires in the northwest USA...the response crews are busy.
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Where did everyone go?
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Dinner is pancakes and bacon
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Still at home, waiting to take a voice lesson. Freaked out because the next-door neighbor's gutter installers encountered a wasps' nest on the outside of our house facing theirs across the gangway, and had to stop work when they began to swarm. Emergency pest control guys have been called. Bees & wasps scare me more than nearly anything else.
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Sandy,
With several gardens and a large amount of flowers, it's a hangout for birds, bees and wasps. If they occasionally swarm, they won't bother you if you move away. I do a walk about around the house and knock out any nests with a hose or long pole a few times a year. We have a 16' story and a half gazebo which attracts carpenter bees. They like to drill holes which leaves little sawdust piles, we plug the holes and they drill somewhere else. We also have had red headed woodpeckers try to drill holes in a cedar panel of our house and they are quite loud. We discouraged them by repairing the holes with wood putty and restaining the panel. At least fortunately 95% of our hose is brick and free from drilling. We also replaced some of our cedar decks with azek PVC.
We are inundated with numerous chipmongs digging tunnels throughout our stonework.
The fight is on but I suspect we are losing, ah nature!,
On the sprializer,
I found the problem after two messy tries. My garden zucchinis are large with a soft center. They don't work well with the kitchen aid attachment, however, store zucchini works fine. Right now I've had my fill of zucchini and I have 4 more, what to do, we are leaving
Saturday for two weeks. Dinner tonight will be whatever is in the fridge, and yes more zucchini.
iPhones,
Wanted to order a iPhone 8 but will have to wait until the end of our trip, since we won't be here for delivery. I'm thinking of changing to a color, gold with a rose red case, because hubby picks up mine or I pickup his when they are identical.
Just ruminating, Kathy
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Kathy, the reason we're sorta freaking out about the wasps' nest is that when the next-door neighbors' gutter-installation crew began working across the narrow gangway from my house, "about 200 wasps began swarming," according to my neighbor. Our house (built 1908) is stucco & cedar shake over frame. And I am most likely allergic (even though the first wasp sting I got up in the Catskills at age 10 didn't set off anaphylaxis, my arm did swell so badly I had to spend all morning in the cold outdoor pool up to my neck): I have hay fever, mold & penicillin allergies--which together predispose to bee/wasp/hornet allergies. (And that's besides the fear of setting up a lymphedema flare and even cellulitis). So walking around with a pole, knocking the nest off, is not the wisest thing for me to do. That's why the pros are coming over, in full regalia with smokers and other stuff to paralyze the wasps long enough to put them into the appropriate safe disposal (and presumably euthanasia) container. We don't have all that many flowers either. The only stuff still blooming are some of my hostas and the Holy Basil spikes, and I've seen only honeybees on them.
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Tonight I had the final portion of pot roast leftovers and made some Parmesan Zucchini sticks (brushed w/olive oil, seasoned w/salt & pepper and coated in an equal mix of fresh grated Parmesan, shredded Romano and breadcrumbs, all 1 tbsp each, baked at 400 for 15 minutes then 2 in the broiler)
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DH is out of town, so didn't make dinner due to eating half a really big patty melt at lunch with a friend earlier, lol!
eric - hope you are keeping busy but staying safe
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Special, saw footage of relief and rescue teams flying out of McDill, and thought of you & your family. Blessings to you, yours (and Eric as well).
Dinner tonight was odds & ends, since I'm stuck indoors in the A/C because of the unexpected heat (90s) and the mold action alert and killed over an hour with Apple Tech Support trying to figure out why Time Machine is stuck on "Preparing Backup" for backing up my new MBPro to my 5-yr-old Time Capsule (which is also our router--and for which Apple has never rolled out a replacement). Three hours later, it's still in limbo. Fortunately, was able to back up & update my iPad & about-to-be-traded iPhone 6S and update them to iOS 11. Worked smoothly, and should make the transition to the 8 Plus tomorrow (assuming it arrives at the Apple Store by my appointment time) fairly painless.
Said odds & ends were the third night of the rotisserie chicken I bought Wed. night. (Last night's pre-temple dinner was chicken and insalata Caprese). I made linguine and sauteed it in pesto, another tomato (small this time), and shredded chicken. Dessert was two mochi balls—litchi and black sesame.
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Illimae,
Zucchini looks very tasty, I'll try it tomorrow, hoping I can give away the rest before we leave on Sat. Tonight, we cut up a pineapple for an evening snack; so good and sweet.
Sandy,
200 wasps, wow, that's a rather large colony. They like to nest in openings under the eves and hopefully the pros will able to locate any other areas.
Miscellaneous thoughts,
I've been looking at charity navigator for ratings and transparency on organizations for disaster relief. I've have the hurricanes worked out but still looking for Mexico.
Chicago should have something, if anyone knows of a reliable organization, I'd appreciate a pm.
Thanks, kathy
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Hotel pizza at 12:30am
I've been helping put all sorts of stuff onto "cookie sheets" (463L pallets....special pallets that are then loaded onto transport aircraft).... My uniform was a bit sweaty. :-).
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MREs. That's what's for dinner. And lunch and breakfast.
Back to work.
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eric - bummer on the MREs - just use that tiny Tabasco bottle on everything, lol! When my husband was flying I had a whole drawer full of those little Tabasco bottles. They had MREs at the stadium for him, but I brought a YETI cooler full of stuff from home - I cooked most of what was in the freezer and brought it with m, so he came over to our encampment when it was time to eat.
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The tiny Tabasco bottle is not quite enough...I brought my own large bottle. :-)
Cell service is still problematic, so I post when idle time and cell signal happen at the same time.
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eric - you're a smart man! Yay for Tabasco! Hang in there and stay out of trouble - glad you can sync up the cell signal and a spare minute now and then
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Dinner was penne with an alfredo and turkey meatballs with Parmesan zucchini sticks and ciabatta garlic bread.
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stuffed peppers
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A MN version of chicken sausage gumbo for dinner last night. No real andouille sausage available or even good smoked sausage but I spotted a package of wiener-shaped sausages with "andouille" in the name. I also was surprised to see a package of fresh okra at Walmart's. I cooked the okra with some garlic and a can of Rotel tomatoes. A package of bone-in chicken thighs and I was in business, assembling a gumbo.
It was quite good over brown rice. Side was a crisp romaine salad with blue cheese hunks and avocado. Dressed with vinegar and creamy Caesar bottled dressing.
Today is chilly and raw, in the 50's and overcast. I have spent a maximum of 5 minutes outside.
Looking forward to heading south on Sunday!
Dinner will be leftovers. Probably warmed up linguine in home-made red sauce. Lunch may be a bowl of gumbo.
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Carole, you have inspired me for dinner. I have a package of decent andouille in the freezer. I'll have to use frozen okra though. No fresh to be had here.
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Aidell's makes a halfway decent "andouille" sausage from ground chicken and spices. (Chicken innards probably doesn't have the same flavor as chitlins--an important ingredient in andouille sausage--but thank heaven they don't have the same smell, either).
Last night we went to Duck Duck Goat, the third of Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard's trio of restaurants (the other two being The Girl & the Goat and Little Goat Diner). It was in the Fulton Market District (a recently spiffed-up restaurant area a couple blocks n. of Restaurant Row), and is her take on Cantonese. The drink menu, as at her other restaurants, is chock-full of bad puns in the cocktail names. But the food menu is pretty authentic for the most part--with the addition of her own touches in some of the dishes. We started with wood-fired duck hearts with sesame seeds; then glutinous rice dumplings (sort of the texture of fun rolls or sweet fried sesame balls at rolling-cart dim sum joints) that had a surprisingly delicate crunch on the outside, stuffed with seasoned minced goat; then an octopus & cucumber salad--the cukes sliced lengthwise--with pickled red jalapeños; stir-fried green beans with fried shallots; seafood fried rice featuring shrimp, sea bass, and smoked clams; and for dessert, a miso "sundae" with yuzu, mango (I subbed it for the bananas on the menu, as I hate raw banana), pineapple, and tofu ice cream floating in a delicately creamy red miso foam. Had considered their chicken chow fun but glad we passed on it--the couple at the next table ordered it and the "fun" turned out to be not fresh glutinous rice dough rolled and sliced into noodles, but those dried broad "rice sticks" (the Thai call them "crazy noodle") that weren't unrolled before first being softened and fried. They could not be eaten with chopsticks unless picked up whole and nibbled like a candy bar--the couple had to ask for a knife & fork.
We really liked it. Only bummer is that we had to take Lyft both ways: valet parking is $16, free on-street parking is nonexistent; we were just far enough n. of Restaurant Row that there were no cabs cruising; and public transit would have required multiple transfers between train &/or bus lines. But Lyft was still half the price of a taxi.
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Last night was no dinner, DH had two cheeseburgers for lunch, with some sweet potato fries, so was too full. I ate a Greek horiatiki salad with some chicken breast late in the afternoon so I was ok with that. Tonight will be brown rice fusilli tossed with rotisserie chicken, artichoke hearts, a little parm, and pesto. Probably a kale and strawberry salad with poppyseed dressing as well. We were very excited to see that our Key Lime pie place in Key Largo was spared by Irma and will resume operations in mid-Oct. The people who own the shop are friendly and sweet, I was so happy that they were not put out of business. Wish I could say the same for the rest of the Keys, and everywhere else suffering the devastation of these storms and natural disasters.
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Specialk, mmmmm pie
After spending way to long stuckin traffic I decided to get fajitas instead of cooking tonight.
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Just got back from an 8 day trip. It's my first trip since BC that I haven't met any BCO members - but I had a great time. Clear, warm weather in Utah, but cold when I got north to Bear Lake on the UT/Idaho border. Well cold for someone from Houston, 55 & 35. Some good hikes, great visits with people I hadn't seen since the 60's, and memorable meals. The Inn where I stayed for the first part of the trip had free breakfast. This was not the usual fare at all. Scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, Migas, bacon, sausage, ham, 6 kinds of hot & cold cereal, fruit yogurt, 5 kinds of fresh fruit, pancakes, french toast, 4 juices, muffins, sweet rolls, bagels, etc. I never had to stop for lunch. Good dinners. Pasta Al Funghi. Rocky Mountain trout right out of the streams. Prawn Chow Chow at a Tibetan restaurant. Beef tenderloin at the Utah State dinner. And everywhere the most delicious yeast rolls. Really it was like biting into a cloud. I haven't had rolls like that since my Mother died. One place served the rolls with their special raspberry butter. Oh my.... Well you all know that bread is my downfall anyway.
Toured Sweet's Candy factory. One of my grandmothers always had chocolate covered orange sticks on her coffee table. Went to the Cox Honey plant for local honey & watched the bees in action - and sampled 10 different flavors. Blackberry was my favorite. And homemade blonde fudge made w/honey. At Grossner's Cheese plant on Fridays they had samples of 5 different flavored cheese curds. Bought some wonderful Dill Cheese Spread.
One of the unexpected highlights was a Doctor's Without Borders exhibition/simulation. Amazing tour & interactive demonstrations about what it's like to be a refugee. Hard not to cry.
http://www.forcedfromhome.com/
Sorry not to answer everyone individually but when I travel I don't have any electronic connections so I'm behind.
Eric - are you home yet?
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No. Still in Puerto Rico and eating the eclectic selection of MREs.
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Oh dear - I'm so sorry to have listed all that wonderful food. Don't suppose it helps to close your eyes while you're munching on MRE's.
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eric - hang in there, imagine all the yummy food minus described while consuming your MRE.
joycek - it is indeed hot down here - yesterday in the 90's. DH is old school Florida, and always thinks mid-Oct. the weather changes, but I am thinking it will be later in the month. Nothing seems to be predictable about the weather here anymore, lol! It does seem to be a bit more dry, it has only rained once in the last week or so.
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That's OK...the food descriptions give something to think about while having Turkey Tetrazzini product with vegetable crumbles product for breakfast. :-)
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