So...whats for dinner?
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joycek - I am not a fan of humidity either - I'm a California girl, but for some reason I am still here in FL, lol!
eric - too funny!
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Eric- thank you for all that you are doing...sorry about the tettrazini and veg MRE- not so appealing.
I made an okra soup tonight- like a gumbo but with chicken stock and some dif spices. It was really good- and, made enough to freeze a quart. Making reg gumbo as well as prepping summer squash to freeze tomorrow. Trying to use up the last of the summer veggies.
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Welcome back minus, sounds like great food and a great trip!
Our local butcher shop makes andouille as well as other types of sausages, for which they've won lots of awards. We're lucky to have them in this little town.
Tonight was shepherds pie using up some leftover mashed potatoes and gravy from Sunday.
You're doing good work there Eric!
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Fish tacos for me tonight with some stone-ground blue tortilla chips and a small amount of queso.
Pretty sure tomorrow will be Sunday night leftovers.
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Had Bar Show chorus rehearsal down in the Loop tonight. Tomorrow is my mani-pedi, so my traditional French-Tip-Manicure-Eve meal is wings. (So it doesn't matter if my nails & cuticles turn orange). Only this time, when I stepped out of the L station, I noticed Dak (whose Korean wings are full-sized and the best in the city) was still open. Yum!
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We are in Toronto and had a wonderful dinner in the Canoe restaurant, which is on the 54th floor with views over the harbor, little islands and the city.
Our menu, A side of pan roasted northern mushrooms,
Venison loin, juniper foie gras sausage, beetroot purple cabbage and red fruits and berries for DH. For me, preserved lemon, Brussels sprouts, celeriac , hazelnuts +pineapple weed , Haida gweli halibut. Followed by a shared dessert of rhubarb cheesecake with strawberry sorbet. I had a glass of a nice red Spanish wine, hubby had beer. The service was excellent, not intrusive, A nice experience, next Ottawa.
Eric, I appreciate what you are doing, some time ago I was in PR and there were a lot of issues then as well as now.
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Hooray for Eric & his crew. Thanks for serving.
I had a late meeting so dinner as I type is wheat thins dipped into the Dill Cheese Spread I brought back from my trip - accompanied by a gin & tonic with LOTS of lime. I planned to buy Dover Sole that was on sale today but the market manager gave me a special deal on flounder - reduced to the price of the sale on Sole less 50%. How could I refuse? Supposedly wild caught for $4/lb. Tomorrow will be something with flounder fillets.
Special - I'm a California girl too, but likely will be in Texas until I croak. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area on the Peninsula. What about you? Maybe we already did this when you were so kind in preparing a chemo list for me some years ago, but if so, I forgot. Can I still claim 'chemo brain'?
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minus - of course you can still claim chemo brain! I say we should play any and all available cards we've been dealt, lol! I was born in Los Angeles, went to college in San Luis Obispo, and afterward moved to Sacramento. I met my husband there when he was in training at Mather AFB - I was not the girl next door, but rather the girl upstairs, and we got married in 1983. We came back to California again when we were assigned to Castle AFB in Merced from 1990-92. My BFF still lives in Sacramento and I visit her annually. This thread helped hold her hand a few years ago after a scary mammo callback - she knows who all of you old-timers are, and was so appreciative. My dad went to Cal so I have spent much time in the Bay Area - love it there. Was last there a few years ago - same friend's dad passed away and I went out to support her through the memorial, etc. About a week later her prom date, who she has remained friend's with over the years, gave her his Marriott points and two box seat tickets to see the Giants at the new stadium in SF, so we had a nice weekend there shopping/dining/watching baseball. Had some awesome garlic fries at the game, and the best breakfast sandwich (applewood smoked bacon, egg, asparagus, and Cowgirl Creamery cheese on toasted SF sourdough) at the Ferry Building on a picture perfect day checking out the Golden Gate bridge. I am overdue for some Cali time, sigh...
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Gotta use up those rapidly ripening tomatoes--had one for brunch on avocado toast with eggs, may have another one for dinner (probably defrost a steak or chop to grill). 15 on the vine, 10 on the sill, 2 (super-ripe) in the "eat now" basket.
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Ended up baking the flounder - topped with sauteed melted butter, onion, garlic & tarragon. I had intended cooking in the microwave but too much fish to fit. Served with "Seeds of Change" seven whole grains with rice. If you're cooking for one or two - check out the Seeds of Change various rice options. It cooks in 90 seconds and is enough for a second meal for me. More sodium than I would like but 3500 mg potassium & great fiber. (disclaimer - I don't have any connection to the company)
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Special - What wonderful memories. My Dad commuted to SF all the years I was growing up. Once we hit junior high, I was allowed to take the train in alone to have a special lunch w/just Dad and have some special treat. I first saw the Oklahoma with him. When I got my driver's license, I was allowed to get up at the crack of dawn to take him to the train station and use the car one day a week. Of course that made my Mom happy because I was the oldest & could drive my two younger brothers to their appointments. My son & his girl moved back to SF from Marin County, but into a small one bath place so I don't stay with them when I go. Lately I've stayed at the Seal Rock Inn on the ocean by the Cliff House. Perfect for hiking along the ocean to the bridge. Also I like going back to Tadish Grill in the business section where we went for special occasions. It's been there since 1851. I don't know much about Sacramento other than I went water skiing on the Delta once. But I spent a summer at Univ. of the Pacific in Stockton. My weakness is Carmel. It's my calm place where I can watch the ocean & the waves and feel completely at peace.
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Lovely late summer, early fall veggies locally available. Have been freezing okra and tomato gumbo, squash and soup mix. Found an Okra soup recipe- and now have 6 qts of it to add to the freezer. DH home tomorrow after 2 weeks on the road. Have a whole chicken to roast and pork to make into spaghetti casserole this weekend as he will enjoy both! Planning on freezing a couple of boxes of tomatoes this weekend as well, as they are just wonderful to add to so many winter dishes- and, they make ALL the difference! We shall see how much I get done.
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First non MRE meal in about a week!!!!!!!!
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Hooray Eric - but what was the meal? Maybe not memorable except not MRE.
Hammer - I'd be interested in your pork/spaghetti casserole recipe when you get a minute. I'm impressed with all the freezing activity.
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Yay Eric, hope it was a decent meal!
Preserving going on here too. Yesterday I roasted the last of the tomatoes from the garden - about 20 the size of a golf ball due to our severe drought. (No significant rain here since August.) A friend gave me a bushel of apples from her tree yesterday. They are a nameless cooking variety which I'll make into applesauce and possibly a pie. Tomorrow we are going to an apple orchard to get yet more apples for eating.
Didn't have much appetite for dinner yesterday so ended up ordering takeout hot and sour soup and steamed dumplings. It suited perfectly. No idea about tonight.
Safe travels Carole! Looks like we will be going to NOLA for Christmas this year. Carole, we are planning to be at the Beau for two days after Christmas. Perhaps we could meet for lunch?
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Yay for non MRE's, Eric!
Minus- sorry if that was misleading...just used ground pork as the protein
sauté a diced sweet onion, 3 ribs diced celery and a mix of mushrooms
browned the lb of ground pork, and added to the veggies (or leave out if you don't enjoy them)
add about a teaspoon each s&p, parsley and basil and 1 T Italian seasoning
2 or 3 peeled and diced medium tomatoes if you are lucky enough to have them
1/2c water and 2 jars of your favorite sauce- I use the Publix Organic tomato basil- also, you can add 3 jars if you are like me and do not care to have a lot of meat in the sauce.
simmer for about 45 mins to marry flavors, stir occasionally
pour sauce over cooked pasta of choice and sprinkle with fresh parm (though when our sons are home I add grated sharp cheddar)
freeze for later- or heat at 350 until bubbly. It is a family fave and I usually make a double batch to share with our neighbors and/or to freeze.
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Stopped in to En Lai (the pan-Asian joint around the corner) on my walk home from the gym last night, and brought home some shrimp chap chae.
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HH - this pork sauce sounds good in any case. Thanks for the recipe.
I had a HUGE Heartland salad for lunch - and several pieces of hot garlic bread (OK - I admit, probably four large pieces). Breaded chicken sliced in very small pieces on lettuce of 3 kinds, tomatoes, carrots, onions, black olives, cucumber, hard boiled egg, bacon. I forgot what else, but a very nice salad. This was at 1:30pm and I'm still to full to even contemplate dinner at 8:30pm.
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minus - salad sounds yum! I enjoyed your reminiscence about Bay Area days, and appreciate the tips on lodging/dining. During the time we lived in Merced my dad (parents lived in L.A. at the time) got season tickets for Cal football. He was class of 1949. My folks would drive up to our house, then DH and my dad would drive over for the games - it was some nice dad/son-in-law time. I went to Carmel on my first honeymoon (starter husband - college sweetheart) and we stayed at the Tickle Pink Inn - oddly named, but actually a very nice hotel, spectacular location.
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Gordy ate the rest of the chap chae, so I steamed some dim sum (pork/leek bao and crystal shrimp dumplings). Gonna make a salad from one of my tomatoes & 2 kinds of lettuce, maybe a scoop of tuna. Unfortunately, the big beautiful beefsteak tomato I was saving for either a beautiful Caprese or impressive sandwich is no more. Bob got hungry in the middle of the night and ate it as if it were an apple. (I saw the evidence--tomato seeds on the tablecloth).
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Special - funny - I went to Carmel on my first honeymoon with a 'starter husband' also. Went for broke & stayed at the Pine Inn. It's still there but I've stayed at the Green Lantern the last few times I've been in town..
Read an interesting snippet by the 20th gourmand Curnonsky: "Cooking! That's when things taste like what they are."
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Chicken potato rice soup last night.
Oatmeal and hard boiled eggs for breakfast this morning.
Lunch was chicken, pork, rice and beans.
Tonight, dinner was rice, beans and baked pork chops.
It is a brand new hospital that was not supposed to be open for at least another month or two and the staff has come in to run it....and from what I have heard, the staff is helping to pay for it. It's simple, but very tasty and very touching. We have set up a tip jar for them.
The spices they use are interesting.. I can tell some spice "heat" and cinnamon...and *MAYBE* clove?
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Tonight will be either roast beef or turkey on low-carb whole wheat with lettuce, tomato & avocado--gotta be big enough to get me through the Yom Kippur fast (till dusk tomorrow) but not so big that I get an upset stomach during services (no red onion, because it wouldn't be fair to nearby congregants). Just took my iron so have to wait an hour--may have a snack before getting dressed and eating my pre-YK supper. Not sure how to break the fast tomorrow night, but I do have some bagels, lox & cream cheese.
Will cheat a bit--need water for meds, and a morning cup of coffee (or espresso shot) to keep my lungs open and headache at bay. Had always been told that senior citizens and people who have a medical excuse need not fast (or actually must not fast). But an e-mail newsletter from Chabad (on whose mail list I landed when they found me a Passover seder to attend in Madrid in 2015) was unsettling: if you are well enough to attend services you are well enough to fast, and the mitzvah of fasting outranks the mitzvah of communal prayer if you can't get to the synagogue and can fast in bed. Pregnant and nursing women, exempt from other fasts throughout the year (the Orthodox have fasts beyond Yom Kippur), are not exempt on YK. If one is too ill to fast and is commanded to eat, they must remain bedridden, eat an ounce-and-a-quarter (!) of food and drink a cheekful of water every nine minutes until they are not hungry. Children not yet old enough to be Bar or Bat Mitzvah must also eat, but modestly.
Wonder what the rules are for us Reform Jews--many attend services (at least Kol Nidre on YK eve and the memorial & concluding services the following day) but don't fast, especially the seniors.
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After a large breakfast and a late lunch, I'm just going to have leftover salad for dinner followed by a bowl of grapes, pineapple and watermelon I prepared earlier.
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We are leaving Ottawa, Canada by train , so tonight's supper will be our leftovers from lunch , wild salmon sandwiches and salad., much plainer fare than last nights dinner.
We also went to a very modern dance performance, The first dance was a mystery to us and I overheard someway say, "it grows on you", my response was "hmm", the next dance was lovely and made up for the first piece. We are going back to Toronto for the zoo, they have pandas and then north to Algonquin Provincial Park for the colors.
Dinner there will be simple fare fortunately for our waist lines.
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We are leaving Ottawa, Canada by train , so tonight's supper will be our leftovers from lunch , wild salmon sandwiches and salad., much plainer fare than last nights dinner.
We also went to a very modern dance performance, The first dance was a mystery to us and I overheard someway say, "it grows on you", my response was "hmm", the next dance was lovely and made up for the first piece. We are going back to Toronto for the zoo, they have pandas and then north to Algonquin Provincial Park for the colors.
Dinner there will be simple fare fortunately for our waist lines.
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Our temple had a simple break-the-fast spread after Yom Kippur services: challah bread, wine (not the usual sweet stuff but a Côtes du Rhône), cookies, cheese, Danish, strudel, olives, grapes, stuffed grape leaves and hummus with pita and baby carrots. Then was invited to a fellow congregant's house for another fast-breaker meal of hard boiled eggs, raisin challah, bagels & cream cheese, gefilte fish, pasta salad and noodle kugel (a sweet baked pudding of wide egg noodles, farmer cheese, raisins, butter and cinnamon). I am home and definitely carbed-out and veggie-deprived. Think I'll grab a slice of roast beef and a tomato.
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Special - I can't tell you how much I appreciate you sharing your tips for peeling hard boiled eggs. How did i manage for 50 years w/o knowing this? How did my Mom manage for 50 years? Thanks!!!!
Dinner was a large green salad again tonight. I have to get rid of the pounds I put on during vacation eating all those good rolls & bread.
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My oh my I love pie
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Of course you love pies, Nance! You make great ones! i do hope you and Carole can rendezvous in NO over the holidays.
Minus, you make me laugh! And I'm realizing after your post that I forgot the egg peeling tip. I should have printed it! Loved reading abt your wheat thins and dip dinner! A gal after my own heart!
Eric, I've been thinking about you in PR, and glad to learn that you are getting some “real local food" in addition to MREs. Please share what you can about the work you are doing, or the interesting folks you are helping. And thank you so much for your service!
Been busy here, having our house painted and lots of needed carpentry work done....some of it was leftover wear and tear from that awful winter of 2015. Nice to have it done, but boy, watching these painters, and the ones next door who are painting my neighbors' addition, was breathtaking as they scaled very high ladders and walked on very high roofs! Our guys did a great job, and I am happy to be able to get dressed without first checking to see which windows have faces outside them.
Meals here have mostly been grilled chicken, salad and veggies...and often crusty bread. But we are on an eating out tear this weekend. Last night we met friends in Providence for dinner at Gracie's a really lovely New American restaurant, where the service was great and the Fixe Prix pre-play (we saw Les Mis, again wonderfully performed, but disturbing given the divisions in our nation) dinner was great. I had an heirloom tomato salad, a fabulous duck entree with farro, mushrooms and some oretty little flowers which I promptly scooted off to the side of my plate since I'm allergic! The staff were so attentive to any allergy concerns and I totally didn’t mention flowers/pollen! And some restaurants love to use those tiny nasturtium like flowers as garnish. Dessert was a delightful mascapone cheese tart with a dark choc crust, with an egg shaped portion of hazelnut gelato next to it.
Today, after attending a friend's memorial service, we headed into the North End (Italian section) with another couple, where we were signed up to have a food tour. This tour has twice before been cancelled....today the guide just never showed (!) even tho we rec'd a confirmation by text as we were driving in. So we just walked around a bit, checked out an old favorite bakery, and had a mid afternoon meal at Artu's. Standard calamari, fabulous fresh greens salad with pear and a rather light, but nicely flavored dressing (a salad queen, I always appreciate a good one), and I had the most tender chicken marsala. DH had an arugula salad then a fusilli entree with Italian sausage and broccoli rabe. For desserts we ate bought cookies at home. Then our bonus was that the Haymarket outdoor fruit/veggie/fish vendors were at the end of their Saturday workday, and were practically giving their produce away! I bought an entire case of strawberries for $2, and two quarts of blueberries for $1, as well as tomatoes, peppers grapes, etc. for under $6. So much fun! DH and I used to shop there when we lived in Back Bay, but have not been back for ages. So it was a fun day...despite frequentshowers.
Tomorrow afternoon we have a Celtics pre-season event, after which we are headed to DS2 and DDIL's for Chinese Food (and probably pix from their honeymoon travels). Am bringing Nirth End eclairs and cannolis for dessert.
I will stop there as this is waaaay too long and it is now the middle of the night! I need to carve out time to catch up posting so this can be shorter.....
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