So...whats for dinner?
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Feeling better even if my voice isn't. We walked to Cellars for Valentine's Day dinner: shared app. of shrimp & mango ceviche with housemade tortilla chips; Bob had seared ahi (it's Ash Wed.) and I had a grilled ribeye with mashed potatoes, baby haricots verts and mushroom sauce. Dessert was a shared fruit & cheese plate. We had a 2014 Faiveley Mercurey (Pinot Noir from the area between southern Burgundy and Beaujolais). Lotsa leftovers--my appetite was fine but my "capacity" is reduced. The 1/4 mi. walk home is always easier than the walk there...could the wine have anything to do with it? (It was about 5 degrees warmer by the time we finished dinner).
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ChiSandy, glad you are feeling better. This is a very peculiar thing, but the last time I had a flu that in my case usually ends with laringitis and tonsilitis and some other nasty thing, was in May when I first felt my lump. I have not been sick ever since. OK, they diagnosed me with Her2 pos bc and so on but I have no caught any flu.Even last winter was a good one, a minor cold at some point in Feb but it was it. I attributed it either to me trying to avoid people in general, but, well, still, I was to the different clinics several times a week, also grocery.. or to my newly aquired combucha mushroom I got in September. My both maternal and paternal grandmas had it when I was a girl, the maternal one had a sweet tooth and made it sweeter but the paternal one had it more sour and you could use as a substitute for kvas, a drink the Slaves make of stale bread, water and some sugar, basically a drinkable sourdough))) They say combucha has cancer fighting qualities)) I guess I tried as much as I could to avoid this cancer but so much for that.
Eric, when I was 19, back in 1991, my dream was to travel abroad just to see how the free world looked and felt like, and summer 1992 I met my future husband and six months later moved here) I did not even know the stand mixers existed until probably ten years ago and like my parents twenty years ago would say, why on earth would you need a dishwasher? we are not lazy, we can wash the dishes, I used to say, but, come on! I can knead the dough! Totalitarian regimes! people are for tools not tools for people, well, figuratively speaking)
Moonflower, what generation of Polish are you? I speak a little Polish, studied it at university and I always am trying to speak some with the colleagues I have in Wrocław. I also can read, not that I understand everything I read, but to know how to read in Polish is an art)
Dinner tonight was chili con carne with Mexican spices, ancho and other chilies and that savory chocolate we bought in DR last year. And, the cubes of sweet potatoes)) Last year in September when I was being hysterical over all this bc and the treatment situation and was sometimes literally curving into a ball, a lady from these boards reached out to me and it turned out she was fond of cooking. I asked her about chili onceand she was so passionate about that and told me one of her recipies with sweet potato cubes. So, today driving home from rads I first thought a bolognese but then it hit me I have one lonely organic sweet potato at home, a chili it will be, with the cubes)) Cherry
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Nice to read about good family times.....a sweet Valentine's Day for you with your daughter, Cherry, and a really productive sounding visit from DS for you, Minus. Laurie would be pleased that her long time ago posted salsa chicken recipe is still a favorite “go to" for many of us!
Last weekend we went to a dinner party which was a pot luck “friendly feast" organized for folks who might not know each other well by our UU parish. The host couple made ginger glazed baked salmon, one woman made a huge platter of roasted root vegetables, I brought a giant salad with my fave horseradish vinaigrette, someone made a chocolate devil's food cake brushed with confec sugar (I was not looking forward to this, not being a huge fan of that dessert, but it was absolutely delicious! The baker said it was due to the buttermilk), and one couple brought a Peruvian appetizer, “chicken causa", something they learned to make in a cooking class in Peru. It was so interesting, attractive, and tasty....even for me, a resolute potato avoider! Will post a pic.This group was comprised (by an organizer) well turning out to be a wonderful evening with lively, interesting conversation over such a great meal...a true friendly feast!
Our dinners at home have been created from items I had in our overstocked fridge. For example, I used cut up chicken along with tons of veggies to make a rosemary/balsamic sauté, which we had with a lemon rice and cucumber/red onion/red pepper salad....image below.
Last night before a Celtics' game we made our regular pilgrimage to The Harp and instead of my regular salmon over vegetables dish we decided to celebrate Valentine's Day with beet and goat cheese salads and a lobster roll. Ha! The salad was fine but the lobster roll (allegedly drenched in butter) was really dry and uninteresting....unusual for a restaurant in Boston. DH and I shared it, and he had a bowl of clam chowder, too.
I have been obsessing about the Paella dinner that we are hosting in early March. It was an offering that folks bid on at a charity auction. I need to come up with some easy (not too filling) appetizers and dessert to accompany the paella, salad and crusty bread entree and Spanish wines. Obviously I've been spending lots of time on Pinterest!
Before that event, tho, I need to get my cataract procedures done, starting next week.
Tomorrow am heading into DF to see my MO for yearly check up, and will ask about tumeric, soy, etc, as I have forgotten a lot of the recommendations I used to follow about such nutritional intake. I don't expect to get definitive answers since often there are not.
Cherry, I'm with you on the weight struggle. Truth be told, if I don't get back to exercising rigorously at the gym 4-5 times a week, and cutting out sugar and carbs I will stay stuck.
Eric, I'm glad for Sharon, too, that she will retire soon. Like you, I'm sure she will find many creative activities to pursue while being able to feel rested. And oh, the meals!!
Yesterday, I spent a lot of time texting with a good friend in South Florida whose family teaches and attends classes in the school system that experienced the shooting tragedy. Thankfully, their schools were down the street from the targetted one. But they were on lockdown and it took a long time before she heard that they were safe and finally on their way home. They were fortunate, but such a scare. What a country we have become! Several months ago, while caring for my DGD, who is five, she wanted to play a chase game with her scooter, suggesting, “I'll be the cop and you can be the 'shooter'"! I was stopped in my tracks!! We are a long (sad) way from my childhood memory of “cops and robbers".
Happier images below:
Chicken causa
Balsamic/rosemary chicken with veggies with rice side and salaEdited to correct the name of the “chicken causa”. It was a most interesting appetizer of steamed/mashed potatoes enclosing a very tender chicken salad and avocado, with a spicy sauce over it. Very unusual withdelicious taste and texture.
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Lacey, the words by your granddaughter are shocking! A five-year-old knowing about a "shooter."
Cherry, I have not heard of sweet potatoes in chili. We like beans in our chili. The meat is usually beef, ground or chunks.
We are going out to eat with another couple. The restaurant is a new one for us. Tonight's special is a steak meal. Tuesday night sounds more interesting to me when the special features oysters.
We went to the movies this afternoon and saw Darkest Hour about Winston Churchill. The acting was great but there was a lot of murkiness in the filming. The photography captures the uncertainty and stressfulness of the time in history. The most enjoyable moment for me was Churchill's catching the subway and talking to the ordinary people, who were stunned to see him among them.
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Minus, I meant to say that I know you are enjoying your son's visit. It must be special to have him to yourself.
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Chi_Sandy
In scanning posts, I noticed you use Peapod. Are you generally satisfied with the quality of their fresh foods? I rarely do any qrocery shopping and rely on my DD or the housekeeper. For dinner tonight, we went to MZU, I had sashimi which was very fresh,delicious, DD has salmon tempura also well prepared, we shared a seafood soup which we both liked, I am very fussy about Japanese food and there is a lot of poor quality rolls sold in groceries.
To all:
Has anyone had success in crisping sweet potato fries? I brushed them with olive oil, tossed them in a bowl with simple spices, and then baked them 15 minutes on one side, 10 minutes opposite side, they browned nicely ,tasted fine, but were definitely not crisp.
Any thoughts.
Sandy,
We went to the Goodman theater and saw Blind Date, the meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The play is very funny , especially the dialogue between their Wives, playing “one up womanship”. Tomorrow we’re back again at the Goodman for The Wolves and Sunday, it’s Elizabeth Cree at COT. Needless to say not much cooking this weekend. I did prepare chicken stock , so perhaps on Sat, I’ll make a soup.
Hope everyone is feeling well, our energy still has not returned to normal yet, this virus really gets a grip and I want it to be totally gone, really gone.
Kathy
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Carole, my point exactly!
That 5 year old lives a charmed, comfortable life, and is mostly devoid of “screens” per her parents’ dictate, so I was shocked at this “shooter” reference. She also happens to be very attuned to everything that is going on, so she clearly heard it somewhere, if not from a classmate, acrobatics class, karate, etc. where she is integrated with older kids. DH thought she might have had a drill at school but she is still in a small Montessori pre-school/K program that is like a fortress, so I doubt she has experienced drills other than fire, there. As a clinician who worked in schools, I know the concept of a “shooter” as the “bad guy” is just not an alien one for today's children like it was to us as kids. Yet it was jarring to hear that from my little granddaughter.
Today DH picked up some nice fresh cod, so for dinner I made my favorite meal of fish with sauteed vegetables inputtanesca sauce over small pasta, with a side of salad. DH had some crusty bread with it.
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Kathy, I've never had much luck air-frying (or any kind of dry-frying) sweet potatoes--I think they may have too much residual moisture. Perhaps the trick is to blot them between paper towels with a weight on top (sort of like eggplant); then to coat them lightly with flour or cornstarch, fry them once, remove and drain (maybe more coating) and do a second fry. I think the only foolproof way to make sweet potato fries is to either use frozen ones (that have been partially fried) or bite the bullet and deep-fry them.
We haven't been to much live theater lately, ironic for the parents of an actor. (He does improv & sketch comedy, with his shows mostly late at night and no-holds-barred when it comes to subject matter and language). But it is Oscar season and Bob wants to defend his championship at Cellars' Oscar night party & contest. So we've seen six Best Picture nominees thus far: Dunkirk last spring; Darkest Hour just before Christmas; The Post in January; Three Billboards a couple of weeks ago; Get Out (which we rented on Amazon) over the weekend; and tonight in Evanston, The Shape of Water. Before the movie we ate next door at Terra & Vine: truffle-mushroom arancini, house salad, rigatoni con salsiccia for Bob and roast cauliflower with Sicilian pesto, Sardinian fregola, and ricotta. Huge portions--we brought home leftovers. We had contemplated making it a double feature, with a showing of Lady Bird at 10:30; but that would have required killing 3/4 of an hour, during which time we would probably have sat in the bar drinking and watching Nathan Chen & Michaela Shiffrin choke depressingly--no medal for her in slalom, and the U.S. can kiss a men's figure skating medal goodbye. Besides, we didn't want our leftovers getting too ripe. We realized how tired we were when I whipped out my Ventra card for the Purple & Red Line ride home and Bob (who knows the value of a buck) said, "Let's call a Lyft."
Recovering very, very slowly--the Mucinex seems to help, but only the short-acting (4 hr.) version--the 12-hr. one I have is a 2 layer horse pill with dextromethorphan, which is basically useless as a cough suppressant. So I'm timing it to pop a Mucinex and a Tessalon now, hoping that'll carry me through to 10 am (or at least to when I have to hit the bathroom at 7am and have another Mucinex). The orange spice green tea with lemon, raw honey and Cointreau was delicious but did nothing to soothe my throat or dissolve the crud.
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Eat NO meat and nothing on the grill ever as it causes cancer. Please check out Dr. Neal Barnard and he will explain to you that you must eat vegan forever when you have cancer. No sugar, meat or dairy products.
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Nuna - everyone has a different take on nutrition. Some of it depends on the type of cancer you have. There are several BCO threads devoted to this issue but this is not one of them. Most of us on this thread believe in moderation - but we are NOT going to give up things that make our lives worth living. And we aren't going to tell others what they 'must' do. We may eat less red meat or drink less wine or add more veggies, but saying we must eat vegan if we've had cancer is lifestyle choice - It is not a cure, not a preventive against cancer, and not a guarantee against recurrence.
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Agreed, Minus!
I will have all sugar, meat, and dairy eliminated from my diet when I am in an urn. For now I believe I follow a realistically healthful and tasty diet and will continue to do so.
And yes there are other threads devoted to following scrupulous diet regimens. Everyone finds their own path
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Couldn't agree with you more Minus. Hope you're enjoying the visit with your DS.
We've been having a great time with the fam in Texas even though yesterday was the first real warm day we've had. We will go to Galveston Sunday and spend the day and night there. So far, we've eaten Tex-Mex Vietnamese (pho) and barbecue. Moist of the meals we've cooked here -including chicken parm with a lemon broccoli pasta, New Orleans barbecued shrimp for Mardi Gras, a spatchcocked turkey for Valentine's day and pizza for Thursday. Tonight we are grilling hamburgers and pork tenderloin. Seafood will have to wait till I get to the shore.
It's so nice wearing shorts and tee shirts and no coats.
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Nance - sorry we've been treating you to rain but sounds like you're having a nice eating adventure. I love Galveston. Maybe you'll get to stay at the Tremont or the Galvez? Have a great time.
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Staying in--going out last night took a lot out of me, though no fever. Plenty of leftovers for dinner: Wed's ribeye, mashed spuds, haricots verts; last night's roast cauliflower & fregola (broke down at midnight and ate the rest of the arancini).
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Minus - we're staying at the Hilton because of convenience but would LOVE to stay at the Galvez. I'm not as familiar with the Tremont. Looking forward to seeing it again.
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Well said, Minus, on restrictive diets. I wonder if there aren't some devoted vegans out there who, sadly, have bc. I consider my main risk factors to have been no children and regular consumption of alcohol. But here on bc.org I've met women with four or more kids, women who are teetotalers, women who've breast fed all their kids. Women who, according to the risk factors, should not develop bc. Then there are those fortunate women with many of the risk factors who remain bc free. To me, it's as mysterious as flipping a switch and having the light come on.
Last night's dinner was catfish fillets and steamed asparagus. Very good. I offered to make a salad but we both declined!
Tonight will be chicken.
Nance, I like Galveston but haven't been there since the last major hurricane devastation. Nature has battered that charming town. Our temperatures have leapt up into high 70's and low 80's so it must be hot and humid in Galveston, too.
Off to the gym this morning to exercise all of me, including the extra pounds that do not want to go away.
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I agree that Minus stated well her (and my) position on extremely restrictive diets. And, carolehalston, I am one of those relatively young women who eats healthy, bore and breastfed 4 sweet babies, and did not drink alcohol for the past 20 years and still ended up with BC. My brother passed away suddenly last year and left behind a family who adored him and a young widow and 3 sons. It was shockingly tough...and was 6 months prior to my diagnosis (my mammogram was delayed ~6months because I was at his funeral for the original appt date and my busy OB/GYN couldn't get me in any sooner). I frequently wonder if the stress of that grief "turned the key" in my own cells to go towards cancer. I will never really know, and I am OK with that. I'm still in the rapid learning phase of nutrition/supplements/health and how to best avoid recurrence, but I don't see myself going off the deep end and also have to consider the fact that I have a large family to feed economically. ChiSandy, I do not normally care for leftovers, but yours always sound so delicious!
Tonight I'm in the mood for polenta and mushrooms, and a green salad, but I'll have to get some nice mushrooms on the way home from work. DH and I are going to see The Color Purple tonight at the local Cabaret Theater. A few years ago I saw them perform this play and I was spellbound, so I am looking forward to seeing it again; probably with a different cast, but this troupe is so talented!
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I remember The Color Purple movie with Oprah. It was excellent.
I like polenta a lot and we hardly ever have it. It's like grits, just a coarser grind. There are so many good foods that I avoid because of the carbs and calories. I'm sitting here feeling deprived!
Listened to Louisiana Eats with Poppy Tooker on NPR on the way home this afternoon. She was interviewing a couple of authors, one who wrote a book about Presidents' African American cooks, titled The Presidents' Kitchen Cabinets. One bit of information I learned was that Franklin Roosevelt like pigs' feet. He shared this food with Winston Churchill during a three-week visit. Churchill reportedly declined a second helping! I have to admit that I like pickled pigs' feet, one of the few foods that my dh definitely will NOT eat. Roosevelt's cook broiled the split pigs' feet and put butter on them. That doesn't make me salivate.
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Leftovers again tonight. Thought my new Smart Oven would be the trick for frozen cauliflower mini-pizza to work, but despite following box directions to a T, it still was soggy-mushy and stuck to the pan while the cheese was starting to brown too much. I give up. Low-carb or vegetarian be damned, I've given up on making veggies pretend to be what they're not. Tonight I will eat roasted cauliflower that was billed as such on the menu--not as "steaks,' "rice," "mashed spuds" or "pizza crust." And I will like it. Will also bake some cornbread in an 8" enameled cast iron skillet I dug out of the closet (the 10" plain cast iron batch came out okay, but got stale)--probably need to grease the heck out of it and use parchment to boot. Don't want to risk my beloved little 6-incher that is so perfect for fried eggs.
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LOL on eating veggies pretending to be something else!
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Today is sunny in NC. We are in a roller-coaster of temperatures. These affect my desire to cook. It's mild today, was in the 80's Friday. Meh.
Tonight is beef stew. I figure while there is still a crispness in the air to make this comfort food. DH has been down with the flu. I'm doing all to avoid it.
Val
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The Color Purple was magnificent. It was a slightly different version than the one I saw previously, but I cried through the second act and didn't even try to hide it. Their voices! The brokenness then strength in the characters! Even the amazing actress who played Celie was so moved that she was also in tears for her bows and last song before a roaring audience. Ahh, I can still feel it...
The polenta was terrific (and just so easy) last night, and I found some truffle oil and pearl onions to add to the mushrooms, so it was a hit for comfort food on a rainy night. Tonight DH and I are meeting another couple at PF Changs for a rare double date, so it is grilled sandwiches for lunch after church and the kids will probably have popcorn for dinner!
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Hi all! Been trying to catch up with all the posts, and realised I've been away from more than 2 weeks! Not much in terms of cooking over the last couple of weeks... it's been a lot of fast food or things out of the freezer.
This weekend we went away for a weekend break - we includes the DH and the DD age 10. The weekend celebrates the end of my exchange and the DD's mid yearly exams. We stayed in a lovely hotel where we took a family room, with two nice bedrooms and the main bedroom overlooking the harbour and the open sea. The DD spent a lot of time swimming in the indoor pool. We also went out walking in the hills on Saturday afternoon and enjoyed feeling at one with nature. The peace, the silence and the views were lovely. Saturday evening we ate at the hotel. The DD had pasta with seafood al bianco; the DH had smokey barbeque ribs with fries and salad, whilst I had a beef fillet steak with fries and salad. The DD had a cherry cheesecake for dessert, and I took a carrot cake which was delicious and the DH had a papaya and mango smoothie.
Today we bought a local bread stuffed with local cheese, sausage and potatoes, and it was divine. We also bought small pies with local cheese and raisins... More divineness!
Now I'm back home. Tomorrow back to work, and I have a long stretch with 12 days of work without a day off. So you might find me disappear for a while again!
Minus Two you asked for the frozen pasta recipe... here goes!
Baked Macaroni.
Boil pasta such as penne, macaroni, cellentani (curly worlies) in salted water till it is al dente.
Prepare a large Bolognese sauce. - Fry minced beef. If you like you can add fresh sliced mushrooms and frozen peas when frying the beef. Add a tin of tomato pulp. Salt and pepper to season and allow to simmer. You can add a bayleaf or oregano to the sauce if you like.
In a large oven dish mix the cooked pasta, the sauce, beaten eggs and grated hard cheese such as parmeggiano or grano padano.
Bake in the oven for around 45minutes and the top pasta layer becomes crisp.
Eat your portion and freeze all left overs in separate portion. Then just take the portion you want from the freezer and heat for about 4-5 minutes in the microwave.
Quantities I use are in the following ratios:
250g of pasta (raw weight)
250g minced beef
400g tomato pulp
2 beaten eggs
2 spoons grated cheese.
And yes Minus 2 I totally agree with your nutrition stance! I might go vegetarian once or twice a week but nothing more often than that! And yes carole, I did have 1 kid, though admittedly later in life - I was 36- and I breastfed her for almost 3 years. I rarely take alcohol. I think in our house we throw away more bottles than we consume! And I still got bc. Admittedly my Family History was against me. But there goes.
Auntienance sounds like you are having a great time. Enjoy!
Chi... glad you're feeling better. The DH, myself and finally the DD all succumbed to one of the many viruses there was around this week. Was terrible to have the bugs come with us to our weekend break too!
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I have more than an octave and can breathe just fine now (though my face hurts--dang sinuses). No fever--so I figured it might be a combo of the virally-clogged sinuses, mild dehydration, and inadequate caffeine (that's my story and I'm sticking with it). Had a slice of low-carb toast with a smidge of truffle honey and a soft-cooked egg for breakfast; a half-slice of serrano ham and some taramosalata on low-carb toast for lunch (amazing how much ethnic stuff one can easily find in my neighborhood) and a couple cups ea. of coffee and ginger-peach green tea (plain). Knocking back my second glass of seltzer (gotta make more). Tonight I will attempt liver & onions, which I haven't eaten in years nor cooked in over a decade. Got a couple of small slices of calves' liver I'm defrosting, will season some flour for dredging, saute a yellow onion, and pan sear a couple slices of polenta. Maybe use up the rest of my snow peas too, or perhaps a few Brussels sprouts for "greenage:" I can't honestly count onions as a veggie. On the fence about adding a slice of bacon--might be red-meat overkill.
Tried to do a voice lesson today, but Skype and FaceTime were having none of it. My teacher's camera and mic kept stuttering, freezing and breaking up. Tomorrow after my Peapod delivery we'll try it again upstairs, sitting next to my router. If it still doesn't work then I'll know the weak signal is on his end. So just doing my lip trills and "hum/siren" exercises on my own. Wrist still very sore, so can't practice guitar or dulcimer. (Knew there was a reason I told the nail tech not to trim my L hand nails--when I have playing to do, they need to be down to the quick). My calluses are nearly gone. Perhaps I will have to go to Immediate Care or my hand surgeon at the Skokie walk-in ortho clinic for imaging, because I'm not sure what kind of brace (if any) I need to buy.
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One of Sharon's high school classmates was at an RV park/Hotel on the shore of the Colorado River between Parker, AZ and Lake Havasu City, AZ and we went out Friday to visit them. They were staying in an RV and we stayed in one of the hotel rooms.
I felt like I had gone into a time warp. Had there been a sign, "COLOR TV" in the different colors and another sign, "Refrigerated Air Conditioning", the illusion would have been complete. :-)
We were planning on leaving the house around 2pm to make the 4 hour drive., but it was not to be.
Problem 1 was Sharon's teacher in-service training supposedly ending at noon. Instead she didn't get to leave until 1:30pm.
The second issue was me noticing, around 10am, that the refrigerator and freezer was not working. I did some checking for about an hour and then noticed the compressor was leaking oil (a sure sign of a problem not worth fixing), so I switched to "buy a new refrigerator".
Test daughters' dad came over to help me unload the new refrigerator from the truck, remove the refrigerator doors so we could get it through the front door and then getting everything set back up to the point where we wouldn't have spoiled food.
Sharon and I didn't leave until around 5:30pm.
Friday night dinner was potato chips, soda and ice cream bars..
Saturday we drove up to Lake Havasu City and saw the London Bridge. Yes, it's the real London Bridge. The London Bridge was bought by someone and moved to Lake Havasu City in the late 1960s and put back together--opening in 1971.
Lunch was at a brew pub where I bought a 1/2 gallon growler of a nice beer that is sitting in the new refrigerator.
That night we went to the Western Pyrotechnic Association "Winter Blast". This is a fireworks training, fireworks advertising, fireworks demonstration and fireworks "look what I did" event that is also a charity fund raising event. For $5 person donation we got to watch over 2-1/2 hours of continuous fireworks being shot off at a "grand finale" rate. It was a lot of fun. Dinner was essentially "county fair food".
Today, when we got home, I spent about 1/2 hour getting the old refrigerator moved out of the kitchen and hooking up the water supply to the ice maker in the new refrigerator. Tomorrow or Tuesday I'll get the old refrigerator to a recycling center.
Dinner tonight will probably a glass of the "triple berry wheat beer" as we ate a very late lunch on the road.
In other news, our 1995 model year Isuzu Trooper is being sold (for what a junk yard would pay me--$200) to the younger test daughter and her husband. They have 40 acres about 3 hours from here and they want a "bounce around the back roads" vehicle. This Trooper is perfect as it's 4-wheel drive and has been driven almost 300,000 miles. I'll miss the thing though. It was 3 years old when put the infant car seat in it to bring DD home from the birthing center and it helped to teach her how to drive. I would keep it, but it would need an engine and transmission overhaul to make it worth keeping. It would be easy enough for me to do the work, but I don't need another project, nor do I need 7 cars. Getting rid of that one will get us to owning "just" six cars. :-)
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Ran up to SC to help clear out the MIL/FIL home Wed/Thurs/Fri - took BBQ and mac’ncheese, and mushroom ravioli, marinara, broccoli for the two dinners, cereal and English muffins for breakfast, sandwich fixings for lunches. Got three bathrooms cleared out and cleaned, a bunch of kitchen cabinets, the laundry/mud room done, and the biggest challenge was FIL’s study. Eeesh! DH came home and started throwing stuff away here, lol! Tonight was chef salads - it’s already hot here
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Last night was linguine and the last of the homemade pasta sauce out of the freezer. Side was romaine salad with additions. I bought the linguine at the recently opened Whole Foods. It occupies the space in a strip shopping center where an Albertson opened and closed. Not a convenient place for me to shop, but I was in the area yesterday on a shopping trip to other stores.
SpecialK, when dh and I and dh's sister cleaned out their parents' house, we filled a large dumpster and a smaller dumpster with "stuff" that had accumulated over many years in a house with an attic and a basement. They didn't throw away much during their lifetimes. FIL had all the check stubs during his years of employment.
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carole - exactly! It's so interesting what people save! We handled the estate for an elderly friend of ours - he never married or had children, he was a teacher and coach of DH, he had asked him to handle his affairs. He liked bulk shopping and had many, many boxes of cereal and canned food, napkins from fast food establishments, and tons of boxes of aluminum foil. We made many trips to local food pantries and food banks. My in-laws had a lot of empty containers - Talenti gelato containers, Body Shop body butter containers, and the square ones that have the moist wipes in them. Also, lots and lots of cleaning supplies. Plus, my FIL was a scavenger - their house is on an island that has had a lot of development so he was always gathering random leftover building supplies, scraps of wood, a few bricks or tiles They seem to be pretty good at keeping the paper stuff under control, bank statements, medical papers, etc - my parents were not! We did a ton of shredding at their house!
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When cleaning out my dad's apartment I discovered he never ever threw away a piece of paper. We are still going through the huge stash of paper towels and toilet paper he accumulated. He too had lots and lots of cleaning supplies, which I'm still using a year later.
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SpecialK, Auntinance, what is it with the cleaning supplies? Cleared out mom's condo when she moved in with us. It's been 5 years. She had cleaning supplies and paper goods to last years. Same with canned vegetables and tuna. My mom was a social worker. She retired too early in my opinion (60). She is 88 now. I still check her rooms and find receipts from 5 years ago. When she first came to live with me, she still drove. She would spend hours in the dollar stores, buying cleaning supplies and paper goods. Yikes.
DD4 reminds me when she goes through our 'junk' kitchen drawers about the receipts.
I'm making pizza dough to freeze. Will use for mini pizzettes, calzones and breakfast hot pockets.
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