So...whats for dinner?
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Minus, your pasta sauce ”rosa” sounds so comfy, I will have to do something like this soon, kids love this type of dishes
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auntinance, it sounds like you had a great time in TX, what is about their grapefruits, are they a special kind/sort
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I bought corn flour and am contemplating to make corn bread this weekend, do not know much about it and want to try both sweet and savory one, will google for the recipies.
Leftovers today, yesterday Persian stew turned out so good, this rich sauce with chicken and veggies. I had it with salad and I licked my plate clean. Every time in the morning I step on this scale and promise myself stop eating but cannot keep it)) How did I gained that much and why isn’t it coming off as easy as it used to?
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Cherry, when in season, Texas "ruby reds" are a deep pink in color, very sweet and juicy. They are my favorite.
As a person who has struggled with weight all of my life, I feel your frustration about your weight. At age 69, I have come to terms with the fact that unless I'm ill, I will never be my 30 year old self weight. Now my goal is to feel as good as I can. I feel best eating what I like (including dessert) in small portions and exercising. For what it's worth, I think talking is good :-)
Ice last night on top of ice. Ugh. Warm up on the way though. First preseason baseball game tomorrow. Yay!
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Cherry, when I was diagnosed with bc, I had an urge to share this awful news with the world. I would tell strangers, like the owner of a veggie stand where I stopped to see what was available. Poor guy was so surprised and sympathetic! I shared with everyone my choice of surgery, bilateral. Interesting how women react differently to the dreaded news.
Last night was re-heated linguine in sauce with heavy sprinkling of fresh grated romano. That cheese is so good! I always cut a few slivers to enjoy. I wish cheese was a recommended food for weight control.
Yesterday on the way home from golf, I pulled in at the highway side location where a shrimp guy sets up a tent and unloads coolers of fresh shrimp for sale. I was tired and didn't feel like dealing with shrimp but some impulse guided me. The man, Craig, was quite a salesman and his shrimp looked fresh. You can always tell by checking to see if the heads are firmly attached to the bodies. I checked my purse and found $23. Craig assured me they could provide me with shrimp for that amount! I picked a large size for $5 a lb and came home with a parcel of newspaper-wrapped shrimp in plastic bags to prevent any dripping in my car.
I headed the shrimp and had four packages for the freezer, 16 large shrimp per package. Ziplocks with water to cover the shrimp. Prevents any freezer burn.
Dinner menu not decided. Maybe shrimp but we like sautéed shrimp (butter and olive oil and garlic) with pasta and we just had pasta.
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Cherry - Good explanation. I only told 3 people about my BC, so I guess I'm sensitive, but i too found these boards to be a lifeline. Love your picture & glad to 'know' you.
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Made a pizza casserole last night with turkey pepperoni. Got enough leftover to have a second night and pair it with a salad.
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The main dish for dinner will be beef stroganoff, which I haven't made in many years. Thawing a lb. of London broil steak so the beef won't be tender. I looked up a few recipes and have a general idea of how I will make the dish. It will include mushrooms.
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carole, beef stroganoff is my parade Russian dish, I use beef, onions, tomato paste, sour cream, salt and pepper but some sources claim the original recipe had mushrooms but they were not available in Soviet grocery stores so as ingredient it fell off.
About telling people, in the beginning I did not know how to do it, those who I did not want to know, I just distanced myself from them, just stopped answering the phone, did not matter what they would think, that I was rude? I’ll take it. Then we had people who I thought were the closest friends and family. I told my parents at once but at that point no one what we were dealing with, they said first surgery and rads but pathology came back with aggressive kind and here we were, chemo, the whole enchilada. The closest friends, I imagined how they were driving home, picking up kids, eating dinner, carelessly, all if them in their 40-ies, I mean who is getting any bc at this age? That what I said. So I postponed because I did not know when was the right time to drop the bomb. I told my brother and two of my best friends, they were very sorry, they wrote once in three days and then once a week, and then once in ten days, then I asked why? And got radio silence and another question, how was my chemo after ten more days. I told them how much I needed their support, I was devastated and omen of them said she was sorry, her mother had bc twice, she said she will write more often and after that, on Sept 18, I did not heard from her until I got a letter in the beginning of Jan. It started with her asking for forgivness and then how she got traumatized and depressed and could not talk to anyone, a bunch of other excuses and stories about others’ miracle recoveries. The only thing I felt was disappointment.
My best friend since primary school, a psycologist, turned on radio silence every time I told her how much I needed someone to talk to, later asking another question once in ten days. At the end I told her I regreted that I shared it with her. She said she was sorry but it was already too late, I did not wanted to talk to her anymore. No one of them called, not even my brother, not once. But the best friend and her husband called DH explaining that I got inadequate, needs and hysterical, so they did not know how to talk to me anymore but they wanted DH to keep them up to date. I said, really? What for?
I told my brother that it was ok, that I assume he treated me the way he would have wanted to be treated himself if diagnosed and he got offended, that I said such awful thing and that I was wishing such awful thing upon him.
My manager was a surprise though, we worked together for a long time and he kept calling me and wrote to me several times a week and even came to visit me twice, always bringing flowers telling me his wife told him to. And he does not live here, he is based in another city, five hours drive from Stockholm. When I thanked him he said that was least he could do, I was his friend. I am very grateful. DD told me not to bother to tell people from old Soviet, but tell it to Swedes instead, they have very different mentality.
So, I felt so burn and did not dare to tell someone else, something I should probably do eventually. I learned that the only person you can rely to is yourself and I would have never made it without these boards. xoxo to everybody who while doing treatments themselves or dealing with their other issues even found a kind word to lift me up. A debt I sometimes feel I will never be able to repay, so much it meant to me.
Sorry for the rant) I promised myself I will only rant on the TP thread and here I am!
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Ugh, so much food this week! BFF was in town for my bday Monday and we’ve been overeating ever since. DH took us to The Melting Pot, we had Crawfish, Taco’s and Burgers. Tonight might be a salad, if anything, then it’s back on track.
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Finally some pretty eggplants at a veggie market. I bought two and will make a layered eggplant dish, maybe tomorrow afternoon. I also bought some okra to cook okra and tomatoes. It wasn't local.
Tonight's beef stroganoff is in the simmering stage. I seasoned the thin strips of beef, floured them and browned in olive oil and butter. Removed from pan and sautéed lovely slices of large button mushrooms. Removed them to bowl. Returned beef to pan, added water, Worcestershire sauce and tomato paste. The browned flour is forming gravy. Before serving, I will add sour cream.
Cherry, sorry for your disappointment in family and friends. Many people can't deal with serious illness and prefer the stick head in sand approach. I told everybody but really didn't want help from anyone but dh, and he was great. He knows me well enough not to hover. I'm one of those "suffer in silence" types. Our neighbors made up a schedule to bring dinner to us for a week after my surgery. DH was tickled over that arrangement. He would say, "I wonder what we're having tonight." I wasn't much interested in food but did eat.
My real support group was here on bc.org. There was a small thread with women who chose the same surgery and reconstruction that I chose. I communicated with them every day more than once a day. Oddly enough, I'm the only one of the group who moved on to other threads and stayed on bc.org.
I'm glad you found us. I certainly enjoy your presence on this thread.
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Rant is OK Cherry. Many of us are still here because of the support we found during treatment and we want to pay it forward.
Dinner was a marble rye bagel with salmon, dill, cream cheese spread.
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Tonight's layered eggplant dish is assembled and ready for the oven when the time comes. The side will be salad. A vegetarian dinner.
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It's funny what a cancer does to your relationships. The people I thought would be most supportive pretty much disappeared and those whom I expected the least from really stepped up. I don't blame them. I understand that people don't know what to do or say. (I think some of them could have tried a little harder.) Two close friends and my DH were my lifelines and that was just fine. I found it exhausting to explain my situation so I left it to a couple of friends and family to spread the word.
At my last MO appointment, there was a young (younger than me anyway) woman getting blood drawn at the same time as I was. I was commenting to the blood letter that I was a hard stick because of what taxotere had done to my veins (no port for me.) The young woman picked up on it and started asking about my experience as hers was very similar. She was in the middle of her treatment and seemed eager to talk. We talked about hair, or lack of, other side effects, what she could expect down the road. We shared a few tears and I gave her my best advice ("when you're going through hell, keep on going") and a hug. I hope she felt better afterward. I hope she found some support somewhere.
Tonight is chili. Just cooked a partial bag of kidney beans and a partial bag of black beans that I dug out of the pantry. I had already made and frozen some chili paste (Serious Eats) so it will be a pretty easy dinner. After cooking quite a bit in Texas I've quickly reverted to my lackluster meal planning at home.
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auntinance, oh my, this is still a thread about what we had for dinner, and we had broiled burgers of hen minced meat. A Friday comfy meal, a quacomole with Doritos. Girl loved it.
Now to the business. About them trying harder and about keep going through hell judt keep going, I will second every word, thank you
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The chicken cacciatore I made the other night with Rao's marinara & veggies and served over rice was delicious re-purposed with heavy cream added & poured over angel hair pasta tonight, Didn't remember in time to bake some of my sourdough bread from the freezer but I'm drinking a good Sangiovese wine.
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Last night, before a late showing of Lady Bird, we went to Luella's Southern Kitchen across the street. To my chagrin, Bob announced he had given up "meat and potatoes," as well as hard liquor at home, for Lent. Unfortunately, his definition of "meat" includes poultry. So menu choices for him were quite limited. I had some of the best fried chicken I've ever eaten (the leg & thigh--took the breast home), accompanied by greens. Because the greens had been cooked with a ham hock (despite there being no pieces of meat in them), Bob wouldn't try any of mine. We split a side order of mac & cheese (gouda+fontina, made with orecchiette) and a large kale/chêvre/citrus salad (I let Bob have all the grapefruit, and I took only a small portion of the salad). He had fried catfish and hush puppies. We split an order of beignets for dessert (there was no coffee, and iced sweet tea didn't seem like a good pairing).
I asked him why he suddenly decided to add meat & potatoes to his "sacrifices" (already having given up his nighly cocktails except when dining out) and he said "actually, you're supposed to 'fast'." Huh? The latest word from the archdiocese was "one normal meal plus two smaller ones that, combined, do not exceed a normal meal." In fact, though there were no dispensations for romantic meat dinners on Valentine's Day (Ash Wednesday had priority), NY's Cardinal Dolan said that though St. Patrick's Day will be on a Friday, dispensations will be granted for corned beef & cabbage. So I asked "fasting" like Muslims do for Ramadan? He replied, "no--just one small supperl." Double huh? Wasn't the rule that--except on Fri., you can have meat for one of your three meals? "I don't go by the archdiocese, I go by St. Gertrude's (our parish). And Father Grassi says that 'fish is not a sacrifice'." "Wait a minute," I said, "didn't you tell me St. Gert's is pretty liberal for a Catholic church? (It even welcomes gay parishioners). Has Father Grassi gone conservative in his old age?" Bob replied, "well, he retired long ago." I asked him how long ago. "When my Dad lived with us" he replied. (My FIL died in 2010!) "Well, didn't your Dad say he was following (then-)Cardinal George's advice--which was to add Wednesday as a 'light supper' day, and optional to boot? What does Cardinal Cupich say now?" "I wouldn't know," Bob replied--"I haven't been to church in almost a year." (!!!!!!!).
I think his main motivation is that he wants to lose weight and not have to buy bigger shirts & pants. He still considerably outweighs me, even after losing 5 lbs. since Ash Wed. And he still drinks plenty of wine at home.
Meanwhile, Reform Judaism is so much easier dietarily: no leavened grain products on Passover, and fasting (the real McCoy, as in NPO) from sundown to sundown on Yom Kippur--just once a year. (Kosher is optional for Reform, though it--at least "Biblical" kosher, i.e. no pork, shellfish or mixing meat & dairy--is getting more popular). And all other holiday food & drink (e.g., fish & dairy on Shavuot, oil-fried foods for Hanukkah, and eating hamantaschen and getting s**t-faced on Purim) is customary, not mandatory.
Tonight, I told him I'll make us salmon, sugar snap peas, and polenta, plus share the leftover kale salad. And he'd better eat it. (I might skip the starch entirely, since I had the leftover fried chicken breast for lunch and I'm reserving the mac & cheese for him).
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Saw Rao's marinara at Costco the other day--inexpensive (compared to Peapod or WF), but those huge jars are a problem for me. How well does the stuff freeze?
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I have frozen dishes in smaller portions after I mixed the sauce w/the rest of the recipe. It seems to work fine. I have not tried with something like lasagna, but I used to freeze things like that all the time. I have not tried to freeze just the sauce from the jar, but that's a good idea. I know Carole also uses Rao's, and maybe Nancy?
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Sandy, I freeze my own homemade sauce all the time. It gets a little watery with thawing so I cook it a little more after thaw ng. I don't see why the jarred stuff wouldn't be fine.
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I could rant for nearly forever about friends disappearing.
When Mickey was sick, only one of our friends our age stayed. The rest just vanished. My neighbors, a retired couple, both almost 80 years old, were absolutely amazing and wonderful. I never made many friends after that. The friends I do have are closer than family.
When Sharon was diagnosed my three friends, as well as some folks we hardly knew, helped us with things that we didn't even know needed to be done.
Sharon and I visited the Hassayampa River Preserve, a desert riparian area about an hour drive from where we live and dinner was leftovers. Riparian areas are like jewels in the desert and this one was no exception. :-)
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Eric: I looked up the Preserve. It will definitely be on my list when I return to Arizona.
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Leftovers today - and you all may kick me off the dinner thread for this combo. Where oh where is Bedo?
Leftover 'stuffin muffins' from the freezer. This is a Pepperidge Farm stuffing mix based concoction. I add onions, celery, more butter, sage, etc. Then I bake in muffin tins so that I can freeze small portions. So I used 3 stuffin muffins heated in the microwave. Sprinkled with good size chunks of leftover grocery store rotisserie chicken from the freezer. Then I made a package of Knorr Turkey Gravy mix and poured over the top. So nothing original, let alone hand made, but I used up the leftovers. Quite tasty and perfect for a nasty rainy day when I was too busy with taxes, etc. to stop & cook.
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Lol, no judgment here Minus - I admire your innovation.
Plain old grilled angus burgers here (no bun for mine) and oven fried potatoes. I also had a sliced avocado with a squeeze of lime juice and a sprinkling of sea salt.
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minus - I thought the stuffin muffins are a genius idea!
I brought back a teriyaki rice mix from cleaning out my MIL's pantry so made a stir fry with sweet chili sauce and some carrot, yellow squash, onion, and red pepper mixed with shredded beef over the rice - DH was sold. The following night used some large elbow mac I also brought back and made what DH grew up calling Mulligan Stew. Cooked elbows added to cooked ground beef, sautéed green pepper and onion, Italian spices, garlic, tomato paste, canned tomatoes, and a little pasta water. The result does not coat the elbows like marinara, and is thicker. I got curious and Googled because the name seemed Irish but the dish seems to not be at all. Turns out it is called Slumgullion or American Goulash. No idea how it turned into Mulligan - will have to check with oldest SIL and see if she knows. Do any of you have any experience with this type of dish
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I just looked in my great-great grandmother's recipe book and found a fairly recent addition (typed but with a note in my mom's handwriting) for a "hamburger soup". It does not have squash and uses onion soup mix instead of onion, but is, otherwise, pretty much the same.
It was my dad's favorite.
Oh, see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mulligan%20stews
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eric- maybe that’s where it came from - I wish I had asked the question when my MIL was still with us. When I looked it up on Google and got the Slumgullion result, it is the exact recipe - which made me wonder. Maybe Mulligan was easier to say for kids, lol
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The term I'm familiar with is Goulash. It's an easy, hearty dish that I used to make. DH would be happy if I made it again.
Yesterday we went out for a late breakfast so didn't eat lunch. I didn't feel like cooking dinner so we had grilled ham and swiss sandwiches and chips for dinner, following our martini cocktails.
Today I'm thawing a package of two chicken breasts for the meat portion of tonight's dinner. We might have chicken enchiladas. I bought a can of Hatch enchilada sauce, red, at Whole Foods recently. Thought of you, Minus, as I bypassed the green! I like the red better. If I follow through with this idea, I'll need to make some tortillas. I have some ripe avocados on hand for guacamole. Also a cabbage for slaw. Sounds like a plan.
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I love it when the Hatch Chilies are fresh in the stores!!!!
Today was a bit busy. I got all the usual housework done and then went to work on my "the Heap" (the 1957 FC-170 Jeep). I overhauled the carburetor and fuel pump--installing in them modern materials that are suitable for use with the current ethanol-gasoline mixtures. It's working perfectly now.
Dinner tonight was the Jasmine rice-Chicken "salad" that I've talked about before. I sent a picture of it to DD (it's her favorite) and she's thinking of driving over here tomorrow to take some back to her apartment. :-)
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So I finally found yeast-raised hamantaschen like the ones I had as a kid in Brooklyn--North Shore Kosher Bakery has them. (Had to order in advance, because they sell out pretty quickly--especially the poppyseed ones--and the bakery closes at 4). Except these are huge, the size of Danish pastries.
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