So...whats for dinner?
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Oh my goodness - just noticed we're at 1091 pages. Almost to 1100. Lots of good recipes. Lots of good friends.
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Minus, tomorrow I think we will receive your rain....but with cold temps, so it is promised to arrive for the entire day in the form of snow, sleet and freezing rain. A perfect day to hunker down at home for the day....except, in the AM my trafficking prevention group is showing a film on “modern day slavery" early tomorrow morning at our church. Then we get to navigate the weather while driving into Boston for the first Celtics' playoff game early in the afternoon. Then zoom home for dinner and maybe a quick nap for DH, (I never nap), and back to Boston to attend a talk by Ira Glass. The Cs created this overly full schedule since they just announced their playoff schedule and we'd gotten our Ira Glass tickets two months ago. I just hope we don't skid all the way into town and back...twice!
More importantly, the runners in the Boston Marathon on Monday are going to have to face rainy cold weather .....as though running a marathon isn't enough!
Tonight in anticipation of wanting to have some leftovers in the fridge for tomorrow's quick dinner at home, we got mixed grill kebabs from one of our favorite Greek restaurants. They came with Greek salad, rice and butternut squash puree. Also ordered chicken lemon soup, and stuffed grape leaves...so there are plenty of “jump ups". I'll only need to put a salad together tomorrow.
Last night in my quest to have a low calorie meal, we had basically a large shrimp cocktail....boiled and chilled large shrimp over a huge mound of several lettuces. I made a basic horseradish cocktail sauce, but added a red pepper sauce that I had a leftover jar of in the fridge. That made it a bit more interesting. We had an odd accompaniment... boiled brussels sprouts. Our favorite unpopular vegetable.
That French Dip recipe sounds so deliciously decadent. I bet in my next life when I've returned as a thin person, I will sooo enjoy it! (she says, salivating)
Welcome Patsy! And I second Minus's comment that it would be great to learn of some of your favorite plant based meals.
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Lacey - Wow. I think I'd get a hotel room in town for naps between the game & the talk. And treat yourself to a night away after the talk. Although it may be hard to do with the Marathon.
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You are correct, Minus! Thecity is full!
Driving into the game was a traffic nightmare...back home not quite as bad, but the game went overtime, so little time to gather ourselves before heading back here. At Symphony Hall now awaiting Ira! The weather is miserable and i feel so badly for tomorrows runners!
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Bob's leftover fettuccine Alfredo with chicken breast for dinner Sat. night as I took a break from packing. Sun. morning in the Delta lounge at O’Hare I made myself a breakfast burrito & cappuccino. Dinner on the JFK-Rome leg was mesclun salad with grilled chicken breast to start; they asked if I wanted pasta or “beef,” and I chose “beef, which turned out to be chicken Marsala with veggies & roast new potatoes. Not awful. OK chocolate mousse for dessert. Breakfast was a chocolate croisssant (hot but limp), a strawberry smoothie, and pretty good coffee. Dodged a bullet, in that they tried to give me a glatt Kosher meal (kaiser roll & Kosher cheese, which is to say rubbery). Half the plane was headed to Tel Aviv for an Orthodox/Hasidic camp—so it was also full of screaming babies & toddlers. Yeah, I’m sleep-deprived. And my room won’t be ready for at least another 2 hrs. Debating about whether to get lunch—there’s a welcome snack reception at the law firm hosting the conference at 1pm, but seeing as how I’ve been in the same clothes for almost 24 hrs. and look as exhausted as I feel—with nowhere to change & freshen up—I think I’ll try to nap in the lobby or grab a coffee & pastry. (My clothes and itinerary are checked with the valet).
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DD came over today to use our tax preparation software. She was grumbling a bit because a company paid her, said they reported the income to the IRS, but did not give her a 1099MISC or W2. It took her about an hour to do her filing. Had that company provided the form, it probably would have taken her 10-15 minutes to do the whole thing.
Dinner tonight was the chicken-ginger-onion "casserole".
I brought my mom's computer over and am going to pull the information off of it, wipe (not with a cloth) the disk and take it to a recycling place. It's 5 years old, so the computer is probably not worth taking to the thrift store.
Next will be the dish hutch...we figured out a nice place for it. When I was a kid, the hutch held one of every possible thing for a place setting (had to have been at least 100 items per setting) and the other 8 settings were held in crates. I hope the snail forks are still there...those always made me laugh. :-)
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Had casual lunch al fresco at a cafe on the Piazza del Populo with others in my group. Mineral water plus the best bruschetta I’veever had: fresh tomatoes in Rome in spring are amazing. Gelato at Gracchi: actually a dark chocolate sorbetto. Reception had various canapés, none outstanding but all good. Strolled & shopped, then late dinner at Tartufi & Friends around the corner from my hotel—had fresh tagliarini cacio e pepe with shaved summer truffle. Thought I’d died and gone to culinary heaven. Breakfast buffet included all manner of stuff, but I had to try the carpaccio of persimmon. In an hour I’m off to a wine & food tour, followed by a group dinner (ordered the osso bucco, since I make the other choice—branzino—all the time at home). Will report back if I can, because I have an early morning of law panels and then a court tour tomorrow. Ciao!
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Have fun and enjoy the wonderful food, Sandy!
Yesterday's weigh in at WW wasn't as bad as I feared. I was up .8 lb. Hope to do better this week. After last night! I cooked breaded pork "steakettes" in the air fryer. They came out crusty and brown on the outside. We each ate the bone-in portion. One would probably have been enough. Dh, of course, got out the apple sauce and it had gone bad in the refrigerator.
We also had a mix of white potato and sweet potato oven fries. The raw potatoes tossed with olive oil and seasoned and cooked in 400 degree oven while the pork was cooking in the fryer. I finished up the fries in the fryer when the pork steaks were finished. I especially liked the sweet potato fries. DH ate his fries with ketchup, which, thank goodness, was good!
Tonight will be fish or scallops or both, yet to be purchased.
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Eric - you beat me. My family never had snail forks but i do have a pickle fork or two.
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Minus— my family never had snail forks, either. But the did have garden hoes and salt/saucers to deal with snails and slugs!!
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LOL - Dodger's Girl. Beer works quite well too.
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Roman food porn! First. Pasta cacio e pepe with shaved summer truffle, from Monday dinner:
Next, from today's food tour, deep fried artichokes:
Battered fried baccala:
From top: cow (grana Padano), goat, sheep (pecorino Sardo):
Pizza, suppli (rice balls), torta rustica:
From dinner tonight, osso bucco:
Tiramisu, panna cotta (with Luxardo cherry), chocolate mousse:
I apologize for forgetting to shoot the gelato (cassata, dark chocolate) from today's food tour and ravioli in cream sauce from dinner—too busy talking & eating!
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ChiSandy - That Roman food looks great. Especially the artichoke!
Tonight I'm making pan-fried chicken schnitzel and braised red cabbage with bacon, apples and a touch of vinegar.
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chisandy - makes me want to dust off my passport....
magari - your dinner sounds pretty Bavarian!
I am making some ramen and topping it with sautéed onion, carrot, cabbage which has had some soy and hot sauce added, then topped with some chicken breast I roasted earlier skin on, bone in. Not super exciting but fast as DH is walking/exercising, it is already 8pm and he is still not home, so...
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Special - The chicken schnitzel has gone into our rotation as a semi-regular item because I can butterfly and pound out a single boneless, skinless chicken breast and make it work as the protein portion of dinner for two. And it actually tastes like something. (I sometimes do picatta, marsala or some other variation, but my husband is fond of breadcrumbs....)
The Bavarian "theme" happened by chance when I was going through the fridge and realized I had half a head of red cabbage that needed to be used up anyway. Used a Jamie Oliver recipe, which turned out quite well.
Pasta and salad tonight. Probably with spicy sage almond pesto. I use this recipe, but substitute fresh serrano chilies for the red pepper flakes and use far less olive oil: http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/pasta-spicy-almond-pesto
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magari - I have done a chicken paillard over field greens with a Dijon vinaigrette a number of times - great quick dinner especially when it's warm out and we enjoy main dish salads instead of a completely hot meal. I just picked up some additional coupe plates at Crate & Barrel yesterday - I love them for that kind of thing because you can make the salad shallow and have all the pretty stuff on top. I have 4 and got 4 more, just in case I break any.
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Delicious looking food, Sandy.
My husband is fond of bread crumbs, too, and so am I.
I ate lunch out today and had a lovely salad of a mixture of delicate salad lettuces with grilled shrimp. The dressing was a lemon and olive oil vinaigrette. There were six large shrimp. It was delicious. I ate every morsel and I could probably eat a hamburger this minute.
Dinner will be chicken breast fillets and small red potatoes. I'm thinking I will cook the chicken breasts in a small amount of broth with preserved lemon, sort of a piccata flavor, and boil the little potatoes and serve with butter. Maybe a salad.
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Tonight will be leftover linguine from a restaurant shrimp scampi dinner on Sunday. There were only 4 shrimp, so I ate all those and then concentrated on the wonderful bread. Before I left the restaurant I added the delicious dipping sauce w/Parmesan & oil & peppers & spices to my noodles. Tonight all I have to do is add shrimp again.
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Wednesday Roman food porn (cocktail reception at Museo di Roma on the Piazzo Navona). Porchetta sliders:
Caprese, prosciutto, salmon, & tuna sliders, fruit kabobs:
Octopus salad, branzino crudo:
Croissant sandwiches (prosciutto, mortadella, hot sopressata):
Crostini (olive-oil fried quail egg, anchovy & cream cheese, lox):
There’s always room for dessert (chocolate mousse, crema catalana, tiramisu, strawberry panna cotta; the salad & crudo in foreground):
Stopped earlier at a Nespresso boutique for pistachio financiers, almond biscotti, amaretti, and chocolate/Sichuan peppercorn amaretti. (Plus a sleeve of robusta capsules for home). Will make a platter of those nibbles once I get home. Before going to the hotel to freshen up before dinner, stopped at “Pecoro Pazzo” (“Crazy Sheep”) rosticceria for suppli (filled with rice, marinara & mozzarella—the size of a torpedo). After dinner, cabbed it back to Gracchi only to find it closed early (surprising how early stuff closes here before summer), so went to a rival gelteria for a scoop each of fior di latte (fresh mozzarella/yogurt) and Malaga (closest it gets to rum raisin)
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I may have "pink eye"...sigh.
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ChiSandy - for crying out loud why didn’t you sneak me into your luggage?!?!? Lol! Food looks amazing and the trip sounds like nirvana!! Enjoy!...please take a bite and sip for me!
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Last night's chicken piccata sort of dish came out delicious. Love the preserved lemon. The little red boiled potatoes were yummy, too. We each had a romaine salad, mine with minimum avocado and no blue cheese and white balsamic vinegar for dressing.
Tonight will make use of some skirt steak in the freezer, also a carton of home cooked black beans and ripe avocadoes in the veggie drawer. Also some corn tortillas on hand. Fajitas.
I'm working on using up the food in the freezers before our departure date, May 21. Hope the snow has melted in MN!
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Lunchtime food porn at Cafe Romano in the Hotel d’Inghleterra, where I’m staying.
Tagliarini cacio e pepe with fried artichokes and zucchini blossoms above, mignardises below:
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Eric - sorry to hear about the eye. Hope it's not pink eye.
Oh dear, I'm sunk. My neighbor across the street just brought me a "chicken biscuit" from Chick Filet. The scale was up 2 lbs this morning, but this is a rare treat for me. Warm, buttered, crumbly biscuit with lightly fried chicken breast inside. Oh my. I seriously thought about throwing it away (Really??) but since I only eat this delight a couple of times a year I'm chewing as I write.
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minus - I feel ya - I went to brunch last Sunday with DH and a friend and they had "cathead" biscuits at this Southern specialty restaurant - they are indeed the size of a cat's head. Did I eat the whole thing - yes. And I would do it again - it was delicious, but I have avoided the scale this week, lol!
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Love, love, love biscuits. My mother made "cathead" biscuits every morning when I was a kid, back in the days when "bought" bread was a treat. Have not had chicken biscuits. I never have to worry about being tempted to eat biscuits during the summers in MN. For some reason, Minnesotans don't seem to know how to make good biscuits.
I remember that Susan made biscuits when she cooked one of her southern meals like fried chicken.
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Bummer about the pinkeye, Eric-hope it’s just temporary allergies.
Farewell dinner tonight after touring the Borghese Gallery, at Casa Valadier at the north end of Borghese Gardens. So much wine in me that rather than attempt to describe each dish, I’ll show the menu first:
About to charge my devices, catch a nap, shower and finish packing—my ride arrives at 7:30 for a 10:40 flight to JFK, then customs & immigration, change terminals, & fly home
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Sandy,
I loved the Borghese gallery, such beautiful sculptures and paintings, I still see Appolo and Daphne which is one of my favorite Bernini sculptures. Great food as well.
Kathy
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No cooking here tonight. We are invited to a friend's house for a steak dinner. I am bringing fresh Louisiana strawberries and pound cake. My friend has vanilla ice cream and Cool Whip. Dessert will be a version of strawberry shortcake. We're also bringing a couple of bottles of wine.
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We played dominoes for the first time in several months today. Someone brought the Hawaiian Sliders. Yummy. Someone made a pasta salad. I was going to take cole slaw, but the host (the husband of our dear friend who died a year ago) said he wanted to get a broccoli salad from Costco like his wife used to make. So I took fresh cantaloupe. Then he wasn't able to find the salad and he bought chocolate cake doughnuts. Someone brought poppy seed kolaches. One other sweet but I forgot what. WAY too much sugar.
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