So...whats for dinner?
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carole - thanks!
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Happy birthday Special, please tell me someone else fixed dinner for you!
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For some unknown reason, I'm in the mood for chicken enchiladas. I think I will get out the cast iron press and make some tortillas.
I so-o-o enjoyed the soba noodles and sweet/spicy sauce last night. The leftover pork tenderloin tasted ok. I will start halving the tenderloins to avoid leftover. Lean meat is best eaten when it's first cooked, in my humble opinion.
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Special - Happy B-day. I agree, hope someone else cooked the dinner. Have fun in CA.
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Thanks! DH grilled the steaks, but I have to confess I did bake the potatoes and put the loaded parts in bowls so everyone could make their own, and I did make the salad - but used the baby butter lettuce that is packaged, pre-crumbled goat cheese and pepitas that come in a little container, lol! Easy on all fronts. I love that you guys wanted me to have a night off!
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Happy birthday, Special.
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eric - thanks! We are watching video from PCB - its looks pretty crazy there right now.
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The tortillas are made and refrigerated. I made an enchilada sauce using a recipe I saved and had not used. Not sure that I like it as well as the canned sauce I usually buy. Recipe called for 4 T. chili powder. Seemed a lot so I cute it to 2 T. May add some chipotle chili powder but have to be careful not to burn dh's mouth! LOL. The next step is poaching a chicken breast in seasoned water. Last step will be assembly and heating the dish while melting cheese.
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Inbound....
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For dinner salad and bread. I went to a retirement seminar and left before the main course because I had to get my 10,000 steps in
Today I will get the results of my 2 biopsies. I asked the MD to call me at work because I'm working till 430 today and tomorrow and then the weekend.I'll be fine.
Already the dumb comments have begun....
Friend #1 And.. rolling eyes, when did you decide that calling you at work was a good idea? (shut up)
Friend #2 You'll look like Swiss cheese! (shut up)
DD Just get new ones (hummm.)
Hope everyone has a good day
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Bedo - holding you in my thoughts as you wait for your biopsy results.
Hope everyone in the path of Michael is OK.
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Have friends in Port St. Joe. Last I heard from them was yesterday morning when the winds were starting to kick up and water was coming up in a canal. Praying they are safe.
On the dinner front, it’s soup and sandwich tonight. Still have a bit of the stomach bug I woke up with yesterday.
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Mommy - sorry about your stomach bug. Hope it doesn't linger.
I went to Costco today and their rotisserie chickens are the best - huge & plump & nicely seasoned. So dinner was nibbling chicken from the wings and the leg bones and eating small pieces as I stripped the bird. I'll have chicken again tomorrow and package the rest for the freezer. Also finished off the leftover yellow squash w/onion & garlic.
Yesterday I baked one of the San Francisco Boudin Sourdough rounds that I'd taken from the freezer. They pre-bake the bread so you only have to finish it for 10-15 minutes at 375 degrees. Dinner yesterday was 3 pieces of fresh bread with lots of butter. YUM.
Eric - hope things are OK wherever you are.
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Hoping for mercy on the part of Michael for those in its path.
Last night Bob came home from Cooper's Hawk Winery, where a drug rep took his office staff to dinner. He stuffed himself on the appetizers and brought home two entrees: parmesan-crusted beef tenderloin medaiiions with asparagus, and glazed salmon with Southwest slaw (and scalloped potatoes with both). Had the salmon and half the slaw last night. He also brought home two portions of dark chocolate cake with strawberries. I had half mine last night and the other half an hour ago. Headed out to Target to pick up some last-minute stuff before packing tomorrow for our trip Saturday. Will find out how late Bob will be working tonight, and whether he'll have had dinner, before I decide whether to eat the medallions or save them for him.
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Dinner last night was stuffed yellow bell peppers from the freezer and baked sweet potato. Salad was sliced tomatoes and cucumbers with crumbles of blue cheese. The bell pepper stuffing with wild rice was very good.
Tonight's dinner may be a home-made pizza.
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Eric, I imagine you are very busy given what we see on the media coverage of the Panhandle area. Thank you, again, and hope you are keeping your strength up. i bet if Special were not headed West, she’d probably cater a meal down to you!
Belated Happy Birthday, Special! And have a wonderful trip! I recall how much you enjoy those trips back to CA.
Since returning home from the lake, I have had zero motivation to food shop or cook...so have been squeaking by with anything in the fridge. Planned to shop yesterday, but torrential rains were a deterrent (not that I needed one). So I had a mini crisis at dinner prep time...ultimately foraged through the freezer and found three meatballs I made last year for just this type of night. Amazingly they had no freezer burn, so I nuke defrosted them, heated them up in a Rao’s tomato basil sauce, mixed with some leftover farfalle noodles I had frozen a few weeks ago and fresh mozzarella, and called it a casserole! DH never even knew what a scofflaw I was. Had he been out, I would have loved to do a peanut butter and fruit dinner! But glad those frozen meatballs surfaced. Minus, I envied your bread dinner! I always think of your son’s thoughtful gift when I read about your freezer treasures.
Tonight we are going to visit my friend (the one we visit at her house on the Vineyard) who just sold her localhouse and moved to an apartment. We’ll either take her out to dinner or have take-out at her place. And tomorrow I’d better get to the food store! Just seem to have lost interest in food prep of late.
Hoping for good news on the biopsy, Bedo.
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Thank you.
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Think I need to make something hearty to help me get my strength back from being down with a stomach bug. Time to do a dive into the freezer for dinner.
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Looking forward to homemade pizza tonight. The dough for two crusts is in the refrigerator. I used 1 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour, 2 cups of unbleached all purpose, 1 packet of pizza yeast, 1 tsp salt, 1 T. honey and 1 T. olive oil. Oh, and 1 1/2 cups warm water. This is Mary Ann Esposito's recipe. I would have used white whole wheat instead of the all purpose but there was none at my Winn Dixie. Its offering of flour indicates that it's not an important ingredient for WD customers.
I made turkey Italian sausage this afternoon and and pre-cooked it. Also cooked fresh sliced mushrooms in butter. Another topping will be Kalamata olives. Yum. Yum. I will probably make a romaine salad as a side. Or maybe not.
Today was a gorgeous day, starting out in the 50's and ending up in the 70's. If only we had months of this same weather.
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Bedo - hey girl - we're thinking about you and those test results. Hope you check in soon.
Dinner was bagged Asian salad mix with avocado & chicken added. Meals will be more hit & miss than usual. My SIL has been in ICU since Sunday. Based on intuition - I drove down to see her this morning even though she is now sedated and likely didn't know I was there. Her husband & children decided this afternoon after I left to transition to Hospice & pull the trach tube. She will not be able to breathe with out the machine, and hospice is estimating about two days. I never had a sister and she never had a sister, so we decided to drop the "in-law" more than 30 years ago and just be sisters. I am the godmother to her two kids in their late 30s. This is very hard
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Oh Minus, I'm so sorry. (((Hugs))) to you
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Thanks Nance. My nephew just called. They pulled the tube and she slipped away within an hour.
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Minus, tears for you and your family.
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Minus—. So sorry for your loss. Cyber hugs
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Hugs Minus.
Busy here.
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So sorry for your loss minus.
Had to put my last baby down from a litter of 4, mom, dad and his 3 brothers and sister passed within the last 5 years. He was 14, which is amazing for a bulldog, been sad and unmotivated to cook at all. Hoping a getaway to the cabin will help me get refocused.
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Illimae— sorry for the fur baby loss.
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Oh, Minus, I am so sad for you. Losing a “chosen”sister has to be so painful. Sending hugs to you.
And hugs to you, too, Illimae. I always remember the words of our lovely vet shared with me when I was having our first mini schnauzer put down, that for as many times that she has had to say good bye to her animals over the years, it never gets easier. They are a big part of the fabric of our families. Cute pooch! Hope your trip to the cabin feels comforting.
Yes, Eric, I imagine you are wildly busy. Sending spirited energy your way.
Carole, your pizza sounds delicious!! And I'm impressed that you make your own turkey sausage. I saw some delicious sounding pizza choices on the menu at our friend's neighborhood Italian restaurant tonight, but resisted the pull and had a shaved brussells sprouts salad with chicken added. Feeling deprivedly virtuous! Fortunately, my friend's daughter joined us for dinner so I was busy enjoying catching up with her and paid less attention to our food
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Hugs, Minus. Such a huge loss for you and your chosen sister's family.
My pizza was too good for my own good. I pigged out.
Lacey, several years ago I purchased half a pig from a MN farmer. Among the cuts of pork were quite a few packages of ground pork. I looked up home-made Italian sausage and learned that it was a simple matter of adding spices and seasoning. Fennel, red pepper flakes (to taste), onion and garlic powder, s & p. So easy. Now I use ground turkey with low fat content because of my weight control issues.
Michael was a monster. The devastation is terrible.
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Carole, I too make my own turkey sausage! The recipe I found calls for red, white, and black pepper -- way too peppery for the palates in my house. I'm still tweaking it a bit but add salt, black pepper, sage, fennel seed, garlic powder, ground cloves, nutmeg & allspice (just a little bit of each of the last three). We like this sausage with scrambled eggs and on our homemade pizza. Have also used it in recipes that call for crumbled crisp bacon. Glad to know someone else is doing this...
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