So...whats for dinner?
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I just had a kimchi, salmon, rice dish for breakfast. The sour taste was wonderful and I found my chopsticks skills had not faded too much.
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Lacey - I'm making your cod dish today but with La Famiglia Del Grosso - Aunt Mary Ann's Sunday Marinara sauce instead of Raos. I think I liked this sauce the last time I tried it so it's time for another taste test. It is Gluten Free, GMO Free & NO sugar added. 20 less calories than Raos, but 40 mg more sodium. Always a darn trade off but neither are deal breakers. As you suggested, I've added a ton of veggies - onion, mushroom, bell pepper & even slivers of zucchini left over from Spiralizing the same. This will be enough sauce for spag & meatballs later this week - which I will serve over the 'zoodles'. Or maybe chicken cacciatore. And still enough to freeze a batch for a 3rd meal.
Eric - I am sooooooo jealous of the delicious rice bowls.
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leftover lasagna from last night and garlic bread
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Sounds good, Mommyof2. Especially the garlic bread.
Last night was small white boiled potatoes with sour cream and butter. And the last package of fish fillets from MN, breaded with fish fry and cooked brown and crisp in canola oil. DH made his tartar sauce.
Tonight is boneless skinless chicken thighs prepared using Laurie's Salsa Chicken recipe. But I spoon the black beans over the raw chicken and the salsa on top. I believe Laurie put the beans on top. Will warm some home-made corn tortillas and serve with sour cream and sliced avocado.
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Tired of Chinese leftovers (which I had for brunch). Bob brought home tossed salad, penne marinara and eggplant parm.
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The folks who determine our per diem rate for our meals and incidentials looked up Honolulu, Hawaii and did not find it listed, so they used the amount of $51 "for locations in the state of Hawaii not listed in this table".
Honolulu is located in Ohau and the per diem table says $138 for "Isle of Ohau, all locations".
Now to convince them that Honolulu is one of the "all locations on the Isle of Ohau".
When I'm driving the school bus and a student asks "how geography is useful", I will have an example. :-)
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Last of the lasagna tonight.
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Sunday was Lasagna for my dinner/tv with friends and last night was Chicken/Broccoli Divan. I saw the recipe on a Campbell’s soup can years ago and it became one of my favorites, my only change is I used grilled and copped chicken instead of canned and a little extra cheese.
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Ha ha, you teach 'em Eric!
Last night was chicken leek pie with sauteed green beans in lemon shallot butter. In spite of enough leftover for another meal, we're having fish tacos with black beans and chipotle slaw.
Taking advantage of the last 75 degree day to clean out the garage. So far the (mouse) body count is two.
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Lamb chops and baked sweet potatoes. I found Austrailian lamb chops at Fresh Market for a price but I wanted them. No American lamb to be found. I went into the store with a $20 gift card and spent $100!
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It's always amusing to have a gift cards and somehow spending 3-4 times the value of the card.
Dinner was reheated pasta sauce that already had bell pepper & onion & mushrooms with the addition of extra mushrooms & a large handful of chicken from a previous frozen rotisserie bird. I was going to serve if over zucchini 'zoodles' but I really wanted some rice. Seeds of Change 'Quinoa & Brown Rice' easily cooked up for 90 seconds in the microwave. I originally divided the enhanced pasta sauce in 3 parts. This was the smallest 1/3 and I still have at least one more dinner. So I'd best freeze the last third. Certainly is interesting cooking for one.
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Back home so cooking tonight. On the menu: pan fried halibut dredged in herb seasoned flour, 7 grain rice blend, mixed vegetables with a bit of butter and parmesan. Accompanied by a glass of Ken Volk Malvasia Bianca. Have enough leftovers of the fish for another meal, goody goody.
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Tonight was 2 potato scallop with ham. My husband asked for seconds. Then 3rds! Hes feeling better. LOL Hes a bit dissappointed the cervical collar has to stay on for at least a month and maybe more. But, hes happy because hes out of the halo.
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Tossed salad with blood orange olive oil & grapefruit balsamic; then (second night in a row) leftover penne marinara.
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Moon - GREAT news that your DH was able to ditch the halo. That's real progress. I haven't thought about scalloped potatoes & ham for years but it was one of the meals my Dad liked best.
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Hi all! Back at home after a whirlwind of activity. Returned from California and then promptly had an out of town wedding of the childhood BFF of DS, so he flew down to be in the wedding - it was a round robin of airport pick-ups and driving around. All went well and we had fun! DH's birthday was also in the mix. His gift is having his childhood road bike restored by an expert over in St. Pete - yay! I have not been cooking much, and really, really need to go to the grocery store. Had a windshield repair this morning so waiting the requisite time period before I can drive the car.
There was a lot to catch up on, and I am not going to try to comment on all, but glad eric is back home (I was married on Guam and had a cat named Tinian, lol!), and yay for your DH moon! I hope everyone is doing well, eating well, and having some fun!
I could use some input from those who have walked this road - I don't know if anyone remembers that I had some dental issues - first the crown cap that came off twice, then a cracked filling on the other side that had to be repaired - all in the space of about 6 weeks. All of this was related to chocolate chips in some way - weird, right? Anyway, I had a routine cleaning a week or so after the filling repair and it appeared that I had infection above the crown in front of the repaired tooth. I thought it was due to rubbing from some of the equipment used in my mouth during that repair. Nope. Sent to the endodontist, normal x-ray, but when he probed with the explorer he discovered no bone resistance above the crown. Had a cone beam CT and it showed absence of bone. Sent to oral surgeon for more extensive workup with extraction on the agenda. Full CT shows this is isolated to that area only. He is cautiously optimistic that this is age (of me and the crown, lol!) related, not due to Prolia or Femara, but complicated by use of both, and likely not jaw mets, which is a relief. I have the extraction and bone graft in about a week - what is the eating situation, and recovery like? Trying to plan ahead.
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Special - when I had a similar issue it was a tooth just in front of an eye tooth, so chewing was not an issue after the first couple of days. Biting however was, so corn on the cob permanently was erased from my diet. It turned out longer than anyone expected for my new bone to become really firm. My extraction, bone material & setting the post was 12/19. I wasn't fully released from that surgery until 2/26. I didn't get the actual tooth part until 4/22 because the molds broke the first time the end of March. Probably not what you want to hear, but maybe your bone will attach more quickly than mine did.
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minus - your timeline is actually what I have been told, so I am not surprised. Mine will be extraction, bone graft next week - wait for that to heal, set the anchor, wait for that to heal, then attach the implant. I am expecting 6 months minimum - the good news is this tooth is at the back so relatively unseen, but needed for chewing on that side, so... I had my most recent Prolia injection in March so I am hoping that any risk from that is at least somewhat minimized since my MO deemed that my last, because I have been on it for 6 years at that point. That was unknowingly fortuitous since this is the situation I am in now!
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Eat soft foods for a week after extractions, some protein for healing but not too rapidly, as you don't want a dry socket. Good luck and let me know how it goes. And though my teeth are staying put for now, my days of gnawing ribs, tough wings, steak bones, and corn on the cob are over too. I bought a good corn-stripper, and have gotten pretty skilled at dissecting ribs and chicken wings if the knife is sharp enough. Gonna have my orthodontic consult in a couple of weeks--hopefully I'll be able to get an Invisalign or a lingual-wire (back-side-of-tooth) brace or at least stabilizer. Been warned that orthodontia takes longer if you're on or have been on Prolia or a bisphosphonate, because both drugs stabilize bone modeling and teeth will therefore move much more slowly.
Defrosting a Duroc pork chop to pan-sear after trick-or-treat is over, and planning a maple glaze for it. Was going to saute some apples, but my fruit bowl has only citrus. So I will heat and spice some applesauce on the side, and eat whatever green is in the crisper. I have some leftover long-grain and wild rice I can also nuke.
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The tooth timeline matches my experience when I had an implant several years ago--on lower right side so most chewing was done on the left. Due to crowns on my upper front teeth, I haven't bitten into a good, crisp apple for twenty years so chewing precautions came pretty naturally.
Dinner tonight will be homemade pizza--crust is in the bread maker while we go vote. No trick or treaters since our neighborhood does a Saturday daytime trick or treat in the neighborhood park.
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Tonight will be chicken breast fillets and eggplant slices, both cooked in the air fryer and both breaded with panko crumbs.
Impulse buy after watching info-mercial on Power Quick Pot. Not one but two 8 qt. models! So called BOGO but that wasn't including extra for the inserts.
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Tonight was a big salad, so yummy!
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Illimae, looks yummy. I forgot to take a picture of our piled high with veggies pizza before we dug in and scarfed half of it down!
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Well, after 4-1/2 hrs. handing out Halloween candy, checked the fridge and found the pork chop still hadn't defrosted. I had leftover stale steamed rice & char siu pork that needed to be used up, so I made fried rice--adding julienned snow peas, and sliced scallions I've been growing in a jar on my windowsill (save the root ends from your green onions--they'll sprout in water)--using garlic & ginger oil, five-spice powder, soy sauce for color and finished with sesame oil for aroma. Didn't add egg, as I had two for breakfast. The Bob brought home some leftover S. Side thin-crust pizza from the doctors' lounge at the hospital--nobody but the cardiologists took any of it home. It's "tavern-cut" rather than sliced, but it was surprisingly good.
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Beav, I wish you had remembered to take a pic of that pizza....sounds like my fave....tho am currently avoiding pizza as I try to cut down on calories.
Happy Halloween, everyone! I’ve decided that we must be the neighborhood “Boo Radley” house since our trick or treaters have been diminishing in recent years and despite DH’s lighting up every room in our house tonight, and putting some battery lit lights on our outer hedge, we had not a single costumed (or plain clothed) taker! Weird! Last week DH decided that in case we had leftover candy, we should buy what we like. Oh dear! Good thing the two Heath Bars I already scarfed down tonight were tiny!
Today I made a dinner for us and for a couple from our church, the wife of whom was just released from the hospital after serious pneumonia....probably due to her vulnerable state. She has been managing lung cancer AND pulmonary fibrosis for the past two years, and is amzingly fit otherwise. I made them baked balsamic/rosemary chicken breasts and put them atop a bed of a mix of farro with roasted butternut squash, onion and sauteed kale. It was pretty. Also made a giant salad with honey mustard dressing, her favorite . We had the same thing. And I was so disorganized putting all this together, I never took pix....and I left our chicken breasts in the cooling down oven while I delivered the succulent looking dish to their house, and stopped at a social justice vigil for a while, returning home later than planned.... so we had very dry chicken.
Special, I am just now getting my crown for the extraction/bone growing/implant process I had this past year for a #30 (I think) lower molar. I started the process 2017 summer, and yesterday was finally measured for the new crown. Fascinating high tech machine did the work! No more awful goop in your mouth. Guess it’s been a long while since I had an impression for a crown! Anyway, your process sounds faster than mine has been. Once my initial stitches were healed from any of the surgical procedures, eating was fine....mostly on the other side for a month or so. I hope it goes well for you! I have not been on prolia or similar drugs, and my bone loss due to the original infection issue was really significant, too. So I think it just happens with infections. Good luck!
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More chicken breast tonight since it's thawed. There were two half breasts in the package from Fresh Market. I will make the sweet/spicy sauce I like so much and do a saute with chunks of chicken and broccoli and cook some soba noodles and mix everything together.
Last night's breaded chicken breast fillets and eggplant slices dinner was tasty with a side jar of mango chutney and a delicious romaine salad. The air fryer did a good job. I had to cook in batches and put the cooked food in a warm oven. The plus is only the cooking basket to wash and no splatter on the stove stop.
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Doing the pork chop tonight--with the long-grain/wild rice blend and roast brussels sprouts.
By the time we closed up shop last night, we were down to 8 Hershey kisses. Started with 12 lbs. of candy. Best costumes were the three Schuyler Sisters from Hamilton and a 12-yr-old picture-perfect Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Still had a scratchy throat and congestion, so brunch was hot & sour soup (I used the Kikkoman mix, as I don't keep cornstarch or dulse on hand--added an egg, more white pepper, a few red pepper flakes, and rice vinegar) with tofu. My college sorority sister who sings with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir swears by it. They've won 3 Grammys, so she knows whereof she speaks.
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Made it to civilization yesterday so tonight is the sheet pan pork tenderloin with fennel and apples.
Two tricksters only yesterday so I have lots of chocolate left. Fortunately it's the teeny little one bite size. Takes longer to unwrap it than to eat it.
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Lacey, I think the decline in trick or treaters, at least in my area, is due to the proliferation of trunk or treat events. The one I participate in had well over 500 kids this year, double last years turnout, and there were several other such events in town over a few days.
Carole, are you happy with your air fryer? I'm sorely tempted, but I'm in divesture mode so have to really think about adding another appliance. I expect there will be lots of sales this season so I need to do some research.
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Carole, I just realized you said you got a multi/pressure cooker. Congratulations! I'm curious about that particular model, it advertises that it functions as a sous vide. How does that work?
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