So...whats for dinner?
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Nance & Lacey - agree about the trunk or treats at libraries & churches - it means almost no kids at my house. Last I year did what Lacey's DH advised - bought only what I liked - and since we only had 3 kids that was a good thing. This year I was a Halloween Scrooge and didn't even turn the lights on, but of course we were under a tornado watch, had 3-1/2" of pouring rain and 30 mph winds. I knew a neighbor down the block has put up a canopy over her driveway and planned to invite the kids into her garage AND her living room. Because we get so many that don't live in the neighborhood & just drop off their kids, I don't think that was particularly safe.
Carole - If you don't mind sharing, I'd love to know how to make your sweet/sour sauce that you use w/the chicken & broccoli. I'm thinking it might be good with shrimp too.
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Rogers Park--the neighborhood to our north, which had two as-yet-unsolved random shootings in the past month (most likely a gang initiation--there's security-cam video of the alleged shooter, but his face is covered up by a hoodie, ball cap, and turtleneck pulled up to his eyes)--held a daylight Trunk or Treat, but it was only 2 hrs. long. There were games and the police were handing out the candy, but it was over before 5 pm. Parents didn't feel comfortable about taking their kids door-to-door in the dark, so they came down here.
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We ran out of candy. I bought about 10 pounds and it still wasn't enough. I think the oldest to come by was probably 12 and they had a kindergarten aged brother with them. I did notice a lot of cars pulled to the side of the road at the end of the block, so I'm guessing folks drove their kids here.
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Thanks all for the extraction and implant info - I appreciate it!
chisandy - I am at the tail end of Invisalign. It has taken three times as long as projected due to my excellent response to Prolia, lol! My oral surgeon is actually happy I will be wearing a tray because it will help protect the extraction area.
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The pork tenderloin with fennel was really good. Highly recommend.
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Leftover Halloween candy! ;P
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I'm canning seven 12-ounce jars of homemade chicken broth. With the space I need to leave in the jars, they each end up holding about 9 ounces of broth...a perfect amount as I seem to use it in 1 cup increments.
Dinner tonight was Subway sandwiches.
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Minus, I would love to share the simple but tasty sweet/spicy sauce. I think I can recite the recipe from memory. 3 T brown sugar, 1 1/2 T. low sodium soy sauce, 1 T fish sauce, 1 T rice vinegar, 1 T sambal oelek/hot chili sauce, 1 tsp dark sesame oil, 3/4 tsp. corn starch. Measure ingredients and whisk together in a small bowl. Ta DAH!
This sauce is good for pork as well as chicken, and I'm sure it would be good for shrimp.
Nance, my Power Quick Pots are en route. I just bought them. I like the Air Fryer but I use it to restrict fat and calories in my ongoing effort to lose weight. I won't claim that the air fried food is better than old-fashioned fried food. You can probably achieve the same results with "oven" frying. The air fryer is large, a consideration. I'm wondering where I will give the Quick Pot a kitchen spot.
Last night's soba noodle dish was delicious with the substitution of cauliflower for broccoli. There was no broccoli in the refrigerator. I must have cooked it already. Four ounces of soba noodles (dry measure before cooked) is perfect for the two of us. I made a "light" cabbage slaw side dish with cabbage sliced very thin and tossed with olive oil and white balsamic and a sprinkling of Stevia sweetener.
For anyone who hasn't tried soba noodles, you cook them in unsalted boiling water for about 6 minutes. Drain the water and thoroughly rinse the noodles in cold water. So easy and I love the taste. I add them to the sauce and veggie and meat mixture and reheat them while they absorb some sauce flavor.
Tonight we're meeting another couple for dinner at a very good and pricey restaurant. The folks in MN have a different word for pricey. Spend-y.
Tomorrow morning is supposed to start off in the 40's. Yay to cooler weather.
I have been saving cardboard boxes in preparation for today's project. Tackling closets. Yesterday I found a sewing machine I had forgotten about!! It belonged to an aunt and my cousin gave it to me when my aunt died.
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I love soba noodles too and haven't had them for a while. Might be time for my favorite steak and soba noodle stir fry. Speaking of which, I bought a beautiful porterhouse (for $7.99/lb!) at Fresh Thyme Wednesday that I will probably reverse sear. It will feed both of us. DH is also requesting chili, so lots of possibilities for a change.
We finished the garage and our kind neighbor hauled a truckload of junk away for us. Most everything in the garage is now in mouseproof storage bins and fresh Ramix put out for those lithe critters looking to set up mousekeeping for the winter.
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Last night, I made the pork chop--seasoned it with s&p and let it rest in the fridge for an hour before putting it in the preheated cast iron skillet (no oil). After cooking, I brushed it with Whole Foods Maple-Bourbon marinade and a bit of apple cider, and foil-tented and and rested it on the carving board. Still have half of it left over. Trimmed and halved Brussels sprouts, tossed them with olive oil and a balsamic-onion seasoning mixture, roasted them; as they cooled in the toaster-oven, I tossed them with a tiny bit of maple syrup. For starch, I nuked the wild/long-grain rice mixture--no salt or butter.
Tonight I will wait till after I return from our neighborhood interfaith memorial service, and probably reheat leftover cheese pizza. Pork seems a bit wrong after going to temple.
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Tonight's dinner is the rest of the halibut from the other night, gently reheated, with oven roasted green beans and potatoes(separate pans, both lightly seasoned with s&p) and fresh tomatoes. It's been a long day trying to get a credit card straightened out so glad to have easy fixin's for tonight.I
Sandy, understand about the pork for tonight but it sounds good for another day.
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Yeah--gotta atone for the sausage biscuit I had with my eggs for brunch. I love "treyf" (pork, shellfish, cheeseburgers, meat lasagna, veal Parmigiana, etc.) but as I get older I feel more and more awkward about eating it on Shabbat.
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Wow, am impressed with those of you cleaning out the years of “gathered house items”...Carole and Nance! Puts me to shame....someday I might get motivated, but I seem to get better and better at putting things off. My kitchen “area” displays lots of “to do” notes....with relative chaos around them. Plowing through two high piles of paperwork and mail does allow me to at least see those notes!
Last night it took us well over an hour to get to the Garden for the game, leaving not enough time to go to the Harp for dinner before the game started, so we searched high and low for any decent food in the arena, to no avail...ended up having a “veggie burrito bowl” totally uninspiring, but edible.
Tonight we had dinner at my next door neighbors’ church which always has great Middle Eastern food at their bazaar. I had a baked haddock dish with a rice/lentil mix and a Greek salad. DH had a mixed plate of kibbe, spanakopita, yogurt and Salad. We took home a container of baklawa, which my neighbor explained is different from Greek baklava since they use rose water in their sugar water, and no honey. They are delicious!
Tomorrow is our 45th anniversary, so we are going to dinner at a nice restaurant in Newton (since the places we wanted to go to in Boston were booked up for before theater times). Then we’ll drive into town for a one woman show...the theme of which I have no memory! It sounded good when DH found it,tho.
Sunday morning we are meeting DS2 and DDIL2 for brunch to celebrate his birthday which was this past week. We will probably firm up T-giv plans then. They asked me to host it here, and they’ll bring the turkey and the fryer and fry it it our backyard. I’m so not in the mood to do tons of cooking that I might follow the example of my culinary expert next door neighbor and order sides from our town grocery store. We’ll see...
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45...Congratulations!!!!
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Lacey, congrats on 45 and enjoy your celebration.
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Dinner last night at Gallagher's restaurant in Mandeville was very good. The four of us had the wedge salad with thick gooey delicious blue cheese dressing. For my entree I had pompano in beurre blanc sauce. It was wonderful. DH had an entree with seared tuna and scallops. No sides. Three of us shared a small baguette of French bread. I had a rye old-fashioned and a glass of house chardonnay.
I would be happy to eat there more often if our budget included frequent dinners to the tune of $100 plus. But it was great to visit with a long-time golf friend that I hadn't seen since May and her man friend who is a likable guy.
Pat Gallagher, the owner chef, has been in the area for many years and now has three successful restaurants.
Dinner tonight will probably be meatloaf. When I was portioning ground chuck purchased at Fresh Market, dh volunteered that I should freeze it in meatloaf size! Hint. Hint.
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Lacey, congrats on 45 years!
Specialk, hope your dentistry goes well.
My DH went up to the farm with my DD2 and her family. Its his first big trip out without me. Hes feeling the way we all did after tx. Scared, but determined. I had to give him the "just because you can, doesnt mean you should" talk. Hoping he doesnt do too much. Depending on my Dd2 to make sure he do+esnt overdo.
Went out for a fish fry with my SIL and neice last night. Tonight was a pork chop and leftover potatoes.
Its quiet in the hoyse today. Funny how fadt I got used to someone being home with me. LOL.
Much love to all
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For last night's anniversary dinner we went to one of the better local Tex-Mex restaurants. DH had chicken enchiladas with a yummy mole' sauce and I had mahi mahi tacos with the standard fish taco fixin's plus Chipotle ranch on the side -- and a little bit of that was plenty. We took advantage of the "extra hour" to get a good night's sleep.
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auntie - mousekeeping...Lol!
lacey/beaver - happy anniversaries!
moon - thanks - the extraction will happen early Tues morning - I need to go vote while I am still numb, lol! Having pasta tonight with spicy sausage and will have a steak tomorrow night! I met up with an old friend on Friday in Orlando - we have been friends since middle school and she was there to visit her in-laws - she has had numerous extractions and implants over the last year due to bone re-sorption. She has had many dental issues dating back to a broken jaw from a roller skating accident in elementary school. She had the implants placed for the majority of her teeth in September and is still on soft food. Hoping since this is just one tooth that my experience will be somewhat more accelerated. I also have the option of chewing on the other side which she does not due to the number of implants she needed.
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I bought a bag of 6 avocados. Working hard to use them all. I've been trying to replicate a recipe that a friend of my Mother's made when they played bridge (60 years ago) (truly - mid 1950s). Mother's written notes that say "Blanche T" aren't detailed enough, but most of the recipes on the web have whipped cream & are sweet. I prefer savory & my memory said not sweet. I came up with something delicious. Lime jello w/1 cup boiling water & 1/2 c pineapple juice -whipped with 4T mayo after chilling, then add 2 avocados diced w/dash of lemon, cashew nuts, tiny diced celery and a small can of well drained crushed pineapple & chill until set. YUM
Also I'm back to experimenting with green Lentils. I made a good batch yesterday with diced carrots, celery, garlic & onions. It had to be pretty plain to take to my shut-in neighbor. Today I'll be adding sauteed mushrooms to my serving. And maybe roasted cauliflower. Wish I had some spinach to add. Tomorrow I'll be adding beets & red cabbage and serving cold over salad greens with blue cheese dressing.
I'd love to hear about any good lentil recipes any of you may like
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Mazel tov on the anniversaries, Lacey & beaver!
We went out to GT Fish & Oyster for Gordy's birthday. Shared oysters (3 ea. BC Fanny Bays, WA Hangtowns, and PEIs--forget the name). Then a smoked fish platter, seared ahi tuna salad, and lobster mac & cheese to share. Entree was a lobster roll, CT-style (warm with drawn butter rather than ME-style which is cold with mayo) with pickled veggies and fried onions. Too stuffed for dessert--took half my food home. (Plus the mac & cheese & Leslie's fries because they didn't have room in their fridges).
This a.m. I had coffee, quiche & salad (half-portions) but now I seem to have had my cold reach my innards. (Having colonoscopy-prep flashbacks). So if I eat anything else today it'll be water, tea and maybe matzo (the only bread I have on hand to toast is wholegrain or rye).
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Happy anniversaries indeed!
I'm envying all your fish meals! I'm indulging DH and fixing mini meatloaves with sous vide carrots and for the first time, sous vide mashed potatoes. If the potatoes go well, I'll use that technique for after thanksgiving dinner.
I had opted out of doing the traditional after thanksgiving dinner - just too much trouble - but when I told the kids they whined and begged. DDIL volunteered to shoulder some of the burden so I relented. (I kept thinking this might be the last one if we are somewhere else next year.) But it will be a scaled down version. Scaling back does not come easy to me where food events are concerned. My motto seems to be "Excess is never enough." In fact, it's a family joke. We'll see how it goes.
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Oh our family habits. I think I've finally convinced my BFF that it's OK not to cook a huge holiday meal just for one other person if the kids & grandkids aren't coming. Whenever I flew across country to see my parents, my Mother would greet us as the door with "what do you want to eat... I've got your favorite... you'll love....and just taste these...". And that was only to tide us over to the main meal, which was never far away. In the olden days, we would have eaten on the plane, but in any case none of us was ever hungry. We just wanted to recoup from a 3-6 hour travel ordeal.
Certainly my mother's generation was raised that food is love - and I guess mostly my generation too. And maybe that's partly at the root of this thread. We cook because we like to cook but the meals are a gift to the ones we love.
Actually Nance the meatloaf sounds delicious. Maybe I'll make that when my son comes for my sister-in-law's memorial service next weekend. They are vegetarian at home so he might enjoy an old fashioned meatloaf. I'm definitely going to use the Frontera red sauce to make him some enchiladas.
Special - hope all goes well Tuesday. Sorry not to answer the rest of the posts individually. I've been really down about the death of my sister-in-law so only running on 1/2 speed.
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Minus - they don't call it comfort food for nothing. (((Minus)))
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We're going to take the path of least resistance and host a T-day restaurant dinner--unless one of our friends beats us to the punch.
A milestone this weekend: Gordy cooked (not nuked, not reheated) dinner for him and his girfriend at his place, for the first time. Salad, and linguine with pesto.
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Hi everyone! I’m new to this thread. I thought I’d chime in since I like talking about food almost as much as eating it. I made a frittata for supper. It’s one of my favorite ways to use up bits and pieces in the fridge. This one had Canadian bacon, onion, mushrooms, yellow bell pepper and cheddar cheese. I had a green salad with it,and my husband had broccoli.
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Dinner tonight was stove top grilled chicken breast lightly seasoned with a hot pepper blacking mix( emphasis on the lightly!), brown basmati rice, oven roasted broccoli and a salad of mixed greens with tomatoes dressed with a "green" olive oil and white balsamic vinegar.
It is looking like we will be cooking Thanksgiving dinner here. Two granddaughters, who are in college in the US but whose parents work overseas will be coming for their break. One of them really likes to bake so she'll likely take care of that part.
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Thanks for the anniversary wishes everyone! We had a lovely night. Had dinner at Tartufo in a neighboring town, where I had a delicious scallop and shrimp risotto which had a red sauce in the risotto with small pieces of lobster and thin-sliced cremini mushrooms. I also had a house salad which was a disappointment, given its tell tale limp, unwashed, bagged greens. I am intolerant of lazy salad serving in restaurants!
After dinner we attended a wonderful concert performed by Heather Headley, a Trinidadian/American singer with whom I was not familiar. The audience was the most diverse I’ve ever seen in a Boston theatre, and her theme was songs that resonated with feelings of hope and love...feeling that we all need it now. I was especially impacted by seeing the young adolescent boys sitting next to me being moved to tears with some of her songs. The kids were brought to the concert by mentors from their summer camp. I LOVE this model for at-risk kids, who get not only a camp experience, but continued support all year through regular mentoring. Really a wonderful concert and overall experience.
Special, I hope Tuesday goes well! I also hope you don’t even think of your friend’s experience as you go into this process. They sound like very different experiences... my molar implant experience would have been just a long “breeze” if we didn’t try to save the tooth first! That had an endodontist rooting around in my roots to try to save it, unsuccessfully. My mouth was open for so long I developed lockjaw. Other than that, (which you won’t have to endure!) every next step was pretty breezy...just takesca long time in between visits.
Welcome, Green Harbor!
Nance, I cannot believe you end up doing two Thanksgivings!! You have waaaay more energy than I. We will do a very moderate T-giv here. DS2 and DDIL2 will bring the turkey and a fryer and be in charge of that in our yard. This will be our first experience with a “fried turkey”. DDIL2’s family makes that in the South, so here we go! I love the idea of having an entire oven free for my moderate amount of sides!
Minus, sending hugs your way.... I’m so sorry you are grieving your SIL’s loss especially as we move into the holidays. Holding you in my heart. I hope her memorial service is authentic and beautiful and provides you with some comfort.
Sandy, how nice to learn of such a valued developmental milestone in your son! I bet his GF appreciates it even more!
Tonight I just was in no mood to cook...we had brunch with DS2/DDIL2 to celebrate his 38th birthday. I just can’t think about dinner after eating a real meal at midday. Since DH was not feeling especially hungry either, I heated a bit of leftover chicken And paired it with some cauliflower hummus (delish) and a variety of cut up vegetables. Di the job!
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Thank you all for your condolences. Since neither of us ever had a blood sister we dropped the "in law" years ago & were just sisters. We talked every week and met for a meal at least once a month. We all know it gets easier as time goes on, but there's a big hole. I'm going to grab a quick lunch with my nephew on Wednesday and then I'll have a better handle on how her husband, children & grandchildren are doing.
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He didn't just make dinner and shop for the groceries: he went to Target and bought a stockpot, cutting board and a set of knives. (I'd offered him my enameled cast-iron Dutch oven--used only once before I got a LeCreuset for Christmas--and a roll full of pretty good knives: chef's, santoku, parer, slicer and bread knife; but he had claimed at the time he didn't have room for them). I guess he really does want to hone his independent living skills by choosing his own stuff.
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