So...whats for dinner?
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Finished up leftovers last night by making a requested by DH dinner of turkey ruebens. Never made any kind of rueben before since I don't need so much bread and russian dressing. However, I am also suffering from frequent hunger pangs in this raw weather, Bedo, so was happy to finish out T-giv that way. They were delicious.
Today I saw that our local grocery store was having an amazing (almost half price) sale on sea scallops so I decided to make a scallop/veggie/farro toss for dinner, since I rarely buy those expensive little sweet nuggets. We just needed to get away from fowl. It was involved to make, but I was content to go zen cutting veggies, zesting an orange, steeping saffron, and putting it all together, since we had just visited a good friend who is about to depart the earth. And in the end, my creation, inspired by several similar recipes I googled, was colorful and tasty....and given the volume, we have enough for another night.
Our friend has been experiencing a living wake as he is being cared for at home, with his wife so welcoming of all who love him to come sit with him, share memories, and sing to him He was a member of several choruses and they have all been coming to serenade him from their living room even while he lays upstairs in his bed. Sunday, one of his more professional groups came and sang Handel’s Messiah for him. He says heis at peace and feeling loved by so many. Everyone should depart this way.
Special, I am glad you advocated for your friend. What an overwhelmingly challenging time for her, and how fortunate she is to have you, such a caring friend. Enjoy your visit!
Pic of the scallop toss below....also had a cucumber salad. I will keep the identity of the dark green veggie in the toss a secret!
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Leftover hibachi steak, veg. fried rice, and noodles w/root veg.
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Mmmm...Scallops. Looks good Lacey.
“Jump ups” tonight, leftover turkey soup for me since I had a big lunch. DH is working on a new recipe for homemade flour tortillas, I’ll help taste test 😁
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lacey - BFF and I always have fun, even if we are sitting around in our pajamas, lol!
Tonight was boneless pork chops, pan cooked with sides of steamed spinach and mashed sweet potatoes. Having the Tampa BCO ladies for lunch on Saturday - having a chili bar, taco bar, baked potato bar, salad bar, and an ice cream sundae bar. The good news is that the toppings for the assorted bars have quite a bit of overlap. Except, of course, the ice cream - lol!
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Tonight was leftovers from when the granddaughters were here. Still have some orange chicken which will probably go into a rice bowl with broccoli; the only other leftover is cranberry orange relish--the recipe I used made way too much, especially since the girls much preferred the smaller dish of whole berry sauce!
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So good to be back in my kitchen in control of the menu. We arrived home early afternoon on Wednesday. Dinner was a rib eye and corn. The rib eye wasn't completely thawed and still responded fairly well to reverse searing. The corn was kernal corn out of the freezer.
Last night was roasted chicken thighs, baked sweet potatoes and chopped salad made with iceberg lettuce. DH said there wasn't any romaine in Winn Dixie.
One noteworthy meal during the Thanksgiving road trip was dinner at Ruth's Chris in Barrington, IL following nine-year-old Monty's ice hockey game. Monty's dad, also Monty, hosted a dinner of ten people. Shudder to think of the bill. He and his wife are big on ordering appetizers. One was a crab meat stack that was phenomenal with big pieces of lump crab meat, avocado and mango. It would have served as an entree for me. I had a perfectly cooked medium rare filet and roasted root veggies that were the only disappointment. I shared BIL's creamed spinach and didn't eat the veggies. The Grey Goose on the rocks was my only cocktail on the trip, although there was wine.
Tonight's menu will probably include shrimp.
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I brought home a dish hutch and all of the family china. I'm in "overload" right now. There appear to be two different patterns. One is a service for four (with spares) of "POPE GOSSER MADE IN USA" in what I think is a Fluerette. This was in with some wine glasses that were marked with a note that they were my mom's parents (married in 1916) wedding set.
Looking around on the internet, the POPE GOSSER MADE IN USA mark (in all caps) was from the 1950s.
The wine glasses appear to be of the correct vintage.
The other set is Narumi China service for eight, and is a pattern that I've been unable to identify.
I also have a few pieces of hand painted bone china that was painted by my grandmother. I know that's correct as I saw her do the work.
This still isn't the sterling tableware, nor the sterling serving sets. Those are still in storage.
I'm not sure what to do with all the stuff. I can't keep it all, nor do I really want to do that as that would be just putting the decisions off onto DD.
I have used the Narumi set, along with the sterling tableware and crystal. Thanksgiving of 1982, my parents went to my brother's place and Micky's parents couldn't make it out from Illinois, so she and I hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for two other couples. Bone china, sterling tableware, crystal, etc...and we were all in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers or flip flops. The reason for the shoes was that we all decided that if dinner was going to be that formal, we should at least wear shoes. :-)
I just noticed that there is even a set of brass "dustpans" and a small brush...for sweeping the crumbs from the tablecloth.
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Pope Gosser
Hand Painted by my grandmother
Narumi
I talked with my best friend about taking the 'Gosser china and they would very much like it. So, I guess that part is solved. Now, to re-wrap it so it will survive transport.
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Eric: The Gosser is lovely. So glad you found a home for it. We all have so darn much STUFF. Like you, I don't want my son to have to deal with it but I'm not making much progress.
Not doing much cooking. Today was a turkey sandwich from Costco. Trying to get my Christmas stuff ready to mail. Virtually no one with whom I exchange gifts lives within driving distance. I finally have all the ingredients to make hamhock & beans next week. Taking my nephew & his wife & daughter to dinner tomorrow.
Today's fun was a kitchen sink block up. After two hours of trying, I finally called a plumber. The blockage was past the wall & I no longer own a snake, so I'm glad I called. Then we discovered the disposal was leaking - so I had to have a new one of those. Too bad I'd already bought my Christmas presents. The cost of the plumber was amazing and that will be my Christmas. Not going to return the $3.00 slippers I bought for myself at Target.
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Beautiful Eric! Glad you found a good home!
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Inherited possessions can be a burden. I have many "treasures" that I collected and enjoy and no heirs who will want and appreciate them. I like hand-made items by artisans, especially potters.
Last night's dinner was very good. I used the air fryer to cook large breaded shrimp and they were just as tasty as pan fried. I pre-heated the air fryer to 400 degrees. Wet the shrimp with egg beater and breaded them in Louisiana fish fry. Sprayed each side with a butter-flavored oil and cooked five minutes, turning the shrimp midway the cooking time. The result was browned exterior and tender juicy interior. One side was an iceberg lettuce salad with cherry tomatoes, halved, avocado and blue cheese, vinaigrette dressing. The other half was cauliflower mash, which has become a favorite food for us.
Tonight will be pork tenderloin, sliced into medallions and cooked in the oven in Cattleman's barbecue sauce. Side will be Bush's baked beans, which dh likes very much. Probably another iceberg salad. I'm not minding the iceberg, which is the only lettuce in the refrigerator.
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Gorgeous china, Eric!
Yesterday started off with a plumber’s visit—our toilet tank started incessantly gurgling Thurs. night, and only earplugs allowed me to sleep. Needed a new flush assembly (these Toto toilets cost more to repair than the simple Home Depot toilets cost to buy). But it was a good day, and we had a full house for the Bar Show last night. Think tonight’s sold out too. Have a final matinee tomorrow.
Dinner after the show was at Mercat a la Planxa (helmed by Iron Chef Jose Garces). Tapas were: olives, artisanal cheeses, charcuterie, bacon-wrapped stuffed dates and two salads (green, and Serrano ham & figs with spinach & candied walnuts). Three paellas: meat, seafood & veggie. Dessert was house made ice cream bonbons, gelato, and flourless dark chocolate terrine. Lots of sangria, too. Tonight there’s an after show party at Bar Louie, but talking at all those noisy parties always gives me laryngitis. So I will probably just go to the hotel bar or pub instead
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Dinner at Brio was delicious. I had a wedge salad w/excellent blue and Gorgonzola, diced tomatoes & lots of bacon. I paired that with a bowl of Lobster Bisque. My nephew had a chicken pasta pesto and his wife had a Shrimp & Lobster Linquine dish. I love their rosemary flat bread & also excellent sourdough bread. We ordered the 3 year old a dish of fruit from the kids menu and they she ate some of all our meals.
My niece & I preceeded dinner with a concert by Mercury chamber group & four soloists called A French Baroque Christmas. Marvelous concert. Apparently the tunes to a lot of French songs were once drinking songs. Many of the melodies made us want to dance. The group uses all period instruments.
There was a theorbo (a sort of lute) and a charming elderly man from Montreal played a Hurdy-Gurdy (or a wheel fiddle). New to me, but don't laugh until you look it up. The sound is like a cross between a violin and bagpipes but keys are depressed like an accordian. From Wiki: The hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin. Apparently not the same as the 'barrel organ" which requires only a crank to play and my grandparents saw at the circus gounds of their youth.
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Sandy and Minus2, Your meals sound fabulous and put my rotisserie chicken, roasted potatoes and big green salad in the shade--but I really enjoyed the salad since romaine was back in the store today!
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Carole - I've been reading about Spinach Madelaine and the history from the 50's of the famous cookbook of the Junior League of Baton Rouge. There are several versions, especially since the original cheese roll is no longer made by Kraft. If you make it, will you share your recipe?
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All I can say is that it's a good thing my kids are off at college. Most nights we have soup, sandwiches, or breakfast for dinner (this can include cereal). In our defense, we've both had a cancer diagnosis in the last 2 years. Neither of us has the energy to cook.
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Well, dinner tonight wasn’t much. Bob got stuck at work and by the time he got home to grab his overnight bag, he felt it was too late to cab it down here to the hotel. So no late dinner at Kitty O’Shea’s; thus, no excuse to skip the cast party at Bar Louie. Meh. Even with a private party room the noise was overwhelming. Food was Buffalo chicken nuggets (too mild), quesadillas, chips & salsa and some totally weird flatbread. Cash bar, too—had a Lagunitas, the first real beer I’ve had since last year’s cast party. Bob says he’ll join me in the morning for the breakfast buffet. I have a friend coming to tomorrow’s matinee, so I will probably use the Kitty’s burger twofer coupon (hope it’s good for my friend’s veggie or fish burger, as he is on a cardiac diet).
Tonight went very well, though on one number I momentarily lost my balance pivoting for the choreography. But since the character I was playing was supposed to be stoned, it got a big laugh. And I was in really good voice—didn’t have to take anything down an octave. Hope it holds up tomorrow, as I won’t be taking prednisone tomorrow morning (my 5 days are up). Unless I get invited to do a holiday radio show next week, I can give my pipes a rest and let them continue to heal on their own.
At the cast party I got a chance to talk to the producer’s wife, who is a 15-year survivor of a de novo Stage IV diagnosis. Ibrance has begun to fail, as there are now mets in her liver. She’s switched to Verzenio—hope it works. Fortunately, since she’s not yet on Medicare, she gets her meds for free using the mfr. coupon
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Made Shepherd’s Pie last night. Got enough for another meal. Tonight, I was thinking of throwing the other Crock Pot meal that we got from Omaha Steaks in for dinner tonight.
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Late lunch was a large spinach salad with grape tomatoes, Craisins, grated provolone & Gorgonzola cheeses. I'm still full so I don't know if I'll eat again this evening. I do have 1/2 of a roasted turkey sandwich on a croissant that is literally 5" high so that's another full meal.
Interesting to hear my late 30ish niece discuss how they've been eating a lot of Mexican food. Apparently she can get meals for $10, it's around the corner, and her husband said if the 'take out' costs over $10, they should be cooking at home. Take out for me is rarely that expensive. This sandwich & salad combo from Costco was $7.57 and it's a full three meals. Thinking about my 11" MOD pizza for $8.27 - which should have been two meals if I hadn't been such a greedy guts.
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We put up our Christmas tree up today; my house feels very festive! It was a grey drizzly day here, so I was craving comfort food for dinner. I made meatloaf. I cooked it in a muffin pan, so the leftovers are easy to freeze. I served it with maple brown butter mashed sweet potatoes and steamed green beans.
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Same kind of day here and I needed to make chicken stock anyway, so went with chicken and dumplings. And just to add coals to Newcastle, made some cornbread to go with it.
Friday, I made my first ever chocolate Swiss roll with a vanilla whipped cream filling and ganache. Pretty good for my first attempt, although I overcooked the cake a tad. Won't stop us from finishing it off tonight.
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Everyone's food is making me hungry - and I just ate, lol! Went to the Buc's and Panthers game today and had chicken tenders and French fries, then came home and had a green salad with leftovers from yesterday's BCO ladies lunch at my house. Made a salad for DH but put shrimp and feta on his, and made three soft tacos for DD with leftover shredded chicken. DD was coming from the barn where she spent time with her newly arrived horse. Now I am going to tell you a story that will make you go awww at the end. When she was in high school, but still too young to drive, we half-leased a horse for her. She had been riding for a while and wanted a horse but we felt this was a reasonably priced plan without actually owning a horse. The horse - Windsor - was an eventing horse owned by a young lady who had just started college. Eventually she decided that she needed to sell Windsor, so DD half-leased the other horse this young lady owned, but she really loved Windsor more. Windsor changed hands a couple of times as is common in the eventing world - horse and rider have to be very attuned. One night about 10 years ago DD was surfing around the internet and came across a youtube video of a 15 year old girl test-riding an eventing horse. The horse looked an awful lot like Windsor. She got in touch with the girl who posted the video, who put her in touch with the girl in the video. The girl had bought the horse, and it turned out to be Windsor! What are the odds? DD and this girl exchanged contact info and kept in touch over the years, and DD got to see Windsor a few years ago when he was in Florida for a training period. A couple of months ago the girl who had bought Windsor posted something on Facebook about needing homes for her horses because she was facing financial issues. DD immediately asked about Windsor - who is now 20 years old, but still a beautiful and well cared for horse but can't jump or do dressage anymore - and the owner agreed to bring him down to Tampa and free-lease him to DD, who pays for food/board. He arrived about three weeks ago and his owner spent a few days with us making sure all was set up and a good situation for the horse. So a full-circle deal for DD and Windsor - is that great, or what?
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What a beautiful story! That was an Awww, for sure. Kudos to you for supporting your DD that way-a wonderful life lesson.
Thanks for sharing it
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Awww, what a nice story!
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A definite mega-awwwww!
Hilton had a great breakfast buffet this a.m.--I had spinach frittata, broccolini with pimentos, hash browns with pork belly lardons, a slice of applewood-smoked bacon, papaya, pineapple, a steamed BBQ pork bao (there were also pot stickers, noodles and two kinds of congee for Chinese guests) and half a croissant. (Lest you think I pigged out, all that barely covered my plate--I am a buffet-grazer). Bypassed the eggs-to-order station, waffles, & pancakes. After the show (our final matinee), had lunch with a friend who attended: a burger bigger than my head (with farmhouse cheddar, bacon, lettuce, tomato, mushrooms and onion. (Didn't need no stinkin' ketchup). Spurned the fries for coleslaw, as I've been veggie-neglectful most of the week. Dinner was leftover paella.
Happy Hanukkah! Got home too late for the temple's latke supper, and was too tired to haul out the spuds, onions & Cuisinart (or even throw latkes together from the Manischewitz mix). Ditto lighting the real candles on the real menorah--the electric one on the windowsill had to do. Tomorrow night, however...
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Hi all. It's been a long time since I came here. I am back at home having spent a few days in hospital after my hysterectomy and oophorectomy. Lost 2kgs from surgery since my uterus was like a small watermelon. Lots of dissection from adhesions due to previous surgeries. Upside of it all my profile is already better and my squishies already look better and more pronounced! Now at home for a few weeks to recover and time to spare. Doc has been very insistent that I rest and rest! Sounds like a dream. But am already bored sitting alone on armchair at home!
Saturday we had pie at home ably prepared by the 11 year old DD under supervision! 2 pies actually.... Ricotta pie and Minced Meat Pie. Shortcrust pastry as the base and topped with puff pastry. The fillings are actually very simple to make. Ricotta mixed with egg and a pinch of salt for one. Stirfried, minced beef, carrot, peas and salt, herbs or spice to taste then mixed with egg and a pinch of hard grated cheese. Takes less than 20 minutes to pop in the oven when buying ready roll pastry!
Yesterday DH made pork medallions and roast potatoes and courgettes.
Today toying with the idea of a mushroom and minced beef risotto.... But many hours in which to change my mind!
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So the mushroom and mince is appealing more and more as the day goes by. Now will it be with rise in a risotto with cream or with pasta and cream. Time will tell. Having my second coffee of the day.
I've been trying to catch up with your posts. Wow Special K what a beautiful story. You brought some tears to my eyes or is it the hormones or lack of them? So happy for your DD.
Feeling bored sitting down on an armchair doing nothing. Actually do have stuff I can do on my laptop...but not really feel up to doing much.
Have a nice day. Guess most of you are still waking up. House is quiet so far, though it won't be very long as the DD (who is 11 going on 16) will be home from school in a couple of hours.
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Definitely an "awww" story, SpecialK. Your daughter sounds like such a nice young woman.
Enjoyed all your posts and descriptions of good food that aroused food envy.
Sandy, glad your performances were a big success.
Last night's dinner was chicken breast fillets breaded with Italian panko and cooked (a bit overcooked) in the air fryer. Side was green pea salad. Thawed green peas with blue cheese and avocado and mayo dressing. Should have squeezed in some lemon juice.
No clue about tonight's dinner. Maybe lamp chops purchased at Fresh Market later today.
The good news is that I've managed to lose the extra pounds gained on our Thanksgiving road trip.
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Potato latkes and Buffalo wings tonight.
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Lovely story, Special! So happy for DD.
Happy Hanukkah, Sandy, and to others who celebrate!
Bring it, glad to hear that you are home, and I’m impressed with your DD’s culinary skills, as well your DH making dinner. I hope your recuperation time goes well, and that you find interesting things to do while sedentary.
Our meals have been pretty boring since T-giv. Soups, baked chicken, leftovers of same, only interesting things on our menus have been salads. Of late I really enjoy mixed greens (not those bagged ones) with red onions, red cabbage, carrots, avocado and pear. I usually add maple syrup to my vinaigrette. We enjoyed a very nice poached salmon and spanakopita at a pot luck dinner party Sunday. Needless to say, I brought the salad.
Today, I’m meeting a friend for lunch at Wegman’s where they have a vast buffet, and I’ll pick up some cauliflower rice to make a “shrimp fried (faux) rice” for our dinner.
Carole, good for you to be back on track now that you’re home. I am trying harder to drop a few lbs....which has been really hard this year...but as I get back to my exercise regimen, the scales show an improvement. I’d like to avoid shopping for next size clothing!
But then...Nance, your wonderful dessert baking/making is alwayshunger producing!
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