So...whats for dinner?
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Tonight's dinner will be at a friend's St. Patrick's day party. Promised dishes include corned beef and cabbage, shepherd's pie with chicken, mashies, Irish creme cheese cake. I'm taking Irish soda bread and Irish brown bread.
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Ice cold leftover redfish wasn’t as good a breakfast as I’d hoped, but Bob relished his equally cold mac & cheese. We asked for a microwave but there weren’t any. However, there is a communal microwave in the Marketplace on the main floor, which we’ll use tomorrow.
We ended up going to the Irish Channel parade (the main event of the weekend). Collected a boatload of various throws—among which were two full-size bars of Irish Spring soap, two cabbages, packets of baby carrots and a wrapped moon pie. We gave half the carrots, a cabbage and a bar of soap to a homeless person, who must have been a local because she specifically requested them (but turned down the moon pie). Coming home with over a pound of beads.
Tonight was an early dinner at Mr. B’s Bistro. We shared everything but dessert. Started with the crab cake and the gumbo sampler (seafood and ya-ya). Alas, we wolfed them down before I remembered to photograph them. Next came rabbit fricassee:
That’s Bob’s St. Patrick’s Day tie in the background. Desserts were chèvre cheesecake with Ponchitoula strawberries:
...and bread pudding:
DInner at Cochon tomorrow night. Not sure about brunch or lunch; maybe leftovers
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Supper was something I hadn't thought about in years - creamed tuna on toast. And the toast was San Francisco Sourdough. Served with English Cucumber sticks. Dessert was Haagen Dazs Raspberry Sherbert.
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The bread pudding looks really good and I'm not a bread pudding fan.
My chosen entree last night was a special offering: fried soft shell crab with seafood stuffing, green tomatoes and asparagus. Three of us ordered it and all agreed that it was good. Three of us also had the turtle soup. It was good but not as good as the version made by the former chef. Who is coming back! Many of us are very excited about his return.
DH is in charge of dinner. He's making beef stew.
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My husband thinks Mr. B's has the best bread pudding on earth. (They all taste the same to me. Only the sauce is rate worthy.)
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Sandy - That bread pudding looked scrumptious! Lucky you, in NOLA with all those luscious foods. Sounds like you and DH are having a fun St Patrick's Day. Have always wanted to experience it in Chicago and personally see the river dyed green.
A good friend in Buffalo posted a pic on Facebook of Niagara Falls all lit up green.
Made a "non-pasta" dish using my remaining jar of Trader Joe's Black Truffle Alfredo Sauce (seasonal, only around the Holidays) along with zucchini noodles, baby peas, sauteed baby portobellos (I love shrooms!) and leftover roasted chicken breast. Lots of lovely green in honor of St Patrick's Day. Will have leftovers for quick dinners along with roasted carrots or brussels during the week.
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In Chicago yesterday they dyed the ice floes green.
Breakfast was my leftover Redfish & veggies. Then we walked to Compère Lapin (in the Old No. 77 Hotel, where I stayed the last two weeks before my diagnosis in 2015) for late brunch. We shared an “Everything Donut” (a yeast-raised donut spread with cream cheese & “everything-bagel” seasoning—all the rage these days—and hamachi crudo) and conch fritters with green bean remoulade:
That’s salmon roe along the left side. Next, curried shrimp & avocado salad with tostones:
Then a chicken croquette with hollandaise atop a purée of cilantro & basil and sauce Bordelaise:
Mains were poached eggs with red beans:
...and three eggs scrambled in truffle butter, topped with black truffles shaved tableside and multigrain toast points:
No room for dessert (duh). Off to Cochon now for a late dinner
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I bought a whole chicken 2 days ago. Today, I took it out of the refrigerator and....eeeewwwwwww. It was bad enough that neither of the dogs, nor the cat, were interested in remaining in the kitchen. Fortunately it was warm enough that I could open the doors and windows to let the house air out. Unfortunately, it is warm enough that Thursday's trash pickup day might be too late....
So, I got out some salmon, marinated it in a soy sauce, garlic, sesame oil, lemon juice, olive oil, brown sugar and S & P.mixture for an hour and then cooked it in a preheated cast iron skillet for 20 minutes in a 350F degree oven.
"Has potential. Next time, use less brown sugar."
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I’m loving these food pics, yum!
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The rest of the leftover chicken parm and a salad
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Dinner was at Cochon last night (the place has expanded since 2015 to take over the entire building, pretty much the whole block). Began with shared apps. First up was fried alligator with remoulade and housemade linguine:
Next was beef & andouille empanada:
Bob had green chile chicken soup, which he ate before I could photograph it. We split an entree of cochon de lait with turnips, diced pear, and “cracklings” (chicharrones):
It was bigger than it looks—between the two of us, we made it through only half. Sides were green tomato-crawfish casserole:
...and collard greens with Tasso ham:
Needless to say, the mini-fridge is full to bursting. Woke up too tired to get dressed and take stuff downstairs to nuke (and Bob had already gone to class), so breakfast was leftover toast from Compère Lapin and a little yeast roll from Cochon.
Bob wanted to get 15,000 steps in, so after a couple of sessions he walked to Pat O’Briens for Hurricanes with a side of crawfish etouffee. He got back just as I finished showering & dressing, so we decided to hit the Outlets at Riverwalk to get beignets and cafe au lait at Cafe du Monde. The line was very long, but I was able to get us a table while Bob ordered. Didn’t take pics, as there was powdered sugar everywhere and I didn’t want to use my phone with sticky fingers.
Had a bit of a crisis: the zipper of my purse got stuck on the cheap umbrella cover I used as an eyeglass case, as my dual case wouldn’t fit into my purse. The cloth was embedded into and around both sides of the slider. It took two bellhops and a guest who sews for a hobby to unstick the zipper—had to sacrifice part of the umbrella cover by cutting it away. Bob suggested I get a roomier purse (that would still fit into my under-seat tote), and actually admitted he could use some Levis and a new wallet. He found two pair that fit, and I went to the Coach outlet—where wallets were 20% off and the whole purchase was 70% off. Got a cute little pewter satchel that is roomier than the gold one I was using, and will still fit into the under seat tote; and three wallets for Bob. He is complaining that none of them will close with all the bills & cards he’s carrying, but he normally doesn’t carry so much. But he was able to pull out the ID holder and use it for cards he needs most often, and the wallet folds a bit more easily. (The leather is pebbly and stiff when new; the old one was RFID-proof, but literally falling apart).
I went to the Chico’s outlet looking for a brown jacket, but it’s the one color they’re not showing. Did end up with a below-the-hip stretch denim jacket—there was a cuter short one that exactly matches one of my pair of jeans, but it doesn’t close. Gonna be a challenge packing tonight—but that’s why I left extra room in my suitcases.
Gonna try to get into Jacques Imo’s for dinner, but have to wait till after I can check us in for tomorrow night’s flight and download boarding passes (or print them out at the hotel business center). They don’t take reservations, but Bob is willing to wait for a table, and those beignets were very filling. Meanwhile, he’s napping—he got dehydrated earlier after that long walk to & from the Quarter (and only 5 hrs. of sleep last night. The other docs at the conference probably aren’t familiar with the place, and it’s a Monday night, so we might not have too long a wait
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Nothing as exciting or gourmet as ChiSandy's! Tonight was four cheese sauce with mixed vegetables and the rest of a rotisserie chicken over pasta. It was tasty and filling. Also made a seeded Irish soda bread but it wasn't done in time for the meal.
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My meal was even less exciting. Three eggs over easy. Two pieces of sourdough bread lightly fried open face with Havarti.
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Went to Jacques-Imo’s tonight for dinner. Was told the wait would be an hour, but there was room to sit in the bar, and I nursed a ginger-beer. The wait was just a little over half an hour. Started with corn muffins slathered in jalapeño butter:
Appetizers were Cajun jambalaya (duck sausage & rabbit):
...and “boudin balls,” sort of like a cross between arancini (no rice) and Scotch eggs (no egg): a piece of jalapeño cheese rolled in pork blood sausage, which was then breaded and deep-fried, with remoulade on the side:
Here’s one I cut open:
Next, a “lagniappe” of a spinach salad with sesame vinaigrette and a fried oyster:
We shared a platter of fried chicken (legs & thighs) with a little bit of red beans & rice and greens:
The red tint was partly the lighting and partly the Crystal hot sauce I sprinkled on it. Dessert was vanilla creme brûlée, which we devoured before I could photograph it. (Everyone here doubtless knows what it looks like anyway). The other choice was coconut bread pudding, but we’re bread-puddinged-out. Had it been Southern coconut cake (a cousin of tres leches), I’d have been all over it—and without asking for an extra fork.
The check was ridiculously cheap—which explains why the place is so popular (mostly with locals). They hold prices down by not taking reservations (except for larger parties) so there’s no fee to belong to an online reservation system, using inexpensive serve ware & plastic tablecloths, having a tiny kitchen (through which diners walk from the bar to the dining rooms) and not putting their waitstaff in uniforms. It’s in a hipster-y area of Uptown (a couple blocks off the streetcar) which has only recently begun to see rising rents. The decor was wildly eclectic—paintings, photos, posters, stained glass, even a wildebeest presiding over the bar:
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Within easy driving distance of Sandy's NOLA feast, we dined on linguine sauced with Rao's and turkey Italian sausage and a big salad with romaine that had frozen in the refrigerator.
Not sure why the refrigerator got so cold that it turned into a second freezer. One hint (not first understood as a hint) was discovering that the water spigot in the door wasn't working. Now we realize that the water was frozen. We turned off the refrigerator for a few hours and the water tube had thawed. We have dialed down the setting and will see what happens.
DH hadn't mentioned that the carrots he used in the stew on Sunday were frozen in the refrigerator.
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Oh dear, Carole, I do hope your refrigerator issue resolves with just the temp adjustment. My favorite fixes are when I have a computer glitch and it gets resolved by turning it off and restarting. Every glitch remedy should be so easy!
Sandy, that is quite a tour through the NOLA restaurants....thanks!
Our next door neighbor's adult son let me know he loved the kale soup I dropped off recently, so I was inspired to make another batch. He'll get more and we will have it for dinner tonight with leftover lemejin (sp?) and baba ganoush from the local Middle Eastern market.
Last night we saw DS2 at the Celtics' game and he asked when he might be able to come over to set up a crib they were gifted. This “nursery set up” will happen in his old room. The room is currently loaded with bunk beds, and our storage....hmmmmm. Yikes....this baby is really coming and he seems so excited to have us be major players in her life. I really need to get organized! A great reason to stop procrastinating with clearing out the house. I've been feeling really old lately, and he assures me that being with their baby will be rejuvenating. Hope so!
A sad counterpoint to this baby excitement....today I will be visiting with a former colleague and friend who is in her last days of life after a long seige with metasticised breast cancer to her spine. I'm hoping she is alert enough so that I can share with her some wonderful memories of our early work days together. If not, I hope she at least feels my presence sitting with her. Her husband, a wonderful psychologist and friend, died suddenly two years ago, and I feel so badly for her single young adult sons who will painfully miss these wonderful nurturing parents as they experience their adult milestones. Life is complicated.....
Hoping everyone on our thread is having a chance to experience simple joys today and avoid complications!
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I'm enjoying NOLA vicariously through Sandy.
Nothing so exciting here. In getting ready to throw a pirk shoulder into the instant pot to turn into pulled pork for sandwiches. Leftover potatoes for Sunday will become potato salad. I also have half of a cabbage that will make a slaw.
I'm feeling old too Lacey. We've been working our butts off trying to get the house in shape for the tall estate market. I'm finding that I just don't have the stamina to be on my feet (or hands and knees scrubbing baseboards) all day.
Contributing to that "getting old" feeling is the fact that I've quit dyeing my hair (even though that feels like giving in.) I'm curious to see just how much gray there is. So far, it's patches on the temples and a couple of spots on the crown. If it was all white, I'd go for it. Not sure about this patchy stuff. Blondes don't always look good with gray. At least I can change my mind about this. I have a curious gene history - my mom was all white in her 30s, as was her mother. My dad had very little gray hair until his 80s and still wasn't white haired when he died at 92.
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One last lunch today before leaving town: Mulate’s, across from the convention center. Tried to go earlier in the trip, but the convening cardiologists were lined up out the door and around the block, eager to chow down on everything they tell their patients not to eat. Last ACC session was yesterday afternoon, so we breezed right in. Most restaurants have S&P on the table, but here’s how you know, Toto, you’re not in Kansas anymore:
We shared everything and were still stuffed. Started with Zydeco gumbo (chicken, duck, andouille and shrimp):
That’s Bob modeling it. (Didn’t spill any on his shirt, a minor miracle—down here, we seemed to have worn as much of our food as we ate). Next came “smoked oysters:” wood-grilled, removed from the shell, and napped in garlic sauce:
The bread looks “meh,” but as Carole will attest, there is no French bread like New Orleans French bread—not even the baguettes from the stands along Rue Cler on Paris’ Left Bank. Sitting in front of Bob is the oyster po’boy we shared—with fries & slaw. Barely made a dent in the fries.
No dessert—until now at the airport where we split an order of three small, hot and messy beignets and black coffee. We board in about an hour
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Back from a long weekend at the cabin and dinner was a mix of things that were easy or needed to be cooked. Pan seared chicken, cannellini bans, steamed spinach and sautéed red/green cabbage with onions.
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Chilly? Chili! It was rainy and gloomy, so I made some chili for dinner. To make it keto for DD I removed a portion for her before I added chili beans and red beans.
chisandy - enjoying your NOLA food porn!
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Got home late tonight, and fed the kitties first. Lunch was huge, so dinner was an egg roll & three veggie pot stickers (from the freezer). Back to reality!
Tomorrow I had planned to go to Cellars to drop off Bob's March Madness brackets (for the restaurant's pool) and have a light dinner...but Bob reminded me that there is a hospital dinner tomorrow night at the Beverly Country Club. Oh, boy--dressing up for an hour's drive in rush hour down the Dan Ryan (world's worst-designed freeway) and through a scary inner-city South Side neighborhood to listen to boring speeches, watch a slide show and eat gray steak. The hospital is Little Company of Mary, and the nuns who run it believe in long cocktail hours with no hors d'oeuvres. But if I wait till dinnertime to arrive, the parking lot will be full. I guess it's my penance for all the Cajun-Creole food and drinks I had all weekend.
And speaking of driving, my Outback has been recalled over those Takata airbag inflators (Bob's Fusion had the recall repair done two weeks ago). How come when I was at Evanston Subaru for a new battery and asked about recalls, nobody said squat about it?
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Last night was thin chicken breast fillets, steamed asparagus and romaine salad. The asparagus had me getting up during the night to go to the bathroom.
Tonight will be crab cakes and cauliflower, maybe mash, and romaine salad.
DH is sitting in his chair ready to go to the gym so I'd better get a move on!
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ChiSandy, re airbag recalls from what I have been hearing apparently the recalls are being issued well before the dealers have the replacement parts available so your dealer may have not said anything because they could not do anything!
Dinner last night was salmon, potato crisps, and roasted squash. Meant to add fresh tomatoes but we were almost finished eating before I remembered--doggone brain fog!
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I'm pressure cooking some pinto beans for use in bean tacos. I have a bit of BBQ sauce that should be used in the next few days, so that will go in with the beans.....cabbage, onions some lime juice and a jar of pineapple salsa will round out the ingredients for the tacos.
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Eric, gunmen
We are having homemade pizzas, margarita and pepperoni veggie.
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The pizza looks good! Eric, interesting combo of ingredients for your tacos.
Our crab cakes last night were delicious. DH made a remoulade sauce with mayo, ketchup, sweet relish and hot sauce. The cauliflower was good, too. I did a lazy sauce with part of a can of broccoli cheese soup and small amount of milk.
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Wow. It's been quiet here. The tacos came out well, although it's still a "work in progress".
4 cups of cooked pinto beans, a cup of catsup (ketchup), a couple of tablespoons of spicy mustard, a pinch of salt, 1/2 tablespoon of garlic powder, a tablespoon of maple syrup and 1/2 teaspoon of hot pepper....all warmed up in a skillet.
The salsa was 2 cups of pineapple, a quarter cup each of chopped onion and chopped cilantro, a bit of lime juice and 2 chopped radishes and another pinch of salt.
The shell, some BBQ beans, some salsa, some shredded cabbage and a bit of cheese was how it was all put together.
A local TV news station spent a couple of minutes of air time with a reporter going around a parking lot before a spring training baseball game and talking with folks cooking stuff. The BBQ beans, except for the pepper, came from that "show". The pineapple salsa was from some notes I had in my little red notebook.
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Eric - interesting addition of Maple Syrup. I've added that to (boston) baked beans but never thought about it with tacos - SW food.
Dinner was something I've been wanting to try from Costco - refrigerated Harry's Beef Stroganoff with Noodles. It's cryo packed and requires only 6 minutes in the microwave or 25 minutes in the oven. Harry's (since 1977) says "we're passionate about creating restaurant-quality meals that you can cook in just minutes in the comfort of your own kitchen..." I figured I'd have to cook my own noodles to go with, but those were included. Actually it was delicious - "tender beef steak strips, mushrooms, noodles & onions in a rich creamy sauce". (sour cream, sherry, burgundy, butter, molasses, Worcestershire sauce...) So except for the fact that the packages are big and I ate way too much, I'll buy it again sometime. Doesn't look like you can freeze it.
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A chicken egg roll and vegan jap chae were my dinner. Bob is working so late all week (to make up for the 5 days he took off to go to NOLA) that I'll be cooking only for myself. Guess that T-bone will stay in the freezer till I get back from Israel. So it looks like salmon tomorrow night, and Cellars' $6 cheeseburger night (Bob wants me to go ride herd on his picks in the March Madness brackets pool) Monday. I do need to get more iron into my diet--been eating mostly chicken, fish & vegetarian lately (plus rabbit & pork in New Orleans, of course), and my Hgb is back down below 12 (after 3 wks off iron pills). My MO wants me to cut back on calcium as my levels are at the high end of normal; but she also wants me to try near-keto once I return (Israeli food is carbs, carbs and more carbs). She referred me to a bariatrician for nonsurgical weight mgmt.
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Last night was reverse seared thick pork chops with apple cider pan sauce. Fried apples, baby peas and boxed stuffing were sides. Earlier in the day I made an apple slab pie, so it was an apple-y day!
Food has been uncomplicated as we are furiously trying to get the house in market shape. Sooo much to go through! We are almost finished with repairs (newly leaky window and some concrete repair left). De cluttering, boxing and storing what we plan to keep then final cleaning. Hopefully we can be done by May. I'm petty sure we're gong to rent a dumpster in a few weeks. It will make things so much easier. I'm so tired of looking and making decisions about things, I'm ready to pitch most everything lol! (If only I could convince DH.)
The weather has been pretty cool here and not much sign of spring, but we spent the morning cleaning out, repairing and putting up blue bird boxes. They had a hard winter and were looking raggedy. Now if the bluebirds can get to them before the sparrows . . .
Warmer temps predicted this week, hopefully will encourage some green. Nothing but brown so far, although the grass is starting to look greener and I noticed some weeds in my hosta bed. Naturally.
Pot roast and vegetables in the pressure cooker tonight. Easy peasy, if unremarkable.
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