So...whats for dinner?
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Leftovers here, too. Warmed up speckled butterbeans with cornbread and a salad.
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We lost power at 8pm last night & it wasn't restored for over 16 hours. My rain gauge over flowed at 5 inches. Some of the City got 8-12 inches but I'll never know exactly how much at my house. We're due for more storms tonight but supposedly later this evening and we will be able to make it to the wine & cheese pairing first.
Due to the power outage with no estimate of repair time I didn't want to open the fridge & lose whatever cooling would remain. Nothing worse than throwing away spoiled food. Since it's hurricane season, I'd better work faster at clearing out my freezer - at least the expensive steaks & roasts. Luckily I have a gas stove - so by candle & lantern night I had macaroni with butter last night.
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Hope our southern folks can avoid more of the devastating rain and flooding. We've had plenty too.
Chef salad tonight with a piece of baguette smeared with butter and garlic. I plan to use up bits and pieces of things languishing in the fridge.
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Tonight is a casserole with corn tortillas layered with thinly sliced turkey, refried beans, corn, cheese, more tortillas and turkey, lightly sauteed red and green bell peppers with onion topped by a third layer of tortillas, cheese and green enchilada sauce. 2nd granddaughter arrives from college tonight. Took her sister to DPS to make her appointment for getting her drivers license today. Nothing like having young folks around again!
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I finally got around to making the much-mentioned eggplant layered dish (aka casserole, hot dish). Alas no Rao sauce in the pantry so I sent dh to the IGA during a lull in the rain to buy some canned tomatoes. As soon as he backed out of the carport it started pouring down rain but he soldiered on to the IGA. He brought back diced tomatoes so I used the food processor to turn them into crushed tomatoes. Diced tomatoes have a stubborn tendency to remain diced tomatoes.
With onions, garlic, a generous amount of olive oil and a sprinkling of "Itallian herbs," the sauce was a very tasty substitute for Rao's. Oh and some crushed red pepper, another ingredient.
The cheese in the dish was fresh grated romano and bagged mozzarella. The dish spent approximately an hour in the large toaster oven at 350 around dinner time and was very good.
Side was an arranged salad with cold steamed asparagus, compare tomatoes (quartered), and avocado. Addition of sweet onion for dh and Kalamata olives halved for me. My dressing was fresh lemon juice and olive oil. Dh used a bottled poppyseed.
So it was meatless Friday.
Tonight will likely be a ribeye, potato and salad. Always a favorite with me.
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Always one of my favorites too Carole. And the eggplant sounds delicious.
It's 25° below normal here, cold and wet with more rain. I don't remember having the heat on this late in May. So tonight is chicken and dumplings with a boring side salad. Boring because I used all the interesting ingredients in the chef salad last night. Perhaps I'll do sauteed asparagus instead.
And I've made a cherry slab pie to celebrate the fact that Fresh Thyme has restocked (and repackaged) sour cherries. Yay! Alas, they only had two packages left (apparently others were as joyful as I) so they will have to be rationed until I get back there.
The rain and cold has brought out the birds - Baltimore Orioles, hordes (August numbers) of hummingbirds, rose breasted grosbeaks and a summer tanager eating granpe jelly this morning. Gorgeous!
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The 'Wine & Cheese Pairing' class was great fun. Maybe even better than the Wine & Chocolate class we attended earlier this year. If you have a Total Wine by you, check out their class schedule. Last night a regional rep from Boar's Head provided the cheese & was on hand to tell about each selection. All this for $20.00. (disclaimer - no involvement either company).
The evening started with a generous buffet of appetizers - cut fruits & veggies, chocolate covered strawberries, bread & tapenade, finger sandwiches. Everyone is provided with two glasses, a bottle of water and a 'spit' bucket - used to dump the pours you don't want to finish & to rinse your glass. There's always a lesson about how to do tastings, history of each wine, great stories about noted winemakers and terrior of various countries. Last nights parings were: Champagne & Gruyere, Sauvignon Blanc & Chevre, Pinot Grigio & Asiago, Pinot Noir and Havarti, Rioja & Manchgo, Zinfandel & Cheddar, Cabernet Sauvignon & Gouda, Sauterne & Blue Cheese. Some interesting new tastes for me and some old favorites well matched.
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Summer tanager
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Minus, those pairings sounds good! And I love the pretty Tanager, Nancy.
Tonight is a Home Chef box meal. Chicken with raspberry chipoltle sauce and snap peas. But I swapped the chicken for the pork tenderloin, it will work just fine with the rest of the dinner. The beans for the pork will last a day or two instead of the peas, and i want to save the chicken for later. I freeze the protiens right away so swap out as i please, depending on my needs. I may add a small baked potato, if we are both hungry.
Happy Mothers Day to all who do the Mom stuff!
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As usual, my DH dissapears right before I serve supper. Sigh. But here it is, might as well take a picture since he's nowhere around. I did nuke 2 small potatoes, and cut the tenderloin into medallions before I cooked it. So 15 minutes for supper. Looks and smells so good
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Minus, Ilimae--I've been thinking of you (and Gordy's DGF's parents down in Katy) when those news reports come on about the awful flooding in Houston. Up here, the DesPlaines R. is at flood stage, but any homes along it are elevated above their backyard boat docks. Nancy, I didn't realize that St. Louis was going through the same disgusting cold & wet weather we're having up here, too. Hasn't made it to 50 here by the lake since early Tues. The heat's still on. (It's a gas boiler, so at least we're spending less than if we were cranking up the window ACs). There is something obscene about seeing your breath outdoors in mid-May, and being told to bring tender perennials indoors at night (or cover them). Never mind annuals like tomatoes. Gordy bought me a hydrangea plant for Mother's Day, but I can't replant it outside yet.
Thurs. night I made steelhead trout (aka lake or salmon-trout) instead of the wild filet. Last night, I seared a Verlasso salmon filet, along with sauteed sugar snap peas with sesame & garlic, and lime-basil-lemongrass Thai jasmine rice (the latter was one of those nuke-for-90-sec. packets from the ethnic aisle at Jewel). I also indulged in a slice of dark chocolate mousse pie, which I cut in half and ate last night and tonight.
Brunch was half a poppyseed bagel, schmear, lox, tomato, red onion, dill & capers. Gave the other half to Bob, who just came home after a 14-hr day at the hospital.
Today I hit the CBD boutique in Logan Sq. (I like the capsules and the colorless CBG & CBN oils they sell--I can use both while I still have my Invisalign on) and then the Middle Eastern Bakery in Andersonville. They have the second best hummus I've ever tried outside Israel (the best was from Michael Solomonov's Phila. restaurant Zahav, which did a pop-up dinner here in Chicago at Spiaggia--the pita was so fluffy I almost wept for joy). I loaded up on hummus, baba ghanouj, tabbouleh, decent pita, olive salad, lentil soup and Jerusalem salad--made myself a sampler for dinner.
Tomorrow night we scored the latest possible dinner res The Palm would give us. It's been a month since I've had steak!
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Happy Mother's Day to all. My son called me from a work outpost in NYC yesterday since he's unavailable today.. And my Chinese niece called from elsewhere in Texas. Today I got an email from my 'other son' (like Eric's other daughter) who has moved from Hawaii to Panama.
For dinner I'm going to fix scrambled eggs & sausage and roll that up in flour tortillas with fresh avocados, Mrs. Renfro's Green Chili salsa & plenty of cheese.
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We had dinner out last evening for DH's birthday, went to a bbq place and three of us had baked potatoes( stuffed), DH had a turkey sandwich (huge), 3bean salad and potato salad. Tonight GDs went to a movie and In&Out; we had scrambled eggs with green salad and garlic bagels. Minus, looks like our minds were on the same track!
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Happy Mother's Day! For brunch, made a classic French rolled omelet with gruyére and herbs (parsley, chives, thyme) and treated myself to a Krispy Kreme before my coffee cooled and my Invisalign-out-time had expired.
Dinner at the Palm: we split a "Gigi" salad (shrimp, avocado, hard boiled egg, green beans, romaine). Bob had a 12-oz. filet mignon (which he finished), I a bone-in ribeye (2/3 of which I brought home, along with half the duck-fat-roasted Parmesan fingerling potatoes). Other side was sauteed spinach, which we finished. (Was tempted to have the creamed spinach till I saw the calorie count--5X the sauteed! Will save the creamed for when I go back to low-carb). No bread. The Palm has revamped, and I'm not sure in such a good way. It's open-plan now (used to have a separate revolving door entrance outside and a door to the hotel on the inside), which is prettier; the bar has been enlarged, moved to the center, and is in an ellipse instead of just being against the window. The menu has been simplified too (since we're regulars, they were able to make us the Gigi salad even though it's no longer on the dinner menu). They used to bring a bread basket but no more. More and more restaurants here are charging for bread service--but those that do, serve artisanal breads baked in-house or brought in from name bakeries.
Will treat myself to dessert now: half a 12-oz. container of pistachio gelato, topped with the season's first domestic cherries. (Hope they're sweeter than the strawberries, which look ripe but are white & tart inside).
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Is Eric the only one who makes bread anymore?
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Not in the past few days....
I've got a cold or possibly flu..dry cough, aches, but no fever.....
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Sounds like you need to make chicken soup. Feel better.
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Minus, No, Eric is not alone. I do make bread, although not as often as I used to since I am limiting my gluten intake. We make our own pizza crusts and now use a bread machine to get it started. We have neighbors who have an annual St Patrick's day party and I supply the Irish soda bread for that (3 different kinds, with and without fruit or seeds).
Eric, sorry to hear you are under the weather. Any chance it is a reaction to painting your house? Our pollen counts have been ridiculous all year and being outside for any extended period leads to sneezing and a drippy nose. Chicken soup even helps that!
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I have a MAN cold! That's what I have!!!! :-)
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Eric, lol you're entitled - feel better soon!
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Thanks Nance... In the past few hours I've gone from "just shoot me" to "I think I'm going to live", so "soon" seems to be now. Yesterday was one of those hated lay in bed and do nothing days.
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eric, glad soon is now! Keep on getting better.
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Chi, I did "cheat" a bit (DD talked Sharon into trying a vegan diet and I'm going along for the ride) when Sharon was at her mom's house and I made some chicken soup.
1/4 cup of rice in a small pot, add 3 jars of the broth, simmer for 30 minutes and eat directly from the pot (when on a recliner chair, it's too easy to spill soup from a bowl).....
As for the allergies...I doubt it. Usually allergies cause me to have a nose that runs more than an open fire hydrant and I sneeze a lot. This wasn't like that.
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OH NO Eric. The dreaded MAN cold. Hope it doesn't last too long. I had one earlier this year that hung on for 3 full weeks - most of it at the 'just shoot me' stage.
Lunch was an egg salad sandwich from a local meat market on my way to Yoga. Supper was a couple pieces of cold pizza - pepperoni & mushroom. By the time I could stop to eat it was 10pm and no way was I going get involved with even heating.
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Dinner tonight is a Roast chicken with baked rice and asparagus. I might make a salad too. The baked rice is so good and reminds me of my grandmother. It is made with the juices from roasting the chicken along with chicken broth and some butter (everything is better with butter, no?) Then it just bakes in the oven for 20 minutes until most of the liquid is absorbed then while remaining covered with foil, sits for 10 more minutes to absorb the rest.
You just need to use 2.5 to one instead of 2 to one on the broth when making it this way and need to heat the pan on top of the stove until the liquid is boiling before adding the rice and butter and baking.
One pan, no mess. Meanwhile the chicken is resting while the rice bakes. I roast the asparagus in the oven too since it is on anyway. It has been so raw and wet around these parts lately.
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Eric, your "man cold" sounds just like the "tourist cold" I had in Tel Aviv.
Throat felt scratchy on the bus from Jerusalem, then scratchier as we walked through the Carmel Market. By the time I got back to my room, I realized that I didn't want to go out to dinner and infect my friends, so I had the hotel casual restaurant's Shabbat dinner (at the tail end of the time window so as to minimize contaminating anything on the buffet) at a table for one. Next morning, I slept in. It was the "just shoot me" stage, and everything I wanted to see was closed for Shabbat anyway, so I ate an Atkins bar, made tea, stayed in bed and channel-surfed till I felt well enough to cab it to the one 24/7 pharmacy downtown for some basic cold remedies. Felt well enough to go out to dinner afterward. Next day--my last of the trip--I was well enough to go down to breakfast and take a short bus tour. By the time I boarded my flight, all I needed was water & the occasional Ricola.
Quite a change from the usual "3 days coming, 3 days with ya, 3 days going" colds.
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Last night's dinner was leftover ribeye & roast potatoes, plus some sugar snap peas I sauteed. Brunch was a small tuna salad sandwich on low-carb whole-wheat bread with lettuce, red onion & tomato. Was going to reheat the last of the steak tonight, but Gordy's here on his day off and I'll give it to him with some rice & veg. Think I'll put together another "mezze" plate of falafel, pita, hummus, and all the other various spreads & salads. Not hungry yet.
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April - how nice to see you. I don't remember if you ever told us about your new job - which is probably a year old now. Thanks for the baked rice tips. I'm assuming that's long grain? I'll put this away for winter when I turn the oven on again. We're already around 90 degrees most days.
Supper was a repeat. Flour tortillas, scrambled eggs (with Dill this time), shredded Mexican cheese and green chili hot sauce. Heated in the micro to melt cheese then rolled & eaten by hand.
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It's back.... :-( And Sharon's got it too.......
Since standing seems to lessen the muscle cramps, I stood and made a double batch of veggie burgers. So that (nothing else) was dinner last night and tonight.0 -
yuck, Eric, not sure this is one of those things that is best shared!
Tonight was homemade pizzas with five individual pizzas and no two alike. They were being gobbled down before I thought of taking a picture!
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