So...whats for dinner?
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A year ago, my daughters pregnancy was in jeopardy, my DH was in a
halo after breaking his neck. And the sewage/flood caused us many losses, some of things that were priceless.
But we are blessed, and some wonderful things also came from those issues. Below is my lovely DGD3, safely arrived in Feb. Resting in the cradle that I thought we had lost, but that was lovingly restored by neighbors. ( and dont worry, we just took that pic then pulled her out as i didnt have the bedding right. LoL) Below that pic is one of DGD1 &2 enjoying it a different way, (its a princess boat, btw,) and day. LOL. BTW, the thing could hold me if I tried.
Much love to all on here, and remember, troubles do not last.
Here's my DH, with his first ever new car. Electric no less! LOL
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Good pictures, Moon. Thanks for sharing.
Dinner last night was grilled ribeye and small baked potatoes with butter and sour cream. Yum.
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Moon - love the pictures.
Carole - you've inspired me. I've put a baked potato on the menu for tonight.
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Great pics Monica, the grands are growing so fast!
Last night was Swiss steak, mashed potatoes and fresh local green beans from the produce stand. I was informed that they will be the last :-(
Tonight is tentatively a grilled flat iron steak, roasted tomatoes topped with boursin and some new potatoes mixed with the few leftover beans. Or maybe tikka masala to avoid having beef two nights in a row. DH would have beef every night if left to his own devices.
Beautiful weather here, I need to go pull weeds to take advantage of it. I hate weeds and yet they persist.
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More leftover steak & broccolini, plus leftover yellow heirloom tomato (last store-bought one) and probably grill some Vidalia onion slices.
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We're home.
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Eric - we can hardly wait for you to unpack & stock your fridge & reintroduce yourself to your dogs & do you wash and etc. so that you can give us lots of details from the tour. Where did you go from San Francisco? I can't imagine pulling a trailer down Hwy 1.
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eric - having driven through SF in May in a smallish SUV I can't imagine doing it pulling a trailer. Or driving windy coastal roads. I bow down to your greatness!
britgirls - I ate a ton of burgers (with cheese!) during chemo to help keep my hemoglobin up! It's a good plan!
moon - good to see you - so glad you could lemonade your lemon year! DH is looking strong!
Reader -Your post about potato chips made me think of Trader Joe's Reduced Guilt potato chips - they are so good that I can eat the whole bag. Unfortunately they don't reduce my guilt quite enough, lol!
Made a salad the other night with shredded chicken, almonds, scallions over shredded Napa cabbage and romaine with sweet and sour dressing. Had take out BBQ last night - DH gets his hair cut near the BBQ place - corn salad, Mac n cheese, burnt ends. Tonight is roasted sweet potatoes with cinnamon and a little brown sugar, pork tenderloin, and Brussels sprouts with bacon, onion, and balsamic glaze.
Working on a cookbook project - my SIL sent me all of my late MIL's myriad clipped and handwritten recipes in a giant tub. There have to be at least 1,000 of them! Sorted them into categories, cut them out if needed, glue sticked (stuck?) them to pages. Now ready to make copies and bind them for my DH's sibs. I have to be crazy..
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It was, fortunately, a small tent trailer. The drive through San Francisco was not too bad. The drive down CA Hwys 36 and 1 was lots of turns and twists. There were a few times where I think I could see the license plate on the back of the trailer. :-)
We were not able to find a campground in the Ventura area, so we ended up driving straight home from north of Santa Barbara...after 3 hours at Hearst Castle and a couple of hours at Cal Poly San luis Obispo.
After high school, my first choice of schools was Cal Tech and Cal Poly San luis Obispo were my first two choices for schools. The smog was so bad at Pasadena (Cal Tech) that it hurt to breathe and my allergies were STRONGLY "provoked" at Cal Poly. That's how I chose Arizona State.
Every time I grumble about the car smog checks for the cars, I think about the difference in air quality at Pasadena and quit grumbling.
We got home about 5am and DD was asleep. When we opened the door the dogs started barking and then the barks changed to happy squeaks and yips. Jessiecat was equally thrilled to see us.0 -
Dinner tonight at Hilltop restaurant in Hubbard. John from Texas asked us to go with him. He'll be wearing his best denim overalls. I've eaten at Hilltop twice and enjoyed the same entrée, pecan crusted walleye. May have something else tonight.
Last night was a meal with the women golfers following the 18 holer golf. Lasagne (straight from a supermarket freezer) and lettuce salad, vanilla ice cream for dessert. Not memorable but I feel obliged to stay for the meal following the once-a-month meeting.
Welcome home, Eric.
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Dinner tonight was fix it and forget it barbecue pork tenderloin in the crockpot, fresh tomato, cucumber, and onion salad with red wine vinaigrette and baked french fries.
My husband has a habit of tossing any condiments he considers old (we differ on the definition - ha!). Anyway, I told him "No Worcestershire sauce in your barbecue pork tonight Mister!" Still pretty tasty and he promised to replace items before pitching them next time 😉 ❤
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My supper was so good earlier in the week, I repeated it tonight. 6 or 7 cubes of fresh cantaloupe, 10 finger sticks sliced off a Gouda cheese round, 8 wheat thins. Well I just cheated by having a shot glass of Amarula before bed. Raise a glass for the elephants.
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Tonight's dinner will be roasted chicken thighs, skin on and bone in. Sides will be asparagus, maybe roasted, and cauliflower mash.
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Went to lunch with my ex-DH and intended to have a large salad since he said he's trying to eat healthy. Oh oh - he ordered spaghetti. I couldn't sit and watch that so I ordered spaghetti works - meat sauce, meat balls, mushrooms and melted mozzarella on top. I was virtuous and ordered the lunch portion - a half order. But then I ate 3 pieces of their delicious melted garlic butter french bread. Dinner is - not one darn thing!! I don't deserve it for caving so badly. Luckily I'm not in the least bit hungry. I only have to lose 5 lbs, but I'll never be able to fit in my pants for the wedding in a month if I don't.
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Minustwo and Carole, your meals both sounded good to me!
Tonight was an old standby, modified a bit. Old hippies know of a cookbook called "Moosewood' and I love their eggplant almond enchiladas recipe. My hub can't have almonds so I substituted pinenuts that I toasted first.
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Reader - oh yes for Moosewood. I'm pretty sure the restaurant is still open and some of our BCO members met there one time. When Michelle was still alive?
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Minustwo, I wasn't sure if the restaurant was still around but do love so many of the recipes!
I'm not sure I knew a Michelle but am sorry she's gone. It's nice to make virtual friendships on here. I just recommended BCO to a recently diagnosed friend. Very supportive!
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Hi Everyone, some of your dinners sound delicious! I haven't posted in a while because dinners here have been kind of hodgepodge lately. Carol, I had my golf league dinner last night also. The owner of the course roasted pork and turkey for us and we all brought pot luck dishes. I made a cabbage salad to take and reserved a little to have at home, so I had that for dinner tonight to try to make up for all of the indulging at the picnic.
MinusTwo and Reader425, I had never heard of Moosewood Restaurant, so I looked it up online and couldn't believe it when I saw it is in Ithaca, NY. My husband and I are actually planning a trip to the Finger Lakes region in a few weeks, and Ithaca is one of our planned stops. I don't think I will get my husband to eat there, but I just might have to stop in to see if they have any of their cookbooks. I always like to buy a cookbook whenever I travel, so maybe that will be the one from my trip to the Finger Lakes. What a coincidence! That dish of enchiladas looks delicious by the way.
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Michelle's BCO "nom de plume" was LuvRVing. She was a vibrant and delightful woman. One of her close friends & 'neighbors' still posts. Joyce - how are you? Up North for the summer if I remember correctly?
Who else went on the Moosewood's trip? Maybe Bedo?
Oops - it was Pickety Place in September 2012, but unfortunately the pictures have been removed from the post on this thread.
But lots of discussion over the years on this dinner thread about Moosewoods cookbook & recipes - starting in 2011.
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Joyce - great to hear from you. Thanks for the update. Wishing you an easy surgery & recovery. If anyone remembers this phrase - we'll be in your pocket.
Not so strange about the new wife. My SIL died in October. The memorial service was in November. The next Tuesday (two damn days) her husband of 49 years called his grown kids and said he'd met a wonderful woman he intended to spend the rest of his life with so did they have a problem with her coming to family Thanksgiving & Christmas. You can just imagine the upsets. Three months after my SIL died, they'd spent 10 days skiing in Colorado. At four months they went to several countries in Europe on the way to a South African vacation. Six months - they bought a house, started combining their stuff & moved in together.
I was going to be sooo good today. Started with All Bran and 4 fresh raspberries - no sugar. An hour later a neighbor brought me a chicken biscuit from Chick-Fil-A. Oh I love these and hadn't had one in over year. Snarfed it up. Forced myself to eat only 1/2 a spaghetti squash for dinner. I was going to do Raos & mushrooms & stuff, but satisfied myself with just butter & salt. I'm trying on pants from the closet tonight so I will have no problem remembering tomorrow.
Going to an Eagle Court of Honor tomorrow with a reception and dinner afterwards. It's the grandson of an old friend but I haven't seen any of the family in a number of years. I may try to skip out on the dinner.
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Joyce, in your pocket for your cervical spine surgery tomorrow!
Last night I bought a nice piece of fresh wild Pacific halibut--but it was half a pound and Bob was down in Oak Lawn for the night, So I fired up the grill (used a grill topper pan for easier release), coated it with oil, lime, oregano, garlic, salt & pepper and baked it on the grill along with a few slim asparagus spears marinated in EVOO & balsamic. Sauteed half a bulb of fennel in butter indoors. Also had half a small tomato with burrata as an appetizer. As I suspected, I could only eat half the fish so I refrigerated the other half. For tonight's dinner, I made low-carb fish "taquitos:" gem and baby Boston lettuce cups with a bed of red cabbage slaw, the halibut, and red Frontera jalapeno chipotle salsa on half of them and chimichurri sauce on the others.
Tomorrow is my block party, so for the potluck brunch I will make my usual insalata Caprese--only this time, the tomatoes and basil will all come from my own garden. Was afraid this year's crop would be a dud--especially with only 4 plants to last year's 6, and a cold & rainy May (too cold to plant!) & June. Suddenly, this week, 8 good-sized ones ripened all at once--and no black spot or clefts this time. Got 13 more on the vine, with about another 10 buds.
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Joyce, so great to hear from you - best of luck and have a speedy recovery from your surgery!
Yesterday I made a huge batch of gazpacho using a bounty of heirloom tomatoes and cucumbers from a friend's garden. I gave some to my neighbour and still have more than we'll eat. I wonder if it could be cooked and converted into a hot tomato soup - would it taste like V8?
I made a Boston cream pie today that looks like a disaster - the cake stuck to the pan (never happens) and therefore broke taking it out and I let the ganache cool off too much before putting it on. I imagine it tastes ok but it's nothing to look at. Glad I made it just for us.
Tonight is the flat iron steak on the grill that didn't get eaten earlier in the week, as well as the baked tomatoes and new potatoes.
Special, I admire your taking on such a project!
Welcome home Eric!
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Moon, I was so glad to see your DH looking so much better after that injury and long recovery, and that the worrisome pregnancy of your daughter worked out adorably fine! Cute grands! I know you enjoy them so much, and your daughters are lucky to have you nearby.
Minus, I love your creative, unconventional dinners! You know I go in that direction too when I get a solo evening of not having to cook. Carry on.... and good luck with removing those 5 lbs.... I am no role model in that department!
We are finally at the lake for an extended time, and it is really weird to be “starting” our summer here in August...and just now planting flowers in my deck pots! The hummingbirds showed up immediately to remind us to get their feeders out and we did! It was fun having them hover about as I tended to my pot planting.
I know that we might look like the energizer bunny couple, but I am really too old and tired to enjoy all the movement we’ve undertaken through June/July. I find it hard to keep up with DH’s energy, and his need to be busy all the time. I think his need for activity is currently heightened to defend against his feeling so slowed down by the hip issue...he can’t stand slowing down, so he schedules lots more activities. EEEEK!
Since I’ve had to help more with everything, physically,......carrying luggage other heavy items up and down stairs, car packing, unpacking, etc., and lots of other physical tasks, I’ve started to feel my own hip pain which I thought left me a few years ago. And yesterday, I awoke with really bad back spasms. Hoping the lidocaine patch helps it calm down, since we will not fare well with duo debilitations! I wish he would be more flexible about who does his surgery. He doesn’t even have his consult until the end of this month, and he could have it done by now and be enjoying summer more.
We’ve mainly been having grilled chicken and salads since arriving here, but last night, I wasn’t able to stand up long enough to cook, so ordered a nice spanakopita and a baked haddock with broccoli, and a Greek salad from a local house of pizza that does very nicely with every dish except for pizza! I especially enjoyed the meal.
Nance, peach pie.....now gazpacho?! Be still, my taste buds!! I am now inspired to hunt out some local tomatoes to make gazpacho (if my back will cooperate) to enjoy when a very good long time friend and DH stop to visit us next weekend. Summer came very late here, so I hope I can find some nice ripe tomatoes.
Fun to read about the Moosewood recipe you made, Reader. I can picture the cookbook, tho never got to the restaurant. Am guessing it might be quite vegan by now.....maybe you’ll find out for us during your trip, Super! Or I can google their menu...lol.
Joyce, sending best wishes for your upcoming surgery! My DDIL just had cervical disc replacement surgery this Spring, and she was back performing surgery in a matter of days. Am guessing the new technology used with cervical disc surgeries allows for much faster recoveries. I’m glad you have such a familiar trusted team for the procedure! Will be in your pocket! I’m glad Michelle’s DH has found someone to share his life with, but I can’t imagine “following” her. What a special woman Michelle was to everyone who knew her.
Special, you continue to amaze with your organizing talents. Such a wonderful gift for DH’s family members!
Not a single plan for dinner, and a trip to the grocery store will be needed unless we want omelettes.
My sadness for all of those affected by these recent (and not so recent!) mass shooting murders is only eclipsed by my rage at the selfishness of those in power who choose to do nothing. Enough said.
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Hello to everyone.
I'm now about 3 weeks out from my revision surgery and despite some lingering bruising/swelling, I am feeling much better than I did pre-surgery. I think the bubbles I was feeling between the skin and my implants resulted in a lot of inflammation. Which made me uncomfortable and used a lot of my body's energy. My surgeon did not find any fluid, and said, "Based on what I saw in the OR, I think that was just a pocket that developed from how the texturing of the implant stuck to the Alloderm." And that the switch to smooth implants should completely resolve that issue. Which is a huge relief.
We grilled a couple of different pieces of CSA fish pulled from the freezer last night, along with a whole eggplant to use for baba ganoush today. I made a panzanella salad with a couple of heirloom tomatoes and a persian cucumber, leftover sourdough bread and a few leaves of basil from the plant I got at Trader Joe's a while back, which has been hanging on pretty well.
A couple of nights ago, our CSA gave us ling cod, which I pan seared and served with nectarine salsa and snap peas. Not sure what dinner will be this evening - possibly risotto, since I'm making chicken stock in the Instant Pot.
Need to get to the butcher shop and buy some meat for a change! We're going to Bordeaux as part of a trip to France in October, and in an effort to educate ourselves about the wine, we went to a very good wine shop, talked to their Bordeaux expert and bought a mixed case of recommended bottles in the "value" price range yesterday.
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Magari, glad your surgical revision recovery is going well! I'd never heard of ling cod, so checked it out....interesting fish. Is it true the flesh is almost turquoise? I'm impressed with your serious research efforts in anticipation of your trip to Bordeaux. 😉
I've been doing practically nothing all day, and DH returned from the beach early so he could head to the local farm stand and grocery store. He clearly has hopes for dinner tonight! He will probably get a pork loin to grill since he seems “chickened out" of late. Hoping I can stand long enough to make a nice salad. He also got some local corn.
My DDIL2 just sent the sweetest video of our DGD2 making music with her feet (a new toy attached to her crib end). The only down side of us being up here is we can only see her on video. 😕 Can't wait until they come for a weekend visit in a few weeks
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Lacey - we used to fish for Ling in the Gulf of Mexico. I don't remember turquoise, but I do remember a delicious almost sweet fish.
Magari - more congrats on this thread.
The Eagle Court of Honor was wonderful. A very impressive young man. For those of you who follow BSA, one of the requirements for Eagle is 13 merit badges. This young man had 46. Eeek!!! Dinner was catered BBQ with brisket & chicken, beans, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, lots of pickles & peppers & onions - and since this is Texas - loaves & loaves of plain old white bread just sitting out there in their plastic wrappers next to the iced tea. The cake was 1/2 chocolate & 1/2 vanilla. The chocolate side was delicious and totally gone with plenty of vanilla left.
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Minus - lol, I'd have gone for the vanilla.
Lacey, I hope your back issues resolve soon - no fun!
Very undecided about dinner but settled on baked canneloni with some garlic bread. And then of course, Boston cream pie.
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Thanks for the good wishes on my revision surgery. I am hopeful that this will be my last surgery of any kind for quite some time.
Forgot to let you know that the Med restaurant we went to last week ended up being very good. We had grilled haloumi, a flabread with lamb and baba ganoush, and a calamari sandwich in house-made pita.
I had a checkup with my MO on Friday afternoon, and it is a major hassle to get home from there on transit. So since my husband has been in between contracts, I got him to pick me up afterwards and we had an early dinner date night at Commonwealth - one of our favorite special occasion places (1 Michelin star) that will be closing next month as a result of losing their lease. Very sad - we've celebrated a number of birthdays and anniversaries there and the food is still fabulous.
We splurged and had the tasting menu - this is what's on the website (ours was slightly different but I can't remember it all): geoduck clam, chilled pea and mint soup, radishes, meyer lemon, fresh wasabi //smoked trout glazed in verjus, trout roe, cabbage, potato mousse, horseradish //green beans, walnut and sunflower butter, smoked flatbread, rooftop herbs //stonefruit, smoked zucchini, fresh curds, sunflower seeds, agretti, nasturtium juice //lamb shoulder grilled over redwood, sprouting grain porridge, wheatgrass, alliums //celery sorbet, verjus soda//burnt honey ice cream, matcha meringue, chocolate tuile. Nice bottle of a light French red to go with it.
The lamb was superb. I am not a huge dessert person, but both the celery sorbet and the burnt honey ice cream were amazing.
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I can't decide between spaghetti with turkey meat sauce, chicken wonton soup or a potato, corn and broccoli.
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Certainly not dinner......
As soon as DD gets home, we will be taking Jessiecat to the vet. When we brought him home, he was 5 or 6 years old and DD was starting 2nd grade. DD is a college senior now, which makes Jessiecat 19 or 20.
Maybe not, but I have a feeling that "it's time".
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