So...whats for dinner?
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Carole, I wonder if that's the same dice game we play, only we play with quarters. You can win a pretty good pot with that one.
Last night was American Chop Suey - a macaroni and beef casserole with crushed tomatoes and cheese. Of course, I love anything with a noodle.
I'm off to get a pedicure today to prepare my toes for fall. After a summer of running around barefoot, my feet are more like hooves. Since I have a gift certificate, I think I'll spring the extra for the heel repair treatment.
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Nance, up in my corner of the Midwest, we call it Hot Dish
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Definitely hot dish up here in MN. Sounds very tasty. I know dh would love it.
High today in the 60's. But yesterday was a perfect day for couples golf or any other outdoor activity. Sunny with high in mid 70's. Dinner at LaPasta was good as always. DH and I really like that little restaurant in Dorset, which will soon close three of the four restaurants.
I ordered artichoke ravioli with cream sauce. It had asparagus and fresh mushrooms, cheese in the filling. After it had been served and eaten, I remembered I ordered it before, in a previous year! Oh, the wonders of the aging person, body and mind.
With this fall weather I'm thinking of comfort food pot dishes like white chili and gumbo.
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I often use cheddar instead of the mozzarella.
I'm thinking red beans and rice tonight. (I know, it's Saturday not Monday). Gumbo appeals too.
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My mother called that dish "goo-lolly", I know not why but it could be a version of goulash? I've also used the johnny marzetti term. Whatever its name, it is comfort food. Not yet ready for it here since I saw 100 on the car's thermometer on my way home this afternoon!
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Probably chipotle mac and cheese tonight, with breadcrumb topping.
I have a pork butt that I need to do something with, and have a recipe for that with cumin and beans that would be easy to do in the Instant Pot for tomorrow.
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I've heard it called American goulash too.
Went with pepper steak - flank steak, onions, garlic, red and green peppers over brown rice. Leftover green beans as a side.
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We had a gathering last evening and have grilled turkey burgers left over ( the salmon burgers were a bigger hit). Chopped up some burgers, heated in barbeque sauce and served over ciabatta buns with sliced tomatoes and mixed vegs. Had just enough "left over " red wine for one glass each.
Now to come up with some other creative way to use grilled turkey burgers...
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Friday night after a post-wake memorial service in the southwest suburbs for a friend who passed away suddenly of a pulmonary embolism, Bob & I wanted to go to Cooper's Hawk Winery restaurant--but the earliest table available was 9:45. Nope--we had driven separately (Bob came from his hospital down in Oak Lawn, and I took 2 hrs to drive down from Edgewater) and he had to be in early today. So we settled on Louie's Chophouse in Oak Lawn. Ironically, we both had fish--he had walleye with cherry sauce and I had pan-seared halibut. We split an app of grilled baby octopus, Greek style. Sides were asparagus (since I'm low carb, I had a double portion) and a twice-baked potato for Bob. Did we have leftovers? Duh.
So tonight I fired up the grill and seared a duck breast I'd defrosted--and reheated the leftovers to go with it.
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Beaverntx
You could use the leftover turkey burgers in chili or as the basis for a bolognaise sauce over spaghetti or turkey stroganoff.
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Picked up some bell peppers yesterday, so tonight is Stuffed Peppers. Will save leftovers for another night.
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Betrayal, thanks for the suggestions. Tonight I'm planning on crumbling some and adding to mac and cheese. Had thought of pasta sauce but not stroganoff-- probably in part because it is still in the high 90s here and stroganoff is associated with cold weather in my mind.
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Hi all sounds like everyone is eating well!! I had a long morning at church, a delightful afternoon nap and a wonderful husband who cooked/bought dinner. What more can I ask?
Menu was grilled wagu beef burgers he made up with onion and Worcestershire, fresh sliced tomatoes and potato salad. He doesn't usually cook so that made it even more delicious! He also sauted paprakash onions to go with. Getting off the carb train tomorrow but this was good!
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Tonight was reverse seared thick pork chops with a shallot white wine pan sauce. Sides were green beans with tiny potatoes and fruit salad.
Stressing over mammogram tomorrow. First time for screening mamm on a yearly schedule. Previously, I had diagnostic every six months.
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Shrimp Gumbo with Okra. I am from the south and live in Pacific NW. When I find fresh Okra in the market it’s Cajun gumbo! Willie Dust seasoning from Arkansas. Last two nights have been getting our gumbo fix
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Last evening, after spending much of the day housecleaning and organizing “stuff” we dragged back from the lakehouse, I was in no mood to cook, so decided to buy cooked shrimp and lettuce on a grocery store run, and had that for dinner along with raw cauliflower with hummus and some crusty bread.
Tonight we went to dinner with some good friends who moved to Santa Monica a few years ago to be near their only son who does Immersive Theatre in LA. We chose a local neighborhood cafe where DH and I have had some good meals. I had my typical choice of salmon with broccoli and rice pilaf and DH had his favorite fruitti di mare. You have to really be fond of mussels to order this!
Am guessing I might have posted a similar pic before since it is such a striking dish. We returned to our house for dessert, a purchased rustic pear and almond tart. DH actually went to Volante’s to buy one of my fave cherry pies, which were sold out. This tart proved to be a great second choice!
Tomorrow, I’m making dinner for our next door neighbors. They were gone when we returned from NH, which I knew was odd since school had started here for their kids. I texted and learned that the dad’s mother had suddenly passed away so they were in the Midwest for the whole week. I figure they will be busy playing catch up now that they are back, so decided to make them some comfort food....lobster mac and cheese. I’ve rarely made serious mac and cheese, but it isn’t too hard, and I figure the lobster will make up for any mistakes! I’ll also bring a big garden salad and walnut brownies for dessert. We will probably have something less decadent...like grilled chicken and a nice big salad. I really need to distance myself from pasta now that I’m near my trusty scale.
The leftover turkey burger ideas are good ones, Betrayal. That pesky unfatty turkey meat just doesn’t work for a juicy burger, does it, but it lends itself nicely to chili, stroganoff and other saucy recipes.
Thinking about Minus, and hoping her CA trip is going well
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Tonight was vegan tacos....lots of spices mixed with tofu and baked for 30 minutes, then mixed with salsa and then put into soft taco shells. I'm not sure what all spices were used as Sharon made this one.
Good luck on the mamo tomorrow Nance.
I'm hoping that everyone fared well through Hurricane Dorian.
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I'm baaaaack at 9pm tonight. Great trip. Details to follow but tonight I'm on CA time and it's after 12:30am here so I must get to bed. Since I didn't have internet for a week, I'm doing a lot of catch up.
Nance - hope the mammo is uneventful. Betrayal - welcome. Eric - had some good vegetarian food. Lacey - liked The Anza. My son took us to a restaurant with only 6 tables. More later. Hope none of you were 'touched' by the hurricane.
My family called the recipe Maccaroni & Beef. I can't for the life of me figure where it got the name 'chop suey', since that by rights should at least have bean sprouts, celery, mushrooms, etc & be stir fried.
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Nance, here's to an uneventful day with only good test results.
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Yesterday I cooked a delicious version of white chili. Ingredients were onion chopped in a little food processor, garlic, ground turkey seasoned with onion and garlic powder, s & p and chili flakes. White navy beans, dry, roasted hatch chilis and roasted jalapeno, chili powder. Homemade chicken broth out of the freezer. Before serving I cooked some fettucini broken into pieces.
After happy hour next door with the neighbors, where we sat in the sunshine because it was so cool, I decided on impulse to make some box cornbread using the convection oven. It turned out great and dh was delighted.
Dinner was a bowl of the chili, cornbread and butter.
Not a pretty day today. Gloomy outside with forecast for rain. We're off to the gym and then breakfast at West Forty.
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Went to Celllars for brunch Sun.. All Sept. long, Edgewater restaurants are featuring one tomato dish to benefit Care for Real, the neighborhood food (including pet food) pantry. Cellars has eggs shakshuka. I've made it myself with jarred harissa, and had it (with horribly overcooked, almost hard-boiled eggs) at hotel breakfast buffets in Israel. But theirs was perfect: eggs poached in harissa with olives & feta. Gave Bob my grilled sourdough artisanal toast and did just fine with a spoon.
Had a late dinner splitting a Quest frozen low-carb cauliflower-crust pizza. I've lost 33 lbs. since Feb. but Bob's gained 20. It seems we can never both be losing or gaining weight at the same time! I have a theory, a corollary of the law of physics stating matter can neither be created nor destroyed (although anyone who's ever invested in the stock market before a crash might beg to differ). My theory is that weight--specifically fat--never really gets burned nor produced. Among a circle of family & friends, if one person loses a considerable amount of weight, it doesn't disappear, but hovers around the circle and then descends on another member of the group.
Tonight, made an appetizer salad with Dijon vinaigrette, leftover halibut and half a small tomato. Then grilled a small grass-fed ribeye and two knob onions.
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Nance, have been thinking of you and hoping that the mammo results were a relief to hear. I recall feeling a similar bout of nerves when I was placed on a longer “mammo leash” after a couple of years post treatment. And always being called back from the waiting room for additional images just adds to that. Hopefully you are in the clear.....and finished for another year!
Minus, welcome home! I look forward to “hearing” about your trip, that intimate restaurant, and I’m glad you liked the Anza!
Well the lobster mac and cheese dinner for my neighbors ended up being a longer effort than I’d originally planned. DH decided that he really wanted the same menu, and was willing to head to the store for a few of the creatures (which they nicely steamed), and shell them while I prepped the cheeses, the frozen lobster meat I’d already purchased, the roux and the cheese sauce, and the big side salad. He sat outside and worked dutifully at his self-assigned task. It’s a good thing we decided to splurge since the frozen meat I’d bought would not have looked like much amid the pasta and cheese sauce. So I made two casseroles, and even a single portion one to freeze (not sure that will even work, but by the end, I just wanted to put it away)! And that’s because, after all the effort, they looked pretty, but I thought they tasted rather bland for the effort and expense (even with some onion, garlic, three cheeses, a bit of dijon, cayenne and black pepper).
If I ever decide to make this dish again, I will research other recipes to see how it might be more flavorful. Or maybe I just do not prefer lobster with mac and cheese! And I sure don’t need all the extra calories that it provides.
Speaking of calories, Sandy, I totally ascribe to your theory of weight loss and shifting “matter” to different hosts. Or at least that’s the way I always think of it. And congratulations on your loss! That’s a lot of weight to shed in six months. You’ve worked hard.
I really enjoy eggs shakshuka and had forgotten all about it this year. That would be fun for me to have while DH finishes up the leftover “bland dish” from tonight.
Carole your chili sounds tasty, and a nice antidote to the weather! Thanks for including the ingredients!
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33 lbs! Wow. Admiration and envy here.
Lobster mac and cheese sounds like an ultimate mac and cheese.
We finished up the white chili with pasta last night and it might have been better than the night before. Side was a tasty romaine salad enhanced with home-grown tomato and cucumber and an avocado that was a little past the perfect stage.
Tonight may be a ribeye. I'm using up the contents of the freezer. Side may be fresh corn cut off the cob and sautéed in butter. I have three ears of corn in the refrigerator.
Eric, how are you and Sharon liking the vegan diet? What do you eat for breakfast?
I, too, want to "hear" about your trip, Minus.
Awaiting news on your mammo, Nance.
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Sandy, I believe you're on to something with your weight loss theory.
I will take the lobster mac and cheese please!
Well the mammogram wasn't great. Later in the afternoon I got a call from my onc's office saying they found an assymetry that they want more pictures of. I have a lot of scar tissue in that breast from the lumpectomy and radiation recall as a result of chemo after radiation, so that may be what they're seeing. At least I hope so. At any rate, I have a diagnostic and ultrasound if necessary scheduled for Friday the 13th. Peachy. I see my mo tomorrow so maybe she'll shed more light on the situation. Needless to say, I'm pissed.
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Nance - fingers crossed that it's scar & radiation damage. I'm amazed that the doc didn't order a diagnostic mammo in the first place. I was called back every year for 37 (yup - thirty seven) years before they found something to biopsy.
Trying to get my head around the time change, the loads of laundry, the abrupt cessation of rich food, and the 100 urgent issues just waiting for my return. Yesterday's lunch was two slices of San Francisco sourdough, lovingly carried back in my suitcase. Very late dinner after water aerobics was two more slices of bread with an apple and some Jarlsberg cheese. Forcing myself to go to Silver Sneakers shortly.
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I know what you mean Minus, the isn't my first rodeo. I'm fibrocystic, have had numerous call backs and ultrasounds (not 37 though), two biopsies, a needle aspiration, and a papilloma removed before I hit the Big Time cancer diagnosis.You would think after all of that it would make it less stressful but it doesn't does it?
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Wishing you good luck nance
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In your pocket for Friday's diagnostic imaging, Nancy. Hope it's just radiation scarring.
Got my second Butcher Box shipment today, and my freezers are at Defcon 1: stuffed to the gills. I'd better go back and switch my frequency from every 6 weeks (had been monthly) to 2 months. I will probably remove the breakfast sausage from my future orders, since it comes as a 1-lb. bulk frozen blob--I could lace it with fennel and use it for Bolognese sauce, but I don't make breakfasts large enough to make decent use of it. My housekeeper is willing to take some. Think I'll also ditch the sirloin culotte steak, because it's too big. Might go for some chicken thighs & legs instead. I now have 1-1/2+ lbs. of wild-caught Alaskan salmon, which is a PITA to defrost--have to take it out of the cryovac to avoid anaerobic bacteria proliferation (not a problem with the beef, pork or bacon). The bacon--1 lb. pkgs--is delish and Animal Welfare-certified too, but once defrosted & opened needs to be used up w/in a week. I can't (and shouldn't) eat that much of it. 2 slices in a BLT or with eggs are about as much as I can handle. Sigh--I sure do miss my Snake River Farms quarterly Wagyu shipments, but their stuff is much more expensive, and grain-fed to boot. Butcher Box is all from 100% pastured critters.
On my way home from picking up my new custom orthotics (plus some rubber arch support sandals to wear at home), I stopped at Buffalo Wild Wings because it's "twofer Tuesday." Alas, when I got there I found out they changed that to "dine-in only," but rather than walking out I ordered a "small" (9 wings) trad (no breading or flour) Buffalo-mild to go, with celery & blue cheese dressing. Ate 6 for dinner, but all of the celery & half the dressing. Glad I decided to get them, as the salmon filet I began to defrost in the fridge is still hard as a rock.
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Nance - yup - scanxiety every single time. As Illi says, we'll be in your pocket and anxiously waiting to hear the results.
It's obvious that I've been channeled off to Civic Club stuff and have not time to even contemplate my trip, let alone the spectacular meals. So just a teaser.
The "special" dinner my son arranged was at The Richmond Restaurant on Balboa St. It is owned & run by the chef & his wife. It has 6 (only six) tables. Once you have a reservation at one of the tables, you have it for the entire night. They don't turn the tables. All tables are surrounded by curtains/drapes to ensure complete privacy - but I expect the 'two top' to our West was a bit pissed. We were undoubtedly loud and maybe even boisterous. You can choose a 3 course or 5 course dinner. Each of those can include wine pairings. The three course meal was $50 and the wine pairings was another $40 - but we all wanted different wines so we branched off into the wild and likely spent more on our wines. Dinner courses to follow tomorrow but the Tawny Port with desert was delicious - and all four deserts were to die for.
The rest of the meals were mostly fish. Linguine with shrimp & scallops in Monterey. Boston clam chowder at Boudin's on SF Wharf. Dungeness Crab cup on the wharf (wasn't really Dungeness). The best Alaskan halibut I've ever eaten at the Cliff House in SF. Wild caught salmon with spinach & shrimp cream sauce at Brophy Bros. on the wharf in Santa Barbara. (thank you Special K) Northern Scottish scones at the Tuck Box in Carmel with Olallieberry jam and orange marmalade. Not to mention the Olallieberry pie and cheesecake. After this magnificence, the chicken w/creamed mushroom sauce at the wedding was boring - even though it came with asparagus.
More details about the 3 course meal later. At least I have the menus from that restaurant so I won't forget.
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Here's the appetizer menu
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