So...whats for dinner?
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We also had an uninspiring meal tonight...sandwich shop..... We didn't want to spend time cooking tonight because Sharon and I are helping with a 1/2 marathon, 10K, 5K and 1 mile run tomorrow. We need to leave the house around 4am.....
Bread baking has never been a problem for me....Things turned out just fine the first time I ever tried baking.
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I baked my own bread in college, mainly because it was cheaper, but I enjoyed the process too. I later became more of a quick bread baker, but should go back to yeast bread baking - I have the time and I think it would be fun to try different recipes.
Tonight was Greek salads for DD and I. DH ate a big sandwich with roasted potato salad late this afternoon while football watching, so he skipped dinner.
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i make bread once in a blue moon Minus. My mother was a master (made amazing cheese bread and did teach me the basics and how to knead well). I still have a wonderful oatmeal bread recipe from college if you can believe it. Lived the hippie life - overalls wearing, bread making, guitar strumming kids. Carefree days at a rural college. From the backward look, bliss ❤
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I love bread: artisanal breads, baguetttes, homemade bread, croissants, challah, sourdough English muffins, even crumpets. But on this very low-carb, near-keto diet it's pretty much a no-no. There's a local Kosher bakery that makes a whole-multi-grain high-fiber bread that's 4 net gm. carb per full slice (cut it in half and you get a regular-size sandwich) from the round "boule" and a smaller (conventional shape) 100% whole wheat loaf that's 2 net gm. per slice. Otherwise, at a special occasion dinner with great bread service, I'll try a piece of crust--my favorite part of the bread. I have a friend who's on low-carb maintenance after weight loss and when she encounters a bread, pasta or risotto at a restaurant, asks herself if it's "carb-worthy."
Tonight I pan-seared Copper River sockeye salmon filets and sauteed julienned peppers, summer squashes, and carrots. Bob got brown & wild rice, I had cauliflower fried "rice" I made with ginger & garlic oil, deconstructed snap peas and sliced scallions. Finished it with a dash each of five-spice powder, coconut aminos, and toasted sesame oil.
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Mickey was a microbiology major in college and the sourdough starter intrigued her. She did a lot of class work with the starter and we would bake with the results. It was a lot of fun.
That was..nearly 40 years ago.....
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Eric....yes, you are one of our comfortable, competent bread bakers. I think your patience is really helpful in that effort. I don’t have enough patience to be a serious bread baker, but have a recipe for “faux french bread” that does not take as long with a need for multiple rising, (just one) and bakes up nicely. That will be it for me in terms of anything but “quick breads”.
Minus, thank you for saving me for making an easy dinner with all the chicken I have waiting to be cooked! Of course Laurie’s salsa chicken fits the bill! And if any of our new table members need the recipe, look up the first page or so of this thread, where Laurie posted it for all to see!
DH’s new hip is “installed” and he’s doing pretty well. He stayed at the hospital for an extra day until his low blood pressure rose to acceptable levels, for which I am thankful since I would not want him passing out at home. He came home this afternoon, and things have been busy. Sort of “man cold” mode on steroids, with the addition of long appliances gracing every part of the two rooms DH is inhabiting so far. It will be great if I manage not to break a hip on all of the walking helps that extend onto every pathway I need to use to tend to him. Yet the really good part is that for all of the constant tasks needing to be done, while I fight this nasty upper respiratory infection, this hip surgery recovery does not include also constantly shoveling our entire property out from the major snow storms of 2015, which I did, solo. I was in peak shape then but now I’m thrilled that my knees even held up for the 15 trips upstairs,and down to the basement tonight. So....all goes well, and I am happy to have easy recipes for this week.
Carole, I wish we still had that wonderful stretching class!!! Since that particular trainer left our fitness center, the class has morphed into more and more rigorous sessions that I had to leave since my shoulder tear problem and lower back issues returned with a vengeance. I wish I could find a Silver Sneakers program near us.
Tonight, for dinner, I drove to our neighbors’ church bizarre, where I picked up a lamb lollipop dinner with rice, spiced green beans and salad for DH, (he needs some red meat after his surgery) and I ordered a Greek salad with grilled chicken for myself. When I opened it, the grilled chicken was absent, and I was just not energetic enough to get back in the car to sort out the mistake. Mercury is clearly retrograde. At least Mercury Retrograde did not impact DH’s surgery! So far, all is well....and anything not is time limited! 😉
It is very late, and I just realized that we get an extra hour to sleep tonight. Yay...I need it!
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My bread recipe came out to two loaves of plain old white bread. Hubby went nuts over it.
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I enjoy bread making/baking but abstain because of the evil scale. DH make me a beautiful bread board for kneading when I was in my phase of artisan bread making. Nothing smells better than bread baking in the oven. Nothing tastes better than a slice of the freshly baked bread with butter. Drool....
Lacey, glad your dh's surgery went well. Hope his recovery goes smoothly, too, and that you avoid injuring yourself as you negotiate the recovery aids.
Dinner last night was bowls of gumbo and brown rice heated in the microwave. The gumbo was better than the night before. Gumbo seems to get better and better until it's gone.
We are going to the home of a former co-worker of dh's this afternoon, in Ocean Springs, MS. He and his wife have open house every year when the Anderson Art Fair is held in Ocean Springs. Dinner will be whatever this couple has prepared, usually an array of foods. We may stop at the Beau Rivage casino on our way home.
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Back in my hippie vegetarian days I went so far as to grind my own wheat berries for bread making - a weekly event. These days my bread baking is more of a varietal nature - bagels, bialys, welsh cakes, cinnamon breads, baguettes, my beloved harvest bread (which I'll be making soon.) I frolicked with a sourdough starter for a few years but DH doesn't love sourdough and I lagged in the commitment of keeping the starter alive and baking bread every week (I couldn't stand throwing any of the starter away when feeding it.) Arthritic hands affect how much I can knead so I rely on the stand mixer which kneads like a champ.
Speaking of bread, last night was calzones from a newly opened restaurant that serves nothing but. I was underwhelmed and won't be ordering from there again. They're easy enough to make myself and far more tasty.
I'm thinking something Chinese tonight - fried rice and a beefy green pepper main because that's what I have on hand.
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Carole - say hello to the Beau for me. We're missing our annual visit.
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I too, love bread making but rarely do so anymore because we eat it! Am looking to see if I can find a bread recipe that has no gluten, yeast or dairy as I have house guests coming who have recently been told to abstain from all three.
Lacey, know oh so well what you and your DH are going through as a few years ago my DH had, first, back surgery (recovery PT was to walk so a walker as the first apparatus) and, second, several months later a hip replacement with the additional apparatus needed to avoid going over that dreaded 90 degree bend. Fortunately he healed well from both and was very dedicated to doing the prescribed PT.
Carole, I always think the very last bowl of chili tastes the best, too.
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Tonight is a clean out the fridge night. Toasted two pieces of my homemade bread and put apple butter on it for breakfast!
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Not eating much today. The effects of iron supplement pills were piling up, so I had a fi-fiber dinner (following the weight clinic's advice for my plate to be 1/3 ea. protein & healthy fat and 2/3 non-starchy veggies), followed by some gentle (so I thought) "countermeasures." Results? TMI. All I had today was a poached egg on low-carb toast with black coffee and enough water to take my daily meds. I know I should be drinking water constantly to re-hydrate, but it only bloats me and then...
Think dinner (which I don't really feel like eating yet) will be either plain bone broth or maybe some "faux phô" using flavored bone broth, shirataki noodles and basil.
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Today's our 57th anniversary. Opened a bottle of bubbly for dinner and had chicken nuggets with hot mustard and ranch dressing dipping sauces along with carrots and sweet tomatoes and cheese. Obviously, I still need to go to the grocery store! We did have a good lunch at our favorite local Tex-Mex restaurant.
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Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
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Mazel tov!!!
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Wow 57! Happy anniversary!
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So glad to see all the bread discussion. I too used to make bread often, but with the neuropathy in my hands (thank you chemo) I just can't knead anymore. And as most of us agreed - the problem with making bread it is smells & tastes soooooo good, that we eat it. My hips don't need it. But I do need to dig out my Mom's stone ground whole wheat bread that require kneading. Wonder how it would freeze? We always ate it so fast there was no chance to find out.
Off to have my first cataract surgery in the morning. Because I have to go back the next morning for post opp, I'll drive myself & be spending the night at the Wyndham in the medical center. Of course they won't let you leave alone after surgery (even in a taxi) so my ex-DH will pick me up at the surgery center, take me to lunch & then drop me at the hotel. I'll check back Tuesday night or Wednesday.
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We arrive at Larry's (former co-worker) home in Ocean Springs yesterday and were met with a surprised expression on Larry's face. "Guys, it was yesterday," he said. We were one day late for the open house, all the food was gone, either eaten or taken home with the family member guests. And wife Rosemary was in bed, exhausted from the open house and the cleanup. Larry was on his way to do a plumbing job for a friend who wasn't well.
We visited for 30 minutes or so and fended off their apologies for our error. The open house had always been on Sunday and dh doesn't remember Larry mentioning the change when he called to issue the invitation. DH and I drove the short distance back to Biloxi and the Beau Rivage Casino. We had lunch at the Terrace Café, where we met you and your dh some years ago, Nance. Alas, no oysters on the menu thanks to the severe shortage of oysters resulting from flooding and damage to the oyster beds.
I had a shrimp poboy and dh had a hamburger. We gambled a bit in the no smoking section and then headed home. To be honest, we weren't terribly upset over missing the open house.
Not sure about the dinner menu.
Good luck with the cataract surgery, Minus. My results were phenomenal.
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Oh no Carole - I've feared that happening to me. My memory (as well as my friends') is so questionable at times. I hope you had a nice day for the drive anyway.
Minus, good luck with your surgery. It's one of the best things I've ever done. The drops are a hassle but the rest was easy peasy.
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Minus, agree with Nance that the drops are a nuisance but the rest was easy and the better eyesight is wonderful. However a friend of mine said the only drawback to her cataract surgery was that now she could see how many wrinkles she had!
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Beaverntx, I know! Having worn glasses for most of my adult life, I was dismayed at the horrible bags under my eyes once I could see them!
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I've become obsessed with writing down important dates--digitally, of course. I keep a calendar on my computer--which automatically syncs to my phone, watch & iPad. I get reminder alerts on all three. I'll know something's wrong with my mind if I get an alert and ask "what the heck is this?" or worse, get the alert & still forget. My mom used to panic and think she had Alzheimer's because she couldn't remember where she'd left her keys. I told her she didn't have to worry unless she'd either find them in the freezer or look at them and wonder what they were. (The night before she died she called me for help with an arcane crossword clue...in the NYTimes...which puzzles she did in ink)!
Tonight was cauliflower fried "rice," seared scallops, and a mixed Cantonese stir-fry.
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Made Laurie's salsa chicken tonight, except I used chicken thighs and added frozen corn on top of the beans (DH is convinced I am congentially unable to follow a recipe exactly!). It came out with more liquid than I expected, does that vary with the kind of salsa used?
Obviously, I made it to the grocery store today. Ironically, I bought the chicken thighs to avoid having to thaw the chicken breasts in my freezer. When I opened the package of thighs I discovered they were about 90% frozen. Thank goodness for microwave thawing!
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I once missed a funeral by showing up a week late - I was advised about the sudden and unexpected passing of the son of a friend I met though a cancer writing workshop by another mutual friend. I looked up the service info online and the obit said the service was "next" Saturday. I failed to read the date of the obit as I assumed I had been told of the news in a timely fashion, and showed up at the church and they seemed to be having a craft sale. I thought it was odd to combine those two things - and my face must have showed that, lol! One of the ladies manning a table asked if she could help me, I explained, and she actually knew the family so told me the service had been the previous Saturday. After some time had passed I spoke with the friend - we had a good laugh about it!
minus - good luck with the cataract surgery - everyone I have known who has had it has had great results - including the folks here - and had much improved vision! Hoping for the same for you! I love that your ex-DH is such a good friend to you.
beaver - congrats on the anniversary - what a milestone!
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Lacey, I am wryly smiling at the thought of you running around organizing things in order to care for Bob while fighting off your own respiratory infection. DH has a "man cold" here and of course is completely incapacitated. (Eye roll)
Corn chowder tonight with some Japanese milk bread rolls and possibly a salad.
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auntie - had to look up the Japanese Milk Bread roll thing - I want to try that! I looked at the King Arthur recipe - do you follow that, or another one?
Tonight was roast beef sandwiches on flat bread and jalapeño potato chips, which were zingier (don’t think that’s a word...) than the last bag
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Special - I use the KAF recipe. They're quite tasty
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1st eye surgery done. Thanks for the good wishes. Doc says it went well, but the eye is still some what dilated, so blurry. It's hard to have the original heavy duty progressive lens on one side (which I MUST continue to use to see, let alone read) and clear glass/plastic on the 'revised' eye. I'll end up with 2- 2.5 'cheaters' in order to read or do computer work. Posting now with the 'new' eye closed. One thing very different is the light. I sort of miss the misty, cream & sepia colored view. The 'new' eye sees bright, hot, white light.
Went to an old, classic restaurant by traditional down town with my ex-DH last night after he picked me up from surgery. Think male waiters in white coats, white table cloths, etc. The dress code doesn't prohibit levis, but they do request no shorts or flip-flops. Had the best lobster bisque I've ever tasted. A huge portion served in a delicious bread bowl. He's sort of traditional, so he topped off the soup with salad & steak & potatoes & asparagus. I had Shrimp Damien, a delicious pasta concoction - sort of like Alfredo but much creamier.
Lunch was a breakfast burrito in the medical center with my post-op. I'm still full from last night so supper was Spanish Peanuts and a gin & tonic.
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I forgot that part - the new eye and old eye in the old glasses. Annoying! Fortunately, my surgeries were only two weeks apart so I didn't have to put up with it long. I think I was blurry for two full days. Lobster bisque - yum!
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