So...whats for dinner?
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Eric - can't remember what storage size you wanted for flour, but I got a King Arthur catalog and it had this 25 lb bucket. https://shop.kingarthurflour.com/items/flour-bucke...
Not sure why I got this catalog but it has such delicious sounding mixes, not to mention spices & flour. Another thought would be the large hard plastic lard buckets which bakeries used to sell.
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The sweet potatoes were slightly shriveled but they turned out to be good when baked, wrapped in foil. The pork tenderloin was a tad overcooked but still moist and delicious. There is enough left over for a sandwich.
Not sure about the dinner menu for tonight but maybe a casserole with cabbage, carrots and potato and a meat. The last one was very good.
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Minus- that flour bucket looks great an they say it isn't difficult to open. Maybe that will work for Eric....I am lucky to have a 1 lb bag of flour in the pantry when flour is needed in a recipe.
Supper tonight is "taco chili" nachos with all of the trimmings. It is cold and cloudy and this just seemed a good choice for supper- with leftovers for the weekend. Put 2 quarts in the freezer. Yay, me!!
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Minus, I can vouch for the King Arthur goods, including mixes. Have used them for many years with success--both regular and gluten free (family sensitivities).
Dinner tonight looks like burgers with cheese and fresh tomato, some kind of potatoes and a salad. It is just the two of us tonight.
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I own several dough buckets (love them) and while I love KAF products, the buckets and storage containers can be found much cheaper on Amazon or restaurant supply stores.
My neighbor just gave birth to her 4th child yesterday and is home from the hospital today, so I fixed and delivered dinner to them - chicken enchiladas, tomalito and Spanish rice, along with carrot cupcakes for dessert. We will have the same for ourselves.
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Thanks for the flour storage possibilities. I have two stores I'm going to check tomorrow and if they don't have something suitable, I'll get one from KAF.
A couple of weeks ago, I ground up a head of cabbage and started the fermentation process to make sauerkraut. I tasted it today and decided it was sour (very, very tart) enough, so I put it into a mason jar and put it in the refrigerator.
Supposedly refrigerated sauerkraut will last several months, so we should be able to eat it all before it goes "bad".
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The cabbage, carrot and potato casserole with Italian sausage was quite good. Side was a tossed salad.
Nance, you're a kind neighbor.
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Last night's dinner was a "country" dinner. We had fresh shelled red beans and mustard greens, both seasoned with pickled pork. The beans were spooned over jasmine brown rice that cooked perfectly. Such a meal called for corn bread. I sprinkled Louisiana hot sauce on my bowl of beans and rice and pepper vinegar on my greens. Butter on the cornbread.
This afternoon we are going to an annual Christmas concert and afterwards to dinner at Sal & Judy's restaurant in the small town of Lacombe. I am looking forward to both.
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Hooray - I finished wrapping & packaging almost everything last night. I know it sounds early to many of you, but I have never lived in the same town or state with any relatives so most things have to be shipped. My plan is to be at UPS when they open tomorrow before I head for my 2nd cataract surgery.
Since I have post-op Tuesday morning & can't drive before then, I will be spending the night in a medical center hotel with a shuttle bus. This has worked well before. I check in early Monday am, park my car, leave my bag & walk or take the bus to the hospital. My ex-DH will pick me up after surgery (since they won't let you leave alone, even in a taxi), take me to eat & drop me back at the hotel.
Carole - I'm with you. Dragging out a ton of decorations this year is more than I can imagine. I've set out a delicate 5" carved wooden tree and a Christmas candle. If there's free time after writing cards & letters, I'd rather bake anyway.
I too am going to a choral concert this afternoon with a friend. Then to a restaurant new to our area - Common Bond Cafe. The menu on line is eclectic but I know I'll have to try the pastries.
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We're just getting our tree put up and since it has been raining, I haven't started on the Christmas lights around the house. Fortunately I can do that in about an hour. I put up cup hooks on the fascia of the house and I can use a long pole with a hook to hang and remove the lights...so I can do this without having to use the ladder.
As they say, in your pocket for your cataract surgery, Minus.
Lupper was a thickened with corn starch carrot, (ground) cashew and ginger soup, with sourdough bread. DD was here and is still kind of "fried" from working 3/4 time all through final exams, so I made her a 5 pound batch of garlic mashed potatoes. For the "make it creamy" stuff, I used a cup of full fat coconut milk, a cup of regular almond milk and 9 cloves of garlic...simmered while the potatoes were being boiled.
Auntie, the meal you made was, I'm sure, much appreciated. I remember how busy we were the first night DD was home from the hospital birthing center.
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Dinner at Sal & Judy's was very good but, as always, the portions served were ridiculously large. I ordered an eggplant special that featured fried eggplant slices covered with a tomato basil sauce and lump crab meat. The serving covered a dinner plate. The side was a small platter of pasta, enough for two to three people. I chose the olive oil and garlic sauce instead of the tomato sauce. The take home food will be plenty enough for tomorrow night's dinner for the two of us. I may sautee some colored pepper slices to add to the pasta.
DH ordered the oyster and spaghetti entree and he ate most of his. We both had the oyster and artichoke soup. The meals came with a green salad with Sal's delicious creamy caesar dressing. Simple and so tasty.
Minus, best of luck with the final eye surgery. I'm always impressed with your friendship with your ex.
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Thanks everyone for the good wishes.
As for ex-DH, we were married 20 years and always great at working together - in the office and out. Mostly better friends than lovers. Anyway, we both decided to keep it that way going forward for our son if nothing else. It's been hard for his "now" wife to grasp - especially since her old HS friends told her it was a no-no & a horrible mistake to allow him to ever see me. Although now they have been married 25 years & she actually told me last year that she's glad I am his friend.
Dinner was a french dip at a new restaurant. In addition to excellent beef on a great sourdough roll, it had sauteed mushrooms, grilled onions & melted Gruyere cheese. Maybe not traditional but delicious. They bake on site and oh my, the pastries. I brought home a Black Forest Cheesecake since they said that was the "lightest" desert. My friend got some chocolate, raspberry concoction. Or maybe she got the dark chocolate, turtle cake.
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Best of luck with your surgery Minus, it's good to have that second one done I know.
My neighbors were most appreciative of the meal. It was a hectic day for them and it was good not to have to worry about that.
Tonight was mini meatloaves, mashed potatoes and green beans.
We did our minimal Christmas decorating today - about an hour start to finish. About the same amount of time to take down. So much less stressful.
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Minus, check in when you can.
I still remember, as if it were today, the day we came home with DD. Hectic, pretty well describes it.
Sharon and I had our physicals. Unless the blood work uncovers something unexpected, we're both in good shape for the shape we're in. :-)
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Eric, it seems that you and Sharon are enjoying life after retirement. Good for you! It's nice that you both are relatively young.
Our Leftovers Dinner tonight was delicious. DH sautéed strips of yellow bell pepper and added the spaghetti flavored with olive oil and garlic from Sal & Judy's. I thawed and heated crab cakes from the freezer and also microwaved the eggplant with lump crab I brought home from last night's restaurant dinner. I mixed up a quick remoulade sauce to go with the crab cakes.
The preparation took no more than 30 minutes and we both enjoyed the meal.
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Chili tonight, will probably be better tomorrow as the cold front is due to move in over night tonight and it always improves with reheating.
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minus - hope you are doing well - this is the second eye?
Spent last week in Savannah and had a couple of special meals - we did bagels and coffee at the Airbnb, but had a nice dinner at the Olde Pink House, appetizer of artichoke and goat cheese fritters in a red pepper sauce, their signature BLT salad - with candied bacon and fried green tomatoes with buttermilk dressing, and my friend had fried chicken and mac n cheese, while I chose a sweet potato and Vidalia onion ravioli in a creamy mushroom and pecan sauce. We also had lunch at Starland Café and shared pimento cheese with ciabatta toasts, and each had a half size "Kitchen Sink" salad which had lettuces, artichoke hearts, asparagus, tomatoes, red grapes, red onion, golden raisins, dates, crispy fried rice noodles, and a buttermilk dressing. Delish, but they didn't give it that name for nothing. We also had Cheerwine - we have both enjoyed a series of books by Susan Boyer, set in the low country of SC, featuring a female private investigator who drinks Cheerwine, so since we were nearby we had some! I liked it - kind of similar to Dr. Pepper.
Yesterday's main meal was at the Bucs/Colts game - I was good and had a salad. Tonight DH had a tuna sammy, DD and I had bowl dinners - chickpeas, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, artichoke hearts, beets, kalamata olives, red pepper, feta, red onion, and Greek dressing.
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Love Savannah and the Olde Pink House!
Last night was turkey pot pie using the very last of the turkey from the freezer. Well I shouldn't say that, the carcass is also in the freezer and will no doubt be used at some future date.
Today is a Costco run so dinner will be something acquired from there.
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Special- love Savannah. That Pink House meal sounded delish. Gotta' love a god "kitchen sink" salad.
Minus- hope post op goes well and you heal well! So nice to hear of ex's that are friends. Don't think it happens very often even when both intend for it to be that way. Hats of to you both!
Eric- my mouth literally watered reading about the homemade kraut. Love it but am afraid to make it myself. Chef son says to go for it but just haven't trusted myself. Of course, your bread sounds great too. Bet your DD really appreciated the food you made- working and going to school is hard!
Carole- sounds like you and your DH were eating well- all that crab. My DH would LOVE that.
Nance- what a good neighbor/friend you were to take the first night home supper. People don't seem to do that as much anymore but it is usually so appreciated. Made me think of the first day (weeks) after bringing our babies home years ago.
It does take a village!It has been chilly and breezy here for over a week so I have made white chicken chili and taco soup for us to eat and to put in freezer. Today is much milder- so we are grilling some rib-eyes with roasted broccoli and baked potatoes, I think. Last night, no one was here for supper so I had yogurt.
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Hi, all--sorry for being M.I.A. so long, but lots going on around here: medical/dental appts., home repair suupervision, Bar Show rehearsals & performances, London trip (and having to deal with various account hackings), cat health crisis (temporary) and now this nasty adenovirus that's stolen most of my voice (which held out just long enough to do the show, and do it well if I must say so). Had to cancel an upcoming slot in a songwriter showcase coming up Thurs.--need to be on vocal rest to make sure my voice is back in action for the live radio spot my WI singing partner & I (Andina & Rich) are doing a week from tonight: WDCB "Holiday Hoot," 12/17, 8-11pm CST. 90.9FM in Chicago/northeast IL, www.wdcb.org worldwide. We're on mid-show--9:51-10pm, precisely, plus the group finale at 10:45pm.
On the dinner front, highlights were: Tues. 11/26, Rovi--Yotam Ottolenghi's newest restaurant, which is Israeli-centric. Grilling is the modus operandi--both meat/fish and vegan. Highlights were spicy curry mussels, wild pheasant (with the menu warning us to look out for buckshot), celeriac "sliders" and Jerusalem mixed grill of chicken thighs/hearts/livers with wild onions.
Wed. 11/27--"nose to tail" cooking at St. John (my fave in London). Had their signature bone marrow-parsley salad on house-baked pan de mie crostini (yeah, I ate the toast); pan-fried sprats (somewhere between smelts & herring) with garlic aioli; gently steamed mâche greens, and roast guinea fowl with pottted sweet&sour cabbage, beetroot and mini prunes (I let Bob polish off the mashed potatoes). Too stuffed to even consider dessert.
Thurs. 11/28--a turkey-free Thanksgiving. (We had advance T-Day dinner in the British Airways lounge at O'Hare waiting for our delayed flight on Mon. 11/25). After touring St. Paul's Cathedral (which neither of us had ever visited), we had "dunch" at Artigiano, a little cafe/wine bar/tapas bar next door. The tapas menu was limited but very good: pickled olives, jamòn Serrano skewers (the skewers were balsamic-drizzled breadsticks, which I gave Bob), grilled prawns with chorizo on arugula, and lamb albondigas (mini-meatballs, without filler, in tomato confit). After we saw Sir Ian McKellen's fantastic (and very funny) one-man show (sipping Veuve Clicquot out of actual glass flutes at our seats, unlike the domestic swill in plastic airline tumblers in Chicago theaters), the only place still open was another tapas bar, Andalucia, a few doors down, with the kitchen open for another half-hour. We knew it'd be good because all the other patrons were speaking Spanish. Huge spinach salad with tomatoes, mushrooms, red onion & avocado; jamòn Iberico (huge portion about 1/3 its Chicago and even 1/2 its Seville price), and grilled baby octopus on patatas bravas. (Bob got the spuds again).
Fri. 11/29 we tossed a coin and chose to see Parliament/Westminster Abbey instead of the Tate Modern. Got off the Tube at Parliament Sq., only to find ourselves in the midst of a huge anti-Tory, anti-Brexit, pro-environment demonstration that sorta made us nostalgic for our Sixties university days. So obviously, seeing the houses of Parliament was out. We snaked our way around its perimeter and got to the entrance to Westminster Abbey. We used the multimedia guide devices (included in the admission ticket) for a fascinating and thorough tour at our own pace--much more intensive than the scant half-hour we spent there on a city tour back in 1991. As we made our way back to the train, I got a panicked text from my cousin up in Westchester County, NY, asking if we were okay because she'd heard of a major incident in the area. I texted back that we were fine, it was just a demonstration and nobody got hurt or even busted. Got off the Tube and had a late lunch at Grand Cafe of champagne and a prawn/crayfish "cocktail" that was actually a full-blown and yummy seafood salad on gem lettuces. Pulled out my phone, brought up my BBC app, and was aghast to learn of the London Bridge terrorist stabbing attack. Had we chosen to visit the Tate instead, we'd have been on a city bus crossing that bridge at the exact time of the attack!
So our final dinner in London was a tasting menu, with wine pairings (less expensive than its Stateside counterparts) at Galvin, the restaurant in the Athenaeum Hotel (where we were staying). We had full breakfast there every morning, and they'd gone the extra mile to indulge my low-carb idiosyncrasies, subbing out various veggies for the breadstuffs in my eggs Benedict & Royale and making my cappuccinos with cream rather than milk. But it was a different restaurant at night: soft music, candelight, etc. The menu was fantastic: four-color beetroot salad, mousselines of pike & salmon, pan-seared Channel bass on salsify puree, seared duck breast and grass-fed rack of lamb. Dessert was bittersweet yet milk-chocolate mousse with hazelnut gelato. Very generous & thoughtfully-chosen wine pours, too--it was a joy geeking out with the sommelier. Yes, I cheated. YOLO, after all. Did cheat slightly on the flight home too.
Gained 2 lbs despite getting 10K steps a day, but lost it back once I got home, resumed choreography rehearsals, and no longer had to share a bathroom (TMI). This past Fri. night, after the second of three Bar Show performances, we hosted a table for 12 at Mercat a la Planxa tapas restaurant in the hotel next door to the theater. I tried to stay as low-carb as I could, but had a couple of slip-ups. Alas, no longer any morçilla (blood sausage) on the menu, to Bob's consternation. Frisee/orange/lardon/almond salad (avoided the croutons); bacon-wrapped dates (dates have iron & fiber, that's my story & I'm sticking with it); jamòn Serrano; patatas bravas (took a pass); tomato-topped sourdough bruschetta (gnawed off the tomatoes, but also ate the crust of a piece of bread which was too good to pass up); and paella mixta (clams, mussels, chicken, shrimp, pork & rabbit). Did a pretty good job of eating the proteins & veggies and shaking off most of the rice. (Leftovers went home with guests and for Gordy, who gallantly gave up his show ticket to babysit our sick kitty Heidi; his GF Leslie was home with their puppy who just got spayed). Desserts came: cinnamon gelato and flan. Yeah, I was weak.
Heidi has recovered (she was likely just constipated). But I got sick on the way home from the cast after-party following Sat.'s closing performance--felt that sore throat come on suddenly as I drove up Lake Shore Drive. Caused me to have to blow off my bariatric clinic weigh-in yesterday (NP says adenovirus is going around like wildfire, and gave me permission to put honey in my tea till my voice comes back). Took away most of my appetite Sun. & yesterday too. Mostly nibbling, drinking bone broth & chicken broth. Bob brought home some very mediocre quasi-Chinese food from around the corner ("pan-Asian" restaurant that either underseasons everything or drowns it in sweet brown glop that I suspect is bottled teriyaki sauce; also uses only American veggies despite a plethora of Asian groceries in the area, and not only grossly undercooks them but leaves them in pieces way too big to eat with chopsticks) and I had some--after rinsing it off in a colander, dosing it with five-spice, ginger juice, shoyu, garlic & sesame oil, and having to use a sharpened steak knife to cut each broccoli chunk into quarters.
(Minus, I was drooling reading your description of your real Chinese meal. We have Cantonese, Taiwanese, Hunan and a few generic Mandarin places here--besides all the wonderful Vietnamese phô & pastry joints--in nearby "Asia on Argyle," formerly known as Chinatown North; but I've yet to find a real Szechuan restaurant of the caliber I've had in NYC or the NoVA suburbs of DC. Oh, for that tingly spicy/numbing peppercorn sensation...my kingdom for a soup dumpling).
Have defrosted both a Bristol Bay (AK) sockeye filet and a grass-fed strip loin from Butcher Box. The salmon's been in the fridge longer, so I'll sear it tonight (not thick enough to need to be sous-vided first) and have it with the last of a packet of snap peas in the crisper. Maybe cauliflower rice, too but I doubt I'll be that hungry. It's all I can do to choke down all the water I'm supposed to.
There--think I've caught up.
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Sandy - I gained 10 lbs just reading about all your food. Oh my.
2nd eye cataract surgery was definitely an A+ experience. And it looks like the 1st eye is trying to catch up and still getting better & better. I drove home today w/no correction. Amazing. I can see the computer w/o correction. I looked up phone numbers in my address book w/no correction. I know I will have a small distance correction but it looks like I can use 2.0 cheaters for reading "real" books. I was reading last night after getting out of surgery at 4pm. Hooray.
Dinner last night was at the Black Lab - traditional English Pub fare. Ex-DH had Fish & Chips. (they also have Bangers & Mash and Bubble & Squeak, Ploughman's Lunch, etc). I had Crepes Elise - thin crepes stuffed with tender chunks of chicken & fresh broccoli covered with a delicious cream sauce, served with wild rice.
Special - sounds like you had a great time. Food sounds delicious & I love the name "kitchen sink" salad. I agree with Hammer about all the crab in Carole's meals - crab is always good.
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I chose distance rather than near-vision correction---from 20/40 beforehand to 20/20 after. The lenses could correct only some of my astigmatism, and Medicare would pay only for single-vision lens implants. Though I can afford multifocals, I heard that some patients get halos & flares with them; and close-up correction doesn't arrest the progress of presbyopia, the real reason we need readers as we age. It has nothing to do with the lenses in the eyes, but rather that the muscles in the iris that focus the lenses stiffen as we get older, and surgery can't correct that. Because of my residual astigmatism cheap "drugstore" readers aren't an option (grids still look like distorted parallelograms), so I opted for progressive-lens glasses. (Though I am now "DMV-legal"* sans glasses I look better with frames anyway, as they're part of my "image" and hide the undereye bags better than concealer). My glasses have a +2.50 reading correction, with a slight correction of distance to 20/15 (makes night driving much easier). Still need progressives for sunglasses, to be able to read outdoors and clearly see the gauges & nav screen in the dash; and computer progressives for using the computer. (My prescription readers are too strong for middle-distance, and with my regular progressives I find myself squinting or closing one eye--will mention that to my ophthalmologist next time I get refracted).
*Just looked at my driver's license--yikes! Has it really been four years since I last renewed it? Oy vey.
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Minus, I'm glad to hear your good news.
When I'm not wearing glasses, I can just make out the "E" at 8 feet. If my glasses get moved by Sharon or DD I usually need some help to find them. Every couple of years I stop at the ophthalmologist and each time they say I'm not a good candidate for the eye surgery...even if I would be happy with 20/40 or 20/60 vision....so I just wear glasses.
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Welcome home Sandy. Your trip sounded wonderful! Sorry you've gotten sick- hope your voice returns quickly with no other issues!
Eric- same here...I've just given up thinking the surgery will be for me. Glasses it is!
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Minus, good (but not surprising) news on the success of your eye surgery. My cataract surgery 20 years ago was miraculous. I was in my 50's at the time.
Sandy, your trip was an ongoing feast. A gain of only 2 lbs was quite a weight maintenance victory!
Our dinner last night was prepared quickly and tasted good. Lamb patties cooked on the stove top in a cast iron grill pan. Creamed spinach made with frozen chopped spinach, Greek cream cheese and small amount of butter. Our own version of kitchen sink tossed salad with our favorite ingredients.
Today is the women's golf group's Christmas luncheon, which is seldom a culinary delight. No dinner menu has materialized yet.
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Just catching up after a few crazy busy weeks...
Carole, I love that your DH makes tree ornaments. Would be so cool to see them, if he is comfortable with them being posted. Envying all your crab meals!
We are in a less than energetic holiday mood this year, mainly still feeling tired after dealing with DH’s hip replacement recovery and resulting medical complications. Fortunately, the anemia is improving and he is gradually getting back to some normal activities. But dealing with accumulating snow has been a challenge for us both, despite contracting with a landscaper to clear the driveway and walks. DH decided to sell his trusty old snowblower knowing we planned to contract out this work, but we’re thinking he may invest in a new one once he feels a bit stronger. Meanwhile, I’ve been out shoveling piles of snow that the contractors “didn't notice” blocked parts of the public walkway, which hundreds of kids use on their way to school. Sadly, my back has been screaming since then, and while I was thrilled at our 59 degree day with showers yesterday, melting almost all of the snow, today we are back to looking like a frozen tundra, with new inches of the wet messy stuff that I guess many of you have already had.
Last week I did lots of food and house prep in anticipation of DS1 and family visiting. They arrived on Friday night, joining us at the Celtics game, then stayed until mid-day Sunday. These grands are really lively, so our house was abuzz! DS2 brought their baby cousin over Saturday, and she was struggling with double ear infections, so we all spent lots of time trying to soothe her, poor dear.
Some foods we had for the vegans were butternut squash soup, wheat pasta salad with black beans and lots of veggies, spinach salad, rosemary bread, and vegan oatmeal cookies with added cherries and walnuts. For dinner we ordered vegan sushi items (and I had teriyaki chicken), and (some vegan) cupcakes for dessert to celebrate DGS’s 9th birthday, which is today! Baby DGD2 enjoyed her first experience having prunes! I wonder why baby food jars are so much smaller than years ago? Maybe the dangers of using leftover portions?
Monday night we had dinner at a new restaurant, Banners, in the TD Garden complex on the way to the game. It’s a huge trendy and popular sports bar with good food, (I had salmon with roasted broccolini) but we decided we’re just as happy with our salmon with veggies order at The (dated) Harp, where we will go tomorrow night before the game. We don’t need “new and grand” with 30+ monster TV screens, and blaring techno music to enjoy our pre-game dinner!
Christmas will be low-key here. We lamented that we didn’t have one of those ceramic trees to use in place of a bought tree. But luckily, when DS2 was here, he ventured up the attic ladder and found a silver tree that DS1 and DDIL1 had stored here years ago (they had used it in their NYC apt when first married). Well, DGD1 was delighted to have a tree to decorate, and did so before they left! Yay! So we have a fake silver tree trimmed in 7 year old decor. Perfect enough!
My focus now is to get some baking done if my back holds up. Today, getting pizzelle dough made, so the cookies will be ready for Sat night when we attend a party to which I always bring a platter of pizzelles.
Dinner will be a Greek style chicken with orzo take out meal from Trader’s and a spinach salad I’ll make.
Minus, yay for good outcome with your cataract surgeries!
Chi and Special, your food adventures sounded great!
Better get back to dough making....
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Lacey - so glad to hear from you and glad DH is healing well. Sounds like you had fun with the kiddos. Every year I want to fly back there to get some of your pizzeles.
Dunch yesterday was an egg salad sandwich I picked up on the way home from the med center. The side was Dot's Pretzels and the last of the corn candy from Halloween. A friend told me Dot's are now available at select Kroger's.
Dinner tonight will be a leftover 1/2 of baked potato. I'm considering a salad, but it's cold outside and cold salad doesn't sound good.
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Lacey- glad your DH is getting better! Never had Pizzelles but sound so good. It's great you can make the dough ahead of time.
My DH made supper last night and it was so good! He roasted a whole chicken and made basmati rice and crowder peas. I added a tossed salad. He picked the chicken that was left and I will make chicken noodle soup with it. Our weather is really chilly for the South right now so soup will be perfect for the weekend! Tonight will be beef stroganoff- a request from DH and DS. Haven't made it in awhile so we shall see how it goes.
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I sous-vided and then cast-iron-seared a grass-fed strip loin steak and sauteed broccolini in olive oil, sea salt, red pepper flakes and Penzey's "Sunny Paris" seasoning. I seasoned the steak with salt, pepper and herbes de Provence before putting it into the bag. It was neat to cut into the steak and have it be uniformly red all the way to the crust, with no gray. It was a half-pounder, so I only sliced and ate half. Was going to use the other half for steak & eggs today but I didn't feel like anything that heavy for brunch.
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So tonight I missed the songwriter showcase because of my laryngitis. Bob got home early. We could have gone to Cellars for its "20 for 20" holiday wine tasting (including Champagne with turkey and prime rib at the carving station), but this bug has me so wiped out I didn't have the energy to walk there, much less stand around a crowded noisy room for >2 hrs. (No way would I drive to these things, not even if I could find nearby parking). So Bob noted that since today is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadelupe, Mexican food from Mas Alla del Sol would be appropriate. He had chicken Mole, and brought me home a nopales/jicama/avocado salad, ceviche (tomato, cod & shrimp) and a bag of fresh tortilla chips. (Two out of three ain't bad, though that bag is tempting me). The salad & ceviche was just spicy enough, with no starch or sugar. Yesterday a patient gave him a dozen kolačky (asst. fruits plus cheese). I remembered the old adage that 80% of taste is smell--everything is tasteless with a stuffy nose, and my nose was the first thing to recover from this virus--so I opened the bag of chips and the box of pastries and took a good deep sniff of both. Strangely satisfying.
With trepidation, I stepped on the scale today for the first time in over a week. 162.5 fully clad. Whew! Lost the weight I gained in London and then some. Hope to shed that pesky 1/2 lb. by Monday's official weigh-in. Wearing size 12/14 now (10-12 in pants), started as 18/20 or 2X. If I get to 161 that'll make 50 lbs. down! I'm beginning to think 150 might not be out of the question as a goal.
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