So...whats for dinner?
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Haven't posted a lot because I've been buying stuff instead of cooking to keep me on track with Christmas preparations. But good stuff I guess...honey baked ham with sides of stuffing and green bean casserole also from the ham store.
Sandy hope you feel better. That steak sounded delicious as did the Mexican food. I hate missing events due to not feeling well but sometimes it's just unavoidable.
I have a pizzelle maker of my mother's somewhere. One of the posts inspires me to consider making them this year.
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Hoping I get my voice (and stamina) back in time to do Tues. night's WDCB Holiday Hoot broadcast & party (sorry, folks, the party's for the performers & volunteers only). It'll be fun!
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Last night's dinner was provided by the Woodworkers Guild at the annual Christmas dinner for members and spouses at an event place. I was hungry and the food (buffet) tasted good. The sides included a potato casserole, green beans, a pasta casserole and green salad. The mains were baked ham and a roast beef. I skipped dessert which is always bread pudding but I did indulge in a small chocolate pastry. I also took advantage of the open bar!
Wednesday was the ladies golf group's Christmas lunch. The meat was roast pork loin with gravy. Sides were green beans and a scoop of cornbread dressing. Salad was a good wedge salad with extra blue cheese dressing on the table. Dessert was chocolate mousse topped with whipped cream and sliced fresh strawberries. Pre-lunch beverage was champagne with splash of cranberry juice.
I skipped dinner Wednesday night and snacked on peanuts. DH had a sandwich and chips.
Tonight I will be cooking.
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Sandy- sorry about the nasty bug you have had. Hope you are good to go for the event Tuesday. Congrats on the weight loss! It isn't easy but you have really stuck with it.
Carole- your club events for the holidays sound great- and no cooking needed.
Reader- nothing like a honey baked ham!
Well, I was going to make chicken noodle soup from the remains of the roasted chicken but had to wait until today to do it- not enough chicken broth from cooking and no veg stock. headed to pick up my grocery order in a bit and will make the soup then. It has poured rain all night and all day today- forecast to keep raining until sometime tomorrow with highs in low 40's. Soup weather it is!
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I think I've talked about my 1st BFF's son before? She died in 2005 of pancreatic cancer and since he had no other parents, he's sort of my 'other son'. They used to live in HI but retired at age 49 and moved to Panama 6 months ago. He's in town for a couple of days and we had lunch. Of course (like my 'real' son) he wanted TexMex - comfort food from their childhoods. His choice at El Tiempo was beef fajitas. I had an enchilada Suisa with no meat. Both of us enjoyed dos margaritas.
This afternoon I'm going with girl friend who lived next door when he was growing up to take him their Christmas presents so he can carry to Panama. He has a full schedule with friends & we'll just meet him for a quick drink. She and I are considering our options for dinner. Since she's playing hooky from her DH, I think I'll let her choose.
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Last night was chicken fajitas with corn tortillas. We built our own with chicken strips, black beans, home-made guacamole, sour cream, a choice of two jarred salsas, and grated "Mexican" cheese. They were delicious and meal came together quickly.
If I can get to the Winn Dixie today, tonight's dinner will be fish.
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Nearly 60° yesterday and woke up to a half inch of snow this morning. More to come I fear. Ugh!
Last night was French bread pizzas. Tonight will be Senate bean soup with, of course, cornbread.
Today I'll be starting some harvest (fruit and nut) bread for gift giving and for us. The few cookies I'll bake will be done next weekend. In fact I have several cooking projects this weekend. I'm out of marinara and chicken stock, so the pressure cooker will be busy.
DH and I ventured out shopping yesterday for some things for the house (we're painting and redecorating the bedroom). It was crazy out there!
All this talk about tex-mex is giving me cravings.
Sandy, hope you're on the mend soon.
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A girl friend went with me to meet my "other son" and some of his friends - at a sports bar, on a Friday night no less. And the 13th too. Boy am I too old for that scene. At least I got him their Christmas presents before he headed back to Panama. Anyway, after two glasses of wine, the two of us decamped to Sweet Tomatoes. I can't imagine a more extreme juxtaposition. Guess I was tired after this week's excitement. I slept for more than 10 hours.
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Hmmm, now I am craving Tex-Mex as well!
Nance- what kind of cookies will you be making?
My DH usually makes the saltine cracker based candy for our neighbor gifts. We also usually can pepper jelly with both red and green pepper dice for the same reason. Something for now, something for later. We will be working on that this weekend and probably next weekend as well. He is also making stained glass Christmas tree ornaments for family this year.
Picking up my 81 year old mom to go look at Christmas lights and decorations tonight. She loves it! Our city is just beautiful as we have nationally recognized "Christmasville" here every year and people come from all over for it. That festival was last weekend but we then get to enjoy the decorations for the rest of the season. It might be worth looking up if you haven't heard about it.
Who knows what the elves will have for supper tonight.
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Baking cookies today for Christmas giving. So far have a 10 lb fruitcake soaking in sherry, my mother's filled cookie recipe, a recipe with bisquick and chocolate fudge and chewy cranberry oat drop cookies. On the list to do are date lebkuchen (from an old Fanny Farmer cookbook), lemon sandwich cookies, anise rounds, Bon bon cookies filled with either a candied cherry or chocolate kiss and dipped in icing and a marmalade spice cookie with fruitcake fruit (if it comes in time. Had to order on line as local groceries have not carried the fruitcake fruits this year, should have ordered all I needed when I got them for my fruitcake!). Also, since we lived in Ohio for many years, buckeyes, of course.
Our visiting family are off to see someone else this weekend. DH and I had dinner at a Christmas party Thursday evening so they cooked for themselves. Whoever prepared the rice made way too much so tonight's plan is to "fry"some of the rice in a wok, add stir fry veggies, some cut up leftover chicken, serve with a choice of bottled stir fry sauces and call it a meal!
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Wow Beaver - you are really ambitious.
My dinner was Organic Spinach & Cheese Ravioli from Costco. It was an impulse purchase when they were giving out samples, but they're really quite good. Tonight I boiled & just tossed with olive oil & butter. Later this week I'll do something with Rao's.
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Minus, it is not so much that I'm ambitious but that for the first time in three years I feel like doing Christmas baking. When the kids were at home we traditionally made as many as 2dozen different cookie recipes, for eating and giving. Have to give a lot away to decrease the temptation!
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Voice slowly returning but still bringing up stuff (which seems to occupy my throat), so I blew off a party tonight. Bob & I had leftovers (steak, Mexican food) which I supplemented with some rotisserie chicken and more veggies. Tonight we went to Cellars--slow night, people seem to be staying in. He had lentil soup and a turkey "pot pie" (the "crust" was triangles of puff pastry). I had grilled salmon atop julienne veggies and grilled slices of sweet potato. When we got home I made decaf cappuccino with unsweetened almond milk--the secret to getting good froth in an Aeroccino is to fill the container and let it chill in the fridge while grinding the beans and preparing the espresso-maker, then froth the milk while pulling the shot. (My "real" machine is still in the shop, so I'm using a manual ROK--doesn't make as thick a "crema" as the Nespresso capsule machine, but the espresso is thicker and syrup-ier). Oh, and to use the Almond Breeze in the refrigerator carton--not the shelf-stable stuff.
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Last night's dinner wasn't the best. I had bought a fish fillet (sheepshead) and six scallops. I cooked them in small amount of butter and grape seed oil. The side was small boiled potatoes with butter and sour cream.
I had this same fish in a restaurant and liked it but I didn't particularly like the texture of the fillet I cooked. I won't be buying it again.
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Very chilly day here, so tonight is chili night. Will make enough so we have leftovers to add some pasta to for another night’s meal.
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Happy, I used to make five or six varieties of cookies. Now I make three - a type of chocolate chip called Sweet Dreams (walnuts, chocolate chunks and spices, rolled in powdered sugar and baked. It's DH's fave) a thin and crispy/salty oatmeal and rugelach. The rugelach will be filled with sour cherry jam, fig jam or nutella. Or perhaps some of each. If I can find sesame seeds in bulk I might make benne wafers as well.
Snow snow and more snow today. My bread was disappointing in that it did not raise enough. It will still taste wonderful but it's not much to look at. So much for gift giving. I may try again using higher gluten flour.
Since I made tomato sauce yesterday, tonight's dinner will be canneloni and manicotti from the Italian market. Salad and bread on the side.
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My lunch/dinner was a mixed green salad with watercress, one garlic clove crushed, three small sweet peppers, cranberries, walnuts and hummus dressing accompanied with a matcha tea with rice milk and maple syrup. A few organic prunes for bones.
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Chilly today, but no snow till tomorrow--and that'll be sporadic. (Of course, that's when I have to go up to Skokie Hosp. for my bimonthly weigh-in--no way am I stepping on that scale w/o shedding my layers & UGGs).
Made eggs shakshuka this morning (2/3 Rao's marinara, 1/3 mild harissa, 1/3 c. sliced kalamata olives, Aleppo pepper, black pepper, red pepper flakes, za'atar seasoning, 4 jumbo eggs. Simmered on stovetop till yolks set. No feta, alas--didn't have any on hand. Still delicious, though.
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AnnC - nice to see you at the table.
My Mother used to make half a hundred loafs of Applesauce Cake (in bread pans) that we took to all the neighbors & widows & orphans & shop keepers & mailmen & garbage men, etc. After I married, I used to make date-nut bread or banana bread for gifting since I was thoroughly tired of applesauce cake. This year I bought large containers of Sanders Dark Chocolate Carmels with Sea Salt and I've repackaged them for gifting. Not going to bake while my eyes are healing. I promised one neighbor a Lemon Meringue pie, but probably won't happen before Christmas.
Lacey - I'll take this occasion to thank you yet again. I had 3/4 of an onion, some chopped bell pepper that I'd frozen, some mushrooms & some leftover Raos that really needed to be used. I made your delicious COD dish. Turned the plain Raos into a rosa sauce by adding sour cream to stretch it. It still wasn't quite enough liquid since I'd cooked so darn many vegetables, so I added some vodka & simmered some more. Turned out delicious.
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Welcome to our conversational kitchen, AnnC!
Nance, I'm always attracted to the goings on in your kitchen. Good things happen there.
I have a friend's recipe (she died in May) for lemon cake that she used to make in small loaves for Christmas presents. I made it one year. It's really delicious and easy to make. I have also made pralines and am toying with the notion to make some this year. Pralines are all about timing. After you add butter to the hot mixture and beat it, the exact moment comes when you have to quickly spoon the mixture onto sheets of wax paper. Otherwise you have one giant lump of praline in the pot!
Dinner last night was supposed to be beef stroganoff but I played golf, sweated a lot and was exhausted when I got home. Preparing dinner didn't have a lot of appeal so we shared a Subway sandwich instead. It tasted really good. I bought each of us two of their yummy cookies for dessert.
So the plan is to cook the stroganoff for tonight. I bought Shitake and Baby Bella mushrooms for the dish. I had forgotten about beef stroganoff until several years ago when a golf friend delivered a beef stroganoff meal after I had surgery.
I will probably return to WW in January along with hordes of other chubby (or obese) folks. I really hate the thought but my highest ever weight is sticking with me.
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Carole - I'd love to have your friend's lemon cake recipe. Lemon is my go to - usually even before chocolate. Not to mention that all my neighbors seem to have a surplus of Meyer lemons.
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Hi AnnC. Welcome!
Me too on the lemon cake. I have 3 or 4 tiny bread pans that are "looking for gainful employment". :-)
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Took the path of least resistance—ordered on GrubHub from a real Chinese restaurant a couple miles north. BBQ spareribs; hot & sour soup that was loaded with scallions, cloud ear mushrooms, egg, and tofu but almost no cornstarch; roast Cantonese duck; shrimp Kow (Cantonese-style shrimp-veg stir fry in a light white sauce); and Szechuan broccoli (the only dish in a brown sauce—I spurned it because I had no room for it). Bob conceded that now he understands why I think the pan-Asian joint around the corner is so lame!
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Carole - me three on the lemon cake recipe please!
Dinner tonight was a planned-over beef burgundy I made recently and pulled from the freezer, a lovely and large salad, and hubby and I split a Portuguese dinner roll.
Someone mentioned WW and i may have to go again as nothing much is motivating me to eat less lately. Evening Christmas cookies are not helpful either.
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I've been running 5-7 miles daily...and it's as if the scale can only read 192 (pounds). Seriously the weight does vary, but only by 1 or 2 pounds. My pace is getting faster, so something is happening. :-)
DD is done with school and has a day off work tomorrow, so she's coming home for a late Thanksgiving dinner. She's been trying veganism and she talked Sharon into trying it. I've been going along for the ride and it's not too bad. Anyway, since it's just the three of us, tomorrow is stuffed acorn squash, carrots glazed in agave syrup, mashed potatoes, a salad, pumpkin soup, cranberry sauce, mushroom gravy and the sourdough dinner rolls.
My dad was stationed in China for many years and spoke a couple of dialects of Chinese. Growing up, I remember two varieties of Chinese food. Good, and not so good. The "good stuff" came from places where dad had to do the talking for us. :-)
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Eric, I'm sure you're burning fat but building muscle, which not only weighs more but is more compact. Ignore the scale--haul out the tape measure. (I had my bimonthly weigh-in this morning, and I was afraid the NP would be p.o.ed that I lost only 8 lbs. instead of the 12 I averaged previously. But she was delighted that my waistline shrank 3-1/2", saying that was a truer measure of success),
We went to China on a medical society tour back in '94. Gordy's pediatrician had gone the year before and warned us that the food wasn't very good, not of the quality to which we were accustomed. Boy, howdy--you can say that again, and in a good way. No egg rolls, puu puu platters, orange chicken, egg foo young, wonton soup, etc. We had an amazing array of regional cuisines--Shanghai (changed the way I thought about squid, plus tasted snake and frog too), truly classic Beijing (Gen. Tso was nowhere to be found), Xi'an, Guilin/river towns, and true Cantonese--including kinds of dim sum & pastries I'd never seen before.
So tonight as I picked my way through last night's leftovers (rinsing the starchy sauces off), Bob walked in after office hours with a huge bag of assorted Filipino dishes. His medical partner is an amazing cook: she made pansit, lumpia, sweet spring rolls, chicken adobo skewers, and a marvelous marinated calamari--with a seasoning I can't quite identify but was still yummy. (Totally unlike Italian, Greek or Spanish). I shunned the lumpia & spring rolls, but took a starch blocker so I could have a little of that pansit (vermicelli with veg & chicken).
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Will look up the lemon cake recipe and post it, maybe a little later today. DH is ready to go to the gym and sits patiently waiting.
The beef stroganoff last night was "nice," not especially memorable. A tossed salad was good.
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Carole- I would love to have your lemon cake recipe as well.
Eric- wow, you are doing serious running! That is great...do your clothes fit differently? That would let you know of progress as well.
All of the cookie baking talk is really making me think next weekend I will do some of the same for neighbor gifts and Christmas day. You all are so impressive with the variety of baking you do!
If all goes to plan, we will go to my sister and BIL's early Christmas morning- spend the day and night and go home the next day. We will have Low Country Christmas meal- shrimp, flounder, big tossed salad, and homemade coleslaw, tartar sauce and cocktail sauce. Looks like it wlil be around 60 so we may be able to eat outside. Not doing any kind of big Christmas gift giving. We have everything we need and most of what we want. Time together is the best. (We have all grown children and no grands yet- I imagine this gift policy will change when grands appear).
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Hammer -I want your Christmas dinner. Shrimp, flounder, coleslaw - YUM
Due to eyes still healing (and improving BTW), I've about decided I'm not going to drive 4 hours to San Antonio to spend Christmas with my niece. I was thinking about a pork loin, but I may have to at least put together a shrimp cocktail.
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Sylvia's Lemon Cake:
1 Duncan Hines Lemon Supreme Cake Mix, 4 eggs, 1 cup apricot nectar (located in juice section), 2/3 cup oil, 1/2 cup sugar.
Mix well. Use high speed for 3 to 4 min. Spoon batter into well-oiled or greased loaf pans or bundt pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 50 min. (bundt cake) or 45 min (loaf pans)
GLAZE: Juice of one lemon, 1 cup confectioner's sugar, Small amount of rum or flavoring
Pour GLAZE over hot cake when you take cake out of oven. Remove cake from pan as soon as it cools.
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