So...whats for dinner?
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WC3 - not horrible at all. I'll have a can of smoked oysters tomorrow - probably with Triscuits.
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We had Baked tilapia top with my homemade salsa and broiled lobster tails, homemade French fries, and cold peas mixed with halves of cocktail onions.
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minus - I thought I had better post because it had been a while! Hope lacey is ok. I have been overwhelmed between the holiday, making an offer on a house for DD to rent back from us, and a maturing lease on my car and the need to find another one I liked. So my last week has been open houses and touring homes with DH, DD and real estate agent, and car dealerships. Within the last 24 hours I leased a new car (in driveway now - yay) and put an offer on a house (waiting on seller response) - I’m flippin’ exhausted. My reward is two weeks in Hawaii, but we leave in 11 days and I have to undecorate the house, get pets squared away, pack for both of us, etc., I feel behind the 8 ball already but I’ll get over it.
eric - our dog was similarly successful tonight at keeping the fireworks (and gunfire - this is Florida, after all...) out of the house.
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Congratulations on retirement, Joyce. It was good having you check in. Are you still cooking Sunday dinner for family?
Lots of fireworks sounds in our neighborhood last night but I did not go outside to see flashes of light in the sky.
Dinner was easy and quite tasty. The last ribeye out of the freezer and small boiled potatoes with butter.
Today I'll cook a lb of black-eyed peas with a couple of slices of ham hock and diced onion and garlic. The meal will also include cabbage, probably cooked. Or possibly coleslaw with the addition of grated carrot. And cornbread.
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Fried chicken tonight along with the hoppin' john, greens and cornbread. DH will eat the last of leftover scalloped potatoes since he will (reluctantly) eat the blackeyed peas but won't touch the greens.
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Joyce - great to hear from you. Thanks for posting. Yes, retirement is a heck of an adjustment. Hospice is such a good cause. Will you stay up North or make your primary location in Florida?
Special - wow. I always admire your energy. Where are you going in HI? Kauai is my favorite.
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minus - I’m not feeling so energetic, lol! I’m glad I started December with a girl’s trip with a good friend, at least I eased into the month of crazy activity! When DH and I went to Hawaii last Jan we did a short three day stay on the north shore in Oahu, then flew to Kauai for a week. This time we are spending a week on the north shore, two nights in Waikiki, then flying to Maui for a week. I loved Kauai and we considered returning, but we had such a perfect trip - and perfect condo, which was not available this time - we decided to try something new. I think this will be a process of narrowing what we like and future trips will be returns to fave spots.
joyce - has it been hot over your way? I’m finding it unseasonably warm for this time of year. Congrats on the retirement!
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I cooked the black-eyed peas in the multicooker with onions, garlic and smoked ham hock slices. The recipe called for 15 minutes pressure, natural release and 6 cups of water. I wondered about the amount of water and my uncertainty proved founded. The peas were a little watery. I simmered them in an uncovered pot on the stovetop but that required too much vigilance to prevent scorching on the bottom. I mashed some of the peas to make a thicker gravy. At dinner time the peas tasted too bland so I sprinkled cayenne and a little wine vinegar. The result was better. DH ate two helpings of peas spooned over brown rice. He was also content with the Jiffy cornbread, which tastes like cake to me.
My cold slaw made with hand-shredded cabbage was just ok. I discarded the leftovers. I should have gone to more effort and made additions like carrot or colored pepper to enhance the flavor but I didn't.
The brown jasmine rice (Mahatma bought at Walmart) is really good. It smells fragrant and tastes good enough to eat on its own, though we never do that.
Lots of cooked food in the refrigerator. Dinner may be choose and heat in the microwave.
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I cooked my blackeyed peas in the pressure cooker for 15 minutes with a ham hock and onions and a bay leaf. Drained them, then in the same pot cooked sauteed onions, celery, green pepper, garlic, and rice and seasonings for 12 minutes. Added in the peas and voila! Hoppin' john! About the best way to eat them in my opinion. And in fact, the only way DH will eat them. The greens I cooked were about the best I ever made. The pickled pork made all the difference, so thank you for that Carole. Can't say the same for the fried chicken. You'd think I could make my most favorite food, but nope - have never mastered it. I keep trying though.
Today we're off to the global food market. Time to stock up on Asian noodles and condiments and any other interesting items I find. I'm hoping to snag some lamb shanks and gyro meat. The gyro fixings and fresh pitas they sell will be a tasty dinner.
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Making chicken tonight
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Plan to try roasting Brussel sprouts in air fryer to have with chicken, three grain rice blrnd , and green salad.
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Jump up night. Open the refrigerator and see what needs to be eaten. Greens with pickled pork, navy bean soup and cornbread. Easy and satisfying
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What I made for dinner tonight was a mess. It was supposed to a delicious split pea soup with farm bacon and hot bread....instead my slow cooker shut off TWICE during cooking leading to a much too thick concoction that I tried to finish on the stovetop. We ended up having leftovers from our New Years eve dinner and a little soup just to say we did. Good flavor anyway. I'm glad tomorrow is our "date night" and we'll go out! 🍛🥣 "No soup for you" haha.
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Turkey Chili from Trader Joe's. The sour cream went bad prematurely so I substituted a teaspoon of Chobani yogurt, coconut flavored. It was actually pretty good.
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MinusTwo:
I generally avoid processed meats that contain nitrates.
How were your oysters?
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Reader, your post brought back a college memory.
My girlfriend/fiancee would come over to the house and we would try out some recipe that we had found in a book or one based on our memories of a TV cooking show we had recently watched.
After we had been doing this for awhile, things *usually* turned out well.
When it didn't turn out well, the crunched up expression on her face and the tone of her voice while making the comment, "If we have people over for a dinner, let's not fix this." always made me smile. Nearly 40 years later, that memory still brings a smile.
We knew it was especially bad when my neighbor's dog would sniff, but not eat, a small helping of the "disaster".
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WC3 - I too usually avoid processed meats. I can't remember the last time I had ham, not to mention cured sausage. I do have hot dogs once or twice a year. Seems like I've even quit eating lunch meat turkey, although I didn't realize it's probably been a year since I last bought a package. Funny how you just drift away from some things since I haven't been purposely boycotting.
I haven't indulged in the smoked oysters yet. Still too many left overs that have to be eaten. But I always keep two cans in the cupboard and several times a year that will be my dinner. Hopefully not the night after a bowl of popcorn is the only dish served. As usual, my meals aren't always sensible.
Tonight was a spinach salad and 6 sugar cookies.
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Tonight was:
- Vegetable cream (zucchini, squash, chard, tomato, turnips green, garlic, onion) and
- Shiitake mushrooms with cayenne and turnips green
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Today I fixed a pork butt in the oven with a Frontera sauce - garlicky chipotle lime. We'll have it tonight shredded as soft tacos with refried black beans and a cabbage slaw dressed with chipotle mayo.
We didn't get to the gyros last night so at least tomorrow nights dinner is figured out.
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MinusTwo:
Salad and cookies sound fine to me!
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I took some queso from Costco to a friends for happy hour & our Christmas gift exchange this afternoon. Her DH wants his dinner before 4:30 now, so drinks had to be at 3pm. I recommend this delicious queso highly - both on tortilla chips as we enjoyed today, and I will be putting it on veggies & potatoes and.... It's called Queso Mama - White cheddar with diced green chiles. They have options on the back for what to add to make it hotter & hottest.
Heard from Lacey. They have been busy as bees with the holidays, & kids & grandkids and... So nice to hear from longtime BCO friends. Thanks to all of you for taking the time to post.
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Agree Minus, glad people have checked in for the holidays.
I need to look for that queso next trip.
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Dinner was chicken enchiladas. Filling was rotisserie chicken, diced mild chilis, black beans, grated Mexican cheese, and enchilada sauce. The bought corn tortillas didn’t hold together for a nice appearance on the plate, but the taste of the concoction was good. In the pursuit of portion control, I ate only two.
Side was tossed salad with cucumber, tomato, avocado. Oil and vinegar dressing.
It was a rainy day. I got out the big stock pot and simmered the chicken bones and the Christmas turkey carcass from the freezer. Tomorrow I will deal with the contents of the pot which will become soup, sooner or later.
The queso sounds really good. I like smoked oysters on crackers.
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Carole - Your tossed salad is one of my mainstays, to which I also add baby bella mushrooms, & when I wish, whatever protein is on hand. DH always preps chopped english cucumber & tomato, so it is an easy salad starter.
We had ham on NY Day, so trying to use up leftovers. Yesterday, used chopped ham, baby peas, sauteed baby bellas, cauliflower gnocchi & some black truffle alfredo (both from Trader Joe's) for dinner.
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Tonight Sharon made a mushroom stroganoff. She "Facetimed" DD, who suggested a couple of additions that were very worthwhile.
The Dutch Oven got to, again, show off its capabilities.
It's almost orange juice season and my tree has the usual 600-700 pounds (270-320Kg) of oranges on it. I ordered a heavy duty commercial juicer that is claimed to be designed for continuous use. It has a 2 year warranty...and I'll certainly be testing out the "continuous use" claim. :-)
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Eric your memory made me laugh. I had wanted pea soup for a while. That sure got rid of the craving!
Tonight was a favorite Polish dish of Bob's family. Boil pierogies ( I used saurkraut and mushroom and a plain cheese type). Dump into a baking dish and pour onions sauted in some butter over them and bake. We had it with applesauce.
Time to start switching off holiday fare to more protein and produce. But they were good. 🍎🥟🥟🥟
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Happy New Year, all--sorry for being tardy, but life got in the way.
NYE we hosted 5 friends at Cellars (was gonna be 7, but my housekeeper's husband had a rough go at his dialysis session so they stayed home). Our son's GF came, and he surprised us by Ubering it up from his office in the Loop (boss let him off early) to join us at Cellars, so he got to help us kill off the bubbly & Cabernet (his office catered dinner). We started with cornmeal-crusted fried Oysters Rockefeller over Pernod-infused creamed spinach; I had rack of lamb in Zinfandel sauce with broccoli and potato-gratin galette. Nobody had room for dessert. One of our guests brought assorted baklava from Middle Eastern Bakery in Andersonville, so we nibbled on those at home while we rang in 2020 with bubbly. Two of our friends phoned in around 11:30 from Charleston, SC, to where they'd retired. We miscalculated and turned on CNN--but instead of Anderson Cooper & Andy Cohen, they were doing the Central time zone version from Nashville, with Keith Urban, as a neon music note instead of a ball dropped--we should've stuck with our local ABC outlet, whose anchorman & meteorologist performed an elaborate dance routine on the roof of Navy Pier.
New Year's Day Bob worked all day, so we went to our friends' party about a mile south of us. (I met her at a winemaker dinner at Cellars, and her husband is a recently-retired ENT surgeon at Advocate Christ and a colleague of Bob). Their house is a brick mansion, and the party was catered. I kept to my keto diet, with ham, salami, hummus, guacamole, crudites and cheeses. When we got home (very early, as Bob had to be at work at 7am yesterday), we cracked open a bottle of Mumm Napa bubbly and enjoyed 3 caviars: the sevruga "shot" I bought at Heathrow, and both golden whitefish and salmon roes. I served them on rosemary whole wheat crackers with creme frâiche and snipped chives.
Yesterday I spent the day shoe-and-clothes-shopping (dropped anotther size), and then had my leftover lamb.
Tonight Bob got home early and got his bonus, so we celebrated at Oceanique in Evanston. We had the tasting menu: lobster salad, seared scallops with kimchi, butternut squash ravioli, seared whitefish in a port reduction, berry-grapefruit sorbet palate-cleanser, and loin of veal with seared foie gras. Dessert (we split both) was dark chocolate gelato on tricolor chocolate cake and green tea gelato on a fruit tart.
Tomorrrow I will enjoy my leftover veal with a fried egg; doing sous-vide sockeye salmon with blistered shishito peppers & sauteed snap peas for dinner.
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Cleaning cupboards and packing boxes to donate to the Battered Women's resale store. I had already decided to get rid of all the silver plate bowls & trays & pitchers - but I really needed to polish stuff first since none had been used in 25-30 years. Oh my what a chore. Even though everything was wrapped in plastic, some of it was just black. And amazing stuff. My Mother used to pick up flatware serving pieces at rummage sales if they were interesting or useful (like gravy ladles). I found 5 unique meat forks - all but one are silver plate and reasonably worn. One says "Kiwanis" - but no other personalization. Maybe my grandpa? But maybe a bargain buy?
So dinner was a package of frozen Yakisoba noodles eaten surrounded by stuff. But now three cupboards mostly empty and stuff in boxes to donate on my way to the Med Center Friday. Woo hoo.
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Meatloaf is great for sandwiches! We always like leftovers.
Dinner last night was linguini with home-made red sauce out of the freezer. Side was a chopped salad with iceberg lettuce and our usual additions.
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