So...whats for dinner?
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I gave DH an ancestry kit for Christmas plus an additional short subscription for additional records. It's amazing what he has turned up and how many records are out there. He's spent the past six weeks busily copying and sharing with his four siblings. The most interesting to me was that he discovered a familial relationship to William Shakespeare!
Made yet another trip to the store today and while there was plenty of bottled water and toilet paper there was not one disinfectant wipe to be had. Fortunately, as a practicing germaphobe, I'm always well stocked.
I'm so angry about the shortage of protective gear. This lack of preparation is absolutely inexcusable. I don't even know how it's being addressed or if it is. We can surely do better. Wishing Bob and you the best Sandy, as well as all of those on the front lines.
Tonight is smoked sausage, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and sauteed spinach for contrast.
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Special - we could share. I took the red sauce out of the freezer yesterday but forgot the meatballs. How about whipping up a brown gravy & serving meatballs on mashed potatoes? Or a cream brandy sauce and serving on wild rice? Keeping your son in my thoughts.
Nance - I am in complete agreement. The national lack of preparation is horrid. (I was going to say unbelievable, but ... you know...sigh)
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Eric, Sandy and Bob, may you all be safe and stay healthy. So may we all...
Last night was turkey breast, baked beans, and fruit salad (apple, banana, red pear and Mandarin orange drizzled with honey and lemon juice). Tonight was layered enchilada casserole, which should have been done yesterday as today was a bit too warm to have the oven on! Not really ready for Texas heat again.
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Dinner was the remaining 1/4 Costco rotisserie chicken breast placed over 1/2 cup of brown rice w/quinoa and topped with a brandy cream sauce. Those chicken are so large, just the breast is 4 meals. The side was all the greens cutoff from the top of my bunch of bok choy, sauteed & steamed in a bit of EVOO w/ bit of water. The rest for another time. WAY too much food.
I put aside 3/4 of the white sauce before adding the brandy, so more excitement later this week. I'd like SOS if I had the chipped beef. Maybe creamed tuna? Maybe creamed peas? Oh, maybe a dill sauce for salmon? I have a bag of spinach in the fridge. Any body else have ideas?
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Brunch (egg foo yung omelette--with mung bean sprouts & scallions) wasn't till nearly 1pm, nothing but coffees after. Dinner was Greek salad over microgreens, romaine and arugula. (Toppings: tomatoes, feta, tricolor peppers, olives, anchovies). Then Bob's small piece of leftover salmon & about a tablespoon of sauteed spinach. Still hungry, so had a couple tablespoons each of chopped liver (with red onion) and tuna salad. Dessert was 1/4 oz. each of Midnight Moon (CA goat cheese), a French raw sheep milk cheese, mimolette, and Roquefort; followed by a small square of 80% dark chocolate and sugar-free halvah (yup, it's a "thing," made in Turkey) washed down with a decaf espresso.
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Now we have six presumptive corona virus patients in Louisiana, which is the result of finally beginning testing people. If you don't test, you don't have cases. Five are in New Orleans and one is here on the north shore in St. Tammany Parish, my parish. All those blase people may find this "liberal scare" a little more real. Especially people with elderly folks in their families.
Yesterday I took out a frozen half pork tenderloin and then put it back in the freezer. Instead I took out two slices of smoked pork ham hock and a package of Camellia brand dry small limas from the pantry, chopped up some onion, smashed some garlic cloves and cooked a pot of lima beans. So we had beans and brown rice and tossed salad for dinner. The beans were delicious.
Tonight may be leftovers buffet, heat your plate in the microwave.
The cleaning angel comes today. I will make myself scarce by spending time at the gym.
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Bob reports several elderly patients had symptoms, but tested positive for Influenza A (they hadn't gotten their shots). He assures me he wears mask, gloves and a paper gown when he makes rounds. Advocate Christ is considering not allowing physicians older than 60 to work in the ER or visit febrile patients or those showing any respiratory symptoms. His partner learned that her breast cancer is Luminal A (yay) but that the stereotactic MRI found another spot to biopsy elsewhere in the same breast--she's awaiting path results before going forward. Bob doesn't know if she's told her retinologist boyfriend, who lost his wife to a long battle with COPD/broken hip that ended in sepsis less than 3 years ago. (He & his late wife have been close friends with us since our sons were in first grade together--he as Bob's colleague and she as a fellow day prep school mom & board member).
We're going out to Cellars tonight...because we can. Probably have seared scallops (over spinach instead of risotto), salmon or roast chicken. It's important to support our local restaurants; besides, we have four bottles of wine to pick up from the last winemaker dinner. (Next one is Tuscan-themed, 3/25. I can eat everything but the polenta & dessert).
Still waiting to hear whether the LCM Hosp. Phys. Awds. Dinner set for 3/26 is still on, as well as this Sat.'s Audra McDonald concert at Dominican U. Things are being cancelled here left & right.
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Lacey - worrying about you two. You have been so sick off & all this winter I imagine you are more at risk for the virus. Hope you are both OK - and of course the GD, although I also worry about you passing germs back & forth.
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I just spent the past hour half sleeping, half reading, while catching up on the thread. And it ended with your post about me, Minus. Thanks for your kind concern. I have to say that for the past five days, I have felt URI free! Not even coughing at night...neither has DH. Yay! That could also be due to our recently putting an air purifier in our bedroom. What a literal breath of fresh air! So, I am quite relieved that we are not still feeling like the walking wounded given the germs that surround us waiting for a warm lung to inhabit! Yes this is all scary. And yes, our stores are out of TP and sanitizers, etc.
Eric, my eyes were in perpetual roll reading about the erroneously masked folks you ran into. More thanks from here, too, for your efforts to keep our citizens safe. Please keep yourself safe!
And same for your Bob, Sandy. My DH actually cancelled some meetings this week, which I thought made sense, but he is not on the front lines of health care, so he has options. And I think this last long bout with infection was a good wake up call for him.
Carole, I think I also missed your birthday. Belated wishes!
We had DDG here over the weekend and she was exhausting fun. She does often present as a little germ factory tho since she goes to a home daycare where she catches everything from the other kids in this, her first year on earth! DH and I were very happy that this time she transmitted nothing to us. It’s weird to be the “old folks” who DS2 worries about, and asks how our immune systems are doing before agreeing to expose us to his little germ factoryette.
Mimi, sadly your college visits do sound vulnerable at this point. Mass is cancelling college classes throughout the state, and many of the campuses may look like ghost towns...not a very welcoming sight. I hope your airline will refund your fares given the extraordinary situation/crisis, if you decide to postpone the trip. Good luck! This pandemic is altering people’s lives in many ways, and this is only its early stage.
Because we had been feeling not up to par for quite a while, I kept putting off making any plans for social activities, and am glad now since many things have been cancelled, and the “crowd sitting” ones, I would not dare to attend. We actually did go to a couple of Celtics games last week, and were trying to decide what to do about this Friday’s game (which DS2 asked us to skip in an abundance of caution), when the NBA made the decision for us. So we will hunker down for the weekend with movies instead of basketball. Tho empty arena NCAA games might still sate us. What is way more concerning than our missed entertainment is the lost income of all of the workers at TD Garden, and surrounding restaurants. I worry for how so many of these families will economically survive this crisis.
Tonight we decided to order Chinese food for dinnersince those restaurants have suffered from low business. We enjoyed spring rolls, hot and sour soup, moo shi pork, and vegetable fried rice...really similar to our favorite menu from the eighties. There is still a lot for leftovers tomorrow.
Yesterday I bought some ground turkey to make chili for later in the week.
The good news here is that our weather has been stunningly beautiful for the past week, with temps in the 60s and 70s for several days.
I hope everyone is able to keep safe from this virus, and can avoid going to hospitals, which are bound to be overloaded soon with very sick people.
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Went to Cellars--wasn't deserted, but let's just say there were enough empty tables for "social distancing." (To be fair, it was an hour before closing). Had an avocado-grilled asparagus salad with cherry tomatoes over arugula & field greens; and short ribs with root veggies (no potatoes) and Brussels sprouts. Bob had gumbo ya-ya and the $10 half-chicken special (peas & root veg--subbed for the usual mashed spuds). We were so stuffed that we brought home leftovers. What we did eat was delicious. The root veggies were a veritable umami-bomb--in fact, they're also featured in a vegan pot pie.
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DH and I decided to stop going to the gym since it is the place where we encounter a lot of people. I have been wiping down machines before and after using them, making use of the dispensers of sanitizer, and washing my hands in the rest room. Others are visibly doing the same. Still I feel some anxiety. I will start taking exercise walks and do Silver Sneakers exercise routines at home but dh relies on the gym for his exercise. Sigh....
I will inventory the freezers before deciding what's for dinner.
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Tonight is chicken, salad and side.
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Fast "food" the last couple of days.
I'm staying in a Residence Inn, with a kitchenette, so I'm hoping I can get some real food at a grocery store and do up stuff "at home".
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Eric, so sorry about having to eat "food-oids." Hope you find some fresh stuff to cook. Made room in my freezer to stock up on frozen veggies & berries. Gonna buy more salad greens as well. Found out some shiitake 'shrooms have been recalled because of listeria risk (check origin labels--the offending batch is from S.Korea, aka "ROK").
Brunch was shakshuka: 1 jumbo egg simmered (till nearly set) in a mixture of 1/3 c. Rao's marinara & 1/4 c. Mina spicy harissa sauce, 5 sliced kalamata olives, a sprinkle each of Penzey's Za'atar seasoning and Aleppo pepper, finished w/2 T. of feta crumbles.
Dinner will be Bob's leftover chicken & peas, and a Jerusalem salad (w/tahini).
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I obviously cancelled our East coast college tour for Spring Break. All the colleges are going remote. JetBlue gave us credit but AA gave us a refund. Waiting nervously to see if my son's college in Maine will do the same. My DD’s high school is now doing remote.
Worried about Tamoxifen availability for future refills.
Tonight's dinner is Chicken pot pie with lots of non traditional vegetables like broccoli and Swiss chard inside. Resting the home made puff pastry. Carrot and Ginger soup. Salad. I am upping the nutritious value of the meals in hope to stay healthy.
Carol - stopping the gym is a good idea.
Lacey - thank you for your well wishes. I am thinking of postponing my colonoscopy until this all dies down.
Eric - thank you for your service. Hope you can find something good to eat at the market.
ChiSandy - praying your DH will be safe.
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For some reason, I counted them today..Getting "undressed" from the "outer clothes", has six hand wash steps.
Chi, I'm sure Bob is familiar with that... :-)
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Yup. We're going through a lot of hand lotion these days lest we get chapped.
The Audra McDonald concert is postponed indefinitely. With our Governor banning all gatherings >1000 people (and urging cancellation of those >250), for the first time I fear for our son's job with VividSeats.com, even though he's not on the sales & customer svce. side. With the market tanking, I was worried we might outlive our retirement fund; but with the likely triage practices if hospitals get swamped, we oldsters would likely be "sacrificed" to save the younger ones--especially those caring for kids or their own elders.
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All community colleges in my state are closed as of last night. Classes are going online until at least early April. The college my hubby works at was the first to close for cleaning as a precautionary measure
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Tonight's dinner will be a skillet dish with sliced chicken breast, diced veggies and cooked brown rice. I have colored peppers, some broccoli and some cauliflower. Also some dried morels.
I stopped off at the produce market on my way home from golf and bought two eggplants and two cucumbers. So tomorrow's dinner will be an eggplant dish. The strawberries were gorgeous but over-priced in my opinion. I didn't buy any.
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Trying something different tonight - pressure cooking a (small) whole chicken then air frying it to crisp the skin. It may turn into a disaster but I expect it will be a learning experience. The only side will be yellow rice with broccoli florets.
Thanks for the reminder Carole. I bought a container of strawberries and stuck them in the produce drawer. I need to do something with them. I have a Bravetart recipe for strawberry cake that uses fresh and freeze dried strawberries (which I have) that I want to try. Our friends are coming Monday for an early St. Pats dinner and the cake might be a good dessert. I was thinking lemon meringue pie but the cake might be better. Well, that is if anything could be better than lemon meringue pie.
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I'm just about to go on shift in about an hour. I'm one of the "night walkers"....and I am the trainee third associate deputy vice assistant desk clerk ninth class class...or something like that. :-).
It's 99% message center type work at a front desk where I answer telephones, talk on the 2-way radios and keep records uo to date...and 1% "hmm...how are we gonna do that?" stuff where the engineering problem solving skills come in handy.
It's sort of like being Radar in MASH.
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Dinner was a small rib-eye and 10 oz of steamed spinach. I took two large chicken breasts out of the freezer to defrost. I'm thinking one will be Laurie's Mexican Chicken. The other will be something with the white sauce I made earlier this week. Or I have the red sauce I took out of the freezer Monday. I still have 1/2 a bunch of Bok Choy and a bag of Dole Pomegranate salad mix and my milk is good through April 2nd. I won't be going to the store this weekend.
I routinely buy many things in bulk, so no TP or paper towels needed here. My freezer is too full for me to know what's even in there, so I'll have some inventive meals coming up. I had been planning that before this summer's storms anyway. I have plenty of canned & packaged goods for my inventions - although I wonder if a can of black olives constitutes a salad? It's interesting because long time Houston residents are used to hunkering down for a week or three during Hurricanes. Hey, we aren't loosing power so we will have electricity & water & gas & phone lines, and air conditioning (it's mid 80's here)
I had tickets to a couple of concerts I was really looking forward to. Luckily after Broadway went dark, most so the theaters in Houston cancelled until at least mid April so I didn't have to make the decisions. Stay safe friends.
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Two meals today. Brunch was cheerios w/a banana. The last banana so not enough for banana bread.
Dinner was 1/3 cup of the left over white sauce with cayenne pepper & extra butter added - spooned over two hard boiled eggs cut in half and warmed in the sauce. Really pretty good for leftovers. I did poach the two chicken breasts in the microwave white wine, but the eggs needed to be eaten first.
I plan to go to the store the first of the week to get milk & salad and Cheerios. I was going to buy Cheerios during the Costco monthly special, but no way am I trekking out there. With all the schools closed & therefore the parents off work taking care of them - it's hard to tell what will be an 'off' time. I'm guessing Tuesday early to mid-morning so the stores will have had time to re-stock after the weekend. Assuming they have employees to stock the shelves.
Hope everyone is OK.
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Minus, HEB (at least in our area) announced that they will be closing at 8pm and opening at 8 am, at least for the foreseeable future, in an effort to restock. I've been there twice this week only to find empty shelves all over the place; finally got a loaf of bread the second time and still haven't gotten ground meat to make a meatloaf. One of the weird things was they were out of pasta sauce but had plenty of salsa! We will not starve as I keep a fairly well stocked pantry and freezer but some meals could be a bit wonky... Still hoping to get some frozen vegs.
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Minus, I’m planning the same strategy as you Tuesday morning. I don’t need much but some fresh vegetables and laundry detergent. Hoping for restocking by then. It’s crazy around here too.
The chicken turned out really good. Next time I’ll crisp it even more but it was really juicy and flavorful. Leftovers will be in a chicken pot pie tomorrow night.
I didn’t have much appetite tonight but dh requested sloppy Joes so that’s what I fixed. I ate half of a sandwich
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I made bok Choy stir fry with tofu cubes. Sweet potato gnocchi. Swiss chard and broccoli. Spaghetti with cherry tomato, garlic, and basil.
The local Wholefoods was out of so many things I am planning to go to Gelson’s tomorrow morning at 7am. Hopefully, it’s too early for most shoppers. Need to buy bread, meat and chicken for my college son coming back tmrw night. Praying he does not bring the virus home during his travelS. I will have 2 hungry teenagers studying from home so time to stock up.
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It’s been a crazy week - started off with the newly installed washer at DD’s house (really it’s my house...) leaking from the improperly connected hot water hose and ruining the closet floor, hallway floor, and part of the office floor. Filed a claim with the installers insurance. Have to submit a narrative, photos, etc., along with the emergency plumber’s bill. Had a quiet mid-week, then went out into the garage on Thursday, early afternoon, and the water heater was releasing all 50 gallons of the hot water across the garage to the driveway. Yet another emergency plumber call, the shut off valve to the tank was seized, so had to shut off all water, and cap the pipe. Could not get a new water heater until yesterday afternoon, but it’s up and running. We now have a shiny new shut off lever at the tank, and a new water shut off in the garage so we don’t have to shut off at the meter. Fun times!!! I tried shopping this morning early - the store wasn’t crowded but they were out of TP (which I actually needed, lol!), paper towels, most frozen vegetables, the meat department was looted, and of course no water - which I wasn’t looking for anyway. I stocked up a bit on canned goods - I was out of a bunch of stuff. I did find a Boston butt, and snagged a couple of New York strips, and a chuck roast as they were restocked. I did grab some coffee and creamer - if DH works from home we will go through it! So far I believe he’s essential personnel so I think he will actually go in.
Dinner tonight was tostadas - quick and easy. We were over at DD’s helping install the chicken coop. The baby chickens are almost ready to go in!
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What a mess, SpecialK! You have my sympathy, for all the good that's worth.
We have some empty shelves around here, too, even at Sam's Club where all the loaf bread was gone yesterday. I'm assuming that supermarkets will stay open but maybe I'm mistaken. I am not into hoarding. Yet!
I made my eggplant lasagna/hot dish/casserole yesterday and we ate half of it for dinner last night with a tossed salad. I enjoyed the meal more than I have enjoyed our dinners lately.
Tonight will probably be chicken enchiladas made with some of a rotisserie chicken I bought at Sam's Club.
Now that there is some testing taking place, Louisiana has a growing number of corona virus cases. I read an article in a national newspaper about two young women in China, one a physician and the other also a profession in health care, who got the corona virus. They both were 29 years old and one of them, the physician, died while hospitalized. So young people can be at risk, too, even those who are healthy.
We had time in the US to become more prepared for handling a pandemic but Americans (and their leaders) apparently considered corona virus only dangerous to foreigners. Rather arrogant and ignorant attitude that didn't bode well.
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I had spicy garlic prawns with pasta, I'll be warding off vampires tonight
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Went to Gelsons, a big local supermarket at 7am when it is supposed to open and there were already dozens of people shopping. No Organic chicken/meat. So I bought regular chicken and Kosher ground beef. No Tofu, potato, flour, produce, whole wheat bread....just crazy. Mountains of avocados and mangos... I guess i can exploreCaribbean/ tropical recipes. We can’t be too picky about being healthy in the coming weeks. I signed up for Farm to home deliveries for produce so I hope they come through.
Making stuffed zucchini, broccoli rabe crostini, and fried Wontons with leftover chicken pot pie filling mixed with cream cheese for lunch. Not sure it will taste good but we can't waste anything anymore!
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