So...whats for dinner?
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Two small London Broil steaks, steamed cauliflower and salad
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Breakfast was my meal before bed. :-).
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Eric - have you been able to find things so you can cook in your "residence" kitchen? Sleep well.
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Made a mix of riced carrot/broccoli/cauliflower, sauteed portobellos, rotisserie chicken breast & tikka masala sauce. DH found some small naan rounds a week or so ago, which we froze. Pulled one out & popped in the toaster to accompany the "mix". Will have leftovers for a few more meals.
DH was able to get an organic rotisserie chicken today, so this will come in handy for future meals.
Ohio is closing all restaurants & bars at 9 pm, but, supposedly take out & delivery still available. So many other things closed as well. Everyone stay safe!
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My son challenged me to keep a food diary. My "bad" cholesterol (LDL) keeps going up even tho the HDL & Triglycerides are also going up (a good thing) and I'd rather control it w/diet & exercise than drugs. Already I don't eat fried foods (french fries maybe once a month, fried shrimp 2 or 3 x a year). I eat red meat maybe once a month and pork about the same. I eat chicken & fish & vegetables & salads. I don't eat many sweets since I prefer salty snacks. I decided early on that I needed to record portions for accuracy even though I'm not dieting. Interesting exercise. Today's only meal for example:
1/2 onion sauteed in EVOO & butter. 6 fresh mushrooms sliced & added. Scant 3/4 cup of already cooked red sauce. 1/4 of a poached chicken breast sliced & added (maybe 1/2 to 3/4 cup?). While that simmered, I started the pasta. Measured 1/2 cup of penne pasta. It looked like a sufficient portion in the measuring cup, but when I put it in the boiling water it seemed puny. So I added another big handful - maybe 3/4 total (dry).
The meal was excellent but really enough for 2 meals. 1/2 cup of dry pasta & 1/2 cup red sauce would have been more than plenty. But true to my upbringing ('clean your plate - think of all the starving children in...' insert here for your age bracket - England, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Venezuela, etc.) I did in fact clean my plate.
Oh yes, served with an 8 oz glass of Carson Ridge Cab from Paso Robles. Tasty. Just poured myself another 4 ounces to sip while the food settles.
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I've kept my food supplies small so I don't have to pack a lot of stuff in case we turn the facility over to longer term providers and move to set another facility.
But, yes, I have stuff and am able to cook in my room.
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".....Russia" here (my grandma was from Borisov, in what is now Belarus). Bob likes to kid me when I don't finish my wine, "Shame on you: there are derelicts in the Bowery with the DTs!"
Fri: Avocado toast (tomatoes, red onion, cilantro, chipotle powder, sunny-side-up egg) for breakfast, before going for my DEXAScan. Just came home at midnight to my only other food of the day: leftover short ribs, Brussels sprouts, and carrots. Corned beef & Brussels sprouts with colcannon (but tried to hold the spuds) for Sat. dinner. The chef at Cellars loves to make a whole-grain Dijon mustard sauce for it. I didn't eat today till 3:30: Bob went out to brunch but didn't bring me anything because he went to Whole Foods & I had last night's leftovers--I took a starch blocker and ate the colcannon, which is mashed potatoes with cabbage, the fiber & fat ameliorating the carbs. Will likely have Cobb salad tonight. Picked up a bag of 6 small unripe avocados at TJ's on Fri., so there will be lotsa guac around here.
Tomorrow night, after closing time, all IL bars & restaurants will be closed to inside service from 10pm till at least 3/30. Cellars will be having their final burger night, and they are requesting people make reservations in order to reduce occupancy to below 50 and maintain distance between patrons. So I made a res. I think, all things considered, I WILL have the bun, or at least half of it. Will sub sweet potato fries for the regular ones, though (and take a starch blocker).
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Dinner - Green pea soup, guacamole, rice with Ikura salmon roe, salad.
Picking up DS from the airport tonight. Love my kids but teenagers won’t be as careful as we are And I can’t tell them to stay home all day. Worried they will bring home the virus. My DH has asthma and is borderline Diabetic. UGH.....
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Leslie will drive Gordy to his office tomorrow to pick up his corporate laptop & headset so he needn't be exposed to anyone on the train or in a rideshare. She works from home as an online tutor (and tutor-recruiter); if Vivid Seats suspends operations two weeks from now, he can pick up work tutoring kids in English & drama.
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Sandy - I love it, I need to finish my wine for "the derelicts with the DTs in the Bowrey". Although I think that term probably dates us, as does 'the Tenderloin'.
Makes me think of "The Days of Wine & Roses" (1962). Active portryals of the DTs. I haven't seen it in years, but remember it as a very powerful movie. Quote from Wiki:
Director Blake Edwards became a non-drinker a year after completing the film and went into substance-abuse recovery. He said that he and Jack Lemmon were heavy drinkers while making the film.[5] Edwards used the theme of alcohol abuse often in his films, including 10 (1979), Blind Date (1987) and Skin Deep (1989). Both Lemmon and Remick sought help from Alcoholics Anonymous long after they had completed the film. Lemmon revealed to James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio his past drinking problems and his recovery. The film had a lasting effect in reinforcing the growing social acceptance of Alcoholics Anonymous.[6]
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I played nine holes of golf with another woman yesterday. We both walked using push carts. It was warm and I perspired quite a bit and was ready to quit after the front 9. Normally I play 18 holes when I ride in a cart. On the way home I called dh and alerted him to my intention to buy some lunch. I went to McDonald's and got each of us a deluxe burger with lettuce and tomato and mayo and one large fries to share. Our fast food lunch was a treat.
For dinner I made chicken enchiladas. The filling was chopped rotisserie chicken, black beans, chopped mild green chilis, grated "Mexican" cheese blend, and red enchilada sauce.
The company we hired to install a whole house generator is here and will soon turn off the power, so I'd better close.
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nonomimi5, remember the hit song "S.O.B" by Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats? ("Son of a b-----, get me a drink"). Well, Lipton's ad agency loved its "Mmm-hmm"/handclap intro & vamp so much that they used it for an iced tea commercial. Wonder if they knew it was about having the DTs? ("My heart is aching, hands are shaking, bugs are crawling all over me...").
Brunch this a.m. was a couple of scrambled eggs English-style with jarred truffle pieces, half a tomato with basil leaves, and a slice of bacon. Had wanted to do a keto bagel with cream cheese, lox, tomato & red onion but didn't want to have onion breath for my eye appt. this aft. But since that's been cancelled (our ophtho--a friend--has decided today is as good a time as any to retire' the doc who bought his practice would charge us for the refraction part of the exam, and the office is all the way down on the SW Side), I went with truffle breath instead which is more transient than onion or garlic. I'll save that bagel/lox/schmear for tomorrow. (Those keto bagels taste like the wrapper they come in, hence the need for all the trimmings).
Gonna have that one last burger tonight, with bacon, gorgonzola, lettuce, tomato, onion on a brioche bun with slaw and fries. Will eat the bun (take a carb blocker first) because once I use up the keto stuff it may be the last bread I may find for weeks if not months (the loaf of the good 2gm net carb whole wheat I bought last week was already moldy by this morning) but sub out the fries for sweet potatoes--one cheat a day (a MAJOR cheat at that, considering I ate the leftover colcannon yesterday along with the corned beef & br. sprouts). Will be a bittersweet goodbye, as we can't even hug. They will be starting curbside pickup on Friday. Will tip nearly 100%--if you've got it, pay it forward...
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ChiSandy - No. I don’t know that song. What is DTs? Sounds hilarious. I hear you about the bread - we found only brioche and vegan bread.
My DD’s online class started today so she was pretty much in class all day from home. My DS safely arrived home from his college in Maine, but who knows if he caught the virus from his long trip. I hope not. He wants to gain weight for baseball so I am cooking all day long - including packing a lunch for my DH because restaurants, bars, gyms, etc are all closed in Los Angeles.
So I don’t want to bore you with all the details because everyone eats different things - but breakfast was sweet potato pancakes, toasted oatmeal, Mango. Lunch - Avocado toast, quesadilla, curry udon with beef for DS. Smoked salmon sandwich for DH. Dinner will be spinach risotto, Fettucine Alfredo with chicken, and fennel and arugula salad. I just eat leftovers...too tired to even think about what I want to eat.
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"The DTs" are delirium tremens, a set of severe symptoms of alcohol withdrawal: tremors, headache, deliriousness, hallucinations (visual, auditory, and tactile). Sufferers describe the sensation of bugs crawling on or beneath the skin and in the worst cases think they can even see them.
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Tonight was the last gasp at bars & restaurants across IL. At Cellars, I had a gorgonzola burger (yeah, I ate the brioche bun), Caesar salad (no croutons, so I could eat the bun) instead of fries or slaw, and Grayson Cellars Zinfandel plus a flute of cava. Starting Friday, they will do both delivery (direct or GrubHub) and curbside pickup. Until then, I cook.
Stopped at Whole Foods en route home and scored some keto peanut butter cookies and Mikey's keto English muffins (which actually resemble cornbread and are delicious when well-toasted). The real versions of both were nowhere to be found. (Alas, the keto chocolate cookies were also MIA).
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Gotta prep the stuff for the crockpot in a bit.
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Gorgonzola burger sounds like my request for a final meal! I do love good burgers.
Last night was another ho-hum dinner. We had the last two stuffed peppers (each one half of a large colored bell pepper) out of the freezer. It was handy having them for an easy main dish but they were well short of delicious. The side was a big pot of steamed broccoli and cauliflower with a cheese sauce made without flour. I came across this sauce recipe a few years ago and had forgotten about it. I heat 2 per cent milk in a small sauce pan, add grated cheddar, then some thickener, gum something-or-other. Will have to look up the name on the package.
DH really enjoyed the veggies with cheese sauce.
I'm hoping the hysteria with food stockpiling will ease. Even in hard-hit countries the food stores stay open. I need to venture out today for sandwich makings.
I have a pot roast thawed to cook for tonight's dinner. Will get out the little-used slow cooker.
Now New Orleans is being named a "hot spot" for the virus. Not surprising since people from all over the country came to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. I am taking the advice to the elderly to hunker down. On a philosophical note, global disease is a humbling experience for all of us materialistic humans.
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I was on the way to the grocery store in the dark at 6:45am. Eerie. They're on limited hours & opened at 7am. Parking lot was 3/4 full when they opened.
Shelves are pretty empty. I wasn't looking for TP or water. They did have some pallets of those and were rationing.
No meat, no eggs. Very few frozen foods. Almost no fresh vegetables. Got a small sack of purple baby potatoes & the very last onion. No baking potatoes or sweet potatoes. Got one bag of Dole salad & one bag of spinach. Each of those is two full meals for me. No other salad stuff in stock except the bags - no radishes, cukes, mushrooms, carrots, etc. A bunch of avocados but all too ripe for anything but immediate guacamole. Got one pkg of raspberries - lots of those but no apples, pears, bananas, etc. Milk was just coming in and a nice guy handed me some from the back before they could shelve it. They're rationing the milk to two cartons per person. Oh - and I scored the last package of hot dogs. Haven't had those in a long time & they did have fresh buns. Plenty of bread but not extensive selections. Managed to get all the canned foods I wanted - if more expensive brands than I usually buy. I had let my stock run down as I usually do this time of year pre-hurricane season to only one of each on lots of essentials like black beans & peaches & smoked oysters.Treated myself to a chicken biscuit at ChickFilA on the way home. I haven't have one of those in a year.
Dinner tonight will be a riff on Laurie's Mexican chicken.
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I was able to order Wholefoods Online by putting everything i need in the cart and if delivery times are not available, checking the delivery time again very early in the morning. When I got up to go to the bathroom at 3am, I checked and delivery was available so i ordered it and went back to sleep. It’s taking a few days to deliver, but I’ll take it.
Flour and carb items are not available so I am being creative with the flours I have. I made blue corn tortillas for breakfast with the blue corn Maseca flour I had. I am making pizza for dinner with the bread flour. Packed Lunch for DH was tuna salad sandwich using 2 frozen Take and Bake dinner rolls. Lunch for the kids will be Ramen & Rice Balls.
Cooking dry chickpeas for Hummus, Cauliflower gratin, green beans with toasted almonds, and various topping for the pizza for dinner.
Stay safe everyone.
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I decided to make a grocery store run today even though I went the other day because I was so distracted by the bare shelves I forgot to get dish soap and cat food!! I ended up going later than I wanted because I was on the phone with DD for quite a while this morning - she was upset as last night was the first night in the outdoor (but fully enclosed) coop for her baby chickens - they are not quite teenagers. Word went out among the neighborhood raccoons, as well as several cats, and she spent the night watching the outdoor camera and running outside to chase away the marauding raccoons. They managed to undo several of the gate locks - there are four locks on each hatch that even I had trouble with, and were reaching through the wire to grab at the poor chicken’s legs - they are locked upstairs in the nesting box for several days so they develop the homing instinct and can be put up easily for the night. She needs to line the box with hay so going forward their legs won’t be exposed. The coop is trenched and there is chicken wire in the trench so nothing can tunnel in. But, sheesh!!!!
The grocery store was different today, there was more meat, but limits on how much each shopper could buy. I did get some thin pork chops, and bought some boxed hamburger patties. They are not grinding any beef - to minimize processing. I figured the patties can be crumbled and I have ground beef! There were no eggs but I have enough and wasn’t looking for more. I did buy some coffee and creamer though - a daily necessity for me! There was water, didn’t buy any though, I have filtered water through my fridge. No paper products at all. My husband works on an Air Force bass and told me last night that shoppers at the military commissary were going to the back where the trucks are unloaded and trying to take the products before they were even unloaded and stocked on shelves! Pretty shocking - usually military folks are rule followers...
DS is flying from CO to VA tomorrow evening - he got a refund on his remaining lift tickets and his Airbnb and is returning home while his flight is still available. I’m worried about him, but that’s what moms do I guess. I feel bad for him, he needed a vacation and it didn’t work out with the bad toming
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I braved Wal-Mart today (the only real grocery store in town) seeking primarily fresh fruits and veggies and laundry detergent. I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to get everything I needed. Fortunately I didn't need paper products or frozen pizza! Those shelves were bare. People were behaving normally although apparently that wasn't the case this weekend. I even managed to get two six packs of bottled water, which is all I wanted as we have filtered water too. We also managed to get haircuts and ate breakfast at our local diner. I'm so afraid that if these little places of ours are forced to close they'll never open back up again.
Tonight is a rerun of last night's corned beef and cabbage and shepherd's pie.
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I've been making fettuccine with jarred spaghetti sauce and frozen tofu "meat balls." I'm still lazy. It's freezing here and I'm shutting the doors and letting my gas fire place warm the whole living area. Have lots of dried peas for split pea soup, black beans, brown rice, shredded cheese and corn in the freezer, so that's what I'll be eating with salsa. Kitty Cat is happy that her Chewy order will arrive with kitty litter, litter genie refills, and food in (5-8) ! days. So glad to see that everyone is still cooking up a storm. Grandson getting big with another on the way, still working here and there, and had to cancel a white water rafting trip in the Grand Canyon due to the whole situation.
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I'm working the night shift (7pm-7am) at the front desk of a hotel that is housing folks from the cruise ship.
I've been sleeping 8am to about 3-4pm so my meals are.....
My post shift shower meal at 7:30am is the free hot breakfast at the hotel where I'm sleeping... this is a different hotel from where I'm working.
My 5pm meal is cooked by me and is pasta, rice, canned beans, fruit, etc (simple stuff) in my hotel room.
My 10pm meal is whatever is brought in to where I'm working.
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bedo - sooooo glad to hear from you. I can't believe how fast time goes. I remember when you were looking forward to your first grandchild. Sorry about the rafting trip. I too still eat crazy. I made the mistake of posting a meal on the 'drinking' thread earlier this week & they thought I was nuts or a vegetarian. Something like a boiled egg & steamed bok choy.
Eric - Glad you're OK so far. Do you expect the duty to be just the 14 day quarantine? Or will new people come in for another shift? Mimi - I would go nuts with all the different food requirements for each person at each meal. Special - sorry about your DD's chickens. I was just wishing today I lived closer to my niece - who always have more eggs than she can even sell at work. Thanks for the explanation why there's not ground beef. Makes sense. Nance - I'm not a WalMart shopper, but I may try one of the 'outer' stores for produce & eggs later this week. Their supply chain is certainly big enough. A neighbor told me HEB has plenty of meat - including ground beef.
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Eric - As many others have stated, thank you for your service!
Smashed an avocado, added spices, shredded chicken & shredded cheese and ate along with pita crackers. Our remaining 5 avocs are getting pretty mushy, so sounds like this could be dinner again this week. Not sure if/when we will be able to find fresh avocs again.
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I'm not sure....
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Hello Bedo, good to hear from you!
Eric, be safe!
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Forgot that I have some low-carb tortillas (white, spinach)--will freeze them. I have more avocados than I can use, and now they're ripening rapidly. (Down to one lime, on its last legs at that). Not sure when Bob'll be home (planning shrimp stir-fry over cauliflower fried rice), so I just ate one avocado with lime, chipotle and sea salt. Not bad.
Last night Whole Foods had no eggs (exc. for a couple of prepacked hard-boiled), almost no bread or dairy (except sliced cheeses and that lonely pint of whipping cream). But plenty of produce and a decent amount of fish & meat behind the counters (though self-serve was picked clean), and still mostly stocked with packaged cold cuts and pre-made sushi as well. Bulk bins were full because they were shunned, as were the hot food & salad bars. People were loath to order at the deli. Frozen shelves picked clean except for a very few bags of riced cauliflower (a one-per-customer limit was imposed) and lots of fish & seafoods, including dim sum. (Normally, I'd have pounced on those but for the carbs in the wrappers--and Bob has admitted he's considering going lower-carb himself. In the doctors' lounge at Advocate Christ Hosp., only pre-wrapped sandwiches and yogurts are available).
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Joycek - I hope you can get home. Safe travels.
I ordered my tamoxifen 1 week early as I only get 30 days per prescription and I didn’t want to wait until the last minute. Picked it up 7am this morning. Feel a little better.
DH is staying home, now. DD has on line school. DS has a break until next week. He goes to the park to long toss with 1 friend and then goes to the friend’s house to hit in the batting cage in the back yard. I think that is still safe.
Breakfast - butter toasted steel cut oatmeal with fruit; sweet potato bread pudding; fresh squeezed OJ from our tree. Lunch - lefterover Calzone pizza from last night; Buccatini pasta with pesto & cherry tomatoes; some kind of vegetable. Dinner - Paella 2 versions - 1. Chicken and Seafood, 2. Only Chicken; some kind of salad. The Farm to Tableproduce delivery service is running late from overwhelming demand. I hope they come through...
Stay safe everyone
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Joyce, I think I'd prefer to drive. About 1/2 the time I fly...I get a cold. A cold is annoying, unlike Covid-19.
For this deployment we are a "setup, get it working smoothly, train the folks coming in to take it over and then we move on to do it again" team.
We're now on an 8 hour drive and when we get to the next place, we'll do it again.
Semper Gumby..."always flexible"..that's us and something everyone, everywhere should be.
Oh, yes,
https://m.facebook.com/phegov/
Is where the public information folks post stuff we send them from the field.
BTW, I've worked with the bagpiper. :-)
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