So...whats for dinner?
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beaver - yay for a fellow SLO person! I was class of ‘79 at Cal Polyand we used to go to Edna and get wine from their barrels - you had to bring your own container! Things have come a long way!
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Lacey - Love the photo of your beautiful grand with the beautiful Scottie. My dad had a Scottie as a young boy & we had 2 different Scotties while Mom & Dad were still alive.
SpecialK - I am retired from the area airport (CVG). We had a lot of vets from one branch of the military another, especially in our Police & Fire Depts. Gotta love those acronyms!
Eric - Jealous of your strawberries! Enjoy, as you certainly deserve a break from being "on duty". For many years, we had a strawberry field in my parents' back yard. What a great summer dessert!
I also remember those Bisquick crustless quiches. "Quiche" was my dorm nickname, due to 1st (real) name Lorraine & its popularity on the dining hall menu.
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Long ago (like 1974) the World Congress of Genetics was held at UC Berkeley. We'd driven down from UW Seattle, and the highlight of the two weeks (and a welcome respite from the scientific sessions, which as a former virus genetics tech I also attended) was an excursion to UC Davis to observe all their ag genetics programs--including viticulture, which one of Bob's former UW grad school lab partners (who decided to put his recombinant yeast DNA skills to better use, for a discipline--oenology--he loved).
Eric, so glad you & Sharon made it back safe, sound, and (mmmmm) strawberried. "Three-hour tour?" Google "Stairway to Gilligan's Island." You're welcome.
It's getting to be really, really strange to have Bob home in plenty of time for dinner every night (usually heads for home by 4:30 now). Last night none of the Greek restaurants on Halsted St. (Greektown) en route home from Union Health were open yet for takeout, so he had me order from Buffalo Wild Wings. (We have a Wing Stop around the corner, but their wings are scrawny. It took >2 hrs. for our order to be delivered--the drivers have to use the same Waze-based app mandated by the rideshare companies, which hiccups constantly. Poor guy was taken nearly 5 mi. out of the way. Wings were cold (nuked 'em), Bob's onion rings soggy (hooray for the AirFry setting on our SmartOven), but we were grateful to get 'em.
Made avocado toast with an olive-oil-fried egg for brunch. Cellars, our fave neighborhood restaurant, is open for takeout/delivery only weekend evenings now (saving $ on overhead, espec. utilities). Tonight, ordered crab cakes (3 of them this time, so I had a whole one; yeah, kinda carby but yummy, w/remoulade over mesclun); beet/chêvre salad (forgot the walnuts, but I added some from the pantry); and bourbon-glazed grilled salmon with julienne veg. and sauteed green beans (put half away for tomorrow night). Bob had linguine with shrimp & broccoli in a black pepper-saffron cream sauce. (He also put half his away).
Too stormy tomorrow night to grill, so it'll be leftovers again, supplemented with salad.
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Cal Ploy SLO was on my "short list" of engineering schools. The *only* reason I didn't attend there was that the three different times I went there to look around, my allergies were horrible. I went three times because I was hoping that it was just a short seasonal thing, but apparently that wasn't the case. I was in the college class of 1983.
I agree about the grand daughter looking out at the "big huge" outside. :-)
I'm just hanging out at the house scanning film negatives.
There are TLAs (three letter acronyms) and ETLAs. ETLAs are TLAs that have been enhanced by the addition of a 4th letter.
Oh, dinner...a chickpea salad and I have sourdough that is rising in the "only the lamp is on" warm oven. It should be ready to bake in about an hour and even with DD home from college, it should last us a week. I think there's enough flour for five more weeks of bread. Hopefully things will settle down a bit by then. Beans, rice, flour, sugar and salt are as scarce as toilet paper and hand sanitizer.
The governor activated the national guard to help truck supplies to stores and to help stock the shelves. Sharon has a class B commercial driver license and she mentioned checking to see if she could use that to "plug into the community" and help out. I'd do the same as I have one too, but I have a feeling about the time I get going on that, I'll be called out again. I wish it weren't so...like I've said before, with that job, it's nice to not be needed.
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chisandy - I listened to Stairway to Gilligan’s Island, lost it when the Minnow part cam, hilarious!
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Ahh herding cats. Memories! I worked for EDS (Electronic Data Systems) who did the award-winning superbowl commercial of the same name. (Google it it's good). I thought the idea was original to EDS but there were so many Military at the company we probably just 'owned' the idea or thought we did. 🤔
Mommy love the Bisquick recipes. Will try one soon. Thanks for sharing!
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I liked that. Thanks Chi. :-)
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We have sweet memories of SLO and visiting some wineries in Paso Robles on our way from LA to Pebble Beach with my brother and wife several years ago. I loved your Alma Mater, Special. Such a great college town. Our niece also graduated from CalPoly a few years ago. I would probably be cursed with similar seasonal allergies there as you, Eric, so staying for more than an afternoon would have lost its allure. Glad I can keep my allergy free memories of it.
Our tree pollen is coming on with gusto right now, so I might decide to use one of the masks I make during my walks. Have wanted to in past springs, but they were a really discrepant item to wear here. Now, not so odd, so a good time to start.
Tonight DH grilled some steaks he had picked up at Wegman's (same as we had several weeks ago...clearly we are not avoiding mammals these days!). This time I didn’t marinate them...bad idea. They need a nice marinade. Sides were grilled lemon pepper asparagus, sweet potatoes, and of course salad. Wine was a Zinfandel from Pasa Robles!
Beaver, you are right, adaptability is key in this situation. It is a true test for many, and so interesting to see how we manage to establish new routines that assure safety for all as best we can.0 -
Let's hear it for Paso Robles wine. Grapes were first planted in Paso Robles in 1797.
Another Cabernet I've been enjoying from there is Mina Mesa. I think it's a Total Wine direct line so not sure it's available every where, but also under $10.00 a bottle.
For you Zinfandel lovers, try 1000 Stories from Mendocino County. I ordered a glass at a restaurant one time because I thought the name was enchanting. It's a delicious 'bourbon barrel aged' Zinfandel that's still under $15.00 a bottle most places.
Napped in my chair this evening. I was trying to stay awake reading the morning paper, but failed. Also So now of course I'm wide awake at 1am. Also failed at making or eating dinner. Maybe I'll soldier on and loose a pound w/o exercise.
Following the drink theme, I think I'll pour a glass of Amarula. It's a great sipping treat. The consistency is like Bailey's Irish Cream but it's made with the Marula Fruit from Africa. Yup, that one that elephants travel miles to eat when the trees bear fruit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarula
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Interesting conversation about the California wines. We drank a New Zealand sauvignon blanc in New Zealand called Oyster Bay and really like it. I saw it at the local Piggly Wiggly (large wine selection in a small store) on sale for $9.99 and bought a couple of bottles. In the interest of not throwing away bottles to fill a landfill, we have been buying box wine. We like Black Box cabernet. No, we're not gourmands. I like the Barefoot chardonnay, which comes in box and bottles. The box does take up room in the refrigerator.
Last night was beef fillets cooked on the outdoor grill. The problem with filet mignon is finding two the same size. We had a large one and a smaller one. We shared the large one and the smaller was left over. Side was a zucchini skillet dish. Medallions of zucchini steamed in Rotel tomatoes until tender. Grated "Mexican Cheese Blend" from a bag on top.
No clue about tonight. Maybe boneless chicken thighs. The salad will be diced apple and celery and walnuts with a mayo dressing. It's definitely cold salad weather here.
I know there was a run on dry beans and rice at our supermarkets. I don't know whether the flour was scooped up. I have bags of little used flour in the extra refrigerator.
Lacey, I enjoy seeing pictures of your little granddaughter. I can see the energy in the pictures.
Impossible pies! That's what those Bisquick recipes were called. I should have known SpecialK would recall the name!
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Carole - I like the Oyster Bay sauvignon blanc when I'm drinking white. I drank the Bota Box Old Vine Zinfandel for awhile. It was good, but oops, it was way to easy for me to just push the button and have 'just a little more', so I quit buying boxes.
Last night was an "Oscar Meyer Wiener". Tonight will be salad. I've never added baby boiled potatoes to greens, but I have both & found a couple of recipes so I think I'll try. One was for mixed salad greens, green beans & potatoes. Since I have fresh asparagus already steamed, I'll sub that for the beans. Another had eggs, so I think I'll boil a couple of those for my protein. A third had cucumber, so maybe I'll toss in some of that too. I found another recipe with Spinach & I snagged a bag of that on my Tuesday run, so I'll try later in the week.
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There are plenty of dried pinto beans at the supermarket, but the smallest container of beans that one could buy is 50 pounds. One man had 5 bags in a cart. I hope he was buying for his entire neighborhood. If it was just for him, then if he doesn't self quarantine, he most likely will be shunned.
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And shunned at more than 6 feet!
Did a grocery run and found very few of the things on my list-- why in the world would they be out of color catchers for laundry?
Dinner was chicken breasts (from the freezer and cooked on the stove), fresh broccoli, air fryer golden potatoes, tossed salad with vinegar and oil dressing. Running low on oil from our local olive oil shop, not sure if they are open or not but figure we can make do if they are not.
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Beaver - really? Color Catchers? Maybe somebody thought they would kill virus??
Eric - love the bean story. I still have 3 bags of the Anasazi beans I ordered at Christmas.
Well, the gym has been closed two full weeks now. Although I've been working in the yard - which does involve some heavy digging & hauling this time of year - it's not a "program". I do better with organized exercise. This morning I started walking. It actually got down to 60 degrees last night so 3 miles at a brisk clip wasn't too hot. My plan is to do this every day, as well as figure out a routine for my weights & stretches. Is a plan less constricting than a goal? Oh well, I'll try.
The salad last night was delicious and HUGE. When I shopped two weeks ago the only petite potatoes they had were purple. I was surprised to see the insides are also purple since I'd never purchased them before. Last night I was dismayed to see the cold, boiled potatoes in the fridge had stained the inside of a white bowl that was my Grandmas. Eeek.
I have a Russet that is 'crying' so tonight will be baked potato. Maybe with some spinach on the side.
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minus - are you a TV watcher? What we do, if watching TV, is do an exercise for the duration of the commercials. Using 5, 10, or 25 lb dumbbells, or sit-ups, push-ups, jump rope, wall sit, etc. Have you tried a baking soda paste on the stained bowl?
Last night was turkey meatballs in marinara over penne, with a butter lettuce salad with shredded carrot, little croutons, and bottled Vidalia onion dressing. For some reason I am craving ice cream - which I rarely eat - but so far am successfully resisting. Probably because we don’t have any. There is a little place that has a drive thru and serves soft serve that is wicked good - DH sometimes takes the golf cart, lol!
Here is a photo from yesterday for a smile. It was our dog’s 13th birthday. DD brought him some pup cakes from Sprinkles. We were singing happy birthday to him and he was signing along. So cute
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Minus - Sending you a PM about exercise.
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Special - love the dog B-day party. I didn't think of baking soda for the stain, but got it off the china with a bit of Clorox. No, I'm not a TV watcher. I was thinking I could do reps with one arm while I'm reading and switch after "x" pages. Maybe I'll start taking the weights on my walks. Alternatively I might pick CDs I like but rarely play anymore - that would be a two-fer.
Celia - Looking forward to the Silver Sneaker's tips.
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Special - Adorable doggie birthday pic! I am a serious dog lover. We had a wonderful border collie/cattle dog mix who lived to be 18. Our current dog is an Aussie/cattle dog mix who just turned 2.
For those looking for ways to get exercise while we shelter in place, I've been using the free DownDog Barre app. They also have yoga, and a couple of others. I like that you can choose length of time, body areas on which to focus, and type of music. Or none, so that you can play your own - which is my preference. https://www.downdogapp.com/
I'm also getting exercise by doing spring cleaning! Cleaned out kitchen cabinets, scrubbed grout and did all my baseboards and banisters this past week. Take at least one walk each day to get out of the house and get a bit of fresh air and vitamin D, which is usually combined with some sort of useful errand.
On Thursday we took a walk to the local grocery where we pick up our fish CSA. No eggs, but they have a good meat department, so I bought a flank steak and some house made chorizo. Cooked the flank steak with a dry rub in my cast iron skillet last night, served with oven fries and a Paso Robles red blend. (There's a theme here!) We usually lean toward lighter reds like Pinot Noir or Beaujolais, but this was a gift from a friend who used to live in that area and it went well with the steak.
I find it hard to imagine living somewhere where glass bottles aren't recycled. We recycle just about *everything* here: glass, metal and plastic; and have curbside compost collection as well. So my husband and I generate only about half a grocery bag of actual trash per week.
Saturday morning we walked to the farmers market. Only about a third of the usual vendors, but it's usually a huge market so there was still plenty to choose from and the farmers were happy for the business. I got lots of veggies, including lovely bags of baby arugula, spinach and kale that were 3/$5.
This morning I walked over to our neighborhood "high street" and scored a still-warm loaf of Tartine bread at the gourmet store! Then waited in line for about 15 minutes to get into our grocer (they are limiting number of shoppers to maintain social distancing), where I picked up coffee and some other items. No eggs there either. The guy who rang me up said they aren't getting many delivered, and those they do get are snapped up.
Made flank steak sandwiches on the Tartine bread for lunch, with horseradish, mayo, cheddar and some of the arugula - yummy. Dinner will be potato/chorizo tacos, with the last of my homemade tomatillo salsa pulled from the freezer.
I think tomorrow I'm going to try a new recipe I found for Shawarma-Spiced Tofu Pita Wraps https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/shawarma-spiced-tofu-pita-wraps I bought pita and cucumbers today so I'd have all the ingredients.
Have been making a cocktail for myself most evenings lately. Had egg whites in the freezer, so bourbon sours have been in the rotation. As well as a champagne cocktail using a decent, inexpensive Cremant de Bourgogne that we get at Trader Joe's. Cheers, everyone!
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minus - maybe do one exercise between each chapter? Glad you were able to get the spot out - one of the many uses for Clorox. I went around the house today with Clorox wipes getting all the light switches and door knobs.
magari - Toby is a one of a kind dog - he is such a good and loving boy. He’s one of those dogs who looks you right in the eye, and he is super intuitive. He never left my side during chemo, and followed me everywhere - would even sit outside the shower and wait for me. How great that your dog made it to 18 - wow! Bigger dogs, and even middle sized ones, rarely live that long - clearly you are doing it right!!
I was in SF in October for a quick visit for Hamilton at the Orpheum. Stayed with a friend who has a great apartment on Noe and there was an awesome farmer’s market right down the street. We have such a short growing season here that you have to know where the good farmer’s markets are and get there early!
How is everyone doing
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I am envious of the Strawberries! Ours arent even planted yet. We have some Winter Farmers Markets on Weekends, but those are canceled now. We have veggies that are grown in aquaponics, where they grow the fish for restsurants, so there is some fresh food. But, of course most of the restaurants are closed. A few with simple menus are carryout curbside pickup only.
Bread, milk, ground beef and eggs are hard to find here too. My DH volunteers to go early for the senior shopping, and I let him! So far hes been able to find most things on his list, but hasnt been able to find everything on the list even once. My pressure cooker is getting a workout. I made chicken breasts, 8 of them, for my Dd2s family and our dinner. After I took them out, i used the liquid as soup. Just added moodles and cooked them, adjusted the seasonings a bit, and my daughter says they ate it up fast because it was good. I only had about a quart, because i wasnt planning on using it for soup, so didnt add much water, but it smelled good, and tasted better, so i didnt want to waste it. LOL.
Covid19 is starting to hit, we had 5 deaths in an assisted living facility, it was medical workers who travel from place to place who brought it in. Most were over 80. The Good news is the containment worked, only one wing is showing signs. We all miss the Y, and i notice Im losing flexibilty. I will have to work harder at that at home.
Supper tonite was leftover spaghetti and sausage from last night. I only had to cook for 2 last night, my big day of cooking is usually Thursday when my DD2 is at the clinic. We have both kids now and when she picks up an extra day, boy do we know it. Its hard to cook for 6 people again, especially when she is still on keto. My biggest problem is making 3 meals a day when the kids are here, dont have much trouble eating them, though! Well, that and getting up before 8. LoL. On days we dont have them, even my DH will sleep in. Its also weird trying to get back into school homework mode. Its been a few years since I had homework to do ( 10 years since I had my HUC diploma!) , and even longer, 25 years or more since I had homework to oversee!
Hoping and praying you all stay healthy! Much love
Monica
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Flour, sugar and toilet paper, are difficult to find. Paper towels are starting to be left on the shelf.
Dinner tonight was made by DD...a vegan macaroni and "cheese". The "cheese" is made with soaked cashews that are blended into a cream, along with nutritional yeast, lemon juice and mustard. It is quite good. Fruit, asparagus cooked in the air fryer and some of my sourdough bread rounded out the meal.
Magari, I wish I had been able to get the time to look around when I was in San Carlos....but it wasn't to be...
Special. That's a cute picture.
We have two dogs. Gypsy is 13 and Frankie is 11. They are the longest lived dogs we've had. 18 years old is amazing.
Gypsy and Frankie are both "pound puppies" so we had to estimate their birthdays. On their "birthdays", DD does the same by bringing them pup cups from Dutch Brothers Coffee.
Moon, we'renoticing the extra groceries and dishes and it's just one extra for us. Six has to got to be quite a "jolt". :-)
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One of my favorite movies ever is Sideways, about a Paso Robles/Santa Barbara-area-Pinot Noir snob. I also read the book, which had a sequel called Vertical--which flips the plot on its head (not gonna give a spoiler alert).
Hey, we're doing more wine talking here than on the "How About Drinking?" thread!
Sat. night I had my leftover salmon over julienne veg. & green beans. Bob brought home a chicken shish kebab (3) appetizer, grilled veg. and (for him alone) avgolemono soup from a Greek joint with a drive-through near his suburban office. I had my leftover Italian salad and one chicken skewer as a late supper. Bad idea: between eating that late, cleaning the kitchen & feeding the kitties I didn't make it to bed till 2:30. And I could not sleep at all--my mind simply refused to shut off, and the white-noise generator app that drowns out the pulsatile tinnitus doesn't drown out snoring. But when I take out the Air Pod and replace it with an earplug, the snoring is inaudible, but it amplifies the infernal rhythmic whomp-whomp/crunch-crunch in my L ear. (It's actually vascular--when I prop myself up and turn my head to adjust the app on my cell, add a sort of "moaning" to that. About 4am I gave up, went downstairs and did a bunch of crosswords online. Went back up at 6, still couldn't sleep by nearly 8. Suddenly, it hit me: had I forgotten my bedtime pills? I had taken the CBD & melatonin, filled the pill cups (AM & PM), fed Heidi a snack, loaded the dishwasher. Sure enough, when I went back down, there were both shot glasses, still fill of pills. D'OH! Took them, went back up and told Bob he had the first cat-feeding shift.
Had a WF quiche Lorraine in the fridge I needed to use, so we had half of that (no crust for me) and the grilled Greek veggies for brunch. Dinner was from Cellars: minestrone, gorgonzola meat loaf, mashed potatoes & green beans for Bob (I would have loved it but I know meatloaf has bread in it). For me, a no-crouton Caesar, honey-brined pork chop in mustard sauce over mashed sweet potatoes (they leave out the sugar on request), and Brussels sprouts. Tom--the chef/owner--delivered it himself, with a lagniappe of a bottle of crémant de Limoux. We ate half and saved the other half for tomorrow night. Tuesday, if it doesn't rain, we'll grill. I'll probably give Bob the rest of the quiche, and have my last pasture-raised egg as shakshuka. (I have 3 dozen more eggs--2 WF cage-free-plus and only one of them is brown) and one of Eggland's Best. I'm not happy buying "battery eggs," knowing the chickens' living conditions, but these days we all have to settle. Many people can't even find eggs.
I've been making single-cup pour-over coffee from scratch (well, not quite--I don't home-roast the beans anymore) rather than K-cups. I did make a K-carafe of Tully's "Hawaiian Blend" this morning--not as tasty as the pour-over but no worse than K-cups. I was running out of beans (especialy espresso, which is on the cusp of "too old to brew" a good shot). So on Wed. I ordered from Metropolis--they roast on Thurs. and deliver on Sat. Imagine my shock when at 6 pm I got a text from UPS telling me it had been delivered via "SurePost" (turfed off to the Postal Service) at 4:10 pm, "left at mailbox." WTH? I don't have a mailbox! And I left specific delivery-location directions. No package ANYWHERE.
UPS wouldn't give me a human to talk to, and when I tried to use the "contact us" form online, it informed me that for SurePost I'd have to contact the seller. I blew a gasket--online and on the company's voicemail. Right after I posted on NextDoor, there was a knock on the door: a neighbor from the next block over--and the numbers in the address flipped--had received it, drove over and dropped it off. I did my various mea culpas, but too late--I'd engendered a whole thread of snarky "first world problems/pearl-clutcher/how can you care about coffee when everyone is getting sick& dying" posts. Point was that this sort of UPS/USPS/FedEx dishonesty, incompetence, and illiterate/dyslexic drivers has been going on in my ZIP code for years--a decade or more. Life does go on, and COVID-19 is not a fortuitously sudden handy excuse for companies' pre-existing patterns of screw-ups. And one would think illiteracy is a disqualifier for a job requiring reading labels and matching them to addresses.
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Our garbage collection business, run by a local family, does not offer recycling. I do see recycling bins in the subdivision where I walk. Their contract is with WM. We have collection twice a week and usually have one kitchen garbage bag in the bin. We don't use a lot of canned or packaged foods.
DH bought a cute new toaster oven, Quisinart, from Best Buy with curbside pickup. The manual (I'm an oldie who always reads manuals!) has a collection of recipes, most of which look good. I was thinking of using the sweet potato fries recipe last night but dh likes baked sweet potatoes better so I got lazy and did the baked. I made breaded boneless skinless chicken thighs in the air fryer. I cooked them just enough and they were juicy and tasty. I need to find a good oil sprayer. The one that came with the fryer doesn't work well so I threw it away. The canned oil spray can damage the no stick surface of the fryer basket, according to the manual.
News Bulletin: Dow is starting off in positive territory.
I am missing my Silver Sneakers classes, too, as well as exercise using the weight machines at the gym. Silver Sneakers is offering classes on the Facebook page. I keep saving the emails but haven't followed up yet. I do walk 2 plus miles every other day and have been doing heavy pruning in the yard that tires me. The list of yard maintenance projects is long and I'm not likely to run out. I even dreamed about finishing up the huge azalea bed last night so I hope I can accomplish that this morning.
Dinner may be pork piccata with a pork tenderloin out of the freezer. In the near future I will be venturing out to do grocery shopping.
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carolehalston - Just finished today's SS Live routine on Facebook. It was pretty good. If you go to their Facebook page, they will add today's live one to their other videos. Also, other videos on their "main website". Lots of exercise videos on Amazon Prime if you have it, plus YouTube as well.
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Arizona State University's graduation ceremonies have been canceled. I won't be able to see "the $5,000 per step across the stage" ceremony. :-(
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Eric - I can't believe your DD is already a senior. OH my, where has the time gone. Sorry about ceremony. Hope she's not too disappointed.
Carole - I keep thinking I should get a toaster oven to keep from turning on the oven in our summers.
Woke up at 4am - URGH since I am NOT a morning person (unless of course I'm just going to bed at 4am). Might as well cook. I made jello butterscotch pudding w/milk I needed to use (only had the kind you have to cook). One of those was my breakfast. Made potato salad with 2 boiled potatoes & 2 boiled eggs. No green onions so used very finely chopped 1015 onions. No celery so used celery salt. Lots of dill weed. It was enough for two meals and was so good I ate it all for dunch. Made ranch dip so I can dip the leftover asparagus. Or maybe I'll thin some dip into dressing for another big salad. Prepped salmon patties. I'm thinking I'll serve over spinach but I'm still so full it will have to be tomorrow. Took 1/4 chicken breast already cooked out of the freezer yesterday to make a portion for one of Laurie's Mexican chicken w/green chili & black beans. And my bag of salad is "up" tomorrow too.
I'm certainly finding some interesting combinations as I work my way through the cupboards & freezer.
Day two of my planned 3 mile walks. I'm just going around my small neighborhood. Nice shower & I got quite wet the last 10 minutes coming home.
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She was kind of upset, as are the high school kids in the neighborhood also not being able to "graduate". I was disappointed...but......
The Arizona governor just announced a stay at home order here as well. It won't change what we have been doing as it allows grocery store/pharmacy trips and outdoor exercise conforming to the "social distancing" requirements I ran 5 miles today and I never was closer than 10-15 feet from anyone the whole time I was running...and I considered the trail to be crowded. The plants here are blooming and it looks like I'm running on a yellow, orange and purple carpet.
If I get called again, I'll need to remember to give Sharon a copy of my orders just in case anyone gives her "grief" about being out when she's coming home from dropping me off at the airport.
As for doing "other stuff", I've been scanning film negatives I've found one showing some of folks in US Army WW1 uniforms and another showing people in a Model T car with snow chains on the rear wheels. There was no snow, but plenty of mud, so the chains probably helped with traction in the mud.
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Catching up...enjoyed the dog pix! Our last Schnauzer pooch, Lacey
, was with us for 15 years, but her predecessor lived until 19. It would be fun to have a dog now that we have lots of time to devote to one, but Boston winters can be a walking challenge for us old folks. Even with our fenced in backyard, every time it snowed we’d shovel a track system for our dogs to run. Not sure if I mentioned that I’ve started making face masks to donate to our local grocery store workers, and nursing homes. I landed in a wild rabbit hole looking for a specific style mask that would accommodate a filter, and had two different fabric styles to keep the inner and outer sides easily differentiated. I finally found it, after watching waaaay too many mask making videos! Good lord! They have taken over Utube!!! And I have hardly ever watched Utube much!
Given that the fabric and craft stores are out of the notions needed for certain masks, improvising has been key, so they are taking me longer than they should. There are five other women doing this with me, and we need to complete several hundred masks. I might be a light contributer unless I start to use an easier pattern that has fewer layers and can still have some safety value. The opinions about this are all over the block...I’ve read them all, and more (!), and of course my surgeon son is wedded to his N-95s, so I know he is not thinking what I am doing has much safety merit...but he is kindly sparing me his direct opinion. The nursing home staff were deliriously happy to receive our offer. So, onward with that project! And since my allergies are revving up, I think I’ll make one for myself so my walks don’t result in the shortness of breath I experienced last week. And now lots of folks are wearing masks when they leave home.Tonight we had really delicious leftovers from two nights ago, when I made turkey meatballs made with kale and ground oats. I made a marinara sauce for them, and they were the lightest, plumpest meatballs I can remember. They cook in the sauce, and while they start out bright green (I can hear the yuks!;), by the time they are cooked (I let them simmer in the sauce all day) they look like regular meatballs...with maybe a hue of green on the inside. But we loved them then, and especially again tonight. Had a big garden salad and some crusty bread, which seemed excessive, given our wheat pasta. But after a day of troubleshooting at the sewing table, I needed comfort food with little effort!
Speaking of pasta, I have really enjoyed the family banter between the Brothers Cuomo on CNN this past week. Their love-filled sibling rivalry on full display during interviews is an enjoyable counterpoint to the seriousness of our current situation.I hope you are all healthy, and faring well in what might be just the bottom of the first inning of this likely long and frightening contest. DS2 recently described every day seeming like Groundhog Day, corralling their antsy nine month old while working from home. And we are so far the lucky ones...
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I have a mask from dh's workshop in my car in case I decide to use it. It's designed to be protection from dust when using a sander. i also have sanitizer and a small package of wipes. And a small box of salon gloves. They're size small so I have to wet my hands to pull them on. I've gone food shopping only once since we began staying at home. Today or tomorrow I plan to venture out again. Instead of throwing the gloves away I may wash them for another use.
Last night's main dish was delicious. I made thin medallions of pork tenderloin, lightly dusted them with flour, browned in olive oil, added chicken broth and lemon juice, simmered in a large skillet, used xanthum gum to thicken a bit more. Sauteed hydrated dry morel mushrooms in butter, added mushrooms and butter to pork dish, added a can of quartered artichokes. DH, who is not keen on pork tenderloin, was quite appreciative of the end result.
He made the salad while I finished the version of piccata.
Minus, I recommend the toaster oven for our climate. This new one was $100 but similar ones are available for less, $60 or $70. The oven that just stopped working was too large. It came from Sam's Club and was about $60. The not-too-large-not-too-small size is better for toast and bagels and also serves as an oven for broiling and baking.
So what's for dinner tonight? A survey of freezer contents may bring some inspiration.
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Carole - That pork tenderloin dish does sound delicious! But then, anything with mushrooms - especially morels and/or artichoke hearts is amazing, IMO. So both in one dish puts it over the top!
Last night I made veggie fried rice to make use of leftover plain rice that was in the fridge. Served with cucumbers in rice wine vinegar with a bit of soy sauce and toasted sesame oil. Simple and comforting.
I have a head of cauliflower that I need to use, so will be trying this recipe for Roasted Cauliflower with Kalamata Oilives, Currants & Tahini Dressing. Don't have currants so will be substituting golden raisins for those. https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2014/07/roasted-cauliflower-with-olives-currants-and-tahini-from-vibrant-food-kimberley-hasselbrink.html We'll have this with the remaining flank steak from a couple of nights ago.
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